Changes

|author=Antoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)Onyi Nwabineli|title=Red is My HeartAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=34.5|genre=Literary General Fiction |summary=[[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black 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 white influencer deals and read , basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in my househer 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. And Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so was this one. Most importantly, although 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 List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I could mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to have spelled 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that more accurately – this one washer father wants to move the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, and Down South isa frightening, foreign place, black and white and redbest avoided. Yes For Miv, he has an artistic collaborator on this piecethe move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and I think itshe'll do anything to prevent that. She's possible to say not one page lacks worried about the influence of some striking visual ideasdangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.|isbn=1913547183

|authorisbn=Andrew Sharp1035906708|title=The Chef, the Bird and the BlessingDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5

|summary= Chef Mlantushi - Mozzy We tend to his employer - isthink of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in his mindManhattan, New York, the head chef of a safari business catering to VIP guests in an unnamed African country. Mozzy is earnest December 1923 and dedicated only moved to his task and he puts all of himself into creating fine cuisine dishes for the guests at BOD-W safaris Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but his dream is her father changed it to become 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the head chef of a restaurant in London or a big American city. Even to win a Michelin starStates. He is thwarted When she was back in this ambition Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by his boss, Mr Bin (Ben to you a mother who mercilessly exploited her and me) who incurs Mozzy's disapproval made no secret of her preference for his scruffy waysher elder sister, his uninterest in his guests and - shock, horror - his allowing of bush animals into the houseJackie.|isbn=B09926MK8H

|isbnauthor=1901514978Alexander McCall Smith|title=There's a Problem With Dad|author=Carlos AlbaThe Perfect Passion Company

|summary=Life The Perfect Passion Company is different for George Lovelace a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and he can't really understand whyoperating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. He's always done everything he ought Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to: steady worker, husband and father - and take a father who was always there trip to Canada to get away for school plays and sports daysa while. So why Katie is he never quite in tune with those around him? Why does he upset people? Why is someone coming out of a break up with such a ''good'' mind unable to progress bad boyfriend, and so jumps at work or the chance to relate come home to his colleagues? Edinburgh. Why does he make And so many breath-taking gaffes? It's almost become a cliche these days begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to suggest that someone 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who is quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a little different is 'on the spectrum'business, or in match-making, but George Lovelace Ness has all the symptoms of Aspergerfull confidence in her abilities, and there's Syndrome: high-functioning autism.always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596

|author=Freya SampsonDean Koontz|title=The Last LibraryBad 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

|summary=I am always a little nervous Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to start live with a story about a libraryfamily who run an inn, since I am and being made to work there from a librarianyoung age. I always grit my teeth slightly at the thought When she hears there is to be a hanging of the incoming cardigan-wearing, hair some pirates in a bun, cat-owning, glasses on a chain stereotypes! In this story, the main charactertown, June, does put her hair in a bun, and she does own a cat (called Alan Bennett), decides to go and she has barely any friends watch. Enthralled and spends her evenings eating the same Chinese takeaway meal once horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a week whilst reading books alone! But I didnyoung boy't immediately throw s death at the book out hands of the windowtwo vicious pirates. She hides away, because I found I was interested in Juneso that they don't find and kill her too, and why she lived as she did. Her mum used then to be a librarian at the village library, but when escape them completely she got sick, June gave up on going to University and stayed at home runs away to take care of her mumsea, dressing as well as taking on a job as library assistant at boy and joining the local library. And even though her mum sadly died some years ago, she is still working there, still eating her mumnotorious Ned Low's favourite takeaway meal, and still reading her mum's old bookspirate ship as a cabin boy. June She soon finds herself in the thick of things when there is stucka mutiny on board, but little does she know, everything and from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life is about on the changeocean waves.|isbn=183877369X0861547438

|authorisbn=Emily Critchley1471180158|title=The Tiny Gestures of Small FlowersMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating=34.5

