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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Alison Jean LesterOnyi Nwabineli|title= Yuki Means HappinessAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating= 34.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= HighAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-tech mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and high-rise, kimonosbasically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and bigto get her life back, suing her step-eyed visuals – through a dynamic juxtaposition of mother to take down the ultra modern content about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and the traditionalreceiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, Japan has succeeded in branding itself both as an intriguing travel destination that does not cease to surpriseshe is desperately worried about her little sister, but at who is the same time defies being ever wholly full understood by outsiders. All new focus of this has come to be encapsulated and reinforced in Sofia CoppolaOphelia's cult classic ''Lost in Translation'': the iconic still of Scarlett Johansson standing online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the scramble crossing in Shibuya has come to represent Japan in pop culture as much as the more traditional cherry blossom imagery. same time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848549628</amazonuk>0861546873

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= S V Berlin1529153298|title= The FavouriteList of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=Siblings Edward It's 1979 and Isobel Vernon havenMargaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She't spoken in years and live on opposite sides of the Atlantics not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. When their mother Mary dies unexpectedly Well, they are thrown together '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 sort through move the family home'Down South'. With Edward When you's diffident but devoted girlfriendre from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, Julieforeign place, making an awkward threesomebest avoided. For Miv, each stumbles through the practicalities of funeral preparation move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and house clearing, trying she'll do anything to make sense of their emotions and their feelings toward one anotherprevent that. Isobel makes a disturbing discovery and her fateful decision has consequences for all of them, challenging their beliefs She's not worried about the past, hopes for the future and understanding of Marydangers or that her Mum's role in keeping them at once apart and togetherstopped talking - to anyone. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0993563384</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julia Claiborne Johnson1035906708|title=Be Frank with MeDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5

|summary=In June 2009 Isaac Vargas sends his assistantWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, twenty-four-year-old Alice Whitleybut she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, to Bel AirNew York, California in December 1923 and only moved to help Mimi Gillespie produce Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her long-awaited second novel. Under father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the name MStates.M. Banning, Mimi issued a wildly successful novel When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the 1970s, ''Pitched'', which quickly became Nazi occupation by a modern classic on every American adolescent's list mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of assigned reading her preference for school. She's the sort of figure Harper Lee was for decades: a one-hit literary wonder and an infamous recluse. But there's one key difference here: Mimi has a nine-year-old sonher elder sister, FrankJackie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782399208</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kay LangdaleAlexander McCall Smith|title=The Way Back to UsPerfect Passion Company|rating=4.5

|summary=A household revolves around its weakest member The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and because it's revolving there's always a danger that some people - such operating as a spouse - will be spun an alternative to all the outside, whilst other children, loosely attached to the main carer will be at online apps in providing a distancemore personal, never completely close, but never escaping eithertailored service. In the centre are the carer Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the person who needs that carebusiness, bonded together in such as Ness is planning to take a way that it's actually difficult trip to Canada to offer help or even friendshipget away for a while. So it Katie is coming out of a break up with Anna a bad boyfriend, and Teddyso 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 the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who suffers from Spinal Muscular Atrophyquickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a business, or SMA as itin match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's generally known. He's five nowalways her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, confined to lend a wheelchair or his Whizzybug and not putting on much weight as chewing and swallowing are difficult.hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473618363</amazonuk>1846976596

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Hendrik Groen and Hester Velmans (translator)Dean Koontz|title= The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83¼ years OldBad Weather Friend|rating= 4.5|genre= General FictionParanormal|summary= As the old adage goesBenny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to walk a mile in someone elsehis home, and it's shoes possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to gain some understanding of what deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to be that help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Admittedly Spike is going to take care of Benny, Hendrik Groen isnand will certainly take care of Benny't much up for long walks any mores enemies, but if he does acquire a swish mobility scooter to zoom around in; one could say that we get to zoom , Benny, and Harper (a mile in Groenwaitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's shoes, and oh, what fun shoes he wears!wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405924004</amazonuk>1662500491

