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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Henrietta Rose-InnesOnyi Nwabineli|title= NinevehAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Henritetta RoseAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-Innemother Ophelia's ''Nineveh'' instantly reassures you that you are in the increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of a confident Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and talented writer, basically, monetary gain. The story of Katya Grubbs, a second generation pest exterminator who specialises Now Anuri is in relocating the bugs her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and rodents that ruin middle-class garden partiesto get her life back, Rosesuing her step-Inne writes with mother to take down the enviable ability of describing both 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 intricacies new focus of KatyaOphelia's job online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the feeling same time?|isbn=0861546873}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529153298|title=The List of it simultaneously. Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|amazonuksummary=<amazonuk>1910709166</amazonuk>It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sara Stridsberg and Deborah Bragan-Turner (translator)1035906708|title=The Gravity of LoveDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin

|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=Particularly literate cover… We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Setting Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the States. When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.}}{{Frontpage|author=Alexander McCall Smith|title=The Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=The Perfect Passion Company is a real-life mental hospital – dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in Sweden… providing a more personal, tailored service. Mature themes… Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. Opening Katie is coming out of a break up with an emotion- a bad boyfriend, and closure-laden death… so jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. YesAnd so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, this book has more than its share of things thanks to put 44 Scotland Street and the potential reader offIsabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. WhichKatie has no experience in running a business, or in this instancematch-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, is quite to lend a large shame indeed.hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857054767</amazonuk>1846976596

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Steven BurgauerDean Koontz|title=The Road To War: Duty & Drill, Courage & CaptureBad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=BiographyParanormal|summary=After World War II Bill Frodsham led an everyday life, raising Benny is having a family in an ordinary US suburbterrifically bad day. Heloses his job, he loses his wife fiancee, and children became friends with the Burgauer familyhis house gets trashed. Oh, little Steven Burgauer knowing him as Mr F. Time rolls on and little Steven grows upsomeone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and then eventually retires from it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the American financial sector very last person to write science fiction and lecture from time to timedeserve all this bad luck. He's therefore surprised when, is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out of that the bluedelivery to his house is a new friend, Mr F's daughter tracks him down and presents him with a pile of handwritten notes asking Steven bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to make them into help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a bookgood person. These are Mr FSpike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's self-authored memoirsenemies, if he, stretching from his youth onwards and showing that this seemingly goodBenny, kind but unremarkable man was anything but unremarkable. During the war Mr F trained for the impossible and then lived it as he led men across Omaha Beach on D Day. He was then captured and spent the rest of the war as Harper (a POW in inhumane conditions. Steven accepted the request and waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny''The Road to War'' is the result: the life and war of Captain William C Frodsham Jrs wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1450218806</amazonuk>1662500491

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Linda GrantKatherine Howe|title= The Dark CircleA True Account|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= It's 1949, and with the Second World War over, a new decade of recovery Hannah Masury is beginning. For East End teenagers Lenny and Miriamliving in Boston, life has having been suspended. Diagnosed with tuberculosis, they are sent away to live with a sanatorium in Kentfamily who run an inn, and being made to take the cure, submit work there from a young age. When she hears there is to the way be a hanging of some pirates in the Doctorstown, she decides to go and learn the deferential way of the patientwatch. Through doors newly opened by the one year old NHS, come Lenny in his striped London drape suit, Enthralled and Miriam horrified in cherry felt red coatequal measure, and beret pinned gingerly onto her blue-black curls. Trapped Hannah finds herself embroiled in a sterile closed environment, young boy's death at the twins find themselves meeting air force officers, a car salesman, a university graduate, a mysterious German woman, a member hands of the Aristocracytwo vicious pirates. She hides away, so that they don't find andkill her too, arriving and then to blast escape them completely she runs away their lethargic submission to authority - an American merchant seamansea, dressing as a boy and joining the notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. Together they discover that She soon finds herself in the thick of things when there is a cure is tantalisingly just out of reachmutiny on board, and may only be gained through full scale rebellion..from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>034900675X</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Morgan McCarthy1471180158|title= The House of BirdsMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical General Fiction|summary=Oliver has spent years trying to convince himself that he's suited to a life of money making Jamie Matson works in the cityan upper-class grocery store, and that he doesnfor a man who't miss s a childhood spent in pursuit of mystery, when he cycled around control freak with all the cobbled lanes subtlety of Oxford, exploring its most intriguing cornersa half brick. When his girlfriend Kate inherits a derelict house - and a fierce family feud - she Jamie's determined to strip itson, sell it and move on. For Oliver thoughBo, the house 'has an allure, his problems'. He's asthmatic and amongst the shelves of a discarded, leather bound and gilded volumesmore you read, the more you'll suspect that he discovers one that conceals a hidden diary from 's on the 1920sautistic spectrum. So begins Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's a quest frequent flier in the local A&E and sometimes Bo's not fit enough to discover go to school. Missed shifts or the identity of need to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the author, Sophia Louiswrong. It is a portrait of war and marriage, isolation and longing and was going to come to a story that will shape the future of the abandoned house - and of Oliver - foreverhead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472205847</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christobel KentB0CKD1L5JL|title=The Loving HusbandRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn

