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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Elin HilderbrandOnyi Nwabineli|title= Winter StormsAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= A year Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is a long time in the her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life of back, suing her step-mother to take down the Quinn familycontent 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. So much can happen Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of Ophelia's online empire. For some people this can just be births Can she save her sister, and deaths perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the whole circle same time?|isbn=0861546873}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529153298|title=The List of lifeSuspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=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 for to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the Quinn family it's more love trianglesDown South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, feloniesbest avoided. For Miv, drug dealers who stalk youthe move would mean leaving her best friend, ex-husbands who haunt youSharon, and business opportunities transplanted from she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the scorching Caribbean dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035906708|title=Diva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=We tend to the cooler north east coast think of America. As spring leads Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to summerGreek parents in Manhattan, New York, leads in December 1923 and only moved to autumn leads Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to winter we follow 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the extended family on Nantucket and States. When she was back in nearby cities (Boston, Manhattan) and learn Athens - supposedly so that as divisive as life can be, there are some ties that will always bind you. In this case she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the tie is called Bart, Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and whatever else is happeningmade no secret of her preference for her elder sister, if he returns then everything else will all be okJackie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473620570</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Ross ArmstrongAlexander McCall Smith|title= The WatcherPerfect Passion Company|rating= 4.5|genre= Thrillers General Fiction|summary= Lily Gullick lives with her husband Aiden The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a new-build flat opposite an estate which has been marked for demolition. A keen birdwatchermore personal, she can't help spying on her neighbourstailored service. Then one day Lily sees something suspicious through Ness has asked her binoculars younger cousin Katie if she could come and soon her elderly neighbour Jean look after the business, as Ness is found deadplanning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. Lily Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, intrigued by and so jumps at the social divide in her local area as it becomes increasingly gentrified, knows that she has chance to come home to actEdinburgh. But her interference is not going unnoticed And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, and as she starts bringing us to get close an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the truthIsabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her own life comes under threat.But can Lily really trust everything she sees?abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008181187</amazonuk>1846976596

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ryan NorthDean Koontz|title=Romeo and/or JulietThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=34.5|genre=HumourParanormal|summary=For all those who think tragedy plots are too restricted Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and prescribed, read onhis house gets trashed. In these pages you too will see Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that Romeo had lots of options en route has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to hitting the bottledeserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. LikewiseSo fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, she could have turned away a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from her predestined path at no end of juncturesnefarious forces for being a good person. And Spike is going to what result? Welltake care of Benny, happy marriage and a kid called Ben, because the leads have just banged peoplewill certainly take care of Benny's heads together enemies, if he, Benny, and stopped the quarrelling, or Death by Tybalt Harper (him) or a long life running an establishment curing murderous women, such as a Lady M (herwaitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure)can figure out who exactly they are. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356508536</amazonuk>1662500491

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Henrietta Rose-InnesKatherine Howe|title= NinevehA True Account|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Henritetta Rose-Inne's ''Nineveh'' instantly reassures you that you are Hannah Masury is living in the presence of Boston, having been sent to live with a confident family who run an inn, and talented writerbeing made to work there from a young age. The story When she hears there is to be a hanging of Katya Grubbs, a second generation pest exterminator who specialises some pirates in relocating the bugs town, she decides to go and watch. Enthralled and rodents that ruin middle-class garden partieshorrified in equal measure, Rose-Inne writes with Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death at the enviable ability hands of describing both two vicious pirates. She hides away, so that they don't find and kill her too, and then to escape them completely she runs away to sea, dressing as a boy and joining the intricacies of Katyanotorious Ned Low's job pirate ship as a cabin boy. She soon finds herself in the thick of things when there is a mutiny on board, and from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the feeling of it simultaneouslyocean waves. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910709166</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sara Stridsberg and Deborah Bragan-Turner (translator)1471180158|title=The Gravity of LoveMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes

