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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}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Pascal Garnier and Melanie Florence (translator)1529153298|title=BoxesThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=45
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|summary=Meet BriceIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. He(A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's an illustratorfamily, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, who had picked an ideal house in the country with his journalist wifethey've been murdered, only for her but to disappear assumed dead on assignment abroadhave 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Therefore heMiv's having upset because she's overheard that her father wants to make the move himself, which he does – but without her at the other end he finds it hard to kick his new life into gearfamily 'Down South'. YesWhen you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a cat adopts himfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and he gets she'll do anything to know the names of some new people, but prevent that. She's it. Whatnot worried about the dangers or that her Mum's more, one of those people is Blanche, attired most suitably in allstopped talking -white, who herself is missing someone – someone of whom Brice is the spitting image…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910477044</amazonuk>to anyone.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kevin Maher1035906708|title=Last Night on EarthDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin
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|summary=Baby Bonnie is We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in London Manhattan, New York, in 1996 December 1923 and only moved to Jay and Shauna Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her traumatic birth and father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the aftermath causes the previously happy couple to separateStates. Jay looks When she was back searching in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for how he got to this point her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and Shauna looks made no secret of her preference for answers in psychotherapy with a less than orthodox Danish analyst. Meanwhile both share Bonnie and worry about where they go from hereher elder sister, Jackie. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408705079</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tina SeskisAlexander McCall Smith|title=When We Were FriendsThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5
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|summary= Six friends meet 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 asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at Bristol University; six the chance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who 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 there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=The Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Paranormal|summary=Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very different people last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from six very different backgroundsnefarious forces for being a good person. Six lives intertwined in an assortment Spike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of ways… break-upsBenny's enemies, marriagesif he, careersBenny, motherhood and bereavement; until one night six become fiveHarper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405917954</amazonuk >1662500491
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael LaubKatherine Howe|title=Diary of the FallA True Account|rating=4.5
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|summary=Diary Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to live with a family who run an inn, and being made to work there from a young age. When she hears there is to be a hanging of some pirates in the Fall is a story about regrettown, guilt she decides to go and resentmentwatch. It Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's told from death at the point hands of view two vicious pirates. She hides away, so that they don't 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 pirate ship as a cabin boy. She soon finds herself in the thick of an unnamed narratorthings when there is a mutiny on board, who reflects and from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on not just his own life but also the lives of his father and grandfatherocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099581795</amazonuk>0861547438
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=James Wilson1471180158|title=The Summer of Broken StoriesMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating=4.5
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|summary=England 1950: SoonJamie Matson works in an upper-to-be-10class grocery store, Mark Davenant is for a man who's a typical lad control freak with all the subtlety of a typical ladhalf brick. Jamie's lifeson, Bo, 'has his problems'. He loves adding to his model train layout's asthmatic and the more you read, the more you'll suspect that he plays with his mates and walking best friend Barney 's on the dogautistic spectrum. ItSometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's on one such walk he comes across Aubrey, an elderly writer living a frequent flier in the forestlocal A&E and sometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to school. They build a friendship based Missed shifts or the need to be away on shared stories time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and imaginingsput in the wrong. Not all in the village are accepting though and, when they try It was going to come to drive Aubrey out, Mark feels himself torn between old loyalties and newa head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846883571</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alexander McCall SmithB0CKD1L5JL|title= The Novel Habits of HappinessRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn|rating=54
