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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dinaw Mengestu Onyi Nwabineli|title=All Our DaysAllow Me to Introduce Myself
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|summary=Isaac is a refugee from Ethiopia who finds a home in Uganda. At Anuri spent her childhood on display to the university heworld, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's taken under the wing increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of a political activist also called IsaacAnuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. The 1970s Now Anuri is a dangerous time to be in Uganda as their world her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the content about to explodeher. Years later Isaac the Ethiopian finds himself in America Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and lives under the care of social worker Helenreceiving money from them for doing so. Slowly they form a less than professional relationship and Helen realises that what Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little she knows sister, who is the new focus of him may not be the truthOphelia's online empire. Gradually his past is revealed as Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the guilt he carries comes to the surface.same time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444793772</amazonuk>0861546873
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emma Healey1529153298|title=Elizabeth is MissingThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Maud It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is a little forgetful as the rows of cooling cups of tea will attestPrime Minister. She also has a cupboard full of peaches for some reason but not to worry(A woman? I mean, honestly... ) She has a 's not what's worrying Miv's family who love her and rally round, a home help and her great friend Elizabeththough. Women have been disappearing. Come to think of itWell, they've been murdered, Elizabeth seems but to be missing and the notes have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that Maud writes herself each day keep reminding her of thisfather wants to move the family 'Down South'. The problem When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is that no one will listen to a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving herbest friend, let alone believe herSharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. It also reminds Maud of something else; another disappearance a long, long time agoShe's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241003504</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1035906708|title=Rilla of InglesideDiva|author=L M MontgomeryDaisy Goodwin
|rating=4.5
|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=Rilla We tend to think of Ingleside is an interesting novel for many reasons. Being the only fictional book written by a Canadian woman just after the warMaria Callas as Greek, about the war, it is an incredibly important work. It tells of what happened but she was born to the women who stayed at homeGreek parents in Manhattan, the limited aspects of war work that they were able to do, the endless fear and dread they felt for their loved ones far away, and all of the emotional highs and lows they experienced during such a heightened time. The novel begins as Europe is on the brink of warNew York, in December 1923 and Rilla is only 15 years old and, still, a rather silly young girlmoved to Athens when she was thirteen. I have Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to say, I never much cared for Rilla. In 'Callas'Rainbow Valley' to make it more manageable in the book States. When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that precedes this one, she's just could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a spoilt baby mother who mercilessly exploited her and at the start made no secret of this story it seems that nothing much has changed. However, just as the world goes through a dramatic change during this period of timeher preference for her elder sister, Rilla herself grows from a child to a womanJackie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>034900451X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Travelling SprinklerAlexander McCall Smith|authortitle=Nicholson BakerThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5
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|summary=Meet Nicholson Baker. Now, I know I normally introduce The Perfect Passion Company is a book with such a phrasedating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and every time before now I've used operating as an alternative to all the name of the main characteronline apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. But I feel such is Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the nature of Baker's books that he business, as Ness is the greatest character therein, and the one most important for the potential reader planning to take a trip to understand, however close he may or may not be Canada to his fictional creationsget away for a while. Baker Katie is coming out of a break up with a very stylised authorbad boyfriend, intricately bound up in providing amusing evidence of and so jumps at the value of all the small things in our worldchance to come home to Edinburgh. If anybody can rustle up thousands of words about those baby nubbins that are left when you split a sheet of paper across a ready-made perforation – you know And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the tiny scads that are left dangling outwards – it's BakerIsabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. His early books practically were Katie has no experience in running a day spent business, or in realmatch-timemaking, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and by rights you'd think this book should not exist – surely hethere's covered the world already. But no – here is lovealways her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, poetryWilliam, drone warfare, Debussy, and a view of dance music production as seen from the prospect of to lend a 55-year old American male.hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781252785</amazonuk>1846976596
