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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=HerOnyi Nwabineli|authortitle=Harriet LaneAllow Me to Introduce Myself
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|summary=Emma is a harassed young mother Anuri spent her childhood on display to a toddler with another baby on the way. Used world, thanks to being a successful professionalher 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 finding it difficult in her twenties and she is slowly trying to cope with everything on a daily basis. Thereforeregain her confidence and to get her life back, it hardly surprises suing her step-mother to receive a call from a stranger telling her that she has found take down the content about her wallet which Emma did not even realise that she had lost. Nina calls round with the offending wallet and Emma Anuri is immediately drawn battling alcoholism, failing to this composedstart her PhD, organised, successful woman whose life seems to epitomise everything that Emma wishes undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them fordoing so. However Most importantly, as their friendship blossomsshe is desperately worried about her little sister, it becomes apparent to who is the reader, although not to Emma, that things are not what they seemnew focus of Ophelia's online empire. Apparently when Nina first set eyes on Emma, Can she recognised save her as a face from the pastsister, and an unwelcome one perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at that. We soon discover that Nina has an ulterior motive for befriending Emma as she sets out to seek revenge for something that Emma did many years ago.the same time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0297865056</amazonuk>0861546873
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fredrik Backman1529153298|title=A Man Called Ove|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Ove (pronounced 'Oo-veh') is a man The List of principle who tries to do the right thing, ensure the no parking area remains so, is a good Swedish citizen and tries to be civil to his neighbours (even the foreign ones). However he comes over as a total grump. He was even ousted from his position as Chairman of the Residents Association by a vicious coup. Indeed, he's the sort of person who, when life gives him lemons, finds that they're rotting in the middle. There's so much more to his story than that though; a story that started a long time ago.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444775790</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=LandlineSuspicious Things|author=Rainbow RowellJennie Godfrey
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|summary=Georgie McCool has always known what sheIt's wanted 1979 and pursued it until she has itMargaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly... ) She got her dream job writing comedy'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 about overheard that her father wants to get move the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her own showbest friend, Sharon, and she got her dream guy, Neal'll do anything to prevent that. Only, she She's not so sure she has him anymoreworried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409154912</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fiona Sussman1035906708|title=Shifting ColoursDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5
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|summary=Celia works We tend to think of Maria Callas as a maid for the Steiners Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in South Africa; a safe job Manhattan, New York, in a white household for a 'black' December 1923 and only moved to have at a time Athens when the country lurches from suspicion to brutality and back againshe was thirteen. At least Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas'was'' a safe job. The Steiners have decided to move to England and, after difficulty make it more manageable in having their own children, want to adopt Miriam, Celia's youngest childthe States. For When she was back in Athens - supposedly so many reasons Celia can't refuse. Rita Steiner promises Miriam an exciting adventure and that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she promises Celia regular contact. When was raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and daughter are miles apartmade no secret of her preference for her elder sister, they both come to realise the same thing: sometimes promises are only as good as the people making them and that goes for promised lands tooJackie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749016418</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=TouchedAlexander McCall Smith|authortitle=Joanna BriscoeThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=34.5
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|summary=Rowena Crale The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her family have moved younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new homestory from Alexander McCall Smith, having uprooted bringing us to an ill Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and unwilling mother in law the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to take possession of itcharm. There are five children Katie has no experience in running a business, or in the family...match-making, but six if you count young Eva’s imaginary friend. Eva is the family outcast; dressed Ness has full confidence in her grandmother’s clothes abilities, and preparing to attend a different school to there's always her siblingsvery helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, she is often away from her familyWilliam, who seem to care little for her or her whereabouts.lend a hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099590824</amazonuk>1846976596
