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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=Sarah Bourne 1529153298|title=Two LivesThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=3.5

|summary=One late afternoon in January 2012It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, Emma Elliot and Loretta Davidsonhonestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's lives collide – along with their carsfamily, though. Both are running late and driving too fast along this Surrey road Women have been disappearing. Emma is unharmed and flees the scene Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Little does Miv's upset because she know 's overheard that this incident will have long-term consequences further down her father wants to move the linefamily 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For LorettaMiv, the effects are more immediate. A social worker in move would mean leaving her fortiesbest friend, Sharon, and she has taken a career break 'll do anything to raise her and Martinprevent that. She's beloved son Ethan, born after an arduous IVF cycle just over four years ago. Ethan is in critical condition after not worried about the car accident and dies during surgery. In dangers or that her grief, Loretta turns Mum's stopped talking - to Scotch and Valium and drifts away from her husband and their familiesanyone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1505233682</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Val Hennessy1035906708|title=Not Far From DreamlandDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin

|summary=Ronald Tonks has reached that stage in life which I call upper middle age: you've qualified for your pension We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but not yet got she was born to the free television licence barrier. What Ronald ''has'' got is a roof that leaks (there's good reason why his home is called 'the shack')Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, a dog who is going bald (in patches) December 1923 and money that's in very short supply. On the plus side he has friends, mostly platonic and usually in much the same boat as Ronaldonly moved to Athens when she was thirteen. But are they downhearted? Well, they are occasionally, Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but mostly theyher father changed it to 'Callas're generously optimistic and out to make it more manageable in the most of what they've got, usually bought from charity shops and jumble salesStates. ''Not Far From Dreamland'' is When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the story of Nazi occupation by a year (2012) in the life mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of Ronald Tonksher preference for her elder sister, his friends and relativesJackie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0704373874</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jo McMillanAlexander McCall Smith|title=Motherland: A NovelThe Perfect Passion Company

|summary=Jess The Perfect Passion Company is a teenage Communist which isn't dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a surprise since more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she comes from could come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a Communist familywhile. Her late father was Katie is coming out of a card carrying member and Jess spends her weekends selling ''The Morning Star'' break up with her equally enthused mother Eleanor. It's not only a thankless taskbad boyfriend, it's not a very welcome sight for some citizens in their native Tamworth of and so jumps at the 1970schance to come home to Edinburgh. However Eleanor and Jess' lives are about And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to changean Edinburgh we already love, thanks to an all-expenses paid trip 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to the GDR – Communist East Germany; charm. Katie has no experience in running a place on the same side of the Berlin Wall as Jess' business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and Eleanorthere's hearts. However, they both learn that even a political heaven has its lessons always her very helpful (andrather handsome) neighbour, indeedWilliam, its downside.to lend a hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473611997</amazonuk>1846976596

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Eve ChaseDean Koontz|title= Black Rabbit HallThe Bad Weather Friend|rating= 4.5|genre= General FictionParanormal|summary=At Black Rabbit HallBenny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, time goes “syrupy slowand his house gets trashed.” None of 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 clocks work properlything that has trashed his house! The thing is, but an hour at Black Rabbit Benny is said the very last person to last twice as long as 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 London onebad weather friend called Spike, and you don't get who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a quarter good person. Spike is going to take care of the things done. Every holidayBenny, the Alton family swap the hustle and bustle will certainly take care of London life for this secluded Cornish retreatBenny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a place that is theirs and theirs alonewaitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0718182979</amazonuk>1662500491

