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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Julia Franck and Anthea Bell (translator)Onyi Nwabineli|title=WestAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=34.5|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=Put yourself in Anuri spent her childhood on display to the shoes world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of a young mother 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 two childrenget her life back, who declares suing her intention step-mother to leave take down the Communist East Germany for West Berlincontent about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and thus loses her scientist jobsecretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. What would you expect on Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the other side – shops full new focus of attainable productsOphelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, pleasant neighbourhoods, nice neighbours, an active and busy new life, where things might feel alien but perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at least you speak the same languagetime? |isbn=0861546873}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529153298|title=The List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, for Nelly Senffthey've been murdered, this is hardly the casebut to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Once past the depressing Eastern exit procedures Miv's upset because she is confronted with more desultory interrogations from those 'welcoming' s overheard that her father wants to move the Westfamily 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, beyond which she and her children (their fatherforeign place, whom she never marriedbest avoided. For Miv, is long assumed dead by the authoritiesmove would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, if nobody else) are practically left in a shared accommodation in a transit campand she'll do anything to prevent that. The shops are full of what is still unobtainable, She's not worried about the children hate their new school – and people still look down on them as being foreign, even if they have only moved across a citydangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099554321</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Beverley Hansford1035906708|title=The Golden AnkletDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=34.5

|summary=Jane Carroll is becoming more We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and more successful as a young journalist on a woman's magazineonly moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Yet, although Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her future looks secure, Jane would like father changed it to 'Callas' to discover make it more about her pastmanageable in the States. As an orphan When she was raised back in a children's home with no information regarding the identity of Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her parents apart from what voice - she was on raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her birth certificate. Therefore armed with this certificate and the help made no secret of her new boyfriend Bob, not to mention genealogist dabbling neighbour Geraldpreference for her elder sister, the search begins. However nothing is as straightforward, or indeed as safe, as she thought it would beJackie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784624675</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jane L GibsonAlexander McCall Smith|title=A Different ReflectionThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5

|summary=Eternal optimist Kat The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has always believed full confidence in fairytales her abilities, and happy endings but canthere't help but wonder where s always her own life went wrongvery helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=The Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Paranormal|summary=Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Stuck in Oh, and someone has delivered a deadreally weird, disturbing coffin-end relationship with dull workaholic Johnsized object to his home, and it's hardly possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the happy-ever-after thing that she'd always hoped 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. Things are about Benny it turns out that the delivery to changehis house is a new friend, howevera bad weather friend called Spike, when Kat discovers a mysterious house that who has been cursed by an enchantment; sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a handsome Regency beau good person. Spike is trapped within the mirrors going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and only Harper (a declaration of true love waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can break the spell and release him..figure out who exactly they are.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784622508</amazonuk>1662500491

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sandy HogarthKatherine Howe|title=The Glass GirlA True Account|rating=34.5

|summary=Sandy Hogarth's debut novel opens Hannah Masury is living in 1975 Boston, having been sent to live with fifteen-year-old Ruth Bishop attending a party with her older sisterfamily who run an inn, Alexisand being made to work there from a young age. 'They called me VL When she hears there is to be a hanging of some pirates in the town, Virgin Lipsshe decides to go and watch. Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, because I'd never kissed Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy. Sex wasn't mentioned s death at homethe hands of two vicious pirates. She hides away, so that they don' That all changes when Alexis tells Ruth to go outside – someone is waiting for t find and kill her. It's one of Alexis's friends, a notorious bad boytoo, and he assaults Ruth right there, up against the house. Could Alexis really have intended for this then to happen? Ruth soon learns escape them completely she is pregnant and arranges runs away to move to Australia sea, dressing as a boy and live with her friend Lucyjoining the notorious Ned Low's aunt pirate ship as a cabin boy. She soon finds herself in Melbourne until the birth. She gives her beloved daughter Clare thick of things when there is a mutiny on board, and from there we are caught up for adoption, but never stops thinking about in her. No one but Lucy knows there ever was a babyrip roaring tale of life on the ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785071548</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Boyne1471180158|title=The Boy at the Top of the MountainMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes

