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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]]==General fiction==__NOTOC__{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Daniel GlattauerOnyi Nwabineli|title=Love VirtuallyAllow Me to Introduce Myself
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|summary=When Emmi sends and email Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to cancel a magazine subscriptionher step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she has no idea what a slight typo posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in the email address will lead her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to – a get her life-changingback, potentially marriagesuing her step-wrecking, all-consuming online love affair with mother to take down the man whom she emails in errorcontent about her. What starts as an insignificant Anuri is battling alcoholism, casual message quickly becomes something much more important failing to both start her PhD, undergoing therapy and Leo as two secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who have never met start to share their secrets is the new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and wishes, dreams perhaps herself and fears her relationship with each other, not just because they can but, it seems, because they have to.her father at the same time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857050958</amazonuk>0861546873
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alan Clark1529153298|title=Rory's BoysThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A decade ago arms dealer Peter Rossi and Bill Rawlingswoman? I mean, theologianhonestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, were in rough terrain two thousand feet above the Dead Seathough. Women have been disappearing. Rawlings was looking for somethingWell, they've been murdered, but what, or where? to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. It still wasnMiv's upset because she't entirely clear s overheard that her father wants to Rossi when it was necessary for them to make a dramatic escape move the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a group of men - and frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the resulting carnage move would be the stuff of nightmares for Rossi for many years mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to comeprevent that. A decade later and at She's not worried about the other side of the world Bradley Odangers or that her Mum'Connor, billionaire computer scientist, was forced to land his vintage plane on a mountain track in heavy snow and in the cold and lonely night which followed found his plane surrounded by a group of men eerily similar - had he but known it s stopped talking - to those Rossi and Rawlings had encounteredanyone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848972431</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eliza Graham1035906708|title=The History RoomDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5
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|summary=The novel begins with a key scene from Meredith’s childhood and then springs forward We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to the present day and the incident in the history room. The prank sets the tone for the whole novel – sinister Greek parents in many subtle ways and having several layers of meaning. The cast assemble around the fall out from the prank and each character is beautifully drawn. HughManhattan, Meredith’s husbandNew York, is suffering the results of horrors he experienced in HelmandDecember 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Meredith’s immediate family are also traumatised by the death of Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her mother. In this highly charged atmosphere, it’s hard father changed it to 'Callas' to know whether they are taking the prank too seriously or if make it does indeed imply worrying occurrences within more manageable in the schoolStates. Add When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the presence Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of strangers in the form of new pupils and new staffher preference for her elder sister, and before long even the most long-held relationships begin to suffer as a result of all the suspicions that are brought out by the prankJackie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330509276</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chuck PalahniukAlexander McCall Smith|title=Invisible Monsters RemixThe Perfect Passion Company
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary='Don't expect this The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to be all the kind of story that goes: and thenonline apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and thenlook after the business, and thenas Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while.' And yet... Once upon Katie is coming out of a time I collected break up with a couple of Palahniuk books, upon his first, ''Fight Club''-inspired flush of British successbad boyfriend, and never got round so jumps at the chance to reading themcome home to Edinburgh. And then the book reviewing gods conspired so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to give me [[Pygmy by Chuck Palahniuk|Pygmy]]an Edinburgh we already love, [[Tell-All by Chuck Palahniuk|Tell-All]] thanks to 44 Scotland Street and [[Damned by Chuck Palahniuk|Damned]] the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to perusecharm. And then I still didn't go back through his past works. But then he revised Invisible MonstersKatie has no experience in running a business, his secondor in match-written making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and third-published novelrather handsome) neighbour, William, and I got to look at it after all.lend a hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099575051</amazonuk>1846976596
