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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{Frontpage|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}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Katherine WebbOnyi Nwabineli|title=The Night FallingAllow Me to Introduce Myself
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|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=In Anuri spent her childhood on display to the summer world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of 1921Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, Leandro returns to his birthplace basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in Italy. He has made his fortune, her twenties and his aim she is slowly trying to transform a crumbling palazzo into an opulent mansionregain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the content about her. But the outside world Anuri is still reeling from the Great Warbattling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and Leandro’s nephewsecretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, Ettoreshe is desperately worried about her little sister, who is one the new focus of those most in need of helpOphelia's online empire. ReluctantlyCan she save her sister, Ettore asks his uncle for assistance. But Ettero could not have foreseen what was to come from that request…and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409131491</amazonuk>0861546873
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul Fournel and David Bellos (translator)1529153298|title=Dear ReaderThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=45
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|summary=Robert Dubois It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is a publisher of the old school: the books matter - of course Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they do - 've been murdered, but then to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so does frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the food and the drink which accompanies the professionfamily 'Down South'. HeWhen you's had re from Yorkshire, Down South is a long career of paper manuscriptsfrightening, authors and lunches and he fully expects that life will continue in this way until he finally retiresforeign place, whenever that might bebest avoided. Then one day an intern presents him with an ereader and nothing will ever be quite For Miv, the same againmove would mean leaving her best friend, not least his briefcaseSharon, which is used and she'll do anything to accommodating vast quantities of paperprevent that. HeShe's not a Luddite worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - but getting used to this gizmo is not going to be easyanyone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782270264</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark B Mills1035906708|title=Waiting for DoggoDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Daniel didn't ''quite'' acquire Doggo by accident. His girlfriend got him from Battersea Dogs' Home 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 Clara walked out on him without any notice (well - just a letter...) she told him to take Doggo backwas thirteen. He Her original surname was, she said Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'just a dog. A small ugly dogCallas'to make it more manageable in the States. And Daniel When she was all set to do just back in Athens - supposedly so that until he discovered that Doggo would quickly be separated from what Dan considered to be she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a couple mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of important parts of his anatomy. After a rethink Daniel had a new job as an advertising copywriter which allowed him to take Doggo to work with him and Doggo's career as a 'mental health companion dog' was bornher preference for her elder sister, Jackie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472218345</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Everything I Never Told YouAlexander McCall Smith|authortitle=Celeste NgThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5
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|summary=To understand Lydia’s deathThe Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, we need run by Ness and operating as an alternative to understand Lydiaall the online apps in providing a more personal, and to understand Lydia we need to understand Lydia’s parentstailored service. Marilyn, who wanted more from Ness has asked her life than to play younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the dutiful housewifebusiness, who goes as Ness is planning to college take a trip to study and realise her dreams, not Canada to meet a man (her own mother’s dream get away for her), goes ahead and, well, she meets a manwhile. That man Katie is James, whose credentials for teaching American history are coming out of a break up for debatewith a bad boyfriend, but who nonetheless manages and so jumps at the chance to overcome his background come home to secure a role doing just thatEdinburgh. They settle down And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and have Naththe Isabel Dalhousie novels, then Lydia, then but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a little while laterbusiness, Hannah. An unusual family for 1970s Ohioor in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a happy one. The children are bright, the home is cosy.hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349134286</amazonuk>1846976596
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patrick RothfussDean Koontz|title=The Slow Regard of Silent ThingsBad Weather Friend
|rating=4.5
|genre=FantasyParanormal|summary=Deep below the UniversityBenny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, the ancient home of magic and learninghis house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a young girl lives amongst the cavesreally weird, tunnelsdisturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and abandoned roomsit'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 deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. In Seven days So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, her a bad weather friend will be visiting - one of her few friendscalled Spike, and someone who Auri cannot wait has been sent to seehelp him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Those seven days are filled with Auri Spike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's preparations - her hunt amongst the tunnels enemies, if he, Benny, and caves for Harper (a proper gift, and her thoughts as she goes about her businesswaitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473209323</amazonuk>1662500491
