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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=Alexander McCall Smith1529153298|title=Precious and GraceThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey

|summary=Friendships can be funny things, It's 1979 and that Margaret Thatcher is often the case with Precious and GracePrime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly... ) This is their seventeenth book nowShe's not what's worrying Miv's family, and so we though. Women have seen their friendship grow and develop a great deal over the yearsbeen disappearing. Both women Well, they've been murdered, but to have grown 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to understandmove the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, respect and love each otherDown South is a frightening, through business hardshipsforeign place, personal difficulties and all their many and varied casesbest avoided. In their current case For Miv, the pair have a strong difference of opinionsmove would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and yet all is she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not quite what it seems with their investigation, and so perhaps it is a case of neither one of them being right, and worried about the situation being something else entirely?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408708124</amazonuk>dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Fiona Davis1035906708|title= The Doll HouseDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York City, 2016: Rose has quit in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her job as a newscaster and investigative journalist – not entirely voluntarily – and now works 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 an onher voice -line outfit with she was raised under the self-mockingly clumsy name Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of Wordmergeher preference for her elder sister, Jackie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1101984996</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gayle FormanAlexander McCall Smith|title=Leave MeThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5

|summary= When you've had The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a heart attack more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and frightened look after the hell business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. Katie is coming out of not just yourselfa break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, but your husbandbringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, your children – if they had known - your mother thanks to 44 Scotland Street and your best friendthe Isabel Dalhousie novels, you imagine that but with some long overdue TLC is about new characters who quickly begin to come your waycharm. YouKatie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there're thinking cardss always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, flowersWilliam, being waited on handto lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=The Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Paranormal|summary=Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, foot and finger his house gets trashed. Oh, and even though the imminent influx of culinary gifts are likely someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to be low fathis home, low sugar and taste like it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the box they came inthing that has trashed his house! The thing is, they're coming, right? Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. And you'll probably get He is a couple of months off work and not even have to think about the laundrynice person. Or the housework? A really nice person. Or taking So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the twins delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to school? help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Right? Right???? Spike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147115677X</amazonuk>1662500491

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lisa UngerKatherine Howe|title=Ink and BoneA True Account|rating=4.5

|summary= Finlay MontgomeryHannah Masury is living in Boston, like her grandmother Eloise before her is having been sent to live with a very powerful family who run an inn, and gifted psychicbeing made to work there from a young age. Sensitive When she hears there is to be a hanging of some pirates in the unseentown, unheard she decides to go and unknowablewatch. Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, she spends her days among Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death at the deadhands of two vicious pirates. VisitedShe hides away, botheredso that they don't find and kill her too, harassed and sometimes tauntedthen to escape them completely she runs away to sea, Finlay does her best to manage dressing as a boy and joining the gifts that Mother Nature has sought to bestownotorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. But life She soon finds herself in the thick of things when there is not that simple a mutiny on board, and studying for your degree is testing with five other visitors in the room who from there we are all trying to get your attention caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the loudest and most distracting way possibleocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147115047X</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Annelies Verbeke 1471180158|title= Thirty DaysMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating= 24.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Thirty Days doesn’t seem to know what it is about. The novel follows AlphonseJamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a Senegalese painter decorator living in man who's a control freak with all the Flanders region subtlety of Belgium with a half brick. Jamie's son, Bo, 'has his girlfriend problems'. He's asthmatic and childhood friend Catthe more you read, who is recovering from cancerthe more you'll suspect that he's on the autistic spectrum. Verbeke puts Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's a major emphasis on their intimate but often volatile frequent flier in the local A&E and unsteady relationship, as they try sometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to school. Missed shifts or the need to navigate a new lifestyle in a small town, be away on time to pick Bo up from the city. However, there school are several other storylines which vie for our attention: Alphonse’s troubled clients who treat him as a sounding board occasions when Jamie can be controlled and therapist, his experiences of racism as a black man put in a rural area, Cat’s difficult, warring parents, the couple’s elderly neighbour Willem who is obsessed with war graves and has a knack for appearing at precisely the wrong moment, and an illegal refugee camp in field trenches . It was going to come to a few miles awayhead. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>9462380899</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0CKD1L5JL|title=The Oldest GameRadio Free Olympia|author=Sue LegerJeffrey Dunn

