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|summary= The Labour Party has split in two. So have Anuri spent her childhood on display to the Conservatives. The smaller parties have descended into squabbling world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and internal strife, basically, monetary gain. Brexit negotiations have trundled on Now Anuri is in dribs her twenties and drabsshe is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, held up at every turn by a slowsuing her step-moving mother to take down the content about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and mostly unwilling Europereceiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785630342</amazonuk>0861546873

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Dan Mooney1529153298|title= Me, Myself and ThemThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= As witty as it It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is unsettlingPrime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, 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'. When you're from Yorkshire, Dan Mooney offers Down South is a story with frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the potential move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to open up public conversation around mental health and prevent that. She's not worried about the human response dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to distress and traumaanyone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785079255</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Paula McGrath1035906708|title= A History of Running AwayDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating= 24.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= There's a point early on in Paula McGrath's novel where I had that pleasant feeling We tend to think of discovering a newMaria Callas as Greek, exciting author who but she was going born to take me Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in a multitude of different directionsDecember 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. This feeling is fading fast after 40 pages Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the States. By 60 pages I'm scrabbling around When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for redeeming features her voice - maybe some of she was raised under the characters introduced earlier Nazi occupation by a mother who have all mysteriously disappeared will reappear mercilessly exploited her and administer life support. After 100 pages all hope is lost and I just want to finish the damn thingmade no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473641780</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sheena KalayilAlexander McCall Smith|title=The Bureau of Second ChancesPerfect Passion Company|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=Recently widowed, with The Perfect Passion Company is a grown-up daughter forging her own life abroaddating agency in Edinburgh, London-based optometrist Thomas Imbalil takes early retirement run by Ness and returns operating as an alternative to his native Indiaall the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. After a short period enjoying Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the peace of his house overlooking the Arabian Seabusiness, he agrees as Ness is planning to take a trip to commute Canada to the city get away for a few months while. Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the chance to come home to look after Chacko's Optical Store Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to help out an old friendEdinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Thomas soon discovers that the eager young assistant Rani is Katie has no experience in running another a business on the side, or in match-making, but he agrees to turn a blind eye and leave it to his friend to deal with on his return. HoweverNess has full confidence in her abilities, it stirs up thoughts and doubts within Thomas and before long hethere's involved whether he wants always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to be or not.lend a hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846973929</amazonuk>1846976596

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Simon EdgeDean Koontz|title= The Hopkins ConundrumBad Weather Friend|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction Paranormal|summary= Tim Cleverley inherits Benny is having a failing pub in Walesterrifically bad day. He loses his job, which he plans loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to rescue by enlisting an American pulp novelist to concoct an entirely fabricated mystery about Gerard Manley Hopkinshis home, who composed 'and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The Wreck of thing is, Benny is the Deutschland'' nearbyvery last person to deserve all this bad luck. In Victorian England, Gerard Manley Hopkins lives He is a life full of confusion and contradiction, but discovers a calling nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for poetry Benny it turns out that threatens the delivery to overrule his calling house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to Godhelp him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. And Spike is going to take care of Benny, speaking and will certainly take care of GodBenny's enemies, if he, Benny, Five nuns leave persecution to travel to and Harper (a new world – only to find themselves in more trouble that waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they could ever have imagined… are.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785630334</amazonuk>1662500491

