Changes

[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Mike GayleOnyi Nwabineli|title= The Hope Family CalendarAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating= 34.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Mr Tom Hope is becoming Mr No Hope. His wife has been killed in an accidentAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, and hewhere she posted every step of Anuri's now leftchildhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, haplessly trying to bring up their two young daughtersmonetary gain. While his mother in law Now Anuri is a help in the beginning, her twenties and she soon adopts a cruel-is slowly trying to regain her confidence and toget her life back, suing her step-be-kind approach and decides mother to leave him take down the content about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to itstart her PhD, knowing undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the only way henew focus of Ophelia'll step up is if he has no choice in s online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the matter.same time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473608953</amazonuk>0861546873

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nadiya Hussain1529153298|title=The Secret Lives List of the Amir SistersSuspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=45|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=The Amirs are dysfunctional: thereIt's really no other way of putting it1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly... ) TheyShe're of Bangladeshi origin and theys not what's worrying Miv're the only Muslim s family in the small village of Wyvernage, though. Women have been disappearing. On the surface Well, they look to be happy've been murdered, but actually each of the sisters is struggling in her own wayto have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. For the most part theyMiv're doing it quietly, but its upset because she's not always overheard that her father wants to move the casefamily 'Down South'. The eldest When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is Fatimaa frightening, foreign place, best avoided. Her name's often abbreviated to Fatti: it's not meant unkindlyFor Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, but she's well upholstered and at thirty she's unmarriedll do anything to prevent that. Even her mother doesnShe't seem to think s not worried about the dangers or that thereher Mum's much point in trying stopped talking - to find a husband for heranyone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008192251</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jesse Loncraine1035906708|title=In the FieldDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=34.5

|summary= We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas'In to make it more manageable in the Field'' is essentially a story of two mothers who have been separated from their sonsStates. Liz and When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her (adult) son Orin are both Western journalists, while Christine and her 12voice -year-old son Paul are from she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a remote village in East Africa. After major surgery, Liz flies to East Africa to find mother who mercilessly exploited her son who has gone walkabout. At the same time, Christine is mourning the loss and made no secret of her own family: preference for her husband has been killed and her son abducted by militiaelder sister, Jackie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910369179</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=PJ VanstonAlexander McCall Smith|title=Rasmus: A Television TaleThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5

|summary=It's The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all about the ratings online apps in the world of TVproviding a more personal, tailored service. Therefore Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the BBCbusiness, part as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the British televisual establishment since TV was inventedchance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, feels it has nothing thanks to fear from a 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new internet channelcharacters who quickly begin to charm. However those Katie has no experience in control donrunning a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there't understand what – s always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=The Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Paranormal|summary=Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and who – it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is behind the very last person to deserve all this new phenomenonbad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. The mysterious Rasmus So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a plan good person. Spike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and some savagely innovative ideas; nothing Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can stand in his wayfigure out who exactly they are.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785893610</amazonuk>1662500491

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jere KrakoffKatherine Howe|title=Something Is Rotten in Fettig: A SatireTrue Account

|summary=Leopold Plotkin finds himself Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to live with a family who run an inn, and being made to work there from a young age. When she hears there is to be a hanging of some very hot water when he initiates pirates in the Mud Crisistown, she decides to go and watch. Leopold inherited the family butcher Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's shop and he is a very good and skilled butcherdeath at the hands of two vicious pirates. But he doesn She hides away, so that they don't like people watching him work find and kill her too, and then to escape them completely she runs away to sea, dressing as a boy and is generally lacking in social skills. The shopjoining the notorious Ned Low's trade suffers pirate ship as a cabin boy. She soon finds herself in the thick of things when there is a mutiny on board, and Leopold decides to cover from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the window with mud so that no-one can see insideocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1681141973</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1471180158|title=The BoyMaybe Tomorrow|author=Wytske VersteegPenny Parkes|rating=4.5

