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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Without YouJenny Lecoat|authortitle=Saskia SarginsonBeyond Summerland
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Eva is 17 years old and missing following a sailing disaster. Most people presume she died at sea, but Jean lives on Jersey with her sister Faith has, well, faithmother where they are celebrating the end of the occupation. And in fact During the war, Eva is not deadJean's father was arrested for listening to a banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, but she’s not safe eitherleaving Jean and her mother waiting for years for news of him. Held captive on an island just off As the British finally free the coast, she is so near and yet so far Channel islands from homethe Nazis, and with every daythe war is finally over, week, month their hopes rise that passesthey will finally learn what became of him. But will the truth come as a relief, her desperation grows.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?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0749958707</amazonuk>1846976537
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark LawsonOnyi Nwabineli|title=The DeathsAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5
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|summary=In an idyllic enclave in BuckinghamshireAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, within spitting distance where she posted every step of Milton KeynesAnuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, there are four housesmonetary gain. You might even call them mansionsNow Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, as they are not suing her step-mother to take down the sort of homes to which most people can aspirecontent about her. But the residents are not ''most Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people'' - they are rich online and the lives they lead are differentreceiving money from them for doing so. They're not the old aristocracy for whom the houses were builtMost importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, but who is the new elite - barristers, business tycoons, bankers, magistrates, doctors. One focus of their number runs a security business, so they're all protected by expensive security systems and when they leave their little haven itOphelia's usually to travel first class to London or on their way to catch a flightonline empire. The Eight seem to lead charmed lives - but the financial world is changing Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and there isn't her relationship with her father at the money around that there used to be.same time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>144723569X</amazonuk>0861546873
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529153298|title=The Strain Book OneList of Suspicious Things|author=Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan, David Lapham and Dan JacksonJennie Godfrey|rating=45
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|summary=It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A liner ends its journey from Europe in a port citywoman? I mean, and waitshonestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, silently, holding whatever secrets it had with little signs of lifethough. Women have been disappearing. It is found to contain a heavy boxWell, almost coffin-likethey've been murdered, containing mud – and something elsebut to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. But this is not Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the coasts of England, and this is not Bram Stokerfamily 'Down South'. This When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is also not a sailing boatfrightening, but an airliner – a Boeing 777foreign place, stuck at JFK airport with no signs of lifebest avoided. The CDC For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and one man – Dr Ephraim Goodweather – are tasked with looking into itshe'll do anything to prevent that. But he wonShe't like what he finds – and nor should s not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone. The problem is, some ''do…''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1616555483</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1035906708|title=HerDiva|author=Harriet LaneDaisy Goodwin
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Emma is a harassed young mother We tend to a toddler with another baby on the way. Used to being a successful professionalthink of Maria Callas as Greek, but she is finding it difficult was born to cope with everything on a daily basis. ThereforeGreek parents in Manhattan, New York, it hardly surprises her in December 1923 and only moved to receive a call from a stranger telling her that Athens when she has found was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her wallet which Emma did not even realise that she had lost. Nina calls round with the offending wallet and Emma is immediately drawn father changed it to this composed, organised, successful woman whose life seems 'Callas' to epitomise everything that Emma wishes for. However, as their friendship blossoms, make it becomes apparent to more manageable in the reader, although not to Emma, States. When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that things are not what they seem. Apparently when Nina first set eyes on Emma, she recognised could get appropriate training for her as voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a face from the past, mother who mercilessly exploited her and an unwelcome one at that. We soon discover that Nina has an ulterior motive made no secret of her preference for befriending Emma as she sets out to seek revenge for something that Emma did many years agoher elder sister, Jackie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0297865056</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Fredrik BackmanAlexander McCall Smith|title=A Man Called OveThe Perfect Passion Company
