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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Charlie LaidlawOnyi Nwabineli|title= The Things We Learn When We're DeadAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= On Anuri spent her childhood on display to the way world, thanks to a dinner partyher step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, Lorna Love steps into the path where she posted every step of an oncoming carAnuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Waking up Now Anuri is in what appears her twenties and she is slowly trying to be a hospital, but a hospital in which wine is served for supper, everyone avoids regain her questions, confidence and to get her nurse looks suspiciously like Sean Connerylife back, it soon transpires that Lorna is in Heaven, or, at least, on HVNsuing her step-mother to take down the content about her. Because HVN Anuri is a lostbattling alcoholism, dysfunctional spaceshipfailing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and God the aging hippy captainsecretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. At first Lorna can remember nothing Most importantly, but as she is desperately worried about her memories return – some good, some badlittle sister, who is the new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she realises that she has a decision to makesave her sister, and that maybe, she needs to find a way home…perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786150352</amazonuk>0861546873

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Federico Axat1529153298|title= Kill the Next OneThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating= 45|genre= ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary= After getting started with the opening chapters of Spanish writerIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, Federico Axathonestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv'Kill the Next One's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, you might be forgiven for thinking you are stuck with one of those machismo riddled tales where a middle-aged man with a mysterious past is forced but to shoot or blunder his way through a by-the-numbers thrillerhave 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. The spectre of Lee Child Miv's upset because she's successful Jack Reacher series creeping in around overheard that her father wants to move the edges of the pagefamily 'Down South'. The novel opens with Ted McKay and his Browning pointed to his temple. He has the perfect life When you're from Yorkshire, including Down South is a beautiful wife and two adoring childrenfrightening, foreign place, but has discovered that he is also in possession of an untreatable tumour buried deep within his brain which is slowly killing himbest avoided. However For Miv, right before he decides to take the shot move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and end his life, there is a knock on his doorshe'll do anything to prevent that. Standing behind it is a man named Justin Lynch who tells Ted She's not worried about the dangers or that he represents an all-knowing organisation that turns wouldher Mum's stopped talking -be suicides into opportunities to correct the imbalances of the law. Ted, instead of killing himself, could kill someone who really deserves itanyone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911231065</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Laurie Frankel1035906708|title=This Is How It Always IsDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5

|summary=Claude is the baby We tend to think of the family. He's very bright. He has a vocabulary way beyond his years so he can hold his own Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in the rough and tumble of a house containing four older brothersManhattan, New York, an emergency doctor mother in December 1923 and a writer father. Claude also likes only moved to wear dresses. He wants to become a night fairy Athens when he grows up. And one day, Claude becomes Poppy. He becomes shewas thirteen. Poppy Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 's parents, Penn and Rosie, arenCallas't too concerned at first - children all like to try on different identities and why should Claude/Poppy be any different? But make it soon becomes clear more manageable in the States. When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that Poppy isn't playshe could get appropriate training for her voice -acting at being she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a girl. Poppy is a girl. And things get complicated..mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472241584</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Alexandra KleemanAlexander McCall Smith|title= You Too Can Have A Body Like MineThe Perfect Passion Company|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=A woman known only as A lives The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in an unnamed American city with her roommate, BEdinburgh, run by Ness and boyfriend, C, who wants her operating as an alternative to join him on all the online apps in providing a reality dating showmore personal, tailored service. A eats mostly popsicles Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and oranges, watches endless amounts of television, often just for the commercials — particularly look after the recurring cartoon escapades of Kandy Katbusiness, the mascot as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for an entirely chemical dessert — and models herself on an impossible standard of beautya while. She fixates on the fifteen minutes Katie is coming out of fame a local celebrity named Michael has earned after buying break up with a Wally's Supermarket's entirebad boyfriend, and increasingly ampleso jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, supply of veal. Meanwhilebringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, B is attempting but with some new characters who quickly begin to make herself charm. Katie has no experience in running a twin of Abusiness, or in match-making, who but Ness has full confidence in turn hungers for something to give meaning to her lifeabilities, something aside from C's pornography addiction. Maybe something like whatand there's gotten into always her neighbors across the streetvery helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, the family who's begun ''ghosting'' themselves beneath white sheets with holes cut for eyes…to lend a hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008210845</amazonuk>1846976596