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Roopa FarookiDean Koontz|title=The Good ChildrenBad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionParanormal|summary=The Saddeq family are an example of success for their friends Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and neighbours in Lahorehis house gets trashed. Mr Saddeq is Oh, and someone has delivered a doctor with really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his own practicehome, sons Sully and Jakie are studying medicine in it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the US and UK respectively and daughters Mae and Lana have made good marriage matchesvery last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. However So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the four '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' children would view their success differentlyperson. Each reacts differently Spike is going to the futures that their caring father take care of Benny, and calculating mother have mapped out for them and plough their own furrows as far as theywill certainly take care of Benny're permitted but the gravitational pull of home remains a constant through their lives and alsos enemies, if he, to some extentBenny, for the generation that followsand Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755383427</amazonuk>1662500491
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Remember Me Like ThisKatherine Howe|authortitle=Bret Anthony JohnstonA True Account|rating=4.5
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|summary=Four years agoHannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to live with a family lost their brotherwho run an inn, their older son, their grandchildand being made to work there from a young age. One day he was When she hears thereis to be a hanging of some pirates in the town, she decides to go and the next he was gonewatch. Missing. Presumed kidnapped or perhaps worse. Their lives have moved on Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, but their hearts haven’tHannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death at the hands of two vicious pirates. Walls have gone up around them She hides away, thoughso that they don't find and kill her too, and then to escape them completely she runs away to protect from the painsea, dressing as a boy and joining the crank calls, notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. She soon finds herself in the false leads. So thick of things when news comes that Justin Campbell has been spottedthere is a mutiny on board, alive and, seemingly, well, it’s quite a lot to take from there we are caught up inher rip roaring tale of life on the ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444788051</amazonuk>0861547438
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Roland Watson-Grant1471180158|title=SkidMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes
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|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Things have changed Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's a control freak with all the Beaumont household since they lived in the Louisiana swamplandsubtlety of a half brick. Skid (or Terence when heJamie's bad)son, Bo, 'has his mother Valerie and brother Frico have moved to an apartment in the cityproblems'. The two older brothers have left home He's asthmatic and the ladsmore you read, the more you' father is still missing, presumed dead, after ll suspect that he disappeared beneath 's on the alligator-filled water back homeautistic spectrum. The city is Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's a weird place for our hero as he becomes 16. Itfrequent flier in the local A&E and sometimes Bo's just as dangerous as the swamp ever was as gangs that roam the streets seeking outsiders like Skidnot fit enough to go to school. Skid is realising that girls Missed shifts or the need to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be a problem too, although neighbourly Claire may be a bit differentcontrolled and put in the wrong. She worries about him though; it seems that Skid isn't so much a name as It was going to come to a cursehead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846883199</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0CKD1L5JL|title=Sugar HallRadio Free Olympia|author=Tiffany MurrayJeffrey Dunn
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|summary=Sugar Hall Petr is a place of transitions. It has recently gained new residents – Lilia Sugar, and her children Saskia and Dieteran orphan. It has lost several portions of Rescued by the estatestrange, however – several valuable trinketsreclusive Bear, the billiard table – as Lilia has to sell things to keep the family from poverty. But apart he is brought up far from things arriving bustling cities and things goingbusy human society, there are things moving – possibly in the objects left, possibly the butterfly patterns on the wallpapersforests of Washington's Olympic Peninsula. And there are things appearing – such as After Bear dies and a lot of actual, living insectsbrief sojourn in human company, and the naked boy who sometimes appears armed with only as a disembodied head to pirate radio transmitter, Petr goes on a journey through the forest, broadcasting the young exploring Dieter…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781721432</amazonuk>strange, wild and rarely heard voices he encounters.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Carys BraySarah Marsh|title=A Song for Issy BradleySign of Her Own|rating=43.5
