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|summary=Eternal optimist Kat has always believed in fairytales and happy endings but can't help but wonder where Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her own life went wrong. Stuck in a deadstep-end relationship with dull workaholic John, itmother Ophelia's hardly the happy-ever-after that increasingly popular presence on social media, where sheposted every step of Anuri'd always hoped s childhood forsponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Things are Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the content about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to changestart her PhD, howeverundergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, when Kat discovers a mysterious house that has been cursed by an enchantment; a handsome Regency beau she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is trapped within the mirrors new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and only a declaration of true love can break her relationship with her father at the spell and release him...same time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784622508</amazonuk>0861546873

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sandy Hogarth1529153298|title=The Glass GirlList of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=3.5

|summary=Sandy HogarthIt's debut novel opens in 1975 with fifteen-year-old Ruth Bishop attending a party with her older sister1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, Alexishonestly. ..) She's not what's worrying Miv'They called me VLs family, Virgin Lipsthough. Women have been disappearing. Well, because Ithey've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared'd never kissed a boy. Sex wasndoesn't mentioned at homesound quite so frightening. Miv' That all changes when Alexis tells Ruth s upset because she's overheard that her father wants to go outside – someone is waiting for hermove the family 'Down South'. It's one of Alexis When you's friendsre from Yorkshire, Down South is a notorious bad boyfrightening, and he assaults Ruth right thereforeign place, best avoided. For Miv, up against the house. Could Alexis really have intended for this to happen? Ruth soon learns she is pregnant and arranges to move to Australia and live with would mean leaving her best friend Lucy, Sharon, and she's aunt in Melbourne until the birthll do anything to prevent that. She gives her beloved daughter Clare up for adoption, but never stops thinking 's not worried about the dangers or that herMum's stopped talking - to anyone. No one but Lucy knows there ever was a baby.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785071548</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Boyne1035906708|title=The Boy at the Top of the MountainDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin

|summary=Welcome We tend to Tremarnock; an idyllic Cornish fishing village with pastel-painted cottages think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and colourful fishing boats bobbing in the harbouronly moved to Athens when she was thirteen. This picture-postcard setting is home Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to single-mum Liz and her disabled daughter, Rosie. Liz works hard 'Callas' to make ends meet and relies on it more manageable in the kindness of neighbours States. When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for childcare. Thankfully, her voice - she was raised under the community are happy to rally round and provide friendship, support, Nazi occupation by a listening ear mother who mercilessly exploited her and a cup made no secret of tea her preference for hard-working Liz. Soon she will need to rely on them more than everher elder sister, as her life takes an unexpected turn that threatens to destroy her happinessJackie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781857881</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Leigh BardugoAlexander McCall Smith|title= Six of Crows|rating= 5|genre= Fantasy|summary=In The Barrel, anything is possible for the right price, and no one knows this better than criminal mastermind, Kaz Brekker. When Kaz is offered a chance at a perilous mission that could turn his poverty-stricken life upside down, he is determined to see the task fulfilled - but he won't be able to do it alone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1627792120</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Dan Rhodes|title=When the Professor Got Stuck in the SnowPerfect Passion Company

|summary= Two people are on The Perfect Passion Company is a train on their way dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative toall the online apps in providing a more personal, of all thingstailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a WI meeting where the ladies of All Bottoms will be lectured on the non-existence of Godtrip to Canada to get away for a while. One Katie is coming out of the two people is Professor Richard Dawkins, rampant atheist, hectoring scientist chappiea break up with a bad boyfriend, and all-round devotee of ''Deal or No Deal''so jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. The other is SmeeAnd so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, his mono-named assistantbringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, amanuensis or 'male secretary'. Smee will come thanks to the fore when the weather sets in 44 Scotland Street and the train journey has Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to be abandoned some way short of its ultimate destination, Upper Bottomcharm. Instead the pair fetch up at the isolated yet friendly community of Market HortonKatie has no experience in running a business, and the only option for accommodation is taken – yes, the died-or inmatch-the-wool non-believer making, but Ness has to be housed by a retired vicar full confidence in her abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and his wife. This clash of titanic opinionsrather handsome) neighbour, peppered with social faux pas aplenty will provide for a particularly English kind of farcical comedyWilliam, but one with the legs to go as far as any other Good Books have reached in the past…lend a hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910709018</amazonuk>1846976596