|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=Meet Pierrot. As Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's a very young child in 1930s Paris he is going to have control freak with all the subtlety of a very awkward journey through his young lifehalf brick. His father is a violent drunkJamie's son, reacting badly to what he saw in WWIBo, and although married to a French woman, is still staunchly German'has his problems'. That woman, Emilie, is going to die, He's asthmatic and leave Pierrot an orphanthe more you read, which will leave him in a home where the more you'll suspect that he is bullied's on the autistic spectrum. But from Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's a frequent flier in the reaches of Europe local A&E and from the black corners of his family comes an aunt, Beatrix, who will give him a home, of a kind, at a most unusual mountaintop building. Itsometimes Bo's not her home – she just works there and had fit enough to go to school. Missed shifts or the need to be away on time to ask special permission pick Bo up from someone specialschool are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the wrong. The place? The BerghofIt was going to come to a head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857534521</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emma BurstallB0CKD1L5JL|title=Tremarnock: The Lives, Loves and Secrets of a Cornish VillageRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn

|summary=Welcome to Tremarnock; Petr is an idyllic Cornish fishing village with pastel-painted cottages orphan. Rescued by the strange, reclusive Bear, he is brought up far from bustling cities and colourful fishing boats bobbing busy human society, in the harbourforests of Washington's Olympic Peninsula. This picture-postcard setting is home to single-mum Liz After Bear dies and her disabled daughtera brief sojourn in human company, Rosie. Liz works hard to make ends meet and relies armed with only a pirate radio transmitter, Petr goes on a journey through the kindness of neighbours for childcare. Thankfullyforest, broadcasting the community are happy to rally round and provide friendship, supportstrange, a listening ear wild and a cup of tea for hard-working Liz. Soon she will need to rely on them more than ever, as her life takes an unexpected turn that threatens to destroy her happinessrarely heard voices he encounters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781857881</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Leigh BardugoSarah Marsh|title= Six A Sign of CrowsHer Own|rating= 3.5|genre= FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary=In The BarrelAfter a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, anything is possible for everything about her life changes. Living in a time when the right priceuse of sign language was seen as something only savages do, and no one knows this better than criminal mastermindEllen is sent to a school where she is taught to lip read, Kaz Brekkerbut physically restrained from signing. When Kaz is offered From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and using a chance at a perilous mission that could turn his poverty-stricken life upside downsystem called Visible Speech. At the same time, he Bell is determined to see the task fulfilled - but he won't be able to do it aloneworking on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1627792120</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dan RhodesB0BC3YTCMR|title=When the Professor Got Stuck in the SnowGood Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira

|summary= Two people are on ''This story is not for everyone.'' Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of her fifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. She was a train on their way to, of all thingsvery bright student, a WI meeting where the ladies of All Bottoms will bit too nerdy if truth be lectured on the non-existence of God. One of the two people is Professor Richard Dawkins, rampant atheist, hectoring scientist chappietold, and allsuffered from vitiligo -round devotee of ''Deal or No Dealpeople were afraid to hug her in case it's contagious. It's not easy being a black girl whose skin is 84% white. The other is Smee, his monoShe had a crush on seventeen-year-named assistant, amanuensis or 'male secretary'old Reggie Anderson but never thought he would notice her. Smee will come to the fore when the weather sets in Then he did: Lavender was very good at math and the train journey has to be abandoned some way short of its ultimate destination, Upper BottomReggie asked if she would tutor him. Instead the pair fetch up She readily agreed: tutoring was something she gladly did at the isolated yet friendly community of Market Horton, and the only option for accommodation is taken – yes, the died-in-the-wool non-believer has church: this was just an extension. She went to be housed by a retired vicar his house and his wifehe raped her. This clash of titanic opinionsIn shock, peppered with social faux pas aplenty will provide for she even allowed him to give her a particularly English kind of farcical comedy, but one with the legs to go as far as any other Good Books have reached in the past…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910709018</amazonuk>lift home.

