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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=Gretel The List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the Darkfamily 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035906708|title=Diva|author=Eliza GranvilleDaisy Goodwin|rating=4.5

|summary=Josef Breuer has never had a case such We tend to think of Maria Callas as this. For a doctor Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in fin-de-siecle ViennaManhattan, spurned by his ex-colleague SigmundNew York, in December 1923 and with some dark happenings only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in his marriage and his past, he gets as a patient a young, damaged girl, found naked and battered outside an asylumthe States. She claims When she has never come from there, however, and was back in Athens - supposedly so that she is of no father or mother besides a purpose. She says could get appropriate training for her voice - she is a machine, an automaton, a beautiful kind of golem, with was raised under the task of going to Linz and killing Nazi occupation by a monster. She has an unusual number design at mother who mercilessly exploited her wrist. This story alternates with that and made no secret of another young girl, a very impetuous and belligerent child, now that her favourite nanny-come-nurse-come-cook-come-storyteller has been drummed out, and living alone with preference for her father, again a doctorelder sister, outside a zooJackie. But a zoo that doesn't strictly hold animals, nor allows for their conservation…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241146453</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anna QuindlenAlexander McCall Smith|title=Still Life With BreadcrumbsThe Perfect Passion Company

|summary=I was going The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to say that Rebecca Winter ''is'' all the online apps in providing a well-known photographermore personal, but that's not quite how Rebecca sees ittailored service. She had major success with ''Still Life With Breadcrumbs'' Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and became look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a household name - almost trip to Canada to get away for a feminist icon - but the success has faded into the pastwhile. People who think about it guess that she's well-offKatie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, if not wealthy but and so jumps at the truth is differentchance to come home to Edinburgh. When And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we meet Rebecca she's woken in already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the middle of the night by what sounds very like a gunshot - Isabel Dalhousie novels, but she's not in her New York apartmentwith some new characters who quickly begin to charm. She's Katie has no experience in running a couple of hours drive away business, or in a rented cottage. It's the financesmatch-making, you see. If she lets but Ness has full confidence in her New York property abilities, and rents somewhere cheaper the difference allows her to pay her motherthere's nursing home feesalways her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, a contribution to her father's rentWilliam, some assistance to her son - and all the other obligations we accumulate as we get older.lend a hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091954118</amazonuk>1846976596

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=It Felt Like A KissDean Koontz|authortitle=Sarra ManningThe Bad Weather Friend

|genre=Women's FictionParanormal|summary=Ellie Cohen lives with two of her best friendsBenny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, works in an exclusive galleryhe loses his fiancee, and sees her loving Jewish grandparents every first Friday of the monthhis house gets trashed. Her single mother Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, Aridisturbing coffin-sized object to his home, has always been the epitome of cool and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is Ellie’s best friend and confidante. the thing that has trashed his house! The only thing they don’t talk about is Billy Kay, Ellie’s biological father. That doesn’t stop him being one of Benny is the nation’s favourites, recently knighted, and talked about by pretty much everyone elsevery last person to deserve all this bad luck. But Billy He is a non-issue nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Ellie. She doesn’t need himBenny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, she has Chester, her mum’s best a bad weather friendcalled Spike, who has always been enough of sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a dad if she neededgood person. Her only real trouble Spike is her penchant for lame ducksgoing to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, or fixer-uppersand Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552163279</amazonuk>1662500491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=CairoKatherine Howe|authortitle=Chris WomersleyA True Account

|summary=Tom Button has had enough 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 small-some pirates in the town Australian life, she decides to go and wants to grasp the nettle at the earliest opportunity watch. Enthralled and escape for more exotic places as soon as hehorrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's free death at the hands of school and he and a friend can afford ittwo vicious pirates. Until the friend kills She hides away, so that pipe-dream. Plan B for Tom soon becomes the life of a university student in Melbournethey don't find and kill her too, with the chance and then to escape them completely she runs away to live in sea, dressing as a boy and joining the apartment his aunt left behind when she died – at least itnotorious Ned Low's in an exotically named development building, called Cairopirate ship as a cabin boy. But Plan C She soon forms for Tomfinds herself in the thick of things when there is a mutiny on board, when he falls and from there we are caught up in awkwardly with some bohemian neighbours – who still, despite being ten years older, have plans her rip roaring tale of their own for making their own way to a better life – just not on the way Tom ever suspected…ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848663919</amazonuk>0861547438