|summary= The Tiny Gestures of Small Flowers had Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's a control freak with all the hallmarks subtlety of something gooda half brick. I was intrigued by Jamie's son, Bo, 'has his problems'. He's asthmatic and the plotmore you read, liked the design of more you'll suspect that he's on the autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's a frequent flier in the book, local A&E and thought the authorsometimes Bo's work sounded interestingnot fit enough to go to school. From Missed shifts or the outset it all looked incredibly promising. So what need to be away on earth went time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the wrong here?|isbn= 1911427091. It was going to come to a head.}}

|isbn=B093VPBL5LB0CKD1L5JL|title=Cape Henry HouseRadio Free Olympia|author=Jolly Walker BittickJeffrey Dunn

|summary=Meet BosnerPetr is an orphan. Rescued by the strange, orreclusive Bear, to give him his full titlehe is brought up far from bustling cities and busy human society, Petty Officer Third Class Bosner. We never really find out if he has a first name: therein the forests of Washington's merely a hint that he had the nickname 'Secretary' at one pointOlympic Peninsula. He's simply Bosner to one After Bear dies and a brief sojourn in human company, and all. When we first encounter him he's exploring his memories of 2008 when he was armed with only a greaser pirate radio transmitter, Petr goes on helicopters (or helosa journey through the forest, as they were called) at a naval establishment. The hours could be long and he was often working nights but at broadcasting the age of twenty-onestrange, there was always a way to work some fun (think drinking wild and eating) into his dayrarely heard voices he encounters.

|author=Sarah 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=B095CY7NBNB0BC3YTCMR|title=Autumn CampGood Girls Die|author=Barry FowlerAyura Ayira

|summary=It ''This story 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 be Brianhug her in case it's last campcontagious. HeIt'd founded the organisation some four years ago and had done all the organisation since but he was leaving school and the time had come to hand the reins to someone elses not easy being a black girl whose skin is 84% white. The obvious person was Gary, who'd always been the fun element of the camps and Brian She had said that a crush on this camp, Gary should act as the leader and seventeen-year-old Reggie Anderson but never thought he'd just be there to observewould notice her. The problem with this Then he did: Lavender was that Gary wasn't really an organiser, an administrator very good at math and Reggie asked if you likeshe would tutor him. He She readily agreed: tutoring was the entertainer, the person who basked in the spotlight and made things fun - so Brian stepped in and something she gladly did the organisingat church: this was just an extension. He handed the camp over - She went to his house and then took it backhe raped her. And Gary determined In shock, she even allowed him to have his revenge. This should have been ''his'' campgive her a lift home.

|authorisbn=John Boyne1472263936|title=The Echo ChamberFigurine|author=Victoria Hislop

|summary=Meet George CleverleyIt was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. He is self-defined as "one of She was alone: her mother, Greek by birth, had left the few television personalities over the age of fifty without a criminal record". He starts this book a bit worried when his mistress tells him shefamily home and refused to return, but Mary and Hamish (Helena's carrying his child, but then his author wife is getting parents) felt that it would be a pity if Helena grew up without knowing her kicks with the Ukrainian partner "Strictly Come Dancing" paired grandparents or understanding her withGreek heritage. They have three children, who are a sadHer trip to the family apartment in up-sack with absolutely no social skills whatsoever, a girl who hangs around with a virtue-signalling, keyboard warrior "wokester" who wants market Kolonaki would be the first of several annual visits. She grew to save love her grandmother and the worldfamily's homeless with outmaid, Dina, but was wary - and frightened -of-date foodher grandfather, and a fit young lad doing the gay hustle thingretired general Stamatis Papagiannis. Add in a few other characters – therapists, lawyers, random transgender types – that all have two very different He was proud of his close connections to the Junta and expected his family to uphold his life, and you have something that suggests an almost farcical approach values but saw no reason to the modern worldaccommodate them. What suggests the farcical approach even more, however, is the fact this is bloody funnyHis prejudices included Helena's red hair and green eyes - inherited from her father's Scottish ancestors.|isbn=0857526219

