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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreview, Frontpage|author= Will DeanOnyi Nwabineli|title= Dark PinesAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=A darkAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, compelling where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and character driven thriller set , 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-mother to take down the wilds 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 Sweden - Ophelia''Dark Pines'' goes above s online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and beyond the standard crime book her relationship with brilliantly drawn characters and an intriguing mystery her father at the heart of eventssame time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178607253X</amazonuk>0861546873

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michelle de Kretser1529153298|title=The Life to ComeList of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=35

|summary=It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She'The Life to Comes not what's worrying Miv' tells the story of several s family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'interestingdisappeared'doesn' characters who are all linked by one person: Pippat sound quite so frightening. The novel is split into five chapters with each one focusing on a different person, from Cassie and Miv's upset because she's overheard that her bizarre relationship with Ash father wants to George who has finished his thesis and is in move the process of writing his first novelfamily 'Down South'. Pippa When you're from Yorkshire, who Down South is also a writerfrightening, appears in each of these chaptersforeign place, in some cases just as a background characterbest avoided. However For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, what I found most fascinating about this novel was and she'll do anything to prevent that de Kretser tells the story of Pippa. She's life through all these various appearances and leaves not worried about the reader with a real sense of who she is as a person and having watched dangers or that her development as a characterMum's stopped talking - to anyone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1760296708</amazonuk>

{{newreview <!-- remove 29/12 -->Frontpage|isbn=1035906708|title=Servants of the UndergroundDiva|author=David SsembajjoDaisy Goodwin|rating=34.5

|summary=Having experienced a terrible famine We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in his own countryManhattan, Kalamchi leaves New York, in December 1923 and only moved to travel and learnAthens when she was thirteen. He returns with a burning desire to feed his people - Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but not only her father changed it to feed their stomachs but 'Callas' to feed their minds, toomake it more manageable in the States. Kalamchi wants to raise his people's consciousness When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that they can fight against she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the dictator Bamutu - chillingly known as ''president Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for life and after death''her elder sister, Jackie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848765800</amazonuk>

{{newreview <!-- remove 28/12 -->Frontpage|author=Rob MurphyAlexander McCall Smith|title=Rotten to the CoreThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers General Fiction|summary=It's 2009The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and Russia look like being awarded operating as an alternative to all the football World Cup hosting rights for the oh-so-distant 2018 tournament - that isonline apps in providing a more personal, until England stick their oar intailored service. They have solved their hooligan problem, Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and improved their transport systemlook after the business, and so at last are valid final holders. Watching this as Ness is France, who have planning to take a trip to Canada to reciprocate with the Russians who helped them get France '98, and they have away for a planwhile. At this stage the UEFA European championship Katie is coming out of 2016 has not been awardeda break up with a bad boyfriend, and while France remain favourites so jumps at the chance to come home to get the job, again some upstart idea has poked its head above the parapet - a joint offering Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Wales and Scotland. YesAlexander McCall Smith, these two tiny countriesbringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, separated by 200 miles thanks to 44 Scotland Street and without a brilliant connection from one to the otherIsabel Dalhousie novels, and without but with some vital posh hotels here and there, and with no serious claim new characters who quickly begin to soccer fame when it comes to winning things, are unlikely hostscharm. But what if France could persuade the world it was Katie has no experience in running a good idea business, or in match- and let Russian espionage prove it not to be somaking, with all the while the French around to pick up the pieces? All of the UK would be damaged, meaning England '18 would be dead but Ness has full confidence in the waterher abilities, and Russia would win out. And whothere's to say the Britsalways her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, with their devolution habitsWilliam, and their first coalition government in to lend a long time, could not get through without damaging themselves?hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1546282998</amazonuk>1846976596