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|summary=The Bradley family are constantly busy After a bout of scarlet fever as you might expect when there are four children but their most testing time comes on seven-year-old Jacob's birthdaya child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. His elder sisterSuddenly plunged into a world of silence, Zippy and elder brother Alma have other things going on in their lives but his little sister isn't feeling welleverything about her life changes. Four-year-old Issy has retreated Living in a time when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to bed and a school where she's rather hoping that her mother will come and make her betteris taught to lip read, but Claire is trying to cope with Jacob's birthday party physically restrained from signing. From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and it's quite using a while before system called Visible Speech. At the family realise that Issy same time, Bell is very ill. She has meningitis working on other inventions and ideas, and that night she dies Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in hospitala complicated tangle of espionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091954371</amazonuk>1035401614
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dinaw Mengestu B0BC3YTCMR|title=All Our DaysGood Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Isaac ''This story is not for everyone.'' Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of her fifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. She was a refugee very bright student, a bit too nerdy if truth be told, and suffered from Ethiopia who finds a home vitiligo - people were afraid to hug her in Ugandacase it's contagious. At the university heIt's taken under the wing of not easy being a political activist also called Isaacblack girl whose skin is 84% white. The 1970s is She had a dangerous time to be in Uganda as their world is about to explodecrush on seventeen-year-old Reggie Anderson but never thought he would notice her. Years later Isaac the Ethiopian finds himself in America Then he did: Lavender was very good at math and lives under the care of social worker HelenReggie asked if she would tutor him. Slowly they form a less than professional relationship and Helen realises that what little She readily agreed: tutoring was something she knows of him may not be the truthgladly did at church: this was just an extension. Gradually She went to his past is revealed as the guilt house and he carries comes raped her. In shock, she even allowed him to the surfacegive her a lift home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444793772</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emma Healey1472263936|title=Elizabeth is MissingThe Figurine|author=Victoria Hislop
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Maud is a little forgetful as the rows of cooling cups of tea will attest. She also has a cupboard full of peaches for some reason but not It was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to worryGreece. She has a was alone: her mother, Greek by birth, had left the family who love her home and rally roundrefused to return, but Mary and Hamish (Helena's parents) felt that it would be a home help and pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her great friend ElizabethGreek heritage. Come to think of it, Elizabeth seems Her trip to the family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be missing and the notes that Maud writes herself each day keep reminding her first of thisseveral annual visits. The problem is that no one will listen She grew to love hergrandmother and the family's maid, let alone believe Dina, but was wary - and frightened - of hergrandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. It also reminds Maud He was proud of something else; another disappearance a long, long time agohis close connections to the Junta and expected his family to uphold his values but saw no reason to accommodate them. His prejudices included Helena's red hair and green eyes - inherited from her father's Scottish ancestors.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241003504</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Rilla of InglesideDean Koontz|authortitle=L M MontgomeryAfter Death|rating=4.53|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=Rilla Michael Mace, Head of Ingleside Security, at a top secret biological research facility, is among 55 people who die when a virus is an interesting novel for many reasonsreleased in a bio-hazard accident. Being the only fictional book written by Finding himself in a Canadian woman just after the warmakeshift mortuary, covered in plastic, about the warhe has a sense that something very, it is an incredibly important work. It tells of what very bad has happened to the women who stayed him – and only him – as he sits up and looks around at home, 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 shrouded bodies of the emotional highs his dead friends and lows they experienced during such a heightened timeformer colleagues. The novel begins as Europe is on the brink of warAs he recovers his senses, and Rilla he realises that there is only 15 years old and, still, a rather silly young girlsomething different about him; he can ''feel'' everything. I have to say, I never much cared for Rilla''Everything''. In Michael isn't ''Rainbow ValleyMichael' the book that precedes this one, she' anymore.|isbn=1662500467}} {{Frontpage|isbn=B0BVDC2VWH|title=The Grave Listeners|author=William Frank|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=The village is isolated and poor. It's just surrounded by a spoilt baby Witching Forest. And the villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and at its blossom provides herbal medicines. The black wood of the start forest provides heat and warmth, roofs on homes, and even gallows, if needed. The fear of this story it seems being buried alive is an existential superstition in the village and that nothing much has changed. Howeveris the reason Volushka, just as the world goes through a dramatic change during this period drunken, self-indulgent, lazy lout of time, Rilla herself grows from a child to a womanman is tolerated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>034900451X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0BYF82CXT|title=Travelling SprinklerSemi-Detached|author=Nicholson BakerDeborah Stone