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Benjamin LudwigKatherine Howe|title= The Original Ginny MoonA True Account|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= To GinnyHannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to live with a child with autismfamily who run an inn, the word Forever means until the police comeand being made to work there from a young age. Five years ago When she hears there is to be a hanging of some pirates in the police forcibly removed her from the home of her abusive birth mothertown, Gloriashe decides to go and watch. Now fourteen, Enthralled and horrified in her fourth Forever Homeequal measure, Ginny remains hell-bent on finding her way back to GloriaHannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's apartment. She has no illusions about her mother's addictions or lack death at the hands of parenting skillstwo vicious pirates. She knows hides away, so that it might be dangerous – that it might even they don't find and kill her. Still too, and then to escape them completely she plotsruns away to sea, obsessed with returning to Gloriadressing as a boy and joining the notorious Ned Low's to find something she insists she left behind, something she hid under her bedpirate ship as a cabin boy. Her teachers, therapist She soon finds herself in the thick of things when there is a mutiny on board, and new Forever Parents from there we are caught up in turn frustrated, infuriated, and perplexed. As Gloria returns to her rip roaring tale of life, on the reader follows Ginny on a journey filled with danger and discovery, in her quest to find a place she can truly call her Forever Homeocean waves. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848456611</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Harriet Cummings1471180158|title=We All Begin As StrangersMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=In the summer of 1984Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a Chilterns village was gripped man who's a control freak with fear and suspicion as a mysterious intruder known as ''The Fox'' broke into all the homes subtlety of several residents in the areaa half brick. Despite an increased police presence Jamie's son, regular patrols and vigilante groupsBo, this slippery character still managed to evade detection. A huge police 'has his problems'Foxhunt. He'' followed, s asthmatic and finallythe more you read, forensic evidence led to the eventual capture of more you'll suspect that he's on the perpetratorautistic spectrum. This real Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice -life news story sparked she's a frequent flier in the imagination of a young Harriet Cummings, who went local A&E and sometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to school. Missed shifts or the need to be away on time to create a fictional version of events, which invites pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the reader wrong. It was going to come to turn detective and try and unmask ''The Fox'' from a range of possible suspectshead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409169049</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Val HarrisB0CKD1L5JL|title=Hunting GroundRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn

|summary=Nyara Camp Petr is one of an orphan. Rescued by the newest camps strange, reclusive Bear, he is brought up far from bustling cities and busy human society, in the Masai Mara and itforests of Washington's run by James and Alexia SackvilleOlympic Peninsula. The guests might sleep After Bear dies and a brief sojourn in tentshuman company, but it's still luxury accommodation in anybody's book. Chui Campand armed with only a pirate radio transmitter, Petr goes on a journey through the other handforest, sticks with broadcasting the traditional way that safaris were runstrange, including bucket showers. Owner Ralph Somerton is convinced that's what the guests ''should'' want wild and rarely heard voices he won't listen to any of his wife Tessa's suggestions for updating the tired venue. It's beginning to be reflected in the profits Chui makes, but instead of upping his own game Somerton would rather see Nyara as unfair competition and it's only a small step from that reasoning to looking at ways of ensuring Nyara's failureencounters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0955599717</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Dominic SmithSarah Marsh|title= The Last Painting A Sign of Sara de VosHer Own|rating= 3.5|genre= Historical General Fiction|summary= If you find the techniques used by Rembrandt and Vermeer fascinating, ''The Last Painting After a bout of Sara de Vos'' provides scarlet fever as a masterclass in how to work up child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a canvas in stages. Framing the novel as the story world of a seventeenth century Dutch paintingsilence, Dominic Smith vividly sketches out the main contours of his characters and the three time periods they inhabit before we are even one fifth of the way througheverything about her life changes. Sara is one of Living in a time when the few women artists use of the period and her painting sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is of children skating on sent to a frozen canalschool where she is taught to lip read, her now dead daughter its central figurebut physically restrained from signing. The painting From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been in Marty de Groot's family since before Isaac Newton was born teaching the deaf and he is the patent lawyer from whom it is stolen in 1950s Manhattanusing a system called Visible Speech. Ellie Shipley forged a copy of At the painting in her postgraduate student years same time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, and in 2000 Ellen finds herself at the centre of unwittingly caught up in a gathering storm which threatens to destroy her reputation as one complicated tangle of Sydney's foremost fine art academics. Satisfying though those first descriptions are, we then understand these are merely the author's equivalent of the delicate chalk lines used by painters of the Dutch Golden Age to mark out the composition which will followespionage. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>192526680X</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Stewart O'NanB0BC3YTCMR|title= Last Night at the LobsterGood Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=The Red Lobster seafood restaurant chain ''This story is closing some not for everyone.'' Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of its poorly-performing branches just before Christmasher fifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. Amid the Christmas lights She was a very bright student, a bit too nerdy if truth be told, office parties and forced jollity Manny DeLeon, the manager of one of these failing outlets, has suffered from vitiligo - people were afraid to keep hug her in case it all together for one last day's contagious. It's not easy being a black girl whose skin is 84% white. Short She had a crush on seventeen-year-handed, with most of the staff who've bothered old Reggie Anderson but never thought he would notice her. Then he did: Lavender was very good at math and Reggie asked if she would tutor him. She readily agreed: tutoring was something she gladly did at church: this was just an extension. She went to turn up facing unemploymenthis house and he raped her. In shock, he tries she even allowed him to make the best of give her a bad joblift home.}} {{Frontpage|isbn=1472263936|title=The Figurine|author=Victoria Hislop|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. She was alone: her mother, all Greek by birth, had left the while family home and refused to return, but Mary and Hamish (Helena's parents) felt that it would be a pity if Helena grew up without knowing this will her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. Her trip to the family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be the last day he'll spend with first of several annual visits. She grew to love her grandmother and the waitress he shouldnfamily't still be in love withs maid, Dina, but was wary - and frightened - of her grandfather, particularly not now heretired general Stamatis Papagiannis. He was proud of his close connections to the Junta and expected his family to uphold his values but saw no reason to accommodate them. His prejudices included Helena's about to be a dad. Oh, red hair and theregreen eyes - inherited from her father's a blizzard on the wayScottish ancestors.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1760293865</amazonuk>

