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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove --><!-- Kidd -->{{Frontpage*[[image:Kidd_Hoarder.jpg|leftauthor=Onyi Nwabineli|linktitle=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1782118497?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1782118497]] Allow Me to Introduce Myself|rating===[[The Hoarder by Jess Kidd]]===4.5[[image:4star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] Cathal Flood is an oldsummary=Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, belligerent manwhere she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, living in a filthybasically, crowded house that was once a family homemonetary gain. When Maud Drennan – underpaid carer Now Anuri is in her twenties and unintentional psychic she is employed slowly trying to regain her confidence and to look after the ancient Cathalget her life back, she assumes she'll just be the next in a long line of shortsuing her step-term dogsbodies for mother to take down the old mancontent about her. Instead Anuri is battling alcoholism, Maud finds herself drawn into the mysteries concealed within Cathal's once great house – and as Maud begins failing to clean and sort the rooms she uncovers secrets about the old man that awaken long-hidden memories within Maud herself. With the aid of start her highly glamourous yet utterly agoraphobic landlady and a troop of holy ghostsPhD, Maud must uncover the secrets at the heart of the house – undergoing therapy and exactly why they were buried… [[The Hoarder by Jess Kidd|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Makumbi -->*[[image:Makumbu_Kintu.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1786073773?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1786073773]] ===[[Kintu by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] ''Kintu'' opens with unbridled authority secretly abusing people online and mercilessnessreceiving money from them for doing so. In just a few pages a man has been hunted down by an angry mob in Uganda. He Most importantly, she is then brained with a concrete slab; his woman desperately worried about her little sister, who is left in widowhood and has the hard task new focus of dealing with her manOphelia's debtonline empire. Blood flows easily Can she save her sister, and quickly, when your family's steps are haunted by a curse that spans generations. [[Kintu by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbiperhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|Full Review]]isbn=0861546873<br>}}{{Frontpage<!-- Vaughan -->*[[image:Vaughan Scandal.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1471164993?ie=UTF8&tagisbn=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1471164993]]1529153298|title===[[Anatomy The List of a Scandal by Sarah Vaughan]]=Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=5 [[image:5star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] Sophie had been married to James for twelve years summary=It's 1979 and two children: to be honest she was more than a little bit in awe of himMargaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. James Whitehouse was an MP and junior minister: perhaps most importantly he was a friend of the prime minister (A woman? I mean, so when he had to admit that hehonestly...) She's not what'd been having an affair he was confident that some contrition, a public admission that hes worrying Miv'd been wrongs family, that he was not perfect, would soon though. Women have his career back on trackbeen disappearing. And it seemed as though that was the way it was going Well, until a friend of the 'other womanthey', parliamentary researcher Olivia Lytton, persuaded her to go to the police. There was no dispute that the relationship had ve been consensualmurdered, but after James had finished the affair there was an incident in a lift in House of Commons and the police and the Crown Prosecution Service were both of the opinion that this amounted to rapehave 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. The prosecuting counsel is Kate Woodcroft and Miv's upset because she's very determined overheard that Whitehouse is going her father wants to be brought to bookmove the family 'Down South'. [[Anatomy of When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a Scandal by Sarah Vaughan|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Dean -->*[[image:Dean Dark.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/178607253X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=178607253X]] ===[[Dark Pines by Will Dean]]=== [[image:5starfrightening, foreign place, best avoided.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] Tuva Moodyson works for a local paper in small town Sweden - there to be near an ailing Mother For Miv, but desperate for the big break that will have move would mean leaving her moving on to pastures new. Just outside of her townbest friend, GavrikSharon, two bodies lie deep in the forest - brutally murdered and their eyes ripped outshe'll do anything to prevent that. They bring back dark memories for a town She's not worried about the dangers or that has seen this crime before - and Tuva is desperate to find the killer. At first, sheher Mum's just out stopped talking - to write a good story - but as the crimes continue she finds herself drawn deeper and deeper into the forests outside of Gavrik, filled with stranger characters and dark secretsanyone. Will she find the killer before they find her? [[Dark Pines by Will Dean|Full Review]]<br>}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michelle de Kretser1035906708|title=The Life to ComeDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=34.5

|summary=''The Life We tend to Come'' tells the story think of several ''interesting'' characters who are all linked by one person: Pippa. The novel is split into five chapters with each one focusing on a different personMaria Callas as Greek, from Cassie and her bizarre relationship with Ash but she was born to George who has finished his thesis and is Greek parents in the process of writing his first novel. PippaManhattan, who is also a writerNew York, appears in each of these chapters, December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in some cases just as a background characterthe States. However, what I found most fascinating about this novel When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that de Kretser tells she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the story of Pippa's life through all these various appearances and leaves the reader with Nazi occupation by a real sense of mother who she is as a person mercilessly exploited her and having watched made no secret of her development as a characterpreference for her elder sister, Jackie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1760296708</amazonuk>

