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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elizabeth RenzettiOnyi Nwabineli|title=Based on a True StoryAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Augusta PriceAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, middlethanks to her step-agedmother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, washed upwhere she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, substance-addicted actress has just left rehab for the innumerable timemonetary gain. Her only friend Now Anuri is in the world her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her equally washed-up former mentor. Augusta has recently received a sudden upsurge of interest confidence and income when to get her life back, suing her tell all memoir became a baffling beststep-sellermother to take down the content about her. Frances Bleeker Anuri is an American journalist who came battling alcoholism, failing to London with high hopesstart 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, that were quickly dashed by who is the reality new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the British magazine market. same time?|isbn=0861546873}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529153298|title=The two meet when Frances List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is sent 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 interview Augusta about have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her book where Frances realises there’s far more father wants to move the story of Augusta’s life than she’s cared to put in wordsfamily 'Down South'. Needless to say When you're from Yorkshire, youngDown South is a frightening, optimistic Frances and self-obsessedforeign place, drunk Augusta don’t exactly hit it off at oncebest avoided. But when Frances loses For Miv, the move would mean leaving her job best friend, Sharon, and Augusta needs a ghost writer for her new book, she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the two offer each other a lifeline ... dangers or enough rope to hang themselves. As Frances will learn by delving into that her past, people close Mum's stopped talking - to Augusta don’t come away unscathedanyone. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782395539</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Xavier Leret1035906708|title=The Romeo and Juliet KillersDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=34.5

|summary=This is a book that suggests love across the tracks – all the while making the reader ask 'just how chuffing wide are those tracks supposed We tend to be?!' Franky is a hard-done-by schoolboythink of Maria Callas as Greek, whose ultra-Catholic but she was born to Greek parents are stifling him in all aspects of lifeManhattan, New York, so much so in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed itto 's likely that when he gets into trouble by witnessing some porn on a friendCallas's mobile phone at school to make it more manageable in the States. When she was really the hardware back in Athens - supposedly so that he she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was gawping at in amazement. Hardware is nothing to Daizee, raised under the underage street hooker, Nazi occupation by a mother who knows what hard stuffs she likes mercilessly exploited her and what she doesn't, and what made no secret of her punters – and preference for her mother, back when they had a connection – enjoyedelder sister, or needed, en route to it. Their unlikely connection is the subject of this gritty novellaJackie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910213187</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Pascal Garnier and Melanie Florence (translator)Alexander McCall Smith|title=BoxesThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5

|summary=Meet Brice. He's an illustratorThe Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, who had picked run by Ness and operating as an ideal house 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 country 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 his journalist wifea bad boyfriend, only for her and so jumps at the chance to come home to disappear assumed dead on assignment abroadEdinburgh. Therefore he's having And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to make 44 Scotland Street and the move himselfIsabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, which he does – but without Ness has full confidence in her at the other end 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 finds it hard to kick loses his fiancee, and his new life into gearhouse gets trashed. YesOh, and someone has delivered a cat adopts himreally weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and he gets it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to know deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the names of some delivery to his house is a new peoplefriend, a bad weather friend called Spike, but that's itwho has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. WhatSpike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's moreenemies, one of those people is Blancheif he, attired most suitably in all-whiteBenny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself is missing someone – someone of whom Brice is the spitting image…roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910477044</amazonuk>1662500491

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kevin MaherKatherine Howe|title=Last Night on EarthA True Account

|summary=Baby Bonnie Hannah Masury is born living in London 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 1996 the town, she decides to Jay go and Shauna but her traumatic birth watch. Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death at the aftermath causes the previously happy couple to separatehands of two vicious pirates. Jay looks back searching for how he got She hides away, so that they don't find and kill her too, and then to escape them completely she runs away to this point sea, dressing as a boy and Shauna looks for answers in psychotherapy with joining the notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a less than orthodox Danish analystcabin boy. Meanwhile both share Bonnie She soon finds herself in the thick of things when there is a mutiny on board, and worry about where they go from herethere we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the ocean waves. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408705079</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tina Seskis1471180158|title=When We Were FriendsMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating=4.5

|summary= Six friends meet at Bristol University; six very different people from six very different backgrounds. Six lives intertwined Jamie Matson works in an assortment upper-class grocery store, for a man who's a control freak with all the subtlety of ways… break-upsa half brick. Jamie's son, marriagesBo, careers'has his problems'. He's asthmatic and the more you read, motherhood 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 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 bereavement; until one night six become fiveput in the wrong. It was going to come to a head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405917954</amazonuk >

