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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Monique RoffeyOnyi Nwabineli|title=House of Ashes|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=There had been unrest in the Caribbean City of Silk in Sans Amen for some time with people growing increasingly belligerent about the perceived corruption of the government. Then the day came when The Leader called the Brothers together and told them that they were going to make history: they would take over the House of Power and the television studios and reclaim what was rightfully theirs. Part of this 'revolution' is Ashes, a quiet, bookish young man who seems Allow Me to feel most guilty about the lie he told his wife - that he'd be back home for dinner - when he left the house. He'd been swayed by The Leader's rhetoric and finds himself a part of the rag-tag band of ill-trained but probably over-armed young men and teens who invade the House of Power. It would not go as they expected.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471126668</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Betsy Tobin|title=Things We Couldn't ExplainIntroduce Myself
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=JerichoAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, Ohio thanks to her step- 1979mother 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. Annemarie Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is a cleverslowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, funny and spirited girlsuing her step-mother to take down the content about her. Born with sight Anuri is battling alcoholism, she turned blind as a childfailing to start her PhD, but more than compensates undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for her disabilitydoing so. Living amongst the small-town folk of Jericho Most importantly, she has a relatively standardis desperately worried about her little sister, suburban life, schooled at home but more than friendly with many in who is the town - especially new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her charming neighbour Ethan. All is calmsister, until one day Annemarie finds and perhaps herself pregnant.and her relationship with her father at the same time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783753080</amazonuk>0861546873
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Braham1529153298|title=The Pink House at AppletonList of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=45
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|summary=When we first meet Boyd Longfellow Brookes heIt's musing over the fact that - however much you might wish otherwise - sounds1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, smells or small details can evoke the most painful of memories in full Technicolorhonestly... ) On this particular afternoon it was the music - Saint-Saens She's not what'Violin Concerto No 3 in B minors worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they' - which brought back the scene which regularly invaded his dreams ve been murdered, but to have 'disappeared'anddoesn'' his waking hourst sound quite so frightening. Once again he was the eight-year-old boy whose Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father was thrashing him with a leather strap whilst his mother wept and Papa demanded wants to know if Boyd had molested move the young daughter of family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a neighbourfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. He didn't even know For Miv, the meaning of move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. She'molests not worried about the dangers or that her Mum'' but the expressions on the faces of those around him told him all he needed s stopped talking - to knowanyone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848767455</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sumia Sukkar1035906708|title=The Boy from Aleppo who Painted the WarDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5
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|summary=This is a book about colour against the grey backdrop We tend to think of the Syrian civil war. AdamMaria Callas as Greek, the 14-year-old narratorbut she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, is an artist who describes emotionNew York, people in December 1923 and things 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 colour. Through colour, he makes sense of the worldStates. So his sister, Yasmine, 'is usually ruby' although at times When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she is grey or green. Adam’s views are simple, uncomplicated – he says ‘Lying is bad’, ‘I don’t like was raised under the war’ Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and ‘[Paintings] always say the right things’made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908998466</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Susan HillAlexander McCall Smith|title=Black SheepThe Perfect Passion Company
|rating=4.5
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|summary=Mount of Zeal The Perfect Passion Company is a mining villagedating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and no mistake. Three concentric semi-circular streets align across operating as an alternative to all the side of online apps in providing a hillmore personal, like tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the rows of seats in an amphitheatrebusiness, with little thought at all allowed as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for the life above the crest a while. Katie is coming out of the hilla break up with a bad boyfriend, and a lot of effort and dreams focused on the coal mine so jumps at the village's corechance to come home to Edinburgh. The Howker family (and how evocative that name isAnd so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, so akin bringing us to the noise of hawking coal dust from one's lungs)an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and Ted and Rose, the youngest of the clanIsabel Dalhousie novels, in particular, will face the destiny the environment they grow up in gives them – but with only the merest glimmers of hope and the faintest of sparks to latch on some new characters who quickly begin to as regards a likeable futurecharm. But if that is Katie has no experience in running a faint sparkbusiness, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, then how safe is it so close to the tinderbox of lend a coal mine?hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>009953956X</amazonuk>1846976596