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

|summary= Michael The village is isolated and Lizzie are a writer–journalist couple from New York City; Finn and Taylor live with their ten-year-old daughter, Snow, in Portland, Maine, where Finn (an old flame of Lizziepoor. It's) owns surrounded by a restaurantWitching Forest. After meeting up And the villagers subsist largely by chance farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicines. The black wood of the forest provides heat and warmth, roofs on a trip to London last yearhomes, they decide to go away together for a proper holiday in Italyand even gallows, to the Sicilian island if needed. The fear of Siracusa via Rome. In alternating chapters, being buried alive is an existential superstition in the narrative moves fluidly between the perspectives of village and that is the four adultsreason Volushka, all of whom are reflecting – with the help of hindsight and therapy – on what ended up being a disastrous trip. Although we don't learn until very late on in the book exactly what went wrongdrunken, self-indulgent, there's lazy lout of a sense that it might be something to do with Snowman is tolerated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786071541</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Caro FraserB0BYF82CXT|title= The Summer House PartySemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction |summary= In the gloriously hot summer of 1936''Bill and Amanda are living in a semi-detached house, stuck in a group depressing rut of people meet at a country house party. Within three yearsboredom and disappointment, England will be at warwhen Terry and Fiona – glamorous, but for now, time stands stillsuccessful and very much in love – move in next door. Dan Ranscombe is clever and good-lookingDespite their different outlooks on life, but he resents the wealth couples befriend each other and easy savoir-faire of fellow guest, Paul Latimerlife appears to improve for both pairs. Surely a shrewd girl like Meg Slater would see through that, wouldn't she? And But all is not what about Diana, Paul's beautiful sisterit seems, Charles Asher, the Jewish outsider, Madeleine, restless and dissatisfied with her role as children's nanny? And artist Henry Haddon, their host, no longer young, but secure in his power as a practised seducerincreasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy. As these guests gather, none has any inkling the choices they make will have fateful consequences, lasting through the war and beyond. Or that the first unforeseen event will be a shocking death… |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786691485</amazonuk>''

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anna PitoniakShalini Boland|title=The FuturesSilent Bride|rating=43|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=When we first meet Evan Peck, he Alice and Seth are a match made in heaven. He is everything she has just started at Yale Collegebeen searching for; handsome, where he plays ice hockey. Like lots of the other playersaccomplished, he is actually Canadianclever, from smallfunny; total and utter husband-town British Columbiamaterial. One night after She is all he could possibly want in a party Evan meets Julia Edwards at their dorm wife; beautiful, successful, confident… and so the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and the wedding is planned and they go out for pizzaset. She technically has a boyfriend from When the much-anticipated day arrives, Alice is walked down the aisle by her Boston boarding school daysfather, but they soon break up beaming with pride and before long Julia excitement as she surveys the congregation – their friends assembled to celebrate this joyful day and Evan have become inseparablewhen Seth turns to face his approaching bride, Alice's world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the man at the altar is, as they will remain who is waiting for the rest of their college yearsher to become his wife.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0718184564</amazonuk>1662507089

