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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Mona AwadJenny Lecoat|title= 13 Ways of Looking At A Fat GirlBeyond Summerland|rating= 4|genre= General Fiction|summary= Liz is fatJean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of the occupation. Not just plump or chubby or, as my director often describes people, ''bubbly'', but full on During the war, capital F fat. ItJean's perhaps 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 frustrations war is finally over, their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of this book that we never get him. But will the truth come as a numberrelief, because she's clearly obsessed with 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 scale shows, but won't share that reading.occupation?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0143128485</amazonuk>1846976537

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Deborah BeeOnyi Nwabineli|title=The Last Thing I RememberAllow Me to Introduce Myself

|summary=Contemporary writers are mining a rich seam of psychological thrillers and, within this genreAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, I seem thanks to be particularly attracted to stories featuring comatose protagonists. Comatose protagonists? Isnher step-mother Ophelia't that a contradiction in terms? Trues increasingly popular presence on social media, you do normally expect a protagonist to, well, do something. And Deborah Meewhere she posted every step of Anuri's heroine Sarah does nothing at all, other than listen, childhood for sponsorships and try influencer deals and remember, from her unconscious statebasically, monetary gain. In Now Anuri is in her narrative twenties and she offers us nothing more than fractured memories is slowly trying to regain her confidence and snippets of conversations from around to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the content about her bedside. Yet with these meagre tools she helps the reader build up a vivid picture of what Anuri is happening around herbattling alcoholism, of failing to start her own characterPhD, undergoing therapy and of the events leading to her hospital admissionsecretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. As a reader you gradually piece together what made Sarah what Most importantly, she is today. At first you see an apparently successful career woman in a loving marriage butdesperately worried about her little sister, as layers are gradually removed, what lies beneath becomes apparent. Sarahwho is the new focus of Ophelia's controlling husband has a sinister brother who comes to sit by online empire. Can she save her bedsidesister, while and perhaps herself and her toxic mother wages an ongoing war of words relationship with Sarah's spineless her father... At times I wanted to weep for what happened to Sarah; at other times I wanted to scream at her for letting it happen.the same time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B0196P0S4W</amazonuk>0861546873

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Sharon Guskin1529153298|title= The Forgetting TimeList of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Janie It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is a single motherPrime Minister. (A woman? I mean, living in New York with her pre-schooler Noahhonestly... It) She's not what's just the two of them, so itworrying Miv's rather disconcerting when Noah screams out in the nightfamily, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, calling for his they've been murdered, but to have 'real momdisappeared'doesn' and asking when he can go homet sound quite so frightening. Night after night this happens. There Miv's upset because she's other things, too. He hates water and regularly goes overheard that her father wants to nursery stinky because his mother simply cannot get him in move the bathfamily 'Down South'. He has the odd bizarre turn of phrase that comes out When you're from Yorkshire, far beyond what one might expect for Down South is a child of his agefrightening, foreign place, best avoided. He knows certain things For Miv, toothe move would mean leaving her best friend, without anyone understanding how he picked up this knowledgeSharon, whether it be and she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the names of different reptiles dangers or the plot of books hethat her Mum's never readstopped talking - to anyone.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035906708|title=Diva|amazonukauthor=<amazonuk>1509806792</amazonuk>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=Caroline LeaAlexander McCall Smith|title=When The Sky Fell ApartPerfect Passion Company|rating=4.5

|summary=That was the order The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in which things happened: the sky fell apartEdinburgh, Jersey's beaches were bombed, Clement run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the island's butcher went up online apps in flames where he stood providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and then look after the arrival business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the German armychance to come home to Edinburgh. This will change the life of the island including herbalist EdithAnd so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, neglected child Claudinebringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, former fisherman Maurice thanks to 44 Scotland Street and English Doctor Carterthe Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Each of the four lives on the perimeter of the islandKatie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's community but each will come always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to depend on the other three in order to continue living.lend a hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1925240746</amazonuk>1846976596

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Michael HonigDean Koontz|title= The Senility of Vladimir PBad Weather Friend|rating= 34.5|genre= General FictionParanormal|summary= In 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 his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the not-too-distant futurething that has trashed his house! The thing is, Vladimir Putin Benny is slowly succumbing the very last person to dementiadeserve 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, hidden who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from the world at large in nefarious forces for being a secluded private nursing homegood person. Nikolai Ilyich Sheremetev has what sounds like the most difficult job in the world: he Spike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's the old manenemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's nursewild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782398066</amazonuk>1662500491

