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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jane JohnsonOnyi Nwabineli|title= Court of LionsAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical General Fiction |summary= Kate Fordham arrived in Anuri spent her childhood on display to the sunlit city of Granada a year ago. In the shadow of the Alhambraworld, one of the most beautiful places thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on earthsocial media, where she works as a waitress serving tourists in a busy bar. She pretends sheposted every step of Anuri's happy with childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her new life – but how could twenties and she be? Kate's alone, afraid is slowly trying to regain her confidence and hiding under a false name. And fate is about to bring get her facelife back, suing her step-mother to-face with take down the content about her greatest fear. Five centuries ago Anuri is battling alcoholism, a messagefailing to start her PhD, in a hand few could read, was inscribed in blood on a stolen scrap of paper. The paper was folded undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and pressed into one of the Alhambra's wallsreceiving money from them for doing so. There it has lain Most importantly, undisturbed by the tides of history – the Fall of Granadashe is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the expulsion new focus of its last Sultan – until Kate discovers itOphelia's online empire. Born of love Can she save her sister, in a time of danger and desperation, perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the fragment will be the catalyst that changes Kate's life forever. same time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786694336</amazonuk>0861546873

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julie Cohen1529153298|title=TogetherThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey

|summary=This It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is a love story told backwardsPrime Minister. (A woman? I mean, in the most beautiful manner, so that we know from the very beginning that Emily and Robert love each other enormously, and that he is about to break her heart in the most dreadful way in order to protect a secret that they've lived with for decadeshonestly... ) Seeing their love unfold in reverse is beautifulShe's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. We get to know them once they Women have already gotten to know each other, and it makes for an unusual and interesting structurebeen disappearing. The secret Well, they hold is referred to throughout've been murdered, but it isnto have 'disappeared' doesn't revealed until very late in sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the bookfamily 'Down South'. IWhen you'm guessing very few readers will figure it outre from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. Even once you knowFor Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, you want and she'll do anything to go back and read prevent that. She's not worried about the whole story again in the light of the information you now holddangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409171744</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Kate Mildenhall1035906708|title= SkylarkingDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction |summary= Kate and Harriet are best friends growing up together on an isolated Australian cape. As the daughters We tend to think of the lighthouse keepersMaria Callas as Greek, the two girls share everythingbut she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, until a fishermanNew York, McPhail, arrives in their small communityDecember 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the States. When Kate witnesses the desire she was back in Athens - supposedly so that flares between him and Harriet, she is torn could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her feelings and made no secret of envy and longing. An innocent moment in McPhail's hut then occurs that threatens to tear their peaceful community aparther preference for her elder sister, Jackie. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785079239</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Zoe DuncanAlexander McCall Smith|title= The Shifting PoolsPerfect Passion Company|rating= 24.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Perhaps The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the most overused phrase online apps in fiction publishing is ''life-affirming''providing a more personal, closely followed by ''human condition''tailored service. The Shifting Pools takes this 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 whole new levelwhile. Its blurb boasts that it Katie is ''charged throughout coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the beautiful urgency of life'', whatever that means. It isn'tchance to come home to Edinburgh. And that's so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the problem. This isn't a bad bookIsabel Dalhousie novels, but it sets itself up with some new characters who quickly begin to failcharm. A cardinal rule of writing is ''focus on the small stuff''. If you set out to write Katie has no experience in running a ''life affirming'' novel that answers all the ''big questions''business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, youand there'll struggle. And it is this trap that Zoe Duncan falls into. In s always her quest for profundity she loses her way. very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785630369</amazonuk>1846976596

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sarah HealyDean Koontz|title= The Sisters ChaseBad Weather Friend|rating= 4.5|genre= General FictionParanormal|summary=Mary Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and Bunnyhis house gets trashed. That Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it's how it possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has always been ever since Bunny was born. Two sisters with an unbreakable bondtrashed his house! The thing is, twisted together so tight that they were two sides of Benny is the same coinvery last person to deserve all this bad luck. Bunny was Mary's whole world; nothing else He is a nice person. A really mattered; schoolnice person...friends...boys...well So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, maybe one boya bad weather friend called Spike, but he was something altogether extraordinarywho has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. When the unthinkable happened Spike is going to take care of Benny, Mary and Bunny found themselves completely alone in the world, and thatwill certainly take care of Benny's when Mary decided to take an unforgettable road tripenemies, just the two of themif he, across the United StatesBenny, in search of and Harper (a place where waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they could belongare.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0544960076</amazonuk>1662500491

