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|author=Ewald Arenz and Rachel Ward (translator)Onyi Nwabineli|title=Tasting SunlightAllow Me to Introduce Myself
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|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Sally is a teenager who has run away from an anorexia treatment clinic. She just wants spaceAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, and for people thanks to stop questioning herstep-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, tiptoeing around 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 fix regain her confidence and to get her without ever truly understanding life back, suing her step-mother to take down the content about her. She finds herself on some farmland with a woman called Liss who Anuri is in battling alcoholism, failing to start her forties PhD, undergoing therapy and seems to live alonesecretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Liss Most importantly, she is unlike any other adult Sally has ever metdesperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of Ophelia's online empire. She just accepts Sally as Can she is, giving save her a room to sleep insister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the space to just be. As they work together on the farm, a closeness develops between them, becoming a beautiful, powerful friendship.same time?|isbn=19145851430861546873
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|isbn= B09NDJ77LM1529153298|title=Me 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 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'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and My Shadowshe'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035906708|title=Diva|author=Deborah StoneDaisy Goodwin|rating=4.5
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|summary= ''What happens when someone is pushed too far and they begin We tend to lose their grip on reality? How would you cope if you felt that no one loved you? And how far would you go to be happy? Accompany Rachel think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she tries was born to shake off the shadows of her past Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and attempts only moved to repair decades worth of painAthens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' Rachel is 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 current conversation with her psychiatrist, mother who pushes mercilessly exploited her to recall her life from very young childhood onwards. But Rachel is combative with Doctor Blake, sometimes even contemptuous and made no secret of her. You can see that it's not an easy therapeutic relationship. Rachel's recall of preference for her life is in remarkable detail. She remembers each minor slight and each major betrayal in perfect detail with absolute and unforgiving clarityelder sister, Jackie.
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|isbnauthor=B09MSC981WAlexander McCall Smith|title=The Woke Iliad|author=George BoreasPerfect Passion Company|rating=4.5
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|summary=Helen The Perfect Passion Company is a popular activistdating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Or should we call Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a popular influencer? Or perhaps trip to Canada to get away for a while. Katie is coming out of a break up with a popular franchise owner? Anywaybad boyfriend, Helen is and so popular that jumps at the United States government has made her its Ambassador of Wokechance to come home to Edinburgh. Helen runs all sorts of initiatives on behalf of the government And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, including the Shaming Conference thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Permissible Entertainment Committee 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''for indoctrinating s always her very helpful (and legislating against summer fun for any who still knew how rather handsome) neighbour, William, to have it''. Ouch!lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596
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|isbnauthor=0008441618Dean Koontz|title=Other Parents|author=Sarah StovellThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Women's FictionParanormal|summary=Jo Fairburn knew 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 she whoever or whatever was under intense pressure as inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the new head of West Burntridge First School: if she didn't live up very last person to her retired predecessor there could well be deserve all this bad luck. He is a house price slump in that part of the townnice person. A really nice person. The school had an active Parent Teacher Association and So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the funds which they raised were delivery to his house is a new friend, a considerable benefit bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to the schoolhelp him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. There was one difficultySpike is going to take care of Benny, though - they were ''devastatingly shockable'and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, with two membersif he, in particularBenny, causing problems for the head. Laura Spence and Kate Monroe objected to JoHarper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's restrictions on the toys children could bring in on Toy Day but that was just a warm-up act for their real gripe: LGBTQ educationwild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491
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|author=Giovanna FletcherKatherine Howe|title=Walking on SunshineA True Account|rating=4.5|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Mike's wife, PiaHannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to live with a family who he was with for seventeen yearsrun an inn, has diedand being made to work there from a young age. And whilst he When she hears there is dealing with his griefto be a hanging of some pirates in the town, so are their best friends, Vicky she decides to go and Zazawatch. But Pia left them all some Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy'rules' to follows death at the hands of two vicious pirates. She hides away, knowing so that she was dying they don't find and that they would need help to carry on living. Whilst some of the rules are around practicalities such as clearing out kill her wardrobetoo, another one that Mike discovers one day encourages him and then to take one of their trips escape them completely she runs awayto sea, dressing as a boy and Vicky and Zazajoining the notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. She soon finds herself in the thick of things when there is a mutiny on board, struggling with their grief and their own from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life troubles, decide to drop everything in their own lives, and go along with himon the ocean waves.|isbn=140593560X0861547438