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Ove (pronounced 'Oo-veh') The Perfect Passion Company is a man of principle who tries dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to do all the right thingonline apps in providing a more personal, ensure tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the no parking area remains sobusiness, as Ness is planning to take a good Swedish citizen trip to Canada to get away for a while. Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and tries so jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to be civil an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to his neighbours 44 Scotland Street and the 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 (even the foreign onesand rather handsome)neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=The Bad Weather Friend|rating=4. However he comes over as 5|genre=Paranormal|summary=Benny is having a total grumpterrifically bad day. He was even ousted from loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his position as Chairman of the Residents Association by a vicious couphouse gets trashed. IndeedOh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, heand it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the sort of very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person . So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who, when life gives has been sent to help him lemons, finds that they're rotting in the middlesince Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. ThereSpike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's so much more to his story than that though; enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a story that started a long time agowaitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444775790</amazonuk>1662500491
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=LandlineKatherine Howe|authortitle=Rainbow RowellA True Account|rating=4.5
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|summary=Georgie McCool has always known what 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 shehears there is to be a hanging of some pirates in the town, she decides to go and watch. Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's wanted and pursued it until she has itdeath at the hands of two vicious pirates. She got her dream job writing comedyhides away, sheso that they don's about to get t find and kill her own showtoo, and then to escape them completely she got her dream guyruns away to sea, Nealdressing as a boy and joining the notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. Only She soon finds herself in the thick of things when there is a mutiny on board, she's not so sure she has him anymoreand from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409154912</amazonuk>0861547438
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fiona Sussman1471180158|title=Shifting ColoursMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Celia Jamie Matson works as a maid for the Steiners in South Africa; a safe job in a white household an upper-class grocery store, for a man who'black' to have at s a time when control freak with all the country lurches from suspicion to brutality and back againsubtlety of a half brick. At least it Jamie's son, Bo, 'washas his problems'' a safe job. The Steiners have decided to move to England He's asthmatic andthe more you read, after difficulty in having their own children, want to adopt Miriam, Celiathe more you'll suspect that he's youngest childon the autistic spectrum. For so many reasons Celia canSometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's a frequent flier in the local A&E and sometimes Bo't refuses not fit enough to go to school. Rita Steiner promises Miriam an exciting adventure Missed shifts or the need to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and she promises Celia regular contactput in the wrong. When mother and daughter are miles apart, they both It was going to come to realise the same thing: sometimes promises are only as good as the people making them and that goes for promised lands tooa head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749016418</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0CKD1L5JL|title=TouchedRadio Free Olympia|author=Joanna BriscoeJeffrey Dunn|rating=34
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Rowena Crale Petr is an orphan. Rescued by the strange, reclusive Bear, he is brought up far from bustling cities and her family have moved to a new homebusy human society, having uprooted an ill and unwilling mother in law to take possession the forests of itWashington's Olympic Peninsula. There are five children After Bear dies and a brief sojourn in the family...but six if you count young Eva’s imaginary friend. Eva is the family outcast; dressed in her grandmother’s clothes human company, and preparing to attend armed with only a different school to her siblingspirate radio transmitter, she is often away from her familyPetr goes on a journey through the forest, broadcasting the strange, who seem to care little for her or her whereaboutswild and rarely heard voices he encounters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099590824</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Roopa FarookiSarah Marsh|title=The Good ChildrenA Sign of Her Own|rating=3.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=The Saddeq family are an example After a bout of success for their friends and neighbours in Lahorescarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Mr Saddeq is Suddenly plunged into a doctor with his own practiceworld of silence, sons Sully and Jakie are studying medicine everything about her life changes. Living in a time when the US and UK respectively and daughters Mae and Lana have made good marriage matchesuse of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a school where she is taught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. However From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the four 'good' children would view their success differentlydeaf and using a system called Visible Speech. Each reacts differently to At the futures that their caring father same time, Bell is working on other inventions and calculating mother have mapped out for them ideas, and plough their own furrows as far as they're permitted but the gravitational pull Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of home remains a constant through their lives and also, to some extent, for the generation that followsespionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755383427</amazonuk>1035401614
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=B0BC3YTCMR
|title=Good Girls Die
|author=Ayura Ayira
