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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!{{Frontpage|author=Onyi Nwabineli|title=Allow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Anuri 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 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 get her life back, suing her step- Remove -->mother to take down the content about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hazel McHaffie1529153298|title=Inside The List of MeSuspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=45

|summary=It's never specifically said 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, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that India Grayson losing her father when she was eight was wants to move the cause of her anorexia when she was fifteen, but you see, family 'Down South'losing'. When you' re from Yorkshire, Down South is the a frightening, foreign place, best description of what happenedavoided. He was a strong swimmerFor Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, but even he might have got into difficulties and what other explanation was there for the pile of his clothes on the beach? Only India never quite believed she'll do anything to prevent that he was dead and his body had never been found. Had it been something She's not worried about the dangers or that her that forced him away?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>099262312X</amazonuk>Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Monica Wood1035906708|title=The One-in-a-Million BoyDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin

|summary=I do love it 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 I read a book that stays with me after I've finished readingshe was thirteen. This Her original surname was one of those books, rootling its way a little more into my heart each time I picked Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it up to read'Callas' to make it more manageable in the States. It's When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the story, mostly of Miss Ona Vitkus, Nazi occupation by a one hundred and four year old lady mother who has a young boy scout come over to help mercilessly exploited her with jobs and how he ultimately ends up changing made no secret of her lifepreference for her elder sister, and not at all in the way you might imagine since before we even begin the story the boy is deadJackie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472228359</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Reif LarsenAlexander McCall Smith|title= I Am RadarThe Perfect Passion Company|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Racial tensionsThe Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, identityrun by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, parental responsibilitytailored 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 child's best interest, love, science, war – Reif Larsen's ''I Am Radar'' falls nothing short of having rich thematic contentwhile. Its cornucopia Katie is coming out of thematic explorations is interwoven into a complex web of storiesbreak up with a bad boyfriend, taking and so jumps at the reader on a journeychance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, both literal thanks to 44 Scotland Street and figurativethe Isabel Dalhousie novels, from suburban New Jersey but with some new characters who quickly begin to an Arctic charm. Katie has no manexperience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's land always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to Congo and the Bosnian warzone.lend a hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099593645</amazonuk>1846976596

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Stefan MohamedDean Koontz|title= Ace of SpidersThe Bad Weather Friend|rating= 4.5|genre= General FictionParanormal|summary= Stanly Benny is frustratedhaving a terrifically bad day. Having set himself up as London's protector He loses his job, heloses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it's finding possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the everyday practicalities of superheroism are challenging at bestthing that has trashed his house! The thing is, and downright tedious at worstBenny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it's almost turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, a relief when an attempt bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is made on his life and Stanly finds himself rushing headlong into clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a twisted adventuregood person. Spike is going to take care of Benny, with enemies new and old coming out will certainly take care of the woodwork. HoweverBenny's enemies, if he, Benny, even with his friends and his ever-increasing power behind him, he may have bitten off more than he Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can chew this timefigure out who exactly they are. The monsters are coming… and nothing will ever be the same!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784630675</amazonuk>1662500491

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Hannah RothschildKatherine Howe|title=The Improbability of LoveA True Account|rating=4.5

|summary=It's set Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to live with a family who run an inn, and being made to work there from a young age. When she hears there is to be the sale a hanging of some pirates in the century: Russian oligarchstown, Arab sheikhs, rappers she decides to go and heiresses are all lined up to bid for ''The Improbability of Love'', a small Antoine Watteau oil painting depicting a courting couple overlooked by a clownwatch. The painting was missing until six months ago Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, when Annie McDee bought it from Hannah finds herself embroiled in a junk shop for £75 as a birthday present for an incompatible fellow she met through Internet dating. When he didnyoung boy't show for dinner and s death at the junk shop mysteriously burnt down hands of two vicious pirates. She hides away, so that she couldnthey don't ask for a refund, the painting became hers. Thirty-year-old Annie had been in a rut: after a painful break-up from Desmondfind and kill her too, with whom she ran a cheese shop and café in Devon, then to escape them completely she moved runs away to London sea, dressing as a boy and was working joining the notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a PA to randy Italian film director Carlo Spinetticabin boy. She also acquired an unwanted roommate: soon finds herself in the thick of things when there is a mutiny on board, and from there we are caught up in her alcoholic mother, Evierip roaring tale of life on the ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408862476</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rebecca Thornton1471180158|title=The Exclusives: No One Can Hurt You More Than a FriendMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes

|summary=Josephine is Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a successful archaeologist on man who's a dig in Amman when she gets control freak with all the email she never expected: Freya wants to meet up with hersubtlety of a half brick. The reason isn’t such a surprise thoughJamie's son, Bo, 'has his problems'. In 1996 Freya He's asthmatic and Josephine were best friends the more you read, the more you'll suspect that he's on the autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at boarding short notice - she's a frequent flier in the local A&E and sometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to school till . Missed shifts or the aftermath of a night out clubbingneed to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the wrong. Freya desperately wants It was going to talk come to Jo about the events that ripped their friendship apart, the events that Josephine has avoided speaking or thinking about in more than a decadehead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785770128</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Miroslav PenkovB0CKD1L5JL|title=Stork MountainRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn

|summary=A young manPetr is an orphan. Rescued by the strange, his grandfather reclusive Bear, he is brought up far from bustling cities and a stork with a broken wing are busy human society, in the ''company forests of rebels'' at the heart of this lively tale set in BulgariaWashington's Strandja MountainsOlympic Peninsula. The storks that return to the mountains each spring are migrants After Bear dies and a brief sojourn in human company, and armed with only a pirate radio transmitter, like so many of the people that have passed Petr goes on a journey through the region over forest, broadcasting the centuries. The young narrator is also in transit, born in Bulgariastrange, but raised wild and educated in America. The story opens with his return to Bulgaria in search of his grandfather who has broken off contact with his family in America. But the young man's motives are not as clear cut as first appearsrarely heard voices he encounters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473622182</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Elisa AlbertSarah Marsh|title= After BirthA Sign of Her Own|rating= 43.5|genre= Literary General Fiction|summary= This book is definitely not for anyone who has After a rosy picture bout of new motherhoodscarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. In factSuddenly plunged into a world of silence, I would probably avoid it if you are contemplating giving birth everything about her life changes. Living in a time when the near futureuse of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a school where she is taught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. For any woman From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has ever struggled through been teaching the first few months of motherhood, however, or deaf and using a partner of somebody who is going through itsystem called Visible Speech. At the same time, it Bell is an astounding working on other inventions and revelatory read. Never before have I read a more searingideas, honest and open discussion Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of the emotional upheaval a woman often goes through after giving birthespionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>009959014X</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0BC3YTCMR|title=Good Girls Die|author=Pascal Garnier Ayura Ayira|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=''This story is not for everyone.'' Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of her fifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. She was a very bright student, a bit too nerdy if truth be told, and Emily Boyce (translator)suffered from vitiligo - people were afraid to hug her in case it's contagious. It's not easy being a black girl whose skin is 84% white. She had a crush on seventeen-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. She went to his house and he raped her. In shock, she even allowed him to give her a lift home.}} {{Frontpage|isbn=1472263936|title=Too Close to the EdgeThe Figurine|author=Victoria Hislop|rating=45

