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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Christopher BlandOnyi Nwabineli|title=Ashes In The Wind|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=John Burke and Tomas Sullivan may go to the same primary school in Kerry but even in 1908 they're on two sides of a great divide. John is Anglo Irish protestant and comfortably off, being the heir to Derriquin Castle whereas Tomas is Irish Catholic, living in poverty and raised to feel the resentment of the oppressed. The fact that John has been brought up to believe in Home Rule tragically makes no difference as John, Tomas and their future generations live with the consequences of a centuries old struggle. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781859337</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Elisabeth Gifford|title=Return Allow Me to FourwindsIntroduce Myself
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|summary=Two families gather at Fourwinds for Anuri spent her childhood on display to the wedding world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Nicky Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and Sarahinfluencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Alice Now Anuri is in her twenties and Ralph are as proud of their son as Patricia she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the content about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and Peter are of their daughterreceiving money from them for doing so. However there are secrets festering behind Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the celebratory facades and therenew focus of Ophelia's nothing like pre-wedding jitters to bring such things bubbling to online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the surface.same time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782391142</amazonuk>0861546873
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529153298|title=The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy - The Nearly Definitive EditionList of Suspicious Things|author=Douglas AdamsJennie Godfrey
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=There are few series that 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 garnered such a cult following as 'The Hitchhikers Guide disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the Galaxyfamily 'Down South'. Whether the fans have come When you're from the radio seriesYorkshire, the (impossibly hard) computer gameDown South is a frightening, or the (well intentioned but not particularly good) filmforeign place, they are everywherebest avoided. Ask a room of people what For Miv, the meaning of life ismove would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and you can be pretty sure a good few will pipe up with she'42ll do anything to prevent that. She' as s not worried about the answerdangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434023396</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1035906708|title=DoomedDiva|author=Chuck PalahniukDaisy Goodwin|rating=24.5
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|summary=The central characterWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, Madisonbut she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, is a strangely unlikeable narrator who has been murderedNew York, in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. She finds herself in hell Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but is able her father changed it to return 'Callas' to Earth to observe make it more manageable in the dramatic goingsStates. When she was back in Athens -on of supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her celebrity parents, who fit the stereotype of voice - she was raised under the Brangelina couple - socially responsible, universally famous and obscenely rich. Without giving too much away, Madison is Nazi occupation by a pawn in Satan’s plan to destroy the earth mother who mercilessly exploited her and ensure everyone goes to hell. This being Palahniukmade no secret of her preference for her elder sister, the focus is on the comedic possibilities of this scenario rather than the moralisticJackie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099552639</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Victoria HislopAlexander McCall Smith|title=The SunrisePerfect Passion Company|rating=4.5
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|summary=Savvas has everything he needs here The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Cyprus: moneyEdinburgh, a beautiful wife from a rich Greek Cypriot family run by Ness and a hotel operating as an alternative to develop into beacon accommodation for all the well-heeledonline apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. It's not everything he wants though. There's always another hotel to buy Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and deals to be done while Aphroditilook after the business, his intelligent wife, becomes more aware of her position as an ornament rather than Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a partnerwhile. On the other handKatie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, the Turkish Ozkans and Greek Georgious have less materially but are, on so jumps at the whole, happy. Traditionally they should be enemies but Famagusta is a tolerant town and a good place chance to come home to liveEdinburgh. All And so begins this changes in 1974: Turkish soldiers land on the island new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and slowly move down through the northIsabel Dalhousie novels, an underground resistance emerges and life becomes dangerously cheapbut with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. The citizens of Famagusta flee to the southKatie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but two families can’t get out Ness has full confidence in time: the Ozkans her abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and the Georgious.rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755377788</amazonuk>1846976596