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Katherine WebbDean Koontz|title=The Night FallingBad Weather Friend
|rating=4.5
|genre=Historical FictionParanormal|summary=In the summer of 1921Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, Leandro returns to and his birthplace in Italyhouse gets trashed. He Oh, and someone has made delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his fortunehome, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his aim house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to transform deserve all this bad luck. He is a crumbling palazzo into an opulent mansionnice person. A really nice person. But So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the outside world delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is still reeling clearly under attack from the Great Warnefarious forces for being a good person. Spike is going to take care of Benny, and Leandro’s nephewwill certainly take care of Benny's enemies, Ettoreif he, is one of those most in need of help. ReluctantlyBenny, Ettore asks his uncle for assistanceand Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are. But Ettero could not have foreseen what was to come from that request…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409131491</amazonuk>1662500491
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Paul Fournel and David Bellos (translator)Katherine Howe|title=Dear ReaderA True Account|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Robert Dubois Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to live with a publisher of the old school: the books matter - of course they do - but then so does the food family who run an inn, and the drink which accompanies the professionbeing made to work there from a young age. He's had When she hears there is to be a long career hanging of paper manuscriptssome pirates in the town, authors she decides to go and lunches watch. Enthralled and he fully expects that life will continue horrified in this way until he finally retiresequal measure, whenever that might beHannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death at the hands of two vicious pirates. Then one day an intern presents him with an ereader She hides away, so that they don't find and nothing will ever be quite the same againkill her too, not least his briefcaseand then to escape them completely she runs away to sea, which is used to accommodating vast quantities of paper. Hedressing as a boy and joining the notorious Ned Low's not pirate ship as a Luddite - but getting used to this gizmo cabin boy. She soon finds herself in the thick of things when there is not going to be easya mutiny on board, and from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782270264</amazonuk>0861547438
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark B Mills1471180158|title=Waiting for DoggoMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Daniel didnJamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who't s a control freak with all the subtlety of a half brick. Jamie's son, Bo, 'quite'has his problems' acquire Doggo by accident. His girlfriend got him from Battersea DogsHe's asthmatic and the more you read, the more you'll suspect that he' Home but when Clara walked out s on him without any notice (well - just a letterthe autistic spectrum...) she told him Sometimes Jamie needs to take Doggo back. He was, time off at short notice - she said 'just s a dog. frequent flier in the local A small ugly dog&E and sometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to school. And Daniel was all set Missed shifts or the need to do just that until he discovered that Doggo would quickly be separated away on time to pick Bo up from what Dan considered to school are occasions when Jamie can be a couple of important parts of his anatomycontrolled and put in the wrong. After a rethink Daniel had a new job as an advertising copywriter which allowed him It was going to take Doggo come to work with him and Doggo's career as a 'mental health companion dog' was bornhead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472218345</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0CKD1L5JL|title=Everything I Never Told YouRadio Free Olympia|author=Celeste NgJeffrey Dunn|rating=54
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=To understand Lydia’s death, we need to understand Lydia, and to understand Lydia we need to understand Lydia’s parentsPetr is an orphan. Marilyn, who wanted more from her life than to play Rescued by the dutiful housewife, who goes to college to study and realise her dreams, not to meet a man (her own mother’s dream for her), goes ahead andstrange, wellreclusive Bear, she meets a man. That man he is James, whose credentials for teaching American history are brought up for debatefar from bustling cities and busy human society, but who nonetheless manages to overcome his background to secure a role doing just thatin the forests of Washington's Olympic Peninsula. They settle down After Bear dies and have Natha brief sojourn in human company, then Lydia, then and armed with only a little while laterpirate radio transmitter, Hannah. An unusual family for 1970s Ohio, but Petr goes on a happy one. The children are brightjourney through the forest, broadcasting the home is cosystrange, wild and rarely heard voices he encounters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349134286</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patrick RothfussSarah Marsh|title=The Slow Regard A Sign of Silent ThingsHer Own|rating=43.5|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary=Deep below the UniversityAfter a bout of scarlet fever as a child, the ancient home Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of magic and learningsilence, everything about her life changes. Living in a young girl lives amongst time when the cavesuse of sign language was seen as something only savages do, tunnelsEllen is sent to a school where she is taught to lip read, and abandoned roomsbut physically restrained from signing. In Seven days, her friend will be visiting - one of her few friends From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and someone who Auri cannot wait to seeusing a system called Visible Speech. Those seven days are filled with Auri's preparations - her hunt amongst At the tunnels same time, Bell is working on other inventions and caves for a proper giftideas, and her thoughts as she goes about her businessEllen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473209323</amazonuk>1035401614