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=''This story is not for everyone.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Roland Watson-Grant1472263936|title=SkidThe Figurine|author=Victoria Hislop|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Things have changed It was in the Beaumont household since they lived in the Louisiana swampland1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. Skid She was alone: her mother, Greek by birth, had left the family home and refused to return, but Mary and Hamish (or Terence when heHelena's badparents), his mother Valerie and brother Frico have moved felt that it would be a pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. Her trip to an the family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be the cityfirst of several annual visits. The two older brothers have left home She grew to love her grandmother and the ladsfamily' father is still missings maid, presumed deadDina, after he disappeared beneath the alligatorbut was wary - and frightened -filled water back homeof her grandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. The city is a weird place for our hero as he becomes 16He was proud of his close connections to the Junta and expected his family to uphold his values but saw no reason to accommodate them. ItHis prejudices included Helena's just as dangerous as the swamp ever was as gangs that roam the streets seeking outsiders like Skid. Skid is realising that girls can be a problem too, although neighbourly Claire may be a bit different. She worries about him though; it seems that Skid isnred hair and green eyes - inherited from her father't so much a name as a curses Scottish ancestors.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846883199</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=After 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 ''feel'' everything. ''Everything''. Michael isn't ''Michael'' anymore.|isbn=1662500467}} {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0BVDC2VWH|title=Sugar HallThe Grave Listeners|author=Tiffany MurrayWilliam Frank
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Sugar Hall The village is isolated and poor. It's surrounded by a place of transitionsWitching Forest. It has recently gained new residents – Lilia Sugar, And the villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and her children Saskia and Dieterits blossom provides herbal medicines. It has lost several portions The black wood of the estateforest provides heat and warmth, roofs on homes, however – several valuable trinketsand even gallows, if needed. The fear of being buried alive is an existential superstition in the billiard table – as Lilia has to sell things to keep the family from poverty. But apart from things arriving village and things going, there are things moving – possibly that is the objects leftreason Volushka, possibly the butterfly patterns on the wallpapers. And there are things appearing – such as a lot of actualdrunken, living insectsself-indulgent, and the naked boy who sometimes appears only as lazy lout of a disembodied head to the young exploring Dieter…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781721432</amazonuk>man is tolerated.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Carys BrayB0BYF82CXT|title=A Song for Issy BradleySemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=The Bradley family ''Bill and Amanda are constantly busy as you might expect when there are four children but their most testing time comes on seven-yearliving in a semi-old Jacob's birthday. His elder sisterdetached house, Zippy and elder brother Alma have other things going on stuck in their lives but his little sister isn't feeling well. Four-year-old Issy has retreated to bed a depressing rut of boredom and she's rather hoping that her mother will come disappointment, when Terry and make her betterFiona – glamorous, but Claire is trying to cope with Jacob's birthday party successful and it's quite a while before very much in love – move in next door. Despite their different outlooks on life, the family realise that Issy couples befriend each other and life appears to improve for both pairs. But all is very ill. She has meningitis not what it seems, and that night she dies in hospitaltheir increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091954371</amazonuk>''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dinaw Mengestu Shalini Boland|title=All Our DaysThe Silent Bride|rating=4.53
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|summary=Isaac is a refugee from Ethiopia who finds Alice and Seth are a home match made in Ugandaheaven. At the university he's taken under the wing of a political activist also called IsaacHe is everything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, clever, funny; total and utter husband-material. The 1970s She is all he could possibly want in a dangerous time to be in Uganda as their world wife; beautiful, successful, confident… and so the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and the wedding is about to explodeplanned and set. Years later Isaac When the much-anticipated day arrives, Alice is walked down the Ethiopian finds himself in America aisle by her father, beaming with pride and lives under excitement as she surveys the care of social worker Helen. Slowly they form a less than professional relationship congregation – their friends assembled to celebrate this joyful day and Helen realises that what little when Seth turns to face his approaching bride, Alice's world implodes because she knows of him may not be has absolutely no idea who the man at the truth. Gradually his past altar is, who is revealed as the guilt he carries comes waiting for her to the surfacebecome his wife.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444793772</amazonuk>1662507089
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emma Healey1787636003|title=Elizabeth is MissingThe Girls of Summer|author=Katie Bishop
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Maud is a little forgetful as It was the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the rows of cooling cups of tea will attestisland. She also has a cupboard full of peaches for some reason Rachel wasn't exactly innocent but not she was, perhaps, naive, so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to worry. She has a family who love take an interest in her and rally round, a home help and her great friend Elizabethshe was flattered rather than wary. Come to think It was quite a while before he made any sort of it, Elizabeth seems physical approach to be missing her and the notes by that Maud writes herself each day keep reminding her of thistime she was obsessed by him. The problem is that no one will listen to herAlistair worked for Henry Taylor, let alone believe her. It also reminds Maud of something else; another disappearance a long, long time agolooking after his interests on the island and in particular in the bar where all the girls either worked or partied.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241003504</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Rilla of InglesideAmanda Craig|authortitle=L M MontgomeryThree Graces
