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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!{{Frontpage|author=Onyi Nwabineli|title=Allow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step- Remove -->mother to take down the content about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873}}{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529153298|title=The First Phone Call From HeavenList of Suspicious Things|author=Mitch AlbomJennie Godfrey
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|summary=Something extraordinary It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is going 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, but to happen, and will continue have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to happen, through a long and eventful autumn in move the small town of Coldwaterfamily 'Down South'. People will pick up phonesWhen you're from Yorkshire, and hear Down South is a loved one speak to themfrightening, with assurancesforeign place, love, delight – but they will all be the voices of dead loved onesbest avoided. One woman has her slightly olderFor Miv, late sister contact the move would mean leaving herbest friend, another her deceased motherSharon, who had ended her life disabled and wordless, while the local policeman will regain contact with the son killed in action in Afghanistanshe'll do anything to prevent that. The whole town will be transformed, but it might actually hit someone else hardest – Sully, fresh out of prison and patching his life back together with his six year old son, with both of them puzzled at why She's not worried about the laddangers or that her Mum's dead mother is among the silent majoritystopped talking - to anyone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847442269</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1035906708|title=At Night We Walk In CirclesDiva|author=Daniel AlarconDaisy Goodwin|rating=4.5
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|summary=Peruvian-born Daniel Alarcón returns We tend to South America in this story think of one man's downfall and the twists and turns of fate that not only contributed to this Maria Callas as Greek, but also which compelled the narrator of this story she was born to seek to understand what happened. The main characterGreek parents in Manhattan, a young man named Nelson whose plans to follow his older brother to the US are halted when his father dies forcing him to care for his motherNew York, has trained to be an actor but his career is going nowhere. Then he lands a part in a notorious three person play that is going December 1923 and only moved to tour the provinces. One of the trio is the play's writer, Henry, a man who was imprisoned under terrorist charges Athens when the play she was first producedthirteen. With Nelson Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 's ex girlfriend now pregnant with another manCallas's child, the temptation to get away from his life make it more manageable in his home city is too temptingthe States. No one When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could have forecast what get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the impact this tour would have on his life thoughNazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007517394</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sebastiana RandoneAlexander McCall Smith|title=The HousePerfect Passion Company|rating=34.5
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|summary=A woman wakes The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to find herself alone all the online apps in providing a 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 trip to Canada to get away for a dark forestwhile. She sees Katie is coming out of a man break up with a bad boyfriend, and calls out so jumps at the chance to come home to him but he ignores herEdinburgh. Eventually And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, she finds her way thanks to a house 44 Scotland Street and takes shelterthe Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. With Katie has no idea of how she came to be there experience in running a business, or in match- or recall of making, but Ness has full confidence in her own nameabilities, even - the woman explores this dilipidated mansion and discovers a portal that transports there's always her back very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to Regency England. Here, lend a dreadful thing happens before she is transported back in time again. hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1483613712</amazonuk>1846976596
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=If I Never Went HomeThe 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 house gets trashed. 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 the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the 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 delivery to his 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 take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491}}{{Frontpage|author=Ingrid PersaudKatherine Howe|title=A True Account|rating=4.5