|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=Particularly literate cover… Setting Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's a control freak with all the subtlety of a real-life mental hospital – in Sweden… half brick. Jamie's son, Bo, 'has his problems'. Mature themes… He's asthmatic and the more you read, the more you'll suspect that he's on the autistic spectrum. Opening with an emotionSometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's a frequent flier in the local A&E and closure-laden death… sometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to school. Yes, this book has more than its share of things Missed shifts or the need to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the potential reader offwrong. Which, in this instance, is quite It was going to come to a large shame indeedhead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857054767</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steven BurgauerB0CKD1L5JL|title=The Road To War: Duty & Drill, Courage & CaptureRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn

|genre=BiographyGeneral Fiction|summary=After World War II Bill Frodsham led Petr is an everyday lifeorphan. Rescued by the strange, reclusive Bear, he is brought up far from bustling cities and busy human society, raising a family in an ordinary US suburbthe forests of Washington's Olympic Peninsula. HeAfter Bear dies and a brief sojourn in human company, his wife and children became friends armed with the Burgauer familyonly a pirate radio transmitter, little Steven Burgauer knowing him as Mr F. Time rolls Petr goes on and little Steven grows upa journey through the forest, and then eventually retires from broadcasting the American financial sector to write science fiction strange, wild and lecture from time to timerarely heard voices he encounters. He's therefore surprised when, out }}{{Frontpage|author=Sarah Marsh|title=A Sign of the blue, Mr F's daughter tracks him down and presents him with Her Own|rating=3.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=After a pile bout of handwritten notes asking Steven to make them scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a bookworld of silence, everything about her life changes. These are Mr F's self-authored memoirsLiving in a time when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, stretching from his youth onwards and showing that this seemingly goodEllen is sent to a school where she is taught to lip read, kind but unremarkable man was anything but unremarkablephysically restrained from signing. During the war Mr F trained for From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the impossible deaf and then lived it as he led men across Omaha Beach on D Dayusing a system called Visible Speech. He was then captured At the same time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, and spent the rest Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of the war as a POW in inhumane conditionsespionage.|isbn=1035401614}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0BC3YTCMR|title=Good Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=''This story is not for everyone. Steven accepted the request and '' Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of her fifteenth birthday when The Road Incident happened. She was a very bright student, a bit too nerdy if truth be told, and suffered from vitiligo - people were afraid to Warhug her in case it's contagious. It' s not easy being a black girl whose skin is the result84% white. She had a crush on seventeen-year-old Reggie Anderson but never thought he would notice her. Then he did: Lavender was very good at math and Reggie asked if she would tutor him. She readily agreed: tutoring was something she gladly did at church: the life this was just an extension. She went to his house and war of Captain William C Frodsham Jrhe raped her. In shock, she even allowed him to give her a lift home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1450218806</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Linda Grant1472263936|title= The Dark CircleFigurine|author=Victoria Hislop|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction|summary= It's 1949was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. She was alone: her mother, Greek by birth, had left the family home and with the Second World War overrefused to return, but Mary and Hamish (Helena's parents) felt that it would be a new decade of recovery is beginningpity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. For East End teenagers Lenny and Miriam, life has been suspended. Diagnosed with tuberculosis, they are sent away Her trip to a sanatorium the family apartment in Kent, to take up-market Kolonaki would be the cure, submit first of several annual visits. She grew to the way of the Doctors, love her grandmother and learn the deferential way of the patient. Through doors newly opened by the one year old NHSfamily's maid, come Lenny in his striped London drape suitDina, but was wary - and Miriam in cherry felt red coatfrightened - of her grandfather, and beret pinned gingerly onto her blue-black curlsretired general Stamatis Papagiannis. Trapped in a sterile closed environment, the twins find themselves meeting air force officers, a car salesman, a university graduate, a mysterious German woman, a member He was proud of his close connections to the Aristocracy, Junta and, arriving expected his family to blast away their lethargic submission uphold his values but saw no reason to authority - an American merchant seamanaccommodate them. Together they discover that a cure is tantalisingly just out of reach, His prejudices included Helena's red hair and may only be gained through full scale rebellion..green eyes - inherited from her father's Scottish ancestors.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>034900675X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Morgan McCarthyDean Koontz|title= The House of BirdsAfter Death|rating= 4.53|genre= Historical General Fiction|summary=Oliver has spent years trying to convince himself that he's suited to a life Michael Mace, Head of money making in the citySecurity, and that he doesn't miss at a childhood spent in pursuit of mysterytop secret biological research facility, is among 55 people who die when he cycled around the cobbled lanes of Oxford, exploring its most intriguing corners. When his girlfriend Kate inherits a derelict house virus is released in a bio- and hazard accident. Finding himself in a fierce family feud - she's determined to strip itmakeshift mortuary, sell it and move on. For Oliver thoughcovered in plastic, the house he has an allurea sense that something very, very bad has happened to him – and only him – as he sits up and amongst looks around at the shelves shrouded bodies of a discarded, leather bound his dead friends and gilded volumesformer colleagues. As he recovers his senses, he discovers one realises that conceals a hidden diary from the 1920sthere is something different about him; he can ''feel'' everything. ''Everything''. Michael isn't ''Michael'' anymore. So begins a quest to discover the identity of the |isbn=1662500467}} {{Frontpage|isbn=B0BVDC2VWH|title=The Grave Listeners|author, Sophia Louis=William Frank|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=The village is isolated and poor. It is 's surrounded by a portrait Witching Forest. And the villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicines. The black wood of war the forest provides heat and marriagewarmth, roofs on homes, isolation and longing even gallows, if needed. The fear of being buried alive is an existential superstition in the village and a story that will shape is the future of the abandoned house reason Volushka, a drunken, self- and indulgent, lazy lout of Oliver - forevera man is tolerated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472205847</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christobel KentB0BYF82CXT|title=The Loving HusbandSemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone

