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|isbnauthor=1398515388Onyi Nwabineli|title=The Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)Allow Me to Introduce Myself
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=First of all, it was Anuri spent her childhood on display to the earthquakeworld, deep in the ocean floorthanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, which created the tsunami where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and this, in turnbasically, caused the nuclear meltdownmonetary gain. The result was complete Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and utter devastationto get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the content about her. The deaths were uncountableAnuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and the loss of livelihoods was widespreadreceiving money from them for doing so. The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the list new focus of priorities but - six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience storeOphelia's online empire. He wasn't a dog person but the convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and Tamon her relationship with her father at the dog jumped in.same time?|isbn=0861546873
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|authorisbn=Christopher Bowden1529153298|title=Mr MagentaThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=45
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|summary= Christopher BowdenIt's latest novel 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is a patient untangling of a seemingly ordinary Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's lifeworrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, carried out by but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her nephew after she has diedfather wants to move the family 'Down South'. The aunt who always provided When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a safe harbour frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and a little bit of indulgence she'll do anything to a young nephew had had a much more interesting life than prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that nephew Stephen had ever realised and it seems to him an obligation her Mum's stopped talking - to find it all outanyone. |isbn= B0B6Z9VJDW
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|authorisbn=Jennifer Mason1035906708|title=Partitions of UnityDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= Here at Bookbag TowersWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, we first met Elizabeth Cromwellbut she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, dominatrix New York, in December 1923 and unintentional detective in [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], only moved to Athens when she investigated and unravelled a series of disappearanceswas thirteen. In Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas'Partitions of Unity'', to make it more manageable in the States. When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she sets could get appropriate training for her mind to solving voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a murder..mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.|isbn=B09LQR9FRF
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|author=Will CarverAlexander McCall Smith|title=The Daves Next DoorPerfect Passion Company|rating=4.5
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|summary= Five strangers The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come together in one moment and look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a suicide bomber prepares trip to Canada to detonate his vest on get away for a London tube linewhile. As their fates overlap Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=The Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Paranormal|summary=Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He 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 told in backwards order, leading up 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 fateful momentdelivery 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= 19145851861662500491}}
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|author=Jennifer MasonKatherine Howe|title=Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell MysteryA True Account|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=''A struggling poetry zine, a mom-and-pop mobile diner Hannah Masury is living in the Northern California redwoodsBoston, having been sent to live with a 400-meter hurdler family who just missed the 2004 Olympicsrun an inn, and being made to work there from a women's track coach with a yen for bullwhips, young age. When she hears there is to be a billionaire with a state-hanging of-some pirates in the-art S&M dungeontown, a man serving a life sentence she decides to go and watch. Enthralled and horrified in Alabamaequal measure, an enigmatic signatureHannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death at the hands of two vicious pirates. She hides away, K(sso that they don't find and kill her too, x)and then to escape them completely she runs away to sea, on dressing as a cheap oil painting, an erotic art dealer in Georgia...boy and joining the notorious Ned Low'' This is just s pirate ship as a sample of cabin boy. She soon finds herself in the cast thick of characters things when there is a mutiny on board, and settings from there we are caught up in Preposterous. As you can see, some keeping up will be required! The basic premise her rip roaring tale of this mystery story goes like this..life on the ocean waves.|isbn=B09STS96HS0861547438
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|isbn=B0B2N7MVYM1471180158|title=The Calculations of Rational MenMaybe Tomorrow|author=Daniel GodfreyPenny Parkes|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=ItJamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's a control freak with all the 10th subtlety of December 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marra half brick. Just to put what happens in contextJamie's son, Bo, the Cuban missile crisis is still very fresh in people's minds. The world has barely had a chance to breathe outhis problems'. But for Joe Marr, itHe's not asthmatic and the more you read, the missile crisis more you'll suspect thathe's at on the front of his mindautistic spectrum. HeSometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's been convicted of murder. With a frequent flier in the current state of medical knowledge, itlocal A&E and sometimes Bo's hard not fit enough to think otherwise than that go to school. Missed shifts or the prosecution would never have been brought but Joe Marr has spent his first few days need to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in HMP Queen's Bench, a relatively new prisonthe wrong. He's just getting used It was going to his roommate, Mervyn, and learning come to be wary of the McArthur brothersa head.
