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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Eliza GrahamOnyi Nwabineli|title= Another Day GoneAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating= 34.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=A single event from Anuri spent her childhood on display to the past has the power world, thanks to create a chainher step-reaction that has powerful consequences 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 in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the futurecontent about her. This Anuri is a theme explored battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and expanded upon in receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of Ophelia''Another Day Gones online empire. Can she save her sister,'' and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the story same time?|isbn=0861546873}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529153298|title=The List of sisters Sara Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's 1979 and Polly whoMargaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, despite being close during childhoodhonestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have grown emotionally distant from one another after Polly discovers a devastating family secretbeen disappearing. We join their story at the point where the prodigal sister Well, Pollythey've been murdered, returns home after years of no contact with but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the family'Down South'. Sarah contacts their old nanny Bridie in When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the hope of piecing together the family mystery move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and unearthing she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the secrets before it is too late, but Bridiedangers or that her Mum's memory is failing and some secrets may be lost foreverstopped talking - to anyone.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035906708|title=Diva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|amazonuksummary=<amazonuk>1503940039</amazonuk>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' to make it more manageable in the States. When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ruth HoganAlexander McCall Smith|title=The Keeper of Lost ThingsPerfect Passion Company|rating=4.5

|summary=Anthony Peardew lost the love of his life before they married. In the midst of his tragedy he found solace and purpose The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in collecting 'lost things' - things that were left behind on trainsEdinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in parksproviding a more personal, or found in the gutter, and he records each and every one carefully, in the hope that perhaps some day they can be reunited with their rightful ownertailored service. He writes stories about Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the items he findsbusiness, becoming as Ness is planning to take a published authortrip to Canada to get away for a while. HoweverKatie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, as he grows older and starts so jumps at the chance to realise that he is dyingcome home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, he knows he must hand over thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the task Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to someone else choosing his housekeepercharm. Katie has no experience in running a business, Lauraor in match-making, to take on what isbut Ness has full confidence in her abilities, to and there's always hervery helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a completely unknown aspect of his life.hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473635462</amazonuk>1846976596

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Mike GayleDean Koontz|title= The Hope Family CalendarBad Weather Friend|rating= 34.5|genre= General FictionParanormal|summary= Mr Tom Hope Benny is becoming Mr No Hopehaving a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. His wife Oh, and someone has been killed in an accidentdelivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and heit's now leftpossible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, haplessly trying Benny is the very last person to bring up their two young daughtersdeserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. While So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his mother in law house is a help in the beginningnew friend, she soon adopts a cruel-bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to-be-kind approach and decides to leave help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Spike is going to ittake care of Benny, knowing the only way heand will certainly take care of Benny'll step up is s enemies, if he has no choice in the matter, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473608953</amazonuk>1662500491

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nadiya HussainKatherine Howe|title=The Secret Lives of the Amir SistersA True Account|rating=4.5|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=The Amirs are dysfunctional: Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to live with a family who run an inn, and being made to work there's really no other way of putting itfrom a young age. They're When she hears there is to be a hanging of Bangladeshi origin and they're the only Muslim family some pirates in the small village of Wyvernagetown, she decides to go and watch. On the surface they look to be happyEnthralled and horrified in equal measure, but actually each of the sisters is struggling Hannah finds herself embroiled in her own way. For the most part they're doing it quietly, but ita young boy's not always death at the casehands of two vicious pirates. The eldest is Fatima. Her nameShe hides away, so that they don's often abbreviated t find and kill her too, and then to escape them completely she runs away to Fatti: it's not meant unkindlysea, but she's well upholstered dressing as a boy and at thirty shejoining the notorious Ned Low's unmarriedpirate ship as a cabin boy. Even her mother doesn't seem to think that She soon finds herself in the thick of things when there is a mutiny on board, and from there's much point we are caught up in trying to find a husband for herrip roaring tale of life on the ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008192251</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jesse Loncraine1471180158|title=In the FieldMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating=34.5

