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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Kinder Than SolitudeOnyi Nwabineli|authortitle=Yiyun LiAllow Me to Introduce Myself
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|summary=Yiyun LiAnuri 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''Kinder Than Solitude'' opens with a death but the story goes back much further than thats childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. When orphaned Ruyu arrives Now Anuri is in Beijing her twenties and she is slowly trying to stay with a distant relation regain her confidence and to go to schoolget her life back, she finds herself sharing a bedroom with the rebellious Shaoai and going suing her step-mother to school with take down the serious Moran and content about her friend Boyang. Ruyu Anuri is not an easy character battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and her arrival seems to disrupt everyone's lives even though Moran secretly abusing people online and Boyang look after receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her. However an 'accident' changes everything. All four of them live with little sister, who is the consequences new focus of what happened either physically or mentallyOphelia's online empire. Moran and Ruyu both leave China and settle in the US Can she save her sister, while Boyang and Shaoai stay in China. The book switches between the events of the past perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the present.same time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007329822</amazonuk>0861546873
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529153298|title=The Collected Works List of A J FikrySuspicious Things|author=Gabrielle ZevinJennie Godfrey|rating=45
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|summary=It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A J Fikry is not having a good timewoman? I mean, honestly... ) HeShe's not what's lost his wife to a car crash, and heworrying Miv's not making that much moneyfamily, though. Women have been disappearing. The book store he runsWell, stuck out on a limb on a quiet island communitythey've been murdered, is too remote but to turn a profit year-round, and he has just dismissed the latest publisherhave 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's rep to turn up at his door, partly upset because she's overheard that her previous counterpart, an inconsequential part of A Jfather wants to move the family 's life when all is said and done, had died and he didnDown South't know about it. But his bad time When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is about to get a lot worsefrightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, as the one thing he owns worth the most – a rare bookmove would mean leaving her best friend, more valuable than his house, his businessSharon, and she'll do anything – is about to vanishprevent that. Which bizarrely will cause several major changes She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to his one-person household…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408704617</amazonuk>anyone.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1035906708|title=A Love Like BloodDiva|author=Marcus SedgwickDaisy Goodwin
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|genre=HorrorGeneral Fiction|summary=One day towards the end We tend to think of World War TwoMaria Callas as Greek, Charles Jackson is dragged but she was born to a museum of antiquities just outside a newly liberated Paris by his commanding officer during their downtime. While the other looks at the unusual ancient artefacts, Jackson finds something much more horrific – a man Greek parents in a wartime bunker in the groundsManhattan, squatting over a female figureNew York, blood on his lips that could in December 1923 and only have come from her necklinemoved to Athens when she was thirteen. Years later, Jackson returns Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to Paris for reasons 'Callas' to do with his medical career, and finds make it more manageable in the same man States. When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the company of someone Nazi occupation by a mother who, were he only aware mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of the facther preference for her elder sister, is to become the first and possibly only love of his lifeJackie. But that's not the only time the paths of Jackson and the mysterious male are destined to cross – the prologue was set in the late 1960s…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144475193X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview|title=The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon: The No 1 Ladies' Detective AgencyFrontpage
|author=Alexander McCall Smith
|title=The Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Although the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency belongs to Mma RamotsweThe Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, I often feel that Grace Makutsi really shares equally in these stories run by Ness and, operating as an alternative to all the online apps in this particular episodeproviding a more personal, she has reached a truly lovely high point in her lifetailored service. We saw Ness has asked her arrive younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to work take a trip to Canada to get away for Mma Ramotswe, initially standing upon the laurels a while. Katie is coming out of her unheard-of 97% in her secretarial examsa break up with a bad boyfriend, and throughout so jumps at the series she has developed, both as a character and as a personchance to come home to Edinburgh. She grew her role And so begins this new story from secretary Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to associate detective (with great determination at times!)an Edinburgh we already love, she bought new shoes thanks to 44 Scotland Street and sometimes conversed with themthe Isabel Dalhousie novels, and then we rejoiced but with her when she married Phuti and began some new characters who quickly begin to build a home with himcharm. This time around Mma Makutsi is pregnantKatie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but the question on everyoneNess has full confidence in her abilities, and there's mind is will she ever speak always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to Mma Ramotswe about the baby before it arrives?lend a hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349139288</amazonuk>1846976596