|summary=Kito was Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's a control freak with all the subtlety of a withdrawn childhalf brick. It was difficult for his parents Jamie's son, Bo, especially 'has his mother, to reach himproblems'. Like many children who turn inwards He's asthmatic and the more you read, the more you'll suspect that he struggled 's on the autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to make friends take time off at short notice - she's a frequent flier in the local A&E and sometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to school. And those he did make seemed only Missed shifts or the need to use him for access to his games consoles. His dark skin also marked him out for bullying. Kito went missing after a class trip be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the beachwrong. His body It was discovered when it washed up on the sand. Kito had drownedgoing to come to a head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908446501</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jodi PicoultB0CKD1L5JL|title=Small Great ThingsRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn|rating=54

|summary=Ruth Jefferson Petr is a nursean orphan. She looks after new mothers Rescued by the strange, reclusive Bear, he is brought up far from bustling cities and their babies and she's busy human society, in the sort forests of nurse that you hope you'll encounter when itWashington's your turn, or the turn of anyone close to youOlympic Peninsula. She cares After Bear dies and she's good at her joba brief sojourn in human company, very good, in fact. Turk and Brittany Bauer and their new sonarmed with only a pirate radio transmitter, DavisPetr goes on a journey through the forest, were under her care, only Turk took strong exception to Ruth having anything to do with their child: Turk and Brittany were white supremacists - and Ruth Jefferson was blackbroadcasting the strange, an African American wild and despite all her experience she was banned from caring from Davis Bauerrarely heard voices he encounters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444788000</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Karen JenningsSarah Marsh|title= Travels With My Father|rating= 4|genre= General Fiction |summary= Despite the coda, this does not feel like ''an autobiographical novel''. I am not sure why Jennings felt the need to couch it in those terms unless there is much in the structure that is fiction. I'm hoping there isn't. I am hoping that the fiction is purely that conceit that this pretends to be a novel. If that was necessary to get it published, then I'll applaud the subterfuge, because this is writing that needs to be read. It is – if as true as I want it to be – a delicate reminiscence: a daughter's ''in memoriam'' to a father she loved, worshipped, idealised, cared-for, lived with, and yes (in true daughterly fashion) at times, hated. A father who was, therefore, a good dad. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907320695</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Elin Hilderbrand|title= Winter Storms|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction|summary= A year is a long time in the life Sign of the Quinn family. So much can happen. For some people this can just be births and deaths and the whole circle of life, but for the Quinn family it's more love triangles, felonies, drug dealers who stalk you, ex-husbands who haunt you, and business opportunities transplanted from the scorching Caribbean to the cooler north east coast of America. As spring leads to summer, leads to autumn leads to winter we follow the extended family on Nantucket and in nearby cities (Boston, Manhattan) and learn that as divisive as life can be, there are some ties that will always bind you. In this case the tie is called Bart, and whatever else is happening, if he returns then everything else will all be ok.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473620570</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Ross Armstrong|title= The Watcher|rating= 4|genre= Thrillers |summary= Lily Gullick lives with her husband Aiden in a new-build flat opposite an estate which has been marked for demolition. A keen birdwatcher, she can't help spying on her neighbours. Then one day Lily sees something suspicious through her binoculars and soon her elderly neighbour Jean is found dead. Lily, intrigued by the social divide in her local area as it becomes increasingly gentrified, knows that she has to act. But her interference is not going unnoticed, and as she starts to get close to the truth, her own life comes under threat.But can Lily really trust everything she sees?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008181187</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Ryan North|title=Romeo and/or JulietHer Own

