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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Min Jin LeeOnyi Nwabineli|title= PachinkoAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= I have often said that much of what I know of Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, its geographythanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, history where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and politics, I have learned from reading story books. Because I learn this waybasically, I do wonder about people who profess not to read fictionmonetary gain. I wonder how much of the truth of how the world really Now Anuri is passes them by as a result. In the light of 2016 in the UK her twenties and the USA, I wonder if this she is a concern slowly trying to be added regain her confidence and to all of get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the others content about cuts her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to arts funding start her PhD, undergoing therapy and arts learning secretly abusing people online and the absolute necessity of having public libraries where children can start to choose receiving money from them for themselves at the earliest agedoing so. Most importantly, which stories to readshe is desperately worried about her little sister, uncensored by who is the views new focus of those who might think they know betterOphelia's online empire. I say all this because Pachinko is yet one more of those books that did not just make me think differently about what I thought I knew Can she save her sister, but actually opened up to me a world that I knew nothing about: and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the world of the ethnic Korean in Japan.same time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786691353</amazonuk>0861546873

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Shanthi Sekaran1529153298|title=Lucky BoyThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey

|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=Solimar wants more from her life than her Mexican home can offer It's 1979 and now sheMargaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's 18family, she can go find itthough. Women have been disappearing. Her target is Well, they've been murdered, but to get have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the USAfamily 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a target so blinding that she doesn't realise what reaching out for it will costfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. Meanwhile Kavya is living For Miv, the American dreammove would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. She's rich not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035906708|title=Diva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in friendshipManhattan, familyNew York, a loving husband in December 1923 and life prospects and yet Kavya has a baby-shaped hole 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 her worldthe States. The problem is When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that there's only one baby she could get appropriate training for both her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of them… Lucky boy!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0735212279</amazonuk>her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anne TylerAlexander McCall Smith|title=Vinegar GirlThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5

|summary=Kate Battista The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an odd alternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and not entirely satisfactory situationlook after the business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. At the age Katie is coming out of twenty nine she finds herself working as a teaching assistant ''break up with a bad boyfriend, and'' running so jumps at the chance to come home for her scientist father (who is eccentricto Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to say 44 Scotland Street and the least) and her younger sister BunnyIsabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who might be fifteen but is actually three going on thirtyquickly begin to charm. Dr Battista Katie has other problems no experience in running a business, or in match- making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and when he has a problem he offloads them onto Kate (hethere's concerned that she hasn't yet done his taxesalways her very helpful (and rather handsome). This time thoughneighbour, it's serious. PyotrWilliam, his brilliant young lab assistant, is in the USA on to lend a visa and it's about to expire. If that happens Dr Battista is convinced that he'll not be able to complete his work and all that he's done will be for nothing.hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099589877</amazonuk>1846976596

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Dawn O'PorterDean Koontz|title= The CowsBad Weather Friend|rating= 34.5|genre= General FictionParanormal|summary= Reading the blurb for this novelBenny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, the first novel for adults by author Dawn O'Porterhe loses his fiancee, I got very excitedand his house gets trashed. It talks about the cow being Oh, and someone has delivered a piece of meatreally weird, born disturbing coffin-sized object to breedhis home, one of and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the herdthing that has trashed his house! The thing is, and compares Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to womenhis house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, saying how they don't have who has been sent to fall into help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a stereotypegood person. I expected a slightly subversive novel about feminism. What I found was an easy Spike is going to readtake care of Benny, enjoyable romp through three modern womenand will certainly take care of Benny's livesenemies, if he, 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>0008126038</amazonuk>1662500491