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tania ChandlerDean Koontz|title=Please Don't Leave Me HereThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=fictionParanormal|summary= If you like unreliable narrators then this Benny is the book for youhaving a terrifically bad day. In Brigitte He loses his job, the protagonist of Please Don't Leave Me Herehe loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, Tania Chandler and someone has created an unforgettable troubled character whose fractured mental state leads delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to erratic thought processeshis home, vivid and none too pleasant dreams and an inabilityit'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 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, or unwillingnessa bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to recover her memory of her former lifehelp him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. None Spike is going to take care of which is helped by her drink problem Benny, andwill certainly take care of Benny's enemies, as the story progressesif he, Benny, an addiction to prescription medicationand Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1925228258</amazonuk>1662500491

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Emylia HallKatherine Howe|title=The Sea Between UsA True Account|rating=4.5

|summary=To her parentsHannah Masury is living in Boston, the move having been sent to Cornwall was live with a family who run an escape inn, and being made to work there from a young age. When she hears there is to be a better way hanging of life. For city-girl Robynsome pirates in the town, it was wet, remote she decides to go and miserable watch. Enthralled and she was counting down horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death at the days to University hands of two vicious pirates. She hides away, so that they don't find and kill her return too, and then to civilization. Desperate for something escape them completely she runs away to do to entertain herselfsea, Robyn takes dressing as a wetsuit boy and surfboard and makes her way to joining the notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a secluded covecabin boy. An inexperienced surfer, she She soon gets into difficulty, but finds herself in the thick of things when there is rescued from the sea by a young local man called Jago. From that moment mutiny onboard, the two lives and from there we are intertwined by an invisible bond; a bond that will be tested and stretched during caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the years that followocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472211979</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anne Barnett1471180158|title=The Largest Baby in Ireland After The FamineMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating= 4.5

|summary=She was Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's a control freak with all colour and sway, and as far away as imaginable from the local women. Pale, pale skin and strong dark auburn hair falling free to large wide hips. She wore subtlety of a purple shawlhalf brick. That night Felix Jamie's son, a bachelorBo, aged 43'has his problems'. He's asthmatic and the more you read, living in the house more you'll suspect that he was born in, dreamt of purple's on the autistic spectrum. Purple Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's a frequent flier in the shape of a womanlocal A&E and sometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to school.And just like that, things change. I love this passage. It shows how strong Missed shifts or the human pull is. Even need to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when men Jamie can be controlled and women are surrounded by great events - war, political upheaval, famine, depression - individual human desires can change put in the picture in an instantwrong. It was going to come to a head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>186151526X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alexander CordellB0CKD1L5JL|title=The Hosts of RebeccaRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn|rating=54

|summary=At the end of [[Rape of the Fair Country Petr is an orphan. Rescued by Alexander Cordell|Rape of the Fair Country]] Iestyn Mortymer had been sentenced to deportation for seven years because of the part strange, reclusive Bear, he played is brought up far from bustling cities and busy human society, in the Chartist rebellion and the Newport Rising forests of 1839Washington's Olympic Peninsula. His mother, wife, Marie, younger brother, JethroAfter Bear dies and a brief sojourn in human company, sister, Morfydd and the two children of the family returned to the landarmed with only a pirate radio transmitter, living Petr goes on a farm owned by Marie's grandfather. The life was hard and not just for journey through the Mortymersforest, with poverty breathing over their shoulders and it was made worse by broadcasting the tollgates installed by landownersstrange, effectively adding a levy to any produce which the farmers attempted to movewild and rarely heard voices he encounters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B0100NC1GM</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alexander McCall SmithSarah Marsh|title=The Woman Who Walked in SunshineA Sign of Her Own|rating=3.5