|summary=Meet Pascal GarnierIt was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. NormallyShe was alone: her mother, in starting a review that wayGreek by birth, I'm on about had left the main character of the bookfamily home and refused to return, but Mary and Hamish (Helena's parents) felt that it could would be said the biggest character of any Pascal Garnier book is Pascal Garnier, not that that's a flawpity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. Over a halfHer trip to the family apartment in up-dozen titles I've come to know market Kolonaki would be the pattern first of his output, several annual visits. She grew to love her grandmother and itthe family's fair to say this example fits it very well. Againmaid, not a fault. His thrillers have a small cast list of characters, trapped somehow in a small community, cut off by weather, season or remoteness. Here we are with ElietteDina, but was wary - and just a handful frightened - of others, and watching her as she celebrates the return of spring to her remote homegrandfather, an ex-silk farm in southern Franceretired general Stamatis Papagiannis. All characters have a darkness about them, including Eliette – she had wanted He was proud of his close connections to retire the Junta and expected his family to the place with her loving, long-term husband, uphold his values but he died of cancer months before retirementsaw no reason to accommodate them. And the final piece of the Garnier pattern is that that darkness, the black surrounding the night stars to use one of the more memorable lines here, is that things – said situation, other people, life itself – cause people to do some equally black His prejudices included Helena's red hair and stupid acts…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910477257</amazonuk>green eyes - inherited from her father's Scottish ancestors.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Carol DrinkwaterDean 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 Forgotten SummerGrave Listeners|author=William Frank

|summary=It The village is time for the annual grape harvest at ''Les Cigales,'' isolated and Jane is preparing herself for a busy day, overseeing the workpoor. At this moment in time, JaneIt's life seems as perfect as it gets: living in surrounded by a stunning location with a husband who adores her Witching Forest. And the villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and a job that allows her its blossom provides herbal medicines. The black wood of the freedom to travel. There isforest provides heat and warmth, howeverroofs on homes, a significant cloud hanging over Jane's perfect world: a vindictive mother in law who despises her and is determined to make her as miserable as possibleeven gallows, if needed. Clarrisse Cambon The fear of being buried alive is a woman with an axe to grind existential superstition in the village and poor Jane that is the unwilling recipient reason Volushka, a drunken, self-indulgent, lazy lout of her vitriola man is tolerated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718183088</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Yann MartelB0BYF82CXT|title=The High Mountains of PortugalSemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone

|summary=Tomas is being thrust into the twentieth Century, ''Bill and he doesn't like it. He has given himself the job of seeking something out Amanda are living in the High Mountains of Portugala semi-detached house, based on an ancient religious diary he found working stuck in an archivea depressing rut of boredom and disappointment, when Terry and to do so he needs the use of his uncle's brand new car to get him there Fiona – glamorous, successful and back very much in love – move in timenext door. His jaw drops when he learns he will have to do the driving himselfDespite their different outlooks on life, for he cannot make head nor tail of what anything on the infernal machine does couples befriend each other and why. It is of course a certain kind of progress, a looking forward, which has become quite anathema life appears to him – improve for ever since he lost his beloved wife, beloved child and father, both pairs. But all in the space of a week, he has walked everywhere backwards – shielding himself from is not what really is ahead with a padded behindit seems, and never letting sight of what he has losttheir increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782114696</amazonuk>''

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Antonio Moresco and Richard Dixon (translator)Shalini Boland|title=Distant LightThe Silent Bride|rating=4.53

|summary=Our unnamed narrator might as well be the only person aliveAlice and Seth are a match made in heaven. He knows is everything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, clever, funny; total and utter husband-material. She is all he's not – he still goes down to could possibly want in a wife; beautiful, successful, confident… and so the nearest inhabited village to buy things to eat inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and other necessities, the wedding is planned and he sees planes spreading their contrails over the remote area he lives in – but he might as well beset. A lot of his thoughts are about lifeWhen the much-anticipated day arrives, however, for he has little to do except notice Alice is walked down the nature around himaisle by her father, from beaming with pride and excitement as she surveys the smell of lilies burgeoning with nobody else congregation – their friends assembled to see them in celebrate this deserted villagejoyful day and when Seth turns to face his approaching bride, to Alice's world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the swallows darting across the ravines of the countryside. Life – and man at the nature of a light that he sees spring into activity every night at what he thought was a totally lifelessaltar is, empty forest area on land separated from who is waiting for her to become his lookout post in his back garden by a deep, wooded gorge…wife.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0914671421</amazonuk>1662507089

