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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Ann O' LoughlinOnyi Nwabineli|title= The Ludlow Ladies' SocietyAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating= 34.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=''The Ludlow Ladies' Society'' is the story of two women and their struggle Anuri spent her childhood on display to come to terms with the terrible tragedies in their lives. Connie Carter arrives at Ludlow Hallworld, a property she has inherited in Ireland, with no clue as to what thanks to expect. The closeher step-knit community are curious about mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri'The Americans childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and,'' who seems basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to have no desire get her life back, suing her step-mother to integrate herself into take down the communitycontent about her. Nearby Anuri is battling alcoholism, lives Evefailing to start her PhD, a widowundergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who formerly lived at Ludlow Hallis the new focus of Ophelia's online empire. She Can she save her sister, too, has painful memories and scars that are slow to heal, but as she begins to form a friendship perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the reclusive Connie, the two form a bond that will help them both face their grief together.same time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785301276</amazonuk>0861546873

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Tina Seskis1529153298|title= The HoneymoonList of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating= 45|genre= ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary= For as long as she can rememberIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, Jemma has they've been planning the perfect honeymoonmurdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. A fortnight Miv's upset because she's retreat overheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a five-star resort in frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the Maldivesmove would mean leaving her best friend, complete with luxury villasSharon, personal butlers and absolute privacyshe'll do anything to prevent that.It should be paradise. But it She's turned into a nightmare. Because the man Jemma married a week ago has just disappeared from not worried about the island without a trace. And now her perfect new life is vanishing just as quickly before dangers or that her eyes. After everything theyMum've been through together, how can this be happening? Is there s stopped talking - to anyone on the island who Jemma can trust? And above all - where has her husband gone? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405917970</amazonuk>.

{{newreview <!-- remove 17/6 -->Frontpage|authorisbn=Hugo Driscoll1035906708|title=Seven Days with YouDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=34.5

|summary=There We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was little in eighteen-year-old Sean Johnson's life born to give him joy. He was a farmhand Greek parents in the small town of Bloxford and the highlights of his life were his daily chats with his friend TomManhattan, New York, helping out at the animal sanctuary in December 1923 and a trip only moved to the pub on a Saturday nightAthens when she was thirteen. The downsides were the boring job and having Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to live with a drunken father who seemed 'Callas' to have no intention of getting over make it more manageable in the death of his wife many years earlierStates. But it would be the animal sanctuary which brought joy into his life When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the form of Sophia Hillingdon, daughter of one of the top lawyers in the country Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and about to go to Oxford to study law herself. It was their love made no secret of animals which would spark their love her preference for each otherher elder sister, Jackie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B07113VFF3</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Douglas BoardAlexander McCall Smith|title= Time of LiesThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5

|summary= The Labour Party Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has split in twoasked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. So have Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the Conservativeschance to come home to Edinburgh. The smaller parties have descended into squabbling And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and internal strifethe Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Brexit negotiations have trundled on Katie has no experience in dribs running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and drabsrather handsome) neighbour, William, held up at every turn by to lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=The Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Paranormal|summary=Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a slowreally weird, disturbing coffin-moving sized object to his home, and mostly unwilling Europeit's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, 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 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 good person. Spike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, 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>1785630342</amazonuk>1662500491

