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|summary=We're somewhere in rural Scandinavia, Anuri spent her childhood on display to the shores of a large lakeworld, but in a community relying thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on the farmland that is scattered in amongst the woods. Our chief concerns are brother social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and sister – Mattis influencer deals and Hege, basically, monetary gain. He, Mattis, Now Anuri is what the other villagers call 'simple' – sure, he knows a few things about life, in her twenties and what makes a clever person and what makes a well-turned phrase, and how she is slowly trying to talk to girls regain her confidence and when to not stare at themget her life back, but he is definitely not quite as suing her step-mother to take down the others would wishcontent about her. Those others include his sister, who Anuri is seeing her life waste away in listening to his chatterbattling alcoholism, knitting jumpers failing to make ends meetstart her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and regretting in her own small way what has got her to middle-age in this situationreceiving money from them for doing so. But from this galling introductionMost importantly, you should take away the bigger picture – even if there she is no way outdesperately worried about her little sister, who is the life in this countryside is brilliantly conveyed, full new focus of sun as well as shadeOphelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, of labour and of idleness, perhaps herself and wit and charm as much as hardship. I defy you to read this and think this corner of Scandinavia bleak.her relationship with her father at the same time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0914671200</amazonuk>0861546873

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Diney Costeloe1529153298|title= The Girl With No NameList of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating= 45|genre= General Fiction |summary= Thirteen year old Lisa escapes from Nazi Germany on the Kindertransport It's 1979 and arrives in England in August 1939Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly... ) She can't speak a word of English and her only belongings are crammed into a small suitcases not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Among them is one precious photograph of the family she has left behind in Germany Women have been disappearing. Lonely and homesick Well, they've been murdered, not knowing if but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she will ever see 's overheard that her father wants to move the family again'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Lisa Down South is adopted by a childless couplefrightening, and then bullied at school for being Germanforeign place, best avoided. But worse is to come when For Miv, the Blitz blows move would mean leaving her new home apartbest friend, Sharon, and she wakes up in hospital with no memory of who she is, 'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or where she came from. The authorities give that her a new name and despatch her to a childrenMum's homestopped talking - to anyone. With the war in full swing, what will become of Lisa now?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784970050</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Phaedra Patrick1035906708|title=The Curious Charms of Arthur PepperDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=On the first anniversary We tend to think of his wife Miriam's deathMaria Callas as Greek, Arthur Pepper feels he might finally be up but she was born to the task of clearing out 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 wardrobe. He hasnfather changed it to 't got far when he stumbles across a gold charm bracelet he doesnCallas't recogniseto make it more manageable in the States. If he hadn't been feeling When she was back in Athens - supposedly so out of sorts because of the anniversary he would never have rung that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the phone number he found engraved on the golden elephant. That would have been Nazi occupation by a shame, because then he would never have set out on his peculiar quest to find out mother who his wife used to be before she met him. From York to London, Paris mercilessly exploited her and beyond, Arthur pursues Miriam's past and learns things about his wifemade no secret of her preference for her elder sister, his children and himself that he never imaginedJackie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848454368</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jonas Jonasson and Rachel Willson-Broyles (translator)Alexander McCall Smith|title=Hitman Anders and the Meaning of It AllThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=34.5

|summary=There's feeling on edgeThe Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and there's feeling on edgeoperating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. Per Katie is coming out of a hotel receptionist partly because his father and grandfather didn't give him break up with a better destinybad boyfriend, and partly because he was working there when it was a shoddy knocking jointso jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. He's feeling on edge because someone has decided And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to live there, in room sevenan Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and proudly announced that it's about the first place he's had as an adult Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to live charm. Katie has no experience in that isn't running a prison – the manbusiness, Hitman Andersor in match-making, but Ness has killed three people full confidence in separate fits of rage. And now Per is feeling even more on edge because Johannaher abilities, a woman in a dog-collar has turned up, tried to blag twenty kronor for a badly-worded prayer in Perand there's favour always her very helpful (even though she's been sacked as a priest and is in fact a rampant atheistrather handsome)neighbour, William, and has now colluded to jointly with Per become Hitman Anders' criminal hit-job agents. But could anything make a newly rich Per – and Johanna – feel more on edge, than Hitman Anders gaining lend a conscience…?hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008152071</amazonuk>1846976596