|genre=HumourGeneral Fiction|summary=For all those who think tragedy plots are too restricted and prescribedAfter a bout of scarlet fever as a child, read onEllen Lark loses her hearing. In these pages you too will see that Romeo had lots Suddenly plunged into a world of options en route to hitting the bottlesilence, everything about her life changes. LikewiseLiving in a time when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a school where she could have turned away is taught to lip read, but physically restrained from her predestined path at no end of juncturessigning. And to what result? WellFrom here, happy marriage she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and using a kid system called BenVisible Speech. At the same time, because the leads have just banged people's heads together Bell is working on other inventions and stopped the quarrellingideas, or Death by Tybalt (him) or and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a long life running an establishment curing murderous women, such as a Lady M (her)complicated tangle of espionage. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356508536</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Henrietta Rose-InnesB0BC3YTCMR|title= NinevehGood Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Henritetta Rose-Inne's 'This story is not for everyone.'Nineveh'' instantly reassures you that you are in the presence  Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of her fifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. She was a confident and talented writer. The story of Katya Grubbsvery bright student, a second generation pest exterminator who specialises in relocating the bugs bit too nerdy if truth be told, and rodents that ruin middlesuffered from vitiligo -class garden parties, Rose-Inne writes with the enviable ability of describing both the intricacies of Katyapeople were afraid to hug her in case it's contagious. It's job not easy being a black girl whose skin is 84% 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: this was just an extension. She went to his house and the feeling of it simultaneouslyhe raped her. In shock, she even allowed him to give her a lift home. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910709166</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sara Stridsberg and Deborah Bragan-Turner (translator)1472263936|title=The Gravity of LoveFigurine|author=Victoria Hislop|rating=4.5|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=Particularly literate cover… It was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. Setting of She was alone: her mother, Greek by birth, had left the family home and refused to return, but Mary and Hamish (Helena's parents) felt that it would be a realpity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. Her trip to the family apartment in up-life mental hospital – in Sweden… market Kolonaki would be the first of several annual visits. Mature themes… Opening with an emotionShe grew to love her grandmother and the family's maid, Dina, but was wary - and closurefrightened -laden death… of her grandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. Yes, this book has more than its share He was proud of things his close connections to put the potential reader offJunta and expected his family to uphold his values but saw no reason to accommodate them. Which, in this instance, is quite a large shame indeedHis prejudices included Helena's red hair and green eyes - inherited from her father's Scottish ancestors.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857054767</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Steven BurgauerDean Koontz|title=After Death|rating=3|genre=General Fiction|summary= Michael Mace, Head of Security, at a top secret biological research facility, is among 55 people who die when a virus is released in a bio-hazard accident. Finding himself in a makeshift mortuary, covered in plastic, he has a sense that something very, very bad has happened to him – and only him – as he sits up and looks around at the shrouded bodies of his dead friends and former colleagues. As he recovers his senses, he realises that there is something different about him; he can ''feel'' everything. ''Everything''. Michael isn't ''Michael'' anymore.|isbn=1662500467}} {{Frontpage|isbn=B0BVDC2VWH|title=The Road To War: Duty & Drill, Courage & CaptureGrave Listeners|author=William Frank

