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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove --> {{newreviewFrontpage|author=J Robert LennonOnyi Nwabineli|title=See You In Paradise|rating=3|genre=Short Stories|summary=Lennon writes with a relaxed, easy style and his characters are instantly recognisable as people from everyday walks of life, without being in any way stereotypical. Many of the people in these stories are dealing with normal frustrations, and Lennon is cleverly detached enough not Allow Me to make them individuals that you're obviously supposed to root for (the only exception is the industrialist in the eponymous tale, who is an archetypal capitalist fat cat). There are some very clever characterisations – in ''Weber’s Head'', for example, the narrator is a flawed individual whose opinions of his housemate are gradually revealed to be unreliable and unfair. For me, the most unsettling story is ''No Life'', because it portrays a decent couple at the mercy of people more powerful and influential than them. There is no supernatural or bizarre element at work here, just ordinary characters at the mercy of social power.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781253358</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Daisy Waugh|title=HoneyvilleIntroduce Myself|rating=4.5
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|summary=The story is told by Dora WhitworthAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, a call girl in one where she posted every step of the most exclusive brothels in TrinidadAnuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, Coloradomonetary gain. At the time, the town was the only place Now Anuri is in the West where prostitution was legal her twenties and it was infamous for its red-light district. Dora’s voice rings true 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 convincingly described. The sumptuous brothel in Plum Streetbattling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, with its smells of perfume undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and disinfectantreceiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, she is as claustrophobic as a prison and Phoebedesperately worried about her little sister, who is the madamnew focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, particularly chilling.and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007431775</amazonuk>0861546873
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tammy Cohen1529153298|title=Dying for Christmas|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=The book starts off promisingly enough with an introduction by Jessica, the narrator, who informs us that she is imprisoned by a stranger who is handsome and charming and extremely sadistic. Jessica then recounts the events leading up to and during her incarceration, which takes place over the Christmas period. Her jailer, Dominic, has prepared twelve presents for her, for the Twelve Days List of Christmas, and each present-opening episode builds up a sense of dread while providing a deepening understanding of the sinister and bitter mind at work. Genuinely creepy stuff.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784160172</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewSuspicious Things|author=Paul Sussman|title=The Final Testimony of Raphael Ignatius PhoenixJennie Godfrey
|rating=5
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|summary=On the eve of the year 2000It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, Raphael Ignatius Phoenix decides that he has had enoughhonestly... Having lived for a century) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, he takes his own life on the roof of his castle, swallowing a small white pill he has kept on his person for almost 90 yearsthough. Women have been disappearing. In the days before Well, he had written his story all over the walls of the castle - a story that takes in an Edwardian childhoodthey've been murdered, Hollywood in the 1920but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's, overheard that her father wants to move the Second World Warfamily 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, life as Down South is a butler in a stately homefrightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, life in a rock band in the 60'smove would mean leaving her best friend, time spent in a nursing homeSharon, and finally life in she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the castle dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - amongst other, enchanting talesto anyone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552779679</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane Stubbs1035906708|title=Thornfield HallDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5
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|summary=I can't say that I'm a fan of reworkings of classic books: [[Emma by Alexander McCall Smith|some]] suck the life out We tend to think of the originalMaria Callas as Greek, [[Jane Eyrotica by Charlotte Bronte and Karena Rose|others]] fail but she was born to add anything - Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and why would you want only moved to read an inferior version Athens when you can read the real thing? she was thirteen. Generally, I try Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to avoid them - and I'm still not certain why I made an exception for Callas''Thornfield Hall'' - to make it certainly wasn't more manageable in the headless woman (sighStates...) on the cover When she was back in Athens - but I added it to my reading pile. I'm glad supposedly so that I didshe could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782395245</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Simon WroeAlexander McCall Smith|title=Chop ChopThe Perfect Passion Company