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|summary=Bea Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to live with a practising psychologist. It's her second career - she was once family who run an ambitious academicinn, a professor of history, but a longstanding depression led to a breakdown and recovery meant a search for pastures new and more fulfilling. But even now, she can't cast off the family crises that led being made to her illness. Tina is work there from a young girl living in Trinidad with her motherage. One question preoccupies Tina - who When she hears there is her father? Her mother won't say and her grandmother and aunt claim not to know. Tina feels lonely be a lot hanging of some pirates in the time and town, she is sure that finding her father would put an end decides to her unhappinessgo and watch. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0992697700</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Ice-Cold Heaven|author=Mirko Bonne|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=They say that if you fall off Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a horse you should get back on one right young boy's death at the hands of two vicious pirates. She hides away, but even so… I so that they don't think many people who had only just left their first love – a shopgirl in their village – for their second – exploring the world on sailing cargo ships – would leap find and kill her too, and then to escape them completely she runs away to sea, dressing as a further voyage having been wrecked boy and stranded off joining the coast of South America for well over notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a weekcabin boy. But Merce here does – he wants to follow his best friend on to a ship called ''The Endurance'' and head with Shackleton to She soon finds herself in the Antarctic. But Merce thick of things when there is only seventeena mutiny on board, and is rejected – causing him to stow away onto one from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the world's worst ever journeysocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0715645846</amazonuk>0861547438
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1471180158|title=All my Friends are SuperheroesMaybe Tomorrow|author=Andrew KaufmanPenny Parkes
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|summary=Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who'There are 249 superheroes in s a control freak with all the city subtlety of Torontoa half brick. Jamie's son, OntarioBo, Canada'has his problems'. He' Tom is not one of thems asthmatic and the more you read, but the more you'll suspect that he had just got married 's on the autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to one – take time off at short notice - she's a frequent flier in the Perfectionist – when her jealous ex, Hypno, hypnotised her into being completely unable local A&E and sometimes Bo's not fit enough to see or hear or otherwise respond go to himschool. It certainly led to Missed shifts or the wedding night Tom was least expecting – instead of the usual, he began need to work out her new responses be away on time to him pick Bo up from school are occasions when he tried to touch her, such as hiccupping when he touched her head, spasms when he tried hand contact. Now, six months on, the Perfectionist is quitting Jamie can be controlled and put in the city for a new lifewrong. He is in the plane seat right next It was going to her, hoping against hope come to get what they had back…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846591600</amazonuk>a head.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0CKD1L5JL|title=Butterflies in NovemberRadio Free Olympia|author=Audur Ava OlafsdottirJeffrey Dunn
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=' 'It's all threes herePetr is an orphan. Rescued by the strange, reclusive Bear,' she sayshe is brought up far from bustling cities and busy human society, 'three men in your life over a distance the forests of 300 kilometres, three dead animals, three minor accidents or mishaps… animals will be maimed… itWashington'll wet more than your ankles… s Olympic Peninsula. it wouldn't be After Bear dies and a bad idea to buy a lottery ticket'.' And so an over-priced but miraculously accurate fortune-teller sets brief sojourn in process a narrative that provides for a very quirky readhuman company, and armed with quite only a bit of charm amongst the unusual. The lottery ticket and a loose end and a best friend stuck in hospital all conspire to make the narrator and said best friend's four-year-old son embark pirate radio transmitter, Petr goes on a journey of discoverythrough the forest, all on broadcasting the southern stretch of the ring road that encircles Icelandstrange, wild and rarely heard voices he encounters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782270108</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage|author=Sarah Marsh|title=A Sign of Her Own|rating=3.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=After a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, everything about her life changes. Living in a time when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a school where she is taught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and using a system called Visible Speech. At the same time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=1035401614}}{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0BC3YTCMR|title=The Flavours of LoveGood Girls Die|author=Dorothy KoomsonAyura Ayira
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|summary=Saffron's husband, Joel, was stabbed in the street eighteen months ago and no one has ever been arrested for his murder. It's hard This story is not for Saffron and her two children, Pheobe and Zane, 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 in them. It's hardly surprising that they struggle on a daily basis and it all culminates when Saffron is called into school to discuss fourteen year old Pheobe. Saffron doesn't know how to deal with the situation especially as her daughter won't talk to hereveryone. On top of all that, Joel's killer is still out there somewhere and that makes her scared for all her family's safety.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780875002</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Diane Setterfield1472263936|title=Bellman and BlackThe Figurine|author=Victoria Hislop|rating=45
