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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Lucy DanielsOnyi Nwabineli|title= Summer at Hope MeadowsAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia''Animal Ark'' was a s increasingly popular series presence on social media, where she posted every step of childrenAnuri's books written between 1994 childhood for sponsorships and 2008influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. The stories focus on a young girl called Mandy Hope Now 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 daughter of two vets who run a practicecontent about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, Animal Arkshe is desperately worried about her little sister, in who is the Yorkshire town new focus of WelfordOphelia's online empire. Along Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her best friend James, father at the children seek to help out creatures in need. same time?|isbn=0861546873}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529153298|title=The series consisted List of 94 books in total Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's 1979 and was written by a collection of authors writing under the pseudonym Lucy DanielsMargaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the family 'Summer at Hope MeadowsDown South'. When you' re from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the first in a new series for adult readersmove would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, continuing grown-up Mandyand she'll do anything to prevent that. She's story now not worried about the dangers or that she is a fully qualified vether Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473653878</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sophie Divry and Alison Anderson (translator)1035906708|title=Madame Bovary of the SuburbsDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=24.5

|summary=''It starts with becoming a homeownerWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, then settling but she was born to Greek parents inManhattan, New York, then reproducingin December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen.'' Well, Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it actually starts a lot before then, with a set of fractured memories of our heroineto 'Callas's childhood – things she recalls her parents and relatives saying both to and about hermake it more manageable in the States. It goes through When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her childhood, and pen letters to voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a best friend conveying mother who mercilessly exploited her wishes for her life, those wishes being revised and affirmed by the liberty made no secret of university years, those wishes being met with or denied by married life… Someone archly could point out that you should be careful what you wish her preference forher elder sister, but not even our wise, modern woman could not see the next step after the reproducing – ''standing disappointed in front of the refrigerator''Jackie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857054686</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tania HershmanAlexander McCall Smith|title=Some of Us Glow More Than OthersThe Perfect Passion Company

|genre=Short Stories General Fiction|summary=I won't be alone The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in stating that reading short story collections can be slightly awkwardproviding a more personal, tailored service. Going through from A-ZNess has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, witnessing as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a bounty while. Katie is coming out of ideas a break up with a bad boyfriend, and characters in short order can be too much, but do you have so jumps at the right chance to pick and choose according come home to what appealsEdinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, and what time you have bringing us to fill? The sequence has carefully been consideredan Edinburgh we already love, surely. Such would appear thanks to be 44 Scotland Street and the case hereIsabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. The last time I read one of this authorKatie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's collections, with [[The White Road by Tania Hershman|The White Road]]always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, the only real difficulty was holding back and rationing themWilliam, but here you not only get to lend a whopping forty pieces of writing, they are also spread into sections.hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910061484</amazonuk>1846976596

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jane JohnsonDean Koontz|title= Court of LionsThe Bad Weather Friend|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical Fiction Paranormal|summary= Kate Fordham arrived in the sunlit city of Granada Benny is having a year agoterrifically bad day. In the shadow of the Alhambra He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, one of the most beautiful places on earthand his house gets trashed. Oh, she works as and someone has delivered a waitress serving tourists in a busy bar. She pretends shereally weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it's happy with her new life – but how could she be? Kate's alonepossible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, afraid and hiding under Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a false namenice person. And fate A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is about to bring her face-to-face with her greatest fear. Five centuries ago, a messagenew friend, in a hand few could readbad weather friend called Spike, was inscribed in blood on who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a stolen scrap good person. Spike is going to take care of paper. The paper was folded Benny, and pressed into one will certainly take care of the AlhambraBenny's walls. There it has lainenemies, undisturbed by the tides of history – the Fall of Granadaif he, the expulsion of its last Sultan – until Kate discovers it. Born of loveBenny, in and Harper (a time of danger and desperation, the fragment will be the catalyst that changes Katewaitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's life foreverwild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786694336</amazonuk>1662500491