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|summary='Monocle' isn't his real nameThe Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, but that's what run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the brigade at ''The Swan'' would call him once they knew him well enough to insult himonline apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. He Ness has an English Literature degree, you see, asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the chefs think that's what he would have wornbusiness, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. He'd no interest in cooking Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, but was two months behind on his rent and being so jumps at the lowest-rung chef in a gastropub in Camden was the only job that he could getchance to come home to Edinburgh. His co-workers are deranged And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and borderline criminal whilst the head chefIsabel Dalhousie novels, Bob is a top-rank sadist constantly on the look out for material on which but with some new characters who quickly begin to practicecharm. Monocle Katie has little choice no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but to stay - given the situation between his parentsNess has full confidence in her abilities, going home isnand there't really an option.s always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0241000009</amazonuk>1846976596
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Suzanne McCourtDean Koontz|title=The Lost ChildBad Weather Friend
|rating=4.5
|genre=General FictionParanormal|summary=Sylvie lives in 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 small Australian fishing village with her mumreally weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, dad and elder brotherit's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, DuncBenny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. However all He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is about a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to change and little Sylvie finds herself in the middle of dramas she neither understands nor controlshelp him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Her world may never be the same but she tries Spike is going to make sense take care of itBenny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, Trollopif he, clingy motherBenny, moody father and allHarper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1922147788</amazonuk>1662500491
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Monique RoffeyKatherine Howe|title=House of AshesA True Account|rating=4.5
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|summary=There had Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been unrest in the Caribbean City of Silk in Sans Amen for some time sent to live with people growing increasingly belligerent about the perceived corruption of the governmenta family who run an inn, and being made to work there from a young age. Then the day came when The Leader called the Brothers together and told them that they were going When she hears there is to make history: they would take over the House be a hanging of Power and some pirates in the television studios town, she decides to go and reclaim what was rightfully theirswatch. Part of this 'revolution' is AshesEnthralled and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a quiet, bookish young man who seems to feel most guilty about the lie he told his wife - that heboy'd be back home for dinner - when he left s death at the househands of two vicious pirates. HeShe hides away, so that they don'd been swayed by The Leadert find and kill her too, and then to escape them completely she runs away to sea, dressing as a boy and joining the notorious Ned Low's rhetoric and pirate ship as a cabin boy. She soon finds himself a part of herself in the rag-tag band thick of ill-trained but probably over-armed young men things when there is a mutiny on board, and teens who invade from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the House of Power. It would not go as they expectedocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471126668</amazonuk>0861547438
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Betsy Tobin1471180158|title=Things We Couldn't ExplainMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=JerichoJamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, Ohio - 1979for a man who's a control freak with all the subtlety of a half brick. Annemarie is a cleverJamie's son, Bo, funny 'has his problems'. He's asthmatic and spirited girl. Born with sightthe more you read, she turned blind as a child, but the more than compensates for her disabilityyou'll suspect that he's on the autistic spectrum. Living amongst the small Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice -town folk of Jericho, she has 's a relatively standard, suburban life, schooled at home but more than friendly with many frequent flier in the local A&E and sometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to school. Missed shifts or the need to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the town - especially her charming neighbour Ethanwrong. All is calm, until one day Annemarie finds herself pregnant It was going to come to a head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783753080</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan BrahamB0CKD1L5JL|title=The Pink House at AppletonRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=When we first meet Boyd Longfellow Brookes Petr is an orphan. Rescued by