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|summary=Gala night at Frere Jacques restaurant Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where the local political she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and good gather for a banquet, basically, monetary gain. Everyone Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is looking forward slowly trying to a good night regain her confidence and that's what they'll haveto get her life back, just not quite in suing her step-mother to take down the way they envisagedcontent about her. Indeed it will be a night to remember for a long time Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to comestart her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for all the wrong reasons courtesy of the little something in the dessertdoing so. Meanwhile young people are going missing on a scale that Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the town new focus of Tresside has never experienced before but Tresside doesnOphelia't know s online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the half of it… yet!same time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00G4A2RQ0</amazonuk>0861546873

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Katie Everson1529153298|title= DropThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating= 45|genre= General Fiction|summary= Katie Everson’s debut novelIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, ‘Drophonestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family,’ is a tale of grief and healingthough. Women have been disappearing. Well, whirlwind romance and brutal honesty. We follow the story of Carla - straight-A-studentthey've been murdered, rule-abiding daughter and somewhat uninteresting friend - who is determined but to change have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her predictable lifefather wants to move the family 'Down South'. When her absentee mother you're from Yorkshire, Down South is offered a job in Londonfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, Carla transfers to yet another school and this time she is desperate 'll do anything to prevent that. She's not be overlookedworried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406356271</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= John Niven1035906708|title= The Sunshine Cruise CompanyDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating= 4.5|genre= HumourGeneral Fiction|summary= Susan Frobisher and Julie Wickham live We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in a small Dorset town. Friends since schoolManhattan, they live fairly uneventful lives – Susan has a lovely house and a lengthy marriage to accountant BarryNew York, whereas Julie is doing slightly less well – living in a council flat December 1923 and working only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in an old people's homethe States. When Barry is found dead trussed up she was back in a sex dungeon, it transpires Athens - supposedly so that he has been leading a hidden life she could get appropriate training for years, and his expensive fetishes lead to her voice - she was raised under the bank moving to take Susan's home. Struck Nazi occupation by both desperation and a sense of injustice, Sue and Julie conspire to rob a bank, taking along their friend Jill – a devout Christian conflicted due to lack of money and a terminally ill grandson, mother who mercilessly exploited her and Ethel – a foul mouthed resident made no secret of the nursing home longing her preference for adventureher elder sister, Jackie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434023183</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Paula McGrathAlexander McCall Smith|title= GenerationThe Perfect Passion Company|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=How can we know The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the effect that our choices may have on the next generation? Even online apps in providing a seemingly minor decision more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the potential business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to create ripples get away for a while. Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and waves of unforeseen repercussions in so jumps at the futurechance to come home to Edinburgh. This fascinating theme is explored in “Generation” And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an intelligently-written début novel that approaches Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the subject from multiple perspectives over an eightyIsabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-year period.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…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147361483X</amazonuk>1846976596

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Kerry HudsonDean Koontz|title= ThirstThe Bad Weather Friend|rating= 4.5|genre= General FictionParanormal|summary= London – SummerBenny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Alena Oh, and someone has delivered a young siberian immigrant 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 caught stealing shoes. Dave, Benny is the man who catches her, very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a security guard – surviving on a minimal income and with little drive nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to better his quiethouse is a new friend, repetitive lifea bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. As Alena Spike is going to take care of Benny, and Dave grow closerwill certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Dave Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds his life turned upside downherself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are. But will Alena ever let down her guard, and reveal the truth about her past?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099589893</amazonuk>1662500491

