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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!{{Frontpage|author=Onyi Nwabineli|title=Allow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step- Remove -->mother to take down the content about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fredrik Backman1529153298|title=Britt-Marie Was HereThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey

|summary= Brett-Marie has never met a kitchen she It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't want to cleansound quite so frightening. In fact, permanently armed with bicarbonate of soda and window cleaner, Miv's upset because she's always ready overheard that her father wants to clean anythingmove the family 'Down South'. Her husband Kent When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is an entrepreneura frightening, you knowforeign place, with excellent taste and expensive clothesbest avoided. Yet here she isFor Miv, in Borgthe move would mean leaving her best friend, a rundown small townSharon, in search of and she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her first job for 40 years. Life takes some odd turns sometimesMum's stopped talking - to anyone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473617200</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rodrigo Hasbun and Sophie Hughes (translator)1035906708|title=AffectionsDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin

|summary=If you thought your teenaged years were a struggle We tend to work out the world, and yourself, consider that think of Heidi Ertl. Or either of her sisters – this book serves Maria Callas as a sort of tribute Greek, but she was born to these three real-life womenGreek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and the lives that came out of their very disjointed youth, forced only moved to be rarefied from the norm by their family uprootingAthens when she was thirteen. Father Hans Her original surname was one of Leni RiefenstahlKalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas's key cameramen, and a Nazi military photographer, before taking to make it more manageable in the whole family into post-war exile in BoliviaStates. Their mother would have followed him to the ends of the earth – as When she was back in part would their daughters, Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the older two of which start the book Nazi occupation by joining him on an expedition to discover a lost Incan city. Heidi finds young, instant love on the trek – but sees the dark side mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of such emotions, too. Older her preference for her elder sister Monika, who might well be manic depressive, finds something else, while the baby of the family stays at home with a maudlin mother. So much here could be the hook on which to hang a full novel, but if anything it's the reaction of them all to this unusual formative journey that inspires this bookJackie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782272135</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jemma WayneAlexander McCall Smith|title= Chains of SandThe Perfect Passion Company|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Chains of Sand The Perfect Passion Company is a great read about familydating agency in Edinburgh, faith, survivalrun by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and love. It follows look after the story of two young men: Udi business, as Ness is planning to take a veteran of the Israeli army who longs trip to Canada to get away for a new future in London, and Daniel, while. Katie is coming out of a London banker unsatisfied break up with his life a bad boyfriend, and yearning for something moreso jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. The And so begins this new story focuses on their desires from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to change their lives by moving an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to different worlds and how this impacts their relationships with friends 44 Scotland Street and family. As the story unfoldsIsabel Dalhousie novels, the two protagonists' histories are slowly uncovered and they both have to overcome the difficulties in their but with some new lives in order characters who quickly begin to achieve their dreamscharm. Meanwhile Katie has no experience in running a business, the fate of staror in match-crossed love between a Jewish girl making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and an Arabic man in Jerusalem a decade earlier intertwines with Danielthere's lifealways her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, complicating all that he thinks has become clear.William, to lend a hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785079727</amazonuk>1846976596

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Marie-Sabine RogerDean Koontz|title= Soft in the HeadThe Bad Weather Friend|rating= 4.5|genre= General FictionParanormal|summary= This novel will make you smileBenny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. It's Oh, and someone has delivered a feelreally weird, disturbing coffin-good storysized object to his home, unusual in its premise and original. it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! Germaine The thing is a 45 year old man who , Benny is illiteratethe very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He has is a group of drinking friends who frequently make him nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the butt of their jokesdelivery to his house is a new friend, a mother bad weather friend called Spike, who calls has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a 'half-wit', amongst other things, and a girlfriend whom he appears afraid of committing togood person. Germain spends many afternoons in the parkSpike is going to take care of Benny, counting pigeons and writing his name among the dead will certainly take care of the war memorial. It is here that Benny's enemies, if he meets Margueritte, Benny, and Harper (a tiny 85 year old woman waitress slash Private Investigator who tells him she also counts the pigeonsfinds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782271589</amazonuk>1662500491

