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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]]__NOTOC__{{Frontpage|author=Onyi Nwabineli|title=Allow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=General fictionFiction|summary=Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the content about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873__NOTOC__}}{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529153298|title=The List of Suspicious Things|author=Francois LelordJennie Godfrey|rating=5|titlegenre=General Fiction|summary=Hector Finds Time It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (HectorA woman? I mean, honestly...) She's Journeys)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 she'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=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5
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|summary=MeetWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, if you haven't alreadyNew York, Hector the psychiatristin December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. HeHer original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 's like a champagne cork, and when something prays on his mind a lot POP heCallas's off on a global trip to set things right. And, like a champagne cork let off make it more manageable in a posh place, he'll likely crash through a chandelier of scintillating, interesting little points, scattering them left, right and centre, and creating a pretty, if random, pattern on the book pageStates. This time it is, er, time. From patients worried they've none left, to those who want to grow up faster, and those putting antiWhen she was back in Athens -ageing cream on crows'supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice -feet. What is she was raised under the best approach to spending, passing Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and perhaps not worrying aboutmade no secret of her preference for her elder sister, time?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906040893</amazonuk>Jackie.
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{{newreviewFrontpage
|author=Alexander McCall Smith
|title=The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection: The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Book 13Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Those of you who are frequent visitors 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 and look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to The Bookbag will know that I am get away for a big fan while. 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's writing. I am supremely happy that he continues , bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to write so regularly 44 Scotland Street and reliablythe Isabel Dalhousie novels, providing me but with much looked forward some new characters who quickly begin to reading matter several times through the yearcharm. This time itKatie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's the turn of Mma Ramotswe to slip back into my mind as we read of always her detecting adventures in thisvery helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, the thirteenth book in the series.to lend a hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408702606</amazonuk>1846976596
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Deborah MoggachDean Koontz|title=The Best Exotic Marigold HotelBad Weather Friend|rating=34.5|genre=Women's FictionParanormal|summary=When Ravi Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his cousin Sonny decide house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to open the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel in Bangalore as a retirement his home, they donand it't know whether they will get any takerss 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. However, by advertising So fortunately for Benny it as a newly restored palatial hotel turns out that will provide the delivery to his house is a life of leisurenew friend, good a bad weather and mango ginfriend called Spike, they soon get who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a great deal good person. Spike is going to take care of interest Benny, and are welcoming their new residents. Evelynwill certainly take care of Benny's enemies, Madgeif he, DorothyBenny, Norman and all of the others Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who decide to move to the hotel have their own reasons for leaving Britain but exactly they are all excited by the new opportunity and the lease of new life that it could provide.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099572028</amazonuk>1662500491
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anuradha RoyKatherine Howe|title=The Folded EarthA True Account
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Set Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to live with a remote hill top town in the Himalayas where the earth has folded family who run an inn, and being made to create the majestic scenery, work there from a young woman, Maya, recently widowed arrives age. When she hears there is to be closer a hanging of some pirates in the town, she decides to the scene of her husband's climbing accidentgo and watch. There Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, she encounters Hannah finds herself embroiled in a rich variety of characters who seem to leap of young boy's death at the page, foremost hands of which two at opposite ends both of society vicious pirates. She hides away, so that they don't find and life's journey - Charukill her too, a young peasant girl whose emerging relationship with a young cook is touching and sweetthen to escape them completely she runs away to sea, dressing as a boy and Mayajoining the notorious Ned Low's eccentric landlord, pirate ship as a relict cabin boy. She soon finds herself in the thick of the Raj who may or may not be things when there is a mutiny on board, and from there we are caught up in possession her rip roaring tale of some intriguing personal letters that pertain to India's history and life on the departing Britishocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857388312</amazonuk>0861547438
