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|genre=General Fiction |summary=Our narrator is a screenwriterAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, tasked with coming up with a sequel thanks to his hit movie her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri'Besties'' – a film which helped pay s childhood for a housesponsorships and influencer deals and, but which his actress wife keeps letting him knowbasically, isn't ''art''monetary gain. To concentrateNow Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the family – hecontent about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, the wifefailing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and their four year old daughter – have rented a large, modern house at the end of a horrid, hairpin bend-filled road, in a charming alpine landscapesecretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. But things aren't right. The couple are at loggerheads too muchMost importantly, things keep unsettling our narratorshe is desperately worried about her little sister, and the sole shopkeeper for miles around who is ready with the Hammer Horror styled warnings new focus of strange events. Quickly we see the bookOphelia's title in all its galling clarity – but it isn't too late to get out… is it? online empire. And out of whatCan she save her sister, exactlyand perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786484048</amazonuk>0861546873

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Amanda Craig1529153298|title=The Lie List of the LandSuspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey

|summary=The Bredins canIt't afford to divorces 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly... ) The house in London She's not what'woulds worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they' sellve been murdered, but not for a priced to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that would allow Quentin and Lottie ( she with her son and their two girls) father wants to each get somewhere to livemove the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. Unemployment has barrelled into For Miv, the equation too: Lottie's lost move would mean leaving her job as an architect best friend, Sharon, and Quentinshe's prowess as a journalist is in reducing demandll do anything to prevent that. ThereShe's not much in worried about the way of family help available: Lottiedangers or that her Mum's mother's house might be worth six millionstopped 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 barely scrapes by on was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her incomefather changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the States. There's one solution When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that just might work: she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the house Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.}}{{Frontpage|author=Alexander McCall Smith|title=The Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in London can be let Edinburgh, run by Ness and they'll move operating as an alternative to somewhere cheap all the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked 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. Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the country chance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and live as best they can on the rent they receiveIsabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408709295</amazonuk>1846976596

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Ann O' LoughlinDean Koontz|title= The Ludlow Ladies' SocietyBad Weather Friend|rating= 34.5|genre= General FictionParanormal|summary=''The Ludlow Ladies' Society'' Benny is the story of two women having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and their struggle to come to terms with the terrible tragedies in their liveshis house gets trashed. Connie Carter arrives at Ludlow Hall Oh, and someone has delivered a property she has inherited in Irelandreally weird, with no clue as disturbing coffin-sized object to what to expect. The close-knit community are curious about 'his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The Americanthing is,'' who seems Benny is the very last person to have no desire 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 integrate herself into the community. Nearby, lives Evehis house is a new friend, a widowbad weather friend called Spike, who formerly lived at Ludlow Hallhas been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. She Spike is going to take care of Benny, tooand will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, has painful memories and scars that are slow to healif he, but as she begins to form a friendship with the reclusive ConnieBenny, the two form and Harper (a bond that will help them both face their grief togetherwaitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785301276</amazonuk>1662500491

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Tina SeskisKatherine Howe|title= The HoneymoonA True Account|rating= 4.5|genre= ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary= For as long as she can rememberHannah Masury is living in Boston, Jemma has having been planning the perfect honeymoonsent to live with a family who run an inn, and being made to work there from a young age. A fortnight's retreat When she hears there is to be a five-star resort hanging of some pirates in the Maldivestown, complete with luxury villas, personal butlers she decides to go and absolute privacywatch.It should be paradise Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death at the hands of two vicious pirates. But it She hides away, so that they don't find and kill her too, and then to escape them completely she runs away to sea, dressing as a boy and joining the notorious Ned Low's turned into pirate ship as a nightmarecabin boy. Because She soon finds herself in the man Jemma married thick of things when there is a week ago has just disappeared mutiny on board, and from the island without a trace. And now there we are caught up in her perfect new rip roaring tale of life is vanishing just as quickly before her eyes. After everything they've been through together, how can this be happening? Is there anyone on the island who Jemma can trust? And above all - where has her husband gone? ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405917970</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreview <!-- remove 17/6 -->Frontpage|authorisbn=Hugo Driscoll1471180158|title=Seven Days with YouMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating=34.5

|summary=There was little Jamie Matson works in eighteenan upper-year-old Sean Johnsonclass grocery store, for a man who's a control freak with all the subtlety of a half brick. Jamie's life to give him joyson, Bo, 'has his problems'. He was a farmhand in the small town of Bloxford 's asthmatic and the highlights of his life were his daily chats with his friend Tommore you read, helping out at the animal sanctuary and a trip to more you'll suspect that he's on the pub on a Saturday nightautistic spectrum. The downsides were Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's a frequent flier in the boring job local A&E and having sometimes Bo's not fit enough to live with a drunken father who seemed go to have no intention of getting over the death of his wife many years earlierschool. But it would Missed shifts or the need to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be the animal sanctuary which brought joy into his life controlled and put in the form of Sophia Hillingdon, daughter of one of the top lawyers in the country and about to go to Oxford to study law herselfwrong. It was their love of animals which would spark their love for each othergoing to come to a head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B07113VFF3</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Douglas BoardB0CKD1L5JL|title= Time of LiesRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn

|summary= The Labour Party has split Petr is an orphan. Rescued by the strange, reclusive Bear, he is brought up far from bustling cities and busy human society, in two. So have the Conservativesforests of Washington's Olympic Peninsula. The smaller parties have descended into squabbling After Bear dies and internal strife. Brexit negotiations have trundled on a brief sojourn in dribs human company, and drabsarmed with only a pirate radio transmitter, held up at every turn by Petr goes on a slow-moving journey through the forest, broadcasting the strange, wild and mostly unwilling Europerarely heard voices he encounters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785630342</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Dan MooneySarah Marsh|title= Me, Myself and ThemA Sign of Her Own|rating= 43.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= As witty After a bout of scarlet fever as it is unsettlinga child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, Dan Mooney offers everything about her life changes. Living in a story with time when the potential use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a school where she is taught to open lip read, but physically restrained from signing. From here, she ends up public conversation around mental health in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and using a system called Visible Speech. At the human response to distress same time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, and traumaEllen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785079255</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Paula McGrathB0BC3YTCMR|title= A History of Running AwayGood Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira|rating= 24.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= There's a point early on in Paula McGrath's novel where I had that pleasant feeling of discovering a new, exciting author who was going to take me in a multitude of different directions. This feeling story is fading fast after 40 pagesnot for everyone. By 60 pages I'm scrabbling around for redeeming features - maybe some of the characters introduced earlier who have all mysteriously disappeared will reappear and administer life support. After 100 pages all hope is lost and I just want to finish the damn thing.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473641780</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Sheena Kalayil|title=The Bureau Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of Second Chances|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction|summary=Recently widowed, with a grown-up daughter forging her own life abroad, London-based optometrist Thomas Imbalil takes early retirement and returns to his native Indiafifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. After She was a short period enjoying the peace of his house overlooking the Arabian Seavery bright student, he agrees to commute to the city for a few months bit too nerdy if truth be told, and suffered from vitiligo - people were afraid to look after Chackohug her in case it's Optical Store to help out an old friendcontagious. Thomas soon discovers that the eager young assistant Rani It's not easy being a black girl whose skin is running another business 84% white. She had a crush on the side, seventeen-year-old Reggie Anderson but never thought he agrees to turn a blind eye would notice her. Then he did: Lavender was very good at math and leave it 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 his friend to deal with on his returnhouse and he raped her. However In shock, it stirs up thoughts and doubts within Thomas and before long he's involved whether he wants she even allowed him to be or notgive her a lift home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973929</amazonuk>

In Victorian England{{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, Greek by birth, Gerard Manley Hopkins lives a life full of confusion had left the family home and contradictionrefused to return, but discovers Mary and Hamish (Helena's parents) felt that it would be a calling for poetry that threatens pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. Her trip to overrule his calling the family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be the first of several annual visits. She grew to God. Andlove her grandmother and the family's maid, Dina, speaking but was wary - and frightened - of Godher grandfather, Five nuns leave persecution retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. He was proud of his close connections to travel the Junta and expected his family to a new world – only uphold his values but saw no reason to find themselves in more trouble that they could ever have imagined… |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785630334</amazonuk>accommodate them. His prejudices included Helena's red hair and green eyes - inherited from her father's Scottish ancestors.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Benjamin LudwigDean Koontz|title= The Original Ginny MoonAfter Death|rating= 53|genre= General Fiction|summary= To GinnyMichael Mace, Head of Security, at a child with autismtop secret biological research facility, the word Forever means until the police comeis among 55 people who die when a virus is released in a bio-hazard accident. Five years ago 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 police forcibly removed her from the home shrouded bodies of her abusive birth motherhis dead friends and former colleagues. As he recovers his senses, Gloriahe realises that there is something different about him; he can ''feel'' everything. Now fourteen, and in her fourth Forever Home, Ginny remains hell-bent on finding her way back to Gloria ''Everything''s apartment. She has no illusions about her mother Michael isn't ''Michael''s addictions or lack of parenting skillsanymore. She knows that it might be dangerous – that it might even kill her|isbn=1662500467}} {{Frontpage|isbn=B0BVDC2VWH|title=The Grave Listeners|author=William Frank|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=The village is isolated and poor. Still she plots, obsessed with returning to GloriaIt's to find something she insists she left behind, something she hid under her bedsurrounded by a Witching Forest. And the villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicines. Her teachersThe black wood of the forest provides heat and warmth, therapistroofs on homes, and new Forever Parents are even gallows, if needed. The fear of being buried alive is an existential superstition in turn frustrated, infuriated, the village and perplexed. As Gloria returns to her lifethat is the reason Volushka, the reader follows Ginny on a journey filled with danger and discoverydrunken, self-indulgent, in her quest to find lazy lout of a place she can truly call her Forever Homeman is tolerated. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848456611</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Harriet CummingsB0BYF82CXT|title=We All Begin As Strangers|rating= 4|genre= General Fiction|summary=In the summer of 1984, a Chilterns village was gripped with fear and suspicion as a mysterious intruder known as ''The Fox'' broke into the homes of several residents in the area. Despite an increased police presence, regular patrols and vigilante groups, this slippery character still managed to evade detection. A huge police ''Foxhunt'' followed, and finally, forensic evidence led to the eventual capture of the perpetrator. This realSemi-life news story sparked the imagination of a young Harriet Cummings, who went on to create a fictional version of events, which invites the reader to turn detective and try and unmask ''The Fox'' from a range of possible suspects.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409169049</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewDetached|author=Val Harris|title=Hunting GroundDeborah 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