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ernst Haffner and Michael Hofmann (translator)Katherine Howe|title=Blood BrothersA True Account|rating=4.5|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=It's BerlinHannah 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 she hears there is to be a hanging of some pirates in the Nazis are on their way town, she decides to powergo and watch. Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, even if they will never cross these pages themselvesHannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death at the hands of two vicious pirates. The city – hugeShe hides away, glamorousso that they don't find and kill her too, bustlingand then to escape them completely she runs away to sea, vicious dressing as a boy and joining the notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. She soon finds herself in the way it can swallow people – thick of things when there is home to a countless hoard of teenagersmutiny on board, but and from there we focus are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on just the ocean waves.|isbn=0861547438}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1471180158|title=Maybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's a few, most control freak with all the subtlety of whom have been in some corrective institution or other before nowa half brick. They call themselves the Blood BrothersJamie's son, Bo, even if all they share is 'has his problems'. He's asthmatic and the most unglamorous drudgery of going from one doss-house to anothermore you read, balancing the cost of a few cigarettes with more you'll suspect that of a warm room for a few hours or some stale rolls to eathe's on the autistic spectrum. But en route Sometimes Jamie needs to them is another take time off at short notice - she'Borstals a frequent flier in the local A&E and sometimes Bo' escapee, Willis not fit enough to go to school. Surely his fate is going Missed shifts or the need to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be nothing if not more of controlled and put in the same?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099594048</amazonuk>wrong. It was going to come to a head.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=C G MettsB0CKD1L5JL|title=Waltzing in ViennaRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn

|summary=Filmmaker C G Metts has written four nonfiction books, several of them of local interest to South Carolina natives and visitorsPetr is an orphan. This is his first novelRescued by the strange, howeverreclusive Bear, he is brought up far from bustling cities and you may be surprised to learn that it is an enjoyable chick lit/womenbusy human society, in the forests of Washington's fiction rompOlympic Peninsula. Three girlfriends meet up again After Bear dies and a brief sojourn in Charleston; in their early fortieshuman company, they're facing turning points in their professional and personal lives. As they reminisce about summers spent together at Folly Beach during college and resume their communal marijuana smoking habitarmed with only a pirate radio transmitter, Petr goes on a journey through the forest, they summon broadcasting the courage to decide what they want from middle age strange, wild and refresh their sex livesrarely heard voices he encounters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0692533346</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Hanneke Hendrix and David Doherty (translator)Sarah Marsh|title= The Dyslexic Hearts ClubA Sign of Her Own|rating= 3.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= I recently reviewed After a novel by another Scandinavian novelistbout of scarlet fever as a child, Helle HelleEllen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, [[This Should be Written everything about her life changes. Living in a time when the Present Tense by Helle Helle and Martin Aitken (translator)|This Should be Written in the Present Tense]]use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, and I expected this novel by Hanneke Hendrix Ellen is sent to a school where she is taught to be very similarlip read, but physically restrained from signing. It wasn'tFrom here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and using a system called Visible Speech. That's not totally a bad thing – many people will enjoy At the fast-pacedsame time, dialogue driven novel that ''The Dyslexic Hearts Club'' Bell is. It just wasn't exactly what I was expectingworking on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>9462380678</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adam BaronB0BC3YTCMR|title=BlackheathGood Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira

|summary=Househusband James ''This story is happy in Blackheathnot for everyone.'' Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of her fifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. He's started doing standShe was a very bright student, a bit too nerdy if truth be told, and suffered from vitiligo -up again so that he too has an achievement people were afraid to hug her in his life to balance wife Alicecase it's award winning poetrycontagious. Children Ida and Dominic are doing well so all It's not easy being a black girl whose skin is great84% white. Elsewhere in the area Amelia is equally happy with She had a crush on seventeen-year-old Reggie Anderson but never thought he would notice her actor husband Richard, her own career . Then he did: Lavender was very good at math and children Niamh Reggie asked if she would tutor him. She readily agreed: tutoring was something she gladly did at church: this was just an extension. She went to his house and teenage Michaelhe raped her. Sometimes happiness isn't enough though andIn shock, as the worlds of the two families start she even allowed him to mingle, things start changing for each of themgive her a lift home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908434902</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rebecca Lim1472263936|title=AfterlightThe Figurine|author=Victoria Hislop

