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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ernst Haffner and Michael Hofmann (translator)Onyi Nwabineli|title=Blood BrothersAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=ItAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's Berlinchildhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the Nazis are on their way content about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to powerstart her PhD, even if they will never cross these pages themselvesundergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. The city – hugeMost importantly, glamorousshe is desperately worried about her little sister, bustlingwho is the new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, vicious in and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the way it can swallow people – same time?|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 home to a countless hoard of teenagersPrime Minister. (A woman? I mean, but we focus on just a fewhonestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, most of whom though. Women have been in some corrective institution or other before nowdisappearing. They call themselves the Blood BrothersWell, even if all they share is the most unglamorous drudgery of going from one doss-house to another've been murdered, balancing the cost of a few cigarettes with that of a warm room for a few hours or some stale rolls but to eathave 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. But en route Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to them is another move the family 'Down South'Borstal. When you' escapeere from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, Willibest avoided. Surely his fate is going For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to be nothing if prevent that. She's not more of worried about the same?dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035906708|title=Diva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|amazonuksummary=<amazonuk>0099594048</amazonuk>We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and 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 the States. When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=C G MettsAlexander McCall Smith|title=Waltzing in ViennaThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5

|summary=Filmmaker C G Metts 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 written four nonfiction booksasked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, several as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. Katie is coming out of them of local interest a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the chance to come home to South Carolina natives and visitorsEdinburgh. This is his first novel And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, howeverbringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and you may be surprised the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to learn that it is an enjoyable chick lit/women's fiction rompcharm. Three girlfriends meet up again Katie has no experience in Charleston; running a business, or in their early fortiesmatch-making, they're facing turning points but Ness has full confidence in their professional her abilities, and personal lives. As they reminisce about summers spent together at Folly Beach during college there's always her very helpful (and resume their communal marijuana smoking habitrather handsome) neighbour, William, they summon the courage to decide what they want from middle age and refresh their sex lives.lend a hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0692533346</amazonuk>1846976596

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Hanneke Hendrix and David Doherty (translator)Dean Koontz|title= The Dyslexic Hearts ClubBad Weather Friend|rating= 34.5|genre= General FictionParanormal|summary= I recently reviewed Benny is having a novel by another Scandinavian novelistterrifically bad day. He loses his job, Helle Hellehe loses his fiancee, [[This Should be Written in the Present Tense by Helle Helle and Martin Aitken (translator)|This Should be Written in the Present Tense]]his house gets trashed. Oh, and I expected this novel by Hanneke Hendrix someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to be his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very similarlast person to deserve all this bad luck. It wasn'tHe is a nice person. A really nice person. That's not totally So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad thing – many people will enjoy the fast-pacedweather friend called Spike, dialogue driven novel that ''The Dyslexic Hearts Club'' who has been sent to help him since Benny isclearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. It just wasnSpike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny't s enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly what I was expectingthey are.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>9462380678</amazonuk>1662500491

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Adam BaronKatherine Howe|title=BlackheathA True Account

|summary=Househusband James Hannah Masury is happy living in Blackheath. He's started doing stand-up again so that he too has Boston, having been sent to live with a family who run an achievement in his life inn, and being made to balance wife Alice's award winning poetrywork there from a young age. Children Ida and Dominic are doing well so all When she hears there is great. Elsewhere to be a hanging of some pirates in the area Amelia is equally happy with her actor husband Richardtown, her own career she decides to go and children Niamh watch. Enthralled and teenage Michaelhorrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death at the hands of two vicious pirates. Sometimes happiness isnShe hides away, so that they don't enough though find and kill her too, andthen to escape them completely she runs away to sea, dressing as a boy and joining the worlds notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. She soon finds herself in the thick of the two families start to minglethings when there is a mutiny on board, things start changing for each and from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of themlife on the ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908434902</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rebecca Lim1471180158|title=AfterlightMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating=4.5

|summary= A Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's a control freak motorbike accident that claims with all the life subtlety of your parents is really all it takes to make your world fall aparta half brick. You might hope that a new beginning in a different high school is going to jumpstart your life; that a chance to reinvent yourself as just Sophie TeagueJamie's son, Bo, rather than Sophie-The-One-Whose-Parents-Died might just be all you need to get by'has his problems'. But before Sophie gets He's asthmatic and the chance to find outmore you read, she is visited by Evethe more you'll suspect that he's on the autistic spectrum. Eve isn’t like other girls. She is beautiful Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's a frequent flier in the local A&E and mesmerizing and Eve needs Sophie sometimes Bo's not fit enough to be her go-to girlschool. Because Eve can’t do much for herself since she diedMissed shifts or the need to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the wrong. Eve is It was going to come to a ghost and dealing with the dead who have ''unfinished business'' could be the biggest challenge of Sophie’s lifehead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1925240495</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adriana TrigianiB0CKD1L5JL|title=All The Stars In The HeavensRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn

|summary=It was 1935 and Loretta Young wanted fame and success in HollywoodPetr is an orphan. Part of it was being young (just twenty one) and beautiful but she was also conscious that Rescued by the money she strange, reclusive Bear, he is brought up far from bustling cities and busy human society, in mattered to her family. She was hungry for love too: her father had left when she was youngthe forests of Washington's Olympic Peninsula. Her step-father had done little better After Bear dies and there was a ''need'' for a man she could love brief sojourn in human company, and look up to. She developed armed with only a reputation for falling in love with her leading men: first it was Spencer Tracy but pirate radio transmitter, Petr goes on a journey through the set of ''The Call of forest, broadcasting the Wild'' she fell for Clark Gable - strange, wild and rarely heard voices he for herencounters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471136345</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Kaui Hart HemmingsSarah Marsh|title= The PossibilitiesA Sign of Her Own|rating= 3.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Sarah's son has just died in an avalanche and After a bout of scarlet fever as such this is a book very much child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, everything about bereavement and grieving and what nexther life changes. It's odd Living in a time when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to think that a basis of personal tragedy made this an intriguing school where she is taught to lip read, but that was physically restrained from signing. From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and using a system called Visible Speech. At the casesame time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099597780</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Frank HurstB0BC3YTCMR|title=The Postmistress of Nong KhaiGood Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira|rating=4.5

|summary=Mike Rawlins' rise through the ranks in the investigation department 'This story is not for everyone.'' Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of Customs her fifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. She was a very bright student, a bit too nerdy if truth be told, and Excise has been steady, culminating suffered from vitiligo - people were afraid to hug her in his dream posting: attachment to the British Embassy, Thailandcase it's contagious. It gets even better when he realises 's not easy being a name from his past black girl whose skin is also operating out of the country 84% white. She had a crush on the other side of the lawseventeen-year-old Reggie Anderson but never thought he would notice her. Then he did: Lavender was very good at math and Reggie asked if she would tutor him. She readily agreed: tutoring was something she gladly did at church: this was just an extension. Mike's attempts She went to nail him over the years have become personal his house and nowhe raped her. In shock, thanks she even allowed him to local informant or 'Postmistress' Lek, prosecution is give her a possibility. What Mike doesn't realise is the cost the chase will exact… not yet anywaylift home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785890573</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= James MacManus1472263936|title= Midnight in BerlinThe Figurine|author=Victoria Hislop|rating= 45|genre= Historical General Fiction|summary= Berlin – 1938It was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. In She was alone: her mother, Greek by birth, had left the British Embassy, military attaché Colonel Macrae prepares family home and refused to defy his ambassador and governmentreturn, but Mary and assassinate HitlerHamish (Helena's parents) felt that it would be a pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. Elsewhere, Sara Sternschein appears on stage Her trip to the family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be the first of several annual visits. She grew to love her role as the lead in grandmother and the Gestapofamily's brothel – the Salon Kitty. She has no choicemaid, Dina, but was wary - and frightened - of her twin brother is being held in a concentration campgrandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. In He was proud of his close connections to the Gestapo Headquarters, Obergruppenfuhrer Joaqim Bonner waits Junta and watches – with expected his eyes on Sara Sternschein as his secret weapon. As Colonel Macrae gathers intelligence for family to uphold his mission he finds himself drawn to Salon Kitty – values but does Sara hold the key saw no reason to thwarting Hitler, or is Macrae being manipulated?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715650335</amazonuk>accommodate them. His prejudices included Helena's red hair and green eyes - inherited from her father's Scottish ancestors.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Virginia MacgregorDean Koontz|title=After Death|rating=3|genre=General Fiction|summary= Michael Mace, Head of Security, at a top secret biological research facility, is among 55 people who die when a virus is released in a bio-hazard accident. Finding himself in a makeshift mortuary, covered in plastic, he has a sense that something very, very bad has happened to him – and only him – as he sits up and looks around at the shrouded bodies of his dead friends and former colleagues. As he recovers his senses, he realises that there is something different about him; he can ''feel'' everything. ''Everything''. Michael isn't ''Michael'' anymore.|isbn=1662500467}} {{Frontpage|isbn=B0BVDC2VWH|title=The Astonishing Return of Norah WellsGrave Listeners|author=William Frank|rating=4.5