 {{Frontpage|isbn=1472263936|title=The Figurine|author=Victoria Hislop|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. She was alone: her mother, Greek by birth, had left the family home and refused to return, but Mary and Hamish (Helena's parents) felt that it would be a pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. Her trip to the family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be the first of several annual visits. She grew to love her grandmother and the family's maid, Dina, but was wary - and frightened - of her grandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. He was proud of his close connections to the Junta and expected his family to uphold his values but saw no reason to accommodate them. His prejudices included Helena's red hair and green eyes - inherited from her father's Scottish ancestors.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tania ChandlerDean Koontz|title=Please DonAfter 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 Leave Me Here''Michael'' anymore.|isbn=1662500467}} {{Frontpage|isbn=B0BVDC2VWH|title=The Grave Listeners|author=William Frank

|genre=fictionGeneral Fiction|summary= If you like unreliable narrators then this The village is isolated and poor. It's surrounded by a Witching Forest. And the book for youvillagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicines. In Brigitte, The black wood of the protagonist of Please Don't Leave Me Hereforest provides heat and warmth, Tania Chandler has created an unforgettable troubled character whose fractured mental state leads to erratic thought processesroofs on homes, vivid and none too pleasant dreams and an inability, or unwillingnesseven gallows, to recover her memory of her former lifeif needed. None The fear of which being buried alive is helped by her drink problem an existential superstition in the village andthat is the reason Volushka, a drunken, as the story progressesself-indulgent, an addiction to prescription medicationlazy lout of a man is tolerated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1925228258</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emylia HallB0BYF82CXT|title=The Sea Between UsSemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone|rating=54

|summary=To her parents''Bill and Amanda are living in a semi-detached house, the move to Cornwall was an escape to stuck in a better way depressing rut of life. For city-girl Robynboredom and disappointment, it was wetwhen Terry and Fiona – glamorous, remote successful and miserable and she was counting down very much in love – move in next door. Despite their different outlooks on life, the days to University couples befriend each other and her return life appears to civilization. Desperate improve for something to do to entertain herself, Robyn takes a wetsuit and surfboard and makes her way to a secluded coveboth pairs. An inexperienced surfer, she soon gets into difficulty, but But all is rescued from the sea by a young local man called Jago. From that moment onnot what it seems, the two lives and their increasingly interconnected relationships are intertwined by an invisible bond; a bond that will be tested and stretched during the years that followfated for tragedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472211979</amazonuk>''

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anne BarnettShalini Boland|title=The Largest Baby in Ireland After The FamineSilent Bride|rating= 43

|summary=She was all colour Alice and swaySeth are a match made in heaven. He is everything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, and as far away as imaginable from the local women. Paleclever, pale skin funny; total and strong dark auburn hair falling free to large wide hipsutter husband-material. She wore is all he could possibly want in a purple shawl. That night Felixwife; beautiful, a bachelorsuccessful, aged 43, living in confident… and so the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and the house he was born in, dreamt of purplewedding is planned and set. Purple in When the shape of a woman.And just like thatmuch-anticipated day arrives, things change. I love this passage. It shows how strong Alice is walked down the human pull is. Even when men and women are surrounded aisle by great events - warher father, political upheavalbeaming with pride and excitement as she surveys the congregation – their friends assembled to celebrate this joyful day and when Seth turns to face his approaching bride, famineAlice's world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the man at the altar is, depression - individual human desires can change the picture in an instantwho is waiting for her to become his wife.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>186151526X</amazonuk>1662507089

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alexander Cordell1787636003|title=The Hosts Girls of RebeccaSummer|author=Katie Bishop

|summary=At It was the end of [[Rape of the Fair Country by Alexander Cordell|Rape of the Fair Country]] Iestyn Mortymer had been sentenced to deportation for seven years because of the part he played in the Chartist rebellion summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the Newport Rising of 1839island. His motherRachel wasn't exactly innocent but she was, wifeperhaps, Marienaive, younger brotherso when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to take an interest in her, Jethro, sister, Morfydd and the two children she was flattered rather than wary. It was quite a while before he made any sort of the family returned physical approach to the land, living on a farm owned her and by that time she was obsessed by Marie's grandfatherhim. The life was hard and not just Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, looking after his interests on the Mortymers, with poverty breathing over their shoulders island and it was made worse by in particular in the tollgates installed by landowners, effectively adding a levy to any produce which bar where all the farmers attempted to movegirls either worked or partied.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B0100NC1GM</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alexander McCall SmithAmanda Craig|title=The Woman Who Walked in SunshineThree Graces|rating=4.5