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Lesley PearseKatherine Howe|title= Without a TraceA True Account|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=Cassie's arrival was bound to cause a stir Hannah Masury is living in the sleepy Somerset village of Sawbridge. She had flaming red hairBoston, having been sent to live with a voluptuous figure accentuated by very tight clothingfamily who run an inn, towering heels, heavy make-up and no wedding ringbeing made to work there from a young age. But the thing that really shocked the locals was the fact that When she had hears there is to be a little mixed-race girl hanging of some pirates in tow. Petalthe town, as she was calleddecides to go and watch. Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, soon melted Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death at the hearts hands of the residentstwo vicious pirates. She hides away, so that they don't find and kill her too, but no such courtesy was extended and then to Cassieescape them completely she runs away to sea, who was dubbed dressing as a boy and joining the notorious Ned Low'that red-headed whore' by somes pirate ship as a cabin boy. Her only friend was She soon finds herself in the kind shopkeeper Molly Heywoodthick of things when there is a mutiny on board, who would often visit Cassie and Petal at their isolated stone cottage from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the outskirts of the villageocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>024196153X</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eva Rice1471180158|title=Love Notes for FreddieMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating=4.5

|summary=Marnie is Jamie Matson works in an innocentupper-class grocery store, mathematical genius schoolgirl for a man who, unfortunately, gets expelled from her fancy boarding school. Julie is her teacher, formerly 's a dancer, rigorously private about her past. Freddie is the boy that both of them fall in love control freak with. Revealed through all the eyes of two subtlety of the three main characters, this is a slow-moving, but rather beautifully told, love storyhalf brick. It has the same vintage feel that Eva Rice used so well in Jamie's son, Bo, 'The Lost Art of Keeping Secretshas his problems'. He' s asthmatic and it cleverly winds its way through Marniethe more you read, the more you'll suspect that he's story in on the 1960autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's as well as Juliea frequent flier in the local A&E and sometimes Bo's past 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 pre-WW2 New Yorkthe wrong. It was going to come to a head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782064486</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Kat Gordon|title= Artificial Anatomy of Parks|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction|summary=One morning in 2002, twenty-one year old Tallulah Park is woken in her depressing bedsit by the phonecall announcing her father's heart attack. From this bleak beginning springs Kat Gordon's gripping debut novel of a dysfunctional upper middle class family with a history of papering over the cracks and ignoring the uncomfortable and unfitting. Tallulah has been doing her fair share of powering on and pretending things don't exist, but it seems like this might turn out to be the time to stop running away. With the reluctant help of two aunts, an old family friend and her own imperfect recollections, and with a vivid imagining of her late grandmother as the voice of conscience, Tallulah sets out to answer some long-standing questions about her family and her own past.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785079867</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Dido Butterworth and Tim Flannery|title=The Mystery of the Venus Island Fetish|rating=3|genreisbn=Historical Fiction|summary=Meet Archie Meek. He's about to leave the Venus Islands, where he's lived for the last five years, and return to Sydney, where he'll take his office in the museum and fill it with all the cultural artefacts he's found and wildlife he's plucked or pickled. That's not to ignore the fact he'll count as something quite alien himself, with his filled-out frame, nearly all-over suntan and totemic tattoo, in amongst other changes to his body. But what's this? When he gets back, he finds one of the main Venus Islands artefacts that caused him to go there in the first place, a huge, macabre ceremonial fetish mask, purloined as corporate artwork. And some of the curators he wishes to work alongside have vanished. Is the weird society of the museum he's returning to, perchance, even weirder, stranger and more violent than the cannibalistic society he's waving farewell to?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1922079308</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Kate HewittB0CKD1L5JL|title= Rainy Day Sisters|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction|summary=Amateur artist Lucy Bagshaw isn't exactly living the American dream; she lives in Boston with her overbearing mother and works as a barista in a coffee shop, but things are about to get a lot worse. Her mother, a famous and controversial artist, writes an scathing editorial, publicly insulting Lucy's artwork just before her first exhibition. The editorial quickly goes viral and a humiliated Lucy flees the country, unsure of where her life is heading. She runs away where nobody can find her; a sleepy Cumbrian village by the sea, where her estranged half-sister runs a boarding house. Lucy quickly questions the wisdom of her decision when she receives a frosty welcome from her sister in a village that seems permanently cold, wet and rainy. Should Lucy try and make a new life for herself here, or should she return to Boston and face her demons?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0451475585</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewRadio Free Olympia|author=Sarah Winman|title=A Year of Marvellous WaysJeffrey Dunn|rating=4.5

