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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]]==General fiction==__NOTOC__{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Julie CohenOnyi Nwabineli|title=Nina Jones and the Temple of Gloom|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=A sign of a good book, for me, often relates to how easily I can put it down. And then how much I want to pick it back up again. Nina Jones was a particular challenge for me as after reading it for an hour whilst my toddler napped I kept my thumb in the page whilst getting her out of bed, snuck her downstairs still saving my page, put on Cbeebies, and then sat next to her on the sofa to carry on reading for at least another hour, if not a little bit more than that. I then kept it in the kitchen so I could sneak a few more pages in between stirring the spaghetti. And then once my daughter was in bed I went on Allow Me to absently ignore my poor, tired, over-worked husband (who got bored and went for a bath) so that I could read on to the end of the story. I found myself mentally yelling at a fictional character (I hope it was mentally and I wasn't actually shouting out loud...we have very thin walls), I swooned over the hero, sniggered often and I even cried a little bit too. So, a book that induces such family neglect and an emotional roller coaster of emotions is definitely a good read!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755341414</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Elizabeth Speller|title=The Return of Captain John EmmettIntroduce Myself
|rating=4.5
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|summary=Laurence Bartram has survived Anuri spent her childhood on display to the warworld, but his life has changed dramatically. It will never be the same again. Itthanks to her step-mother Ophelia's almost as if he doesnincreasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri't recognize himselfs childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Domestic life Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is now non-existent slowly trying to regain her confidence and he has noto get her life back, suing her step-one mother to please but himselftake down the content about her. He Anuri is unsettled battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and edgysecretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. War has obviously left its markMost importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of Ophelia's online empire. He retreats graciously Can she save her sister, and wonders what he'll do perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the rest of his life. same time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1844086070</amazonuk>0861546873
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nick Hornby1529153298|title=Juliet, NakedThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A cleverwoman? I mean, comic delight, pitch-perfect, astutely observed, particularly insightfulhonestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, must-readthough. CrumbsWomen have been disappearing. Whatever else is there Well, they've been murdered, but to say about Nick Hornbyhave 'disappeared's latest book that isndoesn't already plastered on this newly-published paperback edition? sound quite so frightening. I can only report that Miv's upset because she'Juliet,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 she'Nakedll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum' bowled me over with yet another Hornby strikes stopped talking - to anyone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141020644</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dan Rhodes1035906708|title=Little Hands ClappingDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=The first character We tend to mention in this book is a moth. It's a human moththink of Maria Callas as Greek, drawn but she was born to the flame that is a museum of suicide - a supposedly cautionary, life-affirmingGreek parents in Manhattan, memento moriNew York, somewhere in GermanyDecember 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Its curator is an old hand at lonely, unloved museums, fresh from an art gallery in an airport - Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it didnto 'Callas't take off - who notices the noise of the latest suicide to happen make it more manageable in the museum, and goes right back to sleepStates. A spider crawls into his mouth When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and gets eatenmade no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847675298</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robin CookAlexander McCall Smith|title=InterventionThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5
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|summary=Although Robin Cook 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 written many booksasked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, ''Intervention'' as Ness is the first one that I have read - I'm planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a Robin Cook 'virginwhile.' This Katie is coming out of a big book in many respectsbreak up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. It's a classicAnd so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, glossy 'coffee table' edition; it's a bigbringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, satisfying read thanks to 44 Scotland Street and it's the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a multi-layered book business, or in that it covers many currentmatch-day topics which have their roots making, but Ness has full confidence in history. In facther abilities, this book is so multi-dimensional thatand there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, you could argueWilliam, there are several books within this book.to lend a hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0230743633</amazonuk>1846976596