|genre=Crime General Fiction|summary= When Fran met Nathan everyone assumed she was on Petr is an orphan. Rescued by the rebound strange, reclusive Bear, he is brought up far from a lengthy stint at bustling cities and busy human society, in the mercy forests of Nick The Unsuitable. I imagine falling pregnant within those first few heady months may have added fuel to that particular fire particularly from where FranWashington's best friend is standingOlympic Peninsula. But when this is followed by a hasty wedding After Bear dies and a move to an isolated farmhouse brief sojourn in the Fenshuman company, Fran feels sure that her new role as home-maker and motherarmed with only a pirate radio transmitter, so very different from Petr goes on a journey through the London party-girl she used to beforest, is the right one for her. So when Fran wakes in the middle of the night to find Nathan's side of broadcasting the bed completely coldstrange, she goes to look for him. Finding him bloodied wild and very much dead was most definitely not part of the bargainrarely heard voices he encounters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751562416</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sanjida O'ConnellSarah Marsh|title= Theory A Sign of MindHer Own|rating= 3.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=Sandra works in After a zoo, studying the minds bout of chimpanzees, mankind's nearest living relatives. Her involvment with the animals starts to affect her own relationshipsscarlet fever as a child, in particular that with Ellen Lark loses her new boyfriend Corinhearing. His energy stimulates her, his passion excites her and his work as Suddenly plunged into a TV producer fascinates herworld of silence, but are his feelings real, or does he want to control everything about her? As her feelings preoccupy her, Sandra continues her research into the emotions of chimps and whether or not they are capable of empathylife changes. During Living in a visit to time when the zoouse of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Sandra meets Ellen is sent to a strange and isolated childschool where she is taught to lip read, Paulbut physically restrained from signing. From here, son of one of the keepers, and she also meets Kim, a scientist ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has built been teaching the deaf and using a killer instinct into system called Visible Speech. At the robots she makes. As Sandra worries about her friends same time, Bell is working on other inventions and her relationshipideas, things race to and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a thrilling climax - putting much more than Sandra's emotions at riskcomplicated tangle of espionage. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1861515480</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Katarina BivaldB0BC3YTCMR|title= The Readers of Broken Wheel RecommendGood Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= The USA ''This story is an odd place at times, and not just during election seasonfor everyone. There are all sorts '' Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of nooks and cranniesher fifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. She was a very bright student, places that time forgota bit too nerdy if truth be told, places that ‘’people’’ forgotand suffered from vitiligo - people were afraid to hug her in case it's contagious. Broken Wheel, Iowa It's not easy being a black girl whose skin is one such place84% white. She had a crush on seventeen-year-old Reggie Anderson but never thought he would notice her. You’d have no reason to go unless you knew someone there Then he did: Lavender was very good at math and Reggie asked if she would tutor him. And Sara does, her pen-pal Amy She readily agreed: tutoring was something she gladly did at church: this was just an extension. Invited by Amy She went to come for a visit, his house and with time on he raped her hands due . In shock, she even allowed him to a recent redundancy, Sara packs her bags (and give her books) and buys a plane ticket from her native Sweden to the US of Alift home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009959367X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sara Stewart1472263936|title=Whilst I Was OutThe Figurine|author=Victoria Hislop|rating=2.5|genre=General Fiction |summary= Sara Stewart's