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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= John BanksOnyi Nwabineli|title= WAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction |summary=On Anuri spent her childhood on display to the slopes world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Mt Hood Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in Oregonher twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, an 1000suing her step-year old Viking is discovered frozen - three thousand miles further west than any previously known Viking explorationmother to take down the content about her. Josh Kinninger Anuri is inspired by the Viking discovery - three personal catastrophes having left him angrybattling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, unmoored undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and with his world in turmoilreceiving money from them for doing so. Beginning a journey westward Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, hewho is the new focus of Ophelia's filled online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with a desire to wreak vengeance on her father at the individuals he finds morally corrupt. same time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0983333416</amazonuk>0861546873

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Ellen Wiles1529153298|title=The Invisible CrowdList of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating= 45|genre= General Fiction|summary=This novel follows the plight of Eritrean Yonas Kelati as he tries to make a life for himself in EnglandIt'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. He and a good friend Well, Gebrethey've been murdered, escape from prison only but to be thrown into captivity again: trafficked in a shellfish factory where they have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to earn their ‘payment’ to the malicious Aziz for entering move the UK illegallyfamily 'Down South'. When Yonas escapesyou're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the story really startsmove would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008228817</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Tony Peake1035906708|title= North FacingDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=At school We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Pretoria in 1962Manhattan, New York, Paul Harvey struggles to fit in - desperate December 1923 and only moved to join the popular group no matter what it may takeAthens when she was thirteen. His focus on surviving the perils of school so intense, that he fails Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to see the turbulence make it more manageable in both South Africa and the larger world - with the arrest of Nelson Mandela and the Cuban Missile Crisis affecting the actions of the adults around himStates. A new and charismatic teacher decides to educate the boys in the unstable situation When she was back in the world outside Athens - and a growing awareness of both that and his sexuality pushes Paul Harvey into decisions supposedly so that he later comes to regret she could get appropriate training for her voice - and their weight pushes him to return to South Africa in she was raised under the present day - Nazi occupation by a man in his sixties keen to make sense mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of a troubled and utterly fascinating pasther preference for her elder sister, Jackie. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0995590028</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Abi CurtisAlexander McCall Smith|title= Water & GlassThe Perfect Passion Company|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction |summary= Something The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has happenedasked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, something very nasty and on as Ness is planning to take a submarine trip to Canada to get away for a pregnant elephant while. Katie is one coming out of only a handful of animals living below break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the waveschance to come home to Edinburgh. We follow Nerissa Crane And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a vetbusiness, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, as she remembers recent eventsWilliam, 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, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, looks after Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the animals delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Spike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and falls Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into a world of intrigueBenny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0995465754</amazonuk>1662500491

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Joe HillKatherine Howe|title= Strange WeatherA True Account|rating= 4.5|genre= Horror General Fiction|summary= Strange Weather Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to live with a collection family who run an inn, and being made to work there from a young age. When she hears there is to be a hanging of four short novels all linked bysome pirates in the town, unsurprisingly, strange she decides to go and cataclysmic weatherwatch. Each novel is distinct Enthralled and showcases Hillhorrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's restrained yet vivid style which takes everyday events death at the hands of two vicious pirates. She hides away, so that they don't find and makes kill her too, and then to escape them bitinglycompletely she runs away to sea, acerbically macabre or blindingly beautiful, often switching from one sentence to dressing as a boy and joining the nextnotorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. As Hill himself says '' She soon finds herself in the beauty thick of the world things when there is a mutiny on board, and the horror from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the world were twined together'', never is this truer than in Strange Weather where moments of abject horror are coupled with raw beautyocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147322117X</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fiona Mitchell1471180158|title=The Maid's RoomMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating=4.5

