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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!{{Frontpage|author=Onyi Nwabineli|title=Allow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step- Remove -->mother to take down the content about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873}}{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529153298|title=The Handsome Man's De Luxe CafeList of Suspicious Things|author=Alexander McCall SmithJennie Godfrey
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|summary=When It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I finished the fourteenth novel in this series I felt very warm and happymean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Things were going Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so well for all frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the charactersfamily 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, and it seemed that Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi had reached Down South is a wonderful high in their friendshipfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. Of courseFor Miv, these things cannot last andthe move would mean leaving her best friend, surprisinglySharon, I found and she'll do anything to prevent that I was rather glad of . She's not worried about the return of some of Mma Makutidangers or that her Mum's more outspoken nature! Just what is she getting up stopped talking - to this time?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408704331</amazonuk>anyone.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1035906708|title=The Life of a BananaDiva|author=P P WongDaisy Goodwin
|rating=4.5
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|summary=It has all We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the makings of States. When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a Victorian melodrama. A young girl’s mother dies on who mercilessly exploited her 13th birthday. She and made no secret of her brother are packed off to live with evil grandmother, strange uncle and flighty aunt. But this is very much a 21st century tale preference for the protagonisther elder sister, Xing Li, is a British born Chinese girlJackie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>191005321X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Ghost ChildAlexander McCall Smith|authortitle=Caroline OveringtonThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5
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|summary=1980s MelbourneThe 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. A triple zero (=999) call Ness has been received from asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a house on trip to Canada to get away for a notorious estatewhile. A child Katie is unresponsivecoming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. The And so begins this new story of how it happened is sketchy from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to say 44 Scotland Street and the leastIsabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. And pretty soon Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, as it turns into to lend a murder enquiry, people want answers. Need answers.hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099584751</amazonuk>1846976596
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=The MaggieBad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Paranormal|summary=Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Spike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491}}{{Frontpage|author=James Dillon WhiteKatherine Howe|title=A True Account|rating=34.5
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|summary=Once upon a timeHannah Masury is living in Boston, a Puffer in Scotland was not someone having been sent to live with too many deep-fried Mars bars and too much Bucky under his belt, but instead a small steamerfamily who run an inn, running errant cargo routes in and out of the great port of Glasgow, and taking small industrial output being made to work there from one place to another – especially lesser, shallow-drafted harbours the bigger ships couldn't ply their trade ina young age. McTaggart When she hears there is Skipper to one Pufferbe a hanging of some pirates in the town, she decides to go and a particularly rundown one at thatwatch. He Enthralled and his three crewmates are horrified in need of drinking moneyequal measure, as well, so when Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death at the rare chance comes hands of a job, he leaps at ittwo vicious pirates. The job in handShe hides away, so that they don't find and kill her too, taking a special consignment and then to a remote island for a visiting American magnate, should be easy – but all of escape themcompletely she runs away to sea, from Marshall the businessman down to dressing as a boy and joining the notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. She soon finds herself in the thick of things when there is a mutiny on board, and from there we are surprisingly great at conspiring to make it caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the most drawn-out voyage ''The Maggie'' has yet to face…ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780272499</amazonuk>0861547438
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1471180158|title=The QuickMaybe Tomorrow|author=Lauren OwenPenny Parkes|rating=34.5