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{{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 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}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lesley GlaisterKatherine Howe|title=Little EgyptA True Account|rating=4.5
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|summary=Twins Isis and Osiris are now Hannah Masury is living in their 90sBoston, having been sent to live with a family who run an inn, living together and being made to work there from a young age. When she hears there is to be a hanging of some pirates in Little Egyptthe town, the English manor house where they were born she decides to go and brought upwatch. Their names are Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a clue to their parentsyoung boy' near fetish for everything Egyptians death at the hands of two vicious pirates. In fact this near fetish leads their parents She hides away, so that they don't find and kill her too, and then to Egypt itselfescape them completely she runs away to sea, in search of dressing as a big discovery back in boy and joining the 1920s, demonstrating more enthusiasm than savvynotorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. Having left the twins She soon finds herself in the care thick of the housekeeperthings when there is a mutiny on board, they never return. Isis and Osiris from there we are now bound to caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the house, tied not by love or memories but dark secrets that won't let goocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>190777372X</amazonuk>0861547438
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1471180158|title=The Blazing WorldMaybe Tomorrow|author=Siri HustvedtPenny Parkes
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|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who'All intellectual and artistic endeavours…fare better in s a control freak with all the mind subtlety of a half brick. Jamie's son, Bo, 'has his problems'. He's asthmatic and the crowd when more you read, the crowd knows more you'll suspect that somewhere behind he's on the great work or autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's a frequent flier in the great spoof it can locate a cock local A&E and a pair of balls.sometimes Bo' Thus we are introduced s not fit enough to go to school. Missed shifts or the unforgettable Harriet Burden – larger-than-life, six-foot-tall amazon artist – and need to some of the novel's essential elements: musing be away on what makes intellectual products successful time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the wrong. It was going to come to a postmodern marketplace, feminist resentment of the overvaluing of male achievement, and an unapologetic, playful boldness with languagehead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444779648</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0CKD1L5JL|title=The EnchantedRadio Free Olympia|author=Rene DenfeldJeffrey Dunn|rating=4.5
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|summary=Death Row, in a prison somewhere in Petr is an orphan. Rescued by the rural US. It's an old prison toostrange, where the modern sensors and security will never be seenreclusive Bear, he is brought up far from bustling cities and where those waiting years for their finalbusy human society, final appeals – or for the closing act in their life – remain underground, in dank cells that have no mod-cons, and can easily flood when the rains raise the water table too high. Itforests of Washington's where Olympic Peninsula. After Bear dies and a man called York is seeing out his daysbrief sojourn in human company, and whereas armed with only a female investigator is trying her hardest to get evidence that might see his sentence quashed or changedpirate radio transmitter, he is saying it should be carried out forthwith. While she tries to piece together what got him there and what made him take that terminal decisionPetr goes on a journey through the forest, shadows of her own dark background are forced to move into sight. All this is told us by broadcasting the omniscient narration of another man on Death Rowstrange, thanks to two heinous crimes…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0297870491</amazonuk>wild and rarely heard voices he encounters.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Dead Wife's HandbookSarah Marsh|authortitle=Hannah BeckermanA Sign of Her Own|rating=3.5
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|summary=Rachel wasn't ready to drop dead at thirty-fiveAfter a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. It's been a year since - Suddenly plunged into a year she's spent trapped in some sort world of netherworld that allows silence, everything about her brief, tantalising glimpses of life changes. Living in a time when the lives use of those sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a school where she's left behindis taught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. There's no apparent rhyme or reason to 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 glimpsessame time, Bell is working on other inventions and Rachel wishes they were more often ideas, and lasted longerEllen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0718178149</amazonuk>1035401614
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fadia FaqirB0BC3YTCMR|title=Willow Trees Don't WeepGood Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira
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|summary=Najwa has been raised by her mother and grandmother with only stories ''This story is not for everyone.'' Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of how awful her father wasfifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. He canShe was a very bright student, a bit too nerdy if truth be told, and suffered from vitiligo - people were afraid to hug her in case it't answer for himself as he left the farm when Najwa was three years olds contagious. After her motherIt's death Najwa not easy being a black girl whose skin is encouraged by 84% white. She had a crush on seventeen-year-old Reggie Anderson but never thought he would notice her grandmother to find . Then he did: Lavender was very good at math and Reggie asked if she would tutor him as her grandmother is too frail . She readily agreed: tutoring was something she gladly did at church: this was just an extension. She went to protect his house and he raped her and a single woman with neither husband nor male guardian is considered loose and worthless in Amman. And so the journey beginsIn shock, taking Najwa to Pakistan and the centre of Taliban training, to Afghanistan and eventually she even allowed him to give her a Europe which deigns itself more civilised but seems more alienlift home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178206950X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Barbara Constantine1472263936|title=And Then Came PauletteThe Figurine|author=Victoria Hislop|rating=45
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|summary=Ferdinand It was a widower and he lived with his son, daughter-in-law and their two children on the family farm1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. WellShe was alone: her mother, Greek by birth, he did until had left the family moved awayhome 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. Apparently Ferdinand was occasionally prone Her trip to swear and obviously children can never the family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be allowed to hear such wordsthe first of several annual visits. That left him on his own except for She grew to love her grandmother and the children’s kitten to which their mother family's maid, Dina, but was allergic in a farmhouse which demanded a familywary - and frightened - of her grandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. He was lonely proud of his close connections to the Junta and he began... well, let’s call it making mischiefexpected his family to uphold his values but saw no reason to accommodate them. Assault is such an ugly word, isn’t it? Then he met Marceline His prejudices included Helena's red hair and green eyes - or rather he encountered inherited from her dog and in returning it discovered the old woman is a room filled with gas and leaking rain water through the rooffather's Scottish ancestors.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085705242X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Saira ShahDean Koontz|title=The Mouseproof KitchenAfter Death|rating=43
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|summary=Anna (Michael Mace, Head of Security, at a chef) and her partner Tobias (top secret biological research facility, is among 55 people who die when a virus is released in a composer) have it all: bio-hazard accident. Finding himself in a great relationshipmakeshift mortuary, dreams of moving to France so covered in plastic, he has a sense that Anna can open a well-respected restaurant andsomething very, very bad has happened to top it all off, they're expecting a beautiful babyhim – and only him – as he sits up and looks around at the shrouded bodies of his dead friends and former colleagues. When Freya As he recovers his senses, he realises that there is born she is indeed beautifulsomething different about him; shehe can 's also profoundly disabled'feel'' everything. However, Anna and Tobias decide to follow their dream anyway, not worrying about anything until the moment they have to''Everything''. Once theyMichael isn't ''Michael've bought their ramshackle home in the Languedoc they realise that the moments they have to worry about come more quickly and frequently than they'd realised and their support system is eccentric to say the leastanymore.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099575140</amazonuk>1662500467}} {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0BVDC2VWH|title=Charm OffensiveThe Grave Listeners|author=William ThackerFrank
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|summary=When Joe, a retired politician The village is named in isolated and poor. It's surrounded by a tabloid slur he is faced with mending his reputationWitching Forest. Can he regenerate his life? William Thacker has chosen a heady combination for his first novel; politics And the villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and PRits blossom provides herbal medicines. A book like this has immediate appeal The black wood of the forest provides heat and warmth, roofs on the basis homes, and even gallows, if needed. The fear of being so contemporary buried alive is an existential superstition in the village and almost painfully pertinent to our timesthat is the reason Volushka, a drunken, so I was really looking forward to reading itself-indulgent, lazy lout of a man is tolerated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909878537</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0BYF82CXT|title=The Lemon GroveSemi-Detached|author=Helen WalshDeborah Stone
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|summary=''The Lemon Grove'' is not the book I expected it to be. No better no worse, just not what I expected. Set Bill and Amanda are living in Mallorcaa semi-detached house, it is the tale of a summer stuck in the sunshine, but though they’ve holidayed at this villa for years, this summer is a bit different for Jenn depressing rut of boredom and Greg. There are lots of things in this book that are a bit quirkydisappointment, when Terry and the holiday set up is just one of them: the couple are joined by Greg’s daughter (Jen’s step-daughter) Fiona – glamorous, successful and her boyfriendvery much in love – move in next door. It’s not wildly unconventional in the real worldDespite their different outlooks on life, but for one reason or another it’s the sort of chaotic set up many authors wouldn’t bother couples befriend each other and life appears to createimprove for both pairs. And yet as you read this book you wonder why, because But all is not what it adds a dynamic that is definitely differentseems, and in a good waytheir increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472212088</amazonuk>''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Family LikenessShalini Boland|authortitle=Caitlin DaviesThe Silent Bride|rating=4.53