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|authorisbn=Antoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)1471180158|title=Red is My HeartMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating=34.5|genre=Literary General Fiction |summary=[[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white and read Jamie Matson works in my housean upper-class grocery store, for a man who's a control freak with all the subtlety of a half brick. And so was this one Jamie's son, although I could have spelled that more accurately – this one wasBo, 'has his problems'. He's asthmatic and is, black and white and red. Yesthe more you read, the more you'll suspect that he has an artistic collaborator 's on this piece, the autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's a frequent flier in the local A&E and I think itsometimes Bo's possible not fit enough to go to say not one page lacks school. Missed shifts or the need to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the influence of some striking visual ideaswrong. It was going to come to a head.|isbn=1913547183
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|authorisbn=Andrew SharpB0CKD1L5JL|title=The Chef, the Bird and the BlessingRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= Chef Mlantushi - Mozzy to his employer - Petr isan orphan. Rescued by the strange, in his mindreclusive Bear, the head chef of a safari business catering to VIP guests in an unnamed African country. Mozzy he is earnest brought up far from bustling cities and dedicated to his task and he puts all of himself into creating fine cuisine dishes for busy human society, in the guests at BOD-W safaris but his dream is to become the head chef forests of a restaurant in London or a big American cityWashington's Olympic Peninsula. Even to win After Bear dies and a Michelin star. He is thwarted brief sojourn in this ambition by his bosshuman company, Mr Bin (Ben to you and me) who incurs Mozzy's disapproval for his scruffy waysarmed with only a pirate radio transmitter, his uninterest in his guests and - shockPetr goes on a journey through the forest, horror - his allowing of bush animals into broadcasting the housestrange, wild and rarely heard voices he encounters.|isbn=B09926MK8H
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|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=19015149781035401614}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0BC3YTCMR|title=There's a Problem With DadGood Girls Die|author=Carlos AlbaAyura Ayira
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Life ''This story is different not for George Lovelace 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 he cansuffered from vitiligo - people were afraid to hug her in case it't really understand whys contagious. HeIt's always done everything he ought to: steady worker, husband and father - and not easy being a father who was always there for school plays and sports daysblack girl whose skin is 84% white. So why is She had a crush on seventeen-year-old Reggie Anderson but never thought he never quite in tune with those around him? would notice her. Why does Then he upset people? did: Lavender was very good at math and Reggie asked if she would tutor him. Why is someone with such a ''good'' mind unable to progress She readily agreed: tutoring was something she gladly did at work or to relate church: this was just an extension. She went to his colleagues? Why does house and he make so many breath-taking gaffes? raped her. It's almost become a cliche these days In shock, she even allowed him to suggest that someone who is give her a little different is 'on the spectrum', but George Lovelace has all the symptoms of Asperger's Syndrome: high-functioning autismlift home.
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|authorisbn=Freya Sampson1472263936|title=The Last LibraryFigurine|author=Victoria Hislop|rating=45
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=I am always a little nervous It was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to start a story about a library, since I am a librarianGreece. I always grit my teeth slightly at the thought of the incoming cardigan-wearing, hair in a bun, cat-owning She was alone: her mother, glasses on a chain stereotypes! In this storyGreek by birth, had left the main character, June, does put her hair in a bunfamily home and refused to return, but Mary and she does own a cat Hamish (called Alan BennettHelena's parents), and she has barely any friends and spends felt that it would be a pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her evenings eating Greek heritage. Her trip to the same Chinese takeaway meal once a week whilst reading books alone! But I didn't immediately throw family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be the book out first of the window, because I found I was interested in June, and why she lived as she didseveral annual visits. Her mum used She grew to be a librarian at love her grandmother and the village libraryfamily's maid, Dina, but when she got sick, June gave up on going to University was wary - and stayed at home to take care frightened - of her mumgrandfather, as well as taking on a job as library assistant at retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. He was proud of his close connections to the local libraryJunta and expected his family to uphold his values but saw no reason to accommodate them. And even though her mum sadly died some years ago, she is still working there, still eating her mum His prejudices included Helena's favourite takeaway meal, red hair and still reading green eyes - inherited from her mumfather's old books. June is stuck, but little does she know, everything in her life is about the changeScottish ancestors.|isbn=183877369X
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|author=Emily CritchleyDean Koontz|title=The Tiny Gestures of Small FlowersAfter Death
|rating=3
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= The Tiny Gestures of Small Flowers had all the hallmarks 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 good. I was intrigued by the plotvery, liked very bad has happened to him – and only him – as he sits up and looks around at the design shrouded bodies of the bookhis dead friends and former colleagues. As he recovers his senses, and thought the authorhe realises that there is something different about him; he can ''feel'' everything. ''Everything''s work sounded interesting. From the outset it all looked incredibly promising Michael isn't ''Michael'' anymore. So what on earth went wrong here?|isbn= 19114270911662500467
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|isbn=B093VPBL5LB0BVDC2VWH|title=Cape Henry HouseThe Grave Listeners|author=Jolly Walker BittickWilliam Frank
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Meet Bosner, or, to give him his full title, Petty Officer Third Class BosnerThe village is isolated and poor. We never really find out if he has a first name: thereIt's merely surrounded by a hint that he had Witching Forest. And the nickname 'Secretary' at one point. He's simply Bosner to one villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and allits blossom provides herbal medicines. When we first encounter him he's exploring his memories The black wood of 2008 when he was a greaser the forest provides heat and warmth, roofs on helicopters (or heloshomes, as they were called) at a naval establishmentand even gallows, if needed. The hours could be long fear of being buried alive is an existential superstition in the village and he was often working nights but at that is the age of twentyreason Volushka, a drunken, self-oneindulgent, there was always lazy lout of a way to work some fun (think drinking and eating) into his dayman is tolerated.
