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|author=John BoyneOnyi 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=1529153298|title=The Echo ChamberList of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey

|genre=General Fiction, Humour|summary=Meet George CleverleyIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, 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 selfa frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking -defined to anyone.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035906708|title=Diva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=We tend to think of Maria Callas as "one Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in 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 the States. When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.}}{{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, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the few television personalities over online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the age business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. Katie is coming out of fifty without a criminal record"break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the 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 Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=The Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Paranormal|summary=Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He starts this book loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a bit worried when really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his mistress tells him shehome, and it's carrying possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his childhouse! The thing is, but then his author wife Benny is getting her kicks with the Ukrainian partner "Strictly Come Dancing" paired her withvery last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. They have three childrenSo fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who are has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a sad-sack with absolutely no social skills whatsoevergood person. Spike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a girl waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who hangs around exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491}}{{Frontpage|author=Katherine Howe|title=A True Account|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to live with a virtue-signallingfamily who run an inn, keyboard warrior "wokester" who wants and being made to work there from a young age. When she hears there is to save be a hanging of some pirates in the worldtown, she decides to go and watch. Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's homeless with out-death at the hands of-date foodtwo vicious pirates. She hides away, so that they don't find and kill her too, and then to escape them completely she runs away to sea, dressing as a fit young lad doing boy and joining the gay hustle thingnotorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. Add She soon finds herself in the thick of things when there is a few other characters – therapistsmutiny on board, lawyersand from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the ocean waves.|isbn=0861547438}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1471180158|title=Maybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, random transgender types – that for a man who's a control freak with all have two very different connections to the subtlety of a half brick. Jamie's son, Bo, 'has his lifeproblems'. He's asthmatic and the more you read, and the more you have something 'll suspect that suggests an almost farcical approach he's on the autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's a frequent flier in the modern worldlocal A&E and sometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to school. What suggests Missed shifts or the farcical approach even more, however, is need to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the fact this is bloody funnywrong. It was going to come to a head.|isbn=0857526219

|isbn=0008444501B0CKD1L5JL|title=The Answer to EverythingRadio Free Olympia|author=Luke KennardJeffrey Dunn

|summary=Life should have been good for EmilyPetr is an orphan. She had a lovely husbandRescued by the strange, Stevenreclusive Bear, who was a speech therapist. We'll pass over the fact that they rarely speak to each other he is brought up far from bustling cities and don't even sleep busy human society, in the same bed. It isn't so much that Emily has left the marital bed as that she's sharing a bed with one forests of her children as itWashington's the only way to get him to sleep during the nightOlympic Peninsula. Arthur After Bear dies and Matty are gorgeous but they are a handful brief sojourn in human company, and Emily has a job to cope armed with too - she teaches drama two days only a week. They've not long moved into pirate radio transmitter, Petr goes on a new home in Criterion Gardens: it's a trendy area that has been gentrified journey through the forest, broadcasting the strange, wild and it's run on semi-communal lines. The residents even share eco-friendly electric cars rather than owning their ownrarely heard voices he encounters.

|author=Louise BeechSarah Marsh|title=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 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 espionage.|isbn=1035401614}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0BC3YTCMR|title=Good Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=''This Is How We Are Humanstory is not for everyone.'' 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-year-old Reggie Anderson but never thought he would notice her. Then he did: Lavender was very good at math and Reggie asked if she would tutor him. She readily agreed: tutoring was something she gladly did at church: this was just an extension. She went to his house and he raped her. In shock, she even allowed him to give her a lift home.}} {{Frontpage|isbn=1472263936|title=The Figurine|author=Victoria Hislop|rating=45|genre=General Fiction|summary=It was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. She was alone: her mother, Greek by birth, had left the family home and refused to return, but Mary and Hamish (Helena'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

|summary=Veronica Michael Mace, Head of Security, at a top secret biological research facility, is among 55 people who die when a devoted single mother to her sonvirus is released in a bio-hazard accident. Finding himself in a makeshift mortuary, covered in plastic, Sebastian - but she can't give him everything he wants. Sebastian has decided a sense that it's time for something very, very bad has happened to him – and only him to have sex– as he sits up and looks around at the shrouded bodies of his dead friends and former colleagues. But as an autistic 20 year-old As he recovers his senses, he realises thatthere is something different about him; he can ''feel'' everything. ''Everything''s easier said than done. And it Michael isn't ''Michael's starting to cause them both problems' anymore. |isbn=19131937131662500467

|authorisbn=Ananda DeviB0BVDC2VWH|title=Eve Out of Her RuinsThe Grave Listeners|author=William Frank

