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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove --> {{newreviewFrontpage|author= Joanna BarnardOnyi Nwabineli|title= Hush Little BabyAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Babies donAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia't break bones s increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for no reasonsponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Something has Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to happen regain her confidence andto get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the content about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, normallyfailing to start her PhD, someone else will be involvedundergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. So when Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the hospital says Oliver has a broken arm, suspicion lands on his familynew focus of Ophelia's online empire. Could it be his mother? But Can she was out all eveningsave her sister, drinking and perhaps herself and her relationship with her old colleagues father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529153298|title=The List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (hence why she smells of booze when they arrive in A&Ewoman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Could it be his father? Sally left him in charge of their son Well, they've been murdered, but he may to have popped out for a while (something she 'disappeared' doesn't know…yet) and if he was out then he too was away from his son at sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the time of the crimefamily 'Down South'. Or could it be his half-sister Martha? She When you's re from Yorkshire, Down South is a responsible teenager most of frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the timemove would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she would have no reason 'll do anything to harm her baby brother, but thereprevent that. She's a nagging feeling not worried about the dangers or that night that she just canher Mum't shakes stopped talking - to anyone.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035906708|title=Diva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|amazonukgenre=<amazonuk>1785030337</amazonuk>General Fiction|summary=We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the States. When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Elif ShafakAlexander McCall Smith|title= Three Daughters of EveThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=Set The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Istanbul Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in 2016providing a more personal, ''Three Daughters of Eve'' centres on Peritailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a Turkish woman who finds herself thinking back trip to her years at Oxford University Canada to distract herself from get away for a boring dinner partywhile. Her reminiscing Katie is triggered when she finds an old polaroid coming out of herselfa break up with a bad boyfriend, her friends Mona and Shirinso 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 rebellious Professor Azur. Much of her thoughts revolve around the scandal that prevented her from graduating from her dream universityIsabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. More of Katie has no experience in running a commentary on religion than a storybusiness, the novel asks many questions about faith or in match- making, but Ness has full confidence in particularher abilities, Islam - and whether its customs there's always her very helpful (and traditions can be adapted rather handsome) neighbour, William, to suit modern life.lend a hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0241978882</amazonuk>1846976596

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Andre AlexisDean Koontz|title= The Hidden KeysBad Weather Friend|rating= 4.5|genre= General FictionParanormal|summary= Tancred Palmieri Benny is having a talented thief thrown into the path of Willow Azarian an eccentricterrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, unpredictable heroin addictand his house gets trashed. She is also part of the Azarian dynasty Oh, bequeathed almost and someone has delivered a million dollars upon her fatherreally weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it's death. Each of possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the Azarian children were also gifted a deeply personal memento morithing that has trashed his house! The thing is, which Willow Benny is convinced make up an intricate treasure huntthe very last person to deserve all this bad luck. She enlists He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the help of Tancred delivery to steal each itemhis house is a new friend, solve the mystery and prove she a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is not blindly following clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a baseless fantasygood person. Tancred must use all his skills Spike is going to infiltrate the homes take care of each Benny, and will certainly take care of WillowBenny's siblingsenemies, if he, Benny, uncover the clues hidden in each item and fight off the rival interests of competing criminals and the policeHarper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781258422</amazonuk>1662500491

