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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!{{Frontpage|author=Onyi Nwabineli|title=Allow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step- Remove -->mother to take down the content about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Laura Solomon1529153298|title=Taking WainuiThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=25

|summary= This It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is the first time 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 come across Laura Solomon'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's workoverheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a New Zealand writer who has won writing prizes for both frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her fiction best friend, Sharon, and poetryshe'll do anything to prevent that. Although this book appears She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to be a collection of short stories, I found its format somewhat confusinganyone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>8193409353</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Debbie Howells1035906708|title= The Death of HerDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating= 34.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=In a quiet part We tend to think of rural CornwallMaria Callas as Greek, villagers are shocked but she was born to learn that a local woman has been attacked and left for dead Greek parents in a maize field. So severe are her injuriesManhattan, New York, that her memory has been affected in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she struggles was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to remember details of her life'Callas' to make it more manageable in the States. She tells the police When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she thinks could get appropriate training for her name is Evie. Then, voice - she remembers something else; she has was raised under the Nazi occupation by a three-year-old daughter called Angel. Where is Angel, mother who mercilessly exploited her and what happened to made no secret of her when preference for her mother was attacked? The police frantically search for Angel's whereaboutselder sister, but on closer examination of Evie's cottage, they find no evidence of a child ever having lived thereJackie...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509834648</amazonuk>

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|title=The House of Unexpected SistersPerfect Passion Company|rating=4.5

|summary=Dear Mma Ramotswe The Perfect Passion Company is backa dating agency in Edinburgh, for run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the eighteenth (!) book online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the seriesbusiness, and what as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a beautiful book it while. Katie iscoming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. I ran through the whole tumult of emotions whilst reading And so begins this new storyfrom Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with all the usual moments of humoursome new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, annoying and there's always her very helpful (and yet endearingrather handsome) idiosyncrasies of characterneighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=The Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Paranormal|summary=Benny 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 his home, low level mystery solving and endless cups of redbush teait's 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 deserve all this bad luck. There He is a case nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the agency with delivery to his house is a new friend, a lady bad weather friend called Spike, who has been wrongfully fired sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from her jobnefarious forces for being a good person. There's the worryingSpike is going to take care of Benny, background presence and will certainly take care of Mma MakutsiBenny's nemesisenemies, Violet Sepothoif he, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who must surely have been involved in this poor ladyfinds herself roped into Benny's job woes. And there is the difficult discovery of an unknown family member for Mma Ramotswe, and an unwelcome return from anotherwild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408708140</amazonuk>1662500491

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maja Lunde and Diane Oatley (translator)Katherine Howe|title=The History of BeesA True Account|rating=4.5

|summary=Bees are Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to live with a family who run an inn, and being made to work there from a young age. When she hears there is to be a handy symbol hanging of some pirates in the planettown, she decides to go and watch. Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's environmental degradation, as you'll know if you've read anything by [[:Category:Dave Goulson|Dave Goulson]] – whose endorsement is featured proudly on death at the cover hands of this Utwo vicious pirates.K. release of Norwegian children She hides away, so that they don's writer Maja Lundet find and kill her too, and then to escape them completely she runs away to sea, dressing as a boy and joining the notorious Ned Low's first novel for adultspirate ship as a cabin boy. The creatures also provide subtle links between She soon finds herself in the thick of things when there is a mutiny on board, and from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the book's three story linesocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471162745</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jem Vanston1471180158|title=A Cat Called Dog 2 - The One with the KittensMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating=4.5

|summary=GeorgeJamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, Dog for a man who's a control freak with all the cat and Eric the stray were indulging themselves with subtlety of a philosophical discussion when they heard some strange mewinghalf brick. Jamie's son, Bo, 'has his problems'. Three kittens had found their way into He's asthmatic and the garden and told more you read, the resident cats more you'll suspect that their mother had told them he's on the autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to run away when a twotake time off at short notice -legs cat catcher came for them all. Mother couldnshe't run as she had s a sore paw, but Daisy, Maisie frequent flier in the local A&E and Boo had run and run and run. Theysometimes Bo'd no idea what happened s not fit enough to her - or how go to get back home againschool. George is getting 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 years and wouldn't like the wrong. It was going to upset his two legs, The Lady, by being away from home for too long, so he appoints Dog as leader of an expedition come to reunite the kittens and their Mothera head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786293390</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Susi OsborneB0CKD1L5JL|title=Angelica StoneRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn

