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|author=Onyi Nwabineli|title=Allow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, 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 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 Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873}}{{Frontpage|isbn=08575272311529153298|title=Dog DaysThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Ericka WallerJennie Godfrey
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|summary=George Dempsey It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is exceedingly angryPrime Minister. It(A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's eight days since his wife, Ellen, died and itnot what's the first time that sheworrying Miv's let him downfamily, though. HeWomen have been disappearing. Well, they's lostve been murdered, bereft without her ( he but to have 'disappeared'needs his wife, like a snail needs its shelldoesn'')t sound quite so frightening. He misses their ordered life and rather than bringing him meals Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to leave on move the doorstepfamily 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, he'd much rather have Down South is a good row with someonefrightening, foreign place, best avoided. He's particularly angry about For Miv, the dachshund puppy which Helen brought home just three weeks before move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she died. She even dared 'll do anything to contradict him when he told her prevent that the dog wasn't staying. Now heShe's lumbered with a dog he doesnnot worried about the dangers or that her Mum't want and a load s stopped talking - to anyone.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035906708|title=Diva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=We tend to think of busybodies who are trying Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to interfere Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in his lifeDecember 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Worst of all is Betty, who wonHer original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas't take no for an answerto make it more manageable in the States. Betty knits jumpers When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for Lucky, her greyhound. Lucky spends voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a lot mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of time trying to escape from and destroy themher preference for her elder sister, Jackie.
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|author=Martin VenningAlexander McCall Smith|title=The Primary ObjectivePerfect Passion Company|rating=24.5
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|summary= Sometimes The Perfect Passion Company is a book starts off slowlydating agency in Edinburgh, but eventually draws you in run by Ness and operating as an alternative to caring about all the characters or simply wanting to know what happens nextonline apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Sometimes it doesn'tNess has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. The basic premise Katie is coming out of a good one – a clandestine organisation, operating as break up with a charitybad boyfriend, but funded by various governments around the world and partially (maybe, I'm not sure) under so jumps at the auspices of the UNchance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, with the primary objective of keeping the peacebringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, by any means possible. Diplomacy is always thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the first option and sometimes one that needs to be carried out by third partiesIsabel Dalhousie novels, but for situations when that looks unlikely with some new characters who quickly begin to yield results Peace International maintains charm. Katie has no experience in running a call-on list of field operativesbusiness, exor in match-militarymaking, medicsbut Ness has full confidence in her abilities, scientists or anyone else with a taste for adventure and willing there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to risk their life for the sake of it.lend a hand…|isbn=18004611001846976596
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|author=Karen M McManusDean Koontz|title=The CousinsBad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Paranormal|summary=Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Spike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491}}{{Frontpage|author=Katherine Howe|title=A True Account|rating=4.5
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|summary= The rich Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to live with a family who run an inn, and famous Story family led being made to work there from a young age. When she hears there is to be a life of luxury on Gull Cove Island, until 25 years ago when each hanging of some pirates in the Story children - Anderstown, Archer, Adam she decides to go and Allison - received a mysterious letter from their mother watch. Enthralled and were cut off completely. But nowhorrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a quarter young boy's death at the hands of a century latertwo vicious pirates. She hides away, so that they don't find and kill her too, their children have been called and then to return escape them completely she runs away to sea, dressing as a boy and joining the island for the summer by their grandmothernotorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. What does she want with She soon finds herself in the cousins? Why did she cut off her children all those years ago? Are the deaths thick of things when there is a mutiny on Gull Cove Island really what they seem? The dark web of twisted liesboard, secrets and tragedy that has held the Story family from there we are caught up - and held them apart - for a quarter in her rip roaring tale of a century is about to come crashing downlife on the ocean waves.|isbn=02413769470861547438
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|authorisbn=Ruth Hogan1471180158|title=Madame BurovaMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes
|rating=4.5
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|summary=This book lets us discover several people Jamie Matson works in different stages of life in the early 1970s, all vaguely connected. So we have a bullied halfan upper-cast boy (as he would have been called then)class grocery store, for a girl in man who's a humdrum job wanting to become control freak with all the subtlety of a singerhalf brick. Jamie's son, and chiefly, Imelda, the third generation of Madame BurovaBo, 'has his problems'. He'Tarot-Readers asthmatic and the more you read, Palmist and Clairvoyantthe more you'', to use her familyll suspect that he's sea-front boothon the autistic spectrum. The singer, the scryer and the suffererSometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's mother will all become staff at a revamped holiday camp, but just before then we see Imelda fly solo for the first time frequent flier in the family stalllocal A&E and sometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to school. We also see her Missed shifts or the need to be away on her last day, fifty years later, time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in possession of a pair of letters that will change everything for a woman called Billiethe wrong. Just who is she, and who delivered the secrets about her It was going to Imelda, and why did it have come to remain a secret all this time?|isbn=152937331Xhead.