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|isbn=B095CY7NBNB0BYF82CXT|title=Autumn CampSemi-Detached|author=Barry FowlerDeborah Stone|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=''Bill and Amanda are living in a semi-detached house, stuck in a depressing rut of boredom and disappointment, when Terry and Fiona – glamorous, successful and very much in love – move in next door. Despite their different outlooks on life, the couples befriend each other and life appears to improve for both pairs. But all is not what it seems, and their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy.''}}{{Frontpage|author=Shalini Boland|title=The Silent Bride|rating=3|genre=General Fiction|summary= Alice and Seth are a match made in heaven. He is everything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, clever, funny; total and utter husband-material. She is all he could possibly want in a wife; beautiful, successful, confident… and so the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and the wedding is planned and set. When the much-anticipated day arrives, Alice is walked down the aisle by her father, beaming with pride and excitement as she surveys the congregation – their friends assembled to celebrate this joyful day and when Seth turns to face his approaching bride, Alice's world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the man at the altar is, who is waiting for her to become his wife.|isbn=1662507089}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787636003|title=The Girls of Summer|author=Katie Bishop|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It was the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the island. Rachel wasn't exactly innocent but she was, perhaps, naive, so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to take an interest in her, she was flattered rather than wary. It was quite a while before he made any sort of physical approach to her and by that time she was obsessed by him. Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, looking after his interests on the island and in particular in the bar where all the girls either worked or partied.}}{{Frontpage|author=Amanda Craig|title=Three Graces|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary= Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of-the-nation novel. There's something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the atmosphere of the day and capture it, crafting an image of the country as it stands in one particular moment. To say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's practically synonymous with the genre of contemporary social fiction at this point. She has such a gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the day into the lives of her characters in a way that feels natural and lived-in, never making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselves.|isbn= 140871468X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=152915118X|title=Pineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson
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|summary=It was to be Brian's last camp'Pineapple Street'' is the story of three women: Sasha, Darley and Georgiana. He'd founded the organisation some four years ago Darley and had done all the organisation since but he was leaving school George are sisters and the time had come Sasha is married to hand their brother Cord. They're Stocktons, only Sasha isn't a Stockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the reins to someone elsetribe. The obvious person was Gary, whoproblem'd always been s exacerbated when the fun element of the camps and Brian had said that on this campclan matriarch, Tilda, Gary should act as the leader asks Cord and heSasha if they'd just be there like to observemove into the Pineapple Street property. The problem with this was that Gary wasn't really an organiserTilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to another property, a street or so away, an administrator if you likewhich they own. He was They won't need any of the entertainerfurniture from Pineapple Street, the person who basked in the spotlight so Sasha and made things fun - so Brian stepped Cord can move straight in and did the organising. He handed Nominally, they had a choice but that wasn't the camp over - and then took it backreality. And Gary determined Darley and Georgiana start to have his revengecall Sasha 'the gold digger'. This should have been She's living in ''their'his'family home. They use it so often that they abbreviate it to 'the GD' camp.
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|author=Emily 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?
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|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.