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{{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, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Spike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Karan MahajanKatherine Howe|title=Family PlanningA True Account|rating=24.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Mr Rakesh Ahuja Hannah Masury is Delhi's Mister of Urban Development living in Boston, having been sent to live with a family who run an inn, and so far, has managed being made to do well in his careerwork there from a young age. However, his family life When she hears there is beginning to take over - he already has thirteen children and be a fourteenth is on hanging of some pirates in the waytown, she decides to go and watch. The eldest Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, Arjun, now Hannah finds herself embroiled in a teenager was born to Mr Ahujayoung boy's first wife, but up til now, Arjun is unaware death at the hands of this facttwo vicious pirates. Sangita Ahuja She hides away, the long-suffering wife, is aware so that they don't find and kill her relationship with Arjun may never be too, and then to escape them completely she runs away to sea, dressing as a boy and joining the same againnotorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. Meanwhile She soon finds herself in the thick of things when there is a mutiny on board, Arjun is only interested and from there we are caught up in one thing - how to attract the attention her rip roaring tale of life on the gorgeous girl on his school busocean waves. What will happen to the family when Mr Ahuja finally tells the truth?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099523299</amazonuk>0861547438
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jed Mercurio1471180158|title=American AdultererMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=IJamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who've often wondered how history would have viewed Jack Kennedy if he'd died s a control freak with all the subtlety of a natural death rather than by an assassinhalf brick. Jamie's bulletson, Bo, 'has his problems'. As an extension of that IHe's asthmatic and the more you read, the more you've also thought ll suspect that he might not have lived that much longer had nature been allowed 's on the autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to take its course. Hetime off at short notice - she's one of a frequent flier in the most-written-about Presidents of all time local A&E and finding a new angle – even a fictional one – is not easy, but Jed Mercurio has looked at Kennedysometimes Bo's adult life through not fit enough to go to school. Missed shifts or the prism of his sexual peccadilloes need to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and his healthput in the wrong. It was going to come to a head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099515873</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tim PearsB0CKD1L5JL|title=LandedRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=I have hesitated to write this review because, truthfully, I am not ''entirely'' sure that I know what happened at the end. I read it all. I actually read the end several timesPetr is an orphan. And then I skipped back to Rescued by the middlestrange, just to check somethingreclusive Bear, before trying he is brought up far from bustling cities and busy human society, in the end againforests of Washington's Olympic Peninsula. I have decided to just believe After Bear dies and a brief sojourn in what I ''think'' happenedhuman company, and since I don't want to spoil it for other readers then I don't have to make armed with only a complete fool of myself writing down what it is I think! And actuallypirate radio transmitter, that mysteriousness is part of Petr goes on a journey through the charm of forest, broadcasting the story. So, slight confusion aside, I still gave this book four starsstrange, wild and this is why..rarely heard voices he encounters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434020079</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Laila Lalami Sarah Marsh|title=Secret SonA Sign of Her Own
|rating=3.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=''Secret Son'' is the story After a bout of Youssef El-Mekkiscarlet fever as a child, the slum-dwelling teenage son Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of single mother Rachidasilence, everything about her life changes. Youssef has always been told that his father is dead, so Living in a time when he finds out his mother has lied to conceal the fact that he use of sign language was born out of wedlockseen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a school where she is taught to lip read, he plunges headlong into an identity crisisbut physically restrained from signing. He tracks down his real father From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and using a wealthy businessman system called Nabil Amrani who Visible Speech. At the same time, Bell is surprisingly enthusiastic about his illegitimate son's arrival. Nabil has recently fallen out with his daughter working on other inventions and ideas, and he seizes this opportunity to mould Youssef into the obedient son he has always wantedEllen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0670918296</amazonuk>1035401614
