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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=RoomsOnyi Nwabineli|authortitle=Lauren OliverAllow Me to Introduce Myself
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|summary=Alice 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 Sandra are dead, basically, monetary gain. Ghosts trapped Now Anuri is in the house they lived her twenties and died in, they have bickered she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and squabbled for years. Distraction for them comes in the form of a realto get her life back, live family suing her step- Carolinemother to take down the content about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her daughter Minna, son TrentonPhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and Minna's daughter Amyreceiving money from them for doing so. Arriving to mourn and sort affairs following Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the death new focus of Minna and TrentonOphelia's fatheronline empire. Can she save her sister, arguments and old wounds soon open up.perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444760769</amazonuk>0861546873
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529153298|title=Burnt Tongues: An Anthology The List of Transgressive Short StoriesSuspicious Things|author=Chuck Palahniuk, Dennis Widmyer and Richard ThomasJennie Godfrey|rating=45|genre=Short StoriesGeneral Fiction|summary=Saying certain things out loud just don’t It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She'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 rightquite so frightening. Some things are so disturbing or politically incorrect Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South'. When you are 're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best off avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving them inside your headher best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or better yet not thinking that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035906708|title=Diva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=We tend to think of them at allMaria 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. When these words are spoken they could lead Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the sensation of Burnt Tongue; an aftereffect of knowing what you said was wrongStates. Are you prepared to enter When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the world Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of Transgressive Fiction that aims to disturbher preference for her elder sister, alienate, disgust and question?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178329552X</amazonuk>Jackie.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=UsAlexander McCall Smith|authortitle=David NichollsThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5
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|summary=Douglas Petersen The Perfect Passion Company is a mild-mannereddating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, middle-aged biochemisttailored service. He Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and Connie have been married look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for about two decadesa while. Their son, Albie, Katie is your average sullen teenager coming out of a break up with a messy room bad boyfriend, and bohemian affectationsso jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. He And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and Douglas argue about everythingthe Isabel Dalhousie novels, but especially about Albie's chosen career path: he hopes with some new characters who quickly begin to be charm. Katie has no experience in running a photographerbusiness, taking after his artist motheror in match-making, but Douglas wants him to study something more practical Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and rigorous at uni. Stillrather handsome) neighbour, William, Douglas thinks things are going pretty well for his family – until one night Connie sits up in bed and tells him she thinks she wants to leave him.lend a hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>034089699X</amazonuk>1846976596
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=DeliciousThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Paranormal|summary=Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Spike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491}}{{Frontpage|author=Ruth ReichlKatherine Howe|title=A True Account|rating=4.5
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|summary=Billie Hannah Masury is interning at living in Boston, having been sent to live with a foodie magazine with family who run an inn, and being made to work there from a long historyyoung age. It’s been based When she hears there is to be a hanging of some pirates in the same building for many decadestown, so you can imagine the secrets hidden within the wallsshe decides to go and watch. Every recipe they've ever published, for example, is archived, so if you want the special brioche bread Enthralled and butter pudding you first tasted horrified in winter 1991equal measure, you can contact them and ask for Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death at the detailshands of two vicious pirates. That’s part of Billie’s job She hides away, so that they don't find and kill her too, and then to escape them completely she quite enjoys itruns away to sea, but then something even better comes out of dressing as a boy and joining the archivesnotorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. A series She soon finds herself in the thick of letters written during the war that send Billie things when there is a mutiny on a mad mystery tour throughout the building and beyond. With a dash of ingenuityboard, a pinch of spunk and a big ol’ dollop from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of enthusiasm, will she be able to get to life on the bottom of the story?ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091958164</amazonuk>0861547438
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1471180158|title=Mambo In ChinatownMaybe Tomorrow|author=Jean KwokPenny Parkes|rating=4.5