|summary=I'd say that Angelica Stone was known as Angel to her friendsPetr is an orphan. Rescued by the strange, reclusive Bear, he is brought up far from bustling cities and busy human society, but shein the forests of Washington's not big on friendsOlympic Peninsula. She has the sort of background you dread hearing about: sexually abused as After Bear dies and a childbrief sojourn in human company, grabbed by the care system and didn't so much fall armed with only a pirate radio transmitter, Petr goes on a journey through the cracks as escaped its clutches and then had to learn how to cope. She's been told that she's taintedforest, broadcasting the strange, that she ruins every relationship without intending to and that she's best staying away from 'decent' people. One of her jobs is working in a supermarket wild and it's there that she meets Lola Moriarty and ''she's'' a completely different kettle of fishrarely heard voices he encounters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911320947</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Virginia MacgregorSarah Marsh|title= Before I Was YoursA Sign of Her Own|rating= 3.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Rosie can see clearly After a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her future family in hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, everything about her mindlife changes. And Living in a time when that doesn't happenthe use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a school where she adapts. So maybe she won't carry the baby inside heris taught to lip read, but that lovely blonde girl at the adoption event could be their new daughterphysically restrained from signing. Yes From here, she looks like she belongs to them alreadyends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and using a system called Visible Speech. It's meant to be. Except it's not. Rosie At the same time, Bell is working on other inventions and Sam don't get to have a genetic child of their ownideas, and they don't get to adopt the perfect blonde girl. They end Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up with the exact opposite: in a boy from Kenya with a peculiar back story and an ardent wish not to be adopted. As optimistic as Rosie and Sam try to be, this isn't quite what they pictured or hoped forcomplicated tangle of espionage. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751565229</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Gabrielle ZevinB0BC3YTCMR|title= Young Jane YoungGood Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=Aviva Grossman, an ambitious Congressional intern in Florida, makes the life-changing mistake ''This story is not for everyone.'' Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of having an affair with her boss - who is belovedfifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. She was a very bright student, admired, successfula bit too nerdy if truth be told, and very married suffered from vitiligo - and blogging about people were afraid to hug her in case it's contagious. When the affair comes to light, the Congressman doesn It't take the fall, but Aviva does, and her life s not easy being a black girl whose skin is over before it hardly begins84% white. She becomes had a latecrush on seventeen-night talk show punchline; she is slutyear-shamed, labelled as fat old Reggie Anderson but never thought he would notice her. Then he did: Lavender was very good at math and ugly, and considered a blight on politics in generalReggie asked if she would tutor him.How does one go on after She readily agreed: tutoring was something she gladly did at church: this? In Aviva's case, she sees no way out but to change her name and move to a remote town in Mainewas just an extension. She starts over as a wedding planner, tries went to be smarter about her life, his house and to raise he raped her daughter to be strong and confident.But when, at the urging of others In shock, she decides even allowed him to run for public office herself, that long-ago mistake trails give her via the Internet like a scarlet A. These days, Google guarantees that the past is never, ever, truly past, that everything you've done will live on for everyone to know about for all eternitylift home. And it's only a matter of time until Aviva/Jane's daughter, Ruby, finds out who her mother was, and is, and must decide whether she can still respect her.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408709805</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Henrietta Rose-Innes1472263936|title= Green LionThe Figurine|author=Victoria Hislop|rating= 45|genre= General Fiction|summary= The opening of ''Green Lion'' is an apparently simple premise; a young South African manIt was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. She was alone: her mother, ConGreek by birth, is tasked with picking up had left the belongings of an old friendfamily home and refused to return, Mark, who is lying in but Mary and Hamish (Helena's parents) felt that it would be a coma pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. Her trip to the family apartment in hospitalup-market Kolonaki would be the first of several annual visits. Mark worked at a small zoo with a rare black-maned lioness, who mauled him She grew to love her grandmother and caused the coma. Howeverfamily's maid, as the story unfoldsDina, Rosebut was wary - and frightened -Innes reveals an unflinching embrace of her grandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. He was proud of his close connections to the messiness of human Junta and animal life, expected his family to uphold his values but saw no reason to accommodate them. His prejudices included Helena's red hair and their troubled interactionsgreen eyes - inherited from her father's Scottish ancestors. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910709255</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alexander McCall SmithDean Koontz|title=A Time After Death|rating=3|genre=General Fiction|summary= Michael Mace, Head of Love Security, at a top secret biological research facility, is among 55 people who die when a virus is released in a bio-hazard accident. Finding himself in a makeshift mortuary, covered in plastic, he has a sense that something very, very bad has happened to him – and only him – as he sits up and Tartanlooks around at the shrouded bodies of his dead friends and former colleagues. As he recovers his senses, he realises that there is something different about him; he can ''feel'' everything. ''Everything''. Michael isn't ''Michael'' anymore.|isbn=1662500467}} {{Frontpage|isbn=B0BVDC2VWH|title=The Grave Listeners|author=William Frank|rating=54

