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|summary=''The Life Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to Comeher step-mother Ophelia'' tells the story s increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of several Anuri''interesting'' characters who are all linked by one person: Pippas childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. The novel Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is split into five chapters with each one focusing on a different personslowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, from Cassie and suing her bizarre relationship with Ash step-mother to George who has finished his thesis and is in take down the process of writing his first novelcontent about her. Pippa, who Anuri is also a writerbattling alcoholism, appears in each of these chaptersfailing to start her PhD, in some cases just as a background characterundergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. However Most importantly, what I found most fascinating she is desperately worried about this novel was that de Kretser tells her little sister, who is the story new focus of PippaOphelia's life through all these various appearances online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and leaves the reader her relationship with a real sense of who she is as a person and having watched her development as a character.father at the same time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1760296708</amazonuk>0861546873

{{newreview <!-- remove 29/12 -->Frontpage|isbn=1529153298|title=Servants The List of the UndergroundSuspicious Things|author=David SsembajjoJennie Godfrey|rating=3.5

|summary=Having experienced a terrible famine in his own countryIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, Kalamchi leaves to travel and learnhonestly... He returns with a burning desire to feed his people - but ) She's not only to feed their stomachs what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to feed their minds, toohave 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Kalamchi wants to raise his people Miv's upset because she's consciousness so overheard that they can fight against her father wants to move the dictator Bamutu - chillingly known as family 'Down South'. When you'president for life re from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and after deathshe'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848765800</amazonuk>

{{newreview <!-- remove 28/12 -->Frontpage|authorisbn=Rob Murphy1035906708|title=Rotten to the CoreDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers General Fiction|summary=It's 2009, and Russia look like being awarded the football World Cup hosting rights for the oh-so-distant 2018 tournament - that is, until England stick their oar in. They have solved their hooligan problem, and improved their transport system, and so at last are valid final holders. Watching this is France, who have We tend to reciprocate with the Russians who helped them get France '98, and they have a plan. At this stage the UEFA European championship think of 2016 has not been awardedMaria Callas as Greek, and while France remain favourites but she was born to get the job, again some upstart idea has poked its head above the parapet - a joint offering from Wales and Scotland. YesGreek parents in Manhattan, these two tiny countries, separated by 200 miles and without a brilliant connection from one to the other, and without some vital posh hotels here and thereNew York, in December 1923 and with no serious claim only moved to soccer fame Athens when it comes to winning things, are unlikely hostsshe was thirteen. But what if France could persuade the world it Her original surname was a good idea - and let Russian espionage prove Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it not to be so, with all the while the French around 'Callas' to pick up make it more manageable in the pieces? All of the UK would be damaged, meaning England '18 would be dead States. When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the water, and Russia would win out. And Nazi occupation by a mother who's to say the Brits, with their devolution habits, mercilessly exploited her and their first coalition government in a long timemade no secret of her preference for her elder sister, could not get through without damaging themselves?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1546282998</amazonuk>Jackie.

{{newreview <!-- remove 28/12 -->Frontpage|author=Paul StidolphAlexander McCall Smith|title=Forests in the SaharaThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers General Fiction|summary=''Everyone I speak The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to thinks you are going to come to some sort of sticky end.'' Those are not all the most promising words online apps in providing a man can hear from his new partnermore personal, but tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she doesn't lie in this instancecould come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. He Katie is Jeffrey Harvey, coming out of a young Cambridge professor, who has been dabbling break up with some extra-curricular work, creating GM trees that can keep vast quantities of water purified. Get an iceberg or three worth of H2O near Africa, where clean water is still a scarce resourcebad boyfriend, and so jumps at the trees can do their bit and the water will advance the place and make Jeffrey a well-respected global entrepreneurchance to come home to Edinburgh. If And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, that isbringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, he can get round all thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the problems Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in his life - fractions running a business, or in the startmatch-up involved making, but Ness has full confidence in the projecther abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, a finance officer embezzling the funds for gambling - ohWilliam, and a man ready to accuse Jeffrey of murder and theft of research data on lend a case reaching back several years. It seems the lovely girlfriend was right to see no shortage of possible sticky ends...hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1546282351</amazonuk>1846976596