|summary=Moving Petr is an orphan. Rescued by the strange, reclusive Bear, he is brought up far from bustling cities and eye-opening story busy human society, in the forests of Washington's Olympic Peninsula. After Bear dies and a Romanian woman trafficked into Amsterdam brief sojourn in human company, and forced to work as armed with only a pirate radio transmitter, Petr goes on a prostitute. Sue Leger gives us all pause for thought herejourney through the forest, broadcasting the strange, wild and rarely heard voices he encounters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524635014</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Tom ConnollySarah Marsh|title= Men Like AirA Sign of Her Own|rating= 3.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= One April in ManhattanAfter a bout of scarlet fever as a child, the destinies Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of four very different men are silence, everything about to collideher life changes. Nineteen year old Finn has just arrived Living in a time when the city along with his volatile girlfriend Dillyuse of sign language was seen as something only savages do, determined Ellen is sent to a school where she is taught to even the score with his older brother Jack for abandoning him lip read, but physically restrained from signing. From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the UK in deaf and using a system called Visible Speech. At the aftermath of their parents' deaths. Across townsame time, successful gallery owner Leo Emerson Bell is haunted by loneliness, unsettled by the contrast between his life working on other inventions and that of his brother in law and oldest friend Williamideas, who is content in both his faith and his marriage. When Finn wanders Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in to Leo's gallery, a series of unexpected and interconnected events unfold, changing the lives complicated tangle of all four men togetherespionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908434880</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0BC3YTCMR|title=How I Became a DrifterGood Girls Die|author=Christmas PhilipAyura Ayira|reviewerrating=Jill Murphy4.5

|summary=Fictionalised autobiography ''This story is not for everyone.'' Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of her fifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. She was a very bright student, a bit too nerdy if truth be told , and suffered from vitiligo - people were afraid to hug her in case it's contagious. It's not easy being a black girl whose skin is 84% white. She had a streamcrush on seventeen-ofyear-consciousness styleold Reggie Anderson but never thought he would notice her. Then he did: Lavender was very good at math and Reggie asked if she would tutor him. An unconventional voice speaking of the universal search for love She readily agreed: tutoring was something she gladly did at church: this was just an extension. She went to his house and acceptancehe raped her.|rating=3 In shock, she even allowed him to give her a lift home.5 |amazonuk=<amazonuk>152463588X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jane Corry1472263936|title= My Husband's WifeThe Figurine|author=Victoria Hislop|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Autumn 2000It was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. Newly married lawyer Lily 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 grandparents or understanding her artist husband Ed have a small Greek heritage. Her trip to the family apartment in Londonup-market Kolonaki would be the first of several annual visits. Fresh from She grew to love her grandmother and the honeymoonfamily's maid, they're still settling in to their new rolesDina, but was wary - and their neighbour Francesca and frightened - of her 9 year old daughter Carla help grandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. He was proud of his close connections to take the pressure off a little bitJunta and expected his family to uphold his values but saw no reason to accommodate them. His prejudices included Helena's red hair and green eyes - inherited from her father's Scottish ancestors.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241256488</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Peter Ho DaviesDean Koontz|title= The FortunesAfter Death|rating= 4.53|genre= General Fiction|summary= Clashes Michael Mace, Head of cultures or cultural enrichment? Xenophobia or embracing diversity?Today's hot topics focus much on cultures meeting and notions of foreignnessSecurity, 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, especially 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 context shrouded bodies of migrationhis dead friends and former colleagues. As suchhe recovers his senses, Peter Ho Davies could not have chosen a more current and thought-provoking theme for 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 Fortunesvillage is isolated and poor. It'': through four different stories, s surrounded by a Witching Forest. And the novel documents some villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicines. The black wood of the history of Chinese people in America over more than century. From railroad workersforest provides heat and warmth, laundry ownersroofs on homes, and prostitutes to film stars and adoptive parentseven gallows, ''if needed. The Fortunes'' tells tales fear of searching for identity on both national being buried alive is an existential superstition in the village and personal levelsthat is the reason Volushka, a drunken, self-indulgent, lazy lout of a man is tolerated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340980230</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Paul ReadB0BYF82CXT|title= The Art Teacher|rating= 4.5|genre= Thrillers |summary=Patrick Owen managed seven years at Highfields Secondary School without punching a pupil in the face. A mediocre teacher, stuck in a struggling school ruled by violent pupils, Patrick goes home every night to an empty flat, and an existence filled with reminders of his life as a faded rock star. When one pupil over steps the mark, a brief mistake plunges Patrick into a world of danger, violence, and the glare of the media. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785079573</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewSemi-Detached|author=Alexander McCall Smith|title=The Bertie Project: A 44 Scotland Street NovelDeborah Stone