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|summary=The Quick is the debut of author Lauren OwenJamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, and set in for a man who's a control freak with all the gothic world subtlety of Victorian Londona half brick. Owen guides us through the lives of several characters Jamie's son, Bo, but specifically James 'has his problems'. He's asthmatic and Charlottethe more you read, siblings living in a Yorkshire mansionthe more you'll suspect that he's on the autistic spectrum. Left to fend for themselves due Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's a dead mother frequent flier in the local A&E and an absent father, sometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to school. Missed shifts or the two grow need to be away on time to pick Bo up close, playing dark games to pass from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the timewrong. It is only when James, the younger child, moves was going to London, that the games become very real indeed, and both brother and sister must fight come to save not just themselves, but their humanitya head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099569973</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0CKD1L5JL|title=Remember Me This WayRadio Free Olympia|author=Sabine DurrantJeffrey Dunn|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=People should be sad when their husband or wife diesPetr is an orphan. It’s just Rescued by the way things work. Whether it’s a sudden accident or a long time coming deteriorationstrange, reclusive Bear, there should be sorrow and maybe a few tears. But Lizzie he is a little bit relieved when Zach dies in a horrible car crash. He was her husband and she loved him but there was more to it than that. Now it’s a year later brought up far from bustling cities andbusy human society, for the first time, Lizzie feels strong enough to visit in the scene forests of the accidentWashington's Olympic Peninsula. But all is not right when she gets there After Bear dies and a brief sojourn in human company, and as she pulls at armed with only a loose threadpirate radio transmitter, Petr goes on a journey through the whole jumper starts to unravel. As she starts to question everything she believed to be trueforest, she can’t help but wonder if broadcasting the whole story of that night hasn’t quite come out yetstrange, wild and rarely heard voices he encounters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444762443</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Richard HennerleySarah Marsh|title=I Really, Really Want ItA Sign of Her Own
|rating=3.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Andrew Manning is what I would call 'After a bout of scarlet fever as a fixer'child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. He's got decades Suddenly plunged into a world of experience silence, everything about her life changes. Living in sorting out those ''little'' problems which so plague celebrities anda time when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, frankly, if he's got Ellen is sent to bend the law just a tiny bit - or even more - school where she is taught to earn his crust then that's OK by himlip read, but physically restrained from signing. He's wealthyFrom here, with a list of clients to die for (and some will...) she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and happily unfaithful to his long-term partner, Johnny on using a regular basissystem called Visible Speech. And Johnny does exactly At the same. When we meet Andrew his main problem time, Bell is Shelley Bright. She's 'England's Sweetheart'working on other inventions and ideas, chart-topping singer and television star. Andrew prefers to think of her as 'Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a vicious, avaricious snake, a nasty, nasty piece of work' - and he's probably got the right complicated tangle of itespionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1500739588</amazonuk>1035401614
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Linda NewberyB0BC3YTCMR|title=Quarter Past Two On A Wednesday AfternoonGood Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=At ''This story is not for everyone.'' Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of her fifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. She was a quarter past two on very bright student, a Wednesday afternoon bit too nerdy if truth be told, and suffered from vitiligo - people were afraid to hug her in August Rose disappeared - completelycase it's contagious. It didn't look as though there s not easy being a black girl whose skin is 84% white. She had been a crime crush on seventeen-year- there were no signs of violence and some of old Reggie Anderson but never thought he would notice her clothes . Then he did: Lavender was very good at math and a rucksack were missingReggie asked if she would tutor him. It She readily agreed: tutoring was possible that something she had simply gone of her own accordgladly did at church: she this was beautiful, headstrong and just slightly wilfulan extension. Twenty years later her younger sister, Anna has still not come She went to terms with what happened his house and it's affecting he raped her whole life. Her relationship with Martin is foundering and In shock, she can't make up even allowed him to give her mind whether it's what she wants - or doesn't want, with probably a slight bias to the latter. Finally she decides that she must try and find Rose for herselflift home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857522493</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1472263936|title=The AscendantFigurine|author=Alethea CroweVictoria Hislop|rating=35