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|summary=There are some authors who I pick Petr is an orphan. Rescued by the strange, reclusive Bear, he is brought up with a contented sighfar from bustling cities and busy human society, knowing that I am in safe handsthe forests of Washington's Olympic Peninsula. Alexander McCall Smith is currently my favouriteAfter Bear dies and a brief sojourn in human company, and thank goodness he is so prolific armed with his writing that my reading habit is fed only a pirate radio transmitter, Petr goes on a regular basis! This is journey through the tenth novel in forest, broadcasting the Sunday Philosophy Club seriesstrange, wild and we settle down once more to a visit to Isabel Dalhousie in her beloved Edinburghrarely heard voices he encounters. Isabel is wondering, perhaps belatedly, if she is sometimes rather judgmental of people. In particular, she’s having an awful lot of qualms about her niece, Cat’s, latest romance. Will Isabel find herself forced to intervene, or can she sit back and let nature take its course?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408706636</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nina George and Simon Pare (translator)Sarah Marsh|title=The Little Paris BookshopA Sign of Her Own|rating=43.5
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|summary=Monsieur Perdu has After a bout of scarlet fever as a barge on the Seinechild, and in that barge he has his bookshopEllen Lark loses her hearing. ActuallySuddenly plunged into a world of silence, rather than being everything about her life changes. Living in a normal sort time when the use of bookshop it sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is more of sent to a chemist's, since he school where she is something of a literary apothecary, prescribing books taught to his customers that he senses will soothe their soulslip read, and relieve whatever troubles are ailing thembut physically restrained from signing. He only has to speak to them a littleFrom here, sometimes only she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has to see them, been teaching the deaf and he instinctively knows which book will help themusing a system called Visible Speech. Despite his skills At the same time, howeverBell is working on other inventions and ideas, he seems unable to diagnose and resolve his own emotional issues and he is, as the translation Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of his French surname tells us, Mr Lostespionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349140359</amazonuk>1035401614
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marcus DalrympleB0BC3YTCMR|title=Flesh and Blood: True FictionGood Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira
|rating=4.5
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|summary=Brit John Colson ''This story is in Mexico teachingnot 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, having been invited out there by his godfather and local school owner Carlos Manuel Ferminsuffered from vitiligo - people were afraid to hug her in case it's contagious. John soon settles in, soon forming It's not easy being a love of the countryblack girl whose skin is 84% white. But then it all changes… Visiting She had a public toilet at the wrong moment means that John hears a murder being committed beyond his cubicle doorcrush on seventeen-year-old Reggie Anderson but never thought he would notice her. He goes to the police as Then he did: Lavender was very good at math and Reggie asked if she would in the UK but tutor him. She readily agreed: tutoring was something she gladly did at church: this is Mexico; from that moment on John Colson is a marked manwas just an extension. Meanwhile elsewhere in Mexico tourists are being attracted by more than hot sunshine She went to his house and tacoshe raped her. In shock, she even allowed him to give her a lift home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1502821087</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Antoine Laurain, Emily Boyce (translator) and Jane Aitken (translator)1472263936|title=The Red NotebookFigurine|author=Victoria Hislop
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Meet LaureIt was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. Shewas 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 a widow in pity if Helena grew up without knowing her 40s, who is entering her Parisian apartment building one night when she's mugged, and grandparents or understanding her handbag stolenGreek heritage. Meet Laurent, a middle-aged bookseller, who happens upon Her trip to the handbag the following morning family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be the street, just before the binmen take it away, never to be seen againfirst of several annual visits. More or less snubbed when trying to hand it She grew to love her grandmother and the police as lost propertyfamily's maid, Dina, but was wary - and frightened - of her grandfather, he decides to take it upon himself to reunite the bag with its rightful ownerretired general Stamatis Papagiannis. He has no idea their names are so intimately linked, and despite a lot was proud of things being in the bag (including his close connections to the titular notebook) there is no cash, no phone Junta and expected his family to uphold his values but saw no ID documentation at allreason to accommodate them. WhatHis prejudices included Helena's more – red hair and what looks like making the idea even more fruitless – he has no idea that Laure has fallen into a coma as a result of the mugging…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908313862</amazonuk>green eyes - inherited from her father's Scottish ancestors.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stefan MohamedDean Koontz|title=Bitter SixteenAfter Death|rating=53|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}} {{Frontpage|isbn=B0BVDC2VWH|title=The Grave Listeners|author=William Frank|rating=4
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|summary=Stanly Bird The village is about to turn sixteen isolated and poor. It's surrounded by a Witching Forest. And the villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - a solitary teen 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 small Welsh towndrunken, he has few friends. Unless you count his talking dogself-indulgent, Daryl..lazy lout of a man is tolerated.}}
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|summary= Romy is a sixth former who is unremarkable. A good student from ''Bill and Amanda are living in a professional familysemi-detached house, her aspiration is to become stuck in a doctordepressing rut of boredom and disappointment, when Terry and it’s an achievableFiona – glamorous, rather than lofty goal. Or it was. Because a video has surfaced successful and it shows Romy doing something that is hardly going to help her medical school application. Or her future careervery much in love – move in next door. Or her future Despite their different outlooks on life, full stop. For Ailsa, the head teacher, she has the double whammy of trying couples befriend each other and life appears to keep the school out of the headlines and protect her child who is now at the centre of the controversyimprove for both pairs. And it’s clearly But all the neighbours’ faultis not what it seems, and their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718181271</amazonuk>''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Christina NicholShalini Boland|title=Waiting for the ElectricityThe Silent Bride|rating=4.53