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael LaubB0CKD1L5JL|title=Diary of the FallRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn

|summary=Diary of Petr is an orphan. Rescued by the Fall strange, reclusive Bear, he is brought up far from bustling cities and busy human society, in the forests of Washington's Olympic Peninsula. After Bear dies and a story about regretbrief sojourn in human company, guilt and resentment. It's told from armed with only a pirate radio transmitter, Petr goes on a journey through the point of view of an unnamed narratorforest, who reflects on not just his own life but also broadcasting the lives of his father strange, wild and grandfatherrarely heard voices he encounters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099581795</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=James WilsonSarah Marsh|title=The Summer A Sign of Broken StoriesHer Own|rating=3.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=After a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, everything about her life changes. Living in a time when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a school where she is taught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and using a system called Visible Speech. At the same time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=1035401614}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0BC3YTCMR|title=Good Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira|rating=4.5

|summary=England 1950: Soon-to-be-10, Mark Davenant ''This story is a typical lad with a typical ladnot for everyone.''s life Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of her fifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. He loves adding to his model train layoutShe was a very bright student, a bit too nerdy if truth be told, he plays with his mates and walking best friend Barney the dogsuffered 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 one such walk seventeen-year-old Reggie Anderson but never thought he would notice her. Then he comes across Aubrey, 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 elderly writer living in the forestextension. They build a friendship based on shared stories She went to his house and imaginingshe raped her. Not all in the village are accepting though andIn shock, when they try she even allowed him to drive Aubrey out, Mark feels himself torn between old loyalties and newgive her a lift home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846883571</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alexander McCall Smith1472263936|title= The Novel Habits of HappinessFigurine|author=Victoria Hislop

|summary=There are some authors who I pick up with a contented sigh, knowing It was in 1968 that I am in safe handsHelena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. Alexander McCall Smith is currently my favouriteShe was alone: her mother, Greek by birth, had left the family home and thank goodness he is so prolific with his writing refused to return, but Mary and Hamish (Helena's parents) felt that my reading habit is fed on it would be a regular basis! pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. This is Her trip to the tenth novel family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be the Sunday Philosophy Club series, and we settle down once more first of several annual visits. She grew to a visit to Isabel Dalhousie in love her beloved Edinburgh. Isabel is wonderinggrandmother and the family's maid, perhaps belatedlyDina, if she is sometimes rather judgmental but was wary - and frightened - of peopleher grandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. In particular, she’s having an awful lot He was proud of qualms about her niece, Cat’s, latest romancehis close connections to the Junta and expected his family to uphold his values but saw no reason to accommodate them. Will Isabel find herself forced to intervene, or can she sit back His prejudices included Helena's red hair and let nature take its course?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408706636</amazonuk>green eyes - inherited from her father's Scottish ancestors.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nina George 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 Simon Pare (translator)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 Little Paris BookshopGrave Listeners|author=William Frank

|summary=Monsieur Perdu has a barge on the Seine, The village is isolated and in that barge he has his bookshoppoor. Actually, rather than being a normal sort of bookshop it is more of a chemistIt's, since he is something of surrounded by a literary apothecary, prescribing books to his customers that he senses will soothe their souls, Witching Forest. And the villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and relieve whatever troubles are ailing themits blossom provides herbal medicines. He only has to speak to them a littleThe black wood of the forest provides heat and warmth, sometimes only has to see themroofs on homes, and he instinctively knows which book will help themeven gallows, if needed. Despite his skillsThe fear of being buried alive is an existential superstition in the village and that is the reason Volushka, howevera drunken, he seems unable to diagnose and resolve his own emotional issues and he isself-indulgent, as the translation lazy lout of his French surname tells us, Mr Losta man is tolerated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349140359</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marcus DalrympleB0BYF82CXT|title=Flesh and Blood: True FictionSemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone|rating=4.5