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Dan MooneyKatherine Howe|title= Me, Myself and ThemA True Account|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= As witty as it Hannah Masury is unsettlingliving in Boston, having been sent to live with a family who run an inn, Dan Mooney offers and being made to work there from a young age. When she hears there is to be a story with hanging of some pirates in the potential town, she decides to open up public conversation around mental health go and watch. Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death at the human response hands of two vicious pirates. She hides away, so that they don't find and kill her too, and then to escape them completely she runs away to distress sea, dressing as a boy and joining the notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. She soon finds herself in the thick of things when there is a mutiny on board, and traumafrom there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785079255</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Paula McGrath1471180158|title= A History of Running AwayMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating= 24.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= ThereJamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's a point early on in Paula McGrathcontrol freak with all the subtlety of a half brick. Jamie's son, Bo, 'has his problems'. He's novel where I had asthmatic and the more you read, the more you'll suspect that pleasant feeling of discovering a new, exciting author who was going he's on the autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to take me time off at short notice - she's a frequent flier in a multitude of different directionsthe local A&E and sometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to school. This feeling is fading fast after 40 pages. By 60 pages I'm scrabbling around for redeeming features - maybe some of Missed shifts or the characters introduced earlier who have all mysteriously disappeared will reappear need to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and administer life supportput in the wrong. After 100 pages all hope is lost and I just want It was going to come to finish the damn thinga head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473641780</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Sheena KalayilB0CKD1L5JL|title=The Bureau of Second ChancesRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn|rating= 54|genre= General Fiction|summary=Recently widowedPetr is an orphan. Rescued by the strange, reclusive Bear, with a grown-he is brought up daughter forging her own life abroadfar from bustling cities and busy human society, London-based optometrist Thomas Imbalil takes early retirement and returns to his native India. After a short period enjoying in the peace forests of his house overlooking the Arabian Sea, he agrees to commute to the city for a few months to look after ChackoWashington's Optical Store to help out an old friendOlympic Peninsula. Thomas soon discovers that the eager young assistant Rani is running another business on the side After Bear dies and a brief sojourn in human company, but he agrees to turn a blind eye and leave it to his friend to deal armed with only a pirate radio transmitter, Petr goes on his return. Howevera journey through the forest, broadcasting the strange, it stirs up thoughts and doubts within Thomas wild and before long he's involved whether rarely heard voices he wants to be or notencounters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973929</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Simon EdgeSarah Marsh|title= The Hopkins ConundrumA Sign of Her Own|rating= 3.5|genre= General Fiction |summary= Tim Cleverley inherits After a failing pub 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 Walesa time when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, which he plans Ellen is sent to rescue by enlisting an American pulp novelist a school where she is taught to concoct an entirely fabricated mystery about Gerard Manley Hopkinslip read, but physically restrained from signing. From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who composed 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|genre=General Fiction|summary=''The Wreck of the DeutschlandThis story is not for everyone.'' nearby.

In Victorian EnglandLavender Daniels was three weeks short of her fifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. She was a very bright student, Gerard Manley Hopkins lives a life full of confusion bit too nerdy if truth be told, and contradiction, suffered from vitiligo - people were afraid to hug her in case it's contagious. It's not easy being a black girl whose skin is 84% white. She had a crush on seventeen-year-old Reggie Anderson but discovers a calling for poetry that threatens 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 overrule his calling to Godhouse and he raped her. And In shock, speaking of God, Five nuns leave persecution to travel she even allowed him to give her a new world – only to find themselves in more trouble that they could ever have imagined… |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785630334</amazonuk>lift home.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Benjamin Ludwig1472263936|title= The Original Ginny MoonFigurine|author=Victoria Hislop|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction|summary= To Ginny, a child with autism, the word Forever means until the police comeIt was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. Five years ago the police forcibly removed She was alone: her from the home of her abusive birth mother, Gloria. Now fourteenGreek by birth, had left the family home and in her fourth Forever Homerefused to return, Ginny remains hell-bent on finding her way back to Gloriabut Mary and Hamish (Helena's apartment. She has no illusions about parents) felt that it would be a pity if Helena grew up without knowing her mother's addictions grandparents or lack understanding her Greek heritage. Her trip to the family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be the first of parenting skillsseveral annual visits. She knows that it might be dangerous – that it might even kill grew to love her. Still she plots, obsessed with returning to Gloriagrandmother and the family's to find something she insists she left behind, something she hid under her bed. Her teachersmaid, therapistDina, but was wary - and new Forever Parents are in turn frustrated, infuriatedfrightened - of her grandfather, and perplexedretired general Stamatis Papagiannis. As Gloria returns He was proud of his close connections to her life, the reader follows Ginny on a journey filled with danger Junta and discovery, in her quest expected his family to uphold his values but saw no reason to find a place she can truly call accommodate them. His prejudices included Helena's red hair and green eyes - inherited from her Forever Homefather's Scottish ancestors. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848456611</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Harriet CummingsDean Koontz|title=We All Begin As StrangersAfter Death|rating= 43|genre= General Fiction|summary=In the summer Michael Mace, Head of 1984Security, at a Chilterns village was gripped with fear 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 suspicion as a mysterious intruder known 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 ''The Foxfeel'' broke into the homes of several residents in the areaeverything. Despite an increased police presence, regular patrols and vigilante groups, this slippery character still managed to evade detection ''Everything''. A huge police Michael isn't ''FoxhuntMichael'' followed, anymore.|isbn=1662500467}} {{Frontpage|isbn=B0BVDC2VWH|title=The Grave Listeners|author=William Frank|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=The village is isolated and finally, forensic evidence led to poor. It's surrounded by a Witching Forest. And the eventual capture villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicines. The black wood of the perpetrator. This real-life news story sparked the imagination of a young Harriet Cummingsforest provides heat and warmth, who went roofs on to create a fictional version homes, and even gallows, if needed. The fear of events, which invites being buried alive is an existential superstition in the reader to turn detective village and try and unmask ''The Fox'' from that is the reason Volushka, a range drunken, self-indulgent, lazy lout of possible suspectsa man is tolerated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409169049</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Val HarrisB0BYF82CXT|title=Hunting GroundSemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone

|summary=Nyara Camp is one ''Bill and Amanda are living in a semi-detached house, stuck in a depressing rut of the newest camps in the Masai Mara boredom and disappointment, when Terry and it's run by James Fiona – glamorous, successful and Alexia Sackville. The guests might sleep very much in tents, but it's still luxury accommodation love – move in anybody's booknext door. Chui CampDespite their different outlooks on life, on the couples befriend each other hand, sticks with the traditional way that safaris were run, including bucket showersand life appears to improve for both pairs. Owner Ralph Somerton But all is convinced that's not what the guests ''should'' want it seems, and he won't listen to any of his wife Tessa's suggestions their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for updating the tired venuetragedy. 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 failure.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0955599717</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Dominic SmithShalini Boland|title= The Last Painting of Sara de VosSilent Bride|rating= 53|genre= Historical General Fiction|summary= If you find the techniques used by Rembrandt Alice and Vermeer fascinating, ''The Last Painting of Sara de Vos'' provides Seth are a masterclass match made in how to work up a canvas in stagesheaven. Framing the novel as the story of a seventeenth century Dutch painting He is everything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, clever, Dominic Smith vividly sketches out the main contours of his characters funny; total and the three time periods they inhabit before we are even one fifth of the way throughutter husband-material. Sara She is one of the few women artists of the period and her painting is of children skating on all he could possibly want in a frozen canalwife; beautiful, her now dead daughter its central figure. The painting has been in Marty de Groot's family since before Isaac Newton was born successful, confident… and he so the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and the patent lawyer from whom it wedding is stolen in 1950s Manhattanplanned and set. Ellie Shipley forged a copy of When the much-anticipated day arrives, Alice is walked down the painting in aisle by her postgraduate student years father, beaming with pride and in 2000 finds herself at excitement as she surveys the centre of a gathering storm which threatens congregation – their friends assembled to celebrate this joyful day and when Seth turns to destroy her reputation as one of Sydney's foremost fine art academics. Satisfying though those first descriptions areface his approaching bride, we then understand these are merely the authorAlice's equivalent of world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the delicate chalk lines used by painters of man at the Dutch Golden Age altar is, who is waiting for her to mark out the composition which will followbecome his wife. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>192526680X</amazonuk>1662507089

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Stewart O'Nan1787636003|title= Last Night at the LobsterThe Girls of Summer|author=Katie Bishop|rating= 45|genre= General Fiction|summary=The Red Lobster seafood restaurant chain is closing some of its poorly-performing branches just before ChristmasIt was the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the island. Amid the Christmas lights Rachel wasn't exactly innocent but she was, office parties and forced jollity Manny DeLeonperhaps, the manager of one of these failing outletsnaive, has to keep it all together for one last day. Shortso when thirty-four-year-handed, with most of the staff who've bothered old Alistair Wright started to turn up facing unemploymenttake an interest in her, he tries to make the best of she was flattered rather than wary. It was quite a bad job, all the while knowing this will be the last day before he'll spend with the waitress he shouldn't still be in love with, particularly not now he's about made any sort of physical approach to be a dadher and by that time she was obsessed by him. Oh Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, looking after his interests on the island and there's a blizzard on in particular in the bar where all the waygirls either worked or partied.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1760293865</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Delia EphronAmanda Craig|title=SiracusaThree Graces|rating=4.5