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joy RhoadesKatherine Howe|title=The WoolgrowerA True Account|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to live with a family who run an inn, and being made to work there from a young age. When she hears there is to be a hanging of some pirates in the town, she decides to go and watch. Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's Companiondeath at the 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 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 from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the ocean waves.|isbn=0861547438}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1471180158|title=Maybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's a control freak with all the subtlety of a half brick. Jamie's son, Bo, 'has his problems'. He's asthmatic and the more you read, the more you'll suspect that he's on the autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's a frequent flier in the local A&E and sometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to school. Missed shifts or the need to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the wrong. It was going to come to a head.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0CKD1L5JL|title=Radio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn

|summary=1945: The war Petr is an orphan. Rescued by the strange, reclusive Bear, he is in its dying days and creating problems brought up far from bustling cities and busy human society, in the different frontsforests of Washington's Olympic Peninsula. For instance, After Bear dies and a brief sojourn in Australiahuman company, what can be done and armed with only a pirate radio transmitter, Petr goes on a journey through the Italian POWs brought forest, broadcasting the strange, wild and rarely heard voices he encounters.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sarah Marsh|title=A Sign of Her Own|rating=3.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=After a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, everything about her life changes. Living in a time when the country? The solution seems to be their use of sign language was seen as cheap laboursomething only savages do, Ellen is sent to a school where she is taught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. In this way Kate Dowd's father agrees to take two onto his sheep farm From here, she ends up in drought-ridden New South Walesanother school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and using a system called Visible Speech. Kate At the same time, Bell is initially wary working on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of the two men – Vittorio and Luca – but gradually she realises that espionage.|isbn=1035401614}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0BC3YTCMR|title=Good Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=''This story is not all dangers come from outside for everyone.'' Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of her communityfifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. Life on She was a very bright student, a sheep station may bit too nerdy if truth be harsh but for Kate told, and suffered from vitiligo - people were afraid to hug her in case it's going 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 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 his house and he raped her. In shock, she even allowed him to get give her a lot worselift home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784741345</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jonathan Levi1472263936|title= SeptimaniaThe Figurine|author=Victoria Hislop|rating= 45|genre= General Fiction|summary= First and foremost a tale of loveIt was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. She was alone: her mother, Greek by birth, Septimania delivers had left the frustrations family home and agony of two people who find each other refused to return, but Mary and then lose each other, all on Hamish (Helena's parents) felt that it would be a pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. Her trip to the family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be the same dayfirst of several annual visits. But what a momentous day! Life takes Malory She grew to love her grandmother and Louisa off in totally different directions the family's maid, Dina, but strangely their paths cross again was wary - and againfrightened - of her grandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. Malory, searching He was proud of his close connections to uncover the Junta and expected his past, moves family to Rome and discovers great and incredible facts about uphold his ancestryvalues but saw no reason to accommodate them. Louisa, a brilliant mathematician, is head hunted for His prejudices included Helena'secret' work s red hair and is signed up by green eyes - inherited from her father for a life time's contract with the American GovernmentScottish ancestors. She completely disappears from Malory's life and he has no way of knowing how to find her again. They are both trapped in their separate lives.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>071565196X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Antoine LaurainDean Koontz|title=After Death|rating=3|genre=General Fiction|summary= Michael Mace, Head of Security, at a top secret biological research facility, is among 55 people who die when a virus is released in a bio-hazard accident. Finding himself in a makeshift mortuary, Jane Aitken (translator) 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 Emily Boyce (translator)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 PortraitGrave Listeners|author=William Frank

