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|summary=Kito was a withdrawn child. It was difficult 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 his parentssponsorships and influencer deals and, especially his motherbasically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to reach him. Like many children who turn inwardsget her life back, he struggled suing her step-mother to make friends at schooltake down the content about her. And those he did make seemed only Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to use him start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for access to his games consolesdoing so. His dark skin also marked him out for bullying. Kito went missing after a class trip to Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the beachnew focus of Ophelia's online empire. His body was discovered when it washed up on Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the sand. Kito had drowned.same time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908446501</amazonuk>0861546873

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jodi Picoult1529153298|title=Small Great The List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey

|summary=Ruth Jefferson It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is a nursePrime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly... ) She looks after new mothers and their babies and she's the sort of nurse that you hope younot what'll encounter when its worrying Miv's your turnfamily, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, or the turn of anyone close but to youhave 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. She cares and Miv's upset because she's good at overheard that her jobfather wants to move the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, very goodDown South is a frightening, in factforeign place, best avoided. Turk and Brittany Bauer and their new sonFor Miv, Davisthe move would mean leaving her best friend, were under her careSharon, only Turk took strong exception to Ruth having and she'll do anything to do with their child: Turk and Brittany were white supremacists prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - and Ruth Jefferson was black, an African American and despite all her experience she was banned from caring from Davis Bauerto anyone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444788000</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Karen Jennings1035906708|title= Travels With My FatherDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction |summary= Despite the codaWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, this does not feel like ''an autobiographical novel''. I am not sure why Jennings felt the need but she was born to couch it Greek parents in those terms unless there is much Manhattan, New York, in the structure that is fictionDecember 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. IHer original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'm hoping there isnCallas't. I am hoping that the fiction is purely that conceit that this pretends to be a novel. If that was necessary to get make it published, then I'll applaud more manageable in the subterfuge, because this is writing that needs to be readStates. It is – if as true as I want it to be – a delicate reminiscence: a daughter's ''When she was back in memoriam'' to a father Athens - supposedly so that she loved, worshipped, idealised, caredcould 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 forher elder sister, lived with, and yes (in true daughterly fashion) at times, hatedJackie. A father who was, therefore, a good dad. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907320695</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Elin HilderbrandAlexander McCall Smith|title= Winter StormsThe Perfect Passion Company|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= A year The Perfect Passion Company is a long time dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the life of the Quinn familyonline apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. So much can happen. For some people this can just be births and deaths Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the whole circle of lifebusiness, but as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for the Quinn family it's more love triangles, felonies, drug dealers who stalk you, ex-husbands who haunt youa while. Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and business opportunities transplanted from so jumps at the scorching Caribbean chance to the cooler north east coast of Americacome home to Edinburgh. As spring leads And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to summeran Edinburgh we already love, leads thanks to autumn leads 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to winter we follow the extended family on Nantucket and charm. Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in nearby cities (Bostonher abilities, Manhattan) and learn that as divisive as life can be, there are some ties that will 's always bind you. In this case the tie is called Barther very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, and whatever else is happeningWilliam, if he returns then everything else will all be ok.to lend a hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473620570</amazonuk>1846976596

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Ross ArmstrongDean Koontz|title= The WatcherBad Weather Friend|rating= 4.5|genre= Thrillers Paranormal|summary= Lily Gullick lives with her husband Aiden in Benny is having a new-build flat opposite an estate which has been marked for demolitionterrifically bad day. A keen birdwatcher He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, she can't help spying on her neighboursand his house gets trashed. Then one day Lily sees something suspicious through her binoculars Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and soon her elderly neighbour Jean it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is found dead. Lily, intrigued by Benny is the social divide in her local area as very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it becomes increasingly gentrifiedturns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, knows that she a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to acthelp him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. But her interference Spike is not going unnoticedto take care of Benny, and as she starts to get close to the truthwill certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, her own life comes under threatand Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.But can Lily really trust everything she sees?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008181187</amazonuk>1662500491

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ryan NorthKatherine Howe|title=Romeo and/or JulietA True Account|rating=34.5|genre=HumourGeneral Fiction|summary=For all those Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to live with a family who think tragedy plots are too restricted run an inn, and prescribed, read onbeing made to work there from a young age. In these pages you too will see that Romeo had lots When she hears there is to be a hanging of options en route some pirates in the town, she decides to hitting the bottlego and watch. LikewiseEnthralled and horrified in equal measure, she could have turned away from her predestined path Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death at no end the hands of juncturestwo vicious pirates. And She hides away, so that they don't find and kill her too, and then to what result? Wellescape them completely she runs away to sea, happy marriage dressing as a boy and a kid called Ben, because joining the leads have just banged peoplenotorious Ned Low's heads together and stopped pirate ship as a cabin boy. She soon finds herself in the quarrelling, or Death by Tybalt (him) or thick of things when there is a long life running an establishment curing murderous womenmutiny on board, such as a Lady M (and from there we are caught up in her)rip roaring tale of life on the ocean waves. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356508536</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Henrietta Rose-Innes1471180158|title= Nineveh|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Henritetta Rose-Inne's ''Nineveh'' instantly reassures you that you are in the presence of a confident and talented writer. The story of Katya Grubbs, a second generation pest exterminator who specialises in relocating the bugs and rodents that ruin middle-class garden parties, Rose-Inne writes with the enviable ability of describing both the intricacies of Katya's job and the feeling of it simultaneously. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910709166</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewMaybe Tomorrow|author=Sara Stridsberg and Deborah Bragan-Turner (translator)|title=The Gravity of LovePenny 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>