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|summary=On Alice and Seth are a summer’s day match made in 1950heaven. 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 smartly-dressed white woman brings her young mixed-race daughterwife; beautiful, Murielsuccessful, to confident… and so the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and the branch children’s home Hoodfield House, where she will leave her wedding is planned and never returnset. Muriel When the much-anticipated day arrives, Alice is physically well cared forwalked down the aisle by her father, but has persistent questions about her identity beaming with pride and place in excitement as she surveys the congregation – their friends assembled to celebrate this joyful day and when Seth turns to face his approaching bride, Alice's worldimplodes because she has absolutely no idea who the man at the altar is, who is waiting for her to become his wife.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099558688</amazonuk>1662507089
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1787636003|title=The Atheist's PrayerGirls of Summer|author=Amy R BiddleKatie Bishop|rating=3.5
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|summary=I don’t shy away from a book with a little edge, in fact [[:Category:Chuck Palahniuk|Chuck Palahniuk]] is one of my favourite authors It was the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and his books can be so sharp you can shave with themarrived on the island. On the surface ''The Atheist’s Prayer'Rachel wasn' t exactly innocent but she was, perhaps, naive, so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to take an interest in her, she was flattered rather than wary. would seem It was quite a while before he made any sort of physical approach to be courting controversy; why else have such a provocative title? But, is it really her and by that shocking? Nopetime she was obsessed by him. This is a story about how people deal with Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, looking after his interests on the modern world island and what happens when dangerous ideals infect a vulnerable groupin particular in the bar where all the girls either worked or partied.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780995822</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Forever GirlAmanda Craig|authortitle=Alexander McCall SmithThree Graces|rating=34.5
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|summary=I have loved Alexander McCall SmithFew styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of-the-nation novel. There's books since I first picked one up, and something so I have been waiting for utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the release atmosphere of thisthe day and capture it, a standalone novel, ever since I first heard about crafting an image of the country as itstands in one particular moment. It pains me, therefore, To say that IAmanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she'm unable to shout about how marvellous it is to you all or how you should rush out to buy it immediately because actuallys practically synonymous with the genre of contemporary social fiction at this point. She has such a gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the day into the lives of her characters in a way that feels natural and lived-in, never making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, I found it disappointinggrappling with issues far larger than themselves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0307908259</amazonuk>140871468X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=152915118X|title=Terms and ConditionsPineapple Street|author=Robert GlancyJenny Jackson
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=This ''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 slow bowl with a wicked curl! Stockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the tribe. The heroproblem's exacerbated when the clan matriarch, Franklyn wakes up in hospital; he discovers that he has had a car accidentTilda, but he can’t remember anythingasks Cord and Sasha if they'd like to move into the Pineapple Street property. Alice, Franklyn’s wife, Tilda and Chip have renovated and Oscardownsized to another property, his brothera street or so away, are full which they own. They won't need any of loving concern the furniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and his work colleagues are solicitousCord can move straight in. Nominally, they had a choice but Franklyn soon senses a lack of authenticity that wasn't the reality. Darley and Georgiana start to call Sasha 'the gold digger'. She's living in his ''their'' family members and starts to sniff round home. They use it so often that they abbreviate it to discover why'the GD'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408852209</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Gretel and the DarkEmily Critchley|authortitle=Eliza GranvilleOne Puzzling Afternoon
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|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Josef Breuer 84 year old Edie has never had lived in the same small town for almost her whole life, but now she is facing a case such move as this. For a doctor in fin-de-siecle Vienna, spurned by his ex-colleague Sigmund, her son wants to move to another house and bring Edie to live with some dark happenings in his marriage and his pastfamily, he gets as a patient a youngEdie is starting to lose her memory. However, damaged girlEdie is tormented by the memory of her childhood friend, found naked and battered outside an asylum. She claims she has never come from thereLucy, howeverwho went missing over 60 years ago, and the worry that there was a secret she is was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be the thing that reveals the truth of no father or mother besides a purposewhat happened all that time ago. She says After 'seeing' Lucy in the high street, just as she is a machinewas the last time she saw her, an automaton, a beautiful kind of golem, with the task she starts to find pockets of going memories coming back to Linz and killing a monster. She has an unusual number design at her wrist. This story alternates with that of another young girlAnd yet as she remembers the past, a very impetuous she is forgetting more and belligerent child, now that more in her favourite nanny-come-nurse-come-cook-come-storyteller has been drummed out, and living alone with her father, again a doctor, outside a zooday to day life. But a zoo that doesnWill she uncover the truth about Lucy't strictly hold animalss disappearance before her move, nor allows for their conservation…and before her memories are gone forever?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0241146453</amazonuk>1804181250