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicholas Royle1471180158|title=First NovelMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes

|summary=Paul Kinder lectures Jamie Matson works in first novels at an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's a control freak with all the subtlety of a Manchester university andhalf brick. Jamie's son, coincidentallyBo, he's also published a novelhas his problems'. YesHe's asthmatic and the more you read, just the onemore you'll suspect that he's on the autistic spectrum. When not working he enjoys various pursuits, including sex Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's a frequent flier in car parks when offered the opportunity (i.e. local A&E and sometimes Bo's not very often at all)fit enough to go to school. (If Missed shifts or the car park is need to be away on a flight path, all time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the betterwrong.) He personally doesn't see it as It was going to come to a problem, although not all his life has been problem freehead. No, indeed it hasn't!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224096982</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0CKD1L5JL|title=RespectRadio Free Olympia|author=Mandasue HellerJeffrey Dunn|rating=54|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Growing Petr is an orphan. Rescued by the strange, reclusive Bear, he is brought up is difficult far from bustling cities and busy human society, in the best forests of circumstancesWashington's Olympic Peninsula. The council estate where Chantelle has grown up After Bear dies and a brief sojourn in isn't decaying - it is dead human company, and rotten. It has become armed with only a holding place for those who are condemned to pirate radio transmitter, Petr goes on a life of crimejourney through the forest, at least when they aren't serving time. It is the type of place that saps ambition and hope from its unlucky inhabitants. But Chantelle is determined to break out. She has avoided all broadcasting the pitfalls waiting for children in her situation, avoiding drugsstrange, alcohol, crime wild and dead end relationshipsrarely heard voices he encounters. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444769472</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Buddhaland BrooklynSarah Marsh|authortitle=Richard C MoraisA Sign of Her Own|rating=3.5

|summary=Seido Oda has lived all of his life in the shadow of the Head Temple of the Clearwater Sect After a bout of Mahayana Buddhism. His family home was an inn which catered to the pilgrims who flocked to the temple, and his mother scarlet fever as a devout member of the sect. He seemed marked for the priesthood from an early agechild, and at age 11 was handed over to the guardianship of the priests to begin his apprenticeshipEllen Lark loses her hearing. Seido's young life is blighted by tragedy, and Suddenly plunged into a promise he could not keep, and although a devout follower world of the Buddhasilence, he seemed unable to achieve true peace, even everything about her life changes. Living in a time when the beautiful tranquil surroundings use of Mount Nagata. He sign language was unable seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to relate a school where she is taught to other humans and sought solace in poetrylip read, artbut physically restrained from signing. From here, 'the prayers' of she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the river deaf and the beauty of his rural homeusing a system called Visible Speech. At age 42the same time, he has spent almost all of his life in or near the templeBell is working on other inventions and ideas, and expects to spend the remainder Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of it there when a very unwelcome appointment to America is offered to him. Seido accepts with a heavy heart, but only on the agreement that it must be temporaryespionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846883105</amazonuk>1035401614

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0BC3YTCMR|title=The Night GuestGood Girls Die|author=Fiona McFarlaneAyura Ayira

|summary=Widow, Ruth, lives alone in the isolated seaside house in New South Wales that was once their family holiday house. Her two adult sons now work abroad leaving her just her cats ''This story is not for companyeveryone. Oh, and possibly a tiger who prowls the house at night. When Frida turns up unannounced claiming to have been sent by the government to care for her things get more and more mysterious. As Ruth reminisces and then meets up again with her former heartthrob from her youth in Fiji, it becomes clear that something isn't right, although with whom is a different matter. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444776673</amazonuk>}}'

{{newreview|author=Kevin Maher|title=Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of her fifteenth birthday when The Fields|rating=4Incident happened.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Jim Finnegan is embarking on his teens She was a very bright student, a bit too nerdy if truth be told, and suffered from vitiligo - people were afraid to hug her in 1980s Dublin but thatcase it's not all hecontagious. It's embarking not easy being a black girl whose skin is 84% white. She had a crush onseventeen-year-old Reggie Anderson but never thought he would notice her. A lad from an average Catholic family in many ways, Then he has five sisters, a mother who believes the supreme threat is a telling off from the parish priest did: Lavender was very good at math and his father is understandably tired all the timeReggie asked if she would tutor him. She readily agreed: tutoring was something she gladly did at church: this was just an extension. Between school She went to his house and the cacophony of his mother's coffee mornings Jim learns a lot but nothing as useful as what happens when you become very friendly with a pair of pillows or what to do with the girls he and his mates ogle from afarraped her. Then suddenly In shock, she even allowed him to give her a lot of things change almost simultaneously and life doesn't seem so average any morelift home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349138672</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1472263936|title=The BoatFigurine|author=Clara SalamanVictoria Hislop|rating=45