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nick Alexander1471180158|title=The Case of the Missing BoyfriendMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating=4.5
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|summary=You could be forgiven Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for thinking that CC had it a man who's a control freak with allthe subtlety of a half brick. At thirty nine she was near the top of the advertising businessJamie's son, owned her own flat in north London and had a group of closeBo, party-going friends'has his problems'. ThatHe's what asthmatic and the more you saw from read, the outside, looking in. What CC saw was a life more you'll suspect that lacked that one essential which she seemed unable to acquirehe's on the autistic spectrum. She was desperate Sometimes Jamie needs to find the man of her dreams and preferably one who would whisk her take time off to at short notice - she's a farm house frequent flier in Devon where she'd live ''The'' ''Good'' ''Life'the local A&E and sometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to school. In Missed shifts or the meantime she was stuck with the memories of too many heartbreaks, a mother whose current lifestyle brought a very unfortunate word need to be away on time to mind pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and being on put in the periphery of her friends' dramas - and as they were all gay she didn't have wrong. It was going to come to a lot of chance of meeting that elusive manhead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085789630X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jon BauerB0CKD1L5JL|title=Rocks in the BellyRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn
|rating=4
|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=Jon Bauer's first novel, ''Rocks in the Belly'', Petr is an emotional journeyorphan. The narrator is a man in his late 20s who has returned from Canada to visit his mother who has cancer of Rescued by the brain. The narrator himself strange, reclusive Bear, he is emotionally damaged from the relationship that he had with his mother brought up far from childhood when she and her husband fostered children bustling cities andbusy human society, interspersed with the narrative, is in the voice forests of narrator at eight years old Washington's Olympic Peninsula. After Bear dies and a brief sojourn in particular telling the experience of one foster boyhuman company, Robertand armed with only a pirate radio transmitter, who we know from early Petr goes on in a journey through the book suffered a significant tragedy while in their care. What that event was will be revealed in due courseforest, but it is clear that broadcasting the young boy suffered hugely from jealousy of his mother's love for these foster childrenstrange, wild and rarely heard voices he encounters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846688450</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Aifric CampbellSarah Marsh|title=On The FloorA Sign of Her Own|rating=43.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Geri MolloyAfter a bout of scarlet fever as a child, the central character in Aifric Campbell's ''On The Floor'', may be earning a six figure salary working at Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a London investment bank just prior to the outbreak of the 1991 invasion world of Kuwaitsilence, but she's seriously messed upeverything about her life changes. Drinking heavily, sleeping lightly and mourning Living in a time when the end use of a relationshipsign language was seen as something only savages do, she may be a mathematical genius with a direct line Ellen is sent to a mysterious Hong Kong-based hedge fund manager with whom school where she tradesis taught to lip read, but her life 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 increasingly being controlled by working on other peopleinventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846688086</amazonuk>1035401614
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=B0BC3YTCMR
|title=Good Girls Die
|author=Ayura Ayira
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=''This story is not for everyone.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matthew Green1472263936|title=Memoirs of an Imaginary FriendThe Figurine|author=Victoria Hislop
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Max is 8 years oldIt was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. He likes Lego She was alone: her mother, Greek by birth, had left the family home and Star Wars refused to return, but Mary and playing with toy soldiersHamish (Helena's parents) felt that it would be a pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. He can tell you 102 words that rhyme with tree Her trip to the family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be the first of several annual visits. He scarfs down grilled cheese sandwiches She grew to love her grandmother and chicken the family's maid, Dina, but was wary - and rice. He does not like physical contactfrightened - of her grandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. He lives with was proud of his mum close connections to the Junta and dad who argue about what is best for him and why he’s not normal like other boys expected his family to uphold his values but saw no reason to accommodate them. His prejudices included Helena's red hair and girlsgreen eyes - inherited from her father's Scottish ancestors.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751547875</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=After Death|rating=3|genre=General Fiction|summary= Michael Mace, Head of Security, at a top secret biological research facility, is among 55 people who die when a virus is released in a bio-hazard accident. Finding himself in a makeshift mortuary, covered in plastic, he has a sense that something very, very bad has happened to him – and only him – as he sits up and looks around at the shrouded bodies of his dead friends and former colleagues. As he recovers his senses, he realises that there is something different about him; he can ''feel'' everything. ''Everything''. Michael isn't ''Michael'' anymore.|isbn=1662500467}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=William NicholsonB0BVDC2VWH|title=The Secret Intensity of Everyday LifeGrave Listeners|author=William Frank