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|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|authorisbn=Anna Quindlen0008506337|title=Still Life With BreadcrumbsThe Garnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore|rating=4.5
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|summary=I The love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was going to say that Rebecca Winter ''is'' a wellall-known photographerconsuming, but that's not quite how Rebecca sees itapparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in love. She had major success with Richard was twenty-one and described by Margo's mother as 'Still Life With Breadcrumbsan older man'' and became a household name - almost a feminist icon - but the success has faded into the past. People who think about it guess Her parents worried that sheRichard's wellinfluence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve -offgoing to Oxford and having a glittering career. In the event, if not wealthy but they eloped and Richard took her away from the truth is differentIsle of Wight. When we meet Rebecca she's woken in the middle of the night by what sounds very like Margo did go to Oxford and went on to become a gunshot well- but she's not in her New York apartmentrespected journalist. She's a The couple of hours drive away in a rented cottagehad three children: Rachel, Imogen and Sasha. It's Life was lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, the family home on the finances, you seeIsle of Wight. If she lets her New York property and rents somewhere cheaper Even then the difference allows her to pay her motherdoubts about Richard's nursing home fees, a contribution to her fatherdrinking were never far from Margo's rent, some assistance mind: ''she would never be able to her son - and all the other obligations we accumulate as we get olderleave him in charge''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091954118</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1914585402|title=CairoDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=Chris WomersleyDavid F Ross
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Tom Button has had enough of small-town Australian life, and wants to grasp the nettle at the earliest opportunity and escape for more exotic places as soon as heI reviewed David F Ross's book [[There's Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's free Only One Danny Garvey]] a couple of school years back and he remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and a friend can afford affecting itwas. Until the friend kills that pipe-dream. Plan B for Tom soon becomes the life of It was a university student in Melbourne, with the chance to live in the apartment his aunt left behind when she died – at least it's in an exotically named development buildinggripping, called Cairo. But Plan C soon forms for Tomemotionally wounding read, when he falls in awkwardly with some bohemian neighbours – who still, despite being ten years older, have plans and rereading my review of their own for making their own way to a better life – just it my main takeaway was that I might not the way Tom ever suspected…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848663919</amazonuk>have lavished enough praise on it.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nicholas RoyleLucy Ashe|title=First NovelClara and Olivia
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Paul Kinder lectures in first novels at a Manchester university and, coincidentally, heThe year is 1933. The place? Sadler's also published a novelWells. YesBallerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, just twins no less. Identical on the one. When outside but not working he enjoys various pursuits, including sex in car parks when offered we learn, on the opportunity (i.einside. And not very often at all)on stage, either. (If the car park is on Because there's a lot that builds a flight pathdancer. Some things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, all attention to detail – and some things, that ''je ne sais quoi'', that don't come from the betterclassroom.) He personally doesnA stage presence, a charm, a 't see it as 'joie de vivre''. The difference between a problemhard-worker, although not all his life has been problem freeand a star. No, indeed it hasn't!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0224096982</amazonuk>0861544080
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=RespectHeather Fawcett|authortitle=Mandasue HellerEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries|rating=54|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Growing up Emily Wilde is difficult in an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life's work, the best very first encyclopaedia of circumstancesfaeries. The council estate where Chantelle has grown up in isn't decaying - it Whilst she is dead brilliant at research and rotten. It has become a holding place for those who are condemned speaking to a life of crimefaeries, at least she is not so good with people. So when they aren't serving time. It is she finds herself far, far North in the type small village of place that saps ambition and hope from its unlucky inhabitants. But Chantelle Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the village matriarch, she is determined not sure what she has done, nor how to break out. She has avoided all the pitfalls waiting redeem herself and put her final investigations for children in her situationbook back on the right track. Enter Wendell Bambleby, avoiding drugsher dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, alcoholall charm and delight, crime and dead end relationshipsmuch 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>1444769472</amazonuk>0356519120
