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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!{{Frontpage|author=Onyi Nwabineli|title=Allow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step- Remove 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 receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529153298|title=The List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035906708|title=Diva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the States. When she was back in Athens -supposedly so that she 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.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gary KuryloAlexander McCall Smith|title=The Seventh SimianPerfect Passion Company|rating=34.5
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|summary=Edith The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has lived alone for many years and asked her younger cousin Katie if she has become irascible could come and rather anti-sociallook after the business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. She avoids even going into Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the nearby village chance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to do her shopping an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the only human being she sees Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with any regularity is the local shopkeeper some new characters who makes grocery deliveries quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and makes an art form of palming off the strange old lady with overpriced, underweight goods. If it werenthere't for s always her catvery helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, Edith would have no companionship at all.to lend a hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00Q4SETM2</amazonuk>1846976596
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jane Lythell Dean Koontz|title=After the StormThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersParanormal|summary=Rob Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and Anna are nearing the Honduras leg of their South American travelshis house gets trashed. Here they meet Kimberley Oh, and Owensomeone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, an American couple who charter out their own boat for sailing trips around and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the local islandsvery last person to deserve all this bad luck. Rob persuades Anna it will be He is a fun way to end their holiday but Anna isn't so surenice person. There's something about Owen and Kimberley that makes her hesitant about being shut away on a boat at sea with themA really nice person. Perhaps So fortunately for Benny it's the way turns out that he never sleeps or the mystery as delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to why there are no knives in the cutlery drawerhelp him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Rob thinks AnnaSpike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's just overly imaginativeenemies, but time will tellif he, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781855323</amazonuk>1662500491
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stewart FosterKatherine Howe|title=We Used to Be KingsA True Account
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|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Tom Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to live with a family who run an inn, and Jack are 18 todaybeing made to work there from a young age. When she hears there is to be a hanging of some pirates in the town, she decides to go and watch. Not that they have much cause for celebration - stuck Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a home for troubled childrenyoung boy's death at the hands of two vicious pirates. She hides away, so that they are constantly examined don't find and kill her too, and questioned by doctorsthen to escape them completely she runs away to sea, dressing as a boy and joining the notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. She soon finds herself in the thick of things when all they want there is to be left alone to live a mutiny on board, and from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life togetheron the ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099584190</amazonuk>0861547438
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Victoria Aveyard1471180158|title=Red QueenMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating=4.5|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=Mare is Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a Red - man who's a race kept in lives control freak with all the subtlety of poverty a half brick. Jamie's son, Bo, 'has his problems'. He's asthmatic and servitude by the Silversmore you read, the more you'll suspect that he's on the autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's a race with wealth frequent flier in the local A&E and mutant powers that allow them sometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to live lives of luxuryschool. Learning Missed shifts or the need to survive amongst the slum like conditions that the Reds inhabit, Mare is swiftly thrown into the world of the Silvers - one that proves be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be more dangerous than she had ever imagined, with treachery, plots controlled and deadly games lurking round every cornerput in the wrong. It was going to come to a head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409155846</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Margaret WildB0CKD1L5JL|title=The Vanishing MomentRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn
|rating=4
|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=This book appealed to me on various groundsPetr is an orphan. It Rescued by the strange, reclusive Bear, he is teen fiction (brought up far from bustling cities andbusy human society, joy in the forests of joysWashington's Olympic Peninsula. After Bear dies and a brief sojourn in human company, devoid of werewolves and dystopia)armed with only a pirate radio transmitter, it is by an Australian author (under-represented Petr goes on UK shelves)a journey through the forest, broadcasting the strange, wild and it involves parallel universes (tantalising philosophical what-ifs). I was intrigued to see if the author could live up to my expectationsrarely heard voices he encounters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1743315902</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jack SheffieldSarah Marsh|title=Silent NightA Sign of Her Own
|rating=3.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=I read After a couple bout of Jack Sheffield’s books about five years agoscarlet fever as a child, and enjoyed them very muchEllen Lark loses her hearing. They were written in Suddenly plunged into a similar style to those popularised byworld of silence, for instance, James Herriot or [[:Category:Gervase Phinn|Gervase Phinn]], told mostly everything about her life changes. Living in a time when the first person, describing the author’s first couple use of years sign language was seen as Headmaster at something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a small village primary school in Yorkshire. The village of Ragley where she is fictionaltaught to lip read, as are most of the charactersbut physically restrained from signing. From here, but she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the incidents deaf and situations encountered are based using a system called Visible Speech. At the same time, Bell is working on the author’s experienceother inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552167045</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.''
Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of her fifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. She was a very bright student, a bit too nerdy if truth be told, and suffered from vitiligo - people were afraid to hug her in case it's contagious. It's not easy being a black girl whose skin is 84% white. She had a 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 house and he raped her. In shock, she even allowed him to give her a lift home.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Schneider1472263936|title=Brother of SleepThe Figurine|author=Victoria Hislop|rating=3.5|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=''Brother of Sleep'' tells It was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. She was alone: her mother, Greek by birth, had left the story of Elias Johannes Alderfamily home and refused to return, but Mary and Hamish (Helena's parents) felt that it would be a child born into a god forsaken village high pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. Her trip to the family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be the Austrian Vorarlbergfirst of several annual visits. He came into She grew to love her grandmother and the world as a silent childfamily's maid, Dina, while his mother but was screaming wary - and the midwife wasn't really paying attentionfrightened - of her grandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. It took a couple of loud intonations He was proud of his close connections to the Te Deum Junta and expected his family to uphold his values but saw no reason to accommodate them. His prejudices included Helena's red hair and green eyes - inherited from the neglectful nurse before he finally uttered a soundher father's Scottish ancestors. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715649205</amazonuk>
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{{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, 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 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. ''Everything''. Michael isn't ''Michael'' anymore.|isbn=1662500467}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joanne GrahamB0BVDC2VWH|title=To The Edge of ShadowsGrave Listeners|author=William Frank
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Sarah awakes from The village is isolated and poor. It's surrounded by a coma to find her world destroyedWitching 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, a long lost aunt her only remaining familyroofs on homes, and life as she knows it irrevocably changed forevereven gallows, if needed. Moving to a new town The fear of being buried alive is an existential superstition in the village and that is the reason Volushka, a new schooldrunken, making new friends self-indulgent, lazy lout of a man is the least of her challenges as she struggles to regain her physical and mental health following the accidenttolerated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910162841</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Leanne HallB0BYF82CXT|title=This is Shyness|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=''This is Shyness'' is an unusual and brilliant story about Wolfboy and Wildgirl, two strangers who meet in a pub in the town of Shyness. The teenagers are drawn together, each adopting a different identity so for the night they can be anyone but themselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1921656522</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewSemi-Detached|author=Antonin Varenne and Frank Wynne (translator)|title=Loser's CornerDeborah Stone
|rating=4
|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Meet Georges Crozat. He's a policeman 'Bill and Amanda are living in Paris, who boxes on the side. After a bout that leads to an almost embarrassing victorysemi-detached house, he is made two offers – one from a clearly corrupt man behind the scenes stuck in the sport, who seems to offer a few thrown fights for Georgesdepressing rut of boredom and disappointment, then some kind of status as assistant when Terry and Fiona – trainingglamorous, guidingsuccessful and very much in love – move in next door. Despite their different outlooks on life, profiteering; the couples befriend each other comes from a man known always as ''the Pakistani'' (or an unkind abbreviation of that), who has a friend of a friend who wants someone and life appears to do an enemy a mischief with their fistsimprove for both pairs. Georges doesn't take too long to choose the latter. In alternating chapters, however, we're in the 1950s, and a rookie to the forces, Pascal Verini, But all is being shipped out to Algeria to work on the civil war causing the republic to break away and become independent from France. Like Georges, he finds his situation one which also causes not what may be misguided violenceit seems, even if he has a very different attitude to itand their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857052276</amazonuk>''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=J Robert LennonShalini Boland|title=See You In ParadiseThe Silent Bride
|rating=3
|genre=Short StoriesGeneral Fiction|summary=Lennon writes with Alice and Seth are a relaxedmatch made in heaven. He is everything she has been searching for; handsome, easy style accomplished, clever, funny; total and his characters are instantly recognisable as people from everyday walks of life, without being in any way stereotypicalutter husband-material. Many of the people She is all he could possibly want in these stories are dealing with normal frustrationsa wife; beautiful, successful, confident… and Lennon so the inevitable proposal is cleverly detached enough not to make them individuals that you're obviously supposed to root for (eagerly accepted by Alice and the only exception wedding is planned and set. When the industrialist in the eponymous talemuch-anticipated day arrives, who Alice is an archetypal capitalist fat cat). There are some very clever characterisations – in ''Weber’s Head'', for examplewalked down the aisle by her father, beaming with pride and excitement as she surveys the narrator is a flawed individual whose opinions of his housemate are gradually revealed congregation – their friends assembled to be unreliable celebrate this joyful day and unfair. For mewhen Seth turns to face his approaching bride, the most unsettling story is 'Alice'No Life'', s world implodes because it portrays a decent couple she has absolutely no idea who the man at the mercy of people more powerful and influential than them. There altar is no supernatural or bizarre element at work here, just ordinary characters at the mercy of social powerwho is waiting for her to become his wife.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781253358</amazonuk>1662507089
