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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Boris FishmanOnyi Nwabineli|title=A Replacement LifeAllow Me to Introduce Myself
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|summary=On Anuri spent her childhood on display to the day that Slavaworld, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's Russian Jewish grandmother is buried in their new homeland increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of the USAnuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, a letter arrives from the German Conference on Material Claims Against Germany offering her financial restitution for her war years spent in a concentration campmonetary gain. All Now Anuri is in her twenties and she would have needed is slowly trying to do would be regain her confidence and to write a letter about get her whereabouts and experiences during World War II. It's too late for life back, suing her but Slava's granddad wants Slava step-mother to complete take down the form in his grandfather's name insteadcontent about her. The fact that Slava's granddad was never in a German concentration camp Anuri is immaterial; surely Slava could write something? He's a journalist after all battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and his granddad did suffer during the war; every Jew in Minsk sufferedreceiving money from them for doing so. This put's Slava's filial devotion to Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the test but little does he know itnew focus of Ophelia's only online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the beginning.same time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0957548834</amazonuk>0861546873
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529153298|title=Bleeding EdgeThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Thomas PynchonJennie Godfrey|rating=35
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|summary=Thomas Pynchon It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is a major American novelistPrime Minister. Published for 40 years (A woman? I mean, his books are always surprising and highly originalhonestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, and the intense privacy of the author mean that they are often still a mystery when released've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Having read Miv's upset because she'Bleeding Edges overheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, I can confirm that it Down South is still somewhat of a mystery to mefrightening, foreign place, best avoided. Maxine Tarnow is a great main character - a working mother separated from For Miv, the move would mean leaving her husbandbest friend, Sharon, and she is equal parts sassy 'll do anything to funny, and makes for a reliable companion along the wayprevent that. Some of She's not worried about the other characters encountered along the way are truly bizarre dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - Conkling Speedwell probably the most prominent!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099590360</amazonuk>to anyone.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1035906708|title=The RevolutionsDiva|author=Felix GilmanDaisy Goodwin|rating=34.5
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|summary=It is Victorian era London and Arthur Shaw loses his job We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in the great stormManhattan, New York, but in amongst the wind December 1923 and rain he also finds his future fiancee, a writer by the name of Josephine who has been known only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to skitter about make it more manageable in the outskirts of the occult scene States. When she was back in Athens - supposedly so popular at that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the time. When Nazi occupation by a mysterious man turns up at one mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of the meetings and offers Arthur a jobher preference for her elder sister, something seems amissJackie. What are Arthur and Josephine getting themselves into?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472113276</amazonuk>
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{{newreview|title=The Handsome Man's De Luxe CafeFrontpage
|author=Alexander McCall Smith
|title=The Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=When I finished The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the fourteenth novel online apps in this series I felt very warm providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her 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 happyso jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. Things were going And so well for all begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characterswho quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and it seemed that Mma Ramotswe there's always her very helpful (and Mma Makutsi had reached rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a wonderful high in their friendshiphand…|isbn=1846976596}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=The Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Paranormal|summary=Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Of courseOh, these things cannot last andsomeone has delivered a really weird, surprisinglydisturbing coffin-sized object to his home, I found and it's possible that I whoever or whatever was rather glad of inside is the return of some of Mma Makuti's more outspoken naturething that has trashed his house! Just what The thing is she getting up , Benny is the very last person to deserve all this time?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.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408704331</amazonuk>1662500491
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Life of a BananaKatherine Howe|authortitle=P P WongA True Account
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=It has all Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to live with a family who run an inn, and being made to work there from a young age. When she hears there is to be a hanging of some pirates in the makings of town, she decides to go and watch. Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a Victorian melodrama. A young girl’s mother dies on her 13th birthdayboy's death at the hands of two vicious pirates. She hides away, so that they don't find and kill her brother are packed off too, and then to escape them completely she runs away to live with evil grandmothersea, strange uncle dressing as a boy and flighty auntjoining the notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. But this She soon finds herself in the thick of things when there is very much a 21st century mutiny on board, and from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale for of life on the protagonist, Xing Li, is a British born Chinese girlocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>191005321X</amazonuk>0861547438