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|authorisbn=A C WiseB0CKD1L5JL|title=HookedRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=It’s been twenty two years since Captain HookPetr is an orphan. Rescued by the strange, reclusive Bear, now going by just ‘James’he is brought up far from bustling cities and busy human society, has been in Neverlandthe forests of Washington's Olympic Peninsula. Living After Bear dies and a new life brief sojourn in Londonhuman company, and armed with only a pirate radio transmitter, Petr goes on a journey through the forest, broadcasting the strange, wild and rarely heard voices he has never completely escaped his pastencounters.}}{{Frontpage|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. But now he senses the edges Suddenly plunged into a world of the beast circling around his silence, everything about her life changes. Living in Londona time when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, and when suddenly he finds himself face Ellen is sent to a school where she is taught to face 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 street with Wendy, he knows that the line between this world deaf and Neverland is growing thinusing a system called Visible Speech. The beast At the same time, Bell is finally coming to get himworking on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in the process will pull Wendy and her daughter Jane back into their past once againa complicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=17890968391035401614
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|isbn=B09Y451X9KB0BC3YTCMR|title= Greetings, aliens!: (do pop in for tea)Good Girls Die|author=Richard F WalkerAyura Ayira|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= ''Anything can happen at a birthday party, particularly when the birthday boy This story is the young Lord of the Manor. But when an eerie signal is picked up in the early hours, George and his new girlfriend, the vivacious Lady Antonia, embark on a quest to uncover its incredible message. Things get complicated when some total spoilsport lets the cat out of the bag and the world goes into a state of panicnot for everyone.''
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|isbn=02415424051472263936|title=Meredith AloneThe Figurine|author=Claire AlexanderVictoria Hislop|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=When we It was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first meet Meredith Maggs it's Wednesday 14 November 2018 and she's not left her home for 1,214 daystrip to Greece. She'd ''like'' was alone: her mother, Greek by birth, had left the family home and refused to: in factreturn, she so nearly does. Her outdoor clothes are on but Mary and sheHamish (Helena's even considered which shoes to wear parents) felt that it would be a pity if she's going to catch Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her trainGreek heritage. Then, she can't. She simply can't force herself Her trip to leave the safety family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be the first of her homeseveral annual visits. Shegrew to love her grandmother and the family's fortunate that she has a good friendmaid, SadieDina, who visits regularly with her two children, James but was wary - and Matilda. Sadie's a cardiac nurse and full frightened - of sound common sense. In fact it was Sadie who gave Meredith her catgrandfather, Fredretired general Stamatis Papagiannis. Groceries are online deliveries He was proud of his close connections to the Junta and there's also an internet-based support group where you'll find Meredith as JIGSAWGIRL, so you can guess what she does in her spare time. Then Tom McDermott arrivesexpected his family to uphold his values but saw no reason to accommodate them. HeHis prejudices included Helena's red hair and green eyes - inherited from Holding Hands, a charity which supports people with problems such as Meredithher father'sScottish ancestors.
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|author=Ewald Arenz 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 Rachel Ward (translator)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=1662500467}} {{Frontpage|isbn=B0BVDC2VWH|title=Tasting SunlightThe Grave Listeners|author=William Frank|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Sally The village is isolated and poor. It's surrounded by a teenager who has run away from an anorexia treatment clinicWitching Forest. And the villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicines. She just wants space, The black wood of the forest provides heat and for people to stop questioning herwarmth, tiptoeing around herroofs on homes, and trying to fix her without ever truly understanding hereven gallows, if needed. She finds herself on some farmland with a woman called Liss who The fear of being buried alive is an existential superstition in her forties the village and seems to live alone. Liss is unlike any other adult Sally has ever met. She just accepts Sally as she that isthe reason Volushka, giving her a room to sleep in, and the space to just be. As they work together on the farmdrunken, a closeness develops between themself-indulgent, becoming lazy lout of a beautiful, powerful friendshipman is tolerated.|isbn=1914585143
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|isbn= B09NDJ77LMB0BYF82CXT|title=Me and My ShadowSemi-Detached
|author=Deborah Stone
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= ''What happens Bill and Amanda are living in a semi-detached house, stuck in a depressing rut of boredom and disappointment, when someone is pushed too far Terry and Fiona – glamorous, successful and they begin to lose very much in love – move in next door. Despite their grip different outlooks 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 as she tries to shake off life, the shadows of her past couples befriend each other and attempts to repair decades worth of pain.'' Rachel is in a current conversation with her psychiatrist, who pushes her life appears to recall her life from very young childhood onwardsimprove for both pairs. But Rachel all is combative with Doctor Blakenot what it seems, sometimes even contemptuous of herand their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy. You can see that it's not an easy therapeutic relationship. Rachel's recall of her life is in remarkable detail. She remembers each minor slight and each major betrayal in perfect detail with absolute and unforgiving clarity.
