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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]]__NOTOC__{{adsense2Frontpage|author=Jenny Lecoat|title=Beyond Summerland|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of the occupation. During the war, Jean's father was arrested for listening to a banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and her mother waiting for years for news of him. As the British finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, and the war is finally over, their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him. But will the truth come as a relief, or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the informer who told the Nazis about the radio? And what other secrets have been kept throughout the occupation?|isbn=1846976537}}__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rachel JoyceOnyi Nwabineli|title=PerfectAllow Me to Introduce Myself
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|summary=In 1972 two seconds were added Anuri spent her childhood on display to the yearworld, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. 11 year old Byron Hemmings heard 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 take down the content about it her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from his friend James and felt it wouldn't be a good thingthem for doing so. In fact at Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the moment Bryonnew focus of Ophelia's watch's second hand reversed something happened that would mean neither his or James' lives would ever be online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same again.time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857520660</amazonuk>0861546873
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529153298|title=419The List of Suspicious Things|author=Will FergusonJennie Godfrey
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|summary=Anyone who has ever opened an E-Mail which proves to be a plea for assistance in getting large amounts of money ahead of the authorities will recognise the theme. Laura CurtisIt' father had such an E-Mail s 1979 and having tried to help and spent all his moneyMargaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, he has driven his car off a bridgehonestly... Meanwhile) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, in Nigeriathough. Women have been disappearing. Well, a pregnant young woman walks through the dustthey've been murdered, trying but to escape her family and find something that ever she have 'disappeared' doesn't know what sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she 's overheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is looking fora frightening, foreign place, best avoided. In For Miv, the Niger Deltamove would mean leaving her best friend, meanwhileSharon, the oil companies are moving in and a whole way of life is changing in she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the fishing villages theredangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781855056</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage|isbn=1035906708|title=Diva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the States. When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Juan Pablo VillalobosAlexander McCall Smith|title=Down The Rabbit HolePerfect Passion Company|rating=4.5
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|summary=Down The Rabbit Hole Perfect Passion Company is a fictional tale of a young boy’s life dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the son of online apps in providing a Mexican drug lordmore personal, tailored service. Tochtli narrates Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the story and gives us business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a child’s view while. Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the sordid world that his father ruleschance to come home to Edinburgh. We are shown And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the positives Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and negatives of this kind of lifestyle as Tochtli sees thingsrather handsome) neighbour, William, from presents galore to lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=The Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Paranormal|summary=Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to call his father by home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his first namehouse! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. This book So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a strange blend good person. Spike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of childlike wonder within Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a violent worldwaitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908276282</amazonuk>1662500491
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Isabelle GreyKatherine Howe|title=The Bad MotherA True Account|rating=34.5
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|summary=Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to live with a family who run an inn, and being made to work there from a young age. When we first meet Tessa Parker she has hears there is to be a major problem on her hands. Her seventeen-year-old son has been missing since hanging of some pirates in the previous daytown, she decides to go and watch. The police are involved Enthralled and Tessa is beside horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself with worryembroiled in a young boy's death at the hands of two vicious pirates. Shehides away, so that they don's told t find and kill her too, and then to escape them completely she runs away to sea, dressing as a boy and joining the police quite a bit - however you can't help but feel that therenotorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a lot more going on that she's not tellingcabin boy. To find out She soon finds herself in the full story thick of things when there is a mutiny on board, and from there we go back four months..are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857386484</amazonuk>0861547438