|summary=Here we are, back on Scotland Street, eager to see what everyone (especially Bertie…) has been up to! This The village is now the twelfth book in the Scotland Street series which is remarkableisolated and poor. That a serial novel has such momentum, and that the characters within have become so very familiar to AMSIt's loyal readers, is surrounded by a testament to his skills as a writerWitching Forest. This time around our nerves are on edge as Pat ventures back towards a relationship with And the dreadful Bruce! Surely she'll see sensevillagers 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..won't she?! Matthew, The fear of all people, being buried alive is an existential superstition in trouble with the policevillage and that is the reason Volushka, Irene is busy planning a PhDdrunken, and Bertie? Could there be self-indulgent, lazy lout of a happy ending for Bertie in the air?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973821</amazonuk>man is tolerated.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jess RichardsB0BYF82CXT|title= City of CirclesSemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone|rating= 4|genre= FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary= Danu is ''Bill and Amanda are living in a tightrope walker who is mourning her parentssemi-detached house, after stuck in a disease has ravaged the circus where she grew up. Her mother has entrusted her with a locket that hides a secret. Over the yearsdepressing rut of boredom and disappointment, Danu pushes away her grief when Terry and develops elaborate Fiona – glamorous, successful and successful high-wire acts with Morrie, a charismatic hunchback who wants to marry hervery much in love – move in next door. When the circus returns to Danu's birthplaceDespite their different outlooks on life, Matryoshka, Danu is enchanted by the temples, spice mists, couples befriend each other and pleasure seekers within the intoxicating outer circle district. Here, she finally gains the courage life appears to open her mother's locket, and discovers the name of a stranger who lives behind the locked gate of the Inner Circleimprove for both pairs. Fated to remain in MatryoshkaBut all is not what it seems, Danu attempts to resolve this mystery. Will she and Morrie ever be reunited, or will something far more unexpected be waiting their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for her in the mysterious heart of the city?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473656680</amazonuk>tragedy.''

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Pascal Garnier Shalini Boland|title=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 altar is, who is waiting for her to become his wife.|isbn=1662507089}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787636003|title=The Girls of Summer|author=Katie Bishop|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It was the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Melanie Florence (translator)Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the island. Rachel wasn't 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=Low HeightsThree Graces

|genre=General Fiction |summary=Edouard is an exemplary example Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of a crotchety old man – changing his mind, and blaming anything and everything – even that decision – on other people-the-nation novel. HeThere's physically finesomething so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the atmosphere of the day and capture it, apart from crafting an image of the country as it stands in one hand disabled by a stroke, but mentally, what with forgetting his past, assuming too many days are Sundays when theyparticular moment. To say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she're not and buying too many inappropriate things, he needs a nurse – Therese, who has formed an unlikely and almost unwanted couple s practically synonymous with himthe genre of contemporary social fiction at this point. For Edouard, She has such a gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the day into the memory lives of his wife who died ten years ago is still her characters in a little too strongway that feels natural and lived-in, never making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselves. But this unusual 'family' is about to be upset by an unexpected arrival, who will stir the emotions and life of their remote house no end…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910477427</amazonuk>140871468X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Dina Nayeri152915118X|title= RefugePineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Sinking boats in stormy seas''Pineapple Street'' is the story of three women: Sasha, Darley and Georgiana. Darley and George are sisters and Sasha is married to their brother Cord. They're Stocktons, only Sasha isn't a Stockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the tribe. The problem's exacerbated when the clan matriarch, national borders boosted with barbed wireTilda, asks Cord and overcrowded shelters – Sasha if they'd like to move into the mediaPineapple Street property. Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to another property, a street or so away, which they own. They won's portrayal t need any of seeking asylum focuses on the process furniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and Cord can move straight in its darkest. Nominally, most dangerous formthey had a choice but that wasn't the reality. What happens after tumultuous journeys Darley and temporary shelter is not news; and life after decades in Georgiana start to call Sasha 'the new country is rarely headline material eithergold digger'. But in Dina Nayeri She's living in ''Refugetheir'', family home. They use it so often that they abbreviate it is to 'the life after that takes centre stageGD'. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0735219389</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Hawa L CrickmoreEmily Critchley|title=Across the OceanOne Puzzling Afternoon

