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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]]__NOTOC__{{adsense2}}Frontpage|author=Onyi Nwabineli|title=Allow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction__NOTOC__<!|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- Remove -->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}}{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529153298|title=The Sorrow List of AngelsSuspicious Things|author=Jon Kalman StefanssonJennie Godfrey|rating=3.5|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=Our decidedly unheroic main character has It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been at the café for three weeks nowmurdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so we are following on very closely frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South'. When you're from [[Heaven Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and Hell by Jon Kalman Stefansson|Heaven and Hell]]she'll do anything to prevent that. After She's not worried about the tragedy and souldangers or that her Mum's stopped talking -searching to anyone.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035906708|title=Diva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=We tend to think of that first bookMaria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, he seems settled in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the ridiculous family States. When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that has formed around him thereshe could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, finding employmentJackie.}}{{Frontpage|author=Alexander McCall Smith|title=The Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, enjoying run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the literatureonline apps in providing a more personal, yet being tailored service. very intrigued by Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the female body. The man who business, as Ness is still young enough planning to take a trip to be known only as ''the boy'' might have latched on Canada to stability get away for oncea while. Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and replaced so jumps at the family and best friend he had lostchance to come home to Edinburgh. But everything is restless in And so begins this environmentnew story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and once again he might just be tempted the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to go on charm. Katie has no experience in running a journeybusiness, or in match-making, with another male companionbut Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, despite the harshness of the surrounds.to lend a hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857051652</amazonuk>1846976596

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Heaven and HellDean Koontz|authortitle=Jon Kalman StefanssonThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionParanormal|summary=IcelandBenny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, a hundred years agohe loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. From Oh, and someone has delivered a place 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 definition of rural and remote, a small fishing boat leaves for four hours' hard row last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a profitable banknice person. It carries six men on the way A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out, and five on that the way back. The deceased delivery to his house is the best a new friend – or perhaps only , a bad weather friend – of the main charactercalled Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is still young enough to merely be known as ''boy''clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. When he returns Spike is going to port take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he enters an almost Camus-like semi-existence, wondering just how much life is an answerBenny, and for what, after the tragedy he has witnessedHarper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849164061</amazonuk>1662500491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The List of my DesiresKatherine Howe|authortitle=Gregoire DelacourtA True Account|rating=34.5

|summary=Jocelyne Hannah Masury is living in her fortiesBoston, married having been sent to Jolive with a family who run an inn, and mother being made to one stillborn little girl and two twenty-something children who have grown distant work there from her with timea young age. She owns When she hears there is to be a haberdashery shop hanging of some pirates in the small town where , she lives, decides to go and she's writing an online blog which is growing in popularitywatch. Although there have been bumps Enthralled and horrified in the pastequal measure, with her violent husband struggling with their little girlHannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death, at the early death hands of two vicious pirates. She hides away, so that they don't find and kill her mother too, and then to escape them completely she runs away to sea, dressing as a boy and her fatherjoining the notorious Ned Low's debilitating stroke her life is now reasonably stable and at pirate ship as a cabin boy. She soon finds herself in the start thick of the story she seems, things when there is a mutiny on the surfaceboard, to be happy although one suspects that beneath the veneer and from there we are unresolved issues for Jocelynecaught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0297868357</amazonuk>0861547438

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Barbara Delinsky1471180158|title=Sweet Salt AirMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes

|summary=ItJamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's ten years since Charlotte and Nicole were closea control freak with all the subtlety of a half brick. Since then Nicole has married JulianJamie's son, Bo, an eminent surgeon and Charlotte 'has made her way as a writerhis problems'. She has a base in New York, but itHe's little bigger than a cupboard asthmatic and is only a place to stay between foreign assignments. Nicole lives in Philadelphia but still spends her summers at her familythe more you read, the more you'll suspect that he's property off on the coast of Maineautistic spectrum. This year is going Sometimes Jamie needs to be take time off at short notice - she's a frequent flier in the last time though. Her father died suddenly local A&E and her mother cansometimes Bo't bear s not fit enough to go back to Quinniepeague, so Nicole is returning school. Missed shifts or the need to the island be away on time to clear pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the house for salewrong. And she's It was going to write come to a cookbookhead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472104579</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0CKD1L5JL|title=Kind of KinRadio Free Olympia|author=Rilla AskewJeffrey Dunn

