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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=Sarah Winman1529153298|title=Tin ManThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey

|summary=Ellis It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is a tin man – someone who practices the under-esteemed art of panel beatingPrime Minister. He can remove a dint(A woman? I mean, dent or blemish by expertly applying force so that you can't even feel where the mark washonestly... ) If he has to choose She's not what would define his life's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, it wouldn’t be his jobthey've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. It would be Michael and AnnieMiv'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. MichaelFor Miv, the lad he grew up with and Annie who completed their trianglemove would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, changing 'everything and nothingshe'll do anything to prevent that. Now only Ellis remains…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755390954</amazonuk>She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Durian Sukegawa and Alison Watts (translator)1035906708|title= Sweet Bean PasteDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=''Sweet Bean Paste'' centres on Sentaro, an ex-con who dreams We tend to think of being a writerMaria Callas as Greek, but instead spends his days making dorayakishe was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, a type of Japanese pancakein December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. He reluctantly employs Tokue, an elderly lady with disfigured hands, after tasting Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her divine bean paste father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the States. When she was back in Athens - the perfect filling supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for said dorayaki. Predictably, a friendship soon blossoms between the pair, despite her age and appearance. In many ways, this could sound cliché voice - a protagonist learns a valuable lesson about not judging someone she was raised under the Nazi occupation by their appearance after finding a friend in someone they never expected to like, not exactly an unheard-mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of concept. Yether preference for her elder sister, Sukegawa still manages to enthral his audienceJackie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786071959</amazonuk>

{{newreview <!-- remove 11 Oct -->Frontpage|author=Terence J FryAlexander McCall Smith|title=The Creative Writer for the Creative NewspaperPerfect Passion Company|rating=14.5

|summary=The man we shall come Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to know as The Creative Writer was looking out of all the window of his office when he spotted online apps in providing a beautiful woman struggling to stay upright in the tornado which was rattling the windows ferociouslymore personal, tailored service. Then he realised that it wasn't just the dreadful weather which was affecting Ness has asked her: younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the woman was doubled business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. Katie is coming out of a break up in pain with a bad boyfriend, and he could see bloodso jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. AmazinglyAnd so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, no one was stopping bringing us to help heran Edinburgh we already love, worriedthanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, he would find out later that, they might be sued if something went wrongbut with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. The Creative Writer had Katie has no such worries experience in running a business, or in match- he dashed out into the tornado making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and brought there's always her back into the housevery helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, shouting at his grandmother that she should call an ambulance.to lend a hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1524682136</amazonuk>1846976596

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Catherine BurnsDean Koontz|title= The VisitorsBad Weather Friend|rating= 4.5|genre= ThrillersParanormal|summary=Marion Zetland lives with her domineering older brother, John, in a decaying Georgian townhouse on the edge of Benny is having a northern seaside resortterrifically bad day. A timid spinster in her fifties who still sleeps with teddy bears He loses his job, Marion does her best to shut out the shocking secret that John keeps in the cellar. Untilhe loses his fiancee, suddenly, John has a heart attack and Marion is forced to go down to the cellar herself and face the gruesome truth that her brother has kept hiddenhis house gets trashed. As questions are asked and secrets unravel Oh, maybe John isn't the only one with a dark side.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1787199851</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= J R Ward|title= Devil's Cut|rating= 4|genre= General Fiction|summary=I feel as though I came to this book under false pretenses. I requested the book thinking I was getting a murder mystery and instead I was thrown head first into someone has delivered a roaring family saga. Indeedreally weird, said murder mystery though pivotal in the history of the familydisturbing coffin-sized object to his home, is more of a quiet subplot and catalyst from where to begin the storytelling for the book. And so it 's possible that whoever or whatever was I was met with inside is the Baldwine family and the Bradford Bourbon Company. thing that has trashed his house! The initial meeting thing is a romantic one as the family are presented high up in their castle on the hill - or in this case from their beautiful Kentuckian Bradford Family Estate replete with tea roses, fruit trees and hazy Southern sunshine. It isn't long however before Ward transports Benny is the reader from such rolling splendour very last person to the darkest corners of human psychology wherein fathers and sons may share the same lover, brothers are divided by suspicion and jealousy and women are used as trophies and commoditiesdeserve all this bad luck.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349417024</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Phill Featherstone|title= Paradise Girl|rating= 3|genre= General Fiction|summary= Kerryl Shaw lives on He is a Yorkshire farm – a somewhat idealised one that survives on a few hens and two or three cows and a few sheepnice person. A really nice person. The kind of farm So fortunately for Benny it turns out that might have been profitable in the 1950s but by the time Kerryl has arrived should have been struggling. A teenage boy not pulling delivery to his weight, now that the grandparents are old and the father house is deada new friend, would not be met with exasperated indulgence. There are no stock-handsa bad weather friend called Spike, no farm managers, 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 to his stop and went to his physically-demanding job's on the autistic spectrum. The ad for BurgerBlast caught his eye: a beautiful woman was sitting on a boardroom table, encouraging you Sometimes Jamie needs to read about the businesstake time off at short notice - she's move away from artery-choking food to a healthier menu, but it wasn't frequent flier in the message which caught Bobbylocal A&E and sometimes Bo's attentionnot fit enough to go to school. It was Missed shifts or the woman. She seemed need to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be looking directly at him controlled and he could have sworn that she winked.put in the wrong. It was going to come to a head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0976018527</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Laura SolomonB0CKD1L5JL|title=Taking WainuiRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn|rating=24