{{newreview <!-- remove 28/12 -->Frontpage|author=Paul StidolphDean Koontz|title=Forests in the SaharaThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers Paranormal|summary=''Everyone I speak to thinks you are going to come to some sort of sticky endBenny is having a terrifically bad day.'' Those are not the most promising words a man can hear from He loses his job, he loses his new partnerfiancee, but she doesn't lie in this instanceand his house gets trashed. He is Jeffrey Harvey Oh, and someone has delivered a young Cambridge professorreally weird, who has been dabbling with some extradisturbing coffin-curricular worksized object to his home, creating GM trees and it's possible that can keep vast quantities of water purified. Get an iceberg whoever or three worth of H2O near Africawhatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, where clean water Benny is still a scarce resource, and the trees can do their bit and the water will advance the place and make Jeffrey very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a well-respected global entrepreneurnice person. A really nice person. If, So fortunately for Benny it turns out that is, he can get round all the problems in delivery to his life - fractions in the start-up involved in the projecthouse is a new friend, a finance officer embezzling the funds bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for gambling - oh, and being a man ready good person. Spike is going to accuse Jeffrey take care of murder Benny, and theft will certainly take care of research data on Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a case reaching back several years. It seems the lovely girlfriend was right to see no shortage of possible sticky ends..waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1546282351</amazonuk>1662500491

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= John BanksKatherine Howe|title= WA True Account|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction |summary=On the slopes of Mt Hood Hannah Masury is living in OregonBoston, having been sent to live with a family who run an 1000-year old Viking is discovered frozen - three thousand miles further west than any previously known Viking explorationinn, and being made to work there from a young age. Josh Kinninger When she hears there is inspired by to be a hanging of some pirates in the Viking discovery - three personal catastrophes having left him angrytown, unmoored she decides to go and watch. Enthralled and with his world horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in turmoila young boy's death at the hands of two vicious pirates. Beginning She hides away, so that they don't find and kill her too, and then to escape them completely she runs away to sea, dressing as a journey westward, heboy and joining the notorious Ned Low's filled with pirate ship as a cabin boy. She soon finds herself in the thick of things when there is a desire to wreak vengeance mutiny on board, and from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the individuals he finds morally corruptocean waves. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0983333416</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Ellen Wiles1471180158|title=The Invisible CrowdMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=This novel follows Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's a control freak with all the plight subtlety of Eritrean Yonas Kelati as he tries to make a life for himself in Englandhalf brick. Jamie's son, Bo, 'has his problems'. He 's asthmatic and a good friendthe more you read, Gebre, escape from prison only the more you'll suspect that he's on the autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to be thrown into captivity again: trafficked take time off at short notice - she's a frequent flier in a shellfish factory where they have the local A&E and sometimes Bo's not fit enough to earn their ‘payment’ go to school. Missed shifts or the malicious Aziz for entering need to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the UK illegallywrong. When Yonas escapes, the story really starts It was going to come to a head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008228817</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Tony PeakeB0CKD1L5JL|title= North FacingRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=At school in Pretoria in 1962, Paul Harvey struggles to fit in - desperate to join the popular group no matter what it may takePetr is an orphan. His focus on surviving Rescued by the perils of school so intensestrange, reclusive Bear, that he fails to see the turbulence is brought up far from bustling cities and busy human society, in both South Africa and the larger world - with the arrest forests of Nelson Mandela and the Cuban Missile Crisis affecting the actions of the adults around himWashington's Olympic Peninsula. A new After Bear dies and charismatic teacher decides to educate the boys a brief sojourn in human company, and armed with only a pirate radio transmitter, Petr goes on a journey through the unstable situation in forest, broadcasting the world outside - and a growing awareness of both that strange, wild and his sexuality pushes Paul Harvey into decisions that rarely heard voices he later comes to regret - and their weight pushes him to return to South Africa in the present day - a man in his sixties keen to make sense of a troubled and utterly fascinating pastencounters. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0995590028</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Abi CurtisSarah Marsh|title= Water & GlassA Sign of Her Own|rating= 3.5|genre= General Fiction |summary= Something has happenedAfter a bout of scarlet fever as a child, something very nasty and on Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a submarine world of silence, everything about her life changes. Living in a pregnant elephant is one time when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a handful of animals living below the wavesschool where she is taught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. We follow Nerissa Crane From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and using a vetsystem called Visible Speech. At the same time, as she remembers recent eventsBell is working on other inventions and ideas, looks after the animals and falls into Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a world complicated tangle of intrigueespionage. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0995465754</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Joe HillB0BC3YTCMR|title= Strange WeatherGood Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira|rating= 4.5|genre= Horror General Fiction|summary= Strange Weather ''This story is not for everyone.'' Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of her fifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. She was a collection of four short novels all linked byvery bright student, unsurprisinglya bit too nerdy if truth be told, strange and cataclysmic weathersuffered from vitiligo - people were afraid to hug her in case it's contagious. Each novel is distinct and showcases Hill It's restrained yet vivid style which takes everyday events 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 makes them bitingly, acerbically macabre or blindingly beautiful, often switching from one sentence 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 the nexthis house and he raped her. As Hill himself says ''the beauty of the world and the horror of the world were twined together'' In shock, never is this truer than in Strange Weather where moments of abject horror are coupled with raw beautyshe even allowed him to give her a lift home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147322117X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fiona Mitchell1472263936|title=The Maid's RoomFigurine|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 ''Bill and Amanda are living in a semi-detached house, stuck in a depressing rut of boredom and disappointment, when Terry and Fiona – glamorous, successful and very much in love – move in next door. Despite their different outlooks on life, the Financial Reviewcouples befriend each other and life appears to improve for both pairs. Martin But all is good at his job - accuratenot what it seems, dedicated, hardworking and with a good nose their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy.''}}{{Frontpage|author=Shalini Boland|title=The Silent Bride|rating=3|genre=General Fiction|summary= Alice and Seth are a scoop. But Martin is also uninterested match made in the culture that comes with reportingheaven. 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 two daughters at home so the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and he doesn't want to waste time the wedding is planned and money in set. When the much-anticipated day arrives, Alice is walked down the pubaisle by her father, talking macho nonsense beaming with pride and excitement as she surveys the other hacks. He is a far cry from congregation – their friends assembled to celebrate this joyful day and when Seth turns to face his colleague Tom de Lacyapproaching bride, a charismatic, silver-spooned charmer with piercing blue eyes. Tom doesnAlice't just grab s world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the limelight though - he also grabs man at the promotion to industrial correspondent. And that altar is the job Martin not only wanted, but neededwho is waiting for her to become his wife.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1788036220</amazonuk>1662507089