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Irene Nemirovsky and Sandra Smith (translator)1471180158|title=The MisunderstandingMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating=34.5
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|summary=After the Great War Yves Harteloup was Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a disappointed young man when he returned to who's a control freak with all the resort where he had spent idyllic childhood summerssubtlety of a half brick. It wasnJamie't long before he became infatuated by the beautiful Denise - mother of a young childs son, Bo, wife of an older man who was away on business and bored'has his problems'. In He's asthmatic and the heat of more you read, the summer more you'll suspect that he's on the relationship is intoxicating and Denise falls passionately in love with Yvesautistic spectrum. When they return Sometimes Jamie needs to Paris Denise envisages take time off at short notice - she's a little flat which they will furnish to their taste for afternoons of leisure frequent flier in the local A&E and pleasure but the truth is that Yves must return sometimes Bo's not fit enough to his mundane office job and try go to make every franc stretch as far as it canschool. In Missed shifts or the drab autumn of Paris Denise is driven mad with desire for Yves need to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and their love disintegrates under put in the burden of misunderstandingwrong. It was going to come to a head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099563843</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Isabel AshdownB0CKD1L5JL|title=Summer of '76Radio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn
|rating=4
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|summary=1976 was a blisteringly hot summerPetr is an orphan. People celebrated when it eventually did rain and at one point it was so hot that Big Ben stopped working. It would be Rescued by the summer that Luke Wolff turned eighteen and strange, reclusive Bear, he planned on leaving the Isle of White is brought up far from bustling cities and going to poly busy human society, in Brighton. He had a job at the holiday camp, which was hard work but there was a great social life too and even the possibility forests of romanceWashington's Olympic Peninsula. His parents were happy to let him have his independence - after all, he was After Bear dies and a sensiblebrief sojourn in human company, well-balanced young man - and they were rather preoccupied armed with their own problems. Looking inonly a pirate radio transmitter, you'd have thought that Petr goes on a journey through the Wolffs were forest, broadcasting the ideal family: from the inside there were obviously one or two cracksstrange, wild and rarely heard voices he encounters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908434333</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cees NooteboomSarah Marsh|title=RitualsA Sign of Her Own|rating=3.5
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|summary=''Rituals'' introduces us to Amsterdam, and to Inni, firstly in 1960, then in 1950, and then in the 1970s. When we first meet Inni, it is when he is After a middle-aged man in 1960. Far from responsible and hard-working, we see him bout of scarlet fever as someone who is impulsive and recklessa child, even to the point of cruelty to his wife - who formulates plans to leave himEllen Lark loses her hearing. It is only after this frankly miserable first impression that we meet the younger Inni, and we see how Suddenly plunged into a chance meeting with a man called Arnold Taads had changed the course world of his silence, everything about her lifechanges. Taads is Living in a man obsessed with matriculating his life down to time when the last second, letting time dictate what he can use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, with whom he can do it withEllen is sent to a school where she is taught to lip read, and, most importantly, whenbut physically restrained from signing. In Part three From here, she ends up in another chance meeting, school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the now ageing Inni meets Taads' son, Phillipdeaf and using a system called Visible Speech. Phillip At the same time, though having never met his father, curiously lives a life that Bell is an echo of his father's; though as Arnold isolated himself in the mountainsworking on other inventions and ideas, Phillip isolates himself and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in meditation and the methodology a complicated tangle of the tea ceremonyespionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782067175</amazonuk>1035401614
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anthony QuinnB0BC3YTCMR|title=The StreetsGood Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Anthony Quinn's ''The Streets'' This story is set in London in the early 1880s in the area known as Somers Town, which to those not familiar with London geography is the area around Euston, St Pancras and King's Cross stationsfor everyone. Today, much of this falls under the trendy Camden area, but in the 1880s, was the site of some of the worst slum tenements in the capital. Some 50 years' earlier, Charles Dickens lived in this part of London and although he had died by the time this is set, the depiction of the poverty is not far from what we would term Dickensian. The book is narrated by David Wildeblood, who is a principled but naive young man who finds employment as an 'investigator' for the charismatic Mr Marchmont's ''The Labouring Classes of London'' - a strange mix of social geography and journalism publishing regular stories of the poor who reside in the slums of London.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099575159</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lucy Cruickshanks1472263936|title=The Trader of SaigonFigurine|author=Victoria Hislop
