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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Catherine BurnsOnyi Nwabineli|title= The VisitorsAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating= 4.5|genre= ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Marion Zetland lives with Anuri spent her domineering older brotherchildhood on display to the world, Johnthanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, in a decaying Georgian townhouse on the edge where she posted every step of a northern seaside resortAnuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. A timid spinster Now Anuri is in her fifties who still sleeps with teddy bearstwenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, Marion does suing her best step-mother to shut out take down the shocking secret that John keeps in the cellarcontent about her. Until Anuri is battling alcoholism, suddenlyfailing to start her PhD, John has a heart attack undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and Marion receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is forced to go down to the cellar new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and face her relationship with her father at the gruesome truth 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 brother has kept hiddenfather wants to move the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. As questions are asked For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and secrets unravel, maybe John isnshe'll do anything to prevent that. She't s not worried about the only one with a dark sidedangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035906708|title=Diva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|amazonukgenre=<amazonuk>1787199851</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= J R WardAlexander McCall Smith|title= Devil's CutThe Perfect Passion Company|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=I feel The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as though I came an alternative to this book under false pretensesall the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. I requested Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the book thinking I was getting business, as Ness is planning to take a murder mystery and instead I was thrown head first into trip to Canada to get away for a roaring family sagawhile. Indeed, said murder mystery though pivotal in the history of the family, Katie is more coming out of a quiet subplot break up with a bad boyfriend, and catalyst from where so jumps at the chance to come home to begin the storytelling for the bookEdinburgh. And so it was I was met with the Baldwine family begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Bradford Bourbon CompanyIsabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. The initial meeting is Katie has no experience in running a romantic one as the family are presented high up business, or in their castle on the hill match- or making, but Ness has full confidence in this case from their beautiful Kentuckian Bradford Family Estate replete with tea rosesher abilities, fruit trees and hazy Southern sunshine. It isnthere't long however before Ward transports the reader from such rolling splendour to the darkest corners of human psychology wherein fathers s always her very helpful (and sons may share the same loverrather handsome) neighbour, William, brothers are divided by suspicion and jealousy and women are used as trophies and commodities.to lend a hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349417024</amazonuk>1846976596

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Phill FeatherstoneDean Koontz|title= Paradise GirlThe Bad Weather Friend|rating= 34.5|genre= General FictionParanormal|summary= Kerryl Shaw lives on Benny is having a Yorkshire farm – a somewhat idealised one that survives on a few hens terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and two or three cows his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a few sheep. The kind of farm really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it's possible that might have been profitable in whoever or whatever was inside is the 1950s but by the time Kerryl thing that has arrived should have been struggling. A teenage boy not pulling trashed his weighthouse! The thing is, now that Benny is the grandparents are old and the father very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is dead, would not be met with exasperated indulgencea nice person. A really nice person. There are no stock-handsSo fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, no farm managersa bad weather friend called Spike, no applications who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for subsidies, or worries about the tax returnbeing a good person. Maybe the unwelcome wind turbine covers the costs Spike is going to take care of the rest Benny, and will certainly take care of it. AlreadyBenny's enemies, if he, in settingBenny, itand Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's feeling a little unrealwild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are. But maybe we can forgive that… |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785898728</amazonuk>1662500491

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sandra AragonaKatherine Howe|title=Sorting the Priorities: Ambassadress and Beagle Survive DiplomacyA True Account

|summary=Sarah Hannah Masury is married living in Boston, having been sent to Giorgio live with a family who run an inn, and when we first meet them he's Something Very Senior being made to work there from a young age. When she hears there is to be a hanging of some pirates in the foreign ministry town, she decides to go and watch. Enthralled and horrified in Romeequal measure, much to Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death at the disappointment hands of his mother who thought two vicious pirates. She hides away, so that hethey don'd be there for t find and kill her (in Sicily)too, but not only does he go and marry a foreignerthen to escape them completely she runs away to sea, he has dressing as a job which will take him all over boy and joining the worldnotorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. Such is She soon finds herself in the life thick of the diplomat. Their two daughters have to lead things when there is a pretty peripatetic life toomutiny on board, but when the family comes into our lives they're all in Rome - for the time being - and just back from Nigeria. To add to there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the confusion there's Beagle, just about as undiplomatic a dog as you'll encounterocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1542733405</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Thomas Neviaser1471180158|title=You Dear, Sweet ManMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes

|summary=Bobby FastowJamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's journey to work on a control freak with all the subway was an oasis subtlety of calm in an otherwise exhausting day: nothing was required of hima half brick. Jamie's son, Bo, 'has his problems'. He could sit 's asthmatic and relaxthe more you read, gazing at the adverts until more you'll suspect that he got 's on the autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to his stop take time off at short notice - she's a frequent flier in the local A&E and went sometimes Bo's not fit enough to his physically-demanding jobgo to school. The ad for BurgerBlast caught his eye: a beautiful woman was sitting Missed shifts or the need to be away on a boardroom table, encouraging you time to read about pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the business's move away from artery-choking food wrong. It was going to come to a healthier menuhead.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0CKD1L5JL|title=Radio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary= Petr is an orphan. Rescued by the strange, reclusive Bear, but it wasn't he is brought up far from bustling cities and busy human society, in the message which caught Bobbyforests of Washington's attentionOlympic Peninsula. It was 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 forest, broadcasting the woman. She seemed to be looking directly at him strange, wild and rarely heard voices he could have sworn that she winked..encounters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0976018527</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Laura SolomonSarah Marsh|title=Taking WainuiA Sign of Her Own|rating=23.5

|summary= This is After a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, everything about her life changes. Living in a time when the first time I have come across Laura Solomon's workuse of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a New Zealand writer school where she is taught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has won writing prizes for both her fiction been teaching the deaf and poetryusing a system called Visible Speech. Although this book appears to be At the same time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a collection complicated tangle of short stories, I found its format somewhat confusingespionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>8193409353</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Debbie HowellsB0BC3YTCMR|title= The Death of HerGood Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira|rating= 34.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=In ''This story is not for everyone.'' Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of her fifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. She was a quiet part of rural Cornwallvery bright student, villagers are shocked to learn that a local woman has been attacked and left for dead in a maize field. So severe are her injuriesbit too nerdy if truth be told, that her memory has been affected and she struggles suffered from vitiligo - people were afraid to remember details of hug her lifein case it's contagious. She tells the police that she thinks her name It's not easy being a black girl whose skin is Evie84% white. Then, she remembers something else; she has She had a threecrush on seventeen-year-old daughter called AngelReggie Anderson but never thought he would notice her. Where is Angel, Then he did: Lavender was very good at math and what happened 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 when . In shock, she even allowed him to give her mother was attacked? The police frantically search for Angel's whereabouts, but on closer examination of Evie's cottage, they find no evidence of a child ever having lived there..lift home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509834648</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alexander McCall Smith1472263936|title=The House of Unexpected SistersFigurine|author=Victoria Hislop

|summary=Dear Mma Ramotswe is backIt was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. She was alone: her mother, Greek by birth, for had left the eighteenth family home and refused to return, but Mary and Hamish (!Helena's parents) book in the series, and what felt that it would be a beautiful book it ispity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. I ran through Her trip to the whole tumult of emotions whilst reading this story, with all family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be the usual moments of humour, annoying (and yet endearing) idiosyncrasies of character, low level mystery solving and endless cups first of redbush teaseveral annual visits. There is a case for She grew to love her grandmother and the agency with a lady who has been wrongfully fired from her job. Therefamily's the worryingmaid, Dina, background presence but was wary - and frightened - of Mma Makutsi's nemesis, Violet Sepothoher grandfather, who must surely have been involved in this poor lady's job woesretired general Stamatis Papagiannis. And there is He was proud of his close connections to the difficult discovery of an unknown Junta and expected his family member for Mma Ramotswe, to uphold his values but saw no reason to accommodate them. His prejudices included Helena's red hair and an unwelcome return green eyes - inherited from anotherher father's Scottish ancestors.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408708140</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maja Lunde Dean Koontz|title=After Death|rating=3|genre=General Fiction|summary= Michael Mace, Head of Security, at a top secret biological research facility, is among 55 people who die when a virus is released in a bio-hazard accident. 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 looks around at the shrouded bodies of his dead friends and Diane Oatley (translator)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 History of BeesGrave Listeners|author=William Frank