|summary=Back to Botswana I goAfter a bout of scarlet fever as a child, having saved this newest outing in the No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series for a delightful weekend readEllen Lark loses her hearing. I never tire Suddenly plunged into a world of these characterssilence, and I always look forward to seeing what is happening in their liveseverything about her life changes. This Living in a time around when the story use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is about holidays, amongst other things, and the tricky plans to persuade Mma Ramostwe sent to take a holiday. But what school where she is Mma Makutsi up taught to? lip read, but physically restrained from signing. Does From here, she have plans to take over ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the agency entirely whilst Mma Ramotswe is away? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408706660</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Aldous Huxley|title= After Many A Summer|rating= 4|genre= Dystopian Fiction|summary= Like many of us, I suspect, I knew nothing of Huxley other than the "required reading" of ''Brave New World''deaf and using a system called Visible Speech. NaturallyAt the same time, Bell is working on that basis aloneother inventions and ideas, he was pigeon-holed and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in my head under the heading ''Sci-fi - must check out further''a complicated tangle of espionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784870358</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jill CimentB0BC3YTCMR|title=Heroic MeasuresGood Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira

|summary=Ruth and Alex Cohen have to move from their beloved New York apartment''This story is not for everyone. They love it, but it's five floors up and there's no elevator Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of her fifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. Reluctantly they're having an open day for prospective purchasers She was a very bright student, a bit too nerdy if truth be told, and suffered from vitiligo - and hoping that they'll be able people were afraid to buy something not hug her in case it''too'' far out which has that elusive elevators contagious. It's not just them, either. There's Dorothy. Dorothy ('Dottie' to those who know her well) easy being a black girl whose skin is their Daschund84% white. She's getting had a crush on in years, seventeen-year-old Reggie Anderson but then so are Ruth and Alexnever thought he would notice her. Then - the day before the open house - two things happenhe did: Lavender was very good at math and Reggie asked if she would tutor him. An unmarked petrol truck She readily agreed: tutoring was something she gladly did at church: this was just an extension. is blocking the city's main tunnel She went to his house and there's no sign of the driverhe raped her. You don't In shock, she even need allowed him to have ''long'' memories to worry about terrorists in Manhattan. Then Dottie yelps in pain and she can't stand upgive her a lift home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782271945</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Sebastian Faulks1472263936|title= Where my Heart Used to Beat|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction |summary= In the early 1980’s, on a small island off the South of France, a Doctor named Robert Hendricks confronts his life – memories of wars, work, loves, and losses. As his history is explored and questioned by his host, Hendricks recalls days in Scottish universities, Italian trenches, mental asylums and windswept beaches. Links to the past are uncovered, and the raw wounds they expose take Hendricks on a search for sanity and raises the question – is life comprised of events themselves, or the way in which an individual chooses to remember them?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091936837</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewThe Figurine|author=Alexander McCall Smith|title=The Revolving Door of LifeVictoria Hislop