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|summary=Meet Nicholson Baker. Now, I know I normally introduce a book with such a phrase, and every time before now I've used the name of the main character. But I feel such is the nature of Baker's books that he is the greatest character therein, Bill and the one most important for the potential reader to understand, however close he may or may not be to his fictional creations. Baker is Amanda are living in a very stylised authorsemi-detached house, intricately bound up stuck in providing amusing evidence a depressing rut of the value of all the small things in our world. If anybody can rustle up thousands of words about those baby nubbins that are left boredom and disappointment, when you split a sheet of paper across a ready-made perforation Terry and Fiona – you know the tiny scads that are left dangling outwards glamorous, successful and very much in love – it's Bakermove in next door. His early books practically were a day spent in real-timeDespite their different outlooks on life, the couples befriend each other and by rights you'd think this book should not exist – surely he's covered the world alreadylife appears to improve for both pairs. But no – here all is love, poetry, drone warfare, Debussynot what it seems, and a view of dance music production as seen from the prospect of a 55-year old American maletheir increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781252785</amazonuk>''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Someday We'll Tell Each Other EverythingShalini Boland|authortitle=Daniela KrienThe Silent Bride|rating=4.53
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|summary=Eastern GermanyAlice and Seth are a match made in heaven. He is everything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, clever, funny; total and the country is in the limboutter husband-land of time that lay between the end of the Communist state of the DDR and reunificationmaterial. Teenager Maria She is also all he could possibly want in a limbo-land of a kind herselfwife; beautiful, living on a farm with the Brendels familysuccessful, but not one of them. The matriarch still speaks to her in confident… and so the third person for one, inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and while she does some of the house- wedding is planned and farmset. When the much-workanticipated day arrives, and Alice is in a relationship walked down the aisle by her father, beaming with pride and excitement as she surveys the wannabe photographer son of the familycongregation – their friends assembled to celebrate this joyful day and when Seth turns to face his approaching bride, she knows sheAlice's not quite settled within those walls. Especially, as world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the man at the altar is to learn, when there who is a neighbour who can stir passionate emotions inside her…waiting for her to become his wife.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782062416</amazonuk>1662507089
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1787636003|title=To Rise Again At A Decent HourThe Girls of Summer|author=Joshua FerrisKatie Bishop|rating=45
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|summary=An identity thief is wreaking havoc in It was the oddest of ways summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and forcing arrived on the island. 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. It was quite a dentist while before he made any sort of physical approach to confront her and by that time she was obsessed by him. Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, looking after his online presence. This is a book like no other you’ll knowinterests on the island and in particular in the bar where all the girls either worked or partied.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670917737</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tom RachmanAmanda Craig|title=The Rise and Fall of Great Powers Three Graces
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|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Tooly (Matilda) ZylberbergFew styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of-the-nation novel. There's something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the atmosphere of the day and capture it, runs a small independent book shop crafting an image of the country as it stands in Caergenog, close enough to Hay on Wye to attract literary festival overflowone particular moment. She loves and understands literature which To say that Amanda Craig is more than can skilled at doing this would be said about her understanding embarrassingly inadequate: she's practically synonymous with the genre of her parentscontemporary social fiction at this point. In fact Tooly doesn't even know who her parents are. She had has such a weird childhood being taken from one city or country to another by Paul but she never got to ask why or even who he was. The sum gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the day into the lives of her knowledge was characters in a way that he worked feels natural and lived-in IT and seemed to take care of her… or rather she took care of him. So one day she leaves her able assistant Fogg to keep the shop going and retraces her life, hopefully finding the answers to the questions she never got around to askingmaking them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444752340</amazonuk>140871468X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tim Glencross152915118X|title=BarbariansPineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson|rating=34.5