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1398515388|title=Buddhaland BrooklynThe Boy and the Dog|author=Richard C MoraisSeishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Seido Oda has lived First of all of his life in the shadow of the Head Temple of the Clearwater Sect of Mahayana Buddhism. His family home , it was an inn which catered to the pilgrims who flocked to the templeearthquake, and his mother a devout member of deep in the sect. He seemed marked for the priesthood from an early ageocean floor, and at age 11 was handed over to the guardianship of which created the priests to begin his apprenticeship. Seido's young life is blighted by tragedy, tsunami and a promise he could not keepthis, and although a devout follower of the Buddhain turn, he seemed unable to achieve true peace, even in caused the beautiful tranquil surroundings of Mount Nagatanuclear meltdown. He The result was unable to relate to other humans complete and sought solace in poetry, artutter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, 'the prayers' of the river and the beauty loss of his rural homelivelihoods was widespread. At age 42, he has spent almost all The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of his life in or near priorities but - six months after the temple, and expects to spend the remainder of it there when tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a very unwelcome appointment to America is offered to himconvenience store. Seido accepts with He wasn't a heavy heart, dog person but only on the agreement convenience store owner's comment that it must be temporaryhe would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and Tamon the dog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846883105</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Night GuestChristopher Bowden|authortitle=Fiona McFarlaneMr Magenta|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=WidowChristopher Bowden's latest novel is a patient untangling of a seemingly ordinary woman's life, 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 carried out by her cats for companynephew after she has died. Oh, The aunt who always provided a safe harbour and possibly a tiger who prowls the house at night. When Frida turns up unannounced claiming little bit of indulgence to have been sent by the government to care for her things get a young nephew had had a much more interesting life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised 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 matterseems to him an obligation to find it all out. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444776673</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kevin MaherJennifer Mason|title=The FieldsPartitions of Unity|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Jim Finnegan is embarking on his teens in 1980s Dublin but that's not all he's embarking on. A lad from an average Catholic family in many waysHere at Bookbag Towers, he has five sisterswe first met Elizabeth Cromwell, a mother who believes the supreme threat is a telling off from the parish priest dominatrix and his father is understandably tired all the time. Between school unintentional detective in [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], when she investigated and the cacophony unravelled a series of his motherdisappearances. In ''s coffee mornings Jim learns a lot but nothing as useful as what happens when you become very friendly with a pair Partitions of pillows or what Unity'', she sets her mind to do with the girls he and his mates ogle from afarsolving a murder.. Then suddenly a lot of things change almost simultaneously and life doesn't seem so average any more.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349138672</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF
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{{Frontpage
|author=Will Carver
|title=The Daves Next Door
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= Five strangers come together in one moment as a suicide bomber prepares to detonate his vest on a London tube line. As their fates overlap, the story is told in backwards order, leading up to the fateful moment.
|isbn= 1914585186
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{{Frontpage
|author=Jennifer Mason
|title=Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=''A struggling poetry zine, a mom-and-pop mobile diner in the Northern California redwoods, a 400-meter hurdler who just missed the 2004 Olympics, a women's track coach with a yen for bullwhips, a billionaire with a state-of-the-art S&M dungeon, a man serving a life sentence in Alabama, an enigmatic signature, K(s, x), on a cheap oil painting, an erotic art dealer in Georgia...''
This is just a sample of the cast of characters and settings in Preposterous. As you can see, some keeping up will be required! The basic premise of this mystery story goes like this...|isbn=B09STS96HS}}{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0B2N7MVYM|title=The BoatCalculations of Rational Men|author=Clara SalamanDaniel Godfrey|rating=45
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=This is a book that starts at It's the end, which saddened me a little10th of December 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marr. Sometimes it’s hard Just to get lost put what happens in context, the mystery of Cuban missile crisis is still very fresh in people's minds. The world has barely had a story when you know how it endschance to breathe out. But a mystery this story is. Johnny and Clem are Brits abroadfor Joe Marr, traveling through Europe, sticking to it's not the coast where missile crisis that's at the boats arefront of his mind. Johnny’s into all things nautical and as boat people, we understood this He's been convicted of murder. The title is With the first thing that caught my eye on this bookcurrent state of medical knowledge, and the reason I picked it up. And it’s no lie: 's hard to think otherwise than that the vast majority of this book is set not just on boats generallyprosecution would never have been brought but Joe Marr has spent his first few days in HMP Queen's Bench, but on one specific boata relatively new prison. He''The Boat''. It belongs s just getting used to another expat couple, Frank and Anniehis roommate, whose life is a series of ports and harboursMervyn, and they come learning to Johnny and Clem’s aid when they need it mostbe wary of the McArthur brothers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781855846</amazonuk>
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