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|summary=The daughter of Jamie Matson works in an immigrant noodle makerupper-class grocery store, for a man who lives 's a control freak with her father and younger sister in a one room apartment in Chinatown, is not all the sort subtlety of person you might imagine as a skilled and elegant dancerhalf brick. And Jamie's son, indeedBo, 'has his problems'. He's asthmatic and the more you read, Charlie isn’t any of those things as we meet herthe more you'll suspect that he's on the autistic spectrum. By day Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she washes pots 's a frequent flier in her father’s restaurant, by night she encourages her sister Lisa the local A&E and sometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to school. Missed shifts or the need to be away on time to succeed in pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and succeed put in a way that Charlie herself wasn’t able the wrong. It was going to come to. But she dreams of more, and when an entry level job at a dance school is advertised, she suddenly wants it more than anything she’s ever wanted, everhead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594633223</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0CKD1L5JL|title=Ghosts of ManhattanRadio Free Olympia|author=George MannJeffrey Dunn
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=New York City - 1926. A world not quite as we know itPetr is an orphan. America is locked into a cold war with Rescued by the British Empirestrange, reclusive Bear, cars are coal powered he is brought up far from bustling cities and prohibition is still busy human society, in place across New Yorkthe forests of Washington's Olympic Peninsula. A series of horrific murders are committed throughout the city After Bear dies and a brief sojourn in human company, and the overworked police force are already overworked dealing armed with only a pirate radio transmitter, Petr goes on a journey through the gangsters and criminals that fill forest, broadcasting the city. What is neededstrange, is a hero. And that hero is..wild and rarely heard voices he encounters.The Ghost|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783294086</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Help for the HauntedSarah Marsh|authortitle=John SearlesA Sign of Her Own|rating=3.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Rose and Sylvester Mason make their living from helping the hauntedAfter a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, performing exorcisms and running seminars across America on everything about her life changes. Living in a time when the subject use of the paranormalsign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a school where she is taught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. When they are murdered From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and using a churchsystem called Visible Speech. At the same time, their daughtersBell is working on other inventions and ideas, Rose and Sylvi, are left negotiating the complex legacy their work has left behindEllen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751555908</amazonuk>1035401614
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Boris FishmanB0BC3YTCMR|title=A Replacement LifeGood Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=On the day that Slava's Russian Jewish grandmother 'This story is buried in their new homeland not for everyone.'' Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of the US, a letter arrives from the German Conference on Material Claims Against Germany offering her financial restitution for her war years spent in a concentration campfifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. All she would have needed to do would She was a very bright student, a bit too nerdy if truth be told, and suffered from vitiligo - people were afraid to write a letter about hug her whereabouts and experiences during World War II. It's too late for her but Slava's granddad wants Slava to complete the form in his grandfathercase it's name insteadcontagious. The fact that SlavaIt's granddad was never in not easy being a German concentration camp black girl whose skin is immaterial; surely Slava could write something? 84% white. He's She had a journalist after all crush on seventeen-year-old Reggie Anderson but never thought he would notice her. Then he did: Lavender was very good at math and his granddad Reggie asked if she would tutor him. She readily agreed: tutoring was something she gladly did suffer during the war; every Jew in Minsk sufferedat church: this was just an extension. This put's Slava's filial devotion She went to the test but little does his house and he know it's only the beginningraped her. In shock, she even allowed him to give her a lift home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0957548834</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1472263936|title=Bleeding EdgeThe Figurine|author=Victoria 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=Thomas PynchonDean Koontz|title=After Death
|rating=3
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Thomas Pynchon 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 major American novelistbio-hazard accident. Published for 40 years 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 books are always surprising dead friends and highly originalformer 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|genre=General Fiction|summary=The village is isolated and poor. It's surrounded by a Witching Forest. And the intense privacy villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicines. The black wood of the forest provides heat and warmth, roofs on homes, and even gallows, if needed. The fear of being buried alive is an existential superstition in the author mean village and that they are often still is the reason Volushka, a mystery when releaseddrunken, self-indulgent, lazy lout of a man is tolerated. }}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The RevolutionsShalini Boland|authortitle=Felix GilmanThe Silent Bride