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=William Nicholson's ''The Secret Intensity of Everyday Life'' village is an ensemble story focussing predominantly on middle class isolated and mainly middle age people living in poor. It's surrounded by a Sussex villageWitching Forest. The cover of And the book suggests that it is little more than a superior chicvillagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants -lit style story of how Laura reacts when an exits bread-lover from her past appears from out like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicines. The black wood of the blue to disrupt her marriage forest provides heat and two childrenwarmth, roofs on homes, but while this is a central issue that runs throughout the bookand even gallows, this is only a small part of the storyif needed. It's far better than that might suggest.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184916195X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Grace McCleen|title=The Land fear of Decoration|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Grace McCleen's debut novel, ''The Land of Decoration'' paints being buried alive is an original, unsettling, sometimes dark existential superstition in the village and generally rather wonderful picture. Narrated by ten year old Judith, raised by her father who that is a fundamental religious follower of the end of the world is nigh varietyreason Volushka, it looks at bullyinga drunken, both at school and in more general societyself-indulgent, faith and the possible rejection thereof and the strength lazy lout of childhood imaginationa man is tolerated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>070118681X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marlene S LewisB0BYF82CXT|title=RuthSemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=The late 1950s saw a lot of changes in society but they were late in coming to Ruth's home 'Bill and Amanda are living in the Owen Stanley range a semi-detached house, stuck in Papua New Guinea. Rutha depressing rut of boredom and disappointment, the only daughter of plantation owner John Madisonwhen Terry and Fiona – glamorous, was still in her late teens successful and away at boarding school for very much of the yearin love – move in next door. Despite their different outlooks on life, but when she returned home one of the first people she wanted couples befriend each other and life appears to see was her great friend Tommyimprove for both pairs. They'd grown up together but there was no possibility of the relationship being taken any further as Tommy - despite being light skinned - was the son of one of the black plantation workers But all is not what it seems, and certain their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy.'standards' were expected of Ruth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848766238</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Annabelle R CharbitShalini Boland|title=A Life Lived RidiculouslyThe Silent Bride|rating=43
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Maxine Alice and Seth are a match made in heaven. He is from a Jewish family who think that as her 20s are nearing their endeverything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, clever, she should be marriedfunny; total and utter husband-material. MaxineShe is all he could possibly want in a wife; beautiful, for her partsuccessful, hasn't found anyone to interest her confident… and so the inevitable proposal is more concerned with combining her job and her studies eagerly accepted by Alice and getting away from the yoke of her parents. She wedding is also worried about her possessions planned and worries that she has too many and that they make her flat look untidyset. She just can't get her flat organised When the way she likes itmuch-anticipated day arrives, eitherAlice is walked down the aisle by her father, beaming with pride and excitement as she surveys the light not being quite right congregation – their friends assembled to celebrate this joyful day and never quite being able when Seth turns to decide which room 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 television should be into become his wife.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0984642862</amazonuk>1662507089
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Henning Mankell1787636003|title=The Troubled ManGirls of Summer|author=Katie Bishop|rating=45|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Hakan von Enke It was a retired naval officer the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and a man of routinearrived on the island. Each morning he went for a long walk Rachel wasn't exactly innocent but she was, perhaps, naive, so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to take an interest in the forest near his Stockholm homeher, but one day he failed to returnshe was flattered rather than wary. It's was quite a long way from Ystad, Kurt Wallander's home town while before he made any sort of physical approach to her and the only reason he became involved in the case was the fact by that von Enke's son Hans time she was the partner of Wallander's daughter Lindaobsessed by him. Wallander became concerned about von Enke some months before when they had a long discussion at Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, looking after his seventy-fifth birthday party. He'd seemed worried interests on the island and wary of a stranger in particular in the street. Von Enke's disappearance hit bar where all the family hard - and then his wife disappeared as wellgirls either worked or partied.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099548402</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sam BourneAmanda Craig|title=PantheonThree Graces
