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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=DoomedOnyi Nwabineli|authortitle=Chuck PalahniukAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=24.5
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|summary=The central characterAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, Madisonthanks 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 a strangely unlikeable narrator who has been murdered. She finds herself in hell but her twenties and she is able slowly trying to return regain her confidence and to Earth get her life back, suing her step-mother to observe take down the dramatic goings-on of content about her celebrity parents. Anuri is battling alcoholism, who fit the stereotype of the Brangelina couple - socially responsiblefailing to start her PhD, universally famous undergoing therapy and obscenely richsecretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Without giving too much away Most importantly, Madison she is a pawn in Satan’s plan to destroy the earth and ensure everyone goes to hell. This being Palahniukdesperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus is on the comedic possibilities of this scenario rather than Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the moralistic.same time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099552639</amazonuk>0861546873
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Victoria Hislop1529153298|title=The SunriseList of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=45
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|summary=Savvas has everything he needs here in Cyprus: moneyIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, a beautiful wife from a rich Greek Cypriot family and a hotel to develop into beacon accommodation for the well-heeledhonestly... ) ItShe's not everything he wants what's worrying Miv's family, though. ThereWomen have been disappearing. Well, they's always another hotel ve been murdered, but to buy and deals to be done while Aphroditi, his intelligent wife, becomes more aware of her position as an ornament rather than a partnerhave 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. On Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the other hand, the Turkish Ozkans and Greek Georgious have less materially but are, on the whole, happyfamily 'Down South'. Traditionally they should be enemies but Famagusta When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a tolerant town and a good frightening, foreign place to live, best avoided. All this changes in 1974: Turkish soldiers land on For Miv, the island and slowly move down through the northwould mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, an underground resistance emerges and life becomes dangerously cheapshe'll do anything to prevent that. The citizens of Famagusta flee She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to the south, but two families can’t get out in time: the Ozkans and the Georgiousanyone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755377788</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1035906708|title=The Winter HorsesDiva|author=Philip KerrDaisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=It’s the winter We tend to think of 1941 Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and we are 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 UkraineStates. A fourteen year old girl is hiding When she was back in a wood on Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the vast and bitter-cold steppe. Her name is Katinka, Nazi occupation by a name from folk song mother who mercilessly exploited her and fairy talemade no secret of her preference for her elder sister, and she has been befriended by two of the wild Przelowski’s horsesJackie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406359831</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Where Love LiesAlexander McCall Smith|authortitle=Julie CohenThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Let's start with The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the basicsonline apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. FelicityNess 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 children's book author while. Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and illustratorso jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, has been married bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the lovely Quinn for just a short timeIsabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. They live Katie has no experience in running a sweet cottagebusiness, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in a wonderful villageher abilities, with Quinnand there's family nearbyalways her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=The Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Paranormal|summary=Benny is having a terrifically bad day. Quinn is the perfect husbandHe loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, in every waydisturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and surely Felicityit's life can't get any better than 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. You might well guess that anyone starting out in He is a book in this way is heading for troublenice person. Felicity's trouble comes in rather an unusual form howeverA really nice person. She begins So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to experience intense emotionshis house is a new friend, seemingly preceded by smelling a scent that she recognises bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a long time ago in her lifegood person. But are the emotions real, or Spike is her imagination playing tricks on her? And are these episodes worthy going to take care of a trip to the doctorBenny, or and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he dismiss her olfactory experiences as the random ramblings of , Benny, and Harper (a confused woman?waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0593070844</amazonuk>1662500491
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=RoomsKatherine Howe|authortitle=Lauren OliverA True Account