debut novelIt was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. She was alone: her mother, ''Whilst I Was Out''Greek by birth, opens with all had left the promise of family home and refused to return, but Mary and Hamish (Helena's parents) felt that it would be a book intent pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. Her trip to delve headthe family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be the first into invention of several annual visits. She grew to love her grandmother and oddness. The narrator of the storyfamily's maid, AliceDina, is stuck in traffic with but was wary - and frightened - of her husband – who she refers grandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. He was proud of his close connections to throughout the book as My Dear Husband (or MDH for short) – when he suddenly jumps out of their car Junta and runs off for seemingly expected his family to uphold his values but saw no reasonto accommodate them. The scene opens with a mention of domestic abuse but seems much more interested in the inherent malfunction of Alice His prejudices included Helena's husband as she describes his fixation with his bicycle red hair and how green eyes - inherited from her and their three children have taken a back seat to his father'finding himself' through affairs and cross-country cyclings Scottish ancestors.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910903035</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Cesca MajorDean Koontz|title= The Last NightAfter Death|rating= 43|genre= Historical General Fiction|summary=Spring 1952: Two best friends; Abigail and MaryMichael Mace, Head of Security, sit together on at a benchtop secret biological research facility, looking out to seais among 55 people who die when a virus is released in a bio-hazard accident. They have big plans Finding himself in a makeshift mortuary, but know that whatever happens they will always be together. They dream of a new life covered in Americaplastic, each with he has a handsome husband and a happy family. When Abigail's mother dies unexpectedlysense that something very, however, she is sent very bad has happened to live with her estranged sister in Devon, him – and only him – as he sits up and looks around at the shrouded bodies of his dead friends are torn apartand former colleagues. Little does she realise that tragedy lies just around the corner As he recovers his senses, and he realises that the there is something different about him; he can ''last nightfeel'' will change everything forever. Decades later, in 2016, ''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 poor. It's surrounded by a shy furnitureWitching Forest. And the villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-restorer called Irina has been given an unusual commission: to restore an old bureau containing many hidden secretslike fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicines. As The black wood of the two stories mergeforest provides heat and warmth, curious Irina tries to piece together exactly what happened roofs on homes, and even gallows, if needed. The fear of being buried alive is an existential superstition in the village and that is the ''Last Nightreason Volushka, a drunken, self-indulgent, lazy lout of a man is tolerated.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B01FTAPZS2</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Rory GleesonB0BYF82CXT|title= Rockadoon ShoreSemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=Cath is worried about her friends. DanDan is struggling with the death ''Bill and Amanda are living in a semi-detached house, stuck in a depressing rut of his exboredom and disappointment, Lucy is drinking way too much when Terry and Steph has become closed off. A weekend away is just what they need. They travel out to Rockadoon LodgeFiona – glamorous, to the wilds successful and very much in love – move in the west of Irelandnext door. But Despite their different outlooks on life, the weekend doesn't go couples befriend each other and life appears to planimprove for both pairs. JJ But all is more concerned with getting high than spending time with themnot what it seems, 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 increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for any of themtragedy...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473634075</amazonuk>''