|summary=In some apartments Jamie Matson works in Singapore youan upper-class grocery store, for a man who'll find s a bomb shelter - airless and without control freak with all the subtlety of a windowhalf brick. It will probably house the washing machine and the other domestic paraphernalia thatJamie's got nowhere else to goson, Bo, 'has his problems'. ThereHe'll be a mattress on s asthmatic and the floor of this stifling roommore you read, with the heat increased by more you'll suspect that he's on the tumble dryerautistic spectrum. This is the maidSometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's room. Ita frequent flier in the local A&E and sometimes Bo's possibly better than sleeping under the dining room table, but not by muchfit enough to go to school. Back in 2009 there were 201,000 female domestic workers in Singapore, many not earning any money for a year until they've repaid 'training' Missed shifts or the need to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and other fees to the agency, many living put in 'the maid's room'wrong. It was going to come to a head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473659566</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0CKD1L5JL|title=Scoop of the YearRadio Free Olympia|author=Tom ClaverJeffrey Dunn

|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Martin Petr is an ambitious journalist working on orphan. Rescued by the Financial Review. Martin strange, reclusive Bear, he is good at his job - accuratebrought up far from bustling cities and busy human society, dedicatedin the forests of Washington's Olympic Peninsula. After Bear dies and a brief sojourn in human company, hardworking and armed with only a good nose for pirate radio transmitter, Petr goes on a journey through the forest, broadcasting the strange, wild and rarely heard voices he encounters.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sarah Marsh|title=A Sign of Her Own|rating=3.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=After a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a scoopworld of silence, everything about her life changes. But Martin is also uninterested Living in a time when the culture that comes with reportinguse of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a school where she is taught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. He From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and using a wife system called Visible Speech. At the same time, Bell is working on other inventions and two daughters at home ideas, and he doesn't want to waste time and money Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in the pub, talking macho nonsense with the other hacksa complicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=1035401614}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0BC3YTCMR|title=Good Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira|rating=4. He 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 far cry from his colleague Tom de Lacyvery bright student, a charismaticbit too nerdy if truth be told, silverand suffered from vitiligo -spooned charmer with piercing blue eyespeople were afraid to hug her in case it's contagious. Tom doesn It't just grab the limelight though 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 also grabs the promotion 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 industrial correspondenthis house and he raped her. And that is the job Martin not only wanted In shock, but neededshe even allowed him to give her a lift home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788036220</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alexander McCall Smith1472263936|title=The Good Pilot Peter WoodhouseFigurine|author=Victoria Hislop