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Winter HorsesDean Koontz|authortitle=Philip KerrThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=TeensParanormal|summary=It’s 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 winter of 1941 and we are in thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the Ukrainevery last person to deserve all this bad luck. A fourteen year old girl He is hiding in a wood on nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the vast and bitter-cold steppe. Her name delivery to his house is Katinkaa new friend, a name bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from folk song nefarious forces for being a good person. Spike is going to take care of Benny, and fairy talewill certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and she has been befriended by two of the Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild Przelowski’s horsesadventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406359831</amazonuk>1662500491
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Where Love LiesKatherine Howe|authortitle=Julie CohenA True Account|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Let's start Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to live with the basics. Felicitya family who run an inn, a children's book author and illustrator, has been married being made to the lovely Quinn for just work there from a short timeyoung age. They live in When she hears there is to be a sweet cottage, hanging of some pirates in a wonderful villagethe town, with Quinn's family nearbyshe decides to go and watch. Quinn is the perfect husband, Enthralled and horrified in every wayequal measure, and surely Felicity's life can't get any better than this? You might well guess that anyone starting out Hannah finds herself embroiled in a book in this way is heading for trouble. Felicityyoung boy's trouble comes in rather an unusual form howeverdeath at the hands of two vicious pirates. She begins hides away, so that they don't find and kill her too, and then to escape them completely she runs away to experience intense emotionssea, seemingly preceded by smelling dressing as a scent that she recognises from boy and joining the notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a long time ago in her lifecabin boy. But are She soon finds herself in the emotions real, or thick of things when there is her imagination playing tricks a mutiny on board, and from there we are caught up in her? And are these episodes worthy rip roaring tale of a trip to life on the doctor, or will he dismiss her olfactory experiences as the random ramblings of a confused woman?ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0593070844</amazonuk>0861547438
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1471180158|title=RoomsMaybe Tomorrow|author=Lauren OliverPenny Parkes
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Alice and Sandra are dead. Ghosts trapped in the house they lived and died Jamie Matson works inan upper-class grocery store, they have bickered and squabbled for years. Distraction for them comes in a man who's a control freak with all the form subtlety of a realhalf brick. Jamie's son, live family - CarolineBo, her daughter Minna'has his problems'. He's asthmatic and the more you read, son Trenton, and Minnathe more you'll suspect that he's daughter Amyon the autistic spectrum. Arriving Sometimes Jamie needs to mourn and sort affairs following take time off at short notice - she's a frequent flier in the death of Minna local A&E and Trentonsometimes Bo's father, arguments not fit enough to go to school. Missed shifts or the need to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and old wounds soon open upput in the wrong. It was going to come to a head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444760769</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0CKD1L5JL|title=Burnt Tongues: An Anthology of Transgressive Short StoriesRadio Free Olympia|author=Chuck Palahniuk, Dennis Widmyer and Richard ThomasJeffrey Dunn
|rating=4
|genre=Short StoriesGeneral Fiction|summary=Saying certain things out loud just don’t sound rightPetr is an orphan. Some things are so disturbing or politically incorrect that you are best off leaving them inside your headRescued by the strange, reclusive Bear, he is brought up far from bustling cities and busy human society, or better yet not thinking of them at all. When these words are spoken they could lead to in the sensation forests of Burnt Tongue; an aftereffect of knowing what you said was wrongWashington's Olympic Peninsula. Are you prepared to enter After Bear dies and a brief sojourn in human company, and armed with only a pirate radio transmitter, Petr goes on a journey through the world of Transgressive Fiction that aims to disturbforest, alienatebroadcasting the strange, disgust wild and question?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178329552X</amazonuk>rarely heard voices he encounters.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=UsSarah Marsh|authortitle=David NichollsA Sign of Her Own|rating=43.5
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|summary=Douglas Petersen is After a bout of scarlet fever as a mild-manneredchild, middle-aged biochemistEllen Lark loses her hearing. He and Connie have been married for Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, everything about two decadesher life changes. Their son, Albie Living in a time when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is your average sullen teenager with sent to a messy room and bohemian affectationsschool where she is taught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. He From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and Douglas argue about everything, but especially about Albie's chosen career path: he hopes to be using a photographersystem called Visible Speech. At the same time, taking after his artist motherBell is working on other inventions and ideas, but Douglas wants him to study something more practical and rigorous at uni. Still, Douglas thinks things are going pretty well for his family – until one night Connie sits Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in bed and tells him she thinks she wants to leave hima complicated tangle of espionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>034089699X</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=Mambo In ChinatownThe Figurine|author=Jean KwokVictoria Hislop