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|isbnauthor=B09MSC981WShalini Boland|title=The Woke Iliad|author=George BoreasSilent Bride|rating=43
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Helen Alice and Seth are a match made in heaven. He is a popular activisteverything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, clever, funny; total and utter husband-material. Or should we call her She is all he could possibly want in a popular influencer? Or perhaps a popular franchise owner? Anywaywife; beautiful, successful, Helen confident… and so the inevitable proposal is so popular that eagerly accepted by Alice and the United States government has made her its Ambassador of Wokewedding is planned and set. Helen runs all sorts of initiatives on behalf of When the governmentmuch-anticipated day arrives, including Alice is walked down the Shaming Conference aisle by her father, beaming with pride and excitement as she surveys the Permissible Entertainment Committee - '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 indoctrinating and legislating against summer fun for any who still knew how her to have it''become his wife. Ouch!|isbn=1662507089
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|isbn=00084416181787636003|title=Other ParentsThe Girls of Summer|author=Sarah StovellKatie Bishop
|rating=5
|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Jo Fairburn knew It was the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she was under intense pressure as and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the new head of West Burntridge First School: if she didnisland. Rachel wasn't live up exactly innocent but she was, perhaps, naive, so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to take an interest in her retired predecessor there could well be , she was flattered rather than wary. It was quite a house price slump in while before he made any sort of physical approach to her and by that part of the towntime she was obsessed by him. The school had an active Parent Teacher Association Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, looking after his interests on the island and in particular in the bar where all the funds which they raised were a considerable benefit to 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 school-nation novel. There was one difficulty, though - they were ''devastatingly shockable''s something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the atmosphere of the day and capture it, with two members, crafting an image of the country as it stands in one particular, causing problems for the headmoment. Laura Spence and Kate Monroe objected to JoTo say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's restrictions on 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 toys children could bring lives of her characters in on Toy Day but a way that was just a warmfeels natural and lived-up act in, never making them ciphers for their real gripe: LGBTQ educationsocial commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselves.|isbn= 140871468X
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|isbn=152915118X|title=Pineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=''Pineapple Street'' is the story of three women: Sasha, Darley and Georgiana. Darley and George are sisters and Sasha is married to their brother Cord. They're Stocktons, only Sasha isn't a Stockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the tribe. The problem's exacerbated when the clan matriarch, Tilda, asks Cord and Sasha if they'd like to move into the Pineapple Street property. Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to another property, a street or so away, which they own. They won't need any of the furniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and Cord can move straight in. Nominally, they had a choice but that wasn't the reality. Darley and Georgiana start to call Sasha 'the gold digger'. She's living in ''their'' family home. They use it so often that they abbreviate it to 'the GD'.}}{{Frontpage|author=Giovanna FletcherEmily Critchley|title=Walking on SunshineOne Puzzling Afternoon
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|genre=Women's FictionCrime|summary=Mike's wife84 year old Edie has lived in the same small town for almost her whole life, Pia, who he was but now she is facing a move as her son wants to move to another house and bring Edie to live with for seventeen yearshis family, has diedas Edie is starting to lose her memory. And whilst he However, Edie is dealing with his grieftormented by the memory of her childhood friend, Lucy, so are their best friendswho went missing over 60 years ago, Vicky and Zazathe 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. But Pia left them all some After 'rulesseeing' to followLucy in the high street, knowing that just as she was dying and that they would need help to carry on living. Whilst some of the rules are around practicalities such as clearing out last time she saw her wardrobe, another one that Mike discovers one day encourages him she starts to take one find pockets of their trips awaymemories coming back to her. And yet as she remembers the past, she is forgetting more and Vicky and Zaza, struggling with their grief and their own more in her day to day life troubles, decide to drop everything in their own lives. Will she uncover the truth about Lucy's disappearance before her move, and go along with him.before her memories are gone forever?|isbn=140593560X1804181250