|summary=Fay, Adam, the girls teenager Ella The village is isolated and little 6 year old Willa seem a happy familypoor. They are on the whole, itIt's just Ella who isn't. Fay, named surrounded by the ladies across the road 'The Mother that Stayed' moved in after Norah, 'The Mother that Left', wenta Witching Forest. Now she's taken Norah's place in And the family's life villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and Adams' bedits blossom provides herbal medicines. Ella just wants her mother to come home The black wood of the forest provides heat and thenwarmth, 6 years after she wentroofs on homes, and even gallows, Norah doesif needed. How will she fit The fear of being buried alive is an existential superstition in the village andthat is the reason Volushka, just as importantlya drunken, why did she come back?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751554200</amazonuk>self-indulgent, lazy lout of a man is tolerated.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Holly SeddonB0BYF82CXT|title=Try Not To BreatheSemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone

|summary=In ''Try not to Breathe'' Holly Seddon offers an addition to the somewhat overflowing thriller shelvesBill and Amanda are living in a semi-detached house, stuck in a depressing rut of boredom and disappointment, when Terry and Fiona – glamorous, successful and very much in love – move in next door. Of courseDespite their different outlooks on life, the reason this particular segment couples befriend each other and life appears to improve for both pairs. But all is bursting at the seams is because thrillers, especially psychological onesnot what it seems, and their increasingly interconnected relationships are just so compellingfated for tragedy. And there have been some good - and hugely successful - books in this category out there of late (before-I-go-to-sleep-I'll-be-gone-with-a-girl-on-a-train). So how does Holly Seddon match up?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782399453</amazonuk>'

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= J Paul HendersonShalini Boland|title= The Last of the BowmansSilent Bride|rating= 4.53|genre= General Fiction|summary=When Greg Bowman's eightyAlice and Seth are a match made in heaven. He is everything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, clever, funny; total and utter husband-three year old father Lyle dies material. She is all he leaves some unfinished businesscould possibly want in a wife; beautiful, successful, confident… and so the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and the wedding is planned and set. It's up to Greg – black sheep of When the Bowmans – to start learning much-anticipated day arrives, Alice is walked down the meaning of the word responsibility and sort his errant family outaisle by her father, preferably without them noticing what he's up to beaming with pride and assisted only by excitement as she surveys the gentle nudging of his father's ghost. Can he do it before he returns congregation – their friends assembled to his altogether more carefree life in America, celebrate this joyful day and without causing any further trouble? As Greg begins when Seth turns to sort out face his fatherapproaching bride, Alice's house and affairsworld implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the man at the altar is, he untangles some complicated webs of deception and unearths a few family secrets, including some of who is waiting for her to become his ownwife.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1843442779</amazonuk>1662507089

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Haraldur Erlendsson and Keith Hagenbach1787636003|title= The Man Who Drew Triangles: Magician, mystic or out Girls of his mind?Summer|author=Katie Bishop|rating= 3.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=It was the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the island. Rachel wasn'Magiciant exactly innocent but she was, perhaps, mysticnaive, or out of his mind?' Consider the following: 27so when thirty-four-year-old OlafAlistair Wright started to take an interest in her, disembarks she was flattered rather than wary. It was quite a flight from his homeland, Iceland, seats himself on a broken terminal at Heathrow airport, while before he made any sort of physical approach to her and begins to meditateby that time she was obsessed by him. Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, to reach looking after his guides. Attracting interests on the attention of Irish airport security, he is eventually sectioned island and escorted to a psychiatric unitin particular in the bar where all the girls either worked or partied.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785351478</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lina Wolff and Frank Perry (translator)Amanda Craig|title= Bret Easton Ellis and the Other Dogs|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Upstairs, a flat where mother and daughter struggle from pay cheque to pay cheque; downstairs, the love nest of a dying writer and her last of many conquests. Bret Easton Ellis and the Other Dogs is a multilayered testimonial to the writer, the eccentric Alba Cambó, gathered by Araceli, the teenager upstairs. Through Araceli's bird's-eye view, anecdotes unfold as told by lovers, business acquaintances (often both – for with Alba Cambó you can never know), and the short stories of Cambó herself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908276649</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Danielle McLaughlin|title=Dinosaurs on Other PlanetsThree Graces