|genre=Crime General Fiction|summary= When Fran met Nathan everyone assumed she was on the rebound from a lengthy stint at the mercy 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 Fran's best friend is standing. But when this is followed by a hasty wedding 'Bill and Amanda are living in a move to an isolated farmhouse semi-detached house, stuck in the Fensa depressing rut of boredom and disappointment, Fran feels sure that her new role as home-maker when Terry and motherFiona – glamorous, so successful and very much in love – move in next door. Despite their different from outlooks on life, the London party-girl she used couples befriend each other and life appears to be, is the right one improve for herboth pairs. So when Fran wakes in the middle of the night to find Nathan's side of the bed completely coldBut all is not what it seems, she goes to look and their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for himtragedy. Finding him bloodied and very much dead was most definitely not part of the bargain.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751562416</amazonuk>''

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sanjida O'ConnellShalini Boland|title= Theory of MindThe Silent Bride|rating= 3.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=Sandra works in Alice and Seth are a zoo, studying the minds of chimpanzees, mankind's nearest living relatives. Her involvment with the animals starts to affect her own relationships, match made in particular that with her new boyfriend Corinheaven. His energy stimulates her He is everything she has been searching for; handsome, his passion excites her and his work as a TV producer fascinates heraccomplished, but are his feelings realclever, or does funny; total and utter husband-material. She is all he could possibly want to control her? As her feelings preoccupy herin a wife; beautiful, successful, Sandra continues her research into confident… and so the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and the emotions of chimps wedding is planned and whether or not they are capable of empathyset. During a visit to When the zoomuch-anticipated day arrives, Sandra meets a strange and isolated child, Paul, son of one of Alice is walked down the keepersaisle by her father, beaming with pride and excitement as she also meets Kim, a scientist who has built a killer instinct into surveys the robots she makes. As Sandra worries about her congregation – their friends assembled to celebrate this joyful day and her relationshipwhen Seth turns to face his approaching bride, things race to a thrilling climax - putting much more than SandraAlice's emotions world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the man at riskthe altar is, who is waiting for her to become his wife. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1861515480</amazonuk>1662507089