|rating=3
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=It Alice and Seth are a match made in heaven. He is Victorian era London everything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, clever, funny; total and Arthur Shaw loses his job utter husband-material. She is all he could possibly want in a wife; beautiful, successful, confident… and so the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and the wedding is planned and set. When the much-anticipated day arrives, Alice is walked down the great stormaisle by her father, but in amongst beaming with pride and excitement as she surveys the wind congregation – their friends assembled to celebrate this joyful day and rain he also finds when Seth turns to face his future fianceeapproaching bride, a writer by the name of Josephine Alice's world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who has been known to skitter about the outskirts of the occult scene so popular at the time. When a mysterious man turns up at one of the meetings and offers Arthur a jobaltar is, something seems amisswho is waiting for her to become his wife. What are Arthur and Josephine getting themselves into?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472113276</amazonuk>1662507089
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1787636003|title=The Handsome Man's De Luxe CafeGirls of Summer|author=Alexander McCall SmithKatie Bishop
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=When I finished It was the fourteenth novel in this series I felt very warm summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and happyarrived on the island. Things were going Rachel wasn't exactly innocent but she was, perhaps, naive, so well for all the characterswhen 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 it seemed by that Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi had reached a wonderful high in their friendshiptime she was obsessed by him. Of courseAlistair worked for Henry Taylor, these things cannot last looking after his interests on the island and, surprisingly, I found that I was rather glad of in particular in the bar where all the return of some of Mma Makuti's more outspoken nature! Just what is she getting up to this time?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408704331</amazonuk>girls either worked or partied.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Life of a BananaAmanda Craig|authortitle=P P WongThree Graces
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|genre=General Fiction
|summary=It has all Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the makings state-of a Victorian melodrama-the-nation novel. A young girl’s mother dies on her 13th birthday. She There's something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the atmosphere of the day and her brother are packed off to live with evil grandmothercapture it, strange uncle and flighty auntcrafting an image of the country as it stands in one particular moment. But To say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's practically synonymous with the genre of contemporary social fiction at this is very much point. She has such a 21st century tale gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the day into the protagonistlives of her characters in a way that feels natural and lived-in, Xing Linever making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, is a British born Chinese girlgrappling with issues far larger than themselves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>191005321X</amazonuk>140871468X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=152915118X|title=Ghost ChildPineapple Street|author=Caroline OveringtonJenny Jackson|rating=4.5
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|summary=1980s Melbourne''Pineapple Street'' is the story of three women: Sasha, Darley and Georgiana. Darley and George are sisters and Sasha is married to their brother Cord. They're Stocktons, only Sasha isn't a Stockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the tribe. The problem's exacerbated when the clan matriarch, Tilda, asks Cord and Sasha if they'd like to move into the Pineapple Street property. A triple zero ( Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to another 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. Nominally, they had a choice but that wasn't the reality. Darley and Georgiana start to call Sasha 'the gold digger'. She's living in ''their'' family home. They use it so often that they abbreviate it to 'the GD'.}}{{Frontpage|author=999) call Emily Critchley|title=One Puzzling Afternoon|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=84 year old Edie has been received from lived in the same small town for almost her whole life, but now she is facing a move as her son wants to move to another house on a notorious estateand bring Edie to live with his family, as Edie is starting to lose her memory. A child However, Edie is unresponsivetormented 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 what happened all that time ago. The story After 'seeing' Lucy in the high street, just as she was the last time she saw her, she starts to find pockets of how it happened is sketchy memories coming back to say the leasther. And pretty soon, yet as it turns into a murder enquiryshe remembers the past, people want answers. Need answersshe is forgetting more and more in her day to day life. Will she uncover the truth about Lucy's disappearance before her move, and before her memories are gone forever?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099584751</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|isbn=0008506337|title=The MaggieGarnett Girls|author=James Dillon WhiteGeorgina Moore|rating=35