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1471180158|title=Ghost ChildMaybe Tomorrow|author=Caroline OveringtonPenny Parkes|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=1980s MelbourneJamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's a control freak with all the subtlety of a half brick. A triple zero (=999) call Jamie's son, Bo, 'has been received from a house his problems'. He's asthmatic and the more you read, the more you'll suspect that he's on the autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's a notorious estate. frequent flier in the local A child is unresponsive&E and sometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to school. The story of how it happened is sketchy Missed shifts or the need to be away on time to say pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the leastwrong. And pretty soon, as it turns into It was going to come to a murder enquiry, people want answers. Need answershead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099584751</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0CKD1L5JL|title=The MaggieRadio Free Olympia|author=James Dillon WhiteJeffrey Dunn|rating=34
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Once upon a timePetr is an orphan. Rescued by the strange, reclusive Bear, a Puffer in Scotland was not someone with too many deep-fried Mars bars he is brought up far from bustling cities and too much Bucky under his belt, but instead a small steamerbusy human society, running errant cargo routes in and out of the great port forests of Glasgow, and taking small industrial output from one place to another – especially lesser, shallow-drafted harbours the bigger ships couldnWashington't ply their trade ins Olympic Peninsula. McTaggart is Skipper to one Puffer, After Bear dies and a particularly rundown one at that. He and his three crewmates are brief sojourn in need of drinking moneyhuman company, as well, so when the rare chance comes of and armed with only a jobpirate radio transmitter, he leaps at it. The job in hand, taking Petr goes on a special consignment to a remote island for a visiting American magnate, should be easy – but all of themjourney through the forest, from Marshall broadcasting the businessman down to the cabin boystrange, are surprisingly great at conspiring to make it the most drawn-out voyage ''The Maggie'' has yet to face…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780272499</amazonuk>wild and rarely heard voices he encounters.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The QuickSarah Marsh|authortitle=Lauren OwenA Sign of Her Own
|rating=3.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=The Quick is the debut After a bout of author Lauren Owenscarlet fever as a child, and set in the gothic Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of Victorian Londonsilence, everything about her life changes. Owen guides us through Living in a time when the lives use of several characterssign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a school where she is taught to lip read, but specifically James and Charlottephysically restrained from signing. From here, siblings living she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and using a Yorkshire mansionsystem called Visible Speech. Left to fend for themselves due to a dead mother and an absent father, At the two grow up closesame time, playing dark games to pass the time. It Bell is only when James, the younger child, moves to London, that the games become very real indeedworking on other inventions and ideas, and both brother and sister must fight to save not just themselves, but their humanityEllen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099569973</amazonuk>1035401614
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0BC3YTCMR|title=Remember Me This WayGood Girls Die|author=Sabine DurrantAyura Ayira
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=People should be sad ''This story is not for everyone.'' Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of her fifteenth birthday when their husband or wife diesThe Incident happened. It’s just the way things work. Whether it’s She was a sudden accident or very bright student, a long time coming deteriorationbit too nerdy if truth be told, there should be sorrow and maybe suffered from vitiligo - people were afraid to hug her in case it's contagious. It's not easy being a few tearsblack girl whose skin is 84% white. But Lizzie is She had a little bit relieved when Zach dies in a horrible car crashcrush on seventeen-year-old Reggie Anderson but never thought he would notice her. He Then he did: Lavender was her husband very good at math and Reggie asked if she loved would tutor him but there . She readily agreed: tutoring was something she gladly did at church: this was more just an extension. She went to it than that. Now it’s a year later his house and, for the first time, Lizzie feels strong enough to visit the scene of the accidenthe raped her. But all is not right when she gets there In shock, and as she pulls at even allowed him to give her a loose thread, the whole jumper starts to unravellift home. As she starts to question everything she believed to be true, she can’t help but wonder if the whole story of that night hasn’t quite come out yet.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444762443</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1472263936|title=The Figurine|author=Richard HennerleyVictoria Hislop|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. She was alone: her mother, Greek by birth, had left the family home and refused to return, but Mary and Hamish (Helena's parents) felt that it would be a pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. Her trip to the family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be the first of several annual visits. She grew to love her grandmother and the family's maid, Dina, but was wary - and frightened - of her grandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. He was proud of his 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.