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=The daughter of an immigrant noodle makerIt 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, who lives with her father but Mary and younger sister in Hamish (Helena's parents) felt that it would be a one room pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. Her trip to the family apartment in Chinatown, is not up-market Kolonaki would be the sort first of person you might imagine as a skilled several annual visits. She grew to love her grandmother and elegant dancer. Andthe family's maid, indeedDina, Charlie isn’t any but was wary - and frightened - of those things as we meet hergrandfather, 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. By day she washes pots in His prejudices included Helena's red hair and green eyes - inherited from her father’s restaurantfather's Scottish ancestors.}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=After Death|rating=3|genre=General Fiction|summary= Michael Mace, Head of Security, at a top secret biological research facility, by night she encourages her sister Lisa to succeed is among 55 people who die when a virus is released in a bio-hazard accident. Finding himself in school and succeed a makeshift mortuary, covered in plastic, he has a way sense that Charlie herself wasn’t able something very, very bad has happened tohim – 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. But she dreams ''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 villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicines. The black wood of morethe forest provides heat and warmth, roofs on homes, and when even gallows, if needed. The fear of being buried alive is an entry level job at existential superstition in the village and that is the reason Volushka, a dance school is advertiseddrunken, she suddenly wants it more than anything she’s ever wantedself-indulgent, everlazy lout of a man is tolerated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594633223</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0BYF82CXT|title=Ghosts of ManhattanSemi-Detached|author=George MannDeborah Stone
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=New York City ''Bill and Amanda are living in a semi- 1926. A world not quite as we know it. America is locked into detached house, stuck in a cold war with the British Empiredepressing rut of boredom and disappointment, when Terry and Fiona – glamorous, cars are coal powered successful and prohibition is still very much in love – move in place across New Yorknext door. A series of horrific murders are committed throughout the cityDespite their different outlooks on life, and the overworked police force are already overworked dealing with the gangsters couples befriend each other and criminals that fill the citylife appears to improve for both pairs. What But all is needednot what it seems, is a hero. And that hero is..and their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy.The Ghost|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783294086</amazonuk>''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Help for the HauntedShalini Boland|authortitle=John SearlesThe Silent Bride
|rating=3
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Rose Alice and Sylvester Mason make their living from helping the hauntedSeth 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 a wife; beautiful, successful, performing exorcisms confident… and running seminars across America on so the subject of inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and the paranormalwedding is planned and set. When they are murdered in a churchthe much-anticipated day arrives, their daughtersAlice is walked down the aisle by her father, Rose beaming with pride and Sylvi, are left negotiating excitement as she surveys the complex legacy congregation – their work friends assembled to celebrate this joyful day and when Seth turns to face his approaching bride, Alice's world implodes because she has left behindabsolutely no idea who the man at the altar is, who is waiting for her to become his wife.|amazonukisbn=1662507089}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787636003|title=The Girls of Summer|author=Katie Bishop|rating=5|genre=<amazonuk>0751555908</amazonuk>General Fiction|summary=It was the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the island. Rachel wasn't exactly innocent but she was, perhaps, naive, so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to take an interest in her, she was flattered rather than wary. It was quite a 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 bar where all the girls either worked or partied.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Boris FishmanAmanda Craig|title=A Replacement LifeThree Graces
|rating=4.5
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|summary=On Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the day that Slavastate-of-the-nation novel. There's Russian Jewish grandmother is buried in their new homeland something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the atmosphere of the USday and capture it, a letter arrives from crafting an image of the German Conference on Material Claims Against Germany offering her financial restitution for her war years spent country as it stands in a concentration campone particular moment. All she would have needed to do To say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be to write a letter about her whereabouts and experiences during World War II. Itembarrassingly inadequate: she's too late practically synonymous with the genre of contemporary social fiction at this point. She has such a gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the day into the lives of her but Slava's granddad wants Slava to complete the form characters in his grandfather's name instead. The fact a way that Slava's granddad was never in a German concentration camp is immaterial; surely Slava could write something? He's a journalist after all feels natural and his granddad did suffer during the war; every Jew lived-in Minsk suffered. This put's Slava's filial devotion to the test , never making them ciphers for social commentary but little does he know it's only the beginninginstead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0957548834</amazonuk>140871468X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=152915118X|title=Bleeding EdgePineapple Street|author=Thomas PynchonJenny Jackson|rating=34.5