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|authorisbn=Stephen ClarkeB0CKD1L5JL|title=The Spy Who Inspired MeRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn
|rating=4
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|summary=This Petr is a spoof spy storyan orphan. Rescued by the strange, that isn't about James Bond. Or Ian Fleming. But it features a man called Ian Lemmingreclusive Bear, who dresses well he is brought up far from bustling cities and 'likes the ladies' and who works for the secret servicebusy human society, but in the planning side forests of things more than the active serviceWashington's Olympic Peninsula. Lemming finds himself put on After Bear dies and a mission brief sojourn in human company, and armed with only a female spy called Margauxpirate radio transmitter, and Petr goes on a journey through the pair end up stranded in Normandyforest, with Margaux on a desperate mission to unearth traitors in broadcasting the resistance networkstrange, wild and Lemming desperately trying to keep up with her!|isbn=2952163855rarely heard voices he encounters.
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|author=Andrea Bajani and Elizabeth Harris (translator)Sarah Marsh|title=If You Kept A Sign of Her Own|rating=3.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=After a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, everything about her life changes. Living in a time when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a school where she is taught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and using a Record system called Visible Speech. At the same time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of Sinsespionage.|isbn=1035401614}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0BC3YTCMR|title=Good Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira
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|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=''This story is not for everyone.'' Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of her fifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. She was an incredibly readable novellaa very bright student, but one that left me a little conflicted. We start as our hero arrives at Bucharest airportbit too nerdy if truth be told, and before we even know his gender or the nature of the person hesuffered from vitiligo - people were afraid to hug her in case it's contagious. It's addressing in his second person monologue of not easy being a black girl whose skin is 84% white. She had a narration, we see crush on seventeen-year-old Reggie Anderson but never thought he would notice her. Then he did: Lavender was very good at math and Reggie asked if she would tutor him picked up by . She readily agreed: tutoring was something she gladly did at church: this was just an extension. She went to his mother's chauffeurhouse and he raped her. In shock, and carted off she even allowed him to do all the necessary introductions before said mother is buried the following daygive her a lift home. }} {{Frontpage|isbn=1472263936|title=The Figurine|author=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 was a businesswoman, who clearly Greek by birth, had left northern Italy the family home and refused to return, but Mary and settled 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 Romania with up-market Kolonaki would be the first of several annual visits. She grew to love her (night-time grandmother and business) partnerthe family's maid, Dina, but was wary - and feelings frightened - of abandonment are still strongher grandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. And so we flit from current (well, this came out in He was proud of his close connections to the original Italian in 2007, so moderately current) Bucharest, Junta and expected his family to uphold his values but saw no reason to the ladaccommodate them. His prejudices included Helena's childhood, red hair and see just what he has to tell green eyes - inherited from her as a private farewell addressfather's Scottish ancestors.|isbn=1939810965
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|author=David F RossDean Koontz|title= There's Only One Danny GarveyAfter Death|rating=4.53
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|summary= Years agoMichael Mace, Danny Garvey was Head of Security, at a footballing prodigy playing for his local clubtop secret biological research facility, is among 55 people who die when a virus is released in a bio-hazard accident. Everyone predicted Finding himself in a bright future – but his career makeshift mortuary, covered in professional football never quite worked out. Thirteen years onplastic, he has a sense that something very, convinced very bad has happened to return home by him – and only him – as he sits up and looks around at the shrouded bodies of his "uncle" Higgy to visit dead friends and former colleagues. As he recovers his dying mothersenses, Danny takes over the shambolic and once-great team he used to play for and tries to reform themrealises that there is something different about him; he can ''feel'' everything. ''Everything''. Michael isn't ''Michael'' anymore.|isbn= 19131935001662500467
