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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Flavours of LoveOnyi Nwabineli|authortitle=Dorothy KoomsonAllow Me to Introduce Myself
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|summary=SaffronAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's husbandincreasingly popular presence on social media, Joel, was stabbed in the street eighteen months ago and no one has ever been arrested for his murder. Itwhere she posted every step of Anuri's hard childhood for Saffron sponsorships and influencer deals and her two children, Pheobe and Zanebasically, to live with what happened but somehow they have to find a way of getting on with their lives; lives that no longer have Joel monetary gain. Now Anuri is in them. It's hardly surprising that they struggle on a daily basis her twenties and it all culminates when Saffron she is called into school slowly trying to regain her confidence and to discover that fourteen year old Pheobe is pregnant. Saffron doesn't know how get her life back, suing her step-mother to deal with take down the situation especially as content about her daughter won't talk . Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start herPhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. On top Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of all that, JoelOphelia's killer is still out there somewhere online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and that makes her scared for all relationship with her family's safety.father at the same time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780875002</amazonuk>0861546873
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529153298|title=The CircleList of Suspicious Things|author=Dave EggersJennie Godfrey|rating=45
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|summary=Following a string of recent scandalsIt'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 murdered, the government this month announced but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that secret cameras could be introduced into care homes in her father wants to move the hope of improving patient carefamily 'Down South'. The theory being that constantly recording staff would prevent any inappropriate behaviour When you're from those in positions of authorityYorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. Could such surveillance possibly work? And if it did For Miv, the move would any potential rewards be outweighed by the threat mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to privacy of both prevent that. She's not worried about the patients and the wholly innocent staff who become caught up in the snooping? Itdangers or that her Mum's this question of surveillance over privacy that is central stopped talking - to 'The Circle', the new novel from Dave Eggersanyone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241146488</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Diane Setterfield1035906708|title=Bellman and BlackDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5
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|summary=When he was a young boy William Bellman committed one cruel act - he used his catapult We tend to kill a rook. He didn't believe he could do it - believed until the moment that the rook fell that it would fly away before the stone hit - think of Maria Callas as Greek, but the rook she was dead. It can't be said that the killing worried William born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and as he grew it seemed that he only moved to Athens when she was a fortunate manthirteen. His work satisfied him. He loved his wife and his children, Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but then tragedy struck and the visits from the stranger in black began. William - now her father changed it to 'BellmanCallas' to most of those who knew him - had a solutionmake it more manageable in the States. He worked harder, obsessively and he founded a business which When she was decidedly macabre. And back in Athens - supposedly so that business she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was Bellman raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and Blackmade no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409128016</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Black ChalkAlexander McCall Smith|authortitle=Albert AllaThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=34.5
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|summary=Seventeen-year-old Nate Dillingham The Perfect Passion Company is hailed a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a hero following more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a horrific school shooting in which he trip to Canada to get away for a while. Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the only survivorchance to come home to Edinburgh. It soon becomes clear And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, howeverbringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, that Nate has neglected thanks to share 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full extent of his involvement with the policeconfidence in her abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, instead allowing others to place lend a more positive spin on hand…|isbn=1846976596}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=The Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Paranormal|summary=Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his version of eventshouse gets trashed. After recuperating in hospital Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and facing it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the interrogation of both thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the police and very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the mediadelivery to his house is a new friend, Nate abandons his family and spends eight years working abroad in a succession of odd jobsbad 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. Black Chalk begins with Nate’s return Spike is going to his family hometake care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, as Nate seeks catharsis by finally opening up about his experiencesand Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1859643574</amazonuk>1662500491
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ann LearyKatherine Howe|title=The Good HouseA True Account|rating=4.5
