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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]]__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The World is a WeddingOnyi Nwabineli|authortitle=Wendy JonesAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5
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|summary=They say one door doesn't shut but for another opens. Wilfred Price, Anuri spent her childhood on display to the most amenable 1920s Welsh undertaker in literatureworld, is living proof of that. He took his beloved Flora Myffanwy thanks to be his, after they both fell in love at her fatherstep-mother Ophelia's funeral. It did leave Grace alone and bereftincreasingly popular presence on social media, and forced out where she posted every step of town in a very unsavoury fashion, but Anuri's childhood for Wilfred sponsorships and Flora married life is fineinfluencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. HesitantNow Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, but finesuing her step-mother to take down the content about her. He's finally got into the swing of things as regards calling Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her ''dear''PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and conjugal relationsreceiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, and she has finally felt able to speak up is desperately worried about her place in little sister, who is the household new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her husband sister, and perhaps herself and his her relationship with her father – and whoever happens to be left to settle in the workshop, having died on at the loo and got stuck in a non-coffin-shaped pose. But do those doors stay firmly shut…same time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178033379X</amazonuk>0861546873
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529153298|title=Mr Lynch's HolidayThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Catherine O'FlynnJennie Godfrey|rating=45
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|summary=Having read It's 1979 and enjoyed both of her previous novelsMargaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, [[What Was Lost by Catherine Ohonestly...) She's not what'Flynn|What Was Lost]] and [[The News Where You Are by Catherine Os worrying Miv'Flynn|The News Where You Are]] I was looking forward to this latest books family, though. Women have been disappearing. The story tells us of a father who surprises his sonWell, living in Spainthey've been murdered, with a visitbut to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. The father is recently widowed and the sonMiv's long-term partner has very recently left him, although itupset because she's some time before he admits overheard that her father wants to his dadmove the family 'Down South'. What begins as When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a holiday turns into something of a pschological rescue mission as Dermot begins to see frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the problems depressing Eamonn move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and the ways in which he might be able she'll do anything to helpprevent that. ThereShe's a lot not worried about familial relationships in the book, as well as ideas about living at home and abroaddangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670918563</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1035906708|title=The LuminariesDiva|author=Eleanor CattonDaisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=Eleanor Catton's ''The Luminaries'' is set in the New Zealand gold rush We tend to think of the late 1860s. It's a story about greedMaria Callas as Greek, powerbut she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, goldNew York, dreams, opium, secrets, betrayal in December 1923 and identity, only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but most of all, her father changed itto 's a celebration of the art of story telling, both Callas' to make it more manageable in terms of Catton's book and the stories her characters have to tellStates. It's the kind of book that is perfect escapism and which wraps you up When she was back in its world. If you like big, chunky books Athens - supposedly so that you can she could get lost in 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 hoursher elder sister, then this is one for youJackie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847084311</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David CanningAlexander McCall Smith|title=Out of the Clouds of DeceitThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=34.5
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|summary=On his way to begin training to be The Perfect Passion Company is a pilot dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the RAF, Aiden met Dennis online apps in providing a railway station buffetmore personal, tailored service. As luck would have it they were both on their way to Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the same placebusiness, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for the same reason and would find themselves sharing a roomwhile. Trained Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and mentored by older serving officers in what was so jumps at the immediate post-war period they came chance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to understand - 44 Scotland Street and to the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some extent feel - the sense of betrayal which burdened the pilots from bomber command new characters who had taken part in the Allied bombing campaign in the World War IIquickly begin to charm. Flying was Katie has no experience in Aiden's blood and he was at home in the air and running a business, or in the mess match- the comradeship of men suited him and he understood the nuances. He was less at home with womenmaking, never completely understanding the different needs a woman but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a relationship.hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00A0T787O</amazonuk>1846976596
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=More Than ThisDean Koontz|authortitle=Patrick NessThe Bad Weather Friend