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Julie CohenKatherine Howe|title=TogetherA 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 death 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|rating=4

|summary=This Petr is a love story told backwardsan orphan. Rescued by the strange, in the most beautiful mannerreclusive Bear, so that we know he is brought up far from the very beginning that Emily bustling cities and Robert love each other enormouslybusy human society, and that he is about to break her heart in the most dreadful way in order to protect a secret that theyforests of Washington've lived with for decadess Olympic Peninsula. Seeing their love unfold After Bear dies and a brief sojourn in reverse is beautiful. We get to know them once they have already gotten to know each otherhuman company, and it makes for an unusual and interesting structure. The secret they hold is referred to throughoutarmed with only a pirate radio transmitter, Petr goes on a journey through the forest, but it isn't revealed until very late in broadcasting the book. I'm guessing very few readers will figure it out. Even once you knowstrange, you want to go back wild and read the whole story again in the light of the information you now holdrarely heard voices he encounters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409171744</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Kate MildenhallSarah Marsh|title= SkylarkingA Sign of Her Own|rating= 43.5|genre= General Fiction |summary= Kate and Harriet are best friends growing up together on an isolated Australian capeAfter a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. As the daughters Suddenly plunged into a world of the lighthouse keeperssilence, everything about her life changes. Living in a time when the two girls share everythinguse of sign language was seen as something only savages do, until Ellen is sent to a fishermanschool where she is taught to lip read, McPhailbut physically restrained from signing. From here, arrives she ends up in their small communityanother school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and using a system called Visible Speech. When Kate witnesses At the desire that flares between him same time, Bell is working on other inventions and Harrietideas, she is torn by her feelings of envy and longing. An innocent moment Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in McPhail's hut then occurs that threatens to tear their peaceful community aparta complicated tangle of espionage. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785079239</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Zoe DuncanB0BC3YTCMR|title= The Shifting PoolsGood Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira|rating= 24.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Perhaps the most overused phrase in fiction publishing is ''life-affirmingThis story is not for everyone.'' Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of her fifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. She was a very bright student, closely followed by ''human condition''. The Shifting Pools takes this a bit too nerdy if truth be told, and suffered from vitiligo - people were afraid to a whole new level. Its blurb boasts that hug her in case it is ''charged throughout with the beautiful urgency of life'', whatever that meanss contagious. It isn't. And that's the problemnot easy being a black girl whose skin is 84% white. This isn't She had a bad book, crush on seventeen-year-old Reggie Anderson but it sets itself up to failnever thought he would notice her. Then he did: Lavender was very good at math and Reggie asked if she would tutor him. A cardinal rule of writing is ''focus on the small stuff'' She readily agreed: tutoring was something she gladly did at church: this was just an extension. If you set out She went to write a ''life affirming'' novel that answers all the ''big questions'', you'll struggle. And it is this trap that Zoe Duncan falls intohis house and he raped her. In her quest for profundity shock, she loses even allowed him to give her waya lift home. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785630369</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Sarah Healy1472263936|title= The Sisters ChaseFigurine|author=Victoria Hislop|rating= 4.5|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, had left the family home and refused to return, but Mary and Bunny. ThatHamish (Helena's how parents) felt that it has always been ever since Bunny was bornwould be a pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. Two sisters with an unbreakable bond, twisted together so tight that they were two sides Her trip to the family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be the first of several annual visits. She grew to love her grandmother and the same coin. Bunny was Maryfamily's whole world; nothing else really mattered; school...friends...boys...wellmaid, maybe one boyDina, but he was something altogether extraordinarywary - and frightened - of her grandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. When He was proud of his close connections to the unthinkable happened, Mary Junta and Bunny found themselves completely alone in the world, expected his family to uphold his values but saw no reason to accommodate them. His prejudices included Helena's red hair and thatgreen eyes - inherited from her father's when Mary decided to take an unforgettable road trip, just the two of them, across the United States, in search of a place where they could belongScottish ancestors.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0544960076</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joy RhoadesDean 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, covered in plastic, he has a sense that something very, very bad has happened to him – and only him – as he sits up and looks around at the shrouded bodies of his dead friends and former colleagues. As he recovers his senses, he realises that there is something different about him; he can ''feel'' everything. ''Everything''. Michael isn't ''Michael'' anymore.|isbn=1662500467}} {{Frontpage|isbn=B0BVDC2VWH|title=The Woolgrower's CompanionGrave Listeners|author=William Frank