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alexander McCall Smith1787636003|title=The Good Pilot Peter WoodhouseGirls 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 edge of a northern seaside resortstory is told in backwards order, leading up to the fateful moment. |isbn= 1914585186}} {{Frontpage|author=Jennifer Mason|title=Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=''A 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 Alabama, an enigmatic signature, K(s, x), on a cheap oil painting, an erotic art dealer in Georgia...'' This is just a sample of the cellarcast of characters and settings in Preposterous. UntilAs you can see, suddenlysome keeping up will be required! The basic premise of this mystery story goes like this...|isbn=B09STS96HS}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0B2N7MVYM|title=The Calculations of Rational Men|author=Daniel Godfrey|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's the 10th of December 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marr. Just to put what happens in context, John the Cuban missile crisis is still very fresh in people's minds. The world has barely had a heart attack and Marion is forced to go down chance to breathe out. But for Joe Marr, it's not the missile crisis that's at the cellar herself and face front of his mind. He's been convicted of murder. With the gruesome truth current state of medical knowledge, it's hard to think otherwise than that her brother the prosecution would never have been brought but Joe Marr has kept hiddenspent his first few days in HMP Queen's Bench, a relatively new prison. As questions are asked He's just getting used to his roommate, Mervyn, and secrets unravel, maybe John isn't learning to be wary of the only one with a dark sideMcArthur brothers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1787199851</amazonuk>