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0BC3YTCMR|title=Dear Committee MembersGood Girls Die|author=Julie SchumacherAyura Ayira
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Jason Fitger (Jay) ''This story is not for everyone.'' Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of her fifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. She was a very bright student, a Professor of creative writing bit too nerdy if truth be told, and literature at a small university suffered from vitiligo - people were afraid to hug her in the American mid-westcase it's contagious. He It's not easy being a black girl whose skin is also 84% white. She had a frustrated novelist with a colourful personal history, much of which bleeds into crush on seventeen-year-old Reggie Anderson but never thought he would notice her. Then he did: Lavender was very good at math and Reggie asked if she would tutor him. She readily agreed: tutoring was something she gladly did at church: this was just an extension. She went to his professional lifehouse and he raped her. In shock, with interesting resultsshe even allowed him to give her a lift home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007586345</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Pitre1472263936|title=Fives and Twenty-Fives The Figurine|author=Victoria Hislop
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=In Iraq any soldier within 5 metres of a roadside bomb explosion will die as even an armoured truck will be torn It was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to piecesGreece. Being within 25 metres of a roadside explosion 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 fatal to foot soldiersa pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. Lieutenant Pete Donovan and his US marine unit know this better than anyoneHer trip to the family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be the first of several annual visits. Their job in Iraq is She grew to repair love her grandmother and the roads but itfamily's not as simple as it soundsmaid, Dina, but was wary - and frightened - of her grandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. Every pothole (yes, ''every'' pothole) contains a bomb; even He was proud of his close connections to the kerbstones could be dummies filled with explosivesJunta and expected his family to uphold his values but saw no reason to accommodate them. ThatHis prejudices included Helena's why every serviceman and woman has it drilled into them: no matter what, no matter where, always watch your fives red hair and twentygreen eyes -fivesinherited from her father's Scottish ancestors.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00M7S1NL8</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The TowerDean Koontz|authortitle=Alessandro GallenziAfter Death
|rating=3
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=AmmanMichael Mace, JordanHead 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 only him – as he sits up and even while looks around at the worldshrouded bodies of his dead friends and former colleagues. As he recovers his senses, he realises that there is something different about him; he can ''feel'' everything. ''Everything''s tallest building is still being constructed, Biblia are hard at work inside. Michael isn't ''Michael'' anymore.|isbn=1662500467}} {{Frontpage|isbn=B0BVDC2VWH|title=The Grave Listeners|author=William Frank|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=The global Internet conglomerate village is undergoing its efforts to digitise the entire worldisolated and poor. It's knowledge, including a priceless archive held surrounded by a local dignitary, when one of Witching Forest. And the workers involved villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread- on behalf like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicines. The black wood of the Vatican - vanishesforest provides heat and warmth, roofs on homes, and even gallows, along with some unknown quantities if needed. The fear of being buried alive is an existential superstition in the village and that is the works. Enter Peter Simms from Englandreason Volushka, and a classy Italian colleaguedrunken, to help relocate whatever it was that was missing self- in the face indulgent, lazy lout of threats from elsewhere in the Muslim kingdom..a man is tolerated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846883377</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0BYF82CXT|title=EmmaSemi-Detached|author=Alexander McCall SmithDeborah Stone|rating=3.54
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|summary=When I read about the plan to re-imagine Jane Austen's novels through contemporary, bestselling authors I wasn't entirely sure this was Bill and Amanda are living in a good thing. Sense and Sensibility by Joanna Trollope? Really? But thensemi-detached house, stuck in a depressing rut of courseboredom and disappointment, my eyes lit upon the magic author's namewhen Terry and Fiona – glamorous, Alexander McCall Smith! Not only had been asked to be involvedsuccessful and very much in love – move in next door. Despite their different outlooks on life, but the book he was going couples befriend each other and life appears to work on was my most favourite Austen bookimprove for both pairs. But all is not what it seems, Emmaand their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy. What could possibly go wrong?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007553854</amazonuk>''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=LucyShalini Boland|authortitle=Alan KennedyThe Silent Bride|rating=43
