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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=00084416181529153298|title=Other ParentsThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Sarah StovellJennie Godfrey

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Jo Fairburn knew that she was under intense pressure as the new head of West Burntridge First School: if she didnIt't live up to her retired predecessor there could well be a house price slump in that part of the towns 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. The school had an active Parent Teacher Association and the funds which they raised were a considerable benefit to the school(A woman? I mean, honestly... ) There was one difficultyShe's not what's worrying Miv's family, though - . Women have been disappearing. Well, they were 've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn'devastatingly shockablet sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, with two membersDown South is a frightening, in particularforeign place, causing problems for the headbest avoided. Laura Spence For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and Kate Monroe objected she'll do anything to Joprevent that. She's restrictions on not worried about the toys children could bring in on Toy Day but dangers or that was just a warmher Mum's stopped talking -up act for their real gripe: LGBTQ educationto anyone.

|authorisbn=Giovanna Fletcher1035906708|title=Walking on SunshineDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Mike's wifeWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, Pia, who he but she was with for seventeen yearsborn to Greek parents in Manhattan, has died. And whilst he is dealing with his griefNew York, so are their best friends, Vicky in December 1923 and Zazaonly moved to Athens when she was thirteen. But Pia left them all some Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'rulesCallas' to follow, knowing 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 dying 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 that they would need help operating as an alternative to carry on livingall the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Whilst some of Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the rules are around practicalities such business, as clearing out her wardrobe, another one that Mike discovers one day encourages him Ness is planning to take one a trip to Canada to get away for a while. Katie is coming out of their trips awaya break up with a bad boyfriend, and Vicky 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 Zazathe Isabel Dalhousie novels, struggling but with their grief and their own life troublessome new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, decide to drop everything but Ness has full confidence in their own livesher abilities, and go along with him.there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=140593560X1846976596

|author=Antoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)Dean Koontz|title=Red is My HeartThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=34.5|genre=Literary Fiction Paranormal|summary=[[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and white and read in my his housegets trashed. And so 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 onebad 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, although I could have spelled that more accurately – this one wasa bad weather friend called Spike, and who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Spike isgoing to take care of Benny, black and white and red. Yeswill certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he has an artistic collaborator on this piece, Benny, and I think itHarper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's possible to say not one page lacks the influence of some striking visual ideaswild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=19135471831662500491

|author=Andrew SharpKatherine Howe|title=The Chef, the Bird and the BlessingA True Account|rating=4.5

|summary= Chef Mlantushi - Mozzy to his employer - Hannah Masury is, living in his mindBoston, the head chef of having been sent to live with a safari business catering family who run an inn, and being made to VIP guests in an unnamed African countrywork there from a young age. Mozzy When she hears there is earnest and dedicated to his task and he puts all be a hanging of himself into creating fine cuisine dishes for some pirates in the guests town, she decides to go and watch. Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death at BOD-W safaris but his dream is to become the head chef hands of a restaurant in London or a big American citytwo vicious pirates. Even She hides away, so that they don't find and kill her too, and then to escape them completely she runs away to win sea, dressing as a boy and joining the notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a Michelin starcabin boy. He She soon finds herself in the thick of things when there is thwarted in this ambition by his bossa mutiny on board, Mr Bin (Ben to you and me) who incurs Mozzy's disapproval for his scruffy ways, his uninterest from there we are caught up in his guests and - shock, horror - his allowing her rip roaring tale of bush animals into life on the houseocean waves.|isbn=B09926MK8H0861547438

|isbn=19015149781471180158|title=There's a Problem With DadMaybe Tomorrow|author=Carlos AlbaPenny Parkes

|summary=Life is different Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for George Lovelace and he cana man who's a control freak with all the subtlety of a half brick. Jamie's son, Bo, 'has his problems't really understand why. He's always done everything asthmatic and the more you read, the more you'll suspect that he ought 's on the autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to: steady worker, husband and father take time off at short notice - she's a frequent flier in the local A&E and a father who was always there for sometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to school plays and sports days. So why is he never quite in tune with those around him? Why does he upset people? Why is someone with such a ''good'' mind unable to progress at work Missed shifts or the need to relate be away on time to his colleagues? Why does he make so many breath-taking gaffes? pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the wrong. It's almost become a cliche these days was going to come to suggest that someone who is a little different is 'on the spectrum', but George Lovelace has all the symptoms of Asperger's Syndrome: high-functioning autismhead.