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{{Frontpage|isbn=1787636003|title=The Girls of Summer|author=Katie Bishop|rating=5|genre=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.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Daisy WaughAmanda Craig|title=HoneyvilleThree Graces|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary= Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of-the-nation novel. There's something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the atmosphere of the day and capture it, crafting an 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'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 characters in a way that feels natural and lived-in, never making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselves.|isbn= 140871468X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=152915118X|title=Pineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson|rating=4.5
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|summary=The ''Pineapple Street'' is the story of three women: Sasha, Darley and Georgiana. Darley and George are sisters and Sasha is told by Dora Whitworthmarried to their brother Cord. They're Stocktons, only Sasha isn't a call girl in one of Stockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the most exclusive brothels in Trinidad, Coloradotribe. At The problem's exacerbated when the timeclan matriarch, Tilda, asks Cord and Sasha if they'd like to move into the town was the only place in the West where prostitution was legal Pineapple Street property. Tilda and it was infamous for its red-light district. Dora’s voice rings true Chip have renovated and her life is convincingly describeddownsized to another property, a street or so away, which they own. The sumptuous brothel in Plum They won't need any of the furniture from Pineapple Street, with its smells of perfume so Sasha and disinfectantCord can move straight in. Nominally, is as claustrophobic as they had a prison choice but that wasn't the reality. Darley and Phoebe, 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 madam, particularly chillingGD'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007431775</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tammy CohenEmily Critchley|title=Dying for ChristmasOne Puzzling Afternoon|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=The book starts off promisingly enough with an introduction by Jessica, 84 year old Edie has lived in the narratorsame small town for almost her whole life, who informs us that but now she is imprisoned by facing a stranger who move as her son wants to move to another house and bring Edie to live with his family, as Edie is handsome and charming and extremely sadisticstarting to lose her memory. Jessica then recounts However, Edie is tormented by the events leading up to and during memory of her incarcerationchildhood friend, Lucy, which takes place 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 Christmas periodthing that reveals the truth of what happened all that time ago. Her jailer After 'seeing' Lucy in the high street, Dominicjust as she was the last time she saw her, has prepared twelve presents for she starts to find pockets of memories coming back to her, for . And yet as she remembers the Twelve Days of Christmaspast, she is forgetting more and each present-opening episode builds up a sense of dread while providing a deepening understanding of more in her day to day life. Will she uncover the sinister truth about Lucy's disappearance before her move, and bitter mind at work. Genuinely creepy stuff.before her memories are gone forever?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784160172</amazonuk>1804181250
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{{Frontpage
|author=Madelaine Lucas
|title=Thirst for Salt
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= ''Love, I'd read, was supposed to be a light and weightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravity''
Told from a retrospective view, a young woman unravels the year-long relationship that once defined her. Overlaid with later wisdom, the narrator relives the affair with a man twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the summer after. Set against the backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the 24-year-old narrator's deepening relationship with her older lover, depicting its all-consuming nature, how it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and how it altered her irrevocably.