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|summary=It's 2008 'Pineapple Street'' is the story of three women: Sasha, Darley and Georgiana. Darley and things George are on the up for 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 Howe familytribe. Sherard HoweThe problem's exacerbated when the clan matriarch, patriarchTilda, art lover asks Cord and lefty-wing publisher is relishing Sasha if they'd like to move into the power that comes from being well-connectedPineapple Street property. Wife Daphne is about Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to publish her second bookanother property, a street or so away, which they own. They won't need any of the furniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and Cord can move straight in. Her firstNominally, they had a feminist tome from the 1960s, is still remembered; something choice but that she wonwasn't be grateful forthe reality. Their Darley and Georgiana start to 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 same small town for almost her whole life, but now she is facing a move as her son Henry is about wants to move to get a well-paid tutoring job another house and Afuabring Edie to live with his family, their informally adopted black African daughter has political ambitionsas Edie is starting to lose her memory. However not everyone dreams , Edie is tormented by the memory of her childhood friend, Lucy, who went missing over 60 years ago, and the worry that there was a secret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be the thing that reveals the truth of lofty heightswhat happened all that time ago. Henry and AfuaAfter 'seeing's poet friend Buzzy Lucy in the high street, just wants as she was the last time she saw her, she starts to find pockets of memories coming back to bed Afua's bloke Marcelher. They'd all best enjoy their plans And yet as she remembers the past, she is forgetting more and achievements while they can: more in her day to day life. Will she uncover the nationtruth about Lucy's on the cusp of change disappearance before her move, and so, it seems, before her memories are their fortunes.gone forever?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444788523</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''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Khaled Hosseini0008506337|title=And the Mountains EchoedThe Garnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Idris The love affair between Margo Garnett and Timur may be brothers growing up together but poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, apparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in love. Richard was twenty-one and described by Margo's mother as 'an older man'. Her parents worried that doesnRichard't mean that s influence would take her away from what they will grow up felt she could achieve - going to be the sameOxford and having a glittering career. Nabi is In the servant of a wealthy man but carries event, they eloped and Richard took her away from the secret Isle of a deed he regrets Wight. Margo did go to Oxford and went on to become a love that can't be acknowledgedwell-respected journalist. Then there are 10 year old Abdullah The couple had three children: Rachel, Imogen and his little sister Pari; inseparable till something separates them, causing a rift that will haunt them both in some way for the rest of their livesSasha. They're all very different peopleLife was lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, born of a nation of great natural beauty, natural wealth and the cradle family home on the Isle of civilisationWight. ItEven then the doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's also a nation of great pain and turmoilmind: ''she would never be able to leave him in charge''. These people are Afghans and this is their story Then Richard left them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408842459</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1914585402|title=The Headmaster's WifeDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=Thomas Christopher GreeneDavid F Ross|rating=4.5
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|summary=Arthur Winthrop leads I reviewed David F Ross's book [[There's Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's Only One Danny Garvey]] a prestigious Vermont boarding school (sufficiently posh for him to be a headmaster, not a principal). Like his father before him, couple of years back and remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and his father’s father before that, affecting it is what was always expected of him. The right thing to do. What is not the right thing to doIt was a gripping, howeveremotionally wounding read, is to be caught wandering, naked, through Central Park in the middle and rereading my review of winter. Under questioning from the police, Arthur is keen to talk. Not about this episode, perhaps, but about other things on his mind. Like his interaction with a young student it my main takeaway was that has crossed the boundaries of an acceptable student-teacher relationship. It’s as if the flood gates I might not have been opened and there’s no way to shut them now before everything has come gushing outlavished enough praise on it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782391711</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nicole Mary KelbyLucy Ashe|title=The Pink SuitClara and Olivia|rating=34.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=In November 1963 The year is 1933. The place? Sadler's Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, twins no less. Identical on the world was shocked by the assassination of President John F Kennedyoutside but not, we learn, but on the picture which brought home to us the horror of what had happened was inside. And not of JFK but of his wife in the iconic pink suiton stage, soaked with her husbandeither. Because there's blooda lot that builds a dancer. Some things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, attention to detail – and some things, that ''je ne sais quoi'Let them see what they have done', she said. Ithat don've always assumed that t come from the suit was new for the occasion - but it had classroom. A stage presence, a charm, a back story too and it's told in 'joie de vivre''. The Pink Suit''difference between a hard-worker, and a work of historical fiction based on factsstar.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1844089738</amazonuk>0861544080
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anthony MarraHeather Fawcett|title=A Constellation Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Vital PhenomenaFaeries|rating=54