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Samuel BonnerB0BC3YTCMR|title=Playground|rating=3|genre=General Fiction|summary=Jonah grew up in London but his mother, getting increasingly worried about social disintegration and increasing crime, has moved them up to Nottingham. Jonah is a bright lad and halfway through a media course, but he's finding it difficult to fit in. He's also finding the new racial mix a problem - there's palpable tension between black and brown-skinned people on campus, and he often feels alienated and a bit like a fish out of water. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1902835190</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewGood Girls Die|author=Joan Brady|title=VenomAyura Ayira|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=David Marion isn't used to finding hitmen standing at his front door, though you wouldn't be able to tell that such a thing might be true, given the speed and competency with which Marion dispatches said hitman and then disappears, seemingly, off the face of the EarthThis story is not for everyone. ''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jo Brand1472263936|title=The More You Ignore Me|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Alice is growing up in a cottage in Herefordshire with her gentle, hippy father and her mother, Gina, who spends her days standing around like a chain-smoking zombie because she is kept on medication and has been for years. Gina's first psychotic episode occured after Alice's birth. Then there was the episode Alice remembers, the day her mother climbed onto the roof, naked, holding Smelly the hamster, and refused to come down. From that day, the old Gina, boisterous and unconventional as she was, fell silent under the numbing impact of constant medication. Jo Brand tells the story of how Alice coped with the loneliness and worry of growing up with an ill mother. Most importantly, as I'm sure the teenage Alice would see it, we are shown the birth and life of her obsession with Morrissey of The Smiths. In his music she finds escapism and comfort and in him she finds a figure to adore. Her friends can't understand her fixation and her mother understands fixation a little too well (the local weatherman having been the object of one of her fervent obsessions). Morrissey sings with such sensitivity and angst that surely, Alice thinks, if she could just meet him and tell him her story he could help her and she could help him...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755322320</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFigurine|author=Chris Mullin|title=A Very British CoupVictoria Hislop
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=No one had anticipated It was in 1968 that Labour would win the electionHelena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. She was alone: her mother, Greek by birth, not least because had left the party leader was Harry Perkinsfamily home and refused to return, but Mary and Hamish (Helena's parents) felt that it would be a former steel workerpity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. His manifesto included promises Her trip to remove all American bases from British soil, public control of finance and the dismantling family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be the first of media empiresseveral annual visits. There were a few other things too – but theyShe grew to love her grandmother and the family'll do for starters. The establishment – to a man – was appalled. Press baronss maid, media starsDina, bishops but was wary - and civil service mandarins knew that, for the good frightened - of the country (not themselvesher grandfather, ''retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. He was proud of course'') something had his close connections to be done the Junta and ''obviously'' the end would justify whatever means they had expected his family to take uphold his values but saw no reason to achieve their aimsaccommodate them. Harry Perkins had to be removed His prejudices included Helena's red hair and green eyes - inherited from officeher father's Scottish ancestors.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846687403</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rachel HeathDean Koontz|title=The Finest Type Of English WomanhoodAfter Death|rating=4.53
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=It was just after the end Michael Mace, Head of the Second World War and seventeen year old Laura Trelling was Security, at a loose end top secret biological research facility, is among 55 people who die when a virus is released in her Sussex villagea bio-hazard accident. She didn't really fit Finding himself in a makeshift mortuary, covered in with the other young people plastic, he has a sense that something very, very bad has happened to him – and her eccentric parents were becoming more only him – as he sits up and more isolated, to looks around at the extent that Laura was embarrassed by their carelessness shrouded bodies of her welfarehis dead friends and former colleagues. A chance encounter with Paul Lovell was to change As he recovers his senses, he realises that there is something different about him; he can ''feel'' everything and before long she was on her way to a South Africa not yet burdened with apartheid. ''Everything''. Michael isn't ''Michael'' anymore.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099532743</amazonuk>1662500467}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bobbie DarbyshireB0BVDC2VWH|title=Truth GamesThe Grave Listeners|author=William Frank