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Alison Jean LesterKatherine Howe|title= Yuki Means HappinessA True Account|rating= 34.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= High-tech and high-riseHannah Masury is living in Boston, kimonoshaving been sent to live with a family who run an inn, and big-eyed visuals – through being made to work there from a dynamic juxtaposition young age. When she hears there is to be a hanging of some pirates in the ultra modern town, she decides to go and watch. Enthralled and the traditionalhorrified in equal measure, Japan has succeeded Hannah finds herself embroiled in branding itself both as an intriguing travel destination that does not cease to surprise, but a young boy's death at the same time defies being ever wholly full understood by outsidershands of two vicious pirates. All of this has come She hides away, so that they don't find and kill her too, and then to escape them completely she runs away to be encapsulated sea, dressing as a boy and reinforced in Sofia Coppolajoining the notorious Ned Low's cult classic ''Lost pirate ship as a cabin boy. She soon finds herself in Translation'': the iconic still thick of Scarlett Johansson standing at the scramble crossing things when there is a mutiny on board, and from there we are caught up in Shibuya has come to represent Japan in pop culture as much as her rip roaring tale of life on the more traditional cherry blossom imageryocean waves. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848549628</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= S V Berlin1471180158|title= The FavouriteMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=Siblings Edward and Isobel Vernon haven't spoken Jamie Matson works in years and live on opposite sides of the Atlantic. When their mother Mary dies unexpectedlyan upper-class grocery store, they are thrown together to sort through for a man who's a control freak with all the family homesubtlety of a half brick. With Edward Jamie's diffident but devoted girlfriendson, JulieBo, making an awkward threesome'has his problems'. He's asthmatic and the more you read, each stumbles through the practicalities of funeral preparation and house clearing, trying more you'll suspect that he's on the autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to make sense of their emotions and their feelings toward one another. Isobel makes take time off at short notice - she's a disturbing discovery and her fateful decision has consequences for all of them, challenging their beliefs about frequent flier in the past, hopes for the future local A&E and understanding of Marysometimes Bo's role 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 keeping them at once apart and togetherthe wrong. It was going to come to a head. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0993563384</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julia Claiborne JohnsonB0CKD1L5JL|title=Be Frank with MeRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn

|summary=In June 2009 Isaac Vargas sends his assistantPetr is an orphan. Rescued by the strange, twenty-four-year-old Alice Whitleyreclusive Bear, to Bel Airhe is brought up far from bustling cities and busy human society, California to help Mimi Gillespie produce her long-awaited second novelin the forests of Washington's Olympic Peninsula. Under After Bear dies and a brief sojourn in human company, and armed with only a pirate radio transmitter, Petr goes on a journey through the name Mforest, broadcasting the strange, wild and rarely heard voices he encounters.M}}{{Frontpage|author=Sarah Marsh|title=A Sign of Her Own|rating=3. Banning5|genre=General Fiction|summary=After a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Mimi issued Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a wildly successful novel back world of silence, everything about her life changes. Living in a time when the 1970suse of sign language was seen as something only savages do, ''Pitched''Ellen is sent to a school where she is taught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. From here, which quickly became she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and using a modern classic system called Visible Speech. At the same time, Bell is working on every American adolescentother inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=1035401614}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0BC3YTCMR|title=Good Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary='s list of assigned reading 'This story is not for schooleveryone. She's the sort ' Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of figure Harper Lee her fifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. She was for decades: a onevery bright student, a bit too nerdy if truth be told, and suffered from vitiligo -hit literary wonder and an infamous reclusepeople were afraid to hug her in case it's contagious. But there It's one key difference here: Mimi has not easy being a black girl whose skin is 84% white. She had a ninecrush on seventeen-year-old sonReggie Anderson but never thought he would notice her. Then he did: Lavender was very good at math and Reggie asked if she would tutor him. She readily agreed: tutoring was something she gladly did at church: this was just an extension. She went to his house and he raped her. In shock, Frankshe even allowed him to give her a lift home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782399208</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kay Langdale1472263936|title=The Way Back to UsFigurine|author=Victoria Hislop