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Katarina Bivald1787636003|title= The Readers Girls of Broken Wheel RecommendSummer|author=Katie Bishop|rating= 45|genre= General Fiction|summary= The USA is an odd place at times, It was the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and not just during election seasonarrived on the island. There are all sorts of nooks and crannies Rachel wasn't exactly innocent but she was, perhaps, places that time forgotnaive, places that ‘’people’’ forgot. Broken Wheelso when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to take an interest in her, Iowa is one such placeshe was flattered rather than wary. You’d have no reason It was quite a while before he made any sort of physical approach to go unless you knew someone there. And Sara does, her pen-pal Amyand by that time she was obsessed by him. Invited by Amy to come Alistair worked for a visitHenry Taylor, and with time looking after his interests on her hands due to a recent redundancy, Sara packs her bags (the island and her books) and buys a plane ticket from her native Sweden to in particular in the bar where all the US of Agirls either worked or partied.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009959367X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sara StewartAmanda Craig|title=Whilst I Was OutThree Graces|rating=24.5|genre=General Fiction |summary= Sara StewartFew styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of-the-nation novel. There's debut novel, ''Whilst I Was Out'', opens with all something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the promise atmosphere of a book intent to delve head-first into invention the day and oddness. The narrator capture it, crafting an image of the story, Alice, country as it stands in one particular moment. To say that Amanda Craig is stuck in traffic skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's practically synonymous with her husband – who she refers to throughout the book as My Dear Husband (or MDH for short) – when he suddenly jumps out genre of their car and runs off for seemingly no reasoncontemporary social fiction at this point. The scene opens with She has such a mention gift for weaving the ongoing issues of domestic abuse but seems much more interested in the inherent malfunction day into the lives of Alice's husband as she describes his fixation with his bicycle and how her and their three children have taken characters in a back seat to his 'finding himself' through affairs way that feels natural and crosslived-country cyclingin, never making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910903035</amazonuk>140871468X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Cesca Major152915118X|title= The Last NightPineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical General Fiction|summary=Spring 1952''Pineapple Street'' is the story of three women: Two best friends; Abigail Sasha, Darley and Georgiana. Darley and MaryGeorge are sisters and Sasha is married to their brother Cord. They're Stocktons, sit together on only Sasha isn't a benchStockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the tribe. The problem's exacerbated when the clan matriarch, looking out Tilda, asks Cord and Sasha if they'd like to seamove into the Pineapple Street property. They Tilda and Chip have big plansrenovated and downsized to another property, but know that whatever happens a street or so away, which they will always be togetherown. They dream won't need any of a new life the furniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and Cord can move straight in America. Nominally, each with they had a handsome husband choice but that wasn't the reality. Darley and a happy familyGeorgiana start to call Sasha 'the gold digger'. When Abigail She's mother dies unexpectedly, however, she is sent to live with her estranged sister living in Devon, and the friends are torn apart. Little does she realise that tragedy lies just around the corner, and that the ''last nighttheir'' will change everything foreverfamily home. Decades later, in 2016, a shy furniture-restorer called Irina has been given an unusual commission: They use it so often that they abbreviate it 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 GD''Last Night.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B01FTAPZS2</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Rory GleesonEmily Critchley|title= Rockadoon ShoreOne Puzzling Afternoon|rating= 4.5|genre= General FictionCrime|summary=Cath 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 worried about starting to lose her friendsmemory. DanDan However, Edie is struggling with tormented by the death memory of his exher childhood friend, Lucy is drinking way too much , who went missing over 60 years ago, and Steph has become closed offthe 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. A weekend away is After 'seeing' Lucy in the high street, just what they need. They travel out to Rockadoon Lodgeas she was the last time she saw her, she starts to the wilds in the west find pockets of Irelandmemories coming back to her. But And yet as she remembers the weekend doesn't go to plan. JJ past, she is forgetting more concerned with getting high than spending time with them, while Merc is humiliated and seeks revengemore in her day to day life. And when their elderly neighbour Malachy arrives on their doorstep in Will she uncover the dead of night with a gun in his handstruth about Lucy's disappearance before her move, nothing will be the same again for any of them...and before her memories are gone forever?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473634075</amazonuk>1804181250