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Lucy is Alice and Seth are a paintermatch made in heaven. Hiding away in Dundee on VE Day He is everything she has been searching for; handsome, she returns from a disaster of an exhibition to a letter from a figure from her past. Uncle Albertaccomplished, still in Franceclever, wants to sort out his affairs funny; total and utter husband- who will get what after material. She is all he's dead. The letter sends Lucy on could possibly want in a voyage of discovery - about a past full of artwife; beautiful, lost lovesuccessful, found love, grief, war confident… and so the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and the wedding is planned and about what could possibly come nextset. Set in pre When the much-war Londonanticipated day arrives, Alice is walked down the aisle by her father, pre-war beaming with pride and wartime France excitement as she surveys the congregation – their friends assembled to celebrate this joyful day and windywhen Seth turns to face his approaching bride, rainy DundeeAlice's world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the man at the altar is, Lucy who is a love story, but it's also a kind of coming-homewaiting for her to become his wife. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0956469663</amazonuk>1662507089
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Judy Chicurel1787636003|title=If I Knew You Were Going To Be This Beautiful, I Never Would Have Let You GoThe Girls of Summer|author=Katie Bishop
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Katie It was the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and her friends in Elephant Beach, Long Island are going to make arrived on the most of summer 1972island. High school is behind themRachel wasn't exactly innocent but she was, perhaps, naive, there's booze so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to be drunk and weed to be smokedtake an interest in her, she was flattered rather than wary. There's also It was quite a lot while before he made any sort of physical approach to contend with. This is a working class community, ignored her and disenfranchised by those with the money and influence to helpthat time she was obsessed by him. Also Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, looking after his interests on the Vietnam War rages on, producing local heroes like Luke island and Mitch. For some of in particular in the young people bar where all the future is a blank canvas, for others their future is foreseen girls either worked or foreshortened. As for Katie's hopes and dreams, they all revolve around the hope of a date with Lukepartied.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472221656</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Love Song of Miss Queenie HennessyAmanda Craig|authortitle=Rachel JoyceThree Graces|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Rachel Joyce envisions ''The Love Song Few styles of Miss Queenie Hennessy'' not as a prequel or sequel to [[The Unlikely Pilgrimage contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce|The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry]] but as a companion volume-the-nation novel. Giving QueenieThere's side something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the atmosphere of the story through day and capture it, crafting an extended letter image of the country as it stands in one particular moment. To say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she is writing to Harold from St Bernadine's hospice as she awaits his arrival, Joyce gives readers practically synonymous with the genre of contemporary social fiction at this point. She has such a new perspective on gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the day into the lives of her character's unrequited love for Harold, characters in a surprising friendship she kept up with his son David until his suicide, way that feels natural and her sudden move from Devon to Northumbria, where she lived -in a quaint beachside cottage and maintained her sea garden until she became ill , never making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with cancerissues far larger than themselves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857522450</amazonuk>140871468X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=152915118X|title=The BearPineapple Street|author=Claire CameronJenny Jackson|rating=34.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Canadian Claire Cameron was working as ''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 counsellor at Algonquin Park in Stockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the early 90tribe. The problem'sexacerbated 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, when a bear attacked and killed two campersstreet or so away, which they own. HereThey won't need any of the furniture from Pineapple Street, Cameron revisits so Sasha and re imagines the attackCord can move straight in. Nominally, they had a choice but gives that wasn't the campers two children, reality. Darley and tells Georgiana start to call Sasha 'the story from gold digger'. She's living in ''their'' family home. They use it so often that they abbreviate it to 'the perspective of the daughter, AnnaGD'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099581469</amazonuk>
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{{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 bring Edie to live with his family, as Edie is starting to lose her memory. However, Edie is tormented 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. 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 past, she 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?