|summary=89 year old Marvellous Ways stands outside her secluded Cornish caravan looking across Petr is an orphan. Rescued by the strange, reclusive Bear, he is brought up far from bustling cities and busy human society, in the landscape with her binocularsforests of Washington's Olympic Peninsula. She has After Bear dies and a feeling something will happen brief sojourn in human company, and soon. Elsewhere American Francis Drake (he's heard all armed with only a pirate radio transmitter, Petr goes on a journey through the jokes!) has come home from forest, broadcasting the war strange, wild and looks up the girl rarely heard voices he left behind with results that are beyond his nightmares but will feature in them. Marvellous' and Drakes' lives will cross and then – Marvellous is right – something will happenencounters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755390911</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah Bourne Marsh|title=Two LivesA Sign of Her Own

|summary=One late afternoon in January 2012After a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Emma Elliot and Loretta Davidson's lives collide – along with their carsEllen Lark loses her hearing. Both are running late and driving too fast along this Surrey road. Emma is unharmed and flees the scene. Little does she know that this incident will have long-term consequences further down the line. For Loretta Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, the effects are more immediateeverything about her life changes. A social worker Living in her fortiesa time when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a school where she has taken a career break is taught to raise her and Martin's beloved son Ethanlip read, born after an arduous IVF cycle just over four years agobut physically restrained from signing. Ethan is From here, she ends up in critical condition after another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the car accident deaf and dies during surgeryusing a system called Visible Speech. In her grief At the same time, Loretta turns to Scotch Bell is working on other inventions and Valium ideas, and drifts away from her husband and their familiesEllen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1505233682</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Val HennessyB0BC3YTCMR|title=Not Far From DreamlandGood Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira

|summary=Ronald Tonks has reached that stage in life which I call upper middle age: you've qualified 'This story is not for your pension but not yet got to the free television licence barriereveryone. What Ronald ''has'' got is  Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of her fifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. She was a very bright student, a roof that leaks (therebit too nerdy if truth be told, and suffered from vitiligo - people were afraid to hug her in case it's good reason why his home is called contagious. It'the shack'), s not easy being a dog who black girl whose skin is going bald (in patches) and money that's in very short supply84% white. She had a crush on seventeen-year-old Reggie Anderson but never thought he would notice her. On the plus side Then he has friends, mostly platonic did: Lavender was very good at math and usually in much the same boat as RonaldReggie asked if she would tutor him. But are they downhearted? She readily agreed: tutoring was something she gladly did at church: this was just an extension. Well, they are occasionally, but mostly they're generously optimistic and out She went to make the most of what they've got, usually bought from charity shops his house and jumble saleshe raped her. ''Not Far From Dreamland'' is the story of In shock, she even allowed him to give her a year (2012) in the life of Ronald Tonks, his friends and relativeslift home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0704373874</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jo McMillan1472263936|title=Motherland: A NovelThe Figurine|author=Victoria Hislop|rating=4.5

|summary=Jess is a teenage Communist which isn't a surprise since she comes from a Communist familyIt was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. Her late father She was a card carrying member and Jess spends alone: her weekends selling ''The Morning Star'' with her equally enthused mother Eleanor. It, Greek by birth, had left the family home and refused to return, but Mary and Hamish (Helena's not only a thankless task, parents) felt that it's not would be a very welcome sight for some citizens pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. Her trip to the family apartment in their native Tamworth up-market Kolonaki would be the first of the 1970sseveral annual visits. However Eleanor She grew to love her grandmother and Jessthe family' lives are about to changes maid, Dina, thanks to an allbut was wary - and frightened -expenses paid trip of her grandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. He was proud of his close connections to the GDR – Communist East Germany; a place on the same side of the Berlin Wall as JessJunta and expected his family to uphold his values but saw no reason to accommodate them. His prejudices included Helena' s red hair and Eleanorgreen eyes - inherited from her father's hearts. However, they both learn that even a political heaven has its lessons and, indeed, its downsideScottish ancestors.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473611997</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Eve ChaseDean Koontz|title= Black Rabbit HallAfter Death|rating= 53|genre= General Fiction|summary=At Black Rabbit HallMichael Mace, time goes “syrupy slow.” None Head of the clocks work properlySecurity, but an hour at Black Rabbit a top secret biological research facility, is said 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 last twice him – and only him – as long as a London onehe 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|genre=General Fiction|summary=The village is isolated and you donpoor. It't get s surrounded by a quarter Witching Forest. And the villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicines. The black wood of the things doneforest provides heat and warmth, roofs on homes, and even gallows, if needed. Every holiday, The fear of being buried alive is an existential superstition in the Alton family swap village and that is the hustle and bustle reason Volushka, a drunken, self-indulgent, lazy lout of London life for this secluded Cornish retreat, a place that man is theirs and theirs alonetolerated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718182979</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michelle MillerB0BYF82CXT|title=The UnderwritingSemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone

|summary= Todd Kent is young, rich, stupidly handsome, ''Bill and well on his way to the top of Wall Street. When Amanda are living in a new dating app called “Hook” decides to go publicsemi-detached house, Todd is handpicked by Hook’s eccentric founder to lead the project team. Taking brainy analyst Nehastuck in a depressing rut of boredom and disappointment, spoilt party-boy Beauwhen Terry and Fiona – glamorous, successful and old flame Tara Taylor with him very much in love – the team find themselves thrust into the hectic circumstances of a $14 Billion dealmove in next door. As Silicon Valley and Wall Street clashDespite their different outlooks on life, the death of a young girl will find the team at odds with couples befriend each other – and spinning wildly out of controllife appears to improve for both pairs. But all is not what it seems, and their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1922182974</amazonuk>''

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Alena GraedonShalini Boland|title= The Word ExchangeSilent Bride|rating= 3.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=Welcome to the world of the ''Meme''Alice and Seth are a match made in heaven. He is everything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, clever, funny; the nexttotal and utter husband-generation mobile devicematerial. Imagine technology so sophisticated that it She is all he could anticipate your needs as soon as they come into your mind. Need to get home? Your Meme will hail possibly want in a cab. 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 911wife; beautiful, if needed. Yessuccessful, confident… and so the Meme inevitable proposal is a truly indispensable aid that has revolutionised eagerly accepted by Alice and the way that humans communicatewedding is planned and set. Critics say that it's destroying human language When the much-anticipated day arrives, Alice is walked down the aisle by her father, beaming with pride and excitement as she surveys the congregation – their friends assembled to celebrate this joyful day and verbal interactionwhen Seth turns to face his approaching bride, but donAlice't worry: the Meme s world implodes because she has an app for that too. If you are lost for words, absolutely no idea who the ''Word Exchange'' will supply you with man at the word you require. For a small fee of course..altar is, who is waiting for her to become his wife.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780225628</amazonuk>1662507089

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cornelius Medvei1787636003|title=The Making Girls of Mr BolsoverSummer|author=Katie Bishop|rating=45

|summary=Meet Andrew LynchIt was the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the island. He's a graduate civil servant, then he isnRachel wasn't. He's marriedexactly innocent but she was, then he isn't. He's a librarianperhaps, then he isn’t. He starts, of all thingsnaive, so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to live take an interest in a handmade camp in the Sussex countrysideher, and gets a job writing nature notes for she was flattered rather than wary. It was quite a local magazine – until it's clear while before he's shooting, killing made any sort of physical approach to her and eating too many of his subjects for his audience's tastesby that time she was obsessed by him. He turns Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, looking after his efforts to writing politicised letters to interests on the island and in particular in the local newspaper, bar where his nephew is a jobbing hack, which inspires further, more campaigning activitiesall the girls either worked or partied. 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 LesterAmanda Craig|title=Lillian on LifeThree Graces