|summary=This is a book It was in 1968 that starts at the end, which saddened me a little. Sometimes it’s hard Helena McCloud made her first trip to get lost in the mystery of a story when you know how it endsGreece. But a mystery this story is. Johnny and Clem are Brits abroad She was alone: her mother, traveling through EuropeGreek by birth, sticking to had left the coast where the boats are. Johnny’s into all things nautical family home and as boat peoplerefused to return, we understood this. The title is the first thing but Mary and Hamish (Helena's parents) felt that caught my eye on this book, and the reason I picked it would be a pity if Helena grew upwithout knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. And it’s no lie: Her trip to the family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be the vast majority first of this book is set not just on boats generally, but on one specific boatseveral annual visits. She grew to love her grandmother and the family''The Boat''. It belongs to another expat couples maid, Dina, Frank but was wary - and Anniefrightened - of her grandfather, whose life is a series retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. He was proud of ports his close connections to the Junta and harbours, and they come expected his family to uphold his values but saw no reason to Johnny accommodate them. His prejudices included Helena's red hair and Clem’s aid when they need it mostgreen eyes - inherited from her father's Scottish ancestors.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781855846</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Mother, MotherDean Koontz|authortitle=Koren ZailckasAfter Death|rating=4.53

|summary=There’s Michael Mace, Head of Security, at a hideous advert on TV at the moment that tells mums they’re doing greattop secret biological research facility, is among 55 people who die when a virus is released in a bio-hazard accident. And wouldn’t they like to buy some formula for their little ones Finding himself in a makeshift mortuary, covered in plastic, while they’re at it? It’s such he has a sweeping statement but the theory must be sense that mothers try something very, very bad has happened to do their best for him – and only him – as he sits up and looks around at the kidsshrouded bodies of his dead friends and former colleagues. As he recovers his senses, whatever the circumstances and whatever their resourceshe realises that there is something different about him; he can ''feel'' everything. ''Everything''. Michael isn't ''Michael'' anymore.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007547382</amazonuk>1662500467}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Angela JacksonB0BVDC2VWH|title=The Emergence of Judy TaylorGrave Listeners|author=William Frank

|summary=JudyThe village is isolated and poor. It's life had been the stuff which many others might envy: she'd grown up with friends about her whom she'd known since primary school and married the first man who asked her - but he did seem to be doing rather well. Then one day she discovered surrounded by a lumpWitching Forest. A hard lump. In her right breast. NerveAnd the villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants -racking test followed nerveits bread-racking testlike fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicines. The black wood of the forest provides heat and warmth, but eventually she was told that everything was absolutely normal. Husband Oli wanted to celebrate. So did her friendsroofs on homes, and even gallows, if needed. The problem was Judy. Missing fear of being buried alive is an existential superstition in the bus home after her hospital appointment she sat in a cafe village and thought. She realised that ''normal'' was not what she wanted. She wanted something moreis the reason Volushka, a drunken, self-indulgent, lazy lout of a man is tolerated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472101650</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cathleen SchineB0BYF82CXT|title=Fin and LadySemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone

|summary=In 1964 eleven-year-old Fin Hadley met his half sister again. His first contact with Lady had been some years before when Lady had left her bridegroom at the altar and run away to Capri. Fin's mother 'Bill and father took Fin with them as they went to Capri to bring Lady home. Fin's father had died Amanda are living in a while ago but it was at his mother's funeralsemi-detached house, six years laterstuck in a depressing rut of boredom and disappointment, that he when Terry and Lady met again - she was his only surviving relative Fiona – glamorous, successful and would be his guardianvery much in love – move in next door. LadyDespite their different outlooks on life, Fin the couples befriend each other and Fin's dog Gus left rural Connecticut life appears to improve for New Yorkboth pairs. The snag about this But all is that Lady's wellnot what it seems, not exactly ''parentand their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy.'' material.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147211129X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Lighthouse BayShalini Boland|authortitle=Kimberley FreemanThe Silent Bride|rating=3.5

