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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Ross ArmstrongOnyi Nwabineli|title= The WatcherAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating= 4.5|genre= Thrillers General Fiction|summary= Lily Gullick lives with Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her husband Aiden in a newstep-build flat opposite an estate which has been marked for demolition. A keen birdwatchermother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she canposted every step of Anuri't help spying on s childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her neighbours. Then one day Lily sees something suspicious through twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her binoculars confidence and soon to get her elderly neighbour Jean is found dead. Lilylife back, intrigued by suing her step-mother to take down the social divide in content about her local area as it becomes increasingly gentrified. Anuri is battling alcoholism, knows that she has failing to act. But start her interference is not going unnoticedPhD, undergoing therapy and as secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, she starts to get close to is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the truthnew focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her own life comes under threat.But can Lily really trust everything she seesrelationship with her father at the same time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008181187</amazonuk>0861546873

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ryan North1529153298|title=Romeo and/or JulietThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=3.5|genre=HumourGeneral Fiction|summary=For all those who think tragedy plots are too restricted It's 1979 and prescribedMargaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, read onhonestly. ..) In these pages you too will see that Romeo had lots of options en route to hitting the bottleShe's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. LikewiseWell, she could they've been murdered, but to have turned away from her predestined path at no end of junctures'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. And Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to what result? move the family 'Down South'. WellWhen you're from Yorkshire, happy marriage and Down South is a kid called Benfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, because the leads have just banged peoplemove would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. She's heads together and stopped not worried about the quarrelling, dangers or Death by Tybalt (him) or a long life running an establishment curing murderous women, such as a Lady M (that her)Mum's stopped talking - to anyone. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356508536</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Henrietta Rose-Innes1035906708|title= NinevehDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Henritetta Rose-InneWe 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. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 's Callas''Nineveh'' instantly reassures you that you are to make it more manageable in the presence of a confident and talented writerStates. The story of Katya Grubbs, a second generation pest exterminator who specialises When she was back in relocating the bugs and rodents Athens - supposedly so that ruin middle-class garden parties, Roseshe could get appropriate training for her voice -Inne writes with she was raised under the enviable ability of describing both the intricacies of Katya's job Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and the feeling made no secret of it simultaneouslyher preference for her elder sister, Jackie. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910709166</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sara Stridsberg and Deborah Bragan-Turner (translator)Alexander McCall Smith|title=The Gravity of LovePerfect Passion Company

|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=Particularly literate cover… Setting of 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 match-making, but Ness has full confidence in this instanceher 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

|genre=General Fiction |summary=In this ''Pineapple Street'' is the story of Thelma three women: Sasha, Darley and LouiseGeorgiana. Darley and George are sisters and Sasha is married to their brother Cord. They're Stocktons, itonly Sasha isn't a Stockton by birth so she isn's Louise we meet first, through her narrationt readily accepted into the tribe. SheThe problem's a seventeen year oldexacerbated when the clan matriarch, Tilda, telling us of a quite awful asks Cord and smelly satellite town of Paris she lives in, with Sasha if they'd like to move into the sight of factories and stench of food processing plants keeping her companyPineapple Street property. She lives at home with her motherTilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to another property, complete with hare-lipa street or so away, and abusive step-father, and is working at one which they own. They won't need any of those factories until she sees a paradise in their midst – the ever-sunnyfurniture from Pineapple Street, sexy so Sasha and sophisticated life of an American NATO worker and his wifeCord can move straight in. ImpulsivelyNominally, she asks they had a choice but that wasn't the reality. Darley and Georgiana start to be their maid – and indeed moves into call Sasha 'the couplegold digger'. She's large, messy living in ''their'' family home. But little does she know what lurks in the shadows in They use it so often that building, behind their gigantic car and their cute porch swing and al-fresco dining – they abbreviate it to 'the unhappiness, and even the tragedy…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782271988</amazonuk>GD'.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Emma BurstallEmily Critchley|title= The Cornish Guest House (Tremarnock)One Puzzling Afternoon|rating= 3.54|genre= General FictionCrime|summary=''The Cornish Guest House'' 84 year old Edie has lived in the same small town for almost her whole life, but now she is the sequel facing a move as her son wants to the best-selling ''Tremarnock'' which introduced us move to hard-working Liz another house and bring Edie to live with his family, as Edie is starting to lose her disabled daughter Rosie memory. However, Edie is tormented by the memory of her childhood friend, Lucy, who were adjusting to life in went missing over 60 years ago, and the worry that there was a small Cornish village by secret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be the thing that reveals the seatruth of what happened all that time ago. The sequel begins six months after After 'seeing' Lucy in the first bookhigh street, and Liz and Rosie are happily settled in their new lives and enjoying just as she was the warmth last time she saw her, she starts to find pockets of memories coming back to her. And yet as she remembers the close-knit community. The village past, she is soon abuzz with gossip, however, as a new couple have just moved forgetting more and more in and are planning her day to open a guest house. The affable and good-looking Luke soon charms the neighbours by immersing himself into village day life. His wife Tabitha, on Will she uncover the other handtruth about Lucy's disappearance before her move, seems aloof and reserved. Could she be hiding a secretbefore her memories are gone forever?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784972495</amazonuk>1804181250