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Chechnya 2004: Akhmed stands watching while the Russian 'Ministry' break into his friend DokaaEmily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life's housework, drag Dokaa away and set light to the remaining housevery first encyclopaedia of faeries. ShockedWhilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, Akhmed dashes over to rescue Dokaa's treasure: his 8 year old daughter Havaashe is not so good with people. Realising he So when she finds herself far, far North in the small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the village matriarch, she is not sure what she has done, nor how to take redeem herself and put her final investigations for her to safety, Akhmed moves the child to the local hospital (or rather book back on the shell that used to accommodate it)right track. ThereEnter Wendell Bambleby, alongside a less-than-skeleton staff with no equipmenther dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, Akhmed tries much to do what Emily's frustration. But why is he can for both his new charge and his countrymen knowing that here? What does he will not be want? And what exactly is going on with the only person affected by his decision to care.faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099575574</amazonuk>0356519120
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1398515388|title=GlowThe Boy and the Dog|author=Ned BeaumanSeishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating=34.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Ned Beauman has made quite a name for himself in just a few short years. In 2013, when ''Granta'' lauded him as one First of their Best Young British Novelistsall, he had already published two novelsit was the earthquake, [[Boxer, Beetle by Ned Beauman|Boxerdeep in the ocean floor, Beetle]] (shortlisted for which created the Guardian First Book Award tsunami and this, in turn, caused the Desmond Elliott Prize) in 2010 nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and [[utter devastation. The Teleportation Accident by Ned Beauman|deaths were uncountable, and the loss of livelihoods was widespread. The Teleportation Accident]] (longlisted for fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of priorities but - six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. He wasn't a dog person but the convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and Tamon the Man Booker Prize) dog jumped in 2012.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444765515</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Bhalla StrandChristopher Bowden|authortitle=Sarah MaineMr Magenta|rating=54
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=1910: A renowned artist brings his young bride to his childhood home Christopher Bowden's latest novel is a patient untangling of Bhalla Housea seemingly ordinary woman's life, an imposing estate on a remote Hebridean islandcarried out by her nephew after she has died. The grand residence was built at the expense aunt who always provided a safe harbour and a little bit of the local community, many of whom were evicted from their homes and crofts in order indulgence to create this rich man’s playground. Tensions run deep and the division between rich a young nephew had had a much more interesting life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and poor it seems impossible to bridgehim an obligation to find it all out.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908754427</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Girl Who Was Saturday NightJennifer Mason|authortitle=Heather O’NeillPartitions of Unity
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=The time: the 1995; the place: Quebec. The Tremblay family have espoused the cause of Quebeçois separation from English-speaking Canada for many years. Etienne Tremblay has been a prominentHere at Bookbag Towers, political folk singer throughout the childhood of Nouschka, his daughterwe first met Elizabeth Cromwell, dominatrix and her identical twin brotherunintentional detective in [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], Nicolas. The young children themselves appeared on stage frequently when she investigated and have been brought up much in the public eye. Their father is almost always absent from their life as he feeds his selfishness on public adoration. Their mother only existed for them as unravelled a name in a hit song about a one night standseries of disappearances. They were cared for by LoulouIn ''Partitions of Unity'', she sets her mind to solving a loving grandfather lacking any influence over their behaviourmurder...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849163324</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=J Paul HendersonB0B2N7MVYM|title=Last Bus to CoffeevilleThe Calculations of Rational Men|author=Daniel Godfrey|rating=3.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=It's the 10th of December 1962 when we first meet Dr Eugene Chaney III promised Nancy one thing; 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 promise he hoped he'd never have chance to deliverbreathe out. HoweverBut for Joe Marr, in it's not the missile crisis that's at the front of his mind. He's been convicted of murder. With the midst current state of their elderly years Nancy confirms medical knowledge, it's hard to think otherwise than that the time prosecution would never have been brought but Joe Marr has comespent his first few days in HMP Queen's Bench, a relatively new prison. So Eugene gathers together an unlikely fellowship and a bus that He's just getting used to belong to Paul McCartney and plans a journey to Coffeevillehis roommate, making it as much of a holiday as possible. Just one thing though: before they set outMervyn, they must spring Nancy and that may not learning to be as easy as it sounds… even if it ''did'' sound easywary of the McArthur brothers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843443341</amazonuk>
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