|summary=Brit John Colson is ''Bill and Amanda are living in Mexico teachinga semi-detached house, having been invited out there by his godfather stuck in a depressing rut of boredom and local school owner Carlos Manuel Fermindisappointment, when Terry and Fiona – glamorous, successful and very much in love – move in next door. John soon settles inDespite their different outlooks on life, soon forming a love of the countrycouples befriend each other and life appears to improve for both pairs. But then it all changes… Visiting a public toilet at the wrong moment means that John hears a murder being committed beyond his cubicle door. He goes to the police as he would in the UK but this is Mexico; from that moment on John Colson is a marked man. Meanwhile elsewhere in Mexico tourists not what it seems, and their increasingly interconnected relationships are being attracted by more than hot sunshine and tacosfated for tragedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1502821087</amazonuk>''

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Antoine Laurain, Emily Boyce (translator) and Jane Aitken (translator)Shalini Boland|title=The Red NotebookSilent Bride|rating=53

|summary=Meet LaureAlice and Seth are a match made in heaven. She's a widow in her 40s, who He is entering her Parisian apartment building one night when everything she's muggedhas been searching for; handsome, accomplished, clever, funny; total and her handbag stolenutter husband-material. Meet LaurentShe is all he could possibly want in a wife; beautiful, a middle-aged booksellersuccessful, who happens upon confident… and so the handbag inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and the following morning in wedding is planned and set. When the streetmuch-anticipated day arrives, just before Alice is walked down the binmen take it awayaisle by her father, never beaming with pride and excitement as she surveys the congregation – their friends assembled to be seen again. More or less snubbed celebrate this joyful day and when trying to hand it Seth turns to the police as lost propertyface his approaching bride, he decides to take it upon himself to reunite the bag with its rightful owner. He Alice's world implodes because she has absolutely no idea their names are so intimately linked, and despite a lot of things being in who the bag (including man at the titular notebook) there altar is no cash, no phone and no ID documentation at allwho is waiting for her to become his wife. What's more – 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…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908313862</amazonuk>1662507089

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stefan Mohamed1787636003|title=Bitter SixteenThe Girls of Summer|author=Katie Bishop

|summary=Stanly Bird is about to turn sixteen - a solitary teen in a small Welsh town, he has few friendsIt was the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the island. Unless you count his talking dog Rachel wasn't exactly innocent but she was, Daryl... A splitting headache on the eve of his birthday soon develops into incredible powersperhaps, and Stanly swiftly finds himself defending his neighbourhoodnaive, falling so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to take an interest in loveher, and gaining his first real friendsshe was flattered rather than wary. When jealous rivals, It was quite a mysterious figure while before he made any sort of physical approach to her and a horrific evil come into play though, Stanly finds himself cast away from homeby that time she was obsessed by him. Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, looking after his interests on the island and struggling to save everything he has come to hold dearin particular in the bar where all the girls either worked or partied.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784630136</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Fiona NeillAmanda Craig|title=The Good GirlThree Graces

|summary= Romy is a sixth former Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of-the-nation novel. There's something so utterly compelling about any writer who is unremarkable. A good student from a professional familycan catch hold of the atmosphere of the day and capture it, her aspiration is to become a doctor, and it’s crafting an achievable, rather than lofty goal. Or image of the country as it wasstands in one particular moment. Because a video has surfaced and it shows Romy doing something To say that Amanda Craig is hardly going to help her medical school application. Or her future career. Or her future life, full stop. For Ailsa, the head teacher, skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she has 's practically synonymous with the double whammy genre of trying to keep contemporary social fiction at this point. She has such a gift for weaving the school out ongoing issues of the headlines and protect her child who is now at day into the centre lives of the controversy. And it’s clearly all the neighbours’ faulther 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.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0718181271</amazonuk>140871468X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christina Nichol152915118X|title=Waiting for the ElectricityPineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson

