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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Linda GrantOnyi Nwabineli|title= The Dark CircleAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= ItAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's 1949increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and with the Second World War overinfluencer deals and, basically, a new decade of recovery monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is beginning. For East End teenagers Lenny slowly trying to regain her confidence and Miriam, to get her life has been suspended. Diagnosed with tuberculosis, they are sent away to a sanatorium in Kentback, suing her step-mother to take down the curecontent about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, submit failing to the way of the Doctorsstart her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and learn the deferential way of the patientreceiving money from them for doing so. Through doors newly opened by the one year old NHS Most importantly, come Lenny in his striped London drape suit, and Miriam in cherry felt red coat, and beret pinned gingerly onto she is desperately worried about her blue-black curls. Trapped in a sterile closed environmentlittle sister, who is the twins find themselves meeting air force officers, a car salesman, a university graduate, a mysterious German woman, a member new focus of the AristocracyOphelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and, arriving to blast away their lethargic submission to authority - an American merchant seaman. Together they discover that a cure is tantalisingly just out of reach, perhaps herself and may only be gained through full scale rebellion...her relationship with her father at the same time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>034900675X</amazonuk>0861546873

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Morgan McCarthy1529153298|title= The House List of BirdsSuspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical General Fiction|summary=Oliver has spent years trying to convince himself that heIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's suited family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to a life of money making in the city, and that he have 'disappeared' doesn't miss a childhood spent in pursuit of mystery, when he cycled around the cobbled lanes of Oxford, exploring its most intriguing cornerssound quite so frightening. When his girlfriend Kate inherits a derelict house - and a fierce family feud - Miv's upset because she's determined overheard that her father wants to strip it, sell it and move onthe family 'Down South'. For Oliver though When you're from Yorkshire, the house has an allure, and amongst the shelves of Down South is a discardedfrightening, leather bound and gilded volumesforeign place, he discovers one that conceals a hidden diary from the 1920sbest avoided. So begins a quest to discover For Miv, the identity of the authormove would mean leaving her best friend, Sophia Louis. It is a portrait of war and marriageSharon, isolation and longing and a story she'll do anything to prevent that will shape . She's not worried about the future of the abandoned house dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - and of Oliver - foreverto anyone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472205847</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christobel Kent1035906708|title=The Loving HusbandDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=Crime General Fiction|summary= When Fran met Nathan everyone assumed We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was on the rebound from a lengthy stint at the mercy of Nick The Unsuitablethirteen. I imagine falling pregnant within those first few heady months may have added fuel Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to that particular fire particularly from where Fran's best friend is standingCallas' to make it more manageable in the States. But when this is followed by a hasty wedding and a move to an isolated farmhouse When she was back in the Fens, Fran feels sure Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her new role as homevoice -maker and mother, so very different from the London party-girl she used to be, is was raised under the right one Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her. So when Fran wakes in the middle of the night to find Nathan's side of the bed completely coldelder sister, she goes to look for him. Finding him bloodied and very much dead was most definitely not part of the bargainJackie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751562416</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sanjida O'ConnellAlexander McCall Smith|title= Theory of MindThe Perfect Passion Company|rating= 34.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=Sandra works The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in a zooEdinburgh, studying run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the minds of chimpanzeesonline apps in providing a more personal, mankind's nearest living relativestailored service. Her involvment with Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the animals starts business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to affect her own relationships, in particular that get away for a while. Katie is coming out of a break up with her new a bad boyfriend Corin. His energy stimulates her, his passion excites her and his work as a TV producer fascinates herso jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, but are his feelings realbringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, or does he want thanks to control her? As her feelings preoccupy her, Sandra continues her research into the emotions of chimps 44 Scotland Street and whether or not they are capable of empathy. During a visit to the zooIsabel Dalhousie novels, Sandra meets but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a strange and isolated childbusiness, Paulor in match-making, son of one of the keepersbut Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and she also meets Kim, a scientist who has built a killer instinct into the robots she makes. As Sandra worries about there's always her friends very helpful (and her relationshiprather handsome) neighbour, William, things race to lend a thrilling climax - putting much more than Sandra's emotions at risk. hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1861515480</amazonuk>1846976596