|summary=At not even 200 pages, Eve Out of Her Ruins The village is one of the shortest books I've read in a long while, but it's one of the most dramaticisolated and poor. It's also told in surrounded by a way that I can only describe as brutal: it spares nothing 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 pulls very few puncheseven gallows, if needed. The fear of being buried alive is an existential superstition in the descriptions stark village and unromanticthat is the reason Volushka, a drunken, self-indulgent, lazy lout of a man is tolerated.|isbn=0993009344}}  

|authorisbn=C J CareyB0BYF82CXT|title=WidowlandSemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone

|summary=It's April 1953, and Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the state funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, parading around a bit, Bill and watching over the sanctioned return to the throne of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallis. For yes, Britain caved Amanda are living in the leada semi-up to the World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know itdetached house, and we are now stuck in a protectorate – well, we share enough depressing rut of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''. But this is most certainly a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenologyboredom and disappointment, when Terry and ideas of female purpose, has put all of that gender into a caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to the drudgesFiona – glamorous, successful and beyond those, right very much in love – move in next door. Despite their different outlooks on down to the childlesslife, the husbandless couples befriend each other and the widows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. And in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with the task of bowdlerising classical literature life appears to take all encouragement improve for female emancipation out of it – after both pairs. But all, is not every book can be bannedwhat it seems, and not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, and so they just get a hefty tweak towards the party line before they're stamped ready their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for reprinttragedy. That is her job, at least, until the first emerging signs of female protest come to light, with their potential to spoil Hitler's visit.|isbn=152941198X'

|isbnauthor=0857527231Shalini Boland|title=Dog Days|author=Ericka WallerThe Silent Bride|rating=53

|summary=George Dempsey Alice and Seth are a match made in heaven. He is exceedingly angryeverything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, clever, funny; total and utter husband-material. It's eight days since his She is all he could possibly want in a wife; beautiful, Ellensuccessful, died confident… and so the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and it's the first time that she's let him downwedding is planned and set. He's lostWhen the much-anticipated day arrives, bereft without Alice is walked down the aisle by her ( he ''needs his wifefather, like a snail needs its shell''). He misses beaming with pride and excitement as she surveys the congregation – their ordered life friends assembled to celebrate this joyful day and rather than bringing him meals when Seth turns to leave on the doorstepface his approaching bride, he'd much rather have a good row with someone. HeAlice's particularly angry about world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the dachshund puppy which Helen brought home just three weeks before she died. She even dared to contradict him when he told her that man at the dog wasn't staying. Now he's lumbered with a dog he doesn't want and a load of busybodies who are trying to interfere in his life. Worst of all altar is Betty, who won't take no for an answer. Betty knits jumpers is waiting for Lucky, her greyhound. Lucky spends a lot of time trying to escape from and destroy thembecome his wife.|isbn=1662507089

|authorisbn=Martin Venning1787636003|title=The Primary ObjectiveGirls of Summer|author=Katie Bishop|rating=25

|summary= Sometimes a book starts off slowly, but eventually draws you in to caring about It was the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the characters or simply wanting to know what happens nextisland. Sometimes it doesnRachel wasn't. The basic premise is a good one – a clandestine organisationexactly innocent but she was, operating as a charityperhaps, but funded by various governments around the world and partially (maybenaive, I'm not sure) under the auspices of the UNso when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to take an interest in her, with the primary objective she was flattered rather than wary. It was quite a while before he made any sort of keeping the peace, physical approach to her and by any means possible. Diplomacy is always the first option and sometimes one that needs to be carried out time she was obsessed by third partieshim. Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, but for situations when that looks unlikely to yield results Peace International maintains a call-looking after his interests on list of field operatives, ex-military, medics, scientists or anyone else with a taste for adventure the island and willing to risk their life for in particular in the bar where all the sake of itgirls either worked or partied.|isbn=1800461100

|author=Karen M McManusAmanda Craig|title=The CousinsThree Graces|rating=4.5

|summary= The rich and famous Story family led a life Few styles of luxury on Gull Cove Island, until 25 years ago when each contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of -the Story children - Anders, Archer, Adam and Allison - received a mysterious letter from their mother nation novel. There's something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the atmosphere of the day and were cut off completely. But nowcapture it, a quarter crafting an image of a century later, their children have been called to return to the island for the summer by their grandmothercountry as it stands in one particular moment. What does To say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she want 's practically synonymous with the cousins? Why did she cut off her children all those years ago? Are genre of contemporary social fiction at this point. She has such a gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the day into the deaths on Gull Cove Island really what they seem? The dark web lives of twisted lies, secrets her characters in a way that feels natural and tragedy that has held the Story family up lived- and held in, never making them apart - ciphers for a quarter of a century is about to come crashing downsocial commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselves.|isbn=0241376947140871468X

