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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}}{{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. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking -to anyone.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035906708|title=Diva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=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

|title=A Time of Love and TartanThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5

|summary=Here we areThe Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, back on Scotland Street, eager run by Ness and operating as an alternative to see what everyone (especially Bertie…) has been up to! This is now all the twelfth book online apps in the Scotland Street series which is remarkableproviding a more personal, tailored service. That a serial novel Ness has such momentum, asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and that look after the characters within have become so very familiar to AMS's loyal readersbusiness, as Ness is planning to take a testament trip to his skills as Canada to get away for a writerwhile. This time around our nerves are on edge as Pat ventures back towards Katie is coming out of a relationship break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the dreadful Bruce! Surely she'll see sense..chance to come home to Edinburgh.won't she?! MatthewAnd so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, of all peoplebringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, is in trouble with thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the policeIsabel Dalhousie novels, Irene is busy planning but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a PhDbusiness, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and Bertie? Could there be 's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a happy ending for Bertie in the air?hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846973821</amazonuk>1846976596

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jess RichardsDean Koontz|title= City of CirclesThe Bad Weather Friend|rating= 4.5|genre= FantasyParanormal|summary= Danu Benny is having a tightrope walker who is mourning her parentsterrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, after a disease has ravaged the circus where she grew upand his house gets trashed. Her mother Oh, and someone has entrusted her with delivered a locket that hides a secret. Over the yearsreally weird, Danu pushes away her grief and develops elaborate and successful highdisturbing coffin-wire acts with Morriesized object to his home, a charismatic hunchback who wants to marry her. When the circus returns to Danuand it's birthplace, Matryoshka, Danu possible that whoever or whatever was inside is enchanted by the templesthing that has trashed his house! The thing is, spice mists, and pleasure seekers within Benny is the intoxicating outer circle districtvery last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. Here, she finally gains So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the courage delivery to open her mother's lockethis house is a new friend, and discovers the name of a stranger bad weather friend called Spike, who lives behind the locked gate of the Inner Circlehas been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Fated Spike is going to remain in Matryoshkatake care of Benny, Danu attempts to resolve this mystery. Will she and Morrie ever be reunited, or will something far more unexpected be waiting for her in the mysterious heart certainly take care of the city?Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473656680</amazonuk>1662500491

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Pascal Garnier and Melanie Florence (translator)Katherine Howe|title=Low HeightsA True Account

|genre=General Fiction |summary=Edouard Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to live with a family who run an exemplary example inn, and being made to work there from a young age. When she hears there is to be a hanging of a crotchety old man – changing his mindsome pirates in the town, she decides to go and blaming anything and everything – even that decision – on other peoplewatch. HeEnthralled and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's physically finedeath at the hands of two vicious pirates. She hides away, apart from one hand disabled by a stroke, but mentally, what with forgetting his past, assuming too many days are Sundays when so that theydon're not t find and buying kill her too many inappropriate things, he needs and then to escape them completely she runs away to sea, dressing as a nurse – Therese, who has formed an unlikely boy and almost unwanted couple with himjoining the notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. For Edouard, She soon finds herself in the memory thick of his wife who died ten years ago things when there is still a little too strong. But this unusual 'family' is about to be upset by an unexpected arrivalmutiny on board, who will stir the emotions and from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life of their remote house no end…on the ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910477427</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Dina Nayeri1471180158|title= RefugeMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Sinking boats Jamie Matson works in stormy seasan upper-class grocery store, national borders boosted for a man who's a control freak with barbed wireall the subtlety of a half brick. Jamie's son, Bo, 'has his problems'. He's asthmatic and overcrowded shelters – the mediamore you read, the more you'll suspect that he's portrayal of seeking asylum focuses on the process autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's a frequent flier in its darkest, most dangerous form. What happens after tumultuous journeys the local A&E and temporary shelter is sometimes Bo's not news; 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 life after decades put in the new country is rarely headline material eitherwrong. But in Dina Nayeri's ''Refuge'', it is the life after that takes centre stage It was going to come to a head. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0735219389</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hawa L CrickmoreB0CKD1L5JL|title=Across the OceanRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn

|summary=A young cage fighterPetr is an orphan. Rescued by the strange, Martin Grandsonreclusive Bear, was diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder which required a bone-marrow transplant, preferably he is brought up far from a sibling. Only recently he'd been a fit young manbustling cities and busy human society, in the prime forests of life, but now he was suffering from a rare type of bone cancer: without the transplant he would be paralysed for life and might be dead within the next twelve weeks if he didnWashington't receive the transplant within the next fourteen dayss Olympic Peninsula. Unfortunately Martin's parents had died After Bear dies and a brief sojourn in human company, and armed with only a pirate radio transmitter, Petr goes on a car crash and there were no siblings or other close relatives. His girlfriendjourney through the forest, Celiabroadcasting the strange, was not a matchwild and rarely heard voices he encounters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524666971</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Elif ShafakSarah Marsh|title= Three Daughters A Sign of EveHer Own|rating=43.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=Set in Istanbul in 2016After a bout of scarlet fever as a child, ''Three Daughters Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of Eve'' centres on Perisilence, a Turkish woman who finds herself thinking back to everything about her years at Oxford University to distract herself from life changes. Living in a boring dinner party. Her reminiscing is triggered time when she finds an old polaroid the use of herselfsign language was seen as something only savages do, her friends Mona and ShirinEllen is sent to a school where she is taught to lip read, and the rebellious Professor Azurbut physically restrained from signing. Much of her thoughts revolve around From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the scandal that prevented her from graduating from her dream universitydeaf and using a system called Visible Speech. More of a commentary on religion than a story, At the novel asks many questions about faith - in particularsame time, Islam - Bell is working on other inventions and whether its customs ideas, and traditions can be adapted to suit modern lifeEllen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0241978882</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Andre AlexisB0BC3YTCMR|title= The Hidden KeysGood Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Tancred Palmieri ''This story is a talented thief thrown into the path not for everyone.'' Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of Willow Azarian an eccentric, unpredictable heroin addicther fifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. She is also part of the Azarian dynastywas a very bright student, bequeathed almost a million dollars upon bit too nerdy if truth be told, and suffered from vitiligo - people were afraid to hug her fatherin case it's deathcontagious. Each of the Azarian children were also gifted It's not easy being a deeply personal memento mori, which Willow black girl whose skin is convinced make up 84% white. She had a crush on seventeen-year-old Reggie Anderson but never thought he would notice her. Then he did: Lavender was very good at math and Reggie asked if she would tutor him. She readily agreed: tutoring was something she gladly did at church: this was just an intricate treasure huntextension. She enlists the help of Tancred went to steal each itemhis house and he raped her. In shock, solve the mystery and prove she is not blindly following even allowed him to give her a baseless fantasylift home. Tancred must use all his skills to infiltrate the homes of each of Willow's siblings, uncover the clues hidden in each item and fight off the rival interests of competing criminals and the police.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781258422</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Alison Jean Lester1472263936|title= Yuki Means HappinessThe Figurine|author=Victoria Hislop|rating= 35|genre= General Fiction|summary= High-tech 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 high-rise, kimonosrefused to return, but Mary and bigHamish (Helena's parents) felt that it would be a pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. Her trip to the family apartment in up-eyed visuals – through a dynamic juxtaposition market Kolonaki would be the first of the ultra modern several annual visits. She grew to love her grandmother and the traditionalfamily's maid, Japan has succeeded in branding itself both as an intriguing travel destination that does not cease to surpriseDina, but at the same time defies being ever wholly full understood by outsiderswas wary - and frightened - of her grandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. All He was proud of this has come his close connections to be encapsulated the Junta and reinforced in Sofia Coppolaexpected his family to uphold his values but saw no reason to accommodate them. His prejudices included Helena's cult classic red hair and green eyes - inherited from her father''Lost in Translation'': the iconic still of Scarlett Johansson standing at the scramble crossing in Shibuya has come to represent Japan in pop culture as much as the more traditional cherry blossom imagerys Scottish ancestors. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848549628</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= S V BerlinDean Koontz|title= The FavouriteAfter Death|rating= 4.53|genre= General Fiction|summary=Siblings Edward and Isobel Vernon haven't spoken in years and live on opposite sides Michael Mace, Head of the Atlantic. When their mother Mary dies unexpectedlySecurity, at a top secret biological research facility, they are thrown together to sort through the family homeis among 55 people who die when a virus is released in a bio-hazard accident. With Edward's diffident but devoted girlfriend Finding himself in a makeshift mortuary, Juliecovered in plastic, making an awkward threesomehe has a sense that something very, each stumbles through very bad has happened to him – and only him – as he sits up and looks around at the practicalities shrouded bodies of funeral preparation his dead friends and house clearingformer colleagues. As he recovers his senses, trying to make sense of their emotions 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 isolated and their feelings toward one anotherpoor. Isobel makes It's surrounded by a disturbing discovery Witching Forest. And the villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and her fateful decision has consequences for all its blossom provides herbal medicines. The black wood of themthe forest provides heat and warmth, challenging their beliefs about the pastroofs on homes, hopes for the future and understanding even gallows, if needed. The fear of Mary's role being buried alive is an existential superstition in keeping them at once apart the village and togetherthat is the reason Volushka, a drunken, self-indulgent, lazy lout of a man is tolerated. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0993563384</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julia Claiborne JohnsonB0BYF82CXT|title=Be Frank with MeSemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone

|summary=In June 2009 Isaac Vargas sends his assistant, twenty''Bill and Amanda are living in a semi-four-year-old Alice Whitleydetached house, to Bel Airstuck in a depressing rut of boredom and disappointment, California to help Mimi Gillespie produce her long-awaited second novel. Under the name M.M. Banningwhen Terry and Fiona – glamorous, Mimi issued a wildly successful novel back and very much in love – move in the 1970snext door. Despite their different outlooks on life, ''Pitched'', which quickly became a modern classic on every American adolescent's list of assigned reading for school. She's the sort of figure Harper Lee was couples befriend each other and life appears to improve for decades: a one-hit literary wonder and an infamous recluseboth pairs. But there's one key difference here: Mimi has a nine-year-old sonall is not what it seems, Frankand their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782399208</amazonuk>''

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kay LangdaleShalini Boland|title=The Way Back 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 Usface his approaching bride, Alice's world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the man at the altar is, who is waiting for her to become his wife.|isbn=1662507089}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787636003|title=The Girls of Summer|author=Katie Bishop

|summary=A household revolves It was the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around its weakest member Greece and because itarrived on the island. Rachel wasn's revolving there's always a danger that some people t exactly innocent but she was, perhaps, naive, so when thirty-four- such as a spouse year- will be spun old Alistair Wright started to the outside, whilst other children, loosely attached to the main carer will be at a distance, never completely closetake an interest in her, but never escaping eithershe was flattered rather than wary. In the centre are the carer and the person who needs that care, bonded together in such It was quite a way that it's actually difficult while before he made any sort of physical approach to offer help or even friendship. So it is with Anna her and Teddy, who suffers from Spinal Muscular Atrophy, or SMA as it's generally knownby that time she was obsessed by him. He's five nowAlistair worked for Henry Taylor, confined to a wheelchair or looking after his Whizzybug and not putting interests on much weight as chewing the island and swallowing are difficultin particular in the bar where all the girls either worked or partied.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473618363</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Hendrik Groen and Hester Velmans (translator)Amanda Craig|title= The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83¼ years OldThree Graces|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= As Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of-the-nation novel. There's something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the atmosphere of the old adage goesday and capture it, to walk crafting an image of the country as it stands in one particular moment. To say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's practically synonymous with the genre of contemporary social fiction at this point. She has such a gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the day into the lives of her characters in a mile way that feels natural and lived-in someone else, never making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselves.|isbn= 140871468X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=152915118X|title=Pineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=''Pineapple Street''s shoes is to gain some understanding the story of what it three women: Sasha, Darley and Georgiana. Darley and George are sisters and Sasha is married to be that persontheir brother Cord. Admittedly They're Stocktons, Hendrik Groen only Sasha isn't much up for long walks a Stockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the tribe. The problem's 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 another property, a street or so away, which they own. They won't need any moreof the furniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and Cord can move straight in. Nominally, they had a choice but he does acquire a swish mobility scooter that wasn't the reality. Darley and Georgiana start to zoom around call Sasha 'the gold digger'. She's living in; one could say ''their'' family home. They use it so often that we get they abbreviate it to zoom 'the GD'.