|summary= Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's a control freak with all the subtlety of a half brick. Jamie'In the Fields son, Bo, 'has his problems' is essentially a story of two mothers who have been separated from their sons. Liz He's asthmatic and her (adult) son Orin are both Western journaliststhe more you read, while Christine and her 12the more you'll suspect that he's on the autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice -year-old son Paul are from she's a remote village frequent flier in East Africa. After major surgery, Liz flies the local A&E and sometimes Bo's not fit enough to East Africa go to find her son who has gone walkaboutschool. At Missed shifts or the same need to be away on time, Christine is mourning to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the loss of her own family: her husband has been killed and her son abducted by militiawrong. It was going to come to a head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910369179</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=PJ VanstonB0CKD1L5JL|title=Rasmus: A Television TaleRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn

|summary=It's all about Petr is an orphan. Rescued by the ratings strange, reclusive Bear, he is brought up far from bustling cities and busy human society, in the world forests of TVWashington's Olympic Peninsula. Therefore After Bear dies and a brief sojourn in human company, and armed with only a pirate radio transmitter, Petr goes on a journey through the BBCforest, part of broadcasting the British televisual establishment since TV was inventedstrange, feels it has nothing to fear from a new internet channel. However those in control don't understand what – and who – is behind this new phenomenon. The mysterious Rasmus has a plan wild and some savagely innovative ideas; nothing can stand in his wayrarely heard voices he encounters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785893610</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jere KrakoffSarah Marsh|title=Something Is Rotten A Sign of Her Own|rating=3.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=After a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, everything about her life changes. Living in a time when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a school where she is taught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. From here, she ends up in Fettig: A Satireanother school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and using a system called Visible Speech. At the same time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=1035401614}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0BC3YTCMR|title=Good Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira

|summary=Leopold Plotkin finds himself ''This story is not for everyone.'' Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of her fifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. She was a very bright student, a bit too nerdy if truth be told, and suffered from vitiligo - people were afraid to hug her in some very hot water when he initiates the Mud Crisiscase it's contagious. Leopold inherited the family butcher It's shop and he 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 skilled butcherReggie asked if she would tutor him. But She readily agreed: tutoring was something she gladly did at church: this was just an extension. She went to his house and he doesn't like people watching raped her. In shock, she even allowed him work and is generally lacking in social skills. The shop's trade suffers and Leopold decides to cover the window with mud so that no-one can see insidegive her a lift home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1681141973</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1472263936|title=The BoyFigurine|author=Wytske VersteegVictoria Hislop

|summary=Kito It was a withdrawn childin 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. It She was difficult for his parentsalone: her mother, especially his motherGreek by birth, had left the family home and refused to reach him. Like many children who turn inwardsreturn, he struggled to make friends at schoolbut Mary and Hamish (Helena's parents) felt that it would be a pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. And those he did make seemed only Her trip to use him for access to his games consoles. His dark skin also marked him out for bullyingthe family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be the first of several annual visits. Kito went missing after a class trip She grew to love her grandmother and the beachfamily's maid, Dina, but was wary - and frightened - of her grandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. His body He was discovered when it washed up on proud of his close connections to the sandJunta and expected his family to uphold his values but saw no reason to accommodate them. Kito had drowned His prejudices included Helena's red hair and green eyes - inherited from her father's Scottish ancestors.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908446501</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jodi PicoultDean Koontz|title=Small Great ThingsAfter Death|rating=53|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 Grave Listeners|author=William Frank|rating=4