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jean McNeilMadelaine Lucas|title= The Dhow HouseThirst for Salt|rating= 3.5|genre= General Literary Fiction|summary= Rebecca Laurelson is an English doctor working in an African field hospital in the midst of ''Love, I'd read, was supposed to be a political conflict when she is suddenly light and inexplicitly forced to leave 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 post. She goes to stay Overlaid with later wisdom, the narrator relives the affair with a man twenty years her estranged Aunt Julia and her family on Africa's east coast away senior from its inception – the violence and daily blood shed of war, however their lives are full of beach and cocktail parties which contrast greatly summer after finishing university – to Rebecca's way of livingits sorrowful end the summer after. But Set against the threat backdrop of war is on an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the horizon for Julia24-year-old narrator's family deepening relationship with her older lover, depicting its all-consuming nature, how it changed her perspective on both romantic and their fellow white Africans – terror attacks are on the rise all along the coast familial relationships and Rebecca knows more about how it than the rest of altered her familyirrevocably. With unrest brewing will the true reason for Rebecca's hasty departure from her post be revealed?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785079441</amazonuk>0861546490

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008506337|title=The Purple ShadowGarnett Girls|author=Christopher BowdenGeorgina Moore|rating=45

|summary=Colin Mallory is a young actor in Paris. Colin had been working with a theatre company putting The love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, apparently on English language Shakespeare productionsboth sides. They were popular but unprofitable so Colin is now at a loose end while his partner, Bryony, is off shooting a film Margo was just sixteen when they fell in love. Before returning to London, Colin meets up with Paul Barnard, Richard was twenty-one and described by Margo's mother as 'an art gallery director and his sisterolder man'. Her parents worried that Richard's partnerinfluence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and having a glittering career. At In the Galerie Marion Ducasseevent, Colin they eloped and Richard took her away from the Isle of Wight. Margo did go to Oxford and Paul come across went on to become a paintingwell-respected journalist. The portrait of a young woman turns out to be Sylvie Ducassecouple had three children: Rachel, Imogen and Sasha. Life was lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, the great-aunt family home on the Isle of Wight. Even then the gallerydoubts about Richard's ownerdrinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able to leave him in charge''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0955506743</amazonuk>Then Richard left them.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sandra Ireland1914585402|title=Beneath The SkinDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross|rating=4.5|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; itI reviewed David F Ross's book [[There's Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's short Only One Danny Garvey]] a couple of years back and simple remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and Walt likes things that are not complicatedaffecting it was. 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 It was a slightly horrifying tribute to her sole career influence. Alys runs her business from her homegripping, which she shares with her sisteremotionally wounding read, Mouse and Mouse's son William. It's a strange set up and though Walt needs the job – rereading my review of handyman/gopher/taxidermy assistant ''must it my main takeaway was that I might not be squeamish – room and board included'', he wonders what he has let himself in forhave lavished enough praise on it. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973619</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Victoria HislopLucy Ashe|title=Cartes Postales from GreeceClara and Olivia|rating=4.5

|summary=Postcards from Greece keep arriving at EllieThe year is 1933. The place? Sadler's flat addressed to former occupant Sarah Ibbotsen by a man signing himself as 'A'Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, twins no less. They may Identical on the outside but not be for Ellie but she keeps them anyway and displays , we learn, on the pictures of blue seainside. And not on stage, beaches and countryside until she can't resist it any longer; Ellieeither. Because there's off to Greece for a break. Just before she leaves home lot that builds a package arrives from Adancer. Something very different 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 fragmented comments on the cardsclassroom. This is A stage presence, a charm, a journal full of the stories told by people he's met while travelling 'joie de vivre''. The difference between a hard-worker, and coming to terms with a love affair that ended almost before it began. So for Ellie the journal becomes her guide book and the journey beginsstar.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472223209</amazonuk>0861544080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alexander McCall SmithHeather Fawcett|title=Precious and GraceEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries|rating=54

|summary=Friendships can be funny thingsEmily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and that researched meticulously, to write her life's work, the very first encyclopaedia of faeries. Whilst she is often the case brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, she is not so good with Precious and Gracepeople. This So when she finds herself far, far North in the small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the village matriarch, she is their seventeenth book nownot sure what she has done, nor how to redeem herself and so we have seen their friendship grow and develop a great deal over put her final investigations for her book back on the yearsright track. Both women have grown to understandEnter Wendell Bambleby, respect her dashingly handsome and love each otherinsufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, through business hardships, personal difficulties and all their many charm and varied casesdelight, much to Emily's frustration. In their current case the pair have a strong difference of opinions, and yet all But why is not quite he here? What does he want? And what it seems exactly is going on with their investigation, and so perhaps it is a case of neither one of them being right, and the situation being something else entirelyfaerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408708124</amazonuk>0356519120