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|summary=Hildy Good has reached 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 strange stage young age. When she hears there is to be a hanging of some pirates in her lifethe town, she decides to go and watch. SheEnthralled and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's entering her seventh decade (that's one death at the hands of the few phrases two vicious pirates. She hides away, so that make they don''sixty'' feel good) t find and kill her too, and divorced. Most people - Hildy included - would have said that then to escape them completely she had runs away to sea, dressing as a lot of friends, but boy and joining the reality is notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a little differentcabin boy. Her daughters had staged an intervention because they thought that her drinking had got out She soon finds herself in the thick of control things when there is a mutiny on board, and after a period from there we are caught up in rehab Hildy found social occasions a little difficult. Evenings spent at home - her rip roaring tale of life on her own - were no funthe ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178239320X</amazonuk>0861547438
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1471180158|title=The Reluctant CannibalsMaybe Tomorrow|author=Ian FlitcroftPenny Parkes|rating=4.5
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|summary=Over a truffled turkey at their college Christmas dinner Jamie Matson works in 1964an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's a group of Oxford dons decide to join their love of fine food and drink control freak with their mutual appreciation for nineteenth-century French philosopher all the subtlety of food Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (author of the 1825 classic a half brick. Jamie's son, Bo, 'La Physiologie du Goûthas his problems'. He's asthmatic and the more you read, or the more you'll suspect that he'The Physiology of Tastes on the autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she'') by forming s a secret dining society. Together these fellows of St Jeromefrequent flier in the local A&E and sometimes Bo's College form not fit enough to go to school. Missed shifts or the Shadow Faculty of Gastronomic Science, a group that will continue meeting need to be away on time to share new pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and daring culinary experiences until Oxford agrees put in the wrong. It was going to come to set up a proper gastronomic school of its ownhead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909593591</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0CKD1L5JL|title=Isabel's SkinRadio Free Olympia|author=Peter BensonJeffrey Dunn
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|summary=David Morris Petr is a book trader and valuer in some indeterminate Victorian yearan orphan. Rescued by the strange, reclusive Bear, when he is given the job of perusing a great and valued collection held in a rich house in rural Somerset. One can guess – especially given the mood that leaps off these pages brought up far from the first bustling cities and never relents – that something might go wrongbusy human society, just him and in the houseforests of Washington's sole servant and her catsOlympic Peninsula. But the clues build when we find just how much she dislikes After Bear dies and a brief sojourn in human company, and armed with only a neighbour – who seems pirate radio transmitter, Petr goes on a decent enough fellowjourney through the forest, living in seclusionbroadcasting the strange, wild and culture and intellect wise the only equal to Morris for his short working holidayrarely heard voices he encounters. But whose unusual behaviour can Morris trust – and who is Isabel?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846882958</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Deborah SchwartzSarah Marsh|title=Woman on TopA Sign of Her Own|rating=43.5
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|summary=Kate and Jake had one After a bout of those brilliant marriages that looks set to last forever along with two wonderful childrenscarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. But Fate is always hiding around the corner with its foot stuck outSuddenly plunged into a world of silence, waiting to trip you up and Jake was diagnosed with cancereverything about her life changes. They both fought to Living in a time when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do everything that they could , Ellen is sent to find a cure school where she is taught to lip read, but within two years Kate was a widowphysically restrained from signing. For nearly a decade From here, she dedicated herself to ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the children deaf and to making a career as using a healthcare lawyer so that she could support the familysystem called Visible Speech. When she was ready to look for another relationship she met Len. It wasn't his looks that attracted her or his stature (she'd hastily searched out her flat shoes)At the same time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, but he did seem to have something about himand Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00D3WHBJK</amazonuk>1035401614
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0BC3YTCMR|title=I Came To Say GoodbyeGood Girls Die|author=Caroline OveringtonAyura Ayira
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|summary=Sometimes ''This story is not for everyone.'' Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of her fifteenth birthday when you have clear expectations of The Incident happened. She was a very bright student, a book based on its blurbbit too nerdy if truth be told, and then you get an utterly different story, suffered from vitiligo - people were afraid to hug her in case it can be frustrating's contagious. While I think ‘misleading’ It's not easy being a black girl whose skin is too strong 84% white. She had a word for it, I really could not have predicted the story of this book from what I read crush on the back coverseventeen-year-old Reggie Anderson but never thought he would notice her. Then he did: Lavender was very good at math and Reggie asked if she would tutor him. It sounded like She readily agreed: tutoring was something she gladly did at church: this was just an excellent story about a baby snatched from extension. She went to his house and he raped her. In shock, she even allowed him to give her a hospital ward but instead it was…an excellent story about something else entirelylift home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009958476X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1472263936|title=The World 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 Weddingbio-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=The Grave Listeners|author=Wendy JonesWilliam Frank