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|authorisbn=John Boyne0008506337|title=The Echo ChamberGarnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Meet George CleverleyThe love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, apparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in love. He is selfRichard was twenty-defined one and described by Margo's mother as "one of the few television personalities over the age of fifty without a criminal record"'an older man'. He starts this book a bit Her parents worried when his mistress tells him shethat Richard's carrying his childinfluence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and having a glittering career. In the event, but then his author wife is getting they eloped and Richard took her kicks with away from the Ukrainian partner "Strictly Come Dancing" paired her withIsle of Wight. Margo did go to Oxford and went on to become a well-respected journalist. They have The couple had three children: Rachel, who are a sad-sack with absolutely no social skills whatsoever, a girl who hangs around with a virtue-signalling, keyboard warrior "wokester" who wants to save the world's homeless with out-of-date food, Imogen and a fit young lad doing the gay hustle thingSasha. Add Life was lived in a few other characters – therapistsLondon and holidays were spent at Sandcove, lawyers, random transgender types – that all have two very different connections to his life, and you have something that suggests an almost farcical approach to the modern worldfamily home on the Isle of Wight. What suggests Even then the farcical approach even more, however, is the fact this is bloody funnydoubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able to leave him in charge''.|isbn=0857526219Then Richard left them.
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|isbn=00084445011914585402|title=The Answer to EverythingDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=Luke KennardDavid F Ross|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Life should have been good for Emily. She had a lovely husband, Steven, who was a speech therapist. WeI reviewed David F Ross'll pass over the fact that they rarely speak to each other and dons book [[There't even sleep in the same bed. It isn't so much that Emily has left the marital bed as that shes Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's sharing Only One Danny Garvey]] a bed with one couple of her children as years back and remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and affecting it's the only way to get him to sleep during the nightwas. Arthur and Matty are gorgeous but they are It was a handful gripping, emotionally wounding read, and Emily has a job to cope with too - she teaches drama two days a week. They've not long moved into a new home in Criterion Gardens: rereading my review of it's a trendy area my main takeaway was that has been gentrified and I might not have lavished enough praise on it's run on semi-communal lines. The residents even share eco-friendly electric cars rather than owning their own.
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|author=Louise BeechLucy Ashe|title=This Is How We Are HumanClara and Olivia|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Veronica The year is a devoted single mother to her son1933. The place? Sadler's Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, Sebastian - twins no less. Identical on the outside but she cannot, we learn, on the inside. And not on stage, either. Because there't give him everything he wantss a lot that builds a dancer. Sebastian has decided Some things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, attention to detail – and some things, that it's time for him to have sex. But as an autistic 20 year-old'je ne sais quoi'', thatdon's easier said than donet come from the classroom. And itA stage presence, a charm, a ''joie de vivre''s starting to cause them both problems. The difference between a hard-worker, and a star. |isbn=19131937130861544080}}
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|author=Ananda DeviHeather Fawcett|title=Eve Out Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Her RuinsFaeries
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=At not even 200 pagesEmily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life's work, Eve Out the very first encyclopaedia of Her Ruins faeries. Whilst she is one brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, she is not so good with people. So when she finds herself far, far North in the small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the shortest books I've read in a long whilevillage matriarch, she is not sure what she has done, but it's one of nor how to redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on the most dramaticright track. It's also told in a way that I can only describe as brutal: it spares nothing Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and pulls very few punchesinsufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, the descriptions stark all charm and unromanticdelight, much to Emily's frustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|isbn=09930093440356519120}}
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|authorisbn=C J Carey1398515388|title=WidowlandThe Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=It's April 1953, and Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the state funeral First of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to Londonall, parading around a bit, and watching over the sanctioned return to it was the throne of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallis. For yesearthquake, Britain caved deep in the lead-up to ocean floor, which created the World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know ittsunami and this, and we are now a protectorate – wellin turn, we share enough of caused the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and utter devastation. But this is most certainly a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenologyThe deaths were uncountable, and ideas of female purpose, has put all the loss of livelihoods was widespread. The fact that gender into a caste system, ranging many pets were separated from high-brow office bigwigs to the drudges, and beyond those, right on their owners came far down to the childless, the husbandless and the widows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. And in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with the task list of bowdlerising classical literature to take all encouragement for female emancipation out of it – priorities but - six months after all, not every book can be banned, and not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, and so they just get the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a hefty tweak towards the party line before they're stamped ready for reprintconvenience store. That is her job, at least, until He wasn't a dog person but the first emerging signs of female protest come to light, with their potential to spoil Hitlerconvenience store owner's visitcomment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and Tamon the dog jumped in.|isbn=152941198X