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=The central theme in this book village is sex - isolated and lots of itpoor. WeIt're introduced to s surrounded by a group of mainly twentysomethings and thirtysomethingsWitching Forest. Men And the villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and womenits blossom provides herbal medicines. Most The black wood of them are attractive the forest provides heat and hold down glamorous jobs warmth, roofs on homes, and careerseven gallows, if needed. All The fear of being buried alive is an existential superstition in rude health, with wonderful social lives the village and trendy homes. They all appear, on that is the surfacereason Volushka, to be a bunch drunken, self-indulgent, lazy lout of shiny, happy peoplea man is tolerated. What on earth could be missing?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905614721</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anthony QuinnB0BYF82CXT|title=The Rescue ManSemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=This love affair tale with the city of Liverpool is mostly told through the eyes of architect Tom Baines. With the Second World War looming''Bill and Amanda are living in a semi-detached house, Baines is desperately working on stuck in a book to capture the memory depressing rut of buildings that are at riskboredom and disappointment, when Terry and Fiona – glamorous, successful and appears a man more very much in love with – move in next door. Despite their different outlooks on life, the past couples befriend each other and solidlife appears to improve for both pairs. But all is not what it seems, cold structures than mankindand their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099531933</amazonuk>''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Paul MurrayShalini Boland|title=Skippy DiesThe Silent Bride|rating=3.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Life in Seabrook College is a mess. Some of the staff are young enough to remember their own school days there, but many are certainly too old for that. A lot of the boys are victims of ragging and bullying for being too chunky, or too smart - but some are so chunky and smart there's a certain kudos to them. The female of the species is a thing only spied from their own school next door, and only met by selling them ritalin as a weight-control pill, or meeting them at the very rare combined school disco.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241141826</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sapphire|title=Precious|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Precious Jones Alice and Seth are a match made in heaven. He is a sixteen year old black girl from Harlem – well everything she's never actually has been out of Harlem – searching for; handsome, accomplished, clever, funny; total and when we meet her she's pregnant by her own father for the second timeutter husband-material. Her first child was She is all he could possibly want in a girl wife; beautiful, successful, confident… and so the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and she was born with Down's Syndrome. With unconscious irony Precious calls her ''Little Mongo'' the wedding is planned and leaves her to live with her grandmotherset. When the much-anticipated day arrives, Alice is walked down the aisle by her second pregnancy becomes obvious father, beaming with pride and excitement as shesurveys the congregation – their friends assembled to celebrate this joyful day and when Seth turns to face his approaching bride, Alice's expelled from school and joins an alternative education programme. Precious really wants to learn and world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the man at the book altar is, who is the story of waiting for her journey from illiteracy to maturitybecome his wife.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099548720</amazonuk>1662507089
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ru Freeman1787636003|title=A Disobedient GirlThe Girls of Summer|author=Katie Bishop
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=''A Disobedient Girl'' follows two women struggling to retain control of their lives in It was the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the face of servitudeisland. Latha is a servant girl to the affluent Vithanage family, whose daughter, Thara, is Latha Rachel wasn's age. As childrent exactly innocent but she was, the girls are the best of friendsperhaps, but they are destined to be separated by classnaive, which is made painfully obvious so when boys come into the picture. Meanwhile, Biso serves a cruel and drunken husband who beats thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to take an interest in her and terrorises her children, one of whom is another man's love childshe was flattered rather than wary. Biso's husband murdered her lover in It was quite a hateful rage when while before he uncovered made any sort of physical approach to her affair and she realises by that time she must escape was obsessed by him. Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, looking after his house if she interests on the island and her children are to live. Latha too seeks escape, but she finds it in particular in the bar where all the arms of Thara's boyfriend and this sets off a chain of events that will echo far into her futuregirls either worked or partied.