|summary=Welcome to CedarPetr is an orphan. Rescued by the strange, Oklahomareclusive Bear, 2008. The big issue of the day he is immigration brought up far from bustling cities and this town is at busy human society, in the centre forests of Washington's Olympic Peninsula. After Bear dies and a brief sojourn in human company, and armed with only a pirate radio transmitter, Petr goes on a political storm. Bill 1830 has just been passed creating havoc as journey through the forest, broadcasting the Mexican inhabitants are rounded up strange, wild and driven out of townrarely heard voices he encounters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782390103</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Back to BloodSarah Marsh|authortitle=Tom WolfeA Sign of Her Own

|summary=He may now be 81After a bout of scarlet fever as a child, but there are no signs that Tom Wolfe is mellowingEllen Lark loses her hearing. Is his latest ''Back to Blood'' another magnificent addition to the Wolfe hall or is he merely bringing up the bodies? Well for me, it's Suddenly plunged into a little world of bothsilence, everything about her life changes. The book's great strength and also its main weakness are Living in a time when the similarities between this Miami-set story use of racial and cultural tension and his New York-set classic [[The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe|The Bonfire of the Vanities]]sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a school where she is taught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. There are familiar themes: newspapers, racial tension From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the super-rich behaving disgracefully deaf and lost in their own ego-maniausing a system called Visible Speech. At the same time, Bell is working on other inventions and a lively writing style shot through with angry humourideas, all of which bring to mind ''The Bonfire of the Vanities''. As there, he takes several characters from different worlds whose lives intersect and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in unexpected ways. But while taking those ingredients might seem a very welcome thing, the end result suffers in comparisoncomplicated tangle of espionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099578530</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreview|title=Unfaithfully Yours|author=Nigel Williams|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=When Nigel Williams first really burst on to the best-seller list, a couple Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of decades ago, it her fifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. She was with a book set in Wimbledon that really quite tickled a younger me – and my mother. But then he produced two more in the same seriesvery bright student, and we soon decided he was a bit of a one-trick ponytoo nerdy if truth be told, and could never be sure how much of the trilogy wesuffered from vitiligo - people were afraid to hug her in case it'd read, or be too eager to read mores contagious. Flash forward, and Williams has certainly branched out – his setting this time It's not easy being a black girl whose skin is Putney84% white. Wimbledon Common is now Putney Heath, and so She had a crush onseventeen-year-old Reggie Anderson but never thought he would notice her. But here Then he provides an epistolatory novel – did: Lavender was very good at math and Reggie asked if there's one kind of novel she would tutor him. She readily agreed: tutoring was something she gladly did at church: this was just an extension. She went to make me prick up my ears it is one built from lettershis house and he raped her. It is the blatant two-and-fro timing of the narrativeIn shock, and the succinctness that characters are formed with, that strike me as obvious benefits of such she even allowed him to give her a book – and Unfaithfully Yours has those and many morelift home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472106741</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1472263936|title=Love in RevolutionThe Figurine|author=B R CollinsVictoria Hislop

|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=Everyone It was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her village - in an unnamed Basque country - loves pello first trip to Greece. She was alone: her mother, Greek by birth, had left the family home and refused to return, but Mary and Esteya is no different. ItHamish (Helena's the national sport and its heroes are national heroesparents) felt that it would be a pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. That Her trip to the holder of family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be the Kings Cup hails from her village is a source first of pride several annual visits. She grew to Esteyalove her grandmother and the family's maid, her twin brother MartinDina, but was wary - and everyone else. Except older brother Leon. So when the Bull comes home for a visitfrightened - of her grandfather, everyone is excitedretired general Stamatis Papagiannis. And when a young peasant boy challenges him He was proud of his close connections to a game, everyone laughs. And when the peasant boy wins, everyone is shocked Junta and discomfitedexpected his family to uphold his values but saw no reason to accommodate them. Except Leon His prejudices included Helena's red hair and green eyes - inherited from her father's Scottish ancestors. Leon, a communist sympathiser, sees it as a symbolic victory of the peasant over the dissolute regime of the King. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408815702</amazonuk>