|summary=Catching up with old friends is ''Bill and Amanda are living in a pleasuresemi-detached house, stuck in a depressing rut of boredom and it's good to be back on Scotland Streetdisappointment, finding out what everyone is getting up to. Irene is backwhen Terry and Fiona – glamorous, of course, from her travels to the middle-east. Bruce has fallen successful and very much in love– move in next door. Despite their different outlooks on life, Matthew the couples befriend each other and Elspeth have triplet troubleslife appears to improve for both pairs. But all is not what it seems, and somebody has an extremely unfortunate accident…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973597</amazonuk>their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy.''

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Rowan Hisayo BuchananShalini Boland|title= Harmless Like YouThe Silent Bride|rating= 53

|summary= This is the debut novel from Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, but you would never know itAlice and Seth are a match made in heaven. It He is an everything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, unusualclever, poetically written story about funny; total and utter husband-material. She is all he could possibly want in a young Japanese girlwife; beautiful, Yuki Oyamasuccessful, who has lived most of her life in New Yorkconfident… and so the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and the wedding is planned and set. As suchWhen the much-anticipated day arrives, she feels an outsider: Alice is walked down the American girls at school ignore aisle by her father, beaming with pride and excitement as she finds surveys the rituals of her parentscongregation – their friends assembled to celebrate this joyful day and when Seth turns to face his approaching bride, Alice' home suffocating. Her father s world implodes because she has hopes of her studying medicineabsolutely no idea who the man at the altar is, but the only thing Yuki enjoys who is artwaiting for her to become his wife.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473638321</amazonuk>1662507089

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emma Claire Sweeney1787636003|title=Owl Song at DawnThe Girls of Summer|author=Katie Bishop

|summary=Maeve Maloney runs It was the Sea View Lodge guest house summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that her parents ran before hershe and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the island. The house has harboured many memories for Maeve over the past 80Rachel wasn't exactly innocent but she was, perhaps, naive, so when thirty-four-yearsyear-plusold Alistair Wright started to take an interest in her, most of which she's managed to keep at baywas flattered rather than wary. However, her suppression is endangered when Vincent comes to call. Far from being an ordinary guest, Vincent is It was quite a link while before he made any sort of physical approach to her and by that past Maeve thought time she'd outrun but now has to relivewas obsessed by him. Add that to trying to teach Steph Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, looking after his interests on the island and Len to fib effectively and life becomes very difficult indeedin particular in the bar where all the girls either worked or partied.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785079670</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Karin SlaughterAmanda Craig|title=The Kept WomanThree Graces|rating=4.5

|summary=Special Agent Will Trent is backFew styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of-the-nation novel. Collected by his partner, Faith, to attend There's something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the scene atmosphere of a rather brutal murderthe day and capture it, Trent queries why crafting an image of the GBI has been called country as it stands in to what one particular moment. To say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would usually be embarrassingly inadequate: she's practically synonymous with the genre of contemporary social fiction at this point. She has such a standard homicide investigation gift for Atlanta PD. Arriving at weaving the ongoing issues of the day into the scene, their boss, Deputy Director Amanda Wagner is somewhat characteristically pacing lives of her characters in a way that feels natural and barking orders; the victim is none other than exlived-cop and all round bad eggin, Dale Harding. There is a lot of bloodnever making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, presumably due to the door-knob and spindle sticking out of Harding's neckgrappling with issues far larger than themselves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780893574</amazonuk>140871468X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eowyn Ivey152915118X|title=To the Bright Edge of the WorldPineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson|rating=4.5