|summary=I am always happy It was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to sit back down with old friendsGreece. She was alone: her mother, Greek by birth, had left the family home and refused to catch return, but Mary and Hamish (Helena's parents) felt that it would be a pity if Helena grew up on what has been happening on Scotland Streetwithout knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. As Her trip to the family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be the last episode [[Bertiefirst of several annual visits. She grew to love her grandmother and the family's Guide to Life maid, Dina, but was wary - and Mothers by Alexander McCall Smith]] there is plenty frightened - of Bertie throughout the whole storyher grandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. Bertie is my favourite character by far, so this He was very pleasing proud of his close connections to me! the Junta and expected his family to uphold his values but saw no reason to accommodate them. Our other favourites are there too, however, so thereHis prejudices included Helena's something to please everyone, red hair and green eyes - inherited from Bruce being, well, Bruce, and dear Angus reciting a poem at the endher father's Scottish ancestors.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973287</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Rachel ElliottDean Koontz|title= Whispers Through A MegaphoneAfter Death|rating= 4.53|genre= General Fiction|summary= Miriam doesn’t speak. WellMichael Mace, Head of Security, that’s not strictly true. She does speakat a top secret biological research facility, but nothing above is among 55 people who die when a whisper which makes it hard to have virus is released in a conversation with herbio-hazard accident. Particularly as she hasn’t left her house Finding himself in a makeshift mortuary, covered in three years. But today is the day. She’s going plastic, he has a sense that something very, very bad has happened to open that door him – and walk outside. She really is. Ralph has finally twigged (only him – as he sits up and with no small amount looks around at the shrouded bodies of surprise) that his wife Sadie doesn’t actually love himdead friends and former colleagues. And now he’s not sure if she ever really did. Having spent so much time regurgitating As he recovers his every moment onto Social Mediasenses, Ralph hasn’t really had a chance to think he realises that there is something different about ithim; he can ''feel'' everything. But now he has, it ''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 so shockingly awful that he has decided to run awayisolated and poor. It's surrounded by a 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 all the places he could run away toforest provides heat and warmth, roofs on homes, and even gallows, he has chosen if needed. The fear of being buried alive is an existential superstition in the same woods village and that Miriam has picked to be is the first place she will visit out-ofreason Volushka, a drunken, self-doors. And Sadie? Wellindulgent, she’s had enough lazy lout of reading Tweets and living vicariously through the posts of others. Sadie a man is going to have an adventure of her owntolerated. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0992918227</amazonuk>

we will take him at his word, although one would had thought a better looking Ryan Gosling would have had his fill of Zepplin chested females so as to dilute his desire for them. In any event, I suspect his longings stem from the fact that a young mechanic living a quiet and uneventful life in a tiny village in rural France is unlikely to have a multitude of such femmes crossing his path in search of their daily baguette. That said, when Arthur one day opens his front door to find a rather distressed but undeniably luscious Scarlett Johansson on his doorstep, he does not question his luck. He invites her in. As you do. {{Frontpage|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0297871021</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewB0BYF82CXT|authortitle=John PiperSemi-Detached|titleauthor=Claude's JourneyDeborah Stone

|summary=One routine, normally uneventful journey changes Claude's life forever'Bill and Amanda are living in a semi-detached house,. It begins with stuck in a chance encounter with a malevolent hen party depressing rut of boredom and disappointment, when Terry and Fiona – glamorous, successful and carries very much in love – move in next door. Despite their different outlooks on with life, the betrayal of those he thought he could trust sending him into a spiral of captivity couples befriend each other and life appears to improve for both pairs. But all is not what it seems, and fetishist slaverytheir increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00EJQSLLG</amazonuk>''

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Beth MillerShalini Boland|title= The Good NeighbourSilent Bride|rating= 4.53|genre= General Fiction|summary= Minette has not had the best experience of neighbours. It's hard when you have Alice and Seth are a new bornmatch made in heaven. They're not known He is everything she has been searching for being quiet as ; handsome, accomplished, clever, funny; total and utter husband-material. She is all he could possibly want in a mouse at all times and occasionallywife; beautiful, wellsuccessful, occasionally they scream through confident… and so the nightinevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and the wedding is planned and set. So When the much-anticipated day arrives, Alice is walked down the aisle by her father, beaming with pride and excitement as shesurveys the congregation – their friends assembled to celebrate this joyful day and when Seth turns to face his approaching bride, Alice's glad when world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the man at the nasty couple move and are replaced by Cath and altar is, who is waiting for her two kidsto become his wife. A fellow mother! An ally! Surely she will be more understanding?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091956331</amazonuk>1662507089