{{newreview <!-- remove 29/12 -->Frontpage|titleauthor=Servants of the UndergroundAlexander McCall Smith|authortitle=David SsembajjoThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=34.5

|summary=Having experienced The Perfect Passion Company is a terrible famine dating agency in his own countryEdinburgh, Kalamchi leaves run by Ness and operating as an alternative to travel all the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and learnlook after the business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. He returns Katie is coming out of a break up with a burning desire bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the chance to feed his people - but not only come home to feed their stomachs but Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to feed their mindsan Edinburgh we already love, too. Kalamchi wants thanks to raise his people's consciousness so that they can fight against 44 Scotland Street and the dictator Bamutu Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match- chillingly known as making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there''president for life s always her very helpful (and after death''.rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848765800</amazonuk>1846976596

{{newreview <!-- remove 28/12 -->Frontpage|author=Rob MurphyDean Koontz|title=Rotten to the CoreThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers Paranormal|summary=It's 2009, and Russia look like being awarded the football World Cup hosting rights for the oh-so-distant 2018 tournament - that Benny ishaving a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, until England stick their oar in. They have solved their hooligan problemhe loses his fiancee, and improved their transport systemhis house gets trashed. Oh, and so at last are valid final holders. Watching this is Francesomeone has delivered a really weird, who have disturbing coffin-sized object to reciprocate with the Russians who helped them get France '98his home, and they have a plan. At this stage it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the UEFA European championship of 2016 thing that has not been awardedtrashed his house! The thing is, and while France remain favourites Benny is the very last person to get deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the job, again some upstart idea has poked its head above the parapet - delivery to his house is a joint offering from Wales and Scotland. Yes, these two tiny countriesnew friend, separated by 200 miles and without a brilliant connection from one to the otherbad weather friend called Spike, and without some vital posh hotels here and there, and with no serious claim who has been sent to soccer fame when it comes to winning things, are unlikely hosts. But what if France could persuade the world it was help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good idea - and let Russian espionage prove it not person. Spike is going to be so, with all the while the French around to pick up the pieces? All take care of the UK would be damaged, meaning England '18 would be dead in the waterBenny, and Russia would win out. And whowill certainly take care of Benny's to say the Britsenemies, if he, with their devolution habitsBenny, and their first coalition government in Harper (a long time, could not get through without damaging themselves?waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1546282998</amazonuk>1662500491