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|author=Antoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)Madelaine Lucas|title=Red is My HeartThirst for Salt|rating=3.5|genre=Literary Fiction |summary=[[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white and ''Love, I'd read in my house. And so , was this onesupposed to be a light and weightless feeling, although but I could have spelled had always longed for gravity'' Told from a retrospective view, a young woman unravels the year-long relationship that more accurately 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 – this one wasto 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, and isdepicting its all-consuming nature, black and white how it changed her perspective on both romantic and red. Yes, he has an artistic collaborator on this piece, familial relationships and I think how it's possible to say not one page lacks the influence of some striking visual ideasaltered her irrevocably.|isbn=19135471830861546490
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|authorisbn=Andrew Sharp0008506337|title=The Chef, the Bird and the BlessingGarnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore|rating=45
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= Chef Mlantushi The love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all- Mozzy to his employer - isconsuming, apparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in his mind, the head chef of a safari business catering to VIP guests in love. Richard was twenty-one and described by Margo's mother as 'an unnamed African countryolder man'. Mozzy is earnest and dedicated Her parents worried that Richard's influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to his task Oxford and he puts all of himself into creating fine cuisine dishes for having a glittering career. In the guests at BOD-W safaris but his dream is to become event, they eloped and Richard took her away from the head chef Isle of a restaurant in London or a big American cityWight. Even Margo did go to Oxford and went on to win become a Michelin starwell-respected journalist. He is thwarted in this ambition by his boss The couple had three children: Rachel, Mr Bin (Ben to you Imogen and me) who incurs Mozzy's disapproval for his scruffy ways, his uninterest Sasha. Life was lived in his guests London and - shockholidays were spent at Sandcove, horror - his allowing the family home on the Isle of bush animals into Wight. Even then the housedoubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able to leave him in charge''.|isbn=B09926MK8HThen Richard left them.
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|isbn=19015149781914585402|title=There's a Problem With DadDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=Carlos AlbaDavid F Ross
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Life is different for George Lovelace and he canI reviewed David F Ross's book [[There't really understand why. Hes Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's always done everything he ought to: steady worker, husband Only One Danny Garvey]] a couple of years back and father - remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and a father who affecting it was always there for 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 or to relate to his colleagues? Why does he make so many breath-taking gaffes? It's almost become was a cliche these days to suggest gripping, emotionally wounding read, and rereading my review of it my main takeaway was that someone who is a little different is 'I might not have lavished enough praise on the spectrum', but George Lovelace has all the symptoms of Asperger's Syndrome: high-functioning autismit.
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|author=Freya SampsonLucy Ashe|title=The Last LibraryClara and Olivia|rating=4.5
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|summary=I am always a little nervous to start a story about a libraryThe year is 1933. The place? Sadler's Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, since I am a librariantwins no less. I always grit my teeth slightly at Identical on the thought of the incoming cardigan-wearingoutside but not, hair in a bunwe learn, cat-owning, glasses on a chain stereotypes! In this story, the main characterinside. And not on stage, June, does put her hair in a bun, and she does own either. Because there's a cat (called Alan Bennett), and she has barely any friends and spends her evenings eating the same Chinese takeaway meal once lot that builds a week whilst reading books alone! But I didn't immediately throw the book out of the window, because I found I was interested in June, and why she lived as she diddancer. Her mum used to Some things that can be a librarian at the village library, but when she got sicktaught or learnt – discipline, June gave up on going attention to University detail – and stayed at home to take care of her mumsome things, that ''je ne sais quoi'', as well as taking on a job as library assistant at that don't come from the local libraryclassroom. And even though her mum sadly died some years agoA stage presence, she is still working therea charm, still eating her muma ''joie de vivre's favourite takeaway meal, and still reading her mum's old books. June is stuckThe difference between a hard-worker, but little does she know, everything in her life is about the changeand a star.|isbn=183877369X0861544080