|summary= Michael and Lizzie are a writer–journalist couple from New York City; Finn and Taylor live with their tenFew styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of-yearthe-old daughter, Snow, in Portland, Mainenation novel. There's something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the atmosphere of the day and capture it, where Finn (crafting an old flame image of Lizziethe country as it stands in one particular moment. To say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's) owns a restaurantpractically synonymous with the genre of contemporary social fiction at this point. After meeting up by chance on She has such a trip to London last year, they decide to go away together gift for a proper holiday in Italy, to weaving the Sicilian island ongoing issues of Siracusa via Rome. In alternating chapters, the narrative moves fluidly between day into the perspectives lives of the four adults, all of whom are reflecting – with the help of hindsight her characters in a way that feels natural and therapy – on what ended up being a disastrous trip. Although we don't learn until very late on lived-in the book exactly what went wrong, there's a sense that it might be something to do never making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with Snowissues far larger than themselves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786071541</amazonuk>140871468X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Caro Fraser152915118X|title= The Summer House PartyPineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction |summary= In ''Pineapple Street'' is the gloriously hot summer story of 1936, a group of people meet at a country house party. Within three yearswomen: Sasha, England will be at war, but for now, time stands stillDarley and Georgiana. Dan Ranscombe is clever Darley and good-looking, but he resents the wealth George are sisters and easy savoir-faire of fellow guest, Paul LatimerSasha is married to their brother Cord. Surely a shrewd girl like Meg Slater would see through that They're Stocktons, wouldnonly Sasha isn't a Stockton by birth so she? And what about Diana, Paulisn't readily accepted into the tribe. The problem's beautiful sister, Charles Asher, exacerbated when the Jewish outsiderclan matriarch, MadeleineTilda, restless asks Cord and dissatisfied with her role as childrenSasha if they's nanny? And artist Henry Haddond like to move into the Pineapple Street property. Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to another property, their hosta street or so away, no longer youngwhich they own. They won't need any of the furniture from Pineapple Street, but secure so Sasha and Cord can move straight in his power as a practised seducer. As these guests gather Nominally, none has any inkling the choices they make will have fateful consequences, lasting through had a choice but that wasn't the war reality. Darley and beyondGeorgiana start to call Sasha 'the gold digger'. She's living in ''their'' family home. Or They use it so often that they abbreviate it to 'the first unforeseen event will be a shocking death… |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786691485</amazonuk>GD'.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anna PitoniakEmily Critchley|title=The FuturesOne Puzzling Afternoon

|summary=When we first meet Evan Peck''Love, he has just started at Yale CollegeI'd read, where he plays ice hockey. Like lots of the other playerswas supposed to be a light and weightless feeling, he is actually Canadianbut I had always longed for gravity'' Told from a retrospective view, from smalla young woman unravels the year-town British Columbialong relationship that once defined her. One night Overlaid with later wisdom, the narrator relives the affair with a man twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the summer after a party Evan meets Julia Edwards at their dorm and they go out . Set against the backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for pizza. She technically has a boyfriend from Salt'' details the 24-year-old narrator's deepening relationship with her Boston boarding school daysolder lover, depicting its all-consuming nature, but they soon break up how it changed her perspective on both romantic and before long Julia familial relationships and Evan have become inseparable, as they will remain for the rest of their college yearshow it altered her irrevocably.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0718184564</amazonuk>0861546490