|summary=Ruth Jefferson The village is a nurseisolated and poor. She looks after new mothers and their babies and sheIt's surrounded by a Witching Forest. And the sort villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicines. The black wood of nurse that you hope you'll encounter when it's your turn, or the turn of anyone close to you. She cares forest provides heat and she's good at her jobwarmth, roofs on homes, very goodand even gallows, if needed. The fear of being buried alive is an existential superstition in fact. Turk the village and Brittany Bauer and their new sonthat is the reason Volushka, Davisa drunken, were under her care, only Turk took strong exception to Ruth having anything to do with their child: Turk and Brittany were white supremacists self- and Ruth Jefferson was blackindulgent, an African American and despite all her experience she was banned from caring from Davis Bauerlazy lout of a man is tolerated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444788000</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Karen JenningsB0BYF82CXT|title= Travels With My FatherSemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone|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 Bill and Amanda are living in a semi-detached house, stuck in those terms unless there is a depressing rut of boredom and disappointment, when Terry and Fiona – glamorous, successful and very much in the structure that is fictionlove – move in next door. 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 publishedDespite their different outlooks on life, then I'll applaud the subterfuge, because this is writing that needs couples befriend each other and life appears to be readimprove for both pairs. It But all is – if as true as I want not what it to be – a delicate reminiscence: a daughter's ''in memoriam'' to a father she lovedseems, worshipped, idealised, cared-and their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for, lived with, and yes (in true daughterly fashion) at times, hatedtragedy. A father who was, therefore, a good dad. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907320695</amazonuk>''

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Elin HilderbrandShalini Boland|title= Winter StormsThe Silent Bride|rating= 53|genre= General Fiction|summary= A year is Alice and Seth are a long time match made in the life of the Quinn familyheaven. So much can happen. For some people this can just be births and deaths and the whole circle of life, but He is everything she has been searching for the Quinn family it's more love triangles; handsome, feloniesaccomplished, drug dealers who stalk youclever, exfunny; total and utter husband-husbands who haunt youmaterial. She is all he could possibly want in a wife; beautiful, successful, confident… and business opportunities transplanted from so the scorching Caribbean to inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and the cooler north east coast of Americawedding is planned and set. As spring leads to summer When the much-anticipated day arrives, leads to autumn leads to winter we follow Alice is walked down the extended family on Nantucket and in nearby cities (Bostonaisle by her father, Manhattan) beaming with pride and learn that excitement as divisive as life can beshe surveys the congregation – their friends assembled to celebrate this joyful day and when Seth turns to face his approaching bride, there are some ties that will always bind you. In this case Alice's world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the man at the tie altar is called Bart, and whatever else who is happening, if he returns then everything else will all be okwaiting for her to become his wife.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473620570</amazonuk>1662507089

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Ross Armstrong1787636003|title= The WatcherGirls of Summer|author=Katie Bishop|rating= 45|genre= Thrillers General Fiction|summary= Lily Gullick lives with her husband Aiden in a newIt was the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the island. Rachel wasn't exactly innocent but she was, perhaps, naive, so when thirty-four-year-build flat opposite old Alistair Wright started to take an estate which has been marked for demolition. A keen birdwatcherinterest in her, she can't help spying on her neighbourswas flattered rather than wary. Then one day Lily sees something suspicious through It was quite a while before he made any sort of physical approach to 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 time she has to actwas obsessed by him. But her interference is not going unnoticed Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, looking after his interests on the island and as she starts to get close to in particular in the bar where all the truth, her own life comes under threatgirls either worked or partied.But can Lily really trust everything she sees?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008181187</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ryan NorthAmanda Craig|title=Romeo and/or JulietThree Graces|rating=34.5|genre=HumourGeneral Fiction|summary=For all those Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of-the-nation novel. There's something so utterly compelling about any writer who think tragedy plots are too restricted can catch hold of the atmosphere of the day and prescribedcapture it, read on. In these pages you too will see that Romeo had lots crafting an image of options en route to hitting the bottlecountry as it stands in one particular moment. Likewise, To say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she could have turned away from her predestined path 's practically synonymous with the genre of contemporary social fiction at no end of juncturesthis point. And to what result? Well, happy marriage and She has such a kid called Ben, because gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the day into the leads have just banged people's heads together lives of her characters in a way that feels natural and stopped the quarrellinglived-in, or Death by Tybalt (him) or a long life running an establishment curing murderous womennever making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, such as a Lady M (her)grappling with issues far larger than themselves. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356508536</amazonuk>140871468X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Henrietta Rose-Innes152915118X|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>}}{{newreviewPineapple Street|author=Sara Stridsberg and Deborah Bragan-Turner (translator)|title=The Gravity of LoveJenny Jackson