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|authorisbn=Gail HoneymanB0BVDC2VWH|title=Eleanor Oliphant is Completely FineThe Grave Listeners|author=William Frank|rating=4.5
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|summary= Eleanor Oliphant The village is almost 30isolated and poor. She lives in Glasgow, aloneIt's surrounded by a Witching Forest. And she likes it that way. She works 9the villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-5, 5 days a week, like fruit provides nutrition and spends its blossom provides herbal medicines. The black wood of the weekend not drunkforest provides heat and warmth, but not sober. alone. And she likes it that way. She lives by a routineroofs on homes, and that's fineeven gallows, thankyouverymuchif needed. Nothing The fear of being buried alive is missing from her life. Except everything is. Until one day, at a concert she won tickets for an existential superstition in an office raffle, she sees the man she village and that is sure will be her husband. Eleanor begins a journey to make herself the best version of herself that she can, in order to secure this beautiful musician. Thenreason Volushka, as she's on her way home one Friday, she and the new IT guy at her office see a man collapse in the street and stay close to him in hospital. Thendrunken, before she knows itself-indulgent, her once quiet life becomes lazy lout of a hubbub of social engagements with the man's family and friends, with Raymond from IT and of course her side project of falling in love with Johnnie Lomond. But just as her life seems to be looking up, things take a turn for the worse. Is Johnnie all he's cracked up to be? What secrets does Eleanor have from her childhood? Eleanor's walls have been broken down and she has to fight her way out of the shadows - but maybe she doesn't have to do it aloneis tolerated.|isbn=0008172145
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|isbn=B08GFSK2WZB0BYF82CXT|title=The Karma TrapSemi-Detached|author=Lisette BoydDeborah Stone
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|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=George Jackson is thirty''Bill and Amanda are living in a semi-three years olddetached house, absolutely gorgeous to look at - and single. She's not had sex for eight months and she's stuck in the karma trap: an awful lot a depressing rut of bad luck is being visited on her boredom and disappointment, when Terry and Fiona – glamorous, successful and she has a real talent for attracting dramavery much in love – move in next door. Her Despite their different outlooks on life's chaotic: she dealt with , the leak from the shower by putting something down at the bottom of the stairs couples befriend each other and life appears to absorb the water - then the shower fell through the roof whilst she was in improve for both pairs. But all is not what it seems, and left her, stark naked, staring at the pervy postmantheir increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy. She only has to take her mother's dog out for a walk for her to end up with dog poo spattered across her face - and a photo being taken by someone who shares it around the office.'
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|author=Matt HaigShalini Boland|title=The Midnight LibrarySilent Bride|rating=3|genre=General Fiction|summary= Alice and Seth are a match made in heaven. He is everything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, clever, funny; total and utter husband-material. She is all he could possibly want in a wife; beautiful, successful, confident… and so the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and the wedding is planned and set. When the much-anticipated day arrives, Alice is walked down the aisle by her father, beaming with pride and excitement as she surveys the congregation – their friends assembled to celebrate this joyful day and when Seth turns to face his approaching bride, Alice's world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the man at the altar is, who is waiting for her to become his wife.|isbn=1662507089}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787636003|title=The Girls of Summer|author=Katie Bishop
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|summary= Between life It was the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and death there is a library. And so, 38 minutes after Nora decided to die, she finds herself in arrived on the Midnight Libraryisland. Everything that could Rachel wasn've gone wrong in Nora's life has. Her cat died, t exactly innocent but she lost her jobwas, her brother won't speak to herperhaps, her parents are deadnaive, the boy she teaches piano so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to no longer cares about pianotake an interest in her, she called off her wedding, and old Mr Banerjee next door no longer needs her helpwas flattered rather than wary. She gave up on all the things that would've let It was quite a while before he made any sort of physical approach to her escape the wet, cold town of Bedford and given her life some purposeful direction. So at 23:22, she realises by that time she isn't made was obsessed by him. Alistair worked for life and decides to die. But instead of deathHenry Taylor, she finds looking after his interests on the library. Each infinite shelf is filled with books, each book providing a chance to try another life she could have lived, island and in particular in a parallel time. And so, just after midnight on Tuesday the 18th of April, Nora Seed begins to live every life she could'vebar where all the girls either worked or partied.|isbn=1786892731
