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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove --> {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Pascal Garnier and Emily Boyce (translator)Onyi Nwabineli|title=Too Close Allow Me to the EdgeIntroduce Myself|rating=4.5

|summary=Meet Pascal Garnier. NormallyAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, in starting a review that way, Ithanks to her step-mother Ophelia'm s increasingly popular presence on about the main character of the booksocial media, but it could be said the biggest character where she posted every step of any Pascal Garnier book is Pascal Garnier, not that thatAnuri's a flaw. Over a half-dozen titles I've come to know the pattern of his outputchildhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, and it's fair to say this example fits it very well. Againbasically, not a faultmonetary gain. His thrillers have a small cast list of characters, trapped somehow Now Anuri is in a small community, cut off by weather, season or remoteness. Here we are with Eliette, her twenties and just a handful of others, she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and watching her as she celebrates the return of spring to get her remote homelife back, an exsuing her step-silk farm in southern Francemother to take down the content about her. All characters have a darkness about themAnuri is battling alcoholism, including Eliette – she had wanted to retire failing to the place with start her lovingPhD, long-term husband, but he died of cancer months before retirementundergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. And the final piece of the Garnier pattern Most importantly, she is that that darknessdesperately worried about her little sister, who is the black surrounding the night stars to use one new focus of the more memorable lines hereOphelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, is that things – said situation, other people, life itself – cause people to do some equally black and stupid acts…perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910477257</amazonuk>0861546873

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Carol Drinkwater1529153298|title=The Forgotten SummerList of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=45

|summary=It 's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is time for the annual grape harvest at Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv'Les Cigaless family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well,they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn' and Jane is preparing herself for a busy day, overseeing the workt sound quite so frightening. At this moment in time, Jane Miv's upset because she's life seems as perfect as it gets: living in a stunning location with a husband who adores her and a job overheard that allows her father wants to move the freedom to travelfamily 'Down South'. There When you're from Yorkshire, Down South isa frightening, howeverforeign place, a significant cloud hanging over Jane's perfect world: a vindictive mother in law who despises best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and is determined she'll do anything to make her as miserable as possibleprevent that. Clarrisse Cambon is a woman with an axe to grind and poor Jane is She's not worried about the unwilling recipient of dangers or that her vitriolMum's stopped talking - to anyone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718183088</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Yann Martel1035906708|title=The High Mountains of PortugalDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5

|summary=Tomas is being thrust into the twentieth CenturyWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, and he doesn't like it. He has given himself the job of seeking something out but she was born to Greek parents in the High Mountains of PortugalManhattan, New York, based on an ancient religious diary he found working in an archive, December 1923 and only moved to do so he needs the use of his uncle's brand new car to get him there and back in timeAthens when she was thirteen. His jaw drops when he learns he will have Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to do the driving himself, for he cannot make head nor tail of what anything on it more manageable in the infernal machine does and whyStates. It is of course a certain kind of progress, a looking forward, which has become quite anathema to him – When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for ever since he lost his beloved wife, beloved child and father, all in her voice - she was raised under the space of a week, he has walked everywhere backwards – shielding himself from what really is ahead with Nazi occupation by a padded behind, mother who mercilessly exploited her and never letting sight made no secret of what he has losther preference for her elder sister, Jackie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782114696</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Antonio Moresco and Richard Dixon (translator)Alexander McCall Smith|title=Distant LightThe Perfect Passion Company

|summary=Our unnamed narrator might The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as well be an alternative to all the only person aliveonline apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. He knows he's not – he still goes down 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 nearest inhabited village chance to come home to buy things Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to eat and other necessitiesan Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and he sees planes spreading their contrails over the remote area he lives 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 he might as well beNess has full confidence in her abilities, and there's always her very 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. A lot of He loses his job, he loses his thoughts are about lifefiancee, howeverand his house gets trashed. Oh, for he and someone has little delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to do except notice his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the nature around himthing that has trashed his house! The thing is, from Benny is the smell of lilies burgeoning with nobody else very last person to see them in deserve all this deserted villagebad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to the swallows darting across the ravines of the countrysidehelp him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Life – Spike is going to take care of Benny, and the nature will certainly take care of a light that Benny's enemies, if he sees spring into activity every night at what he thought was a totally lifeless, empty forest area on land separated from his lookout post in his back garden by Benny, and Harper (a deep, wooded gorge…waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0914671421</amazonuk>1662500491