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|summary=Slims Achmed Makashvili Alice and Seth are a match made in heaven. He is determined to leave his native Georgiaeverything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, clever, funny; total and utter husband-material. It's She is all he could possibly want in a country buffeted wife; beautiful, successful, confident… and often invaded so the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by its neighbours Alice and plagued with lack of amenitiesthe wedding is planned and set. On hearing that Hilary Clinton When the much-anticipated day arrives, Alice is running a competitionwalked down the aisle by her father, beaming with pride and excitement as she surveys the prize for which is a trip congregation – their friends assembled to the States celebrate this joyful day and knowing all he has when Seth turns to do is overstay face his visa for a better lifeapproaching bride, SlimsAlice' letters to Hilary begin. Eventually he gets to s world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the man at the US but… Wellaltar is, be careful what you wish who is waiting forher to become his wife.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0715649876</amazonuk>1662507089
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stuart Prebble1787636003|title=The Insect FarmGirls of Summer|author=Katie Bishop|rating=45
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|summary=I It was predisposed to enjoy this book before I'd even opened the coversummer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the island. It set me in mind of [[The Behaviour of Moths by Poppy Adams]] Rachel wasn't exactly innocent but she was, perhaps, naive, so when thirty-four-year- another tale of a challenged person who finds refuge old Alistair Wright started to take an interest in an obsession with insectsher, she was flattered rather than wary. But where [[The Behaviour It was quite a while before he made any sort of Moths physical approach to her and by Poppy Adams|The Behaviour of Moths]] focuses on two warring sisters, ''The Insect Farm'' has two brothers as the central characters: Roger, who has special needs, and his devoted younger brother Jonathanthat time she was obsessed by him. Both boys develop an obsession Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, Roger with looking after his insect farm and Jonathan with a woman, Harriet. When obsession eventually leads to the violence of destruction, other behaviours come into play: feelings of guilt quickly switch to interests on the fear of capture island and in particular in the sly acts of a man keen to lay bar where all the blame elsewheregirls either worked or partied.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846883547</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Caroline Vermalle and Anna Aitken (translator)Amanda Craig|title=George's Grand TourThree Graces
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|summary=George loves Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the Tour de France state-of-the-nation novel. There's something so when his over protective daughter goes way for utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the atmosphere of the day and capture it, crafting an extended holiday image of the time is right to do country as it himselfstands in one particular moment. Being 83 there will have to To say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be some concessions, using embarrassingly inadequate: she's practically synonymous with the genre of contemporary social fiction at this point. She has such a car rather than a bike gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the day into the lives of her characters in a start way that feels natural and he'll take his neighbour Charles (a stripling at 76) lived-in, never making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with him. He'll also take his mobile phone since his landline has been diverted to it so no one knows he's goneissues far larger than themselves. Yes, good luck with that George!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908313730</amazonuk>140871468X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Caitlin Moran152915118X|title=How to Build a GirlPineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson
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|summary=1990 - Wolverhampton. Johanna Morrigan ''Pineapple Street'' is 14the story of three women: Sasha, intelligent, funny Darley and Georgiana. Darley and George are sisters and from a loving familySasha is married to their brother Cord. Unfortunately They're Stocktons, said family consists of only Sasha isn't a depressed motherStockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the tribe. The problem's exacerbated when the clan matriarch, a mostly drunk father, an older brother with issues of his ownTilda, asks Cord and three younger brothers Sasha if they'd like to worry aboutmove into the Pineapple Street property. Well read, witty Tilda and Chip have renovated and hugely intelligentdownsized to another property, Johanna longs for escapea street or so away, building a new version which they own. They won't need any of herself the furniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and gaining employment as Cord can move straight in. Nominally, they had a writer, frequently travelling 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 drink, sex and drug filled bars and bedsits of LondonGD'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091949017</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Margaret Henderson SmithEmily Critchley|title=The Turn of the TideOne Puzzling Afternoon|rating=3.54|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Harriet Glover 84 year old Edie has lived in the same small town for almost her whole life, but now she is well facing a move as her son wants to move to another house and truly over Mark after he left bring Edie to live with his family, as Edie is starting to lose her standing at the altarmemory. She's pregnant with Sir Joris Sanderson's child and he's keen to make However, Edie is tormented by the relationship permanentmemory of her childhood friend, Lucy, but ghosts from ''his'' past return to haunt himwho went missing over 60 years ago, unfortunately at and the worry that there was a rather important dinner partysecret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be the thing that reveals the truth of what happened all that time ago. The mystery of After 'Amberseeing' really has Lucy in the high street, just as she was the last time she saw her, she starts to be solved and the web find pockets of lies which surround memories coming back to her dismantled. Harriet And yet as she remembers the past, she is still being led astray by Tricia Harrington (or so Harriet's mother would have you believe...) forgetting more and she can't really make up more in her mind about 'Mr Sanderson', particularly when the man from MI6 is aroundday to day life. SheWill she uncover the truth about Lucy's got a lot to cope with disappearance before her move, and that's before we even get on to the subject of the Prime Minister's daughter's wedding, which ''must'' remain secret.her memories are gone forever?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1845496485</amazonuk>1804181250