|summary=Having loved [[Wildflower Hill Alice and Seth are a match made in heaven. He is everything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, clever, funny; total and utter husband-material. She is all he could possibly want in a wife; beautiful, successful, confident… and so the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and the wedding is planned and set. When the much-anticipated day arrives, Alice is walked down the aisle by Kimberley Freeman|Wildlflower Hill]]her father, I was really looking forward beaming with pride and excitement as she surveys the congregation – their friends assembled to celebrate this joyful day and when Seth turns to reading Kimberley Freeman’s newest work. A story split over different time periodsface his approaching bride, featuring Alice's world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the man at the story of a family altar is, who made their fortune in jewellery sounded appealing on several levelsis waiting for her to become his wife.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780877269</amazonuk>1662507089

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1787636003|title=The School Inspector Calls!Girls of Summer|author=Gervase PhinnKatie Bishop|rating=3.5

|summary=If youIt was the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the island. Rachel wasn've read any of Gervase Phinn's fictionalized autobiographies (the Dales series)t exactly innocent but she was, perhaps, naive, or either of the previous two volumes so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to take an interest in this Little Village School sether, you'll know what to expect here: cosy English fun set mostly around she was flattered rather than wary. It was quite a primary school, full while before he made any sort of Yorkshire dialectphysical approach to her and by that time she was obsessed by him. Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, quirky characters prone to malapropisms looking after his interests on the island and many 'kids say in particular in the bar where all the darndest things' momentsgirls either worked or partied.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444706055</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Emily of New Moon: A Virago Modern Classic (Emily Trilogy)Amanda Craig|authortitle=L M MontgomeryThree Graces

|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=I think I should confess, before I write this review, that I am a true Lucy Maud Montgomery geek! I have loved her books since I was a little girl, and I have read them Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of-the-nation novel. There's something so many times that utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the atmosphere of the covers are worn day and faded and her stories live inside capture it, crafting an image of me, at least the country as it stands in part making me who I amone particular moment. I wrote my masters dissertation on her books. I went to Prince Edward Island, Canada, for a conference about her works. I came back To say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's practically synonymous with a bottle the genre of red sand and contemporary social fiction at this point. She has such a heart full gift for weaving the ongoing issues of memories. If anyone ever mentions ''Anne the day into the lives of Green Gables'' her characters in my presence my eyes get very large a way that feels natural and I get very excited (and my husband rolls his eyes...) So it is lived-in, never making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with trepidation that I sit down to review one of her booksissues far larger than themselves. Bear with me, I will try not to geek out too much, and I will do my best to be fair!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1844089886</amazonuk>140871468X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=152915118X|title=Love...Under Different SkiesPineapple Street|author=Nick SpaldingJenny Jackson|rating=34.5

|summary=Jamie''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're Stocktons, only Sasha isn't a Stockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the tribe. The problem's exacerbated when the clan matriarch, LauraTilda, asks Cord and Sasha if they'd like to move into the Pineapple Street property. Tilda and baby Poppy Chip have had renovated and downsized to another property, a few mishaps here at homestreet or so away, which they own. They won't need any of the furniture from Pineapple Street, so when Sasha and Cord can move straight in. Nominally, they had a choice but that wasn't the opportunity comes reality. Darley and Georgiana start to flit off call Sasha 'the gold digger'. She's living in ''their'' family home. They use it so often that they abbreviate it to 'the GD'.}}{{Frontpage|author=Emily Critchley|title=One Puzzling Afternoon|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=84 year old Edie has lived in the land down undersame small town for almost her whole life, but now she is facing a move as her son wants to move to another house and start a new life in Australiabring Edie to live with his family, they’re more excited than they are apprehensiveas Edie is starting to lose her memory. It might get them out However, Edie is tormented by the memory of the rut they’ve fallen intoher childhood friend, Lucy, who went missing over 60 years ago, and it will definitely give them the sort worry that there was a secret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be the thing that reveals the truth of warm glow what happened all that comes from living under time ago. After 'seeing' Lucy in thehigh street, ermjust as she was the last time she saw her, warm glow she starts to find pockets of memories coming back to her. And yet as she remembers the sun. There’s really no reason not past, she is forgetting more and more in her day to goday life. Will she uncover the truth about Lucy's disappearance before her move, and before her memories are gone forever?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444767070</amazonuk>1804181250