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Dear Committee MembersKatherine Howe|authortitle=Julie SchumacherA True Account
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|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Jason Fitger (Jay) 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 Professor young age. When she hears there is to be a hanging of creative writing some pirates in the town, she decides to go and literature watch. Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death at the hands of two vicious pirates. She hides away, so that they don't find and kill her too, and then to escape them completely she runs away to sea, dressing as a small university boy and joining the notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. She soon finds herself in the American mid-west. He thick of things when there is also a frustrated novelist with a colourful personal historymutiny on board, much and from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of which bleeds into his professional life, with interesting resultson the ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007586345</amazonuk>0861547438
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Pitre1471180158|title=Fives and Twenty-Fives Maybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating=4.5
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|summary=In Iraq any soldier within 5 metres Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's a control freak with all the subtlety of a roadside bomb explosion will die as even an armoured truck will be torn to pieceshalf brick. Being within 25 metres of a roadside explosion would be fatal to foot soldiersJamie's son, Bo, 'has his problems'. Lieutenant Pete Donovan He's asthmatic and his US marine unit know this better than anyonethe more you read, the more you'll suspect that he's on the autistic spectrum. Their job Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's a frequent flier in Iraq is to repair the roads but itlocal A&E and sometimes Bo's not as simple as it soundsfit enough to go to school. Every pothole (yes, ''every'' pothole) contains a bomb; even Missed shifts or the kerbstones could need to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be dummies filled with explosivescontrolled and put in the wrong. That's why every serviceman and woman has it drilled into them: no matter what, no matter where, always watch your fives and twenty-fivesIt was going to come to a head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00M7S1NL8</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0CKD1L5JL|title=The TowerRadio Free Olympia|author=Alessandro GallenziJeffrey Dunn|rating=34
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=AmmanPetr is an orphan. Rescued by the strange, Jordanreclusive Bear, he is brought up far from bustling cities and even while busy human society, in the worldforests of Washington's tallest building is still being constructed, Biblia are hard at work insideOlympic Peninsula. The global Internet conglomerate is undergoing its efforts to digitise the entire world's knowledgeAfter Bear dies and a brief sojourn in human company, including and armed with only a priceless archive held by a local dignitarypirate radio transmitter, when one of the workers involved - Petr goes on behalf of a journey through the Vatican - vanishesforest, along with some unknown quantities of broadcasting the works. Enter Peter Simms from Englandstrange, wild and a classy Italian colleague, to help relocate whatever it was that was missing - in the face of threats from elsewhere in the Muslim kingdom..rarely heard voices he encounters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846883377</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=EmmaSarah Marsh|authortitle=Alexander McCall SmithA Sign of Her Own
|rating=3.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=When I read about the plan to re-imagine Jane Austen's novels through contemporaryAfter a bout of scarlet fever as a child, bestselling authors I wasn't entirely sure this was a good thingEllen Lark loses her hearing. Sense and Sensibility by Joanna Trollope? Really? But then, Suddenly plunged into a world of coursesilence, my eyes lit upon everything about her life changes. Living in a time when the magic author's nameuse of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Alexander McCall Smith! Not only had been asked Ellen is sent to a school where she is taught to be involvedlip read, but physically restrained from signing. From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the book he was going to work deaf and using a system called Visible Speech. At the same time, Bell is working on was my most favourite Austen bookother inventions and ideas, Emmaand Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage. What could possibly go wrong?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007553854</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=Judy Chicurel1472263936|title=If I Knew You Were Going To Be This Beautiful, I Never Would Have Let You GoThe Figurine|author=Victoria Hislop
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Katie 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 (Helena's parents) felt that it would be a pity if Helena grew up without knowing her friends grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. Her trip to the family apartment in Elephant Beach, Long Island are going to make up-market Kolonaki would be the most first of summer 1972several annual visits. High school is behind them, thereShe grew to love her grandmother and the family's booze maid, Dina, but was wary - and frightened - of her grandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. He was proud of his close connections to be drunk the Junta and weed expected his family to be smokeduphold his values but saw no reason to accommodate them. ThereHis prejudices included Helena's red hair and green eyes - inherited from her father's also Scottish ancestors.