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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]]==General fiction==__NOTOC__{{newreviewFrontpage|author=J K RowlingJenny Lecoat|title=The Casual VacancyBeyond Summerland
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|summary=ItJean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of the occupation. During the war, Jean's hard father was arrested for listening to know how to describe my experience reading JK Rowling's new booka banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and her first departure mother waiting for years for news of him. As the British finally free the Channel islands from the world Nazis, and the war is finally over, their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of Hogwartshim. 'Liked it' doesn't seem appropriateBut will the truth come as a relief, because I didn't really. I found or will it very bleak, depressing and disturbing to be honest. raise further questions around what else happened during the war? I have a friend Who was the informer who is reading it at told the Nazis about the moment and she says she's really enjoying it, which just makes me shake my head because, really, this isn't radio? And what other secrets have been kept throughout the sort of book you enjoy.occupation?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140870420X</amazonuk>1846976537
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Syd MooreOnyi Nwabineli|title=Witch HuntAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5
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|summary=The history Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of witchcraft Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and the complexities of current social politics do not appear influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to be take down the easiest ingredients content about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to blend smoothly into a novelstart her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. But Moore has achieved this Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, skilfully weaving who is the threads new focus of the middle ages with the modern dayOphelia's online empire. This achievement has also been mixed with some fascinating points about feminism Can she save her sister, witchcraft and Essex stereotypes, all the while presenting them as perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the narrative of the protagonist, Sadie.same time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847562698</amazonuk>0861546873
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John E Flannery1529153298|title=God's GiftThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=35
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|summary=An ex-soap actor, Tommy Armstrong now hosts a successful Saturday night chat show. It covers entertainment 's 1979 and current affairsMargaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. Recently divorced (A woman? I mean, single Tommy enjoys bedding his researchers and then firing themhonestly... It) She's not what's worrying Miv's something to dofamily, after allthough. Women have been disappearing. Well, no? And particularly enjoyable if they're willing ve been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to take it up move the bumfamily 'Down South'. Tommy likes bums When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. Irritatingly For Miv, the ''Dirty Bitch''move would mean leaving her best friend, aka SusanSharon, Tommyand she'll do anything to prevent that. She's ex-wife, has forgotten all not worried about bums and become a bornthe dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking -again Christian. Her new partner is a 21st century Mary Whitehouse, leading a campaign to clean up the mediaanyone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B009AEUOFS</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rowan Coleman1035906708|title=Dearest RoseDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Rose has finally escaped. For years she has put up with her bullying husband and lived with the sadness We tend to think of her mother's suicide after her father left when Maria Callas as Greek, but she was a young girl. Only onceborn to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was heavily pregnant with her daughter Maddie, did anyone show her any warmth and kindness and treat her like a human being in her own rightthirteen. That person Her original surname was Frasier McCleod, an art dealer who had been trying Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to trace Rose's father, John Jacobs,who happened to be a very exciting artist. Although she couldnCallas't help him, Frasier sent a postcard to thank her and make it is more manageable in the village pictured on that postcard States. When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she makes could get appropriate training for her way to nine years later when voice - she can put up with was raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her husband's cruelty and made no moresecret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099551276</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anthony CapellaAlexander McCall Smith|title=Love and Other Dangerous ChemicalsThe Perfect Passion Company