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=In the Saigon of the 1980s the Vietnam War is over but the traces remainIt was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. Alexander has deserted from She was alone: her mother, Greek by birth, had left the US army family home and makes refused to return, but Mary and Hamish (Helena's parents) felt that it would be a comfortable living selling girls to local business menpity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. Phuc used Her trip to be a business man, complete with mansion and the means to keep his wife and three children in affluence. Now his family live apartment in a shanty hut, afraid of up-market Kolonaki would be the ruling government that spies through the eyes first of childrenseveral annual visits. At last he finds a way out, his luck just needs She grew to hold. Hanh also lives in poverty, desperately trying to help love her sick mother with grandmother and the pittance she earns from cleaning one of the cityfamily's many open latrinesmaid, Dina, but was wary - and frightened - of her grandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. Then one day she meets someone who offers so much moreHe was proud of his close connections to the Junta and expected his family to uphold his values but saw no reason to accommodate them. His name is Alexanderprejudices included Helena's red hair and green eyes - inherited from her father's Scottish ancestors.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782063218</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alain MabanckouDean Koontz|title=Tomorrow IAfter Death|rating=3|genre=General Fiction|summary= Michael Mace, Head of Security, at a top secret biological research facility, is among 55 people who die when a virus is released in a bio-hazard accident. Finding himself in a makeshift mortuary, covered in plastic, he has a sense that something very, very bad has happened to him – and only him – as he sits up and looks around at the shrouded bodies of his dead friends and former colleagues. As he recovers his senses, he realises that there is something different about him; he can 'll Be Twenty'feel'' everything. ''Everything''. Michael isn't ''Michael'' anymore.|isbn=1662500467}} {{Frontpage|isbn=B0BVDC2VWH|title=The Grave Listeners|author=William Frank|rating=54
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|summary=Michel The village is as carefree as any child can be during that difficult process called 'growing upisolated and poor. It's surrounded by a Witching Forest. And the villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicines. Here in Congo Brazzaville he has his best friend LounesThe black wood of the forest provides heat and warmth, a crush roofs on Caroline (his best friend's sister)homes, the hassles of school and a family consisting even gallows, if needed. The fear of two mothers being buried alive is an existential superstition in two houses which seems perfectly normal. He's also being educated about the world by his father; a world village and that changes daily as it's 1979. Never mindis the reason Volushka, he can always marry Caroline as long as he meets her conditions: she requires childrena drunken, a red 5self-seater car and indulgent, lazy lout of a white dogman is tolerated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685842</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hilary ReylB0BYF82CXT|title=Lessons In FrenchSemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone|rating=3.54
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|summary=American graduate Kate leaves the States for a job ''Bill and Amanda are living in Paris, working for a [[The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger]] style boss, world famous photosemi-journalist Lydia Schell. She’s lived in France beforedetached house, so she thinks she knows what she’s letting herself stuck in for. She doesn’t. So while the title doesn’t refer to the language itself (she is beautifully fluent even before she arrives)a depressing rut of boredom and disappointment, there are many lessons for her to learnwhen Terry and Fiona – glamorous, from how to act as a go-between for Lydia successful and her husband Clarence (and his graduate students)very much in love – move in next door. Despite their different outlooks on life, to how to handle the handsome Olivier couples befriend each other and the ''bon chic bon genre'' boys, life appears to where to source the lavish ingredients her employer needs improve for dinner or how to make a proper timelineboth pairs. The Berlin Wall But all is about to fall, the continent is buzzingnot what it seems, and Kate is a part of it, their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for better or worsetragedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007446268</amazonuk>''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tim ParksShalini Boland|title=Sex is ForbiddenThe Silent Bride|rating=4.53