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Alice Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to live with a family who run an inn, and Sandra are deadbeing made to work there from a young age. Ghosts trapped When she hears there is to be a hanging of some pirates in the house they lived town, she decides to go and watch. Enthralled and died horrified inequal measure, they have bickered and squabbled for years. Distraction for them comes Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death at the form hands of a real, live family - Carolinetwo vicious pirates. She hides away, so that they don't find and kill her daughter Minnatoo, son Trentonand then to escape them completely she runs away to sea, dressing as a boy and Minnajoining the notorious Ned Low's daughter Amypirate ship as a cabin boy. Arriving to mourn and sort affairs following She soon finds herself in the death thick of Minna and Trenton's fatherthings when there is a mutiny on board, arguments and old wounds soon open from there we are caught upin her rip roaring tale of life on the ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444760769</amazonuk>0861547438
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1471180158|title=Burnt Tongues: An Anthology of Transgressive Short StoriesMaybe Tomorrow|author=Chuck Palahniuk, Dennis Widmyer and Richard ThomasPenny Parkes|rating=4.5|genre=Short StoriesGeneral Fiction|summary=Saying certain things out loud just don’t sound rightJamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's a control freak with all the subtlety of a half brick. Jamie's son, Bo, 'has his problems'. Some things are so disturbing or politically incorrect He's asthmatic and the more you read, the more you'll suspect that you are best he's on the autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off leaving them inside your head, or better yet at short notice - she's a frequent flier in the local A&E and sometimes Bo's not thinking of them at allfit enough to go to school. When these words Missed shifts or the need to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are spoken they could lead to occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the sensation of Burnt Tongue; an aftereffect of knowing what you said was wrong. Are you prepared It was going to enter the world of Transgressive Fiction that aims come to disturb, alienate, disgust and question?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178329552X</amazonuk>a head.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0CKD1L5JL|title=UsRadio Free Olympia|author=David NichollsJeffrey Dunn
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Douglas Petersen Petr is a mild-mannered, middle-aged biochemist. He and Connie have been married for about two decadesan orphan. Their sonRescued by the strange, Albiereclusive Bear, he is your average sullen teenager with a messy room brought up far from bustling cities and bohemian affectationsbusy human society, in the forests of Washington's Olympic Peninsula. He After Bear dies and Douglas argue about everythinga brief sojourn in human company, but especially about Albie's chosen career path: he hopes to be and armed with only a photographerpirate radio transmitter, taking after his artist motherPetr goes on a journey through the forest, but Douglas wants him to study something more practical and rigorous at uni. Stillbroadcasting the strange, Douglas thinks things are going pretty well for his family – until one night Connie sits up in bed wild and tells him she thinks she wants to leave himrarely heard voices he encounters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>034089699X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Delicious!Sarah Marsh|authortitle=Ruth ReichlA Sign of Her Own|rating=43.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Billie is interning at After a foodie magazine with bout of scarlet fever as a long historychild, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. It’s been based in the same building for many decades Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, so you can imagine the secrets hidden within the wallseverything about her life changes. Every recipe they've ever published, for example, is archived, so if you want the special brioche bread and butter pudding you first tasted Living in winter 1991, you can contact them and ask for a time when the details. That’s part use of Billie’s jobsign language was seen as something only savages do, and Ellen is sent to a school where she quite enjoys itis taught to lip read, but then something even better comes out of physically restrained from signing. From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the archivesdeaf and using a system called Visible Speech. A series of letters written during At the war that send Billie same time, Bell is working on a mad mystery tour throughout the building other inventions and beyond. With a dash of ingenuityideas, a pinch of spunk and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a big ol’ dollop complicated tangle of enthusiasm, will she be able to get to the bottom of the story?espionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091958164</amazonuk>1035401614
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=B0BC3YTCMR
|title=Good Girls Die
|author=Ayura Ayira
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=''This story is not for everyone.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1472263936|title=Ghosts of ManhattanThe Figurine|author=George MannVictoria Hislop|rating=45
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=New York City - 1926It was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. A world not quite as we know 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 itwould be a pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. America is locked into a cold war with Her trip to the British Empire, cars are coal powered and prohibition is still family apartment in place across New Yorkup-market Kolonaki would be the first of several annual visits. A series of horrific murders are committed throughout She grew to love her grandmother and the cityfamily's maid, Dina, but was wary - and frightened - of her grandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. He was proud of his close connections to the overworked police force are already overworked dealing with the gangsters Junta and criminals that fill the city. What is needed, is a hero. And that hero is.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.The Ghost|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783294086</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Help for the HauntedDean Koontz|authortitle=John SearlesAfter Death
|rating=3