the strange, reclusive Bear, he's musing over the fact that - however much you might wish otherwise - soundsis brought up far from bustling cities and busy human society, smells or small details can evoke in the most painful forests of memories in full TechnicolorWashington's Olympic Peninsula. On this particular afternoon it was the music - Saint-Saens ''Violin Concerto No 3 After Bear dies and a brief sojourn in B minor'' - which brought back the scene which regularly invaded his dreams ''human company, and'' his waking hours. Once again he was the eight-year-old boy whose father was thrashing him armed with only a leather strap whilst his mother wept and Papa demanded to know if Boyd had molested the young daughter of pirate radio transmitter, Petr goes on a neighbour. He didn't even know journey through the meaning of ''molest'' but forest, broadcasting the expressions on the faces of those around him told him all strange, wild and rarely heard voices he needed to knowencounters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848767455</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sumia SukkarSarah Marsh|title=The Boy from Aleppo who Painted the WarA Sign of Her Own|rating=43.5
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|summary=This is After a book about colour against the grey backdrop bout of the Syrian civil warscarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Adam Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, everything about her life changes. Living in a time when the 14-year-old narratoruse of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a school where she is an artist who describes emotion, people and things in colour. Through colourtaught to lip read, he makes sense of the worldbut physically restrained from signing. So his sister, Yasmine From here, 'is usually ruby' although at times she is grey or greenends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and using a system called Visible Speech. Adam’s views are simple At the same time, uncomplicated – he says ‘Lying Bell is bad’working on other inventions and ideas, ‘I don’t like the war’ and ‘[Paintings] always say the right things’Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908998466</amazonuk>1035401614
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Susan HillB0BC3YTCMR|title=Black SheepGood Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Mount ''This story is not for everyone.'' Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of Zeal is her fifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. She was a very bright student, a mining villagebit too nerdy if truth be told, and no mistakesuffered from vitiligo - people were afraid to hug her in case it's contagious. Three concentric semiIt's not easy being a black girl whose skin is 84% white. She had a crush on seventeen-circular streets align across the side of a hill, like the rows of seats in an amphitheatre, with little year-old Reggie Anderson but never thought he would notice her. Then he did: Lavender was very good at all allowed for the life above the crest of the hill, math and a lot of effort and dreams focused on the coal mine Reggie asked if she would tutor him. She readily agreed: tutoring was something she gladly did at the village's corechurch: this was just an extension. The Howker family (and how evocative that name is, so akin She went to the noise of hawking coal dust from one's lungs), his house and Ted and Rose, the youngest of the clan, in particular, will face the destiny the environment they grow up in gives them – with only the merest glimmers of hope and the faintest of sparks to latch on to as regards a likeable futurehe raped her. But if that is a faint sparkIn shock, then how safe is it so close she even allowed him to the tinderbox of give her a coal mine?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009953956X</amazonuk>lift home.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Katherine Webb1472263936|title=The Night FallingFigurine|author=Victoria Hislop|rating=4.5|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=In It was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. She was alone: her mother, Greek by birth, had left the summer of 1921family home and refused to return, Leandro returns but Mary and Hamish (Helena's parents) felt that it would be a pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. Her trip to his birthplace the family apartment in Italyup-market Kolonaki would be the first of several annual visits. She grew to love her grandmother and the family's maid, Dina, but was wary - and frightened - of her grandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. He has made was proud of his fortune, close connections to the Junta and expected his family to uphold his aim is values but saw no reason to transform a crumbling palazzo into an opulent mansionaccommodate them. But the outside world is still reeling His prejudices included Helena's red hair and green eyes - inherited from the Great Warher father's Scottish ancestors.}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=After Death|rating=3|genre=General Fiction|summary= Michael Mace, and Leandro’s nephewHead of Security, Ettoreat a top secret biological research facility, is one of those most among 55 people who die when a virus is released in need of helpa bio-hazard accident. ReluctantlyFinding himself in a makeshift mortuary, covered in plastic, he has a sense that something very, Ettore asks very bad has happened to him – and only him – as he sits up and looks around at the shrouded bodies of his uncle for assistancedead friends and former colleagues. But Ettero could not have foreseen what was to come from As he recovers his senses, he realises that request…there is something different about him; he can ''feel'' everything. ''Everything''. Michael isn't ''Michael'' anymore.