|isbn=0861546490}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul Sussman0008506337|title=The Final Testimony of Raphael Ignatius PhoenixGarnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=On the eve of the year 2000The love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, Raphael Ignatius Phoenix decides apparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in love. Richard was twenty-one and described by Margo's mother as 'an older man'. Her parents worried that he has had enough. Having lived for Richard's influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and having a century, 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 yearsglittering career. In the days beforeevent, he had written his story all over they eloped and Richard took her away from the walls Isle of the castle Wight. Margo did go to Oxford and went on to become a well- a story that takes in an Edwardian childhoodrespected journalist. The couple had three children: Rachel, Hollywood Imogen and Sasha. Life was lived in the 1920'sLondon and holidays were spent at Sandcove, the Second World War, life as a butler in a stately family home, life in a rock band in on the Isle of Wight. Even then the 60doubts about Richard's, time spent drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able to leave him in a nursing home, and finally life in the castle - amongst other, enchanting talescharge''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552779679</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Simon Wroe1914585402|title=Chop ChopDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=I reviewed David F Ross'Monocles book [[There' isn't his real name, but thats Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's what the brigade at ''The Swan'' would call him once they knew him well enough to insult himOnly One Danny Garvey]] a couple of years back and remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and affecting it was. He has an English Literature degreeIt was a gripping, you seeemotionally wounding read, and the chefs think rereading my review of it my main takeaway was that's what he would I might not have worn. He'd no interest in cooking, but was two months behind on his rent and being the lowest-rung chef in a gastropub in Camden was the only job that he could get. His co-workers are deranged and borderline criminal whilst the head chef, Bob is a top-rank sadist constantly on the look out for material lavished enough praise on which to practiceit. Monocle has little choice but to stay - given the situation between his parents, going home isn't really an option.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241000009</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Suzanne McCourtLucy Ashe|title=The Lost ChildClara and Olivia
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Sylvie lives in a small Australian fishing village with her mumThe year is 1933. The place? Sadler's Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, twins no less. Identical on the outside but not, we learn, dad and elder brotheron the inside. And not on stage, Dunceither. Because there's a lot that builds a dancer. However all Some things that is about can be taught or learnt – discipline, attention to change detail – and little Sylvie finds herself in some things, that ''je ne sais quoi'', that don't come from the middle of dramas she neither understands nor controlsclassroom. Her world may never be the same but she tries to make sense of itA stage presence, Trollopa charm, clingy mothera ''joie de vivre''. The difference between a hard-worker, moody father and alla star. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1922147788</amazonuk>0861544080
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Monique RoffeyHeather Fawcett|title=House Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of AshesFaeries
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=There had been unrest in Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life's work, the Caribbean City very first encyclopaedia of Silk in Sans Amen for some time faeries. Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, she is not so good with people growing increasingly belligerent about the perceived corruption of the government. Then So when she finds herself far, far North in the day came when The Leader called small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the Brothers together and told them that they were going village matriarch, she is not sure what she has done, nor how to make history: they would take over the House of Power redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on the television studios and reclaim what was rightfully theirsright track. Part of this 'revolution' is AshesEnter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, a quietall charm and delight, bookish young man who seems much to feel most guilty about the lie Emily's frustration. But why is he told his wife - that he'd be back home for dinner - when here? What does he left the house. want? 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 And what exactly is going on with the House of Power. It would not go as they expected.faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471126668</amazonuk>0356519120
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Betsy Tobin1398515388|title=Things We Couldn't ExplainThe Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=JerichoFirst of all, it was the earthquake, Ohio - 1979deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and this, in turn, caused the nuclear meltdown. Annemarie is a clever, funny The result was complete and spirited girlutter devastation. Born with sight The deaths were uncountable, she turned blind as a child, but more than compensates for her disabilityand the loss of livelihoods was widespread. Living amongst The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the small-town folk list of Jericho, she has a relatively standard, suburban life, schooled at home priorities but more than friendly with many in - six months after the town tsunami - especially her charming neighbour EthanKazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. All is calm, until one day Annemarie finds herself pregnant He wasn't a dog person but the convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and Tamon the dog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783753080</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jonathan BrahamChristopher Bowden|title=The Pink House at AppletonMr Magenta