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|isbnauthor=0857527231Christopher Bowden|title=Dog Days|author=Ericka WallerMr Magenta|rating=54
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=George Dempsey is exceedingly angry. ItChristopher Bowden's eight days since his wife, Ellen, died and itlatest novel is a patient untangling of a seemingly ordinary woman's the first time that she's let him down. He's lostlife, bereft without carried out by her ( he ''needs his wife, like a snail needs its shell''). He misses their ordered life and rather than bringing him meals to leave on the doorstep, he'd much rather have a good row with someone. He's particularly angry about the dachshund puppy which Helen brought home just three weeks before nephew after she has died. She even dared to contradict him when he told her that the dog wasn't staying. Now he's lumbered with The aunt who always provided a dog he doesn't want safe harbour and a load little bit of busybodies who are trying indulgence to interfere in his a young nephew had had a much more interesting life. Worst of all is Betty, who won't take no for than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and it seems to him an answer. Betty knits jumpers for Lucky, her greyhound. Lucky spends a lot of time trying obligation to escape from and destroy themfind it all out.|isbn= B0B6Z9VJDW
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|author=Martin VenningJennifer Mason|title=The Primary ObjectivePartitions of Unity|rating=24
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= Sometimes a book starts off slowlyHere at Bookbag Towers, but eventually draws you in to caring about the characters or simply wanting to know what happens next. Sometimes it doesn't. The basic premise is a good one – a clandestine organisationwe first met Elizabeth Cromwell, operating as a charity, but funded by various governments around the world dominatrix and partially (maybe, I'm not sure) under the auspices of the UN, with the primary objective of keeping the peace, unintentional detective in [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by any means possible. Diplomacy is always the first option and sometimes one that needs to be carried out by third partiesJennifer Mason|Preposterous]], but for situations when that looks unlikely to yield results Peace International maintains she investigated and unravelled a call-on list series of field operativesdisappearances. In ''Partitions of Unity'', ex-military, medics, scientists or anyone else with she sets her mind to solving a taste for adventure and willing to risk their life for the sake of itmurder...|isbn=1800461100B09LQR9FRF
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|author=Karen M McManusWill Carver|title=The CousinsDaves Next Door|rating=54
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= The rich and famous Story family led Five strangers come together in one moment as a life of luxury suicide bomber prepares to detonate his vest on Gull Cove Island, until 25 years ago when each of the Story children - Anders, Archer, Adam and Allison - received a mysterious letter from London tube line. As their mother and were cut off completely. But now, a quarter of a century laterfates overlap, their children have been called to return to the island for the summer by their grandmother. What does she want with the cousins? Why did she cut off her children all those years ago? Are the deaths on Gull Cove Island really what they seem? The dark web of twisted liesstory is told in backwards order, secrets and tragedy that has held the Story family leading up - and held them apart - for a quarter of a century is about to come crashing downthe fateful moment.|isbn=02413769471914585186}}
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|author=Ruth HoganJennifer Mason|title=Madame BurovaPreposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=This book lets us discover several people in different stages of life ''A struggling poetry zine, a mom-and-pop mobile diner in the early 1970sNorthern California redwoods, all vaguely connected. So we have a bullied half400-cast boy (as he would have been called then)meter hurdler who just missed the 2004 Olympics, a girl in women's track coach with a yen for bullwhips, a humdrum job wanting to become billionaire with a singerstate-of-the-art S&M dungeon, and chieflya man serving a life sentence in Alabama, Imeldaan enigmatic signature, the third generation of Madame BurovaK(s, ''Tarot-Readerx), Palmist and Clairvoyant''on a cheap oil painting, to use her familyan erotic art dealer in Georgia...'s sea-front booth. The singer, the scryer and the sufferer's mother will all become staff at This is just a revamped holiday camp, but just before then we see Imelda fly solo for sample of the first time cast of characters and settings in the family stallPreposterous. We also As you can see her on her last day, fifty years later, in possession some keeping up will be required! The basic premise of a pair of letters that will change everything for a woman called Billiethis mystery story goes like this... Just who is she, and who delivered the secrets about her to Imelda, and why did it have to remain a secret all this time?|isbn=152937331XB09STS96HS
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|authorisbn=Stephen ClarkeB0B2N7MVYM|title=The Spy Who Inspired MeCalculations of Rational Men|author=Daniel Godfrey|rating=45
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=This 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 a spoof spy story, that isnstill very fresh in people't about James Bonds minds. Or Ian FlemingThe world has barely had a chance to breathe out. But for Joe Marr, it features a man called Ian Lemming, who dresses well and 'likes s not the ladiesmissile crisis that' and who works for s at the secret service, but in the planning side front of his mind. He's been convicted of things more than the active servicemurder. Lemming finds himself put on a mission with a female spy called MargauxWith the current state of medical knowledge, and it's hard to think otherwise than that the pair end up stranded prosecution would never have been brought but Joe Marr has spent his first few days in NormandyHMP Queen's Bench, with Margaux on a desperate mission relatively new prison. He's just getting used to unearth traitors in the resistance networkhis roommate, Mervyn, and Lemming desperately trying learning to keep up with her!|isbn=2952163855be wary of the McArthur brothers.
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