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Katarina BivaldDean Koontz|title= The Readers of Broken Wheel RecommendBad Weather Friend|rating= 4.5|genre= General FictionParanormal|summary= The USA Benny is an odd place at timeshaving a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and not just during election seasonhis house gets trashed. There are all sorts of nooks Oh, and cranniessomeone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, places and it's possible that time forgot, places whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that ‘’people’’ forgot. Broken Wheelhas trashed his house! The thing is, Iowa Benny is one such placethe very last person to deserve all this bad luck. You’d have no reason to go unless you knew someone there He is a nice person. And Sara does, her pen-pal Amy A really nice person. Invited by Amy So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to come for his house is a new friend, a visitbad weather friend called Spike, and with time on her hands due who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a recent redundancygood person. Spike is going to take care of Benny, Sara packs her bags (and her books) will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and buys Harper (a plane ticket from her native Sweden to the US of Awaitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>009959367X</amazonuk>1662500491

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sara StewartKatherine Howe|title=Whilst I Was OutA True Account|rating=24.5|genre=General Fiction |summary= Sara Stewart's debut novelHannah Masury is living in Boston, ''Whilst I Was Out'', opens having been sent to live with all the promise of a book intent family who run an inn, and being made to delve head-first into invention and oddnesswork there from a young age. The narrator When she hears there is to be a hanging of some pirates in the storytown, Alice, is stuck in traffic with her husband – who she refers decides to throughout the book as My Dear Husband (or MDH for short) – when he suddenly jumps out of their car go and runs off for seemingly no reasonwatch. The scene opens with Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a mention of domestic abuse but seems much more interested in young boy's death at the inherent malfunction hands of Alicetwo vicious pirates. She hides away, so that they don's husband as she describes his fixation with his bicycle t find and how kill her too, and their three children have taken then to escape them completely she runs away to sea, dressing as a back seat to his boy and joining the notorious Ned Low'finding himself' through affairs s pirate ship as a cabin boy. She soon finds herself in the thick of things when there is a mutiny on board, and cross-country cyclingfrom there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910903035</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Cesca Major1471180158|title= The Last Night|rating= 4|genre= Historical 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 a new life in America, each with a handsome husband and a happy family. When Abigail's mother dies unexpectedly, however, she is sent to live with her estranged sister in Devon, and the friends are torn apart. Little does she realise that tragedy lies just around the corner, and that the ''last night'' will change everything forever. Decades later, in 2016, a shy furniture-restorer called Irina has been given an unusual commission: to restore an old bureau containing many hidden secrets. As the two stories merge, curious Irina tries to piece together exactly what happened on the ''Last Night.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B01FTAPZS2</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewMaybe Tomorrow|author= Rory Gleeson|title= Rockadoon Shore|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=Cath is worried about her friends. DanDan is struggling with the death of his ex, Lucy is drinking way too much and Steph has become closed off. A weekend away is just what they need. They travel out to Rockadoon Lodge, to the wilds in the west of Ireland. But the weekend doesn't go to plan. JJ is more concerned with getting high than spending time with them, while Merc is humiliated and seeks revenge. And when their elderly neighbour Malachy arrives on their doorstep in the dead of night with a gun in his hands, nothing will be the same again for any of them...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473634075</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Brit Bennett|title= The MothersPenny Parkes

|genre= General Fiction|summary= I love it when I get Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's a control freak with all the subtlety of a book so very few have half brick. Jamie's son, Bo, 'has his problems'. He's asthmatic and the more you read yet, but itthe more you'll suspect that he's hard to say what on the autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to be said, when youtake time off at short notice - she's a frequent flier in the local A&E and sometimes Bo're s not allowed fit enough to go to school. Missed shifts or the need to be away on time to quotepick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the wrong. ''All good secrets have It was going to come to a taste before you tell them…''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0399184511</amazonuk>head.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Graham NortonB0CKD1L5JL|title= HoldingRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn|rating= 54|genre= General Fiction|summary=The remote Irish village of Duneen has known little drama, and yet Petr is an orphan. Rescued by the inhabitants are troubled. Sergeant PJ Collins hasn't always been this overweightstrange, mother-of-two Brid Riordan hasn't always been an alcoholicreclusive Bear, he is brought up far from bustling cities and elegant Evelyn Ross hasn't always felt her life a total waste. When busy human remains are discovered on a farmsociety, thought to be those of Tommy Burke, an ex lover in the forests of both Brid and Evelyn, the villageWashington's dark past begins to unravelOlympic Peninsula. As the frustrated PJ struggles to solve After Bear dies and a case for the first time brief sojourn in his lifehuman company, he unearths and armed with only a community's worth of angerpirate radio transmitter, resentmentPetr goes on a journey through the forest, secretsbroadcasting the strange, wild and regretrarely heard voices he encounters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444792008</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ian McEwanSarah Marsh|title=NutshellA Sign of Her Own|rating=43.5|genre=Literary General Fiction |summary=Meet Trudy. Successfully living in After a large and valuable London home, she is heavily pregnant, and in between two men – she has swapped the homeowner, poet and publisher John, for someone completely different, namely Claude, bout of scarlet fever as a nastychild, brutish and short typeEllen Lark loses her hearing. Some people cannot work out why on earth she has made that decisionSuddenly plunged into a world of silence, including our narratoreverything about her life changes. Oh, and he himself, our narratorLiving in a time when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is the child sent to a school where she's pregnant with. He is a very alert young thingtaught to lip read, with nothing else to do but kick physically restrained from signing. From here and there, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and practice what you might well call mindfulnessusing a system called Visible Speech. At the same time, and listen in Bell is working on Claude other inventions and Trudyideas, as they calmly talk their way to plotting and carrying out murder…Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1911214330</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Frederic Dard and Daniel Seton (translator)B0BC3YTCMR|title=CrushGood Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira

|genre=General Fiction |summary=In this ''This story is not for everyone.'' Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of Thelma her fifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. She was a very bright student, a bit too nerdy if truth be told, and Louise, suffered from vitiligo - people were afraid to hug her in case it's Louise we meet first, through her narrationcontagious. SheIt's not easy being a black girl whose skin is 84% white. She had a crush on seventeen -year -old, telling us of a quite awful Reggie Anderson but never thought he would notice her. Then he did: Lavender was very good at math and smelly satellite town of Paris Reggie asked if she lives in, with the sight of factories and stench of food processing plants keeping her companywould tutor him. She lives readily agreed: tutoring was something she gladly did at home with her mother, complete with hare-lip, and abusive step-father, and is working at one of those factories until she sees a paradise in their midst – the ever-sunny, sexy and sophisticated life of church: this was just an American NATO worker extension. She went to his house and his wifehe raped her. ImpulsivelyIn shock, she asks even allowed him to be their maid – and indeed moves into the couple's large, messy give her a lift home. 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>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Emma Burstall1472263936|title= The Cornish Guest House (Tremarnock)Figurine|author=Victoria Hislop|rating= 3.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=''The Cornish Guest House'' is the sequel It was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. She was alone: her mother, Greek by birth, had left the best-selling ''Tremarnock'' which introduced us family home and refused to hard-working Liz return, but Mary and Hamish (Helena's parents) felt that it would be a pity if Helena grew up without knowing her disabled daughter Rosie who were adjusting grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. Her trip to life the family apartment in a small Cornish village by up-market Kolonaki would be the seafirst of several annual visits. The sequel begins six months after She grew to love her grandmother and the first bookfamily's maid, Dina, but was wary - and Liz and Rosie are happily settled in their new lives and enjoying the warmth frightened - of her grandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. He was proud of his close connections to the close-knit community. The village is soon abuzz with gossip, however, as a new couple have just moved in Junta and are planning expected his family to uphold his values but saw no reason to open a guest houseaccommodate them. The affable His prejudices included Helena's red hair and goodgreen eyes -looking Luke soon charms the neighbours by immersing himself into village lifeinherited from her father's Scottish ancestors. His wife Tabitha, on the other hand, seems aloof and reserved. Could she be hiding a secret?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784972495</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jean McNeilDean Koontz|title= The Dhow HouseAfter Death|rating= 3.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Rebecca Laurelson is an English doctor working in an African field hospital in the midst Michael Mace, Head of Security, at a political conflict top secret biological research facility, is among 55 people who die when she a virus is suddenly and inexplicitly forced to leave her postreleased in a bio-hazard accident. She goes Finding himself in a makeshift mortuary, covered in plastic, he has a sense that something very, very bad has happened to stay with her estranged Aunt Julia him – and only him – as he sits up and her family on Africa's east coast away from looks around at the violence shrouded bodies of his dead friends and daily blood shed of warformer colleagues. As he recovers his senses, however their lives are full of beach he realises that there is something different about him; he can ''feel'' everything. ''Everything''. Michael isn't ''Michael'' anymore.|isbn=1662500467}} {{Frontpage|isbn=B0BVDC2VWH|title=The Grave Listeners|author=William Frank|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=The village is isolated and cocktail parties which contrast greatly to Rebeccapoor. It's way of livingsurrounded by a Witching Forest. But And the threat villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicines. The black wood of war is on the horizon for Julia's family forest provides heat and their fellow white Africans – terror attacks are warmth, roofs on homes, and even gallows, if needed. The fear of being buried alive is an existential superstition in the rise all along the coast village and Rebecca knows more about it than that is the rest reason Volushka, a drunken, self-indulgent, lazy lout of her familya man is tolerated. With unrest brewing will the true reason for Rebecca's hasty departure from her post be revealed?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785079441</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0BYF82CXT|title=The Purple ShadowSemi-Detached|author=Christopher BowdenDeborah Stone