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sarah FranklinKatherine Howe|title= ShelterA True Account|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical General Fiction|summary=Connie Granger has escaped her bombed-out city homeHannah Masury is living in Boston, finding refuge in the Women's Timber Corps. For herhaving been sent to live with a family who run an inn, this remote community must now serve and being made to work there from a secret purposeyoung age.<br>Seppe, an Italian prisoner When she hears there is to be a hanging of warsome pirates in the town, is haunted by his memoriesshe decides to go and watch. In the forest camp Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, he Hannah finds herself embroiled in a strange kind young boy's death at the hands of freedomtwo vicious pirates.Their meeting signals new beginnings. But as She hides away, so that they are drawn togetherdon't find and kill her too, and then to escape them completely she runs away to sea, dressing as a boy and joining the world outside their forest haven notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. She soon finds herself in the thick of things when there is being torn apart. Old certainties are crumblinga mutiny on board, and both must now make a from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life-defining choiceon the ocean waves.<br>What price will they pay for freedom? What will they fight to protect?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785762990</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jennifer McVeigh1471180158|title=Leopard at the DoorMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating=4.5

|summary=18 year old Rachel Fullsmith returns home to Kenya after being away at school Jamie Matson works in England and finds an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's a control freak with all the subtlety of a lot can change in 6 yearshalf brick. Of course she realises her motherJamie's death would alter things but sheson, Bo, 'has his problems'. He's not prepared for her fatherasthmatic and the more you read, the more you'll suspect that he's liveon the autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice -in 'companion' Sara nor Sarashe's son Harold sleeping a frequent flier in Rachelthe local A&E and sometimes Bo's old roomnot fit enough to go to school. Michael Missed shifts or the Kikuyu servant boy she grew need to be away on time to pick Bo up with is still there though from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and now a man with his own ideasput in the wrong. Meanwhile the unrest between the British rulers and the local Mau Mau fighters is increasing and about It was going to come to blowa head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241247616</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lucy DanielsB0CKD1L5JL|title= Summer at Hope MeadowsRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn|rating= 4|genre= General Fiction|summary=''Animal Ark'' was a popular series of children's books written between 1994 and 2008Petr is an orphan. The stories focus on a young girl called Mandy Hope, Rescued by the daughter of two vets who run a practicestrange, Animal Arkreclusive Bear, he is brought up far from bustling cities and busy human society, in the Yorkshire town forests of WelfordWashington's Olympic Peninsula. Along After Bear dies and a brief sojourn in human company, and armed with her best friend Jamesonly a pirate radio transmitter, the children seek to help out creatures in need. The series consisted of 94 books in total and was written by Petr goes on a collection of authors writing under journey through the pseudonym Lucy Daniels. ''Summer at Hope Meadows'' is forest, broadcasting the first in a new series for adult readersstrange, continuing grown-up Mandy's story now that she is a fully qualified vetwild and rarely heard voices he encounters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473653878</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sophie Divry and Alison Anderson (translator)Sarah Marsh|title=Madame Bovary A Sign of the SuburbsHer Own|rating=23.5

|summary=''It starts with becoming After a homeownerbout of scarlet fever as a child, then settling in, then reproducingEllen Lark loses her hearing.'' Well, it actually starts Suddenly plunged into a lot before thenworld of silence, with a set of fractured memories of our heroine's childhood – things she recalls her parents and relatives saying both to and everything about herlife changes. It goes through her childhood, and pen letters to Living in a best friend conveying her wishes for her life, those wishes being revised and affirmed by time when the liberty use of university yearssign language was seen as something only savages do, those wishes being met with or denied by married life… Someone archly could point out that you should be careful what you wish forEllen is sent to a school where she is taught to lip read, but not even our wisephysically restrained from signing. From here, modern woman could not see she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the next step after deaf and using a system called Visible Speech. At the reproducing – ''standing disappointed same time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in front a complicated tangle of the refrigerator''espionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857054686</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tania HershmanB0BC3YTCMR|title=Some of Us Glow More Than OthersGood Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira

|genre=Short Stories General Fiction|summary=I won't be alone in stating that reading 'This story is not for everyone.'' Lavender Daniels was three weeks short story collections can be slightly awkwardof her fifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. Going through from A-ZShe was a very bright student, witnessing a bounty of ideas and characters in short order can bit too nerdy if truth be too muchtold, but do you have the right to pick and choose according suffered from vitiligo - people were afraid to what appeals, and what time you have to fill? hug her in case it's contagious. It's not easy being a black girl whose skin is 84% white. The sequence has carefully been considered, surelyShe had a crush on seventeen-year-old Reggie Anderson but never thought he would notice her. Such Then he did: Lavender was very good at math and Reggie asked if she would appear to be the case heretutor him. The last time I read one of She readily agreed: tutoring was something she gladly did at church: this author's collections, with [[The White Road by Tania Hershman|The White Road]], the only real difficulty was holding back just an extension. She went to his house and rationing themhe raped her. In shock, but here you not only get she even allowed him to give her a whopping forty pieces of writing, they are also spread into sectionslift home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910061484</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jane Johnson1472263936|title= Court of Lions|rating= 5|genre= Historical Fiction |summary= Kate Fordham arrived in the sunlit city of Granada a year ago. In the shadow of the Alhambra, one of the most beautiful places on earth, she works as a waitress serving tourists in a busy bar. She pretends she's happy with her new life – but how could she be? Kate's alone, afraid and hiding under a false name. And fate is about to bring her face-to-face with her greatest fear. Five centuries ago, a message, in a hand few could read, was inscribed in blood on a stolen scrap of paper. The paper was folded and pressed into one of the Alhambra's walls. There it has lain, undisturbed by the tides of history – the Fall of Granada, the expulsion of its last Sultan – until Kate discovers it. Born of love, in a time of danger and desperation, the fragment will be the catalyst that changes Kate's life forever. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786694336</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFigurine|author=Julie Cohen|title=TogetherVictoria Hislop

|summary=This is a love story told backwardsIt was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. She was alone: her mother, in the most beautiful mannerGreek by birth, so that we know from had left the very beginning that Emily family home and Robert love each other enormouslyrefused to return, but Mary and Hamish (Helena's parents) felt that he is about to break it would be a pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her heart in the most dreadful way in order to protect a secret that they've lived with for decadesGreek heritage. Seeing their love unfold Her trip to the family apartment in reverse is beautifulup-market Kolonaki would be the first of several annual visits. We get She grew to know them once they have already gotten to know each otherlove her grandmother and the family's maid, Dina, but was wary - and it makes for an unusual and interesting structurefrightened - of her grandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. The secret they hold is referred He was proud of his close connections to throughout, the Junta and expected his family to uphold his values but it isn't revealed until very late in the booksaw no reason to accommodate them. IHis prejudices included Helena'm guessing very few readers will figure it out. Even once you know, you want to go back s red hair and read the whole story again in the light of the information you now holdgreen eyes - inherited from her father's Scottish ancestors.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409171744</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Kate MildenhallDean Koontz|title= SkylarkingAfter Death|rating= 43|genre= General Fiction |summary= Kate and Harriet are best friends growing up together on an isolated Australian cape. As the daughters Michael Mace, Head of the lighthouse keepersSecurity, the two girls share everythingat a top secret biological research facility, until is among 55 people who die when a virus is released in a bio-hazard accident. Finding himself in a fishermanmakeshift mortuary, McPhailcovered in plastic, arrives in their small community. When Kate witnesses the desire he has a sense that flares between something very, very bad has happened to him – and only him – as he sits up and Harrietlooks around at the shrouded bodies of his dead friends and former colleagues. As he recovers his senses, she 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 Grave Listeners|author=William Frank|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=The village is torn isolated and poor. It's surrounded by her feelings a 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 envy the forest provides heat and warmth, roofs on homes, and longingeven gallows, if needed. An innocent moment The fear of being buried alive is an existential superstition in McPhail's hut then occurs the village and that threatens to tear their peaceful community apartis the reason Volushka, a drunken, self-indulgent, lazy lout of a man is tolerated. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785079239</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Zoe DuncanB0BYF82CXT|title= The Shifting PoolsSemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone|rating= 2.54|genre= General Fiction|summary= Perhaps the most overused phrase in fiction publishing is ''lifeBill and Amanda are living in a semi-affirming''detached house, closely followed by ''human condition''. The Shifting Pools takes this to stuck in a whole new level. Its blurb boasts that it is ''charged throughout with the beautiful urgency depressing rut of life''boredom and disappointment, whatever that means. It isn't. And that's the problem. This isn't a bad bookwhen Terry and Fiona – glamorous, but it sets itself up to failsuccessful and very much in love – move in next door. A cardinal rule of writing is ''focus Despite their different outlooks on life, the small stuff''couples befriend each other and life appears to improve for both pairs. If you set out to write a ''life affirming'' novel that answers But all the ''big questions''is not what it seems, you'll struggle. And it is this trap that Zoe Duncan falls into. In her quest and their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for profundity she loses her waytragedy. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785630369</amazonuk>''