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|summary=Thomas Pynchon ''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 major American novelistStockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the tribe. Published for 40 years The problem's exacerbated when the clan matriarch, his books are always surprising and highly originalTilda, asks Cord and Sasha if they'd like to move into the intense privacy 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 author mean that furniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and Cord can move straight in. Nominally, they are often still had a mystery when releasedchoice but that wasn't the reality. Darley and Georgiana start to call Sasha 'the gold digger'. Having read She's living in ''Bleeding Edgetheir'', I can confirm family home. They use it so often that they abbreviate it is still somewhat of a mystery to me'the GD'. Maxine Tarnow }}{{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 great main character - a working mother separated from move as her husbandson wants to move to another house and bring Edie to live with his family, she as Edie is equal parts sassy starting to funnylose her memory. However, Edie is tormented by the memory of her childhood friend, Lucy, who went missing over 60 years ago, and makes the worry that there was a secret she was keeping for a reliable companion along Lucy that somehow might be the thing that reveals the waytruth of what happened all that time ago. Some After 'seeing' Lucy in the high street, just 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 other characters encountered along past, she is forgetting more and more in her day to day life. Will she uncover the way truth about Lucy's disappearance before her move, and before her memories are truly bizarre - Conkling Speedwell probably the most prominent!gone forever?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099590360</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 Handsome Man's De Luxe CafeGarnett Girls|author=Alexander McCall SmithGeorgina Moore
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=When I finished the fourteenth novel 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 this series I 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 away from what they felt very warm she could achieve - going to Oxford and happyhaving a glittering career. Things were going so well for all In the charactersevent, they eloped and it seemed that Mma Ramotswe Richard took her away from the Isle of Wight. Margo did go to Oxford and Mma Makutsi had reached went on to become a wonderful high in their friendshipwell-respected journalist. Of courseThe couple had three children: Rachel, these things cannot last Imogen and Sasha. Life was lived in London andholidays were spent at Sandcove, surprisingly, I found that I was rather glad the family home on the Isle of Wight. Even then the return of some of Mma Makutidoubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's more outspoken nature! Just what is mind: ''she getting up would never be able to this time?leave him in charge''. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408704331</amazonuk>Then Richard left them.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1914585402|title=The Life of a BananaDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=P P WongDavid F Ross
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=It has all the makings 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 a Victorian melodrama. A young girl’s mother dies on her 13th birthday. She years back and her brother are packed off to live with evil grandmother, strange uncle remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and flighty auntaffecting it was. But this is very much It was a 21st century tale for the protagonistgripping, Xing Liemotionally wounding read, is a British born Chinese girland rereading my review of it my main takeaway was that I might not have lavished enough praise on it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>191005321X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Ghost ChildLucy Ashe|authortitle=Caroline OveringtonClara and Olivia|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=1980s MelbourneThe year is 1933. The place? Sadler's Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, twins no less. A triple zero (=999) call has been received from Identical on the outside but not, we learn, on the inside. And not on stage, either. Because there's a house on lot that builds a notorious estatedancer. A child is unresponsive. The story of how it happened is sketchy Some things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, attention to say detail – and some things, that ''je ne sais quoi'', that don't come from the leastclassroom. And pretty soonA stage presence, as it turns into a murder enquirycharm, people want answersa ''joie de vivre''. Need answersThe difference between a hard-worker, and a star.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099584751</amazonuk>0861544080
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The MaggieHeather Fawcett|authortitle=James Dillon WhiteEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries|rating=34
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Once upon a timeEmily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, a Puffer in Scotland was not someone with too many deep-fried Mars bars and too much Bucky under his beltshe has travelled extensively, but instead a small steamer, running errant cargo routes in and out of the great port of Glasgowresearched meticulously, and taking small industrial output from one place to another – especially lesserwrite her life's work, shallow-drafted harbours the bigger ships couldn't ply their trade invery first encyclopaedia of faeries. McTaggart Whilst she is Skipper brilliant at research and speaking to one Pufferfaeries, and a particularly rundown one at thatshe is not so good with people. He and his three crewmates are So when she finds herself far, far North in need the small village of drinking moneyHrafvsnik, as wellhaving somehow offended the village matriarch, so when she is not sure what she has done, nor how to redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on the rare chance comes of a job, he leaps at itright track. The job in handEnter Wendell Bambleby, taking a special consignment to a remote island for a visiting American magnateher dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, should be easy – but all of themcharm and delight, from Marshall the businessman down much to Emily's frustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the cabin boy, are surprisingly great at conspiring to make it the most drawn-out voyage ''The Maggie'' has yet to face…faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780272499</amazonuk>0356519120