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Fausto Brizzi1787636003|title= One Hundred Days The Girls of HappinessSummer|author=Katie Bishop|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Sometimes ''Serendipity'' coerces ''Fate'' into making sure you read a particular book. I picked ''One Hundred Days…'' off It was the shelf summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the back of the blurb from an author of a book I havenisland. Rachel wasn't actually readexactly innocent but she was, perhaps, naive, so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to take an interest in her, she was flattered rather than wary. I confused the title It was quite a while before he made any sort of their book with one I adoredphysical approach to her and by that time she was obsessed by him. Make of that what you willAlistair worked for Henry Taylor, I'm going to call it a happy accident, because this is a book many of us really need to readlooking after his interests on the island and in particular in the bar where all the girls either worked or partied.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447269012</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=S E CraythorneAmanda Craig|title=How You See MeThree Graces

|summary=DanielFew styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of-the-nation novel. There's father is ill after a stroke something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the atmosphere of the day and so Daniel needs to go home to Norfolk to nurse him. While there he continues to write letters to his beloved girlfriend Alicecapture it, his sister Mab and his boss to keep them up to datecrafting an image of the country as it stands in one particular moment. The problems in DanielTo say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's life are practically synonymous with the genre of contemporary social fiction at this point. She has such a lot closer to home than those he's left behind gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the day into the lives of her characters in a way that feels natural and lived-in his normal life though. Gradually the reasons why Daniel left Norfolk return to him, increasing in intensity until it's muchnever making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, much too lategrappling with issues far larger than themselves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908434562</amazonuk>140871468X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeremy Massey 152915118X|title=The Last Four Days Of Paddy BuckleyPineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson|rating=4.5

|summary= Paddy Buckley ''Pineapple Street'' is the story of three women: Sasha, Darley and Georgiana. Darley and George are sisters and Sasha is married to their brother Cord. They're Stocktons, only Sasha isn't a grieving widower who has worked for years for GallagherStockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the tribe. The problem'sexacerbated when the clan matriarch, a long-established—some say Tilda, asks Cord and Sasha if they'd like to move into the best—funeral home in DublinPineapple Street property. One night driving home after an unexpected encounter with a client Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to another property, Paddy hits a pedestrian crossing the streetor so away, which they own. He pulls over They won't need any of the furniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and gets out of his carCord can move straight in. Nominally, intending to do they had a choice but that wasn't the right thingreality. As he bends over Darley and Georgiana start to help call Sasha 'the man, he recognizes himgold digger'. It She's Donal Cullen, brother of one of the most notorious mobsters living in Dublin''their'' family home. And heThey use it so often that they abbreviate it to 's dead. Shocked and scared, Paddy jumps back in his car and drives away before anyone notices whatthe GD's happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594634858</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=James LovegroveEmily Critchley|title=Sherlock Holmes - The Thinking EngineOne Puzzling Afternoon

|summary=In this hyperThe love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all-connected worldconsuming, it is not difficult apparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in love. Richard was twenty-one and described by Margo's mother as 'an older man'. Her parents worried that Richard's influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to conceive of machines that can answer perplexing questions in Oxford and having a glittering career. In the event, they eloped and Richard took her away from the blink Isle of an eye, communicate over Wight. Margo did go to Oxford and went on to become a vast network or even seemingly outsmart humanswell-respected journalist. Of course The couple had three children: Rachel, Imogen and Sasha. Life was lived in the year 1895, such a machine would be viewed with deep suspicion London and curiosity; hailed as a miracleholidays were spent at Sandcove, or condemned as the work family home on the Isle of dark supernatural forcesWight. James Lovegrove put this idea to Even then the test in his latest Sherlock Holmes adventure, doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo'The Thinking Engines mind: '', which pits man against machine she would never be able to leave him in the ultimate battle of witscharge''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783295031</amazonuk>Then Richard left them.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=C B Calico1914585402|title=Dandelion AngelDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross|rating=4.5