|genre=BiographyGeneral Fiction|summary=After World War II Bill Frodsham led an everyday life, raising a family in an ordinary US suburb. He, his wife and children became friends with the Burgauer family, little Steven Burgauer knowing him as Mr F. Time rolls on and little Steven grows up, and then eventually retires from the American financial sector to write science fiction and lecture from time to time. He's therefore surprised when, out of the blue, Mr F's daughter tracks him down and presents him with a pile of handwritten notes asking Steven to make them into a book. These are Mr F's self-authored memoirs, stretching from his youth onwards and showing that this seemingly good, 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 a POW in inhumane conditions. Steven accepted the request and ''The Road to War'' village is the result: the life isolated and war of Captain William C Frodsham Jrpoor.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1450218806</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Linda Grant|title= The Dark Circle|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction|summary= It's 1949, and with the Second World War over, surrounded by a new decade of recovery is beginning. For East End teenagers Lenny and Miriam, life has been suspendedWitching Forest. Diagnosed with tuberculosis, they are sent away to a sanatorium in Kent, to take And the cure, submit to the way of the Doctors, villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and learn the deferential way of the patientits blossom provides herbal medicines. Through doors newly opened by the one year old NHS, come Lenny in his striped London drape suit, and Miriam in cherry felt red coat, and beret pinned gingerly onto her blue-The black curls. 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 wood of the Aristocracy, forest provides heat andwarmth, arriving to blast away their lethargic submission to authority - an American merchant seaman. Together they discover that a cure is tantalisingly just out of reachroofs on homes, and may only be gained through full scale rebellion..even gallows, if needed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>034900675X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Morgan McCarthy|title= The House fear of Birds|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=Oliver has spent years trying to convince himself that he's suited to a life of money making being buried alive is an existential superstition in the city, village and that he doesn't miss a childhood spent in pursuit of mystery, when he cycled around is the cobbled lanes of Oxfordreason Volushka, exploring its most intriguing corners. When his girlfriend Kate inherits a derelict house - and a fierce family feud drunken, self- she's determined to strip it, sell it and move on. For Oliver thoughindulgent, the house has an allure, and amongst the shelves lazy lout of a discarded, leather bound and gilded volumes, he discovers one that conceals a hidden diary from the 1920s. So begins a quest to discover the identity of the author, Sophia Louis. It man is a portrait of war and marriage, isolation and longing and a story that will shape the future of the abandoned house - and of Oliver - forevertolerated.|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 is a young actor in Paris. Colin had been working with a theatre company putting on English language Shakespeare productions. They were popular but unprofitable so Colin is now Here at a loose end while his partner, Bryony, is off shooting a film. Before returning to LondonBookbag Towers, Colin meets up with Paul Barnardwe first met Elizabeth Cromwell, an art gallery director dominatrix and his sister's partner. At the Galerie Marion Ducasseunintentional detective in [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], Colin when she investigated and Paul come across unravelled a paintingseries of disappearances. The portrait In ''Partitions of Unity'', she sets her mind to solving a young woman turns out to be Sylvie Ducasse, the great-aunt of the gallery's ownermurder...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0955506743</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sandra IrelandWill Carver|title=Beneath The SkinDaves Next Door|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary= Five strangers come together in one moment as a suicide bomber prepares to detonate his vest on a London tube line. As their fates overlap, the story is told in backwards order, leading up to the fateful moment.|isbn= 1914585186}} {{Frontpage|author=Jennifer Mason|title=Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery

|genre=General Fiction |summary= Robert Walton ''A struggling poetry zine, a mom-and-pop mobile diner in the Northern California redwoods, a 400-meter hurdler who just missed the 2004 Olympics, a women's track coach with a yen for bullwhips, a billionaire with a state-of-the-art S&M dungeon, a man serving a life sentence in Alabama, an enigmatic signature, K(s, x), on a cheap oil painting, an erotic art dealer in Georgia...'' This is ex-military – just a soldier suffering from combat stress sample of the cast of characters and what he now realises is clearly PTSDsettings in Preposterous. He prefers to As you can see, some keeping up will be called Walt; itrequired! The basic premise of this mystery story goes like this...|isbn=B09STS96HS}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0B2N7MVYM|title=The Calculations of Rational Men|author=Daniel Godfrey|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's short and simple and Walt likes things that are not complicatedthe 10th of December 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marr. Alys is fragileJust to put what happens in context, damaged and complicated and not the kind of woman Walt Cuban missile crisis is looking forstill very fresh in people's minds. A taxidermist by trade – The world has barely had a rather macabre one at that – Alys enjoys creating Walter Potter style tableaus in a slightly horrifying tribute chance to her sole career influencebreathe out. Alys runs her business from her homeBut for Joe Marr, which she shares with her sister, Mouse and Mouseit's not the missile crisis that's son Williamat the front of his mind. ItHe's a strange set up and though Walt needs been convicted of murder. With the job – current state of handyman/gopher/taxidermy assistant medical knowledge, it's hard to think otherwise than that the prosecution would never have been brought but Joe Marr has spent his first few days in HMP Queen'must not be squeamish – room and board included's Bench, a relatively new prison. He's just getting used to his roommate, Mervyn, he wonders what he has let himself in forand learning to be wary of the McArthur brothers. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973619</amazonuk>