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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!{{Frontpage|author=Onyi Nwabineli|title=Allow 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's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step- Remove -->mother to take down the content about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kay Langdale1529153298|title=The Way Back to UsList of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey

|summary=It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A household revolves around its weakest member and because itwoman? 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 revolving thereupset because she's always a danger overheard that some people - such as a spouse - will be spun her father wants to move the outsidefamily 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, whilst other children, loosely attached to the main carer will be at Down South is a distancefrightening, never completely closeforeign place, but never escaping eitherbest avoided. In For Miv, the centre are the carer move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and the person who needs that care, bonded together in such a way that itshe's actually difficult ll do anything to offer help or even friendshipprevent that. So it is with Anna and Teddy, who suffers from Spinal Muscular Atrophy, or SMA as itShe's generally known. Henot worried about the dangers or that her Mum's five now, confined stopped talking - to a wheelchair or his Whizzybug and not putting on much weight as chewing and swallowing are difficultanyone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473618363</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Hendrik Groen and Hester Velmans (translator)1035906708|title= The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83¼ years OldDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= As the old adage goesWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to walk a mile Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in someone else's shoes is December 1923 and only moved to gain some understanding of what Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it is to be that person. Admittedly, Hendrik Groen isn't much up for long walks any Callas' to make it more, but he does acquire a swish mobility scooter to zoom around manageable in the States. When she was back in; one Athens - supposedly so that she could say that we get to zoom appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a mile in Groen's shoes, mother who mercilessly exploited her and ohmade no secret of her preference for her elder sister, what fun shoes he wears!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405924004</amazonuk>Jackie.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sarah FranklinAlexander McCall Smith|title= ShelterThe Perfect Passion Company|rating= 5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=Connie Granger has escaped her bombed-out city home, finding refuge in the Women's Timber Corps. For her, this remote community must now serve a secret purpose.<br>Seppe, an Italian prisoner of war, is haunted by his memories. In the forest camp, he finds a strange kind of freedom.Their meeting signals new beginnings. But as they are drawn together, the world outside their forest haven is being torn apart. Old certainties are crumbling, and both must now make a life-defining choice4.<br>What price will they pay for freedom? What will they fight to protect?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785762990</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jennifer McVeigh|title=Leopard at the Door|rating=5

|summary=18 year old Rachel Fullsmith returns home The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to Kenya after being away at school all the online apps in England and finds providing a lot can change in 6 yearsmore personal, tailored service. Of course she realises Ness has asked her mother's death would alter things but younger cousin Katie if she's not prepared could come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for her father's live-in 'companion' Sara nor Sara's son Harold sleeping in Rachel's old rooma while. Michael the Kikuyu servant boy she grew Katie is coming out of a break up with is still there though a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the 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 now a man the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with his own ideassome new characters who quickly begin to charm. Meanwhile the unrest between the British rulers Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and the local Mau Mau fighters is increasing there's always her very helpful (and about rather handsome) neighbour, William, to blow.lend a hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0241247616</amazonuk>1846976596

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Lucy DanielsDean Koontz|title= Summer at Hope MeadowsThe Bad Weather Friend|rating= 4.5|genre= General FictionParanormal|summary=''Animal Ark'' was Benny is having a popular series of children's books written between 1994 terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and 2008his house gets trashed. The stories focus on a young girl called Mandy Hope Oh, the daughter of two vets who run and someone has delivered a practicereally weird, Animal Arkdisturbing coffin-sized object to his home, in and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the Yorkshire town of Welford. Along with her best friend Jamesthing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the children seek very last person to help out creatures in needdeserve all this bad luck. The series consisted of 94 books in total and was written by He is a collection of authors writing under nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the pseudonym Lucy Daniels. ''Summer at Hope Meadows'' delivery to his house is the first in a new series friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for adult readersbeing a good person. Spike is going to take care of Benny, continuing grown-up Mandyand will certainly take care of Benny's story now that she is enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a fully qualified vetwaitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473653878</amazonuk>1662500491