|summary=Slims Achmed Makashvili ''Pineapple Street'' is determined the story of three women: Sasha, Darley and Georgiana. Darley and George are sisters and Sasha is married to leave his native Georgiatheir brother Cord. ItThey's re Stocktons, only Sasha isn't a country buffeted and often invaded Stockton by its neighbours birth so she isn't readily accepted into the tribe. The problem's exacerbated when the clan matriarch, Tilda, asks Cord and plagued with lack of amenitiesSasha if they'd like to move into the Pineapple Street property. On hearing that Hilary Clinton is running Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to another property, a competitionstreet or so away, which they own. They won't need any of the prize for which is furniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and Cord can move straight in. Nominally, they had a trip to choice but that wasn't the States reality. Darley and knowing all he has Georgiana start to do is overstay his visa for a better life, Slimscall Sasha 'the gold digger'. She's living in ''their'' letters to Hilary beginfamily home. Eventually he gets They use it so often that they abbreviate it to 'the US but… Well, be careful what you wish forGD'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715649876</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stuart PrebbleEmily Critchley|title=The Insect FarmOne Puzzling Afternoon

|summary=I The love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was predisposed to enjoy this book before I'd even opened the coverall-consuming, apparently on both sides. It set me Margo was just sixteen when they fell in mind of [[The Behaviour of Moths by Poppy Adams]] love. Richard was twenty- another tale of a challenged person who finds refuge in an obsession with insects. But where [[The Behaviour of Moths one and described by Poppy Adams|The Behaviour of Moths]] focuses on two warring sisters, Margo's mother as 'The Insect Farman older man'. Her parents worried that Richard' has two brothers as s influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and having a glittering career. In the central characters: Roger, who has special needsevent, they eloped and his devoted younger brother JonathanRichard took her away from the Isle of Wight. Both boys develop an obsession, Roger with his insect farm Margo did go to Oxford and Jonathan with went on to become a womanwell-respected journalist. The couple had three children: Rachel, HarrietImogen and Sasha. When obsession eventually leads to Life was lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, the violence of destruction, other behaviours come into play: feelings of guilt quickly switch to family home on the fear Isle of capture and Wight. Even then the sly acts of a man keen doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able to lay the blame elsewhereleave him in charge''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846883547</amazonuk>Then Richard left them.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Caroline Vermalle and Anna Aitken (translator)1914585402|title=George's Grand TourDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross

|summary=George loves the Tour de France so when his over protective daughter goes way for an extended holiday the time is right to do it himself. Being 83 there will have to be some concessions, using a car rather than a bike for a start and heI reviewed David F Ross'll take his neighbour Charles (a stripling at 76) with him. Hes book [[There'll also take his mobile phone since his landline has been diverted to it so no one knows hes Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's goneOnly One Danny Garvey]] a couple of years back and remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and affecting it was. YesIt was a gripping, good luck with emotionally wounding read, and rereading my review of it my main takeaway was that George!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908313730</amazonuk>I might not have lavished enough praise on it.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Caitlin MoranLucy Ashe|title=How to Build a GirlClara and Olivia