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|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

|genre=General Fiction |summary= Robert Walton is ex-military – a soldier suffering from combat stress and what he now realises is clearly PTSD. He prefers to be called Walt; it's short and simple and Walt likes things that are not complicated. Alys is fragileHere at Bookbag Towers, we first met Elizabeth Cromwell, damaged dominatrix and complicated and not the kind of woman Walt is looking for. A taxidermist unintentional detective in [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by trade – a rather macabre one at that – Alys enjoys creating Walter Potter style tableaus in a slightly horrifying tribute to her sole career influence. Alys runs her business from her homeJennifer Mason|Preposterous]], which when she shares with her sister, Mouse investigated and Mouse's son William. It's unravelled a strange set up and though Walt needs the job – series of handyman/gopher/taxidermy assistant disappearances. In ''must not be squeamish – room and board includedPartitions of Unity'', he wonders what he has let himself in forshe sets her mind to solving a murder... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846973619</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Victoria HislopWill Carver|title=Cartes Postales from GreeceThe Daves Next Door|rating=54

|summary=Postcards from Greece keep arriving at Ellie's flat addressed Five strangers come together in one moment as a suicide bomber prepares to former occupant Sarah Ibbotsen by detonate his vest on a man signing himself as 'A'London tube line. They may not be for Ellie but she keeps them anyway and displays the pictures of blue seaAs their fates overlap, beaches and countryside until she can't resist it any longer; Ellie's off to Greece for a break. Just before she leaves home a package arrives from A. Something very different from the fragmented comments on the cards. This story is a journal full of the stories told by people he's met while travelling and coming in backwards order, leading up to terms with a love affair that ended almost before it began. So for Ellie the journal becomes her guide book and the journey beginsfateful moment.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472223209</amazonuk>1914585186}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alexander McCall SmithJennifer Mason|title=Precious and GracePreposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery|rating=54

|summary=Friendships can be funny things''A struggling poetry zine, a mom-and that is often -pop mobile diner in the Northern California redwoods, a 400-meter hurdler who just missed the case 2004 Olympics, a women's track coach with Precious and Grace. This is their seventeenth book nowa yen for bullwhips, and so we have seen their friendship grow and develop a great deal over billionaire with a state-of-the years. Both women have grown to understand-art S&M dungeon, a man serving a life sentence in Alabama, an enigmatic signature, respect and love each otherK(s, through business hardshipsx), personal difficulties and all their many and varied cases. In their current case the pair have on a strong difference of opinionscheap oil painting, and yet all is not quite what it seems with their investigation, and so perhaps it an erotic art dealer in Georgia...'' This is just a case sample of neither one the cast of them being rightcharacters and settings in Preposterous. As you can see, and the situation being something else entirely?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408708124</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Fiona Davis|title= some keeping up will be required! The Doll House|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 basic premise of Wordmergethis mystery story goes like this...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1101984996</amazonuk>B09STS96HS

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gayle FormanB0B2N7MVYM|title=Leave MeThe Calculations of Rational Men|author=Daniel Godfrey

|summary= When youIt've had a heart attack and frightened s the hell out 10th of not just yourselfDecember 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marr. Just to put what happens in context, but your husband, your children – if they the Cuban missile crisis is still very fresh in people's minds. The world has barely had known - your mother and your best frienda chance to breathe out. But for Joe Marr, you imagine it's not the missile crisis that some long overdue TLC is about to come your way's at the front of his mind. YouHe're thinking cards, flowers, being waited on hand, foot and finger and even though s been convicted of murder. With the imminent influx current state of culinary gifts are likely medical knowledge, it's hard to be low fat, low sugar and taste like think otherwise than that the box they came prosecution would never have been brought but Joe Marr has spent his first few days in, theyHMP Queen're comings Bench, right? a relatively new prison. And youHe'll probably get a couple of months off work s just getting used to his roommate, Mervyn, and not even have learning to think about be wary of the laundryMcArthur brothers. Or the housework? Or taking the twins to school? Right? Right???? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>147115677X</amazonuk>