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Just when you thought you’d seen (read?) everythingThe Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, comes this bookrun by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the story of the chemistry of Chemistry. Dr Steven Jbusiness, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. Fisher Katie is an Oxford scientist whose special area coming out of interest is a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the female orgasmchance to come home to Edinburgh. His latest work is attracting interest And so begins this new story from drug companies and the public alike for it’s Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an elusive subject: a pill that will do for women what Viagra did for men (Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and I don’t mean help their cardiac problems). Currently in the clinical trial stageIsabel Dalhousie novels, the results are looking promising until there’s a but with some new addition characters who quickly begin to his group of guinea pigs charm. Katie has no experience in the form of Annierunning a business, a literature postor in match-grad from the same university. Her lover (also making, but Ness has full confidence in her PhD supervisor) is keen for her to take part in the hope that Dr Fisher can fix abilities, and there's always her problem very helpful (and it is ‘her’ problemrather handsome) neighbour, not theirs). Simply putWilliam, Annie would rather read to lend a good book than have a good… well, you can fill in your own rhyme here.hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857890255</amazonuk>1846976596
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lucy DawsonDean Koontz|title=Little SisterThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=34.5|genre=General FictionParanormal|summary=Kate Palmer’s life has been blighted with tragedy. Her sister Emily died at the age of thirteen in Benny is having a freak accidentterrifically bad day. Her parents could not cope with the grief He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and subsequently divorced leading to her mother living in America his house gets trashed. Oh, and her father suffering someone has delivered a breakdown. Years laterreally weird, she is married disturbing coffin-sized object to Rob his home, and struggling it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to cope with being deserve all this bad luck. He is a new mother to two month old Mathiasnice person. A really nice person. Kate’s always been So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the sensible one whereas her younger sisterdelivery to his house is a new friend, Anyaa bad weather friend called Spike, who has always had been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a tendency good person. Spike is going to run away from her troubles take care of Benny, and has never managed to settle down. Thereforewill certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, it should come as no surprise to Kate that Anya has taken off once again and has gone diving in Mexico. That would have been OK but Anya is now missingHarper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751542512</amazonuk>1662500491
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Peter HoegKatherine Howe|title=The Elephant Keepers' ChildrenA True Account
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|summary=Danish writer Peter Høeg Hannah Masury is best known for his third novel [[Miss Smilla's Feeling For Snow by Peter Hoeg|Miss Smilla's Feeling For Snow]]living in Boston, having been sent to live with a family who run an inn, partly because it was and being made into one of the more beautiful movie adaptations of modern fictionto work there from a young age. While his latest book, ''The Elephant Keepers' Children'' When she hears there is unlikely to change that association, it is be a magical, story told through the eyes hanging of some pirates in the charmingly precocious fourteen year old Petertown, full of farcical events, zany chases she decides to go and brilliantly named characterswatch. If you are looking for Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a grittyyoung boy's death at the hands of two vicious pirates. She hides away, realistic novel, this wonso that they don't fit the billfind and kill her too, but for all its madcap eventsand then to escape them completely she runs away to sea, Høeg continues his arch view of events dressing as a boy and has surprising depth joining the notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. She soon finds herself in the form thick of philosophical consideration things when there is a mutiny on board, and from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of religions and faithlife on the ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846555841</amazonuk>0861547438
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Amanda Jennings1471180158|title=Sworn SecretMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=A year ago Anna Thorne was found dead after presumably falling from Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's a control freak with all the roof subtlety of her school after drinking vodkaa half brick. Twelve months later Jamie's son, her parentsBo, Kate 'has his problems'. He's asthmatic and Jonthe more you read, the more you'll suspect that he's on the autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's a frequent flier in the local A&E and her sister, Lizzie, are still trying sometimes Bo's not fit enough to make sense of and come go to terms with what has happenedschool. They each have their own way of dealing with their grief which, rather than uniting, serves Missed shifts or the need to be away on time to isolate each of them. Ultimately, they pick Bo up from school are becoming three sad strangers living under occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the