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=When we first meet Boyd Longfellow Brookes heChristopher Bowden's musing over the fact that - however much you might wish otherwise - sounds, smells or small details can evoke the most painful latest novel is a patient untangling of memories in full Technicolor. On this particular afternoon it was the music - Saint-Saens a seemingly ordinary woman''Violin Concerto No 3 in B minor'' - which brought back the scene which regularly invaded his dreams ''and'' his waking hourss life, carried out by her nephew after she has died. Once again he was the eight-year-old boy whose father was thrashing him with The aunt who always provided a leather strap whilst his mother wept safe harbour and Papa demanded a little bit of indulgence to know if Boyd a young nephew had had molested the young daughter of a neighbour. He didn't even know the meaning of ''molest'' but the expressions on the faces of those around him told much more interesting life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and it seems to him an obligation to find it all he needed to knowout.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848767455</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sumia SukkarJennifer Mason|title=The Boy from Aleppo who Painted the WarPartitions of Unity
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=This is a book about colour against the grey backdrop of the Syrian civil war. AdamHere at Bookbag Towers, the 14-year-old narratorwe first met Elizabeth Cromwell, is an artist who describes emotion, people dominatrix and things unintentional detective in colour. Through colour[[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], he makes sense when she investigated and unravelled a series of the worlddisappearances. So his sister, Yasmine, In ''Partitions of Unity'is usually ruby' although at times , she is grey or greensets her mind to solving a murder.. Adam’s views are simple, uncomplicated – he says ‘Lying is bad’, ‘I don’t like the war’ and ‘[Paintings] always say the right things’.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908998466</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Susan HillWill Carver|title=Black SheepThe Daves Next Door|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Mount of Zeal is a mining village, and no mistake. Three concentric semi-circular streets align across the side of a hill, like the rows of seats Five strangers come together in an amphitheatre, with little thought at all allowed for the life above the crest of the hill, and one moment as a lot of effort and dreams focused on the coal mine at the village's core. The Howker family (and how evocative that name is, so akin suicide bomber prepares to the noise of hawking coal dust from one's lungs), 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 detonate his vest on to as regards a likeable futureLondon tube line. But if that is a faint sparkAs their fates overlap, then how safe the story is it so close to the tinderbox of a coal mine?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009953956X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Katherine Webb|title=The Night Falling|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=In the summer of 1921, Leandro returns to his birthplace told in Italy. He has made his fortunebackwards order, and his aim is leading up to transform a crumbling palazzo into an opulent mansion. But the outside world is still reeling from the Great War, and Leandro’s nephew, Ettore, is one of those most in need of help. Reluctantly, Ettore asks his uncle for assistancefateful moment. But Ettero could not have foreseen what was to come from that request…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409131491</amazonuk>1914585186}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Paul Fournel and David Bellos (translator)Jennifer Mason|title=Dear ReaderPreposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Robert Dubois is ''A struggling poetry zine, a publisher of the old school: the books matter mom- of course they do and- but then so does pop mobile diner in the food and Northern California redwoods, a 400-meter hurdler who just missed the drink which accompanies the profession. He2004 Olympics, a women's had track coach with a yen for bullwhips, a billionaire with a long career state-of paper manuscripts-the-art S&M dungeon, authors and lunches and he fully expects that a man serving a life will continue sentence in this way until he finally retiresAlabama, whenever that might be. Then one day an intern presents him with an ereader and nothing will ever be quite the same againenigmatic signature, K(s, x), not least his briefcaseon a cheap oil painting, which is used to accommodating vast quantities of paperan erotic art dealer in Georgia... He's not a Luddite - but getting used to this gizmo is not going to be easy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782270264</amazonuk>}}'
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0B2N7MVYM|title=Everything I Never Told YouThe Calculations of Rational Men|author=Celeste NgDaniel Godfrey
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=To understand Lydia’s death, It's the 10th of December 1962 when we need first meet Dr Joseph Marr. Just to understand Lydiaput what happens in context, and to understand Lydia we need the Cuban missile crisis is still very fresh in people's minds. The world has barely had a chance to understand Lydia’s parentsbreathe out. Marilyn But for Joe Marr, who wanted more from her life than to play it's not the missile crisis that's at 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 and, well, she meets a manfront of his mind. He's been convicted of murder. That man is James, whose credentials for teaching American history are up for debate With the current state of medical knowledge, but who nonetheless manages it's hard to overcome his background to secure a role doing just think otherwise than that. They settle down and the prosecution would never have Nath, then Lydiabeen brought but Joe Marr has spent his first few days in HMP Queen's Bench, then a little while later, Hannahrelatively new prison. An unusual family for 1970s Ohio He's just getting used to his roommate, but a happy one. The children are brightMervyn, and learning to be wary of the home is cosyMcArthur brothers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349134286</amazonuk>
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