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Someday We'll Tell Each Other EverythingDean Koontz|authortitle=Daniela KrienThe Bad Weather Friend
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|genre=General FictionParanormal|summary=Eastern GermanyBenny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and the country someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is in the limbo-land of time thing that lay between has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the end of the Communist state of the DDR and reunificationvery last person to deserve all this bad luck. Teenager Maria He is also in a limbo-land of nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a kind herselfnew friend, living on a farm with the Brendels familybad weather friend called Spike, but not one of themwho has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. The matriarch still speaks Spike is going to her in the third person for one, and while she does some take care of the house- and farm-workBenny, and is in a relationship with the wannabe photographer son will certainly take care of the family, she knows sheBenny's not quite settled within those walls. Especiallyenemies, if he, as she is to learnBenny, when there is and Harper (a neighbour waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can stir passionate emotions inside her…figure out who exactly they are.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782062416</amazonuk>1662500491
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=To Rise Again At A Decent HourKatherine Howe|authortitle=Joshua FerrisA True Account|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=An identity thief Hannah Masury is wreaking havoc living in Boston, having been sent to live with a family who run an inn, and being made to work there from a young age. When she hears there is to be a hanging of some pirates in the town, she decides to go and watch. Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death at the oddest hands of ways two vicious pirates. She hides away, so that they don't find and forcing kill her too, and then to escape them completely she runs away to sea, dressing as a boy and joining the notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a dentist to confront his online presencecabin boy. This She soon finds herself in the thick of things when there is a book like no other you’ll knowmutiny on board, and from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0670917737</amazonuk>0861547438
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tom Rachman1471180158|title=The Rise and Fall of Great Powers Maybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Tooly (Matilda) ZylberbergJamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, runs for a man who's a small independent book shop in Caergenogcontrol freak with all the subtlety of a half brick. Jamie's son, Bo, close enough to Hay on Wye to attract literary festival overflow'has his problems'. She loves He's asthmatic and understands literature which is the more than can be said about her understanding of her parents. In fact Tooly doesnyou read, the more you'll suspect that he't even know who her parents ares on the autistic spectrum. She had a weird childhood being taken from one city or country Sometimes Jamie needs to another by Paul but take time off at short notice - she never got to ask why or even who he was. The sum of her knowledge was that he worked 's a frequent flier in IT the local A&E and seemed sometimes Bo's not fit enough to take care of her… or rather she took care of himgo to school. So one day she leaves her able assistant Fogg Missed shifts or the need to be away on time to keep pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the shop wrong. It was going and retraces her life, hopefully finding the answers to the questions she never got around come to askinga head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444752340</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tim GlencrossB0CKD1L5JL|title=BarbariansRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn|rating=3.54
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=It's 2008 and things are on Petr is an orphan. Rescued by the up for the Howe family. Sherard Howestrange, patriarchreclusive Bear, art lover and lefty-wing publisher he is relishing the power that comes brought up far from being well-connected. Wife Daphne is about to publish her second book. Her firstbustling cities and busy human society, a feminist tome from in the 1960s, is still remembered; something that she wonforests of Washington't be grateful fors Olympic Peninsula. Their son Henry is about to get After Bear dies and a well-paid tutoring job brief sojourn in human company, and Afuaarmed with only a pirate radio transmitter, their informally adopted black African daughter has political ambitions. However not everyone dreams of lofty heights. Henry and Afua's poet friend Buzzy just wants to bed Afua's bloke Marcel. They'd all best enjoy their plans and achievements while they can: the nation's Petr goes on a journey through the cusp of change and soforest, it seemsbroadcasting the strange, are their fortuneswild and rarely heard voices he encounters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444788523</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Teach HerSarah Marsh|authortitle=Mark KottingA Sign of Her Own