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|summary=When he It was a young boy William Bellman committed one cruel act - he used his catapult in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to kill a rookGreece. He didnShe was alone: her mother, Greek by birth, had left the family home and refused to return, but Mary and Hamish (Helena't believe he could do it - believed until the moment that the rook fell s parents) felt that it would fly away before be a pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. Her trip to the stone hit family apartment in up- but market Kolonaki would be the rook was deadfirst of several annual visits. It can't be said that the killing worried William and as he She grew it seemed that he was a fortunate man. His work satisfied him. He loved his wife to love her grandmother and his childrenthe family's maid, Dina, but then tragedy struck was wary - and the visits from the stranger in black began. William frightened - now 'Bellman' to most of those who knew him - had a solutionher grandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. He worked harder, obsessively was proud of his close connections to the Junta and he founded a business which was decidedly macabreexpected his family to uphold his values but saw no reason to accommodate them. And that business was Bellman His prejudices included Helena's red hair and Blackgreen eyes - inherited from her father's Scottish ancestors.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409128016</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Black ChalkDean Koontz|authortitle=Albert AllaAfter Death|rating=3.5
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|summary=Seventeen-year-old Nate Dillingham Michael Mace, Head of Security, at a top secret biological research facility, is hailed as among 55 people who die when a hero following virus is released in a horrific school shooting bio-hazard accident. Finding himself in which he is the only survivor. It soon becomes cleara makeshift mortuary, howevercovered in plastic, he has a sense that Nate something very, very bad has neglected happened to share the full extent of his involvement with the police, instead allowing others to place a more positive spin on his version of events. After recuperating in hospital him – and only him – as he sits up and facing looks around at the interrogation shrouded bodies of both the police and the media, Nate abandons his family dead friends and spends eight years working abroad in a succession of odd jobsformer colleagues. Black Chalk begins with Nate’s return to As he recovers his family homesenses, as Nate seeks catharsis by finally opening up he realises that there is something different about his experienceshim; he can ''feel'' everything. ''Everything''. Michael isn't ''Michael'' anymore.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1859643574</amazonuk>1662500467}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ann LearyB0BVDC2VWH|title=The Good HouseGrave Listeners|author=William Frank
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|summary=Hildy Good has reached a strange stage in her lifeThe village is isolated and poor. SheIt's entering her seventh decade (that's one surrounded 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. The black wood of the few phrases that make ''sixty'' feel good) forest provides heat and warmth, roofs on homes, and divorcedeven gallows, if needed. Most people - Hildy included - would have said that she had a lot The fear of friends, but being buried alive is an existential superstition in the reality village and that is the reason Volushka, a little different. Her daughters had staged an intervention because they thought that her drinking had got out drunken, self-indulgent, lazy lout of control and after a period in rehab Hildy found social occasions a little difficult. Evenings spent at home - on her own - were no funman is tolerated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178239320X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0BYF82CXT|title=The Reluctant CannibalsSemi-Detached|author=Ian FlitcroftDeborah Stone
|rating=4
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|summary=Over ''Bill and Amanda are living in a truffled turkey at their college Christmas dinner semi-detached house, stuck in 1964, a group depressing rut of Oxford dons decide to join boredom and disappointment, when Terry and Fiona – glamorous, successful and very much in love – move in next door. Despite their love of fine food different outlooks on life, the couples befriend each other and drink with their mutual appreciation life appears to improve for nineteenth-century French philosopher of food Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (author of the 1825 classic ''La Physiologie du Goût'', or ''The Physiology of Taste'') by forming a secret dining societyboth pairs. Together these fellows of St Jerome's College form the Shadow Faculty of Gastronomic ScienceBut all is not what it seems, 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 owntheir increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909593591</amazonuk>''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Isabel's SkinShalini Boland|authortitle=Peter BensonThe Silent Bride|rating=43
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|summary=David Morris Alice and Seth are a match made in heaven. He is a book trader everything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, clever, funny; total and valuer utter husband-material. She is all he could possibly want in some indeterminate Victorian yeara wife; beautiful, successful, when he confident… and so the inevitable proposal is given eagerly accepted by Alice and the job of perusing a great wedding is planned and valued collection held in a rich house in rural Somersetset. One can guess – especially given When the mood that leaps off these pages from much-anticipated day arrives, Alice is walked down the first aisle by her father, beaming with pride and never relents excitement as she surveys the congregation – that something might go wrongtheir friends assembled to celebrate this joyful day and when Seth turns to face his approaching bride, just him and the houseAlice's sole servant and her cats. But the clues build when we find just how much world implodes because she dislikes a neighbour – has absolutely no idea who seems a decent enough fellowthe man at the altar is, living in seclusion, and culture and intellect wise the only equal who is waiting for her to Morris for become his short working holidaywife. But whose unusual behaviour can Morris trust – and who is Isabel?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846882958</amazonuk>1662507089