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tomoka Shibasaki and Polly Barton (translator)Dean Koontz|title=Spring GardenThe Bad Weather Friend

|genre=General Fiction Paranormal|summary=Murakami, and (long before the film) Endo's ''Silence''Benny is having a terrifically bad day. That's my limit as regards contemporary Japanese writing. But now there's Tomoka ShibasakiHe loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and her noted work ''Spring Garden''his house gets trashed. WhichOh, make no mistake, is definitely Japanese. For instanceand someone has delivered a really weird, if I told you it starts with a man looking up disturbing coffin-sized object to watch his female neighbour on her balconyhome, and concerns obsession, you could well think it 's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his about her. house! But no – perhaps only in the west The thing is, Benny is the gaze so malevery last person to deserve all this bad luck. The obsession He is very much hers here, and a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it – and turns out that the novel – concern 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 singular housegood person. And the very singular country it lives inSpike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and the changes it is going through…Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782272704</amazonuk>1662500491

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Laura KayeKatherine Howe|title= English AnimalsA True Account|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary General Fiction|summary= When Mirka gets a job Hannah Masury is living in a country house in rural EnglandBoston, she has no idea of the struggle she faces having been sent to make sense of live with a very English couplefamily who run an inn, and being made to work there from a way of life that young age. When she hears there is entirely alien to her. Richard and Sophie are chaoticbe a hanging of some pirates in the town, drunken, frequently outrageous but also warm, generous and kind she decides to Mirka, despite their argumentative go and turbulent marriagewatch. Mirka is swiftly commandeered by Richard for his latest money-making enterprise Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, taxidermy, and soon surpasses him Hannah finds herself embroiled in skill. After a traumatic break young boy's death at the hands of two years ago with vicious pirates. She hides away, so that they don't find and kill her family in Slovakiatoo, Mirka finds and then to her surprise that escape them completely she is happy at Fairmont Hallruns away to sea, dressing as a boy and joining the notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. But She soon finds herself in the thick of things when she tells Sophie that she there is gaya mutiny on board, everything she values is put and from there we are caught up in danger and she must learn her rip roaring tale of life on the hard way what she really believes inocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140870823X</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Rory Gleeson1471180158|title= Rockadoon ShoreMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=Cath is worried about her friends. DanDan is struggling Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's a control freak with all the death subtlety of his exa half brick. Jamie's son, Bo, Lucy is drinking way too much and Steph 'has become closed offhis problems'. A weekend away is just what they need. They travel out to Rockadoon Lodge He's asthmatic and the more you read, to the wilds in more you'll suspect that he's on the west of Irelandautistic spectrum. But Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's a frequent flier in the weekend doesnlocal A&E and sometimes Bo't s not fit enough to go to planschool. JJ is more concerned with getting high than spending Missed shifts or the need to be away on time with them, while Merc is humiliated to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and seeks revenge. And when their elderly neighbour Malachy arrives on their doorstep put in the dead of night with wrong. It was going to come to a gun in his hands, nothing will be the same again for any of them.head..|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473634075</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Eliza GrahamB0CKD1L5JL|title= Another Day GoneRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn|rating= 3.54|genre= General Fiction|summary=A single event Petr is an orphan. Rescued by the strange, reclusive Bear, he is brought up far from the past has the power to create a chain-reaction that has powerful consequences bustling cities and busy human society, in the futureforests of Washington's Olympic Peninsula. This is After Bear dies and a theme explored and expanded upon brief sojourn in ''Another Day Gonehuman company,'' the story of sisters Sara and Polly whoarmed with only a pirate radio transmitter, despite being close during childhood, have grown emotionally distant from one another after Polly discovers Petr goes on a devastating family secret. We join their story at journey through the point where the prodigal sister, Pollyforest, returns home after years of no contact with her family. Sarah contacts their old nanny Bridie in the hope of piecing together the family mystery and unearthing broadcasting the secrets before it is too latestrange, but Bridie's memory is failing wild and some secrets may be lost foreverrarely heard voices he encounters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1503940039</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ruth HoganSarah Marsh|title=The Keeper A Sign of Lost ThingsHer 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 another 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|rating=4.5