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jonathan EvisonKatherine Howe|title=This is Your Life, Harriet Chance!A True Account|rating=4.5

|summary=The cruise Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to Alaska came as something of live with a surprise family who run an inn, and being made to Harriet Chancework there from a young age. It had been booked by her husbandWhen she hears there is to be a hanging of some pirates in the town, Bernardshe decides to go and watch. Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, before his death and almost on Hannah finds herself embroiled in a whim Harriet decided that she young boy''would'' go and take her best friend Mildred along with hers death at the hands of two vicious pirates. She might be seventy eighthides away, but when she thought about it there didnso that they don't seem find and kill her too, and then to be any reason not escape them completely she runs away to go sea, dressing as a boy and it might give them both joining the notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a new lease of lifecabin boy. She and Bernard had been married for fifty-five yearssoon finds herself in the thick of things when there is a mutiny on board, but the cruise would not work out as she hoped and for some from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the strangest of reasonsocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099592673</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Miguel Angel Hernandez and Rhett McNeil (translator)1471180158|title= Escape Attempt|rating= 3.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Immigration and radical contemporary art: the two themes of Miguel Ángel Hernández's ''Escape Attempt'' are debate-provoking even on their own, but brought together into one plot, they fall nothing short of creating a painfully current and ruthlessly polemic novel. The brave choice of subject matter takes the reader on a journey that revolts, angers, and excites: ''Escape Attempt'' is an experience that does not leave the reader untouched, and locks them in a page-turner that cannot be escaped.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>8494365878</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewMaybe Tomorrow|author=Clare Morrall|title=When the Floods CamePenny Parkes

|summary=Sometime Jamie Matson works in the not-tooan upper-distant futureclass grocery store, for a man who's a devastating virus has decimated control freak with all the population subtlety of the UKa half brick. Jamie's son, Bo, striking humans and animals alike and leaving Britain in a state of quarantine for decades'has his problems'. Most of the survivors have been left infertile He's asthmatic and the majority of people have relocated to Brightonmore you read, where they rely the more you'll suspect that he's on airdops from surrounding nations in order to survive. Farming is impossible, as weather conditions are harsh and extreme, including tornadoes, floods and blizzardsthe autistic spectrum. Not everyone chooses Sometimes Jamie needs to live in Brighton though. In take time off at short notice - she's a block of flats frequent flier in Birmingham live the resourceful Polanski Family: Popi, Moth, Roza, Boris, Delphine local A&E and Luciasometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to school. Moth and Popi prefer solitude and isolation and their make-do- Missed shifts or the need to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and-mend philosophy has ensured their survival put in this unconventional environmentthe wrong. It was going to come to a head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444736477</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mary Paulson EllisB0CKD1L5JL|title=The Other Mrs WalkerRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn

|summary=''A photographPetr is an orphan. Six orange pips sucked dry. A Brazil nut with Rescued by the Ten Commandments etched into the shell. An emerald dress dripping with sequins.'' This strange, reclusive Bear, he is brought up far from bustling cities and busy human society, in the legacy forests of Mrs WalkerWashington's Olympic Peninsula. After Bear dies and a brief sojourn in human company, who died alone in and armed with only a freezing Edinburgh flatpirate radio transmitter, drinking her final glass of whisky. Nylons wrinkling at Petr goes on a journey through the kneeforest, white hair hair dyed red, scratches on her cheeksbroadcasting the strange, hollow bones wild and a liver like pasterarely heard voices he encounters. Who was Mrs Walker and why did she die alone?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447293908</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Mona AwadSarah Marsh|title= 13 Ways A Sign of Looking At A Fat GirlHer Own|rating= 43.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Liz is fatAfter a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Not just plump or chubby or Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, everything about her life changes. Living in a time when the use of sign language was seen as my director often describes peoplesomething only savages do, ''bubbly''Ellen is sent to a school where she is taught to lip read, but full onphysically restrained from signing. From here, capital F fatshe ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and using a system called Visible Speech. It's perhaps one of At the frustrations of this book that we never get a numbersame time, because she's clearly obsessed with what the scale showsBell is working on other inventions and ideas, but won't share that readingand Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0143128485</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Deborah BeeB0BC3YTCMR|title=The Last Thing I RememberGood Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira

|summary=Contemporary writers are mining a rich seam of psychological thrillers and, within this genre, I seem to be particularly attracted to stories featuring comatose protagonists''This story is not for everyone. Comatose protagonists? Isn't that a contradiction in terms? True, you do normally expect a protagonist to, well, do something. And Deborah Mee's heroine Sarah does nothing at all, other than listen, and try and remember, from her unconscious state. In her narrative she offers us nothing more than fractured memories and snippets  Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of conversations from around her bedsidefifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. Yet with these meagre tools she helps the reader build up She was a vivid picture of what is happening around hervery bright student, of her own charactera bit too nerdy if truth be told, and of the events leading suffered from vitiligo - people were afraid to hug her hospital admissionin case it's contagious. As It's not easy being a reader you gradually piece together what made Sarah what she black girl whose skin is today84% white. At first you see an apparently successful career woman in She had a loving marriage crush on seventeen-year-old Reggie Anderson but, as layers are gradually removed, what lies beneath becomes apparent. Sarah's controlling husband has a sinister brother who comes to sit by her bedside, while never thought he would notice her toxic mother wages an ongoing war of words with Sarah's spineless father. 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. At times I wanted She went to weep for what happened his house and he raped her. In shock, she even allowed him to Sarah; at other times I wanted to scream at give her for letting it happena lift home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B0196P0S4W</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Sharon Guskin1472263936|title= The Forgetting Time|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Janie is a single mother, living in New York with her pre-schooler Noah. It's just the two of them, so it's rather disconcerting when Noah screams out in the night, calling for his ''real mom'' and asking when he can go home. Night after night this happens. There's other things, too. He hates water and regularly goes to nursery stinky because his mother simply cannot get him in the bath. He has the odd bizarre turn of phrase that comes out, far beyond what one might expect for a child of his age. He knows certain things, too, without anyone understanding how he picked up this knowledge, whether it be the names of different reptiles or the plot of books he's never read.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509806792</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFigurine|author=Caroline Lea|title=When The Sky Fell ApartVictoria Hislop

|summary=That It was the order in which things happened1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. She was alone: the sky fell aparther mother, Jersey's beaches were bombedGreek by birth, Clement had left the islandfamily home and refused to return, but Mary and Hamish (Helena's butcher went 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 flames where he stood and then up-market Kolonaki would be the arrival first of the German armyseveral annual visits. This will change She grew to love her grandmother and the life of the island including herbalist Edithfamily's maid, neglected child ClaudineDina, former fisherman Maurice but was wary - and English Doctor Carterfrightened - of her grandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. Each He was proud of his close connections to the four lives on the perimeter of the islandJunta 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 community but each will come to depend on the other three in order to continue livingScottish ancestors.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1925240746</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Michael HonigDean Koontz|title= The Senility of Vladimir PAfter Death|rating= 3|genre= General Fiction|summary= In the not-too-distant futureMichael Mace, Vladimir Putin is slowly succumbing to dementiaHead of Security, hidden from the world at large a top secret biological research facility, is among 55 people who die when a virus is released in a secluded private nursing homebio-hazard accident. Nikolai Ilyich Sheremetev Finding himself in a makeshift mortuary, covered in plastic, he has what sounds like a sense that something very, very bad has happened to him – and only him – as he sits up and looks around at the most difficult job in the world: shrouded bodies of his dead friends and former colleagues. As he recovers his senses, he realises that there is something different about him; hecan ''feel'' everything. ''Everything''. Michael isn't ''Michael's the old man's nurseanymore.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782398066</amazonuk>1662500467}} {{Frontpage|isbn=B0BVDC2VWH|title=The Grave Listeners|author=William Frank|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=The village is isolated 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 the forest provides heat and warmth, roofs on homes, and even gallows, if needed. The fear of being buried alive is an existential superstition in the village and that is the reason Volushka, a drunken, self-indulgent, lazy lout of a man is tolerated.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ernst Haffner and Michael Hofmann (translator)B0BYF82CXT|title=Blood BrothersSemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone

|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=It's Berlin'Bill and Amanda are living in a semi-detached house, stuck in a depressing rut of boredom and the Nazis are on their way to powerdisappointment, even if they will never cross these pages themselves. The city when Terry and Fiona – huge, glamorous, bustling, vicious successful and very much in the way it can swallow people love – is home to a countless hoard of teenagers, but we focus move in next door. Despite their different outlooks on just a fewlife, most of whom have been in some corrective institution or the couples befriend each other before nowand life appears to improve for both pairs. They call themselves the Blood Brothers, even if But all they share is the most unglamorous drudgery of going from one doss-house to anothernot what it seems, balancing the cost of a few cigarettes with that of a warm room and their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for a few hours or some stale rolls to eattragedy. But en route to them is another 'Borstal' escapee, Willi. Surely his fate is going to be nothing if not more of the same?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099594048</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=C G MettsShalini Boland|title=Waltzing in ViennaThe Silent Bride|rating=43