|summary= A freak motorbike accident It was in 1968 that claims the life of your parents is really all it takes Helena McCloud made her first trip to make your world fall apartGreece. You might hope that a new beginning in a different high school is going She was alone: her mother, Greek by birth, had left the family home and refused to jumpstart your life; return, but Mary and Hamish (Helena's parents) felt that it would be a chance pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. Her trip to reinvent yourself as just Sophie Teague, rather than Sophiethe family apartment in up-The-One-Whose-Parents-Died might just market Kolonaki would be all you need to get bythe first of several annual visits. But before Sophie gets She grew to love her grandmother and the chance to find outfamily's maid, Dina, but was wary - and frightened - of her grandfather, she is visited by Everetired general Stamatis Papagiannis. Eve isn’t like other girls. She is beautiful He was proud of his close connections to the Junta and mesmerizing and Eve needs Sophie expected his family to be her go-uphold his values but saw no reason to girlaccommodate them. Because Eve can’t do much for herself since she died. Eve is a ghost His prejudices included Helena's red hair and dealing with the dead who have green eyes - inherited from her father''unfinished business'' could be the biggest challenge of Sophie’s lifes Scottish ancestors.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1925240495</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Adriana TrigianiDean 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}} {{Frontpage|isbn=B0BVDC2VWH|title=All The Stars In The HeavensGrave Listeners|author=William Frank

|summary=The village is isolated and poor. It was 1935 's surrounded by a Witching Forest. And the villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and Loretta Young wanted fame its blossom provides herbal medicines. The black wood of the forest provides heat and warmth, roofs on homes, and success in Hollywoodeven gallows, if needed. Part The fear of it was being young (just twenty one) buried alive is an existential superstition in the village and beautiful but she was also conscious that is the money she brought in mattered to her family. She was hungry for love too: her father had left when she was young. Her stepreason Volushka, a drunken, self-father had done little better and there was a ''need'' for indulgent, lazy lout of a man she could love and look up to. She developed a reputation for falling in love with her leading men: first it was Spencer Tracy but on the set of ''The Call of the Wild'' she fell for Clark Gable - and he for heris tolerated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471136345</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Kaui Hart HemmingsB0BYF82CXT|title= The PossibilitiesSemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone|rating= 3.54|genre= General Fiction|summary= Sarah's son has just died 'Bill and Amanda are living in a semi-detached house, stuck in an avalanche a depressing rut of boredom and disappointment, when Terry and Fiona – glamorous, successful and as such this is a book very much about bereavement and grieving and what in love – move in nextdoor. It's odd Despite their different outlooks on life, the couples befriend each other and life appears to think that a basis of personal improve for both pairs. But all is not what it seems, and their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy made this an intriguing read, but that was the case.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099597780</amazonuk>''

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Frank HurstShalini Boland|title=The Postmistress of Nong KhaiSilent Bride|rating=43

|summary=Mike Rawlins' rise through the ranks Alice and Seth are a match made in the investigation department of Customs and Excise heaven. He is everything she has been steadysearching for; handsome, accomplished, culminating in his dream posting: attachment to the British Embassyclever, Thailandfunny; total and utter husband-material. It gets even better when She is all he realises could possibly want in a name from his past wife; beautiful, successful, confident… and so the inevitable proposal is also operating out of eagerly accepted by Alice and the country on wedding is planned and set. When the other side of much-anticipated day arrives, Alice is walked down the aisle by her father, beaming with pride and excitement as she surveys the law. Mike's attempts congregation – their friends assembled to nail him over the years have become personal celebrate this joyful day and now, thanks when Seth turns to local informant or 'Postmistress' Lekface his approaching bride, prosecution is a possibility. What Mike doesnAlice't realise is s world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the cost man at the chase will exact… not yet anywayaltar is, who is waiting for her to become his wife.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785890573</amazonuk>1662507089