|isbn=1662500467}} {{Frontpage|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409131491</amazonuk>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 the forest provides heat and warmth, roofs on homes, and even gallows, if needed. The fear of being buried alive is an existential superstition in the village and that is the reason Volushka, a drunken, self-indulgent, lazy lout of a man is tolerated.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul Fournel and David Bellos (translator)B0BYF82CXT|title=Dear ReaderSemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Robert Dubois is ''Bill and Amanda are living in a publisher of the old school: the books matter semi- detached house, stuck in a depressing rut of course they do - but then so does the food boredom and the drink which accompanies the profession. He's had a long career of paper manuscriptsdisappointment, authors when Terry and lunches Fiona – glamorous, successful and he fully expects that very much in love – move in next door. Despite their different outlooks on life will continue in this way until he finally retires, whenever that might be. Then one day an intern presents him with an ereader the couples befriend each other and nothing will ever be quite the same again, not least his briefcase, which is used life appears to accommodating vast quantities of paperimprove for both pairs. He's not a Luddite - but getting used to this gizmo But all is not going to be easywhat it seems, and their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782270264</amazonuk>''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark B MillsShalini Boland|title=Waiting for DoggoThe Silent Bride|rating=4.53
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|summary=Daniel didn't ''quite'' acquire Doggo by accident. His girlfriend got him from Battersea Dogs' Home but when Clara walked out on him without any notice (well - just Alice and Seth are a letter...) she told him to take Doggo backmatch made in heaven. He wasis everything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, clever, she said 'just a dog. A small ugly dog'funny; total and utter husband-material. And Daniel was She is all set to do just that until he discovered that Doggo would quickly be separated from what Dan considered to be could possibly want in a couple of important parts of his anatomywife; beautiful, successful, confident… and so the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and the wedding is planned and set. After a rethink Daniel had a new job When the much-anticipated day arrives, Alice is walked down the aisle by her father, beaming with pride and excitement as an advertising copywriter which allowed him she surveys the congregation – their friends assembled to take Doggo celebrate this joyful day and when Seth turns to work with him and Doggoface his approaching bride, Alice's career as a 'mental health companion dog' was bornworld implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the man at the altar is, who is waiting for her to become his wife.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472218345</amazonuk>1662507089
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1787636003|title=Everything I Never Told YouThe Girls of Summer|author=Celeste NgKatie Bishop
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=To understand Lydia’s death, we need to understand Lydia, It was the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and to understand Lydia we need to understand Lydia’s parentsarrived on the island. Marilyn Rachel wasn't exactly innocent but she was, who wanted more from her life than to play the dutiful housewifeperhaps, naive, who goes so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to college to study and realise take an interest in her dreams, not she was flattered rather than wary. It was quite a while before he made any sort of physical approach to meet a man (her own mother’s dream for her), goes ahead and, well, by that time she meets a manwas obsessed by him. That man is James, whose credentials for teaching American history are up Alistair worked for debateHenry Taylor, but who nonetheless manages to overcome looking after his background to secure a role doing just that. They settle down interests on the island and have Nath, then Lydia, then a little while later, Hannah. An unusual family for 1970s Ohio, but a happy one. The children are bright, in particular in the bar where all the home is cosygirls either worked or partied.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349134286</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patrick RothfussAmanda Craig|title=The Slow Regard of Silent ThingsThree Graces
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|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary=Deep below Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of-the University, -nation novel. There's something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the ancient home atmosphere of magic the day and learningcapture it, a young girl lives amongst crafting an image of the caves, tunnels, and abandoned roomscountry as it stands in one particular moment. In Seven days, her friend will To say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be visiting - one embarrassingly inadequate: she's 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 few friends, characters in a way that feels natural and someone who Auri cannot wait to see. Those seven days are filled with Auri's preparations lived- her hunt amongst the tunnels and caves in, never making them ciphers for a proper giftsocial commentary but instead fully realised people, and her thoughts as she goes about her businessgrappling with issues far larger than themselves. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473209323</amazonuk>140871468X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=152915118X|title=Dear Committee MembersPineapple Street|author=Julie SchumacherJenny Jackson