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Esther Gerritsen and Michele Hutchison (translator)Dean Koontz|title= RoxyThe Bad Weather Friend|rating= 34.5|genre= General FictionParanormal|summary= I liked the premise for this novel: a young wife (Roxy) Benny is told at the beginning of the book that her much older husband has been killed in having a car accidentterrifically bad day. To add He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to the shock of thishis home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the revelation thing that he died in the arms of has trashed his (naked) lover in the carhouse! The thing is, on Benny is the hard shoulder, very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a further blow to Roxynice person. A really nice person. I found this an interesting set-up So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, a storybad weather friend called Spike, and wondered how this was going who has been sent to gohelp him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. As the blurb on the back Spike is going to take care of the novel tells usBenny, and will certainly take care of Benny''she is looking for revenge''s enemies, if he, Benny, I thought the book would be and Harper (a development of the character of Roxy waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into a self-motivating, strong character. But this wasnBenny't the cases wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>9462380643</amazonuk>1662500491

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Eva HollandKatherine Howe|title= The Daughter's SecretA True Account|rating= 34.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Six years agoHannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to live with a family who run an inn, Stephanie and Nate ran away togetherbeing made to work there from a young age. She was 15 When she hears there is to be a hanging of some pirates in the town, she decides to go and he was her geography teacherwatch. Awkward Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death at the hands of two vicious pirates. We pick up the story with Ros She hides away, Stephso that they don's mothert find and kill her too, as and then to escape them completely she learns that Nate is about runs away to be released from prisonsea, earlier than planned in just 11 days for now. The book takes place over those 11 days leading up to Mr Temperleydressing as a boy and joining the notorious Ned Low's release pirate ship as Ros struggles to break a cabin boy. She soon finds herself in the news to thick of things when there is a mutiny on board, and from there we are caught up in her daughterrip roaring tale of life on the ocean waves. She's bound to be devastated by it…isn't she?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409157040</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1471180158|title=Maybe Tomorrow|author=Hazel McHaffiePenny Parkes|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's a control freak with all the subtlety of a half brick. Jamie's son, Bo, 'has his problems'. He's asthmatic and the more you read, the more you'll suspect that he's on the autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's a frequent flier in the local A&E and sometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to school. Missed 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. It was going to come to a head.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0CKD1L5JL|title=Inside of MeRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn

|summary=It's never specifically said that India Grayson losing her father when she was eight was Petr is an orphan. Rescued by the cause of her anorexia when she was fifteenstrange, but you seereclusive Bear, ''losing'' he is brought up far from bustling cities and busy human society, in the best description forests of what happenedWashington's Olympic Peninsula. He was After Bear dies and a strong swimmerbrief sojourn in human company, but even he might have got into difficulties and what other explanation was there for armed with only a pirate radio transmitter, Petr goes on a journey through the pile of his clothes on forest, broadcasting the beach? Only India never quite believed that strange, wild and rarely heard voices he was dead and his body had never been foundencounters. Had it been something about her that forced him away?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>099262312X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Monica WoodSarah Marsh|title=The One-A Sign of Her Own|rating=3.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=After a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. 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 something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a school where she is taught to lip read, but 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 same time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in-a-Million Boycomplicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=1035401614}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0BC3YTCMR|title=Good Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira

|summary=I do love it ''This story is not for everyone.'' Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of her fifteenth birthday when I read a book that stays with me after I've finished readingThe Incident happened. This She was one of those booksa very bright student, rootling its way a little more into my heart each time I picked bit too nerdy if truth be told, and suffered from vitiligo - people were afraid to hug her in case it up to read's contagious. It's the story, mostly of Miss Ona Vitkus, not easy being a black girl whose skin is 84% white. She had a one hundred and four crush on seventeen-year -old lady who has a young boy scout come over 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 help her with jobs his house and how he ultimately ends up changing raped her life. In shock, and not at all in the way you might imagine since before we she even begin the story the boy is deadallowed him to give her a lift home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472228359</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Reif Larsen1472263936|title= I Am RadarThe Figurine|author=Victoria Hislop|rating= 45|genre= General Fiction|summary= Racial tensionsIt was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. She was alone: her mother, identityGreek by birth, parental responsibilityhad left the family home and refused to return, but Mary and Hamish (Helena's parents) felt that it would be a childpity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. Her trip to the family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be the first of several annual visits. She grew to love her grandmother and the family's best interestmaid, loveDina, sciencebut was wary - and frightened - of her grandfather, war – Reif Larsen's ''I Am Radar'' falls nothing short of having rich thematic contentretired general Stamatis Papagiannis. Its cornucopia He was proud of thematic explorations is interwoven into a complex web of stories, taking his close connections to the reader on a journey, both literal Junta and figurative, from suburban New Jersey expected his family to an Arctic uphold his values but saw no manreason to accommodate them. His prejudices included Helena's land to Congo red hair and the Bosnian warzonegreen eyes - inherited from her father's Scottish ancestors.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099593645</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Stefan MohamedDean Koontz|title= Ace of SpidersAfter Death|rating= 53|genre= General Fiction|summary= Stanly is frustrated. Having set himself up as London's protectorMichael Mace, he's finding that the everyday practicalities Head of superheroism are challenging at bestSecurity, and downright tedious at worst. So it's almost a relief top secret biological research facility, is among 55 people who die when an attempt a virus is made on his life and Stanly finds released in a bio-hazard accident. Finding himself rushing headlong into in a makeshift mortuary, covered in plastic, he has a twisted adventuresense that something very, with enemies new very bad has happened to him – and old coming out only him – as he sits up and looks around at the shrouded bodies of the woodwork. However, even with his dead friends and former colleagues. As he recovers his ever-increasing power behind himsenses, he may have bitten off more than realises that there is something different about him; he can chew this time''feel'' everything. ''Everything''. Michael isn't ''Michael'' anymore.|isbn=1662500467}} {{Frontpage|isbn=B0BVDC2VWH|title=The monsters are coming… and nothing will ever be the same!Grave Listeners|author=William Frank|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|amazonuksummary=<amazonuk>1784630675</amazonuk>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=Hannah RothschildB0BYF82CXT|title=The Improbability of LoveSemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone

|summary=It's set to be the sale of the century: Russian oligarchs, Arab sheikhs, rappers 'Bill and heiresses Amanda are all lined up to bid for ''The Improbability of Love''living in a semi-detached house, stuck in a small Antoine Watteau oil painting depicting a courting couple overlooked by a clown. The painting was missing until six months agodepressing rut of boredom and disappointment, when Annie McDee bought it from a junk shop for £75 as a birthday present for an incompatible fellow she met through Internet dating. When he didn't show for dinner Terry and the junk shop mysteriously burnt down so that she couldn't ask for a refundFiona – glamorous, the painting became hers. Thirty-year-old Annie had been successful and very much in a rut: after a painful break-up from Desmond, with whom she ran a cheese shop and café love – move in Devonnext door. Despite their different outlooks on life, she moved to London the couples befriend each other and was working as a PA life appears to randy Italian film director Carlo Spinettiimprove for both pairs. She also acquired an unwanted roommate: her alcoholic motherBut all is not what it seems, Evieand their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408862476</amazonuk>''

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rebecca ThorntonShalini Boland|title=The Exclusives: No One Can Hurt You More Than a FriendSilent Bride|rating=4.53

|summary=Josephine is a successful archaeologist on Alice and Seth are a dig match made in Amman when heaven. He is everything she gets the email she never expected: Freya wants to meet up with herhas been searching for; handsome, accomplished, clever, funny; total and utter husband-material. The reason isn’t such She is all he could possibly want in a surprise thoughwife; beautiful, successful, confident… and so the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and the wedding is planned and set. In 1996 Freya When the much-anticipated day arrives, Alice is walked down the aisle by her father, beaming with pride and Josephine were best excitement as she surveys the congregation – their friends at boarding school till the aftermath of a night out clubbing. Freya desperately wants assembled to talk celebrate this joyful day and when Seth turns to Jo about face his approaching bride, Alice's world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the man at the events that ripped their friendship apartaltar is, the events that Josephine has avoided speaking or thinking about in more than a decadewho is waiting for her to become his wife.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785770128</amazonuk>1662507089