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Brit BennettShalini Boland|title= The MothersSilent Bride|rating=4.53|genre= General Fiction|summary= I love it when I get Alice and Seth are a match made in heaven. He is everything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, clever, funny; total and utter husband-material. She is all he could possibly want in a book wife; beautiful, successful, confident… and so very few have read yetthe inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and the wedding is planned and set. When the much-anticipated day arrives, but it's hard Alice is walked down the aisle by her father, beaming with pride and excitement as she surveys the congregation – their friends assembled to say what needs celebrate this joyful day and when Seth turns to be saidface his approaching bride, when youAlice're not allowed s world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the man at the altar is, who is waiting for her to quotebecome his wife. ''All good secrets have a taste before you tell them…''|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0399184511</amazonuk>1662507089

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Graham Norton1787636003|title= HoldingThe Girls of Summer|author=Katie Bishop|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction|summary=The remote Irish village of Duneen has known little drama, It was the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and yet arrived on the inhabitants are troubledisland. Sergeant PJ Collins hasn Rachel wasn't always been this overweightexactly innocent but she was, perhaps, naive, motherso when thirty-four-ofyear-two Brid Riordan hasn't always been old Alistair Wright started to take an alcoholicinterest in her, and elegant Evelyn Ross hasn't always felt her life a total wasteshe was flattered rather than wary. When human remains are discovered on It was quite a farm, thought while before he made any sort of physical approach to be those of Tommy Burke, an ex lover of both Brid her and Evelynby that time she was obsessed by him. Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, looking after his interests on the village's dark past begins to unravel. As island and in particular in the frustrated PJ struggles to solve a case for bar where all the first time in his life, he unearths a community's worth of anger, resentment, secrets, and regretgirls either worked or partied.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444792008</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ian McEwanAmanda Craig|title=NutshellThree Graces

|genre=Literary General Fiction |summary=Meet TrudyFew styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of-the-nation novel. Successfully living in a large There's something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the atmosphere of the day and valuable London homecapture it, she is heavily pregnant, and crafting an image of the country as it stands in between two men – she has swapped the homeowner, poet and publisher John, for someone completely different, namely Claude, a nasty, brutish and short typeone particular moment. Some people cannot work out why on earth she has made To say that decision, including our narrator. Oh, and he himself, our narrator, Amanda Craig is the child skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's pregnant practically synonymous withthe genre of contemporary social fiction at this point. He is She has such a gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the day into the lives of her characters in a very alert young thingway that feels natural and lived-in, with nothing else to do never making them ciphers for social commentary but kick here and thereinstead fully realised people, and practice what you might well call mindfulness, and listen in on Claude and Trudy, as they calmly talk their way to plotting and carrying out murder…grappling with issues far larger than themselves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1911214330</amazonuk>140871468X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Frederic Dard and Daniel Seton (translator)152915118X|title=CrushPineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson

|summary=Colin Mallory ''Pineapple Street'' is a young actor in Paristhe story of three women: Sasha, Darley and Georgiana. Colin had been working with a theatre company putting on English language Shakespeare productions Darley and George are sisters and Sasha is married to their brother Cord. They were popular but unprofitable 're Stocktons, only Sasha isn't a Stockton by birth so Colin is now at a loose end while his partnershe isn't readily accepted into the tribe. The problem's exacerbated when the clan matriarch, BryonyTilda, is off shooting a filmasks Cord and Sasha if they'd like to move into the Pineapple Street property. Before returning Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to Londonanother property, Colin meets up with Paul Barnarda street or so away, an art gallery director and his sisterwhich they own. They won's partner. At t need any of the Galerie Marion Ducassefurniture from Pineapple Street, Colin so Sasha and Paul come across Cord can move straight in. Nominally, they had a paintingchoice but that wasn't the reality. The portrait of a young woman turns out Darley and Georgiana start to be Sylvie Ducasse, call Sasha 'the great-aunt of gold digger'. She's living in ''their'' family home. They use it so often that they abbreviate it to 'the galleryGD's owner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0955506743</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sandra IrelandEmily Critchley|title=Beneath The SkinOne Puzzling Afternoon

|genre=General Fiction Crime|summary= Robert Walton 84 year old Edie has lived in the same small town for almost her whole life, but now she is ex-military – facing a soldier suffering from combat stress move as her son wants to move to another house and what he now realises bring Edie to live with his family, as Edie is clearly PTSD. He prefers starting to be called Walt; it's short and simple and Walt likes things that are not complicatedlose her memory. Alys However, Edie is fragiletormented by the memory of her childhood friend, Lucy, who went missing over 60 years ago, damaged and complicated and not the kind worry that there was a secret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be the thing that reveals the truth of woman Walt is looking forwhat happened all that time ago. A taxidermist by trade – a rather macabre one at that – Alys enjoys creating Walter Potter style tableaus After 'seeing' Lucy in a slightly horrifying tribute the high street, just as she was the last time she saw her, she starts to find pockets of memories coming back to her sole career influence. Alys runs her business from her homeAnd yet as she remembers the past, which she shares with is forgetting more and more in her sister, Mouse and Mouse's son Williamday to day life. ItWill she uncover the truth about Lucy's a strange set up disappearance before her move, 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. before her memories are gone forever?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846973619</amazonuk>1804181250