|author=Dean Koontz|title=After Death|rating=3|genre=General Fiction|summary= Michael Mace, Head of Security, at a top secret biological research facility, is among 55 people who die when a virus is released in a bio-hazard accident. Finding himself in a makeshift mortuary, covered in plastic, he has a sense that something very, very bad has happened to him – and only him – as he sits up and looks around at the shrouded bodies of his dead friends and former colleagues. As he recovers his senses, he realises that there is something different about him; he can ''feel'' everything. ''Everything''. Michael isn't ''Michael'' anymore.|isbn=00084445011662500467}} {{Frontpage|isbn=B0BVDC2VWH|title=The Answer to EverythingGrave Listeners|author=Luke KennardWilliam Frank

|summary=Life should have been good for EmilyThe village is isolated and poor. She had a lovely husband, Steven, who was It's surrounded by a speech therapistWitching Forest. We'll pass over And the fact that they rarely speak to each other villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and don't even sleep in the same bedits blossom provides herbal medicines. It isn't so much that Emily has left the marital bed as that she's sharing a bed with one The black wood of her children as it's the only way to get him to sleep during the night. Arthur forest provides heat and Matty are gorgeous but they are a handful warmth, roofs on homes, and Emily has a job to cope with too - she teaches drama two days a weekeven gallows, if needed. They've not long moved into a new home The fear of being buried alive is an existential superstition in Criterion Gardens: it's the village and that is the reason Volushka, a trendy area that has been gentrified and it's run on semidrunken, self-communal lines. The residents even share eco-friendly electric cars rather than owning their ownindulgent, lazy lout of a man is tolerated.

|authorisbn=Louise BeechB0BYF82CXT|title=This Is How We Are HumanSemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone

|summary=Veronica is ''Bill and Amanda are living in a semi-detached house, stuck in a devoted single mother to her sondepressing rut of boredom and disappointment, when Terry and Fiona – glamorous, Sebastian - but she can't give him everything he wantssuccessful and very much in love – move in next door. Sebastian has decided that it's time Despite their different outlooks on life, the couples befriend each other and life appears to improve for him to have sexboth pairs. But as an autistic 20 year-oldall is not what it seems, thatand their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy.'s easier said than done. And it's starting to cause them both problems. |isbn=1913193713}}

|author=Ananda DeviShalini Boland|title=Eve Out of Her RuinsThe Silent Bride|rating=43

|summary=At not even 200 pagesAlice and Seth are a match made in heaven. He is everything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, Eve Out of Her Ruins clever, funny; total and utter husband-material. She is one of the shortest books I've read all he could possibly want in a long whilewife; beautiful, but it's one of successful, confident… and so the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and the most dramaticwedding is planned and set. It's also told in a way that I can only describe When the much-anticipated day arrives, Alice is walked down the aisle by her father, beaming with pride and excitement as brutal: it spares nothing she surveys the congregation – their friends assembled to celebrate this joyful day and pulls very few puncheswhen Seth turns to face his approaching bride, Alice's world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the descriptions stark and unromanticman at the altar is, who is waiting for her to become his wife.|isbn=09930093441662507089}}

|authorisbn=C J Carey1787636003|title=WidowlandThe Girls of Summer|author=Katie Bishop|rating=45

|summary=It's April 1953, was the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the state funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, parading Caroline went backpacking around a bit, Greece and watching over the sanctioned return to arrived on the throne of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallisisland. For yesRachel wasn't exactly innocent but she was, perhaps, naive, Britain caved in the leadso when thirty-four-year-up old Alistair Wright started to the World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it, and we are now a protectorate – welltake an interest in her, we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''she was flattered rather than wary. But this is most certainly It was quite a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and ideas while before he made any sort of female purpose, has put all of that gender into a caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs physical approach to the drudges, her and beyond thoseby that time she was obsessed by him. Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, right looking after his interests on down to the childless, the husbandless island and the widows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. And in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with particular in the task of bowdlerising classical literature to take bar where all encouragement for female emancipation out of it – after all, not every book can be banned, 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 for reprint. That is her job, at least, until the first emerging signs of female protest come to light, with their potential to spoil Hitler's visitgirls either worked or partied.|isbn=152941198X