|summary=1945: The war village is in isolated and poor. It's surrounded by a Witching Forest. And the villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its dying days bread-like fruit provides nutrition and creating problems far from its blossom provides herbal medicines. The black wood of the different fronts. For instanceforest provides heat and warmth, roofs on homes, in Australiaand even gallows, what can be done with the Italian POWs brought into the country? if needed. The solution seems to be their use as cheap labour. In this way Kate Dowd's father agrees to take two onto his sheep farm fear of being buried alive is an existential superstition in drought-ridden New South Wales. Kate is initially wary of the two men – Vittorio village and Luca – but gradually she realises that not all dangers come from outside her community. Life on is the reason Volushka, a sheep station may be harsh but for Kate it's going to get drunken, self-indulgent, lazy lout of a lot worseman is tolerated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784741345</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jonathan LeviB0BYF82CXT|title= Septimania|rating= 4|genre= General Fiction|summary= First and foremost a tale of love, Septimania delivers the frustrations and agony of two people who find each other and then lose each other, all on the same day. But what a momentous day! Life takes Malory and Louisa off in totally different directions but strangely their paths cross again and again. Malory, searching to uncover his past, moves to Rome and discovers great and incredible facts about his ancestry. Louisa, a brilliant mathematician, is head hunted for 'secret' work and is signed up by her father for a life time's contract with the American Government. 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>}}{{newreviewSemi-Detached|author=Antoine Laurain, Jane Aitken (translator) and Emily Boyce (translator)|title=The PortraitDeborah Stone

|summary=Meet Pierre''Bill and Amanda are living in a semi-Francois. He should by rights be an antiques dealerdetached house, as he made stuck in a fortune selling on his first collection (depressing rut of erasers) while at school, and funded both his university boredom and carnal education, with prostitutes, by trading too. He is, howeverdisappointment, a patent when Terry and intellectual property lawyerFiona – glamorous, successful and his wife is forever demanding a reduction very much in the space his collections take up love – move in next door. Despite their flat. But he still dabbles – although this latest visit to the showrooms will cause a lot of unexpected incident. In amongst the grot at a low-key sale he finds an ancient pastel, showing himself – a bewigged, antique version of himself, even if, howeverdifferent outlooks on life, nobody else sees the connection between Pierre-Francois couples befriend each other and the picture's subjectlife appears to improve for both pairs. StillBut all is not what it seems, as an effeminate uncle told him, ''real objects carry memory of and their past ownersincreasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy.'' – and Pierre-Francois is intent on finding the truths behind those memories. Little does he know just what he will discover…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910477435</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Virginie Despentes and Frank Wynne (translator)Shalini Boland|title= Vernon Subutex 1The Silent Bride|rating= 53|genre= General Fiction|summary= Vernon Subutex is Alice and Seth are a wanted manmatch made in heaven. Following the death of Alex Bleach He is everything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, clever, Vernon's generous benefactor funny; total and publicly adored musicianutter husband-material. She is all he could possibly want in a wife; beautiful, successful, Vernon now has confident… and so the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and the last recordings of Alex's drug induced ramblingswedding is planned and set. Kicked out of his apartment When the story follows Vernon as he couch surfs his way across Parismuch-anticipated day arrives, pursued Alice is walked down the aisle by journalists her father, beaming with pride and excitement as she surveys the congregation – their friends assembled to celebrate this joyful day and media moguls desperate when Seth turns to cash in on Bleachface his approaching bride, Alice's death. Eventually finding himself out of luckworld implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the man at the altar is, friends and money Vernon who is left sleeping rough, half mad and forced waiting for her to bear witness to a shocking act of violencebecome his wife. In a world of capricious friends and grasping avaricious journalists who can Vernon trust?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857055410</amazonuk>1662507089