|summary=Bees are a handy symbol of the planetThe village is isolated and poor. It's environmental degradation, as you'll know if you've read anything surrounded by [[:Category:Dave Goulson|Dave Goulson]] – whose endorsement is featured proudly on a Witching Forest. And the cover of this Uvillagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicines.K. release The black wood of Norwegian children's writer Maja Lunde's first novel for adultsthe forest provides heat and warmth, roofs on homes, and even gallows, if needed. The creatures also provide subtle links between fear of being buried alive is an existential superstition in the village and that is the book's three story linesreason Volushka, a drunken, self-indulgent, lazy lout of a man is tolerated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471162745</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jem VanstonB0BYF82CXT|title=A Cat Called Dog 2 Semi- The One with the KittensDetached|author=Deborah Stone

|summary=George''Bill and Amanda are living in a semi-detached house, Dog the cat stuck in a depressing rut of boredom and Eric the stray were indulging themselves with a philosophical discussion disappointment, when they heard some strange mewingTerry and Fiona – glamorous, successful and very much in love – move in next door. Three kittens had found Despite their way into different outlooks on life, the garden couples befriend each other and told the resident cats that their mother had told them life appears to run away when a two-legs cat catcher came improve for them both pairs. But allis not what it seems, and their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy.''}}{{Frontpage|author=Shalini Boland|title=The Silent Bride|rating=3|genre=General Fiction|summary= Alice and Seth are a match made in heaven. Mother couldn't run as He is everything she had has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, clever, funny; total and utter husband-material. She is all he could possibly want in a sore pawwife; beautiful, but Daisysuccessful, Maisie confident… and Boo had run so the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and run the wedding is planned and runset. They'd no idea what happened to When the much-anticipated day arrives, Alice is walked down the aisle by her - or how father, beaming with pride and excitement as she surveys the congregation – their friends assembled to get back home again. George is getting on in years celebrate this joyful day and wouldn't like when Seth turns to upset face his two legsapproaching bride, The LadyAlice's world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the man at the altar is, by being away from home who is waiting for too long, so he appoints Dog as leader of an expedition her to reunite the kittens and their Motherbecome his wife.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786293390</amazonuk>1662507089

{{newreviewFrontpage|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 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=Susi OsborneAmanda Craig|title=Angelica StoneThree Graces|rating=4.5