{{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|isbn=B0BVDC2VWH|title=The Never PagesGrave Listeners|author=Graham ThomasWilliam Frank

|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary=''There are two rules that the Dream Investigator must follow:''<br>''1. Document everythingThe village is isolated and poor.It''<br>''2s surrounded by a Witching Forest. Keep moving forwardAnd the villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicines.'' Master G is in search The black wood of his one true lovethe forest provides heat and warmth, roofs on homes, and even gallows, Lucyif needed. But Lucy The fear of being buried alive is lost an existential superstition in the NeverRealm, the dimension village and that separates the living from whatever comes after. In the NeverRealm, memories do not exist. So how is Master G - the Dream Investigator - to find her? From the very first momentreason Volushka, his journey into the NeverRealm is destroying his minda drunken, turning thoughts and knowledge and recollection to sand, shifting sand. He will need courage to face the nightmarish environment. He will need fortitude to resist the degeneration. He will need to find Brekkerself-indulgent, his unreliable scientist friend. And he'll need the companionship lazy lout of Paisley, a dog named after a carpet..man is tolerated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956742203</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0BYF82CXT|title=Things We NeedSemi-Detached|author=Jennifer CloseDeborah Stone

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Claire Coffey used to live ''Bill and Amanda are living in a semi-detached house, stuck in New York with a successful job depressing rut of boredom and a great fiancé; her sister Martha used to be a nurse; disappointment, when Terry and her brother Max should have been looking forward to finishing his final year at college before embarking on an exciting Fiona – glamorous, successful and interesting careervery much in love – move in next door. HoweverDespite their different outlooks on life, things don’t always turn out the way that one expects which couples befriend each other and life appears to improve for both pairs. But all is why all three siblings end up back at the family home needing the support of not what it seems, and their parentsincreasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701186658</amazonuk>''

{{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|isbn=1787636003|title=A Cat Called DogThe Girls of Summer|author=Jem VanstonKatie Bishop|rating=3.5

|summary= ''Cats are not dogs. And dogs are not cats. Even two-legs know that. But Dog It was a cat, because the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that was his name: he was a cat - a cat called Dog - she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and he was happy with that tooarrived on the island.'' Confused? Don Rachel wasn't be. Dog may be happy exactly innocent but he is the confused oneshe was, not you. He is a cat. He is ''a cat''. But he's called Dog because he behaves like one. He pokes his tongue out like a puppy. When he gets excitedperhaps, he wags his tail like a puppy. Andnaive, horror of horrors, he even yaps and barks like a puppy. This kittenso when thirty-four-year-cat is only one summer oldAlistair Wright started to take an interest in her, so perhaps it's not too lateshe was flattered rather than wary. Perhaps, if he were to find It was quite a tutor, while before he could learn made any sort of physical approach to be a ''proper'' cather and by that time she was obsessed by him. A cat who understands the feline holy trinity of eating Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, sleeping and washing. A cat who understands his importance to two-legs. A cat who can proudly take looking after his place among interests on the others of island and in particular in the best species in bar where all the worldgirls either worked or partied.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780885598</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Closed DoorsAmanda Craig|authortitle=Lisa O'DonnellThree Graces

|summary=Did you listen at doors when you were little? Did you hang from Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the banisters, trying to hear what was going on in state-of-the grown up world when you-nation novel. There'd been banished to your room? In this storys something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the atmosphere of the day and capture it, eleven year old Michael finds out most crafting an image of his information by listeningthe country as it stands in one particular moment. HeTo say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's adept practically synonymous with the genre of contemporary social fiction at creeping around and learning snippets this point. She has such a gift for weaving the ongoing issues of information, local gossip and tidbits the day into the lives of family dynamics. But one night, when his mum comes home screaming her characters in a way that feels natural and covered lived-in blood the secrets that Michael becomes privvy too are , never making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with issues far more disturbing larger than what Tricia down the road has been getting up tothemselves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0434022551</amazonuk>140871468X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mike Gayle152915118X|title=Turning FortyPineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson|rating=4.5