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=The Greek Gods never died - It was in fact1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. She was alone: her mother, they are still very much on this planetGreek by birth, causing chaos had left the family home and interfering with the lives of mortalsrefused to return, albeit on but Mary and Hamish (Helena's parents) felt that it would be a much smaller scale than in their heydaypity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. Whilst Her trip to the front cover suggests a thriller much family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be the vein first of The Da Vinci Code or something several annual visits. She grew to love her grandmother and the family's maid, Dina, but was wary - and frightened - of its ilkher grandfather, Alathea Crowe has created something with excellent characters retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. He was proud of his close connections to the Junta and interesting proseexpected his family to uphold his values but saw no reason to accommodate them. It His prejudices included Helena's just a shame she didnred hair and green eyes - inherited from her father't stick to the thriller aspect more, as I felt the book lost its hold on me fairly early ons Scottish ancestors.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0704373580</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Fatty O'Leary's Dinner PartyDean Koontz|authortitle=Alexander McCall SmithAfter Death|rating=4.53
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=SoMichael Mace, Head of Security, at a top secret biological research facility, Fatty is from Fayetteville among 55 people who die when a virus is released in Arkansas and he and his wife Betty do, it has to be said, err on the rather large sidea bio-hazard accident. At home Finding himself in Fayetteville their size causes them no problems but when Betty books her Irish-American husband a trip makeshift mortuary, covered in plastic, he has a sense that something very, very bad has happened to Ireland for his birthday the problems begin. Poor Fatty. It seems him – and only him – as he sits up and looks around at the calamities start from the beginning shrouded bodies of their trip his dead friends and they are both funny and painful to read at timesformer colleagues. Just when you think things As he recovers his senses, he realises that there is something different about him; he can't possibly get any worse for Fatty they do indeed get worse'feel'' everything. And then worse again''Everything''. And again! The escapades are so gently, lovingly written then I felt nothing but sympathy for poor FattyMichael isn't ''Michael'' anymore.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846973007</amazonuk>1662500467}} {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0BVDC2VWH|title=Man at the HelmThe Grave Listeners|author=Nina StibbeWilliam Frank|rating=4.5
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|summary=WhatThe village is isolated and poor. It's that about treating an ending purely as another beginning? When surrounded by a Witching Forest. And the marriage villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicines. The black wood of Elizabeth's parents endsthe forest provides heat and warmth, the foursome of Lizzieroofs on homes, her older (and wiser beyond her years) sister and kid brother and the mum move to a Leicestershire village to begin againeven gallows, if needed. But things don't start swimmingly – The fear of being buried alive is an existential superstition in the entire village seems to turn against them and maintain their outsider status. Thinking this down to that is the D-notice put on their parents (for divorce means reason Volushka, a woman being unacceptably short of trustworthiness in the early 1970s) the girls put their efforts into matchdrunken, self-making. Little do they realise the lack indulgent, lazy lout of options they face – and the life-changing events that arise when they witness a glimmer of success…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241003156</amazonuk>man is tolerated.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0BYF82CXT|title=In the Beginning Was the SeaSemi-Detached|author=Tomas GonzalezDeborah Stone
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=''In the Beginning Was the Sea'' is the first novel written by Colombian author Tomas Gonzalez. It was written over 30 years ago but the work has only just been translated into English. It tells the story Bill and Amanda are living in a semi-detached house, stuck in a depressing rut of J. boredom and Elenadisappointment, two intellectuals who have grown sick of their life of endless parties when Terry and highbrow conversations Fiona – glamorous, successful and have decided to very much in love – move away from the mainland to set up a new in next door. Despite their different outlooks on life that focuses on nature and , the purity of hard work couples befriend each other and the elementslife appears to improve for both pairs. They bicker and alienate the localsBut all is not what it seems, and neither of them is prepared their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for the brutal weather and the microscope that such surroundings put on their less-than-perfect relationshiptragedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782270418</amazonuk>''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Bruce CrowtherShalini Boland|title=All Cut UpThe Silent Bride|rating=43
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Jimmy Alice and his Mum were at the supermarket when she disappearedSeth are a match made in heaven. He didn't immediately think that it was a problem is everything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, clever, funny; total and utter husband- after material. She is all she was suffering from dementia he could possibly want in a wife; beautiful, successful, confident… and so the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and out of roughly the last hundred wedding is planned and fifty visits to GetItAll he'd lost his mother on thirty five of themset. But When the much- anticipated day arrives, Alice is walked down the aisle by her father, beaming with pride and excitement as she wasn't usually gone for surveys the congregation – their friends assembled to celebrate this long joyful day and then there was the nagging worry that when Seth turns to face his approaching bride, Alice's world implodes because she might have become has absolutely no idea who the latest victim of man at the Acton Axeman - a serial killer altar is, who was targeting blond, slightly-plump women wearing green - a description which fitted Jimmy's Mum is waiting for her to a teebecome his wife.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1499167156</amazonuk>1662507089
