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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sanjida O'ConnellOnyi Nwabineli|title= Theory of MindAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating= 34.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=Sandra works in a zooAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, studying the minds where she posted every step of chimpanzees, mankindAnuri's nearest living relativeschildhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Her involvment with the animals starts to affect her own relationships, Now Anuri is in particular that with her new boyfriend Corin. His energy stimulates her, his passion excites twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and his work as a TV producer fascinates her, but are his feelings real, or does he want to control her? As her feelings preoccupy get herlife back, Sandra continues suing her research into step-mother to take down the emotions of chimps and whether or not they are capable of empathycontent about her. During a visit Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to the zoostart her PhD, Sandra meets a strange undergoing therapy and isolated child, Paul, son of one of the keeperssecretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, and she also meets Kimis desperately worried about her little sister, a scientist who has built a killer instinct into is the robots new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she makes. As Sandra worries about save her friends sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship, things race to a thrilling climax - putting much more than Sandra's emotions with her father at risk. the same time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1861515480</amazonuk>0861546873

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Katarina Bivald1529153298|title= The Readers List of Broken Wheel RecommendSuspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating= 45|genre= General Fiction|summary= The USA It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is an odd place at timesPrime Minister. (A woman? I mean, and honestly...) She's not just during election seasonwhat's worrying Miv's family, though. There are all sorts of nooks and crannies Women have been disappearing. Well, places that time forgotthey've been murdered, places but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that ‘’people’’ forgother father wants to move the family 'Down South'. Broken Wheel When you're from Yorkshire, Iowa Down South is one such a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. You’d have no reason to go unless you knew someone there. And Sara does For Miv, the move would mean leaving her pen-pal Amy. Invited by Amy to come for a visitbest friend, Sharon, and with time on her hands due she'll do anything to a recent redundancy, Sara packs prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her bags (and her books) and buys a plane ticket from her native Sweden Mum's stopped talking - to the US of Aanyone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009959367X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sara Stewart1035906708|title=Whilst I Was OutDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=24.5|genre=General Fiction |summary= Sara Stewart's debut novelWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, ''Whilst I Was Out'', opens with all the promise of a book intent but she was born to delve head-first into invention and oddness. The narrator of the storyGreek parents in Manhattan, AliceNew York, is stuck in traffic with her husband – who she refers December 1923 and only moved to throughout the book as My Dear Husband (or MDH for short) – Athens when he suddenly jumps out of their car and runs off for seemingly no reasonshe was thirteen. The scene opens with a mention of domestic abuse Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but seems much her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more interested manageable in the inherent malfunction of Alice's husband as States. When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she describes his fixation with his bicycle and how could get appropriate training for her and their three children have taken voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a back seat to his 'finding himself' through affairs mother who mercilessly exploited her and cross-country cyclingmade no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910903035</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Cesca MajorAlexander McCall Smith|title= The Last NightPerfect Passion Company|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical General Fiction|summary=Spring 1952: Two best friends; Abigail and Mary, sit together on a bench, looking out to sea. They have big plans, but know that whatever happens they will always be together. They dream of The Perfect Passion Company is a new life dating agency in AmericaEdinburgh, each with a handsome husband run by Ness and a happy family. When Abigail's mother dies unexpectedly, however, she is sent operating as an alternative to live with her estranged sister all the online apps in Devonproviding a more personal, and the friends are torn aparttailored service. Little does Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she realise that tragedy lies just around the corner, could come and that look after the ''last night'' will change everything forever. Decades later, in 2016business, as Ness is planning to take a shy furniture-restorer called Irina has been given an unusual commission: trip to restore an old bureau containing many hidden secrets. As the two stories merge, curious Irina tries Canada to piece together exactly what happened on the ''Last Nightget away for a while.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B01FTAPZS2</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Rory Gleeson|title= Rockadoon Shore|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=Cath Katie is worried about her friends. DanDan is struggling coming out of a break up with the death of his exa bad boyfriend, Lucy is drinking way too much and Steph has become closed offso jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. A weekend away is just what they need. They travel out And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to Rockadoon Lodgean Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the wilds in the west of Ireland. But the weekend doesn't go Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to plancharm. JJ is more concerned with getting high than spending time with them Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, while Merc is humiliated and seeks revenge. And when their elderly there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour Malachy arrives on their doorstep in the dead of night with , William, to lend a gun in his hands, nothing will be the same again for any of them...hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473634075</amazonuk>1846976596