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|author=Vincent PanettiereAmanda Craig|title=These Thy GiftsThree Graces|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary= Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-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=Emily Critchley|title=One Puzzling Afternoon
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|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=''2006 84 year old Edie has lived in the same small town for almost her whole life, but now she is facing a tumultuous year 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 her childhood friend, Lucy, who went missing over 60 years ago, and the worry that there was a secret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be the Catholic Churchthing that reveals the truth of what happened all that time ago. Reports After 'seeing' Lucy in the high street, just as she was the last time she saw her, she starts to find pockets of horrific sexual abuse are becoming widespreadmemories coming back to her. Monsignor Steven Trimboli And yet as she remembers the past, she is troubledforgetting more and more in her day to day life. He worries for Will she uncover the future of the church—and rightly so. A new crime will soon reverberate throughout his church truth about Lucy's disappearance before her move, and hit closer before her memories are gone forever?|isbn=1804181250}}{{Frontpage|author=Madelaine Lucas|title=Thirst for Salt|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= ''Love, I'd read, was supposed to home than he ever imagined.be a light and weightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravity''
As ageing priest Steve Trimboli begins to try to make sense of Told from a retrospective view, a young woman unravels the child sexual abuse scandal year-long relationship that is rocking his beloved Catholic churchonce defined her. Overlaid with later wisdom, he discovers that one child in his own parish has been abused by the narrator relives the affair with a priest sent by his bishopman twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the summer after. And this isnSet against the backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt't just any boy: this is Steve's grandson whose mother is details the offspring of a long past relationship between Steve and a gangster24-year-old narrator's widow. Steve is determined to seek justice for this boy and deepening relationship with her older lover, depicting its all children victimised by priests who have been protected by his church. But he must also face up to his own failings-consuming nature, going right back to his breaking of the celibacy vowshow it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and how it altered her irrevocably.|isbn=15031998860861546490}}
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|authorisbn=Delia Owens0008506337|title=Where The Crawdads SingGarnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= In 1952, KyaThe love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O's mother disappeared up the dirt track to townLeary was all-consuming, wearing her alligator heels, and never came homeapparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in love. Then Richard was twenty-one and described by one her siblings left, ran from the shack on the North Carolina marsh that served Margo's mother as home and the life 'an older man'. Her parents worried that Richard's influence would lead to nothing but suffering, leaving 7-year-old Kya with take her drunken father. Years pass and Kya away from what they felt she could achieve - now nicknamed 'Marsh-Girl' – still yearns for a mother that would never return going to Oxford and grew up far too fast for having a girl who can neither read nor writeglittering career. Finally In the event, one night they eloped and Richard took her father never came home leaving Kya completely alone to survive on away from the marshIsle of Wight. Eventually, as the years drift painfully by, the time comes when Kya, now an emotional and vastly intelligent young woman, yearns for company besides the gulls and the land, yearning Margo did go to be loved Oxford and went on to be heldbecome a well-respected journalist. So The couple had three children: Rachel, when 2 boys from the town of Barkley Cove find their way to her, she finds a new way of lifeImogen and Sasha. But Life was lived in 1969London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, the body of former star quarterback and new husband Chase Andrews is found lying in family home on the mud Isle of Wight. Even then the marsh, and everyone doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able to leave him in town immediately suspects the mysterious, run-down Marsh-Girlcharge''. Who is Kya now, after years of isolation and a broken, hardened heart? Is she really capable of murder?|isbn=1472154665Then Richard left them.