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michelle MillerKatherine Howe|title=The UnderwritingA True Account|rating=4.5

|summary= Todd Kent Hannah Masury is youngliving in Boston, rich, stupidly handsomehaving been sent to live with a family who run an inn, and well on his way being made to the top of Wall Streetwork there from a young age. When she hears there is to be a new dating app called “Hook” hanging of some pirates in the town, she decides to go publicand watch. Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, Todd is handpicked by Hook’s eccentric founder to lead Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death at the project teamhands of two vicious pirates. Taking brainy analyst Neha She hides away, so that they don't find and kill her too, and then to escape them completely she runs away to sea, spoilt party-dressing as a boy Beau, and old flame Tara Taylor with him – joining the team find themselves thrust into the hectic circumstances of notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a $14 Billion dealcabin boy. As Silicon Valley and Wall Street clash, She soon finds herself in the death thick of things when there is a young girl will find the team at odds with each other – mutiny on board, and spinning wildly out from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of controllife on the ocean waves. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1922182974</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Alena Graedon1471180158|title= The Word ExchangeMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating= 34.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=Welcome to Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's a control freak with all the world subtlety of the ''Meme''; the next-generation mobile device. Imagine technology so sophisticated that it could anticipate your needs as soon as they come into your mind. Need to get home? Your Meme will hail a cabhalf brick. Feeling unwell? The Meme has an app for that. Negative thoughts? The Meme will intercede on your behalf to call family and friends or even 911 Jamie's son, if needed. YesBo, the Meme is a truly indispensable aid that 'has revolutionised the way that humans communicatehis problems'. Critics say that it He's destroying human language asthmatic and verbal interaction, but don't worry: the Meme has an app for that too. If more you are lost for wordsread, the more you'll suspect that he'Word Exchanges 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' will supply you with s not fit enough to go to school. Missed shifts or the need to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the word you requirewrong. For It was going to come to a small fee of coursehead...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780225628</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cornelius MedveiB0CKD1L5JL|title=The Making of Mr BolsoverRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn

|summary=Meet Andrew LynchPetr is an orphan. He's a graduate civil servantRescued by the strange, reclusive Bear, then he isn't. He's marriedis brought up far from bustling cities and busy human society, then he isn't. Hein the forests of Washington's a librarian, then he isn’tOlympic Peninsula. He starts, of all things, to live in After Bear dies and a handmade camp brief sojourn in the Sussex countrysidehuman company, and gets armed with only a job writing nature notes for pirate radio transmitter, Petr goes on a local magazine – until it's clear he's shootingjourney through the forest, killing and eating too many of his subjects for his audience's tastes. He turns his efforts to writing politicised letters to broadcasting the local newspaperstrange, where his nephew is a jobbing hack, which inspires further, more campaigning activitieswild and rarely heard voices he encounters. Yes, it seems that Andrew Lynch's path to the top is foretold – but his fate is most definitely anything but natural…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099548690</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alison Jean LesterSarah Marsh|title=Lillian on LifeA Sign of Her Own|rating=43.5

|summary=Lillian is in her late fifties, single and childless but you shouldn't - for After a moment - allow yourself to think that she has bout of scarlet fever as a rather sad lifechild, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. She's lived through periods Suddenly plunged into a world of tremendous change in post-war Munichsilence, Paris, London and she's now come to rest, smart and independent, in New Yorkeverything about her life changes. Born Living in a time when the expectations use of her parents - and of society - were fairly standard sign language was seen as to what a woman should something only savages do with her life, she seems always Ellen is sent to have had a sense that school where she would disappoint both if she was is taught to be true to herselflip read, but physically restrained from signing. She's hot blooded From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and sexually uninhibited and certainly ahead of her time in her viewsusing a system called Visible Speech. When we first meet her she's waking At the same time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up next to her married lover and taking stock in a complicated tangle of her life. Amongst other thingsespionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848549520</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert CromptonB0BC3YTCMR|title=BunderlinGood Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira

|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=As ''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 child Martin had been fascinated bit too nerdy if truth be told, and entranced by his neighbour Mrs Bundysuffered from vitiligo - people were afraid to hug her in case it's contagious. It's household menagerienot 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. Her son Peter She readily agreed: tutoring was there too but on the periphery; Martin something she gladly did at church: this was just there to visit the animalsan extension. In adulthood their paths cross again but this time Peter Bunderlin (as he's now known) isn't so easy She went to avoid – his house and Martin's tried! he raped her. Perhaps if Martin could understand what the heck Peter is up In shock, she even allowed him to?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784078549</amazonuk>give her a lift home.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eve Makis1472263936|title=The Spice Box LettersFigurine|author=Victoria Hislop|rating=4.5