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= James MacManus1787636003|title= Midnight in BerlinThe Girls of Summer|author=Katie Bishop|rating= 45|genre= Historical General Fiction|summary= Berlin – 1938. In It was the British Embassy, military attaché Colonel Macrae prepares to defy his ambassador summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and government, Caroline went backpacking around Greece and assassinate Hitlerarrived on the island. Elsewhere Rachel wasn't exactly innocent but she was, perhaps, Sara Sternschein appears on stage naive, so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to take an interest in her role as the lead in the Gestapo's brothel – the Salon Kitty, she was flattered rather than wary. She has no choice, It was quite a while before he made any sort of physical approach to her twin brother is being held in a concentration campand by that time she was obsessed by him. In the Gestapo Headquarters Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, Obergruppenfuhrer Joaqim Bonner waits and watches – with looking after his eyes interests on Sara Sternschein as his secret weapon. As Colonel Macrae gathers intelligence for his mission he finds himself drawn to Salon Kitty – but does Sara hold the key to thwarting Hitler, island and in particular in the bar where all the girls either worked or is Macrae being manipulated?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715650335</amazonuk>partied.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Virginia MacgregorAmanda Craig|title=The Astonishing Return of Norah WellsThree Graces

|summary=Fay, Adam, Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of-the girls teenager Ella and little 6 year old Willa seem a happy family-nation novel. They are on the whole, itThere's just Ella something so utterly compelling about any writer who isn't. Faycan catch hold of the atmosphere of the day and capture it, named by crafting an image of the ladies across the road 'The Mother that Stayed' moved country as it stands in after Norah, 'The Mother one particular moment. To say that Left', went. Now Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's taken Norah's place in practically synonymous with the family's life and Adams' bedgenre of contemporary social fiction at this point. Ella just wants She has such a gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the day into the lives of her mother to come home characters in a way that feels natural and thenlived-in, 6 years after she wentnever making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, Norah doesgrappling with issues far larger than themselves. How will she fit in and, just as importantly, why did she come back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751554200</amazonuk>140871468X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Holly Seddon152915118X|title=Try Not To BreathePineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson|rating=4.5

|summary=In ''Try not Pineapple Street'' is the story of three women: Sasha, Darley and Georgiana. Darley and George are sisters and Sasha is married to Breathetheir brother Cord. They're Stocktons, only Sasha isn't a Stockton by birth so she isn' Holly Seddon offers an addition t readily accepted into the tribe. The problem's exacerbated when the clan matriarch, Tilda, asks Cord and Sasha if they'd like to move into the somewhat overflowing thriller shelvesPineapple Street property. Of course 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 reason this particular segment is bursting at the seams is because thrillersfurniture from Pineapple Street, especially psychological onesso Sasha and Cord can move straight in. Nominally, are just so compellingthey had a choice but that wasn't the reality. And there have been some good - Darley and hugely successful - books Georgiana start to call Sasha 'the gold digger'. She's living in this category out there of late (before-I-go-''their'' family home. They use it so often that they abbreviate it to-sleep-I'll-be-gone-with-a-girl-on-a-train)the GD'. So how does Holly Seddon match up?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782399453</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= J Paul HendersonEmily Critchley|title= The Last of the BowmansOne Puzzling Afternoon|rating= 4.5|genre= General FictionCrime|summary=When Greg Bowman's eighty-three 84 year old father Lyle dies he leaves some unfinished business. It's up 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 Greg – black sheep of the Bowmans – move to start learning the meaning of the word responsibility another house and sort bring Edie to live with his errant family out, preferably without them noticing what he's up 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 assisted only by the gentle nudging worry that there was a secret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be the thing that reveals the truth of his fatherwhat happened all that time ago. After 'seeing's ghostLucy 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. Can he do it before he returns to his altogether And yet as she remembers the past, she is forgetting more and more carefree life in America, and without causing any further trouble? As Greg begins her day to sort out his fatherday life. Will she uncover the truth about Lucy's house and affairsdisappearance before her move, he untangles some complicated webs of deception and unearths a few family secrets, including some of his own.before her memories are gone forever?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1843442779</amazonuk>1804181250