|summary=Lillian is in her late fifties, single and childless but you shouldn't Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of- for a moment the- allow yourself to think that she has a rather sad lifenation novel. SheThere's lived through periods something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the atmosphere of the day and capture it, crafting an image of tremendous change the country as it stands in post-war Munich, Paris, London and one particular moment. To say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's now come to rest, smart and independent, in New Yorkpractically synonymous with the genre of contemporary social fiction at this point. Born in She has such a time when gift for weaving the expectations ongoing issues of her parents - and the day into the lives of society - were fairly standard as to what a woman should do with her life, she seems always to have had characters in a sense way that she would disappoint both if she was to be true to herself. She's hot blooded feels natural and sexually uninhibited and certainly ahead of her time lived-in her views. When we first meet her she's waking up next to her married lover and taking stock of her life. Amongst other things, never making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848549520</amazonuk>140871468X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Crompton152915118X|title=BunderlinPineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson

|summary=As 84 year old Edie has lived in the same small town for almost her whole life, but now she is facing a child Martin had been fascinated move as her son wants to move to another house and entranced by bring Edie to live with his neighbour Mrs Bundy's household menageriefamily, as Edie is starting to lose her memory. Her son Peter However, Edie is tormented by the memory of her childhood friend, Lucy, who went missing over 60 years ago, and the worry that there was a secret she was there too but on keeping for Lucy that somehow might be the thing that reveals the truth of what happened all that time ago. After 'seeing' Lucy in the periphery; Martin high street, just as she was just there the last time she saw her, she starts to find pockets of memories coming back to visit her. And yet as she remembers the animalspast, she is forgetting more and more in her day to day life. In adulthood their paths cross again but this time Peter Bunderlin (as heWill she uncover the truth about Lucy's now known) isndisappearance before her move, and before her memories are gone forever?|isbn=1804181250}}{{Frontpage|author=Madelaine Lucas|title=Thirst for Salt|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= ''Love, I't so easy d read, was supposed to avoid be a light and weightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravity'' Told from a retrospective view, a young woman unravels the year-long relationship that once defined her. Overlaid with later wisdom, the narrator relives the affair with a man twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the summer after. Set against the backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the 24-year-old narrator's deepening relationship with her older lover, depicting its all-consuming nature, how it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and Martinhow it altered her irrevocably.|isbn=0861546490}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008506337|title=The Garnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=The love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, apparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in love. Richard was twenty-one and described by Margo's tried! mother as 'an older man'. Perhaps if Martin Her parents worried that Richard's influence would take her away from what they felt she could understand what achieve - going to Oxford and having a glittering career. In the event, they eloped and Richard took her away from the Isle of Wight. Margo did go to Oxford and went on to become a 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 heck Peter is up doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able to?leave him in charge''. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784078549</amazonuk>Then Richard left them.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eve Makis1914585402|title=The Spice Box LettersDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross

|summary=KaterinaI reviewed David F Ross's Armenian grandmother Mariam dies leaving her and her mother a journal in Armenian and a spice box full of mysterious letters. Theybook [[There're special to them both because theys Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There're the legacy s Only One Danny Garvey]] a couple of a much loved relative but totally indecipherable to the monolingually English pairyears back and remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and affecting it was. However It was a holiday abroad to get over a recent break up brings a random encounter for Katerinagripping, emotionally wounding read, and rereading my review of it my main takeaway was that I might not have lavished enough praise on it. When Katerina meets Ara she also meets the key to her grandmother's secret past.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910124087</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robert CromptonLucy Ashe|title=Leaving GileadClara and Olivia|rating=4.5

|summary=Tom Sparrow finally does what heThe year is 1933. The place? Sadler's always dreamt of: buying Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, twins no less. Identical on the former Ridley house near his old childhood homeoutside but not, we learn, on the inside. As Tom explores he finds his new house isn't the only link with his pastAnd not on stage, either. ThereBecause there's something in the outhouse a lot that builds a dancer. Some things that takes him back can be taught or learnt – discipline, attention to the days of young love detail – and Susansome things, that ''je ne sais quoi'', that don't come from the Ridleyclassroom. A stage presence, a charm, a 's daughter. She had been raised in her parents' prohibitive faith as a Gilead Jehovahjoie de vivre's Witness which didn't seem . The difference between a problem to them but they were young hard-worker, and experience wasn't on their side…a star.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784077623</amazonuk>0861544080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Emma CraigieHeather Fawcett|title= What Was Never Said Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