same roofwrong. It was going to come to a head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184901969X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julie CorbinB0CKD1L5JL|title=Do Me No HarmRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Dr Olivia Somers Petr is minding her own businessan orphan. Rescued by the strange, trying to raise two kids alone in the wake of her divorcereclusive Bear, when everything goes wrong he is brought up far from bustling cities and her son, Robbiebusy human society, ends up in hospitalthe forests of Washington's Olympic Peninsula. It’s hard to work out what really happened, or even if Robbie is giving her the full story, but when there’s After Bear dies and a further incident, this time involving a break brief sojourn in at their home, it becomes clear that these are no random attackshuman company, and someone is out to get them. With the help of armed with only a friendly (and handsome) detectivepirate radio transmitter, Olivia tries to piece together Petr goes on a journey through the puzzle to work who is behind forest, broadcasting the troublestrange, wild and it’s a race against time to figure it out before the next unwelcome surprise from the culpritrarely heard voices he encounters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340918969</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ian McEwanSarah Marsh|title=Sweet ToothA Sign of Her Own|rating=43.5|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=Ian McEwan's ''Sweet Tooth'' is part spy novel but more After a bout of scarlet fever as a love story and child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a tale world of deception and half truths. It's alsosilence, more subtly, a book everything about the power, role and importance of fictionher life changes. Set Living in a time when the 1970suse of sign language was seen as something only savages do, with frequent musical and political references Ellen is sent to the UK at that time, Serena Frome a school where she is a beautifultaught to lip read, Cambridge-educated daughter of an Anglican bishop with a taste for unsuitable romancesbut physically restrained from signing. From an early affair with a man who turns out to be homosexualhere, to an affair with an older lecturer she moves on to ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and using a surprise job at MI5 where she had a crush system called Visible Speech. At the same time, Bell is working on one of her bosses, again other inventions and awkwardideas, repressed and unattractive individual before encountering talented author Tom Haley as part of her job with whom she once again falls Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in love. Few a complicated tangle of these men are what they seem, and neither for that matter is Serena when she has to hide her job from Haleyespionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0224097377</amazonuk>1035401614
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alexander McCall SmithB0BC3YTCMR|title=The Uncommon Appeal of CloudsGood Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=So, here we are with Isabel Dalhousie in her ninth ''This story, and Iis not for everyone.''m assuming that you know who she is by now because really Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of her fifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. She was a very bright student, a bit too nerdy if you don'ttruth be told, then you'd better not start with book number nine and instead you should really go all the way back suffered from vitiligo - people were afraid to the beginning of the series and hug her in case it's contagious. It'The Sunday Philosophy Clubs not easy being a black girl whose skin is 84% white.'' If, She had a crush on the other hand, you are well acquainted with Isabel then settle yourself down for another seventeen-year-old Reggie Anderson but never thought he would notice her. Then he did: Lavender was very good read from the master of gentleat math and Reggie asked if she would tutor him. She readily agreed: tutoring was something she gladly did at church: this was just an extension. She went to his house and he raped her. In shock, funny fictionshe even allowed him to give her a lift home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408704145</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Favel Parrett1472263936|title=Past the ShallowsThe Figurine|author=Victoria Hislop
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Harry Curren lives with Miles It was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. She was alone: her mother, Greek by birth, had left the family home and refused to return, but Mary and Hamish (one of his brothersHelena's parents) and their widowed father in felt that it would be a small Tasmanian fishing communitypity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. Their mother has been killed Her trip to the family apartment in a car accident but life goes on even if itup-market Kolonaki would be the first of several annual visits. She grew to love her grandmother and the family's more damaged maid, Dina, but was wary - and disjointed than beforefrightened - of her grandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. Miles still goes out on He was proud of his father's fishing boat close connections to ensure their income the Junta and Harry spends expected his time at school, outside amusing himself or being with family to uphold his other brother, Joe, who, for some values but saw no reason, lives with their grandfatherto accommodate them. His prejudices included Helena's red hair and green eyes - inherited from her father's Scottish ancestors.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848547501</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Charity NormanDean Koontz|title=After The FallDeath|rating=3.5