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= John BanksDean Koontz|title= WThe Bad Weather Friend|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction Paranormal|summary=On the slopes of Mt Hood in Oregon, an 1000-year old Viking Benny is discovered frozen - three thousand miles further west than any previously known Viking explorationhaving a terrifically bad day. Josh Kinninger is inspired by the Viking discovery - three personal catastrophes having left him angry He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, unmoored and with his world in turmoilhouse gets trashed. Beginning Oh, and someone has delivered a journey westwardreally weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, heand it's filled with possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the 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 desire good person. Spike is going to wreak vengeance on the individuals take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he , Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds morally corruptherself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0983333416</amazonuk>1662500491

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Ellen WilesKatherine Howe|title=The Invisible CrowdA True Account|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=This novel follows the plight of Eritrean Yonas Kelati as he tries Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to live with a family who run an inn, and being made to work there from a young age. When she hears there is to make be a life for himself hanging of some pirates in Englandthe town, she decides to go and watch. He Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a good friendyoung boy's death at the hands of two vicious pirates. She hides away, Gebreso that they don't find and kill her too, and then to escape from prison only them completely she runs away to be thrown into captivity again: trafficked in sea, dressing as a shellfish factory where they have to earn their ‘payment’ to boy and joining the malicious Aziz for entering notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. She soon finds herself in the UK illegally. When Yonas escapesthick of things when there is a mutiny on board, and from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the story really startsocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008228817</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Tony Peake1471180158|title= North FacingMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=At school Jamie Matson works in Pretoria in 1962an upper-class grocery store, Paul Harvey struggles to fit in - desperate to join for a man who's a control freak with all the popular group no matter what it may takesubtlety of a half brick. His focus on surviving the perils of school so intense Jamie's son, Bo, 'has his problems'. that he fails to see the turbulence in both South Africa He's asthmatic and the larger world - with more you read, the arrest of Nelson Mandela and the Cuban Missile Crisis affecting the actions of more you'll suspect that he's on the adults around himautistic spectrum. A new and charismatic teacher decides Sometimes Jamie needs to educate the boys take time off at short notice - she's a frequent flier in the unstable situation in the world outside - local A&E and a growing awareness of both that and his sexuality pushes Paul Harvey into decisions that he later comes sometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to regret - and their weight pushes him school. Missed shifts or the need to return be away on time to South Africa pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the present day - a man in his sixties keen wrong. It was going to come to make sense of a troubled and utterly fascinating pasthead. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0995590028</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Abi CurtisB0CKD1L5JL|title= Water & GlassRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn|rating= 54|genre= General Fiction |summary= Something has happenedPetr is an orphan. Rescued by the strange, reclusive Bear, he is brought up far from bustling cities and busy human society, something very nasty in the forests of Washington's Olympic Peninsula. After Bear dies and on a submarine a pregnant elephant is one of brief sojourn in human company, and armed with only a handful of animals living below the waves. We follow Nerissa Cranepirate radio transmitter, Petr goes on a vetjourney through the forest, as she remembers recent eventsbroadcasting the strange, looks after the animals wild and falls into a world of intriguerarely heard voices he encounters. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0995465754</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Joe HillSarah Marsh|title= Strange WeatherA Sign of Her Own|rating= 3.5|genre= Horror General Fiction|summary= Strange Weather is After a collection bout of four short novels all linked byscarlet fever as a child, unsurprisinglyEllen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, strange and cataclysmic weathereverything about her life changes. Each novel Living in a time when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a school where she is distinct and showcases Hill's taught to lip read, but physically restrained yet vivid style which takes everyday events and makes them bitingly, acerbically macabre or blindingly beautiful, often switching from one sentence to the nextsigning. As Hill himself says '' From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the beauty of the world deaf and using a system called Visible Speech. At the horror of the world were twined together''same time, never Bell is this truer than working on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in Strange Weather where moments a complicated tangle of abject horror are coupled with raw beautyespionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147322117X</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0BC3YTCMR|title=Good Girls Die|author=Fiona MitchellAyura Ayira|titlerating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=''This story is not for everyone.'' Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of her fifteenth birthday when The MaidIncident 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 Roomcontagious. 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 Figurine|author=Victoria Hislop