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Gregory MaguireKatherine Howe|title= After AliceA True Account|rating= 4.5|genre= FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary=Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to live with a family who run an inn, and being made to work there from a young age. When Alice fell down she hears there is to be a hanging of some pirates in the rabbit holetown, she found Wonderland as rife with inconsistent rule decides to go and abrasive egos as the world she left behindwatch. But how did Victorian Oxford react to Alice Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's departure? When Alicedeath at the hands of two vicious pirates. She hides away, so that they don's friend Adat find and kill her too, mentioned briefly in ''Alice in Wonderland'' sets out and then to escape them completely she runs away to visit Alicesea, she arrives dressing as a boy and joining the notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a minute too latecabin boy. Tumbling down She soon finds herself in the rabbit hole herselfthick of things when there is a mutiny on board, she embarks on an odyssey to find Alice and bring from there we are caught up in her safely home from this surreal world below rip roaring tale of life on the worldocean waves. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472230469</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Isabel Allende1471180158|title= The Japanese LoverMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= The Japanese Lover is Jamie Matson works in an unassuming novel. The beginning leads the reader to anticipate an enjoyable light readupper-class grocery store, for a good holiday book perhaps – man who's a very well plotted story control freak with an interesting cast all the subtlety of characters and settingsa half brick. Irena Jamie's son, Bo, a Moldovan girl with elfin looks 'has his problems'. He's asthmatic and the more you read, the more you'll suspect that he's on the autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's a passion for fantasy novels, starts working in bohemian care home Lark House frequent flier in San Francisco. She meets the stately local A&E and somewhat aloof Alma Belasco, whose story starts sometimes Bo's not fit enough to unravel, beginning with her being brought over from Poland (just as Jews became increasingly vulnerable go to school. Missed shifts or the Nazis) need to be away on time to her wealthy aunt pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and uncle put in Cliff House, San Francisco, as the wrong. It was going to come to a little girl. Allende almost makes us think that this opening tone, entertaining but fairly shallow, will continue for the rest of the novelhead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471152197</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Midge RaymondB0CKD1L5JL|title= My Last ContinentRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=Only at Petr is an orphan. Rescued by the end of the worldstrange, reclusive Bear, among the glaciers he is brought up far from bustling cities and icebergs of Antarcticabusy human society, do Deb and Keller feel at home. For a few blissful weeks each year they study in the habits forests of penguins, finding solace in their work Washington's Olympic Peninsula. After Bear dies and a brief sojourn in each other. Yet Antarcticahuman company, like their romanceand armed with only a pirate radio transmitter, is imperilled by Petr goes on a journey through the world to forest, broadcasting the northstrange, wild and rarely heard voices he encounters. }}{{Frontpage|author=Sarah Marsh|title=A new season has begunSign of Her Own|rating=3.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=After a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, and everything about her life changes. Living in a time when the two play tour guide use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to the passengers on the expedition ship that ferries them a school where she is taught to their research destinationlip read, but physically restrained from signing. But when Keller fails to appear From here, Deb she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has to consider new feelings of love, loss, been teaching the deaf and using a voyage deep into both system called Visible Speech. At the Antarcticsame time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, and the human heartEllen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1501124706</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Leah FlemingB0BC3YTCMR|title=The Last PearlGood Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira|rating=4.5

|summary=''I always think, without the grit there would be no pearl. Sorrows have a way of strengthening the heart, never forget that, childThis story is not for everyone.''