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Victoria HislopMadelaine Lucas|title=Cartes Postales from GreeceThirst for Salt

|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Postcards from Greece keep arriving at Ellie's flat addressed to former occupant Sarah Ibbotsen by a man signing himself as 'ALove, I'. They may not d read, was supposed to be for Ellie but she keeps them anyway a light and displays the pictures of blue seaweightless feeling, beaches and countryside until she canbut I had always longed for gravity't resist it any longer; Ellie's off to Greece for  Told from a retrospective view, a breakyoung woman unravels the year-long relationship that once defined her. Just before she leaves home Overlaid with later wisdom, the narrator relives the affair with a package arrives from A. Something very different man twenty years her senior from its inception – the fragmented comments on summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the cardssummer after. This is a journal full Set against the backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the stories told by people he24-year-old narrator's met while travelling and coming to terms deepening relationship with a love affair that ended almost before her older lover, depicting its all-consuming nature, how it began. So for Ellie the journal becomes changed her guide book perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and the journey beginshow it altered her irrevocably.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472223209</amazonuk>0861546490

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alexander McCall Smith0008506337|title=Precious and GraceThe Garnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore

|summary=Friendships can be funny thingsThe love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, apparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in love. Richard was twenty-one and described by Margo's mother as 'an older man'. Her parents worried that is often the case with Precious Richard's influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and Gracehaving a glittering career. This is their seventeenth book nowIn the event, they eloped and so we have seen their friendship grow and develop a great deal over Richard took her away from the yearsIsle of Wight. Both women have grown Margo did go to understand, respect Oxford and love each otherwent on to become a well-respected journalist. The couple had three children: Rachel, through business hardships, personal difficulties and all their many Imogen and varied casesSasha. In their current case the pair have a strong difference of opinions, Life was lived in London and yet all is not quite what it seems with their investigationholidays were spent at Sandcove, and so perhaps it is a case the family home on the Isle of neither one of them being right, and Wight. Even then the situation being something else entirely?doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able to leave him in charge''. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408708124</amazonuk>Then Richard left them.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Fiona Davis1914585402|title= The Doll HouseDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= New York CityI reviewed David F Ross's book [[There's Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's Only One Danny Garvey]] a couple of years back and remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and affecting it was. It was a gripping, emotionally wounding read, 2016: Rose has quit her job as a newscaster and investigative journalist – rereading my review of it my main takeaway was that I might not entirely voluntarily – and now works for an have lavished enough praise on-line outfit with the self-mockingly clumsy name of Wordmergeit.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1101984996</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gayle FormanLucy Ashe|title=Leave MeClara and Olivia|rating=4.5

|summary= When youThe year is 1933. The place? Sadler've had a heart attack s Wells. Ballerinas Clara and frightened Olivia are sisters, twins no less. Identical on the outside but not, we learn, on the hell out of inside. And not just yourselfon stage, but your husbandeither. Because there's a lot that builds a dancer. Some things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, your children attention to detail – if they had known - your mother and your best friendsome things, you imagine that some long overdue TLC is about to come your way. You're thinking cards'je ne sais quoi'', flowers, being waited on hand, foot and finger and even though that don't come from the imminent influx of culinary gifts are likely to be low fatclassroom. A stage presence, low sugar and taste like the box they came ina charm, theya ''joie de vivre're coming, right? And you'll probably get . The difference between a couple of months off work hard-worker, and not even have to think about the laundrya star. Or the housework? Or taking the twins to school? Right? Right???? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147115677X</amazonuk>0861544080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lisa UngerHeather Fawcett|title=Ink and BoneEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries|rating=54

|summary= Finlay MontgomeryEmily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, like her grandmother Eloise before to write her life's work, the very first encyclopaedia of faeries. Whilst she is a very powerful brilliant at research and gifted psychicspeaking to faeries, she is not so good with people. Sensitive to So when she finds herself far, far North in the unseensmall village of Hrafvsnik, unheard and unknowablehaving somehow offended the village matriarch, she spends is not sure what she has done, nor how to redeem herself and put her final investigations for her days among book back on the deadright track. VisitedEnter Wendell Bambleby, botheredher dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, harassed all charm and sometimes taunteddelight, Finlay does her best to manage the gifts that Mother Nature has sought much to bestowEmily's frustration. But life why is not that simple and studying for your degree he here? What does he want? And what exactly is testing going on with five other visitors in the room who are all trying to get your attention in the loudest and most distracting way possible.faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147115047X</amazonuk>0356519120