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Meet Nicholson Baker. Now, I know I normally introduce a book with such a phrase, and every time before now I've used Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the name state-of -the main character-nation novel. But I feel such is There's something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the nature atmosphere of Baker's books that he is the greatest character therein, day and the one most important for the potential reader to understand, however close he may or may not be to his fictional creations. Baker is a very stylised authorcapture it, intricately bound up in providing amusing evidence crafting an image of the value of all the small things country as it stands in our worldone particular moment. If anybody can rustle up thousands of words about those baby nubbins To say that are left when you split a sheet of paper across a ready-made perforation – you know the tiny scads that are left dangling outwards – itAmanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's Baker. His early books practically were a day spent in real-time, and by rights you'd think synonymous with the genre of contemporary social fiction at this book should not exist – surely he's covered the world alreadypoint. But no – here is love, poetry, drone warfare, Debussy, and She has such a view gift for weaving the ongoing issues of dance music production as seen from the prospect day into the lives of her characters in a 55way that feels natural and lived-year old American malein, never making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781252785</amazonuk>140871468X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=152915118X|title=Someday We'll Tell Each Other EverythingPineapple Street|author=Daniela KrienJenny Jackson
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Eastern Germany, and the country ''Pineapple Street'' is in the limbo-land story of time that lay between the end of the Communist state of the DDR three women: Sasha, Darley and reunificationGeorgiana. Teenager Maria Darley and George are sisters and Sasha is also in a limbo-land of a kind herselfmarried to their brother Cord. They're Stocktons, living on only Sasha isn't a farm with Stockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the Brendels family, but not one of themtribe. The problem's exacerbated when the clan matriarch still speaks , Tilda, asks Cord and Sasha if they'd like to her in move into the third person for onePineapple Street property. Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to another property, a street or so away, and while she does some which they own. They won't need any of the house- and farm-workfurniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and is Cord can move straight in . Nominally, they had a relationship with choice but that wasn't the wannabe photographer son of reality. Darley and Georgiana start to call Sasha 'the family, she knows shegold digger'. She's not quite settled within those wallsliving in ''their'' family home. Especially, as she is They use it so often that they abbreviate it to learn, when there is a neighbour who can stir passionate emotions inside her…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782062416</amazonuk>'the GD'.
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{{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 secret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be the thing that reveals the truth of what happened all that time ago. After 'seeing' Lucy in the high street, just as she was the last time she saw her, she starts to find pockets of memories 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?
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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|isbn=0008506337|title=To Rise Again At A Decent HourThe Garnett Girls|author=Joshua FerrisGeorgina Moore|rating=45
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=An identity thief is wreaking havoc The love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all-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 older man'. Her parents worried that Richard's influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and having a glittering career. In the event, they eloped and Richard took her away from the oddest Isle of ways Wight. Margo did go to Oxford and forcing went on to become a dentist well-respected journalist. The couple had three children: Rachel, Imogen and Sasha. Life was lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, the family home on the Isle of Wight. Even then the doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able to confront his online presenceleave him in charge''. This is a book like no other you’ll know Then Richard left them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670917737</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tom Rachman1914585402|title=The Rise and Fall of Great Powers Dashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Tooly (Matilda) Zylberberg, runs a small independent I reviewed David F Ross's book shop in Caergenog, close enough to Hay on Wye to attract literary festival overflow. She loves and understands literature which is more than can be said about her understanding of her parents. In fact Tooly doesn[[There's Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There't even know who her parents are. She had s Only One Danny Garvey]] a weird childhood couple of years back and remember being taken from one city or country to another absolutely floored by Paul but she never got to ask why or even who he how powerful and affecting it was. The sum It was a gripping, emotionally wounding read, and rereading my review of her knowledge it my main takeaway was that he worked in IT and seemed to take care of her… or rather she took care of himI might not have lavished enough praise on it. So one day she leaves her able assistant Fogg to keep the shop going and retraces her life, hopefully finding the answers to the questions she never got around to asking.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444752340</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tim GlencrossLucy Ashe|title=BarbariansClara and Olivia|rating=34.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=ItThe year is 1933. The place? Sadler's 2008 Wells. Ballerinas Clara and things Olivia are sisters, twins no less. Identical on the up for outside but not, we learn, on the Howe familyinside. Sherard HoweAnd not on stage, patriarch, art lover and lefty-wing publisher is relishing the power either. Because there's a lot that comes from being well-connectedbuilds a dancer. Wife Daphne is about Some things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, attention to publish her second book. Her firstdetail – and some things, a feminist tome from the 1960sthat ''je ne sais quoi'', is still remembered; something that she wondon't be grateful forcome from the classroom. Their son Henry is about to get A stage presence, a well-paid tutoring job and Afuacharm, their informally adopted black African daughter has political ambitions. However not everyone dreams of lofty heights. Henry and Afuaa 's poet friend Buzzy just wants to bed Afua's bloke Marcel. Theyjoie de vivre'd all best enjoy their plans and achievements while they can: the nation's on the cusp of change . The difference between a hard-worker, and so, it seems, are their fortunesa star.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444788523</amazonuk>0861544080