|summary=In her AuthorI reviewed David F Ross's Note, debut novelist C.B. Calico reveals that book [[There's Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There'Dandelion Angel'' was inspired by s Only One Danny Garvey]] a non-fiction work, ''Understanding the Borderline Mother'' couple of years back and remember being absolutely floored by Christine Ann Lawsonhow powerful and affecting it was. The four mother/daughter relationships in this Germany-set novel – all marked to some extent by dysfunctionIt was a gripping, physical and/or verbal abuseemotionally wounding read, and borderline personality disorder – are based rereading my review of it my main takeaway was that I might not have lavished enough praise on Lawson's metaphorical classifications: the hermit, the queen, the waif, and the witch. Looping back through her four storylines in three complete cycles, Calico shows how mental illness is rooted in childhood experiences and can go on to affect a whole familyit.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B0112SC9CA</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Eli Horowitz, Matthew Derby and Kevin MoffettLucy Ashe|title=The Silent HistoryClara and Olivia

|summary=Meet LeviThe year is 1933. HeThe place? Sadler's a humble little dog living with a loving familyWells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, twins no less. They've spent so much time with him he has learnt some tricks – Identical on the outside but not only the usual ones, of begging, or playing deadwe learn, but walking on two legs, somersaulting the inside. And not on to his two other pawsstage, and giving the Hitler saluteeither. If this was 2015 in the UK he would be shoe-in for BritainBecause there's Got Talent (although the Hitler salute might lose him a few voteslot that builds a dancer. Some things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, attention to be honest) but this is 1930s Berlin, detail – and some things are starting to get horrendously tough and nasty for Jewish families like his, that ''je ne sais quoi'', that don't come from the classroom. Querying the statute laws that demand A stage presence, a formalisation of Jewish names his owners rename Levi after Siriuscharm, the Great Dog in the night skiesa ''joie de vivre''. But nobody can foresee what happens when Jews are pushed harder and harder from their neighbourhoodsThe difference between a hard-worker, and nobody can see what a Great Dog star Sirius can become, in the most unlikely of milieux – Hollywood….|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784081981</amazonuk>0861544080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Meike ZiervogelHeather Fawcett|title=KautharEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=Meet Lydia. SheEmily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life's a normal British girlwork, interested in following both her fatherthe very first encyclopaedia of faeries. Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, and Nadia Comanecishe is not so good with people. So when she finds herself far, into far North in the world small village of gymnastics but not brave enough to pull off Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the larger set piecesvillage matriarch, and with she is not much more sure what she has done, nor how to interrupt redeem herself and put her days than wondering why boys always have to talk about their williesfinal investigations for her book back on the right track. Now meet KautharEnter Wendell Bambleby, a white British convert to Islam, devoted follower of the precepts of her religiondashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, ardent wife all charm and stalwartly self-fulfillingdelight, no-nonsense and satisfiedmuch to Emily's frustration. But what is this – why is she talking of being alone in a desert, and why is she directly addressing her god regarding how she ''can't perform any movement. he here? Because it is torn apart''What does he want? Has something gone wrongAnd what exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784630292</amazonuk>0356519120

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julia Heaberlin1398515388|title=Black Eyed SusansThe Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)