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joanna TrollopeKatherine Howe|title=City of FriendsA True Account|rating=4.5

|summary=It would be unkind and certainly unfair Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to say that it was Stacey Grant's mother live with a family who was the cause of Stacey losing her job: she might well have been the trigger but it was her managerrun an inn, Jeff Dodds, who used her request and being made to work flexibly as an excuse to make her redundantthere from a young age. There was When she hears there is to be a lot hanging of ''support'' for Stacey - some pirates in the staff were as stunned as town, she wasdecides to go and watch. Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, but Hannah finds herself embroiled in terms a young boy's death at the hands of the people two vicious pirates. She hides away, so that they don't find and kill her too, and then to escape them completely she could rely onruns away to sea, there were just dressing as a few. Her mother was out of the equation : it was her dementia which started the problem boy and her husband Steve was wrapped up in joining the fact that henotorious Ned Low'd just been promoted to board level in his jobs pirate ship as a cabin boy. There ''were'' the girls: She soon finds herself in the four thick of them had met at University and Staceythings when there is a mutiny on board, Melissa, Beth and Gaby had been firm friends ever since. And from there was Bruno we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the dogocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509823476</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Su Bristow1471180158|title= SealskinMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating= 4.5|genre= Fantasy General Fiction|summary= Donald is Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a young fisherman, eking out man who's a lonely living on control freak with all the west coast subtlety of Scotland. One night he witnesses something miraculous .a half brick. Jamie's son, Bo, 'has his problems'. He's asthmatic and makes a terrible mistakethe more you read, the more you'll suspect that he's on the autistic spectrum. His action changes lives Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's a frequent flier in the local A&E and sometimes Bo's not only his own, but those of his family fit enough to go to school. Missed shifts or the need to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and the entire tightly knit community put in which they live. Can he ever atone for the wrong he has done, and can love grow when its foundation is violence?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910633607</amazonuk>. It was going to come to a head.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Cath WeeksB0CKD1L5JL|title= BlindRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= American ex-pat Twyla Petr is ready to be an orphan. Rescued by the perfect mother. She never dreamed her first child would be anything other than perfect himselfstrange, reclusive Bear, but when heis brought up far from bustling cities and busy human society, in the forests of Washington's born blind she is forced to re-evaluate her view of Olympic Peninsula. 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 forest, broadcasting the worldstrange, wild and rarely heard voices he encounters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349410631</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Rick BassSarah Marsh|title= For a Little WhileA Sign of Her Own|rating= 43.5|genre= Short StoriesGeneral Fiction|summary=''For After a bout of scarlet fever as a Little While'' is child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a collection world of twenty-five short stories from Rick Basssilence, everything about her life changes. As someone previously unacquainted with Bass' work this new collection Living in a time when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a wonderful introduction school where she is taught to his quirkylip read, unusual style which focuses on stripped backbut physically restrained from signing. From here, simple fables featuring often mundane situations, mysterious characters she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and magical experiencesusing a system called Visible Speech. The characters in each tale are beautifully crafted At the same time, Bell is working on other inventions and the stories are dreamyideas, loose narratives covering everything from love to death to choices made and chances takenEllen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782273042</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jem LesterB0BC3YTCMR|title= Shtum.Good Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Jonah Jewell ''This story is ten years old; he likes Marmite sandwichesnot 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, being outside and sticking exactly suffered from vitiligo - people were afraid to his routinehug her in case it's contagious. It's not easy being a black girl whose skin is 84% white. He cannot speak She had a crush on seventeen-year-old Reggie Anderson but never thought he would notice her. Then he communicates his wants did: Lavender was very good at math and needs clearlyReggie asked if she would tutor him. The adults in his life do nothing but speak but they do not communicate nearly as effectively as Jonah. While functioning from the outside, She readily agreed: tutoring was something she gladly did at church: this is the story of a family falling and tearing each other apartwas just an extension. Ben Jewell needs She went to fight for his son house and by doing so needs he raped her. In shock, she even allowed him to learn how to fight for himselfgive her a lift home. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409162982</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Alice Hoffman1472263936|title= FaithfulThe Figurine|author=Victoria Hislop|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction |summary= Growing up on Long Island, Shelby Richmond is an ordinary girl until one night an extraordinary tragedy changes It was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her fatefirst trip to Greece. Her best friend She was alone: her mother, Greek by birth, had left the family home and refused to return, but Mary and Hamish (Helena's future is destroyed in an accident, while Shelby walks away with the burden of guilt. What happens when a life is turned inside out? When love is something so distant parents) felt that it may as well would be a star in the sky? Moving from a life in pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her parents basement Greek heritage. Her trip to a life the family apartment in New York City, Shelby remains damaged by up-market Kolonaki would be the loss first of several annual visits. She grew to love her best friend, stumbling through life blindly grandmother and fighting desperately to become connected to anything at all. But, as she growsthe family's maid, she discovers emotionDina, survival but was wary - and happinessfrightened - of her grandfather, bundled up with dogs, food, books retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. He was proud of his close connections to the Junta and men sheexpected his family to uphold his values but saw no reason to accommodate them. His prejudices included Helena's probably best avoiding… Deep in New York City she find a circle of lost red hair and found souls, and the angel whogreen eyes - inherited from her father's been watching over her since that fateful night all those years ago…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471157717</amazonuk>Scottish ancestors.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Tim PearsDean Koontz|title= The HorsemanAfter Death|rating= 43|genre= General Fiction|summary= The Horseman feels like Michael Mace, Head of Security, at a novel written much earlier than 2016. This top secret biological research facility, is in large part because it among 55 people who die when a virus is set released in 1911 a bio-hazard accident. Finding himself in rural Somerset but also because Pears writes a makeshift mortuary, covered in plastic, he has a style which is reminiscent of authors in the twentieth centurysense that something very, if not very bad has happened to him – and only him – as he sits up and looks around at the nineteenthshrouded bodies of his dead friends and former colleagues. Readers who are hoping for action As he recovers his senses, pace 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|genre=General Fiction|summary=The village is isolated and suspense will be sorely disappointed in The Horseman, in which not poor. It's surrounded by a lot happens at all; Witching Forest. And the story could easily be condensed into a couple villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicines. The black wood of pages. Howeverthe forest provides heat and warmth, roofs on homes, and even gallows, if you have a rainy weekend needed. The fear of being buried alive is an existential superstition in the village and that is the reason Volushka, a cosy cottage somewheredrunken, Pears provides the perfect companionself-indulgent, giving readers an antidote to frenetic, twenty first century urban lifelazy lout of a man is tolerated. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1632866935</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Miguel Bonnefoy and Emily Boyce (translator)B0BYF82CXT|title=Octavio's JourneySemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone|rating=3.54|genre=Literary General Fiction |summary=Meet Octavio. He's 'Bill and Amanda are living in a large lunksemi-detached house, stuck in a gentle giantdepressing rut of boredom and disappointment, living alone in a lowly Venezuelan town when Terry and Fiona – a town which once, fleetinglyglamorous, had fame, fashion successful and success through a minor miracle, but has none any longervery much in love – move in next door. Octavio, it seems, has some unusual habits – here he is, marching off to the chemist's with a table across his back, for it was all the doctor had at the time to write a prescription Despite their different outlooks on. Now we never learn exactly what the cause of the prescription waslife, but we soon find out what the cause of the table is – Octavio cannot read, couples befriend each other and has learned nothing beyond cutting into his palm life appears to allow the wound to let him escape the need to writeimprove for both pairs. Until, that But all is, a woman not what it seems to suggest a way for him to learn to read and write, and to love – but that experience also proves to Octavio that there is a whole host of other things he can put his mind to, both for good, and their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for bad…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910477311</amazonuk>tragedy.''