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sarah HealyShalini Boland|title= The Sisters ChaseSilent Bride|rating= 4.53|genre= General Fiction|summary=Mary Alice and BunnySeth are a match made in heaven. That's how it He is everything she has always been ever since Bunny was born. Two sisters with an unbreakable bondsearching for; handsome, accomplished, clever, twisted together so tight that they were two sides of the same coinfunny; total and utter husband-material. Bunny was Mary's whole world; nothing else really mattered She is all he could possibly want in a wife; school...friends...boys...wellbeautiful, maybe one boysuccessful, but he was something altogether extraordinaryconfident… and so the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and the wedding is planned and set. When the unthinkable happenedmuch-anticipated day arrives, Alice is walked down the aisle by her father, Mary beaming with pride and Bunny found themselves completely alone in excitement as she surveys the world, congregation – their friends assembled to celebrate this joyful day and that's when Mary decided Seth turns to take an unforgettable road tripface his approaching bride, just Alice's world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the two of them, across man at the United Statesaltar is, in search of a place where they could belongwho is waiting for her to become his wife.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0544960076</amazonuk>1662507089

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joy Rhoades1787636003|title=The WoolgrowerGirls 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's Companiont exactly innocent but she was, perhaps, naive, so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to take an interest in her, she was flattered rather than wary. It was quite a while before he made any sort of physical approach to her 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 girls either worked or partied.}}{{Frontpage|author=Amanda Craig|title=Three Graces|rating=4.5

|summary=1945: The war is in its dying days and creating problems far from Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of-the different fronts-nation novel. For instance, in Australia, what There's something so utterly compelling about any writer who can be done with catch hold of the atmosphere of the Italian POWs brought into day and capture it, crafting an image of the country? The solution seems to be their use as cheap labourit stands in one particular moment. In To say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this way Kate Dowdwould be embarrassingly inadequate: she's father agrees to take two onto his sheep farm in drought-ridden New South Walespractically synonymous with the genre of contemporary social fiction at this point. Kate is initially wary She has such a gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the two men – Vittorio and Luca – but gradually she realises that not all dangers come from outside day into the lives of her community. Life on characters in a sheep station may be harsh way that feels natural and lived-in, never making them ciphers for social commentary but for Kate it's going to get a lot worseinstead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784741345</amazonuk>140871468X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jonathan Levi152915118X|title= SeptimaniaPineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= First and foremost a tale ''Pineapple Street'' is the story of lovethree women: Sasha, Septimania delivers the frustrations Darley and Georgiana. Darley and agony of two people who find each other George are sisters and then lose each otherSasha is married to their brother Cord. They're Stocktons, all on only Sasha isn't a Stockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the same daytribe. But what a momentous day! Life takes Malory and Louisa off in totally different directions but strangely their paths cross again and again. Malory The problem's exacerbated when the clan matriarch, searching to uncover his pastTilda, moves asks Cord and Sasha if they'd like to Rome move into the Pineapple Street property. Tilda and discovers great Chip have renovated and incredible facts about his ancestry. Louisadownsized to another property, a brilliant mathematicianstreet or so away, is head hunted for which they own. They won'secret' work t need any of the furniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and is signed up by her father for Cord can move straight in. Nominally, they had a life timechoice but that wasn's contract with t the American Governmentreality. Darley and Georgiana start to call Sasha 'the gold digger'. She completely disappears from Malory's life and he has no way of knowing how to find her againliving in ''their'' family home. They are both trapped in their separate livesuse it so often that they abbreviate it to 'the GD'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>071565196X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Antoine Laurain, Jane Aitken (translator) and Emily Boyce (translator)Critchley|title=The PortraitOne Puzzling Afternoon