|authorisbn=Ruth Hogan152915118X|title=Madame BurovaPineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson

|summary=This book lets us discover several people in different stages ''Pineapple Street'' is the story of life in the early 1970sthree women: Sasha, all vaguely connectedDarley and Georgiana. Darley and George are sisters and Sasha is married to their brother Cord. So we have a bullied half-cast boy (as he would have been called then)They're Stocktons, only Sasha isn't a girl in a humdrum job wanting to become a singer, and chiefly, Imelda, Stockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the tribe. The problem's exacerbated when the third generation of Madame Burovaclan matriarch, ''Tarot-ReaderTilda, Palmist asks Cord and ClairvoyantSasha if they'', d like to use her family's sea-front boothmove into the Pineapple Street property. The singerTilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to another property, the scryer and the sufferer's mother will all become staff at a revamped holiday campstreet or so away, but just before then we see Imelda fly solo for which they own. They won't need any of the first time furniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and Cord can move straight in the family stall. We also see her on her last day, fifty years laterNominally, in possession of they had a pair of letters choice but that will change everything for a woman called Billiewasn't the reality. Just who is she, Darley and who delivered Georgiana start to call Sasha 'the secrets about her to Imelda, and why did gold digger'. She's living in ''their'' family home. They use it so often that they abbreviate it have to remain a secret all this time?|isbn=152937331X'the GD'.

|author=Stephen ClarkeEmily Critchley|title=The Spy Who Inspired MeOne Puzzling Afternoon

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=This 84 year old Edie has lived in the same small town for almost her whole life, but now she is facing a spoof spy storymove as her son wants to move to another house and bring Edie to live with his family, that isn't about James Bondas Edie is starting to lose her memory. Or Ian Fleming. But it features a man called Ian LemmingHowever, Edie is tormented by the memory of her childhood friend, Lucy, who dresses well went missing over 60 years ago, and the worry that there was a secret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be the thing that reveals the truth of what happened all that time ago. After 'likes the ladiesseeing' and who works for Lucy in the secret servicehigh street, but in just as she was the planning side last time she saw her, she starts to find pockets of things more than the active servicememories coming back to her. Lemming finds himself put on a mission with a female spy called MargauxAnd yet as she remembers the past, she is forgetting more and the pair end up stranded more in Normandy, with Margaux on a desperate mission her day to unearth traitors in day life. Will she uncover the resistance networktruth about Lucy's disappearance before her move, and Lemming desperately trying to keep up with before her!memories are gone forever?|isbn=29521638551804181250

|author=Andrea Bajani and Elizabeth Harris (translator)Madelaine Lucas|title=If You Kept a Record of SinsThirst for Salt|rating=4.5

|summary=This ''Love, I'd read, was an incredibly readable novellasupposed to be a light and weightless feeling, but one that left me I had always longed for gravity'' Told from a little conflicted. We start as our hero arrives at Bucharest airportretrospective view, and before we even know his gender or a young woman unravels the nature of the person he's addressing in his second person monologue of a narrationyear-long relationship that once defined her. Overlaid with later wisdom, we see him picked up by his mother's chauffeur, and carted off to do all the necessary introductions before said mother is buried narrator relives the following day. The mother was affair with a businesswoman, who clearly left northern Italy and settled in Romania with man twenty years her (night-time and business) partner, and feelings of abandonment are still strong. And so we flit senior from current (well, this came out in its inception – the original Italian in 2007, so moderately current) Bucharest, 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 lad24-year-old narrator's childhooddeepening relationship with her older lover, depicting its all-consuming nature, how it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and see just what he has to tell how it altered her as a private farewell addressirrevocably.|isbn=19398109650861546490

|summary= Years ago, I reviewed David F Ross's book [[There's Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's Only One Danny Garvey ]] a couple of years back and remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and affecting it was a footballing prodigy playing for his local club. Everyone predicted It was a bright future – but his career in professional football never quite worked out. Thirteen years ongripping, convinced to return home by his "uncle" Higgy to visit his dying motheremotionally wounding read, Danny takes over the shambolic and once-great team he used to play for and tries to reform themrereading my review of it my main takeaway was that I might not have lavished enough praise on it.|isbn= 1913193500}}

|author=Gail HoneymanLucy Ashe|title=Eleanor Oliphant is Completely FineClara and Olivia