|isbnauthor=0857527231Amanda Craig|title=Dog Days|author=Ericka WallerThree Graces|rating=4.5

|summary=George Dempsey is exceedingly angryFew styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of-the-nation novel. ItThere's eight days since his wife, Ellen, died something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the atmosphere of the day and capture it's , crafting an image of the first time country as it stands in one particular moment. To say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's let him downpractically synonymous with the genre of contemporary social fiction at this point. He's lost, bereft without her ( he ''needs his wife, like She has such a snail needs its shell''). He misses their ordered life and rather than bringing him meals to leave on gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the doorstep, he'd much rather have a good row with someone. He's particularly angry about day into the dachshund puppy which Helen brought home just three weeks before she died. She even dared to contradict him when he told lives of her characters in a way that the dog wasn't staying. Now he's lumbered with a dog he doesn't want feels natural and a load of busybodies who are trying to interfere lived-in his life. Worst of all is Betty, who won't take no never making them ciphers for an answer. Betty knits jumpers for Luckysocial commentary but instead fully realised people, her greyhound. Lucky spends a lot of time trying to escape from and destroy themgrappling with issues far larger than themselves.|isbn= 140871468X

|authorisbn=Martin Venning152915118X|title=The Primary ObjectivePineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson|rating=24.5

|summary= Sometimes ''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 book starts off slowlyStockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the tribe. The problem's exacerbated when the clan matriarch, Tilda, but eventually draws you in asks Cord and Sasha if they'd like to caring about move into the characters Pineapple Street property. Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to another property, a street or simply wanting to know what happens nextso away, which they own. Sometimes it doesnThey won'tneed any of the furniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and Cord can move straight in. The basic premise is a good one – a clandestine organisationNominally, operating as they had a charity, choice but funded by various governments around that wasn't the world reality. Darley and partially (maybe, IGeorgiana start to call Sasha 'the gold digger'. She's living in ''their'' family home. They use it so often that they abbreviate it to 'm not sure) under the auspices of GD'.}}{{Frontpage|author=Emily Critchley|title=One Puzzling Afternoon|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=84 year old Edie has lived in the UNsame 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 the primary objective of keeping the peacehis family, by any means possibleas Edie is starting to lose her memory. Diplomacy However, Edie is always tormented by the first option memory of her childhood friend, Lucy, who went missing over 60 years ago, and sometimes one the worry that needs to there was a secret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be carried out by third parties, but for situations when the thing that looks unlikely to yield results Peace International maintains a call-on list reveals the truth of field operativeswhat happened all that time ago. After 'seeing' Lucy in the high street, ex-militaryjust as she was the last time she saw her, medicsshe starts to find pockets of memories coming back to her. And yet as she remembers the past, scientists or anyone else with a taste for adventure she is forgetting more and willing more in her day to risk their day life for . Will she uncover the sake of it.truth about Lucy's disappearance before her move, and before her memories are gone forever?|isbn=18004611001804181250

|author=Karen M McManusMadelaine Lucas|title=Thirst for Salt|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= ''Love, I'd read, was supposed to be a light and weightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravity'' Told from a retrospective view, a young woman unravels the year-long relationship that once defined her. Overlaid with later wisdom, the narrator relives the affair with a man twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the summer after. Set against the backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the 24-year-old narrator's deepening relationship with her older lover, depicting its all-consuming nature, how it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and how it altered her irrevocably.|isbn=0861546490}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008506337|title=The CousinsGarnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore

|summary= The rich love affair between Margo Garnett and famous Story family led a life of luxury poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, apparently on Gull Cove Island, until 25 years ago both sides. Margo was just sixteen when each of the Story children they fell in love. Richard was twenty- Anders, Archer, Adam one and Allison 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 - received going to Oxford and having a mysterious letter from their mother and were cut off completelyglittering career. But now In the event, a quarter they eloped and Richard took her away from the Isle of a century later, their children have been called Wight. Margo did go to return Oxford and went on to the island for the summer by their grandmotherbecome a well-respected journalist. What does she want with the cousins? Why did she cut off her The couple had three children all those years ago? Are the deaths on Gull Cove Island really what they seem? The dark web of twisted lies: Rachel, secrets Imogen and tragedy that has held Sasha. Life was lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, the Story family up - and held them apart - for a quarter home on the Isle of a century is Wight. Even then the doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able to come crashing downleave him in charge''.|isbn=0241376947Then Richard left them.