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670917958</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Panos KarnezisAmanda Craig|title=The ConventThree Graces|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Our Lady Few styles of Mercy is a small convent on contemporary fiction interest me like the Spanish sierra made up state-of a handful -the-nation novel. There's something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of devoted nuns who live their lives simply, carrying out their daily duties like clockwork. However things change when a suitcase containing a newborn baby is left mysteriously outside the convent doors. The Mother Superior, Sister Maria Ines, believes atmosphere of the baby to be a miracle day and plans to keep him in the conventcapture it, but crafting an image of the other sisters do not agreecountry as it stands in one particular moment. During the events To say that follow Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's practically synonymous with the true characters genre of contemporary social fiction at this point. She has such a gift for weaving the nuns inside ongoing issues of the convent are revealed and day into the peace lives of her characters in a way that the sisters enjoy is stripped away to show the tension that has been bubbling away under the surfacefeels natural and lived-in, never making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0224079344</amazonuk>140871468X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Glenn Cooper152915118X|title=Book of SoulsPineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Area 51 ''Pineapple Street'' is not what you think it the story of three women: Sasha, Darley and Georgiana. Darley and George are sisters and Sasha ismarried to their brother Cord. No - all that UFO kerfuffle is They're Stocktons, only Sasha isn't a smokescreen for Stockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the powers that be tribe. The problem's exacerbated when the clan matriarch, Tilda, asks Cord and Sasha if they'd like to hide even better move into the most unusual manuscript known Pineapple Street property. Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to (another property, a handful street or so away, which they own. They won't need any of) mankind - the most unearthly, singularfurniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and unsettling book, Cord can move straight in thousands and thousands of volumes. All except oneNominally, which is about they had a choice but that wasn't the reality. Darley and Georgiana start to come under call Sasha 'the hammer gold digger'. She's living in a London auction house''their'' family home. Our hero Will Piper must go very reluctantly on the trail of They use it so often that they abbreviate it and its secrets, a trail which will force him and others to become entangled with shadowy agents, who in turn know 'the very day of all their enemyGD's deaths.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099534479</amazonuk>
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|rating=4
|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Thirteen-84 year-old Jake Edie has lived in the same small town for almost her whole life, but now she is just like any other boy on the cusp of puberty: new music facing a move as her son wants to move to another house and Saturday jobs are at bring Edie to live with his family, as Edie is starting to lose her memory. However, Edie is tormented by the top memory of his agendaher childhood friend, Lucy, who went missing over 60 years ago, while girls are and the strange exotic creatures worry that there was a secret she was keeping for Lucy that must somehow might be looked at but not touched (particularly his pretty Classics teacher)the thing that reveals the truth of what happened all that time ago. But behind closed doors, Jake struggles to cope with his mother After 'seeing's ongoing battle with depression and alcoholism. His father moved out a few weeks ago. So has his older brotherLucy in the high street, Matthew. That leaves Jake just as she was the man last time she saw her, she starts to find pockets of memories coming back to her. And yet as she remembers the house: the one who must remember to get him past, she is forgetting more and little brother, Andy, up more in time for school in the morning; the one making toast for dinner; and the one keeping a watchful eye over his mother her day to make sure day life. Will she doesnuncover the truth about Lucy't get herself into any serious trouble.s disappearance before her move, and before her memories are gone forever?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0954930975</amazonuk>1804181250
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{{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''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Buckley 0008506337|title=ContactThe Garnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore|rating=2.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Dominic PattisonThe love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O's life began to veer off course badly Leary was all-consuming, apparently on a Tuesday both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in Maylove. Richard was twenty-one and described by Margo's mother as 'an older man'. ItHer parents worried that Richard's influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and having a glittering career. In the event, they eloped and Richard took her away from the Isle of Wight. Margo did go to Oxford and went on to become a fairly banal Tuesdaywell-respected journalist. The kind couple had three children: Rachel, Imogen and Sasha. Life was lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, the family home on the Isle of Tuesday that Dominic probably experiences quite frequentlyWight. He feels Even then the need doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able to tell us about itleave him in charge''.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Wayne J Harris1914585402|title=Sins of the Angel|rating=3.