|summary=Colin Mallory is ''Bill and Amanda are living in a young actor semi-detached house, stuck in Paris. Colin had been working with a theatre company putting on English language Shakespeare productions. They were popular but unprofitable so Colin is now at a loose end while his partnerdepressing rut of boredom and disappointment, Bryonywhen Terry and Fiona – glamorous, is off shooting a filmsuccessful and very much in love – move in next door. Before returning to LondonDespite their different outlooks on life, Colin meets up with Paul Barnard, an art gallery director the couples befriend each other and his sister's partnerlife appears to improve for both pairs. At the Galerie Marion DucasseBut all is not what it seems, Colin and Paul come across a paintingtheir increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy. The portrait of a young woman turns out to be Sylvie Ducasse, the great-aunt of the gallery's owner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0955506743</amazonuk>'

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sandra IrelandShalini Boland|title=Beneath The SkinSilent Bride|rating=43|genre=General Fiction |summary= Robert Walton is ex-military – Alice and Seth are a soldier suffering from combat stress and what he now realises is clearly PTSDmatch made in heaven. He prefers to be called Waltis everything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, clever, funny; it's short total and simple and Walt likes things that are not complicatedutter husband-material. Alys She is fragileall he could possibly want in a wife; beautiful, damaged successful, confident… and complicated so the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and not the kind of woman Walt wedding is looking forplanned and set. A taxidermist When the much-anticipated day arrives, Alice is walked down the aisle 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 homefather, which she shares beaming with her sister, Mouse pride and Mouse's son William. It's a strange set up and though Walt needs excitement as she surveys the job congregation – of handyman/gopher/taxidermy assistant ''must not be squeamish – room their friends assembled to celebrate this joyful day and board included'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, he wonders what he has let himself in who is waiting forher to become his wife. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846973619</amazonuk>1662507089

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Victoria Hislop1787636003|title=Cartes Postales from GreeceThe Girls of Summer|author=Katie Bishop

|summary=Postcards from It was the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece keep arriving at Ellie's flat addressed to former occupant Sarah Ibbotsen by a man signing himself as 'A'and arrived on the island. They may not be for Ellie Rachel wasn't exactly innocent but she keeps them anyway and displays the pictures of blue seawas, perhaps, naive, beaches and countryside until she can't resist it any longer; Ellie's off so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to Greece for a break. Just before take an interest in her, she leaves home a package arrives from A. Something very different from the fragmented comments on the cardswas flattered rather than wary. This is It was quite a journal full while before he made any sort of the stories told physical approach to her and by people he's met while travelling and coming to terms with a love affair that ended almost before it begantime she was obsessed by him. So Alistair worked for Ellie Henry Taylor, looking after his interests on the journal becomes her guide book island and in particular in the bar where all the journey beginsgirls either worked or partied.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472223209</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alexander McCall SmithAmanda Craig|title=Precious and GraceThree Graces|rating=4.5