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Brit BennettDean Koontz|title= The MothersBad Weather Friend

|genre= General FictionParanormal|summary= I love it when I get Benny is having a book so very few have read yetterrifically bad day. He loses his job, but it's hard to say what needs to be said, when you're not allowed to quote. ''All good secrets have a taste before you tell them…''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0399184511</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Graham Norton|title= Holding|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction|summary=The remote Irish village of Duneen has known little dramahe loses his fiancee, and yet the inhabitants are troubledhis house gets trashed. Sergeant PJ Collins hasn't always been this overweight, mother-of-two Brid Riordan hasn't always been an alcoholic Oh, and elegant Evelyn Ross hasn't always felt her life someone has delivered a total waste. When human remains are discovered on a farmreally weird, thought disturbing coffin-sized object to be those of Tommy Burkehis home, an ex lover of both Brid and Evelynit's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the village's dark past begins very last person to unraveldeserve all this bad luck. As the frustrated PJ struggles to solve He is a case nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the first time in delivery to his lifehouse is a new friend, he unearths a communitybad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Spike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's worth of angerenemies, resentmentif he, secretsBenny, and regretHarper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444792008</amazonuk>1662500491

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ian McEwanKatherine Howe|title=NutshellA True Account

|genre=Literary General Fiction |summary=Meet Trudy. Successfully Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to live with a large family who run an inn, and valuable London home, being made to work there from a young age. When she hears there is heavily pregnant, and to be a hanging of some pirates in between two men – she has swapped the homeownertown, poet and publisher John, for someone completely different, namely Claude, a nasty, brutish she decides to go and short typewatch. Some people cannot work out why on earth she has made that decisionEnthralled and horrified in equal measure, including our narratorHannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death at the hands of two vicious pirates. OhShe hides away, so that they don't find and he himselfkill her too, our narratorand then to escape them completely she runs away to sea, is dressing as a boy and joining the child shenotorious Ned Low's pregnant withpirate ship as a cabin boy. He She soon finds herself in the thick of things when there is a very alert young thingmutiny on board, with nothing else to do but kick here and from there, and practice what you might well call mindfulness, and listen we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on Claude and Trudy, as they calmly talk their way to plotting and carrying out murder…the ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1911214330</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Frederic Dard and Daniel Seton (translator)1471180158|title=CrushMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes

|genre=General Fiction |summary=In this story Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's a control freak with all the subtlety of Thelma and Louise, ita half brick. Jamie's Louise we meet firstson, through her narrationBo, 'has his problems'. SheHe's a seventeen year old, telling us of a quite awful asthmatic and smelly satellite town of Paris she lives inthe more you read, with the sight of factories and stench of food processing plants keeping her companymore you'll suspect that he's on the autistic spectrum. She lives Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at home with her mother, complete with hareshort notice -lip, and abusive step-father, and is working at one of those factories until she sees 's a paradise frequent flier in their midst – the ever-sunny, sexy local A&E and sophisticated life of an American NATO worker and his wifesometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to school. Impulsively, she asks Missed shifts or the need to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be their maid – controlled and indeed moves into put in the couple's large, messy homewrong. But little does she know what lurks in the shadows in that building, behind their gigantic car and their cute porch swing and al-fresco dining – the unhappiness, and even the tragedy…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782271988</amazonuk>It was going to come to a head.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Emma BurstallB0CKD1L5JL|title= The Cornish Guest House (Tremarnock)Radio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn|rating= 3.54|genre= General Fiction|summary=''The Cornish Guest House'' Petr is the sequel to the best-selling ''Tremarnock'' which introduced us to hard-working Liz and her disabled daughter Rosie who were adjusting to life in a small Cornish village an orphan. Rescued by the sea. The sequel begins six months after the first bookstrange, reclusive Bear, he is brought up far from bustling cities and Liz and Rosie are happily settled busy human society, in their new lives and enjoying the warmth forests of the close-knit communityWashington's Olympic Peninsula. The village is soon abuzz with gossip, however, as After Bear dies and a new couple have just moved brief sojourn in human company, and are planning to open armed with only a pirate radio transmitter, Petr goes on a guest house. The affable and good-looking Luke soon charms journey through the neighbours by immersing himself into village life. His wife Tabithaforest, on broadcasting the other handstrange, seems aloof wild and reservedrarely heard voices he encounters. Could she be hiding a secret?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784972495</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jean McNeilSarah Marsh|title= The Dhow HouseA Sign of Her Own|rating= 3.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Rebecca Laurelson is an English doctor working in an African field hospital After a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, everything about her life changes. Living in a time when the midst use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a political conflict when school where she is suddenly and inexplicitly forced taught to leave her postlip read, but physically restrained from signing. She goes to stay with her estranged Aunt Julia and her family on Africa's east coast away from From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the violence deaf and daily blood shed of war, however their lives are full of beach and cocktail parties which contrast greatly to Rebecca's way of livingusing a system called Visible Speech. But At the threat of war same time, Bell is working on the horizon for Julia's family other inventions and their fellow white Africans – terror attacks are on the rise all along the coast ideas, and Rebecca knows more about it than the rest Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of her familyespionage. With unrest brewing will the true reason for Rebecca's hasty departure from her post be revealed?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785079441</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0BC3YTCMR|title=The Purple ShadowGood Girls Die|author=Christopher BowdenAyura Ayira|rating=4.5