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Rose Michael Mace, Head of Security, at a top secret biological research facility, is among 55 people who die when a virus is released in a bio-hazard accident. Finding himself in a makeshift mortuary, covered in plastic, he has a sense that something very, very bad has happened to him – and Sylvester Mason make their living from helping only him – as he sits up and looks around at the hauntedshrouded bodies of his dead friends and former colleagues. As he recovers his senses, performing exorcisms 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 running seminars across America on poor. It's surrounded by a Witching Forest. And the subject villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicines. The black wood of the paranormalforest provides heat and warmth, roofs on homes, and even gallows, if needed. When they are murdered The fear of being buried alive is an existential superstition in the village and that is the reason Volushka, a churchdrunken, their daughtersself-indulgent, Rose and Sylvi, are left negotiating the complex legacy their work has left behindlazy lout of a man is tolerated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751555908</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Boris FishmanB0BYF82CXT|title=A Replacement LifeSemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=On the day that Slava's Russian Jewish grandmother is buried 'Bill and Amanda are living in a semi-detached house, stuck in their new homeland a depressing rut of the USboredom and disappointment, when Terry and Fiona – glamorous, a letter arrives from the German Conference on Material Claims Against Germany offering her financial restitution for her war years spent successful and very much in love – move in a concentration campnext door. All she would have needed Despite their different outlooks on life, the couples befriend each other and life appears to do would be to write a letter about her whereabouts and experiences during World War II. It's too late improve for her but Slava's granddad wants Slava to complete the form in his grandfather's name insteadboth pairs. The fact that Slava's granddad was never in a German concentration camp But all is immaterial; surely Slava could write something? He's a journalist after all not what it seems, and his granddad did suffer during the war; every Jew in Minsk sufferedtheir increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy. This put's Slava's filial devotion to the test but little does he know it's only the beginning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0957548834</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Bleeding EdgeShalini Boland|authortitle=Thomas PynchonThe Silent Bride
|rating=3
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Thomas Pynchon is Alice and Seth are a major American novelistmatch made in heaven. Published He is everything she has been searching for 40 years; handsome, his books are always surprising accomplished, clever, funny; total and highly originalutter husband-material. She is all he could possibly want in a wife; beautiful, successful, confident… and so the intense privacy of inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and the author mean that they are often still a mystery when releasedwedding is planned and set. Having read ''Bleeding Edge'' When the much-anticipated day arrives, I can confirm that it Alice is still somewhat of a mystery walked down the aisle by her father, beaming with pride and excitement as she surveys the congregation – their friends assembled to celebrate this joyful day and when Seth turns to me. Maxine Tarnow is a great main character - a working mother separated from her husbandface his approaching bride, Alice's world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the man at the altar is equal parts sassy to funny, and makes who is waiting for a reliable companion along the wayher to become his wife. Some of the other characters encountered along the way are truly bizarre - Conkling Speedwell probably the most prominent!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099590360</amazonuk>1662507089
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1787636003|title=The RevolutionsGirls of Summer|author=Felix GilmanKatie Bishop|rating=35
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=It is Victorian era London was the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Arthur Shaw loses his job in Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the great stormisland. Rachel wasn't exactly innocent but she was, but perhaps, naive, so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to take an interest in amongst the wind and rain he also finds his future fianceeher, she was flattered rather than wary. It was quite a writer by the name while before he made any sort of Josephine who has been known physical approach to skitter about the outskirts of the occult scene so popular at the her and by that timeshe was obsessed by him. When a mysterious man turns up at one of Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, looking after his interests on the meetings island and offers Arthur a job, something seems amissin particular in the bar where all the girls either worked or partied. What are Arthur and Josephine getting themselves into?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472113276</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Handsome Man's De Luxe CafeAmanda Craig|authortitle=Alexander McCall SmithThree Graces|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=When I finished Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of-the fourteenth -nation novel in this series I felt very warm and happy. Things were going There's something so well for all utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the atmosphere of the charactersday and capture it, and crafting an image of the country as it seemed that Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi had reached a wonderful high stands in their friendshipone particular moment. Of course, these things cannot last and, surprisingly, I found To say that I was rather glad Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's practically synonymous with the genre of contemporary social fiction at this point. She has such a gift for weaving the return ongoing issues of some the day into the lives of Mma Makuti's more outspoken nature! Just what is she getting up to this time?her characters in a way that feels natural and lived-in, never making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408704331</amazonuk>140871468X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=152915118X|title=The Life of a BananaPineapple Street|author=P P WongJenny Jackson