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Brit BennettMadelaine Lucas|title= The MothersThirst for Salt|rating=4.5|genre= General Literary Fiction|summary= ''Love, I love it when I get a book so very few have 'd read yet, but it's hard to say what needs was supposed to be saida light and weightless feeling, when youbut I had always longed for gravity're not allowed ' 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 quoteits sorrowful end the summer after. Set against the backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'All good secrets have a taste before you tell them…'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.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0399184511</amazonuk>0861546490

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Graham Norton0008506337|title= HoldingThe Garnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction|summary=The remote Irish village of Duneen has known little dramalove 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 yet the inhabitants are troubled. Sergeant PJ Collins hasndescribed by Margo't always been this overweight, s mother-of-two Brid Riordan hasnas 't always been an alcoholicolder man'. Her parents worried that Richard's influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and having a glittering career. In the event, they eloped and elegant Evelyn Ross hasn't always felt Richard took her life a total wasteaway from the Isle of Wight. When human remains are discovered Margo did go to Oxford and went on to become a farmwell-respected journalist. The couple had three children: Rachel, thought to be those of Tommy BurkeImogen and Sasha. Life was lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, an ex lover the family home on the Isle of both Brid and Evelyn, Wight. Even then the villagedoubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's dark past begins mind: ''she would never be able to unravel. As the frustrated PJ struggles to solve a case for the first time leave him in his life, he unearths a communitycharge''s worth of anger, resentment, secrets, and regret.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444792008</amazonuk>Then Richard left them.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian McEwan1914585402|title=NutshellDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross

|genre=Literary General Fiction |summary=Meet Trudy. Successfully living in 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, I reviewed David F Ross's book [[There's Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's Only One Danny Garvey]] a nasty, brutish couple of years back and short type. Some people cannot work out why on earth she has made that decision, including our narrator. Oh, remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and he himself, our narrator, is the child she's pregnant withaffecting it was. He is It was a very alert young thinggripping, with nothing else to do but kick here and thereemotionally wounding read, and practice what you rereading my review of it my main takeaway was that I might well call mindfulness, and listen in not have lavished enough praise on Claude and Trudy, as they calmly talk their way to plotting and carrying out murder…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911214330</amazonuk>it.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Frederic Dard and Daniel Seton (translator)Lucy Ashe|title=CrushClara and Olivia