|summary=I made ''Pineapple Street'' is the mistake story of reading Mike Gaylethree women: Sasha, Darley and Georgiana. Darley and George are sisters and Sasha is married to their brother Cord. They's re Stocktons, only Sasha isn't a Stockton by birth so she isn'Turning Thirtyt readily accepted into the tribe. The problem's exacerbated when the clan matriarch, Tilda, asks Cord and Sasha if they' in d like to move into the weeks before I did Pineapple Street property. Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to another property, a street or soaway, which they own. Despite it being a story They won't need any of a man whose life fell apart just before his 30th birthdaythe furniture from Pineapple Street, he still seemed to be doing better than I wasso Sasha and Cord can move straight in. Nominally, which made it they had a readable choice but depressing experiencethat wasn't the reality. Fortunately, Darley and Georgiana start to call Sasha 'the gold digger'. She's living in ''Turning Fortytheir'' is being published about 15 months before I reach family home. They use it so often that milestone and my life is in a different place which, hopefully, will combine they abbreviate it to make it a more enjoyable read'the GD'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340918535</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Simon PontEmily Critchley|title=Remember to BreatheOne Puzzling Afternoon

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=We meet Sam Grant on his 27th birthday84 year old Edie has lived in the same small town for almost her whole life, but he's not out celebrating. He's got flu now she is facing a move as her son wants to move to another house and just bring Edie to add live with his family, as Edie is starting to his problems he's got a boil in his groin - or on his thigh - depending on which side of the doctor's desk you're sittinglose her memory. Sam's not been looking after himself since his girlfriend dumped him just However, Edie is tormented by the memory of her childhood friend, Lucy, who went missing over three months 60 years ago , and when you work in adland the opportunities worry that there was a secret she was keeping for not looking after yourself are many and varied. The millenium hasn't quite arrived, 'austerity' hasn't even been thought about and living an out-Lucy that somehow might be the thing that reveals the truth of-control life has never been easierwhat happened all that time ago. What we get is SamAfter 's diary, but itseeing's not Lucy in chronological orderthe high street, just as she was the last time she saw her, with some she starts to find pockets of it going memories coming back to before he met Sarah - her. And yet as she remembers the girl he didn't really wantpast, but struggles she is forgetting more and more in her day to get overday life. Will she uncover the truth about Lucy's disappearance before her move, and before her memories are gone forever?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1909273007</amazonuk>1804181250

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=Grace McCleen0008506337|title=The Professor of PoetryGarnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore|rating=45

|summary=Grace McCleen's ''The Professor of Poetrylove affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'' is Elizabeth StoneLeary was all-consuming, a 52 year old aged professor at a London Universityapparently on both sides. When the book opens she has Margo was just discovered that a cancer scare is now sixteen when they fell in remission, but forced love. Richard was twenty-one and described by Margo's mother as 'an older man'. Her parents worried that Richard's influence would take her illness away from what they felt she could achieve - going to take Oxford and having a sabbaticalglittering career. In the event, she sets about researching they eloped and Richard took her latest book based on some papers away from the Isle of TS EliotWight. This takes her back Margo did go to Oxford, and went on to her alma mater and raises the prospect of seeing her former professor there, become a man convinced of the young Miss Stone's potential at an early age, but whose last meeting was somewhat awkwardwell-respected journalist. McCleen looks at the issues raised by generations of poets, namely time The couple had three children: Rachel, death Imogen and loveSasha. For Professor Stone Life was lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, the first has passed, family home on the second come uncomfortably close and Isle of Wight. Even then the third remains unknown to her. Whatdoubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's more, her academic focus is on the music of love poetry which is somewhat ironic in that mind: ''she avoids human relationships perhaps due would never be able to the death of her mother at an early age and an unhappy foster experience, while also having a peculiar aversion to musicleave him in charge''. Perhaps though this is what allows her a detached ability to write academic studies Then Richard left them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444769952</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rachel Joyce1914585402|title=PerfectDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross

|summary=In 1972 two seconds were added to the year. 11 year old Byron Hemmings heard about it from his friend James and felt it wouldnI reviewed David F Ross't be a good thing. In fact at the moment Bryons book [[There's watchOnly One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's second hand reversed something happened Only One Danny Garvey]] a couple of years back and remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and affecting it was. It was a gripping, emotionally wounding read, and rereading my review of it my main takeaway was that would mean neither his or James' lives would ever be the same againI might not have lavished enough praise on it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857520660</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=419Lucy Ashe|authortitle=Will FergusonClara and Olivia|rating=4.5