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=It has all ''Pineapple Street'' is the makings 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 Victorian melodramaStockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the tribe. A young girl’s mother dies on her 13th birthday The problem's exacerbated when the clan matriarch, Tilda, asks Cord and Sasha if they'd like to move into the Pineapple Street property. 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=Emily Critchley|title=One Puzzling Afternoon|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=84 year old Edie has lived in the same small town for almost her whole life, but now she is facing a move as her son wants to move to another house and her brother are packed off bring Edie to live with evil grandmotherhis family, strange uncle and flighty auntas Edie is starting to lose her memory. But this However, Edie is very much tormented by the memory of her childhood friend, Lucy, who went missing over 60 years ago, and the worry that there was a 21st century tale secret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be the thing that reveals the truth of what happened all that time ago. After 'seeing' Lucy in the protagonisthigh street, Xing Lijust as she was the last time she saw her, she starts to find pockets of memories coming back to her. And yet as she remembers the past, she is a British born Chinese girlforgetting 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>191005321X</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=Ghost ChildThe Garnett Girls|author=Caroline OveringtonGeorgina Moore
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=1980s MelbourneThe 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'. A triple zero (=999) call has been received Her parents worried that Richard's influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and having a house glittering career. In the event, they eloped and Richard took her away from the Isle of Wight. Margo did go to Oxford and went on to become a notorious estate. A child is unresponsivewell-respected journalist. The story of how it happened is sketchy to say the leastcouple had three children: Rachel, Imogen and Sasha. And pretty soon Life was lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, as it turns into a murder enquiry, people want answersthe family home on the Isle of Wight. Need answers Even then the doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able to leave him in charge''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099584751</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1914585402|title=The QuickDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=Lauren OwenDavid F Ross|rating=34.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=The Quick is the debut I reviewed David F Ross's book [[There's Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's Only One Danny Garvey]] a couple of author Lauren Owen, years back and set in the gothic world of Victorian London. Owen guides us through the lives of several characters, but specifically James remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and Charlotte, siblings living in a Yorkshire mansionaffecting it was. Left to fend for themselves due to It was a dead mother and an absent fathergripping, the two grow up close, playing dark games to pass the time. It is only when James, the younger child, moves to Londonemotionally wounding read, and rereading my review of it my main takeaway was that the games become very real indeed, and both brother and sister must fight to save I might not just themselves, but their humanityhave lavished enough praise on it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099569973</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Remember Me This WayLucy Ashe|authortitle=Sabine DurrantClara and Olivia
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=People should be sad when their husband or wife diesThe year is 1933. The place? Sadler's Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, twins no less. It’s just Identical on the outside but not, we learn, on the way things workinside. Whether it’s a sudden accident or a long time coming deteriorationAnd not on stage, either. Because there should be sorrow and maybe 's a few tears. But Lizzie is lot that builds a little bit relieved when Zach dies in a horrible car crashdancer. He was her husband and she loved him but there was more Some things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, attention to it than that. Now it’s a year later detail – andsome things, for the first timethat ''je ne sais quoi'', Lizzie feels strong enough to visit that don't come from the scene of the accidentclassroom. But all is not right when she gets thereA stage presence, and as she pulls at a loose threadcharm, the whole jumper starts to unravela ''joie de vivre''. As she starts to question everything she believed to be trueThe difference between a hard-worker, she can’t help but wonder if the whole story of that night hasn’t quite come out yetand a star.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444762443</amazonuk>0861544080
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Richard HennerleyHeather Fawcett|title=I Really, Really Want ItEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries|rating=3.54
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Andrew Manning Emily Wilde is what I would call 'a fixer'. He's got decades of experience in sorting out those ''little'' problems which so plague celebrities an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, andshe has travelled extensively, franklyand researched meticulously, if he's got to bend the law just a tiny bit - or even more - to earn his crust then thatwrite her life's OK by him. He's wealthywork, with a list the very first encyclopaedia of clients to die for (and some willfaeries...) Whilst she is brilliant at research and happily unfaithful speaking to his long-term partnerfaeries, Johnny on a regular basisshe is not so good with people. And Johnny does exactly So when she finds herself far, far North in the small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the same. When we meet Andrew his main problem village matriarch, she is Shelley Bright. She's 'England's Sweetheart'not sure what she has done, chart-topping singer nor how to redeem herself and television starput her final investigations for her book back on the right track. Andrew prefers to think of Enter Wendell Bambleby, her as 'a viciousdashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, avaricious snakeall charm and delight, a nasty, nasty piece of workmuch to Emily' - and s frustration. But why is he here? What does he's probably got want? And what exactly is going on with the right of it.faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1500739588</amazonuk>0356519120