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lizzy Mumfrey0008506337|title=Fall OutThe Garnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore

|summary=CharltonThe love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O's the sort of village where people aspire to liveLeary was all-consuming, despite its apparent ordinarinessapparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in love. ThereRichard was twenty-one and described by Margo's the usual mix of commuters (itmother as 's not an older man'. Her parents worried that Richard'too'' far s influence would take her away from London) what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and those who make their lives in the villagehaving a glittering career. Richard Hughes is a commuter, but his wife Jessica works at In the local academyevent, where both their children - Alfie they eloped and Hannah - are pupilsRichard took her away from the Isle of Wight. Pete Cole is Margo did go to Oxford and went on to become a newlywell-promoted police superintendent respected journalist. The couple had three children: Rachel, Imogen and clearly still fond of his voluptuous wife, SusieSasha. ActuallyLife was lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, some the family home on the Isle of that voluptuousness might be better described as fat - Pete suspects that he might need longer arms to hug her before longWight. Less popular is Gary Webber. HeEven then the doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's the sort of man who causes people mind: ''she would never be able to heave a sigh of relief when he joins someone else for a drink at the golf clubleave him in charge''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911079840</amazonuk>Then Richard left them.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Clare Fisher1914585402|title= All the Good ThingsDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Nature, nurture, chance and circumstance; all combine to produce the story of Bethany Mitchell, a young adult who writes from her prison cell. We know only that she has committed a I reviewed David F Ross's book [[There'bad things Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There', s Only One Danny Garvey]] a bad thing that she sees as the end couple of her storyyears back and remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and affecting it was. Armed with It was a simple taskgripping, Erikaemotionally wounding read, a psychologist, sets out to challenge this. She asks Beth simply to compile a list and rereading my review of all the good things in her lifeit my main takeaway was that I might not have lavished enough praise on it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>024127575X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Robert HarrisLucy Ashe|title= ConclaveClara and Olivia|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= It The year is hard 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 dancer. Some things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, attention to believe detail – and some things, that Harris has managed to bring such pace to ''je ne sais quoi'', that don't come from the often lengthy and complex process of classroom. A stage presence, a charm, a ''joie de vivre''. The difference between a conclavehard-worker, but he has wrung out every piece of mystery and the result had me reading through long into the night. I simply could not put this downa star.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784751839</amazonuk>0861544080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Suzanne LealHeather Fawcett|title= The TeacherEmily Wilde's SecretEncyclopaedia of Faeries|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Terry Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has been teaching travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life's work, the very first encyclopaedia of faeries. Whilst she is brilliant at his suburban Australian junior school for yearsresearch and speaking to faeries, she is not so good with people. Everyone knows him So when she finds herself far, heck half far North in the kids in his class have parents who were former pupils small village of his. He's an institution. You know Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the sort. And he does village matriarch, she is not take kindly sure what she has done, nor how to a new young upstart showing up redeem herself and trying 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 meddle. HeEmily's not nasty about it, but it rubs him up frustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the wrong way.faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785079077</amazonuk>0356519120