|summary=Anthony Peardew lost the love ''This story is not for everyone.'' Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of his life before they marriedher fifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. In the midst of his tragedy he found solace She was a very bright student, a bit too nerdy if truth be told, and purpose suffered from vitiligo - people were afraid to hug her in collecting case it'lost thingss contagious. It' s not easy being a black girl whose skin is 84% white. She had a crush on seventeen- things that were left behind on trains, in parks, or found in the gutter, and year-old Reggie Anderson but never thought he would notice her. Then he records each did: Lavender was very good at math and every one carefully, in the hope that perhaps some day they can be reunited with their rightful ownerReggie asked if she would tutor him. He writes stories about the items he finds, becoming a published authorShe readily agreed: tutoring was something she gladly did at church: this was just an extension. However, as he grows older She went to his house and starts to realise that he is dying, he knows he must hand over the task to someone else choosing his housekeeper, Laura, to take on what israped her. In shock, she even allowed him to give her, a completely unknown aspect of his lifelift home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473635462</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Mike Gayle1472263936|title= The Hope Family CalendarFigurine|author=Victoria Hislop|rating= 3.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Mr Tom Hope is becoming Mr No HopeIt was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. His wife has been killed in an accident She was alone: her mother, Greek by birth, had left the family home and refused to return, but Mary and heHamish (Helena's now left, haplessly trying parents) felt that it would be a pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. Her trip to bring the family apartment in up their two young daughters-market Kolonaki would be the first of several annual visits. While his mother in law is a help in She grew to love her grandmother and the beginningfamily's maid, Dina, she soon adopts a cruelbut was wary - and frightened -of her grandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. He was proud of his close connections to-be-kind approach the Junta and decides expected his family to leave him uphold his values but saw no reason to it, knowing the only way heaccommodate them. His prejudices included Helena's red hair and green eyes - inherited from her father'll step up is if he has no choice in the matters Scottish ancestors.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473608953</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nadiya HussainDean Koontz|title=The Secret Lives 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 Amir Sistersshrouded 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

|summary= The village is isolated and poor. It''In s surrounded by a Witching Forest. And the Field'' is essentially a story villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicines. The black wood of two mothers who have been separated from their sons. Liz the forest provides heat and her (adult) son Orin are both Western journalistswarmth, roofs on homes, while Christine and her 12-year-old son Paul are from a remote village in East Africa. After major surgeryeven gallows, Liz flies to East Africa to find her son who has gone walkaboutif needed. At The fear of being buried alive is an existential superstition in the same time, Christine village and that is mourning the loss reason Volushka, a drunken, self-indulgent, lazy lout of her own family: her husband has been killed and her son abducted by militiaa man is tolerated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910369179</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=PJ VanstonB0BYF82CXT|title=Rasmus: A Television TaleSemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone

|summary=It's all about the ratings 'Bill and Amanda are living in a semi-detached house, stuck in the world a depressing rut of TVboredom and disappointment, when Terry and Fiona – glamorous, successful and very much in love – move in next door. Therefore the BBCDespite their different outlooks on life, part of the British televisual establishment since TV was invented, feels it has nothing couples befriend each other and life appears to fear from a new internet channelimprove for both pairs. However those in control don't understand But all is not what – it seems, and who – is behind this new phenomenontheir increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy. The mysterious Rasmus has a plan and some savagely innovative ideas; nothing can stand in his way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785893610</amazonuk>''

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jere KrakoffShalini Boland|title=Something Is Rotten in Fettig: A SatireThe Silent Bride|rating=4.53

|summary=Leopold Plotkin finds himself Alice and Seth are a match made in some very hot water when he initiates the Mud Crisisheaven. Leopold inherited the family butcher's shop He is everything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, clever, funny; total and utter husband-material. She is all he is could possibly want in a very good wife; beautiful, successful, confident… and skilled butcher. But he doesn't like people watching him work so the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and the wedding is generally lacking in social skillsplanned and set. The shop When the much-anticipated day arrives, Alice is walked down the aisle by her father, beaming with pride and excitement as she surveys the congregation – their friends assembled to celebrate this joyful day and when Seth turns to face his approaching bride, Alice's trade suffers and Leopold decides world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the man at the altar is, who is waiting for her to cover the window with mud so that no-one can see insidebecome his wife.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1681141973</amazonuk>1662507089