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Evison1787636003|title=This is Your Life, Harriet Chance!The Girls of Summer|author=Katie Bishop|rating=45

|summary=The cruise to Alaska came as something of a surprise to Harriet Chance. It had been booked by her husband, Bernard, before his death and almost on a whim Harriet decided was the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she ''would'' go and take her best friend Mildred along with herCaroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the island. She might be seventy eightRachel wasn't exactly innocent but she was, perhaps, naive, but so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to take an interest in her, she thought about it there didn't seem to be was flattered rather than wary. It was quite a while before he made any reason not sort of physical approach to go her and it might give them both a new lease of lifeby that time she was obsessed by him. She and Bernard had been married Alistair worked for fifty-five yearsHenry Taylor, but looking after his interests on the cruise would not work out as she hoped island and for some of in particular in the bar where all the strangest of reasonsgirls either worked or partied.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099592673</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Miguel Angel Hernandez and Rhett McNeil (translator)Amanda Craig|title= Escape AttemptThree Graces|rating= 34.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Immigration and radical Few styles of contemporary art: fiction interest me like the two themes state-of Miguel Ángel Hernández-the-nation novel. There's ''Escape Attempt'' are debate-provoking even on their ownsomething so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the atmosphere of the day and capture it, but brought together into crafting an image of the country as it stands in one plot, they fall nothing short particular moment. To say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's practically synonymous with the genre of creating contemporary social fiction at this point. She has such a painfully current and ruthlessly polemic novel. The brave choice gift for weaving the ongoing issues of subject matter takes the reader on day into the lives of her characters in a journey way that revolts, angers, feels natural and excites: ''Escape Attempt'' is an experience that does not leave the reader untouchedlived-in, and locks never making them in a page-turner that cannot be escapedciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>8494365878</amazonuk>140871468X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Clare Morrall152915118X|title=When the Floods CamePineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson

|summary=Sometime in ''Pineapple Street'' is the not-too-distant future, a devastating virus has decimated the population story of the UKthree women: Sasha, striking humans Darley and animals alike Georgiana. Darley and leaving Britain in George are sisters and Sasha is married to their brother Cord. They're Stocktons, only Sasha isn't a state of quarantine for decadesStockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the tribe. Most of The problem's exacerbated when the survivors have been left infertile clan matriarch, Tilda, asks Cord and Sasha if they'd like to move into the majority of people Pineapple Street property. Tilda and Chip have relocated renovated and downsized to Brightonanother property, a street or so away, where which they rely on airdops own. They won't need any of the furniture from surrounding nations in order to survive. Farming is impossiblePineapple Street, as weather conditions are harsh so Sasha and extreme, including tornadoes, floods and blizzards. Not everyone chooses to live Cord can move straight in Brighton though. In Nominally, they had a block of flats in Birmingham live choice but that wasn't the resourceful Polanski Family: Popi, Moth, Roza, Boris, Delphine reality. Darley and LuciaGeorgiana start to call Sasha 'the gold digger'. Moth and Popi prefer solitude and isolation and She's living in ''their make-do-and-mend philosophy has ensured their survival in this unconventional environment'' family home. They use it so often that they abbreviate it to 'the GD'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444736477</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mary Paulson EllisEmily Critchley|title=The Other Mrs WalkerOne Puzzling Afternoon