Greta Costello lives in in poverty with Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of her mother and siblings and must work as a skivvy to put bread on the tablefifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. She manages was a very bright student, a bit too nerdy if truth be told, and suffered from vitiligo - people were afraid to find some joy in hug her work though, especially in her case it'Sabbaths contagious. It' job working for s not easy being a kindly black girl whose skin is 84% white. She had a crush on seventeen-year-old widowed JewReggie Anderson but never thought he would notice her. The two become friends Then he did: Lavender was very good at math and he offers to take her on as his apprentice, stringing pearlsReggie asked if she would tutor him. Could She readily agreed: tutoring was something she gladly did at church: this highly-skilled job be her key was just an extension. She went to a better life? At the same time, many miles away in Scotland, Jem Baillie his house and his father can't contain their delight when they discover a magnificenthe raped her. In shock, flawless freshwater pearl at the end of she even allowed him to give her a long day of fishing. They call the pearl 'Queenie' and from that pivotal moment, the fates of Greta, Jem and Queenie will be inextricably linkedlift home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471140970</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Matthew Stephen1472263936|title= Baturi|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= It's Nigeria and it's the 80s. Matthew is a VSO, on a placement at a college teaching electronics. Or trying to at any rate. When language skills are limited and resources are scarce, you have to make the most of what you've got, even if that means teaching the odd class on American culture rather than rewiring. If I tell you that the ''Prime Directive'' applies a lot when you're a VSO, you'll appreciate the difficulties Matthew has when his students want to stray further into the modern world and learn about how things work in Britain, concepts of inventions such as ATMs that are decades off reaching Nigeria (Those days may still be some way off. I actually had a hand written bank card a few years ago while a VSO in a country not too far away). |amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00OISR3AK</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewThe Figurine|author=Carys Bray|title=The Museum of YouVictoria Hislop

|summary= It is summerwas in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. She was alone: her mother, school is outGreek by birth, had left the days are longfamily home and refused to return, the bumblebees are big but Mary and blousy and the allotment where Clover helps Hamish (Helena's parents) felt that it would be a pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her dad with the vegetables needs weeding and wateringGreek heritage. She likes Her trip to the family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be the allotment; it helps her thinkfirst of several annual visits. This summer, Clover is going She grew to unravel love her grandmother and the mystery family's maid, Dina, but was wary - and frightened - of her mothergrandfather, Becky Brookfield and work out what makes her father so sadretired general Stamatis Papagiannis. All He was proud of his close connections to the timeJunta and expected his family to uphold his values but saw no reason to accommodate them. ItHis prejudices included Helena's hard to be a kid with a dead mother, but Clover thinks itred hair and green eyes - inherited from her father's even harder to be dad with a dead wifeScottish ancestors.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091959608</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Simon Van BooyDean Koontz|title= Father's DayAfter Death|rating= 53|genre= General Fiction|summary=When devastating news shatters the life Michael Mace, Head of six year old HarveySecurity, she finds herself 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 the care of a veteran social workermakeshift mortuary, covered in plastic, Wandahe has a sense that something very, very bad has happened to him – and only him – as he sits up and alone in looks around at the world save for one relative she has never met - a disabled ex-conshrouded bodies of his dead friends and former colleagues. As he recovers his senses, haunted by a violent past he realises that there is something different about him; he can''feel'' everything. ''Everything''. Michael isn't escape''Michael'' anymore. Moving between past |isbn=1662500467}} {{Frontpage|isbn=B0BVDC2VWH|title=The Grave Listeners|author=William Frank|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=The village is isolated and present, Fatherpoor. It's Day weaves together surrounded by a Witching Forest. And the story villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicines. The black wood of Harvey's childhood the forest provides heat and warmth, roofs on Long Islandhomes, and her life as even gallows, if needed. The fear of being buried alive is an existential superstition in the village and that is the reason Volushka, a drunken, self-indulgent, lazy lout of a young woman in Parisman is tolerated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780749694</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Angela LambertB0BYF82CXT|title=Kiss and KinSemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone

|summary=It's six months since the death of Harriet Capel's husband George. Looking back she's concluded that she was fond ofBill and Amanda are living in a semi-detached house, but probably not ''stuck in love'', with him. They had two sons and it's the elder a depressing rut of these, Roderick who's married to Jennifer. They have three children, but there's been a rather silly feud between the Capels boredom and Jennifer's family, the Gaunts, which dates back to the couple's weddingdisappointment, when Clarissa GauntTerry and Fiona – glamorous, Jennifer's mother said something unpleasant in the church which dropped into one of those silences which always occur when you say something which you really shouldn't. Honours (or should it be ''dishonours''?) were even when George Capel later said something crass and vulgar about the bride's mother successful and was overheard.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1861514301</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Liz Fenwick|title= Under a Cornish Sky|rating= 3.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=''Under a Cornish Sky'' is the story of two very different women who are forced to work together to complete a common goalmuch in love – move in next door. Their personalities couldn't be more Despite their differentoutlooks on life, so expect fireworks along the way! Shy Demi is as timid as a mouse couples befriend each other and although she is a skilled architect, she is never able life appears to succeed in her career because others take credit improve for her workboth pairs. In relationships, she is easily manipulated into doing things she doesn't always feel comfortable with; a fact that But all is not lost on her sleazy current boyfriend, Matt. Lady-of-the-Manor Victoria, on the other hand, simply oozes self confidence. Although she is in her sixties, she has the body of a much younger woman and has no trouble getting men to do exactly what she wants. Despite a long list of younger lovers providing a pleasurable distraction, her one true love is the family home of Boscawenit seems, a glorious estate set in the picturesque Cornish countryside, not far from the sea.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409148289</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Alison Umminger|title= My Favourite Manson Girl|rating= 4|genre= General Fiction|summary= Fifteen year old Anna has had an excruciating year, topped off with new stepparents and a new school. So she ''borrows'' her family's credit card, and runs away to LA to crash with her sistertheir increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy. But Hollywood isn't the escape she needs, and it soon dawns on her: she's trapped in a town full of lost souls and wannabes, with no friends, no cash and no return ticket. When her sister's obsessive ex offers her a job researching the murderous Manson girls for his next indie film, she accepts – albeit reluctantly. This is not quite the summer Anna had in mind; but the more she learns about the girls and her fate, the more she comes to understand her family – and herself. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472150848</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Louise CandlishShalini Boland|title=The Swimming PoolSilent Bride|rating=43

|summary=''The Swimming Pool'' is the story of a woman - Natalie - whose eyes Alice and Seth are dazzled by a glamorous couple who live nearbymatch made in heaven. Natalie He is everything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, clever, funny; total and utter husband Ed have -material. She is all he could possibly want in a 13-year-old daughterwife; beautiful, Mollysuccessful, confident… and are so the kind of parents you'd steer clear of at inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and the school gates for fear of offending their politically correct sensibilitieswedding is planned and set. Molly has a phobia of water. Rather than keep When the much-anticipated day arrives, Alice is walked down the aisle by her away from rivers and poolsfather, they subject her to a childhood of therapy. They keep up beaming with changes to Molly's phone code so they can check up on her messages. They don't believe in private education pride and they eat nutritionally supplemented pizzas. Louise Candlish pokes delicious fun at this couple, particularly at dull-excitement as-ditchwater Ed whose moral rectitude stifles poor Natalie, desperate she surveys the congregation – their friends assembled to break out of her mould. Enter Lara Channing. Lara is a champion synchronised swimmer celebrate this joyful day and former starlet. Her beauty, wealth and warmth have a magnetic attraction for Natalie who proves powerless when Seth turns to resist Lara's charms, although she is less sure of Lara's enigmatic husbandface his approaching bride, Miles. The novel charts NatalieAlice's journey as world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the man at the altar is enticed away from Ed and into Lara's web, and there who is an increasing sense of unease as events unfold. Add waiting for her to this heady mix a few additional ingredients, a heatwave, an outdoor pool and a gaggle of teenagers, and you have a recipe for disasterbecome his wife.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405927321</amazonuk>1662507089