|summary=Katerina's Armenian grandmother Mariam dies leaving It was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her and first trip to Greece. She was alone: her mother a journal in Armenian , 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 spice box full of mysterious letterspity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. They're special Her trip to them both because they're the legacy family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be the first of a much loved relative but totally indecipherable several annual visits. She grew to love her grandmother and the monolingually English pairfamily's maid, Dina, but was wary - and frightened - of her grandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. However a holiday abroad He was proud of his close connections to the Junta and expected his family to uphold his values but saw no reason to get over a recent break up brings a random encounter for Katerinaaccommodate them. When Katerina meets Ara she also meets the key to His prejudices included Helena's red hair and green eyes - inherited from her grandmotherfather's secret pastScottish ancestors.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910124087</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robert CromptonDean Koontz|title=Leaving GileadAfter 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}} {{Frontpage|isbn=B0BVDC2VWH|title=The Grave Listeners|author=William Frank

|summary=Tom Sparrow finally does what heThe village is isolated and poor. It's always dreamt of: buying surrounded by a Witching Forest. And the former Ridley house near his old childhood homevillagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicines. As Tom explores he finds his new house isn't The black wood of the only link with his pastforest provides heat and warmth, roofs on homes, and even gallows, if needed. There's something The fear of being buried alive is an existential superstition in the outhouse village and that takes him back to is the days of young love and Susanreason Volushka, the Ridley's daughter. She had been raised in her parents' prohibitive faith as a Gilead Jehovah's Witness which didn't seem drunken, self-indulgent, lazy lout of a problem to them but they were young and experience wasn't on their side…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784077623</amazonuk>man is tolerated.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Emma CraigieB0BYF82CXT|title= What Was Never Said Semi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone

|summary= This story is narrated by Zahra''Bill and Amanda are living in a semi-detached house, stuck in a teenage girl who spends her early years depressing rut of boredom and disappointment, when Terry and Fiona – glamorous, successful and very much in her home country of Somalia before her family love – move to the UK to escape civil warin next door. InevitablyDespite their different outlooks on life, some traditions travel with them and in the novel Zahra recounts her efforts to protect herself couples befriend each other and her younger sister, Samsam, against FGM, a practice that claimed the life of her older sister in Somalia several years previouslyappears to improve for both pairs. Zahra intersperses her account with flashbacks to Somalia and the civil war that drove them awayBut all is not what it seems, thus giving a clear picture of the trials that she and her family have facedtheir increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178072179X</amazonuk>''

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= David FinkleShalini Boland|title= The Man With The OvercoatSilent Bride|rating= 3.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=''Why would anyone - he was soon to ask himself innumerable times - take Alice and Seth are a coat from a complete stranger only because it had match made in heaven. He is everything she has been offered?'' searching for; handsome, accomplished, clever, funny; total and utter husband-material. Skip Gerber steps off the elevator after She is all he could possibly want in a long day at workwife; beautiful, successful, confident… and so the foyer of his office building inevitable proposal is busy eagerly accepted by Alice and buzzy the wedding is planned and he does not notice set. When the man holding much-anticipated day arrives, Alice is walked down the overcoat until aisle by her father, beaming with pride and excitement as she surveys the man hands it congregation – their friends assembled to Skip telling him celebrate this joyful day and when Seth turns to face his approaching bride, Alice''take very good care of it''. Skip unthinkingly grasps s world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the coat and before he has man at the chance to realise what he altar is doing - and that he , who is now holding an overcoat of unknown providence - the man disappears out of the exit door waiting for her to the buildingbecome his wife.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0992618525</amazonuk>1662507089