|authorisbn=Ruth Hogan1914585402|title=Madame BurovaDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross

|summary=This I reviewed David F Ross's book lets us discover several people in different stages of life in the early 1970s, all vaguely connected. So we have a bullied half-cast boy (as he would have been called then), a girl in a humdrum job wanting to become a singer, and chiefly, Imelda, the third generation of Madame Burova, ''Tarot-Reader, Palmist and Clairvoyant'', to use her family[[There's sea-front booth. The singer, the scryer and the suffererOnly One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's mother will all become staff at Only One Danny Garvey]] a revamped holiday camp, but just before then we see Imelda fly solo for the first time in the family stallcouple of years back and remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and affecting it was. We also see her on her last day, fifty years later, in possession of a pair of letters that will change everything for It was a woman called Billie. Just who is shegripping, and who delivered the secrets about her to Imeldaemotionally wounding read, and why did rereading my review of it my main takeaway was that I might not have to remain a secret all this time?|isbn=152937331Xlavished enough praise on it.

|author=Stephen ClarkeLucy Ashe|title=Clara and Olivia|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=The year is 1933. The Spy Who Inspired Meplace? Sadler's Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, twins no less. Identical on the outside but not, we learn, on the inside. And not on stage, either. Because there's a lot that builds a dancer. Some things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, attention to detail – and some things, that ''je ne sais quoi'', that don't come from the classroom. A stage presence, a charm, a ''joie de vivre''. The difference between a hard-worker, and a star.|isbn=0861544080}}{{Frontpage|author=Heather Fawcett|title=Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

|summary=This Emily Wilde is a spoof spy storyan expert academic scholar on faerie lore, that isnand she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life't about James Bonds work, the very first encyclopaedia of faeries. Or Ian FlemingWhilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, she is not so good with people. But it features a man called Ian LemmingSo when she finds herself far, far North in the small village of Hrafvsnik, who dresses well and 'likes having somehow offended the ladies' village matriarch, she is not sure what she has done, nor how to redeem herself and who works put her final investigations for her book back on the secret service, but in the planning side of things more than the active serviceright track. Lemming finds himself put on a mission with a female spy called MargauxEnter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and the pair end up stranded in Normandyinsufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, with Margaux on a desperate mission to unearth traitors in the resistance networkall charm and delight, and Lemming desperately trying much to keep up Emily's frustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with her!the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|isbn=29521638550356519120

|isbn=1398515388|title=The Boy and the Dog|author=Andrea Bajani Seishu Hase and Elizabeth Harris Alison Watts (translator)|title=If You Kept a Record of Sins

|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=This First of all, it was an incredibly readable novellathe earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and this, in turn, but one that left me a little conflictedcaused the nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and utter devastation. We start as our hero arrives at Bucharest airport The deaths were uncountable, and before we even know his gender or the nature 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 convenience store owner's comment that hewould call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and Tamon the dog jumped in.}} {{Frontpage|author=Christopher Bowden|title=Mr Magenta|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary= Christopher Bowden's addressing in his second person monologue latest novel is a patient untangling of a narration, we see him picked up by his motherseemingly ordinary woman's chauffeurlife, carried out by her nephew after she has died. The aunt who always provided a safe harbour and carted off a little bit of indulgence to do a young nephew had had a much more interesting life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and it seems to him an obligation to find it all the necessary introductions before said mother is buried the following dayout. The mother was a businesswoman|isbn= B0B6Z9VJDW}}{{Frontpage|author=Jennifer Mason|title=Partitions of Unity|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary= Here at Bookbag Towers, we first met Elizabeth Cromwell, who clearly left northern Italy dominatrix and settled unintentional detective in Romania with her (night-time and business) partner[[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], when she investigated and feelings unravelled a series of abandonment are still strongdisappearances. And so we flit from current (well, this came out in the original Italian in 2007, so moderately current) Bucharest, to the ladIn ''Partitions of Unity''s childhood, and see just what he has she sets her mind to tell her as solving a private farewell addressmurder...|isbn=1939810965B09LQR9FRF