|summary=Meet Pierre-FrancoisThe village is isolated and poor. He should It's surrounded by rights be an antiques dealer, as he made a fortune selling on his first collection (Witching Forest. And the villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicines. The black wood of erasers) while at school, the forest provides heat and funded both his university and carnal educationwarmth, with prostitutes, by trading too. He is, howeverroofs on homes, a patent and intellectual property lawyereven gallows, and his wife if needed. The fear of being buried alive is forever demanding a reduction an existential superstition in the space his collections take up in their flat. But he still dabbles – although this latest visit to village and that is the showrooms will cause a lot of unexpected incident. In amongst the grot at a low-key sale he finds an ancient pastelreason Volushka, showing himself – a bewigged, antique version of himself, even if, howeverdrunken, nobody else sees the connection between Pierreself-Francois and the picture's subject. Still, as an effeminate uncle told himindulgent, ''real objects carry memory lazy lout of their past owners'' – and Pierre-Francois a man is intent on finding the truths behind those memoriestolerated. Little does he know just what he will discover…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910477435</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Virginie Despentes and Frank Wynne (translator)B0BYF82CXT|title= Vernon Subutex 1Semi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone|rating= 54|genre= General Fiction|summary= Vernon Subutex is ''Bill and Amanda are living in a semi-detached house, stuck in a wanted man. Following the death depressing rut of Alex Bleachboredom and disappointment, Vernon's generous benefactor when Terry and publicly adored musicianFiona – glamorous, Vernon now has the last recordings of Alex's drug induced ramblingssuccessful and very much in love – move in next door. Kicked out of his apartment Despite their different outlooks on life, the story follows Vernon as he couch surfs his way across Paris, pursued by journalists couples befriend each other and media moguls desperate life appears to cash in on Bleach's deathimprove for both pairs. Eventually finding himself out of luck, friends and money Vernon But all is left sleeping roughnot what it seems, half mad and forced to bear witness to a shocking act of violencetheir increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy. In a world of capricious friends and grasping avaricious journalists who can Vernon trust?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857055410</amazonuk>''

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Rowena MacDonaldShalini Boland|title= The Threat Level Remains SevereSilent Bride|rating= 3.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=Grace Ambrose isn't Brigitte JonesAlice and Seth are a match made in heaven. He is everything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, clever, honestfunny; for one thing she doesn't keep total and utter husband-material. She is all he could possibly want in a diary. Grace wife; beautiful, successful, confident… and so the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and the wedding is our typical misogynistic Hollywood stereotype supporting female characterplanned and set. She When the much-anticipated day arrives, Alice is walked down the aisle by her father, beaming with pride and excitement as she surveys the congregation – their friends assembled to celebrate this joyful day and when Seth turns to face his approaching bride, Alice''secretly hot chick'' s world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who will suddenly take off their glassesthe man at the altar is, shake out their hair and reveal themselves who is waiting for her to have been beautiful all alongbecome his wife. We follow Grace |isbn=1662507089}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787636003|title=The Girls of Summer|author=Katie Bishop|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It was the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the island. Rachel wasn't exactly innocent but she was, perhaps, naive, so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to take an interest in her romantic adventures (and misadventures) over three years , she was flattered rather than wary. It was quite a while before he made any sort of physical approach to her life at and by that time she was obsessed by him. Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, looking after his interests on the island and in particular in the bar where all the House of Commonsgirls either worked or partied.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910709158</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Matt HaigAmanda Craig|title=How to Stop TimeThree Graces