|summary=Back to Botswana I goFew styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of-the-nation novel. There's something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the atmosphere of the day and capture it, having saved crafting an image of the country as it stands in one particular moment. To say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this newest outing in would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's practically synonymous with the No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series genre of contemporary social fiction at this point. She has such a gift for a delightful weekend read. I never tire weaving the ongoing issues of the day into the lives of these her characters, in a way that feels natural and I always look forward to seeing what is happening lived-in their lives. This time around the story is about holidays, amongst other thingsnever making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, and the tricky plans to persuade Mma Ramostwe to take a holidaygrappling with issues far larger than themselves. But what is Mma Makutsi up to? Does she have plans to take over the agency entirely whilst Mma Ramotswe is away? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408706660</amazonuk>140871468X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Aldous Huxley152915118X|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''. Naturally, on that basis alone, he was pigeon-holed in my head under the heading ''Sci-fi - must check out further''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784870358</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewPineapple Street|author=Jill Ciment|title=Heroic MeasuresJenny Jackson

|summary=Ruth ''Pineapple Street'' is the story of three women: Sasha, Darley and Georgiana. Darley and George are sisters and Alex Cohen have Sasha is married to move from their beloved New York apartmentbrother Cord. They love it're Stocktons, but itonly Sasha isn's five floors up and theret a Stockton by birth so she isn's no elevatort readily accepted into the tribe. Reluctantly theyThe problem're having an open day for prospective purchasers - s exacerbated when the clan matriarch, Tilda, asks Cord and hoping that Sasha if they'll be able d like to buy something not ''too'' far out which has that elusive elevatormove into the Pineapple Street property. It's not just themTilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to another property, a street or so away, eitherwhich they own. ThereThey won's Dorothy. Dorothy ('Dottie' to those who know her well) is their Daschund. She's getting on in yearst need any of the furniture from Pineapple Street, but then so are Ruth Sasha and AlexCord can move straight in. Then - the day before Nominally, they had a choice but that wasn't the open house - two things happenreality. An unmarked petrol truck is blocking the city's main tunnel Darley and thereGeorgiana start to call Sasha 's no sign of the drivergold digger'. You don She't even need to have s living in ''longtheir'' memories family home. They use it so often that they abbreviate it to worry about terrorists in Manhattan. Then Dottie yelps in pain and she can't stand upthe GD'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782271945</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sebastian FaulksEmily Critchley|title= Where my Heart Used to BeatOne Puzzling Afternoon|rating= 54|genre= General Fiction Crime|summary= In 84 year old Edie has lived in the early 1980’s, on a same small island off the South of Francetown for almost her whole life, but now she is facing a Doctor named Robert Hendricks confronts move as her son wants to move to another house and bring Edie to live with his life – memories family, as Edie is starting to lose her memory. However, Edie is tormented by the memory of warsher childhood friend, workLucy, loveswho went missing over 60 years ago, and lossesthe worry that there was a secret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be the thing that reveals the truth of what happened all that time ago. As his history is explored and questioned by his host, Hendricks recalls days After 'seeing' Lucy in Scottish universitiesthe high street, Italian trenchesjust as she was the last time she saw her, she starts to find pockets of memories coming back to her. mental asylums and windswept beaches. Links to And yet as she remembers the past are uncovered, she is forgetting more and more in her day to day life. Will she uncover the raw wounds they expose take Hendricks on a search for sanity truth about Lucy's disappearance before her move, and raises the question – is life comprised of events themselves, or the way in which an individual chooses to remember thembefore her memories are gone forever?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091936837</amazonuk>1804181250

