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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]]__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Black ChalkOnyi Nwabineli|authortitle=Albert AllaAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=34.5
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|summary=Seventeen-year-old Nate Dillingham is hailed as a hero following a horrific school shooting in which he is the only survivor. It soon becomes clear, however, that Nate has neglected Anuri spent her childhood on display to share the full extent of his involvement with the policeworld, instead allowing others thanks to place a more positive spin her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on his version social media, where she posted every step of eventsAnuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. After recuperating Now Anuri is in hospital her twenties and facing the interrogation of both the police she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the mediacontent about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, Nate abandons his family undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and spends eight years working abroad in a succession of odd jobsreceiving money from them for doing so. Black Chalk begins with Nate’s return to his family home Most importantly, as Nate seeks catharsis by finally opening up she is desperately worried about his experiencesher 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?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1859643574</amazonuk>0861546873
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ann Leary1529153298|title=The Good HouseList of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=45
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|summary=Hildy Good has reached a strange stage in her lifeIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly... ) She's entering her seventh decade (thatnot what's worrying Miv's one of the few phrases that make family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'sixtydisappeared'doesn' feel good) and divorcedt sound quite so frightening. Most people - Hildy included - would have said Miv's upset because she's overheard that she had a lot of friendsher father wants to move the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, but the reality Down South is a little differentfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. Her daughters had staged an intervention because they thought that For Miv, the move would mean leaving her drinking had got out of control best friend, Sharon, and after a period in rehab Hildy found social occasions a little difficultshe'll do anything to prevent that. Evenings spent at home - on She's not worried about the dangers or that her own Mum's stopped talking - were no funto anyone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178239320X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1035906708|title=The Reluctant CannibalsDiva|author=Ian FlitcroftDaisy Goodwin|rating=4.5
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|summary=Over a truffled turkey at their college Christmas dinner We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in 1964Manhattan, a group of Oxford dons decide New York, 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 join their love of fine food and drink with their mutual appreciation make it more manageable in the States. When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for nineteenthher voice -century French philosopher of food Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (author of she was raised under the 1825 classic ''La Physiologie du Goût'', or ''The Physiology of Taste'') Nazi occupation by forming a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret dining society. Together these fellows of St Jerome's College form the Shadow Faculty of Gastronomic Scienceher preference for her elder sister, a group that will continue meeting to share new and daring culinary experiences until Oxford agrees to set up a proper gastronomic school of its ownJackie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909593591</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Isabel's SkinAlexander McCall Smith|authortitle=Peter BensonThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5
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|summary=David Morris The Perfect Passion Company is a book trader dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and valuer operating as an alternative to all the online apps in some indeterminate Victorian yearproviding a more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, when he as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. Katie is given the job coming out of perusing a great break up with a bad boyfriend, and valued collection held in a rich house in rural Somersetso jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. One can guess – especially given the mood that leaps off these pages And so begins this new story from the first and never relents – that something might go wrongAlexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, just him thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the house's sole servant and her catsIsabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. But the clues build when we find just how much she dislikes Katie has no experience in running a neighbour – who seems a decent enough fellowbusiness, or in match-making, living but Ness has full confidence in seclusionher abilities, and culture there's always her very helpful (and intellect wise the only equal rather handsome) neighbour, William, to Morris for his short working holiday. But whose unusual behaviour can Morris trust – and who is Isabel?lend a hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846882958</amazonuk>1846976596
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Deborah SchwartzDean Koontz|title=Woman on TopThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionParanormal|summary=Kate Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and Jake had one of those brilliant marriages that looks set to last forever along with two wonderful childrenhis house gets trashed. But Fate Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is always hiding around the corner with its foot stuck outthing that has trashed his house! The thing is, waiting Benny is the very last person to trip you up and Jake was diagnosed with cancerdeserve all this bad luck. They both fought to do everything that they could to find He is a cure but within two years Kate was a widownice person. A really nice person. For nearly a decade she dedicated herself to So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the children and delivery to making his house is a career as new friend, a healthcare lawyer so that she could support the family. When she was ready bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to look help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for another relationship she met Lenbeing a good person. It wasnSpike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny't his looks that attracted her or his stature s enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (shea waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny'd hastily searched s wild adventure) can figure out her flat shoes), but he did seem to have something about himwho exactly they are.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00D3WHBJK</amazonuk>1662500491