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1787636003|title=The BoyGirls of Summer|author=Wytske VersteegKatie Bishop

|summary=Kito It was a withdrawn childthe summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the island. It Rachel wasn't exactly innocent but she was difficult for his parents, especially his motherperhaps, naive, so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to reach him. Like many children who turn inwardstake an interest in her, he struggled to make friends at schoolshe was flattered rather than wary. And those It was quite a while before he did make seemed only made any sort of physical approach to use her and by that time she was obsessed by him for access to his games consoles. His dark skin also marked him out Alistair worked for bullying. Kito went missing Henry Taylor, looking after a class trip to his interests on the island and in particular in the beach. His body was discovered when it washed up on bar where all the sand. Kito had drownedgirls either worked or partied.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908446501</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jodi PicoultAmanda Craig|title=Small Great ThingsThree Graces|rating=4.5

|summary=Ruth Jefferson is a nurseFew styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of-the-nation novel. She looks after new mothers and their babies and sheThere's something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the sort atmosphere of nurse that you hope you'll encounter when the day and capture it's your turn, or crafting an image of the turn of anyone close to youcountry as it stands in one particular moment. She cares and To say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's good practically synonymous with the genre of contemporary social fiction at this point. She has such a gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the day into the lives of her job, very good, characters in fact. Turk a way that feels natural and Brittany Bauer and their new son, Davislived-in, were under her carenever making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, only Turk took strong exception to Ruth having anything to do grappling with their child: Turk and Brittany were white supremacists - and Ruth Jefferson was black, an African American and despite all her experience she was banned from caring from Davis Bauerissues far larger than themselves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444788000</amazonuk>140871468X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Karen Jennings152915118X|title= Travels With My FatherPineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction |summary= Despite the coda, this does not feel like ''an autobiographical novelPineapple Street''is the story of three women: Sasha, Darley and Georgiana. I am not sure why Jennings felt the need Darley and George are sisters and Sasha is married to couch it in those terms unless there is much in the structure that is fictiontheir brother Cord. IThey'm hoping there re Stocktons, only Sasha isn'ta Stockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the tribe. I am hoping that The problem's exacerbated when the fiction is purely that conceit that this pretends clan matriarch, Tilda, asks Cord and Sasha if they'd like to be a novelmove into the Pineapple Street property. If that was necessary Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to get it publishedanother property, a street or so away, then Iwhich they own. They won'll applaud t need any of the subterfugefurniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and Cord can move straight in. Nominally, because this is writing they had a choice but that needs to be readwasn't the reality. It is – if as true as I want it Darley and Georgiana start to be – a delicate reminiscence: a daughtercall Sasha 'the gold digger'. She's living in ''in memoriamtheir'' family home. They use it so often that they abbreviate it to a father she loved, worshipped, idealised, cared-for, lived with, and yes (in true daughterly fashion) at times, hated'the GD'. A father who was, therefore, a good dad. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907320695</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Elin HilderbrandEmily Critchley|title= Winter StormsOne Puzzling Afternoon|rating= 54|genre= General FictionCrime|summary= A 84 year is a long time old Edie has lived in the life of the Quinn family. So much can happen. For some people this can just be births and deaths and the same small town for almost her whole circle of life, but for the Quinn now she is facing a move as her son wants to move to another house and bring Edie to live with his family it's more love triangles, feloniesas Edie is starting to lose her memory. However, Edie is tormented by the memory of her childhood friend, drug dealers who stalk youLucy, ex-husbands who haunt youwent missing over 60 years ago, and business opportunities transplanted from the scorching Caribbean to worry that there was a secret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be the thing that reveals the cooler north east coast truth of Americawhat happened all that time ago. As spring leads to summer After 'seeing' Lucy in the high street, just as she was the last time she saw her, leads she starts to autumn leads find pockets of memories coming back to winter we follow her. And yet as she remembers the extended family on Nantucket past, she is forgetting more and more in nearby cities (Boston, Manhattan) and learn that as divisive as her day to day life can be, there are some ties that will always bind you. In this case Will she uncover the tie is called Barttruth about Lucy's disappearance before her move, and whatever else is happening, if he returns then everything else will all be ok.before her memories are gone forever?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473620570</amazonuk>1804181250