|summary=Filmmaker C G Metts has written four nonfiction books, several of them of local interest to South Carolina natives Alice and visitorsSeth are a match made in heaven. This He is his first noveleverything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, howeverclever, funny; total and you may be surprised to learn that it utter husband-material. She is an enjoyable chick lit/women's fiction romp. Three girlfriends meet up again all he could possibly want in Charlestona wife; in their early fortiesbeautiful, successful, they're facing turning points in their professional confident… and so the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and the wedding is planned and personal livesset. As they reminisce about summers spent together at Folly Beach during college When the much-anticipated day arrives, Alice is walked down the aisle by her father, beaming with pride and resume excitement as she surveys the congregation – their communal marijuana smoking habitfriends assembled to celebrate this joyful day and when Seth turns to face his approaching bride, they summon Alice's world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the man at the courage altar is, who is waiting for her to decide what they want from middle age and refresh their sex livesbecome his wife.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0692533346</amazonuk>1662507089

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Hanneke Hendrix and David Doherty (translator)1787636003|title= The Dyslexic Hearts ClubGirls of Summer|author=Katie Bishop|rating= 3.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= I recently reviewed a novel by another Scandinavian novelist, Helle Helle, [[This Should be Written in It was the Present Tense by Helle Helle summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and Martin Aitken (translator)|This Should be Written in arrived on the Present Tense]], and I expected this novel by Hanneke Hendrix to be very similarisland. It Rachel wasn'texactly 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. That's not totally It was quite a bad thing – many people will enjoy the fast-paced, dialogue driven novel while before he made any sort of physical approach to her and by that ''The Dyslexic Hearts Club'' istime she was obsessed by him. It just wasn't exactly what I was expectingAlistair worked for Henry Taylor, looking after his interests on the island and in particular in the bar where all the girls either worked or partied.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>9462380678</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Adam BaronAmanda Craig|title=BlackheathThree Graces

|summary=Househusband James is happy in BlackheathFew styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of-the-nation novel. HeThere's started doing stand-up again something so that he too has utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the atmosphere of the day and capture it, crafting an achievement image of the country as it stands in his life to balance wife Aliceone particular moment. To say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's award winning poetry. Children Ida and Dominic are doing well so all is great. Elsewhere in practically synonymous with the area Amelia is equally happy with her actor husband Richard, her own career and children Niamh and teenage Michaelgenre of contemporary social fiction at this point. Sometimes happiness isn't enough though and, as She has such a gift for weaving the worlds ongoing issues of the two families start to mingleday into the lives of her characters in a way that feels natural and lived-in, things start changing never making them ciphers for each of themsocial commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908434902</amazonuk>140871468X

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=152915118X|title=Pineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=''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 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 to move into the Pineapple Street property. Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to another property, a street or so away, which they own. They won't need any of the furniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and Cord can move straight in. Nominally, they had a choice but that wasn't the reality. Darley and Georgiana start to call Sasha 'the gold digger'. She's living in ''their'' family home. They use it so often that they abbreviate it to 'the GD'.}}{{Frontpage|author=Rebecca LimEmily Critchley|title=AfterlightOne Puzzling Afternoon|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=84 year old Edie has lived in the same small town for almost her whole life, but now she is facing a move as her son wants to move to another house and bring Edie to live with his family, as Edie is starting to lose her memory. However, Edie is tormented by the memory of her childhood friend, Lucy, who went missing over 60 years ago, and the worry that there was a secret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be the thing that reveals the truth of what happened all that time ago. After 'seeing' Lucy in the high street, just as she was the last time she saw her, she starts to find pockets of memories coming back to her. And yet as she remembers the past, she is forgetting more and more in her day to day life. Will she uncover the truth about Lucy's disappearance before her move, and before her memories are gone forever?|isbn=1804181250}}{{Frontpage|author=Madelaine Lucas|title=Thirst for Salt|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= ''Love, I'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 Garnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore

|summary= A freak motorbike accident that claims the life of your parents is really The love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all it takes to make your world fall apart-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'. You might hope Her parents worried that a new beginning in a different high school is Richard's influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to jumpstart your life; that Oxford and having a chance to reinvent yourself as just Sophie Teague, rather than Sophie-The-One-Whose-Parents-Died might just be all you need to get byglittering career. But before Sophie gets In the chance to find outevent, she is visited by Eve. Eve isn’t like other girlsthey eloped and Richard took her away from the Isle of Wight. She is beautiful Margo did go to Oxford and mesmerizing and Eve needs Sophie went on to be her gobecome a well-to girlrespected journalist. Because Eve can’t do much for herself since she diedThe couple had three children: Rachel, Imogen and Sasha. Eve is a ghost Life was lived in London and dealing with holidays were spent at Sandcove, the dead who have family home on the Isle of Wight. Even then the doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo'unfinished businesss mind: '' could she would never be the biggest challenge of Sophie’s lifeable to leave him in charge''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1925240495</amazonuk>Then Richard left them.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adriana Trigiani1914585402|title=All The Stars In The HeavensDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross|rating=4.5

|summary=It was 1935 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 Loretta Young wanted fame remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and success in Hollywood. Part of affecting it was being young (just twenty one) and beautiful but she was also conscious that the money she brought in mattered to her family. She was hungry for love too: her father had left when she was young. Her step-father had done little better and there It was a ''need'' for a man she could love gripping, emotionally wounding read, and look up to. She developed a reputation for falling in love with her leading men: first rereading my review of it my main takeaway was Spencer Tracy but that I might not have lavished enough praise on the set of ''The Call of the Wild'' she fell for Clark Gable - and he for herit.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471136345</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Kaui Hart HemmingsLucy Ashe|title= The PossibilitiesClara and Olivia|rating= 34.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= SarahThe year is 1933. The place? Sadler's son has just died in an avalanche Wells. Ballerinas Clara and as such this is a book very much about bereavement and grieving and what nextOlivia are sisters, twins no less. Identical on the outside but not, we learn, on the inside. And not on stage, either. ItBecause there's odd a lot that builds a dancer. Some things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, attention to think detail – and some things, that a basis of personal tragedy made this an intriguing read''je ne sais quoi'', but that was don't come from the caseclassroom. A stage presence, a charm, a ''joie de vivre''. The difference between a hard-worker, and a star.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099597780</amazonuk>0861544080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Frank HurstHeather Fawcett|title=The Postmistress Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Nong KhaiFaeries

|summary=Mike RawlinsEmily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life' rise through s work, the ranks very first encyclopaedia of faeries. Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, she is not so good with people. So when she finds herself far, far North in the investigation department small village of Customs and Excise Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the village matriarch, she is not sure what she has been steadydone, culminating in his dream posting: attachment nor how to redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on the British Embassyright track. Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, Thailandmuch to Emily's frustration. It gets even better when But why is he here? What does he realises a name from his past want? And what exactly is also operating out going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|isbn=0356519120}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1398515388|title=The Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=First of all, it was the earthquake, deep in the country on ocean floor, which created the other side of tsunami and this, in turn, caused the lawnuclear meltdown. Mike's attempts to nail him over the years have become personal The result was complete and nowutter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, thanks to local informant or 'Postmistress' Lek, prosecution is and the 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 possibilityconvenience store. What Mike doesnHe wasn't realise is a dog person but the cost convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and Tamon the chase will exact… not yet anywaydog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785890573</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= James MacManusChristopher Bowden|title= Midnight in BerlinMr Magenta|rating= 4|genre= Historical General Fiction|summary= Berlin – 1938. In the British Embassy, military attaché Colonel Macrae prepares to defy his ambassador and government, and assassinate Hitler. Elsewhere, Sara Sternschein appears on stage in her role as the lead in the GestapoChristopher Bowden's latest novel is a patient untangling of a seemingly ordinary woman's brothel – the Salon Kitty. She has no choicelife, carried out by her twin brother is being held in nephew after she has died. The aunt who always provided a safe harbour and a little bit of indulgence to a young nephew had had a concentration camp. In the Gestapo Headquarters, Obergruppenfuhrer Joaqim Bonner waits much more interesting life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and watches – with his eyes on Sara Sternschein as his secret weapon. As Colonel Macrae gathers intelligence for his mission he finds himself drawn it seems to Salon Kitty – but does Sara hold the key him an obligation to thwarting Hitler, or is Macrae being manipulated?find it all out. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0715650335</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Virginia MacgregorJennifer Mason|title=The Astonishing Return Partitions of Norah WellsUnity|rating=4.5

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