|summary=The love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O''A photographLeary was all-consuming, apparently on both sides. Six orange pips sucked dry Margo was just sixteen when they fell in love. A Brazil nut with the Ten Commandments etched into the shell Richard was twenty-one and described by Margo's mother as 'an older man'. An emerald dress dripping with sequins 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.'' This is In the legacy of Mrs Walkerevent, who died alone in a freezing Edinburgh flat, drinking they eloped and Richard took her final glass away from the Isle of whiskyWight. Nylons wrinkling at the knee, white hair hair dyed red, scratches Margo did go to Oxford and went on her cheeksto become a well-respected journalist. The couple had three children: Rachel, hollow bones Imogen and a liver like pasteSasha. Who Life was Mrs Walker lived in London and why did 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 die alone?would never be able to leave him in charge''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447293908</amazonuk>Then Richard left them.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Mona Awad1914585402|title= 13 Ways of Looking At A Fat GirlDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Liz is fat. Not just plump or chubby or, as my director often describes people, I reviewed David F Ross's book [[There'bubbly'', but full on, capital s Only One Danny Garvey by David F fat. ItRoss|There's perhaps one Only One Danny Garvey]] a couple of the frustrations of this book that we never get years back and remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and affecting it was. It was a numbergripping, because she's clearly obsessed with what the scale showsemotionally wounding read, but won't share and rereading my review of it my main takeaway was that readingI might not have lavished enough praise on it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0143128485</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Deborah BeeLucy Ashe|title=The Last Thing I RememberClara and Olivia

|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 protagonistsThe year is 1933. Comatose protagonistsThe place? IsnSadler't that a contradiction in terms? Trues Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, you do normally expect a protagonist totwins no less. Identical on the outside but not, wellwe learn, do somethingon the inside. And Deborah Meenot on stage, either. Because there's heroine Sarah does nothing at alla lot that builds a dancer. Some things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, other than listenattention to detail – and some things, and try and rememberthat ''je ne sais quoi'', that don't come from her unconscious statethe classroom. In her narrative she offers us nothing more than fractured memories and snippets of conversations from around her bedside. Yet with these meagre tools she helps the reader build up A stage presence, a vivid picture of what is happening around hercharm, of her own character, and of the events leading to her hospital admission. As a reader you gradually piece together what made Sarah what she is today''joie de vivre''. At first you see an apparently successful career woman in The difference between a loving marriage buthard-worker, as layers are gradually removed, what lies beneath becomes apparent. Sarah's controlling husband has and a sinister brother who comes to sit by her bedside, while her toxic mother wages an ongoing war of words with Sarah's spineless father... At times I wanted to weep for what happened to Sarah; at other times I wanted to scream at her for letting it happenstar.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B0196P0S4W</amazonuk>0861544080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sharon GuskinHeather Fawcett|title= The Forgetting TimeEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries|rating= 54|genre= General Fiction|summary= Janie Emily Wilde is a single motheran expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, living in New York with and researched meticulously, to write her pre-schooler Noah. Itlife's just work, the two very first encyclopaedia of themfaeries. Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, she is not so it's rather disconcerting good with people. So when Noah screams out she finds herself far, far North in the nightsmall village of Hrafvsnik, calling for his ''real mom'' and asking when he can go home. Night after night this happens. There's other thingshaving somehow offended the village matriarch, too. He hates water and regularly goes to nursery stinky because his mother simply cannot get him in the bath. He she is not sure what she has the odd bizarre turn of phrase that comes outdone, far beyond what one might expect nor how to redeem herself and put her final investigations for a child of his ageher book back on the right track. He knows certain things Enter Wendell Bambleby, tooher dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, without anyone understanding how he picked up this knowledgeall charm and delight, whether it be the names of different reptiles or the plot of books hemuch to Emily's never readfrustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509806792</amazonuk>0356519120

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Caroline Lea1398515388|title=When The Sky Fell ApartBoy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating=4.5

|summary=That First of all, it was the order earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which things happened: created the sky fell aparttsunami and this, Jersey's beaches in turn, caused the nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and utter devastation. The deaths were bombeduncountable, Clement the island's butcher went up in flames where he stood and then the arrival loss of the German armylivelihoods was widespread. This will change The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the life list of priorities but - six months after the island including herbalist Edith, neglected child Claudine, former fisherman Maurice and English Doctor Cartertsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. Each of He wasn't a dog person but the four lives on the perimeter of the islandconvenience store owner's community but each will come comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to depend on open his car door and Tamon the other three dog jumped in order to continue living.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1925240746</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author= Michael HonigChristopher Bowden|title= The Senility of Vladimir PMr Magenta|rating= 34|genre= General Fiction|summary= In the not-too-distant future, Vladimir Putin Christopher Bowden's latest novel is slowly succumbing to dementia, hidden from the world at large in a secluded private nursing home. Nikolai Ilyich Sheremetev has what sounds like the most difficult job in the world: hepatient untangling of a seemingly ordinary woman's the old man's nurselife, carried out by her 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 much more interesting life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and it seems to him an obligation to find it all out.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782398066</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ernst Haffner and Michael Hofmann (translator)Jennifer Mason|title=Blood BrothersPartitions of Unity