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ivan Repila and Sophie Hughes (translator)Madelaine Lucas|title=The Boy Who Stole Attila's HorseThirst for Salt|rating=45
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=If you pick up a copy of this book you realise how small it is. You'll know'Love, of courseI'd read, that pockets hardly exist that are normally big enough was supposed to hold what we used to call be a pocket booklight and weightless feeling, but here is the exception to prove the rule. ItI had always longed for gravity''s wee. The story is on Told from a hundred pages. The concision is partly down to it starting after the beginning, for we first meet Big and Small, two brothersretrospective view, once they're stuck down a large well in young woman unravels the middle of a forestyear-long relationship that once defined her. Tasked Overlaid with a family errandlater wisdom, they're trapped at the bottom of narrator relives the affair with a natural Erlenmeyer flask, and even a desperate move cannot get either outman twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the summer after. This is Set against the story backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the next three months in their existence24-year-old narrator's deepening relationship with her older lover, as they brave hunger, delirium, loss of languagedepicting its all-consuming nature, how it changed her perspective on both romantic and the brute familial relationships and unstinting human selfishness needed for existencehow it altered her irrevocably.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782271015</amazonuk>0861546490
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=James Hannah0008506337|title=The A-Z of You and MeGarnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore|rating=45
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|summary=Lying 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 a hospital bed, refusing visits from friends, Ivo is alonelove. Only his carer, Sheila, provides company Richard was twenty- one and described by Margo's mother as 'an older man'. Her parents worried that Richard's influence would take her away from what they felt she asks him could achieve - going to think of Oxford and having a different part of his body for each letter of glittering career. In the alphabetevent, they eloped and then Richard took her away from the Isle of Wight. Margo did go to Oxford and went on to tell become a tale well-respected journalist. The couple had three children: Rachel, Imogen and Sasha. Life was lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, the family home on the Isle of Wight. Even then the doubts about each oneRichard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able to leave him in charge''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857522647</amazonuk>Then Richard left them.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ann-Marie MacDonald1914585402|title=Adult OnsetDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross|rating=34.5
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|summary=At midlife, Mary Rose MacKinnon has settled down with her partner, Hilary, I reviewed David F Ross's book [[There's Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's Only One Danny Garvey]] a couple of years back and remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and is raising two young childrenaffecting it was. Opting to fulfill the role of stay at home mum, she has placed her career as an author on hold. What follows is It was a bid to reconcile this new identity with her former idea of self. Successgripping, howeveremotionally wounding read, depends and rereading my review of it my main takeaway was that I might not have lavished enough praise on Mary Rose facing up to the confusions of her pastit.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473610133</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Diana SweeneyLucy Ashe|title=The MinnowClara and Olivia
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|summary=Lorna was 12 when she was sent home from schoolThe 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, watched on the unfurling events of 9/11 inside. And not on her TV and recognised her fatherstage, either. Because there's office block aflame and fallinga lot that builds a dancer. Her fight for mental survival started at Some things that moment and the use of alcohol can be taught or learnt – discipline, attention to quell the memories came soon after but then she meets Danny detail – her life saver. Shortly after this they marry and Danny joins some things, that ''je ne sais quoi'', that don't come from the armyclassroom. He's sent to fight the monstersA stage presence, the fundamentalist organisationsa charm, which destroyed Lornaa ''joie de vivre''s childhood. However when what's left of his unit becomes lost in the desert without food, water or equipmentThe difference between a hard-worker, the focus changes from military victory to personal survival and those monsters are still out there…a star.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910394564</amazonuk>0861544080
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chigozie ObiomaHeather Fawcett|title=The FishermenEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
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|summary=This book Emily Wilde is essentially a cautionary family tale of four brothers an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and the way they react researched meticulously, to a prophecy about them by write her life's work, the local madmanvery first encyclopaedia of faeries. It Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, she is alsonot so good with people. So when she finds herself far, far North in a sense, a coming-the small village of-age story where BenHrafvsnik, having somehow offended the young narratorvillage matriarch, she is plunged into premature adulthood under not sure what she has done, nor how to redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on the most brutal of circumstancesright track. Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, much to Emily's frustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And it what exactly is about brotherly love. None of these descriptions, however, convey going on with the fact that this book is written by an exciting new voice in African literary fiction.faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0957548850</amazonuk>0356519120