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=I Came To Say GoodbyeKatherine Howe|authortitle=Caroline OveringtonA True Account
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|summary=Sometimes when you have clear expectations Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to live with a family 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 town, she decides to go and watch. Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a book based on its blurbyoung boy's death at the hands of two vicious pirates. She hides away, so that they don't find and kill her too, and then you get an utterly different storyto escape them completely she runs away to sea, it can be frustratingdressing as a boy and joining the notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. While I think ‘misleading’ She soon finds herself in the thick of things when there is too strong a word for itmutiny on board, I really could not have predicted the story and from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of this book from what I read life on the back cover. It sounded like an excellent story about a baby snatched from a hospital ward but instead it was…an excellent story about something else entirelyocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>009958476X</amazonuk>0861547438
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1471180158|title=The World is a WeddingMaybe Tomorrow|author=Wendy JonesPenny Parkes|rating=4.5
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|summary=They say one door doesnJamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who't shut but for another opens. Wilfred Price, s a control freak with all the most amenable 1920s Welsh undertaker in literature, is living proof subtlety of thata half brick. He took his beloved Flora Myffanwy to be his, after they both fell in love at her fatherJamie's funeral. It did leave Grace alone and bereftson, and forced out of town in a very unsavoury fashionBo, but for Wilfred and Flora married life is fine. Hesitant, but fine'has his problems'. He's finally got into asthmatic and the swing of things as regards calling her more you read, the more you'll suspect that he'dears on the autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she'', and conjugal relations, and she has finally felt able to speak up about her place s a frequent flier in the household of her husband local A&E and his father – and whoever happens sometimes Bo's not fit enough to be left go to settle in school. Missed shifts or the workshop, having died need to be away on the loo time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and got stuck put in the wrong. It was going to come to a non-coffin-shaped posehead. But do those doors stay firmly shut…?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178033379X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0CKD1L5JL|title=Mr Lynch's HolidayRadio Free Olympia|author=Catherine O'FlynnJeffrey Dunn
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Having read Petr is an orphan. Rescued by the strange, reclusive Bear, he is brought up far from bustling cities and enjoyed both busy human society, in the forests of her previous novels, [[What Was Lost by Catherine OWashington'Flynn|What Was Lost]] and [[The News Where You Are by Catherine O'Flynn|The News Where You Are]] I was looking forward to this latest books Olympic Peninsula. The story tells us of After Bear dies and a father who surprises his son, living brief sojourn in Spainhuman company, and armed with only a visit. The father is recently widowed and the son's long-term partner has very recently left himpirate radio transmitter, although it's some time before he admits that to his dad. What begins as a holiday turns into something of Petr goes on a pschological rescue mission as Dermot begins to see journey through the problems depressing Eamonn and forest, broadcasting the ways in which he might be able to help. There's a lot about familial relationships in the bookstrange, as well as ideas about living at home wild and abroadrarely heard voices he encounters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670918563</amazonuk>
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{{newreview|title=The LuminariesFrontpage|author=Eleanor Catton|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Eleanor Catton's ''The Luminaries'' is set in the New Zealand gold rush of the late 1860s. It's a story about greed, power, gold, dreams, opium, secrets, betrayal and identity, but most of all, it's a celebration of the art of story telling, both in terms of Catton's book and the stories her characters have to tell. It's the kind of book that is perfect escapism and which wraps you up in its world. If you like big, chunky books that you can get lost in for hours, then this is one for you.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847084311</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=David CanningSarah Marsh|title=Out of the Clouds A Sign of DeceitHer Own
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|summary=On his way to begin training to be After a bout of scarlet fever as a pilot in the RAFchild, Aiden met Dennis in a railway station buffetEllen Lark loses her hearing. As luck would have it they were both on their way to the same placeSuddenly plunged into a world of silence, for the same reason and would find themselves sharing a roomeverything about her life changes. Trained and mentored by older serving officers Living in what a time when the use of sign language was the immediate post-war period they came seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to understand - and a school where she is taught to some extent feel - the sense of betrayal which burdened the pilots lip read, but physically restrained from bomber command who had taken part in the Allied bombing campaign in the World War IIsigning. Flying was in Aiden's blood and he was at home From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the air deaf and in using a system called Visible Speech. At the mess - the comradeship of men suited him same time, Bell is working on other inventions and he understood the nuances. He was less at home with womenideas, never completely understanding the different needs a woman has and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a relationshipcomplicated tangle of espionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00A0T787O</amazonuk>1035401614