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Miroslav Penkov1787636003|title=Stork MountainThe Girls of Summer|author=Katie Bishop|rating=45

|summary=A young man, his grandfather It was the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and a stork with a broken wing are arrived on the island. Rachel wasn''company of rebels'' at the heart of this lively tale set in Bulgaria's Strandja Mountains. The storks that return to the mountains each spring are migrantst exactly innocent but she was, perhaps, naive, like so many of the people that have passed through the region over the centuries. The young narrator is also when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to take an interest in transither, born in Bulgaria, but raised she was flattered rather than wary. It was quite a while before he made any sort of physical approach to her and educated in Americaby that time she was obsessed by him. The story opens with Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, looking after his return to Bulgaria interests on the island and in search of his grandfather who has broken off contact with his family particular in America. But the young man's motives are not as clear cut as first appearsbar where all the girls either worked or partied.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473622182</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Elisa AlbertAmanda Craig|title= After BirthThree Graces|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary General Fiction|summary= This book is definitely not for anyone who has a rosy picture Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of new motherhood. In fact, I would probably avoid it if you are contemplating giving birth in -the near future-nation novel. For There's something so utterly compelling about any woman writer who has ever struggled through can catch hold of the first few months atmosphere of motherhoodthe day and capture it, however, or a partner crafting an image of somebody who is going through it, the country as it stands in one particular moment. To say that Amanda Craig is an astounding and revelatory readskilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's practically synonymous with the genre of contemporary social fiction at this point. Never before have I read She has such a more searing, honest and open discussion gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the emotional upheaval day into the lives of her characters in a woman often goes through after giving birthway that feels natural and lived-in, never making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>009959014X</amazonuk>140871468X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Pascal Garnier and Emily Boyce (translator)152915118X|title=Too Close to the EdgePineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson|rating=4.5

|summary=Meet Pascal Garnier. Normally, in starting a review that way, I'm on about 'Pineapple Street'' is the main character story of the bookthree women: Sasha, but it could be said the biggest character of any Pascal Garnier book Darley and Georgiana. Darley and George are sisters and Sasha is Pascal Garniermarried to their brother Cord. They're Stocktons, not that thatonly Sasha isn's t a flawStockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the tribe. Over a half-dozen titles IThe problem've come to know s exacerbated when the pattern of his outputclan matriarch, Tilda, asks Cord and itSasha if they's fair d like to say this example fits it very wellmove into the Pineapple Street property. Again, not a fault. His thrillers Tilda and Chip have a small cast list of charactersrenovated and downsized to another property, trapped somehow in a small community, cut off by weatherstreet or so away, season or remotenesswhich they own. Here we are with Eliette, and just a handful They won't need any of othersthe furniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and watching her as she celebrates the return of spring to her remote home, an ex-silk farm Cord can move straight in southern France. All characters have a darkness about themNominally, including Eliette – she they had wanted to retire to a choice but that wasn't the place with her loving, long-term husband, but he died of cancer months before retirementreality. And Darley and Georgiana start to call Sasha 'the final piece of the Garnier pattern is gold digger'. She's living in ''their'' family home. They use it so often that that darkness, the black surrounding the night stars they abbreviate it 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 and stupid acts…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910477257</amazonuk>GD'.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Carol DrinkwaterEmily Critchley|title=The Forgotten SummerOne Puzzling Afternoon