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Ross ArmstrongMadelaine Lucas|title= The WatcherThirst for Salt|rating= 45|genre= Thrillers Literary Fiction|summary= Lily Gullick lives with her husband Aiden in ''Love, I'd read, was supposed to be a new-build flat opposite an estate which has been marked light and weightless feeling, but I had always longed for demolition. A keen birdwatchergravity'' Told from a retrospective view, she can't help spying on a young woman unravels the year-long relationship that once defined her neighbours. Then one day Lily sees something suspicious through her binoculars and soon her elderly neighbour Jean is found dead. LilyOverlaid with later wisdom, intrigued by the social divide in narrator relives the affair with a man twenty years her local area as it becomes increasingly gentrified, knows that she has senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to actits sorrowful end the summer after. But Set against the backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the 24-year-old narrator's deepening relationship with her interference is not going unnoticedolder lover, depicting its all-consuming nature, how it changed her perspective on both romantic and as she starts to get close to the truth, familial relationships and how it altered her own life comes under threatirrevocably.But can Lily really trust everything she sees?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008181187</amazonuk>0861546490

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ryan North0008506337|title=Romeo and/or JulietThe Garnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore|rating=3.5|genre=HumourGeneral Fiction|summary=For The love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all those who think tragedy plots are too restricted and prescribed-consuming, read apparently onboth sides. In these pages you too will see Margo was just sixteen when they fell in love. Richard was twenty-one and described by Margo's mother as 'an older man'. Her parents worried that Romeo had lots of options en route Richard's influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to hitting the bottleOxford and having a glittering career. LikewiseIn the event, she could have turned they eloped and Richard took her away from her predestined path at no end the Isle of juncturesWight. And Margo did go to Oxford and went on to what result? become a well-respected journalist. WellThe couple had three children: Rachel, happy marriage Imogen and Sasha. Life was lived in London and a kid called Benholidays were spent at Sandcove, because the leads have just banged peoplefamily home on the Isle of Wight. Even then the doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's heads together and stopped the quarrelling, or Death by Tybalt (mind: ''she would never be able to leave him) or a long life running an establishment curing murderous women, such as a Lady M (her)in charge''. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356508536</amazonuk>Then Richard left them.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Henrietta Rose-Innes1914585402|title= NinevehDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Henritetta Rose-InneI reviewed David F Ross's book [[There's Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There'Nineveh'' instantly reassures you that you are in the presence s Only One Danny Garvey]] a couple of a confident years back and remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and talented writeraffecting it was. The story of Katya GrubbsIt was a gripping, a second generation pest exterminator who specialises in relocating the bugs and rodents that ruin middle-class garden partiesemotionally wounding read, Rose-Inne writes with the enviable ability of describing both the intricacies of Katya's job and the feeling rereading my review of it simultaneouslymy main takeaway was that I might not have lavished enough praise on it. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910709166</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sara Stridsberg and Deborah Bragan-Turner (translator)Lucy Ashe|title=The Gravity of LoveClara and Olivia

|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=Particularly literate cover… Setting of The year is 1933. The place? Sadler's Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, twins no less. Identical on the outside but not, we learn, on the inside. And not on stage, either. Because there's a lot that builds a real-life mental hospital dancer. Some things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, attention to detail – in Sweden… Mature themes… Opening with an emotion- and closure-laden death… Yessome things, that ''je ne sais quoi'', this book has more than its share of things to put that don't come from the potential reader offclassroom. WhichA stage presence, in this instancea charm, a ''joie de vivre''. The difference between a hard-worker, is quite and a large shame indeedstar.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857054767</amazonuk>0861544080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Steven BurgauerHeather Fawcett|title=The Road To War: Duty & Drill, Courage & CaptureEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