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|summary=It’s the middle Michael Mace, Head of the night Security, at a top secret biological research facility, is among 55 people who die when five year old Finn falls from the balcony at his home a virus is released in a remote part of New Zealandbio-hazard accident. Leaving his twin brother and older sister Finding himself in a makeshift mortuary, covered in the care of plastic, he has a neighboursense that something very, his mother Martha stays with very bad has happened to him as a helicopter races – and only him to the nearest hospital. But – as he is rushed into surgery, she is taken to one side for questioning, with first nursing staff then sits up and looks around at the police shrouded bodies of his dead friends and social workers raising concernsformer colleagues. Was Finn really sleep walking, something he is prone to do? But if so, how did As he come to have suspicious bruises on one side of recovers his bodysenses, not in keeping with how he landed? And if it wasn’t the accident Martha realises that there is saying it was, was his mother involved or is she covering for someone?something different about him; he can ''feel'' everything. ''Everything''. Michael isn't ''Michael'' anymore.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>174331096X</amazonuk>1662500467}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dorothy KoomsonB0BVDC2VWH|title=The Rose Petal BeachGrave Listeners|author=William Frank
|rating=4
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|summary=When he was twelve Geoff Dealer returned to his Texas home The village is isolated and walked in on what looked like a frightening situationpoor. A man, trousers round his ankles was pushing his mother up against a wall and she was squealing. Mindful of his fatherIt's advice about using surrounded by a gun Geoff grabbed it from Witching Forest. And the gun cabinet villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and injured the man with his first shotits blossom provides herbal medicines. The second killed him. It was their neighbour black wood of the forest provides heat and warmth, roofs on homes, and his father's best friend - who'd obviously been more than a friend to his mothereven gallows, if needed. Lizzie Dealer took The fear of being buried alive is an existential superstition in the blame - saying village and that she'd been attacked and had grabbed is the gun from her son reason Volushka, a drunken, self- but her husband was arrested and was killed in prison indulgent, lazy lout of a couple of days laterman is tolerated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848767080</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Herman KochB0BYF82CXT|title=The DinnerSemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Serge Lohman''Bill and Amanda are living in a semi-detached house, presidential candidate, is not the kind stuck in a depressing rut of man to frequent the cafés of ordinary peopleboredom and disappointment, and so when his brother Paul Terry and his wife Claire join Serge Fiona – glamorous, successful and wife Babette for dinnervery much in love – move in next door. Despite their different outlooks on life, it can only be at the fanciest of locales, couples befriend each other and life appears to improve for 'fanciest' read poshest, snootiest, and most overpriced. And while they may be in Holland, going Dutch is not on the menuboth pairs. This But all is not Serge’s story, however. It is Paul’s, and what he lacks in terms of incomeit seems, power and influence compared to his brother, he more than makes up their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for with dry humour and astute observationstragedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848873824</amazonuk>''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kim BarnesShalini Boland|title=In the Kingdom of MenThe Silent Bride
|rating=3
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=This book begins beautifully with all the characters springing to life through fantastically spare Alice and creative descriptionSeth are a match made in heaven. By the time we reach Gin He is everything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, clever, living with her her grandfather funny; total and utter husband-material. She is all he could possibly want in the stifling atmosphere of a strict Methodist minister’s homewife; beautiful, successful, confident… and so the story inevitable proposal is in full swing eagerly accepted by Alice and we follow Gin through her teenage years as she tries hard to rebel against all the limitations placed upon herwedding is planned and set.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009194421X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Luis Sepulveda|title=The Shadow of What we Were|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Chile, When the modern much-anticipated day. Four elderly men meet for one last timearrives, planning something suspiciously underhandAlice is walked down the aisle by her father, having made arrangements - beaming with pride and discussed Internet dating - online. We're let into the fact that the grandfather of one was a bank robber in a classic tale of Robin Hood-style wealth distribution, but excitement as to what she surveys the outcome of congregation – their plans might be we're forced friends assembled to wait. Elsewhere a domestic incident leads celebrate this joyful day and when Seth turns to a bizarre death - by record player. And you can just tell Iface his approaching bride, Alice'm suggesting you wait s world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the man at the altar is, who is waiting for her to discover the link..become his wife.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1609450027</amazonuk>1662507089