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0BC3YTCMR|title=More Than ThisGood Girls Die|author=Patrick NessAyura Ayira
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|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=''Here This story is the boy, drowningnot for everyone.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1472263936|title=The Figurine|author=Victoria Hislop|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It 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 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 love her grandmother and the family's maid, Dina, 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's Scottish ancestors.}}{{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}} {{Frontpage|isbn=B0BVDC2VWH|title=Straight White MaleThe Grave Listeners|author=John NivenWilliam Frank
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Richard House's Booker-longlisted The Kills village is a collection of four related books, originally published in e-book format between February isolated and June 2013poor. In some ways, the e-book format is the natural habitat for HouseIt's creation as it includes surrounded by a Witching Forest. And the villagers subsist largely optional multiby farming Uphegia plants - its bread-media component to like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicines. The black wood of the story. It is a hugely ambitious piece about money, murderforest provides heat and warmth, greedroofs on homes, stories and where things start and equally whereeven gallows, if ever, they endneeded. Covering more countries than feature The fear of being buried alive is an existential superstition in Michael Palin's passport, the book starts with corruption village and embezzlement in that is the reason Volushka, a US civilian company working in the redrunken, self-building of Iraqindulgent, and ends with a kind lazy lout of 'Tales of the Unexpected' story in Cyprus having taken in a gruesome story of murder in Naplesman is tolerated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447237862</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0BYF82CXT|title=Bertie's Guide to Life and MothersSemi-Detached|author=Alexander McCall SmithDeborah Stone|rating=54
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|summary=So. Bertie. Yes''Bill and Amanda are living in a semi-detached house, dear Bertie finally turns seven stuck in this book! And about time too! His birthday gifts from his parents are perhaps not everything he wished fora depressing rut of boredom and disappointment, nor even what his dad might have wanted to get himwhen Terry and Fiona – glamorous, but Bertie's mothersuccessful and very much in love – move in next door. Despite their different outlooks on life, Irene, has very definite ideas about what makes a good birthday present the couples befriend each other and life appears to improve for a little boyboth pairs. Fortunately for my blood pressure the odious Irene But all is soon whisked away to another country after winning a newspaper competitionnot what it seems, and her stay there might be rather longer than shetheir increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy.''d intended...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846972531</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Morgan McCarthyShalini Boland|title=The Outline of LoveSilent Bride|rating=3.5
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|summary=Persephone Triebold has spent most of her life on the Assynt Peninsula Alice and Seth are a match made in north-west Scotlandheaven. It's isolatedHe is everything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, clever, rugged funny; total and underutter husband-populatedmaterial. Her father opted to live there after the death of his She is all he could possibly want in a wife; beautiful, successful, feeling that it was safe for his young daughter. She's been home-schooled confident… and has had very little contact with other people - but makes so the decision that she's going to university in London. Once there she shares a house with three other girls inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and develops a crush on former indie musician the wedding is planned and Booker-winning novelist Leo Fordset. She works When the much-anticipated day arrives, Alice is walked down the aisle by her way into his circle of father, beaming with pride and excitement as she surveys the congregation – their friends - assembled to celebrate this joyful day and finally into when Seth turns to face his bed - but never feels that approaching bride, Alice's world implodes because she has ''connected'' with him. Part of it absolutely no idea who the man at the altar is that she can't get past ''that'' incident in his past which involved his sister, Ivy, who is waiting for her partner, a gun and a sword - and no one will talk about itto become his wife.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755388771</amazonuk>1662507089
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1787636003|title=Another Way to FallThe Girls of Summer|author=Amanda BrookeKatie Bishop
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|genre=General Fiction
|summary=On a crisp November day, Emma steps out of It was the doctor’s office, beaming from ear to ear. Finally, summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she has received and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the news island. Rachel wasn't exactly innocent but she has been waiting was, perhaps, naive, so long when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to hear; take an interest in her cancer is in complete remission, she was flattered rather than wary. She can now put the last five years behind It was quite a while before he made any sort of physical approach to her and start get by that time she was obsessed by him. Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, looking after his interests on with the rest of her life. At least that is how things would work island and in particular in a perfect world. Sadly, the truth is a little different. The 'bar where all clear' diagnosis is the first chapter of a book that Emma is writing, a book that is a coping mechanism to help her come to terms with the fact that her cancer is incurable and her options are very limited indeedgirls either worked or partied.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000744592X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=OstrichAmanda Craig|authortitle=Matt GreeneThree Graces|rating=4.5