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|genre=TeensParanormal|summary=''Here Benny is the boy, drowning.'' And Seth does drownhaving a terrifically bad day. He is alone; taken by the sealoses his job, arms and legs flailing and breakinghe loses his fiancee, skull dashed against the rocks whilst the icy water constricts his muscles and breath. Seth is consciously aware of his final momentshouse gets trashed. His death consumes him with a heavy Oh, confusing blur until… he awakens and finds himself in someone has delivered a desolatereally weird, shattered world; nakeddisturbing coffin-sized object to his home, aloneand it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, starving and aliveBenny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. This place looks familiar A really nice person. It looks exactly like So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the English village where he spent delivery to his early childhood before his brother’s accident and his family’s move house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Spike is going to Americatake care of Benny, but it is now overgrown and devoid will certainly take care of human life. It is as Benny's enemies, if the whole place was simply abandoned one dayhe, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406331155</amazonuk>1662500491
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Straight White MaleKatherine Howe|authortitle=John NivenA True Account|rating=4.5|genre=HumourGeneral Fiction|summary=In Kill Your FriendsHannah Masury is living in Boston, John Niven delivered having been sent to live with a scathing family who run an inn, and hugely entertaining satire on being made to work there from a young age. When she hears there is to be a hanging of some pirates in the music industrytown, she decides to go and watch. In Straight White Male he Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's turned his attention death at the hands of two vicious pirates. She hides away, so that they don't find and kill her too, and then to Hollywood escape them completely she runs away to sea, dressing as a boy and joining the notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. She soon finds herself in the thick of things when there is a mutiny on board, and academia with similarly impressive resultsfrom there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0434022861</amazonuk>0861547438
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1471180158|title=The KillsMaybe Tomorrow|author=Richard HousePenny Parkes|rating=34.5
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|summary=Richard House's Booker-longlisted The Kills is a collection of four related books, originally published Jamie Matson works in ean upper-book format between February and June 2013. In some waysclass grocery store, the e-book format is the natural habitat for Housea man who's creation as it includes a largely optional multi-media component to control freak with all the storysubtlety of a half brick. It is a hugely ambitious piece about money Jamie's son, murderBo, greed, stories 'has his problems'. He's asthmatic and where things start and equally wherethe more you read, if ever, they end. Covering the more countries than feature in Michael Palinyou'll suspect that he's passport, on the book starts with corruption and embezzlement in autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's a US civilian company working frequent flier in the re-building of Iraq, local A&E and ends with a kind of sometimes Bo'Tales of s not fit enough to go to school. Missed shifts or the Unexpected' story in Cyprus having taken need to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the wrong. It was going to come to a gruesome story of murder in Napleshead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447237862</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0CKD1L5JL|title=Bertie's Guide to Life and MothersRadio Free Olympia|author=Alexander McCall SmithJeffrey Dunn|rating=54
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|summary=SoPetr is an orphan. Bertie. YesRescued by the strange, reclusive Bear, dear Bertie finally turns seven in this book! And about time too! His birthday gifts he is brought up far from his parents are perhaps not everything he wished forbustling cities and busy human society, nor even what his dad might have wanted to get him, but Bertiein the forests of Washington's motherOlympic Peninsula. After Bear dies and a brief sojourn in human company, Ireneand armed with only a pirate radio transmitter, has very definite ideas about what makes Petr goes on a good birthday present for a little boy. Fortunately for my blood pressure journey through the forest, broadcasting the odious Irene is soon whisked away to another country after winning a newspaper competitionstrange, wild and her stay there might be rather longer than she'd intended..rarely heard voices he encounters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846972531</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Morgan McCarthySarah Marsh|title=The Outline A Sign of LoveHer Own
|rating=3.5
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|summary=Persephone Triebold has spent most After a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her life on the Assynt Peninsula in north-west Scotlandhearing. It's isolatedSuddenly plunged into a world of silence, rugged and under-populatedeverything about her life changes. Her father opted to live there after Living in a time when the death use of his wifesign language was seen as something only savages do, feeling that it was safe for his young daughter. She's been home-schooled and has had very little contact with other people - but makes the decision that Ellen is sent to a school where she's going is taught to university in Londonlip read, but physically restrained from signing. Once there From here, she shares a house with three other girls ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and develops using a crush on former indie musician and Booker-winning novelist Leo Fordsystem called Visible Speech. She works her way into his circle of friends - At the same time, Bell is working on other inventions and finally into his bed - but never feels that has ''connected'' with him. Part of it is that she can't get past ''that'' incident in his past which involved his sisterideas, Ivy, her partner, a gun and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a sword - and no one will talk about itcomplicated tangle of espionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755388771</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|isbn=1472263936|title=OstrichThe Figurine|author=Matt GreeneVictoria Hislop