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|isbn=14736924071914585402|title=The Book of Two WaysDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=Jodi PicoultDavid F Ross|rating=4.5
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|summary=Dawn Edelstein is a death doula: thatI reviewed David F Ross's book [[There's someone who is there for the person who is dying, to make their passage to whatever they believe in as easy as possible and to support their carers. ItOnly One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's Only One Danny Garvey]] a rewarding, caring occupation couple of years back and Dawn puts her heart remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and soul into affecting it but this wasn't always her lifewas. Some fifteen years ago she It was a graduate student at Yale working towards her doctorate: as an Egyptologistgripping, she was working with her supervisoremotionally wounding read, Professor Ian Dumphries, on the Djehutyakht tombs at Deir el-Bersha on the Nile in Middle Egypt. Then she and rereading my review of it my main takeaway was Dawn McDowell: that was her maiden name, the name she published underI might not have lavished enough praise on it.
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|isbnauthor=0241295955Lucy Ashe|title=Trio|author=William BoydClara and Olivia|rating=4.5
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|summary=It was 1968: the The year when Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King were assassinatedis 1933. ItThe place? Sadler's also Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, twins no less. Identical on the year when YSK Films are making a movie in Brightonoutside but not, we learn, on the inside. And not on stage, either. ItBecause there's called ''Emily Bracegirdle's Extremely Useful Ladder a lot that builds a dancer. Some things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, attention to the Moon''detail – and some things, or that ''Ladder the Moonje ne sais quoi'' as it, that don's known on set. Anny Viklund is t come from the female star in a production which is proving to be just a little bit racketyclassroom. There are odd pressures on the producerA stage presence, Talbot Kydda charm, to employ this old actor friend for a couple of days because he needs the money, allow ''joie de vivre''. The difference between a fading star to use his catchphrasehard-worker, or include and a song from the leading man, whose musical star is fading.|isbn=0861544080
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|author=Anna BrunoHeather Fawcett|title=Ordinary HazardsEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries|rating=24
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|summary= Some books either grab you or bore youEmily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life's work, the very first encyclopaedia of faeries. And this was one that I wanted Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, she is not so badly good with people. So when she finds herself far, far North in the small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the village matriarch, she is not sure what she has done, nor how to like but unfortunatelyredeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on the right track. Enter Wendell Bambleby, I just wasnher dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, much to Emily't hookeds frustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|isbn=14711848620356519120
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|isbn=17124357281398515388|title=Jamie's KeepsakeThe Boy and the Dog|author=Michael GallagherSeishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)
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|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=When we first meet Alex HannahFirst of all, he's just being released from it was the Southern General Hospital. The nurse thinks he'll come back to visit earthquake, deep in the other patients but Alex has no intention of doing that: he's been there for a yearocean floor, on which created the same ward where his brother died tsunami and nowthis, with his hair all shorn offin turn, he's going home in his dead brother's clothescaused the nuclear meltdown. He wants to get outside The result was complete and back with his friends: his brotherutter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, Forbes, says and the loss of livelihoods was widespread. The fact that many pets were separated from their 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 fresh air will do him good and his mother tells him convenience store owner's comment that he's not would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to mention TB open his car door and to say it was tonsillitis. Good luck with that one, AlexTamon the dog jumped in.