|summary=If you're going to go pioneering across unexplored lands'Pineapple Street'' is the story of three women: Sasha, at least be prepared to accept what you seek – namely, what you've never seen beforeDarley and Georgiana. That lesson seems quite obvious, but back in the time of 1885 Allen Forrester Darley and George are sisters and Sasha is a little too naïve married to heed ittheir brother Cord. A career soldierThey're Stocktons, he is tasked with scouring only Sasha isn't a Stockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the potential of tribe. The problem's exacerbated when the Wolverine River that threads south to the shores of Alaskaclan matriarch, Tilda, even though the Russians (who of course used asks Cord and Sasha if they'd like to own move into the Territory) Pineapple Street property. Tilda and Chip have had all manner of lethal encounters with those already living thererenovated and downsized to another property, and even though a major stretch street or so away, which they own. They won't need any of the river has to be traversed furniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and Cord can move straight in winter when entirely frozen over. Nominally, as they had a choice but that wasn't the cliffs either side are too impenetrablereality. Allen leaves a much younger, new bride behind – Darley and right from Georgiana start to call Sasha 'the get-go his journals force him to pen words about strange happenings, strange encounters and things of legend coming to lifegold digger'. Like I say, what he She's never seen before…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472208609</amazonuk>living in ''their'' family home. They use it so often that they abbreviate it to 'the GD'.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Gerald WeaverEmily Critchley|title=The First First GentlemanOne Puzzling Afternoon|rating= 3.54|genre= General FictionCrime|summary=Anyone picking up ''The First First Gentleman'' might be forgiven 84 year old Edie has lived in the same small town for snorting with laughter and making almost her whole life, but now she is facing a sarcastic comment about how timely move as her son wants to move to another house and potentially satirical it soundsbring Edie to live with his family, as Edie is starting to lose her memory. In However, Edie is tormented by the memory of her childhood friend, Lucy, who went missing over 60 years ago, and the worry that there was a way they’d secret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be right – but probably for different reasonsthe thing that reveals the truth of what happened all that time ago. After 'seeing' Lucy in the high street, just as she was the last time she saw her, she starts to find pockets of memories coming back to her. And yet as she remembers the past, she is forgetting more and more in her day to day life. Will she uncover the truth about Lucy's disappearance before her move, and before her memories are gone forever?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0993291759</amazonuk>1804181250

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Liam BrownMadelaine Lucas|title=Wild LifeThirst for Salt|rating=4.5|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Adam Britman goes ''Love, I'd read, was supposed to be a light and weightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravity'' Told from a man retrospective view, a young woman unravels the year-long relationship that once defined her. Overlaid with it all to homeless in later wisdom, the narrator relives the sniff of affair with a line. While looking for somewhere man twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to sleep Adam comes across an alternative community in its sorrowful end the local parksummer after. TheySet against the backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt've come together and created structure (including an unofficial allotment) out of ' details the disorder that24-year-old narrator's normally equated deepening relationship with living her older lover, depicting its all-consuming nature, how it changed her perspective on the streets. It seems perfect so Adam joins them, but perfection can sometimes be an illusion. As for walking away… that's not going to be easyboth romantic and familial relationships and how it altered her irrevocably.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785079700</amazonuk>0861546490

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Sabine Durrant0008506337|title= Lie with MeThe Garnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore

|summary= Paul is lots of thingsThe love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, apparently on both sides. A writer Margo was just sixteen when they fell in love. A famous name (or at least he Richard was a few years ago). A bit of a snob. A cheapskate. A ladiestwenty-one and described by Margo's mother as ' an older man'. And Her parents worried that Richard's influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and having a liarglittering career. Oh boy In the event, is he they eloped and Richard took her away from the Isle of Wight. Margo did go to Oxford and went on to become a liarwell-respected journalist. He fibs The couple had three children: Rachel, he exaggeratesImogen and Sasha. Life was lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, he omits, he tells porkiesthe family home on the Isle of Wight. Not Even then the doubts about the really big stuff, nothing that will hurt anyone, just a few mistruths Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able to see leave him through. Itin charge''s for keeping up appearances, really.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473608333</amazonuk>Then Richard left them.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andy Jones1914585402|title=The Trouble with Henry and ZoeDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross|rating=34.5