|summary= Eleanor Oliphant The year is almost 301933. She lives in GlasgowThe place? Sadler's Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, alonetwins no less. And she likes it that way. She works 9-5Identical on the outside but not, 5 days a weekwe learn, and spends on the weekend inside. And not drunkon stage, but not sobereither. alone. And she likes it that way. She lives by Because there's a routine, and lot that's fine, thankyouverymuch. Nothing is missing from her life. Except everything is. Until one day, at builds a concert she won tickets for in an office raffle, she sees the man she is sure will be her husbanddancer. Eleanor begins a journey to make herself the best version of herself Some things that she canbe taught or learnt – discipline, in order attention to secure this beautiful musician. Thendetail – and some things, as shethat ''je ne sais quoi''s on her way home one Friday, she and that don't come from the new IT guy at her office see a man collapse in the street and stay close to him in hospitalclassroom. ThenA stage presence, before she knows ita charm, her once quiet life becomes a hubbub of social engagements with the man's family and friends'joie de vivre''. The difference between a hard-worker, 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 alonestar.|isbn=00081721450861544080

|isbnauthor=B08GFSK2WZHeather Fawcett|title=The Karma Trap|author=Lisette BoydEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=George Jackson Emily Wilde is thirty-three years oldan expert academic scholar on faerie lore, absolutely gorgeous to look at - and single. She's not had sex for eight months she has travelled extensively, and sheresearched meticulously, to write her life's stuck in work, the karma trap: an awful lot very first encyclopaedia of bad luck faeries. Whilst she is being visited on her brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, she has a real talent for attracting dramais not so good with people. Her life's chaotic: So when she dealt with finds herself far, far North in the leak from the shower by putting something down at the bottom small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the stairs village matriarch, she is not sure what she has done, nor how to absorb the water - then the shower fell through the roof whilst she was in it redeem herself and left put her, stark naked, staring at final investigations for her book back on the pervy postmanright track. She only has Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, much to take her motherEmily's dog out for a walk for her to end up frustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with dog poo spattered across her face - and a photo being taken by someone who shares it the faerie folk around the office.Hravsnik?|isbn=0356519120

|authorisbn=Matt Haig1398515388|title=The Midnight LibraryBoy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating=4.5

|summary= Between life and death there is a library. And soFirst of all, 38 minutes after Nora decided to dieit was the earthquake, she finds herself deep in the Midnight Library. Everything that could've gone wrong in Nora's life has. Her cat diedocean floor, she lost her jobwhich created the tsunami and this, her brother won't speak to her, her parents are deadin turn, caused the boy she teaches piano to no longer cares about piano, she called off her weddingnuclear meltdown. The result was complete and utter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, and old Mr Banerjee next door no longer needs her help. She gave up on all the things that would've let her escape the wet, cold town loss of Bedford and given her life some purposeful directionlivelihoods was widespread. So at 23:22, she realises The fact that she isn't made for life and decides to die. But instead many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of death, she finds priorities but - six months after the library. Each infinite shelf is filled with books, each book providing tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a chance to try another life she could have lived, in dog outside a parallel timeconvenience store. And so, just after midnight on Tuesday He wasn't a dog person but the 18th of April, Nora Seed begins convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to live every life she could'veopen his car door and Tamon the dog jumped in.|isbn=1786892731

|author=Vincent PanettiereChristopher Bowden|title=These Thy GiftsMr Magenta

|summary=Christopher Bowden''2006 s latest novel is a tumultuous year for the Catholic Church. Reports patient untangling of horrific sexual abuse are becoming widespread. Monsignor Steven Trimboli is troubled. He worries for the future of the church—and rightly so. A new crime will soon reverberate throughout his church and hit closer to home than he ever imagined.a seemingly ordinary woman'' As ageing priest Steve Trimboli begins to try to make sense of the child sexual abuse scandal that is rocking his beloved Catholic churchs life, he discovers that one child in his own parish carried out by her nephew after she has been abused by a priest sent by his bishopdied. And this isn't just any boy: this is Steve's grandson whose mother is the offspring of The aunt who always provided a long past relationship between Steve safe harbour and a gangster's widow. Steve is determined little bit of indulgence to seek justice for this boy a young nephew had had a much more interesting life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and all children victimised by priests who have been protected by his church. But he must also face up it seems to his own failings, going right back him an obligation to his breaking of the celibacy vowsfind it all out.|isbn=1503199886B0B6Z9VJDW}}

|author=Delia OwensJennifer Mason|title=Where The Crawdads SingPartitions of Unity|rating=54