Told from a retrospective view, a young woman unravels the year-long relationship that once defined her. Overlaid with later wisdom, the narrator relives the affair with a man twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the summer after. Set against the backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the 24-year-old narrator's deepening relationship with her older lover, depicting its all-consuming nature, how it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and how it altered her irrevocably.|isbn=0861546490}}{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008506337|title=The First Phone Call From HeavenGarnett Girls|author=Mitch AlbomGeorgina Moore

|summary=Something extraordinary is going to happen, The love affair between Margo Garnett and will continue to happenpoet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, through a long apparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in love. Richard was twenty-one and eventful autumn in the small town of Coldwaterdescribed by Margo's mother as 'an older man'. People will pick up phones, Her parents worried that Richard's influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and hear having a loved one speak to themglittering career. In the event, with assurances, love, delight – but they will all be eloped and Richard took her away from the voices Isle of dead loved onesWight. One woman has her slightly older, late sister contact her, another her deceased mother, who had ended her life disabled Margo did go to Oxford and wordless, while the local policeman will regain contact with the son killed in action in Afghanistanwent on to become a well-respected journalist. The whole town will be transformedcouple had three children: Rachel, but it might actually hit someone else hardest – Sully, fresh out of prison Imogen and Sasha. Life was lived in London and patching his life back together with his six year old sonholidays were spent at Sandcove, with both the family home on the Isle of them puzzled at why Wight. Even then the laddoubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's dead mother is among the silent majoritymind: ''she would never be able to leave him in charge''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847442269</amazonuk>Then Richard left them.

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1914585402|title=At Night We Walk In CirclesDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=Daniel AlarconDavid F Ross|rating=4.5

|summary=Peruvian-born Daniel Alarcón returns to South America in this story of one manI reviewed David F Ross's book [[There's Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's downfall Only One Danny Garvey]] a couple of years back and the twists remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and turns of fate that not only contributed to this but also which compelled the narrator of this story to seek to understand what happenedaffecting it was. The main characterIt was a gripping, 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 motheremotionally wounding read, 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 to tour the provinces. One and rereading my review of the trio is the play's writer, Henry, a man who it my main takeaway was imprisoned under terrorist charges when the play was first produced. With Nelson's ex girlfriend now pregnant with another man's child, the temptation to get away from his life in his home city is too tempting. No one could have forecast what the impact this tour would that I might not have lavished enough praise on his life thoughit.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007517394</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sebastiana RandoneLucy Ashe|title=The HouseClara and Olivia|rating=34.5

|summary=A woman wakes to find herself alone in a dark forestThe year is 1933. The place? Sadler's Wells. She sees a man Ballerinas Clara and calls out to him Olivia are sisters, twins no less. Identical on the outside but he ignores hernot, we learn, on the inside. EventuallyAnd not on stage, she finds her way to either. Because there's a lot that builds a house and takes shelterdancer. With no idea of how she came to Some things that can be there - taught or recall of her own namelearnt – discipline, even - attention to detail – and some things, that ''je ne sais quoi'', that don't come from the woman explores this dilipidated mansion and discovers classroom. A stage presence, a charm, a portal that transports her back to Regency England''joie de vivre''. HereThe difference between a hard-worker, and a dreadful thing happens before she is transported back in time againstar. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1483613712</amazonuk>0861544080

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=If I Never Went HomeHeather Fawcett|authortitle=Ingrid PersaudEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

|summary=Bea Emily Wilde is a practising psychologist. It's her second career - she was once an ambitious expert academicscholar on faerie lore, a professor of historyand she has travelled extensively, but a longstanding depression led to a breakdown and recovery meant a search for pastures new and more fulfilling. But even nowresearched meticulously, she canto write her life't cast off s work, the family crises that led to her illnessvery first encyclopaedia of faeries. Tina Whilst she is a young girl living in Trinidad with her mother. One question preoccupies Tina - who brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, she is her father? Her mother won't say and her grandmother and aunt claim not to knowso good with people. Tina feels lonely a lot So when she finds herself far, far North in the small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the time and village matriarch, she is not sure that finding what she has done, nor how to redeem herself and put her father would put an end to final investigations for her unhappiness. |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 a horse you should get book back on one the right awaytrack. Enter Wendell Bambleby, but even so… I don't think many people her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival 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 arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, much to a further voyage having been wrecked and stranded off the coast of South America for well over a weekEmily's frustration. But Merce why is he here ? What does – he wants to follow his best friend want? And what exactly is going on to a ship called ''The Endurance'' and head with Shackleton to the Antarctic. But Merce is only seventeen, and is rejected – causing him to stow away onto one of the world's worst ever journeys.faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0715645846</amazonuk>0356519120