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sophie Divry and Alison Anderson (translator)Katherine Howe|title=Madame Bovary of the SuburbsA True Account|rating=24.5

|summary=''It starts Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to live with becoming a homeownerfamily who run an inn, then settling and being made to work there from a young age. When she hears there is to be a hanging of some pirates inthe town, then reproducingshe decides to go and watch.'' WellEnthralled and horrified in equal measure, it actually starts a lot before then, with Hannah finds herself embroiled in a set of fractured memories of our heroineyoung boy's childhood – things she recalls her parents and relatives saying both to and about herdeath at the hands of two vicious pirates. It goes through She hides away, so that they don't find and kill her childhoodtoo, and pen letters then to escape them completely she runs away to sea, dressing as a best friend conveying her wishes for her life, those wishes being revised boy and affirmed by joining the liberty notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. She soon finds herself in the thick of university yearsthings when there is a mutiny on board, those wishes being met with or denied by married life… Someone archly could point out that you should be careful what you wish for, but not even our wise, modern woman could not see the next step after the reproducing – ''standing disappointed and from there we are caught up in front her rip roaring tale of life on the refrigerator''ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857054686</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tania Hershman1471180158|title=Some of Us Glow More Than OthersMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes

|genre=Short Stories General Fiction|summary=I won't be alone Jamie Matson works in stating that reading short story collections can be slightly awkward. Going through from Aan upper-Zclass grocery store, witnessing for a man who's a bounty control freak with all the subtlety of ideas a half brick. Jamie's son, Bo, 'has his problems'. He's asthmatic and characters in short order can be too muchthe more you read, but do the more you have 'll suspect that he's on the right autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to pick take time off at short notice - she's a frequent flier in the local A&E and choose according sometimes Bo's not fit enough to what appeals, and what time you have go to fill? The sequence has carefully been considered, surelyschool. Such would appear 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 case herewrong. The last time I read one of this author's collections, with [[The White Road by Tania Hershman|The White Road]], the only real difficulty It was holding back and rationing them, but here you not only get going to come to a whopping forty pieces of writing, they are also spread into sectionshead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910061484</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jane JohnsonB0CKD1L5JL|title= Court of LionsRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn|rating= 54|genre= Historical General Fiction |summary= Kate Fordham arrived in the sunlit city of Granada a year agoPetr is an orphan. In Rescued by the shadow of the Alhambrastrange, reclusive Bear, one of the most beautiful places on earthhe is brought up far from bustling cities and busy human society, she works as a waitress serving tourists in a busy bar. She pretends shethe forests of Washington's happy with her new life – but how could she be? Kate's aloneOlympic Peninsula. After Bear dies and a brief sojourn in human company, afraid and hiding under a false name. And fate is about to bring her face-to-face armed with her greatest fear. Five centuries ago, only a messagepirate radio transmitter, in a hand few could read, was inscribed in blood Petr goes on a stolen scrap of paper. The paper was folded and pressed into one of journey through the Alhambra's walls. There it has lainforest, undisturbed by the tides of history – broadcasting the Fall of Granadastrange, the expulsion of its last Sultan – until Kate discovers it. Born of love, in a time of danger wild and desperation, the fragment will be the catalyst that changes Kate's life foreverrarely heard voices he encounters. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786694336</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Julie CohenSarah Marsh|title=TogetherA Sign of Her Own|rating=3.5