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Annelies Verbeke 1398515388|title= Thirty DaysThe Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating= 24.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Thirty Days doesn’t seem to know what First of all, it is about. The novel follows Alphonsewas the earthquake, a Senegalese painter decorator living deep in the Flanders region of Belgium with his girlfriend and childhood friend Catocean floor, who is recovering from cancer. Verbeke puts a major emphasis on their intimate but often volatile which created the tsunami and unsteady relationshipthis, as they try to navigate a new lifestyle in a small townturn, away from caused the citynuclear meltdown. The result was complete and utter devastation. However The deaths were uncountable, there are several other storylines which vie for our attention: Alphonse’s troubled clients who treat him as a sounding board and therapist, his experiences the loss of livelihoods was widespread. The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of racism as priorities but - six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a black man in convenience store. He wasn't a rural area, Cat’s difficult, warring parents, dog person but the couple’s elderly neighbour Willem who is obsessed with war graves convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and has a knack for appearing at precisely Tamon the wrong moment, and an illegal refugee camp dog jumped in field trenches a few miles away. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>9462380899</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Oldest GameChristopher Bowden|authortitle=Sue LegerMr Magenta

|summary=Moving and eye-opening story Christopher Bowden's latest novel is a patient untangling of a Romanian seemingly ordinary woman trafficked into Amsterdam 's life, carried out by her nephew after she has died. The aunt who always provided a safe harbour and forced a little bit of indulgence to work as a prostitute. Sue Leger gives us young nephew had had a much more interesting life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and it seems to him an obligation to find it all pause for thought hereout.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1524635014</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Tom ConnollyJennifer Mason|title= Men Like AirPartitions of Unity|rating= 54|genre= General Fiction|summary= One April in ManhattanHere at Bookbag Towers, 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 Dillywe first met Elizabeth Cromwell, determined to even the score with his older brother Jack for abandoning him in the UK dominatrix and unintentional detective in the aftermath of their parents' deaths. Across town, successful gallery owner Leo Emerson is haunted [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by lonelinessJennifer Mason|Preposterous]], unsettled by the contrast between his life when she investigated and that unravelled a series of his brother in law and oldest friend William, who is content in both his faith and his marriagedisappearances. When Finn wanders in to LeoIn ''Partitions of Unity''s gallery, she sets her mind to solving a series of unexpected and interconnected events unfold, changing the lives of all four men togethermurder...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908434880</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=How I Became a DrifterWill Carver|authortitle=Christmas PhilipThe Daves Next Door|reviewerrating=Jill Murphy4

|summary=Fictionalised autobiography 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|genre=General Fiction|summary=''A struggling poetry zine, a streammom-and-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 bullwhips, a billionaire with a state-of-consciousness stylethe-art S&M dungeon, a man serving a life sentence in Alabama, an enigmatic signature, K(s, x), on a cheap oil painting, an erotic art dealer in Georgia... An unconventional voice speaking '' This is just a sample of the universal search for love cast of characters and acceptancesettings in Preposterous. As you can see, some keeping up will be required! The basic premise of this mystery story goes like this..|rating=3.5 |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>152463588X</amazonuk> B09STS96HS

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jane CorryB0B2N7MVYM|title= My Husband's WifeThe Calculations of Rational Men|author=Daniel Godfrey|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Autumn 2000It'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 still very fresh in people's minds. Newly married lawyer Lily and her artist husband Ed have The world has barely had a small apartment in Londonchance to breathe out. But for Joe Marr, it's not the missile crisis that's at the front of his mind. He's been convicted of murder. Fresh from With the honeymooncurrent state of medical knowledge, theyit're still settling s hard to think otherwise than that the 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 their new roleshis roommate, Mervyn, and their neighbour Francesca and her 9 year old daughter Carla help learning to take be wary of the pressure off a little bitMcArthur brothers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241256488</amazonuk>