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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 look after the ancient Cathalregain her confidence and to get 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, failing to start her PhD, Maud finds herself drawn into the mysteries concealed within Cathal's once great house – undergoing therapy and as Maud begins to clean secretly abusing people online and sort the rooms receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, she uncovers secrets is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the old man that awaken long-hidden memories within Maud herselfnew focus of Ophelia's online empire. With the aid of Can she save her highly glamourous yet utterly agoraphobic landlady sister, and perhaps herself and a troop of holy ghosts, Maud must uncover the secrets her relationship with her father at the heart of the house – and exactly why they were buried… [[The Hoarder by Jess Kiddsame time?|Full Review]]isbn=0861546873<br>}}{{Frontpage<!-- Makumbi -->|isbn=1529153298*[[image:Makumbu_Kintu.jpg|lefttitle=The List of Suspicious Things|linkauthor=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1786073773?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1786073773]]Jennie Godfrey ===[[Kintu by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi]]==|rating=5 [[image:4.5star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] summary=It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She'Kintus not what's worrying Miv' opens with unbridled authority and mercilessnesss family, though. Women have been disappearing. In just a few pages a man has Well, they've been hunted down by an angry mob in Ugandamurdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South'. He When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is then brained with a concrete slab; his woman is left in widowhood and has frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the hard task of dealing with move would mean leaving her manbest friend, Sharon, and she's debtll do anything to prevent that. Blood flows easily, and quickly, when your family She's steps are haunted by a curse not worried about the dangers or that spans generationsher Mum's stopped talking - to anyone. [[Kintu by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi|Full Review]]<br>}}{{Frontpage<!-- Vaughan -->|isbn=1035906708*[[image:Vaughan Scandal.jpg|lefttitle=Diva|linkauthor=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1471164993?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1471164993]]Daisy Goodwin|rating===[[Anatomy of a Scandal by Sarah Vaughan]]===4.5[[image:5star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] Sophie had been married summary=We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to James for twelve years Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and two children: only moved to be honest Athens when she was more than a little bit in awe of himthirteen. James Whitehouse Her original surname was an MP and junior minister: perhaps most importantly he was a friend of the prime minister, so when he had Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to admit that he'd been having an affair he was confident that some contrition, a public admission that heCallas'd been wrong, that he to make it more manageable in the States. When she was not perfect, would soon have his career back on track. And it seemed as though in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the way it was going, until Nazi occupation by a friend mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of the 'other woman'her preference for her elder sister, parliamentary researcher Olivia LyttonJackie.}}{{Frontpage|author=Alexander McCall Smith|title=The Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, persuaded her to go run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the policeonline apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. There was no dispute that Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the relationship had been consensualbusiness, but after James had finished the affair there was an incident in as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a lift in House while. Katie is coming out of Commons a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the police chance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Crown Prosecution Service were both of the opinion that this amounted Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to rapecharm. The prosecuting counsel is Kate Woodcroft Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and shethere's always her very determined that Whitehouse is going to be brought helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to book. [[Anatomy of lend a Scandal by Sarah Vaughanhand…|Full Review]]isbn=1846976596<br>}}{{Frontpage<!-- |author=Dean -->Koontz*[[image:Dean Dark.jpg|lefttitle=The Bad Weather Friend|linkrating=https://www4.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/178607253X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=178607253X]]5|genre===[[Dark Pines by Will Dean]]===Paranormal[[image:5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] Tuva Moodyson works for Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a local paper in small town Sweden really weird, disturbing coffin- there sized object to be near an ailing Motherhis home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, but desperate 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 big break that will have her moving on delivery to pastures his house is a new. Just outside of her townfriend, Gavrika bad weather friend called Spike, two bodies lie deep in the forest - brutally murdered and their eyes ripped out. They bring back dark memories who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a town that has seen this crime before - and Tuva good person. Spike is desperate going to find the killer. At firsttake care of Benny, sheand will certainly take care of Benny's just out to write enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a good story - but as the crimes continue she waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself drawn deeper and deeper roped into the forests outside of Gavrik, filled with stranger characters and dark secretsBenny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are. Will she find the killer before they find her? [[Dark Pines by Will Dean|Full Review]]<br>isbn=1662500491}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michelle de KretserKatherine Howe|title=The Life to ComeA True Account|rating=34.5

|summary=''The Life Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to Come'' tells the story of several ''interesting'' characters live with a family who are all linked by one person: Pipparun an inn, and being made to work there from a young age. The novel When she hears there is split into five chapters with each one focusing on to be a different personhanging of some pirates in the town, from Cassie she decides to go and her bizarre relationship with Ash to George who has finished his thesis watch. Enthralled and is horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death at the process hands of writing his first noveltwo vicious pirates. Pippa She hides away, who is also a writerso that they don't find and kill her too, appears in each of these chaptersand then to escape them completely she runs away to sea, in some cases just dressing as a background character. However, what I found most fascinating about this novel was that de Kretser tells boy and joining the story of Pippanotorious Ned Low's life through all these various appearances and leaves pirate ship as a cabin boy. She soon finds herself in the reader with a real sense thick of who she things when there is as a person mutiny on board, and having watched from there we are caught up in her development as a characterrip roaring tale of life on the ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1760296708</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreview <!-- remove 29/12 -->Frontpage|isbn=1471180158|title=Servants of the UndergroundMaybe Tomorrow|author=David SsembajjoPenny Parkes|rating=34.5