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Kemp1398515388|title=GhostingThe Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Grace Wellbeck is 64 - living on a canal boat First of all, it was the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and this, in London with her second husbandturn, caused the nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and utter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, she lives a relatively settled life and the loss of routinelivelihoods was widespread.A chance encounter with a man in The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of priorities but - six months after the street changes everything though tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. He wasn't a man who is 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 spitting image of her first, deceased husbanddog jumped in. Is he a ghost? Is Grace going mad?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956251560</amazonuk>
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|genre=Dystopian General Fiction|summary=Sixteen year old Lalla has spent her life in London – mostly inside her family home. Because this Christopher Bowden's latest novel is not the London a patient untangling of todaya seemingly ordinary woman's life, or any other daycarried out by her nephew after she has died. When Lalla was seven, the apocalypse arrived; banks crashed, flood defences failed, power failed – The aunt who always provided a safe harbour and the world could only focus on survival. Now the Nazareth Act is in force a little bit of indulgence to a young nephew had had a much more interesting life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and without your identity card, you don’t exist – literally, as you will be shot if you don't produce itseems to him an obligation to find it all out.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0297871498</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nigel PackerJennifer Mason|title=The Restoration Partitions of Otto LairdUnity
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|summary=Here at Bookbag Towers, we first met Elizabeth Cromwell, dominatrix and unintentional detective in [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], when she investigated and unravelled a series of disappearances. In ''The Restoration Partitions of Otto LairdUnity'' is an interesting concept for , she sets her mind to solving a storymurder. It pitches an ageing architect against an ageing building that was built early in Otto's career. When Otto makes the trip from Switzerland to London to try and save Marlowe house from demolition, he takes an unwilling journey down his own past. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751553077</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ian WalthewWill Carver|title=The Complex Chemistry of LossDaves Next Door|rating=54
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Deep Five strangers come together in rural France James Kerr was admitted to one moment as a psychiatric clinic. His mental problems were deep and intractable. Superficially he seemed never suicide bomber prepares to have got over the sudden death of detonate his mother and sister when he was vest on a child and after London tube line. As their death his relationship with his father had deteriorated because his father refused to speak of their loss. There were additional factors too: Kerr had spent some time fates overlap, the story is told in Afghanistan in a secret capacity. In fact much of his life since he went backwards order, leading up to university had involved putting up a front, but doing something else in the backgroundfateful moment.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00OLMHCW2</amazonuk>1914585186}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Brooke DavisJennifer Mason|title=Lost and FoundPreposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery|rating=54
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Millie Bird keeps ''A struggling poetry zine, a notebook. She writes mom-and-pop mobile diner in it all 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 Dead Things that she sees-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. Her Very First Dead Thing was her dog Rambo. Then there were other things .'' This is just a spidersample of the cast of characters and settings in Preposterous. As you can see, a Bird… but then there was number 28some keeping up will be required! The basic premise of this mystery story goes like this.. The twenty-eighth dead thing than Millie Bird noticed was her Dad.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091958903</amazonuk>B09STS96HS
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan LethemB0B2N7MVYM|title=Dissident GardensThe Calculations of Rational Men|author=Daniel Godfrey
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Rose Zimmer, a feisty American communist radical, takes on many good and great causesIt's the 10th of December 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marr. These include everything from feminism and racism Just to put what happens in context, the changing course of Stalinism Cuban missile crisis is still very fresh in the American C.P. but most of all; her biggest causes are the people around her's minds. The effects upon them are diverse and devastatingworld has barely had a chance to breathe out. She often propels them to success but But for Joe Marr, it's not the missile crisis that's at the same time they feel battered and must escape according to their own needsfront of his mind. Her affections are real but invasive He's been convicted of murder. Rose keeps a shrine to Abraham Lincoln. Rose’s self-assertion within With the perimeters current state of medical knowledge, it's hard to think otherwise than that the German-designed 20th Century New York suburb of Queensprosecution would never have been brought but Joe Marr has spent his first few days in HMP Queen's Bench, a multi-cultural suburb relatively new prison. He's just getting used to his roommate, Mervyn, and a planned housing development similar learning to Hampstead Garden City provide be wary of the setting for Jonathan Lethem’s Tour de ForceMcArthur brothers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099563428</amazonuk>
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