|summary= This story Emily Wilde is narrated by Zahraan expert academic scholar on faerie lore, a teenage girl who spends and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her early years in her home country life's work, the very first encyclopaedia of Somalia before her family move faeries. Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to the UK to escape civil warfaeries, she is not so good with people. Inevitably So when she finds herself far, some traditions travel with them and far North in the novel Zahra recounts her efforts small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the village matriarch, she is not sure what she has done, nor how to protect redeem herself and put her final investigations for her younger sister, Samsam, against FGM, a practice that claimed book back on the life of her older sister in Somalia several years previouslyright track. Zahra intersperses Enter Wendell Bambleby, her account with flashbacks to Somalia dashingly handsome and the civil war that drove them awayinsufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, thus giving a clear picture of the trials that she all charm and her family have faceddelight, much to Emily'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>178072179X</amazonuk>0356519120

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= David Finkle1398515388|title= The Man With The Overcoat|rating= 3.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=''Why would anyone - he was soon to ask himself innumerable times - take a coat from a complete stranger only because it had been offered?'' Skip Gerber steps off the elevator after a long day at work; the foyer of his office building is busy Boy and buzzy and he does not notice the man holding the overcoat until the man hands it to Skip telling him to ''take very good care of it''. Skip unthinkingly grasps the coat and before he has the chance to realise what he is doing - and that he is now holding an overcoat of unknown providence - the man disappears out of the exit door to the building.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0992618525</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewDog|author=Fredrik Backman|title=My Grandmother Sends Her Regards Seishu Hase and ApologisesAlison Watts (translator)|rating=4.5

|summary=''Every 7-year-old needs a superheroFirst of all, it was the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and this, in turn, caused the nuclear meltdown. That's just how it is…'' The result was complete and for Elsa it's her Granutter devastation. When Gran diesThe deaths were uncountable, Elsa is surprised and devastatedthe loss of livelihoods was widespread. The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of priorities but - six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. Granny canHe wasn't be old - Elsa has only known her for 7 years! Elsa still has to carry out Grana dog person but the convenience store owner's last wish though; there are letters comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to be delivered open his car door and with each delivery Elsa learns something more about Gran Tamon the person behind Gran the superherodog jumped in. Will it enforce her hero status or destroy it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444775839</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Neil SmithChristopher Bowden|title=BooMr Magenta|rating=54

|summary=Oliver Dalrymple Christopher Bowden's latest novel is dead. He realised this the moment he woke up in the rebirthing bed. His friends and tormentors had always called him Boo because a patient untangling of his ghostly pale complexion and now hea seemingly ordinary woman's finally earned the nickname fully. What he hasn't realised is the way in which he died; he thinks he life, carried out by her nephew after she has died of holey heart problems in front of his locker while reciting the periodic table. The location is correct but, meeting Johnny (aunt who always provided a safe harbour and a little bit of indulgence to a young nephew had had a much more interesting life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and it seems to him an equally dead former classmate) reveals, he was actually murdered. What's worse, their murderer has been spotted there in 13 year olds' heavenobligation to find it all out.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0434023493</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Minette WaltersJennifer Mason|title= CellarPartitions of Unity