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fredrik Backman1787636003|title=My Grandmother Sends Her Regards and ApologisesThe Girls of Summer|author=Katie Bishop

|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''Every 7t exactly innocent but she was, perhaps, naive, so when thirty-four-year-old needs a superheroAlistair Wright started to take an interest in her, she was flattered rather than wary. That's just how it is…'' and for Elsa it's It was quite a while before he made any sort of physical approach to her Gran. When Gran dies, Elsa is surprised and devastatedby that time she was obsessed by him. Granny can't be old - Elsa has only known her Alistair worked for 7 years! Elsa still has to carry out Gran's last wish though; there are letters to be delivered Henry Taylor, looking after his interests on the island and with each delivery Elsa learns something more about Gran in particular in the person behind Gran bar where all the superherogirls either worked or partied. Will it enforce her hero status or destroy it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444775839</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Neil SmithAmanda Craig|title=BooThree Graces|rating=4.5

|summary=Oliver Dalrymple is dead. He realised this Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the moment he woke up in state-of-the rebirthing bed-nation novel. His friends and tormentors had always called him Boo because of his ghostly pale complexion and now heThere's finally earned something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the nickname fully. What he hasn't realised is atmosphere of the way in which he died; he thinks he died day and capture it, crafting an image of holey heart problems the country as it stands in front of his locker while reciting the periodic tableone particular moment. The location To say that Amanda Craig is correct but, meeting Johnny (an equally dead former classmate) reveals, he was actually murdered. Whatskilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's worse, their murderer practically synonymous with the genre of contemporary social fiction at this point. She has been spotted there such a gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the day into the lives of her characters in 13 year olds' heavena 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>0434023493</amazonuk>140871468X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Minette Walters152915118X|title= CellarPineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson|rating=4.5

|summary= To my mind, ''The Dark RoomPineapple Street'' is the most perfect psychological thriller ever written (story of three women: Sasha, Darley and I've read lots in this genre)Georgiana. In her later works, Minette Walters seemed Darley and George are sisters and Sasha is married to veer away from this particular path to glory as her novels became steadily darker and with increasingly dislikeable characterstheir brother Cord. So it was quite refreshing to discover that They're Stocktons, only Sasha isn't a Stockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the tribe. The Cellarproblem'' was written from s exacerbated when the point of view of a rather likeable protagonist. Muna is an African child living inclan matriarch, shall we sayTilda, somewhat unusual asks Cord and very cruel conditions: she was stolen and now lives in captivity. Her voice is compelling and from the first page I found myself wanting her Sasha if they'd like to make good her escape from move into the dreadful - and sadly all too believable - circumstances in which she finds herselfPineapple Street property. So, naturally, I admired her cunning Tilda and resourcefulness, knowing that these attributes would serve her well. But, of course, this is Minette Walters Chip have renovated and nothing is as simple as it first appears. As the story unfolded I found myself questioning who exactly were the victims and whodownsized to another property, if anyonea street or so away, was innocentwhich they own.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099594641</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Naomi Novik|title=Uprooted|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Many years ago, in a village deep in Eastern Europe, the locals live a life They won't need any of relative peace and happiness - knowing to always avoid the wood that borders their landfurniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and safe Cord can move straight in the knowledge that . Nominally, they are guarded by had a powerful wizard - choice but that wasn't the Dragonreality. Aware that he is Darley and Georgiana start to call Sasha 'the one thing keeping them safe from the dangers of the wood, the villagers take part gold digger'. She's living in a ritual called 'The Choosing' every ten years - when a young girl is sent to serve the wizard for a decadetheir'' family home.Agnieszka is of age for the choosing, but nobody fears They use it so often that she will be picked - her best friend Kasia is pretty and graceful, and sure they abbreviate it to catch 'the eye of the immortal Dragon. However, Agnieszka is not aware of the talents she holds that may attract the wizard - talents that the safety of the entire kingdom may come to depend on for their survival..GD'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447294130</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Barbara LamplughEmily Critchley|title=Secrets of the PomegranateOne Puzzling Afternoon