|summary=Anyone who has ever opened an E-Mail which proves to be a plea for assistance in getting large amounts of money ahead of the authorities will recognise the themeThe year is 1933. Laura CurtisThe place? Sadler' father had such an E-Mail s Wells. Ballerinas Clara and having tried to help and spent all his moneyOlivia are sisters, he has driven his car off a bridgetwins no less. MeanwhileIdentical on the outside but not, we learn, in Nigeriaon the inside. And not on stage, either. Because there's a pregnant young woman walks through the dustlot that builds a dancer. Some things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, trying attention to escape her family detail – and find something some things, that ever she doesn''je ne sais quoi'', that don't know what she is looking forcome from the classroom. In the Niger DeltaA stage presence, meanwhilea charm, a ''joie de vivre''. The difference between a hard-worker, the oil companies are moving in and a whole way of life is changing in the fishing villages therestar. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781855056</amazonuk>0861544080

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Juan Pablo VillalobosHeather Fawcett|title=Down The Rabbit HoleEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

|summary=Down The Rabbit Hole Emily Wilde is a fictional tale of a young boy’s an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life as 's work, the son very first encyclopaedia of a Mexican drug lordfaeries. Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, she is not so good with people. Tochtli narrates So when she finds herself far, far North in the small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the story village matriarch, she is not sure what she has done, nor how to redeem herself and gives us a child’s view of put her final investigations for her book back on the sordid world that his father rulesright track. We are shown the positives Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and negatives of this kind of lifestyle as Tochtli sees thingsdelight, from presents galore much to having to call his father by his first nameEmily's frustration. This book But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is a strange blend of childlike wonder within a violent world.going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908276282</amazonuk>0356519120

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Isabelle Grey1398515388|title=The Bad MotherBoy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating=34.5

|summary=When we first meet Tessa Parker she has a major problem on her handsFirst of all, it was the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and this, in turn, caused the nuclear meltdown. Her seventeen-year-old son has been missing since the previous dayThe result was complete and utter devastation. The police are involved deaths were uncountable, and Tessa is beside herself with worrythe loss of livelihoods was widespread. She's told The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of priorities but - six months after the police quite tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a bit - however you candog outside a convenience store. He wasn't help a dog person but feel that therethe convenience store owner's a lot more going on comment that she's not telling. To find out he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and Tamon the full story we go back four months..dog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857386484</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Irene Nemirovsky and Sandra Smith (translator)Christopher Bowden|title=The MisunderstandingMr Magenta|rating=3.54

|summary=After the Great War Yves Harteloup was Christopher Bowden's latest novel is a disappointed young man when he returned to the resort where he had spent idyllic childhood summers. It wasn't long before he became infatuated by the beautiful Denise - mother patient untangling of a young childseemingly ordinary woman's life, wife of an older man carried out by her nephew after she has died. The aunt who was away on business always provided a safe harbour and bored. In the heat a little bit of the summer the relationship is intoxicating and Denise falls passionately in love with Yves. When they return indulgence to Paris Denise envisages a little flat which they will furnish to their taste for afternoons of leisure young nephew had had a much more interesting life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and pleasure but the truth is that Yves must return it seems to his mundane office job and try him an obligation to make every franc stretch as far as find it can. In the drab autumn of Paris Denise is driven mad with desire for Yves and their love disintegrates under the burden of misunderstandingall out.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099563843</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Isabel AshdownJennifer Mason|title=Summer Partitions of '76Unity

|summary=1976 was a blisteringly hot summer. People celebrated when it eventually did rain and Here at one point it was so hot that Big Ben stopped working. It would be the summer that Luke Wolff turned eighteen and he planned on leaving the Isle of White Bookbag Towers, we first met Elizabeth Cromwell, dominatrix and going to poly unintentional detective in Brighton. He had a job at the holiday camp[[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], which was hard work but there was when she investigated and unravelled a great social life too and even the possibility series of romancedisappearances. His parents were happy In ''Partitions of Unity'', she sets her mind to let him have his independence - after all, he was solving a sensible, well-balanced young man - and they were rather preoccupied with their own problemsmurder.. Looking in, you'd have thought that the Wolffs were the ideal family: from the inside there were obviously one or two cracks.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908434333</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cees NooteboomWill Carver|title=RitualsThe Daves Next Door|rating=54