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alexander McCall SmithMadelaine Lucas|title=Thirst for Salt|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= ''Love, I'd read, was supposed to 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 how it altered her irrevocably.|isbn=0861546490}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008506337|title=The Revolving Door of LifeGarnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore

|summary=I am always happy to sit back down with old friendsThe love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, to catch up on what has been happening apparently on Scotland Streetboth sides. As Margo was just sixteen when they fell in the last episode [[Bertielove. Richard was twenty-one and described by Margo's mother as 'an older man'. Her parents worried that Richard's Guide influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Life Oxford and having a glittering career. In the event, they eloped and Mothers by Alexander McCall Smith]] there is plenty Richard took her away from the Isle of Bertie throughout the whole storyWight. Bertie is my favourite character by far, so this was very pleasing Margo did go to Oxford and went on to me! become a well-respected journalist. Our other favourites are there tooThe couple had three children: Rachel, howeverImogen and Sasha. Life was lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, so therethe family home on the Isle of Wight. Even then the doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's something mind: ''she would never be able to please everyone, from Bruce being, well, Bruce, and dear Angus reciting a poem at the endleave him in charge''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973287</amazonuk>Then Richard left them.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Rachel Elliott1914585402|title= Whispers Through A MegaphoneDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Miriam doesn’t speak. Well, that’s not strictly true. She does speak, but nothing above I reviewed David F Ross's book [[There's Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's Only One Danny Garvey]] a whisper which makes it hard to have a conversation with her. Particularly as she hasn’t left her house in three couple of years. But today is the day. She’s going to open that door back and walk outside. She really is. Ralph has finally twigged (remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and with no small amount of surprise) that his wife Sadie doesn’t actually love himaffecting it was. And now he’s not sure if she ever really did. Having spent so much time regurgitating his every moment onto Social Media, Ralph hasn’t really had It was a chance to think about it. But now he has, it is so shockingly awful that he has decided to run away. And of all the places he could run away togripping, he has chosen the same woods that Miriam has picked to be the first place she will visit out-of-doors. And Sadie? Wellemotionally wounding read, she’s had enough of reading Tweets and living vicariously through the posts rereading my review of others. Sadie is going to it my main takeaway was that I might not have an adventure of her ownlavished enough praise on it. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0992918227</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gregoire DelacourtLucy Ashe|title=The First Thing You SeeClara and Olivia|rating=34.5

|summary=Arthur Dreyfuss The year is a fairly run of 1933. The place? Sadler's Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, twins no less. Identical on the mill young man. He likes big breastsoutside but not, carswe learn, Juplier beer and big breastson the inside. He’s also rather keen And not on big breastsstage, either. A good-looking boyBecause there's a lot that builds a dancer. Some things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, attention to detail – and some things, even if he does say so himself that ''…like Ryan Gosling, only better lookingje ne sais quoi'' 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 themthat don't come from the classroom. In any eventA stage presence, I suspect his longings stem from the fact that a young mechanic living charm, a quiet and uneventful life in ''joie de vivre''. The difference between 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 saidhard-worker, when Arthur one day opens his front door to find and a rather distressed but undeniably luscious Scarlett Johansson on his doorstep, he does not question his luck. He invites her in. As you dostar. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0297871021</amazonuk>0861544080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=John PiperHeather Fawcett|title=ClaudeEmily Wilde's JourneyEncyclopaedia of Faeries

|summary=One routineEmily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, normally uneventful journey changes Claudeto write her life's life foreverwork,the very first encyclopaedia of faeries. It begins Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, she is not so good with a chance encounter with a malevolent hen party people. So when she finds herself far, far North in the small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the village matriarch, she is not sure what she has done, nor how to redeem herself and carries put her final investigations for her book back on with the betrayal of those right track. Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, much to Emily's frustration. But why is he thought here? What does he could trust sending him into a spiral of captivity and fetishist slavery. want? And what exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00EJQSLLG</amazonuk>0356519120