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sophie Duffy1787636003|title=This Holey Life|rating=3.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Vicky's husband has found faith and since he's working as a curate now rather than a plumber Vicky has been dragged into church life whether she likes it or not. She's struggling to raise her family whilst dealing with her own grief when suddenly into the mix come her irritating big brother and his little boy. As Vicky's patience is stretched paper-thin the lies woven within her family begin to unravel and she struggles to keep everything and everyone together.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908775971</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewThe Girls of Summer|author=Cath Staincliffe|title=Split SecondKatie Bishop
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=On a late December evening, Emma Curtis is on a bus travelling home from work It was the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she becomes aware of a young lad being picked and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on by three othersthe island. Too scared to intervene Rachel wasn't exactly innocent but she was, perhaps, she sits alone feeling guilty but taking everything in. To her shamenaive, nineteen so when thirty-four-year -old studentAlistair Wright started to take an interest in her, Jason Barnes, comes downstairs on the bus and immediately challenges the three youthsshe was flattered rather than wary. Luke, the young victim, leaps off the bus and It was quite a chase follows. Jason continues while before he made any sort of physical approach to try her and defend Lukeby that time she was obsessed by him. Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, looking after his interests on the island and they end up in Jason's front garden particular in the bar where his parents witness the brutal attack. Eventually all the trio run off leaving Luke unconscious on the snowy ground. Worse still, is the realisation that Jason has been stabbed and tragically it turns out to be fatalgirls either worked or partied. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849013462</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Peter HellerAmanda Craig|title=The Dog StarsThree Graces
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=We are in North America in a near but postFew styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-Apocalyptic future. Those few humans to survive a pandemic have to be treated as carriers, and/or armed and desperate, and so are particularly of note to military-minded survivalist Bangleythe-nation novel. And climate and eco-problems have killed off many common species, something closer to narrator HigThere's heartsomething so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the atmosphere of the day and capture it, crafting an image of the country as heit stands in one particular moment. To say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's practically synonymous with the genre of contemporary social fiction at this point. She has such a more placid, huntin', shootin' and fishin' guy. These two solitary men are an unlikely partnership, but both look out gift for each other weaving the ongoing issues of the day into the lives of her characters in complementary ways. Bangley has his watcha way that feels natural and lived-towerin, while Hig takes off in his Cessna to get away from it allnever making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, and his flights act as a first line of defensegrappling with issues far larger than themselves. But is it all life could be, for Hig and his dog and Bangley? What is Hig still to make of the last inviting contact he heard on his plane's radio - even if that was three years ago? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755392590</amazonuk>140871468X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Frayn152915118X|title=SkiosPineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson|rating=34.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Set on a Greek island, a cultural foundation ''Pineapple Street'' is preparing for the biggest event in its year at which renowned academic Dr Norman Wilfred story of three women: Sasha, Darley and Georgiana. Darley and George are sisters and Sasha is due married to give the keynote speechtheir brother Cord. Also heading to the island on the same plane is Oliver Fox They're Stocktons, a morally vacant but charming Lothario, who has arranged an assignation with a girl who he has met for only five minutes but has invited to spend Sasha isn't a week with him at Stockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the villa that he was due spend a week with his ex-girlfriend before she threw him outtribe. But The problem's exacerbated when the girl sent to collect Dr Wilfred from the airportclan matriarch, NikkiTilda, turns out to be irresistibly charming Oliver decides asks Cord and Sasha if they'd like to play move into the role of Dr Wilfred Pineapple Street property. Tilda and Chip have renovated and follow her downsized to another property, a street or so away, which they own. They won't need any of the foundation while the real Dr Wilfredfurniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and Cord can move straight in. Nominally, minus luggage is transported to the villa at the other end of they had a choice but that wasn't the islandreality. Someone still has Darley and Georgiana start to give call Sasha 'the speech though - will gold digger'. She's living in ''their'' family home. They use it so often that they abbreviate it be to 'the real Dr Wilfred or the fake Dr Wilfred?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571281419</amazonuk>GD'.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ned BeaumanEmily Critchley|title=The Teleportation AccidentOne Puzzling Afternoon