|genre=Short Stories General Fiction|summary=Seeing as this book is clearly a talented author hitting the ground running, I will dispense with any major preamble. We start with a tale Few styles of a daughter affected by contemporary fiction interest me like the emotions state-of her parents as they separate – and -the influence of a certain school-teacher – from the mothernation novel. There's point something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the atmosphere of view. An ancient input shows how alien, and the modern day domesticity how regularand capture it, crafting an image of the isolation of a woman can feel, country as events are peppered by minor acts of destructionit stands in one particular moment. But men can To say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be alienated too – especially one, a reluctant guest at a party for children hosted by someone he once had an affair embarrassingly inadequate: she's practically synonymous with – he feels the new form genre of contemporary social fiction at this influence in the light of another one he has had to try and abandonpoint. 'All About Alice' – that's what the title character wants to say but She has nobody to speak it to, but is it her – mid-40s and single, living with her father – that is most removed from her dreams or her old friend and now child factory, Marian? And we complete such a lap gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the calendar with day into the wintry tale lives of her characters in a man unable to tell his work superiors of the problems he faces at home – a new homeway that feels natural and lived-in, never making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, recently built like so many one sees while driving round Irelandgrappling with issues far larger than themselves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473613701</amazonuk>140871468X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gary D Schmidt152915118X|title=Orbiting JupiterPineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson

|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=Twelve year-old Jack ''Pineapple Street'' is informed that his parents will be fostering another boy – fourteen year-old Josephthe story of three women: Sasha, Darley and Georgiana. Darley and George are sisters and Sasha is married to their brother Cord. But Joseph They're Stocktons, only Sasha isn't a Stockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the tribe. The problem's exacerbated when the clan matriarch, Tilda, asks Cord and Sasha if they'd like most fourteen year-oldsto move into the Pineapple Street property. Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to another property, a street or so away, which they own. He They won's troubled: t need any of the rumour is furniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and Cord can move straight in. Nominally, they had a choice but that he spent time in juvenile incarceration for trying wasn't the reality. Darley and Georgiana start to kill his teachercall Sasha 'the gold digger'. And there She's something else about Joseph, too: he has a daughterliving in ''their'' family home. They use it so often that they abbreviate it to 'the GD'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783443944</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tasha KavanaghEmily Critchley|title=Things We Have In CommonOne Puzzling Afternoon

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Yasmin is fifteen and seriously overweight - her capacity 84 year old Edie has lived in the same small town for consuming food will amaze and sicken. She's bullied at school and even almost her own mother finds her just whole life, but now she is facing a little bit weird: let's not go into what move as her stepfather thinks about son wants to move to another house and bring Edie to live with his family, as Edie is starting to lose hermemory. Her father died a while However, Edie is tormented by the memory of her childhood friend, Lucy, who went missing over 60 years ago, but Yasmin has never really come to terms with his death and still has the feeling worry that there was a secret she was keeping for Lucy that everything would somehow might be OK if only Terry was still aroundthe thing that reveals the truth of what happened all that time ago. ThereAfter 's a girl in Yasminseeing's class called Alice and Yasmin is so Lucy in awe of the high street, just as she was the last time she saw her that , she stalks starts to find pockets of memories coming back to her. One day, in And yet as she remembers the school playgroundpast, she spots a man watching Alice as carefully as she does is forgetting more and becomes obsessed by the idea that the man is going more in her day to abduct Aliceday life. Will she uncover the truth about Lucy's disappearance before her move, and before her memories are gone forever?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782115943</amazonuk>1804181250

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate AtkinsonMadelaine Lucas|title=A God in RuinsThirst for Salt

|summary=Teddy Todd never really expected ''Love, I'd read, was supposed to survive be a light and weightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravity'' Told from a retrospective view, a young woman unravels the waryear-long relationship that once defined her. As Overlaid with later wisdom, the narrator relives the affair with a bomber pilot it wasn't something which you could rely on and he certainly knew man twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the statisticssummer after. But - Set against all the odds, he came through it, albeit backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the 24-year-old narrator's deepening relationship with some time spent as a prisoner of war. On balance he had a good warher older lover, but time will see him married to Nancydepicting its all-consuming nature, father to Viola how it changed her perspective on both romantic and grandfather to Sunny and Bertie - familial relationships and left with the feeling that how it's more difficult to have a good peace than a good waraltered her irrevocably.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552776645</amazonuk>0861546490