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|author=Helen FisherChristopher Bowden|title=Space HopperMr Magenta|rating=3.54
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Faye lost her mum when she was very young. She was raised by some elderly neighbours after her mum died from Christopher Bowden's latest novel is a cold that got worse, and although they were kind and very good to her she patient untangling of course missed her mum enormously. So when, unexpectedly, she discovers a time travel conduit (via an old space hopper box in her attic) that takes her back to the 70seemingly ordinary woman's and life, carried out by her mum, nephew after she revels in the chance to create some memories and get to know the woman who meant so much to herhas died. The time travelling, however, is neither easy nor aunt who always provided a safe, harbour and Faye fears a little bit of indulgence to a young nephew had had a much more interesting life than that her husband won't believe what's happening nephew Stephen had ever realised and so lies it seems to him instead. The lies grow more tangled, and Faye begins an obligation to wonder if find it's safe for her to return one last time to the pastall out. Should she try to see her mum one last time before her mum's death, or will it change her own future forever to attempt it?|isbn=1471188663B0B6Z9VJDW
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|author= Claire McGowanJennifer Mason|title=The PushPartitions of Unity|rating= 54|genre= General Fiction|summary= Six mums-to-be meet Here at Bookbag Towers, we first met Elizabeth Cromwell, dominatrix and unintentional detective in [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], when she investigated and unravelled a prenatal classseries of disappearances. ItIn 's NCT ''stylePartitions of Unity'', but not the proper NCT. This bit is important, but you have she sets her mind to wait solving a little to see whymurder. This being London, such a class attracts a wide variety of people, from all sorts of backgrounds, but for most of the ladies the thing they have in common is it's their first baby. Probably after the first one, you don't have time for classes, or think you've got child-rearing down pat.|isbn=1542019990B09LQR9FRF
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|isbnauthor=0008378363Will Carver|title=One Perfect MorningThe Daves Next Door|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary= Five strangers come together in one moment as a suicide bomber prepares to detonate his vest on a London tube line. As their fates overlap, the story is told in backwards order, leading up to the fateful moment.|isbn= 1914585186}} {{Frontpage|author=Pamela CraneJennifer Mason|title=Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery|rating=3.54|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=''A husband is about to have his throat cut struggling poetry zine, a mom-and-pop mobile diner in his own bed. To find out the Northern California redwoods, a 400-meter hurdler who just missed the 2004 Olympics, a women's track coach with a yen for bullwhips, a billionaire with a state- and why of-the- we need to go back nine days and twenty yearsart 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...''
Mackenzie, Robin and Lily met when they all went to the same college in Monroeville, Pennsylvania and twenty years later they're still the best This is just a sample of friends. When they first met they called themselves the Spicier Girls as a nod to the famous girl band cast of the daycharacters and settings in Preposterous. Lily would be Adventure Spice, Robin the Homemaker and Mackenzie - wellAs you can see, Mackenzie would some keeping up will be the supporting actress in her own liferequired! The basic premise of this mystery story goes like this.. She married Owen, her college sweetheart and they have a daughter, Aria, who's now fifteen-year-old.|isbn=B09STS96HS
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|isbn=B07WWSCGVSB0B2N7MVYM|title=The Lies You ToldCalculations of Rational Men|author=Harriet TyceDaniel Godfrey
|rating=5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Year six student Robin Spence isn't happy about having to start a new school. She's left the school she loved in New York and now she's going to Ashams in North London. It's very upmarket; places are rare as hens' teeth and as the pupils have all been there ''forever'', they have their established groups. Robin's going to be an outsider. And why is this happening? Well, over a matter of a few days her parents' marriage fell apart. Andrew Spence is staying in New York - he works for a securities firm - and her mother, Sadie Roper, has come back to London to pick up her practice as a criminal barrister. That's easier said than done when you've been out of the market place - and the country - for more than ten years.
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|author=Antoine Laurain
|title=The Readers Room
|genre=General Fiction
|rating=3.5|summary=ViolaineIt's publishing house has had a great success, and it was through the slush pile 10th of unsolicited manuscriptsDecember 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marr. The three people who work Just to put what happens in context, the Readers' Room to sift through what Cuban missile crisis is ninety-nine per cent dross – plus the fourth advisor still very fresh in her rarefied mansion up the road – all agreed the book would be people's minds. The world has barely had a huge smash, and so it has provenchance to breathe out. But there are several for Joe Marr, it'howeverss not the missile crisis that' to thats at the front of his mind. As in, however – Violaine herself is not having life all her own way, for she has He's been involved in a near-fatal accident, and starts this book coming round from a comaconvicted of murder. And, however – despite all urging, With the author current state of medical knowledge, it's hard to think otherwise than that the book prosecution would never have been brought but Joe Marr has never once made themselves known to the publishers spent his first few days in person, and in factHMP Queen's Bench, offered up a most peculiar statement-come-threat in their last emailrelatively new prison. What is going He's just getting used to befall Violainehis roommate, her memoryMervyn, her staff – and how much is any learning to be wary of it due to the hit novel? And just where the heck did that come from?|isbn=1910477974McArthur brothers.
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