|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=Particularly literate cover… Setting ''Pineapple Street'' is the story of a real-life mental hospital – in Sweden… three women: Sasha, Darley and Georgiana. Mature themes… Darley and George are sisters and Sasha is married to their brother Cord. Opening with an emotion- and closure-laden death… They're Stocktons, only Sasha isn't a Stockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the tribe. YesThe problem's exacerbated when the clan matriarch, Tilda, this book has more than its share of things asks Cord and Sasha if they'd like to put move into the potential reader offPineapple Street property. Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to another property, a street or so away, which they own. WhichThey won't need any of the furniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and Cord can move straight in this instance. Nominally, is quite they had a large shame indeedchoice but that wasn't the reality. Darley and Georgiana start to call Sasha 'the gold digger'. She's living in ''their'' family home. They use it so often that they abbreviate it to 'the GD'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857054767</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Steven BurgauerEmily Critchley|title=The Road To War: Duty & Drill, Courage & CaptureOne Puzzling Afternoon

|genre=BiographyCrime|summary=After World War II Bill Frodsham led an everyday 84 year old Edie has lived in the same small town for almost her whole life, raising but now she is facing a family in an ordinary US suburb. He, his wife move as her son wants to move to another house and children became friends bring Edie to live with the Burgauer his 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 Edie is starting to timelose her memory. He's therefore surprised whenHowever, out Edie is tormented by the memory of the blueher childhood friend, Lucy, who went missing over 60 years ago, Mr F's daughter tracks him down and presents him with the worry that there was a pile secret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be the thing that reveals the truth of handwritten notes asking Steven to make them into a bookwhat happened all that time ago. These are Mr FAfter 'seeing's self-authored memoirsLucy in the high street, stretching from his youth onwards and showing that this seemingly goodjust as she was the last time she saw her, kind but unremarkable man was anything but unremarkableshe starts to find pockets of memories coming back to her. During And yet as she remembers the war Mr F trained for the impossible past, she is forgetting more 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 more in inhumane conditionsher day to day life. Steven accepted Will she uncover the request and truth about Lucy''The Road to War'' is the result: the life s disappearance before her move, and war of Captain William C Frodsham Jr.before her memories are gone forever?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1450218806</amazonuk>1804181250

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Linda GrantMadelaine Lucas|title= The Dark CircleThirst for Salt|rating= 5|genre= General Literary Fiction|summary= It's 1949'Love, I'd read, was supposed to be a light and with the Second World War overweightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravity'' Told from a new decade of recovery is beginning. For East End teenagers Lenny and Miriamretrospective view, life has been suspendeda young woman unravels the year-long relationship that once defined her. Diagnosed Overlaid with tuberculosislater wisdom, they are sent away to the narrator relives the affair with a sanatorium in Kent, to take man twenty years her senior from its inception – the cure, submit summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the way of summer after. Set against the Doctors, and learn the deferential way backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the patient. Through doors newly opened by the one 24-year -old NHSnarrator's deepening relationship with her older lover, come Lenny in his striped London drape suitdepicting its all-consuming nature, how it changed her perspective on both romantic and Miriam in cherry felt red coat, familial relationships and beret pinned gingerly onto how it altered her blue-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 of the Aristocracy, and, arriving to blast away their lethargic submission to authority - an American merchant seaman. Together they discover that a cure is tantalisingly just out of reach, and may only be gained through full scale rebellion..irrevocably.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>034900675X</amazonuk>0861546490