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kit de Waal1787636003|title=My Name is LeonThe Girls of Summer|author=Katie Bishop

|summary=Everything It was the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that is precious to Leon gets taken awayshe and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the island. His Action Man toysRachel wasn't exactly innocent but she was, perhaps, his homenaive, his mumso when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to take an interest in her, and his brothershe was flattered rather than wary. The world seems utterly unfair, and so It was quite a while before he sneaks 20p here, and 50p there, out of people's purses, whilst building up a rucksack full made any sort of all the things he's going physical approach to need when he finds his baby brother, her and reunites his familyby that time she was obsessed by him. Through all his planning he still manages to find enjoyment in small things, like a Curly Wurly, or riding his bikeAlistair worked for Henry Taylor, or planting seeds with looking after his new friends interests on the allotments, but how will he cope when he finally faces island and in particular in the bar where all the truth of his new life without his familygirls either worked or partied.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241207088</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Rufi ThorpeAmanda Craig|title= Dear Fang, With LoveThree Graces|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= After seventeen yearFew styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-old Veraof-the-nation novel. There's mental breakdownsomething so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the atmosphere of the day and capture it, her father Lucas takes her on crafting an image of the country as it stands in one particular moment. To say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's practically synonymous with the genre of contemporary social fiction at this point. She has such a trip to gift for weaving the tiny Lithuanian town ongoing issues of Vilnius to recover the day into the lives of her characters in a way that feels natural and reconnect lived-in, never making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with their family historyissues far larger than themselves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472152158</amazonuk>140871468X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Simon Bill152915118X|title= Artist in ResidencePineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson|rating= 4.5

|summary= The nameless protagonist ''Pineapple Street'' is the story of artist Simon Bill's first novel three women: Sasha, Darley and Georgiana. Darley and George are sisters and Sasha is almost instantly dislikeablemarried to their brother Cord. He They're Stocktons, only Sasha isn's t a slob with an alcohol Stockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the tribe. The problem whose endeavours in 's exacerbated when the art world appear lackadaisical clan matriarch, Tilda, asks Cord and who seems Sasha if they'd like to move into the Pineapple Street property. Tilda and Chip have behaved questionably renovated and downsized to his ex-girlfriend Susananother property, a street or so away, which they own. In his antihero, Bill gives himself an uphill struggle to keep They won't need any of the reader turning pagesfurniture from Pineapple Street, let alone engage their sympathyso Sasha and Cord can move straight in. And yet Nominally, Artist in Residence is they had a funny, thought-provoking, informative read which is all choice but that wasn't the more enjoyable for reality. Darley and Georgiana start to call Sasha 'the mental and emotional demands gold digger'. She's living in ''their'' family home. They use it so often that they abbreviate it places on to 'the readerGD'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908745576</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Paul CornellEmily Critchley|title= Who Killed Sherlock Holmes?One Puzzling Afternoon|rating= 4.5|genre= Fantasy Crime|summary=The Great Detecitve's ghost 84 year old Edie has walked London's streets lived in the same small town for an agealmost her whole life, given shape by people's memories. Now someone's put but now she is facing a ceremonial dagger throug move as her son wants to move to another house and bring Edie to live with his chestfamily, as Edie is starting to lose her memory. But what's However, Edie is tormented by the motive? And memory of her childhood friend, Lucy, who - or 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 - could kill a ghost? When policing Londonhappened all that time ago. After 'seeing's supernatural underworldLucy in the high street, just as she was the last time she saw her, eliminating she starts to find pockets of memories coming back to her. And yet as she remembers the impossible past, she is not an option. DI James Quill forgetting more and his detectives have learnt this the hard waymore in her day to day life. Gifted with Will she uncover the Sighttruth about Lucy's disappearance before her move, and before her memories are gone forever?|isbn=1804181250}}{{Frontpage|author=Madelaine Lucas|title=Thirst for Salt|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= ''Love, theyI'll pursue d read, was supposed to be a criminial genius - wholight and weightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravity''ll lure them into  Told from a Sherlockian maze of clues and evidenceretrospective view, a young woman unravels the year-long relationship that once defined her. The team also have thier own demons 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 fightits sorrowful end the summer after. TheySet against the backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the 24-year-old narrator've been to Hell s deepening relationship with her older lover, depicting its all-consuming nature, how it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and back (literally) but now the unit is falling apart..how it altered her irrevocably.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447273265</amazonuk>0861546490