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Teach HerHeather Fawcett|authortitle=Mark KottingEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries|rating=3.54
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=This Emily Wilde is a an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life's work, the very strange bookfirst encyclopaedia of faeries. Jim January would Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, she is not typically warrant his own bookso good with people. So when she finds herself far, one far North in which he is the starsmall village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the village matriarch, if she is not sure what she has done, nor how to redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on the heroright track. He’s a bit too bland Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and boring for thatinsufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, much to Emily's frustration. He But why is a barber. he here? What does he want? And that is all he what exactly is. He has unfulfilled dreams of traveling going on with the world. And his wife’s about to leave him. Throw in a disgruntled soldier and a troubled former pupil and you have a lot of anger and regret bubbling faerie folk around together. And, when those things combine, it’s only a matter of time before things end in handcuffs and imprisonment.Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>190987857X</amazonuk>0356519120
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Khaled Hosseini1398515388|title=And The Boy and the Mountains EchoedDog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Idris First of all, it was the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and Timur may be brothers growing up together but that doesn't mean that they will grow up to be this, in turn, caused the samenuclear meltdown. Nabi is The result was complete and utter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, and the servant loss of a wealthy man but carries the secret of a deed he regrets and a love that can't be acknowledgedlivelihoods was widespread. Then there are 10 year old Abdullah and his little sister Pari; inseparable till something separates them, causing a rift The fact that will haunt them both in some way for many pets were separated from their owners came far down the rest list of their livespriorities but - six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. TheyHe wasn're all very different people, born of t a nation of great natural beauty, natural wealth and dog person but the cradle of civilisation. Itconvenience store owner's also a nation of great pain comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and turmoil. These people are Afghans and this is their storyTamon the dog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408842459</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Headmaster's WifeChristopher Bowden|authortitle=Thomas Christopher GreeneMr Magenta|rating=54
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Arthur Winthrop leads Christopher Bowden's latest novel is a prestigious Vermont boarding school (sufficiently posh for him to be patient untangling of a headmasterseemingly ordinary woman's life, not carried out by her nephew after she has died. The aunt who always provided a principal). Like his father before him, safe harbour and his father’s father before that, it is what was always expected of him. The right thing to do. What is not the right thing to do, however, is to be caught wandering, naked, through Central Park in the middle a little bit of winter. Under questioning from the police, Arthur is keen indulgence to talk. Not about this episode, perhaps, but about other things on his mind. Like his interaction with a young student nephew had had a much more interesting life than that has crossed the boundaries of nephew Stephen had ever realised and it seems to him an acceptable student-teacher relationship. It’s as if the flood gates have been opened and there’s no way obligation to shut them now before everything has come gushing find it all out.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782391711</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nicole Mary KelbyJennifer Mason|title=The Pink SuitPartitions of Unity|rating=3.54
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=In November 1963 the world was shocked by the assassination of President John F KennedyHere at Bookbag Towers, we first met Elizabeth Cromwell, but the picture which brought home to us the horror of what had happened was not of JFK but of his wife dominatrix and unintentional detective in the iconic pink suit, soaked with her husband's blood. 'Let them see what they have done'[[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], when she saidinvestigated and unravelled a series of disappearances. IIn 've always assumed that the suit was new for the occasion - but it had a back story too and it's told in ''The Pink SuitPartitions of Unity'', she sets her mind to solving a work of historical fiction based on factsmurder...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1844089738</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
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{{Frontpage
|author=Jennifer Mason
|title=Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=''A struggling poetry zine, a mom-and-pop mobile diner in the Northern California redwoods, a 400-meter hurdler who just missed the 2004 Olympics, a women's track coach with a yen for bullwhips, a billionaire with a state-of-the-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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