}}{{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 lot makeshift mortuary, covered in plastic, he has a sense that something very, very bad has happened to contend withhim – and only him – as he sits up and looks around at the shrouded bodies of his dead friends and former colleagues. This 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}} {{Frontpage|isbn=B0BVDC2VWH|title=The Grave Listeners|author=William Frank|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=The village is a working class community, ignored isolated and disenfranchised poor. It's surrounded by those with a Witching Forest. And the money villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and influence to helpits blossom provides herbal medicines. Also The black wood of the Vietnam War rages forest provides heat and warmth, roofs onhomes, producing local heroes like Luke and Mitcheven gallows, if needed. For some The fear of being buried alive is an existential superstition in the young people village and that is the future is reason Volushka, a blank canvasdrunken, for others their future is foreseen or foreshortened. As for Katie's hopes and dreamsself-indulgent, they all revolve around the hope lazy lout of a date with Lukeman is tolerated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472221656</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0BYF82CXT|title=The Love Song of Miss Queenie HennessySemi-Detached|author=Rachel JoyceDeborah Stone
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Rachel Joyce envisions ''The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy'' not as Bill and Amanda are living in a prequel or sequel to [[The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce|The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry]] but as semi-detached house, stuck in a companion volume. Giving Queenie's side depressing rut of the story through an extended letter she is writing to Harold from St Bernadine's hospice as she awaits his arrivalboredom and disappointment, when Terry and Fiona – glamorous, Joyce gives readers a new perspective successful and very much in love – move in next door. Despite their different outlooks on her character's unrequited love for Harold, a surprising friendship she kept up with his son David until his suicidelife, the couples befriend each other and her sudden move from Devon life appears to Northumbriaimprove for both pairs. But all is not what it seems, where she lived in a quaint beachside cottage and maintained her sea garden until she became ill with cancertheir increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857522450</amazonuk>''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The BearShalini Boland|authortitle=Claire CameronThe Silent Bride
|rating=3
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Canadian Claire Cameron was working as Alice and Seth are a counsellor at Algonquin Park match made in the early 90'sheaven. He is everything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, clever, when a bear attacked funny; total and killed two campersutter husband-material. HereShe is all he could possibly want in a wife; beautiful, successful, Cameron revisits confident… and so the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and re imagines the attackwedding is planned and set. When the much-anticipated day arrives, but gives Alice is walked down the campers two childrenaisle by her father, beaming with pride and tells excitement as she surveys the story from congregation – their friends assembled to celebrate this joyful day and when Seth turns to face his approaching bride, Alice's world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the perspective of man at the daughteraltar is, Annawho is waiting for her to become his wife.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099581469</amazonuk>1662507089
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1787636003|title=Night after NightThe Girls of Summer|author=Phil RickmanKatie Bishop|rating=45
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|summary=It's no surprise was the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that when it comes to reality television, broadcasters are fighting amongst themselves for she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the next big thingisland. Rachel wasn't exactly innocent but she was, no matter how tastelessperhaps, basenaive, or exploitative it may be. That's the starting point for Phil Rickman's creepy new thriller, as tv producer Leo Defford decides so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to launch a reality show take an interest in her, she was flattered rather than wary. It was quite a mansion formerly owned while before he made any sort of physical approach to her and by tragically deceased movie star Trinity Ansell, and perhaps haunted that time she was obsessed by him. Alistair worked for Henry VIII's last wifeTaylor, Katherine Parrlooking after his interests on the island and in particular in the bar where all the girls either worked or partied.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857898698</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Green DoorAmanda Craig|authortitle=Christopher BowdenThree Graces|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Clare Mallory is a promising junior barrister working from a prestigious chambers. Life is pretty goodFew styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of-the-nation novel. SheThere's not something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the type to be taken in by psychics but when cards advertising the services atmosphere of one Madame Pavonia start arriving in the postday and capture it, her interest is piqued, first by crafting an image of the rainbow spectrum pattern and then by... well, something elsecountry as it stands in one particular moment. Tempted to visit the fortune-teller at a local fair, Clare To say that Amanda Craig is taken aback skilled at Madame Pavoniadoing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's reaction to practically synonymous with the genre of contemporary social fiction at this point. She has such a gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the day into the lives of her characters in a way that feels natural and rushes out of the tentlived-in, never making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselves. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0955506735</amazonuk>140871468X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=152915118X|title=TwistPineapple Street|author=Tom GrassJenny Jackson