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1787636003|title=The Good GirlGirls of Summer|author=Mary KubicaKatie Bishop
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=A young teacher is kidnapped leaving her family distraughtIt was the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the island. Wealthy and influential Rachel wasn't exactly innocent but she was, perhaps, naive, they call so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to take an interest in the big guns her, she was flattered rather than wary. It was quite a while before he made any sort of physical approach to find their daughterher and by that time she was obsessed by him. Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, but is there more to looking after his interests on the story, island and indeed to in particular in the family, than meets bar where all the eye?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848453116</amazonuk>girls either worked or partied.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Virginia MacgregorAmanda Craig|title=What Milo SawThree Graces
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Milo is 9 years old and slowly going blind. He lives with his Mum, his Gran and Hamlet Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of-the pet pig but not Dad-nation novel. MiloThere's Dad lives in Abu Dhabi because Dad made The Tart pregnant. One something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the atmosphere of the dayand capture it, once crafting an image of the emergency services go away, Mum breaks country as it to Milo stands in one particular moment. To say that Gran can't live with them anymore and has to go into a home. It doesn't end there though. Milo Amanda Craig is on a mission; he and Hamlet will bring Gran back. Itskilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's a bit practically synonymous with the genre of contemporary social fiction at this point. She has such a difficult mission gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the day into the lives of her characters in a 9way that feels natural and lived-year-old and pig to accomplish alone though so first he needs to convince at least one adultin, never making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselves. Good luck Milo!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751554243</amazonuk>140871468X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Romain Puertolas152915118X|title=The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir who got Trapped in an Ikea WardrobePineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Ajastashatru Oghash Rathod ''Pineapple Street'' is an Indian fakir or an Indian conmanthe story of three women: Sasha, depending on your viewpointDarley and Georgiana. The day he decides Darley and George are sisters and Sasha is married to buy their brother Cord. They're Stocktons, only Sasha isn't a new bed of nails he does what any of us would do: jumps on a plane from Stockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the tribe. The problem's exacerbated when the Indian sub-continent clan matriarch, Tilda, asks Cord and Sasha if they'd like to Paris with some misappropriated money in order to shop at Ikeamove into the Pineapple Street property. His nefarious means will only go Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to another property, a street or so faraway, therefore he decides to sleep in the store overnightwhich they own. What’s They won't need any of the problem? Ikea has bedrooms furniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and everythingCord can move straight in. HoweverNominally, Ikea also has security which is how Ajatashatru gets to travel around Europe in they had a less than conventional way chased by a homicidal taxi driverchoice but that wasn't the reality. ThatDarley and Georgiana start to call Sasha 'the gold digger'. She's the sort of thing living in ''their'' family home. They use it so often that could happen they abbreviate it to anyone though, isn't it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846558409</amazonuk>the GD'.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Without YouEmily Critchley|authortitle=Saskia SarginsonOne Puzzling Afternoon
|rating=4
|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Eva 84 year old Edie has lived in the same small town for almost her whole life, but now she is 17 years old facing a move as her son wants to move to another house and missing following a sailing disasterbring Edie to live with his family, as Edie is starting to lose her memory. Most people presume she died at sea However, but Edie is tormented by the memory of her sister Faith haschildhood friend, Lucy, wellwho went missing over 60 years ago, faithand the worry that there was a secret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be the thing that reveals the truth of what happened all that time ago. And After 'seeing' Lucy in factthe high street, Eva is not deadjust as she was the last time she saw her, but she’s not safe eithershe starts to find pockets of memories coming back to her. Held captive on an island just off And yet as she remembers the coastpast, she is so near forgetting more and yet so far from homemore in her day to day life. Will she uncover the truth about Lucy's disappearance before her move, and with every day, week, month that passes, before her desperation grows.memories are gone forever?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0749958707</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=Mark Lawson0008506337|title=The DeathsGarnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore|rating=45