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Veronica Henry0008506337|title=How to Find Love in a Book ShopThe Garnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore|rating=45

|summary=It is with a heavy heart 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 Emilia Nightingale returns home 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 pretty Cotswold town Isle of PeasebrookWight. Her beloved father Julius has just passed away; his legacy, Margo did go to Oxford and went on to become a well-loved bookshop that serves as a beating heart to the communityrespected journalist. Julius was loved by all The couple had three children: he always had time to listen to his customers Rachel, Imogen and share a recuperative cuppa Sasha. Life was lived in times of need. HoweverLondon and holidays were spent at Sandcove, his finances were another matter entirely and Emilia wonders how she can keep the bookshop open with an ever-mounting pile family home on the Isle of debtWight. Greedy property developer Ian Mendip would be only Even then the doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo'toos mind: '' happy she would never be able to help out, but can Emilia really give up on her fatherleave him in charge''s dream?. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>140914688X</amazonuk>Then Richard left them.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dorothy Koomson1914585402|title=When I Was InvisibleDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross

|summary=Veronika Harper met Veronica Harper aged 8, form the start both deciding theyI reviewed David F Ross's book [[There's Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There'd stay firm friends. Nika s Only One Danny Garvey]] a couple of years back and remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and Roni did everything together including their beloved ballet… until something goes terribly wrongaffecting it was. This leads to It was a series gripping, emotionally wounding read, and rereading my review of events it my main takeaway was that don't just tear their friendship but also the lives they would otherwise lead. They wish for invisibility and choose different ways to accomplish I might not have lavished enough praise on it for the sake of their survival; physical as well as emotional.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780893361</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alexander McCall SmithLucy Ashe|title=My Italian BulldozerClara and Olivia

|summary=I do love to sit down with a new book by AMSThe year is 1933. The place? Sadler's Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, twins no less. Identical on the outside but not, we learn, and on the excitement was doubled inside. And not on this occasion since stage, either. Because there's a new standalone story meant lots of brand new characters lot that builds a dancer. Some things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, attention to meetdetail – and some things, and also that ''je ne sais quoi'', that don't come from the book has a very intriguingly bizarre title! In this story we get to meet Paulclassroom. A stage presence, a food writer whocharm, after a rather upsetting break-up with his girlfriend, heads to Tuscany to finish writing his book''joie de vivre''. So far, so normal, but of course things soon get The difference between a little unusualhard-worker, beginning with Paul’s arrest on his arrival in Italy and moving swiftly on to the point where instead of a hire car he finds himself with a hired bulldozer…star.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846973554</amazonuk>0861544080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Grady HendrixHeather Fawcett|title= My Best FriendEmily Wilde's ExorcismEncyclopaedia of Faeries|rating= 54|genre= HorrorGeneral Fiction|summary=1988Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, Charlestonand she has travelled extensively, South Carolina. High school sophomores Abby and Gretchen have been best friends since fourth grade. But after an evening of skinny-dipping goes disatrously wrongresearched meticulously, Gretchen begins to act...different. Shewrite her life's moodywork, the very first encyclopaedia of faeries. She's irritable Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, she is not so good with people. And bizarre incidents keep happening whenever So when she finds herself far, far North in the small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the village matriarch, she is not sure what she's nearbyhas done, nor how to redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on the right track. Abby's investigation leads Enter Wendell Bambleby, her to some startling discoveries - dashingly handsome and by the time their story reaches its terrifying conclusioninsufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, the fate of Abby all charm and Gretchen will be determined by a single question: Is their friendship enough delight, much to beat Emily's frustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the devilfaerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1594748624</amazonuk>0356519120