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Charlie LaidlawShalini Boland|title= The Things We Learn When We're DeadSilent Bride|rating= 53|genre= General Fiction|summary= On the way to Alice and Seth are a dinner party, Lorna Love steps into the path of an oncoming carmatch made in heaven. Waking up in what appears to be a hospital, but a hospital in which wine He is served everything she has been searching for supper; handsome, accomplished, everyone avoids her questionsclever, funny; total and her nurse looks suspiciously like Sean Connery, it soon transpires that Lorna utter husband-material. She is all he could possibly want in Heavena wife; beautiful, orsuccessful, at least, on HVN. Because HVN confident… and so the inevitable proposal is a lost, dysfunctional spaceship, eagerly accepted by Alice and God the aging hippy captainwedding is planned and set. At first Lorna can remember nothing When the much-anticipated day arrives, but as Alice is walked down the aisle by her memories return – some good, some badfather, beaming with pride and excitement as she realises that she has a decision surveys the congregation – their friends assembled to make, celebrate this joyful day and that maybewhen Seth turns to face his approaching bride, Alice's world implodes because she needs has absolutely no idea who the man at the altar is, who is waiting for her to find a way home…become his wife.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786150352</amazonuk>1662507089

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Federico Axat1787636003|title= Kill the Next OneThe Girls of Summer|author=Katie Bishop|rating= 45|genre= ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary= After getting started with It was the opening chapters of Spanish writer, Federico Axat's ''Kill summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the Next One'island. Rachel wasn't exactly innocent but she was, perhaps, naive, you might be forgiven for thinking you are stuck with one of those machismo riddled tales where a middleso when thirty-aged man with a mysterious past is forced to shoot or blunder his way through a byfour-theyear-numbers thrillerold Alistair Wright started to take an interest in her, she was flattered rather than wary. The spectre It was quite a while before he made any sort of Lee Child's successful Jack Reacher series creeping in around the edges of the page. The novel opens with Ted McKay and his Browning pointed physical approach to his temple. He has the perfect life, including a beautiful wife her and two adoring children, but has discovered by that he is also in possession of an untreatable tumour buried deep within his brain which is slowly killing time she was obsessed by him. However Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, right before he decides to take looking after his interests on the shot island and end his life, there is a knock on his door. Standing behind it is a man named Justin Lynch who tells Ted that he represents an in particular in the bar where all-knowing organisation that turns would-be suicides into opportunities to correct the imbalances of the lawgirls either worked or partied. Ted, instead of killing himself, could kill someone who really deserves it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911231065</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Laurie FrankelAmanda Craig|title=This Is How It Always IsThree Graces|rating=4.5

|summary=Claude is Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the baby state-of -the family-nation novel. HeThere's very bright. He has a vocabulary way beyond his years something so he utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold his own in of the atmosphere of the rough day and tumble of a house containing four older brotherscapture it, crafting an emergency doctor mother and a writer father. Claude also likes to wear dresses. He wants to become a night fairy when he grows up. And image of the country as it stands in one day, Claude becomes Poppyparticular moment. He becomes To say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she. Poppy's parents, Penn and Rosie, aren't too concerned practically synonymous with the genre of contemporary social fiction at first - children all like to try on different identities and why should Claude/Poppy be any different? But it soon becomes clear that Poppy isn't play-acting at being a girlthis point. Poppy is a girl. And things get complicated...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472241584</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Alexandra Kleeman|title= You Too Can Have A Body Like Mine|rating= 4|genre= General Fiction|summary=A woman known only as A lives in an unnamed American city with her roommate, B, and boyfriend, C, who wants her to join him on She has such a reality dating show. A eats mostly popsicles and oranges, watches endless amounts of television, often just gift for weaving the commercials — particularly the recurring cartoon escapades ongoing issues of Kandy Kat, the mascot for an entirely chemical dessert — and models herself on an impossible standard of beauty. She fixates on day into the fifteen minutes lives of fame her characters in a local celebrity named Michael has earned after buying up a Wally's Supermarket's entire, way that feels natural and increasingly amplelived-in, supply of veal. Meanwhile, B is attempting to make herself a twin of A, who in turn hungers never making them ciphers for something to give meaning to her lifesocial commentary but instead fully realised people, something aside from C's pornography addictiongrappling with issues far larger than themselves. Maybe something like what's gotten into her neighbors across the street, the family who's begun ''ghosting'' themselves beneath white sheets with holes cut for eyes…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008210845</amazonuk>140871468X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tomoka Shibasaki and Polly Barton (translator)152915118X|title=Spring GardenPineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson

|genre=General Fiction |summary=Murakami, and (long before the film) Endo's ''SilencePineapple Street''is the story of three women: Sasha, Darley and Georgiana. That's my limit as regards contemporary Japanese writingDarley and George are sisters and Sasha is married to their brother Cord. But now thereThey's Tomoka Shibasakire Stocktons, and her noted work ''Spring Gardenonly Sasha isn't a Stockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the tribe. WhichThe problem's exacerbated when the clan matriarch, make no mistakeTilda, is definitely Japaneseasks Cord and Sasha if they'd like to move into the Pineapple Street property. For instanceTilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to another property, if I told you it starts with a man looking up to watch his female neighbour on her balconystreet or so away, and concerns obsession, you could well think it was his about herwhich they own. But no – perhaps only in They won't need any of the west is the gaze furniture from Pineapple Street, so maleSasha and Cord can move straight in. The obsession is very much hers here Nominally, and it – and they had a choice but that wasn't the novel – concern a singular housereality. And Darley and Georgiana start to call Sasha 'the very singular country gold digger'. She's living in ''their'' family home. They use it lives in, and so often that they abbreviate it to 'the changes it is going through…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782272704</amazonuk>GD'.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Laura KayeEmily Critchley|title= English AnimalsOne Puzzling Afternoon|rating= 54|genre= Literary FictionCrime|summary= When Mirka gets a job 84 year old Edie has lived in the same small town for almost her whole life, but now she is facing a country move as her son wants to move to another house in rural England, she has no idea of the struggle she faces and bring Edie to make sense of a very English couplelive with his family, and a way of life that as Edie is entirely alien starting to lose hermemory. Richard and Sophie are chaotic However, drunkenEdie is tormented by the memory of her childhood friend, frequently outrageous but also warmLucy, generous and kind to Mirkawho went missing over 60 years ago, despite their argumentative and turbulent marriage. Mirka is swiftly commandeered by Richard the worry that there was a secret she was keeping for his latest money-making enterprise, taxidermy, and soon surpasses him in skillLucy that somehow might be the thing that reveals the truth of what happened all that time ago. After a traumatic break two years ago with 'seeing' Lucy in the high street, just as she was the last time she saw her family in Slovakia, Mirka finds she starts to find pockets of memories coming back to her surprise that she is happy at Fairmont Hall. But when And yet as she tells Sophie that she is gayremembers the past, everything she values is put forgetting more and more in danger and her day to day life. Will she must learn uncover the hard way what she really believes in.truth about Lucy's disappearance before her move, and before her memories are gone forever?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140870823X</amazonuk>1804181250

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Rory GleesonMadelaine Lucas|title= Rockadoon ShoreThirst for Salt|rating= 4.5|genre= General Literary Fiction|summary=Cath is worried about ''Love, I'd read, was supposed to be a light and weightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravity'' Told from a retrospective view, a young woman unravels the year-long relationship that once defined her friends. DanDan is struggling Overlaid with later wisdom, the narrator relives the affair with a man twenty years her senior from its inception – the death of his ex, Lucy is drinking way too much and Steph has become closed off. A weekend away is just what they need. They travel out to Rockadoon Lodge, summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the wilds in summer after. Set against the west backdrop of Ireland. But an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the weekend doesn24-year-old narrator't go to plan. JJ is more concerned s deepening relationship with getting high than spending time with themher older lover, depicting its all-consuming nature, while Merc is humiliated how it changed her perspective on both romantic and seeks revenge. And when their elderly neighbour Malachy arrives on their doorstep in the dead of night with a gun in his hands, nothing will be the same again for any of them..familial relationships and how it altered her irrevocably.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473634075</amazonuk>0861546490