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=[[The Curious Incident of the Dog It was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. She was alone: her mother, Greek by birth, had left the Night Time by Mark Haddon]] deserves every piece of praise it receivedfamily home and refused to return, as a childrenbut Mary and Hamish (Helena's novel with plenty parents) felt that it would be a pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. Her trip to the family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be the first of several annual visits. She grew to interest older readers love her grandmother and a wonderful way of portraying Aspergerthe family's Syndrome through its narratormaid, Christopher BooneDina, but was wary - and frightened - of her grandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. He was proud of his close connections to the Junta and expected his family to uphold his values but saw no reason to accommodate them. His prejudices included Helena's red hair and green eyes - inherited from her father'Ostrich'' by Matt Greene follows quite similar lines, although this time the narrator, Alex, has a brain tumours Scottish ancestors.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0297869523</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|isbn=B0BVDC2VWH|title=The Second Life of Amy ArcherGrave Listeners|author=R S PatemanWilliam Frank|rating=4.5
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|summary=Ten years ago, a little girl vanished from The village is isolated and poor. It's surrounded by a playground near her London homeWitching Forest. Her body was never foundAnd the villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicines. A decade on, The black wood of the forest provides heat and her parents are different peoplewarmth, her mother Beth still hung up roofs on what didhomes, or didn’t happen that day, her father Brian trying to move on with his new familyand even gallows, his new daughtersif needed. On The fear of being buried alive is an existential superstition in the village and that is the anniversary of her disappearancereason Volushka, a strange visitor arrives on Beth’s doorstep saying she knows what happened to Amy Archer. She also knows a great deal about Beth’s lifedrunken, and Amy’sself-indulgent, from that time. Things no one should know. No one could know. But the only explanation is beyond belief. Either someone lazy lout of a man is playing a cruel joke on Beth, or it’s time to start believing in miraclestolerated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409128563</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0BYF82CXT|title=The Night RainbowSemi-Detached|author=Claire KingDeborah Stone
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|genre=General Fiction
|summary=You know''Bill and Amanda are living in a semi-detached house, there’s no reason stuck in a book has to be happy in order to be good. The Night Rainbow is proof depressing rut of this. Set geographically boredom and disappointment, when Terry and Fiona – glamorous, successful and very much in France and actually love – move in the head of a five year old girlnext door. Despite their different outlooks on life, it follows the adventures of the summer when Pea’s (short couples befriend each other and life appears to improve for Peony or Pivoineboth pairs. But all is not what it seems, depending who you ask) pregnant mother was too miserable to care and their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for her; the summer following the still birth of Pea’s sister and the tragic accidental death of her fathertragedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408841843</amazonuk>''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=LongbournShalini Boland|authortitle=Jo BakerThe Silent Bride|rating=53
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|summary=So we have had Jane Austen [[Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen Alice and Seth Grahame-Smith|meet zombies]]are a match made in heaven. He is everything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, clever, funny; total and now something perhaps even more reprehensible – social realismutter husband-material. This She is all he could possibly want in a world where people slip up in hogshitwife; beautiful, where rain pisses it downsuccessful, confident… and if so the weekly routine washday inevitable proposal is bad, you should try it when five Bennet daughters have their coinciding periodseagerly accepted by Alice and the wedding is planned and set. Sarah When the much-anticipated day arrives, Alice is in walked down the aisle by her father, beaming with pride and excitement as she surveys the middle of all congregation – their friends assembled to celebrate thisjoyful day and when Seth turns to face his approaching bride, trying to do her share of Alice's world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the housework with one hand man at times, lest pus from her blisters get on the linen, or her callouses crack open. But why can she not get her feelings about Jamesaltar is, the new mysterious footman fresh from who-knows-where, straight in her head, and why is waiting for her heart turned by the mulatto servant of the Bingleys up at Netherfield?to become his wife.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857522019</amazonuk>1662507089
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1787636003|title=Beneath an Irish SkyThe Girls of Summer|author=Isabella ConnorKatie Bishop
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|summary=In a hospital wardIt was the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the island. Rachel wasn't exactly innocent but she was, perhaps, naive, Luke Kiernan is stirring from a tranquiliserso when thirty-four-year-induced sleep following old Alistair Wright started to take an interest in her, she was flattered rather than wary. It was quite a serious car accident. His ribs while before he made any sort of physical approach to her and legs hurt and he has an awful feeling by that time she was obsessed by him. Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, looking after his mother is dead. But who is that stranger sitting beside interests on the island and in particular in the bed? Surely it can’t be his father, bar where all the father who pushed his mother away twenty years ago because he was ashamed to have a ''gypo kid'' around? Luke wants answers. But more than that, he wants revengegirls either worked or partied.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781890048</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=His Father's SonAmanda Craig|authortitle=Tony BlackThree Graces|rating=24.5