|summary=Tom is an albatrossFew styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of-the-nation novel. ThatThere's not to say he has a freakish wingspansomething so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the atmosphere of the day and capture it, or anything, but crafting an image of the country as it means hestands in one particular moment. To say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's not a mayfly. In contrast to all us regular humans practically synonymous with our temperamental bodies living out short lifespans, he ages at a speed roughly one-fifteenth the genre of that contemporary social fiction at which we do, and barely gets touched by any diseasethis point. It means he will live for several more centuries than the ones he She has witnessed so far, but ever since his mother was drowned as such a witch due to his teenaged self never ageing, he has known gift for weaving the best thing for him – and others – is to regularly move on. Solitude has been tempered since ongoing issues of the late Victorian era, when other people even older than him press-ganged him day into their society of albatrosses, but the fact lives of the matter is that falling her characters in love really is a noway that feels natural and lived-no. But that's not to say it in, never happenedmaking them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, and that's not to say that he can't feel things for the albatross daughter he's not seen for centuriesgrappling with issues far larger than themselves. It might be the only thing he has to live for…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782118616</amazonuk>140871468X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Dane Huckelbridge152915118X|title= Castle of WaterPineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Barry Bleeker ''Pineapple Street'' is the story of three women: Sasha, Darley and Georgiana. Darley and Sophie Ducel George are two very different people destined sisters and Sasha is married to take their brother Cord. They're Stocktons, only Sasha isn't a Stockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the same journeytribe. As The problem's exacerbated when the clan matriarch, Tilda, asks Cord and Sasha if they are both aboard a flight 'd like to move into the Marquesas IslandsPineapple Street property. Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to another property, a street or so away, their tiny plane crashes leaving Barry and Sophie which they own. They won't need any of the only survivors. Until recentlyfurniture from Pineapple Street, Barry was an investment banker so Sasha and Cord can move straight in New York before he decided to leave his life behind and pursue his dream of painting. Sophie meanwhile Nominally, was they had a French architect who along with her husband Etienne was planning a honeymoon of a lifetimechoice but that wasn't the reality. Now Barry Darley and Sophie are alone on an uninhabited island Georgiana start to call Sasha 'the gold digger'. She's living in the South Pacific, where ''their'' family home. They use it so often that they must learn abbreviate it to put aside their differences and survive'the GD'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008217858</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= M L RioEmily Critchley|title= If We Were VillainsOne Puzzling Afternoon|rating= 4.5|genre= General FictionCrime|summary= Murder most horrid amongst 84 year old Edie has lived in the same small town for almost her whole life, but now she is facing a group of 4th Year university students of Shakespearemove as her son wants to move to another house and bring Edie to live with his family, as Edie is starting to lose her memory. We open as our protagonist However, Edie is released from jail having served his time tormented by the memory of her childhood friend, Lucy, who went missing over 60 years ago, and the worry that there was a secret she was keeping for a crime Lucy that somehow might be the thing that he may or may not have committed. What did he do? What reveals the truth of what happened all that year? Why did things turn out time ago. After 'seeing' Lucy in the high street, just as she was the way they did? We have last time she saw her, she starts to find pockets of memories coming back to push our way through her. And yet as she remembers the undergrowth of flashbacks past, she is forgetting more and more in her day to find outday life. Will she uncover the truth about Lucy's disappearance before her move, and before her memories are gone forever?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785656473</amazonuk>1804181250

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Martha ConwayMadelaine Lucas|title= The Floating TheatreThirst for Salt|rating= 5|genre= Historical Literary Fiction|summary=When young seamstress May Bedloe is left alone and penniless on the shore of the Ohio, she finds work on the famous floating theatre that plies its trade along the river. Her creativity and needlework skills quickly become invaluable and she settles into life among the colourful troupe of actors. She finds friends''Love, and possibly the promise of more. But cruising the border between the Confederate South and the I'free' North is fraught with danger. For the sake of a debt that must be repaidd read, May is compelled was supposed to transport secret passengers, under cover of darkness, across the river be a light and onweightless feeling, along the underground railroad. But as Maybut I had always longed for gravity''s secrets become harder to keep, she learns she must endanger those now dear to her.

And to save Told from a retrospective view, a young woman unravels the lives of others, she must risk year-long relationship that once defined her own... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785762907</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Daniel Kehlmann and Ross Benjamin (translator)|title=You Should Have Left|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction |summary=Our Overlaid with later wisdom, the narrator is a screenwriter, tasked with coming up relives the affair with a sequel man twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to his hit movie ''Bestiesits sorrowful end the summer after. Set against the backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town '' – a film which helped pay Thirst for a house, but which his actress wife keeps letting him know, isn't Salt''art''. To concentrate, details the family – he, the wife, and their four 24-year -old daughter – have rented a large, modern house at the end of a horrid, hairpin bend-filled road, in a charming alpine landscape. But things aren't right. The couple are at loggerheads too much, things keep unsettling our narrator, and the sole shopkeeper for miles around is ready with the Hammer Horror styled warnings of strange events. Quickly we see the book's title in deepening relationship with her older lover, depicting its all its galling clarity – but -consuming nature, how it isn't too late to get out… is changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and how it? And out of what, exactly?altered her irrevocably.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786484048</amazonuk>0861546490