|summary=It is time for the annual grape harvest at 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'Les Cigales,s mother as 'an older man' and Jane is preparing herself for a busy day, overseeing the work. At this moment in time, Jane Her parents worried that Richard's life seems as perfect as it gets: living in a stunning location with a husband who adores influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and having a job that allows glittering career. In the event, they eloped and Richard took her away from the freedom Isle of Wight. Margo did go to Oxford and went on to travelbecome a well-respected journalist. There is The couple had three children: Rachel, howeverImogen and Sasha. Life was lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, a significant cloud hanging over Janethe family home on the Isle of Wight. Even then the doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's perfect worldmind: a vindictive mother ''she would never be able to leave him in law who despises her and is determined to make her as miserable as possiblecharge''. Clarrisse Cambon is a woman with an axe to grind and poor Jane is the unwilling recipient of her vitriol Then Richard left them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718183088</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Yann Martel1914585402|title=The High Mountains of PortugalDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross|rating=4.5

|summary=Tomas is being thrust into the twentieth Century, and he doesnI reviewed David F Ross's book [[There't like it. He has given himself the job of seeking something out in the High Mountains of Portugal, based on an ancient religious diary he found working in an archive, and to do so he needs the use of his uncles Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's brand new car to get him there Only One Danny Garvey]] a couple of years back and back in time. His jaw drops when he learns he will have to do the driving himself, for he cannot make head nor tail of what anything on the infernal machine does remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and whyaffecting it was. It is of course was a certain kind of progressgripping, a looking forwardemotionally wounding read, which has become quite anathema to him – for ever since he lost his beloved wife, beloved child and father, all in the space rereading my review of a week, he has walked everywhere backwards – shielding himself from what really is ahead with a padded behind, and never letting sight of what he has lostit my main takeaway was that I might not have lavished enough praise on it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782114696</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Antonio Moresco and Richard Dixon (translator)Lucy Ashe|title=Distant LightClara and Olivia

|summary=Our unnamed narrator might as well be the only person aliveThe year is 1933. He knows heThe place? Sadler's not – he still goes down to the nearest inhabited village to buy things to eat Wells. Ballerinas Clara and other necessitiesOlivia are sisters, and he sees planes spreading their contrails over twins no less. Identical on the remote area he lives in – outside but he might as well be. A lot of his thoughts are about lifenot, howeverwe learn, for he has little to do except notice on the nature around himinside. And not on stage, from the smell of lilies burgeoning with nobody else to see them in this deserted villageeither. Because there's a lot that builds a dancer. Some things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, attention to the swallows darting across the ravines of the countryside. Life detail – and some things, that ''je ne sais quoi'', that don't come from the nature of classroom. A stage presence, a light that he sees spring into activity every night at what he thought was charm, a ''joie de vivre''. The difference between a totally lifelesshard-worker, empty forest area on land separated from his lookout post in his back garden by and a deep, wooded gorge…star.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0914671421</amazonuk>0861544080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jonathan EvisonHeather Fawcett|title=This is Your Life, Harriet Chance!Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

|summary=The cruise Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to Alaska came as something write her life's work, the very first encyclopaedia of a surprise to Harriet Chancefaeries. It had been booked by her husbandWhilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, Bernard, before his death and almost on a whim Harriet decided that she ''would'' go and take her best friend Mildred along is not so good with herpeople. She might be seventy eightSo when she finds herself far, far North in the small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the village matriarch, but when she thought about it there didn't seem to be any reason is not sure what she has done, nor how to go redeem herself and it might give them both a new lease of lifeput her final investigations for her book back on the right track. She Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and Bernard had been married for fifty-five yearsinsufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, but the cruise would not work out as she hoped all charm and for some of delight, much to Emily's frustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the strangest of reasons.faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099592673</amazonuk>0356519120