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|author=Emily CritchleyHeather Fawcett|title=The Tiny Gestures of Small Flowers|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 authorEmily Wilde'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 BittickEncyclopaedia of Faeries
|rating=4
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|summary=Meet BosnerEmily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, orand researched meticulously, to give him his full titlewrite her life's work, Petty Officer Third Class Bosnerthe very first encyclopaedia of faeries. We never really find out if he has a first name: there's merely a hint that he had the nickname 'Secretary' Whilst she is brilliant at one pointresearch and speaking to faeries, she is not so good with people. He's simply Bosner So when she finds herself far, far North in the small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the village matriarch, she is not sure what she has done, nor how to one redeem herself and allput her final investigations for her book back on the right track. When we first encounter him heEnter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, much to Emily's exploring his memories of 2008 when frustration. But why is he was a greaser on helicopters (or helos, as they were called) at a naval establishment. here? The hours could be long and What does he was often working nights but at want? And what exactly is going on with the age of twenty-one, there was always a way to work some fun (think drinking and eating) into his day.faerie folk around Hravsnik?|isbn=0356519120
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|isbn=B095CY7NBN1398515388|title=Autumn CampThe Boy and the Dog|author=Barry FowlerSeishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=It was to be Brian's last camp. He'd founded the organisation some four years ago and had done First of all the organisation since but he , it was leaving school and the time had come to hand earthquake, deep in the reins to someone else. The obvious person was Garyocean floor, who'd always been which created the fun element of the camps tsunami and Brian had said that on this camp, Gary should act as in turn, caused the leader and he'd just be there to observenuclear meltdown. The problem with this result was that Gary wasn't really an organiser, an administrator if you likecomplete and utter devastation. He was the entertainerThe deaths were uncountable, the person who basked in the spotlight and made things fun - so Brian stepped in and did the organisingloss of livelihoods was widespread. He handed The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of priorities but - six months after the camp over tsunami - and then took it backKazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. And Gary determined to have his revenge. This should have been He wasn't a dog person but the convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his'' campcar door and Tamon the dog jumped in.
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|author=John BoyneChristopher Bowden|title=The Echo ChamberMr Magenta|rating=54
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Meet George Cleverley. He Christopher Bowden's latest novel is self-defined as "one a patient untangling of 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 sheseemingly ordinary woman's carrying his childlife, but then his author wife is getting carried out by her kicks with the Ukrainian partner "Strictly Come Dancing" paired her withnephew after she has died. They have three children, The aunt who are always provided a sad-sack with absolutely no social skills whatsoever, safe harbour and a girl who hangs around with a virtue-signalling, keyboard warrior "wokester" who wants little bit of indulgence to save the world's homeless with out-of-date food, and a fit young lad doing the gay hustle thing. Add in nephew had had a few other characters – therapists, lawyers, random transgender types – much more interesting life than that all have two very different connections nephew Stephen had ever realised and it seems to his life, and you have something that suggests him an almost farcical approach obligation to the modern world. What suggests the farcical approach even more, however, is the fact this is bloody funnyfind it all out.|isbn=0857526219B0B6Z9VJDW
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|isbnauthor=0008444501Jennifer Mason|title=The Answer to Everything|author=Luke KennardPartitions of Unity
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Life should have been good for Emily. She had a lovely husbandHere at Bookbag Towers, Stevenwe first met Elizabeth Cromwell, who was dominatrix and unintentional detective in [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], when she investigated and unravelled a speech therapistseries of disappearances. WeIn ''ll pass over the fact that they rarely speak to each other and donPartitions of Unity't even sleep in the same bed. It isn't so much that Emily has left the marital bed as that , she's sharing a bed with one of sets her children as it's the only way to get him to sleep during the night. Arthur and Matty are gorgeous but they are a handful and Emily has a job mind to cope with too - she teaches drama two days solving a weekmurder. They've not long moved into a new home in Criterion Gardens: it's a trendy area that has been gentrified and it's run on semi-communal lines. The residents even share eco-friendly electric cars rather than owning their own.|isbn=B09LQR9FRF
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|author=Louise BeechWill Carver|title=This Is How We Are HumanThe Daves Next Door