}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=I Really, Really Want ItAfter 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.5 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. ''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=Andrew Manning The village is what I would call isolated and poor. It's surrounded by a fixer'Witching Forest. He's got decades of experience in sorting out those ''little'' problems which so plague celebrities and, frankly, if he's got to bend And the law just a tiny bit villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - or even more its bread- to earn his crust then that's OK by himlike fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicines. He's wealthy, with a list The black wood of clients to die for (and some will...) the forest provides heat and happily unfaithful to his long-term partnerwarmth, Johnny roofs on a regular basis. And Johnny does exactly the same. When we meet Andrew his main problem is Shelley Bright. She's 'England's Sweetheart'homes, chart-topping singer and television stareven gallows, if needed. Andrew prefers to think The fear of her as 'a vicious, avaricious snakebeing buried alive is an existential superstition in the village and that is the reason Volushka, a nastydrunken, nasty piece of work' self- and he's probably got the right indulgent, lazy lout of ita man is tolerated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1500739588</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Linda NewberyB0BYF82CXT|title=Quarter Past Two On A Wednesday AfternoonSemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone|rating=4.5
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|summary=At ''Bill and Amanda are living in a quarter past two on a Wednesday afternoon semi-detached house, stuck in August Rose disappeared - completely. It didn't look as though there had been a crime - there were no signs depressing rut of violence boredom and some of her clothes disappointment, when Terry and a rucksack were missing. It was possible that she had simply gone of her own accord: she was beautifulFiona – glamorous, headstrong successful and just slightly wilfulvery much in love – move in next door. Twenty years later her younger sisterDespite their different outlooks on life, Anna has still not come to terms with what happened the couples befriend each other and it's affecting her whole lifeappears to improve for both pairs. Her relationship with Martin But all is foundering and she can't make up her mind whether not what it's what she wants - or doesn't wantseems, with probably a slight bias to the latter. Finally she decides that she must try and find Rose their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for herselftragedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857522493</amazonuk>''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The AscendantShalini Boland|authortitle=Alethea CroweThe Silent Bride
|rating=3
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=The Greek Gods never died Alice and Seth are a match made in heaven. He is everything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, clever, funny; total and utter husband- material. She is all he could possibly want in facta wife; beautiful, they are still very much on this planetsuccessful, causing chaos confident… and so the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and interfering with the lives of mortals, albeit on a much smaller scale than in their heydaywedding is planned and set. Whilst When the front cover suggests a thriller much in -anticipated day arrives, Alice is walked down the vein of The Da Vinci Code or something of its ilkaisle by her father, Alathea Crowe has created something beaming with excellent characters pride and excitement as she surveys the congregation – their friends assembled to celebrate this joyful day and interesting prosewhen 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 her to become his wife. |isbn=1662507089}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787636003|title=The Girls of Summer|author=Katie Bishop|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's just a shame was the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she didnand Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the island. Rachel wasn't stick 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 while before he made any sort of physical approach to her and by that time she was obsessed by him. Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, looking after his interests on the island and in particular in the thriller aspect more, as I felt bar where all the book lost its hold on me fairly early ongirls either worked or partied.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0704373580</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Fatty O'Leary's Dinner PartyAmanda Craig|authortitle=Alexander McCall SmithThree Graces
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=So, Fatty is from Fayetteville in Arkansas Few 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 he and his wife Betty docapture it, crafting an image of the country as it has to stands in one particular moment. To say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be said, err on embarrassingly inadequate: she's practically synonymous with the rather large sidegenre of contemporary social fiction at this point. At home in Fayetteville their size causes them no problems but when Betty books her Irish-American husband She has such a trip to Ireland gift for his birthday weaving the problems begin. Poor Fatty. It seems ongoing issues of the calamities start from day into the beginning lives of their trip her characters in a way that feels natural and they are both funny and painful to read at times. Just when you think things can't possibly get any worse lived-in, never making them ciphers for Fatty they do indeed get worse. And then worse again. And again! The escapades are so gentlysocial commentary but instead fully realised people, lovingly written then I felt nothing but sympathy for poor Fattygrappling with issues far larger than themselves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846973007</amazonuk>140871468X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=152915118X|title=Man at the HelmPineapple Street|author=Nina StibbeJenny Jackson
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=What's that about treating an ending purely as another beginning? When the marriage of Elizabeth's parents ends, Pineapple Street'' is the foursome story of Lizziethree women: Sasha, her older (Darley and wiser beyond her years) sister Georgiana. Darley and kid brother George are sisters and the mum move Sasha is married to their brother Cord. They're Stocktons, only Sasha isn't a Leicestershire village to begin againStockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the tribe. But things donThe problem't start swimmingly – s exacerbated when the entire village seems clan matriarch, Tilda, asks Cord and Sasha if they'd like to turn against them and maintain their outsider statusmove into the Pineapple Street property. Thinking this down Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to the D-notice put on their parents (for divorce means another property, a woman being unacceptably short street or so away, which they own. They won't need any of trustworthiness the furniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and Cord can move straight in the early 1970s) the girls put their efforts into match-making. Little do Nominally, they realise had a choice but that wasn't the lack of options they face – reality. Darley and Georgiana start to call Sasha 'the life-changing events gold digger'. She's living in ''their'' family home. They use it so often that arise when they witness a glimmer of success…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241003156</amazonuk>abbreviate it to 'the GD'.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=In the Beginning Was the SeaEmily Critchley|authortitle=Tomas GonzalezOne Puzzling Afternoon