|summary= This Petr is an orphan. Rescued by the first time I have come across Laura Solomonstrange, reclusive Bear, he is brought up far from bustling cities and busy human society, in the forests of Washington's workOlympic Peninsula. After Bear dies and a brief sojourn in human company, and armed with only a New Zealand writer who has won writing prizes for both her fiction and poetry. Although this book appears to be pirate radio transmitter, Petr goes on a collection of short storiesjourney through the forest, broadcasting the strange, I found its format somewhat confusingwild and rarely heard voices he encounters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>8193409353</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Debbie HowellsSarah Marsh|title= The Death A Sign of HerOwn|rating= 3.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=In After a quiet part bout of rural Cornwall, villagers are shocked to learn that scarlet fever as a local woman has been attacked and left for dead in a maize field. So severe are her injurieschild, that Ellen Lark loses her memory has been affected and she struggles to remember details hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, everything about her lifechanges. She tells Living in a time when the police that use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a school where she thinks her name is Evietaught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. Then From here, she remembers something else; she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and using a three-year-old daughter system called AngelVisible Speech. Where At the same time, Bell is Angelworking on other inventions and ideas, and what happened to her when her mother was attacked? The police frantically search for Angel's whereabouts, but on closer examination of Evie's cottage, they find no evidence Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of a child ever having lived there..espionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509834648</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0BC3YTCMR|title=Good Girls Die|author=Alexander McCall SmithAyura Ayira|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=''This story is not for everyone.'' Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of her fifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. She was a very bright student, a bit too nerdy if truth be told, and suffered from vitiligo - people were afraid to hug her in case it's contagious. It's not easy being a black girl whose skin is 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 extension. She went to his house and he raped her. In shock, she even allowed him to give her a lift home.}} {{Frontpage|isbn=1472263936|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, Dog the cat ''Bill and Eric the stray were indulging themselves with Amanda are living in a philosophical discussion when they heard some strange mewing. Three kittens had found their way into the garden and told the resident cats that their mother had told them to run away when a twosemi-legs cat catcher came for them all. Mother couldn't run as she had detached house, stuck in a sore pawdepressing rut of boredom and disappointment, but Daisywhen Terry and Fiona – glamorous, Maisie successful and Boo had run and run and runvery much in love – move in next door. They'd no idea what happened to her - or how to get back home again. George is getting Despite their different outlooks on in years life, the couples befriend each other and wouldn't like life appears to upset his two legs, The Lady, by being away from home improve for too longboth pairs. But all is not what it seems, so he appoints Dog as leader of an expedition to reunite the kittens and their Motherincreasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786293390</amazonuk>''

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Susi OsborneShalini Boland|title=Angelica StoneThe 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 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=Three 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