|summary=In some apartments It was in Singapore you1968 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 Mary and Hamish (Helena'll find s parents) felt that it would be a bomb shelter - airless and pity if Helena grew up without a windowknowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. It will probably house Her trip to the family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be the washing machine first of several annual visits. She grew to love her grandmother and the other domestic paraphernalia thatfamily's got nowhere else to gomaid, Dina, but was wary - and frightened - of her grandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. There'll be a mattress on the floor He was proud of this stifling room, with his close connections to the heat increased by the tumble dryerJunta and expected his family to uphold his values but saw no reason to accommodate them. This is the maidHis prejudices included Helena's room. Itred hair and green eyes - inherited from her father's possibly better than sleeping under the dining room tableScottish ancestors.}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=After Death|rating=3|genre=General Fiction|summary= Michael Mace, Head of Security, at a top secret biological research facility, but not by muchis among 55 people who die when a virus is released in a bio-hazard accident. Back Finding himself in 2009 there were 201a makeshift mortuary,000 female domestic workers covered in Singaporeplastic, many not earning any money for he has a year until theysense 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 former colleagues. As he recovers his senses, he realises that there is something different about him; he can ''feel'' everything. ''Everything've repaid 'training. Michael isn't ' and other fees to the agency, many living in 'the maidMichael's room'anymore.|amazonukisbn=1662500467}} {{Frontpage|isbn=B0BVDC2VWH|title=The Grave Listeners|author=William Frank|rating=<amazonuk>1473659566</amazonuk>4|genre=General Fiction|summary=The village is isolated and poor. It's surrounded by a 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, roofs on homes, and even gallows, if needed. The fear of being buried alive is an existential superstition in the village and that is the reason Volushka, a drunken, self-indulgent, lazy lout of a man is tolerated.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0BYF82CXT|title=Scoop of the YearSemi-Detached|author=Tom ClaverDeborah Stone

|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Martin is an ambitious journalist working on the Financial Review. Martin is good at his job ''Bill and Amanda are living in a semi- accurate, dedicateddetached house, hardworking and with a good nose for a scoop. But Martin is also uninterested stuck in the culture that comes with reporting. He has a wife depressing rut of boredom and two daughters at home disappointment, when Terry and he doesn't want to waste time Fiona – glamorous, successful and money very much in the publove – move in next door. Despite their different outlooks on life, talking macho nonsense with the couples befriend each other hacks. He is a far cry from his colleague Tom de Lacy, a charismatic, silver-spooned charmer with piercing blue eyes. Tom doesn't just grab the limelight though - he also grabs the promotion and life appears to industrial correspondentimprove for both pairs. And that But all is the job Martin not only wantedwhat it seems, but neededand their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788036220</amazonuk>''

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alexander McCall SmithShalini Boland|title=The Good Pilot Peter WoodhouseSilent 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