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Deborah Schwartz1787636003|title=Woman on TopThe Girls of Summer|author=Katie Bishop|rating=45
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|summary=Kate It was the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Jake had one of those brilliant marriages that looks set to last forever along with two wonderful childrenCaroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the island. But Fate is always hiding around the corner with its foot stuck outRachel wasn't exactly innocent but she was, perhaps, naive, waiting so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to trip you up and Jake take an interest in her, she was diagnosed with cancerflattered rather than wary. They both fought to do everything that they could to find a cure but within two years Kate It was quite a widow. For nearly a decade she dedicated herself while before he made any sort of physical approach to the children her and to making a career as a healthcare lawyer so by that time she could support the familywas obsessed by him. When she was ready to look Alistair worked for another relationship she met Len. It wasn't Henry Taylor, looking after his looks that attracted her interests on the island and in particular in the bar where all the girls either worked or his stature (she'd hastily searched out her flat shoes), but he did seem to have something about himpartied.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00D3WHBJK</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=I Came To Say GoodbyeAmanda Craig|authortitle=Caroline OveringtonThree Graces
|rating=4.5
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|summary=Sometimes when you have clear expectations Few styles of a book based on its blurbcontemporary fiction interest me like the state-of-the-nation novel. There's something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the atmosphere of the day and capture it, and then you get crafting an utterly different story, image of the country as it can stands in one particular moment. To say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be frustratingembarrassingly inadequate: she's practically synonymous with the genre of contemporary social fiction at this point. While I think ‘misleading’ is too strong She has such a word gift for it, I really could not have predicted weaving the story ongoing issues of this book from what I read on the back cover. It sounded like an excellent story about day into the lives of her characters in a baby snatched from a hospital ward way that feels natural and lived-in, never making them ciphers for social commentary but instead it was…an excellent story about something else entirelyfully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>009958476X</amazonuk>140871468X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=152915118X|title=The World is a WeddingPineapple Street|author=Wendy JonesJenny Jackson|rating=4.5
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|summary=''Pineapple Street'' is the story of three women: Sasha, Darley and Georgiana. Darley and George are sisters and Sasha is married to their brother Cord. They say one door doesn're Stocktons, only Sasha isn't shut but for another opensa Stockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the tribe. Wilfred PriceThe problem's exacerbated when the clan matriarch, Tilda, asks Cord and Sasha if they'd like to move into the most amenable 1920s Welsh undertaker in literature, is living proof of thatPineapple Street property. He took his beloved Flora Myffanwy Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to be hisanother property, after a street or so away, which they both fell in love at her father's funeralown. It did leave Grace alone and bereftThey won't need any of the furniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and forced out of town Cord can move straight in a very unsavoury fashion, but for Wilfred and Flora married life is fine. HesitantNominally, they had a choice but finethat wasn't the reality. HeDarley and Georgiana start to call Sasha 'the gold digger'. She's finally got into the swing of things as regards calling her living in ''deartheir'', and conjugal relations, and she has finally felt able family home. They use it so often that they abbreviate it to speak up about her place in 'the household of her husband and his father – and whoever happens to be left to settle in the workshop, having died on the loo and got stuck in a non-coffin-shaped poseGD'. But do those doors stay firmly shut…?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178033379X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Mr Lynch's HolidayEmily Critchley|authortitle=Catherine O'FlynnOne Puzzling Afternoon