|genre=General Fiction |summary=In this story of Thelma The year is 1933. The place? Sadler's Wells. Ballerinas Clara and LouiseOlivia are sisters, twins no less. Identical on the outside but not, it's Louise we meet firstlearn, through her narrationon the inside. SheAnd not on stage, either. Because there's a seventeen year old, telling us of lot that builds a quite awful and smelly satellite town of Paris she lives in, with the sight of factories and stench of food processing plants keeping her companydancer. She lives 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 Some things that can be taught or learnt – the ever-sunnydiscipline, sexy and sophisticated life of an American NATO worker and his wife. Impulsively, she asks attention to be their maid detail – and indeed moves into the couplesome things, that ''je ne sais quoi''s large, messy homethat don't come from the classroom. But little does she know what lurks in the shadows in that buildingA stage presence, a charm, behind their gigantic car and their cute porch swing and ala ''joie de vivre''. The difference between a hard-fresco dining – the unhappinessworker, and even the tragedy…a star.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782271988</amazonuk>0861544080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Emma BurstallHeather Fawcett|title= The Cornish Guest House (Tremarnock)Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries|rating= 3.54|genre= General Fiction|summary=''The Cornish Guest House'' Emily Wilde is the sequel an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life's work, the best-selling ''Tremarnock'' which introduced us to hard-working Liz very first encyclopaedia of faeries. Whilst she is brilliant at research and her disabled daughter Rosie who were adjusting speaking to life in a small Cornish village by the seafaeries, she is not so good with people. The sequel begins six months after the first book So when she finds herself far, and Liz and Rosie are happily settled far North in their new lives and enjoying the warmth small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the close-knit community. The village matriarch, she is soon abuzz with gossipnot sure what she has done, however, as a new couple have just moved in and are planning nor how to open a guest house. The affable redeem herself and good-looking Luke soon charms put her final investigations for her book back on the neighbours by immersing himself into village liferight track. His wife Tabitha Enter Wendell Bambleby, on the other handher dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, seems aloof all charm and reserveddelight, much to Emily's frustration. Could she be hiding a secret But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784972495</amazonuk>0356519120

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jean McNeil1398515388|title= The Dhow HouseBoy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating= 34.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Rebecca Laurelson is an English doctor working First of all, it was the earthquake, deep in an African field hospital the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and this, in turn, caused the midst of a political conflict when she is suddenly nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and inexplicitly forced to leave her postutter devastation. She goes to stay with her estranged Aunt Julia The deaths were uncountable, and her family on Africa's east coast away from the violence and daily blood shed loss of war, however livelihoods was widespread. The fact that many pets were separated from their lives are full owners came far down the list of beach and cocktail parties which contrast greatly to Rebeccapriorities but - six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. He wasn's way of living. But the threat of war is on t a dog person but the horizon for Juliaconvenience store owner's family comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and their fellow white Africans – terror attacks are on Tamon the rise all along the coast and Rebecca knows more about it than the rest of her familydog jumped in. With unrest brewing will the true reason for Rebecca's hasty departure from her post be revealed?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785079441</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|title=The Purple ShadowFrontpage

|summary=Colin Mallory Christopher Bowden's latest novel is a young actor in Paris. Colin had been working with patient untangling of a theatre company putting on English language Shakespeare productions. They were popular but unprofitable so Colin is now at a loose end while his partner, Bryony, is off shooting a film. Before returning to London, Colin meets up with Paul Barnard, an art gallery director and his sisterseemingly ordinary woman's partnerlife, carried out by her nephew after she has died. At the Galerie Marion Ducasse, Colin The aunt who always provided a safe harbour and Paul come across a painting. The portrait little bit of indulgence to a young woman turns 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 out to be Sylvie Ducasse, the great-aunt of the gallery's owner.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0955506743</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sandra IrelandJennifer Mason|title=Beneath The SkinPartitions of Unity

|summary=Postcards from Greece keep arriving Here at Ellie's flat addressed to former occupant Sarah Ibbotsen Bookbag Towers, we first met Elizabeth Cromwell, dominatrix and unintentional detective in [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], when she investigated and unravelled a man signing himself as series of disappearances. In 'A'. They may not be for Ellie but she keeps them anyway and displays the pictures Partitions of blue seaUnity'', beaches and countryside until she can't resist it any longer; Ellie's off sets her mind to Greece for solving a breakmurder. Just before she leaves home a package arrives from A. Something very different from the fragmented comments on the cards. This is a journal full of the stories told by people he's met while travelling 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 begins.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472223209</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alexander McCall SmithWill Carver|title=Precious and GraceThe Daves Next Door|rating=54