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008506337|title=The Garnett Girls|author=Jessica TreadwayGeorgina 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 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 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 doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able to leave him in charge''. Then Richard left them.}} {{Frontpage|isbn=1914585402|title=If She Did ItDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross

|summary=Hanna I reviewed David F Ross's book [[There's Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's Only One Danny Garvey]] a couple of years back and Joe had two daughters. Iris, the elder, had done well at school remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and gone on to be a medical student, but Dawn had always struggled. Hanna worried that affecting it was something to do with the birth when Dawn might have been starved of oxygen for a brief moment. She It was never brighta gripping, bullied at school and suffered from amblyopia or lazy eye. Dawn called it 'lacy eye'. In her late teens she had a boyfriend - tallemotionally wounding read, good-looking Rud and was obviously besotted with him and brought him home for Thanksgiving, but the pair left the next morning under a cloud with Joe accusing Rud rereading my review of having stolen from the house whilst everyone else it my main takeaway was out. That night Hanna and Joe were attacked in their beds; Joe died from his injuries and Hanna was left severely scarred and with no memory of the events of that nightI might not have lavished enough praise on it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751555266</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Christopher RansomLucy Ashe|title=Beneath The LakeClara and Olivia|rating=34.5

|summary=The Mercer family year is 1933. The place? Sadler's Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, twins no less. Identical on the holiday of outside but not, we learn, on the inside. And not on stage, either. Because there's a lot that builds a lifetime at the somewhat remote Blundstone Lake in Nebraskadancer. It is all the Some things a camping holiday should that can be; tranquillity taught or learnt – discipline, attention to detail – and beautiful scenery in spades and lots of good old-fashioned family fun. When another family arrivesome things, the Mercers try not to feel disappointed that their solitude has been encroached upon and do their best to keep out of the other family's way'je ne sais quoi'', but when that don't come from the newcomersclassroom. A stage presence, a charm, a ' family disharmony becomes violent 'joie de vivre''. The difference between a hard-worker, and murderous, The Mercers have no option but to become rather more acquainted with them than they had bargained for. And so their lives are forever altereda star.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751555223</amazonuk>0861544080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jonathan CoeHeather Fawcett|title=Number 11Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

|summary=ThereEmily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life's a great deal of significance in work, the title very first encyclopaedia of ''Number 11''faeries. Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, she is not so good with people. It's the common abbreviation for So when she finds herself far, far North in the home small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the Chancellor of the Exchequervillage matriarch, she is not sure what she has done, as well as a bus route around the outskirts of Birmingham which provides a useful haven for those who can't afford nor how to redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on the heating on at homeright track. It's also Jonathan Coe's eleventh novel. On a level more personal Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, much to the characters in the book itEmily's also the number of floors below ground which are being added to a house in Chelsea owned by an obscenely-rich familyfrustration. Even more obscene But why is the fact that the owner of the house doesn't know he here? What does he want? And what she wants that floor for - everything that could possibly be added (swimming pool with palm trees, wine cellar, bank vault, staff quarters...) exactly is going on with the other floors or in the house itself. But Mrs Gunn wants it because she can have it.faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0670923796</amazonuk>0356519120

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Nils Schou1398515388|title= Salinger's LettersThe Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating= 34.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=Dentist-turned-author Dan Moller is strugglingFirst of all, it was the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, both financially which created the tsunami and mentallythis, when an opportunity presents itself in turn, caused the form of a pair of Americansnuclear meltdown. They offer to sweep away Moller's financial worries in exchange for his correspondence with J The result was complete and utter devastation. D. Salinger The deaths were uncountable, and the elusive author loss of livelihoods was widespread. The Catcher in fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of priorities but - six months after the Ryetsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. What follows is, for Dan Moller, He wasn't a journey to America to meet Salinger, and, for dog person but the reader, a journey through these letters into Mollerconvenience store owner's relationship with comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his depression, car door and Tamon the lives of the eccentrics dog jumped in his writers' collective, and into Western intelligentsia ranging from Kiergegaard's writings to a psychedelic apparition of pop icons featuring Andy Warhol and Woody Allen.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910124656</amazonuk>}}  {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chuck PalahniukChristopher Bowden|title=Beautiful YouMr Magenta