|summary=If you've never read an Alexander McCall Smith novelIt was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. She was alone: her mother, Greek by birth, had left the family home and refused to return, but have always thought you might like Mary and Hamish (Helena's parents) felt that it would be a pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. Her trip to try, one day then this might the family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be the book to start withfirst of several annual visits. Rather than face She grew to love her grandmother and the daunting task family's maid, Dina, but was wary - and frightened - of leaping into one her grandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. He was proud of his now very longclose connections to the Junta and expected his family to uphold his values but saw no reason to accommodate them. His prejudices included Helena's red hair and green eyes -running seriesinherited from her father's Scottish ancestors.}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=After Death|rating=3|genre=General Fiction|summary= Michael Mace, this Head of Security, at a top secret biological research facility, is among 55 people who die when a virus is released in a standalone novelbio-hazard accident. Finding himself in a makeshift mortuary, and it gives covered in plastic, he has a good flavour of AMS's stylesense that something very, the way he can write very bad has happened to evoke a feeling of time him – and place, only him – as he sits up and looks around at the warm optimism underlying shrouded bodies of his dead friends and former colleagues. As he recovers his words senses, he realises that there is so very reassuring something different about him; he can ''feel'' everything. ''Everything''. Michael isn't ''Michael'' anymore.|isbn=1662500467}} {{Frontpage|isbn=B0BVDC2VWH|title=The Grave Listeners|author=William Frank|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=The village is isolated and comforting to readpoor. It calls itself 's surrounded by a wartime romance'Witching Forest. And the villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicines. The black wood of the forest provides heat and warmth, which it isroofs on homes, and yet it even gallows, if needed. The fear of being buried alive is much more than an existential superstition in the village and that besides. Focussing mainly on Valis the reason Volushka, a young woman working as a Land Girldrunken, we see her falling in love with an American pilotself-indulgent, Mike Rogers. Thanks to a sheepdog on Val's farm (the Peter Woodhouse from the title) their lives become entwined with that lazy lout of a German soldier, and the book shows us a variety of friendships as they grow and develop over the yearsman is tolerated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846974097</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Krysten RitterB0BYF82CXT|title= BonfireSemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=It has been ten years since Abby Williams left home ''Bill and scrubbed away all visible evidence of her small town roots. Now working as an environmental lawyer Amanda are living in Chicagoa semi-detached house, she has stuck in a thriving careerdepressing rut of boredom and disappointment, a modern apartmentwhen Terry and Fiona – glamorous, successful and her pick of meaningless one-night standsvery much in love – move in next door.But when a new case takes her back home to Barrens, Indiana, the Despite their different outlooks on life Abby painstakingly created begins to crack. Tasked with investigating Optimal Plastics, the town's most high-profile company couples befriend each other and economic heart, Abby begins life appears to find strange connections to Barrens' biggest scandal from more than a decade ago involving the popular Kaycee Mitchell and her closest friends--just before Kaycee disappeared improve for good.Abby knows the key to solving any case lies in the weak spots, the unanswered questionsboth pairs. But as she tries desperately to find out all is not what really happened to Kayceeit seems, troubling memories begin to resurface and she begins to doubt her own observationstheir increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy. And when she unearths an even more disturbing secret--a ritual called ''The Game,'' it will threaten the reputations, and lives, of the community and risk exposing a darkness that may consume her.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524759848</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Alice HoffmanShalini Boland|title= The Rules of MagicSilent Bride|rating= 53|genre= General Fiction |summary= I've read several of Alice Hoffman's novelsand Seth are a match made in heaven. He is everything she has been searching for; handsome, although strangelyaccomplished, not the one she's most famous for ''Practical Magic''clever, which went on to be made into a filmfunny; total and utter husband-material. ''The Rules of Magic'' She is the long-awaited prequel to that bookall he could possibly want in a wife; beautiful, successful, confident… and tells so the story of three siblings of inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and the Owens family; Franny, Jet wedding is planned and Vincentset. The two sistersWhen the much-anticipated day arrives, Alice is walked down the aisle by her father, Franny beaming with pride and excitement as she surveys the congregation – their friends assembled to celebrate this joyful day and Jetwhen Seth turns to face his approaching bride, Alice's world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the man at the altar is, go on who is waiting for her to become the two aunts in the ''Practical Magic'' storyhis wife.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471157679</amazonuk>1662507089

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Stephen Fry1787636003|title= Mythos: A Retelling The Girls of the Myths of Ancient GreeceSummer|author=Katie Bishop|rating= 5|genre= ReferenceGeneral Fiction|summary= The Greek Myths are, arguably, It was the greatest stories ever told. So old summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and influential they cast a shadow over western tales Caroline went backpacking around Greece and traditions, yet remain relatable and readable millennia laterarrived on the island. Here comedian Rachel wasn't exactly innocent but she was, actorperhaps, television presenternaive, actor and author Stephen Fry brings his considerable talent 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 these special stories her and recreates them with a witby that time she was obsessed by him. Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, warmth looking after his interests on the island and humanity that brings them into in particular in the modern age whilst still giving bar where all the honour and respect that such ancient and influential stories deservegirls either worked or partied. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718188721</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lorenzo Marone and Shaun Whiteside (Translator)Amanda Craig|title=The Temptation to Be HappyThree Graces

|summary=Cesare is 77, widowed, generally ignored by Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the offspring he likes and bothered too much by state-of-the one he doesn't-nation novel. Still, he finds ways to fill his days. If heThere's not taking advantage something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of his friend-with-benefits arrangement with aging lady the atmosphere of the night Rossanaday and capture it, or keeping crafting an eye on his grandson, heimage of the country as it stands in one particular moment. To say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's making mischief in league practically synonymous with elderly neighbours like Signora Vitaliano (local mad cat woman) and Marino (the non-IT-literate computer guy)genre of contemporary social fiction at this point. Their minds are diverted from their usual pursuits when She has such a young couple move gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the day into the apartment block providing Cesare with lives of her characters in a concern way that feels natural and the conviction that he has to do somethinglived-in, never making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, whatever the fall out or personal dangergrappling with issues far larger than themselves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786072882</amazonuk>140871468X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lars Mytting and Paul Russell Grant (Translator)152915118X|title=The Sixteen Trees of the SommePineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson

|summary=While his grandfather lived ''Pineapple Street'' is the past was an area story of certainty for Edvardthree women: Sasha, Darley and Georgiana. Darley and George are sisters and Sasha is married to their brother Cord. At aged 4 heThey'd been taken to live with his grandparentsre Stocktons, having survived only Sasha isn't a Stockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the accident that killed his parentstribe. Now his grandfather has died revelations are coming to light showing Edvard his family history is different from what he'd believed… his motherThe problem's birthplaceexacerbated when the clan matriarch, his mother's nameTilda, the whereabouts of late Great-Uncle Einar… asks Cord and thatSasha if they's without looking more deeply d like to move into the fatal accident itselfPineapple Street property. Edvard is determined Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to solve the puzzleanother property, a determination that will take him street or so away , which they own. They won't need any of the furniture from his native Norway to an area of France synonymous with devastation Pineapple Street, so Sasha and Cord can move straight in. Nominally, they had a remote Scottish island loaded with secretschoice but that wasn't the reality. Darley and Georgiana start to call Sasha 'the gold digger'. She's living in ''their'' family home. They use it so often that they abbreviate it to 'the GD'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857056069</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Louis de BernieresEmily Critchley|title=Blue DogOne Puzzling Afternoon

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Mick's mother had 84 year old Edie has lived in the same small town for almost her whole life, but now she is facing a mental breakdown after his father's death move as her son wants to move to another house and Mick was sent bring Edie to live in in the outback with Granpahis family, as Edie is starting to lose her memory. On However, Edie is tormented by the face memory of it you'd think her childhood friend, Lucy, who went missing over 60 years ago, and the worry that it there was going to be a lonely life secret she was keeping for an eleven-year-old city boyLucy that somehow might be the thing that reveals the truth of what happened all that time ago. After 'seeing' Lucy in the high street, just as she was the last time she saw her, with no school she starts to find pockets of memories coming back to attendher. And yet as she remembers the past, she is forgetting more and more in fact no other children anywhere nearher day to day life. GranpaWill she uncover the truth about Lucy's busy too: life on disappearance before her move, and before her memories are gone forever?|isbn=1804181250}}{{Frontpage|author=Madelaine Lucas|title=Thirst for Salt|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= ''Love, I'd read, was supposed to be a cattle station is brutal light and weightless feeling, but I had always longed for anyonegravity'' Told from a retrospective view, a young woman unravels the year-long relationship that once defined her. Overlaid with later wisdom, the narrator relives the affair with all a man twenty years her senior from its inception – the heat and summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the dustsummer after. But they've all got to make Set against the best backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the situation24-year-old narrator's deepening relationship with her older lover, depicting its all-consuming nature, how it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and how it altered her irrevocably.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784704172</amazonuk>0861546490

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah Winman0008506337|title=Tin ManThe Garnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore

|summary=Ellis is a tin man – someone who practices the underThe love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all-esteemed art of panel beatingconsuming, apparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in love. He can remove a dint, dent or blemish Richard was twenty-one and described by expertly applying force so Margo's mother as 'an older man'. Her parents worried that you canRichard't even feel where s influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and having a glittering career. In the event, they eloped and Richard took her away from the mark wasIsle of Wight. If he has Margo did go to choose what would define his lifeOxford and went on to become a well-respected journalist. The couple had three children: Rachel, though, it wouldn’t be his jobImogen and Sasha. It would be Michael Life was lived in London and Annieholidays were spent at Sandcove, the family home on the Isle of Wight. Michael, Even then the lad he grew up with and Annie who completed their triangle, changing doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able to leave him in charge'everything and nothing'. Now only Ellis remains…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755390954</amazonuk>Then Richard left them.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Durian Sukegawa and Alison Watts (translator)1914585402|title= Sweet Bean PasteDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=I reviewed David F Ross's book [[There'Sweet Bean Pastes Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There'' centres on Sentaro, an ex-con who dreams s Only One Danny Garvey]] a couple of years back and remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and affecting it was. It was a writergripping, but instead spends his days making dorayakiemotionally wounding read, a type and rereading my review of Japanese pancake. He reluctantly employs Tokue, an elderly lady with disfigured hands, after tasting her divine bean paste - the perfect filling for said dorayaki. Predictably, a friendship soon blossoms between the pair, despite her age and appearance. In many ways, this could sound cliché - a protagonist learns a valuable lesson about it my main takeaway was that I might not judging someone by their appearance after finding a friend in someone they never expected to like, not exactly an unheard-of concept. Yet, Sukegawa still manages to enthral his audiencehave lavished enough praise on it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786071959</amazonuk>

{{newreview <!-- remove 11 Oct -->Frontpage|author=Terence J FryLucy Ashe|title=The Creative Writer for the Creative NewspaperClara and Olivia|rating=14.5

|summary=The man we shall come to know as year is 1933. The Creative Writer was looking out of place? Sadler's Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, twins no less. Identical on the window of his office when he spotted a beautiful woman struggling to stay upright in outside but not, we learn, on the tornado which was rattling the windows ferociouslyinside. And not on stage, either. Then he realised Because there's a lot that it wasn't just the dreadful weather which was affecting her: the woman was doubled up in pain and he could see bloodbuilds a dancer. AmazinglySome things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, no one was stopping attention to help herdetail – and some things, worriedthat ''je ne sais quoi'', he would find out later thatdon't come from the classroom. A stage presence, a charm, they might be sued if something went wronga ''joie de vivre''. The Creative Writer had no such worries difference between a hard- he dashed out into the tornado worker, and brought her back into the house, shouting at his grandmother that she should call an ambulancea star.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1524682136</amazonuk>0861544080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Catherine BurnsHeather Fawcett|title= The VisitorsEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries|rating= 54|genre= ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Marion Zetland lives with Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her domineering older brotherlife's work, John, in a decaying Georgian townhouse on the edge very first encyclopaedia of a northern seaside resortfaeries. A timid spinster in her fifties who still sleeps Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, she is not so good with teddy bearspeople. So when she finds herself far, Marion does her best to shut out the shocking secret that John keeps far North in the cellar. Untilsmall village of Hrafvsnik, suddenlyhaving somehow offended the village matriarch, John she is not sure what she has a heart attack and Marion is forced done, nor how to go down to the cellar redeem herself and face put her final investigations for her book back on the gruesome truth that right track. Enter Wendell Bambleby, her brother has kept hidden. As questions are asked dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and secrets unraveldelight, maybe John isnmuch to Emily't s frustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the only one with a dark side.faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1787199851</amazonuk>0356519120