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Marcello FoisDean Koontz|title=Memory of the AbyssThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=34.5|genre=Literary FictionParanormal|summary=We are on Sardinia, over Benny is having a hundred years agoterrifically bad day. It is a land of legendHe loses his job, he loses his fiancee, where storytellers can see a different nature to the moon each night and convey that in their earthly storieshis house gets trashed. It's a world of wonderOh, where sheep can fall from the skies for more than one reason. It's and someone has delivered a poor landreally weird, where lads are expected disturbing coffin-sized object to be responsible shepherds by the time they are ten. As a result people look after each other - excepthis home, while returning from a Christening Samuele and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his father are refused basic hospitality. house! Later when The thing is, Benny is the boy runs away one night the land falls away beneath him - yet he finds a girl to ground him very last person to deserve all this earthbad luck. Which He is most relevant when he goes to war, and particularly when he comes back and finds himself a wronged man, and in need of vengeancenice person. A really nice person..|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906694001</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Francis Bennett|title=The Crabber Stories|rating=4|genre=Short Stories|summary=John White was known So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to everyone as Crabber - his house is a nickname which he once earned and which then stuck - and he grew up on the shores of Long Island in the nineteen-fifties. It was new friend, a close-knit community and a time when children had more freedom than they are likely bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to be allowed now. We watch as Crabber grows help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a boy still suffering from the death good person. Spike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of his elder brother when we first met him through to a time when heBenny's old enough to go on a hunting trip on the mainland with a local family. He tells his own storiesenemies, as truthfully as if he , Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can and with the sort of insight which children have before life injects its cynicismfigure out who exactly they are.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00737IKIW</amazonuk>1662500491
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Belinda SeawardKatherine Howe|title=The Beautiful TruthA True Account
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=When the [[Fifty Shades Of Grey by EL James|first]] book Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to live with a trilogy is outstandingly awesomefamily who run an inn, and being made to work there from a young age. When she hears there is to be a hanging of some pirates in the [[Fifty Shades Darker by EL James|second]] is pretty darn excellenttown, she decides to read go and watch. Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death at the final instalment is a no-brainer reallyhands of two vicious pirates. And She hides away, I suspect so that is why this book is selling so wellthey don't find and kill her too, and then to escape them completely she runs away to sea, because while it’s dressing as a mildly interesting reading, boy and joining the notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. She soon finds herself in my mind it didn’t come close to the first two offerings thick of things when there is a mutiny on board, and from there we are caught up in terms her rip roaring tale of intriguing characters, a suspense filled plot or general ''kinky-fuckery''life on the ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099579944</amazonuk>0861547438
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Maggie Shipstead1471180158|title=Seating ArrangementsMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Weddings are always Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's a control freak with all the subtlety of a potential source for intrigue and dramahalf brick. In Maggie Shipstead Jamie's debut novelson, Bo, 'has his problems'Seating Arrangements. He's asthmatic and the more you read, the more you', therell suspect that he's plenty of that going onthe autistic spectrum. Set in a New England island called Waskeke, Winn Van Meter's eldest daughter, Daphne, who is already heavily pregnant is about Sometimes Jamie needs to marry Greyson Duff. The problems start when Daphnetake time off at short notice - she's retinue of bridesmaids, who include her sister, Livia, who has had her heart broken by her first love to a frequent flier in the son of Winn's social arch rival, local A&E and the flirtatious Agatha mix with Greysonsometimes Bo's brothersnot fit enough to go to school. Add Missed shifts or the need to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the fact that Winn has always had wrong. It was going to come to a yearning for Agatha and things get decidedly messyhead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000742521X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony ParsonsB0CKD1L5JL|title=Catching the SunRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Tom Finn had been a builderPetr is an orphan. Rescued by the strange, reclusive Bear, but bankruptcy intervened he is brought up far from bustling cities and taxi driving provided some sort of living for himbusy human society, his wife, Tess and twins Rory and Keeva. And so it might have continued but for two burglars in his homethe forests of Washington's Olympic Peninsula. Tom 'confronted' them - After Bear dies and nearly went to jail, but his conviction mean that taxi driving was no longer an option. Then a chance encounter brought him the offer of another driving job - but this one was brief sojourn in Phuket in Thailand - human company, and included accommodation. There's armed with only a pirate radio transmitter, Petr goes on a saying that if something seems too good to be true then it probably isjourney through the forest, but when you're as close to broadcasting the bottom as Tom Finn there comes a time when you've got to take a chance strange, wild and hope that this is your lucky dayrarely heard voices he encounters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007327811</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Camilla MacphersonSarah Marsh|title=Pictures at an ExhibitionA Sign of Her Own|rating=3.