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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=Night after NightThe Garnett Girls|author=Phil RickmanGeorgina Moore|rating=45
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=ItThe 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 no surprise mother as 'an older man'. Her parents worried that when it comes Richard's influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to reality televisionOxford and having a glittering career. In the event, broadcasters are fighting amongst themselves for they eloped and Richard took her away from the next big thingIsle of Wight. Margo did go to Oxford and went on to become a well-respected journalist. The couple had three children: Rachel, no matter how tastelessImogen and Sasha. Life was lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, base, or exploitative it may bethe family home on the Isle of Wight. That Even then the doubts about Richard's the starting point for Phil Rickmandrinking were never far from Margo's creepy new thriller, as tv producer Leo Defford decides mind: ''she would never be able to launch a reality show leave him in a mansion formerly owned by tragically deceased movie star Trinity Ansell, and perhaps haunted by Henry VIIIcharge''s last wife, Katherine Parr.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857898698</amazonuk>Then Richard left them.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1914585402|title=The Green DoorDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=Christopher BowdenDavid F Ross|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Clare Mallory is a promising junior barrister working from a prestigious chambers. Life is pretty good. SheI reviewed David F Ross's book [[There's not the type to be taken in Only One Danny Garvey by psychics but when cards advertising the services David F Ross|There's Only One Danny Garvey]] a couple of one Madame Pavonia start arriving in the post, her interest is piqued, first years back and remember being absolutely floored by the rainbow spectrum pattern how powerful and then byaffecting it was... wellIt was a gripping, something else. Tempted to visit the fortune-teller at a local fairemotionally wounding read, Clare is taken aback at Madame Pavonia's reaction to her and rushes out rereading my review of the tentit my main takeaway was that I might not have lavished enough praise on it. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0955506735</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=TwistLucy Ashe|authortitle=Tom GrassClara and Olivia
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Twist doesnThe year is 1933. The place? Sadler't know his familys Wells. Homeless Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, twins no less. Identical on the run from outside but not, we learn, on the policeinside. And not on stage, he is swiftly caught up in the world of Dodgeeither. Because there's a lot that builds a dancer. Some things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, Faginattention to detail – and some things, Sikesthat ''je ne sais quoi'', and Redthat don't come from the classroom. As they involve Twist in the dangerous world of Art theftA stage presence, a charm, his skills are pushed to the limitsa ''joie de vivre''. The difference between a hard-worker, and his morals are tested by both the murky underworld and the beauty of Reda star.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409150909</amazonuk>0861544080
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Christopher BlandHeather Fawcett|title=Ashes In The WindEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=John Burke Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and Tomas Sullivan may go researched meticulously, to write her life's work, the same primary school in Kerry but even in 1908 they're on two sides very first encyclopaedia of a great dividefaeries. John Whilst she is Anglo Irish protestant brilliant at research and comfortably offspeaking to faeries, being the heir to Derriquin Castle whereas Tomas she is Irish Catholicnot so good with people. So when she finds herself far, living far North in poverty and raised to feel the resentment small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the village matriarch, she is not sure what she has done, nor how to redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on the oppressedright track. The fact that John has been brought up to believe in Home Rule tragically makes no difference as JohnEnter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, Tomas all charm and their future generations live delight, much to Emily's frustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the consequences of a centuries old struggle.faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781859337</amazonuk>0356519120