|summary=Meet PierreThe love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all-Francois. He should by rights be an antiques dealerconsuming, as he made a fortune selling apparently on his first collection (of erasers) while at school, and funded both his university sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in love. Richard was twenty-one and carnal education, with prostitutes, described by trading tooMargo's mother as 'an older man'. He is, however, Her parents worried that Richard's influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and having a patent and intellectual property lawyerglittering career. In the event, they eloped and his wife is forever demanding a reduction in Richard took her away from the space his collections take up in their flatIsle of Wight. But he still dabbles – although this latest visit Margo did go to Oxford and went on to the showrooms will cause become a lot of unexpected incidentwell-respected journalist. The couple had three children: Rachel, Imogen and Sasha. In amongst the grot Life was lived in London and holidays were spent at a low-key sale he finds an ancient pastelSandcove, showing himself – a bewigged, antique version the family home on the Isle of himself, even if, however, nobody else sees Wight. Even then the connection between Pierre-Francois and the picturedoubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's subject. Still, as an effeminate uncle told him, mind: ''real objects carry memory of their past ownersshe would never be able to leave him in charge'' – 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> Then Richard left them.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1914585402|title=Dashboard Elvis is Dead|author= Virginie Despentes 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 Frank Wynne (translator)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= Vernon Subutex 1Clara and Olivia|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Vernon Subutex The year is a wanted man1933. Following the death of Alex Bleach, VernonThe place? Sadler's generous benefactor Wells. Ballerinas Clara and publicly adored musicianOlivia are sisters, Vernon now has twins no less. Identical on the last recordings of Alexoutside but not, we learn, on the inside. And not on stage, either. Because there's drug induced ramblingsa lot that builds a dancer. Kicked out of his apartment the story follows Vernon as he couch surfs his way across ParisSome things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, pursued by journalists attention to detail – and media moguls desperate to cash in on Bleachsome things, that ''je ne sais quoi'', that don's deatht come from the classroom. Eventually finding himself out of luckA stage presence, friends and money Vernon is left sleeping rougha charm, half mad and forced to bear witness to a shocking act of violence''joie de vivre''. In The difference between a world of capricious friends hard-worker, and grasping avaricious journalists who can Vernon trust?a star.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857055410</amazonuk>0861544080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Rowena MacDonaldHeather Fawcett|title= The Threat Level Remains SevereEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries|rating= 3.54|genre= General Fiction|summary=Grace Ambrose isn't Brigitte JonesEmily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, honest; for one thing and she doesnhas travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life't keep a diarys work, the very first encyclopaedia of faeries. Grace Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, she is our typical misogynistic Hollywood stereotype supporting female characternot so good with people. She 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 ''secretly hot chick'' right track. Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who will suddenly take off their glassesarrives unexpectedly, shake out their hair all charm and reveal themselves delight, much to have been beautiful all alongEmily's frustration. We follow Grace and her romantic adventures (and misadventures) over three years of her life at But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the House of Commons.faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910709158</amazonuk>0356519120

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matt Haig1398515388|title=How to Stop TimeThe Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)