|summary=Colin Mallory ''This story is a young actor in Parisnot for everyone. Colin had been working with a theatre company putting on English language Shakespeare productions'' Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of her fifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. They were popular but unprofitable so Colin is now at She was a loose end while his partner, Bryonyvery bright student, is off shooting a film. Before returning to Londonbit too nerdy if truth be told, Colin meets up with Paul Barnard, an art gallery director and his sistersuffered from vitiligo - people were afraid to hug her in case it's partnercontagious. At the Galerie Marion Ducasse, Colin and Paul come across It's not easy being a paintingblack girl whose skin is 84% white. The portrait of She had a young woman turns out crush on seventeen-year-old 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. She readily agreed: tutoring was something she gladly did at church: this was just an extension. She went to be Sylvie Ducassehis house and he raped her. In shock, the great-aunt of the gallery's ownershe even allowed him to give her a lift home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0955506743</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sandra Ireland1472263936|title=Beneath The Skin|rating=4|genre=General Fiction |summary= Robert Walton is ex-military – a soldier suffering from combat stress and what he now realises is clearly PTSD. He prefers to be called Walt; it's short and simple and Walt likes things that are not complicated. Alys is fragile, damaged and complicated and not the kind of woman Walt is looking for. A taxidermist by trade – a rather macabre one at that – Alys enjoys creating Walter Potter style tableaus in a slightly horrifying tribute to her sole career influence. Alys runs her business from her home, which she shares with her sister, Mouse and Mouse's son William. It's a strange set up and though Walt needs the job – of handyman/gopher/taxidermy assistant ''must not be squeamish – room and board included'', he wonders what he has let himself in for. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973619</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFigurine

|summary=Postcards from It was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece keep arriving at Ellie. She was alone: her mother, Greek by birth, had left the family home and refused to return, but Mary and Hamish (Helena's flat addressed to former occupant Sarah Ibbotsen by parents) felt that it would be a man signing himself as 'A'pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. They may not Her trip to the family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be for Ellie the first of several annual visits. She grew to love her grandmother and the family's maid, Dina, but she keeps them anyway was wary - and displays the pictures frightened - of blue seaher grandfather, beaches retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. He was proud of his close connections to the Junta and countryside until she canexpected his family to uphold his values but saw no reason to accommodate them. His prejudices included Helena't resist it any longer; Ellies red hair and green eyes - inherited from her father's off to Greece for Scottish ancestors.}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=After Death|rating=3|genre=General Fiction|summary= Michael Mace, Head of Security, at a top secret biological research facility, is among 55 people who die when a virus is released in a breakbio-hazard accident. Just before she leaves home Finding himself in a makeshift mortuary, covered in plastic, he has a package arrives from Asense 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. Something very As he recovers his senses, he realises that there is something different from the fragmented comments on the cardsabout him; he can ''feel'' everything. ''Everything''. This Michael isn't ''Michael'' anymore.|isbn=1662500467}} {{Frontpage|isbn=B0BVDC2VWH|title=The Grave Listeners|author=William Frank|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=The village is isolated and poor. It's surrounded by a journal full Witching Forest. And the villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicines. The black wood of the stories told by people he's met while travelling forest provides heat and warmth, roofs on homes, and coming to terms with a love affair that ended almost before it beganeven gallows, if needed. So for Ellie The fear of being buried alive is an existential superstition in the journal becomes her guide book village and that is the journey beginsreason Volushka, a drunken, self-indulgent, lazy lout of a man is tolerated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472223209</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alexander McCall SmithB0BYF82CXT|title=Precious and GraceSemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone|rating=54