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=The year is 1940Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of-the-nation novel. Oxford don James Zennor wants to serve his country, but due to an injury sustained while fighting in the Spanish Civil War heThere's rejected as unfit. When his wife and young son disappear, though, something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the trail leads to America in a journey which will plunge him into a world atmosphere of secret societies, clandestine deals, and the chance to play his part in the war effort after all. If he survives...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007413637</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Bethan Roberts|title=My Policeman|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=The story opens with two schoolfriends Sylvie and Marion doing what teenagers do best - talking and giggling about boys. Sylvie has a rather dishy and handsome older brother called Tom - day and Marion has developed a bit of a crush on him. But capture it's nothing to worry about, she'll grow out crafting an image of the country as itstands in one particular moment. Except To say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she doesn't. Even although, deep down, she has misgivings about s practically synonymous with the genre of contemporary social fiction at this rather lukewarm romancepoint. She's actually sizzling hot has such a gift for some action, a bit weaving the ongoing issues of the day into the lives of kissing, her characters in a bit of harmless snogging way that feels natural and lived- in, never making them ciphers for social commentary but Tom's the one who is lukewarminstead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselves. Why?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0701185848</amazonuk>140871468X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Suzanne Bugler152915118X|title=The Child InsidePineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Rachel Morgan feels that ''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 does not fit in anywhereisn't readily accepted into the tribe. Certainly not with all of the other mums at her son Jono The problem's posh school. Certainly not with all exacerbated when the happy jolly families on clan matriarch, Tilda, asks Cord and Sasha if they'd like to move into the beaches when Pineapple Street property. Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to another property, a street or so away, which they are on holidayown. And most They won't need any of allthe furniture from Pineapple Street, she no longer feels so Sasha and Cord can move straight in. Nominally, they had a choice but that she fits in with her own little familywasn't the reality. Nothing ever feels right Darley and she continually feels isolated on Georgiana start to call Sasha 'the outside looking gold digger'. She's living in''their'' family home. Of course, these feelings lead They use it so often that they abbreviate it to an increasing sense of dissatisfaction which she can only deal with by dwelling on what she perceives as her happier past'the GD'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330510916</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jack SheffieldEmily Critchley|title=Educating JackOne Puzzling Afternoon
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|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=September 1982 sees 84 year old Edie has lived in the beginning of Jack Sheffield's sixth year same small town for almost her whole life, but now she is facing a move as head of Ragley-on-the-Forest village school her son wants to move to another house and some of the village regulars are realising that this bring Edie to live with his family, as Edie is going to be a year starting to remember toolose her memory. Nora Pratt has been in However, Edie is tormented by the coffee shop for a quarter memory of her childhood friend, Lucy, who went missing over 60 years ago, and the worry that there was a century now. Ronnie Smith decides secret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be the thing that reveals the world truth of employment might be for him after what happened all - but is sacked from one job after a matter of secondsthat time ago. At the cinema itAfter 's ET whoseeing's pulling Lucy in the crowds and Prince William comes into high street, just as she was the world along with the 20p piece (well - not at ''exactly'' last time she saw her, she starts to find pockets of memories coming back to her. And yet as she remembers the same time)past, but it's Jack Sheffield who she is going forgetting more and more in her day to face day life. Will she uncover the biggest change.truth about Lucy's disappearance before her move, and before her memories are gone forever?