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Dr Gideon Matthews, a shouty hellfire and damnation preacher, has just delivered a sermon all about the evils of women being allowed into the church hierarchy and, on his way home afterwards, he is murdered. The following day however he wakes up in hospital or, actually, an angel called Gabriel finds himself inside Dr Matthews' body, able to recall Dr Matthews' memories and thoughts and feelings but acting now as himself. Gabriel goes a little bit wild, finding himself overwhelmed by the new feelings and desires he experiences in this body, sinning left, right and centre and causing scandal at his every move. He is also wondering for what purpose he has been brought into this body and finds that he Dashboard Elvis is dreaming about a demon, someone who is persuading an unknown monk to commit murders in God's name and who seems to be getting closer and closer to Dr Matthews in order to kill him too...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1438994699</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewDead|author=Stephen M Irwin|title=The DarkeningDavid F Ross|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=This I reviewed David F Ross's book has the [[There'Ss Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There' word written all over s Only One Danny Garvey]] a couple of years back and remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and affecting itwas. No, not sex - supernatural. So, it's got all things It was a bit spooky, not-quite-rightgripping, strange coincidences. They are sprinkled throughout like rock salt. I must admit that when I emotionally wounding read the blurb on the back cover with its supernatural theme, I gave an inward groan. Not really and rereading my cup review of tea. But it my main takeaway was that I'm open-minded and I'll read anything once. I'm glad I did. Irwin is Australianmight not have lavished enough praise on it. For some reason I haven't read too many books by Australian authors, so I was keen to get reading.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751543969</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robert KaplowLucy Ashe|title=Me Clara and Orson WellesOlivia|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Richard Samuels sees everything in terms of a performanceThe year is 1933. The place? Sadler's Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, through twins no less. Identical on the rose-tinted lens of the theatrical celebrities he listens to outside but not, we learn, on the radioinside. So when he stumbles onto the Broadway And not on stage through , either. Because there's a lot that builds a chance encounter with Orson Wellesdancer. Some things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, it seems as if all his dreams may be about attention to detail – and some things, that ''je ne sais quoi'', that don't come true. He goes from being the guy that all the girls see as classroom. A stage presence, a friendcharm, one of the bookish kids at schoola ''joie de vivre''. The difference between a hard-worker, to the glamour of mingling with stars of the stage. We follow Richard's struggle to balance this newly discovered wonderland and his school life, not to mention his disapproving mothera star.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099540193</amazonuk>0861544080
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=John Van der KisteHeather Fawcett|title=The Man on the MoorEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=In the summer of 1913 relations with Germany were deteriorating steadilyEmily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, but there didnto write her life't seem to be any connection with the international situation when a London clerks work, George Stephens, was found dead in a country lane on the edge very first encyclopaedia of Dartmoorfaeries. The moor had been his passion Whilst she is brilliant at research and he'd always been keen speaking to escape London and return to Devonfaeries, she is not so good with people. It was an odd death but So when she finds herself far, far North in all probability it would have been put down as an accident if George's mother had not announced that George was the son small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the village matriarch, she is not sure what she has done, nor how to redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on the Kaiserright track. Despite Enter Wendell Bambleby, her fondness for gin the story she told was oddly compelling dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and when it was linked up with the fact that two German officers had been staying at a nearby farm Georgedelight, much to Emily's death seemed less and less like an accidentfrustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1904744230</amazonuk>0356519120
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Frances Day1398515388|title=Dead Cat With FirelighterThe Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating=34.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=We're in the world First of modern art. A couple who met at art college are on all, it was the verge of breaking upearthquake, as her success at fine arts is only bettered by his sudden rise to fame deep in the world of his conceptualocean floor, pompous bits of (almost literally) rubbish which created the tsunami and nothingthis, in turn, caused the nuclear meltdown. We're also in the world of the wannabe stars The result was complete and starletsutter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, trying to make and the jump from well-thought loss of provincial comedy theatre to Hollywoodlivelihoods was widespread. And in The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the background in both instances, are gurulist of priorities but -type Svengalis, pulling strings, and aiming to do as much as is morally justifiable six months after the tsunami - and Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a lot more - to get their charges to fameconvenience store. And He wasn't a bit of contract killing dog person but the convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and murder on Tamon the sidedog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0954337751</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Billy HopkinsChristopher Bowden|title=Tommy's WorldMr Magenta