|summary=I'd say that Angelica Stone was known as Angel to her friends, but sheFew styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of-the-nation novel. There's not big on friends. She has something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the sort atmosphere of background you dread hearing about: sexually abused as a child, grabbed by the care system day and didn't so much fall through capture it, crafting an image of the cracks country as escaped its clutches and then had to learn how to copeit stands in one particular moment. She's been told To say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's tainted, that she ruins every relationship without intending to and that she's best staying away from 'decent' peoplepractically synonymous with the genre of contemporary social fiction at this point. One She has such a gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the day into the lives of her jobs is working characters in a supermarket and it's there way that she meets Lola Moriarty feels natural and ''she's'' a completely different kettle of fishlived-in, never making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1911320947</amazonuk>140871468X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Virginia Macgregor152915118X|title= Before I Was YoursPineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Rosie can see clearly her future family in her mind. And when that doesn't happen, she adapts. So maybe she won't carry Pineapple Street'' is the baby inside herstory of three women: Sasha, but that lovely blonde girl at the adoption event could be Darley and Georgiana. Darley and George are sisters and Sasha is married to their new daughterbrother Cord. Yes They're Stocktons, only Sasha isn't a Stockton by birth so she looks like she belongs to them already. Itisn's meant to bet readily accepted into the tribe. Except it The problem's not. Rosie exacerbated when the clan matriarch, Tilda, asks Cord and Sam donSasha if they't get d like to move into the Pineapple Street property. Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to another property, a genetic child street or so away, which they own. They won't need any of their ownthe furniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and Cord can move straight in. Nominally, they donhad a choice but that wasn't get to adopt the perfect blonde girlreality. They end up with the exact opposite: a boy from Kenya with a peculiar back story Darley and an ardent wish not Georgiana start to be adoptedcall Sasha 'the gold digger'. As optimistic as Rosie and Sam try She's living in ''their'' family home. They use it so often that they abbreviate it to be, this isn't quite what they pictured or hoped forthe GD'. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751565229</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Gabrielle ZevinEmily Critchley|title= Young Jane YoungOne Puzzling Afternoon|rating= 4.5|genre= General FictionCrime|summary=Aviva Grossman, an ambitious Congressional intern 84 year old Edie has lived in Florida, makes the same small town for almost her whole life-changing mistake of having an affair with her boss - who is beloved, admired, successful, and very married - and blogging about it. When the affair comes to light, the Congressman doesn't take the fall, but Aviva does, and her life now she is over before it hardly begins. She becomes facing a late-night talk show punchline; she is slut-shamed, labelled move as fat and ugly, and considered a blight on politics in general.How does one go on after this? In Aviva's case, she sees no way out but her son wants to change her name and move to a remote town in Maine. She starts over as a wedding planner, tries another house and bring Edie to be smarter about her lifelive with his family, and as Edie is starting to raise lose her daughter to be strong and confidentmemory.But when However, at Edie is tormented by the urging memory of othersher childhood friend, she decides to run for public office herselfLucy, that long-who went missing over 60 years ago mistake trails her via , and the Internet like worry that there was a scarlet A. These days, Google guarantees secret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be the past is never, ever, truly past, thing that everything you've done will live on for everyone to know about for reveals the truth of what happened all eternitythat time ago. And it After 's only a matter of time until Aviva/Janeseeing's daughterLucy in the high street, Rubyjust as she was the last time she saw her, finds out who she starts to find pockets of memories coming back to her mother was. And yet as she remembers the past, she is forgetting more and ismore in her day to day life. Will she uncover the truth about Lucy's disappearance before her move, and must decide whether she can still respect before her.memories are gone forever?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408709805</amazonuk>1804181250

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Henrietta Rose-InnesMadelaine Lucas|title= Green LionThirst for Salt|rating= 45|genre= General Literary Fiction|summary= The opening of ''Green LionLove, I'd read, was supposed to be a light and weightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravity'' is an apparently simple premise;  Told from a retrospective view, a young South African manwoman unravels the year-long relationship that once defined her. Overlaid with later wisdom, Con, is tasked the narrator relives the affair with picking up a man twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the summer after. Set against the belongings backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the 24-year-old friendnarrator's deepening relationship with her older lover, Mark, who is lying in a coma in hospital. Mark worked at a small zoo with a rare blackdepicting its all-maned lionessconsuming nature, who mauled him how it changed her perspective on both romantic and caused the coma. However, as the story unfolds, Rose-Innes reveals an unflinching embrace of the messiness of human and animal life, familial relationships and their troubled interactionshow it altered her irrevocably. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910709255</amazonuk>0861546490

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alexander McCall Smith0008506337|title=A Time of Love and TartanThe Garnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore

|summary=Here we areThe love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, back apparently on Scotland Street, eager to see what everyone (especially Bertie…) has been up to! both sides. This is now the twelfth book Margo was just sixteen when they fell in the Scotland Street series which is remarkablelove. That a serial novel has such momentum, Richard was twenty-one and described by Margo's mother as 'an older man'. Her parents worried that the characters within have become so very familiar to AMSRichard's loyal readers, is a testament influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to his skills as Oxford and having a writerglittering career. This time around our nerves are on edge as Pat ventures back towards a relationship with In the dreadful Bruce! event, Surely she'll see sensethey eloped and Richard took her away from the Isle of Wight. Margo did go to Oxford and went on to become a well-respected journalist. The couple had three children: Rachel, Imogen and Sasha.won't she?! MatthewLife was lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, the family home on the Isle of all people, is in trouble with Wight. Even then the police, Irene is busy planning a PhD, and Bertie? Could there doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be a happy ending for Bertie able to leave him in the air?charge''. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973821</amazonuk>Then Richard left them.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jess Richards1914585402|title= City of CirclesDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross|rating= 4.5|genre= FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary= Danu is I reviewed David F Ross's book [[There's Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's Only One Danny Garvey]] a tightrope walker who is mourning her parents, after a disease has ravaged the circus where she grew up. Her mother has entrusted her with a locket that hides a secret. Over the couple of years, Danu pushes away her grief and develops elaborate back and successful high-wire acts with Morrie, a charismatic hunchback who wants to marry her. When the circus returns to Danu's birthplace, Matryoshka, Danu is enchanted remember being absolutely floored by the temples, spice mists, how powerful and pleasure seekers within the intoxicating outer circle districtaffecting it was. HereIt was a gripping, she finally gains the courage to open her mother's locketemotionally wounding read, and discovers the name rereading my review of a stranger who lives behind the locked gate of the Inner Circleit my main takeaway was that I might not have lavished enough praise on it. Fated to remain in Matryoshka, 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 of the city?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473656680</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Pascal Garnier and Melanie Florence (translator)Lucy Ashe|title=Low HeightsClara and Olivia

|genre=General Fiction |summary=Edouard The year is an exemplary example of a crotchety old man – changing his mind, and blaming anything and everything – even that decision – on other people1933. HeThe place? Sadler's physically fine, apart from one hand disabled by a strokeWells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, twins no less. Identical on the outside but mentallynot, what with forgetting his pastwe learn, assuming too many days are Sundays when they're on the inside. And not and buying too many inappropriate thingson stage, he needs either. Because there's a lot that builds a nurse dancer. Some things that can be taught or learnt – Theresediscipline, who has formed an unlikely attention to detail – and almost unwanted couple with himsome things, that ''je ne sais quoi'', that don't come from the classroom. For EdouardA stage presence, a charm, the memory of his wife who died ten years ago is still a little too strong. But this unusual 'family' is about to be upset by an unexpected arrivaljoie de vivre''. The difference between a hard-worker, who will stir the emotions and life of their remote house no end…a star.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910477427</amazonuk>0861544080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Dina NayeriHeather Fawcett|title= RefugeEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries|rating= 54|genre= General Fiction|summary= Sinking boats in stormy seasEmily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, national borders boosted with barbed wireand she has travelled extensively, and overcrowded shelters – the mediaresearched meticulously, to write her life's portrayal work, the very first encyclopaedia of seeking asylum focuses on the process in its darkest, most dangerous formfaeries. What happens after tumultuous journeys Whilst she is brilliant at research and temporary shelter speaking to faeries, she is not news; and life after decades so good with people. So when she finds herself far, far North in the new country small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the village matriarch, she is rarely headline material eithernot sure what she has done, nor how to redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on the right track. But in Dina Nayeri Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, much to Emily's ''Refuge'', it frustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the life after that takes centre stage. faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0735219389</amazonuk>0356519120

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1398515388|title=The Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=First of all, it was the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and this, in turn, caused the nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and utter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, and the loss of livelihoods was widespread. 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 convenience store. He wasn't a dog person but the convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and Tamon the dog jumped in.}} {{Frontpage|author=Hawa L CrickmoreChristopher Bowden|title=Across the OceanMr Magenta

|summary=A young cage fighter, Martin Grandson, was diagnosed with Christopher Bowden's latest novel is a rare genetic disorder which required patient untangling of a bone-marrow transplantseemingly ordinary woman's life, preferably from carried out by her nephew after she has died. The aunt who always provided a safe harbour and a sibling. Only recently he'd been little bit of indulgence to a fit young man, in the prime of life, but now he was suffering from nephew had had a rare type of bone cancer: without the transplant he would be paralysed for much more interesting life and might be dead within the next twelve weeks if he didn't receive the transplant within the next fourteen days. Unfortunately Martin's parents than that nephew Stephen had died in a car crash ever realised and there were no siblings or other close relatives. His girlfriend, Celia, was not a matchit seems to him an obligation to find it all out.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1524666971</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Elif ShafakJennifer Mason|title= Three Daughters Partitions of EveUnity