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|summary=Tim Parks's ''Sex Alice and Seth are a match made in heaven. He is Forbidden'' is narrated by twenty-something, Beth. She's working as a volunteer server at a Buddhist retreat called the Dasgupta Institute where everything she has been searching for the last nine months although the book covers one ten day cycle of retreat. The Dasgupta Institute imposes bans on attendees; handsome, accomplished, although the conditions are slightly less onerous on the servers whoclever, nevertheless are expected to join funny; total and utter husband-material. She is all he could possibly want in the meditations. There's no talkinga wife; beautiful, no writingsuccessful, no mingling of confident… and so the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and the sexes wedding is planned and no physical or even eye contactset. One When the much-anticipated day Betharrives, still a rebel at heartAlice is walked down the aisle by her father, wanders into beaming with pride and excitement as she surveys the mencongregation – their friends assembled to celebrate this joyful day and when Seth turns to face his approaching bride, Alice's side where she discoverers an attendee is keeping a diary where he is contemplating his moment of crisis and world implodes because she is hooked. The revealing of the past that has driven both Beth and absolutely no idea who the mysterious diary keeper to such an austere retreat is part of man at the intrigue of the book, but while there altar is an inevitable focus on introspection and new age thinking, Beth's tone who is delightfully sceptical and feels very authentic. It's almost impossible not to feel waiting for her plight and to admire her approachbecome his wife.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099565897</amazonuk>1662507089
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adam Thorpe1787636003|title=FlightThe Girls of Summer|author=Katie Bishop|rating=45
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|summary=The past is catching up with Bob WinrushIt was the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the island. His marriage is over as a result of his inconsiderate arrival home early Rachel wasn't exactly innocent but she was, perhaps, naive, so when weather cancelled one of his jobs as a cargo pilot thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to find his wife take an interest in bed with another man but when an investigative journalist starts to dig into some of the content of Bob's previous cargo tripsher, his life is quickly placed in grave dangershe was flattered rather than wary. His problems stemmed from having walked away from It was quite a particularly morally dubious trip while before he made any sort of physical approach to transport arms to the Taliban some years agoher and by that time she was obsessed by him. Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, although it turns out that looking after his moral line in interests on the sand is somewhat blurred. He has knowingly transported guns island and military personnel in his time. He's sort of particular in the bar where all the aeronautical equivalent of white van mangirls either worked or partied.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099539764</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Danny WallaceAmanda Craig|title=Charlotte StreetThree Graces
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=In his early booksFew styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of-the-nation novel. There's something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the atmosphere of the day and capture it, Danny Wallace was crafting an image of the new Tony Hawks, taking on silly challenges and recounting them country as it stands in amusing waysone particular moment. With ''Charlotte Street'', his first entirely fictional work, he seems to To say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be moving into territory inhabited by [[embarrassingly inadequate:Category:Mike Gayle|Mike Gayle]], that she's practically synonymous with the genre of bloke-litcontemporary social fiction at this point. It seems She has such a decent fit, as his book ''Yes Man'' had elements gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the day into the lives of blokeher characters in a way that feels natural and lived-litin, despite being based on actual events. It may have suffered from a twee endingnever making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, but it offered enough to suggest that this is a field Danny Wallace could work well ingrappling with issues far larger than themselves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>009191907X</amazonuk>140871468X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=NoViolet Bulawayo152915118X|title=We Need New NamesPineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=This powerful narrative bears witness ''Pineapple Street'' is the story of three women: Sasha, Darley and Georgiana. Darley and George are sisters and Sasha is married to their brother Cord. They're Stocktons, only Sasha isn't a Stockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the experience of economic migrantstribe. Not just black Africans coming from ZimbabweThe problem's exacerbated when the clan matriarch, Tilda, asks Cord and Sasha if they'd like NoViolet Bulawayoto move into the Pineapple Street property. Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to another property, but more generallya street or so away, those several generations which they own. They won't need any of hardythe furniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and Cord can move straight in. Nominally, resourceful immigrants driven they had a choice but that wasn't the reality. Darley and Georgiana start to call Sasha 'the USA gold digger'. She's living in search ''their'' family home. They use it so often that they abbreviate it to 'the GD'.}}{{Frontpage|author=Emily Critchley|title=One Puzzling Afternoon|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=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 live with his family, as Edie is starting to lose her memory. However, Edie is tormented by the memory of her childhood friend, Lucy, who went missing over 60 years ago, and the worry that there was a better futuresecret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be the thing that reveals the truth of what happened all that time ago. Such people leave behind less courageous family membersAfter 'seeing' Lucy in the high street, just as she was the last time she saw her, but not their emotions towards those they have loved or their nation she starts to find pockets of birthmemories coming back to her. And yet as she remembers the past, she is forgetting more and more in her day to day life. Will she uncover the truth about Lucy's disappearance before her move, and before her memories are gone forever?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0701188030</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=Kim Izzo 0008506337|title=My Life in Black and WhiteThe Garnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore|rating=4.5