|rating=3.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=This is After a bout of scarlet fever as a very strange bookchild, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Jim January would not typically warrant his own book Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, one everything about her life changes. Living in which he is a time when the staruse of sign language was seen as something only savages do, if not the hero. He’s a bit too bland and boring for that. He Ellen is sent to a barber. And that is all he school where she istaught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. He From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has unfulfilled dreams of traveling been teaching the world. And his wife’s about to leave him. Throw in a disgruntled soldier and a troubled former pupil deaf and you have using a lot of anger and regret bubbling around togethersystem called Visible Speech. And At the same time, when those things combineBell is working on other inventions and ideas, it’s only and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a matter complicated tangle of time before things end in handcuffs and imprisonmentespionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>190987857X</amazonuk>1035401614
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=B0BC3YTCMR
|title=Good Girls Die
|author=Ayura Ayira
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=''This story is not for everyone.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1472263936|title=The Headmaster's WifeFigurine|author=Thomas Christopher GreeneVictoria Hislop
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Arthur Winthrop leads a prestigious Vermont boarding school (sufficiently posh for him It was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to be a headmasterGreece. She was alone: her mother, Greek by birth, not a principal). Like his father before himhad left the family home and refused to return, but Mary and his father’s father before Hamish (Helena's parents) felt that, it is what was always expected of himwould be a pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. The right thing Her trip to do. What is not the right thing to do, however, is to family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be caught wandering, naked, through Central Park in the middle first of winterseveral annual visits. Under questioning from She grew to love her grandmother and the policefamily's maid, Arthur is keen to talk. Not about this episodeDina, perhapsbut was wary - and frightened - of her grandfather, but about other things on his mindretired general Stamatis Papagiannis. Like He was proud of his interaction with a young student that has crossed close connections to the boundaries of an acceptable student-teacher relationship. It’s as if the flood gates have been opened Junta and there’s expected his family to uphold his values but saw no way reason to shut accommodate them now before everything has come gushing out.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782391711</amazonuk> His prejudices included Helena's red hair and green eyes - inherited from her father's Scottish ancestors.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nicole Mary KelbyDean Koontz|title=The Pink SuitAfter Death|rating=3|genre=General Fiction|summary= Michael Mace, Head of Security, at a top secret biological research facility, is among 55 people who die when a virus is released in a bio-hazard accident. Finding himself in a makeshift mortuary, covered in plastic, he has a sense that something very, very bad has happened to him – and only him – as he sits up and looks around at the shrouded bodies of his dead friends and former colleagues. As he recovers his senses, he realises that there is something different about him; he can ''feel'' everything.5 ''Everything''. Michael isn't ''Michael'' anymore.|isbn=1662500467}} {{Frontpage|isbn=B0BVDC2VWH|title=The Grave Listeners|author=William Frank|rating=4
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|summary=In November 1963 The village is isolated and poor. It's surrounded by a Witching Forest. And the world was shocked villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicines. The black wood of the assassination of President John F Kennedyforest provides heat and warmth, roofs on homes, and even gallows, but the picture which brought home to us the horror of what had happened was not if needed. The fear of JFK but of his wife being buried alive is an existential superstition in the iconic pink suitvillage and that is the reason Volushka, soaked with her husband's blood. 'Let them see what they have done'a drunken, she said. I've always assumed that the suit was new for the occasion self- but it had a back story too and it's told in ''The Pink Suit''indulgent, lazy lout of a work of historical fiction based on factsman is tolerated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1844089738</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anthony MarraB0BYF82CXT|title=A Constellation of Vital PhenomenaSemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone|rating=54
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|summary=Chechnya 2004: Akhmed stands watching while the Russian 'Ministry' break into his friend Dokaa's Bill and Amanda are living in a semi-detached house, drag Dokaa away stuck in a depressing rut of boredom and set light to the remaining house. Shockeddisappointment, when Terry and Fiona – glamorous, Akhmed dashes over to rescue Dokaa's treasure: his 8 year old daughter Havaasuccessful and very much in love – move in next door. Realising he has to take her to safetyDespite their different outlooks on life, Akhmed moves the child couples befriend each other and life appears to the local hospital (or rather the shell that used to accommodate improve for both pairs. But all is not what it). Thereseems, alongside a less-than-skeleton staff with no equipment, Akhmed tries to do what he can and their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for both his new charge and his countrymen knowing that he will not be the only person affected by his decision to caretragedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099575574</amazonuk>''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=GlowShalini Boland|authortitle=Ned BeaumanThe Silent Bride|rating=3.5