|genre=BiographyGeneral Fiction|summary=After World War II Bill Frodsham led Emily Wilde is an everyday life, raising a family in an ordinary US suburb. Heexpert academic scholar on faerie lore, his wife and children became friends with the Burgauer familyshe has travelled extensively, little Steven Burgauer knowing him as Mr F. Time rolls on and little Steven grows upresearched meticulously, and then eventually retires from the American financial sector to write science fiction her life's work, the very first encyclopaedia of faeries. Whilst she is brilliant at research and lecture from time speaking to timefaeries, she is not so good with people. He's therefore surprised So whenshe finds herself far, out far North in the small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the bluevillage matriarch, Mr F's daughter tracks him down she is not sure what she has done, nor how to redeem herself and presents him with a pile of handwritten notes asking Steven to make them into a put her final investigations for her bookback on the right track. These are Mr F's self-authored memoirsEnter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, stretching from his youth onwards all charm and showing that this seemingly gooddelight, kind but unremarkable man was anything but unremarkablemuch to Emily's frustration. During the war Mr F trained for the impossible and then lived it as But why is he led men across Omaha Beach on D Day. here? He was then captured and spent the rest of the war as a POW in inhumane conditions. What does he want? Steven accepted the request and ''The Road to War'' And what exactly is going on with the result: the life and war of Captain William C Frodsham Jr.faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1450218806</amazonuk>0356519120

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Linda Grant1398515388|title= The Dark CircleBoy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= It's 1949First of all, it was the earthquake, and with deep in the Second World War overocean floor, a new decade of recovery is beginning. For East End teenagers Lenny which created the tsunami and Miriamthis, life has been suspended. Diagnosed with tuberculosis, they are sent away to a sanatorium in Kentturn, to take caused the cure, submit to the way of the Doctorsnuclear meltdown. The result was complete and utter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, and learn the deferential way loss of the patientlivelihoods was widespread. Through doors newly opened by The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down 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 bluelist of priorities but -black curls. Trapped in a sterile closed environment, six months after the twins find themselves meeting air force officers, tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a car salesman, dog outside a university graduate, a mysterious German woman, convenience store. He wasn't a member of dog person but the Aristocracy, and, arriving convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to blast away their lethargic submission to authority - an American merchant seaman. Together they discover that a cure is tantalisingly just out of reach, open his car door and may only be gained through full scale rebellion.Tamon the dog jumped in..|amazonuk=<amazonuk>034900675X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author= Morgan McCarthyChristopher Bowden|title= The House of BirdsMr Magenta|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical General Fiction|summary=Oliver has spent years trying to convince himself that heChristopher Bowden's suited to latest novel is a life patient untangling of money making in the city, and that he doesn't miss a childhood spent in pursuit of mystery, when he cycled around the cobbled lanes of Oxford, exploring its most intriguing corners. When his girlfriend Kate inherits a derelict house - and a fierce family feud - sheseemingly ordinary woman's determined to strip itlife, sell it and move oncarried out by her nephew after she has died. For Oliver though, the house has an allure, and amongst the shelves of The aunt who always provided a discarded, leather bound safe harbour and gilded volumes, he discovers one that conceals a hidden diary from the 1920s. So begins a quest little bit of indulgence to discover the identity of the author, Sophia Louis. It is a portrait of war and marriage, isolation and longing and young nephew had had a story much more interesting life than that will shape the future of the abandoned house - nephew Stephen had ever realised and of Oliver - foreverit seems to him an obligation to find it all out.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472205847</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Christobel KentJennifer Mason|title=The Loving HusbandPartitions of Unity