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Veronica is Five strangers come together in one moment as a devoted single mother suicide bomber prepares to her sondetonate his vest on a London tube line. As their fates overlap, Sebastian - but she can't give him everything he wants. Sebastian has decided that it's time for him to have sex. But as an autistic 20 year-oldthe story is told in backwards order, that's easier said than done. And it's starting leading up to cause them both problemsthe fateful moment. |isbn=19131937131914585186
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|author=Ananda DeviJennifer Mason|title=Eve Out of Her RuinsPreposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=At not even 200 pages, Eve Out of Her Ruins is one of the shortest books I've read in a long while'A struggling poetry zine, but it's one of the most dramatic. It's also told in a way that I can only describe as brutal: it spares nothing mom-and pulls very few punches-pop mobile diner in the Northern California redwoods, a 400-meter hurdler who just missed the descriptions stark and unromantic.|isbn=0993009344}} {{Frontpage|author=C J Carey|title=Widowland|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's April 19532004 Olympics, and Adolf Hitlera women's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the state funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to Londontrack coach with a yen for bullwhips, parading around a bit, and watching over the sanctioned return to the throne billionaire with a state-of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallis. For yes, Britain caved in -the lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know itart S&M dungeon, and we are now a protectorate – well, we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''. But this is most certainly man serving a different Britainlife sentence in Alabama, for Nazi-styled phrenologyan enigmatic signature, and ideas of female purpose, has put all of that gender into a caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to the drudgesK(s, and beyond thosex), right on down to the childlessa cheap oil painting, the husbandless and the widowsan erotic art dealer in Georgia.. Female literacy is actively discouraged. And in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, '' This is employed with just a sample of the task cast of bowdlerising classical literature to take all encouragement for female emancipation out of it – after allcharacters and settings in Preposterous. As you can see, not every book can some keeping up will be banned, and not every required! The basic premise of this mystery story excised immediately from British civilisation, and so they just get a hefty tweak towards the party line before they're stamped ready for reprintgoes like this.. That is her job, at least, until the first emerging signs of female protest come to light, with their potential to spoil Hitler's visit.|isbn=152941198XB09STS96HS
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|isbn=0857527231B0B2N7MVYM|title=Dog DaysThe Calculations of Rational Men|author=Ericka WallerDaniel Godfrey
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=George Dempsey is exceedingly angry. It's eight days since his wife, Ellen, died and it's the 10th of December 1962 when we first time that she's let him downmeet Dr Joseph Marr. HeJust to put what happens in context, the Cuban missile crisis is still very fresh in people's lost, bereft without her ( he ''needs his wife, like a snail needs its shell'')minds. He misses their ordered life and rather than bringing him meals The world has barely had a chance to leave on the doorstep, he'd much rather have a good row with someonebreathe out. HeBut for Joe Marr, it's particularly angry about not the dachshund puppy which Helen brought home just three weeks before she died. She even dared to contradict him when he told her missile crisis that 's at the dog wasn't stayingfront of his mind. Now heHe's lumbered with a dog he doesn't want and a load been convicted of busybodies who are trying to interfere in his lifemurder. Worst With the current state of all is Bettymedical knowledge, who wonit't take no for an answer. Betty knits jumpers for Lucky, her greyhound. Lucky spends a lot of time trying s hard to escape from and destroy them.}}{{Frontpage|author=Martin Venning|title=The Primary Objective|rating=2|genre=General Fiction|summary= Sometimes a book starts off slowly, think otherwise than that the prosecution would never have been brought but eventually draws you Joe Marr has spent his first few days in to caring about the characters or simply wanting to know what happens next. Sometimes it doesnHMP Queen'ts Bench, a relatively new prison. The basic premise is a good one – a clandestine organisation, operating as a charity, but funded by various governments around the world and partially (maybe, IHe'm not sure) under the auspices of the UNs just getting used to his roommate, with the primary objective of keeping the peaceMervyn, by any means possible. Diplomacy is always the first option and sometimes one that needs learning to be carried out by third parties, but for situations when that looks unlikely to yield results Peace International maintains a call-on list wary of field operatives, ex-military, medics, scientists or anyone else with a taste for adventure and willing to risk their life for the sake of itMcArthur brothers.|isbn=1800461100
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