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|summary=Ned Beauman has Alice and Seth are a match made quite a name for himself in just a few short yearsheaven. In 2013 He is everything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, when ''Granta'' lauded him as one of their Best Young British Novelistsclever, funny; total and utter husband-material. She is all he had already published two novelscould possibly want in a wife; beautiful, [[Boxersuccessful, Beetle confident… and so the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Ned Beauman|BoxerAlice and the wedding is planned and set. When the much-anticipated day arrives, Beetle]] (shortlisted for Alice is walked down the Guardian First Book Award aisle by her father, beaming with pride and excitement as she surveys the Desmond Elliott Prize) in 2010 congregation – their friends assembled to celebrate this joyful day and [[The Teleportation Accident by Ned Beauman|The Teleportation Accident]] (longlisted when Seth turns to face his approaching bride, Alice's world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the man at the altar is, who is waiting for the Man Booker Prize) in 2012her to become his wife.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444765515</amazonuk>1662507089
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1787636003|title=Bhalla StrandThe Girls of Summer|author=Sarah MaineKatie Bishop
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=1910: A renowned artist brings his young bride to his childhood home of Bhalla House, an imposing estate It was the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on a remote Hebridean the island. The grand residence Rachel wasn't exactly innocent but she was built at the expense of the local community, many perhaps, naive, so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to take an interest in her, she was flattered rather than wary. It was quite a while before he made any sort of whom were evicted from their homes physical approach to her and crofts in order to create this rich man’s playgroundby that time she was obsessed by him. Tensions run deep Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, looking after his interests on the island and in particular in the division between rich and poor seems impossible to bridgebar where all the girls either worked or partied.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908754427</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Girl Who Was Saturday NightAmanda Craig|authortitle=Heather O’NeillThree Graces|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=The time: Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the 1995; state-of-the place: Quebec-nation novel. The Tremblay family have espoused There's something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the cause atmosphere of Quebeçois separation from English-speaking Canada for many years. Etienne Tremblay has been a prominent, political folk singer throughout the childhood of Nouschka, his daughter, day and her identical twin brothercapture it, Nicolas. The young children themselves appeared on stage frequently and have been brought up much crafting an image of the country as it stands in the public eyeone particular moment. Their father To say that Amanda Craig is almost always absent from their life as he feeds his selfishness on public adorationskilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's practically synonymous with the genre of contemporary social fiction at this point. Their mother only existed She has such a gift for them as weaving the ongoing issues of the day into the lives of her characters in a name way that feels natural and lived-in a hit song about a one night stand. They were cared , never making them ciphers for by Loulousocial commentary but instead fully realised people, a loving grandfather lacking any influence over their behaviourgrappling with issues far larger than themselves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849163324</amazonuk>140871468X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=J Paul Henderson152915118X|title=Last Bus to CoffeevillePineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson|rating=34.5
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|summary=Dr Eugene Chaney III promised Nancy one thing; a promise he hoped he'd never have 'Pineapple Street'' is the story of three women: Sasha, Darley and Georgiana. Darley and George are sisters and Sasha is married to delivertheir brother Cord. HoweverThey're Stocktons, in only Sasha isn't a Stockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the tribe. The problem's exacerbated when the midst of their elderly years Nancy confirms that clan matriarch, Tilda, asks Cord and Sasha if they'd like to move into the time has comePineapple Street property. So Eugene gathers together an unlikely fellowship Tilda and Chip have renovated and a bus that used downsized to belong to Paul McCartney and plans another property, a journey to Coffeevillestreet or so away, making it as much which they own. They won't need any of a holiday as possiblethe furniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and Cord can move straight in. Just one thing though: before they set outNominally, they must spring Nancy had a choice but that wasn't the reality. Darley and Georgiana start to call Sasha 'the gold digger'. She's living in ''their'' family home. They use it so often that may not be as easy as it sounds… even if they abbreviate it to 'the GD'did'' sound easy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843443341</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The QuickeningEmily Critchley|authortitle=Julie MyersonOne Puzzling Afternoon
|rating=4