|rating=4
|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=It's hard 84 year old Edie has lived in the same small town for almost her whole life, but now she is facing a move as her son wants to move to another house and bring Edie to know where live with his family, as Edie is starting to start in reviewing Ned Beauman's Booker long-listed ''The Teleportation Accident''lose her memory. Reading it However, you feel like Edie is tormented by the parent memory of an ADHD-suffering child. At times it is lovableher childhood friend, Lucy, who went missing over 60 years ago, brilliant and entertaining, at others you just want to reach the worry that there was a secret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be the Ritalin and tell it to sit in a corner quietly while it composes itself. A clue to both thing that reveals the brilliance and frustration truth of Beauman is what happened all that time ago. After 'seeing' Lucy in the vast range high street, just as she was the last time she saw her, she starts to find pockets of writers memories coming back to whom he has been compared in both this and his first novel [[Boxer, Beetle by Ned Beauman|Boxer, Beetle]]her. There are hints of people And yet as wide ranging as [[:Category:David Mitchell|David Mitchell]]she remembers the past, [[:Category:P G Wodehouse|P G Wodehouse]], [[:Category:Douglas Adams|Douglas Adams]], Raymond Chandler even [[:Category:Angela Carter|Angela Carter]] she is forgetting more and more in her day to name just a fewday life. Beauman takes a huge range of styles Will she uncover the truth about Lucy's disappearance before her move, and genres and pushes them and bends them often to glorious effect, but it can be a challenge keeping up with him at times.before her memories are gone forever?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340998423</amazonuk>1804181250
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{{Frontpage
|author=Madelaine Lucas
|title=Thirst for Salt
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= ''Love, I'd read, was supposed to be a light and weightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravity''
Told from a retrospective view, a young woman unravels the year-long relationship that once defined her. Overlaid with later wisdom, the narrator relives the affair with a man twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the summer after. Set against the backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the 24-year-old narrator's deepening relationship with her older lover, depicting its all-consuming nature, how it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and how it altered her irrevocably.|isbn=0861546490}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Howard L Anderson0008506337|title=Albert of AdelaideThe Garnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Albert the DuckThe love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all-Billed Platypus lives consuming, apparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in love. Richard was twenty-one and described by Margo's mother as 'an Adelaide zoo but knows thereolder man's more to life than this. There must be as heHer parents worried that Richard's heard the storiesinfluence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and having a glittering career. Somewhere beyond In the cages is Old Australiaevent, a land they eloped and Richard took her away from the Isle of dreams where there are no zoos Wight. Margo did go to Oxford and no human captorswent on to become a well-respected journalist. The couple had three children: Rachel, just animals who are free to govern themselves Imogen and live Sasha. Life was lived in perpetual peace London and happinessholidays were spent at Sandcove, the family home on the Isle of Wight. ThatEven then the doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's a world that Albert wants mind: ''she would never be able to be a part of and so he escapes, realising that for the first time leave him in his short life his future is in his own webbed pawscharge''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184668840X</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Charles McLeod1914585402|title=American WeatherDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Jim Haskin is a very odd man, doing a very odd job, in a very odd country if this I reviewed David F Ross's book is to be believed. An advertising guru in San Francisco, he owns [[There's Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's Only One Danny Garvey]] a touchy feely company which boasts such wonders as a ‘Dream Pod’, a room for his team to relax in with sleeping bags, TVs couple of years back and a cooler brimming with organic fruit tea. That’s for their down time in between saving the world, promoting one eco-friendly item after another remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and doing other worthy thingsaffecting it was. Except behind the scenesIt was a gripping, Jim Haskin is not that man. While his team are organising poetry slams to help homeless prostitutesemotionally wounding read, he’s coming up with fight-back campaigns, showing and rereading my review of it my main takeaway was that bleach makes a beach better, chemical spills aren't as bad as you first I might think, and other quite inexplicable thingsnot have lavished enough praise on it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099542226</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alexander McCall SmithLucy Ashe|title=Sunshine on Scotland StreetClara and Olivia