|summary=A household revolves around its weakest member 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 because it's revolving thereHamish (Helena's always a danger parents) felt that some people - such as it would be a spouse pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. Her trip to the family apartment in up- will market Kolonaki would be spun to the outside, whilst other children, loosely attached first of several annual visits. She grew to love her grandmother and the main carer will be at a distancefamily's maid, never completely closeDina, but never escaping eitherwas wary - and frightened - of her grandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. In the centre are He was proud of his close connections to the carer Junta and the person who needs that care, bonded together in such a way that it's actually difficult expected his family to uphold his values but saw no reason to offer help or even friendshipaccommodate them. So it is with Anna His prejudices included Helena's red hair and Teddy, who suffers green eyes - inherited from Spinal Muscular Atrophy, or SMA as ither father's generally known. He's five now, confined to a wheelchair or his Whizzybug and not putting on much weight as chewing and swallowing are difficultScottish ancestors.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473618363</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Hendrik Groen and Hester Velmans (translator)Dean Koontz|title= The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83¼ years OldAfter Death|rating= 4.53|genre= General Fiction|summary= As the old adage goesMichael Mace, Head of Security, to walk at a mile in someone else's shoes top secret biological research facility, is to gain some understanding of what it among 55 people who die when a virus is to be that personreleased in a bio-hazard accident. Admittedly Finding himself in a makeshift mortuary, Hendrik Groen isn't much up for long walks any morecovered in plastic, but he does acquire has a swish mobility scooter sense that something very, very bad has happened to zoom him – and only him – as he sits up and looks around inat the shrouded bodies of his dead friends and former colleagues. As he recovers his senses, he realises that there is something different about him; one could say that we get to zoom a mile in Groenhe 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 isolated and poor. It's shoessurrounded 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. The black wood of the forest provides heat and warmth, roofs on homes, and even gallows, if needed. The fear of being buried alive is an existential superstition in the village and ohthat is the reason Volushka, a drunken, what fun shoes he wears!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405924004</amazonuk>self-indulgent, lazy lout of a man is tolerated.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Sarah FranklinB0BYF82CXT|title= ShelterSemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone|rating= 54|genre= Historical General Fiction|summary=Connie Granger has escaped her bombed''Bill and Amanda are living in a semi-out city homedetached house, finding refuge stuck in the Women's Timber Corps. For her, this remote community must now serve a secret purpose.<br>Seppedepressing rut of boredom and disappointment, an Italian prisoner of warwhen Terry and Fiona – glamorous, is haunted by his memoriessuccessful and very much in love – move in next door. In Despite their different outlooks on life, the forest camp, he finds a strange kind of freedom.Their meeting signals new beginningscouples befriend each other and life appears to improve for both pairs. But as they are drawn togetherall is not what it seems, the world outside and their forest haven is being torn apart. Old certainties increasingly interconnected relationships are crumbling, and both must now make a life-defining choicefated for tragedy.<br>What price will they pay for freedom? What will they fight to protect?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785762990</amazonuk>''

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jennifer McVeighShalini Boland|title=Leopard The Silent Bride|rating=3|genre=General Fiction|summary= Alice and Seth are a match made in heaven. He is everything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, clever, funny; total and utter husband-material. She is all he could possibly want in a wife; beautiful, successful, confident… and so the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and the wedding is planned and set. When the much-anticipated day arrives, Alice is walked down the aisle by her father, beaming with pride and excitement as she surveys the congregation – their friends assembled to celebrate this joyful day and when Seth turns to face his approaching bride, Alice's world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the man at the Dooraltar is, who is waiting for her to become his wife.|isbn=1662507089}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787636003|title=The Girls of Summer|author=Katie Bishop

|summary=18 year old It was the summer when Rachel Fullsmith returns home to Kenya after being away at school in England Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and finds a lot can change in 6 yearsarrived on the island. Of course she realises her motherRachel wasn's death would alter things t exactly innocent but she's not prepared for her father's livewas, perhaps, naive, so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to take an interest in 'companion' Sara nor Sara's son Harold sleeping in Rachel's old roomher, she was flattered rather than wary. Michael the Kikuyu servant boy It was quite a while before he made any sort of physical approach to her and by that time she grew up with is still there though and now a man with his own ideaswas obsessed by him. Meanwhile Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, looking after his interests on the unrest between island and in particular in the British rulers and bar where all the local Mau Mau fighters is increasing and about to blowgirls either worked or partied.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241247616</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Lucy DanielsAmanda Craig|title= Summer at Hope MeadowsThree Graces|rating= 4|genre= General Fiction|summary=''Animal Ark'' was a popular series of children's books written between 1994 and 2008. The stories focus on a young girl called Mandy Hope, the daughter of two vets who run a practice, Animal Ark, in the Yorkshire town of Welford. Along with her best friend James, the children seek to help out creatures in need. The series consisted of 94 books in total and was written by a collection of authors writing under the pseudonym Lucy Daniels. ''Summer at Hope Meadows'' is the first in a new series for adult readers, continuing grown-up Mandy's story now that she is a fully qualified vet.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473653878</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sophie Divry and Alison Anderson (translator)|title=Madame Bovary of the Suburbs|rating=2.5