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Amanda Craig0008506337|title=The Lie of the LandGarnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore

|summary=The Bredins canlove affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O't afford to divorceLeary was all-consuming, apparently on both sides. The house Margo was just sixteen when they fell in London love. Richard was twenty-one and described by Margo's mother as 'wouldan older man'. Her parents worried that Richard' sell, but not for a priced that s influence would allow Quentin and Lottie ( take her away from what they felt she with her son could achieve - going to Oxford and their two girls) to each get somewhere to livehaving a glittering career. Unemployment has barrelled into In the equation too: Lottie's lost event, they eloped and Richard took her job as an architect away from the Isle of Wight. Margo did go to Oxford and Quentin's prowess as went on to become a well-respected journalist is in reducing demand. There's not much The couple had three children: Rachel, Imogen and Sasha. Life was lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, the way of family help available: Lottie's mother's house might be worth six million, but she barely scrapes by home on her incomethe Isle of Wight. ThereEven then the doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's one solution that just might workmind: the house in London can ''she would never be let and they'll move able to somewhere cheap leave him in the country and live as best they can on the rent they receivecharge''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408709295</amazonuk>Then Richard left them.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Ann O' Loughlin1914585402|title= The Ludlow Ladies' SocietyDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross|rating= 34.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=I reviewed David F Ross's book [[There'The Ludlow Ladiess Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There' Society'' is the story s Only One Danny Garvey]] a couple of two women years back and remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and their struggle to come to terms with the terrible tragedies in their lives. Connie Carter arrives at Ludlow Hall, a property she has inherited in Ireland, with no clue as to what to expect. The close-knit community are curious about ''The American,'' who seems to have no desire to integrate herself into the communityaffecting it was. Nearby, lives Eve, It was a widow, who formerly lived at Ludlow Hall. Shegripping, tooemotionally wounding read, has painful memories and scars rereading my review of it my main takeaway was that are slow to heal, but as she begins to form a friendship with the reclusive Connie, the two form a bond that will help them both face their grief togetherI might not have lavished enough praise on it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785301276</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Tina SeskisLucy Ashe|title= The HoneymoonClara and Olivia|rating= 4|genre= Thrillers|summary= For as long as she can remember, Jemma has been planning the perfect honeymoon. A fortnight's retreat to a five-star resort in the Maldives, complete with luxury villas, personal butlers and absolute privacy.It should be paradise. But it's turned into a nightmare. Because the man Jemma married a week ago has just disappeared from the island without a trace. And now her perfect new 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? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405917970</amazonuk>}}{{newreview <!-- remove 17/6 -->|author=Hugo Driscoll|title=Seven Days with You|rating=3.5

|summary=There was little in eighteen-The year-old Sean Johnsonis 1933. The place? Sadler's life to give him joyWells. He was a farmhand in the small town of Bloxford Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, twins no less. Identical on the highlights of his life were his daily chats with his friend Tomoutside but not, helping out at we learn, on the animal sanctuary and inside. And not on stage, either. Because there's a lot that builds a trip dancer. Some things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, attention to detail – and some things, that ''je ne sais quoi'', that don't come from the pub on classroom. A stage presence, a charm, a Saturday night''joie de vivre''. The downsides were the boring job and having to live with difference between a drunken father who seemed to have no intention of getting over the death of his wife many years earlier. But it would be the animal sanctuary which brought joy into his life in the form of Sophia Hillingdonhard-worker, daughter of one of the top lawyers in the country and about to go to Oxford to study law herself. It was their love of animals which would spark their love for each othera star.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B07113VFF3</amazonuk>0861544080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Douglas BoardHeather Fawcett|title= Time Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of LiesFaeries

|summary= The Labour Party Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has split in twotravelled 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 have when she finds herself far, far North in the small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the Conservatives. The smaller parties have descended into squabbling village matriarch, she is not sure what she has done, nor how to redeem herself and internal strifeput her final investigations for her book back on the right track. Brexit negotiations have trundled on in dribs Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and drabsinsufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, held up at every turn by a slow-moving all charm and mostly unwilling Europedelight, 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?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785630342</amazonuk>0356519120