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=I can hardly believe this The year is 1933. The place? Sadler's Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, twins no less. Identical on the eighth book about Scotland Streetoutside but not, we learn, and iton the inside. And not on stage, either. Because there's so nice a lot that builds a dancer. Some things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, attention to just pick up where we left off detail – and discover whatsome things, that ''je ne sais quoi'', that don's been happening to all our friendst come from the classroom. This time we have Angus and DomenicaA stage presence, a charm, a ''s wedding, Cyriljoie de vivre's adventures whilst they're away on their honeymoon. The difference between a hard-worker, Bruce encounters and a rather strange gentleman and of course there's plenty of Bertie to entertain us!star.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846972329</amazonuk>0861544080
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael PalinHeather Fawcett|title=The TruthEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Keith Mabbutt was at one of those points in Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life when everything seemed to be changing. His marriage was on 's work, the rocksvery first encyclopaedia of faeries. His relationship with his children was Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, she is not so goodwith people. He knew that he was a writer - he had a British Gas Award So when she finds herself far, far North in the small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the village matriarch, she is not sure what she has done, nor how to prove it - but redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on the investigative journalist which he once was had been replaced by someone who did corporate vanity projectsright track. He skated over the unpalatable Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and accentuated what there was that was positive insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and he was paid passably well for doing itdelight, much to Emily's frustration. When But why is he was offered the chance to write a biography of Hamish Melville, the influential humanitarian activist, here? What does he seized the chance and not just because want? And what exactly is going on with the money on offer was beyond his wildest dreams.faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0297860216</amazonuk>0356519120
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steven Amsterdam1398515388|title=What The Boy and the Family NeededDog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating=34.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Steven Amsterdam's first novel [[Things We Didn't See Coming by Steven Amsterdam|Things We Didn't See Coming]] won several awards including The Guardian First Boom Award. His second bookof all, 'What it was the Family Needed'earthquake, is similar deep in that it too contains a large dose of the strangeocean floor, which created the tsunami and this, in turn, yet it doesn't quite work as wellcaused the nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and utter devastation. The book is centred around deaths were uncountable, and the families loss of two sisters, with each member having livelihoods was widespread. The fact that many pets were separated from their own chapter told at different stages of their lives. In each one owners came far down the various family members are facing problems list of some sort or other and each mysteriously achieves some sort of superpriorities but -power that they 'need' to partly overcome these, although not always with six months after the desired resultstsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. From early on, He wasn't a dog person but the reader suspects that Alek, elder sister Natalieconvenience store owner's younger son who appears as an imaginative kid when we first meet him, is at the heart of the weirdness comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and sure enough he has Tamon the final chapter dog jumped in the book. Just don't expect everything to be explained.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846555809</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andrey KurkovChristopher Bowden|title=The Milkman in the NightMr Magenta