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1398515388|title=The QuickBoy and the Dog|author=Lauren OwenSeishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating=34.5
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|summary=The Quick is First of all, it was the debut of author Lauren Owenearthquake, and set deep in the gothic world of Victorian London. Owen guides us through ocean floor, which created the lives of several characters, but specifically James tsunami and Charlottethis, siblings living in a Yorkshire mansionturn, caused the nuclear meltdown. Left to fend for themselves due to a dead mother The result was complete and an absent fatherutter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, and the two grow up close, playing dark games to pass 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 timetsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. It is only when James, He wasn't a dog person but the younger child, moves convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to London, that open his car door and Tamon the games become very real indeed, and both brother and sister must fight to save not just themselves, but their humanitydog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099569973</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Remember Me This WayChristopher Bowden|authortitle=Sabine DurrantMr Magenta|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 Christopher Bowden's latest novel is a sudden accident or patient untangling of a long time coming deteriorationseemingly ordinary woman's life, there should be sorrow carried out by her nephew after she has died. The aunt who always provided a safe harbour and maybe a few tears. But Lizzie is a little bit relieved when Zach dies in of indulgence to a horrible car crash. He was her husband and she loved him but there was young nephew had had a much more to it interesting life than that. Now it’s a year later nephew Stephen had ever realised and, for the first time, Lizzie feels strong enough it seems to him an obligation to visit the scene of the accident. But find it all is not right when she gets there, 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 of that night hasn’t quite come out yet.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444762443</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Richard HennerleyJennifer Mason|title=I Really, Really Want ItPartitions of Unity|rating=3.54
|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 andHere at Bookbag Towers, franklywe first met Elizabeth Cromwell, if he's got to bend the law just a tiny bit - or even more - to earn his crust then that's OK dominatrix and unintentional detective in [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by him. He's wealthyJennifer Mason|Preposterous]], with when she investigated and unravelled a list series of clients to die for (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 Brightdisappearances. SheIn 's 'EnglandPartitions of Unity's Sweetheart', chart-topping singer and television star. Andrew prefers she sets her mind to think of her as 'solving a vicious, avaricious snake, a nasty, nasty piece of work' - and he's probably got the right of itmurder...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1500739588</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF
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{{Frontpage
|author=Will Carver
|title=The Daves Next Door
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= Five strangers come together in one moment as a suicide bomber prepares to detonate his vest on a London tube line. As their fates overlap, the story is told in backwards order, leading up to the fateful moment.
|isbn= 1914585186
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{{Frontpage
|author=Jennifer Mason
|title=Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=''A struggling poetry zine, a mom-and-pop mobile diner in the Northern California redwoods, a 400-meter hurdler who just missed the 2004 Olympics, a women's track coach with a yen for bullwhips, a billionaire with a state-of-the-art S&M dungeon, a man serving a life sentence in Alabama, an enigmatic signature, K(s, x), on a cheap oil painting, an erotic art dealer in Georgia...''
This is just a sample of the cast of characters and settings in Preposterous. As you can see, some keeping up will be required! The basic premise of this mystery story goes like this...|isbn=B09STS96HS}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Linda NewberyB0B2N7MVYM|title=Quarter Past Two On A Wednesday AfternoonThe Calculations of Rational Men|author=Daniel Godfrey|rating=4.5
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|summary=At a quarter past two on a Wednesday afternoon in August Rose disappeared - completely. It didn't look as though there had been a crime - there were no signs s the 10th of violence and some of her clothes and a rucksack were missingDecember 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marr. It was possible that she had simply gone of her own accord: she was beautifulJust to put what happens in context, headstrong and just slightly wilfulthe Cuban missile crisis is still very fresh in people's minds. Twenty years later her younger sister, Anna The world has still not come barely had a chance to terms with what happened and breathe out. But for Joe Marr, it's affecting her whole lifenot the missile crisis that's at the front of his mind. Her relationship with Martin is foundering and she canHe't make up her mind whether s been convicted of murder. With the current state of medical knowledge, it's what she wants - or doesnhard to think otherwise than that the prosecution would never have been brought but Joe Marr has spent his first few days in HMP Queen't wants Bench, with probably a slight bias to the latterrelatively new prison. Finally she decides that she must try He's just getting used to his roommate, Mervyn, and find Rose for herselflearning to be wary of the McArthur brothers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857522493</amazonuk>
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