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|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Having read and enjoyed both of 84 year old Edie has lived in the same small town for almost her previous novelswhole life, [[What Was Lost by Catherine O'Flynn|What Was Lost]] but now she is facing a move as her son wants to move to another house and [[The News Where You Are by Catherine O'Flynn|The News Where You Are]] I was looking forward bring Edie to live with his family, as Edie is starting to this latest booklose her memory. The story tells us However, Edie is tormented by the memory of a father her childhood friend, Lucy, who surprises his sonwent missing over 60 years ago, living in Spain, with and the worry that there was a visitsecret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be the thing that reveals the truth of what happened all that time ago. The father is recently widowed and After 'seeing' Lucy in the son's long-term partner has very recently left himhigh street, although it's some just as she was the last time before he admits that she saw her, she starts to find pockets of memories coming back to his dadher. What begins as a holiday turns into something of a pschological rescue mission And yet as Dermot begins to see she remembers the problems depressing Eamonn past, she is forgetting more and the ways more in which he might be able her day to helpday life. ThereWill she uncover the truth about Lucy's a lot about familial relationships in the bookdisappearance before her move, as well as ideas about living at home and abroad.before her memories are gone forever?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0670918563</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 LuminariesGarnett Girls|author=Eleanor CattonGeorgina Moore
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|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=Eleanor CattonThe 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's mother as 'an older man'The Luminaries'' is set in the New Zealand gold rush of the late 1860s. It Her parents worried that Richard's a story about greed, power, gold, dreams, opium, secrets, betrayal influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and identity, but most of all, it's having a celebration of glittering career. In the art of story tellingevent, both in terms of Catton's book they eloped and the stories Richard took her characters have to tell. It's away from the kind Isle of book that is perfect escapism Wight. Margo did go to Oxford and which wraps you up in its worldwent on to become a well-respected journalist. If you like big The couple had three children: Rachel, chunky books that you can get lost Imogen and Sasha. Life was lived in for hoursLondon and holidays were spent at Sandcove, the family home on the Isle of Wight. Even then this is one for youthe doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able to leave him in charge''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847084311</amazonuk>Then Richard left them.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Canning1914585402|title=Out of the Clouds of DeceitDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross|rating=34.5
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|summary=On his way to begin training to be I reviewed David F Ross's book [[There's Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's Only One Danny Garvey]] 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 couple of years back and would find themselves sharing a room. Trained remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and mentored by older serving officers in what affecting it was the immediate post-war period they came to understand - and to some extent feel - the sense of betrayal which burdened the pilots from bomber command who had taken part in the Allied bombing campaign in the World War II. Flying It was in Aiden's blood and he was at home in the air a gripping, emotionally wounding read, and in the mess - the comradeship rereading my review of men suited him and he understood the nuances. He it my main takeaway was less at home with women, never completely understanding the different needs a woman has in a relationshipthat I might not have lavished enough praise on it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00A0T787O</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=More Than ThisLucy Ashe|authortitle=Patrick NessClara and Olivia
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|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=''Here The year is the boy, drowning1933.The place? Sadler'' And Seth does drowns Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, twins no less. He is alone; taken by Identical on the seaoutside but not, arms and legs flailing and breakingwe learn, skull dashed against the rocks whilst on the icy water constricts his muscles and breathinside. Seth is consciously aware of his final momentsAnd not on stage, either. His death consumes him with Because there's a heavylot that builds a dancer. Some things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, confusing blur until… he awakens attention to detail – and finds himself in a desolatesome things, that ''je ne sais quoi'', shattered world; nakedthat don't come from the classroom. A stage presence, alonea charm, starving and alivea ''joie de vivre''. This place looks familiar. It looks exactly like the English village where he spent his early childhood before his brother’s accident and his family’s move to AmericaThe difference between a hard-worker, but it is now overgrown and devoid of human life. It is as if the whole place was simply abandoned one daya star.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406331155</amazonuk>0861544080
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Straight White MaleHeather Fawcett|authortitle=John NivenEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