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|summary=Joey Driscol and his wife, Shauna, left Ireland for Australia on a 'wet May morning in 1968'. It was supposed to be a new start. It is now 1978 and Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the dreams state-of an idyllic escape have slowly crumbled, and Joey is forced to admit that 'a fresh start cannot last forever'. Marti, their eight-yearthe-old son, watches his parentsnation novel. There' marriage collapse firsthands something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the atmosphere of the day and capture it, yet he asks crafting an image of the same question country as it stands in one particular moment. To say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's practically synonymous with the baffled reader: why? But before he has had time to answer genre of contemporary social fiction at this conundrum, his mother whisks him off to Irelandpoint. The rashness She has such a gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the move ensures Joey must follow his son, and so begins his frightful odyssey back to day into the Old Country. You see, 'Marti was his son, the one pure lives of her characters in a way that feels natural and good thing lived-in his life', and he wasn't going to let Shauna just take himnever making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselves. But why Ireland, a place they both hated, a place to which they vowed never to return?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1845026365</amazonuk>140871468X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=152915118X|title=The Summer We All Ran AwayPineapple Street|author=Cassandra ParkinJenny Jackson
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=This ''Pineapple Street'' is a summer the story of running awaythree women: Sasha, Darley and Georgiana. Davey runs away from home, beaten Darley and George are sisters and drunkSasha is married to their brother Cord. He meets Priss They're Stocktons, only Sasha isn't a sixteen year oldStockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the tribe. The problem's exacerbated when the clan matriarch, Tilda, who is also runningasks Cord and Sasha if they'd like to move into the Pineapple Street property. Tom Tilda and Kate accept them both into Chip have renovated and downsized to another property, a hugestreet or so away, which they own. They won't need any of the furniture from Pineapple Street, mysterious houseso Sasha and Cord can move straight in. Nominally, they had a house choice but that doesnwasn't belong the reality. Darley and Georgiana start to call Sasha 'the gold digger'. She's living in ''their'' family home. They use it so often that they abbreviate it to any of them'the GD'. Thirty years ago}}{{Frontpage|author=Emily Critchley|title=One Puzzling Afternoon|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=84 year old Edie has lived in the same small town for almost her whole life, Jack Laker bought the but now she is facing a move as her son wants to move to another house and bring Edie to run away from live with his superstar lifestylefamily, as Edie is starting to lose her memory. Young girls However, Edie is tormented by the memory of her childhood friend, drugsLucy, who went missing over 60 years ago, and touring had caused him to take an overdosethe worry that there was a secret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be the thing that reveals the truth of what happened all that time ago. As his agent tries After 'seeing' Lucy in the high street, just as she was the last time she saw her, she starts to convince him find pockets of memories coming back to tour with her. And yet as she remembers the new album he has writtenpast, Jack meets a young actress at the house party being thrown she is forgetting more and more in his honour. The same party he is desperately trying her day to avoidday life. Will she uncover the truth about Lucy's disappearance before her move, and before her memories are gone forever?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1909395315</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|isbn=0008506337|title=The Next Time You See MeGarnett Girls|author=Holly Goddard JonesGeorgina Moore|rating=45
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=The love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, apparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in love. Richard was twenty-one and described by Margo'Small Town Americas mother as 'an older man'. What Her parents worried that Richard's influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and having a glittering career. In the betting you already have it pictured? The downtown areaevent, they eloped and Richard took her away from the Isle of Wight. The upmarket suburb Margo did go to Oxford and went on to become a well-respected journalist. The downbeat housing districtcouple had three children: Rachel, Imogen and Sasha. The High School with all its little league ( Life was lived in every sense London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, the family home on the Isle of Wight. Even then the expression) dramas and drama queensdoubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able to leave him in charge''. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782390839</amazonuk>Then Richard left them.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Honig1914585402|title=Goldblatt's DescentDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= Dr Malcolm Goldblatt has just started another temporary Senior RegistrarI reviewed David F Ross's role in yet another hospital. However this time itbook [[There's different. This is his last attempt to springboard his career into a consultantOnly One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's gradeOnly One Danny Garvey]] a couple of years back and remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and affecting it was. Whether he succeeds or not depends on so many factors: his two-facedIt was a gripping, murderously ambitious colleagueemotionally wounding read, the patients and Fuertler's Syndrome, a condition rereading my review of it my main takeaway was that may be obscure and comparatively unimportant but still has the power to make or break himI might not have lavished enough praise on it. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857898930</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage|author=Lucy Ashe|title=Clara and Olivia|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=The year is 1933. The place? Sadler's Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, twins no less. Identical on the outside but not, we learn, on the inside. And not on stage, either. Because there's a lot that builds a dancer. Some things that can be taught or 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 a hard-worker, and a star.|isbn=0861544080}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=J Courtney SullivanHeather Fawcett|title=The EngagementsEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Although you might not immediately realise itEmily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life's work, this is the story very first encyclopaedia of a ringfaeries. Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, the people associated she is not so good with it and of one particular ''real'' woman who created something of which few people can be unaware. That woman was Mary Frances Gerety So when she finds herself far, a copywriter with Ayer and Son - one of far North in the small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the eminent advertising agencies in 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 nineteen fortiesright track. Under some pressure Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, much to come up with a phrase for de Beers adverts, Frances scribbled Emily''A Diamond s frustration. But why is Forever'' - one of the most memorable lines in advertising. he here? Frances never married but was probably single-handedly responsible for diamonds being the favoured stone in engagement rings. What does he want? Her story weaves its way through And what exactly is going on with the stories of our fictional couples.faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1844089363</amazonuk>0356519120
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1398515388|title=FamiliarThe Boy and the Dog|author=J Robert LennonSeishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Is there a greater change First of all, it was the earthquake, deep in the life of a middle-aged woman than ocean floor, which created the death of her teenage son? Elisa might have thought nottsunami and this, having been forced to bury fifteen year old Silasin turn, caused the nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and try and move on with her husband Derek and the year-older son, Samutter devastation. But a greater change occurs on the way back from her annualThe deaths were uncountable, solo pilgrimage to his grave – something very weird happens to and the universeloss of livelihoods was widespread. She pops The fact that many pets were separated from one car to another, from under their owners came far down the list of priorities but - six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a cloudless sky to dog outside a slightly greyer one – and from her self as Elisa to convenience store. He wasn't a world where people dog person but the convenience store owner's comment that he would call her Lisa, where she is plumper, in a different job, stiil married Public Health prompted Kazumasa to Derek open his car door and Tamon the dog jumped in the same home – but still the mother of two young men…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846689473</amazonuk>.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Sorrow of AngelsChristopher Bowden|authortitle=Jon Kalman StefanssonMr Magenta|rating=3.54|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=Our decidedly unheroic main character has been at the café for three weeks nowChristopher Bowden's latest novel is a patient untangling of a seemingly ordinary woman's life, so we are following on very closely from [[Heaven and Hell carried out by Jon Kalman Stefansson|Heaven and Hell]]. After the tragedy and soul-searching of that first book, he seems settled in the ridiculous family that her nephew after she has formed around him there, finding employment, enjoying the literature, yet being very intrigued by the female bodydied. The man aunt who is still always provided a safe harbour and a little bit of indulgence to a young enough to be known only as ''the boy'' might have latched on to stability for once, and replaced the family and best friend he nephew had had a much more interesting life than that nephew Stephen had lost. But everything is restless in this environment, ever realised and once again he might just be tempted it seems to him an obligation to go on a journey, with another male companion, despite the harshness of the surroundsfind it all out.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857051652</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Heaven and HellJennifer Mason|authortitle=Jon Kalman StefanssonPartitions of Unity
|rating=4
|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=IcelandHere at Bookbag Towers, a hundred years ago. From a place that is the very definition of rural we first met Elizabeth Cromwell, dominatrix and remoteunintentional detective in [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], when she investigated and unravelled a small fishing boat leaves for four hours' hard row to a profitable bankseries of disappearances. It carries six men on the way out, and five on the way back. The deceased is the best friend – or perhaps only friend – of the main character, who is still young enough to merely be known as In ''boyPartitions of Unity'', she sets her mind to solving a murder.. When he returns to port he enters an almost Camus-like semi-existence, wondering just how much life is an answer, and for what, after the tragedy he has witnessed.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849164061</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...''
This is just a sample of the cast of characters and settings in Preposterous. As you can see, some keeping up will be required! The basic premise of this mystery story goes like this...|isbn=B09STS96HS}}{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0B2N7MVYM|title=The List Calculations of my DesiresRational Men|author=Gregoire DelacourtDaniel Godfrey|rating=3.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Jocelyne is in her forties, married to Jo, and mother to one stillborn little girl and two twenty-something children who have grown distant from her with timeIt's the 10th of December 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marr. She owns a haberdashery shop Just to put what happens in context, the small town where she lives, and sheCuban missile crisis is still very fresh in people's writing an online blog which is growing in popularityminds. The world has barely had a chance to breathe out. Although there have been bumps in the pastBut for Joe Marr, with her violent husband struggling with their little girlit's death, not the early death of her mother and her fathermissile crisis that's debilitating stroke her life is now reasonably stable and at the start front of his mind. He's been convicted of murder. With the story she seemscurrent state of medical knowledge, on it's hard to think otherwise than that the surfaceprosecution would never have been brought but Joe Marr has spent his first few days in HMP Queen's Bench, a relatively new prison. He's just getting used to his roommate, Mervyn, and learning to be happy although one suspects that beneath wary of the veneer there are unresolved issues for JocelyneMcArthur brothers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0297868357</amazonuk>
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