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Twist doesn''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 know his familya Stockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the tribe. Homeless The problem's exacerbated when the clan matriarch, Tilda, asks Cord and on Sasha if they'd like to move into the run Pineapple Street property. Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to another property, a street or so away, which they own. They won't need any of the furniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and Cord can move straight in. Nominally, they had a choice but that wasn't the policereality. Darley and Georgiana start to call Sasha 'the gold digger'. She's living in ''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, he Edie is swiftly caught up in tormented by the world memory of Dodgeher childhood friend, FaginLucy, Sikeswho went missing over 60 years ago, and Redthe 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. As they involve Twist After 'seeing' Lucy in the dangerous world high street, just as she was the last time she saw her, she starts to find pockets of Art theftmemories coming back to her. And yet as she remembers the past, his skills are pushed she is forgetting more and more in her day to day life. Will she uncover the limitstruth about Lucy's disappearance before her move, and his morals before her memories are tested by both the murky underworld and the beauty of Red.gone forever?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409150909</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=Christopher Bland0008506337|title=Ashes In The WindGarnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore|rating=45
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|summary=John Burke The love affair between Margo Garnett and Tomas Sullivan may go to the same primary school in Kerry but even in 1908 theypoet Richard O're Leary was all-consuming, apparently on two both sides of . 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 great divideglittering career. John is Anglo Irish protestant In the event, they eloped and comfortably off, being Richard took her away from the heir Isle of Wight. Margo did go to Derriquin Castle whereas Tomas is Irish CatholicOxford and went on to become a well-respected journalist. The couple had three children: Rachel, living Imogen and Sasha. Life was lived in poverty London and raised to feel holidays were spent at Sandcove, the family home on the resentment Isle of the oppressedWight. The fact that John has been brought up Even then the doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able to believe leave him in Home Rule tragically makes no difference as John, Tomas and their future generations live with the consequences of a centuries old strugglecharge''.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elisabeth Gifford1914585402|title=Return to FourwindsDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Two families gather at Fourwinds for the wedding I reviewed David F Ross's book [[There's Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's Only One Danny Garvey]] a couple of Nicky years back and Sarahremember being absolutely floored by how powerful and affecting it was. Alice It was a gripping, emotionally wounding read, and Ralph are as proud rereading my review of their son as Patricia and Peter are of their daughterit my main takeaway was that I might not have lavished enough praise on it. However there are secrets festering behind the celebratory facades and there's nothing like pre-wedding jitters to bring such things bubbling to the surface.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782391142</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy - The Nearly Definitive EditionLucy Ashe|authortitle=Douglas AdamsClara and Olivia|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=There are few series that have garnered such a cult following as 'The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxyyear is 1933. The place? Sadler's Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, twins no less. Whether Identical on the fans have come from the radio seriesoutside but not, the (impossibly hard) computer gamewe learn, or on the (well intentioned but inside. And not particularly good) filmon stage, they are everywhereeither. Ask Because there's a lot that builds a room of people what dancer. Some things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, attention to detail – and some things, that ''je ne sais quoi'', that don't come from the meaning of life isclassroom. A stage presence, a charm, and you can be pretty sure a good few will pipe up with '42' as the answerjoie de vivre''. The difference between a hard-worker, and a star.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0434023396</amazonuk>0861544080
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=DoomedHeather Fawcett|authortitle=Chuck PalahniukEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries|rating=2.54
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=The central characterEmily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, Madisonto write her life's work, the very first encyclopaedia of faeries. Whilst she is a strangely unlikeable narrator who has been murderedbrilliant at research and speaking to faeries, she is not so good with people. She So when she finds herself far, far North in hell but is able to return to Earth to observe the dramatic goings-on small village of her celebrity parentsHrafvsnik, who fit having somehow offended the stereotype of village matriarch, she is not sure what she has done, nor how to redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on the Brangelina couple - socially responsibleright track. Enter Wendell Bambleby, universally famous her dashingly handsome and obscenely rich. Without giving too much awayinsufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, Madison is a pawn in Satan’s plan to destroy the earth all charm and ensure everyone goes delight, much to hellEmily's frustration. This being Palahniuk, the focus But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the comedic possibilities of this scenario rather than the moralistic.faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099552639</amazonuk>0356519120