|rating=4
|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=''In 84 year old Edie has lived in the Beginning Was the Sea'' same small town for almost her whole life, but now she is facing a move as her son wants to move to another house and bring Edie to live with his family, as Edie is starting to lose her memory. However, Edie is tormented by the first novel written by Colombian author Tomas Gonzalez. It was written memory of her childhood friend, Lucy, who went missing over 30 60 years ago but , and the worry that there was a secret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be the work has only just been translated into English. It tells thing that reveals the story truth of Jwhat happened all that time ago. and Elena After 'seeing' Lucy in the high street, just as she was the last time she saw her, two intellectuals who have grown sick of their life she starts to find pockets of endless parties and highbrow conversations and have decided memories coming back to move away from her. And yet as she remembers the mainland past, she is forgetting more and more in her day to set up a new day life that focuses on nature and the purity of hard work and the elements. They bicker and alienate Will she uncover the localstruth about Lucy's disappearance before her move, and neither of them is prepared for the brutal weather and the microscope that such surroundings put on their less-than-perfect relationship.before her memories are gone forever?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782270418</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|isbn=0008506337|title=The Good GirlGarnett Girls|author=Mary KubicaGeorgina Moore
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=A young teacher is kidnapped leaving The love affair between Margo Garnett and 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 Richard's influence would take her family distraughtaway from what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and having a glittering career. Wealthy and influential In the event, they call in eloped and Richard took her away from the big guns Isle of Wight. Margo did go to find their daughter, but is there more Oxford and went on to the storybecome a well-respected journalist. The couple had three children: Rachel, Imogen and indeed to Sasha. Life was lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, the family, than meets home on the Isle of Wight. Even then the eye?doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able to leave him in charge''. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848453116</amazonuk>Then Richard left them.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Virginia Macgregor1914585402|title=What Milo SawDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross
|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 the pet pig but not Dad. MiloI reviewed David F Ross's book [[There's Dad lives in Abu Dhabi because Dad made The Tart pregnant. Only One day, once the emergency services go away, Mum breaks it to Milo that Gran canDanny Garvey by David F Ross|There't live with them anymore s Only One Danny Garvey]] a couple of years back and remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and has to go into a homeaffecting it was. It doesn't end there though. Milo is on was a mission; he gripping, emotionally wounding read, and Hamlet will bring Gran back. It's a bit rereading my review of a difficult mission for a 9-year-old and pig to accomplish alone though so first he needs to convince at least one adultit my main takeaway was that I might not have lavished enough praise on it. Good luck Milo!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751554243</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Romain PuertolasLucy Ashe|title=The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir who got Trapped in an Ikea WardrobeClara and Olivia
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Ajastashatru Oghash Rathod The year is an Indian fakir or an Indian conman1933. The place? Sadler's Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, depending on your viewpointtwins no less. The day he decides to buy a new bed of nails he does what any of us would do: jumps Identical on a plane from the Indian sub-continent to Paris with some misappropriated money in order to shop at Ikea. His nefarious means will only go so faroutside but not, we learn, therefore he decides to sleep in on the store overnightinside. What’s the problem? Ikea has bedrooms and everythingAnd not on stage, either. However, Ikea also has security which is how Ajatashatru gets to travel around Europe in Because there's a less than conventional way chased by lot that builds a homicidal taxi driverdancer. That's the sort of thing Some things that could happen can be taught or learnt – discipline, attention to anyone thoughdetail – and some things, that ''je ne sais quoi'', isnthat don't it?come from the classroom. A stage presence, a charm, a ''joie de vivre''. The difference between a hard-worker, and a star.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846558409</amazonuk>0861544080