|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Rachel and Dan are on holiday 84 year old Edie has lived in the Caribbeansame small town for almost her whole life, but soon after they arrive on the island of Antigua odd now she is facing a move as her son wants to move to another house and disturbing things start bring Edie to happenlive with his family, as Edie is starting to lose her memory. Items seemingly move However, Edie is tormented by themselves. Things break. People appear out the memory of nowhere. And thenher childhood friend, Lucy, who went missing over 60 years ago, and the attacks start. Rachel is petrified. Newly pregnant worry that there was a secret she is worrying was keeping for her baby’s safety as well Lucy that somehow might be the thing that reveals the truth of what happened all that time ago. After 'seeing' Lucy in the high street, just as she was the last time she saw her own, and she has a nagging feeling in starts to find pockets of memories coming back to her stomach that the one person . And yet as she should be able to trust is remembers the one past, she simply cannot. Dan is acting strangely forgetting more and though more in her day to day life. Will she begs him to let them go home early, he plays down uncover the truth about Lucy's disappearance before her fears. Why won’t he believe what she’s sayingmove, and take before her seriouslymemories are gone forever?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099580241</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|authorisbn=Tom Winter0008506337|title=Arms Wide OpenThe Garnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore|rating=4.5
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|summary=Meredith loves her husband Alistair (the father of her teenage twins Jemima The love affair between Margo Garnett and Luke). This is a bit of a problem though as Alistair now has Charlottepoet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, a new and younger modelapparently on both sides. With his new coupling Margo was just sixteen when they fell in mind, Alistair decides to take the twins on holiday so they and Charlotte can bondlove. Surprisingly Meredith agrees wholeheartedly; sheRichard was twenty-one and described by Margo's sure that a week with the twins would break any fledgling relationship upmother as 'an older man'. Meanwhile MeredithHer parents worried that Richard's own twin brother, Jack, is 'taking a break influence would take her away from work' which is fine but you'd think he what they felt she could at least take a turn visiting his dementiaachieve -bound mother… or at least Meredith would think that going to Oxford and regularly doeshaving a glittering career. Jack isn't as responsible as she isIn the event, in fact he isn't as they eloped and Richard took her away from the Isle of Wight. Margo did go to Oxford and went on to become a lot of things as she is but Meredith knows it will all turn out ok well-respected journalist. The couple had three children: Rachel, Imogen and Sasha. Life was lived in the end, London andholidays were spent at Sandcove, after the incident with family home on the dead bird in Isle of Wight. Even then the bleach, doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she may just would never be rightable to leave him in charge''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472101685</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1914585402|title=The One I WasDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=Eliza GrahamDavid F Ross
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=In 1939, before the outbreak I reviewed David F Ross's book [[There's Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's Only One Danny Garvey]] a couple of the Second World War, a boy arrived at Harwich docksyears back and remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and affecting it was. He It was a Kindertransport refugee fleeing the anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany. Benjamin Goldman would change his name to Benny Gault when his idea that the war wouldn't happen and he could go home to Germany came to nothinggripping, emotionally wounding read, but in the meantime he was adopted by Lord and Lady Dorner. Six boys were to live at their country home - Fairfleet - and be educated by a private tutor. On the face rereading my review of it Benny's luck could my main takeaway was that I might not have worked out better, but he was hiding a secretlavished enough praise on it. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910229016</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Who is Tom Ditto?Lucy Ashe|authortitle=Danny WallaceClara and Olivia|rating=4.5
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|summary=Danny Wallace The year is the foremost exponent of ‘Bet Based Non-Fiction’ that I know1933. The place? Sadler's Wells. This is when a bloke says something daft in the pub Ballerinas Clara and follows through; Wallace has started his own cultOlivia are sisters, his own nation and said Yes to absolutely everythingtwins no less. HoweverIdentical on the outside but not, some things are fine as a quirky adventure in we learn, on the real worldinside. And not on stage, but following people around London and copying their every move? That sounds either. Because there's a lot that builds a little like stalking dancer. Some things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, attention to me detail – and should perhaps be best explored in some things, that ''je ne sais quoi'', that don't come from the world of fictionclassroom. A stage presence, a charm, a ''joie de vivre''. In The difference between a hard-worker, and a world like Danny Wallace’s new novel ‘Who Is Tom Ditto?’star.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091919037</amazonuk>0861544080
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Heather Fawcett|title=Look WhoEmily Wilde's Back|author=Timur VermesEncyclopaedia of Faeries|rating=54