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|summary=In an idyllic enclave in BuckinghamshireThe love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, within spitting distance of Milton Keynes, there are four housesapparently on both sides. You might even call them mansions, as Margo was just sixteen when they are not the sort of homes to which most people can aspirefell in love. But the residents are not Richard was twenty-one and described by Margo's mother as 'most peoplean older man'. Her parents worried that Richard' s influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - they are rich going to Oxford and the lives they lead are differenthaving a glittering career. They're not In the old aristocracy for whom the houses were builtevent, but they eloped and Richard took her away from the new elite Isle of Wight. Margo did go to Oxford and went on to become a well- barristers, business tycoons, bankers, magistrates, doctorsrespected journalist. One of their number runs a security businessThe couple had three children: Rachel, so they're all protected by expensive security systems Imogen and when they leave their little haven it's usually to travel first class to Sasha. Life was lived in London or and holidays were spent at Sandcove, the family home on their way to catch a flightthe Isle of Wight. The Eight seem to lead charmed lives - but Even then the financial world is changing and there isndoubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''t the money around that there used she would never be able to beleave him in charge''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144723569X</amazonuk>Then Richard left them.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1914585402|title=HerDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=Harriet LaneDavid F Ross
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Emma is I reviewed David F Ross's book [[There's Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's Only One Danny Garvey]] a harassed young mother to a toddler with another baby on the way. Used to couple of years back and remember being a successful professional, she is finding absolutely floored by how powerful and affecting it difficult to cope with everything on a daily basiswas. Therefore, it hardly surprises her to receive It was a call from a stranger telling her that she has found her wallet which Emma did not even realise that she had lost. Nina calls round with the offending wallet and Emma is immediately drawn to this composedgripping, organised, successful woman whose life seems to epitomise everything that Emma wishes for. However, as their friendship blossomsemotionally wounding read, and rereading my review of it becomes apparent to the reader, although not to Emma, my main takeaway was that things are I might not what they seem. Apparently when Nina first set eyes have lavished enough praise on Emma, she recognised her as a face from the past, and an unwelcome one at thatit. 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0297865056</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Fredrik BackmanLucy Ashe|title=A Man Called OveClara and Olivia
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Ove (pronounced The year is 1933. The place? Sadler'Oo-veh') is a man of principle who tries to do s Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, twins no less. Identical on the right thingoutside but not, ensure we learn, on the no parking area remains soinside. And not on stage, is a good Swedish citizen and tries to be civil to his neighbours (even the foreign ones)either. However he comes over as Because there's a total grump. He was even ousted from his position as Chairman of the Residents Association by lot that builds a vicious coupdancer. IndeedSome things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, heattention to detail – and some things, that ''je ne sais quoi''s the sort of person who, when life gives him lemons, finds that theydon're rotting in t come from the middleclassroom. ThereA stage presence, a charm, a 's so much more to his story than that though; 'joie de vivre''. The difference between a story that started hard-worker, and a long time agostar.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444775790</amazonuk>0861544080
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=LandlineHeather Fawcett|authortitle=Rainbow RowellEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries|rating=54
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Georgie McCool Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has always known what shetravelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life's wanted work, the very first encyclopaedia of faeries. Whilst she is brilliant at research and pursued it until speaking to faeries, she has itis not so good with people. She got her dream job writing comedy So when she finds herself far, far North in the small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the village matriarch, she's about is not sure what she has done, nor how to get redeem herself and put her own showfinal investigations for her book back on the right track. Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and she got her dream guyinsufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, Neal. Onlyall charm and delight, shemuch to Emily's not so sure she has him anymorefrustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409154912</amazonuk>0356519120