{{newreview <!-- remove 28/12 -->Frontpage|author=Paul StidolphKatherine Howe|title=Forests in the SaharaA True Account|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers General Fiction|summary=''Everyone I speak Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to thinks you are going live with a family who run an inn, and being made to come work there from a young age. When she hears there is to be a hanging of some sort of sticky end.'' Those are not pirates in the most promising words a man can hear from his new partnertown, but she doesn't lie decides to go and watch. Enthralled and horrified in this instance. He is Jeffrey Harveyequal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young Cambridge professor, who has been dabbling with some extra-curricular work, creating GM trees that can keep vast quantities boy's death at the hands of water purifiedtwo vicious pirates. Get an iceberg or three worth of H2O near Africa She hides away, where clean water is still a scarce resourceso that they don't find and kill her too, and the trees can do their bit then to escape them completely she runs away to sea, dressing as a boy and joining the water will advance the place and make Jeffrey notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a well-respected global entrepreneurcabin boy. If, that is, he can get round all the problems in his life - fractions She soon finds herself in the start-up involved in the project, thick of things when there is a finance officer embezzling the funds for gambling - ohmutiny on board, and a man ready to accuse Jeffrey from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of murder and theft of research data life on a case reaching back several years. It seems the lovely girlfriend was right to see no shortage of possible sticky ends..ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1546282351</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= John Banks1471180158|title= WMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction |summary=On the slopes of Mt Hood Jamie Matson works in Oregon, an 1000upper-year old Viking is discovered frozen - three thousand miles further west than any previously known Viking explorationclass grocery store, for a man who's a control freak with all the subtlety of a half brick. Josh Kinninger is inspired by the Viking discovery - three personal catastrophes having left him angry Jamie's son, Bo, unmoored and with 'has his world in turmoilproblems'. Beginning a journey westward He's asthmatic and the more you read, the more you'll suspect that he's filled with on the autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's a desire frequent flier in the local A&E and sometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to school. Missed shifts or the need to wreak vengeance be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the individuals he finds morally corruptwrong. It was going to come to a head. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0983333416</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Ellen WilesB0CKD1L5JL|title=The Invisible CrowdRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn|rating= 4|genre= General Fiction|summary=This novel follows Petr is an orphan. Rescued by the plight of Eritrean Yonas Kelati as strange, reclusive Bear, he tries to make a life for himself is brought up far from bustling cities and busy human society, in Englandthe forests of Washington's Olympic Peninsula. He After Bear dies and a good friendbrief sojourn in human company, Gebreand armed with only a pirate radio transmitter, escape from prison only to be thrown into captivity again: trafficked in Petr goes on a shellfish factory where they have to earn their ‘payment’ to journey through the malicious Aziz for entering forest, broadcasting the UK illegally. When Yonas escapesstrange, the story really startswild and rarely heard voices he encounters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008228817</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Tony PeakeSarah Marsh|title= North FacingA Sign of Her Own|rating= 43.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=At school in Pretoria in 1962After a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Paul Harvey struggles to fit in - desperate to join the popular group no matter what it may takeEllen Lark loses her hearing. His focus on surviving the perils Suddenly plunged into a world of school so intensesilence, everything about her life changes. that he fails to see the turbulence Living in both South Africa and the larger world - with a time when the arrest use of Nelson Mandela and the Cuban Missile Crisis affecting the actions of the adults around himsign 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. A new and charismatic teacher decides to educate the boys in the unstable situation From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the world outside - deaf and using a growing awareness of both that system called Visible Speech. At the same time, Bell is working on other inventions and his sexuality pushes Paul Harvey into decisions that he later comes to regret - ideas, and their weight pushes him to return to South Africa Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in the present day - a man in his sixties keen to make sense complicated tangle of a troubled and utterly fascinating pastespionage. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0995590028</amazonuk>1035401614

<!Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of her fifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. She was a very bright student, a bit too nerdy if truth be told, and suffered from vitiligo -people were afraid to hug her in case it's contagious. It's not easy being a black girl whose skin is 84% white. She had a crush on seventeen- Curtis year-->*[[imageold Reggie Anderson but never thought he would notice her. Then he did:Curtis_WaterLavender was very good at math and Reggie asked if she would tutor him.jpg|left|link=https She readily agreed: tutoring was something she gladly did at church://wwwthis was just an extension.amazon She went to his house and he raped her.co In shock, she even allowed him to give her a lift home.uk/gp/product/0995465754?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0995465754]]}}

{{Frontpage|isbn=1472263936|title=The Figurine|author=[[Water & Glass Victoria Hislop|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. She was alone: her mother, Greek by Abi Curtis]]birth, had left the family home and refused to return, but 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 the family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be the first of several annual visits. She grew to love her grandmother and the family's maid, Dina, but was wary - and frightened - of her grandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. He was proud of his close 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 - inherited from her father's Scottish 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, is among 55 people who die when a virus is released in a bio-hazard accident. Finding himself in a makeshift mortuary, covered in plastic, he has a sense that something very, very bad has happened to him – and only him – as he sits up and looks around at the shrouded bodies of his dead friends and former colleagues. As he recovers his senses, he realises that there is something different about him; he can ''feel'' everything. ''Everything''. Michael isn't ''Michael'' anymore.|isbn=1662500467}} {{Frontpage|isbn=B0BVDC2VWH|title=The Grave Listeners|author=William Frank|rating=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. }}