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Morgan McCarthy0008506337|title= The House of BirdsGarnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical General Fiction|summary=Oliver has spent years trying to convince himself that he's suited to a life of money making in the city, The love affair between Margo Garnett and that he doesnpoet Richard O't miss a childhood spent in pursuit of mysteryLeary was all-consuming, apparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when he cycled around the cobbled lanes of Oxford, exploring its most intriguing cornersthey fell in love. When his girlfriend Kate inherits a derelict house Richard was twenty- one and a fierce family feud - shedescribed by Margo's mother as 'an older man'. Her parents worried that Richard's determined influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to strip it, sell it Oxford and move onhaving a glittering career. For Oliver though, In the house has an allureevent, they eloped and amongst Richard took her away from the shelves Isle of a discarded, leather bound Wight. Margo did go to Oxford and gilded volumes, he discovers one that conceals went on to become a hidden diary from the 1920swell-respected journalist. So begins a quest to discover the identity of the author The couple had three children: Rachel, Sophia LouisImogen and Sasha. It is a portrait of war Life was lived in London and marriageholidays were spent at Sandcove, isolation and longing and a story that will shape the future family home on the Isle of Wight. Even then the abandoned house - and of Oliver - foreverdoubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able to leave him in charge''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472205847</amazonuk>Then Richard left them.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christobel Kent1914585402|title=The Loving HusbandDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross|rating=4.5|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 Franreviewed David F Ross's book [[There's best friend is standing. But when this is followed Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's Only One Danny Garvey]] a hasty wedding couple of years back and remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and affecting it was. It was a move to an isolated farmhouse in the Fensgripping, emotionally wounding read, Fran feels sure that her new role as home-maker and mother, so very different from the London party-girl she used to be, is the right one for her. So when Fran wakes in the middle of the night to find Nathan's side rereading my review of the bed completely cold, she goes to look for him. Finding him bloodied and very much dead it my main takeaway was most definitely that I might not part of the bargainhave lavished enough praise on it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751562416</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sanjida O'ConnellLucy Ashe|title= Theory of MindClara and Olivia|rating= 34.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=Sandra works in a zoo, studying the minds of chimpanzees, mankindThe year is 1933. The place? Sadler's nearest living relativesWells. Her involvment with the animals starts to affect her own relationshipsBallerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, in particular that with her new boyfriend Corintwins no less. His energy stimulates her, his passion excites her and his work as a TV producer fascinates her, Identical on the outside but are his feelings realnot, or does he want to control her? As her feelings preoccupy herwe learn, Sandra continues her research into on the emotions of chimps and whether or inside. And not they are capable of empathyon stage, either. During Because there's a lot that builds a visit dancer. Some things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, attention to the zoo, Sandra meets a strange detail – and isolated childsome things, Paulthat ''je ne sais quoi'', son of one of that don't come from the keepersclassroom. A stage presence, and she also meets Kima charm, a scientist who has built ''joie de vivre''. The difference between a killer instinct into the robots she makes. As Sandra worries about her friends hard-worker, and her relationship, things race to a thrilling climax - putting much more than Sandra's emotions at riskstar. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1861515480</amazonuk>0861544080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Katarina BivaldHeather Fawcett|title= The Readers Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Broken Wheel RecommendFaeries|rating= 4|genre= General Fiction|summary= The USA Emily Wilde is an odd place at timesexpert academic scholar on faerie lore, and not just during election season. There are all sorts of nooks she has travelled extensively, and crannies, places that time forgot, places that ‘’people’’ forgot. Broken Wheel, Iowa is one such place. You’d have no reason to go unless you knew someone there. And Sara doesresearched meticulously, her pen-pal Amy. Invited by Amy to come for a visit, and with time on write her hands due to a recent redundancy, Sara packs her bags (and her books) and buys a plane ticket from her native Sweden to the US of A.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009959367X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sara Stewart|title=Whilst I Was Out|rating=2.5|genre=General Fiction |summary= Sara Stewartlife's debut novelwork, ''Whilst I Was Out'', opens with all the promise of a book intent to delve head-very first into invention and oddness. The narrator encyclopaedia of the story, Alice, is stuck in traffic with her husband – who she refers to throughout the book as My Dear Husband (or MDH for short) – when he suddenly jumps out of their car and runs off for seemingly no reasonfaeries. The scene opens with a mention of domestic abuse but seems much more interested in the inherent malfunction of Alice's husband as Whilst she describes his fixation with his bicycle is brilliant at research and how her and their three children have taken a back seat speaking to his 'finding himself' through affairs and cross-country cycling.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910903035</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Cesca Major|title= The Last Night|rating= 4|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=Spring 1952: Two best friends; Abigail and Mary, sit together on a bench, looking out to sea. They have big plans, but know that whatever happens they will always be together. They dream of a new life in America, each with a handsome husband and a happy family. When Abigail's mother dies unexpectedly, howeverfaeries, she is sent to live not so good with her estranged sister in Devon, and the friends are torn apartpeople. Little does So when she realise that tragedy lies just around finds herself far, far North in the cornersmall village of Hrafvsnik, and that having somehow offended the ''last night'' will change everything forever. Decades latervillage matriarch, in 2016, a shy furniture-restorer called Irina she is not sure what she has been given an unusual commission: to restore an old bureau containing many hidden secrets. As the two stories mergedone, curious Irina tries nor how to piece together exactly what happened redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on the ''Last Nightright track.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B01FTAPZS2</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Rory Gleeson|title= Rockadoon Shore|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=Cath is worried about Enter Wendell Bambleby, her friends. DanDan is struggling with the death of his exdashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, Lucy is drinking way too much all charm and Steph has become closed off. A weekend away is just what they need. They travel out to Rockadoon Lodgedelight, much to the wilds in the west of IrelandEmily's frustration. But the weekend doesn't go to plan. JJ why is more concerned with getting high than spending time with them, while Merc he here? What does he want? And what exactly is humiliated and seeks revenge. And when their elderly neighbour Malachy arrives going on their doorstep in the dead of night with a gun in his hands, nothing will be the same again for any of them...faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473634075</amazonuk>0356519120