|authorisbn=Freya SampsonB0CKD1L5JL|title=The Last LibraryRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn

|summary=I am always a little nervous to start a story about a library, since I am a librarianPetr is an orphan. I always grit my teeth slightly at the thought of Rescued by the incoming cardigan-wearingstrange, hair in a bunreclusive Bear, cat-owning, glasses on a chain stereotypes! In this storyhe is brought up far from bustling cities and busy human society, in the main character, June, does put her hair in a bun, forests of Washington's Olympic Peninsula. After Bear dies and she does own a cat (called Alan Bennett), and she has barely any friends and spends her evenings eating the same Chinese takeaway meal once a week whilst reading books alone! But I didn't immediately throw the book out of the window, because I found I was interested brief sojourn in Junehuman company, and why she lived as she did. Her mum used to be armed with only a librarian at the village librarypirate radio transmitter, but when she got sick, June gave up on going to University and stayed at home to take care of her mum, as well as taking Petr goes on a job as library assistant at journey through the local library. And even though her mum sadly died some years agoforest, she is still working there, still eating her mum's favourite takeaway mealbroadcasting the strange, wild and still reading her mum's old books. June is stuck, but little does she know, everything in her life is about the changerarely heard voices he encounters.|isbn=183877369X

|author=Emily CritchleySarah Marsh|title=The Tiny Gestures A Sign of Small FlowersHer Own|rating=3|genre=General Fiction|summary= The Tiny Gestures of Small Flowers had all the hallmarks of something good. I was intrigued by the plot, liked the design of the book, and thought the author's work sounded interesting. From the outset it all looked incredibly promising. So what on earth went wrong here?|isbn= 1911427091}} {{Frontpage|isbn=B093VPBL5L|title=Cape Henry House|author=Jolly Walker Bittick|rating=45

|summary=Meet BosnerAfter a bout of scarlet fever as a child, orEllen 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 give him his full titlea school where she is taught to lip read, Petty Officer Third Class Bosnerbut physically restrained from signing. We never really find out if he From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has a first name: there's merely a hint that he had been teaching the nickname 'Secretary' at one point. He's simply Bosner to one deaf and all. When we first encounter him he's exploring his memories of 2008 when he was using a greaser on helicopters (or helos, as they were system called) at a naval establishmentVisible Speech. The hours could be long At the same time, Bell is working on other inventions and he was often working nights but at the age of twenty-oneideas, there was always and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a way to work some fun (think drinking and eating) into his daycomplicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=1035401614

|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 a book starts off slowly''Pineapple Street'' is the story of three women: Sasha, but eventually draws you in Darley and Georgiana. Darley and George are sisters and Sasha is married to caring about the characters or simply wanting to know what happens nexttheir brother Cord. Sometimes it doesnThey're Stocktons, only Sasha isn't a Stockton by birth so she isn'treadily accepted into the tribe. The basic premise is a good one – a clandestine organisationproblem's exacerbated when the clan matriarch, operating as a charityTilda, but funded by various governments around the world asks Cord and partially (maybe, ISasha if they'm not sure) under the auspices of d like to move into the UN, with the primary objective of keeping the peace, by any means possiblePineapple Street property. Diplomacy is always the first option Tilda and Chip have renovated and sometimes one that needs downsized to be carried out by third partiesanother property, but for situations when that looks unlikely to yield results Peace International maintains a call-on list street or so away, which they own. They won't need any of field operativesthe furniture from Pineapple Street, ex-militaryso Sasha and Cord can move straight in. Nominally, medics, scientists or anyone else with they had a taste for adventure choice but that wasn't the reality. Darley and willing Georgiana start to risk call Sasha 'the gold digger'. She's living in ''their life for '' family home. They use it so often that they abbreviate it to 'the sake of itGD'.|isbn=1800461100

|author=Karen M McManusEmily Critchley|title=One Puzzling Afternoon|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=84 year old Edie has lived in the same small town for almost her whole life, but now she is facing a move as her son wants to move to another house and bring Edie to live with his family, as Edie is starting to lose her memory. However, Edie is tormented by the memory of 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 thing that reveals the truth of what happened all that time ago. After 'seeing' Lucy in the high street, just as she was the last time she saw her, she starts to find pockets of memories coming back to her. And yet as she remembers the past, she is forgetting more and more in her day to day life. Will she uncover the truth about Lucy's disappearance before her move, and 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 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 Sasha. Life was lived in London and tragedy that has held 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''. Then Richard left them.}} {{Frontpage|isbn=02413769471914585402|title=Dashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=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. It was a gripping, emotionally wounding read, and rereading my review of it my main takeaway was that I might not have lavished enough praise on it.

|author=Ruth HoganLucy Ashe|title=Madame BurovaClara and Olivia

|summary=This book lets us discover several people in different stages of life in The year is 1933. The place? Sadler's Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, twins no less. Identical on the early 1970soutside but not, all vaguely connectedwe learn, on the inside. So we have a bullied half-cast boy (as he would have been called then)And not on stage, either. Because there's a girl in lot that builds a humdrum job wanting dancer. Some things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, attention to become a singer, detail – and chiefly, Imelda, the third generation of Madame Burovasome things, that ''Tarot-Reader, Palmist and Clairvoyantje ne sais quoi'', to use her familythat don's sea-front bootht come from the classroom. The singerA stage presence, the scryer and the sufferer's mother will all become staff at a revamped holiday campcharm, but just before then we see Imelda fly solo for the first time in the family stalla ''joie de vivre''. We also see her on her last day, fifty years later, in possession of The difference between a pair of letters that will change everything for a woman called Billie. Just who is shehard-worker, and who delivered the secrets about her to Imelda, and why did it have to remain a secret all this time?star.|isbn=152937331X0861544080

|author=Stephen ClarkeHeather Fawcett|title=The Spy Who Inspired MeEmily 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