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1398515388|title=All my Friends are SuperheroesThe Boy and the Dog|author=Andrew KaufmanSeishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)

|summary='There are 249 superheroes in the city First of Torontoall, Ontarioit was the earthquake, Canada.' Tom is not one of themdeep in the ocean floor, but he had just got married to one – which created the Perfectionist – when her jealous extsunami and this, Hypnoin turn, hypnotised her into being completely unable to see or hear or otherwise respond to himcaused the nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and utter devastation. It certainly led to The deaths were uncountable, and the wedding night Tom loss of livelihoods was least expecting – instead of the usual, he began to work out her new responses to him when he tried to touch her, such as hiccupping when he touched her head, spasms when he tried hand contactwidespread. Now, The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of priorities but - six months on, after the Perfectionist is quitting the city for tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a new lifeconvenience store. He is in wasn't a dog person but the plane seat right next convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to her, hoping against hope to get what they had back…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846591600</amazonuk>open his car door and Tamon the dog jumped in.

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Butterflies in NovemberChristopher Bowden|authortitle=Audur Ava OlafsdottirMr Magenta

|summary=' 'ItChristopher Bowden's all threes here,' she says, 'three men in your life over latest novel is a distance patient untangling of 300 kilometres, three dead animals, three minor accidents or mishaps… animals will be maimed… it'll wet more than your ankles… it wouldn't be a bad idea to buy a lottery ticketseemingly ordinary woman's life, carried out by her nephew after she has died.' And so an over-priced but miraculously accurate fortune-teller sets in process The aunt who always provided a narrative that provides for a very quirky read, with quite safe harbour and a little bit of charm amongst the unusual. The lottery ticket and indulgence to a young nephew had had a loose end much more interesting life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and a best friend stuck in hospital all conspire it seems to him an obligation to make the narrator and said best friend's four-year-old son embark on a journey of discovery, find it all on the southern stretch of the ring road that encircles Icelandout.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782270108</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Flavours of LoveJennifer Mason|authortitle=Dorothy KoomsonPartitions of Unity|rating=4.5

|summary=Saffron's husbandHere at Bookbag Towers, Joelwe first met Elizabeth Cromwell, was stabbed dominatrix and unintentional detective in the street eighteen months ago and no one has ever been arrested for his murder. It's hard for Saffron and her two children[[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], Pheobe when she investigated and Zane, to live with what happened but somehow they have to find unravelled a way series of getting on with their lives; lives that no longer have Joel in themdisappearances. ItIn ''Partitions of Unity'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 , she sets her daughter won't talk mind to hersolving a murder.. On top of all that, Joel's killer is still out there somewhere and that makes her scared for all her family's safety.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780875002</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF

This is just a sample of the cast of characters and settings in Preposterous. As you can see, some keeping up will be required! The basic premise of this mystery story goes like this...|isbn=B09STS96HS}}{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0B2N7MVYM|title=The CircleCalculations of Rational Men|author=Dave EggersDaniel Godfrey|rating=45

|summary=Following It's the 10th of December 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marr. Just to put what happens in context, the Cuban missile crisis is still very fresh in people's minds. The world has barely had a string of recent scandalschance to breathe out. But for Joe Marr, it's not the government this month announced missile crisis that secret cameras could be introduced into care homes in 's at the hope front of improving patient carehis mind. The theory being that constantly recording staff would prevent any inappropriate behaviour from those in positions He's been convicted of authoritymurder. Could such surveillance possibly work? And if With the current state of medical knowledge, it did would any potential rewards be outweighed by the threat 's hard to privacy of both think otherwise than that the patients and the wholly innocent staff who become caught up prosecution would never have been brought but Joe Marr has spent his first few days in the snooping? ItHMP Queen's Bench, a relatively new prison. He's this question of surveillance over privacy that is central just getting used to 'The Circle'his roommate, Mervyn, and learning to be wary of the new novel from Dave EggersMcArthur brothers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241146488</amazonuk>