|summary=Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of-the-nation novel. There''It starts with becoming a homeowners something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the atmosphere of the day and capture it, then settling crafting an image of the country as it stands in, then reproducingone particular moment.To say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she'' Well, it actually starts a lot before then, s practically synonymous with the genre of contemporary social fiction at this point. She has such a set gift for weaving the ongoing issues of fractured memories the day into the lives of our heroine's childhood – things she recalls her parents and relatives saying both to and about her. It goes through her childhood, and pen letters to characters in a best friend conveying her wishes for her life, those wishes being revised way that feels natural and affirmed by the liberty of university yearslived-in, those wishes being met with or denied by married life… Someone archly could point out that you should be careful what you wish never making them ciphers for, social commentary but not even our wiseinstead fully realised people, modern woman could not see the next step after the reproducing – ''standing disappointed in front of the refrigerator''grappling with issues far larger than themselves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857054686</amazonuk>140871468X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tania Hershman152915118X|title=Some of Us Glow More Than OthersPineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson

|genre=Short Stories General Fiction|summary=I won't be alone in stating that reading short 'Pineapple Street'' is the story collections can be slightly awkwardof three women: Sasha, Darley and Georgiana. Going through from A-Z, witnessing a bounty of ideas Darley and characters in short order can be too much, but do you have the right to pick George are sisters and choose according Sasha is married to what appeals, and what time you have to fill? their brother Cord. The sequence has carefully been consideredThey're Stocktons, surely. Such would appear to be only Sasha isn't a Stockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the case heretribe. The last time I read one of this authorproblem's collectionsexacerbated when the clan matriarch, with [[The White Road by Tania Hershman|The White Road]]Tilda, asks Cord and Sasha if they'd like to move into the only real difficulty was holding back Pineapple Street property. Tilda and Chip have renovated and rationing themdownsized to another property, but here you not only get a whopping forty pieces street or so away, which they own. They won't need any of writingthe furniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and Cord can move straight in. Nominally, they had a choice but that wasn't the reality. Darley and Georgiana start to call Sasha 'the gold digger'. She's living in ''their'' family home. They use it so often that they are also spread into sectionsabbreviate it to 'the GD'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910061484</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jane JohnsonEmily Critchley|title= Court of LionsOne Puzzling Afternoon|rating= 54|genre= Historical Fiction Crime|summary= Kate Fordham arrived 84 year old Edie has lived 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 same small town for almost her new whole life – , but how could now she be? Kate's alone, afraid and hiding under is facing a false name. And fate is about move as her son wants to move to another house and bring her face-Edie to-face live with his family, as Edie is starting to lose her greatest fearmemory. Five centuries ago However, Edie is tormented by the memory of her childhood friend, a messageLucy, in a hand few could readwho went missing over 60 years ago, and the worry that there was inscribed in blood on a stolen scrap of paper. The paper secret she was folded and pressed into one of keeping for Lucy that somehow might be the Alhambra's walls. There it has lain, undisturbed by thing that reveals the tides truth of history – what happened all that time ago. After 'seeing' Lucy in the Fall of Granadahigh street, just as she was the expulsion last time she saw her, she starts to find pockets of its last Sultan – until Kate discovers itmemories coming back to her. Born of love And yet as she remembers the past, she is forgetting more and more in a time of danger and desperation, her day to day life. Will she uncover the fragment will be the catalyst that changes Katetruth about Lucy's life disappearance before her move, and before her memories are gone forever. ?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786694336</amazonuk>1804181250

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Julie CohenMadelaine Lucas|title=TogetherThirst for Salt|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= ''Love, I'd read, was supposed to be a light and weightless 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. Overlaid with later wisdom, the narrator relives the affair with a man twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the summer after. Set against the backdrop of an 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, how it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and how it altered her irrevocably.|isbn=0861546490}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008506337|title=The Garnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore

|summary=This is a The love story told backwardsaffair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, apparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in the most beautiful manner, so that we know from the very beginning that Emily and Robert love each other enormously, . Richard was twenty-one and described by Margo's mother as 'an older man'. Her parents worried that he is about to break Richard's influence would take her heart in the most dreadful way in order away from what they felt she could achieve - going to protect Oxford and having a secret that they've lived with for decadesglittering career. Seeing their love unfold in reverse is beautifulIn the event, they eloped and Richard took her away from the Isle of Wight. We get Margo did go to know them once they have already gotten Oxford and went on to know each otherbecome a well-respected journalist. The couple had three children: Rachel, Imogen and it makes for an unusual and interesting structureSasha. The secret they hold is referred to throughoutLife was lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, but it isn't revealed until very late in the bookfamily home on the Isle of Wight. IEven then the doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo'm guessing very few readers will figure it out. Even once you know, you want s mind: ''she would never be able to go back and read the whole story again leave him in the light of the information you now holdcharge''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409171744</amazonuk>Then Richard left them.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Kate Mildenhall1914585402|title= SkylarkingDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction |summary= Kate 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 Harriet are best friends growing up together on an isolated Australian caperemember being absolutely floored by how powerful and affecting it was. As the daughters of the lighthouse keepers, the two girls share everything, until It was a fishermangripping, McPhailemotionally wounding read, arrives in their small community. When Kate witnesses the desire that flares between him and Harriet, she is torn by her feelings rereading my review of envy and longing. An innocent moment in McPhail's hut then occurs it my main takeaway was that threatens to tear their peaceful community apartI might not have lavished enough praise on it. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785079239</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Zoe DuncanLucy Ashe|title= The Shifting PoolsClara and Olivia|rating= 24.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Perhaps the most overused phrase in fiction publishing The year is 1933. The place? Sadler''life-affirming''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, closely followed by ''human condition'either. Because there's a lot that builds a dancer. The Shifting Pools takes this Some things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, attention to a whole new level. Its blurb boasts detail – and some things, that it is ''charged throughout with the beautiful urgency of lifeje ne sais quoi'', whatever that means. It isndon't. And that's come from the problemclassroom. This isn't A stage presence, a bad bookcharm, but it sets itself up to fail. A cardinal rule of writing is a ''focus on the small stuffjoie de vivre''. If you set out to write The difference between a ''life affirming'' novel that answers all the ''big questions''hard-worker, you'll struggle. And it is this trap that Zoe Duncan falls into. In her quest for profundity she loses her wayand a star. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785630369</amazonuk>0861544080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sarah HealyHeather Fawcett|title= The Sisters Chase|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=Mary and Bunny. That's how it has always been ever since Bunny was born. Two sisters with an unbreakable bond, twisted together so tight that they were two sides of the same coin. Bunny was MaryEmily Wilde's whole world; nothing else really mattered; school...friends...boys...well, maybe one boy, but he was something altogether extraordinary. When the unthinkable happened, Mary and Bunny found themselves completely alone in the world, and that's when Mary decided to take an unforgettable road trip, just the two of them, across the United States, in search Encyclopaedia of a place where they could belong.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0544960076</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Joy Rhoades|title=The Woolgrower's CompanionFaeries

|summary=1945: The war Emily Wilde is in its dying days an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and creating problems far from researched meticulously, to write her life's work, the different frontsvery first encyclopaedia of faeries. For instanceWhilst 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 Australiathe small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the village matriarch, she is not sure what can be she has done with , nor how to redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on the Italian POWs brought into the country? right track. The solution seems Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, much to be their use as cheap labour. In this way Kate DowdEmily's father agrees to take two onto his sheep farm in drought-ridden New South Walesfrustration. Kate But why is initially wary of the two men – Vittorio and Luca – but gradually she realises that not all dangers come from outside her community. he here? What does he want? Life And what exactly is going on a sheep station may be harsh but for Kate it's going to get a lot worse.with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784741345</amazonuk>0356519120

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jonathan Levi1398515388|title= SeptimaniaThe Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= First and foremost a tale of loveall, it was the earthquake, Septimania delivers deep in the frustrations ocean floor, which created the tsunami and agony of two people who find each other and then lose each otherthis, in turn, all on caused the same daynuclear meltdown. But what a momentous day! Life takes Malory The result was complete and Louisa off in totally different directions but strangely their paths cross again and againutter devastation. Malory The deaths were uncountable, searching to uncover his past, moves to Rome and discovers great and incredible facts about his ancestrythe loss of livelihoods was widespread. Louisa, 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 brilliant mathematician, is head hunted for 'secretconvenience store. He wasn' work and is signed up by her father for t a life time's contract with dog person but the American Government. She completely disappears from Maloryconvenience store owner's life and comment that he has no way of knowing how would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to find her again. They are both trapped open his car door and Tamon the dog jumped in their separate lives.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>071565196X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Antoine Laurain, Jane Aitken (translator) and Emily Boyce (translator)Christopher Bowden|title=The PortraitMr Magenta