|summary=Tom is an albatross. That's not to say he has a freakish wingspanFirst of all, or anythingit was the earthquake, but it means he's not a mayfly. In contrast to all us regular humans with our temperamental bodies living out short lifespansdeep in the ocean floor, he ages at a speed roughly one-fifteenth of that at which we do, created the tsunami and barely gets touched by any disease. It means he will live for several more centuries than the ones he has witnessed so farthis, but ever since his mother was drowned as a witch due to his teenaged self never ageingin turn, he has known caused the best thing for him – nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and others – is to regularly move onutter devastation. Solitude has been tempered since The deaths were uncountable, and the late Victorian era, when other people even older than him press-ganged him into loss of livelihoods was widespread. The fact that many pets were separated from their society owners came far down the list of albatrosses, priorities but - six months after the fact of the matter is that falling in love really is tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a no-noconvenience store. But that He wasn's not to say it never happened, and thatt a dog person but the convenience store owner's not to say comment that he can't feel things for would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and Tamon the albatross daughter he's not seen for centuriesdog jumped in. It might be the only thing he has to live for…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782118616</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author= Dane HuckelbridgeChristopher Bowden|title= Castle of WaterMr Magenta|rating= 4|genre= General Fiction|summary= Barry Bleeker and Sophie Ducel are two very different people destined to take the same journey. As they are both aboard Christopher Bowden's latest novel is a patient untangling of a flight to the Marquesas Islandsseemingly ordinary woman's life, their tiny plane crashes leaving Barry and Sophie the only survivorscarried out by her nephew after she has died. Until recently, Barry was an investment banker in New York before he decided to leave his life behind The aunt who always provided a safe harbour and pursue his dream a little bit of painting. Sophie meanwhile, was indulgence to a French architect who along with her husband Etienne was planning young nephew had had a honeymoon of a lifetime. Now Barry much more interesting life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and Sophie are alone on it seems to him an uninhabited island in the South Pacific, where they must learn obligation to put aside their differences and survivefind it all out.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008217858</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= M L RioJennifer Mason|title= If We Were VillainsPartitions of Unity|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Murder most horrid amongst Here at Bookbag Towers, we first met Elizabeth Cromwell, dominatrix and unintentional detective in [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], when she investigated and unravelled a group series of 4th Year university students disappearances. In ''Partitions of ShakespeareUnity'', she sets her mind to solving a murder. We open as our protagonist is released from jail having served his time for a crime that he may or may not have committed. What did he do? What happened that year? Why did things turn out the way they did? We have to push our way through the undergrowth of flashbacks to find out.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785656473</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Martha ConwayWill Carver|title= The Floating TheatreDaves Next Door|rating= 54|genre= Historical General Fiction|summary=When young seamstress May Bedloe is left alone and penniless Five strangers come together in one moment as a suicide bomber prepares to detonate his vest on a London tube line. As their fates overlap, the shore of the Ohiostory is told in backwards order, she finds work on leading up to the famous floating theatre that plies its trade along the riverfateful moment. Her creativity and needlework skills quickly become invaluable |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 she settles into life among -pop mobile diner in the colourful troupe of actors. She finds friendsNorthern California redwoods, and possibly the promise of more. But cruising the border between the Confederate South and a 400-meter hurdler who just missed the 2004 Olympics, a women'free' North is fraught s track coach with a yen for bullwhips, a billionaire with danger. For a state-of-the sake of -art S&M dungeon, a man serving a debt that must be repaidlife sentence in Alabama, May is compelled to transport secret passengersan enigmatic signature, K(s, under cover of darknessx), across the river and ona cheap oil painting, along the underground railroadan erotic art dealer in Georgia... But as May's secrets become harder to keep, she learns she must endanger those now dear to her. '

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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Daniel Kehlmann and Ross Benjamin (translator)B0B2N7MVYM|title=You Should Have LeftThe Calculations of Rational Men|author=Daniel Godfrey|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction |summary=Our narrator It's 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 people's minds. The world has barely had a screenwriter, tasked with coming up with a sequel chance to his hit movie ''Besties'' – a film which helped pay breathe out. But for a houseJoe Marr, but which his actress wife keeps letting him know, isnit't ''arts not the missile crisis that's at the front of his mind. He's been convicted of murder. To concentrate, With the family – hecurrent state of medical knowledge, it's hard to think otherwise than that the wife, and their four year old daughter – prosecution would never have rented a largebeen brought but Joe Marr has spent his first few days in HMP Queen's Bench, modern house at the end of a horrid, hairpin bend-filled road, in a charming alpine landscaperelatively new prison. But things arenHe't right. The couple are at loggerheads too muchs just getting used to his roommate, things keep unsettling our narratorMervyn, and learning to be wary of the sole shopkeeper for miles around is ready with the Hammer Horror styled warnings of strange eventsMcArthur brothers. Quickly we see the book's title 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>