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|summary=They say one door doesn't shut but for another opens. Wilfred Price, the most amenable 1920s Welsh undertaker in literature, The village is living proof of thatisolated and poor. He took his beloved Flora Myffanwy to be his, after they both fell in love at her fatherIt's funeralsurrounded by a Witching Forest. And the villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicines. It did leave Grace alone The black wood of the forest provides heat and bereftwarmth, and forced out of town in a very unsavoury fashionroofs on homes, but for Wilfred and Flora married life is fine. Hesitanteven gallows, but fineif needed. He's finally got into the swing The fear of things as regards calling her ''dear'', and conjugal relations, and she has finally felt able to speak up about her place being buried alive is an existential superstition in the household of her husband village and his father – and whoever happens to be left to settle in that is the workshopreason Volushka, having died on the loo and got stuck in a nondrunken, self-coffin-shaped poseindulgent, lazy lout of a man is tolerated. But do those doors stay firmly shut…?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178033379X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0BYF82CXT|title=Mr Lynch's HolidaySemi-Detached|author=Catherine O'FlynnDeborah Stone
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|summary=Having read ''Bill and Amanda are living in a semi-detached house, stuck in a depressing rut of boredom and disappointment, when Terry and Fiona – glamorous, successful and very much in love – move in next door. Despite their different outlooks on life, the couples befriend each other and enjoyed life appears to improve for both of her previous novelspairs. But all is not what it seems, [[What Was Lost by Catherine Oand their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy.''Flynn}}{{Frontpage|What Was Lost]] and [[author=Shalini Boland|title=The News Where You Are by Catherine O'FlynnSilent Bride|rating=3|genre=General Fiction|The News Where You Are]] I was looking forward to this latest booksummary= Alice and Seth are a match made in heaven. The story tells us of a father who surprises his sonHe is everything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, living in Spainclever, with a visitfunny; total and utter husband-material. The father 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 recently widowed planned and set. When the son's longmuch-term partner has very recently left himanticipated day arrives, Alice is walked down the aisle by her father, although it's some time before he admits that to his dad. What begins beaming with pride and excitement as a holiday turns into something of a pschological rescue mission as Dermot begins she surveys the congregation – their friends assembled to see the problems depressing Eamonn celebrate this joyful day and the ways in which he might be able when Seth turns to help. Thereface his approaching bride, Alice's a lot about familial relationships in world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the man at the bookaltar is, as well as ideas about living at home and abroadwho is waiting for her to become his wife.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0670918563</amazonuk>1662507089
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1787636003|title=The LuminariesGirls of Summer|author=Eleanor CattonKatie Bishop
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|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=Eleanor Catton's ''The Luminaries'' is set in It was the New Zealand gold rush of summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the late 1860sisland. It Rachel wasn's a story about greedt exactly innocent but she was, powerperhaps, goldnaive, dreamsso when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to take an interest in her, opium, secrets, betrayal and identity, but most of all, it's she was flattered rather than wary. It was quite a celebration while before he made any sort of the art of story telling, both in terms of Catton's book physical approach to her and the stories her characters have to tellby that time she was obsessed by him. It's Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, looking after his interests on the kind of book that is perfect escapism island and which wraps you up in its world. If you like big, chunky books that you can get lost particular in for hours, then this is one for youthe bar where all the girls either worked or partied.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847084311</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David CanningAmanda Craig|title=Out of the Clouds of DeceitThree Graces|rating=34.5
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|summary=On his way to begin training to be a pilot in the RAF, Aiden met Dennis in a railway station buffet. As luck would have it they were both on their way to the same place, for the same reason and would find themselves sharing a room. Trained and mentored by older serving officers in what was Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the immediate poststate-war period they came to understand of- and to some extent feel the- nation novel. There's something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the sense atmosphere of betrayal which burdened the pilots from bomber command who had taken part in day and capture it, crafting an image of the Allied bombing campaign country as it stands in the World War IIone particular moment. Flying was in AidenTo say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's blood and he was practically synonymous with the genre of contemporary social fiction at home in this point. She has such a gift for weaving the air and in ongoing issues of the mess - day into the comradeship lives of men suited him her characters in a way that feels natural and he understood the nuances. He was less at home with womenlived-in, never completely understanding the different needs a woman has in a relationshipmaking them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00A0T787O</amazonuk>140871468X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=152915118X|title=More Than ThisPineapple Street|author=Patrick NessJenny Jackson