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Tommy Hopkins was born in October 1886 in Collyhurst, one Christopher Bowden's latest novel is a patient untangling of the poorera seemingly ordinary woman's life, inner-city suburbs of Manchestercarried out by her nephew after she has died. His father had quite The aunt who always provided a good job safe harbour and there wasn't a lot little bit of money indulgence to spare but Tommy remembered the home as being filled with love and laughter. He was an only child but thought that he was spoilt in terms of affection rather a young nephew had had a much more interesting life than in the form of worldly goods. All that was to change when his father died of spinal meningitis and he nephew Stephen had ever realised and his mother had it seems to move into cheaper lodgings. Even that tenuous security wasn't him an obligation to last for long – his mother died of a heart attack in her thirties, leaving Tommy an orphan before he was eight years oldfind it all out.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755359585</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Diane ChamberlainJennifer Mason|title=The Bay at MidnightPartitions of Unity
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=The story starts properly Here at Bookbag Towers, we first met Elizabeth Cromwell, dominatrix and unintentional detective in [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], when she investigated and unravelled a letter is discoveredseries of disappearances. It will have devastating consequences for several families - and life will never be the same again. ApparentlyIn ''Partitions of Unity'', the wrong person was convicted for she sets her mind to solving a murder. Moreover, the writer of this letter appears to know who did commit this crime. Unfortunately, the writer dies before able to make contact with the police.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0778303640</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Hazel McHaffie Will Carver|title=Right to DieThe Daves Next Door|rating=3.54
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=It must be hard enough watching your partner die just onceFive strangers come together in one moment as a suicide bomber prepares to detonate his vest on a London tube line. As their fates overlap, but for Naomi, Adam's death the story is just the beginning. Coming across his personaltold in backwards order, private diary of his time from diagnosis leading up to subsequent demise, she is forced to relive the awful months during which his body began to betray him and his will to live was replaced with a will to die...on his own termsfateful moment.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1906307210</amazonuk>1914585186}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Morag JossJennifer Mason|title=The Night FollowingPreposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Distracted by the discovery that her husband has been having an affair''A struggling poetry zine, a middlemom-aged woman loses concentration while driving along a quiet lane, killing Ruth Mitchell, an elderly cyclist. The woman doesn't wait for the police to arrive; she goes home and parks her car -pop mobile diner in the garage where she smashes it almost beyond recognition. When her arrogant husband sees Northern California redwoods, a 400-meter hurdler who just missed the damage he believes it2004 Olympics, a women's been done to punish him and he packs his bags. After track coach with a yen for bullwhips, a billionaire with a few days the woman goes to the home state-of -the dead woman; she doesn't go to the door-art S&M dungeon, a man serving a life sentence in Alabama, an enigmatic signature, K(s, x), but from on a hidden spot nearby she can see the widowercheap oil painting, an elderly gentleman who erotic art dealer in Georgia...'' This is clearly not coping well. Wracked with guilt, the woman makes just a decision: sample of the only way she cast of characters and settings in Preposterous. As you can atone for her actions is to step into the shoes see, some keeping up will be required! The basic premise of the dead womanthis mystery story goes like this...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0715638815</amazonuk>B09STS96HS
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Shirley JacksonB0B2N7MVYM|title=The Haunting Calculations of Hill HouseRational Men|author=Daniel Godfrey|rating=45
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=There was a time before Stephen KingIt's the 10th of December 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marr. There was time before 'Just to put what happens in context, the Cuban missile crisis is still very fresh in people's minds. The Shiningworld has barely had a chance to breathe out. But for Joe Marr, it's not the missile crisis that's at the front of his mind. There was a time when He'horrors been convicted of murder. With the current state of medical knowledge, it' was not rooted s hard to think otherwise than that the prosecution would never have been brought but Joe Marr has spent his first few days in bloodHMP Queen's Bench, guts and gorea relatively new prison. I owe a slight apology He's just getting used to Mr Kinghis roommate, Mervyn, because along with the gutsier side and learning to be wary of the genre, I will own that he is a master at suspenseMcArthur brothers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141191449</amazonuk>
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