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Fiona Davis1398515388|title= The Doll HouseBoy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= New York CityFirst of all, 2016: Rose has quit her job as a newscaster it was the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and this, in turn, caused the nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and investigative journalist – not entirely voluntarily – utter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, and now works for an onthe loss of livelihoods was widespread. The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of priorities but -line outfit with six months after the selftsunami -mockingly clumsy name of WordmergeKazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. He wasn't a dog person but the convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and Tamon the dog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1101984996</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gayle FormanChristopher Bowden|title=Leave MeMr Magenta|rating=54

|summary= When youChristopher Bowden've had s latest novel is a heart attack and frightened the hell out patient untangling of not just yourselfa seemingly ordinary woman's life, 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 waycarried out by her nephew after she has died. You're thinking cards, flowers, being waited on hand, foot The aunt who always provided a safe harbour and finger and even though the imminent influx a little bit of culinary gifts are likely indulgence to be low fat, low sugar and taste like the box they came in, they're coming, right? And you'll probably get a couple of months off work young nephew had had a much more interesting life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and not even have it seems to him an obligation to think about the laundryfind it all out. Or the housework? Or taking the twins to school? Right? Right???? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147115677X</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lisa UngerJennifer Mason|title=Ink and BonePartitions of Unity|rating=54

|summary= Finlay MontgomeryHere at Bookbag Towers, like her grandmother Eloise before her is a very powerful and gifted psychic. Sensitive to the unseenwe first met Elizabeth Cromwell, unheard dominatrix and unknowableunintentional detective in [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], when she spends her days among the deadinvestigated and unravelled a series of disappearances. VisitedIn ''Partitions of Unity'', bothered, harassed and sometimes taunted, Finlay does she sets her best mind to manage the gifts that Mother Nature has sought to bestowsolving a murder.. But life is 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 possible.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147115047X</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Annelies Verbeke Will Carver|title= Thirty DaysThe Daves Next Door|rating= 24|genre= General Fiction|summary= Thirty Days doesn’t seem Five strangers come together in one moment as a suicide bomber prepares to know what it is about. The novel follows Alphonse, detonate his vest on a Senegalese painter decorator living in the Flanders region of Belgium with his girlfriend and childhood friend Cat, who is recovering from cancerLondon tube line. Verbeke puts a major emphasis on As their intimate but often volatile and unsteady relationship, as they try to navigate a new lifestyle in a small townfates overlap, away from the city. However, 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 of racism as a black man story is told in a rural area, Cat’s difficult, warring parentsbackwards order, leading up to the couple’s elderly neighbour Willem who is obsessed with war graves and has a knack for appearing at precisely the wrong fateful moment, and an illegal refugee camp in field trenches a few miles away. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>9462380899</amazonuk>1914585186}}{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Oldest GameJennifer Mason|authortitle=Sue LegerPreposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery

|summary=Moving ''A struggling poetry zine, a mom-and eye-opening story 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 -the-art S&M dungeon, a Romanian woman trafficked into Amsterdam man serving a life sentence in Alabama, an enigmatic signature, K(s, x), on a cheap oil painting, an erotic art dealer in Georgia...'' This is just a sample of the cast of characters and forced to work as a prostitutesettings in Preposterous. As you can see, some keeping up will be required! The basic premise of this mystery story goes like this.. Sue Leger gives us all pause for thought here.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1524635014</amazonuk>B09STS96HS

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Tom ConnollyB0B2N7MVYM|title= The Calculations of Rational Men Like Air|author=Daniel Godfrey|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction|summary= One April It's the 10th of December 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marr. Just to put what happens in Manhattancontext, the destinies of four Cuban missile crisis is still very different men are about to collidefresh in people's minds. Nineteen year old Finn The world has just arrived in the city along with his volatile girlfriend Dilly, determined barely had a chance to even the score with his older brother Jack breathe out. But for abandoning him in Joe Marr, it's not the UK in missile crisis that's at the aftermath front of their parentshis mind. He' deathss been convicted of murder. Across town With the current state of medical knowledge, successful gallery owner Leo Emerson is haunted by loneliness, unsettled by it's hard to think otherwise than that the contrast between prosecution would never have been brought but Joe Marr has spent his life and that of his brother first few days in law and oldest friend WilliamHMP Queen's Bench, who is content in both his faith and his marriagea relatively new prison. When Finn wanders in to Leo He's galleryjust getting used to his roommate, a series Mervyn, and learning to be wary of unexpected and interconnected events unfold, changing the lives of all four men togetherMcArthur brothers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908434880</amazonuk>