|summary=Having experienced a terrible famine Jamie Matson works in his own countryan upper-class grocery store, Kalamchi leaves to travel and learn. He returns for a man who's a control freak with all the subtlety of a burning desire to feed half brick. Jamie's son, Bo, 'has his people - but not only to feed their stomachs but to feed their minds, tooproblems'. Kalamchi wants to raise his people He's consciousness so asthmatic and the more you read, the more you'll suspect that they can fight against he's on the dictator Bamutu autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - chillingly known as she's a frequent flier in the local A&E and sometimes Bo'president for life s not fit enough to go to school. Missed shifts or the need to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and after death''put in the wrong. It was going to come to a head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848765800</amazonuk>

{{newreview <!-- remove 28/12 -->Frontpage|authorisbn=Rob MurphyB0CKD1L5JL|title=Rotten to the CoreRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn

|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 Petr is, until England stick their oar inan orphan. They have solved their hooligan problemRescued by the strange, and improved their transport systemreclusive Bear, he is brought up far from bustling cities and so at last are valid final holders. Watching this is Francebusy human society, who have to reciprocate with in the Russians who helped them get France forests of Washington'98, and they have a plans Olympic Peninsula. At this stage the UEFA European championship of 2016 has not been awarded, After Bear dies and while France remain favourites to get the job, again some upstart idea has poked its head above the parapet - a joint offering from Wales and Scotland. Yes, these two tiny countriesbrief sojourn in human company, separated by 200 miles and without armed with only a brilliant connection from one to the otherpirate radio transmitter, and without some vital posh hotels here and there, and with no serious claim to soccer fame when it comes to winning things, are unlikely hosts. But what if France could persuade the world it was Petr goes on a good idea - and let Russian espionage prove it not to be so, with all journey through the while the French around to pick up the pieces? All of the UK would be damagedforest, meaning England '18 would be dead in broadcasting the waterstrange, wild and Russia would win outrarely heard voices he encounters. And who's to say the Brits, with their devolution habits, and their first coalition government in a long time, could not get through without damaging themselves?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1546282998</amazonuk>

{{newreview <!-- remove 28/12 -->Frontpage|author=Paul StidolphSarah Marsh|title=Forests in the SaharaA Sign of Her Own|rating=43.5|genre=Thrillers General Fiction|summary=''Everyone I speak to thinks you are going to come to some sort After a bout of sticky end.'' Those are not the most promising words scarlet fever as a man can hear from his new partnerchild, but she doesn't lie in this instanceEllen Lark loses her hearing. He is Jeffrey Harvey, Suddenly plunged into a young Cambridge professorworld of silence, who has been dabbling with some extra-curricular work, creating GM trees that can keep vast quantities of water purifiedeverything about her life changes. Get an iceberg or three worth Living in a time when the use of H2O near Africasign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a school where clean water she is still a scarce resourcetaught to lip read, and the trees can do their bit and the water will advance the place and make Jeffrey a well-respected global entrepreneurbut physically restrained from signing. If From here, that is, he can get round all the problems in his life - fractions in the start-she ends up involved in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the project, deaf and using a finance officer embezzling system called Visible Speech. At the funds for gambling - ohsame time, Bell is working on other inventions and a man ready to accuse Jeffrey of murder ideas, and theft of research data on Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a case reaching back several years. It seems the lovely girlfriend was right to see no shortage complicated tangle of possible sticky ends..espionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1546282351</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- Banks year-->*[[imageold Reggie Anderson but never thought he would notice her. Then he did:Banks_WLavender 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/0983333416?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0983333416]]}}