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= J R Ward1398515388|title= Devil's CutThe Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=I feel as though I came to this book under false pretenses. I requested First of all, it was the book thinking I was getting a murder mystery and instead I was thrown head first into a roaring family saga. Indeedearthquake, said murder mystery though pivotal deep in the history of ocean floor, which created the familytsunami and this, is more of a quiet subplot and catalyst from where to begin the storytelling for in turn, caused the booknuclear meltdown. And so it The result was I was met with the Baldwine family complete and utter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, and the Bradford Bourbon Companyloss of livelihoods was widespread. The initial meeting is a romantic one as fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the family are presented high up in their castle on list of priorities but - six months after the hill tsunami - or in this case from their beautiful Kentuckian Bradford Family Estate replete with tea roses, fruit trees and hazy Southern sunshineKazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. It isn He wasn't long however before Ward transports a dog person but the reader from such rolling splendour convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to the darkest corners of human psychology wherein fathers open his car door and sons may share Tamon the same lover, brothers are divided by suspicion and jealousy and women are used as trophies and commoditiesdog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349417024</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author= Phill FeatherstoneChristopher Bowden|title= Paradise GirlMr Magenta|rating= 34|genre= General Fiction|summary= Kerryl Shaw lives on Christopher Bowden's latest novel is a Yorkshire farm – patient untangling of a somewhat idealised one that survives on seemingly ordinary woman's life, carried out by her nephew after she has died. The aunt who always provided a few hens and two or three cows safe harbour and a few sheep. The kind little bit of farm that might have been profitable in the 1950s but by the time Kerryl has arrived should have been struggling. A teenage boy not pulling his weight, now indulgence to a young nephew had had a much more interesting life than that the grandparents are old nephew Stephen had ever realised and the father is dead, would not be met with exasperated indulgence. There are no stock-hands, no farm managers, no applications for subsidies, or worries about the tax return. Maybe the unwelcome wind turbine covers the costs of the rest of it. Already, in setting, seems to him an obligation to find it's feeling a little unrealall out. But maybe we can forgive that… |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785898728</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sandra AragonaJennifer Mason|title=Sorting the Priorities: Ambassadress and Beagle Survive DiplomacyPartitions of Unity|rating=4.5

|summary=Sarah is married to Giorgio and when Here at Bookbag Towers, we first meet them he's Something Very Senior in the foreign ministry in Romemet Elizabeth Cromwell, much to the disappointment of his mother who thought that he'd be there for her (dominatrix and unintentional detective in Sicily)[[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], but not only does he go when she investigated and marry unravelled a foreigner, he has a job which will take him all over the worldseries of disappearances. Such is the life In ''Partitions of the diplomat. Their two daughters have to lead a pretty peripatetic life too, but when the family comes into our lives theyUnity're all in Rome - for the time being - and just back from Nigeria. To add to the confusion there's Beagle, just about as undiplomatic she sets her mind to solving a dog as you'll encountermurder...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1542733405</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Thomas NeviaserWill Carver|title=You DearThe Daves Next Door|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary= Five strangers come together in one moment as a suicide bomber prepares to detonate his vest on a London tube line. As their fates overlap, Sweet Manthe 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=4.5

|summary=Bobby Fastow''A struggling poetry zine, a mom-and-pop mobile diner in the Northern California redwoods, a 400-meter hurdler who just missed the 2004 Olympics, a women's journey to work on the subway was an oasis track coach with a yen for bullwhips, a billionaire with a state-of calm in an otherwise exhausting day: nothing was required of him. He could sit and relax, gazing at -the adverts until he got to his stop and went to his physically-demanding job. The ad for BurgerBlast caught his eye: art S&M dungeon, a beautiful woman was sitting on man serving a boardroom tablelife sentence in Alabama, encouraging you to read about the business'an enigmatic signature, K(s move away from artery-choking food to , x), on a healthier menucheap oil painting, but it wasnan erotic art dealer in Georgia...'t the message which caught Bobby's attention. It was  This is just a sample of the womancast of characters and settings in Preposterous. She seemed to As you can see, some keeping up will be looking directly at him and he could have sworn that she winkedrequired! The basic premise of this mystery story goes like this...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0976018527</amazonuk>B09STS96HS

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Laura SolomonB0B2N7MVYM|title=Taking WainuiThe Calculations of Rational Men|author=Daniel Godfrey|rating=25

|summary= This It's the 10th of December 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marr. Just to put what happens in context, the Cuban missile crisis is still very fresh in people's minds. The world has barely had a chance to breathe out. But for Joe Marr, it's not the missile crisis that's at the front of his mind. He's been convicted of murder. With the current state of medical knowledge, it's hard to think otherwise than that the prosecution would never have been brought but Joe Marr has spent his first time I have come across Laura Solomonfew days in HMP Queen's workBench, a New Zealand writer who has won writing prizes for both her fiction and poetryrelatively new prison. Although this book appears He's just getting used to his roommate, Mervyn, and learning to be a collection wary of short stories, I found its format somewhat confusingthe McArthur brothers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>8193409353</amazonuk>