|summary=''Rituals'' introduces us to Amsterdam, and to Inni, firstly Five strangers come together in 1960, then in 1950, and then in the 1970s. When we first meet Inni, it is when he is one moment as a middle-aged man in 1960. Far from responsible and hard-working, we see him as someone who is impulsive and reckless, even to the point of cruelty suicide bomber prepares to detonate his wife - who formulates plans to leave him. It is only after this frankly miserable first impression that we meet the younger Inni, and we see how vest on a chance meeting with a man called Arnold Taads had changed the course of his life. Taads is a man obsessed with matriculating his life down to the last second, letting time dictate what he can do, with whom he can do it with, and, most importantly, whenLondon tube line. In Part three, in another chance meetingAs their fates overlap, the now ageing Inni meets Taads' son, Phillip. Phillip, though having never met his father, curiously lives a life that story is an echo of his father's; though as Arnold isolated himself told in the mountainsbackwards order, Phillip isolates himself in meditation and leading up to the methodology of the tea ceremonyfateful moment.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782067175</amazonuk>1914585186}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anthony QuinnJennifer Mason|title=The StreetsPreposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery|rating=4.5

|summary=Anthony Quinn's ''The Streets'' is set in London in the early 1880s A struggling poetry zine, a mom-and-pop mobile diner in the area known as Somers TownNorthern California redwoods, which to those not familiar with London geography is a 400-meter hurdler who just missed the area around Euston2004 Olympics, St Pancras and Kinga women's Cross stations. Todaytrack coach with a yen for bullwhips, much a billionaire with a state-of this falls under -the trendy Camden area-art S&M dungeon, but a man serving a life sentence in the 1880sAlabama, was the site of some of the worst slum tenements in the capital. Some 50 years' earlieran enigmatic signature, Charles Dickens lived in this part of London and although he had died by the time this is setK(s, the depiction of the poverty is not far from what we would term Dickensian. The book is narrated by David Wildebloodx), who is on a principled but naive young man who finds employment as cheap oil painting, an erotic art dealer in Georgia...'investigator' for the charismatic Mr Marchmont's ''The Labouring Classes of London'' - a strange mix of social geography and journalism publishing regular stories of the poor who reside in the slums of London.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099575159</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Ruth Thomas|title=The Home Corner|rating=3.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=When you finish your Highers, you’re supposed to go on to university, especially if you’re a girl like Luisa. But she’s failed hers, so for now higher education is out, and working This is unfortunately in. So, she finds just a job working as a classroom assistant in a primary school. It’s not something she ever wanted to do, and she finds herself in a weird sort sample of limbo, at a life stage somewhere between the children cast of characters and settings in her classPreposterous. As you can see, and her proper grown-some keeping up adult colleagueswill be required! The basic premise of this mystery story goes like this...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>057123061X</amazonuk>B09STS96HS

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lucy CruickshanksB0B2N7MVYM|title=The Trader Calculations of SaigonRational Men|author=Daniel Godfrey

|summary=In It's the Saigon 10th of December 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marr. Just to put what happens in context, the 1980s the Vietnam War Cuban missile crisis is over but the traces remainstill very fresh in people's minds. Alexander The world has deserted from the US army and makes barely had a comfortable living selling girls chance to local business menbreathe out. Phuc used to be a business manBut for Joe Marr, complete with mansion and it's not the missile crisis that's at the means to keep front of his wife and three children in affluencemind. Now his family live in a shanty hut, afraid He's been convicted of murder. With the ruling government current state of medical knowledge, it's hard to think otherwise than that spies through the eyes of childrenprosecution would never have been brought but Joe Marr has spent his first few days in HMP Queen's Bench, a relatively new prison. At last he finds a way out, his luck He's just needs getting used to hold. Hanh also lives in povertyhis roommate, Mervyn, desperately trying and learning to help her sick mother with the pittance she earns from cleaning one be wary of the city's many open latrines. Then one day she meets someone who offers so much more. His name is AlexanderMcArthur brothers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782063218</amazonuk>