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fiona Sussman1398515388|title=Shifting ColoursThe Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Celia works as a maid for First of all, it was the Steiners earthquake, deep in South Africa; a safe job the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and this, in a white household for a 'black' to have at a time when turn, caused the country lurches from suspicion to brutality nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and back againutter devastation. At least it ''The deaths were uncountable, and the loss of livelihoods was'' a safe jobwidespread. The Steiners have decided to move to England and, fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of priorities but - six months after difficulty in having their own children, want to adopt Miriam, Celia's youngest childthe tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. For so many reasons Celia canHe wasn't refuse. Rita Steiner promises Miriam an exciting adventure a dog person but the convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and she promises Celia regular contact. When mother and daughter are miles apart, they both come to realise Tamon the same thing: sometimes promises are only as good as the people making them and that goes for promised lands toodog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749016418</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=TouchedChristopher Bowden|authortitle=Joanna BriscoeMr Magenta|rating=34
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Rowena Crale and Christopher Bowden's latest novel is a patient untangling of a seemingly ordinary woman's life, carried out by her family have moved to nephew after she has died. The aunt who always provided a new home, having uprooted an ill safe harbour and unwilling mother in law a little bit of indulgence to take possession of it. There are five children in the family...but six if you count a young Eva’s imaginary friend. Eva is the family outcast; dressed in her grandmother’s clothes nephew had had a much more interesting life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and preparing it seems to attend a different school him an obligation to her siblings, she is often away from her family, who seem to care little for her or her whereaboutsfind it all out.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099590824</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Roopa FarookiJennifer Mason|title=The Good ChildrenPartitions of Unity|rating=54
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=The Saddeq family are an example of success for their friends Here at Bookbag Towers, we first met Elizabeth Cromwell, dominatrix and neighbours unintentional detective in Lahore. Mr Saddeq is a doctor with his own practice[[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], sons Sully when she investigated and Jakie are studying medicine in the US and UK respectively and daughters Mae and Lana have made good marriage matchesunravelled a series of disappearances. However the four In 'good' children would view their success differently. Each reacts differently to the futures that their caring father and calculating mother have mapped out for them and plough their own furrows as far as theyPartitions of Unity''re permitted but the gravitational pull of home remains a constant through their lives and also, she sets her mind to some extent, for the generation that followssolving a murder...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755383427</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Will Carver|title=Remember Me Like ThisThe 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}} {{Frontpage|author=Bret Anthony JohnstonJennifer Mason|title=Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Four years ago''A struggling poetry zine, a family lost their brother, their older son, their grandchild. One day he was there, mom-and -pop mobile diner in the next he was gone. Missing. Presumed kidnapped or perhaps worse. Their lives have moved onNorthern California redwoods, but their hearts haven’t. Walls have gone up around thema 400-meter hurdler who just missed the 2004 Olympics, thougha women's track coach with a yen for bullwhips, to protect from a billionaire with a state-of-the pain-art S&M dungeon, the crank callsa man serving a life sentence in Alabama, the false leads. So when news comes that Justin Campbell has been spottedan enigmatic signature, alive andK(s, seeminglyx), wellon a cheap oil painting, it’s quite an erotic art dealer in Georgia...'' This is just a lot to take sample of the cast of characters and settings inPreposterous. As you can see, some keeping up will be required! The basic premise of this mystery story goes like this...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444788051</amazonuk>B09STS96HS
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Roland Watson-GrantB0B2N7MVYM|title=SkidThe Calculations of Rational Men|author=Daniel Godfrey|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Things have changed in It's the Beaumont household since they lived in the Louisiana swampland10th of December 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marr. Skid (or Terence when he's bad), his mother Valerie and brother Frico have moved Just to an apartment put what happens in context, the city. The two older brothers have left home and the lads' father Cuban missile crisis is still missing, presumed dead, after he disappeared beneath the alligator-filled water back homevery fresh in people's minds. The city is world has barely had a weird place for our hero as he becomes 16chance to breathe out. ItBut for Joe Marr, it's just as dangerous as not the swamp ever was as gangs missile crisis that roam 's at the streets seeking outsiders like Skidfront of his mind. He's been convicted of murder. Skid is realising With the current state of medical knowledge, it's hard to think otherwise than that girls can be a problem toothe prosecution would never have been brought but Joe Marr has spent his first few days in HMP Queen's Bench, although neighbourly Claire may be a bit differentrelatively new prison. She worries about him though; it seems that Skid isnHe't so much a name as a curses just getting used to his roommate, Mervyn, and learning to be wary of the McArthur brothers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846883199</amazonuk>
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