|summary=Friendships can be funny things''Bill and Amanda are living in a semi-detached house, stuck in a depressing rut of boredom and disappointment, when Terry and that is often the case with Precious Fiona – glamorous, successful and Gracevery much in love – move in next door. This is Despite their seventeenth book nowdifferent outlooks on life, and so we have seen their friendship grow and develop a great deal over the years. Both women have grown to understand, respect and love couples befriend each other, through business hardships, personal difficulties and all their many and varied caseslife appears to improve for both pairs. In their current case the pair have a strong difference of opinions, and yet But all is not quite what it seems with their investigation, and so perhaps it is a case of neither one of them being right, and the situation being something else entirely?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408708124</amazonuk>their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy.''

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Fiona DavisShalini Boland|title= The Doll HouseSilent Bride|rating= 43|genre= General Fiction|summary= New York CityAlice and Seth are a match made in heaven. He is everything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, 2016: Rose has quit her job as clever, funny; total and utter husband-material. She is all he could possibly want in a newscaster wife; beautiful, successful, confident… and so the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and investigative journalist – not entirely voluntarily – the wedding is planned and now works for an onset. When the much-line outfit anticipated day arrives, Alice is walked down the aisle by her father, beaming with pride and excitement as she surveys the self-mockingly clumsy name of Wordmergecongregation – their friends assembled to celebrate this joyful day and when Seth turns to face his approaching bride, Alice's world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the man at the altar is, who is waiting for her to become his wife.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1101984996</amazonuk>1662507089

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gayle Forman1787636003|title=Leave MeThe Girls of Summer|author=Katie Bishop

|summary= When you've had a heart attack It was the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and frightened arrived on the hell out of not just yourself, but your husband, your children – if they had known - your mother and your best friend, you imagine that some long overdue TLC is about to come your wayisland. YouRachel wasn're thinking cardst exactly innocent but she was, flowersperhaps, being waited on handnaive, foot and finger and even though the imminent influx of culinary gifts are likely so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to be low fat, low sugar and taste like the box they came take an interest inher, they're coming, right? she was flattered rather than wary. And you'll probably get It was quite a couple while before he made any sort of months off work physical approach to her and not even have to think about the laundryby that time she was obsessed by him. Or Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, looking after his interests on the island and in particular in the housework? Or taking bar where all the twins to school? Right? Right???? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>147115677X</amazonuk>girls either worked or partied.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lisa UngerAmanda Craig|title=Ink and BoneThree Graces|rating=4.5

|summary= Finlay Montgomery, Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like her grandmother Eloise before her is a very powerful and gifted psychicthe state-of-the-nation novel. Sensitive to There's something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the unseen, unheard and unknowable, she spends her days among atmosphere of the dead. Visited, bothered, harassed day and sometimes tauntedcapture it, Finlay does her best to manage crafting an image of the gifts that Mother Nature has sought to bestowcountry as it stands in one particular moment. But life is not To say that simple and studying for your degree Amanda Craig is testing skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's practically synonymous with five other visitors in the room who are all trying to get your attention genre of contemporary social fiction at this point. She has such a gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the day into the lives of her characters in the loudest a way that feels natural and most distracting way possiblelived-in, never making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147115047X</amazonuk>140871468X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Annelies Verbeke 152915118X|title= Thirty DaysPineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson|rating= 24.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Thirty Days doesn’t seem to know what it ''Pineapple Street'' is about. The novel follows Alphonse, a Senegalese painter decorator living in the Flanders region story of Belgium with his girlfriend three women: Sasha, Darley and childhood friend Cat, who Georgiana. Darley and George are sisters and Sasha is recovering from cancermarried to their brother Cord. Verbeke puts They're Stocktons, only Sasha isn't a major emphasis on their intimate but often volatile Stockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the tribe. The problem's exacerbated when the clan matriarch, Tilda, asks Cord and unsteady relationship, as Sasha if they try 'd like to navigate a new lifestyle in a small town, away from move into the cityPineapple Street property. However Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to another property, there are several other storylines which vie for our attention: Alphonse’s troubled clients who treat him as a sounding board and therapiststreet or so away, his experiences which they own. They won't need any of racism as a black man the furniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and Cord can move straight in . Nominally, they had a rural area, Cat’s difficult, warring parents, choice but that wasn't the couple’s elderly neighbour Willem who is obsessed with war graves reality. Darley and has a knack for appearing at precisely Georgiana start to call Sasha 'the wrong moment, and an illegal refugee camp gold digger'. She's living in field trenches a few miles away''their'' family home. They use it so often that they abbreviate it to 'the GD'. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>9462380899</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Oldest GameEmily Critchley|authortitle=Sue LegerOne Puzzling Afternoon