|author=David F RossWill Carver|title= There's Only One Danny GarveyThe Daves Next Door|rating=4.5

|summary= Years ago, Danny Garvey was Five strangers come together in one moment as a footballing prodigy playing for suicide bomber prepares to detonate his local clubvest on a London tube line. Everyone predicted a bright future – but his career As their fates overlap, the story is told in professional football never quite worked out. Thirteen years onbackwards order, convinced to return home by his "uncle" Higgy leading up to visit his dying mother, Danny takes over the shambolic and once-great team he used to play for and tries to reform themfateful moment.|isbn= 19131935001914585186

|author=Gail HoneymanJennifer Mason|title=Eleanor Oliphant is Completely FinePreposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery|rating=4.5

|summary= Eleanor Oliphant is almost 30. She lives in Glasgow''A struggling poetry zine, alone. And she likes it that way. She works 9a mom-and-5pop mobile diner in the Northern California redwoods, 5 days a week, and spends 400-meter hurdler who just missed the weekend not drunk2004 Olympics, but not sober. alone. And she likes it that way. She lives by a routine, and thatwomen's fine, thankyouverymuch. Nothing is missing from her life. Except everything is. Until one day, at track coach with a concert she won tickets yen for in an office rafflebullwhips, she sees a billionaire with a state-of-the -art S&M dungeon, a man she is sure will be her husband. Eleanor begins serving a journey to make herself the best version of herself that she canlife sentence in Alabama, in order to secure this beautiful musician. Thenan enigmatic signature, as she'K(s , x), on her way home one Fridaya cheap oil painting, she and the new IT guy at her office see a man collapse an erotic art dealer in the street and stay close to him in hospitalGeorgia... Then, before she knows it, her once quiet life becomes '' This is just a hubbub sample of social engagements with the man's family and friends, with Raymond from IT cast of characters and of course her side project of falling settings in love with Johnnie LomondPreposterous. But just as her life seems to be looking upAs you can see, things take a turn for the worse. Is Johnnie all he's cracked some keeping up to will be? What secrets does Eleanor have from her childhood? Eleanor's walls have been broken down and she has to fight her way out required! The basic premise of the shadows - but maybe she doesn't have to do it alonethis mystery story goes like this...|isbn=0008172145B09STS96HS

|isbn=B08GFSK2WZB0B2N7MVYM|title=The Karma TrapCalculations of Rational Men|author=Lisette BoydDaniel Godfrey|rating=45|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=George Jackson It's the 10th of December 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marr. Just to put what happens in context, the Cuban missile crisis is thirty-three years old, absolutely gorgeous still very fresh in people's minds. The world has barely had a chance to look at - and singlebreathe out. SheBut for Joe Marr, it's not had sex for eight months and shethe missile crisis that's stuck in at the karma trap: an awful lot front of bad luck is being visited on her and she has a real talent for attracting dramahis mind. Her lifeHe's chaotic: she dealt with been convicted of murder. With the leak from the shower by putting something down at the bottom current state of the stairs medical knowledge, it's hard to absorb think otherwise than that the water - then the shower fell through the roof whilst she was prosecution would never have been brought but Joe Marr has spent his first few days in it and left herHMP Queen's Bench, stark naked, staring at the pervy postmana relatively new prison. She only has to take her motherHe's dog out for a walk for her just getting used to end up with dog poo spattered across her face - his roommate, Mervyn, and a photo being taken by someone who shares it around learning to be wary of the officeMcArthur brothers.