|summary=Meet Pierre-Francois. He should by rights be an antiques dealer, as he made Christopher Bowden's latest novel is a fortune selling on his first collection (patient untangling of erasers) while at school, and funded both his university and carnal education, with prostitutesa seemingly ordinary woman's life, carried out by trading tooher nephew after she has died. He is, however, The aunt who always provided a patent and intellectual property lawyer, safe harbour and his wife is forever demanding a reduction in the space his collections take up in their flat. But he still dabbles – although this latest visit little bit of indulgence 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 – young nephew had had a bewigged, antique version of himself, even if, however, nobody else sees the connection between Pierre-Francois much more interesting life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and the picture's subject. Still, as it seems to him an effeminate uncle told him, ''real objects carry memory of their past owners'' – and Pierre-Francois is intent on finding the truths behind those memoriesobligation to find it all out. Little does he know just what he will discover…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910477435</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Virginie Despentes and Frank Wynne (translator)Jennifer Mason|title= Vernon Subutex 1Partitions of Unity|rating= 54|genre= General Fiction|summary= Vernon Subutex is a wanted man. Following the death of Alex BleachHere at Bookbag Towers, we first met Elizabeth Cromwell, Vernon's generous benefactor dominatrix and publicly adored musicianunintentional detective in [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], Vernon now has the last recordings when she investigated and unravelled a series of Alexdisappearances. In 's drug induced ramblings. Kicked out 'Partitions of his apartment the story follows Vernon as he couch surfs his way across Paris, pursued by journalists and media moguls desperate to cash in on BleachUnity''s death. Eventually finding himself out of luck, friends and money Vernon is left sleeping rough, half mad and forced to bear witness she sets her mind to solving a shocking act of violencemurder... In a world of capricious friends and grasping avaricious journalists who can Vernon trust?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857055410</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Rowena MacDonaldWill Carver|title= The Threat Level Remains SevereDaves Next Door|rating= 3.54|genre= General Fiction|summary=Grace Ambrose isn't Brigitte Jones, honest; for Five strangers come together in one thing she doesn't keep moment as a suicide bomber prepares to detonate his vest on a diaryLondon tube line. Grace As their fates overlap, the story is our typical misogynistic Hollywood stereotype supporting female charactertold in backwards order, leading up to the fateful moment. She is the |isbn= 1914585186}} {{Frontpage|author=Jennifer Mason|title=Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=''secretly hot chickA struggling poetry zine, a mom-and-pop mobile diner in the Northern California redwoods, a 400-meter hurdler who just missed the 2004 Olympics, a women'' who will suddenly take off their glassess track coach with a yen for bullwhips, a billionaire with a state-of-the-art S&M dungeon, a man serving a life sentence in Alabama, an enigmatic signature, shake out their hair and reveal themselves to have been beautiful all along. We follow Grace and her romantic adventures K(and misadventuress, x) over three years , on a cheap oil painting, an erotic art dealer in Georgia...'' This is just a sample of her life at the House cast of characters and settings in Preposterous. As you can see, some keeping up will be required! The basic premise of Commonsthis mystery story goes like this...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910709158</amazonuk>B09STS96HS

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matt HaigB0B2N7MVYM|title=How to Stop TimeThe Calculations of Rational Men|author=Daniel Godfrey|rating=4.5

|summary=Tom 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 an albatross. Thatstill very fresh in people's not to say he minds. The world has barely had a freakish wingspan, or anythingchance to breathe out. But for Joe Marr, but it means he's not a mayfly. In contrast to all us regular humans with our temperamental bodies living out short lifespans, he ages at a speed roughly one-fifteenth of the missile crisis that 's at which we do, and barely gets touched by any disease. It means he will live for several more centuries than the ones he has witnessed so far, but ever since his mother was drowned as a witch due to front of his teenaged self never ageing, he has known the best thing for him – and others – is to regularly move onmind. Solitude has He's been tempered since convicted of murder. With the late Victorian eracurrent state of medical knowledge, when other people even older it's hard to think otherwise than him press-ganged him into their society of albatrosses, that the prosecution would never have been brought but the fact of the matter is that falling Joe Marr has spent his first few days in love really is HMP Queen's Bench, a no-norelatively new prison. But that He's not just getting used to say it never happenedhis roommate, Mervyn, and that's not learning to say that he can't feel things for be wary of the albatross daughter he's not seen for centuriesMcArthur brothers. It might be the only thing he has to live for…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782118616</amazonuk>