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Dan Mooney1398515388|title= Me, Myself The Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and ThemAlison Watts (translator)|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= As witty as First of all, it is unsettlingwas the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and this, in turn, caused the nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and utter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, Dan Mooney offers and the loss of livelihoods was widespread. The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of priorities but - six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a story with dog outside a convenience store. He wasn't a dog person but the potential convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open up public conversation around mental health his car door and Tamon the human response to distress and traumadog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785079255</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author= Paula McGrathChristopher Bowden|title= A History of Running AwayMr Magenta|rating= 24|genre= General Fiction|summary= ThereChristopher Bowden's latest novel is a patient untangling of a point early on in Paula McGrathseemingly ordinary woman's novel where I had that pleasant feeling of discovering a newlife, exciting author who was going to take me in a multitude of different directions. This feeling is fading fast carried out by her nephew after 40 pagesshe has died. By 60 pages I'm scrabbling around for redeeming features - maybe some of the characters introduced earlier The aunt who have all mysteriously disappeared will reappear always provided a safe harbour and administer a little bit of indulgence to a young nephew had had a much more interesting life support. After 100 pages all hope is lost than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and I just want it seems to him an obligation to finish the damn thingfind it all out.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473641780</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sheena KalayilJennifer Mason|title=The Bureau Partitions of Second ChancesUnity|rating= 54|genre= General Fiction|summary=Recently widowedHere at Bookbag Towers, with a grown-up daughter forging her own life abroadwe first met Elizabeth Cromwell, dominatrix and unintentional detective in [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], London-based optometrist Thomas Imbalil takes early retirement when she investigated and returns to his native Indiaunravelled a series of disappearances. After a short period enjoying the peace In ''Partitions of his house overlooking the Arabian SeaUnity'', he agrees she sets her mind to commute to the city for solving a few months to look after Chacko's Optical Store to help out an old friendmurder. Thomas soon discovers that the eager young assistant Rani is running another business on the side, but he agrees to turn a blind eye and leave it to his friend to deal with on his return. However, it stirs up thoughts and doubts within Thomas and before long he's involved whether he wants to be or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846973929</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Simon EdgeWill Carver|title= The Hopkins ConundrumDaves Next Door|rating= 54|genre= General Fiction |summary= Tim Cleverley inherits Five strangers come together in one moment as a failing pub suicide bomber prepares to detonate his vest on a London tube line. As their fates overlap, the story is told in Walesbackwards order, which he plans leading up to rescue by enlisting an American pulp novelist to concoct an entirely fabricated mystery about Gerard Manley Hopkinsthe fateful moment.|isbn= 1914585186}} {{Frontpage|author=Jennifer Mason|title=Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=''A struggling poetry zine, a mom-and-pop mobile diner in the Northern California redwoods, a 400-meter hurdler who composed just missed the 2004 Olympics, a women''The Wreck s track coach with a yen for bullwhips, a billionaire with a state-of -the Deutschland-art S&M dungeon, a man serving a life sentence in Alabama, an enigmatic signature, K(s, x), on a cheap oil painting, an erotic art dealer in Georgia...'' nearby.

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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Benjamin LudwigB0B2N7MVYM|title= The Original Ginny MoonCalculations of Rational Men|author=Daniel Godfrey|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction|summary= To Ginny, a child with autism, It's the word Forever means until the police come. Five years ago the police forcibly removed her from the home 10th of her abusive birth mother, GloriaDecember 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marr. Now fourteen Just to put what happens in context, and the Cuban missile crisis is still very fresh in her fourth Forever Home, Ginny remains hell-bent on finding her way back to Gloriapeople's apartmentminds. She The world has no illusions about her motherbarely had a chance to breathe out. But for Joe Marr, it's addictions or lack not the missile crisis that's at the front of parenting skillshis mind. She knows that it might be dangerous – that it might even kill her He's been convicted of murder. Still she plots With the current state of medical knowledge, obsessed with returning it's hard to Gloriathink otherwise than that the prosecution would never have been brought but Joe Marr has spent his first few days in HMP Queen's to find something she insists she left behindBench, something she hid under her beda relatively new prison. Her teachers He's just getting used to his roommate, therapistMervyn, and new Forever Parents are in turn frustrated, infuriated, and perplexed. As Gloria returns learning to her life, be wary of 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 HomeMcArthur brothers. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848456611</amazonuk>