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|summary=[[The Curious Incident Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of-the Dog in -nation novel. There's something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the Night Time by Mark Haddon]] deserves every piece atmosphere of praise the day and capture it received, crafting an image of the country as a childrenit stands in one particular moment. To say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's novel practically synonymous with plenty to interest older readers and the genre of contemporary social fiction at this point. She has such a wonderful way gift for weaving the ongoing issues of portraying Asperger's Syndrome through its narrator, Christopher Boone. ''Ostrich'' by Matt Greene follows quite similar lines, although this time the narratorday into the lives of her characters in a way that feels natural and lived-in, Alexnever making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, has a brain tumourgrappling with issues far larger than themselves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0297869523</amazonuk>140871468X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=152915118X|title=The Second Life of Amy ArcherPineapple Street|author=R S PatemanJenny Jackson
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Ten years ago''Pineapple Street'' is the story of three women: Sasha, a little girl vanished from a playground near her London homeDarley and Georgiana. Her body was never found. A decade on, Darley and her parents George are different peoplesisters and Sasha is married to their brother Cord. They're Stocktons, her mother Beth still hung up on what didonly Sasha isn't a Stockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the tribe. The problem's exacerbated when the clan matriarch, or didn’t happen that dayTilda, her father Brian trying asks Cord and Sasha if they'd like to move on with his new family, his new daughtersinto the Pineapple Street property. On the anniversary of her disappearance Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to another property, a strange visitor arrives on Beth’s doorstep saying she knows what happened to Amy Archerstreet or so away, which they own. She also knows a great deal about Beth’s life They won't need any of the furniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and Amy’sCord can move straight in. Nominally, from they had a choice but that timewasn't the reality. Things no one should know Darley and Georgiana start to call Sasha 'the gold digger'. No one could know She's living in ''their'' family home. But They use it so often that they abbreviate it to 'the only explanation is beyond belief. Either someone is playing a cruel joke on Beth, or it’s time to start believing in miraclesGD'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409128563</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Night RainbowEmily Critchley|authortitle=Claire KingOne Puzzling Afternoon
|rating=4
|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=You know84 year old Edie has lived in the same small town for almost her whole life, there’s no reason but now she is facing a book has move as her son wants to move to another house and bring Edie to be happy in order live with his family, as Edie is starting to be goodlose her memory. The Night Rainbow However, Edie is proof tormented by the memory of this. Set geographically in France her childhood friend, Lucy, who went missing over 60 years ago, and actually in the head of worry that there was a five year old girl, it follows secret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be the thing that reveals the adventures truth of what happened all that time ago. After 'seeing' Lucy in the summer when Pea’s (short for Peony or Pivoinehigh street, depending who you ask) pregnant mother just as she was too miserable the last time she saw her, she starts to find pockets of memories coming back to care for her; . And yet as she remembers the summer following past, she is forgetting more and more in her day to day life. Will she uncover the still birth of Pea’s sister truth about Lucy's disappearance before her move, and the tragic accidental death of before her father.memories are gone forever?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408841843</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=LongbournThe Garnett Girls|author=Jo BakerGeorgina Moore
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|genre=General Fiction
|summary=So we have had Jane Austen [[Pride The love affair between Margo Garnett and Prejudice 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 Zombies described by Jane Austen Margo's mother as 'an older man'. Her parents worried that Richard's influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and Seth Grahame-Smith|meet zombies]]having a glittering career. In the event, they eloped and now something perhaps even more reprehensible – social realismRichard took her away from the Isle of Wight. This is Margo did go to Oxford and went on to become a world where people slip up in hogshit, where rain pisses it downwell-respected journalist. The couple had three children: Rachel, Imogen and if the weekly routine washday is bad, you should try it when five Bennet daughters have their coinciding periodsSasha. Sarah is Life was lived in the middle of all thisLondon and holidays were spent at Sandcove, trying to do her share of the housework with one hand at times, lest pus from her blisters get family home on the linen, or her callouses crack openIsle of Wight. But why can she not get her feelings Even then the doubts about James, the new mysterious footman fresh Richard's drinking were never far from who-knows-where, straight Margo's mind: ''she would never be able to leave him in her head, and why is her heart turned by the mulatto servant of the Bingleys up at Netherfield?charge''. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857522019</amazonuk>Then Richard left them.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1914585402|title=Beneath an Irish SkyDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=I reviewed David F Ross's book [[There's Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's 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 I might not have lavished enough praise on it.}}{{Frontpage|author=Isabella ConnorLucy Ashe|title=Clara and Olivia|rating=4.5