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Eliza Graham0008506337|title= Another Day GoneThe Garnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore|rating= 3.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=A single event from the past has the power to create a chainThe love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all-reaction that has powerful consequences consuming, apparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in the futurelove. This is a theme explored Richard was twenty-one and expanded upon in described by Margo's mother as 'Another Day Gone,an older 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 Richard took her away from the story Isle of sisters Sara Wight. Margo did go to Oxford and Polly whowent on to become a well-respected journalist. The couple had three children: Rachel, despite being close during childhood, have grown emotionally distant from one another after Polly discovers a devastating family secretImogen and Sasha. We join their story Life was lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, the point where family home on the prodigal sister, Polly, returns home after years Isle of no contact with her familyWight. Sarah contacts their old nanny Bridie in Even then the hope of piecing together the family mystery and unearthing the secrets before it is too late, but Bridiedoubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's memory is failing and some secrets may mind: ''she would never be lost foreverable to leave him in charge''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1503940039</amazonuk>Then Richard left them.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ruth Hogan1914585402|title=The Keeper of Lost ThingsDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross|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 in collecting I reviewed David F Ross's book [[There'lost thingss Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There' - things that were left behind on trains, in parks, or found in the gutter, s Only One Danny Garvey]] a couple of years back and he records each remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and every one carefully, in the hope that perhaps some day they can be reunited with their rightful owneraffecting it was. He writes stories about the items he findsIt was a gripping, becoming a published author. Howeveremotionally wounding read, as he grows older and starts to realise rereading my review of it my main takeaway was that he is dying, he knows he must hand over the task to someone else choosing his housekeeper, Laura, to take I might not have lavished enough praise on what is, to her, a completely unknown aspect of his lifeit.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473635462</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Mike GayleLucy Ashe|title= The Hope Family CalendarClara and Olivia|rating= 34.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Mr Tom Hope The year is becoming Mr No Hope1933. His wife has been killed in an accident, and heThe place? Sadler's now leftWells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, haplessly trying to bring up their two young daughterstwins no less. While his mother in law is a help in Identical on the outside but not, we learn, on the beginninginside. And not on stage, she soon adopts either. Because there's a cruel-lot that builds a dancer. Some things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, attention to-be-kind approach detail – and decides to leave him to itsome things, that ''je ne sais quoi'', knowing that don't come from the only way heclassroom. A stage presence, a charm, a ''joie de vivre''ll step up is if he has no choice in the matter. The difference between a hard-worker, and a star.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473608953</amazonuk>0861544080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nadiya HussainHeather Fawcett|title=The Secret Lives Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of the Amir SistersFaeries

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=The Amirs are dysfunctional: thereEmily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life's really no other way work, the very first encyclopaedia of putting itfaeries. They're of Bangladeshi origin Whilst she is brilliant at research and they're the only Muslim family speaking to faeries, she is not so good with people. So when she finds herself far, far North in the small village of Wyvernage. On Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the surface they look to be happyvillage matriarch, but actually each of the sisters she is struggling in not sure what she has done, nor how to redeem herself and put her final investigations for her own waybook back on the right track. For the most part they're doing it quietlyEnter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, but itmuch to Emily's not always the casefrustration. The eldest But why is Fatima. he here? Her name's often abbreviated to Fatti: it's not meant unkindly, but she's well upholstered and at thirty she's unmarried. What does he want? Even her mother doesn't seem to think that there's much point in trying to find a husband for her.And what exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008192251</amazonuk>0356519120