===[[W by John Banks]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]FrontpageOn the slopes of Mt Hood in Oregon, an 1000-year old Viking is discovered frozen - three thousand miles further west than any previously known Viking exploration. Josh Kinninger is inspired by the Viking discovery - three personal catastrophes having left him angry, unmoored and with his world in turmoil. Beginning a journey westward, he's filled with a desire to wreak vengeance on the individuals he finds morally corrupt. [[W by John Banks|Full Review]]<br> {{newreviewisbn=1472263936|authortitle= Ellen WilesThe Figurine|titleauthor=The Invisible CrowdVictoria Hislop|rating= 45|genre= General Fiction|summary=This novel follows the plight of Eritrean Yonas Kelati as he tries It was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to make a life for himself in EnglandGreece. He and a good friend She was alone: her mother, GebreGreek by birth, escape from prison only had left the family home and refused to return, but Mary and Hamish (Helena's parents) felt that it would be thrown into captivity again: trafficked in a shellfish factory where they have to earn their ‘payment’ pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. Her trip to the malicious Aziz for entering family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be the UK illegallyfirst of several annual visits. When Yonas escapes 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 story really startsJunta 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008228817</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Tony PeakeDean Koontz|title= North FacingAfter Death|rating= 4.53|genre= General Fiction|summary=At school Michael Mace, Head of Security, at a top secret biological research facility, is among 55 people who die when a virus is released in Pretoria a bio-hazard accident. Finding himself in 1962a makeshift mortuary, Paul Harvey struggles to fit covered in - desperate plastic, he has a sense that something very, very bad has happened to join him – and only him – as he sits up and looks around at the popular group no matter what it may takeshrouded bodies of his dead friends and former colleagues. His focus on surviving the perils of school so intense As he recovers his senses, he realises that there is something different about him; he fails to see the turbulence in both South Africa 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 larger world villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - with the arrest of Nelson Mandela its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and the Cuban Missile Crisis affecting the actions its blossom provides herbal medicines. The black wood of the adults around himforest provides heat and warmth, roofs on homes, and even gallows, if needed. A new and charismatic teacher decides to educate the boys in the unstable situation The fear of being buried alive is an existential superstition in the world outside - and a growing awareness of both that village and his sexuality pushes Paul Harvey into decisions that he later comes to regret - and their weight pushes him to return to South Africa in is the present day reason Volushka, a drunken, self- indulgent, lazy lout of a man in his sixties keen to make sense of a troubled and utterly fascinating pastis tolerated. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0995590028</amazonuk>

<!-- Curtis -->*[[image:Curtis_Water.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0995465754?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0995465754]] ===[[Water & Glass by Abi Curtis]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Dystopian Fiction|Dystopian Fiction]], [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]]Frontpage Something has happened, something very nasty and on a submarine a pregnant elephant is one of only a handful of animals living below the waves. We follow Nerissa Crane, a vet, as she remembers recent events, looks after the animals and falls into a world of intrigue. It is difficult to properly review this book without giving too much away. 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> <!-- Hill -->isbn=B0BYF82CXT*[[image:Hill_Strange.jpg|left|linktitle=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/147322117X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbagSemi-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=147322117X]] ===[[Strange Weather by Joe Hill]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Horror|Horror]], [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] Strange Weather is a collection of four short novels all linked by, unsurprisingly, strange and cataclysmic weather. Each novel is distinct and showcases Hill's restrained yet vivid style which takes everyday events and makes them bitingly, acerbically macabre or blindingly beautiful, often switching from one sentence to the next. As Hill himself says ''the beauty of the world and the horror of the world were twined together'', never is this truer than in Strange Weather where moments of abject horror are coupled with raw beauty. [[Strange Weather by Joe Hill|Full Review]]<br> {{newreviewDetached|author=Fiona Mitchell|title=The Maid's RoomDeborah Stone|rating=54

|summary=In some apartments ''Bill and Amanda are living in Singapore you'll find a bomb shelter semi- airless and without a window. It will probably detached house the washing machine and the other domestic paraphernalia that's got nowhere else to go. There'll be , stuck in a mattress on the floor depressing rut of this stifling roomboredom and disappointment, with the heat increased by the tumble dryer. This is the maid's room. It's possibly better than sleeping under the dining room tablewhen Terry and Fiona – glamorous, but not by successful and very much. Back in 2009 there were 201,000 female domestic workers love – move in Singaporenext door. Despite their different outlooks on life, many not earning any money for a year until they've repaid 'training' the couples befriend each other and other fees life appears to the agencyimprove for both pairs. But all is not what it seems, many living in and their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy.'the maid's room'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473659566</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Scoop of the YearShalini Boland|authortitle=Tom ClaverThe Silent Bride|rating=43|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Martin is an ambitious journalist working on the Financial ReviewAlice and Seth are a match made in heaven. Martin He is good at his job - accurateeverything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, dedicatedclever, hardworking funny; total and with a good nose for a scooputter husband-material. But Martin She is also uninterested all he could possibly want in the culture that comes with reporting. He has 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

<!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- Fry 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.*[[image:Fry_Mythos.jpg|leftisbn=0861546490}}{{Frontpage|linkisbn=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0718188721?ie0008506337|title=UTF8&tagThe Garnett Girls|author=thebookbag-21&linkCodeGeorgina Moore|rating=as2&camp5|genre=1634&creativeGeneral Fiction|summary=6738&creativeASIN=0718188721]]The love affair between Margo Garnett and 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''.

===[[Mythos: A Retelling of the Myths of Ancient Greece by Stephen Fry]]===Then Richard left them.[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Reference|Reference]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] The Greek Myths are, arguably, the greatest stories ever told. So old and influential they cast a shadow over western tales and traditions, yet remain relatable and readable millennia later. Here comedian, actor, television presenter, actor and author Stephen Fry brings his considerable talent to these special stories and recreates them with a wit, warmth and humanity that brings them into the modern age whilst still giving the honour and respect that such ancient and influential stories deserve. [[Mythos: A Retelling of the Myths of Ancient Greece by Stephen Fry|Full Review]]<br>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lorenzo Marone and Shaun Whiteside (Translator)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