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Diney Costeloe1398515388|title= The Married GirlsBoy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical General Fiction|summary=WynsdownFirst of all, 1949. In it was the small Somerset village of Wynsdownearthquake, Charlotte Shepherd is happily married to farmer Billy. She arrived from Germany on deep in the Kindertransport as a child during ocean floor, which created the war tsunami and now feels settled this, in her adopted home. Meanwhileturn, caused the squire's fighter pilot son, Felix, has returned to the village with a fiancée in townuclear meltdown. The result was complete and utter devastation. Daphne is beautiful The deaths were uncountable, charming... and harbouring secretsthe loss of livelihoods was widespread. After meeting during The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the war, Felix knows some list of Daphne's past, priorities but she has worked hard to conceal that which could unravel her carefully built life- six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. For Charlotte, too, He wasn't a dangerous past is coming back in dog person but the shape of fellow refugee, bad boy Harry Black. Forever bound by their childhoods, Charlotte will always care for him, but Harryconvenience store owner's return disrupts comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and Tamon the village quiet and it's not long before gossip spreads. The war may have ended, but for these girls, trouble is only just beginning.dog jumped in..|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784976121</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author= J S Rais-DaalChristopher Bowden|title= Purple FlameMr Magenta|rating= 4|genre= General Fiction |summary=Life hasnChristopher Bowden't been easy for teenager Zach Ford. He just lost his entire family to s latest novel is a patient untangling of a freak car accident, and heseemingly ordinary woman's barely keeping himself together. Each day is more gruelling than the lastlife, but for Zach, it goes much deeper than the pressure of exams and the threats of bullies and teachers at schoolcarried out by her nephew after she has died. Zach has The aunt who always provided a secret power that many seek safe harbour and a few would kill for. He is possessed by little bit of indulgence to a demon, but the demon has young nephew had had a purpose: revenge on the people responsible for Zach's pain. As much more interesting life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and it turns out, the car accident that killed his family wasn't so accidental. Every tragic thing that's happened seems to Zach recently has been carefully orchestrated with one mistake — Zach was supposed him an obligation to die in the accident, too. Since he didn't, he has become a target, but the demon inside won't let him go quietly. Zach will fight, even if his behaviour leaves him alone and struggling. He'll get his vengeance, but find 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 Hellall out.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1524678872</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Justin HugglerJennifer Mason|title=The Return HomePartitions of Unity|rating= 34|genre= General Fiction|summary= The uniqueness of a boyhood spent growing up in Jersey is conveyed in some memorable imagery in this novelHere at Bookbag Towers, intersecting the German wartime occupation of the islandwe first met Elizabeth Cromwell, the Afghan resistance to the Russians in the 1980s dominatrix and present day conflict unintentional detective in Syria. Ben[[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], now working internationally for when she investigated and unravelled a human rights advocacy organisation, flits back and forth between reflections on his boyhood and his adult selfseries of disappearances. He is both attempting to solve the mystery of what became In ''Partitions of his uncle JackUnity'', who had she sets her mind to solving a brief but lasting impact on him as a child, and trying to decide how to save his disintegrating marriagemurder. For the first few chapters I enjoyed these time shifts back and forth, advancing with Ben in understanding the meaning of events which as an eight year old he could only partly grasp. Ben also develops a deepening appreciation of the choices he has made in life, such as his choice of career, by examining the influences on his childhood self.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780722028</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anita ShreveWill Carver|title=The Stars are FireDaves 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.5As their fates overlap, the story is told in backwards order, leading up to the fateful moment.|isbn= 1914585186}} {{Frontpage|author=Jennifer Mason|title=Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery|rating=4

|summary=Meet Grace. She's not exactly trapped 'A struggling poetry zine, a mom-and-pop mobile diner in the Northern California redwoods, a loveless marriage, but something like it. She has no real way away from 400-meter hurdler who just missed the kitchen sink2004 Olympics, and two very young children to care a women's track coach with a yen for while her husband is bullwhips, a billionaire with a civil engineer. Her motherstate-of-inthe-law hates herart S&M dungeon, but she has a great relationship with a girlfriend neighbour – except said friend Rosie has man serving a wondrous love lifesentence in Alabama, an enigmatic signature, while Grace's experience with sex is getting worse and worse. Things deteriorate when Grace'K(s husband, Genex), loses his motheron a cheap oil painting, an erotic art dealer in Georgia...'' This is just a sample of the cast of characters and retreats from intimacy even furthersettings in Preposterous. As you can see, some keeping up will be required! The small community around Grace – and an endless rain shower – are closing in around herbasic premise of this mystery story goes like this... But what would happen to her and those she cares for if a real disaster were to occur?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408702983</amazonuk>B09STS96HS

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jill SantopoloB0B2N7MVYM|title= The Light We LostCalculations of Rational Men|author=Daniel Godfrey|rating= 3.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=11th September 2001It's the 10th of December 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marr. Lucy and Gabe meet Just to put what happens in New York on a day that will change their lives – and context, the Cuban missile crisis is still very fresh in people's minds. The world – foreverhas barely had a chance to breathe out. As But for Joe Marr, it's not the city burns behind them, they kiss for missile crisis that's at the very first timefront of his mind. He's been convicted of murder. Over With the next thirteen years they are torn apartcurrent state of medical knowledge, then it's hard to think otherwise than that the prosecution would never have been brought back togetherbut Joe Marr has spent his first few days in HMP Queen's Bench, time and time againa relatively new prison. It He's a journey of dreamsjust getting used to his roommate, of desiresMervyn, of jealousy, of forgiveness – and above all, love. As Lucy is faced with a devastating choice, she wonders whether their love is a matter learning to be wary of destiny or chancethe McArthur brothers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008224560</amazonuk>