|summary=Moving The love affair between Margo Garnett and eyepoet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, apparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in love. Richard was twenty-one and described by Margo's mother as 'an older man'. Her parents worried that Richard's influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve -opening story going to Oxford and having a glittering career. In the event, they eloped and Richard took her away from the Isle of a Romanian woman trafficked into Amsterdam Wight. Margo did go to Oxford and forced went on to work as become a prostitutewell-respected journalist. Sue Leger gives us all pause for thought here The couple had three children: Rachel, Imogen and Sasha. Life was lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, the family home on the Isle of Wight. Even then the doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able to leave him in charge''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524635014</amazonuk>Then Richard left them.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Tom Connolly1914585402|title= Men Like AirDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= I reviewed David F Ross's book [[There's Only One April in Manhattan, the destinies of four very different men are about to collide. Nineteen year old Finn has just arrived in the city along with his volatile girlfriend Dilly, determined to even the score with his older brother Jack for abandoning him in the UK in the aftermath of their parentsDanny Garvey by David F Ross|There' deaths. Across town, successful gallery owner Leo Emerson is haunted by loneliness, unsettled by the contrast between his life and that s Only One Danny Garvey]] a couple of his brother in law years back and oldest friend William, who is content in both his faith remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and his marriageaffecting it was. When Finn wanders in to Leo's galleryIt was a gripping, emotionally wounding read, a series of unexpected and interconnected events unfold, changing the lives rereading my review of all four men togetherit my main takeaway was that I might not have lavished enough praise on it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908434880</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=How I Became a DrifterLucy Ashe|authortitle=Christmas PhilipClara and Olivia|reviewerrating=Jill Murphy4.5

|summary=Fictionalised autobiography told in The 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, on the inside. And not on stage, either. Because there's a lot that builds a stream-of-consciousness styledancer. An unconventional voice speaking of Some things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, attention to detail – and some things, that ''je ne sais quoi'', that don't come from the universal search for love classroom. A stage presence, a charm, a ''joie de vivre''. The difference between a hard-worker, and acceptance.|rating=3a star.5 |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>152463588X</amazonuk> 0861544080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jane CorryHeather Fawcett|title= My HusbandEmily Wilde's WifeEncyclopaedia of Faeries|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Autumn 2000Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life's work, the very first encyclopaedia of faeries. Newly married lawyer Lily Whilst she is brilliant at research and her artist husband Ed have a speaking to faeries, she is not so good with people. So when she finds herself far, far North in the small apartment in London. Fresh from village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the honeymoonvillage matriarch, they're still settling in she is not sure what she has done, nor how to their new rolesredeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on the right track. Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and their neighbour Francesca insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and her 9 year old daughter Carla help delight, much to take Emily's frustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the pressure off a little bit.faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0241256488</amazonuk>0356519120