|summary=If youIt was the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the island. Rachel wasn've never read an Alexander McCall Smith novelt exactly innocent but she was, perhaps, naive, but have always thought you might like so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to trytake an interest in her, one day then this might be the book she was flattered rather than wary. It was quite a while before he made any sort of physical approach to start withher and by that time she was obsessed by him. Rather than face Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, looking after his interests on the island and in particular in the bar where all the daunting task girls either worked or partied.}}{{Frontpage|author=Amanda Craig|title=Three Graces|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary= Few styles of leaping into one contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of his now very long-running series, this is a standalone the-nation novel, and it gives a good flavour of AMS. There's style, something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the way he can write to evoke a feeling atmosphere of time the day and placecapture it, and crafting an image of the warm optimism underlying his words country as it stands in one particular moment. To say that Amanda Craig is so very reassuring and comforting to read. It calls itself skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she'a wartime romance', which it is, and yet it is much more than that besides. Focussing mainly on Val, a young woman working as a Land Girl, we see her falling in love s practically synonymous with an American pilot, Mike Rogersthe genre of contemporary social fiction at this point. Thanks to She has such a sheepdog on Val's farm (gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the Peter Woodhouse from day into the title) their lives become entwined with that of her characters in a German soldierway that feels natural and lived-in, never making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, and the book shows us a variety of friendships as they grow and develop over the yearsgrappling with issues far larger than themselves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846974097</amazonuk>140871468X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Krysten Ritter152915118X|title= BonfirePineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=It has been ten years since Abby Williams left home and scrubbed away all visible evidence ''Pineapple Street'' is the story of her small town roots. Now working as an environmental lawyer in Chicago, she has a thriving career, a modern apartmentthree women: Sasha, Darley and her pick of meaningless one-night standsGeorgiana.But when a new case takes her back home Darley and George are sisters and Sasha is married to Barrens, Indianatheir brother Cord. They're Stocktons, only Sasha isn't a Stockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the life Abby painstakingly created begins to cracktribe. Tasked with investigating Optimal Plastics, the town The problem's most high-profile company exacerbated when the clan matriarch, Tilda, asks Cord and economic heart, Abby begins Sasha if they'd like to find strange connections move into the Pineapple Street property. Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to Barrensanother property, a street or so away, which they own. They won' biggest scandal t need any of the furniture from more than a decade ago involving the popular Kaycee Mitchell Pineapple Street, so Sasha and her closest friends--just before Kaycee disappeared for goodCord can move straight in.Abby knows the key to solving any case lies in the weak spots Nominally, they had a choice but that wasn't the unanswered questionsreality. But as she tries desperately to find out what really happened to Kaycee, troubling memories begin to resurface Darley and she begins Georgiana start to doubt her own observationscall Sasha 'the gold digger'. And when she unearths an even more disturbing secret--a ritual called She's living in ''The Game,their'' family home. They use it so often that they abbreviate it will threaten to 'the reputations, and lives, of the community and risk exposing a darkness that may consume herGD'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524759848</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Alice HoffmanEmily Critchley|title= The Rules of MagicOne Puzzling Afternoon|rating= 54|genre= General Fiction Crime|summary= I've read several 84 year old Edie has lived in the same small town for almost her whole life, but now she is facing a move as her son wants to move to another house and bring Edie to live with his family, as Edie is starting to lose her memory. However, Edie is tormented by the memory of Alice Hoffman's novelsher childhood friend, Lucy, although strangelywho went missing over 60 years ago, not and the one worry that there was a secret she's most famous was keeping for ''Practical Magic'', which went on to Lucy that somehow might be made into a filmthe thing that reveals the truth of what happened all that time ago. After 'seeing'The Rules of Magic'' is Lucy in the long-awaited prequel to that bookhigh street, and tells just as she was the story of three siblings last time she saw her, she starts to find pockets of memories coming back to her. And yet as she remembers the Owens family; Frannypast, Jet she is forgetting more and Vincentmore in her day to day life. The two sistersWill she uncover the truth about Lucy's disappearance before her move, Franny and Jet, go on to become the two aunts in the ''Practical Magic'' story.before her memories are gone forever?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471157679</amazonuk>1804181250

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Stephen FryMadelaine Lucas|title= Mythos: A Retelling of the Myths of Ancient GreeceThirst for Salt|rating= 5|genre= ReferenceLiterary Fiction|summary= The Greek Myths are''Love, arguablyI'd read, the greatest stories ever told. So old was supposed to be a light and influential they cast weightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravity'' Told from a shadow over western tales and traditionsretrospective view, yet remain relatable and readable millennia a young woman unravels the year-long relationship that once defined her. Overlaid with later. Here comedianwisdom, actor, television presenter, actor and author Stephen Fry brings his considerable talent to these special stories and recreates them the narrator relives the affair with a wit, warmth and humanity that brings them into man twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the summer after. Set against the modern age whilst still giving backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the honour 24-year-old narrator's deepening relationship with her older lover, depicting its all-consuming nature, how it changed her perspective on both romantic and respect that such ancient familial relationships and influential stories deservehow it altered her irrevocably. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0718188721</amazonuk>0861546490