}}{{Frontpage|author=Emily Critchley|title=One Puzzling Afternoon|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=84 year old Edie has lived in the same small town for almost her whole life, but now she is facing a move as her son wants to move to another house and bring Edie to live with his family, as Edie is starting to lose her memory. However, Edie is tormented by the memory of her childhood friend, Lucy, who went missing over 60 years ago, and the worry that there was a mile secret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be the thing that reveals the truth of what happened all that time ago. After 'seeing' 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 her. And yet as she remembers the past, she is forgetting more and more in Groenher day to day life. Will she uncover the truth about Lucy's shoesdisappearance before her move, and oh, what fun shoes he wears!before her memories are gone forever?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405924004</amazonuk>1804181250

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sarah FranklinMadelaine Lucas|title= ShelterThirst for Salt|rating= 5|genre= Historical Literary Fiction|summary=Connie Granger has escaped her bombed-out city home''Love, finding refuge in the WomenI's Timber Corps. For herd read, this remote community must now serve was supposed to be a secret purpose.<br>light and weightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravity'' SeppeTold from a retrospective view, an Italian prisoner of wara young woman unravels the year-long relationship that once defined her. Overlaid with later wisdom, is haunted by his memoriesthe 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. In Set against the forest camp, he finds a strange kind backdrop of freedom.Their meeting signals new beginnings. But as they are drawn togetheran isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the 24-year-old narrator's deepening relationship with her older lover, the world outside their forest haven is being torn apart. Old certainties are crumblingdepicting its all-consuming nature, how it changed her perspective on both romantic and both must now make a life-defining choicefamilial relationships and how it altered her irrevocably.<br>What price will they pay for freedom? What will they fight to protect?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785762990</amazonuk>0861546490

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jennifer McVeigh0008506337|title=Leopard at the DoorThe Garnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore

|summary=18 year old Rachel Fullsmith returns home to Kenya after being away at school in England The love affair between Margo Garnett and finds a lot can change poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, apparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in 6 yearslove. Of course she realises her Richard was twenty-one and described by Margo's motheras 'an older man'. Her parents worried that Richard's death influence would alter things but take her away from what they felt she's not prepared for her father's livecould achieve -in 'companion' Sara nor Sara's son Harold sleeping in Rachel's old roomgoing to Oxford and having a glittering career. Michael In the event, they eloped and Richard took her away from the Kikuyu servant boy she grew up with is still there though Isle of Wight. Margo did go to Oxford and now went on to become a man with his own ideaswell-respected journalist. The couple had three children: Rachel, Imogen and Sasha. Meanwhile Life was lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, the unrest between family home on the British rulers and Isle of Wight. Even then the local Mau Mau fighters is increasing and doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able to blowleave him in charge''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241247616</amazonuk>Then Richard left them.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lucy Daniels1914585402|title= Summer at Hope Meadows|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 Dashboard Elvis is a fully qualified vet.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473653878</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewDead|author=Sophie Divry and Alison Anderson (translator)|title=Madame Bovary of the SuburbsDavid F Ross|rating=24.5