[[image:5star.jpg{{Frontpage|isbn=B0BYF82CXT|title=Semi-Detached|linkauthor=Category:{{{Deborah Stone|rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction=4|genre=General Fiction]], [[:Category:Dystopian Fiction|Dystopian Fiction]], [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] Something has happened, something very nasty summary=''Bill and on Amanda are living in a submarine a pregnant elephant is one of only semi-detached house, stuck in a handful depressing rut of animals living below the waves. We follow Nerissa Craneboredom and disappointment, a vetwhen Terry and Fiona – glamorous, as she remembers recent eventssuccessful and very much in love – move in next door. Despite their different outlooks on life, looks after the animals couples befriend each other and falls into a world of intriguelife appears to improve for both pairs. It But all is difficult to properly review this book without giving too much awaynot what it seems, and their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy. There will be mild spoilers throughout this right from the start but I will try to avoid the main ones. [[Water & Glass by Abi Curtis|Full Review]]<br>''}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Joe HillShalini Boland|title= Strange WeatherThe Silent Bride|rating= 53|genre= Horror General Fiction|summary= Strange Weather 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 collection of four short novels all linked bywife; beautiful, unsurprisinglysuccessful, strange confident… and cataclysmic weather. Each novel so the inevitable proposal is distinct eagerly accepted by Alice and showcases Hill's restrained yet vivid style which takes everyday events the wedding is planned and makes them bitinglyset. When the much-anticipated day arrives, acerbically macabre or blindingly beautifulAlice is walked down the aisle by her father, often switching from one sentence beaming with pride and excitement as she surveys the congregation – their friends assembled to celebrate this joyful day and when Seth turns to the next. As Hill himself says face his approaching bride, Alice''the beauty of the s world and implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the horror of man at the world were twined together''altar is, never who is this truer than in Strange Weather where moments of abject horror are coupled with raw beautywaiting for her to become his wife.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147322117X</amazonuk>1662507089

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fiona Mitchell1787636003|title=The Maid's RoomGirls of Summer|author=Katie Bishop

|summary=In some apartments in Singapore you'll find a bomb shelter - airless and without a window. It will probably house was the washing machine summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the other domestic paraphernalia thatisland. Rachel wasn's got nowhere else t exactly innocent but she was, perhaps, naive, so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to gotake an interest in her, she was flattered rather than wary. There'll be It was quite a mattress on the floor while before he made any sort of this stifling room, with the heat increased physical approach to her and by that time she was obsessed by the tumble dryerhim. This is Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, looking after his interests on the maid's room. It's possibly better than sleeping under the dining room table, but not by much. Back island and in 2009 there were 201,000 female domestic workers particular in Singapore, many not earning any money for a year until they've repaid 'training' and other fees to the agency, many living in 'bar where all the maid's room'girls either worked or partied.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473659566</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Amanda Craig|title=Scoop Three Graces|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary= Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the Yearstate-of-the-nation novel. There's something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the atmosphere of the day and capture it, crafting an image 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 practically synonymous with the genre of contemporary social fiction at this point. She has such a gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the day into the lives of her characters in a way that feels natural and lived-in, never making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselves.|isbn= 140871468X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=152915118X|title=Pineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=''Pineapple Street'' is the story of three women: Sasha, Darley and Georgiana. Darley and George are sisters and Sasha is married to their brother Cord. They're Stocktons, only Sasha isn't a Stockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the tribe. The problem's exacerbated when the clan matriarch, Tilda, asks Cord and Sasha if they'd like to move into the Pineapple Street property. Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to another property, a street or so away, which they own. They won't need any of the furniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and Cord can move straight in. Nominally, they had a choice 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'.}}{{Frontpage|author=Tom ClaverEmily Critchley|title=One Puzzling Afternoon

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Martin 84 year old Edie has lived in the same small town for almost her whole life, but now she is an ambitious journalist working on the Financial Reviewfacing 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. Martin However, Edie is good at his job - accuratetormented by the memory of her childhood friend, Lucy, dedicatedwho went missing over 60 years ago, hardworking and with the worry that there was a good nose secret she was keeping for a scoop. But Martin is also uninterested in Lucy that somehow might be the thing that reveals the culture truth of what happened all that comes with reportingtime ago. He has a wife and two daughters at home and he doesn After 'seeing't want to waste time and money Lucy in the pubhigh street, talking macho nonsense with just as she was the other hacks. He is a far cry from his colleague Tom de Lacylast time she saw her, a charismatic, silver-spooned charmer with piercing blue eyesshe starts to find pockets of memories coming back to her. Tom doesn't just grab And yet as she remembers the limelight though - he also grabs the promotion past, she is forgetting more and more in her day to industrial correspondentday life. And that is Will she uncover the job Martin not only wantedtruth about Lucy's disappearance before her move, but needed.and before her memories are gone forever?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1788036220</amazonuk>1804181250