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|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=''Here is the boy, drowning.Pineapple Street'' And Seth does drown. He is alone; taken by the seastory of three women: Sasha, arms Darley and legs flailing Georgiana. Darley and breaking, skull dashed against the rocks whilst the icy water constricts his muscles George are sisters and breath. Seth Sasha is consciously aware of his final momentsmarried to their brother Cord. His death consumes him with a heavy They're Stocktons, confusing blur until… he awakens and finds himself in only Sasha isn't a desolateStockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the tribe. The problem's exacerbated when the clan matriarch, shattered world; nakedTilda, alone, starving asks Cord and aliveSasha if they'd like to move into the Pineapple Street property. This place looks familiar Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to another property, a street or so away, which they own. It looks exactly like They won't need any of the English village where he spent his early childhood before his brother’s accident furniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and his family’s Cord can move to Americastraight in. Nominally, they had a choice but it is now overgrown that wasn't the reality. Darley and devoid of human lifeGeorgiana start to call Sasha 'the gold digger'. She's living in ''their'' family home. It is as if They use it so often that they abbreviate it to 'the whole place was simply abandoned one dayGD'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406331155</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Straight White MaleEmily Critchley|authortitle=John NivenOne Puzzling Afternoon
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|genre=HumourCrime|summary=In Kill Your Friends84 year old Edie has lived in the same small town for almost her whole life, John Niven delivered but now she is facing a scathing move as her son wants to move to another house and bring Edie to live with his family, as Edie is starting to lose her memory. However, Edie is tormented by the memory of her childhood friend, Lucy, who went missing over 60 years ago, and hugely entertaining satire on the music industryworry 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. In Straight White Male he After 'seeing's turned his attention Lucy in the high street, just as she was the last time she saw her, she starts to find pockets of memories coming back to Hollywood her. And yet as she remembers the past, she is forgetting more and academia with similarly impressive resultsmore in her day to day life. Will she uncover the truth about Lucy's disappearance before her move, and before her memories are gone forever?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0434022861</amazonuk>1804181250
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|title=Thirst for Salt
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= ''Love, I'd read, was supposed to be a light and weightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravity''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008506337|title=Bertie's Guide to Life and MothersThe Garnett Girls|author=Alexander McCall SmithGeorgina Moore
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|summary=SoThe love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, apparently on both sides. BertieMargo was just sixteen when they fell in love. Yes, dear Bertie finally turns seven in this book! Richard was twenty-one and described by Margo's mother as 'an older man'. And about time too! His birthday gifts from his Her parents are perhaps not everything he wished for, nor even what his dad might have wanted to get him, but Bertieworried that Richard's mother, Irene, has very definite ideas about influence would take her away from what makes they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and having a good birthday present for a little boyglittering career. Fortunately for my blood pressure In the odious Irene is soon whisked event, they eloped and Richard took her away from the Isle of Wight. Margo did go to another country after winning Oxford and went on to become a newspaper competitionwell-respected journalist. The couple had three children: Rachel, Imogen and Sasha. Life was lived in London and her stay there might holidays were spent at Sandcove, the family home on the Isle of Wight. Even then the doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be rather longer than sheable to leave him in charge''d intended.. Then Richard left them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846972531</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Morgan McCarthy1914585402|title=The Outline of LoveDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross|rating=34.5
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|summary=Persephone Triebold has spent most of her life on the Assynt Peninsula in north-west Scotland. ItI reviewed David F Ross's isolated, rugged and under-populated. Her father opted to live there after the death of his wife, feeling that it was safe for his young daughter. Shebook [[There's been home-schooled and has had very little contact with other people - but makes the decision that sheOnly One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's going to university in London. Once there she shares Only One Danny Garvey]] a house with three other girls couple of years back and develops a crush on former indie musician remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and Booker-winning novelist Leo Fordaffecting it was. She works her way into his circle of friends - It was a gripping, emotionally wounding read, and finally into his bed - but never feels that has ''connected'' with him. Part rereading my review of it is my main takeaway was that she can't get past ''that'' incident in his past which involved his sister, Ivy, her partner, a gun and a sword - and no one will talk about I might not have lavished enough praise on it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755388771</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Another Way to FallLucy Ashe|authortitle=Amanda BrookeClara and Olivia|rating=4.5
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|summary=On a crisp November dayThe year is 1933. The place? Sadler's Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, Emma steps out of twins no less. Identical on the doctor’s officeoutside but not, beaming from ear to ear. Finallywe learn, she has received on the news she has been waiting so long to hear; her cancer is in complete remissioninside. She can now put the last five years behind her and start get And not on with the rest of her lifestage, either. At least Because there's a lot that is how things would work in builds a perfect worlddancer. SadlySome things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, attention to detail – and some things, the truth is a little different. The that ''je ne sais quoi'all clear' diagnosis is , that don't come from the first chapter of classroom. A stage presence, a book that Emma is writingcharm, a book that is ''joie de vivre''. The difference between a coping mechanism to help her come to terms with the fact that her cancer is incurable hard-worker, and her options are very limited indeeda star.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>000744592X</amazonuk>0861544080