|summary=1990 - Wolverhampton. Johanna Morrigan The year is 14, intelligent, funny and from a loving family1933. Unfortunately, said family consists of a depressed mother, a mostly drunk father, an older brother with issues of his own, and three younger brothers to worry aboutThe place? Sadler's Wells. Well read, witty Ballerinas Clara and hugely intelligentOlivia are sisters, Johanna longs for escapetwins no less. Identical on the outside but not, building a new version of herself and gaining employment as a writerwe learn, frequently travelling to on the drinkinside. And not on stage, sex and drug filled bars and bedsits of London.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091949017</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Margaret Henderson Smith|title=The Turn of the Tide|rating=3either.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Harriet Glover is well and truly over Mark after he left her standing at the altar. SheBecause there's pregnant with Sir Joris Sanderson's child and he's keen to make the relationship permanent, but ghosts from ''his'' past return to haunt him, unfortunately at a rather important dinner partylot that builds a dancer. The mystery of 'Amber' really has to Some things that can be solved and the web of lies which surround her dismantled. Harriet is still being led astray by Tricia Harrington (taught or so Harriet's mother would have you believe...) and she can't really make up her mind about 'Mr Sanderson'learnt – discipline, particularly when the man from MI6 is around. She's got a lot attention to cope with detail – and some things, that's before we even get on to the subject of the Prime Minister's daughterje ne sais quoi''s wedding, which that don''must'' remain secrett come from the classroom.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845496485</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Ivan Repila and Sophie Hughes (translator)|title=The Boy Who Stole Attila's Horse|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=If you pick up A stage presence, a copy of this book you realise how small it is. You'll know, of coursecharm, that pockets hardly exist that are normally big enough to hold what we used to call a pocket book, but here is the exception to prove the rule. It's wee'joie de vivre''. The story is on difference between a hundred pages. The concision is partly down to it starting after the beginning, for we first meet Big and Small, two brothers, once they're stuck down a large well in the middle of a forest. Tasked with a family errand, they're trapped at the bottom of a natural Erlenmeyer flaskhard-worker, and even a desperate move cannot get either out. This is the story of the next three months in their existence, as they brave hunger, delirium, loss of language, and the brute and unstinting human selfishness needed for existencestar.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782271015</amazonuk>0861544080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=James HannahHeather Fawcett|title=The A-Z Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of You and MeFaeries

|summary=Lying in a hospital bedEmily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, refusing visits from friendsto write her life's work, Ivo the very first encyclopaedia of faeries. Whilst she is alonebrilliant at research and speaking to faeries, she is not so good with people. Only his carer So when she finds herself far, far North in the small village of Hrafvsnik, Sheilahaving somehow offended the village matriarch, provides company - and she asks him is not sure what she has done, nor how to think of a different part of his body redeem herself and put her final investigations for each letter of her book back on the alphabetright track. Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and then insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, much to tell a tale about each oneEmily's frustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857522647</amazonuk>0356519120

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ann-Marie MacDonald1398515388|title=Adult Onset|rating=3.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=At midlife, Mary Rose MacKinnon has settled down with her partner, Hilary, The Boy and is raising two young children. Opting to fulfill the role of stay at home mum, she has placed her career as an author on hold. What follows is a bid to reconcile this new identity with her former idea of self. Success, however, depends on Mary Rose facing up to the confusions of her past.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473610133</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewDog|author=Diana Sweeney|title=The Minnow|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Diana Sweeney's ''The Minnow'' is an Australian book aimed at Young Adults that features death, grief, abuse, fear and loneliness. Teenage pregnancy lies at its heart while bereavement, and trying to come to terms with loss, bubbles just under the surface, constantly. But don't be misled. This novel isn't some earnest pedagogical attempt to convey teenage angst Seishu Hase and elicit grave pity or understanding from the reader. What rescues it from mawkishness is the beautiful voice of the narrator, Tom Alison Watts (or Holly, if you prefer her real nametranslator). Tom doesn't fall prey to self-pity. She simply describes her world as she sees it, matter-of-fact. And the fact that her view is rather unusual (she talks to fish, dead people and her unborn child - and they talk back) doesn't really matter. Nothing can detract from the sheer lyricism of her voice. As a reader, you just have to suspend disbelief and enjoy the ride. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>192218201X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Hermione Eyre|title=Viper Wine

|summary=Lorna First of all, it was 12 when she was sent home from schoolthe earthquake, watched deep in the unfurling events of 9/11 on her TV ocean floor, which created the tsunami and recognised her father's office block aflame this, in turn, caused the nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and fallingutter devastation. Her fight for mental survival started at that moment The deaths were uncountable, and the use loss of alcohol to quell livelihoods was widespread. The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the memories came soon after list of priorities but then she meets Danny – her life saver. Shortly - six months after this they marry and Danny joins the armytsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. Hewasn's sent to fight the monsters, t a dog person but the fundamentalist organisations, which destroyed Lornaconvenience store owner's childhood. However when what's left of comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his unit becomes lost car door and Tamon the dog jumped in the desert without food, water or equipment, the focus changes from military victory to personal survival and those monsters are still out there…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910394564</amazonuk>.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chigozie ObiomaChristopher Bowden|title=The FishermenMr Magenta