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=A story designed around the display After a bout of individual paintings at the National Gallery during World War Two held immediate appeal for mescarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Alas Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, Claire and Rob, the central characters everything about her life changes. Living in a time when the noveluse of sign language was seen as something only savages do, did not. Claire’s extreme irrationality Ellen is jarring even within the context of the ordeal sent to a school where she has enduredis taught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. Rob seems inconsiderate From here, clearly due to she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the barrage of irrationality he is having to live with on deaf and using a daily basissystem called Visible Speech. But while that At the same time, Bell is understandableworking on other inventions and ideas, I did worry that I might be reading and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a novel that contained no likeable characterscomplicated tangle of espionage. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099560445</amazonuk>1035401614
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=EL JamesB0BC3YTCMR|title=Fifty Shades DarkerGood Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Not a lot of time has passed since the [[Fifty Shades Of Grey by EL James|first instalment]] of Ana’s adventures with the man she calls Fifty Shades. Perhaps unusually for a follow up it’s not months or years later, in fact just a few days have gone by. Lots of things have changed, though. Successful businessman Christian ''This story is still our tortured hero and Ana, now in her first proper job, remains our befuddled heroine but they’re not Christian-and-Ana any more having parted ways at the end of book one. At the same time, a lot has stayed the same. They’re not having quite as much dirty sex as they were but the tensions are still there. He’s still incapable of letting her get on with things without interfering (you’ve got to love a guy who buys the company you work at, just to keep an eye on things). And he still has, let’s say, particular preferences when it comes to his bedroom antics. So, it seems, does Ana. With what were increasingly becoming her regular nocturnal activities now off limits, she’s started craving them. Craving things she didn’t know were possible a month or so ago. Craving things she’s aware nice girls wouldn’t…unless it’s all one big unspoken secret in the sisterhood. Craving things that, let’s be honest, a massive number of readers probably quite fancy themselves after the literary foreplay that was book 1for everyone. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099579928</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Toni Morrison1472263936|title=HomeThe Figurine|author=Victoria Hislop
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Toni MorrisonIt was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. She was alone: her mother, Greek by birth, had left the family home and refused to return, but Mary and Hamish (Helena's ''Home'' is simply a beautifully crafted novella. Set in post Korean war America, parents) felt that it features some familiar Morrison characteristics. Veteran Frank is suffering from what we would now call post-traumatic stress disorder, but is released from service with no treatment as so many were, especially be a pity if they were black no doubt. But at least he has survived unlike his two friends whom he Helena grew up withwithout knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. Frank is troubled and has his flaws, but also has dignity Her trip to the family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be the first of several annual visits. He finds himself returning She grew to love her grandmother and the Georgia homefamily's maid, LotusDina, he longed to escape from as a child, another typical Morrison settlement with nothing going for it apart from the goodness but was wary - and dignity frightened - of the people who live thereher grandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. What draws him back is He was proud of his close connections to the news that Junta and expected his family to uphold his younger sister, Cee, is suffering values but saw no reason to accommodate them. His prejudices included Helena's red hair and green eyes - inherited from the aftermath of some medical experimentation. It sounds grim stuff, but while life is hard, ither father's not a traumatically difficult readScottish ancestors.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701186070</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=Angela S ChoiB0BVDC2VWH|title=Hello Kitty Must DieThe Grave Listeners|author=William Frank|rating=54
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=The village is isolated and poor. It all started with 's surrounded by a missing hymenWitching Forest. If you think that’s an odd way to start a reviewAnd the villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicines. The black wood of the forest provides heat and warmth, roofs on homes, and even gallows, bear in mind that’s exactly how this book startsif needed. Very first line The fear of being buried alive is an existential superstition in fact. Fiona Wu the village and that is the reason Volushka, a 28 year old lawyer living in San Francisco. Successfuldrunken, self assured but still living at home thanks to her Chinese roots and her over protective parents. She’d rather hang out with her pet parakeet than nice Asian boys-indulgent, but since her parents are desperate to get her married off to one lazy lout of the latter, she doesn’t always get her own way. An appointment at a doctor’s office with a view to sorting out the aforementioned missing hymen leads to a chance reunion with a criminally-minded old school friend (last seen setting another pupil on fire), and then the fun really beginsman is tolerated. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099570491</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Madeleine TobertB0BYF82CXT|title=The Sea On Our SkinSemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary='Amalie Matete woke up alone on the first day of her life as a married woman…her battered body…the bruises on her thighs'. Amalie had scarcely been prepared for this. Only sixteen, she'd spent all of her time Bill and Amanda are living in the village and was marrying a strangersemi-detached house, stuck in a man who had seen her only once. But she was lucky. With no father to give her awaydepressing rut of boredom and disappointment, she was lucky to be being married at allwhen Terry and Fiona – glamorous, her mother tried to tell hersuccessful and very much in love – move in next door. On her wedding day Amalie had been frightened by Despite their different outlooks on life, the stormcouples befriend each other and life appears to improve for both pairs. It was a bad omen she said. Just a stormBut all is not what it seems, her mother saidand their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444734113</amazonuk>''
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{{Frontpage|author=Shalini Boland|title=The Silent Bride|rating=3|genre=General Fiction|summary= Alice and Seth are a match made in heaven. He is everything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, clever, funny; total and utter husband-material. She is all he could possibly want in a wife; beautiful, successful, confident… and so the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and the wedding is planned and set. When the much-anticipated day arrives, Alice is walked down the aisle by her father, beaming with pride and excitement as she surveys the congregation – their friends assembled to celebrate this joyful day and when Seth turns to face his approaching bride, Alice's world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the man at the altar is, who is waiting for her to become his wife.|isbn=1662507089}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=EL James1787636003|title=Fifty Shades Of GreyThe Girls of Summer|author=Katie Bishop
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=When college student Ana steps in at It was the last minute to cover an interview of a local tycoon for the uni paper, summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she never imagines how what is supposed to be a one off meeting will change her life completely over and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the months to comeisland. She has no plans or expectations to see him again Rachel wasn't exactly innocent but she was, perhaps, but Christian Grey knows what he wants and takes great pains to get itnaive, so with Ana now next on his list of target acquisitionswhen thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to take an interest in her, she has very little hope of escaping unscathedwas flattered rather than wary. Swiftly realising that It was quite a while before he is not your average wealthy bachelor, Ana falls head first into a foreign made any sort of physical approach to her and confusing new world by that time she has no clue how to navigatewas obsessed by him. With pressure on to sign Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, looking after his interests on the dotted line or leave island and never return, Ana has to decide how far she’s willing to go to follow her heart, and when she should listen to in particular in the bar where all the screaming voices in her head insteadgirls either worked or partied. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099579936</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=John IrvingAmanda Craig|title=In One PersonThree Graces
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of-the-nation novel. There''In One Person'' is a sensitive story of sexual identity, narrated by a bisexual s something so utterly compelling about any writer who is now in his later years, recalling not only his own coming to terms with his sexuality and attraction to men, women can catch hold of the atmosphere of the day and transgenders while at school in a New England schoolcapture it, but also his later years and the devastating impact crafting an image of the AIDS virus country as it stands in 1980s Americaone particular moment. At times the content To say that Amanda Craig is quite graphic, but John Irving captures the outsiderskilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's feelings beautifully in practically synonymous with the genre of contemporary social fiction at this tale point. She has such a gift for weaving the ongoing issues of secrecy the day into the lives of her characters in a confusing world of identityway that feels natural and lived-in, never making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857520962</amazonuk>140871468X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Wiley Cash152915118X|title=A Land More Kind Than HomePineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=In a small town in western North Carolina there was a storefront church with newspapers across ''Pineapple Street'' is the windows so that no one could see instory of three women: Sasha, Darley and Georgiana. Adelaide Lyle remembered Darley and George are sisters and Sasha is married to days when it was their brother Cord. They're Stocktons, only Sasha isn't a store, as well as Stockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the days tribe. The problem's exacerbated when she used the clan matriarch, Tilda, asks Cord and Sasha if they'd like to attend move into the church regularlyPineapple Street property. Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to another property, but after a woman died in a street or so away, which they own. They won'healing' ritual which involved a snake t need any of the furniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and her body was left Cord can move straight in her garden she decided . Nominally, they had a choice but that she couldnwasn't attend the reality. Darley and nor could she allow Georgiana start to call Sasha 'the towngold digger'. She's children living in ''their'' family home. They use it so often that they abbreviate it to run 'the risk. For a while this separation worked reasonably well until a series of incidents, many quite small in themselves, provoked a tragedyGD'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857520806</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andrew NicollEmily Critchley|title=If You're Reading This, I'm Already DeadOne Puzzling Afternoon