|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=It's BerlinHere at Bookbag Towers, we first met Elizabeth Cromwell, dominatrix and the Nazis are on their way to power, even if they will never cross these pages themselves. The city – huge, glamorous, bustling, vicious unintentional detective in the way it can swallow people – is home to a countless hoard of teenagers[[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], but we focus on just when she investigated and unravelled a few, most series of whom have been in some corrective institution or other before nowdisappearances. They call themselves the Blood BrothersIn ''Partitions of Unity'', even if all they share is the most unglamorous drudgery of going from one doss-house she sets her mind to another, balancing the cost of solving a few cigarettes with that of a warm room for a few hours or some stale rolls to eatmurder.. But en route to them is another 'Borstal' escapee, Willi. Surely his fate is going to be nothing if not more of the same?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099594048</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF

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

|summary=Filmmaker C G Metts has written four nonfiction books''A struggling poetry zine, several of them of local interest to South Carolina natives a mom-and visitors. This is his first novel-pop mobile diner in the Northern California redwoods, howevera 400-meter hurdler who just missed the 2004 Olympics, and you may be surprised to learn that it is an enjoyable chick lit/a women's fiction romp. Three girlfriends meet up again track coach with a yen for bullwhips, a billionaire with a state-of-the-art S&M dungeon, a man serving a life sentence in Charleston; Alabama, an enigmatic signature, K(s, x), on a cheap oil painting, an erotic art dealer in their early forties, theyGeorgia...''re facing turning points  This is just a sample of the cast of characters and settings in their professional and personal livesPreposterous. As they reminisce about summers spent together at Folly Beach during college and resume their communal marijuana smoking habityou can see, they summon the courage to decide what they want from middle age and refresh their sex livessome keeping up will be required! The basic premise of this mystery story goes like this...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0692533346</amazonuk>B09STS96HS

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Hanneke Hendrix and David Doherty (translator)B0B2N7MVYM|title= The Dyslexic Hearts Club|rating= 3.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= I recently reviewed a novel by another Scandinavian novelist, Helle Helle, [[This Should be Written in the Present Tense by Helle Helle and Martin Aitken (translator)|This Should be Written in the Present Tense]], and I expected this novel by Hanneke Hendrix to be very similar. It wasn't. That's not totally a bad thing – many people will enjoy the fast-paced, dialogue driven novel that ''The Dyslexic Hearts Club'' is. It just wasn't exactly what I was expecting.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>9462380678</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewCalculations of Rational Men|author=Adam Baron|title=BlackheathDaniel Godfrey|rating=4.5

|summary=Househusband James It's the 10th of December 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marr. Just to put what happens in context, the Cuban missile crisis is happy still very fresh in Blackheathpeople's minds. The world has barely had a chance to breathe out. HeBut for Joe Marr, it's started doing stand-up again so not the missile crisis that he too has an achievement in his life to balance wife Alice's award winning poetryat the front of his mind. Children Ida and Dominic are doing well so all is greatHe's been convicted of murder. Elsewhere With the current state of medical knowledge, it's hard to think otherwise than that the prosecution would never have been brought but Joe Marr has spent his first few days in the area Amelia is equally happy with her actor husband RichardHMP Queen's Bench, her own career and children Niamh and teenage Michaela relatively new prison. Sometimes happiness isnHe't enough though s just getting used to his roommate, Mervyn, and, as the worlds learning to be wary of the two families start to mingle, things start changing for each of themMcArthur brothers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908434902</amazonuk>