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Victoria Hislop1398515388|title=The SunriseBoy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Savvas has everything he needs here in Cyprus: moneyFirst of all, a beautiful wife from a rich Greek Cypriot family and a hotel to develop into beacon accommodation for it was the well-heeled. It's not everything he wants though. There's always another hotel to buy and deals to be done while Aphroditiearthquake, his intelligent wife, becomes more aware of her position as an ornament rather than a partner. On deep in the other handocean floor, which created the Turkish Ozkans tsunami and Greek Georgious have less materially but arethis, in turn, on caused the whole, happynuclear meltdown. Traditionally they should be enemies but Famagusta is a tolerant town The result was complete and a good place to liveutter devastation. All this changes in 1974: Turkish soldiers land on the island The deaths were uncountable, and slowly move down through the north, an underground resistance emerges and life becomes dangerously cheaploss of livelihoods was widespread. The citizens fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of Famagusta flee to priorities but - six months after the south, tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. He wasn't a dog person but two families can’t get out in time: the Ozkans convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and Tamon the Georgiousdog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755377788</amazonuk>
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{{newreview|title=The Winter HorsesFrontpage|author=Philip Kerr|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=It’s the winter of 1941 and we are in the Ukraine. A fourteen year old girl is hiding in a wood on the vast and bitter-cold steppe. Her name is Katinka, a name from folk song and fairy tale, and she has been befriended by two of the wild Przelowski’s horses.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406359831</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewChristopher Bowden|title=Where Love Lies|author=Julie CohenMr Magenta|rating=54
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=LetChristopher Bowden's start with the basics. Felicity, latest novel is a patient untangling of a childrenseemingly ordinary woman's book author and illustratorlife, carried out by her nephew after she has been married died. The aunt who always provided a safe harbour and a little bit of indulgence to the lovely Quinn for just a short time. They live in a sweet cottage, in young nephew had had a wonderful village, with Quinn's family nearby. Quinn is the perfect husband, in every way, and surely Felicity's much more interesting life can't get any better than this? You might well guess that anyone starting out in a book in this way is heading for trouble. Felicity's trouble comes in rather nephew Stephen had ever realised and it seems to him an unusual form however. She begins obligation to experience intense emotions, seemingly preceded by smelling a scent that she recognises from a long time ago in her lifefind it all out. But are the emotions real, or is her imagination playing tricks on her? And are these episodes worthy of a trip to the doctor, or will he dismiss her olfactory experiences as the random ramblings of a confused woman?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0593070844</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=RoomsJennifer Mason|authortitle=Lauren OliverPartitions of Unity|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Alice Here at Bookbag Towers, we first met Elizabeth Cromwell, dominatrix and Sandra are dead. Ghosts trapped in the house they lived and died unintentional detective in[[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], they have bickered when she investigated and squabbled for yearsunravelled a series of disappearances. Distraction for them comes in the form In ''Partitions of a real, live family - CarolineUnity'', she sets her daughter Minna, son Trenton, and Minna's daughter Amymind to solving a murder.. Arriving to mourn and sort affairs following the death of Minna and Trenton's father, arguments and old wounds soon open up.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444760769</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Burnt Tongues: An Anthology of Transgressive Short StoriesWill Carver|authortitle=Chuck Palahniuk, Dennis Widmyer and Richard ThomasThe Daves Next Door
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|genre=Short StoriesGeneral Fiction|summary=Saying certain things out loud just don’t sound rightFive strangers come together in one moment as a suicide bomber prepares to detonate his vest on a London tube line. Some things are so disturbing or politically incorrect that you are best off leaving them inside your headAs their fates overlap, the story is told in backwards order, or better yet not thinking of them at all. When these words are spoken they could lead leading up to the sensation of Burnt Tongue; an aftereffect of knowing what you said was wrongfateful moment. Are you prepared to enter the world of Transgressive Fiction that aims to disturb, alienate, disgust and question?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178329552X</amazonuk>1914585186}} {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=UsJennifer Mason|authortitle=David NichollsPreposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery
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|summary=Douglas Petersen is ''A struggling poetry zine, a mildmom-manneredand-pop mobile diner in the Northern California redwoods, middlea 400-aged biochemist. He and Connie have been married meter hurdler who just missed the 2004 Olympics, a women's track coach with a yen for about two decades. Their sonbullwhips, Albiea billionaire with a state-of-the-art S&M dungeon, is your average sullen teenager with a messy room and bohemian affectations. He and Douglas argue about everythingman serving a life sentence in Alabama, an enigmatic signature, but especially about Albie'K(s chosen career path: he hopes to be , x), on a photographercheap oil painting, taking after his artist mother, but Douglas wants him to study something more practical an erotic art dealer in Georgia...'' This is just a sample of the cast of characters and rigorous at unisettings in Preposterous. StillAs you can see, Douglas thinks things are going pretty well for his family – until one night Connie sits some keeping up in bed and tells him she thinks she wants to leave himwill be required! The basic premise of this mystery story goes like this...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>034089699X</amazonuk>B09STS96HS
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