|summary=A young cage fighter, Martin GrandsonThe love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, apparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in love. Richard was diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder which required a bonetwenty-marrow transplant, preferably one and described by Margo's mother as 'an older man'. Her parents worried that Richard's influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and having a siblingglittering career. Only recently he'd been a fit young manIn the event, in they eloped and Richard took her away from the prime Isle of lifeWight. Margo did go to Oxford and went on to become a well-respected journalist. The couple had three children: Rachel, but now he Imogen and Sasha. Life was suffering from a rare type of bone cancer: without the transplant he would be paralysed for life lived in London and might be dead within holidays were spent at Sandcove, the next twelve weeks if he didn't receive family home on the transplant within the next fourteen daysIsle of Wight. Unfortunately MartinEven then the doubts about Richard's parents had died drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able to leave him in a car crash and there were no siblings or other close relativescharge''. His girlfriend, Celia, was not a match Then Richard left them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524666971</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Elif Shafak1914585402|title= Three Daughters of EveDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross|rating=4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=Set in Istanbul in 2016, I reviewed David F Ross's book [[There'Three Daughters of Eves Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There'' centres on Peri, s Only One Danny Garvey]] a Turkish woman who finds herself thinking couple of years back to her years at Oxford University to distract herself from and remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and affecting it was. It was a boring dinner party. Her reminiscing is triggered when she finds an old polaroid of herselfgripping, her friends Mona and Shirinemotionally wounding read, and the rebellious Professor Azur. Much rereading my review of her thoughts revolve around the scandal it my main takeaway was that prevented her from graduating from her dream university. More of a commentary I might not have lavished enough praise on religion than a story, the novel asks many questions about faith - in particular, Islam - and whether its customs and traditions can be adapted to suit modern lifeit.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241978882</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Andre AlexisLucy Ashe|title= The Hidden KeysClara and Olivia|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Tancred Palmieri The year is a talented thief thrown into the path of Willow Azarian an eccentric, unpredictable heroin addict1933. She is also part of the Azarian dynasty, bequeathed almost a million dollars upon her fatherThe place? Sadler's deathWells. Each of the Azarian children were also gifted a deeply personal memento moriBallerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, which Willow is convinced make up an intricate treasure hunttwins no less. She enlists Identical on the help of Tancred to steal each itemoutside but not, we learn, solve on the mystery and prove she is inside. And not blindly following on stage, either. Because there's a baseless fantasylot that builds a dancer. Tancred must use all his skills Some things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, attention to infiltrate detail – and some things, that ''je ne sais quoi'', that don't come from the homes of each of Willowclassroom. A stage presence, a charm, a ''joie de vivre's siblings'. The difference between a hard-worker, uncover the clues hidden in each item and fight off the rival interests of competing criminals and the policea star.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781258422</amazonuk>0861544080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Alison Jean LesterHeather Fawcett|title= Yuki Means HappinessEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries|rating= 34|genre= General Fiction|summary= High-tech Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and high-rise, kimonosshe has travelled extensively, and big-eyed visuals – through a dynamic juxtaposition of the ultra modern and the traditionalresearched meticulously, Japan has succeeded in branding itself both as an intriguing travel destination that does not cease to surprisewrite her life's work, but at the same time defies being ever wholly full understood by outsidersvery first encyclopaedia of faeries. All of this has come Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to be encapsulated and reinforced faeries, she is not so good with people. So when she finds herself far, far North in Sofia Coppola's cult classic ''Lost in Translation'': the iconic still small village of Scarlett Johansson standing at Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the scramble crossing in Shibuya village matriarch, she is not sure what she has come done, nor how to represent Japan in pop culture as redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on the right track. Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, much as to Emily's frustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the more traditional cherry blossom imagery. faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848549628</amazonuk>0356519120

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= S V Berlin1398515388|title= The FavouriteBoy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=Siblings Edward and Isobel Vernon haven't spoken in years and live on opposite sides First of all, it was the Atlantic. When their mother Mary dies unexpectedlyearthquake, they are thrown together to sort through deep in the family home. With Edward's diffident but devoted girlfriendocean floor, Juliewhich created the tsunami and this, making an awkward threesomein turn, each stumbles through caused the practicalities of funeral preparation nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and house clearingutter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, trying to make sense and the loss of livelihoods was widespread. The fact that many pets were separated from their emotions and their feelings toward one anotherowners came far down the list of priorities but - six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. Isobel makes He wasn't a disturbing discovery and her fateful decision has consequences for all of them, challenging their beliefs about the past, hopes for dog person but the future and understanding of Maryconvenience store owner's role comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and Tamon the dog jumped in keeping them at once apart and together. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0993563384</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Julia Claiborne JohnsonChristopher Bowden|title=Be Frank with MeMr Magenta