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1398515388|title=The Boy and the Dog|author=Frederic Dard Seishu Hase and David Bellos Alison Watts (translator)|title=Bird in a Cage|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=A man returns to First of all, it was the flat he grew up earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and where his mother died without his knowledgethis, in turn, and finds it too desolate for caused the time of year it is – Christmas Evenuclear meltdown. Bursting for more life, despite being a solitary character, he goes to a restaurant, The result was complete and finds a connection with a mother with her daughterutter devastation. They dineThe deaths were uncountable, then go to and the cinema, and sit together, and things happen loss of livelihoods was widespread. The fact that many pets were separated from there – in a gentle, notheir owners came far down the list of priorities but -pressure, nosix months after the tsunami -names-no-packdrill wayKazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. If this isnHe wasn't a reasonable start dog person but the convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to a novella, consider open his car door and Tamon the tag it has as a noir classicdog jumped in. And consider the fact the strange woman }} {{Frontpage|author=Christopher Bowden|title=Mr Magenta|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary= Christopher Bowden's latest novel is the spitting image a patient untangling of the mana seemingly ordinary woman's dead wife…life, carried out by her 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 much more interesting life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and it seems to him an obligation to find it all out. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782271996</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jennifer DonnellyMason|title=These Shallow GravesPartitions of Unity|rating=3.54|genre=Crime (Historical)General Fiction|summary=Here at Bookbag Towers, we first met Elizabeth Cromwell, dominatrix and unintentional detective in [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Donnelly wrote one of my all-time favourite books, ''A Gathering Light''Mason|Preposterous]], so I was very excited to read her latest novel when she investigated and see how it comparedunravelled a series of disappearances. Like In ''A Gathering LightPartitions of Unity'', ''These Shallow Graves'' is a historical novel with she sets her mind to solving a murder mystery at its heart and a feisty heroine who challenges the standards of the day... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471405176</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Virginia IronsideWill Carver|title=NoThe 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, Thanks! I'm Quite Happy Standing!leading up to the fateful moment.|isbn= 1914585186}} {{Frontpage|author=Jennifer Mason|title=Preposterous: Marie Sharp 4An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery

|summary=Retired art teacher Marie Sharp is wondering whether it's time to move house to be nearer her son Jack and grandson Gene. The wondering doesn't take up all her time though. For A struggling poetry zine, a start there's mom-and-pop mobile diner in the newNorthern California redwoods, newa 400-age lodger Robin andmeter hurdler who just missed the 2004 Olympics, talking about mena women's track coach with a yen for bullwhips, Marie is getting on really well a billionaire with her exa state-husband David. This single of-the-art S&M dungeon, a man serving a life sentence in which they dib into each other'Alabama, an enigmatic signature, K(s worlds , x), on a regular basis seems the perfect way forwardcheap oil painting, an erotic art dealer in Georgia... However not all '' This is rosy: friend Penny's drinking too much plus just a holiday sample of the cast of characters and settings in India has unexpected conclusionPreposterous. As you can see, some keeping up will be required! The basic premise of this mystery story goes like this.. Oh and there's the burglaries too. Who says that retirement is relaxing and uneventful?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782069321</amazonuk>|amazonusisbn=<amazonus>1782069321</amazonus>B09STS96HS

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= William ThackerB0B2N7MVYM|title= Lingua FrancaThe Calculations of Rational Men|author=Daniel Godfrey|rating= 2.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Clichéd as it may soundIt's the 10th of December 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marr. Just to put what happens in context, language finds itself at the Cuban missile crisis is still very core of human existence and experiencefresh in people's minds. The world has barely had a chance to breathe out. On the one hand But for Joe Marr, it defines individual cognition and thoughts and serves as a way 's not the missile crisis that's at the front of his mind. He's been convicted of communicating these thoughts to others; on murder. With the othercurrent state of medical knowledge, it defines 's hard to think otherwise than that the social sphere, giving social values to thingsprosecution would never have been brought but Joe Marr has spent his first few days in HMP Queen's Bench, reflecting history, and constructing a common identityrelatively new prison. It is also what William Thacker He's second noveljust getting used to his roommate, ''Lingua Franca''Mervyn, revolves aroundand learning to be wary of the McArthur brothers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785079743</amazonuk>