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Brit Bennett1398515388|title= The MothersBoy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)

|genre= General Fiction|summary= I love First of all, it when I get was the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and this, in turn, caused the nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and utter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, and the loss of livelihoods was widespread. The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of priorities but - six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a book so very few have read yet, convenience store. He wasn't a dog person but itthe convenience store owner's hard to say what needs to be said, when you're not allowed comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to quoteopen his car door and Tamon the dog jumped in. ''All good secrets have a taste before you tell them…''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0399184511</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author= Graham NortonChristopher Bowden|title= HoldingMr Magenta|rating= 54|genre= General Fiction|summary=The remote Irish village of Duneen has known little drama, and yet the inhabitants are troubled. Sergeant PJ Collins hasnChristopher Bowden't always been this overweight, mother-s latest novel is a patient untangling of-two Brid Riordan hasna seemingly ordinary woman't always been an alcoholics life, and elegant Evelyn Ross hasn't carried out by her nephew after she has died. The aunt who always felt her life provided a total waste. When human remains are discovered on safe harbour and a farm, thought to be those little bit of Tommy Burke, an ex lover of both Brid and Evelyn, the village's dark past begins indulgence to unravel. As the frustrated PJ struggles to solve a case for the first time in his young nephew had had a much more interesting life, he unearths a community's worth of anger, resentment, secrets, than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and regretit seems to him an obligation to find it all out.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444792008</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ian McEwanJennifer Mason|title=NutshellPartitions of Unity|rating=4.5|genre=Literary General Fiction |summary=Meet Trudy. Successfully living in a large and valuable London homeHere at Bookbag Towers, she is heavily pregnantwe first met Elizabeth Cromwell, dominatrix and unintentional detective in between two men – [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], when she has swapped the homeowner, poet investigated and publisher John, for someone completely different, namely Claudeunravelled a series of disappearances. In ''Partitions of Unity'', she sets her mind to solving a nasty, brutish and short typemurder. Some people cannot work out why on earth she has made that decision, including our narrator. Oh, and he himself, our narrator, is the child she's pregnant with. He is a very alert young thing, with nothing else to do but kick here and there, and practice what you might well call mindfulness, and listen in on Claude and Trudy, as they calmly talk their way to plotting and carrying out murder…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1911214330</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Frederic Dard and Daniel Seton (translator)Will Carver|title=CrushThe Daves Next Door|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction |summary=In this 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 of Thelma and Louiseis told in backwards order, itleading up to the fateful moment.|isbn= 1914585186}} {{Frontpage|author=Jennifer Mason|title=Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary='s Louise we meet first, through her narration. She's a seventeen year oldA struggling poetry zine, telling us of a quite awful mom-and smelly satellite town of Paris she lives -pop mobile diner inthe Northern California redwoods, with a 400-meter hurdler who just missed the sight of factories and stench of food processing plants keeping her company. She lives at home 2004 Olympics, a women's track coach with her mothera yen for bullwhips, complete a billionaire with harea state-lip, and abusive stepof-the-fatherart S&M dungeon, and is working at one of those factories until she sees a paradise man serving a life sentence in their midst – the ever-sunnyAlabama, sexy and sophisticated life of an American NATO worker and his wife. Impulsivelyenigmatic signature, she asks to be their maid – and indeed moves into the couple'K(s large, messy homex), on a cheap oil painting, an erotic art dealer in Georgia. But little does she know what lurks in ..'' This is just a sample of the shadows cast of characters and settings in that buildingPreposterous. As you can see, behind their gigantic car and their cute porch swing and al-fresco dining – the unhappiness, and even the tragedy…some keeping up will be required! The basic premise of this mystery story goes like this...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782271988</amazonuk>B09STS96HS

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Emma BurstallB0B2N7MVYM|title= The Cornish Guest House (Tremarnock)Calculations of Rational Men|author=Daniel Godfrey|rating= 3.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=It''The Cornish Guest House'' is s the sequel 10th of December 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marr. Just to the best-selling ''Tremarnock'' which introduced us to hard-working Liz and her disabled daughter Rosie who were adjusting to life put what happens in a small Cornish village by context, the sea. The sequel begins six months after the first book, and Liz and Rosie are happily settled Cuban missile crisis is still very fresh in their new lives and enjoying the warmth of the close-knit communitypeople's minds. The village is soon abuzz with gossip, however, as world has barely had a new couple have just moved in and are planning chance to open a guest housebreathe out. The affable and good-looking Luke soon charms the neighbours by immersing himself into village life. His wife Tabitha But for Joe Marr, on it's not the other hand, seems aloof and reserved. Could she be hiding a secret?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784972495</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jean McNeil|title= The Dhow House|rating= 3.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Rebecca Laurelson is an English doctor working in an African field hospital in the midst of a political conflict when she is suddenly and inexplicitly forced to leave her post. She goes to stay with her estranged Aunt Julia and her family on Africamissile crisis that's east coast away from at the violence and daily blood shed front of war, however their lives are full of beach and cocktail parties which contrast greatly to Rebeccahis mind. He's way been convicted of livingmurder. But With the threat current state of war is on the horizon for Juliamedical knowledge, it's family and their fellow white Africans – terror attacks are on the rise all along the coast and Rebecca knows more about it hard to think otherwise than that the rest of her familyprosecution would never have been brought but Joe Marr has spent his first few days in HMP Queen's Bench, a relatively new prison. With unrest brewing will the true reason for Rebecca He's hasty departure from her post just getting used to his roommate, Mervyn, and learning to be revealed?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785079441</amazonuk>wary of the McArthur brothers.