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Haraldur Erlendsson and Keith HagenbachMadelaine Lucas|title= The Man Who Drew Triangles: Magician, mystic or out of his mind?Thirst for Salt|rating= 3.5|genre= General Literary Fiction|summary='Magician'Love, mysticI'd read, or out of his mind?was supposed to be a light and weightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravity'' Consider  Told from a retrospective view, a young woman unravels the following: 27-year-old Olaflong relationship that once defined her. Overlaid with later wisdom, disembarks the narrator relives the affair with a flight man twenty years her senior from his homeland, Iceland, seats himself on a broken terminal at Heathrow airport, and begins its inception – the summer after finishing university – to meditate, to reach his guidesits sorrowful end the summer after. Attracting Set against the attention backdrop of Irish airport securityan 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, he is eventually sectioned how it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and escorted to a psychiatric unithow it altered her irrevocably.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785351478</amazonuk>0861546490

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lina Wolff and Frank Perry (translator)0008506337|title= Bret Easton Ellis and the Other DogsThe Garnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction|summary= UpstairsThe love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, a flat where apparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in love. Richard was twenty-one and described by Margo's mother and daughter struggle as 'an older man'. Her parents worried that Richard's influence would take her away from pay cheque what they felt she could achieve - going to pay cheque; downstairsOxford and having a glittering career. In the event, they eloped and Richard took her away from the love nest Isle of Wight. Margo did go to Oxford and went on to become a dying writer well-respected journalist. The couple had three children: Rachel, Imogen and her last of many conquestsSasha. Bret Easton Ellis Life was lived in London and the Other Dogs is a multilayered testimonial to the writerholidays were spent at Sandcove, the eccentric Alba Cambó, gathered by Araceli, family home on the teenager upstairsIsle of Wight. Through Araceli Even then the doubts about Richard's birddrinking were never far from Margo's-eye view, anecdotes unfold as told by lovers, business acquaintances (often both – for with Alba Cambó you can mind: ''she would never know), and the short stories of Cambó herselfbe able to leave him in charge''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908276649</amazonuk>Then Richard left them.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Danielle McLaughlin1914585402|title=Dinosaurs on Other PlanetsDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross

|genre=Short Stories General Fiction|summary=Seeing as this I reviewed David F Ross's book is clearly a talented author hitting the ground running, I will dispense with any major preamble. We start with a tale of a daughter affected [[There's Only One Danny Garvey by the emotions of her parents as they separate – and the influence of a certain school-teacher – from the motherDavid F Ross|There's point Only One Danny Garvey]] a couple of view. An ancient input shows years back and remember being absolutely floored by how alien, powerful and the modern day domesticity how regular, the isolation of affecting it was. It was a woman can feelgripping, as events are peppered by minor acts of destruction. But men can be alienated too – especially oneemotionally wounding read, a reluctant guest at a party for children hosted by someone he once had an affair with – he feels the new form and rereading my review of this influence in the light of another one he has had to try and abandon. 'All About Alice' – it my main takeaway was that's what the title character wants to say but has nobody to speak it to, but is I might not have lavished enough praise on it her – mid-40s and single, living with her father – that is most removed from her dreams or her old friend and now child factory, Marian? And we complete a lap of the calendar with the wintry tale of a man unable to tell his work superiors of the problems he faces at home – a new home, recently built like so many one sees while driving round Ireland.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473613701</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gary D SchmidtLucy Ashe|title=Orbiting JupiterClara and Olivia

|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=Twelve The year-old Jack is informed that his parents will be fostering another boy – fourteen year-old Joseph1933. But Joseph isnThe place? Sadler't like most fourteen year-oldss Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, twins no less. Identical on the outside but not, we learn, on the inside. And not on stage, either. HeBecause there's troubled: the rumour is a lot that builds a dancer. Some things that he spent time in juvenile incarceration for trying can be taught or learnt – discipline, attention to kill his teacherdetail – and some things, that ''je ne sais quoi'', that don't come from the classroom. And thereA stage presence, a charm, a ''joie de vivre''s something else about Joseph. The difference between a hard-worker, too: he has and a daughterstar.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783443944</amazonuk>0861544080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tasha KavanaghHeather Fawcett|title=Things We Have In CommonEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

|summary=Yasmin Emily Wilde is fifteen an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and seriously overweight - her capacity for consuming food will amaze she has travelled extensively, and sicken. She's bullied at school and even her own mother finds researched meticulously, to write her just a little bit weird: letlife's not go into what her stepfather thinks about her. Her father died a while agowork, but Yasmin has never really come to terms with his death and still has the feeling that everything would be OK if only Terry was still aroundvery first encyclopaedia of faeries. There's a girl in Yasmin's class called Alice Whilst she is brilliant at research and Yasmin speaking to faeries, she is not so in awe of her that she stalks hergood with people. One daySo when she finds herself far, far North in the school playgroundsmall village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the village matriarch, she spots a man watching Alice as carefully as is not sure what she does has done, nor how to redeem herself and becomes obsessed by put her final investigations for her book back on the idea that the man right track. Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, much to Emily's frustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going to abduct Alice.on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782115943</amazonuk>0356519120