|summary=Meet Penny Harrigan. And letChristopher Bowden's hope your introduction to her latest novel is more gentle than that we have on the first page of this book, where she is being raped in front a patient untangling of a full court house, who – male to the bone – sit back and say nothingseemingly ordinary woman's life, if not whip carried out their camera phoneby her nephew after she has died. Once people take her out on The aunt who always provided a gurney safe harbour and recognise her, we can start from the beginning, where she is a lowly underling at little bit of indulgence to a young nephew had had a law firm, having failed too many exams to progress satisfactorily. The company is where the world's richest man is in legal negotiations having left the world's best much more interesting life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and most beautiful actress, and lo and behold he just happens it seems to pick Penny him an obligation to replace her with, even if she doesn't think of herself as the most beautiful girl aroundfind it all out. But what exactly is it she is wanted for, and can her apolitical style of feminism and aspirations be met?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>009958767X</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Melissa HillJennifer Mason|title=The Hotel on Mulberry BayPartitions of Unity

|summary=Penny and Elle Harte are sistersHere at Bookbag Towers, but they couldn't be more different. The two had an idyllic childhoodwe first met Elizabeth Cromwell, brought up dominatrix and unintentional detective in the family hotel in the scenic Irish coastal town [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], when she investigated and unravelled a series of Mulberry Baydisappearances. Ambitious Elle always had the urge to spread her wings and flyIn ''Partitions of Unity'', whereas she sets her dreamy younger sister was content mind to stay at home and help her parents out in the hotelsolving a murder. As time passed, the sisters no longer had the close bond they once shared, especially with Elle living in London, enjoying her successful and demanding role as an architect. A family tragedy brings the sisters together once more; however, and family loyalties are tested as never before.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471127710</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=John SearanckeWill Carver|title=Prunes for BreakfastThe Daves Next Door

|summary=Edward Searancke was called up Five strangers come together in one moment as a suicide bomber prepares to serve detonate his country vest on a London tube line. As their fates overlap, the story is told in 1940backwards order, not long after leading up to the outbreak of the Second World War fateful moment.|isbn= 1914585186}} {{Frontpage|author=Jennifer Mason|title=Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=''A struggling poetry zine, a mom-and we hear his story from initial call-uppop mobile diner in the Northern California redwoods, through a 400-meter hurdler who just missed the years of preparation for the invasion of France2004 Olympics, to his eventual release as a Prisoner of War and return home to attempt to pick up the pieces of everyday life. Itwomen's track coach with a delightful mixture yen for bullwhips, a billionaire with a state-of -the mundane -art S&M dungeon, a man serving a life sentence in Alabama, an enigmatic signature, K(the difficulties of getting dry clothings, problems with his feetx) and the dramatic (being surrounded and captured in , on a cheap oil painting, an orchard erotic art dealer in Northern France and his life as Georgia...'' This is just a prisoner sample of war) the cast of characters and much settings in Preposterous. As you can see, some keeping up will be required! The basic premise of the this mystery story is told through the genuine letters from Searancke to his wife which were handed to his son after his father's deathgoes like this.. John Searancke tells us the story of his father's war.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784625051</amazonuk>B09STS96HS

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alexander McCall SmithB0B2N7MVYM|title=Chance Developments: Unexpected Love StoriesThe Calculations of Rational Men|author=Daniel Godfrey

|summary=Sometimes, if IIt'm s the 10th of December 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marr. Just to put what happens in a cafe by myselfcontext, I like to watch the Cuban missile crisis is still very fresh in people around me and imagine stories about their lives's minds. Just The world has barely had a single sentencechance to breathe out. But for Joe Marr, overheard, can lead to wonderous tales it's not the missile crisis that's at the front of his mind. He's been convicted of mystery and intrigue whilst I sip my cappuccino! murder. So I was delighted to sit down to read With the latest offering from AMScurrent state of medical knowledge, not only because he wrote it, 's hard to think otherwise than that the prosecution would never have been brought but because he wrote it after looking at 5 different black and white photographsJoe Marr has spent his first few days in HMP Queen's Bench, and then imagining the stories behind thema relatively new prison. Who are all these peopleHe's just getting used to his roommate, and what are their stories? Each story is uniqueMervyn, and yet they all have one abiding link...lovelearning to be wary of the McArthur brothers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973295</amazonuk>