|summary=In June 2009 Isaac Vargas sends his assistant, twenty-four-year-old Alice Whitley, to Bel Air, California to help Mimi Gillespie produce her long-awaited second Christopher Bowden's latest novel. Under the name M.M. Banning, Mimi issued is a wildly successful novel back in the 1970s, ''Pitched'', which quickly became patient untangling of a modern classic on every American adolescentseemingly ordinary woman's list of assigned reading for schoollife, carried out by her nephew after she has died. She's the sort The aunt who always provided a safe harbour and a little bit of figure Harper Lee was for decades: indulgence to a one-hit literary wonder young nephew had had a much more interesting life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and it seems to him an infamous recluse. But there's one key difference here: Mimi has a nine-year-old son, Frankobligation to find it all out.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782399208</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kay LangdaleJennifer Mason|title=The Way Back to UsPartitions of Unity|rating=54

|summary=A household revolves around its weakest member and because it's revolving there's always a danger that some people - such as a spouse - will be spun to the outside, whilst other children, loosely attached to the main carer will be Here at a distanceBookbag Towers, never completely closewe first met Elizabeth Cromwell, but never escaping either. In the centre are the carer dominatrix and the person who needs that careunintentional detective in [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], bonded together in such when she investigated and unravelled a way that itseries of disappearances. In 's actually difficult to offer help or even friendship. So it is with Anna and Teddy, who suffers from Spinal Muscular Atrophy, or SMA as it's generally known. HePartitions of Unity''s five now, confined she sets her mind to solving a wheelchair or his Whizzybug and not putting on much weight as chewing and swallowing are difficultmurder...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473618363</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Hendrik Groen and Hester Velmans (translator)Will Carver|title= The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83¼ years OldDaves Next Door|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Five strangers come together in one moment as a suicide bomber prepares to detonate his vest on a London tube line. As their fates overlap, the old adage goesstory is told in backwards order, leading up to walk the fateful moment.|isbn= 1914585186}} {{Frontpage|author=Jennifer Mason|title=Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=''A struggling poetry zine, a mile mom-and-pop mobile diner in someone elsethe Northern California redwoods, a 400-meter hurdler who just missed the 2004 Olympics, a women's shoes is to gain some understanding track coach with a yen for bullwhips, a billionaire with a state-of what it is to be that person. Admittedly-the-art S&M dungeon, Hendrik Groen isn't much up for long walks any more, but he does acquire a swish mobility scooter to zoom around man serving a life sentence in; one could say that we get to zoom Alabama, an enigmatic signature, K(s, x), on a mile cheap oil painting, an erotic art dealer in GroenGeorgia...'s shoes, ' This is just a sample of the cast of characters and ohsettings in Preposterous. As you can see, what fun shoes he wearssome keeping up will be required!The basic premise of this mystery story goes like this...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405924004</amazonuk>B09STS96HS

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Sarah FranklinB0B2N7MVYM|title= Shelter|rating= 5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=Connie Granger has escaped her bombed-out city home, finding refuge in the Women's Timber Corps. For her, this remote community must now serve a secret purpose.<br>Seppe, an Italian prisoner of war, is haunted by his memories. In the forest camp, he finds a strange kind The Calculations of freedom.Their meeting signals new beginnings. But as they are drawn together, the world outside their forest haven is being torn apart. Old certainties are crumbling, and both must now make a life-defining choice.<br>What price will they pay for freedom? What will they fight to protect?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785762990</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewRational Men|author=Jennifer McVeigh|title=Leopard at the DoorDaniel Godfrey

|summary=18 year old Rachel Fullsmith returns home It's the 10th of December 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marr. Just to Kenya after being away at school put what happens in context, the Cuban missile crisis is still very fresh in England and finds people's minds. The world has barely had a lot can change in 6 yearschance to breathe out. Of course she realises her motherBut for Joe Marr, it's death would alter things but shenot the missile crisis that's not prepared for her fatherat the front of his mind. He's live-in 'companion' Sara nor Sarabeen convicted of murder. With the current state of medical knowledge, it's son Harold sleeping hard to think otherwise than that the prosecution would never have been brought but Joe Marr has spent his first few days in RachelHMP Queen's old roomBench, a relatively new prison. Michael the Kikuyu servant boy she grew up with is still there though and now a man with He's just getting used to his own ideas. Meanwhile the unrest between the British rulers roommate, Mervyn, and learning to be wary of the local Mau Mau fighters is increasing and about to blowMcArthur brothers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241247616</amazonuk>