|rating=4
|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=The story at 84 year old Edie has lived in the heart of Andrew Nicoll's ''If You're Reading Thissame small town for almost her whole life, but now she is facing a move as her son wants to move to another house and bring Edie to live with his family, I'm Already Dead'' as Edie is bizarre but not entirely of Nicoll's own creationstarting to lose her memory. It However, Edie is narrated tormented by German-born Otto Wittethe memory of her childhood friend, Lucy, who is rapidly recording a strange time in his life while Allied bombs are falling in World War Two Germanywent missing over 60 years ago, although and the events worry that he relates go back to 1913 when Otto there was an acrobat working in a travelling circus currently in Buda, or perhaps Pest - he's not quite sure. In addition to his acrobatic skills, he is also blessed with an impressive set of whiskers which make him secret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be the dead ringer for thing that reveals the newly appointed Turkish King truth of Albaniawhat happened all that time ago. If only he can get there before After 'seeing' Lucy in the high street, just as she was the claimant last time she saw her, she starts to find pockets of memories coming back to her. And yet as she remembers the crownpast, perhaps he can steal the country she is forgetting more and complete an unlikely rise more in statusher day to day life. In Will she uncover the company of his pal, Max, a strongmantruth about Lucy's disappearance before her move, a blind mind-reader and his beautiful daughter, an exotic dancer and a purloined camel, what could possibly go wrongbefore her memories are gone forever?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857384937</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''
Told from a retrospective view, a young woman unravels the year-long relationship that once defined her. Overlaid with later wisdom, the narrator relives the affair with a man twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the summer after. Set against the backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the 24-year-old narrator's deepening relationship with her older lover, depicting its all-consuming nature, how it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and how it altered her irrevocably.|isbn=0861546490}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Asko Sahlberg0008506337|title=The BrothersGarnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore|rating=45
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|summary=WeThe love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O're in the family home of Erik, in FinlandLeary was all-consuming, apparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in 1809love. ItRichard was twenty-one and described by Margo's large enough to have been the most impressive farmstead when his mother was taken there as a young bride, and she still lives there, with 'an elderly retainer, Erik, Erikolder man'. Her parents worried that Richard's untrusting wife influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and some other servantshaving a glittering career. One night the brother of In the family, Henrik, returnsevent, they eloped and all Richard took her away from the bad blood gets spilledIsle of Wight. Not just about a neighbour's horse Margo did go to Oxford and hotheaded plans for it, not just over went on to become a marriagewell-respected journalist. The couple had three children: Rachel, Imogen and not even about Sasha. Life was lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, the fact that when Sweden and Russia fought over Finland and family home on the territory changed hands, Isle of Wight. Even then the brothers doubts about Richard's drinking were on opposing sidesnever far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able to leave him in charge''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>095628406X</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kirsten Tranter1914585402|title=A Common LossDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=I reviewed David F Ross's book [[There were five friends - Dylan, Brian, Tallis, Cameron and Elliot - but then Dylan was killed in 's Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's Only One Danny Garvey]] a road accident couple of years back and the remaining four had to come to terms with remember being absolutely floored by how the dynamics of the group had changed. Dylan had always been the fixer, the solver and the mediator. He'd been the one the other four had gone to when they had problems because he'd always come up with something powerful and affecting it was usually an ingenious solution. It wasn't until after Dylan's death that the four friends realised that Dylan knew their dirtiest secrets - was a gripping, emotionally wounding read, and rereading my review of it my main takeaway was that someone else had access to all the informationI might not have lavished enough praise on it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857382756</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Paul BroderickLucy Ashe|title=The Bankruptcy DiariesClara and Olivia
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=In 2000The year is 1933. The place? Sadler's Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, Paul Livingson graduated from university and got his first proper grown up jobtwins no less. By 2007 he had filed for bankruptcyIdentical on the outside but not, we learn, on the inside. With no failed businessesAnd not on stage, unfortunate property depreciation either. Because there's a lot that builds a dancer. Some things that can be taught or poor stock market investments in learnt – discipline, attention to detail – and some things, that ''je ne sais quoi'', that don't come from the classroom. A stage presence, a charm, a ''joie de vivre''. The difference between you might be at a loss to see how he ended up therehard-worker, until you read his diary of those years and it all becomes crystal cleara star.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0956511937</amazonuk>0861544080