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008506337|title=The Garnett Girls|author=Lorenzo Marone Georgina Moore|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=The love affair between Margo Garnett and Shaun Whiteside (Translator)poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, apparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in love. Richard was twenty-one and described by Margo's mother as 'an older man'. Her parents worried that Richard's influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and having a glittering career. In the event, they 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. Life was lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, the family home on the Isle of Wight. Even then the doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able to leave him in charge''. Then Richard left them.}} {{Frontpage|isbn=1914585402|title=The Temptation to Be HappyDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross

|summary=Cesare is 77, widowed, generally ignored by the offspring he likes and bothered too much by the one he doesnI reviewed David F Ross't. Still, he finds ways to fill his days. If hes book [[There's not taking advantage of his friend-with-benefits arrangement with aging lady of the night Rossana, or keeping an eye on his grandson, heOnly One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's making mischief in league with elderly neighbours like Signora Vitaliano (local mad cat woman) Only One Danny Garvey]] a couple of years back and remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and Marino (the non-IT-literate computer guy)affecting it was. Their minds are diverted from their usual pursuits when It was a young couple move into the apartment block providing Cesare with a concern gripping, emotionally wounding read, and the conviction rereading my review of it my main takeaway was that he has to do something, whatever the fall out or personal dangerI might not have lavished enough praise on it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786072882</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lars Mytting and Paul Russell Grant (Translator)Lucy Ashe|title=The Sixteen Trees of the SommeClara and Olivia

|summary=While his grandfather lived the past was an area of certainty for EdvardThe year is 1933. At aged 4 heThe place? Sadler'd been taken to live with his grandparentss Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, twins no less. Identical on the outside but not, we learn, having survived on the accident inside. And not on stage, either. Because there's a lot that killed his parentsbuilds a dancer. Now his grandfather has died revelations are coming Some things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, attention to light showing Edvard his family history is different from what hedetail – and some things, that ''d believed… his motherje ne sais quoi's birthplace, his mother's name, the whereabouts of late Great-Uncle Einar… and thatdon's without looking more deeply into t come from the fatal accident itselfclassroom. Edvard is determined to solve the puzzleA stage presence, a charm, a determination that will take him away from his native Norway to an area of France synonymous with devastation ''joie de vivre''. The difference between a hard-worker, and a remote Scottish island loaded with secretsstar.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857056069</amazonuk>0861544080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Louis de BernieresHeather Fawcett|title=Blue DogEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

|summary=MickEmily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life's mother had a mental breakdown after his father's death work, the very first encyclopaedia of faeries. Whilst she is brilliant at research and Mick was sent speaking to live in in the outback faeries, she is not so good with Granpapeople. On So when she finds herself far, far North in the face small village of it you'd think that it was going Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the village matriarch, she is not sure what she has done, nor how to be a lonely life redeem herself and put her final investigations for an eleven-year-old city boy, with no school to attend, in fact no other children anywhere nearher book back on the right track. Granpa's busy too: life on a cattle station is brutal for anyoneEnter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, with all the heat charm and the dustdelight, much to Emily's frustration. But they've all got to make the best of why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the situation.faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784704172</amazonuk>0356519120

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah Winman1398515388|title=Tin ManThe Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating=4.5

|summary=Ellis is a tin man – someone who practices First of all, it was the earthquake, deep in the under-esteemed art of panel beating. He can remove a dintocean floor, dent or blemish by expertly applying force so that you can't even feel where which created the mark was. If he has to choose what would define his lifetsunami and this, thoughin turn, it wouldn’t be his jobcaused the nuclear meltdown. It would be Michael The result was complete and Annieutter devastation. MichaelThe deaths were uncountable, and the lad he grew up with and Annie who completed loss of livelihoods was widespread. The fact that many pets were separated from their triangle, changing 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'everything s comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and nothing'Tamon the dog jumped in. Now only Ellis remains…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755390954</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Durian Sukegawa and Alison Watts (translator)Christopher Bowden|title= Sweet Bean PasteMr Magenta|rating= 54|genre= General Fiction|summary=Christopher Bowden''Sweet Bean Paste'' centres on Sentaro, an ex-con who dreams s latest novel is a patient untangling of being a writer, but instead spends his days making dorayaki, a type of Japanese pancake. He reluctantly employs Tokue, an elderly lady with disfigured handsseemingly ordinary woman's life, carried out by her nephew after tasting her divine bean paste - the perfect filling for said dorayakishe has died. Predictably, The aunt who always provided a friendship soon blossoms between the pair, despite her age safe harbour and appearance. In many ways, this could sound cliché - a protagonist learns little bit of indulgence to a valuable lesson about not judging someone by their appearance after finding young nephew had had a friend in someone they never expected much more interesting life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and it seems to like, not exactly him an unheard-of concept. Yet, Sukegawa still manages obligation to enthral his audiencefind it all out.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786071959</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW

{{newreview <!-- remove 11 Oct -->Frontpage|author=Terence J FryJennifer Mason|title=The Creative Writer for the Creative NewspaperPartitions of Unity|rating=1.54

|summary=The man Here at Bookbag Towers, we shall come to know as The Creative Writer was looking out of the window of his office first met Elizabeth Cromwell, dominatrix and unintentional detective in [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], when he spotted she investigated and unravelled a beautiful woman struggling to stay upright in the tornado which was rattling the windows ferociouslyseries of disappearances. Then he realised that it wasnIn ''Partitions of Unity''t just the dreadful weather which was affecting , she sets her: the woman was doubled up in pain and he could see bloodmind to solving a murder. Amazingly, no one was stopping to help her, worried, he would find out later that, they might be sued if something went wrong. The Creative Writer had no such worries - he dashed out into the tornado and brought her back into the house, shouting at his grandmother that she should call an ambulance.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1524682136</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Catherine BurnsWill Carver|title= The VisitorsDaves Next Door|rating= 54|genre= ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Marion Zetland lives with her domineering older brother, John, Five strangers come together in one moment as a decaying Georgian townhouse 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 edge of a northern seaside resortfateful moment. |isbn= 1914585186}} {{Frontpage|author=Jennifer Mason|title=Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=''A timid spinster struggling poetry zine, a mom-and-pop mobile diner in her fifties the Northern California redwoods, a 400-meter hurdler who still sleeps just missed the 2004 Olympics, a women's track coach with teddy bearsa yen for bullwhips, Marion does her best to shut out a billionaire with a state-of-the shocking secret that John keeps -art S&M dungeon, a man serving a life sentence in the cellar. UntilAlabama, an enigmatic signature, K(s, suddenlyx), John has on a heart attack and Marion cheap oil painting, an erotic art dealer in Georgia...'' This is forced to go down to just a sample of the cellar herself cast of characters and face the gruesome truth that her brother has kept hiddensettings in Preposterous. As questions are asked and secrets unravelyou can see, maybe John isn't the only one with a dark sidesome keeping up will be required! The basic premise of this mystery story goes like this...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1787199851</amazonuk>B09STS96HS

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= J R WardB0B2N7MVYM|title= Devil's CutThe Calculations of Rational Men|author=Daniel Godfrey|rating= 45|genre= General Fiction|summary=I feel as though I came to this book under false pretenses. I requested It's the book thinking I was getting a murder mystery and instead I was thrown head 10th of December 1962 when we first into a roaring family sagameet Dr Joseph Marr. Indeed Just to put what happens in context, said murder mystery though pivotal in the history of the family, Cuban missile crisis is more of still very fresh in people's minds. The world has barely had a quiet subplot and catalyst from where chance to begin the storytelling breathe out. But for the book. And so Joe Marr, it was I was met with 's not the Baldwine family and missile crisis that's at the Bradford Bourbon Companyfront of his mind. The initial meeting is a romantic one as He's been convicted of murder. With the family are presented high up in their castle on current state of medical knowledge, it's hard to think otherwise than that the hill - or prosecution would never have been brought but Joe Marr has spent his first few days in this case from their beautiful Kentuckian Bradford Family Estate replete with tea rosesHMP Queen's Bench, fruit trees and hazy Southern sunshinea relatively new prison. It isn He't long however before Ward transports the reader from such rolling splendour s just getting used to his roommate, Mervyn, and learning to the darkest corners be wary of human psychology wherein fathers and sons may share the same lover, McArthur brothers are divided by suspicion and jealousy and women are used as trophies and commodities.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349417024</amazonuk>