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Jason Fitger (Jay) ''Pineapple Street'' is a Professor the story of creative writing three women: Sasha, Darley and Georgiana. Darley and literature at George are sisters and Sasha is married to their brother Cord. They're Stocktons, only Sasha isn't a small university in Stockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the tribe. The problem's exacerbated when the clan matriarch, Tilda, asks Cord and Sasha if they'd like to move into the American mid-westPineapple Street property. He is also Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to another property, a frustrated novelist with a colourful personal historystreet or so away, much which they own. They won't need any of which bleeds into his professional lifethe furniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and Cord can move straight in. Nominally, with interesting resultsthey 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'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007586345</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|authorisbn=Michael Pitre0008506337|title=Fives and Twenty-Fives The Garnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=In Iraq any soldier within 5 metres of a roadside bomb explosion will die The love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, apparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in love. Richard was twenty-one and described by Margo's mother as even 'an armoured truck will be torn older man'. Her parents worried that Richard's influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to piecesOxford and having a glittering career. Being within 25 metres 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 roadside explosion would be fatal to foot soldierswell-respected journalist. Lieutenant Pete Donovan The couple had three children: Rachel, Imogen and his US marine unit know this better than anyoneSasha. Their job Life was lived in Iraq is to repair London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, the family home on the roads but it's not as simple as it soundsIsle of Wight. Every pothole (yes, Even then the doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo'everys mind: '' pothole) contains a bomb; even the kerbstones could she would never be dummies filled with explosivesable to leave him in charge''. That's why every serviceman and woman has it drilled into Then Richard left them: no matter what, no matter where, always watch your fives and twenty-fives.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00M7S1NL8</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1914585402|title=The TowerDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=Alessandro GallenziDavid F Ross|rating=34.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Amman, Jordan, and even while the worldI reviewed David F Ross's book [[There's tallest building is still being constructed, Biblia are hard at work inside. The global Internet conglomerate is undergoing its efforts to digitise the entire worldOnly One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's knowledge, including Only One Danny Garvey]] a priceless archive held couple of years back and remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and affecting it was. It was a local dignitarygripping, when one of the workers involved - on behalf of the Vatican - vanishesemotionally wounding read, along with some unknown quantities and rereading my review of the works. Enter Peter Simms from England, and a classy Italian colleague, to help relocate whatever it my main takeaway was that was missing - in the face of threats from elsewhere in the Muslim kingdom..I might not have lavished enough praise on it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846883377</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=EmmaLucy Ashe|authortitle=Alexander McCall SmithClara and Olivia|rating=34.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=When I read about the plan to re-imagine Jane AustenThe year is 1933. The place? Sadler's novels through contemporaryWells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, bestselling authors I wasn't entirely sure this was a good thingtwins no less. Sense and Sensibility by Joanna Trollope? Really? But thenIdentical on the outside but not, of coursewe learn, my eyes lit upon on the magic authorinside. And not on stage, either. Because there's namea lot that builds a dancer. Some things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, Alexander McCall Smith! Not only had been asked attention to be involveddetail – and some things, that ''je ne sais quoi'', but that don't come from the book he was going to work on was my most favourite Austen bookclassroom. A stage presence, a charm, a ''joie de vivre''. The difference between a hard-worker, Emmaand a star. What could possibly go wrong?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007553854</amazonuk>0861544080