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jesse Loncraine1398515388|title=In The Boy and the FieldDog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating=34.5

|summary= ''In First of all, it 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 Field'' is essentially a story loss of two mothers who have been livelihoods was widespread. The fact that many pets were separated from their sons. Liz and her (adult) son Orin are both Western journalists, while Christine and her 12owners came far down the list of priorities but -yearsix months after the tsunami -old son Paul are from Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a remote village in East Africaconvenience store. After major surgery, Liz flies He wasn't a dog person but the convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to East Africa to find her son who has gone walkabout. At open his car door and Tamon the same time, Christine is mourning the loss of her own family: her husband has been killed and her son abducted by militiadog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910369179</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=PJ VanstonChristopher Bowden|title=Rasmus: A Television TaleMr Magenta

|summary=ItChristopher Bowden's all about the ratings in the world latest novel is a patient untangling of TVa seemingly ordinary woman's life, carried out by her nephew after she has died. Therefore the BBC, part The aunt who always provided a safe harbour and a little bit of the British televisual establishment since TV was invented, feels it has nothing indulgence 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 young nephew had had a plan much more interesting life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and some savagely innovative ideas; nothing can stand in his wayit seems to him an obligation to find it all out.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785893610</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jere KrakoffJennifer Mason|title=Something Is Rotten in Fettig: A SatirePartitions of Unity|rating=4.5

|summary=Leopold Plotkin finds himself Here at Bookbag Towers, we first met Elizabeth Cromwell, dominatrix and unintentional detective in some very hot water [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], when he initiates the Mud Crisis. Leopold inherited the family butcher's shop she investigated and he is unravelled a very good and skilled butcherseries of disappearances. But he doesnIn ''Partitions of Unity't like people watching him work and is generally lacking in social skills. The shop's trade suffers and Leopold decides , she sets her mind to cover the window with mud so that no-one can see insidesolving a murder...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1681141973</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Will Carver|title=The BoyDaves 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=Wytske VersteegJennifer Mason|title=Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery|rating=54

|summary=Kito was ''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 withdrawn child. It was difficult yen for his parentsbullwhips, a billionaire with a state-of-the-art S&M dungeon, especially his mothera man serving a life sentence in Alabama, to reach him. Like many children who turn inwardsan enigmatic signature, K(s, x), on a cheap oil painting, he struggled to make friends at schoolan erotic art dealer in Georgia. And those he did make seemed only to use him for access to his games consoles. His dark skin also marked him out for bullying. Kito went missing after '' This is just a class trip to sample of the beachcast of characters and settings in Preposterous. His body was discovered when it washed As you can see, some keeping up on the sandwill be required! The basic premise of this mystery story goes like this.. Kito had drowned.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908446501</amazonuk>B09STS96HS

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jodi PicoultB0B2N7MVYM|title=Small Great ThingsThe Calculations of Rational Men|author=Daniel Godfrey

|summary=Ruth Jefferson is a nurse. She looks after new mothers and their babies and sheIt's the sort 10th of nurse that you hope you'll encounter December 1962 when it's your turn, or the turn of anyone close to youwe first meet Dr Joseph Marr. She cares and she's good at her jobJust to put what happens in context, the Cuban missile crisis is still very good, fresh in factpeople's minds. Turk and Brittany Bauer and their new son, Davis, were under her care, only Turk took strong exception to Ruth having anything The world has barely had a chance to do 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 Bauerbreathe out.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444788000</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Karen Jennings|title= Travels With My Father|rating= 4|genre= General Fiction |summary= Despite the coda But for Joe Marr, this does not feel like it''an autobiographical novel''. I am s not sure why Jennings felt the need to couch it in those terms unless there is much in missile crisis that's at the structure that is fictionfront of his mind. IHe'm hoping there isn'ts been convicted of murder. I am hoping that With the fiction is purely that conceit that this pretends current state of medical knowledge, it's hard to be a novel. If think otherwise than that was necessary to get it published, then Ithe prosecution would never have been brought but Joe Marr has spent his first few days in HMP Queen'll applaud the subterfuges Bench, because this is writing that needs to be reada relatively new prison. It is – if as true as I want it to be – a delicate reminiscence: a daughterHe's ''in memoriam'' just getting used to a father she loved, worshipped, idealised, cared-forhis roommate, lived withMervyn, and yes (in true daughterly fashion) at times, hated. A father who was, therefore, a good dadlearning to be wary of the McArthur brothers. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907320695</amazonuk>