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elisabeth Gifford1398515388|title=Return to FourwindsThe Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Two families gather at Fourwinds for First of all, it was the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and this, in turn, caused the wedding of Nicky nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and Sarahutter devastation. Alice The deaths were uncountable, and Ralph are as proud the loss of livelihoods was widespread. The fact that many pets were separated from their son as Patricia and Peter are owners came far down the list of their daughterpriorities but - six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. However there are secrets festering behind He wasn't a dog person but the celebratory facades and thereconvenience store owner's nothing like pre-wedding jitters to bring such things bubbling comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and Tamon the surfacedog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782391142</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy - The Nearly Definitive EditionChristopher Bowden|authortitle=Douglas AdamsMr Magenta|rating=54
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=There are few series that have garnered such Christopher Bowden's latest novel is a patient untangling of a cult following as seemingly ordinary woman'The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy'. Whether the fans have come from the radio seriess life, the (impossibly hard) computer game, or the (well intentioned but not particularly good) film, they are everywherecarried out by her nephew after she has died. Ask The aunt who always provided a room of people what the meaning safe harbour and a little bit of indulgence to a young nephew had had a much more interesting life is, than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and you can be pretty sure a good few will pipe up with '42' as the answerit seems to him an obligation to find it all out.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0434023396</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=DoomedJennifer Mason|authortitle=Chuck PalahniukPartitions of Unity|rating=2.54
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=The central characterHere at Bookbag Towers, Madisonwe first met Elizabeth Cromwell, is a strangely unlikeable narrator who has been murdered. She finds herself dominatrix and unintentional detective in hell but is able to return to Earth to observe the dramatic goings-on of her celebrity parents[[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], who fit the stereotype when she investigated and unravelled a series of the Brangelina couple - socially responsible, universally famous and obscenely richdisappearances. Without giving too much awayIn ''Partitions of Unity'', Madison is she sets her mind to solving a pawn in Satan’s plan to destroy the earth and ensure everyone goes to hellmurder.. This being Palahniuk, the focus is on the comedic possibilities of this scenario rather than the moralistic.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099552639</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=Victoria HislopB0B2N7MVYM|title=The SunriseCalculations of Rational Men|author=Daniel Godfrey|rating=45
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Savvas has everything he needs here It's the 10th of December 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marr. Just to put what happens in Cyprus: moneycontext, the Cuban missile crisis is still very fresh in people's minds. The world has barely had a beautiful wife from a rich Greek Cypriot family and a hotel chance to develop into beacon accommodation for the well-heeledbreathe out. ItBut for Joe Marr, it's not everything he wants thoughthe missile crisis that's at the front of his mind. ThereHe's always another hotel to buy and deals to be done while Aphroditi, his intelligent wife, becomes more aware been convicted of her position as an ornament rather than a partnermurder. On With the other handcurrent state of medical knowledge, it's hard to think otherwise than that the Turkish Ozkans and Greek Georgious prosecution would never have less materially been brought but areJoe Marr has spent his first few days in HMP Queen's Bench, on the whole, happya relatively new prison. Traditionally they should be enemies but Famagusta is a tolerant town and a good place He's just getting used to live. All this changes in 1974: Turkish soldiers land on the island and slowly move down through the northhis roommate, Mervyn, an underground resistance emerges and life becomes dangerously cheap. The citizens learning to be wary of Famagusta flee to the south, but two families can’t get out in time: the Ozkans and the GeorgiousMcArthur brothers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755377788</amazonuk>
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