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|summary=Once upon a timeThe love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, a Puffer apparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in Scotland love. Richard was not someone with too many deeptwenty-one and described by Margo's mother as 'an older man'. Her parents worried that Richard's influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve -fried Mars bars going to Oxford and too much Bucky under his belt, but instead having a small steamer, running errant cargo routes in and out of glittering career. In the great port of Glasgowevent, they eloped and taking small industrial output Richard took her away from one place to another – especially lesser, shallow-drafted harbours the bigger ships couldn't ply their trade inIsle of Wight. McTaggart is Skipper Margo did go to one Puffer, Oxford and went on to become a particularly rundown one at thatwell-respected journalist. He and his The couple had three crewmates are in need of drinking moneychildren: Rachel, as well, so when the rare chance comes of a job, he leaps at itImogen and Sasha. The job Life was lived in hand, taking a special consignment to a remote island for a visiting American magnate, should be easy – but all of themLondon and holidays were spent at Sandcove, from Marshall the businessman down to family home on the cabin boy, are surprisingly great at conspiring to make it Isle of Wight. Even then the most drawn-out voyage doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo'The Maggies mind: '' has yet she would never be able to face…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780272499</amazonuk>}}leave him in charge''.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1914585402|title=Remember Me This WayDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=Sabine DurrantDavid F Ross
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=People should be sad when their husband or wife dies. It’s just the way things work. Whether it’s I reviewed David F Ross's book [[There's Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's Only One Danny Garvey]] a sudden accident or a long time coming deterioration, there should be sorrow couple of years back and maybe a few tears. But Lizzie is a little bit relieved when Zach dies in a horrible car crash. He was her husband remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and she loved him but there affecting it was more to it than that. Now it’s It was a year later and, for the first timegripping, Lizzie feels strong enough to visit the scene of the accident. But all is not right when she gets thereemotionally wounding read, and as she pulls at a loose thread, the whole jumper starts to unravel. As she starts to question everything she believed to be true, she can’t help but wonder if the whole story rereading my review of it my main takeaway was that night hasn’t quite come out yetI might not have lavished enough praise on it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444762443</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Richard HennerleyLucy Ashe|title=I Really, Really Want It|rating=3.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Andrew Manning is what I would call 'a fixer'. He's got decades of experience in sorting out those ''little'' problems which so plague celebrities and, frankly, if he's got to bend the law just a tiny bit - or even more - to earn his crust then that's OK by him. He's wealthy, with a list of clients to die for (Clara and some will...) and happily unfaithful to his long-term partner, Johnny 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', chart-topping singer and television star. Andrew prefers to think of her as 'a vicious, avaricious snake, a nasty, nasty piece of work' - and he's probably got the right of it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1500739588</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Linda Newbery|title=Quarter Past Two On A Wednesday AfternoonOlivia
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=At a quarter past two The year is 1933. The place? Sadler's Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, twins no less. Identical on the outside but not, we learn, on the inside. And not on a Wednesday afternoon in August Rose disappeared - completelystage, either. It didnBecause there't look as though there had been s a crime - there were no signs of violence and some of her clothes and lot that builds a rucksack were missingdancer. It was possible Some things that she had simply gone of her own accord: she was beautifulcan be taught or learnt – discipline, headstrong attention to detail – and just slightly wilful. Twenty years later her younger sistersome things, Anna has still not come to terms with what happened and itthat ''s affecting her whole life. Her relationship with Martin is foundering and she canje ne sais quoi't make up her mind whether it's what she wants - or doesn, that don't wantcome from the classroom. A stage presence, with probably a slight bias to the lattercharm, a ''joie de vivre''. Finally she decides that she must try The difference between a hard-worker, and find Rose for herselfa star.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857522493</amazonuk>0861544080
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The AscendantHeather Fawcett|authortitle=Alethea CroweEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries|rating=34
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=The Greek Gods never died - in factEmily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, they are still very much on this planetand she has travelled extensively, causing chaos and interfering with researched meticulously, to write her life's work, the lives very first encyclopaedia of mortalsfaeries. Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, albeit on a much smaller scale than in their heydayshe is not so good with people. Whilst the front cover suggests a thriller much So when she finds herself far, far North in the vein small village of The Da Vinci Code or something of its ilkHrafvsnik, having somehow offended the village matriarch, Alathea Crowe she is not sure what she has created something with excellent characters done, nor how to redeem herself and interesting proseput her final investigations for her book back on the right track. It Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, much to Emily's just a shame she didn't stick to the thriller aspect more, as I felt frustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the book lost its hold on me fairly early on.faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0704373580</amazonuk>0356519120