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Peter Ho Davies1398515388|title= The FortunesBoy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Clashes First of cultures or cultural enrichment? Xenophobia or embracing diversity?Today's hot topics focus much on cultures meeting all, it was the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and notions of foreignnessthis, especially in turn, caused the context of migrationnuclear meltdown. As such, Peter Ho Davies could not have chosen a more current The result was complete and thought-provoking theme for ''utter devastation. The Fortunes'': through four different storiesdeaths were uncountable, and the novel documents some loss of livelihoods was widespread. The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the history list of Chinese people in America over more than centurypriorities but - six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. From railroad workers, laundry owners, and prostitutes to film stars and adoptive parents, He wasn't a dog person but the convenience store owner'The Fortunes'' tells tales of searching for identity on both national s comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and personal levelsTamon the dog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340980230</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author= Paul ReadChristopher Bowden|title= The Art TeacherMr Magenta|rating= 4.5|genre= Thrillers General Fiction|summary=Patrick Owen managed seven years at Highfields Secondary School without punching Christopher Bowden's latest novel is a patient untangling of a pupil in the faceseemingly ordinary woman's life, carried out by her nephew after she has died. A mediocre teacher, stuck in The aunt who always provided a struggling school ruled by violent pupils, Patrick goes home every night to an empty flat, safe harbour and an existence filled with reminders a little bit of his life as a faded rock star. When one pupil over steps the mark, indulgence to a brief mistake plunges Patrick into young nephew had had a world of danger, violence, much more interesting life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and the glare of the mediait seems to him an obligation to find it all out. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785079573</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alexander McCall SmithJennifer Mason|title=The Bertie Project: A 44 Scotland Street NovelPartitions of Unity

|summary=Catching up with old friends is a pleasureHere at Bookbag Towers, we first met Elizabeth Cromwell, dominatrix and it's good to be back on Scotland Streetunintentional detective in [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], finding out what everyone is getting up towhen she investigated and unravelled a series of disappearances. Irene is back, In ''Partitions of courseUnity'', from she sets her travels mind to the middle-eastsolving a murder... Bruce has fallen in love, Matthew and Elspeth have triplet troubles, and somebody has an extremely unfortunate accident…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846973597</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Rowan Hisayo BuchananWill Carver|title= Harmless Like YouThe Daves Next Door|rating= 54

|summary= This is the debut novel from Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, but you would never know it. It is an accomplished, unusual, poetically written story about Five strangers come together in one moment as a suicide bomber prepares to detonate his vest on a young Japanese girl, Yuki Oyama, who has lived most of her life in New YorkLondon tube line. As suchtheir fates overlap, she feels an outsider: the American girls at school ignore her and she finds the rituals of her parents' home suffocating. Her father has hopes of her studying medicinestory is told in backwards order, but leading up to the only thing Yuki enjoys is artfateful moment.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473638321</amazonuk>1914585186}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Emma Claire SweeneyJennifer Mason|title=Owl Song at DawnPreposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery|rating=54

|summary=Maeve Maloney runs ''A struggling poetry zine, a mom-and-pop mobile diner in the Sea View Lodge guest house that her parents ran before her. The house has harboured many memories Northern California redwoods, a 400-meter hurdler who just missed the 2004 Olympics, a women's track coach with a yen for Maeve over bullwhips, a billionaire with a state-of-the past 80-years-plusart S&M dungeon, a man serving a life sentence in Alabama, an enigmatic signature, most of which she'K(s managed to keep at bay, x), on a cheap oil painting, an erotic art dealer in Georgia. However, her suppression ..'' This is endangered when Vincent comes to calljust a sample of the cast of characters and settings in Preposterous. Far from being an ordinary guestAs you can see, Vincent is a link to that past Maeve thought she'd outrun but now has to relivesome keeping up will be required! The basic premise of this mystery story goes like this.. Add that to trying to teach Steph and Len to fib effectively and life becomes very difficult indeed.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785079670</amazonuk>B09STS96HS

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karin SlaughterB0B2N7MVYM|title=The Kept WomanCalculations of Rational Men|author=Daniel Godfrey

|summary=Special Agent Will Trent It's the 10th of December 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marr. Just to put what happens in context, the Cuban missile crisis is backstill very fresh in people's minds. The world has barely had a chance to breathe out. Collected by his partnerBut for Joe Marr, Faith, to attend it's not the missile crisis that's at the scene front of his mind. He's been convicted of a rather brutal murder. With the current state of medical knowledge, Trent queries why it's hard to think otherwise than that the GBI prosecution would never have been brought but Joe Marr has been called spent his first few days in to what would usually be HMP Queen's Bench, a standard homicide investigation for Atlanta PDrelatively new prison. Arriving at the sceneHe's just getting used to his roommate, their bossMervyn, Deputy Director Amanda Wagner is somewhat characteristically pacing and barking orders; the victim is none other than ex-cop and all round bad egg, Dale Harding. There is a lot learning to be wary of blood, presumably due to the door-knob and spindle sticking out of Harding's neckMcArthur brothers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780893574</amazonuk>