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alexander McCall SmithMadelaine Lucas|title=Thirst for Salt|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= ''Love, I'd read, was supposed to be a light and weightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravity'' 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 a man twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the summer after. Set against the backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the 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 familial relationships and how it altered her irrevocably.|isbn=0861546490}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008506337|title=The Good Pilot Peter WoodhouseGarnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore

|summary=If youThe love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O've never read an Alexander McCall Smith novelLeary was all-consuming, but have always thought you might like to try, one day then this might be the book to start withapparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in love. Rather than face the daunting task of leaping into Richard was twenty-one of his now very long-running series, this is a standalone novel, and it gives a good flavour of AMSdescribed by Margo's mother as 'an older man'. Her parents worried that Richard's style, the way he can write influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to evoke Oxford and having a feeling of time and placeglittering career. In the event, they eloped and Richard took her away from the warm optimism underlying his words that is so very reassuring Isle of Wight. Margo did go to Oxford and comforting went on to readbecome a well-respected journalist. It calls itself 'a wartime romance', which it isThe couple had three children: Rachel, Imogen and yet it is much more than that besidesSasha. Focussing mainly on Val, a young woman working as a Land Girl, we see her falling Life was lived in love with an American pilotLondon and holidays were spent at Sandcove, Mike Rogersthe family home on the Isle of Wight. Thanks to a sheepdog on ValEven then the doubts about Richard's farm (the Peter Woodhouse drinking were never far from the title) their lives become entwined with that of a German soldier, and the book shows us a variety of friendships as they grow and develop over the yearsMargo's mind: ''she would never be able to leave him in charge''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846974097</amazonuk>Then Richard left them.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Krysten Ritter1914585402|title= BonfireDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=It has been ten years since Abby Williams left home and scrubbed away all visible evidence of her small town roots. Now working as an environmental lawyer in Chicago, she has a thriving career, a modern apartment, and her pick of meaningless one-night stands.But when a new case takes her back home to Barrens, Indiana, the life Abby painstakingly created begins to crack. Tasked with investigating Optimal Plastics, the townI reviewed David F Ross's book [[There's most high-profile company and economic heart, Abby begins to find strange connections to BarrensOnly One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There' biggest scandal from more than s Only One Danny Garvey]] a decade ago involving the popular Kaycee Mitchell couple of years back and her closest friends--just before Kaycee disappeared for good.Abby knows the key to solving any case lies in the weak spots, the unanswered questions. But as she tries desperately to find out what really happened to Kaycee, troubling memories begin to resurface remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and she begins to doubt her own observationsaffecting it was. And when she unearths an even more disturbing secret--It was a ritual called ''The Gamegripping,'' it will threaten the reputationsemotionally wounding read, and lives, rereading my review of the community and risk exposing a darkness it my main takeaway was that may consume herI might not have lavished enough praise on it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524759848</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Alice HoffmanLucy Ashe|title= The Rules of MagicClara and Olivia|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction |summary= I've read several of Alice HoffmanThe year is 1933. The place? Sadler's novelsWells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, twins no less. Identical on the outside but not, although strangelywe learn, on the inside. And not the one sheon stage, either. Because there's most famous for ''Practical Magic''a lot that builds a dancer. Some things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, which went on attention to be made into a film. detail – and some things, that ''The Rules of Magicje ne sais quoi'' is the long-awaited prequel to , that book, and tells the story of three siblings of don't come from the Owens family; Franny, Jet and Vincentclassroom. The two sistersA stage presence, Franny and Jeta charm, go on to become the two aunts in the a ''Practical Magicjoie de vivre'' story. The difference between a hard-worker, and a star.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471157679</amazonuk>0861544080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Stephen FryHeather Fawcett|title= Mythos: A Retelling Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of the Myths of Ancient GreeceFaeries|rating= 54|genre= ReferenceGeneral Fiction|summary= The Greek Myths areEmily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, arguablyto write her life's work, the greatest stories ever toldvery first encyclopaedia of faeries. So old Whilst she is brilliant at research and influential they cast a shadow over western tales and traditionsspeaking to faeries, yet remain relatable and readable millennia latershe is not so good with people. Here comedian So when she finds herself far, actorfar North in the small village of Hrafvsnik, television presenterhaving somehow offended the village matriarch, she is not sure what she has done, actor and author Stephen Fry brings his considerable talent nor how to these special stories redeem herself and recreates them with a witput her final investigations for her book back on the right track. Enter Wendell Bambleby, warmth her dashingly handsome and humanity that brings them into the modern age whilst still giving the honour insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and respect that such ancient and influential stories deservedelight, much to Emily's frustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0718188721</amazonuk>0356519120

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lorenzo Marone and Shaun Whiteside (Translator)1398515388|title=The Temptation to Be HappyBoy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)

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