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{{Frontpage|author=Heather Fawcett|title=Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life's work, the very first encyclopaedia of faeries. Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, she is not so good with people. So when she finds herself far, far North in the small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the 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 right track. Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, much to Emily's frustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|isbn=0356519120}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Francis Gilbert1398515388|title=The Last Day of TermBoy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=It's First of all, it was the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the last day of term at tsunami and this, in turn, caused the Gilda Ball Academynuclear meltdown. The result was complete and utter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, and English teacher Martin can't wait for the holiday to startloss of livelihoods was widespread. Shaken by The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the death list of his friend Jack in priorities but - six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. He wasn't a riot at dog person but the school, heconvenience store owner's failed comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to notice open his marriage falling to pieces car door and his relationship with his son deteriorating. Just when he thinks things can't get any worse, an anonymous pupil accuses him of inappropriate sexual conductTamon the dog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906021511</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Evonne WarehamChristopher Bowden|title=Never Coming HomeMr Magenta|rating=3.54|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Kaz Elmore has almost come to terms with her daughterChristopher Bowden's death. She died while on holiday in America with her father (Kazlatest novel is a patient untangling of a seemingly ordinary woman's ex husband) and life, carried out by her ashes have been scattered on the rivernephew after she has died. As tragic as it is, Kaz has no alternative but The aunt who always provided a safe harbour and a little bit of indulgence to accept that her daughter is never coming back. However, one day she receives a visit from young nephew had had a man called Devlin, who witnessed the accident much more interesting life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and was holding Jamie when she died. His sole intention is it seems to him an obligation to provide some comfort for Kaz by telling her that her daughter was not alone but when he spots photographs of Jamie, he realises that she is not the child who died in his armsfind it all out.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1906931704</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andrea EamesJennifer Mason|title=The Cry Partitions of the Go-Away BirdUnity|rating=34
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=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 series of disappearances. In ''The Cry Partitions of the Go-Away BirdUnity'' is the debut novel from Andrea Eames. It revolves around Elise, a white Zimbabwean girl living through she sets her teens on the eve of the Mugabe-sponsored farm invasions at the beginning of this century. The author herself grew up in Zimbabwe before moving mind to New Zealand with her family at the age of seventeen and there is solving a strong sense of memoir and personal experience in the novel, which has both positive and negative effects on the narrativemurder...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846553733</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}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alexander McCall SmithJennifer Mason|title=The Saturday Big Tent Wedding PartyPreposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery|rating=54
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Alexander McCall Smith makes it look so easy''A struggling poetry zine, churning out book after delightful book that continue to delight a mom-and amuse his loyal readers. His writing seems effortless-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, and a man serving a life sentence in this storyAlabama, once againan enigmatic signature, the characters remain the wonderful friends we have always known and expected them to beK(s, x), on a cheap oil painting, as if they really are alive and living these stories somewhere and AMS is simply transcribing them for our pleasurean erotic art dealer in Georgia...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349123136</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David NichollsB0B2N7MVYM|title=One DayThe Calculations of Rational Men|author=Daniel Godfrey
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=I knew within It's the 10th of December 1962 when we first ten pages that I was going meet Dr Joseph Marr. Just to love put what happens in context, the Cuban missile crisis is still very fresh in people's minds. The world has barely had a chance to breathe out. But for Joe Marr, it'One Day''. It is s not the only book missile crisis that has kept me up 's at night, distracted me throughout the day and woken me up early in the morningfront of his mind. I couldn He't put s been convicted of murder. With the current state of medical knowledge, it down, and didn't want s hard to either. I think otherwise than that the prosecution would never have always found it difficult to settle on a favourite type of story, or even a specific genre that I like, been brought but this novel made me realise that what I want Joe Marr has spent his first few days in HMP Queen's Bench, a book is realismrelatively new prison. As Dexter Mayhew He's just getting used to his roommate, Mervyn, and Emma Morley enjoyed their late night conversation in the opening moments learning to be wary of the book, Nicholls pulled me into his worldMcArthur brothers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340896981</amazonuk>
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