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0593065697</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=Wendy Jones0008506337|title=The Thoughts and Happenings of Wilfred Price, Purveyor of Superior FuneralsGarnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=ItThe love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O's Spring 1924 Leary was all-consuming, apparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in South Wales, and young undertaker Wilfred is going to learn the hard way how serious the trivial can belove. Fascinated Richard was twenty-one and described by a girlMargo's dress - worn very seductively by Grace, who he has met but twice mother as 'an adult - he blurts out a marriage proposalolder man'. As much as wants to Her parents worried that Richard's influence would take it back, her away from what they felt she won't let himcould achieve - going to Oxford and having a glittering career. He tries to move onIn the event, leaving they eloped and Richard took her disappointed, especially when he falls for away from the daughter Isle of Wight. Margo did go to Oxford and went on to become a man he buries, but..well-respected journalist. There are things dangerously spoken, dangerously left unsaidThe couple had three children: Rachel, Imogen and a complex web of divided loyalties Sasha. Life was lived in London and enforced connectionsholidays were spent at Sandcove, the family home on the Isle of Wight. Even then the doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able to leave him in this brilliant debut novelcharge''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780330561</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sue Townsend1914585402|title=The Growing Pains of Adrian MoleDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=The country might be at war over the Falklands but life is hardly straight-forward in the Mole household. AdrianI reviewed David F Ross's parents are back together after both had disastrous affairs and itbook [[There's not long before Adrian is shocked to learn that his mother is pregnant. HeOnly One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's equally shocked to see his father helping Doreen (Only One Danny Garvey]] acouple of years back and remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and affecting it was.k.It was a. the 'stick insect') along a path which isn't particularly slippygripping, emotionally wounding read, although he does notice and rereading my review of it my main takeaway was that she seems to I might not have put lavished enough praise on quite a bit of weightit. Pandora Braithwaite is as fickle, but adorable, as ever and Adrian's hormones are still playing hop-scotch with his brain. So, what's new?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141046430</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Susan HillLucy Ashe|title=A Kind ManClara and Olivia
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Meet EveThe year is 1933. The place? Sadler's Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, twins no less. Identical on the outside but not, and her husbandwe learn, on the title characterinside. And not on stage, Tommyeither. SheBecause there's at a bit of lot that builds a sticky wicket in lifedancer. Some things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, for however much they want a baby, her sister and his feckless husband churn out son after son after son, and go no lengths at all attention to love them. So when Eve detail – and Tommy do at last have a childsome things, itthat ''je ne sais quoi''s a tragedy for it to die when only three years old. But in this plot, which youthat don'll thank me for not going into furthert come from the classroom. A stage presence, there will be a lot more swings and roundaboutscharm, of torment and ecstasya ''joie de vivre''. The difference between a hard-worker, doldrums and delights, hell and heaven, to comea star.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099555441</amazonuk>0861544080
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=John NivenHeather Fawcett|title=The Second ComingEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
|rating=4
|genre=HumourGeneral Fiction|summary=God Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has come back from a holiday travelled extensively, and has some catching up researched meticulously, to do. What’s been happening on Earth for write her life's work, the last couple very first encyclopaedia of hundred years? faeries. The realisation hits him hard... it makes him sick in factWhilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, she is not so good with people. So what’s when she finds herself far, far North in the answer? To quote small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the religious clichévillage matriarch, Jesus she is. After a board meeting with the senior saintsnot sure what she has done, God decides that his son must be torn away from jamming with Hendrix nor how to go redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back to on the streets of the world right track. Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, much to remind Emily's frustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the sinners of the way.faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099535521</amazonuk>0356519120
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=R J Palacio1398515388|title=WonderThe Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=August Pullman First of all, it was born with a rare genetic defect that has the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and this, in turn, caused extreme facial disfigurationthe nuclear meltdown. He has undergone 27 surgeries since he The result was born complete and has always been vulnerable to illnessutter devastation. In order to deal with his medical needs The deaths were uncountable, and to shield him from the staring and cruelty loss of the world, Auggie has been home-schooled by his parents for his entire lifelivelihoods was widespread. But Auggie is stronger now and all of The fact that is about to change. Auggie is about to enter school for the first time – and he’s petrified. ‘Wonder’ is many pets were separated from their owners came far down the story list of Auggie’s first year at Beecher Prep and his first journey alone into priorities but - six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside worlda convenience store. But can he confront He wasn't a dog person but the challenges convenience store owner's comment that wait for him there and convince he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his classmates, new friends, family car door and himself that, underneath his unusual appearance, he is just Tamon the same as everybody else?