|genre= General Fiction|summary=Set Here at Bookbag Towers, we first met Elizabeth Cromwell, dominatrix and unintentional detective in Istanbul in 2016[[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], when she investigated and unravelled a series of disappearances. In ''Three Daughters Partitions of EveUnity'' centres on Peri, a Turkish woman who finds herself thinking back to she sets her years at Oxford University mind to distract herself from solving a boring dinner party. Her reminiscing is triggered when she finds an old polaroid of herself, her friends Mona and Shirin, and the rebellious Professor Azurmurder. Much of her thoughts revolve around the scandal that prevented her from graduating from her dream university. More of a commentary 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 life.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0241978882</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Andre AlexisWill Carver|title= The Hidden KeysDaves Next Door|rating= 54|genre= General Fiction|summary= Tancred Palmieri 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.|isbn= 1914585186}} {{Frontpage|author=Jennifer Mason|title=Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=''A struggling poetry zine, a talented thief thrown into mom-and-pop mobile diner in the path of Willow Azarian an eccentricNorthern California redwoods, unpredictable heroin addict. She is also part of a 400-meter hurdler who just missed the Azarian dynasty2004 Olympics, bequeathed almost a million dollars upon her fatherwomen's death. Each track coach with a yen for bullwhips, a billionaire with a state-of -the Azarian children were also gifted -art S&M dungeon, a man serving a life sentence in Alabama, an enigmatic signature, K(s, x), on a deeply personal memento moricheap oil painting, which Willow is convinced make up an intricate treasure hunterotic art dealer in Georgia. She enlists ..'' This is just a sample of the help cast of Tancred to steal each item, solve the mystery characters and prove she is not blindly following a baseless fantasysettings in Preposterous. Tancred must use all his skills to infiltrate the homes of each of Willow's siblingsAs you can see, uncover the clues hidden in each item and fight off the rival interests some keeping up will be required! The basic premise of competing criminals and the policethis mystery story goes like this...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781258422</amazonuk>B09STS96HS

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Alison Jean LesterB0B2N7MVYM|title= Yuki Means HappinessThe Calculations of Rational Men|author=Daniel Godfrey|rating= 35|genre= General Fiction|summary= High-tech and high-rise, kimonos, and big-eyed visuals – through a dynamic juxtaposition It's the 10th of the ultra modern and the traditional, Japan has succeeded December 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marr. Just to put what happens in branding itself both as an intriguing travel destination that does not cease to surprisecontext, but at the same time defies being ever wholly full understood by outsidersCuban missile crisis is still very fresh in people's minds. All of this The world has come barely had a chance to be encapsulated and reinforced in Sofia Coppolabreathe out. But for Joe Marr, it's cult classic not the missile crisis that''Lost in Translation'': s at the iconic still front 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 imageryhis mind. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848549628</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= S V Berlin|title= The Favourite|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=Siblings Edward and Isobel Vernon haven He't spoken in years and live on opposite sides s been convicted of murder. With the Atlantic. When their mother Mary dies unexpectedlycurrent state of medical knowledge, they are thrown together it's hard to sort through think otherwise than that the family homeprosecution would never have been brought but Joe Marr has spent his first few days in HMP Queen's Bench, a relatively new prison. With Edward He's diffident but devoted girlfriend, Juliejust getting used to his roommate, making an awkward threesomeMervyn, each stumbles through the practicalities of funeral preparation and house clearing, trying learning to make sense be wary of their emotions and their feelings toward one another. Isobel makes a disturbing discovery and her fateful decision has consequences for all of them, challenging their beliefs about the past, hopes for the future and understanding of Mary's role in keeping them at once apart and togetherMcArthur brothers. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0993563384</amazonuk>