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lizzy Mumfrey1787636003|title=Fall OutThe Girls of Summer|author=Katie Bishop

|summary=CharltonIt was the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the island. Rachel wasn's the sort of village where people aspire t exactly innocent but she was, perhaps, naive, so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to livetake an interest in her, despite its apparent ordinarinessshe was flattered rather than wary. There's the usual mix It was quite a while before he made any sort of commuters (it's not ''too'' far from London) physical approach to her and those who make their lives in the villageby that time she was obsessed by him. Richard Hughes is a commuterAlistair worked for Henry Taylor, but looking after his wife Jessica works at interests on the island and in particular in the local academy, bar where both their children all the girls either worked or partied.}}{{Frontpage|author=Amanda Craig|title=Three Graces|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary= Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of- Alfie and Hannah the- are pupilsnation novel. Pete Cole is a newly-promoted police superintendent There's something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the atmosphere of the day and clearly still fond of his voluptuous wifecapture it, Susie. Actually, some crafting an image of that voluptuousness might be better described the country as fat - Pete suspects it stands in one particular moment. To say that he might need longer arms to hug her before long. Less popular Amanda Craig is Gary Webber. Heskilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's practically synonymous with the sort genre of man who causes people to heave contemporary social fiction at this point. She has such a sigh gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the day into the lives of relief when he joins someone else her characters in a way that feels natural and lived-in, never making them ciphers for a drink at the golf clubsocial commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1911079840</amazonuk>140871468X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Clare Fisher152915118X|title= All the Good ThingsPineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Nature, nurture, chance and circumstance; all combine to produce ''Pineapple Street'' is the story of Bethany Mitchellthree women: Sasha, a young adult who writes from her prison cellDarley and Georgiana. Darley and George are sisters and Sasha is married to their brother Cord. We know They're Stocktons, only that Sasha isn't a Stockton by birth so she has committed a isn'bad thingt readily accepted into the tribe. The problem's exacerbated when the clan matriarch, a bad thing that she sees as Tilda, asks Cord and Sasha if they'd like to move into the end of her storyPineapple Street property. Armed with Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to another property, a simple taskstreet or so away, which they own. They won't need any of the furniture from Pineapple Street, Erikaso Sasha and Cord can move straight in. Nominally, they had a psychologist, sets out choice but that wasn't the reality. Darley and Georgiana start to challenge thiscall Sasha 'the gold digger'. She asks Beth simply 's living in ''their'' family home. They use it so often that they abbreviate it to compile a list of all 'the good things in her lifeGD'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>024127575X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Robert HarrisEmily Critchley|title= ConclaveOne Puzzling Afternoon|rating= 4|genre= General FictionCrime|summary= It 84 year old Edie has lived in the same small town for almost her whole life, but now she is hard facing a move as her son wants to believe that Harris has managed move to another house and bring such pace Edie to live with his family, as Edie is starting to lose her memory. However, Edie is tormented by the often lengthy memory of her childhood friend, Lucy, who went missing over 60 years ago, and complex process of the worry that there was a conclave, but he has wrung out every piece secret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be the thing that reveals the truth of mystery and what happened all that time ago. After 'seeing' Lucy in the result had me reading through long into high street, just as she was the nightlast time she saw her, she starts to find pockets of memories coming back to her. I simply could not put this down And yet as she remembers the past, she is forgetting more and more in her day to day life. Will she uncover the truth about Lucy's disappearance before her move, and before her memories are gone forever?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784751839</amazonuk>1804181250

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Suzanne LealMadelaine Lucas|title= The Teacher's SecretThirst for Salt|rating= 4.5|genre= General Literary Fiction|summary= Terry has been teaching at his suburban Australian junior school ''Love, I'd read, was supposed to be a light and weightless feeling, but I had always longed for yearsgravity'' Told from a retrospective view, a young woman unravels the year-long relationship that once defined her. Everyone knows himOverlaid with later wisdom, heck half the kids in his class have parents who were former pupils of his. He's an institution. You know narrator relives the sort. And he does not take kindly to affair with a new young upstart showing up and trying man twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to meddleits sorrowful end the summer after. HeSet against the backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the 24-year-old narrator's not nasty about deepening relationship with her older lover, depicting its all-consuming nature, how it, but changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and how it rubs him up the wrong wayaltered her irrevocably.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785079077</amazonuk>0861546490