|summary=Friendships can be funny things, and that is often the case with Precious and Grace. This is their seventeenth book now, and so we have seen their friendship grow and develop Five strangers come together in one moment as a great deal over the years. Both women have grown suicide bomber prepares to understand, respect and love each other, through business hardships, personal difficulties and all their many and varied casesdetonate his vest on a London tube line. In As their current case fates overlap, the pair have a strong difference of opinions, and yet all story is not quite what it seems with their investigationtold in backwards order, and so perhaps it is a case of neither one of them being right, and leading up to the situation being something else entirely?fateful moment.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408708124</amazonuk>1914585186}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Fiona DavisJennifer Mason|title= The Doll HousePreposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery|rating= 4|genre= General Fiction|summary= New York City, 2016: Rose has quit her job as a newscaster and investigative journalist – not entirely voluntarily – and now works for an on-line outfit with the self-mockingly clumsy name of Wordmerge.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1101984996</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Gayle Forman|title=Leave Me|rating=5

|summary= When you've had 'A struggling poetry zine, a heart attack mom-and frightened -pop mobile diner in the hell out of not Northern California redwoods, a 400-meter hurdler who just yourselfmissed the 2004 Olympics, but your husbanda women's track coach with a yen for bullwhips, your children – if they had known a billionaire with a state- your mother and your best friendof-the-art S&M dungeon, a man serving a life sentence in Alabama, an enigmatic signature, you imagine that some long overdue TLC is about to come your way. You're thinking cardsK(s, flowersx), being waited on handa cheap oil painting, foot and finger and even though an erotic art dealer in Georgia...'' This is just a sample of the imminent influx cast of culinary gifts are likely to be low fat, low sugar characters and taste like the box they came settings inPreposterous. As you can see, they're coming, right? And you'll probably get a couple some keeping up will be required! The basic premise of months off work and not even have to think about the laundrythis mystery story goes like this... Or the housework? Or taking the twins to school? Right? Right???? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147115677X</amazonuk>B09STS96HS

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lisa UngerB0B2N7MVYM|title=Ink and BoneThe Calculations of Rational Men|author=Daniel Godfrey

|summary= Finlay Montgomery, like her grandmother Eloise before her is a very powerful and gifted psychicIt's the 10th of December 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marr. Sensitive Just to the unseenput what happens in context, unheard and unknowable, she spends her days among the deadCuban missile crisis is still very fresh in people's minds. Visited, bothered, harassed and sometimes taunted, Finlay does her best to manage the gifts that Mother Nature The world has sought barely had a chance to bestowbreathe out. But life is for Joe Marr, it's not the missile crisis that simple and studying for your degree is testing with five other visitors in 's at the room who are all trying to get your attention in the loudest and most distracting way possiblefront of his mind.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147115047X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Annelies Verbeke |title= Thirty Days|rating= 2|genre= General Fiction|summary= Thirty Days doesn’t seem to know what it is about He's been convicted of murder. The novel follows Alphonse, a Senegalese painter decorator living in With the Flanders region current state of Belgium with his girlfriend and childhood friend Catmedical knowledge, who is recovering from cancer. Verbeke puts a major emphasis on their intimate it's hard to think otherwise than that the prosecution would never have been brought but often volatile and unsteady relationshipJoe Marr has spent his first few days in HMP Queen's Bench, as they try to navigate a relatively new lifestyle in a small town, away from the cityprison. However, there are several other storylines which vie for our attention: Alphonse’s troubled clients who treat him as a sounding board and therapist, He's just getting used to his experiences of racism as a black man in a rural area, Cat’s difficultroommate, warring parentsMervyn, the couple’s elderly neighbour Willem who is obsessed with war graves and has a knack for appearing at precisely learning to be wary of the wrong moment, and an illegal refugee camp in field trenches a few miles away. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>9462380899</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=The Oldest Game|author=Sue Leger|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Moving and eye-opening story of a Romanian woman trafficked into Amsterdam and forced to work as a prostitute. Sue Leger gives us all pause for thought hereMcArthur brothers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524635014</amazonuk>