|summary=This book Christopher Bowden's latest novel is essentially a cautionary family tale patient untangling of four brothers and the way they react to a prophecy about them seemingly ordinary woman's life, carried out by the local madmanher nephew after she has died. It is also, in The aunt who always provided a sense, safe harbour and a coming-little bit of-age story where Ben, the indulgence to a young narrator, is plunged into premature adulthood under the most brutal of circumstances. And nephew had had a much more interesting life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and it is about brotherly love. None of these descriptions, however, convey the fact that this book is written by seems to him an exciting new voice in African literary fictionobligation to find it all out.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0957548850</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jonathan KempJennifer Mason|title=GhostingPartitions of Unity|rating=54

|summary=Grace Wellbeck is 64 - living on a canal boat Here at Bookbag Towers, we first met Elizabeth Cromwell, dominatrix and unintentional detective in London with her second husband[[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], when she lives investigated and unravelled a relatively settled life series of routinedisappearances.A chance encounter with a man in the street changes everything though - a man who is the spitting image In ''Partitions of Unity'', she sets her first, deceased husbandmind to solving a murder... Is he a ghost? Is Grace going mad?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0956251560</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nicci Cloke|title=Lay Me Down|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=It's New Year's Eve and the nightclub is pulsating with sound. The revellers heave and swell in oceanic waves and Jack is preparing to call it a night, when he is presented with Elsa. She is small; delicate and pretty and alluringly confident - a heady combination for a man like Jack - and though he wants, with every fibre of his being, to walk away, to go home and forget her, he doesn't.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099593653</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Antonia HoneywellWill Carver|title=The ShipDaves Next Door

|genre=Dystopian General Fiction|summary=Sixteen year old Lalla has spent her life Five strangers come together in one moment as a suicide bomber prepares to detonate his vest on a London – mostly inside her family home. Because this is not the London of today, or any other daytube line. When Lalla was seven, the apocalypse arrived; banks crashed, flood defences failedAs their fates overlap, power failed – and the world could only focus on survival. Now the Nazareth Act story is told in force and without your identity cardbackwards order, you don’t exist – literally, as you will be shot if you don't produce itleading up to the fateful moment.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0297871498</amazonuk>1914585186}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nigel PackerJennifer Mason|title=The Restoration of Otto LairdPreposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery

|summary=''The Restoration of Otto LairdA 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'' is an interesting concept s track coach with a yen for bullwhips, a story. It pitches billionaire with a state-of-the-art S&M dungeon, a man serving a life sentence in Alabama, an ageing architect against enigmatic signature, K(s, x), on a cheap oil painting, an ageing building that was built early erotic art dealer in OttoGeorgia...'s career. When Otto makes ' This is just a sample of the trip from Switzerland to London to try cast of characters and save Marlowe house from demolitionsettings in Preposterous. As you can see, he takes an unwilling journey down his own pastsome keeping up will be required! The basic premise of this mystery story goes like this... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751553077</amazonuk>B09STS96HS

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|summary=Deep It's the 10th of December 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marr. Just to put what happens in context, the Cuban missile crisis is still very fresh in rural France James Kerr was admitted to a psychiatric clinicpeople's minds. His mental problems were deep and intractableThe world has barely had a chance to breathe out. Superficially he seemed never to have got over But for Joe Marr, it's not the missile crisis that's at the sudden death front of his mother and sister when he was a child and after their death his relationship with his father had deteriorated because his father refused to speak mind. He's been convicted of their lossmurder. There were additional factors too: Kerr had With the current state of medical knowledge, it's hard to think otherwise than that the prosecution would never have been brought but Joe Marr has spent some time in Afghanistan his first few days in HMP Queen's Bench, a secret capacityrelatively new prison. In fact much of He's just getting used to his life since he went roommate, Mervyn, and learning to university had involved putting up a front, but doing something else in be wary of the backgroundMcArthur brothers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00OLMHCW2</amazonuk>