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|summary=The love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O''My Life Leary was all-consuming, apparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in Black love. Richard was twenty-one and Whitedescribed by Margo's mother as 'an older man'. Her parents worried that Richard' starts off in s influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and having a police station in Englandglittering career. The film noir theme that permeates In the novel begins immediately. Clara Bishop is dressed in a gold evening gownevent, they eloped and treats Richard took her away from the police officer who is interviewing her just as a femme fatale wouldIsle of Wight. This girl has sass. But when she begins Margo did go to Oxford and went on to recount her tale, it is clear this is become a new developmentwell-respected journalist. The old Clara describes her life as something from a screwball comedycouple had three children: Rachel, Imogen and Sasha. Life was lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, not a film noirthe family home on the Isle of Wight. How does a screenwriter-slash-gossip-columnist Even then the doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from LA end up being interviewed about an assault Margo's mind: ''she would never be able to leave him in England?charge''. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444737716</amazonuk>Then Richard left them.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mave Fellowes1914585402|title=Chaplin and CompanyDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross
|rating=4.5
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|summary=In I reviewed David F Ross'Chaplin & Companys book [[There', Mave Fellowes takes a quirky look at life on Londons Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's canal boats. Yet, while her story is full of eccentric characters, not least the main human character of Odeline Milk, who moves to the boat that shares the title of the book after her mother passes away to pursue her dream of becoming a mime artist in the more culturally enlightened big city after Only One Danny Garvey]] a lonely life in provincial Arundel, the book is delightfully free couple of sentimentalityyears back and remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and affecting it was. I say the main human characterIt was a gripping, because this is also the story of a boat with a remarkable history of ownersemotionally wounding read, and also a story rereading my review of the strange life it my main takeaway was that I might not have lavished enough praise on the canal which somehow exists beneath the city through which it flows. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224097350</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Fayette FoxLucy Ashe|title=The Deception ArtistClara and Olivia|rating=34.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=This story The year is all about the characters1933. Plot-wise, it is set in 1980s suburban AmericaThe place? Sadler's Wells. There Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, twins no explosions or even fairy tale adventures in this bookless. It’s just Identical on the simple adventure of life when you’re outside but not, we learn, on the inside. And not on stage, either. Because there's a lot that builds a child and learning new dancer. Some things every day. Ivy accounts her day-to-day life with an extreme that can be taught or learnt – discipline, attention to detail – and some things, that ''je ne sais quoi'', that don't come from the strangest detailsclassroom. A stage presence, just like a child. As well as explaining what she has learnt in schoolcharm, she describes her daydreams, her friends and her familya ''joie de vivre''. When her dad loses his jobThe difference between a hard-worker, her parents start arguing and she is worried they might have to get a divorce like sad Sara in her class. And not only that, they might have to return their new TVstar. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908434244</amazonuk>0861544080
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jonathan EvisonHeather Fawcett|title=The Revised Fundamentals Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of CaregivingFaeries|rating=54
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|summary= Ben hasn't worked for a while Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and soshe has travelled extensively, deciding on a career changeand researched meticulously, trains to become a caregiver. His first client is Trevwrite her life's work, a 20 year old Duchene Muscular Dystrophy sufferer who hasn't the sunniest very first encyclopaedia of dispositionsfaeries. In fact Trev Whilst she is angrybrilliant at research and speaking to faeries, self-centred and goes through caregivers like a knife through milkshe is not so good with people. HoweverSo when she finds herself far, Benfar North in the small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the village matriarch, needing a jobshe is not sure what she has done, holds on tight and tries nor how to encourage Trev to live a little. Eventually Trev complies redeem herself and dictates a way forward: a road tripput her final investigations for her book back on the right track. A road trip with a houseboundEnter Wendell Bambleby, illher dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, angry person is not what Ben had in mind at allcharm and delight, much to Emily's frustration. Meanwhile it gradually becomes clear to us that Trev isn't But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the only one who has to learn to live a little differently.faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781851751</amazonuk>0356519120