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Rowena MacDonald1787636003|title= The Threat Level Remains SevereGirls of Summer|author=Katie Bishop|rating= 3.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=Grace Ambrose isnIt was the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the island. Rachel wasn't Brigitte Jonesexactly innocent but she was, perhaps, naive, so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to take an interest in her, honest; for one thing she doesn't keep was flattered rather than wary. It was quite a diarywhile before he made any sort of physical approach to her and by that time she was obsessed by him. Grace is our typical misogynistic Hollywood stereotype supporting female character. She is Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, looking after his interests on the ''secretly hot chick'' who will suddenly take off their glasses, shake out their hair island and reveal themselves to have been beautiful in particular in the bar where all along. We follow Grace and her romantic adventures (and misadventures) over three years of her life at 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 Told from a retrospective view, a young woman unravels the year-long relationship that once defined her. 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 save its sorrowful end the lives summer after. Set against the backdrop of othersan isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the 24-year-old narrator's deepening relationship with her older lover, depicting its all-consuming nature, she must risk how it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and how it altered her own..irrevocably. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785762907</amazonuk>0861546490

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008506337|title=The Garnett Girls|author=Daniel Kehlmann Georgina Moore|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=The love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, apparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in love. Richard was twenty-one and described by Margo's mother as 'an older man'. Her parents worried that Richard's influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and having a glittering career. In the event, they eloped and Ross Benjamin (translator)Richard took her away from the Isle of Wight. Margo did go to Oxford and went on to become a well-respected journalist. The couple had three children: Rachel, Imogen and Sasha. Life was lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, the family home on the Isle of Wight. Even then the doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able to leave him in charge''. Then Richard left them.}} {{Frontpage|isbn=1914585402|title=You Should Have LeftDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross

|genre=General Fiction |summary=Our narrator is a screenwriter, tasked with coming up with a sequel to his hit movie I reviewed David F Ross's book [[There'Bestiess Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There'' – s Only One Danny Garvey]] a film which helped pay for a house, but which his actress wife keeps letting him know, isn't ''art''couple of years back and remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and affecting it was. To concentrate, the family – he, the wife, and their four year old daughter – have rented a large, modern house at the end of It was a horrid, hairpin bend-filled roadgripping, in a charming alpine landscape. But things aren't right. The couple are at loggerheads too much, things keep unsettling our narratoremotionally wounding read, and the sole shopkeeper for miles around is ready with the Hammer Horror styled warnings rereading my review of strange events. Quickly we see the book's title in all its galling clarity – but it isn't too late to get out… is my main takeaway was that I might not have lavished enough praise on it? And out of what, exactly?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786484048</amazonuk>.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Amanda CraigLucy Ashe|title=The Lie of the LandClara and Olivia|rating=4.5

|summary=The Bredins can't afford to divorceyear is 1933. The house in London place? Sadler''would'' sells Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, twins no less. Identical on the outside but not for a priced that would allow Quentin and Lottie ( she with her son and their two girls) to each get somewhere to live. Unemployment has barrelled into , we learn, on the equation too: Lottie's lost her job as an architect and Quentin's prowess as a journalist is in reducing demandinside. There's And not much in the way of family help available: Lottie's mother's house might be worth six millionon stage, but she barely scrapes by on her incomeeither. ThereBecause there's one solution a lot that builds a dancer. Some things that just might work: the house in London can be let taught or learnt – discipline, attention to detail – and theysome things, that ''je ne sais quoi'', that don'll move to somewhere cheap in t come from the country classroom. A stage presence, a charm, a ''joie de vivre''. The difference between a hard-worker, and live as best they can on the rent they receivea star.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408709295</amazonuk>0861544080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Ann O' LoughlinHeather Fawcett|title= The Ludlow LadiesEmily Wilde' Societys Encyclopaedia of Faeries|rating= 3.54|genre= General Fiction|summary=Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life''The Ludlow Ladies' Society'' is s work, the story very first encyclopaedia of two women faeries. Whilst she is brilliant at research and their struggle speaking to come to terms faeries, she is not so good with the terrible tragedies in their livespeople. Connie Carter arrives at Ludlow Hall So when she finds herself far, a property she has inherited far North in Irelandthe small village of Hrafvsnik, with no clue as to having somehow offended the village matriarch, she is not sure what to expect. The close-knit community are curious about ''The Americanshe has done,'' who seems to have no desire nor how to integrate redeem herself into and put her final investigations for her book back on the communityright track. Nearby, lives Eve, a widow Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who formerly lived at Ludlow Hall. Shearrives unexpectedly, too, has painful memories all charm and scars that are slow to healdelight, but as she begins much to form a friendship Emily's frustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the reclusive Connie, the two form a bond that will help them both face their grief together.faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785301276</amazonuk>0356519120