|summary=Friendships can be funny things, and that is often Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of-the case with Precious and Grace-nation novel. This is their seventeenth book now, and There's something so we have seen their friendship grow and develop a great deal over utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the years. Both women have grown to understand, respect and love each other, through business hardships, personal difficulties and all their many and varied cases. In their current case atmosphere of the pair have a strong difference of opinions, day and yet all is not quite what capture it seems with their investigation, and so perhaps 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 case gift for weaving the ongoing issues of neither one the day into the lives of her characters in a way that feels natural and lived-in, never making them being rightciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, and the situation being something else entirely?grappling with issues far larger than themselves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408708124</amazonuk>140871468X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Fiona Davis152915118X|title= The Doll HousePineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= New York City''Pineapple Street'' is the story of three women: Sasha, Darley and Georgiana. Darley and George are sisters and Sasha is married to their brother Cord. They're Stocktons, only Sasha isn't a Stockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the tribe. The problem's exacerbated when the clan matriarch, Tilda, asks Cord and Sasha if they'd like to move into the Pineapple Street property. Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to another property, 2016: Rose has quit her job as a newscaster street or so away, which they own. They won't need any of the furniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and investigative journalist – not entirely voluntarily – Cord can move straight in. Nominally, they had a choice but that wasn't the reality. Darley and now works for an on-line outfit with Georgiana start to call Sasha 'the self-mockingly clumsy name of Wordmergegold digger'. She's living in ''their'' family home. They use it so often that they abbreviate it to 'the GD'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1101984996</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gayle FormanEmily Critchley|title=Leave MeOne Puzzling Afternoon|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=84 year old Edie has lived in the same small town for almost her whole life, but now she is facing a move as her son wants to move to another house and bring Edie to live with his family, as Edie is starting to lose her memory. However, 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 secret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be the 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?|isbn=1804181250}}{{Frontpage|author=Madelaine Lucas|title=Thirst for Salt|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= ''Love, I'd read, was supposed to be a light and weightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravity'' Told from a retrospective view, a young woman unravels the year-long relationship that once defined her. Overlaid with later wisdom, the narrator relives the affair with a man twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the summer after. Set against the backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the 24-year-old narrator's deepening relationship with her older lover, depicting its all-consuming nature, how it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and how it altered her irrevocably.|isbn=0861546490}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008506337|title=The Garnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore

|summary= When youThe love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O've had a heart attack and frightened the hell out of not Leary was all-consuming, apparently on both sides. Margo was just yourself, but your husband, your children – if sixteen when they had known fell in love. Richard was twenty- your one and described by Margo's mother and your best friend, you imagine as 'an older man'. Her parents worried that some long overdue TLC is about Richard's influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to come your wayOxford and having a glittering career. You're thinking cardsIn the event, flowers, being waited on hand, foot they eloped and finger and even though Richard took her away from the imminent influx Isle of culinary gifts are likely Wight. Margo did go to be low fat, low sugar Oxford and taste like the box they came in, they're coming, right? went on to become a well-respected journalist. And you'll probably get a The couple of months off work had three children: Rachel, Imogen and not even have to think about the laundrySasha. Or Life was lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, the family home on the housework? Isle of Wight. Or taking Even then the twins doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able to school? Right? Right???? leave him in charge''. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>147115677X</amazonuk>Then Richard left them.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lisa Unger1914585402|title=Ink and BoneDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross|rating=4.5

|summary= Finlay Montgomery, like her grandmother Eloise before her is I reviewed David F Ross's book [[There's Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's Only One Danny Garvey]] a very couple of years back and remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and gifted psychicaffecting it was. Sensitive to the unseen, unheard and unknowable, she spends her days among the dead. VisitedIt was a gripping, botheredemotionally wounding read, harassed and sometimes taunted, Finlay does her best to manage the gifts rereading my review of it my main takeaway was that Mother Nature has sought to bestow. But life is I might not that simple and studying for your degree is testing with five other visitors in the room who are all trying to get your attention in the loudest and most distracting way possiblehave lavished enough praise on it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147115047X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Annelies Verbeke Lucy Ashe|title= Thirty DaysClara and Olivia|rating= 24.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Thirty Days doesn’t seem to know what it The year is about1933. The novel follows Alphonse, a Senegalese painter decorator living in the Flanders region of Belgium with his girlfriend place? Sadler's Wells. Ballerinas Clara and childhood friend CatOlivia are sisters, who is recovering from cancertwins no less. Verbeke puts a major emphasis Identical on their intimate the outside but often volatile and unsteady relationshipnot, as they try to navigate a new lifestyle in a small townwe learn, away from on the cityinside. HoweverAnd not on stage, either. Because there are several other storylines which vie for our 's a lot that builds a dancer. Some things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, attention: Alphonse’s troubled clients who treat him as a sounding board to detail – and therapistsome things, his experiences of racism as a black man in a rural areathat ''je ne sais quoi'', Cat’s difficultthat don't come from the classroom. A stage presence, warring parentsa charm, the couple’s elderly neighbour Willem who is obsessed with war graves and has a knack for appearing at precisely the wrong moment''joie de vivre''. The difference between a hard-worker, and an illegal refugee camp in field trenches a few miles awaystar. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>9462380899</amazonuk>0861544080

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Oldest GameHeather Fawcett|authortitle=Sue LegerEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

|summary=Moving Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and eye-opening story she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life's work, the very first encyclopaedia of a Romanian woman trafficked into Amsterdam faeries. Whilst she is brilliant at research and forced speaking to faeries, she is not so good with people. 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 has done, nor how to work as a prostituteredeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on the right track. Sue Leger gives us Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all pause for thought charm and delight, much to Emily's frustration. But why is he here.? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1524635014</amazonuk>0356519120