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Home 84 year old Edie has lived in Bristolthe same small town for almost her whole life, Alice gets the news from but now she is facing a move as her sister's partnerson wants to move to another house and bring Edie to live with his family, Pacoas Edie is starting to lose her memory. Her sister However, Deborah HardyEdie is tormented by the memory of her childhood friend, was on board one of the trains bombed at Madrid's Atocha station on 11 March. No one can yet confirm whether she is alive or dead. Deb had moved to Granada nearly 20 Lucy, who went missing over 60 years ago, after her divorce from Mark's father, and the worry that there was starting to make a name secret she was keeping for herself as a scholar Lucy that somehow might be the thing that reveals the truth of women what happened all that time ago. After 'seeing' Lucy in Andalusia's history. Alice and her nine-year-old son Timmy fly to Spain to find that Deb is alivethe high street, but in a coma in hospital. Over just as she was the weeks last time she keeps vigil for Deb, Alice lives in saw her sister's home in Granada and reads her diaries, which proves she starts to be a way find pockets of feeling closer memories coming back to her . And yet as she remembers the past, she is forgetting more and learning more in her day to day life. Will she uncover the truth about Lucy's disappearance before her than she ever knew. Meanwhilemove, Mark and Paco keep their distance, working through their complicated grief in their own ways.before her memories are gone forever?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781323690</amazonuk>1804181250

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Menna Van PraagMadelaine Lucas|title=The House At The End Of Hope StreetThirst for Salt

|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary= Alba Ashby is ''Love, I'd read, was supposed to be a wallflower of light and weightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravity'' Told from a girl; studiousretrospective view, bookish and excruciatingly shya young woman unravels the year-long relationship that once defined her. Overlaid with later wisdom, so when tragedy wields the narrator relives the affair with a man twenty years her senior from its ponderous bolt, she is less able than most inception – the summer after finishing university – to adjust to life as she now knows itits sorrowful end the summer after. In one Set against the backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the 24-year-old narrator's deepening relationship with her midnight walks around historical Cambridgeolder lover, she finds herself at the door to Number 11 Hope Street. It is house that she has never before seen; quirky depicting its all-consuming nature, how it changed her perspective on both romantic and turreted with a wild garden and grandly Victorian in hue familial relationships and Alba is enchanted by how it. So she does something that she would never normally do, in a million years. She knocks on the dooraltered her irrevocably.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0749018623</amazonuk>0861546490

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sara Gruen0008506337|title=At The Water's EdgeGarnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore

|summary=An indiscretion at a party causes Ellis HydeThe love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O's parents to disown himLeary was all-consuming, coming, as it does, hot apparently on the heels of his father not understanding why Ellis has been turned down for war serviceboth sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in love. To prove heRichard was twenty-one and described by Margo's not a coward, Ellis, his new wife Maddie and best friend Hank leave the US for Scotlandmother as 'an older man'. HeHer parents worried that Richard's determined influence would take her away from what they will succeed where Ellis' father failed years before: felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and having a glittering career. In the event, they will find eloped and Richard took her away from the Loch Ness monsterIsle of Wight. Maddie isn't as convinced but then she also thinks she knows EllisMargo did go to Oxford and went on to become a well-respected journalist. The couple had three children: Rachel, Imogen and Sasha. She Life was lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, the locals at family home on the inn where they're stranded by Isle of Wight. Even then the global conflict will discover a lot more doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able to leave him, and indeed themselvesin charge''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473604702</amazonuk>Then Richard left them.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah Leipciger1914585402|title=The Mountain Can WaitDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross

|summary=Tom Berry is I reviewed David F Ross's book [[There's Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's Only One Danny Garvey]] a quiet man - one who lives for couple of years back and remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and in nature, spending a half of his year running a small team in remote, isolated forestsaffecting it was. The other half he spends tending to his family - It was a small group whom he brought up almost single handedlygripping, following the departure of his wife. A good, determined man, we learn of Tom's life running forestry teams in remote wildernessemotionally wounding read, before an accident forces Tom to leave his routine and seek out his son - and both become troubled by the events rereading my review of the accident, as well as ghosts of the past it my main takeaway was that may cause more pain than either man had anticipatedI might not have lavished enough praise on it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472223896</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elizabeth RenzettiLucy Ashe|title=Based on a True StoryClara and Olivia|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Augusta Price, middle-aged, washed up, substance-addicted actress has just left rehab for the innumerable time. Her only friend in the world is her equally washed-up former mentor. Augusta has recently received a sudden upsurge of interest and income when her tell all memoir became a baffling best-seller. Frances Bleeker is an American journalist who came to London with high hopes, that were quickly dashed by the reality of the British magazine market. The two meet when Frances is sent to interview Augusta about her book where Frances realises there’s far more to the story of Augusta’s life than she’s cared to put in words. Needless to say, young, optimistic Frances and self-obsessed, drunk Augusta don’t exactly hit it off at once. But when Frances loses her job and Augusta needs a ghost writer for her new book, the two offer each other a lifeline ... or enough rope to hang themselves. As Frances will learn by delving into her past, people close to Augusta don’t come away unscathed. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782395539</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Xavier Leret|title=The Romeo and Juliet Killers|rating=35

|summary=This The year is a book that suggests love across the tracks – all the while making the reader ask 1933. The place? Sadler'just how chuffing wide s Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are those tracks supposed to be?!' Franky is a hard-done-by schoolboysisters, twins no less. Identical on the outside but not, we learn, whose ultra-Catholic parents are stifling him in all aspects of lifeon the inside. And not on stage, so much so iteither. Because there's likely a lot that when he gets into trouble by witnessing some porn on builds a friend's mobile phone at school it was really the hardware dancer. Some things that he was gawping at in amazement. Hardware is nothing can be taught or learnt – discipline, attention to Daizeedetail – and some things, the underage street hookerthat ''je ne sais quoi'', who knows what hard stuffs she likes and what she doesnthat don'tcome from the classroom. A stage presence, and what her punters – and her mothera charm, back when they had a connection – enjoyed''joie de vivre''. The difference between a hard-worker, or needed, en route to it. Their unlikely connection is the subject of this gritty novellaand a star.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910213187</amazonuk>0861544080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Pascal Garnier and Melanie Florence (translator)Heather Fawcett|title=BoxesEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

|summary=Meet Brice. HeEmily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life's an illustratorwork, who had picked an ideal house in the country very first encyclopaedia of faeries. Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, she is not so good with his journalist wife, only for her to disappear assumed dead on assignment abroadpeople. Therefore he's So when she finds herself far, far North in the small village of Hrafvsnik, having to make somehow offended the move himselfvillage matriarch, she is not sure what she has done, which he does – but without nor how to redeem herself and put her final investigations for her at book back on the other end he finds it hard to kick his new life into gearright track. YesEnter Wendell Bambleby, a cat adopts himher dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and he gets delight, much to know the names of some new people, but thatEmily's itfrustration. But why is he here? What's more, one of those people is Blanche, attired most suitably in all-white, who herself is missing someone – someone of whom Brice does he want? And what exactly is going on with the spitting image…faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910477044</amazonuk>0356519120

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kevin Maher1398515388|title=Last Night on EarthThe Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)

|summary=Baby Bonnie is born First of all, it was the earthquake, deep in London the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and this, in 1996 to Jay turn, caused the nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and Shauna but her traumatic birth utter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, and the aftermath causes loss of livelihoods was widespread. The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the previously happy couple to separatelist of priorities but - six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. Jay looks back searching for how He wasn't a dog person but the convenience store owner's comment that he got would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to this point open his car door and Shauna looks for answers Tamon the dog jumped in psychotherapy with a less than orthodox Danish analyst. Meanwhile both share Bonnie and worry about where they go from here. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408705079</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tina SeskisChristopher Bowden|title=When We Were FriendsMr Magenta|rating=54

|summary= Six friends meet at Bristol University; six very different people from six very different backgroundsChristopher Bowden's latest novel is a patient untangling of a seemingly ordinary woman's life, carried out by her nephew after she has died. Six lives intertwined in an assortment The aunt who always provided a safe harbour and a little bit of ways… break-ups, marriages, careers, motherhood indulgence to a young nephew had had a much more interesting life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and bereavement; until one night six become fiveit seems to him an obligation to find it all out.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405917954</amazonuk >B0B6Z9VJDW