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Diney Costeloe0008506337|title= The Married Garnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical General Fiction|summary=WynsdownThe love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, 1949apparently on both sides. In the small Somerset village of Wynsdown, Charlotte Shepherd is happily married to farmer Billy Margo was just sixteen when they fell in love. She arrived from Germany on the Kindertransport Richard was twenty-one and described by Margo's mother as a child during the war and now feels settled in her adopted home'an older man'. Meanwhile, the squire Her parents worried that Richard's fighter pilot son, Felix, has returned influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to the village with Oxford and having a fiancée in towglittering career. Daphne is beautiful In the event, charming... they eloped and harbouring secrets. After meeting during Richard took her away from the war, Felix knows some Isle of Daphne's past, but she has worked hard Wight. Margo did go to Oxford and went on to conceal that which could unravel her carefully built lifebecome a well-respected journalist. For Charlotte The couple had three children: Rachel, tooImogen and Sasha. Life was lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, a dangerous past is coming back in the shape family home on the Isle of fellow refugee, bad boy Harry BlackWight. Forever bound by their childhoods, Charlotte will always care for him, but Harry Even then the doubts about Richard's return disrupts the village quiet and itdrinking were never far from Margo's not long before gossip spreads. The war may have ended, but for these girls, trouble is only just beginning.mind: ''she would never be able to leave him in charge''. Then Richard left them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784976121</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= J S Rais-Daal1914585402|title= Purple FlameDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction |summary=Life hasnI reviewed David F Ross't been easy for teenager Zach Ford. He just lost his entire family to a freak car accident, and hes book [[There's Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's barely keeping himself together. Each day is more gruelling than the last, but for Zach, it goes much deeper than the pressure Only One Danny Garvey]] a couple of exams years back and the threats of bullies and teachers at school. Zach has a secret power that many seek remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and a few would kill for. He is possessed by a demon, but the demon has a purpose: revenge on the people responsible for Zach's pain. As affecting it turns out, the car accident that killed his family wasn't so accidentalwas. Every tragic thing that's happened to Zach recently has been carefully orchestrated with one mistake — Zach It was supposed to die in the accident, too. Since he didn't, he has become a targetgripping, but the demon inside won't let him go quietly. Zach will fightemotionally wounding read, even if his behaviour leaves him alone and struggling. He'll get his vengeance, but rereading my review of it my main takeaway was that I might not have lavished enough praise on it soon becomes apparent this supernatural battle goes back a lot longer than Zach's lifetime. Something ancient now festers, and a final battle brews amidst Heaven and Hell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524678872</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Justin HugglerLucy Ashe|title=The Return HomeClara and Olivia|rating= 34.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= The uniqueness of a boyhood spent growing up in Jersey year is conveyed in some memorable imagery in this novel1933. The place? Sadler's Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, intersecting twins no less. Identical on the German wartime occupation of the islandoutside but not, we learn, on the Afghan resistance to the Russians in the 1980s and present day conflict in Syriainside. Ben, now working internationally for a human rights advocacy organisationAnd not on stage, flits back and forth between reflections on his boyhood and his adult selfeither. He is both attempting to solve the mystery of what became of his uncle Jack, who had Because there's a brief but lasting impact on him as lot that builds a childdancer. Some things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, and trying to decide how attention to save his disintegrating marriage. For the first few chapters I enjoyed these time shifts back detail – and forthsome things, that ''je ne sais quoi'', advancing with Ben in understanding that don't come from the meaning of events which as an eight year old he could only partly graspclassroom. Ben also develops A stage presence, a deepening appreciation of the choices he has made in lifecharm, such as his choice of careera ''joie de vivre''. The difference between a hard-worker, by examining the influences on his childhood selfand a star.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780722028</amazonuk>0861544080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anita ShreveHeather Fawcett|title=Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life's work, the very first encyclopaedia of faeries. Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, she is not so good with people. So when she finds herself far, far North in the small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the village matriarch, she is not sure what she has done, nor how to redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on the right track. Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, much to Emily's frustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|isbn=0356519120}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1398515388|title=The Stars are FireBoy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)