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Tom Connolly1398515388|title= Men Like AirThe Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= One April in ManhattanFirst of all, it was the destinies of four very different men are about to collide. Nineteen year old Finn has just arrived earthquake, deep in the city along with his volatile girlfriend Dillyocean floor, determined to even which created the score with his older brother Jack for abandoning him tsunami and this, in turn, caused the UK in nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and utter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, and the aftermath loss of livelihoods was widespread. The fact that many pets were separated from their parents' deaths. Across town, successful gallery owner Leo Emerson is haunted by loneliness, unsettled by owners came far down the contrast between his life and that list of his brother in law and oldest friend William, who is content in both his faith and his marriagepriorities but - six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. When Finn wanders in to Leo He wasn't a dog person but the convenience store owner's gallery, a series of unexpected comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and interconnected events unfold, changing Tamon the lives of all four men togetherdog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908434880</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=How I Became a DrifterChristopher Bowden|authortitle=Christmas PhilipMr Magenta|reviewerrating=Jill Murphy4

|summary=Fictionalised autobiography told in Christopher Bowden's latest novel is a stream-patient untangling of-consciousness stylea seemingly ordinary woman's life, carried out by her nephew after she has died. An unconventional voice speaking The aunt who always provided a safe harbour and a little bit of the universal search for love indulgence to a young nephew had had a much more interesting life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and acceptance.|rating=3it seems to him an obligation to find it all out.5 |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>152463588X</amazonuk> B0B6Z9VJDW

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jane CorryJennifer Mason|title= My Husband's WifePartitions of Unity|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Autumn 2000. Newly married lawyer Lily 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 her artist husband Ed have unravelled a small apartment in Londonseries of disappearances. Fresh from the honeymoon, theyIn ''Partitions of Unity''re still settling in to their new roles, and their neighbour Francesca and she sets her 9 year old daughter Carla help mind to take the pressure off solving a little bitmurder...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0241256488</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Peter Ho DaviesWill Carver|title= The FortunesDaves Next Door|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Clashes of cultures or cultural enrichment? Xenophobia or embracing diversity?Today's hot topics focus much Five strangers come together in one moment as a suicide bomber prepares to detonate his vest on cultures meeting and notions of foreignnessa London tube line. As their fates overlap, especially the story is told in backwards order, leading up to the context of migrationfateful moment. As such|isbn= 1914585186}} {{Frontpage|author=Jennifer Mason|title=Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=''A struggling poetry zine, Peter Ho Davies could not have chosen a more current mom-and thought-provoking theme pop mobile diner in the Northern California redwoods, a 400-meter hurdler who just missed the 2004 Olympics, a women's track coach with a yen for ''The Fortunes'': through four different storiesbullwhips, the novel documents some a billionaire with a state-of -the history of Chinese people -art S&M dungeon, a man serving a life sentence in America over more than century. From railroad workersAlabama, an enigmatic signature, K(s, laundry ownersx), and prostitutes to film stars and adoptive parentson a cheap oil painting, an erotic art dealer in Georgia...'' This is just a sample of the cast of characters and settings in Preposterous. As you can see, some keeping up will be required! The Fortunes'' tells tales basic premise of searching for identity on both national and personal levelsthis mystery story goes like this...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340980230</amazonuk>B09STS96HS

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Paul ReadB0B2N7MVYM|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 Calculations 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>}}{{newreviewRational Men|author=Alexander McCall Smith|title=The Bertie Project: A 44 Scotland Street NovelDaniel Godfrey|rating=45

|summary=Catching up with old friends is a pleasure, and itIt's good the 10th of December 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marr. Just to be back on Scotland Streetput what happens in context, finding out what everyone the Cuban missile crisis is getting up still very fresh in people's minds. The world has barely had a chance tobreathe out. Irene is backBut for Joe Marr, it's not the missile crisis that's at the front of coursehis mind. He's been convicted of murder. With the current state of medical knowledge, from her travels it's hard to think otherwise than that the middle-eastprosecution would never have been brought but Joe Marr has spent his first few days in HMP Queen's Bench, a relatively new prison. Bruce has fallen in loveHe's just getting used to his roommate, Matthew and Elspeth have triplet troublesMervyn, and somebody has an extremely unfortunate accident…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973597</amazonuk>learning to be wary of the McArthur brothers.