|summary= Stop for I reviewed David F Ross's book [[There's Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's Only One Danny Garvey]] a moment couple of years back and look down at your belly, in the centre you should have something that looks a little bit like a buttonremember being absolutely floored by how powerful and affecting it was. It may be an inniewas a gripping, or an outieemotionally wounding read, but just consider and rereading my review of it for a few moments. Do you feel better? Nope, you shouldn't do as all my main takeaway was that navel-gazing does is make you over think thingsI might not have lavished enough praise on it. However, without the concept a million romantic books would never be written as without the human compulsion to destroy things around them, how can any tension arise?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471142469</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Carol ShieldsLucy Ashe|title= The Republic of LoveClara and Olivia|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= The Republic of Love year is a mesh-like novel1933. The place? Sadler's Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, peopled with a huge cast of characters interwoven in familialtwins no less. Identical on the outside but not, friendlywe learn, neighbourly and romantic relationshipson the inside. WinnipegAnd not on stage, the city in which virtually all the action in Shieldeither. Because there's novel takes place, ties them togethera lot that builds a dancer. The story follows two singleSome things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, thirty-something charactersattention to detail – and some things, Fay and Tomthat ''je ne sais quoi'', who live opposite each other and have a complicated array of mutual acquaintances but that don't know each othercome from the classroom. Shields alternates between their two points of view as they are slowly drawn together. This is A stage presence, a domestic novel in the best sense; there is charm, a focus on the beauty and mundanity of ordinary people's unremarkable lives in an unexceptional city'joie de vivre''. The difference between a hard-worker, from Fay's satisfaction in the pop sound and toasted crumb smell of her twin slice toaster, to Tom's ungainly Saturday morning jogsa star. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>9462380899</amazonuk>0861544080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Penny ParkesHeather Fawcett|title= Out Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Practice|rating= 4|genre= General Fiction|summary=In a last-ditch attempt to save her failing marriage, GP Holly Graham relocates to the charming village of Larkford with her family to work at the local practice. She finds life as a village doctor very different to her previous role in a busy city hospital, and falls in love with the close-knit community and its quirky residents. But just as Larkford is beginning to feel like home, Holly is hit by a bombshell that threatens to destroy everything she has worked so hard to achieve. Can she rise to the challenge and fight for what she loves? Maybe she will discover something about herself in the process.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471153045</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Steven Rowley|title=Lily and the OctopusFaeries

|summary=Meet Ted Flask. A middle-agedEmily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, gay Los Angelinoto write her life's work, he has the one love very first encyclopaedia of his lifefaeries. While the fall-out of relationships with men sends him Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to therapyfaeries, he can rely on Lily, the Dachshundshe is not so good with people. They've been together through thick and thinSo when she finds herself far, ever since far North in the little pup – small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the runtvillage matriarch, she is not sure what she has done, no less – seemed nor how to pick Ted out. Ted's sister's unusual marriage was almost marred by Lily being under the surgeon's knife, at great expense – but redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on the whole they have life sortedright track. He tries to write, but Friday night is board games, Saturday night is movie nightEnter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and Sunday night is pizza night. Ohinsufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and yesdelight, Lily talks much to Ted, either in Emily''FULLY! CAPITALISED! EVER! EXCLAMATORY! BARKS!'' or in regular speechs frustration. Oh, and yes, Lily has an octopus But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on her head.with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471154343</amazonuk>0356519120

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julie Cohen1398515388|title=FallingThe Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating=4.5

|summary=Here is the story First of three womenall, from three generations within it was the same family. There is Joearthquake, a forty year old single mother whose first husband dieddeep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and whose second husband ran off with their nannythis, in turn, caused the nuclear meltdown. She is left caring for her older teenage daughter, Lydia, and her two little ones, Oscar The result was complete and Iris, whilst harbouring a secret that she feels she cannot share with anyoneutter devastation. Her daughter Lydia is the second female characterThe deaths were uncountable, and as well as the usual teenage angst she is also dealing with grief, still, over her father's death, anger with her mother for her second disastrous marriage, and her own very difficult secret that she is unable to talk to anyone aboutloss of livelihoods was widespread. Finally there's Honor who is Jo's mother in law, The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the mother list of Jo's first husband, Stephen. Honor has priorities but - six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a fall, breaks her hip, and is forced to move in with Jo for dog outside a time as she has no one else who can help herconvenience store. She too is hiding He wasn't a secret from dog person but the world, and as you read the story you begin convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to wonder if any of these characters actually know who the others are, open his car door and if any of them will ever start telling Tamon the truthdog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784160636</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jenn AshworthChristopher Bowden|title=FellMr Magenta|rating=54