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=If youChristopher Bowden're going to go sleepwalking, there are better places to do so than in Kiev in the grip of its usual snowy, cold and bleak winter - even if there s latest novel is a lovely blonde at the end patient untangling of your journeya seemingly ordinary woman's life, carried out by her nephew after she has died. Semyon is living this reality, unaware of the strange consequences, just as others around him are unaware of the strange consequences of their actions - such as the airport security men The aunt who purloin some impounded drugs always provided a safe harbour and test them on the cat. We also have a little bit of indulgence to a young single mother selling herself - just not in nephew had had a much more interesting life than that way - commuting into a capital where some are rich enough nephew Stephen had ever realised and it seems to try and stave of ageing, and him an obligation to cheat death in various ways..find it all out.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099548860</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Simon RichJennifer Mason|title=What in God's NamePartitions of Unity
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=In ''What in God's Name''Here at Bookbag Towers, Simon Rich imagines Heaven Inc as a corporate entitywe first met Elizabeth Cromwell, with all the dysfunctional trappings of many a large company. At the head of the operation, as you might expect, is Goddominatrix and unintentional detective in [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], although he seems to have lost his interest in planet Earth when she investigated and certainly in the operation unravelled a series of heavendisappearances. In fact, he'd rather be watching the religious channels on satellite television or opening a restaurant. Although he would like to see rock group ''Lynyrd'' ''Skynyrd'Partitions of Unity' re-form before he's done with the planet. In fact the only two who really care about what goes on down here are a workaholic angel named Craig who works in the Miracles Department and the recently promoted Eliza who has been labouring away, somewhat fruitlessly it seems, in the Prayers Department. When Eliza finds that her work on preparing prayers for God has been for nothing, she sets her anger threatens the end of the world, unless Craig and Eliza can help mind to solving a couple of hopeless humans find love with each othermurder...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846688485</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jon CanterWill Carver|title=WorthThe Daves Next Door|rating=34
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Richard, an Ad man, and Sarah, Five strangers come together in one moment as a city lawyer meet, get married, and decide suicide bomber prepares to leave detonate his vest on a London behind for an idyllic country life instead. He’ll do some drawing, maybe look into illustrating. She’ll do voluntary worktube line. They will start to Enjoy Life a bit more. They will become Better People. They will be the envy of all As their friends still toiling away in the big smoke.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099546825</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Melanie Gideon|title=Wife 22|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Alice and William Buckle have been married for quite a few years and have two teenage children and a dog. With their busy livesfates overlap, they end up having little time for each other and rarely get the opportunity to talk about the things that matter. In order to do something about her feelings of discontent, Alice googles 'happy marriage?' and although there seem to be no magic secrets for success, a little later she story is invited to take part told in an online survey about modern marriage. She is given the labelbackwards order, Wife 22, and is assigned leading up to her caseworker, Researcher 101, who sends her questions periodically, and is also available through email to answer any queries. Alice soon enjoys being able to pour her heart out through the questions that she has to answer but also finds that she is becoming more than a little attracted to her faceless caseworker. They start chatting through facebook and Alice finds it quite exciting to mildly flirt with her new friend. However, the more she does so, the more disgruntled she becomes with her own husbandfateful moment. There comes a point though where Alice has to decide whether to take things further and if she does, what will become of her marriage?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007481772</amazonuk>1914585186}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ivo StourtonJennifer Mason|title=The Book Lover's TalePreposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Matt will admit that his writing career failed''A struggling poetry zine, a mom-and so he had to join his wife -pop mobile diner in interior designthe Northern California redwoods, where he can use his love of books to arrange - at a cost 400- meter hurdler who just missed the contents2004 Olympics, design and most importantly the colours, of upper class peoplea women's home libraries track coach with a yen for them. He'll concede that it's bullwhips, a billionaire with a good way to get into state-of-the houses-art S&M dungeon, and bedsa man serving a life sentence in Alabama, of rich womenan enigmatic signature, such as his latest flameK(s, Claudia. But why is thisx), his confessionon a cheap oil painting, talking of murder?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552773875</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Heather Gudenkauf|title=One Breath Away|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Mrs Oliver has spent her life an erotic art dealer in the classroomGeorgia. Educating. Guiding. Nurturing. But on the last day of term all she really wants is to get to the afternoon bell without any drama. A gunman walking in to her classroom really does not fit in with her plans.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848451326</amazonuk>}}''
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