|summary=Meet GraceFirst of all, it was the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and this, in turn, caused the nuclear meltdown. She's not exactly trapped in a loveless marriage, but something like itThe result was complete and utter devastation. She has no real way away from the kitchen sinkThe deaths were uncountable, and two very young children to care for while her husband is a civil engineerthe loss of livelihoods was widespread. Her motherThe fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of priorities but -insix months after the tsunami -law hates her, but she has a great relationship with Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a girlfriend neighbour – except said friend Rosie has dog outside a wondrous love life, while Grace's experience with sex is getting worse and worseconvenience store. Things deteriorate when GraceHe wasn't a dog person but the convenience store owner's husband, Gene, loses comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his mother, car door and retreats from intimacy even further. The small community around Grace – and an endless rain shower – are closing Tamon the dog jumped in around her. But what would happen to her and those she cares for if a real disaster were to occur?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408702983</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jill SantopoloChristopher Bowden|title= The Light We LostMr Magenta|rating= 3.54|genre= General Fiction|summary=11th September 2001. Lucy and Gabe meet in New York on a day that will change their lives – and the world – forever. As the city burns behind them, they kiss for the very first time. Over the next thirteen years they are torn apart, then brought back together, time and time again. ItChristopher Bowden's latest novel is a journey patient untangling of dreamsa seemingly ordinary woman's life, of desires, of jealousy, of forgiveness – and above all, lovecarried out by her nephew after she has died. As Lucy is faced with The aunt who always provided a devastating choice, she wonders whether their love is safe harbour and a matter little bit of destiny or chanceindulgence to a young nephew had had a much more interesting life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and it seems to him an obligation to find it all out.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008224560</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Allie RogersJennifer Mason|title= Little GoldPartitions of Unity|rating= 54|genre= General Fiction|summary= The heat is oppressive Here at Bookbag Towers, we first met Elizabeth Cromwell, dominatrix and storms are brewing unintentional detective in Brighton in the summer of 1982. Little Gold[[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], a boyish girl on the brink of adolescence, is struggling with the reality of her broken family when she investigated and unravelled a home descending into chaos. Her only refuge is the tree at the end series of her gardendisappearances. Into her fractured life steps elderly neighbour, Peggy Baxter. The connection between the two is instant, but just when it seems that Little Gold has found solace, outsiders appear who seek to take advantage In ''Partitions of her frail family in the worst way possible. In an era when so much is hard to speak aloudUnity'', can Little Gold share enough of she sets her life mind to avert disaster? And can Peggy Baxter, solving a woman running out of time and with her own secrets to bear, recognise the danger before it's too late?murder...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1787199959</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Meg HowreyWill Carver|title= The WanderersDaves Next Door|rating= 34|genre= General Fiction |summary= Set Five strangers come together in the near future, NASA one moment as a suicide bomber prepares to send three astronauts detonate his vest on a London tube line. As their fates overlap, the story is told in backwards order, leading up to space to put the first humans on Marsfateful moment. Helen Kane|isbn= 1914585186}} {{Frontpage|author=Jennifer Mason|title=Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=''A struggling poetry zine, Yoshi Tanakaa mom-and-pop mobile diner in the Northern California redwoods, and Sergei Kuznetsov are a 400-meter hurdler who just missed the trio selected 2004 Olympics, a women's track coach with a yen for bullwhips, a billionaire with a state-of-the mission-art S&M dungeon, but they must first prove themselves by spending seventeen months a man serving a life sentence in Alabama, an enigmatic signature, K(s, x), on a simulation that mirrors conditions on Marscheap oil painting, an erotic art dealer in Georgia... Each '' This is just a sample of the astronauts has their own reason for taking part cast of characters and settings in the mission and their relationships with their families Preposterous. As you can see, some keeping up will be put to the ultimate test as they begin required! The basic premise of this mystery story goes like this journey of discovery and escapism...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471146650</amazonuk>B09STS96HS

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lisa McInerneyB0B2N7MVYM|title= Blood MiraclesThe Calculations of Rational Men|author=Daniel Godfrey|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Like all twenty-year-oldsIt's the 10th of December 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marr. Just to put what happens in context, Ryan Cusack the Cuban missile crisis is trying still very fresh in people's minds. The world has barely had a chance to get his head around who he isbreathe out. This is But for Joe Marr, it's not a good time for the missile crisis that's at the front of his boss mind. He's been convicted of murder. With the current state of medical knowledge, it's hard to exploit think otherwise than that the prosecution would never have been brought but Joe Marr has spent his dual heritage by opening first few days in HMP Queen's Bench, a relatively new black market route from Italy prison. He's just getting used to Ireland. It is certainly not a good time for his adored girlfriend roommate, Mervyn, and learning to decide he's irreparably corrupted. And he really wishes he hadn't accidentally caught be wary of the eye of an ornery grandmother who fancies herself his saviourMcArthur brothers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444798898</amazonuk>