|summary=Now her parents have died, Annette returns to sell her old childhood home but thereChristopher Bowden's work to do on the decrepit building first. As she wanders around and tries to make some order latest novel is a patient untangling of the overgrown shambles, shea seemingly ordinary woman's watched life, carried out by the ghost of her mother, Netty; nephew after she has died. The aunt who always provided a spirit with regrets. Netty reminisces about Annette's childhood safe harbour and the turning point their lives reached when the mysterious healer Timothy Richardson came a little bit of indulgence to stay. It was a time young nephew had had a much more interesting life than that promised so much but one for which Netty now needs nephew Stephen had ever realised and it seems to him an obligation to make amends, even if she is beyond the gravefind it all out.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473630606</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jill CimentJennifer Mason|title= Act Partitions of GodUnity|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=Here at Bookbag Towers, we first met Elizabeth Cromwell, dominatrix and unintentional detective in [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], when she investigated and unravelled a series of disappearances. In ''Act Partitions of GodUnity'' is a story about two ageing twins who find a worrying mushroom growing in their cupboard, she sets her mind to solving a landlady searching for the spotlight and a Russian immigrant whose greatest fear is insignificancemurder.. What the insurance company describes as an act of God brings their already overlapped, Brooklyn lives in to sharper focus. What do you do when disaster threatens? Is it survival of the fittest or should we love thy neighbour? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782272119</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Fredrik BackmanWill Carver|title=Britt-Marie Was HereThe Daves Next Door|rating=54|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|rating=4

|summary= Brett''A struggling poetry zine, a mom-and-Marie has never met pop mobile diner in the Northern California redwoods, a kitchen she doesn400-meter hurdler who just missed the 2004 Olympics, a women't want to clean. In facts track coach with a yen for bullwhips, permanently armed a billionaire with bicarbonate a state-of soda and window cleaner-the-art S&M dungeon, a man serving a life sentence in Alabama, she's always ready to clean anything. Her husband Kent is an entrepreneurenigmatic signature, you know, with excellent taste and expensive clothes. Yet here she isK(s, in Borgx), on a rundown small towncheap oil painting, an erotic art dealer in search Georgia...'' This is just a sample of her first job for 40 yearsthe cast of characters and settings in Preposterous. Life takes As you can see, some odd turns sometimeskeeping up will be required! The basic premise of this mystery story goes like this...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473617200</amazonuk>B09STS96HS

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rodrigo Hasbun and Sophie Hughes (translator)B0B2N7MVYM|title=AffectionsThe Calculations of Rational Men|author=Daniel Godfrey|rating=4.5

|summary=If you thought your teenaged years were a struggle to work out It's the world, and yourself, consider that 10th of Heidi ErtlDecember 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marr. Or either of her sisters – this book serves as a sort of tribute Just to these three real-life womenput what happens in context, and the lives that came out of their Cuban missile crisis is still very disjointed youth, forced to be rarefied from the norm by their family uprooting. Father Hans was one of Leni Riefenstahlfresh in people's key cameramen, and a Nazi military photographer, before taking the whole family into post-war exile in Boliviaminds. Their mother would have followed him The world has barely had a chance to the ends of the earth – as in part would their daughters, the older two of which start the book by joining him on an expedition to discover a lost Incan citybreathe out. Heidi finds youngBut for Joe Marr, instant love on it's not the trek – but sees missile crisis that's at the dark side front of such emotions, toohis mind. Older sister Monika, who might well be manic depressive, finds something else, while the baby He's been convicted of the family stays at home with a maudlin mothermurder. So much here could be With the hook on which to hang a full novelcurrent state of medical knowledge, but if anything it's hard to think otherwise than that the reaction prosecution would never have been brought but Joe Marr has spent his first few days in HMP Queen's Bench, a relatively new prison. He's just getting used to his roommate, Mervyn, and learning to be wary of them all to this unusual formative journey that inspires this bookthe McArthur brothers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782272135</amazonuk>