|summary=I knew little about this book before I started First of all, it - other than was the intriguing title and earthquake, deep in the scant information that it is a psychological mystery about a girl who survives abduction by a serial killer. For those whoocean floor, like me, can't resist suspense (which created the tsunami and it seems that many people do fall into this category, according to in turn, caused the bestseller lists at least), this is enticement enoughnuclear meltdown. And I The result was not disappointed: this story offers psychological uncertainty complete and suspense from start to finishutter devastation. The narrative alternates between present day deaths were uncountable, and the past, each section lasting just 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 couple of pagesconvenience store. I found this structure tricky at first, although each chapter does offer He wasn't a helpful timeline and dog person but the chapters are short enough that itconvenience store owner's easy to reorient yourself. Once I got used comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to the choppy style I found that it did work, open his car door and it worked really well, reflecting the constant flashbacks and mental turmoil experienced by Tessa, Tamon the protagonistdog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718181336</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author= Tessa McWattChristopher Bowden|title= Higher Ed Mr Magenta|rating= 2.54|genre= General Fiction|summary= Robin works at Christopher Bowden's latest novel is a university. Olivia is one patient untangling of his students. Francine works behind the scenes in admin. Katrin is a waitress in a local caféseemingly ordinary woman's life, and Ed carried out by her nephew after she has died. The aunt who always provided a role in safe harbour and a rather unique little bit of local government. This bizarre cast of characters are the stars of ''Higher Ed'', indulgence to a young nephew had had a story which eventually combines much more interesting life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and it seems to him an obligation to find it all of their livesout.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1925228045</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Mary KubicaJennifer Mason|title= Pretty BabyPartitions of Unity|rating= 54|genre= General Fiction|summary= On her morning commute to workHere at Bookbag Towers, Heidi sees something that shakes her. A young girlwe first met Elizabeth Cromwell, barely older than her own pre-teen daughter, huddling dominatrix and unintentional detective in the rain on the platform[[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], clutching when she investigated and unravelled a tiny babyseries of disappearances. ItIn ''s a distressing situation and it stays on her mind for the rest Partitions of the day. So much so that when she sees the girl againUnity'', she feels obligated sets her mind to helpsolving a murder...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848453965</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=John PiperWill Carver|title=La Crème de la CremThe Daves Next Door|rating=34|genre=General Fiction|summary= Five strangers come together in one moment as a suicide bomber prepares to detonate his vest on a London tube line. As their fates overlap, the story is told in backwards order, leading up to the fateful moment.|isbn= 1914585186}} {{Frontpage|author=Jennifer Mason|title=Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery|rating=4

|summary=Gala night at Frere Jacques restaurant where ''A struggling poetry zine, a mom-and-pop mobile diner in the local political and good gather for Northern California redwoods, a banquet. Everyone is looking forward to 400-meter hurdler who just missed the 2004 Olympics, a good night and thatwomen's what they'll havetrack coach with a yen for bullwhips, just not quite in a billionaire with a state-of-the way they envisaged. Indeed it will be -art S&M dungeon, a man serving a night to remember for life sentence in Alabama, an enigmatic signature, K(s, x), on a long time to comecheap oil painting, for all the wrong reasons courtesy of the little something an erotic art dealer in the dessertGeorgia... Meanwhile young people are going missing on '' This is just a scale that the town sample of Tresside has never experienced before but Tresside doesn't know the half cast of it… yetcharacters and settings in Preposterous. As you can see, some keeping up will be required!The basic premise of this mystery story goes like this...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00G4A2RQ0</amazonuk>B09STS96HS

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Katie EversonB0B2N7MVYM|title= DropThe Calculations of Rational Men|author=Daniel Godfrey|rating= 45|genre= General Fiction|summary= Katie Everson’s debut novelIt's the 10th of December 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marr. Just to put what happens in context, ‘Drop,’ the Cuban missile crisis is still very fresh in people's minds. The world has barely had a tale chance to breathe out. But for Joe Marr, it's not the missile crisis that's at the front of grief and healing, whirlwind romance and brutal honestyhis mind. He's been convicted of murder. We follow With the story current state of Carla - straight-A-studentmedical knowledge, rule-abiding daughter and somewhat uninteresting friend - who is determined it's hard to change her predictable life. When her absentee mother is offered a job think otherwise than that the prosecution would never have been brought but Joe Marr has spent his first few days in LondonHMP Queen's Bench, Carla transfers a relatively new prison. He's just getting used to yet another school his roommate, Mervyn, and this time she is desperate learning to not be overlookedwary of the McArthur brothers. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406356271</amazonuk>