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Linda Newbery1398515388|title=Quarter Past Two On A Wednesday AfternoonThe Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=At a quarter past two on a Wednesday afternoon First of all, it was the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and this, in August Rose disappeared - completelyturn, caused the nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and utter devastation. It didn't look as though there had been a crime - there The deaths were no signs of violence uncountable, and some the loss of her clothes and a rucksack were missinglivelihoods was widespread. It was possible The fact that she had simply gone many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of her own accord: she was beautiful, headstrong and just slightly wilful. Twenty years later her younger sister, Anna has still not come to terms with what happened and it's affecting her whole lifepriorities but - six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. Her relationship with Martin is foundering and she canHe wasn't make up her mind whether ita dog person but the convenience store owner's what she wants - or doesn't want, with probably a slight bias comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and Tamon the latter. Finally she decides that she must try and find Rose for herselfdog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857522493</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The AscendantChristopher Bowden|authortitle=Alethea CroweMr Magenta|rating=34
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Christopher Bowden's latest novel is a patient untangling of a seemingly ordinary woman's life, carried out by her nephew after she has died. The Greek Gods never died - in fact, they are still very much on this planet, causing chaos aunt who always provided a safe harbour and interfering with the lives a little bit of mortals, albeit on indulgence to a young nephew had had a much smaller scale more interesting life than in their heyday. Whilst the front cover suggests a thriller much in the vein of The Da Vinci Code or something of its ilk, Alathea Crowe has created something with excellent characters that nephew Stephen had ever realised and interesting prose. It's just a shame she didn't stick it seems to him an obligation to the thriller aspect more, as I felt the book lost its hold on me fairly early onfind it all out.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0704373580</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Fatty O'Leary's Dinner PartyJennifer Mason|authortitle=Alexander McCall SmithPartitions of Unity|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=SoHere at Bookbag Towers, we first met Elizabeth Cromwell, Fatty is from Fayetteville dominatrix and unintentional detective in Arkansas and he and his wife Betty do, it has to be said[[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], err on the rather large side. At home in Fayetteville their size causes them no problems but when Betty books her Irish-American husband she investigated and unravelled a trip to Ireland for his birthday the problems beginseries of disappearances. Poor Fatty. It seems the calamities start from the beginning In ''Partitions of their trip and they are both funny and painful Unity'', she sets her mind to read at timessolving a murder. Just when you think things can'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 but sympathy for poor Fatty.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846973007</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF
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{{Frontpage
|author=Will Carver
|title=The Daves Next Door
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= Five strangers come together in one moment as a suicide bomber prepares to detonate his vest on a London tube line. As their fates overlap, the story is told in backwards order, leading up to the fateful moment.
|isbn= 1914585186
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{{Frontpage
|author=Jennifer Mason
|title=Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=''A struggling poetry zine, a mom-and-pop mobile diner in the Northern California redwoods, a 400-meter hurdler who just missed the 2004 Olympics, a women's track coach with a yen for bullwhips, a billionaire with a state-of-the-art S&M dungeon, a man serving a life sentence in Alabama, an enigmatic signature, K(s, x), on a cheap oil painting, an erotic art dealer in Georgia...''
This is just a sample of the cast of characters and settings in Preposterous. As you can see, some keeping up will be required! The basic premise of this mystery story goes like this...|isbn=B09STS96HS}}{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0B2N7MVYM|title=Man at the HelmThe Calculations of Rational Men|author=Nina StibbeDaniel Godfrey|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=WhatIt's that about treating an ending purely as another beginning? the 10th of December 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marr. When Just to put what happens in context, the marriage of ElizabethCuban missile crisis is still very fresh in people's parents ends, the foursome of Lizzie, her older (and wiser beyond her years) sister and kid brother and the mum move to minds. The world has barely had a Leicestershire village chance to begin againbreathe out. But things donfor Joe Marr, it's not the missile crisis that't start swimmingly – s at the entire village seems to turn against them and maintain their outsider statusfront of his mind. Thinking this down to the D-notice put on their parents (for divorce means a woman being unacceptably short He's been convicted of trustworthiness in the early 1970s) the girls put their efforts into match-makingmurder. Little do they realise With the lack current state of options they face – and medical knowledge, it's hard to think otherwise than that the life-changing events that arise when they witness prosecution would never have been brought but Joe Marr has spent his first few days in HMP Queen's Bench, a glimmer relatively new prison. He's just getting used to his roommate, Mervyn, and learning to be wary of success…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241003156</amazonuk>the McArthur brothers.
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