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=OstrichHeather Fawcett|authortitle=Matt GreeneEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries|rating=54
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|summary=[[The Curious Incident Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life's work, the very first encyclopaedia of the Dog faeries. Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, she is not so good with people. So when she finds herself far, far North in the Night Time by Mark Haddon]] deserves every piece small village of praise it receivedHrafvsnik, having somehow offended the village matriarch, as a children's novel with plenty she is not sure what she has done, nor how to interest older readers redeem herself and a wonderful way of portraying Asperger's Syndrome through its narrator, Christopher Booneput her final investigations for her book back on the right track. ''Ostrich'' by Matt Greene follows quite similar linesEnter Wendell Bambleby, although this time the narratorher dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, Alexall charm and delight, has a brain tumourmuch to Emily's frustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0297869523</amazonuk>0356519120
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1398515388|title=The Second Life of Amy ArcherBoy and the Dog|author=R S PatemanSeishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)
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|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Ten years agoFirst of all, a little girl vanished from a playground near her London home. Her body it was never found. A decade onthe earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and her parents are different peoplethis, her mother Beth still hung up on what didin turn, or didn’t happen that daycaused the nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and utter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, her father Brian trying to move on with his new family, his new daughtersand the loss of livelihoods was widespread. On The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the anniversary list of her disappearance, priorities but - six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a strange visitor arrives on Beth’s doorstep saying she knows what happened to Amy Archerconvenience store. She also knows He wasn't a great deal about Beth’s life, dog person but the convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and Amy’s, from that time. Things no one should know. No one could know. But Tamon the only explanation is beyond belief. Either someone is playing a cruel joke on Beth, or it’s time to start believing dog jumped in miracles.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409128563</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Night RainbowChristopher Bowden|authortitle=Claire KingMr Magenta
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|summary=You knowChristopher Bowden's latest novel is a patient untangling of a seemingly ordinary woman's life, there’s no reason a book carried out by her nephew after she has to be happy in order to be gooddied. The Night Rainbow is proof of this. Set geographically in France aunt who always provided a safe harbour and actually in the head a little bit of indulgence to a young nephew had had a five year old girl, much more interesting life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and it follows the adventures of the summer when Pea’s (short for Peony or Pivoine, depending who you ask) pregnant mother was too miserable seems to him an obligation to care for her; the summer following the still birth of Pea’s sister and the tragic accidental death of her fatherfind it all out.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408841843</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=LongbournJennifer Mason|authortitle=Jo BakerPartitions of Unity|rating=54
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=So Here at Bookbag Towers, we have had Jane Austen first met Elizabeth Cromwell, dominatrix and unintentional detective in [[Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-SmithJennifer Mason|meet zombiesPreposterous]], when she investigated and now something perhaps even more reprehensible – social realism. This is unravelled a world where people slip up in hogshit, where rain pisses it down, and if the weekly routine washday is bad, you should try it when five Bennet daughters have their coinciding periodsseries of disappearances. Sarah is in the middle In ''Partitions of all thisUnity'', trying she sets her mind to do her share of the housework with one hand at times, lest pus from her blisters get on the linen, or her callouses crack opensolving a murder... But why can she not get her feelings about James, the new mysterious footman fresh from who-knows-where, straight in her head, and why is her heart turned by the mulatto servant of the Bingleys up at Netherfield?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857522019</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|isbn=B0B2N7MVYM|title=Beneath an Irish SkyThe Calculations of Rational Men|author=Isabella ConnorDaniel Godfrey
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=In a hospital wardIt's the 10th of December 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marr. Just to put what happens in context, Luke Kiernan the Cuban missile crisis is stirring from a tranquiliser-induced sleep following a serious car accidentstill very fresh in people's minds. His ribs and legs hurt and he The world has an awful feeling that his mother is deadbarely had a chance to breathe out. But who is for Joe Marr, it's not the missile crisis that stranger sitting beside 's at the bed? Surely it can’t be front of his fathermind. He's been convicted of murder. With the current state of medical knowledge, it's hard to think otherwise than that the father who pushed prosecution would never have been brought but Joe Marr has spent his mother away twenty years ago because he was ashamed to have first few days in HMP Queen's Bench, a relatively new prison. He''gypo kid'' around? Luke wants answers. But more than thats just getting used to his roommate, Mervyn, he wants revengeand learning to be wary of the McArthur brothers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781890048</amazonuk>
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