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1398515388|title=Fatty O'Leary's Dinner PartyThe Boy and the Dog|author=Alexander McCall SmithSeishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=SoFirst of all, it was the earthquake, Fatty is from Fayetteville deep in Arkansas the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and he and his wife Betty dothis, it has to be saidin turn, err on caused the rather large sidenuclear meltdown. At home in Fayetteville their size causes them no problems but when Betty books her Irish-American husband a trip to Ireland for his birthday the problems beginThe result was complete and utter devastation. Poor FattyThe deaths were uncountable, and the loss of livelihoods was widespread. It seems the calamities start The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the beginning list of their trip and they are both funny and painful to read at timespriorities but - six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. Just when you think things canHe wasn't possibly get any worse for Fatty they do indeed get worse. And then worse again. And again! The escapades are so gently, lovingly written then I felt nothing a dog person but sympathy for poor Fattythe convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and Tamon the dog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973007</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Man at the HelmChristopher Bowden|authortitle=Nina StibbeMr Magenta|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=WhatChristopher Bowden's that about treating an ending purely as another beginning? When the marriage latest novel is a patient untangling of Elizabetha seemingly ordinary woman's parents ends, the foursome of Lizzielife, carried out by her older (nephew after she has died. The aunt who always provided a safe harbour and wiser beyond her years) sister and kid brother and the mum move a little bit of indulgence to a Leicestershire village to begin again. But things don't start swimmingly – the entire village young nephew had had a much more interesting life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and it seems to turn against them and maintain their outsider status. Thinking this down him an obligation to the D-notice put on their parents (for divorce means a woman being unacceptably short of trustworthiness in the early 1970s) the girls put their efforts into match-makingfind it all out. Little do they realise the lack of options they face – and the life-changing events that arise when they witness a glimmer of success…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0241003156</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=In the Beginning Was the SeaJennifer Mason|authortitle=Tomas GonzalezPartitions of Unity
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Here at Bookbag Towers, we first met Elizabeth Cromwell, dominatrix and unintentional detective in [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], when she investigated and unravelled a series of disappearances. In ''In the Beginning Was the SeaPartitions of Unity'' 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 of J. and Elena, two intellectuals who have grown sick of their life of endless parties and highbrow conversations and have decided to move away from the mainland she sets her mind to set up solving a new life that focuses on nature and the purity of hard work and the elementsmurder.. They bicker and alienate the locals, and neither of them is prepared for the brutal weather and the microscope that such surroundings put on their less-than-perfect relationship.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782270418</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}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Bruce CrowtherJennifer Mason|title=All Cut UpPreposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Jimmy and his Mum were at the supermarket when she disappeared. He didn't immediately think that it was 'A struggling poetry zine, a problem mom- after all she was suffering from dementia and out of roughly -pop mobile diner in the last hundred and fifty visits to GetItAll he'd lost his mother on thirty five of them. But Northern California redwoods, a 400- she wasnmeter hurdler who just missed the 2004 Olympics, a women't usually gone s track coach with a yen for this long and then there was the nagging worry that she might have become the latest victim bullwhips, a billionaire with a state-of -the Acton Axeman - art S&M dungeon, a man serving a serial killer who was targeting blondlife sentence in Alabama, an enigmatic signature, K(s, x), slightly-plump women wearing green - on a description which fitted Jimmycheap oil painting, an erotic art dealer in Georgia...''s Mum to This is just a teesample 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...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1499167156</amazonuk>B09STS96HS
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0B2N7MVYM|title=The Good GirlCalculations of Rational Men|author=Mary KubicaDaniel Godfrey
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=A young teacher It's the 10th of December 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marr. Just to put what happens in context, the Cuban missile crisis is kidnapped leaving her family distraughtstill very fresh in people's minds. Wealthy and influential The world has barely had a chance to breathe out. But for Joe Marr, they call in it's not the missile crisis that's at the front of his mind. He's been convicted of murder. With the big guns current state of medical knowledge, it's hard to find their daughterthink otherwise than that the prosecution would never have been brought but Joe Marr has spent his first few days in HMP Queen's Bench, but is there more a relatively new prison. He's just getting used to the storyhis roommate, Mervyn, and indeed learning to be wary of the family, than meets the eye?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848453116</amazonuk>McArthur brothers.
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