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0370332288</amazonuk>dog jumped in.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kaui Hart HemmingsChristopher Bowden|title=Mr Magenta|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary= Christopher Bowden's latest novel is a patient untangling of a seemingly ordinary woman's life, carried out by her nephew after she has died. The Descendantsaunt who always provided a safe harbour and a little bit of indulgence to a young nephew had had a much more interesting life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and it seems to him an obligation to find it all out. |isbn= B0B6Z9VJDW}}{{Frontpage|author=Jennifer Mason|title=Partitions of Unity
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=On the face of it Matt King is very lucky. He's descended from one of Hawaii's largest landowners Here at Bookbag Towers, we first met Elizabeth Cromwell, dominatrix and is a wealthy man as well as being an attorney. He's married to the flightyunintentional detective in [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], flirtatious Joanie when she investigated and has two daughters, teenager Alex, unravelled a model who might just have a bit series of a drug problem and ten year old Scottiedisappearances. SheIn 's feisty, clever and - for me - stole the book. Have you ever noticed that when luck changes it doesn't do it in baby steps? It does it in Partitions of Unity''lumps''. Joanie is involved in , she sets her mind to solving a powerboat accident and sinks into an irreversible coma as a result of a head injurymurder. But there's more piling up. Matt discovers that Joanie has been having an affair. Does the man who's been - er - enjoying his wife have the right to say his goodbyes too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099570246</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF
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{{Frontpage
|author=Will Carver
|title=The Daves Next Door
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= Five strangers come together in one moment as a suicide bomber prepares to detonate his vest on a London tube line. As their fates overlap, the story is told in backwards order, leading up to the fateful moment.
|isbn= 1914585186
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{{Frontpage
|author=Jennifer Mason
|title=Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=''A struggling poetry zine, a mom-and-pop mobile diner in the Northern California redwoods, a 400-meter hurdler who just missed the 2004 Olympics, a women's track coach with a yen for bullwhips, a billionaire with a state-of-the-art S&M dungeon, a man serving a life sentence in Alabama, an enigmatic signature, K(s, x), on a cheap oil painting, an erotic art dealer in Georgia...''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen SchulmanB0B2N7MVYM|title=This Beautiful LifeThe Calculations of Rational Men|author=Daniel Godfrey
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Richard and Liz are new It's the 10th of December 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marr. Just to put what happens in town which is always a bummercontext, except this town is Manhattan so really nothing else could ever compare. They’ve only moved from upstate New York but it seems a world away now. Liz has given up her post at the university to concentrate on kids Coco and Jake and Cuban missile crisis is finding juggling their social lives a full time job still very fresh in itself but is just about making a space for herself among the other mothers at the school gatespeople's minds. Things are going ok. And then, one day, their nice, comfortable The world starts to crumble. Jake receives an explicit email from has barely had a classmate and in disbelief, forwards it straight on chance to a friendbreathe out. Except rather than coming back to him with advice on what the heck to do next But for Joe Marr, the friend chooses to send it on to another friend, who does 's not the same. Round and round it goes, round missile crisis that's at the school, round the city, round the online world. Everyone knows where it came from and soon Jake’s academic future, front of his father’s career and his whole family’s social standing are hanging in the balancemind.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857896237</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Courtney Sullivan|title=Maine|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=The Kellehers He' beach-front holiday home in Maine was built on a plot s been convicted of land won in a bar-room bet at murder. With the end current state of World War II. Itmedical knowledge, it's not in hard to think otherwise than that the same league as the Kennedy compound at Hyannis Port prosecution would never have been brought but there are a couple of substantial properties on the plot and thereJoe Marr has spent his first few days in HMP Queen's still room to spareBench, a relatively new prison. ItHe's a place of indulgencejust getting used to his roommate, Mervyn, secrets and the sort of burning cruelty which you only get in families who care for each other - some of the time. ''Maine'' is essentially the story learning to be wary of a summer at the property - but the seeds of what happens were, of course, planted long agoMcArthur brothers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085789496X</amazonuk>
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