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael LaubJennifer Mason|title=Diary Partitions of the FallUnity

|summary=Diary of the Fall is a story about regretHere at Bookbag Towers, we first met Elizabeth Cromwell, dominatrix and unintentional detective in [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], guilt when she investigated and resentmentunravelled a series of disappearances. ItIn 's told from the point 'Partitions of view of an unnamed narratorUnity'', who reflects on not just his own life but also the lives of his father and grandfathershe sets her mind to solving a murder...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099581795</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=James WilsonWill Carver|title=The Summer of Broken StoriesDaves Next Door|rating=54

|summary=England 1950: Soon-to-be-10, Mark Davenant is Five strangers come together in one moment as a typical lad with a typical lad's life. He loves adding suicide bomber prepares to detonate his model train layout, he plays with his mates and walking best friend Barney the dog. It's vest on one such walk he comes across Aubrey, an elderly writer living in the forest. They build a friendship based on shared stories and imaginingsLondon tube line. Not all in As their fates overlap, the village are accepting though and, when they try to drive Aubrey out, Mark feels himself torn between old loyalties and new.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846883571</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Alexander McCall Smith|title= The Novel Habits of Happiness|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=There are some authors who I pick up with a contented sigh, knowing that I am in safe hands. Alexander McCall Smith is currently my favourite, and thank goodness he is so prolific with his writing that my reading habit is fed on a regular basis! This story is the tenth novel told in the Sunday Philosophy Club seriesbackwards order, and we settle down once more leading up to a visit to Isabel Dalhousie in her beloved Edinburgh. 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 romancethe fateful moment. Will Isabel find herself forced to intervene, or can she sit back and let nature take its course?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408706636</amazonuk>1914585186}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nina George and Simon Pare (translator)Jennifer Mason|title=The Little Paris BookshopPreposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery

|summary=Monsieur Perdu has ''A struggling poetry zine, a barge on the Seine, mom-and -pop mobile diner in that barge he has his bookshop. Actuallythe Northern California redwoods, rather than being a normal sort of bookshop it is more of 400-meter hurdler who just missed the 2004 Olympics, a chemistwomen'strack coach with a yen for bullwhips, since he is something a billionaire with a state-of -the-art S&M dungeon, a literary apothecaryman serving a life sentence in Alabama, prescribing books to his customers that he senses will soothe their soulsan enigmatic signature, K(s, x), and relieve whatever troubles are ailing them. He only has to speak to them on a littlecheap oil painting, sometimes only has to see them, and he instinctively knows which book will help theman erotic art dealer in Georgia... Despite his skills, however, he seems unable to diagnose and resolve his own emotional issues and he '' This is, as just a sample of the translation cast of his French surname tells uscharacters and settings in Preposterous. As you can see, Mr Lostsome keeping up will be required! The basic premise of this mystery story goes like this...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349140359</amazonuk>B09STS96HS

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marcus DalrympleB0B2N7MVYM|title=Flesh and Blood: True FictionThe Calculations of Rational Men|author=Daniel Godfrey|rating=4.5

|summary=Brit John Colson 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 Mexico teaching, having been invited out there by his godfather and local school owner Carlos Manuel Ferminpeople's minds. John soon settles in, soon forming The world has barely had a love of the countrychance to breathe out. But then for Joe Marr, it all changes… Visiting a public toilet 's not the missile crisis that's at the wrong moment means that John hears a murder being committed beyond front of his cubicle doormind. He goes 's been convicted of murder. With the current state of medical knowledge, it's hard to think otherwise than that the police as he prosecution would never have been brought but Joe Marr has spent his first few days in the UK but this is Mexico; from that moment on John Colson is HMP Queen's Bench, a marked manrelatively new prison. Meanwhile elsewhere in Mexico tourists are being attracted by more than hot sunshine He's just getting used to his roommate, Mervyn, and tacoslearning to be wary of the McArthur brothers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1502821087</amazonuk>