|summary=This is After a bout of scarlet fever as a love story told backwardschild, in the most beautiful manner, so that we know from the very beginning that Emily and Robert love each other enormouslyEllen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, and that he is everything about to break her heart life changes. Living in a time when the most dreadful way in order use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to protect a secret that they've lived with for decades. Seeing their love unfold in reverse school where she is beautiful. We get taught to know them once they have already gotten to know each otherlip read, and it makes for an unusual and interesting structurebut physically restrained from signing. The secret they hold is referred to throughoutFrom here, but it isn't revealed until very late she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the bookdeaf and using a system called Visible Speech. I'm guessing very few readers will figure it out. Even once you knowAt the same time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, you want to go back and read the whole story again Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in the light a complicated tangle of the information you now holdespionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409171744</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Kate MildenhallB0BC3YTCMR|title= SkylarkingGood Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction |summary= Kate and Harriet are best friends growing up together on an isolated Australian cape''This story is not for everyone. As the daughters '' Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of the lighthouse keepersher fifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. She was a very bright student, the two girls share everything, until a fishermanbit too nerdy if truth be told, McPhail, arrives and suffered from vitiligo - people were afraid to hug her in their small communitycase it's contagious. It's not easy being a black girl whose skin is 84% white. She had a crush on seventeen-year-old Reggie Anderson but never thought he would notice her. When Kate witnesses the desire that flares between 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 Harriethe raped her. In shock, she is torn by even allowed him to give her feelings of envy and longing. An innocent moment in McPhail's hut then occurs that threatens to tear their peaceful community aparta lift home. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785079239</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Zoe Duncan1472263936|title= The Shifting PoolsFigurine|author=Victoria Hislop|rating= 2.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Perhaps the most overused phrase It was in fiction publishing is ''life-affirming''1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. She was alone: her mother, closely followed Greek by birth, had left the family home and refused to return, but Mary and Hamish (Helena''human condition''s parents) felt that it would be a pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. The Shifting Pools takes this Her trip to a whole new level. Its blurb boasts that it is ''charged throughout with the beautiful urgency family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be the first of life'', whatever that meansseveral annual visits. It isn't. And that She grew to love her grandmother and the family's the problem. This isn't a bad bookmaid, Dina, but it sets itself up to failwas wary - and frightened - of her grandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. A cardinal rule He was proud of writing is ''focus on his close connections to the small stuff''Junta and expected his family to uphold his values but saw no reason to accommodate them. If you set out to write a His prejudices included Helena's red hair and green eyes - inherited from her father'life affirming'' novel that answers all the ''big questions'', you'll struggle. And it is this trap that Zoe Duncan falls into. In her quest for profundity she loses her ways Scottish ancestors. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785630369</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sarah HealyDean Koontz|title= The Sisters ChaseAfter Death|rating= 4.53|genre= General Fiction|summary=Mary and BunnyMichael 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. That's how it Finding himself in a makeshift mortuary, covered in plastic, he has a sense that something very, very bad has always been ever since Bunny was bornhappened to him – and only him – as he sits up and looks around at the shrouded bodies of his dead friends and former colleagues. Two sisters with an unbreakable bond As he recovers his senses, twisted together so tight he realises that they were two sides of the same cointhere is something different about him; he can ''feel'' everything. Bunny was Mary ''Everything''s whole world; nothing else really mattered; school. Michael isn't ''Michael'' anymore.|isbn=1662500467}} {{Frontpage|isbn=B0BVDC2VWH|title=The Grave Listeners|author=William Frank|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=The village is isolated and poor.friendsIt's surrounded 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..boys...wellThe black wood of the forest provides heat and warmth, roofs on homes, maybe one boyand even gallows, but he was something altogether extraordinaryif needed. When the unthinkable happened, Mary and Bunny found themselves completely alone The fear of being buried alive is an existential superstition in the world, village and that's when Mary decided to take an unforgettable road tripis the reason Volushka, just the two of thema drunken, across the United Statesself-indulgent, in search lazy lout of a place where they could belongman is tolerated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0544960076</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joy RhoadesB0BYF82CXT|title=The Woolgrower's CompanionSemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone

|summary=1945: The war is in its dying days ''Bill and creating problems far from the different fronts. For instance, Amanda are living in Australiaa semi-detached house, what can be done with the Italian POWs brought into the country? 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 stuck in drought-ridden New South Wales. Kate is initially wary a depressing rut of the two men boredom and disappointment, when Terry and Fiona – Vittorio glamorous, successful and Luca very much in love – but gradually she realises that not all dangers come from outside her communitymove in next door. Life Despite their different outlooks on a sheep station may be harsh but life, the couples befriend each other and life appears to improve for Kate both pairs. But all is not what itseems, and their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy.''s going to get a lot worse.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784741345</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jonathan LeviShalini Boland|title= SeptimaniaThe Silent Bride|rating= 43|genre= General Fiction|summary= First Alice and foremost Seth are a tale of lovematch made in heaven. He is everything she has been searching for; handsome, Septimania delivers the frustrations accomplished, clever, funny; total and agony of two people who find each other and then lose each other, utter husband-material. She is all on the same day. But what he could possibly want in a momentous day! Life takes Malory and Louisa off in totally different directions but strangely their paths cross again and again. Malorywife; beautiful, searching to uncover his pastsuccessful, moves to Rome confident… and so the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and discovers great the wedding is planned and incredible facts about his ancestryset. Louisa, a brilliant mathematician When the much-anticipated day arrives, Alice is head hunted for 'secret' work and is signed up walked down the aisle by her father for a life time's contract , beaming with pride and excitement as she surveys the American Government. She completely disappears from Malorycongregation – their friends assembled to celebrate this joyful day and when Seth turns to face his approaching bride, Alice's life and he world implodes because she has absolutely no way of knowing how idea who the man at the altar is, who is waiting for her to find her again. They are both trapped in their separate livesbecome his wife.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>071565196X</amazonuk>1662507089