|summary= To my mindHere at Bookbag Towers, ''The Dark Room'' is the most perfect psychological thriller ever written (and I've read lots in this genre). In her later workswe first met Elizabeth Cromwell, Minette Walters seemed to veer away from this particular path to glory as her novels became steadily darker dominatrix and with increasingly dislikeable characters. So it was quite refreshing to discover that ''The Cellar'' was written from the point of view of a rather likeable protagonist. Muna is an African child living unintentional detective in[[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], shall we say, somewhat unusual 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 to make good her escape from the dreadful - and sadly all too believable - circumstances in which when she finds herself. So, naturally, I admired her cunning investigated and resourcefulness, knowing that these attributes would serve her well. But, of course, this is Minette Walters and nothing is as simple as it first appears. As the story unfolded I found myself questioning who exactly were the victims and who, if anyone, was innocent.|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 unravelled a life series of relative peace and happiness - knowing to always avoid the wood that borders their land, and safe in the knowledge that they are guarded by a powerful wizard - the Dragondisappearances. Aware that he is the one thing keeping them safe from the dangers In ''Partitions of the wood, the villagers take part in a ritual called Unity'The Choosing' every ten years - when a young girl is sent to serve the wizard for a decade.Agnieszka is of age for the choosing, but nobody fears that she will be picked - sets her best friend Kasia is pretty and graceful, and sure mind 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 survivalsolving a murder...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447294130</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Barbara LamplughWill Carver|title=Secrets of the PomegranateThe Daves Next Door

|summary=Home Five strangers come together in Bristol, Alice gets the news from her sister's partner, Paco. Her sister, Deborah Hardy, 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 years ago, after her divorce from Mark's father, and was starting to make a name for herself moment as a scholar of women in Andalusia's history. Alice and her nine-year-old son Timmy fly suicide bomber prepares to Spain to find that Deb is alive, but in detonate his vest on a coma in hospitalLondon tube line. Over As their fates overlap, the weeks she keeps vigil for Deb, Alice lives in her sister's home story is told in Granada and reads her diariesbackwards order, which proves leading up to be a way of feeling closer to her and learning more about her than she ever knew. Meanwhile, Mark and Paco keep their distance, working through their complicated grief in their own waysthe fateful moment.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781323690</amazonuk>1914585186}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Menna Van PraagJennifer Mason|title=The House At The End Of Hope StreetPreposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery|rating=54

|summary= Alba Ashby is ''A struggling poetry zine, a mom-and-pop mobile diner in the Northern California redwoods, a 400-meter hurdler who just missed the 2004 Olympics, a women's track coach with a yen for bullwhips, a billionaire with a wallflower state-of -the-art S&M dungeon, a man serving a girl; studiouslife sentence in Alabama, an enigmatic signature, bookish and excruciatingly shyK(s, x), so when tragedy wields its ponderous bolton a cheap oil painting, she is less able than most to adjust to life as she now knows itan erotic art dealer in Georgia.. In one of her midnight walks around historical Cambridge, she finds herself at the door to Number 11 Hope Street. It '' This is house that she has never before seen; quirky and turreted with just a wild garden sample of the cast of characters and grandly Victorian settings in hue and Alba is enchanted by itPreposterous. So she does something that she would never normally doAs you can see, in a million yearssome keeping up will be required! The basic premise of this mystery story goes like this.. She knocks on the door.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0749018623</amazonuk>B09STS96HS

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sara GruenB0B2N7MVYM|title=At The Water's EdgeCalculations of Rational Men|author=Daniel Godfrey

|summary=An indiscretion at a party causes Ellis HydeIt's parents the 10th of December 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marr. Just to disown him, coming, as it doesput what happens in context, hot on the heels of his father not understanding why Ellis Cuban missile crisis is still very fresh in people's minds. The world has been turned down for war servicebarely had a chance to breathe out. To prove heBut for Joe Marr, it's not a coward, Ellis, the missile crisis that's at the front of his new wife Maddie and best friend Hank leave the US for Scotlandmind. He's determined they will succeed where Ellis' father failed years before: they will find the Loch Ness monsterbeen convicted of murder. Maddie isnWith the current state of medical knowledge, it't as convinced s hard to think otherwise than that the prosecution would never have been brought but then she also thinks she knows EllisJoe Marr has spent his first few days in HMP Queen's Bench, a relatively new prison. She and the locals at the inn where theyHe're stranded by the global conflict will discover a lot more about hims just getting used to his roommate, Mervyn, and indeed themselveslearning to be wary of the McArthur brothers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473604702</amazonuk>