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Beth Miller1398515388|title= The Good Neighbour|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Minette has not had the best experience of neighbours. It's hard when you have a new born. They're not known for being quiet as a mouse at all times Boy and occasionally, well, occasionally they scream through the night. So she's glad when the nasty couple move and are replaced by Cath and her two kids. A fellow mother! An ally! Surely she will be more understanding?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091956331</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewDog|author= Fausto Brizzi|title= One Hundred Days of Happiness|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Sometimes ''Serendipity'' coerces ''Fate'' into making sure you read a particular book. I picked ''One Hundred Days…'' off the shelf on the back of the blurb from an author of a book I haven't actually read. I confused the title of their book with one I adored. Make of that what you will, I'm going to call it a happy accident, because this is a book many of us really need to read.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447269012</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=S E Craythorne|title=How You See MeSeishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)

|summary=Daniel's father is ill after a stroke First of all, it was the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and this, in turn, caused the nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and so Daniel needs to go home to Norfolk to nurse himutter devastation. While there he continues to write letters to his beloved girlfriend AliceThe deaths were uncountable, his sister Mab and his boss to keep them up to datethe loss of livelihoods was widespread. The problems in Danielfact 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. He wasn's life are t a lot closer to home than those hedog person but the convenience store owner's left behind in comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his normal life though. Gradually car door and Tamon the reasons why Daniel left Norfolk return to him, increasing dog jumped in intensity until it's much, much too late.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908434562</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jeremy Massey Christopher Bowden|title=The Last Four Days Of Paddy BuckleyMr Magenta

|summary= Paddy Buckley Christopher Bowden's latest novel is a grieving widower who has worked for years for Gallagherpatient untangling of a seemingly ordinary woman'slife, a long-established—some say the best—funeral home in Dublincarried out by her nephew after she has died. One night driving home after an unexpected encounter with The aunt who always provided a client, Paddy hits safe harbour and a pedestrian crossing the street. He pulls over and gets out little bit of his car, intending indulgence to do the right thing. As he bends over a young nephew had had a much more interesting life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and it seems to help the man, he recognizes him. It's Donal Cullen, brother of one of the most notorious mobsters in Dublin. And he's dead. Shocked and scared, Paddy jumps back in his car and drives away before anyone notices what's happenedan obligation to find it all out.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1594634858</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=James LovegroveJennifer Mason|title=Sherlock Holmes - The Thinking EnginePartitions of Unity

|summary=In this hyper-connected worldHere at Bookbag Towers, it is not difficult to conceive of machines that can answer perplexing questions in the blink of an eye, communicate over a vast network or even seemingly outsmart humans. Of coursewe first met Elizabeth Cromwell, dominatrix and unintentional detective in the year 1895[[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], such a machine would be viewed with deep suspicion when she investigated and curiosity; hailed as unravelled a miracle, or condemned as the work series of dark supernatural forcesdisappearances. James Lovegrove put this idea to the test in his latest Sherlock Holmes adventure, In ''The Thinking EnginePartitions of Unity'', which pits man against machine in the ultimate battle of witsshe sets her mind to solving a murder...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783295031</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=C B CalicoWill Carver|title=Dandelion AngelThe Daves Next Door

|summary=In her Author's Note, debut novelist C.B. Calico reveals that ''Dandelion Angel'' was inspired by Five strangers come together in one moment as a non-fiction work, ''Understanding the Borderline Mother'' by Christine Ann Lawson. The four mother/daughter relationships in this Germany-set novel – all marked suicide bomber prepares to some extent by dysfunction, physical and/or verbal abuse, and borderline personality disorder – are based detonate his vest on Lawson's metaphorical classifications: the hermit, the queen, the waifa London tube line. As their fates overlap, and the witch. Looping back through her four storylines in three complete cycles, Calico shows how mental illness story is rooted told in childhood experiences and can go on to affect a whole family.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B0112SC9CA</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Eli Horowitzbackwards order, Matthew Derby and Kevin Moffett|title=The Silent History|rating=4.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Well, they kept this quiet – for reasons that will become obvious. A couple of years ago people in America were giving birth to problematic kids. They (the children) were soon found to be unnaturally quiet – perhaps crying with hunger or pain, but never even trying to 'ooga-wooga' their way into their parents' hearts. They were later found to be completely unable to speak, they could not read and indeed they could not understand anything said to them, or shown them, as an instruction. They were physically unable to parse anything as language, and were in a silent world of their own. But right about now they and we are combining worlds – schools are being set leading up, and funds are being made available, and people are coming down on the endless divide as to whether they are just problematic, disabled – or even the blessedfateful moment. In a couple of years, however, the problems the virus that is causing these people to be born with will be shown to be a major problem – and that is before the kids themselves change. For they will be able to switch their mental abilities much like a blind man can hear more than the average, and will be able to comprehend body and facial language much more coherently than anyone else. Throughout this timeline, however, people will be working hard to try and study the problem, and put it right – if indeed 'right' is the correct word…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>009959286X</amazonuk>1914585186}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jonathan Crown and Jamie Searle Romanelli (translator)Jennifer Mason|title=SiriusPreposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery|rating=34