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|genre=HumourGeneral Fiction|summary=In Kill Your FriendsEmily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life's work, the very first encyclopaedia of faeries. Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, she is not so good with people. So when she finds herself far, far North in the small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the village matriarch, John Niven delivered a scathing she is not sure what she has done, nor how to redeem herself and hugely entertaining satire put her final investigations for her book back on the music industryright track. In Straight White Male he Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, much to Emily's turned his attention to Hollywood and academia frustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with similarly impressive results.the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0434022861</amazonuk>0356519120
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1398515388|title=The KillsBoy and the Dog|author=Richard HouseSeishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating=34.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Richard House's Booker-longlisted The Kills is a collection First of four related booksall, originally published in e-book format between February and June 2013. In some ways, the e-book format is the natural habitat for House's creation as it includes a largely optional multi-media component to was the story. It is a hugely ambitious piece about moneyearthquake, murderdeep in the ocean floor, greed, stories and where things start which created the tsunami and equally where, if everthis, they end. Covering more countries than feature in Michael Palin's passportturn, caused the book starts with corruption nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and embezzlement in a US civilian company working in the re-building of Iraqutter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, and ends with a kind the loss of 'Tales 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 Unexpectedtsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. He wasn' story in Cyprus having taken in t a gruesome story of murder dog person but the convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and Tamon the dog jumped in Naples.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447237862</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Bertie's Guide to Life and MothersChristopher Bowden|authortitle=Alexander McCall SmithMr Magenta|rating=54
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=So. Bertie. Yes, dear Bertie finally turns seven in this book! And about time too! His birthday gifts from his parents are perhaps not everything he wished for, nor even what his dad might have wanted to get him, but BertieChristopher Bowden's latest novel is a patient untangling of a seemingly ordinary woman's mother, Irenelife, carried out by her nephew after she has very definite ideas about what makes died. The aunt who always provided a good birthday present for safe harbour and a little boy. Fortunately for my blood pressure the odious Irene is soon whisked away bit of indulgence to another country after winning a newspaper competition, young nephew had had a much more interesting life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and her stay there might be rather longer than she'd intended..it seems to him an obligation to find it all out.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846972531</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Morgan McCarthyJennifer Mason|title=The Outline Partitions of LoveUnity|rating=3.54
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Persephone Triebold has spent most of her life on the Assynt Peninsula in north-west Scotland. It's isolatedHere at Bookbag Towers, rugged and under-populated. Her father opted to live there after the death of his wifewe first met Elizabeth Cromwell, feeling that it was safe for his young daughter. She's been home-schooled dominatrix and has had very little contact with other people - but makes the decision that she's going to university unintentional detective in London. Once there [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], when she shares a house with three other girls investigated and develops unravelled a crush on former indie musician and Booker-winning novelist Leo Fordseries of disappearances. She works her way into his circle of friends - and finally into his bed - but never feels that has ''connectedIn '' with him. Part Partitions of it is that she can't get past ''thatUnity'' incident in his past which involved his sister, Ivy, she sets her partner, mind to solving a gun and a sword - and no one will talk about itmurder...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755388771</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=Another Way to FallThe Calculations of Rational Men|author=Amanda BrookeDaniel Godfrey
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=On a crisp November day, Emma steps out It's the 10th of the doctor’s office, beaming from ear December 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marr. Just to ear. Finallyput what happens in context, she has received the news she Cuban missile crisis is still very fresh in people's minds. The world has been waiting so long barely had a chance to hear; her cancer is in complete remissionbreathe out. She can now put But for Joe Marr, it's not the last five years behind her and start get on with missile crisis that's at the rest front of her lifehis mind. At least He's been convicted of murder. With the current state of medical knowledge, it's hard to think otherwise than that is how things the prosecution would work never have been brought but Joe Marr has spent his first few days in a perfect world. SadlyHMP Queen's Bench, the truth is a little differentrelatively new prison. The He'all clear' diagnosis is the first chapter of a book that Emma is writings just getting used to his roommate, Mervyn, a book that is a coping mechanism and learning to help her come to terms with be wary of the fact that her cancer is incurable and her options are very limited indeedMcArthur brothers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000744592X</amazonuk>
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