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Without YouHeather Fawcett|authortitle=Saskia SarginsonEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Eva Emily Wilde is 17 years old an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and missing following a sailing disaster. Most people presume she died at seahas travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, but to write her sister Faith haslife's work, wellthe very first encyclopaedia of faeries. Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, faithshe is not so good with people. And So when she finds herself far, far North in factthe small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the village matriarch, Eva she is not deadsure what she has done, but she’s not safe either. Held captive nor how to redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on an island just off the coastright track. Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, she all charm and delight, much to Emily's frustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is so near going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|isbn=0356519120}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1398515388|title=The Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and yet so far from homeAlison Watts (translator)|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=First of all, it was the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and with every daythis, in turn, weekcaused the nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and utter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, month and the loss of livelihoods was widespread. The 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 passes, her desperation growshe would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and Tamon the dog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749958707</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark LawsonChristopher Bowden|title=The DeathsMr Magenta
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=In an idyllic enclave in Buckinghamshire, within spitting distance Christopher Bowden's latest novel is a patient untangling of Milton Keynes, there are four houses. You might even call them mansions, as they are not the sort of homes to which most people can aspire. But the residents are not a seemingly ordinary woman''most people'' - they are rich and the lives they lead are different. They're not the old aristocracy for whom the houses were builts life, but the new elite - barristers, business tycoons, bankers, magistrates, doctorscarried out by her nephew after she has died. One of their number runs The aunt who always provided a security business, so they're all protected by expensive security systems safe harbour and when they leave their a little haven it's usually bit of indulgence to travel first class to London or on their way to catch a flight. The Eight seem young nephew had had a much more interesting life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and it seems to lead charmed lives - but the financial world is changing and there isn't the money around that there used him an obligation to befind it all out.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>144723569X</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=HerJennifer Mason|authortitle=Harriet LanePartitions of Unity|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Emma is a harassed young mother to a toddler with another baby on the way. Used to being a successful professionalHere at Bookbag Towers, she is finding it difficult to cope with everything on a daily basis. Thereforewe first met Elizabeth Cromwell, it hardly surprises her to receive 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 dominatrix and Emma is immediately drawn to this composedunintentional detective in [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], organised, successful woman whose life seems to epitomise everything that Emma wishes for. However, as their friendship blossoms, it becomes apparent to the reader, although not to Emma, that things are not what they seem. Apparently when Nina first set eyes on Emma, she recognised her as investigated and unravelled a face from the pastseries of disappearances. In ''Partitions of Unity'', and an unwelcome one at that. We soon discover that Nina has an ulterior motive for befriending Emma as she sets out her mind to seek revenge for something that Emma did many years agosolving a murder...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0297865056</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Fredrik BackmanWill Carver|title=A Man Called OveThe Daves Next Door|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Ove (pronounced 'Oo-veh') is a man of principle who tries to do the right thing, ensure the no parking area remains so, is Five strangers come together in one moment as a good Swedish citizen and tries to be civil suicide bomber prepares to detonate his neighbours (even the foreign ones). However he comes over as vest on a total grumpLondon tube line. He was even ousted from his position as Chairman of the Residents Association by a vicious coup. IndeedAs their fates overlap, he's the sort of person whostory is told in backwards order, when life gives him lemons, finds that they're rotting in leading up to the middle. There's so much more to his story than that though; a story that started a long time agofateful moment.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444775790</amazonuk>1914585186}} {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=LandlineJennifer Mason|authortitle=Rainbow RowellPreposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery|rating=54
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Georgie McCool has always known what she's wanted 'A struggling poetry zine, a mom-and pursued it until she has it. She got her dream job writing comedy-pop mobile diner in the Northern California redwoods, a 400-meter hurdler who just missed the 2004 Olympics, shea women's about to get her own showtrack 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), and she got her dream guyon a cheap oil painting, Nealan erotic art dealer in Georgia...''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fiona SussmanB0B2N7MVYM|title=Shifting ColoursThe Calculations of Rational Men|author=Daniel Godfrey
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Celia works as a maid for It's the Steiners 10th of December 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marr. Just to put what happens in South Africa; a safe job context, the Cuban missile crisis is still very fresh in people's minds. The world has barely had a white household chance to breathe out. But for a Joe Marr, it'blacks not the missile crisis that' to have s at a time when the country lurches from suspicion to brutality and back againfront of his mind. At least it He''was'' a safe jobs been convicted of murder. The Steiners With the current state of medical knowledge, it's hard to think otherwise than that the prosecution would never have decided to move to England and, after difficulty been brought but Joe Marr has spent his first few days in having their own children, want to adopt Miriam, CeliaHMP Queen's youngest childBench, a relatively new prison. For so many reasons Celia canHe't refuse. Rita Steiner promises Miriam an exciting adventure s just getting used to his roommate, Mervyn, and she promises Celia regular contact. When mother and daughter are miles apart, they both come learning to realise be wary of the same thing: sometimes promises are only as good as the people making them and that goes for promised lands tooMcArthur brothers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749016418</amazonuk>
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