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Antoine Laurain, Jane Aitken (translator) and Emily Boyce (translator)1787636003|title=The PortraitGirls of Summer|author=Katie Bishop|rating=45

|summary=Meet Pierre-Francois. He should by rights be an antiques dealer, as he made a fortune selling on his first collection (of erasers) while at school, It was the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and funded both his university Caroline went backpacking around Greece and carnal education, with prostitutes, by trading tooarrived on the island. He isRachel wasn't exactly innocent but she was, howeverperhaps, a patent and intellectual property lawyernaive, and his wife is forever demanding a reduction in the space his collections so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to take up an interest in their flather, she was flattered rather than wary. But It was quite a while before he still dabbles – although this latest visit made any sort of physical approach to the showrooms will cause a lot of unexpected incidenther and by that time she was obsessed by him. In amongst the grot at a low-key sale he finds an ancient pastelAlistair worked for Henry Taylor, showing himself – a bewigged, antique version of himself, even if, however, nobody else sees looking after his interests on the connection between Pierre-Francois island and in particular in the picture's subject. Still, as an effeminate uncle told him, ''real objects carry memory of their past owners'' – and Pierre-Francois is intent on finding bar where all the truths behind those memoriesgirls either worked or partied. Little does he know just what he will discover…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910477435</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Virginie Despentes and Frank Wynne (translator)Amanda Craig|title= Vernon Subutex 1Three Graces|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Vernon Subutex is a wanted man. Following Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the death state-of Alex Bleach, Vernon-the-nation novel. There's generous benefactor something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the atmosphere of the day and publicly adored musiciancapture it, Vernon now has the last recordings of Alex's drug induced ramblings. Kicked out crafting an image of his apartment the story follows Vernon country as he couch surfs his way across Paris, pursued by journalists and media moguls desperate to cash it stands in on Bleachone particular moment. To say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's deathpractically synonymous with the genre of contemporary social fiction at this point. Eventually finding himself out She has such a gift for weaving the ongoing issues of luck, friends and money Vernon is left sleeping rough, half mad and forced to bear witness to a shocking act the day into the lives of violence. In her characters in a world of capricious friends way that feels natural and grasping avaricious journalists who can Vernon trust?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857055410</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Rowena MacDonald|title= The Threat Level Remains Severe|rating= 3.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=Grace Ambrose isn't Brigitte Joneslived-in, honest; never making them ciphers for one thing she doesn't keep a diary. Grace is our typical misogynistic Hollywood stereotype supporting female character. She is the ''secretly hot chick'' who will suddenly take off their glassessocial commentary but instead fully realised people, shake out their hair and reveal grappling with issues far larger than themselves to have been beautiful all along. We follow Grace and her romantic adventures (and misadventures) over three years of her life at the House of Commons.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910709158</amazonuk>140871468X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matt Haig152915118X|title=How to Stop TimePineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson

|summary=Tom ''Pineapple Street'' is the story of three women: Sasha, Darley and Georgiana. Darley and George are sisters and Sasha is an albatrossmarried to their brother Cord. They're Stocktons, only Sasha isn't a Stockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the tribe. That The problem's not exacerbated when the clan matriarch, Tilda, asks Cord and Sasha if they'd like to move into the Pineapple Street property. Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to say he has another property, a freakish wingspan, street or anythingso away, but it means hewhich they own. They won's not a mayflyt need any of the furniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and Cord can move straight in. In contrast to all us regular humans with our temperamental bodies living out short lifespans Nominally, he ages at they had a speed roughly one-fifteenth of choice but that at which we do, wasn't the reality. Darley and barely gets touched by any diseaseGeorgiana start to call Sasha 'the gold digger'. She's living in ''their'' family home. It means he will live for several more centuries than They use it so often that they abbreviate it to 'the ones he GD'.}}{{Frontpage|author=Emily Critchley|title=One Puzzling Afternoon|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=84 year old Edie has witnessed so farlived in the same small town for almost her whole life, but ever since his mother was drowned now she is facing a move as a witch due her son wants to move to another house and bring Edie to live with his teenaged self never ageingfamily, he has known the best thing for him – and others – as Edie is starting to regularly move onlose her memory. Solitude has been tempered since However, Edie is tormented by the late Victorian eramemory of her childhood friend, Lucy, when other people even older than him press-ganged him into their society of albatrosseswho went missing over 60 years ago, but and the worry that there was a secret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be the thing that reveals the fact truth of the matter is what happened all that falling in love really is a no-notime ago. But that After 'seeing's not Lucy in the high street, just as she was the last time she saw her, she starts to find pockets of memories coming back to say it never happenedher. And yet as she remembers the past, she is forgetting more and that's not more in her day to say that he can't feel things for day life. Will she uncover the albatross daughter hetruth about Lucy's not seen for centuries. It might be the only thing he has to live for…disappearance before her move, and before her memories are gone forever?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782118616</amazonuk>1804181250