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Tina Seskis1398515388|title= The HoneymoonBoy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating= 4.5|genre= ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary= For as long as she can rememberFirst of all, Jemma has been planning it was the perfect honeymoon. A fortnight's retreat to a five-star resort earthquake, deep in the Maldivesocean floor, which created the tsunami and this, in turn, caused the nuclear meltdown. The result was complete with luxury villasand utter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, personal butlers and absolute privacythe loss of livelihoods was widespread.It should be paradise 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 dog outside a convenience store. But it He wasn's turned into t a nightmare. Because dog person but the man Jemma married a week ago has just disappeared from convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and Tamon the island without a trace. And now her perfect new life is vanishing just as quickly before her eyesdog jumped in. 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 -->Frontpage|author=Hugo DriscollChristopher Bowden|title=Seven Days with YouMr Magenta|rating=3.54

|summary=There was little in eighteen-year-old Sean JohnsonChristopher Bowden's life to give him joy. He was latest novel is a farmhand in the small town patient untangling of Bloxford and the highlights of his a seemingly ordinary woman's life were his daily chats with his friend Tom, helping carried out at the animal sanctuary by her nephew after she has died. The aunt who always provided a safe harbour and a trip little bit of indulgence to the pub on a Saturday night. The downsides were the boring job and having to live with young nephew had had 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 much more interesting life in the form of Sophia Hillingdon, daughter of one of the top lawyers in the country than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and about it seems to go him an obligation to Oxford to study law herself. It was their love of animals which would spark their love for each otherfind it all out.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B07113VFF3</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Douglas BoardJennifer Mason|title= Time Partitions of LiesUnity

|summary= The Labour Party has split Here at Bookbag Towers, we first met Elizabeth Cromwell, dominatrix and unintentional detective in two. So have the Conservatives. The smaller parties have descended into squabbling [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], when she investigated and internal strifeunravelled a series of disappearances. Brexit negotiations have trundled on in dribs and drabsIn ''Partitions of Unity'', held up at every turn by she sets her mind to solving a slow-moving and mostly unwilling Europemurder...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785630342</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Dan MooneyWill Carver|title= Me, Myself and ThemThe Daves Next Door|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Five strangers come together in one moment as a suicide bomber prepares to detonate his vest on a London tube line. As witty as it their fates overlap, the story is unsettlingtold in backwards order, leading up to the 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, Dan Mooney offers a story 400-meter hurdler who just missed the 2004 Olympics, a women's track coach with a yen for bullwhips, a billionaire with a state-of-the potential to open up public conversation around mental health and -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...'' This is just a sample of the human response to distress cast of characters and traumasettings in Preposterous. As you can see, some keeping up will be required! The basic premise of this mystery story goes like this...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785079255</amazonuk>B09STS96HS

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Paula McGrathB0B2N7MVYM|title= A History The Calculations of Running AwayRational Men|author=Daniel Godfrey|rating= 25|genre= General Fiction|summary= ThereIt's a point early on the 10th of December 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marr. Just to put what happens in context, the Cuban missile crisis is still very fresh in Paula McGrathpeople's novel where I minds. The world has barely had that pleasant feeling of discovering a newchance to breathe out. But for Joe Marr, exciting author who was going to take me in a multitude it's not the missile crisis that's at the front of different directionshis mind. This feeling is fading fast after 40 pages He's been convicted of murder. By 60 pages I With the current state of medical knowledge, it'm scrabbling around for redeeming features - maybe some of s hard to think otherwise than that the characters introduced earlier who prosecution would never have all mysteriously disappeared will reappear and administer life supportbeen brought but Joe Marr has spent his first few days in HMP Queen's Bench, a relatively new prison. After 100 pages all hope is lost He's just getting used to his roommate, Mervyn, and I just want learning to finish be wary of the damn thingMcArthur brothers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473641780</amazonuk>