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate Atkinson1398515388|title=A God in RuinsThe Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating=4.5|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=Teddy Todd never really expected to survive First of all, it was the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and this, in turn, caused the warnuclear meltdown. As a bomber pilot it wasn't something which you could rely on The result was complete and utter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, and he certainly knew the statisticsloss of livelihoods was widespread. But The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of priorities but - against all six months after the odds, he came through it, albeit with some time spent as tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a prisoner of warconvenience store. On balance he had He wasn't a good war, dog person but time will see him married to Nancy, father to Viola and grandfather to Sunny and Bertie - and left with the feeling that itconvenience store owner's more difficult comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to have a good peace than a good waropen his car door and Tamon the dog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552776645</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jessica TreadwayChristopher Bowden|title=If She Did ItMr Magenta|rating=4.5

|summary=Hanna and Joe had two daughters. Iris, the elder, had done well at school and gone on to be Christopher Bowden's latest novel is a medical student, but Dawn had always struggled. Hanna worried that it was something to do with the birth when Dawn might have been starved patient untangling of oxygen for a brief moment. She was never brightseemingly ordinary woman's life, bullied at school and suffered from amblyopia or lazy eye. Dawn called it 'lacy eye'. In carried out by her late teens nephew after she has died. The aunt who always provided a safe harbour and a little bit of indulgence to a young nephew had had a boyfriend - tall, good-looking Rud much more interesting life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and was obviously besotted with it seems to him and brought him home for Thanksgiving, but the pair left the next morning under a cloud with Joe accusing Rud of having stolen from the house whilst everyone else was an obligation to find it all out. That night Hanna and Joe were attacked in their beds; Joe died from his injuries and Hanna was left severely scarred and with no memory of the events of that night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751555266</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Christopher RansomJennifer Mason|title=Beneath The LakePartitions of Unity|rating=3.54

|summary=The Mercer family are on the holiday of a lifetime Here at the somewhat remote Blundstone Lake in Nebraska. It is all the things a camping holiday should be; tranquillity Bookbag Towers, we first met Elizabeth Cromwell, dominatrix and beautiful scenery unintentional detective in spades [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], when she investigated and lots unravelled a series of good old-fashioned family fundisappearances. When another family arrive, the Mercers try not to feel disappointed that their solitude has been encroached upon and do their best to keep out In ''Partitions of the other familyUnity's way, but when the newcomers' family disharmony becomes violent and murderous, The Mercers have no option but she sets her mind to become rather more acquainted with them than they had bargained forsolving a murder.. And so their lives are forever altered.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751555223</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jonathan CoeWill Carver|title=Number 11The 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}} {{Frontpage|author=Jennifer Mason|title=Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery

|summary=There's 'A struggling poetry zine, a great deal of significance mom-and-pop mobile diner in the title of ''Number 11''. It's the common abbreviation for the home of the Chancellor of the ExchequerNorthern California redwoods, as well as a bus route around 400-meter hurdler who just missed the outskirts of Birmingham which provides 2004 Olympics, a useful haven for those who can't afford to put the heating on at home. Itwomen's also Jonathan Coe's eleventh novel. On track coach with a yen for bullwhips, a level more personal to the characters in the book it's also the number of floors below ground which are being added to billionaire with a house in Chelsea owned by an obscenelystate-rich family. Even more obscene is the fact that the owner of -the house doesn't know what she wants that floor for - everything that could possibly be added art S&M dungeon, a man serving a life sentence in Alabama, an enigmatic signature, K(swimming pool with palm treess, wine cellarx), bank vaulton a cheap oil painting, staff quartersan erotic art dealer in Georgia...) '' This is on just a sample of the other floors or cast of characters and settings in the house itselfPreposterous. But Mrs Gunn wants it because she As you can have itsee, some keeping up will be required! The basic premise of this mystery story goes like this...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0670923796</amazonuk>B09STS96HS