|summary=Meet Levi. He''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 humble little dog living yen for bullwhips, a billionaire with a loving family. They've spent so much time with him he has learnt some tricks – not only state-of-the usual ones-art S&M dungeon, of begginga man serving a life sentence in Alabama, an enigmatic signature, or playing deadK(s, but walking on two legsx), somersaulting on to his two other pawsa cheap oil painting, and giving the Hitler salutean erotic art dealer in Georgia... If this was 2015 in the UK he would be shoe-in for Britain's Got Talent (although the Hitler salute might lose him a few votes, to be honest) but this ' This is 1930s Berlin, and things are starting to get horrendously tough and nasty for Jewish families like his. Querying the statute laws that demand just a formalisation sample of Jewish names his owners rename Levi after Sirius, the Great Dog cast of characters and settings in the night skiesPreposterous. But nobody can foresee what happens when Jews are pushed harder and harder from their neighbourhoods, and nobody As you can see what a Great Dog star Sirius can become, in the most unlikely some keeping up will be required! The basic premise of milieux – Hollywood…this mystery story goes like this...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784081981</amazonuk>B09STS96HS

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Meike ZiervogelB0B2N7MVYM|title=Kauthar|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Meet Lydia. She's a normal British girl, interested in following both her father, and Nadia Comaneci, into the world The Calculations of gymnastics but not brave enough to pull off the larger set pieces, and with not much more to interrupt her days than wondering why boys always have to talk about their willies. Now meet Kauthar, a white British convert to Islam, devoted follower of the precepts of her religion, ardent wife and stalwartly self-fulfilling, no-nonsense and satisfied. 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. Because it is torn apart''? Has something gone wrong?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784630292</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewRational Men|author=Julia Heaberlin|title=Black Eyed SusansDaniel Godfrey|rating=4.5

|summary=I knew little about this book before I started it - other than It's the intriguing title and the scant information that it is a psychological mystery about a girl who survives abduction by a serial killer10th of December 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marr. For those who Just to put what happens in context, like me, can't resist suspense (and it seems that many people do fall into this category, according to the bestseller lists at least), this Cuban missile crisis is enticement enough. And I was not disappointed: this story offers psychological uncertainty and suspense from start to finishstill very fresh in people's minds. The narrative alternates between present day and the past, each section lasting just world has barely had a couple of pageschance to breathe out. I found this structure tricky at first But for Joe Marr, although each chapter does offer a helpful timeline and the chapters are short enough that it's easy to reorient yourself. Once I got used to not the choppy style I found missile crisis that it did work, and it worked really well, reflecting the constant flashbacks and mental turmoil experienced by Tessa, 's at the protagonist.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718181336</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Tessa McWatt|title= Higher Ed |rating= 2.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Robin works at a university. Olivia is one front of his studentsmind. Francine works behind the scenes in admin. Katrin is a waitress in a local café, and Ed has a role in a rather unique bit He's been convicted of local governmentmurder. This bizarre cast of characters are With the stars current state of medical knowledge, it''Higher Ed'', a story which eventually combines all of their lives.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1925228045</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Mary Kubica|title= Pretty Baby|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction|summary= On her morning commute s hard to work, Heidi sees something think otherwise than that shakes her. A young girl, barely older than her own pre-teen daughter, huddling the prosecution would never have been brought but Joe Marr has spent his first few days in the rain on the platformHMP Queen's Bench, clutching a tiny babyrelatively new prison. It He's a distressing situation just getting used to his roommate, Mervyn, and it stays on her mind for the rest learning to be wary of the day. So much so that when she sees the girl again, she feels obligated to helpMcArthur brothers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848453965</amazonuk>