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|summary=In a hospital wardThe 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, Luke Kiernan is stirring from either. Because there's a tranquiliser-induced sleep following lot that builds a serious car accidentdancer. His ribs Some things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, attention to detail – and legs hurt and he has an awful feeling some things, that his mother is dead. But who is ''je ne sais quoi'', that stranger sitting beside don't come from the bed? Surely it can’t be his fatherclassroom. A stage presence, a charm, the father who pushed his mother away twenty years ago because he was ashamed to have a ''gypo kidjoie de vivre'' around? Luke wants answers. But more than thatThe difference between a hard-worker, he wants revengeand a star.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781890048</amazonuk>0861544080
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Heather Fawcett|title=His FatherEmily Wilde's Son|author=Tony BlackEncyclopaedia of Faeries|rating=2.54
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Joey Driscol Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and his wifeshe has travelled extensively, Shaunaand researched meticulously, left Ireland for Australia on a 'wet May morning in 1968to write her life's work, the very first encyclopaedia of faeries. It was supposed to be a new start. It Whilst she is now 1978 brilliant at research and the dreams of an idyllic escape have slowly crumbledspeaking to faeries, and Joey she is forced to admit that 'a fresh start cannot last forever'not so good with people. Marti So when she finds herself far, their eight-year-old sonfar North in the small village of Hrafvsnik, watches his parents' marriage collapse firsthandhaving somehow offended the village matriarch, yet he asks the same question as the baffled reader: why? But before he she is not sure what she has had time to answer this conundrumdone, his mother whisks him off nor how to Ireland. The rashness of the move ensures Joey must follow his son, redeem herself and so begins his frightful odyssey put her final investigations for her book back to on the Old Countryright track. You see Enter Wendell Bambleby, 'Marti was his sonher dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, the one pure all charm and good thing in his life'delight, and he wasnmuch to Emily't going to let Shauna just take hims frustration. But why Ireland, a place they both hated, a place to which they vowed never to returnis he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1845026365</amazonuk>0356519120
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1398515388|title=The Summer We All Ran AwayBoy and the Dog|author=Cassandra ParkinSeishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=This is a summer First of running away. Davey runs away from homeall, it was the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, beaten which created the tsunami and drunk. He meets Prissthis, a sixteen year oldin turn, who is also runningcaused the nuclear meltdown. Tom The result was complete and Kate accept them both into utter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, and the loss of livelihoods was widespread. The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of priorities but - six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a huge, mysterious house, dog outside a house that doesnconvenience store. He wasn't belong to any of them. Thirty years ago, Jack Laker bought a dog person but the house convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to run away from open his superstar lifestyle. Young girls, drugs, car door and touring had caused him to take an overdose. As his agent tries to convince him to tour with Tamon the new album he has written, Jack meets a young actress at the house party being thrown dog jumped in his honour. The same party he is desperately trying to avoid.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909395315</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Christopher Bowden|title=Mr Magenta|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary= Christopher Bowden's latest novel is a patient untangling of a seemingly ordinary woman's life, carried out by her nephew after she has died. The Next Time You See Meaunt who always provided a safe harbour and a little bit of indulgence to a young nephew had had a much more interesting life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and it seems to him an obligation to find it all out. |isbn= B0B6Z9VJDW}}{{Frontpage|author=Holly Goddard JonesJennifer Mason|title=Partitions of Unity
|rating=4
|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 ''Small Town AmericaPartitions of Unity'', she sets her mind to solving a murder. What's the betting you already have it pictured? The downtown area. The upmarket suburb. The downbeat housing district. The High School with all its little league (in every sense of the expression) dramas and drama queens. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782390839</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF
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|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|authorisbn=Michael HonigB0B2N7MVYM|title=Goldblatt's DescentThe Calculations of Rational Men|author=Daniel Godfrey|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= It's the 10th of December 1962 when we first meet Dr Malcolm Goldblatt Joseph Marr. Just to put what happens in context, the Cuban missile crisis is still very fresh in people's minds. The world has just started another temporary Senior Registrarbarely had a chance to breathe out. But for Joe Marr, it's not the missile crisis that's role in yet another hospitalat the front of his mind. However this time itHe's differentbeen convicted of murder. This is his last attempt With the current state of medical knowledge, it's hard to springboard think otherwise than that the prosecution would never have been brought but Joe Marr has spent his career into a consultantfirst few days in HMP Queen's gradeBench, a relatively new prison. Whether he succeeds or not depends on so many factors: He's just getting used to his two-facedroommate, murderously ambitious colleagueMervyn, the patients and Fuertler's Syndrome, a condition that may learning to be obscure and comparatively unimportant but still has wary of the power to make or break himMcArthur brothers. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857898930</amazonuk>
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