|summary=I reviewed David F Ross's book [[There'It starts with becoming a homeowner, then settling in, then reproducing.s Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There'' Well, it actually starts s Only One Danny Garvey]] a lot before then, with a set couple of fractured memories of our heroine's childhood – things she recalls her parents years back and relatives saying both to remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and about heraffecting it was. It goes through her childhoodwas a gripping, and pen letters to a best friend conveying her wishes for her lifeemotionally wounding read, those wishes being revised and affirmed by the liberty rereading my review of university years, those wishes being met with or denied by married life… Someone archly could point out it my main takeaway was that you should be careful what you wish for, but I might not even our wise, modern woman could not see the next step after the reproducing – ''standing disappointed in front of the refrigerator''have lavished enough praise on it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857054686</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tania HershmanLucy Ashe|title=Some of Us Glow More Than OthersClara and Olivia

|genre=Short Stories General Fiction|summary=I wonThe year is 1933. The place? Sadler't be alone in stating that reading short story collections can be slightly awkwards Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, twins no less. Identical on the outside but not, we learn, on the inside. Going through from A-ZAnd not on stage, witnessing either. Because there's a lot that builds a bounty of ideas and characters in short order dancer. Some things that can be too muchtaught or learnt – discipline, but do you have the right attention to pick detail – and choose according to what appealssome things, and what time you have to fill? The sequence has carefully been consideredthat ''je ne sais quoi'', surely. Such would appear to be that don't come from the case hereclassroom. The last time I read one of this authorA stage presence, a charm, a ''joie de vivre''s collections, with [[. The White Road by Tania Hershman|The White Road]]difference between a hard-worker, the only real difficulty was holding back and rationing them, but here you not only get a whopping forty pieces of writing, they are also spread into sectionsstar.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910061484</amazonuk>0861544080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jane JohnsonHeather Fawcett|title= Court Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of LionsFaeries|rating= 54|genre= Historical General 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 Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on earthfaerie lore, and she works as a waitress serving tourists in a busy bar. She pretends she's happy with has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her new life – but how could she be? Kate's alonework, afraid and hiding under a false namethe very first encyclopaedia of faeries. And fate Whilst she is about brilliant at research and speaking to bring her face-to-face faeries, she is not so good with her greatest fearpeople. Five centuries ago, a message So when she finds herself far, far North in a hand few could readthe small village of Hrafvsnik, was inscribed in blood on a stolen scrap of paper. The paper was folded and pressed into one of having somehow offended the Alhambra's walls. There it village matriarch, she is not sure what she has laindone, undisturbed by nor how to redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on the tides of history – the Fall of Granadaright track. Enter Wendell Bambleby, the expulsion of its last Sultan – until Kate discovers it. Born of loveher dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, in a time of danger all charm and desperationdelight, the fragment will be the catalyst that changes Katemuch to Emily's life foreverfrustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786694336</amazonuk>0356519120

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julie Cohen1398515388|title=TogetherThe Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating=4.5