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Dane HuckelbridgeMadelaine Lucas|title= Castle of WaterThirst for Salt|rating= 45|genre= General Literary Fiction|summary= Barry Bleeker and Sophie Ducel are two very different people destined to take the same journey. As they are both aboard a flight to the Marquesas Islands''Love, their tiny plane crashes leaving Barry and Sophie the only survivors. Until recentlyI'd read, Barry was an investment banker in New York before he decided supposed to leave his life behind be a light and pursue his dream of paintingweightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravity'' Told from a retrospective view, a young woman unravels the year-long relationship that once defined her. Sophie meanwhileOverlaid with later wisdom, was the narrator relives the affair with a French architect who along with man twenty years her husband Etienne was planning a honeymoon senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the summer after. Set against the backdrop of a lifetime. Now Barry and Sophie are alone on an uninhabited island in isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the South Pacific24-year-old narrator's deepening relationship with her older lover, depicting its all-consuming nature, where they must learn to put aside their differences how it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and survivehow it altered her irrevocably.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008217858</amazonuk>0861546490

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= M L Rio0008506337|title= If We Were VillainsThe Garnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Murder most horrid amongst a group of 4th Year university students of ShakespeareThe 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. We open Richard was twenty-one and described by Margo's mother as our protagonist is released 'an older man'. Her parents worried that Richard's influence would take her away from jail what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and having served his time for a crime that he may or may not have committedglittering career. What did he do? What happened that year? Why did things turn out In the way event, they eloped and Richard took her away from the Isle of Wight. Margo did? We have go to push our way through 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 undergrowth family home on the Isle of flashbacks Wight. Even then the doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able to find outleave him in charge''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785656473</amazonuk>Then Richard left them.

{{Frontpage|isbn=1914585402|title=Dashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=I reviewed David F Ross's book [[There's Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's Only One Danny Garvey]] a couple of years back and remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and affecting it was. It was a gripping, emotionally wounding read, and rereading my review of it my main takeaway was that I might not have lavished enough praise on it.}}{{Frontpage|author=Lucy Ashe|title=Clara and Olivia|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=The year is 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 save detail – and some things, that ''je ne sais quoi'', that don't come from the lives classroom. A stage presence, a charm, a ''joie de vivre''. The difference between a hard-worker, and a star.|isbn=0861544080}}{{Frontpage|author=Heather Fawcett|title=Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of othersFaeries|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she must risk has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her ownlife's work, the very first encyclopaedia of faeries. Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, she is not so good with people. So when she finds herself far, far North in the small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the village matriarch, she is not sure what she has done, nor how to redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on the right track. Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, much to Emily's frustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785762907</amazonuk>0356519120

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1398515388|title=The Boy and the Dog|author=Daniel Kehlmann Seishu Hase and Ross Benjamin Alison Watts (translator)|title=You Should Have Left

|genre=General Fiction |summary=Our narrator is a screenwriterFirst of all, tasked with coming up with a sequel to his hit movie ''Besties'' – a film which helped pay for a house, but which his actress wife keeps letting him know, isn't ''art''. To concentrateit was the earthquake, deep in the family – heocean floor, which created the wifetsunami and this, and their four year old daughter – have rented a largein turn, modern house at caused the end of a horrid, hairpin bend-filled road, in a charming alpine landscapenuclear meltdown. But things aren't rightThe result was complete and utter devastation. The couple are at loggerheads too much, things keep unsettling our narratordeaths were uncountable, and the sole shopkeeper for miles around is ready with loss of livelihoods was widespread. The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the Hammer Horror styled warnings list of strange eventspriorities but - six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. Quickly we see He wasn't a dog person but the bookconvenience store owner's title comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and Tamon the dog jumped in all its galling clarity – but it isn't too late to get out… is it? And out of what, exactly?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786484048</amazonuk>.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Amanda CraigChristopher Bowden|title=The Lie of the LandMr Magenta|rating=54

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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Ann O' LoughlinJennifer Mason|title= The Ludlow Ladies' SocietyPartitions of Unity|rating= 3.54|genre= General Fiction|summary=''The Ludlow Ladies' Society'' is the story of two women Here at Bookbag Towers, we first met Elizabeth Cromwell, dominatrix and their struggle to come to terms with the terrible tragedies unintentional detective in their lives. Connie Carter arrives at Ludlow Hall[[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], when she investigated and unravelled a property she has inherited in Ireland, with no clue as to what to expectseries of disappearances. The close-knit community are curious about In ''The American,Partitions of Unity'' who seems to have no desire to integrate herself into the community. Nearby, lives Eve, a widow, who formerly lived at Ludlow Hall. She, too, has painful memories and scars that are slow to heal, but as she begins sets her mind to form solving a friendship with the reclusive Connie, the two form a bond that will help them both face their grief togethermurder...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785301276</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF

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