|genre=Crime General Fiction|summary= When Fran met Nathan everyone assumed she was on the rebound from a lengthy stint Here at the mercy of Nick The Unsuitable. I imagine falling pregnant within those Bookbag Towers, we 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 met Elizabeth Cromwell, dominatrix and a move to an isolated farmhouse unintentional detective in the Fens[[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], Fran feels sure that her new role as home-maker when she investigated and mother, so very different from the London party-girl she used to be, is the right one for herunravelled a series of disappearances. So when Fran wakes in the middle In ''Partitions of the night to find NathanUnity''s side of the bed completely cold, she goes sets her mind to look for himsolving a murder.. Finding him bloodied and very much dead was most definitely not part of the bargain.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751562416</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sanjida O'ConnellWill Carver|title= Theory of MindThe Daves Next Door|rating= 3.54|genre= General Fiction|summary=Sandra works Five strangers come together in one moment as a suicide bomber prepares to detonate his vest on a zooLondon tube line. As their fates overlap, studying the minds of chimpanzeesstory is told in backwards order, mankindleading up to the fateful moment.|isbn= 1914585186}} {{Frontpage|author=Jennifer Mason|title=Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary='s nearest living relatives. Her involvment with the animals starts to affect her own relationships'A struggling poetry zine, a mom-and-pop mobile diner in particular that with her new boyfriend Corin. His energy stimulates herthe Northern California redwoods, his passion excites her and his work as a TV producer fascinates her400-meter hurdler who just missed the 2004 Olympics, but are his feelings reala women's track coach with a yen for bullwhips, or does he want to control her? As her feelings preoccupy her, Sandra continues her research into the emotions a billionaire with a state-of chimps and whether or not they are capable of empathy. During a visit to -the zoo-art S&M dungeon, Sandra meets a strange and isolated childman serving a life sentence in Alabama, Paulan enigmatic signature, son of one of the keepersK(s, and she also meets Kimx), on a scientist who has built cheap oil painting, an erotic art dealer in Georgia...'' This is just a killer instinct into sample of the robots she makescast of characters and settings in Preposterous. As Sandra worries about her friends and her relationshipyou can see, things race to a thrilling climax - putting much more than Sandra's emotions at risksome keeping up will be required! The basic premise of this mystery story goes like this... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1861515480</amazonuk>B09STS96HS

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Katarina BivaldB0B2N7MVYM|title= The Readers Calculations of Broken Wheel Recommend|rating= 4|genre= General Fiction|summary= The USA is an odd place at times, and not just during election season. There are all sorts of nooks 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 does, her pen-pal Amy. Invited by Amy to come for a visit, and with time on 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>}}{{newreviewRational Men|author=Sara Stewart|title=Whilst I Was OutDaniel Godfrey|rating=2.5|genre=General Fiction |summary= Sara StewartIt's debut novel, ''Whilst I Was Out'', opens with all the promise 10th of a book intent to delve head-December 1962 when we first into invention and oddnessmeet Dr Joseph Marr. The narrator of Just to put what happens in context, the story, Alice, Cuban missile crisis 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 reason. The scene opens with a mention of domestic abuse but seems much more interested still very fresh in the inherent malfunction of Alicepeople's husband as she describes his fixation with his bicycle and how her and their three children have taken a back seat to his 'finding himself' through affairs and cross-country cyclingminds.|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 world has barely had a bench, looking chance to breathe out to sea. They have big plans But for Joe Marr, but know it's not the missile crisis that whatever happens they will always be together. They dream 's at the front of a new life in America, each with a handsome husband and a happy familyhis mind. When Abigail He's mother dies unexpectedly, however, she is sent to live with her estranged sister in Devon, and the friends are torn apartbeen convicted of murder. Little does she realise that tragedy lies just around With the cornercurrent state of medical knowledge, and 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''last night'' will change everything forever. Decades later, in 2016s Bench, a shy furniture-restorer called Irina has been given an unusual commission: to restore an old bureau containing many hidden secretsrelatively new prison. As the two stories merge, curious Irina tries to piece together exactly what happened on the He''Last Night.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B01FTAPZS2</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Rory Gleeson|title= Rockadoon Shore|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=Cath is worried about her friends. DanDan is struggling with the death of his ex, Lucy is drinking way too much and Steph has become closed off. A weekend away is s just what they need. They travel out getting used to Rockadoon Lodgehis roommate, to the wilds in the west of Ireland. But the weekend doesn't go to plan. JJ is more concerned with getting high than spending time with themMervyn, while Merc is humiliated and seeks revenge. And when their elderly neighbour Malachy arrives on their doorstep in the dead learning to be wary of night with a gun in his hands, nothing will be the same again for any of themMcArthur brothers...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473634075</amazonuk>