|summary=This is a love story told backwardsFirst of all, it was the earthquake, deep in the most beautiful mannerocean floor, so that we know from which created the very beginning that Emily tsunami and Robert love each other enormouslythis, and that he is about to break her heart in turn, caused the most dreadful way in order to protect a secret that they've lived with for decadesnuclear meltdown. Seeing their love unfold in reverse is beautifulThe result was complete and utter devastation. We get to know them once they have already gotten to know each otherThe deaths were uncountable, and it makes for an unusual and interesting structurethe loss of livelihoods was widespread. The secret they hold is referred to throughout, fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of priorities but it isn- six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. He wasn't revealed until very late in a dog person but the book. Iconvenience store owner'm guessing very few readers will figure it out. Even once you know, you want s comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to go back open his car door and read Tamon the whole story again dog jumped in the light of the information you now hold.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409171744</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author= Kate MildenhallChristopher Bowden|title= SkylarkingMr Magenta|rating= 4|genre= General Fiction |summary= Kate and Harriet are best friends growing up together on an isolated Australian cape. As the daughters Christopher Bowden's latest novel is a patient untangling of the lighthouse keepers, the two girls share everything, until a fishermanseemingly ordinary woman's life, McPhail, arrives in their small communitycarried out by her nephew after she has died. When Kate witnesses the desire that flares between him The aunt who always provided a safe harbour and Harriet, she is torn by her feelings a little bit of envy indulgence to a young nephew had had a much more interesting life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and longing. An innocent moment in McPhail's hut then occurs that threatens it seems to him an obligation to tear their peaceful community apartfind it all out. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785079239</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Zoe DuncanJennifer Mason|title= The Shifting PoolsPartitions of Unity|rating= 2.54|genre= General Fiction|summary= Perhaps the most overused phrase Here at Bookbag Towers, we first met Elizabeth Cromwell, dominatrix and unintentional detective in fiction publishing is ''life-affirming''[[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], closely followed by ''human condition''. The Shifting Pools takes this to when she investigated and unravelled a whole new levelseries of disappearances. Its blurb boasts that it is In ''charged throughout with the beautiful urgency Partitions of lifeUnity'', whatever that means. It isn't. And that's the problem. This isn't a bad book, but it she sets itself up her mind to fail. A cardinal rule of writing is ''focus on the small stuff''. If you set out to write solving a ''life affirming'' novel that answers all the ''big questions'', you'll strugglemurder. And it is this trap that Zoe Duncan falls into. In her quest for profundity she loses her way. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785630369</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sarah HealyWill Carver|title= The Sisters ChaseDaves Next Door|rating= 4|genre=General Fiction|summary= Five strangers come together in one moment as a suicide bomber prepares to detonate his vest on a London tube line. As their fates overlap, the story is told in backwards order, leading up to the fateful moment.5|isbn= 1914585186}} {{Frontpage|author=Jennifer Mason|title=Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery|rating=4|genre= General Fiction|summary=Mary ''A struggling poetry zine, a mom-and Bunny. That-pop mobile diner in the Northern California redwoods, a 400-meter hurdler who just missed the 2004 Olympics, a women's how it has always been ever since Bunny was born. Two sisters track coach with an unbreakable bonda yen for bullwhips, twisted together so tight that they were two sides a billionaire with a state-of -the same coin. Bunny was Mary'-art S&M dungeon, a man serving a life sentence in Alabama, an enigmatic signature, K(s whole world; nothing else really mattered; school...friends...boys...well, maybe one boyx), but he was something altogether extraordinary. When the unthinkable happenedon a cheap oil painting, Mary and Bunny found themselves completely alone an erotic art dealer in the world, and thatGeorgia...''s when Mary decided to take an unforgettable road trip,  This is just a sample of the two cast of themcharacters and settings in Preposterous. As you can see, across the United States, in search some keeping up will be required! The basic premise of a place where they could belongthis mystery story goes like this...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0544960076</amazonuk>B09STS96HS

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|summary=1945: The war is in its dying days and creating problems far from It's the different fronts10th of December 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marr. For instance, Just to put what happens in Australiacontext, what can be done with the Italian POWs brought into the country? Cuban missile crisis is still very fresh in people's minds. The solution seems world has barely had a chance to be their use as cheap labourbreathe out. In this way Kate DowdBut for Joe Marr, it's not the missile crisis that's father agrees to take two onto at the front of his sheep farm in drought-ridden New South Walesmind. He's been convicted of murder. Kate is initially wary With the current state of medical knowledge, it's hard to think otherwise than that the two men – Vittorio and Luca – prosecution would never have been brought but gradually she realises that not all dangers come from outside her communityJoe Marr has spent his first few days in HMP Queen's Bench, a relatively new prison. Life on a sheep station may be harsh but for Kate itHe's going just getting used to his roommate, Mervyn, and learning to get a lot worsebe wary of the McArthur brothers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784741345</amazonuk>