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=LucyHeather Fawcett|authortitle=Alan KennedyEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Lucy Emily Wilde is a painter. Hiding away in Dundee an expert academic scholar on VE Dayfaerie lore, and she returns from a disaster of an exhibition to a letter from a figure from her past. Uncle Alberthas travelled extensively, still in Franceand researched meticulously, wants to sort out his affairs - who will get what after hewrite her life's deadwork, the very first encyclopaedia of faeries. Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, she is not so good with people. The letter sends Lucy on a voyage of discovery - about a past full So when she finds herself far, far North in the small village of artHrafvsnik, lost lovehaving somehow offended the village matriarch, found loveshe is not sure what she has done, grief, war nor how to redeem herself and about what could possibly come nextput her final investigations for her book back on the right track. Set in pre-war London Enter Wendell Bambleby, pre-war her dashingly handsome and wartime France insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and windydelight, rainy Dundee, Lucy is a love story, but itmuch to Emily's also a kind of coming-homefrustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0956469663</amazonuk>0356519120
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Judy Chicurel1398515388|title=If I Knew You Were Going To Be This Beautiful, I Never Would Have Let You GoThe Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Katie First of all, it was the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and her friends this, in Elephant Beachturn, Long Island are going to make caused the most of summer 1972nuclear meltdown. High school is behind them, there's booze to be drunk The result was complete and weed to be smokedutter devastation. There's also a lot to contend with. This is a working class communityThe deaths were uncountable, ignored and disenfranchised by those with the money and influence to helploss of livelihoods was widespread. Also The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the Vietnam War rages on, producing local heroes like Luke and Mitch. For some list of priorities but - six months after the young people the future is tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a blank canvas, for others their future is foreseen or foreshortenedconvenience store. As for KatieHe wasn't a dog person but the convenience store owner's hopes comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and dreams, they all revolve around Tamon the hope of a date with Lukedog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472221656</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Love Song of Miss Queenie HennessyChristopher Bowden|authortitle=Rachel JoyceMr Magenta
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Rachel Joyce envisions Christopher Bowden''The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy'' not as s latest novel is a prequel or sequel to [[The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce|The Unlikely Pilgrimage patient untangling of Harold Fry]] but as a companion volume. Giving Queenieseemingly ordinary woman's side of the story through an extended letter she is writing to Harold from St Bernadine's hospice as she awaits his arrivallife, Joyce gives readers a new perspective on carried out by her character's unrequited love for Harold, nephew after she has died. The aunt who always provided a surprising friendship she kept up with his son David until his suicide, safe harbour and her sudden move from Devon a little bit of indulgence to Northumbria, where she lived in a quaint beachside cottage young nephew had had a much more interesting life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and maintained her sea garden until she became ill with cancerit seems to him an obligation to find it all out.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857522450</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The BearJennifer Mason|authortitle=Claire CameronPartitions of Unity|rating=34
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Canadian Claire Cameron was working as a counsellor Here at Algonquin Park Bookbag Towers, we first met Elizabeth Cromwell, dominatrix and unintentional detective in the early 90's[[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], when she investigated and unravelled a bear attacked and killed two campersseries of disappearances. Here, Cameron revisits and re imagines the attack, but gives the campers two children, and tells the story from the perspective In ''Partitions of the daughterUnity'', Annashe sets her mind to solving a murder...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099581469</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=Night after NightThe Calculations of Rational Men|author=Phil RickmanDaniel Godfrey|rating=45
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=It's no surprise that the 10th of December 1962 when it comes we first meet Dr Joseph Marr. Just to reality televisionput what happens in context, broadcasters are fighting amongst themselves the Cuban missile crisis is still very fresh in people's minds. The world has barely had a chance to breathe out. But for the next big thing, no matter how tasteless, baseJoe Marr, or exploitative it may be's not the missile crisis that's at the front of his mind. That He's been convicted of murder. With the starting point for Phil Rickmancurrent state of medical knowledge, it's creepy new thriller, as tv producer Leo Defford decides hard to launch a reality show think otherwise than that the prosecution would never have been brought but Joe Marr has spent his first few days in HMP Queen's Bench, a mansion formerly owned by tragically deceased movie star Trinity Ansell, and perhaps haunted by Henry VIIIrelatively new prison. He's last wifejust getting used to his roommate, Katherine ParrMervyn, and learning to be wary of the McArthur brothers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857898698</amazonuk>
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