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|summary=Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life''Hitler Youth Ronaldo! Which way to s work, the street?'' With these words a very misguided Nazi Fuhrer asks for his first directions in the Berlin encyclopaedia of 2011faeries. Mistakenly believing the lad Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to be a party junior member with his own name on his football shirtfaeries, he also thinks for a while it she is still 1945not so good with people. He's soon informed of the truthSo when she finds herself far, but still makes some unfortunate conclusions – that far North in the street kiosks selling Turkish language newspapers are a sign small village of a Soviet-beating alliance between Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the two countriesvillage matriarch, that people eat granola bars because the war still leads she is not sure what she has done, nor how to a bread shortage, redeem herself and that people making an ironic speech bubble with their fingers in the air is all that is left of put her final investigations for her book back on the Hitler saluteright track. But yesEnter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, after a long hiatus neither he nor our author is particularly concerned with explainingall charm and delight, much to Emily''that man'' s frustration. But why is back – and if he has his way here? What does he's want? And what exactly is going to be just as popular this time round…on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857052926</amazonuk>0356519120
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1398515388|title=Something Like HappyThe Boy and the Dog|author=John BurnsideSeishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)
|rating=4.5
|genre=Short StoriesGeneral Fiction|summary=How do you pick a name for a short story collection? It seems to me First of all, it was the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and this, in turn, caused the ''nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and utter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, and the loss of livelihoods was widespread.and other stories'' add The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of priorities but - six months after the tsunami -on is like picking Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a favourite child, dog outside a promotion of one portion of the content above the restconvenience store. [[:Category:John Burnside|John Burnside]] has got He wasn't a title story here, dog person but such is the mood of the book convenience store owner's comment that he seems would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to have nailed the matter, open his car door and picked Tamon the most apposite name. ''Something Like Happy'' could dog jumped in a way be the title for practically every piece here.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099575590</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Brief Loves That Live ForeverChristopher Bowden|authortitle=Andrei MakineMr Magenta|rating=4.5|genre=Short StoriesGeneral Fiction|summary=Our unnamed narrator Christopher Bowden's latest novel is inspired to think back through his a patient untangling of a seemingly ordinary woman's life on the girls and women he , carried out by her nephew after she has been in love with, partly because of died. The aunt who always provided a time spent with an associate – safe harbour and a time marked by a seemingly most unremarkable encounter with little bit of indulgence to a further woman – whom he deemed young nephew had never been loved. The associate, you see, had spent half his adult a much more interesting life in Soviet camps for political instruction – our narrator himself was than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and it seems to him an orphan in the 1960s' Soviet Unionobligation to find it all out. This snappy volume takes us through episodes in several lives at different points during and since the second half of communist rule – and finally explains the import of that unremarkable encounter…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780870493</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=A Single BreathJennifer Mason|authortitle=Lucy ClarkePartitions of Unity|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Eva is blissfully content with life. She has a fulfilling career Here at Bookbag Towers, we first met Elizabeth Cromwell, dominatrix and unintentional detective in her job as a midwife [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], when she investigated and unravelled a happy marriage to the man series of her dreams who clearly adores herdisappearances. Her contented existence is thrown into complete turmoil when, early one morningIn ''Partitions of Unity'', she sets her beloved husband Jackson is swept out mind to sea whilst fishing on the Dorset coastsolving a murder.. It seems that in one fell swoop, all of her hopes and dreams have been washed away into the cold, white water.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007481365</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|authorisbn=Rebecca HuntB0B2N7MVYM|title=EverlandThe Calculations of Rational Men|author=Daniel Godfrey
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=There have been two expeditions to It's the Antarctic island 10th of Everland a century apartDecember 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marr. The ill-fated 1913 trip of DinnersJust to put what happens in context, Napps and Millet-Bass the Cuban missile crisis is primitive by todaystill very fresh in people's standardsminds. The 2012 expedition is better equippedworld has barely had a chance to breathe out. But for Joe Marr, better prepared and arrives it's not the missile crisis that's at a better time the front of his mind. He's been convicted of year so all bodes well for Decker, Brix and Jessmurder. But despite With the current state of medical knowledge, it's hard to think otherwise than that the differences both expeditions prosecution would never have things been brought but Joe Marr has spent his first few days in commonHMP Queen's Bench, a relatively new prison. Both groups carry secretsHe's just getting used to his roommate, Mervyn, some become obvious but others ''remain behind waiting and learning to become discovered''be wary of the McArthur brothers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905490658</amazonuk>
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