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jenny Mayhew1398515388|title=A Wolf in HindelheimThe Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating=34.5
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|summary=GermanyFirst of all, it was the 1920s. Whatever that old proverb is about an ending of something merely being a beginning of something else earthquake, deep in disguisethe ocean floor, which created the tsunami and this novel is an evocation of it, in turn, caused the nuclear meltdown. In the rural habitation of the title a father The result was complete and son pair of policemen is called to a remote house by news that a newborn baby is missingutter devastation. In The deaths were uncountable, and the house is an awkward combination loss of families – elderly matriarch, her son and daughter and both livelihoods was widespread. The fact that many pets were separated from their spouses – two couples living on top owners came far down the list of each other, with priorities but - six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a disabled boy and maid in the mix tooconvenience store. We soon are given an explanation for the child being dead – He wasn't a terrible instance of clumsiness, dog person but like I say, this is only the beginning – of several things, including the older policemanconvenience store owner's infatuation with comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and Tamon the grieving mother's sister-dog jumped in-law…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091944384</amazonuk>.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jessica SofferChristopher Bowden|title=Tomorrow There Will be ApricotsMr Magenta|rating=3.54
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Lorca is in her early teens and struggling to get attention from her mother. SheChristopher Bowden's resorted to self-harming and even her obvious abilities in the kitchen don't seem to be enough to merit some latest novel is a patient untangling of her chef mothera seemingly ordinary woman's timelife, carried out by her nephew after she has died. Her last chance The aunt who always provided a safe harbour and a little bit of indulgence to make an impact before she's sent away to boarding school a young nephew had had a much more interesting life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and it seems to be him an obligation to find a way to make Masgouf - an Iraqi fish dish - which her mother has described as her favourite meal. Along with her only friend - a young man who goes by the name of Blot - they discover that some Iraqi Jewish cooking classes are being offered by a chefit all out.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091943973</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nick TroutJennifer Mason|title=The Patron Saint Partitions of Lost DogsUnity|rating=3.54
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Dr Cyrus Mills only intended to return to Vermont for long enough to sell the veterinary practice which his father had left himHere at Bookbag Towers, we first met Elizabeth Cromwell, dominatrix and unintentional detective in [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], collect the money when she investigated and get back to South Carolina where he was trying to sort out the little matter unravelled a series of having his licence to practice suspendeddisappearances. He had never got on with his father who had - somehow - managed NOT In ''Partitions of Unity'', she sets her mind to tell his son that his mother had died until after her funeral. The first snag he encountered was quite solving a big one: his father had been equally forgetful about dealing with his financial affairs and the Bedside Manor practice was dying on its feetmurder. Cyrus didn’t have the money to prop it up and it looked as though he would have to hand everything over to the Bank and walk away with nothing. The second problem was an aging Golden Retriever by the name of Frieda and an owner who’s very keen to see her put to sleep.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1401310885</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF
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{{Frontpage|author=Will Carver|title=The Daves Next Door|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary= Five strangers come together in one moment as a suicide bomber prepares to detonate his vest on a London tube line. As their fates overlap, the story is told in backwards order, leading up to the fateful moment.|isbn= 1914585186}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Clive LawtonJennifer Mason|title=Flowers From FukushimaPreposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= In 2011''A struggling poetry zine, Japan was hit by a 9.0 magnitude earthquake. That mom-and -pop mobile diner in the Northern California redwoods, a 400-meter hurdler who just missed the subsequent tsunami caused level 7 meltdowns at 2004 Olympics, a women's track coach with a yen for bullwhips, a billionaire with a state-of-the Fukushima nuclear power plant-art S&M dungeon, a man serving a life sentence in Alabama, an enigmatic signature, K(s, x), on a cheap oil painting, an erotic art dealer in Georgia...''
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