|summary= In 1952Here at Bookbag Towers, Kya's mother disappeared up the dirt track to town, wearing her alligator heelswe first met Elizabeth Cromwell, dominatrix and never came home. Then one unintentional detective in [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by one her siblings leftJennifer Mason|Preposterous]], ran from the shack on the North Carolina marsh that served as home when she investigated and the life that would lead to nothing but suffering, leaving 7-year-old Kya with her drunken fatherunravelled a series of disappearances. Years pass and Kya - now nicknamed In ''Partitions of Unity'Marsh-Girl' – still yearns for a mother that would never return and grew up far too fast for a girl who can neither read nor write. Finally, one night she sets her father never came home leaving Kya completely alone mind to survive on the marsh. 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 to be loved and to be heldsolving a murder. So, when 2 boys from the town of Barkley Cove find their way to her, she finds a new way of life. But in 1969, the body of former star quarterback and new husband Chase Andrews is found lying in the mud of the marsh, and everyone in town immediately suspects the mysterious, run-down Marsh-Girl. Who is Kya now, after years of isolation and a broken, hardened heart? Is she really capable of murder?|isbn=1472154665B09LQR9FRF

|isbnauthor=1473692407Will Carver|title=The Book of Two Ways|author=Jodi PicoultDaves Next Door

|summary=Dawn Edelstein is a death doula: that's someone who is there for the person who is dying, to make their passage to whatever they believe Five strangers come together in one moment as easy as possible and a suicide bomber prepares to support their carers. It's detonate his vest on a rewarding, caring occupation and Dawn puts her heart and soul into it but this wasn't always her lifeLondon tube line. Some fifteen years ago she was a graduate student at Yale working towards her doctorate: as an EgyptologistAs their fates overlap, she was working with her supervisor, Professor Ian Dumphries, on the Djehutyakht tombs at Deir el-Bersha on the Nile story is told in Middle Egypt. Then she was Dawn McDowell: that was her maiden namebackwards order, leading up to the name she published underfateful moment.|isbn= 1914585186}}

|isbnauthor=0241295955Jennifer Mason|title=Trio|author=William BoydPreposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery|rating=54

|summary=It was 1968: the year when Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King were assassinated. It's also the year when YSK Films are making 'A struggling poetry zine, a movie mom-and-pop mobile diner in Brighton. It's called ''Emily Bracegirdle's Extremely Useful Ladder to the Moon''Northern California redwoods, or ''Ladder a 400-meter hurdler who just missed the Moon'' as it2004 Olympics, a women's known on set. Anny Viklund is track coach with a yen for bullwhips, a billionaire with a state-of-the female star in -art S&M dungeon, a production which is proving to be just man serving a little bit rackety. There are odd pressures on the producerlife sentence in Alabama, an enigmatic signature, Talbot KyddK(s, to employ this old actor friend for a couple of days because he needs the moneyx), allow on a fading star to use his catchphrasecheap oil painting, or include an erotic art dealer in Georgia...'' This is just a song from sample of the leading mancast of characters and settings in Preposterous. As you can see, whose musical star is fadingsome keeping up will be required! The basic premise of this mystery story goes like this...|isbn=B09STS96HS

|authorisbn=Anna BrunoB0B2N7MVYM|title=Ordinary HazardsThe Calculations of Rational Men|author=Daniel Godfrey|rating=25

|summary= Some books either grab you or bore you. And this was one that I wanted so badly to like but unfortunately, I just wasn't hooked.|isbn=1471184862}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1712435728|title=JamieIt's Keepsake|author=Michael Gallagher|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=When the 10th of December 1962 when we first meet Alex HannahDr Joseph Marr. Just to put what happens in context, hethe Cuban missile crisis is still very fresh in people's just being released from the Southern General Hospitalminds. The nurse thinks heworld has barely had a chance to breathe out. But for Joe Marr, it's not the missile crisis that'll come back to visit s at the other patients but Alex has no intention front of doing that: hehis mind. He's been there for a year, on convicted of murder. With the same ward where his brother died and nowcurrent state of medical knowledge, with his hair all shorn off, heit's going home hard to think otherwise than that the prosecution would never have been brought but Joe Marr has spent his first few days in his dead brotherHMP Queen's clothesBench, a relatively new prison. He wants 's just getting used to get outside and back with his friends: his brotherroommate, ForbesMervyn, says that the fresh air will do him good and his mother tells him that he's not learning to mention TB and to say it was tonsillitis. Good luck with that one, Alexbe wary of the McArthur brothers.