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Miguel Angel Hernandez and Rhett McNeil (translator)1398515388|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, Boy 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>}}{{newreviewDog|author=Clare Morrall|title=When the Floods CameSeishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)

|summary=Sometime in First of all, it was the not-too-distant futureearthquake, a devastating virus has decimated deep in the population of the UKocean floor, striking humans and animals alike and leaving Britain in a state of quarantine for decades. Most of which created the survivors have been left infertile tsunami and the majority of people have relocated to Brightonthis, where they rely on airdops from surrounding nations in order to surviveturn, caused the nuclear meltdown. Farming is impossible, as weather conditions are harsh The result was complete and extremeutter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, including tornadoes, floods and blizzards. Not everyone chooses to live in Brighton though. In a block the loss of flats in Birmingham live the resourceful Polanski Family: Popi, Moth, Roza, Boris, Delphine and Lucialivelihoods was widespread. Moth and Popi prefer solitude and isolation and The fact that many pets were separated from their makeowners came far down the list of priorities but -dosix months after the tsunami -Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. He wasn't a dog person but the convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and-mend philosophy has ensured their survival Tamon the dog jumped in this unconventional environment.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444736477</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mary Paulson EllisChristopher Bowden|title=The Other Mrs WalkerMr Magenta

|summary=Christopher Bowden''A photograph. Six orange pips sucked dry. A Brazil nut with the Ten Commandments etched into the shell. An emerald dress dripping with sequins.'' This s latest novel is the legacy a patient untangling of Mrs Walker, who died alone in a freezing Edinburgh flatseemingly ordinary woman's life, drinking carried out by her final glass of whiskynephew after she has died. Nylons wrinkling at the knee, white hair hair dyed red, scratches on her cheeks, hollow bones The aunt who always provided a safe harbour and a liver like pastelittle 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. Who was Mrs Walker and why did she die alone?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447293908</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Mona AwadJennifer Mason|title= 13 Ways Partitions of Looking At A Fat GirlUnity|rating= 4|genre= General Fiction|summary= Liz is fat. Not just plump or chubby orHere at Bookbag Towers, we first met Elizabeth Cromwell, as my director often describes peopledominatrix and unintentional detective in [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], when she investigated and unravelled a series of disappearances. In ''bubblyPartitions of Unity'', but full on, capital F fatshe sets her mind to solving a murder.. It's perhaps one of the frustrations of this book that we never get a number, because she's clearly obsessed with what the scale shows, but won't share that reading.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0143128485</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Deborah BeeWill Carver|title=The Last Thing I RememberDaves 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.5As their fates overlap, the story is told in backwards order, leading up to the fateful moment.|isbn= 1914585186}} {{Frontpage|author=Jennifer Mason|title=Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery|rating=4

|summary=Contemporary writers are mining ''A struggling poetry zine, a rich seam of psychological thrillers mom-and-pop mobile diner in the Northern California redwoods, within this genrea 400-meter hurdler who just missed the 2004 Olympics, I seem to be particularly attracted to stories featuring comatose protagonists. Comatose protagonists? Isna women't that s track coach with a yen for bullwhips, a billionaire with a contradiction in terms? Truestate-of-the-art S&M dungeon, you do normally expect a protagonist toman serving a life sentence in Alabama, wellan enigmatic signature, do something. And Deborah Mee'K(s heroine Sarah does nothing at all, other than listenx), and try and rememberon a cheap oil painting, from her unconscious statean erotic art dealer in Georgia.. 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 '' This is just a vivid picture sample of what is happening around her, the cast of her own character, characters and of the events leading to her hospital admissionsettings in Preposterous. As a reader you gradually piece together what made Sarah what she is today. At first you can see an apparently successful career woman in a loving marriage 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 her toxic mother wages an ongoing war some keeping up will be required! The basic premise of words with Sarah's spineless father.this mystery story goes like this.. At times I wanted to weep for what happened to Sarah; at other times I wanted to scream at her for letting it happen.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B0196P0S4W</amazonuk>B09STS96HS

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Sharon GuskinB0B2N7MVYM|title= The Forgetting TimeCalculations of Rational Men|author=Daniel Godfrey|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 10th of themDecember 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marr. Just to put what happens in context, so itthe Cuban missile crisis is still very fresh in people's rather disconcerting when Noah screams minds. The world has barely had a chance to breathe out in the night. But for Joe Marr, calling for his it's not the missile crisis that'real moms at the front of his mind. He'' and asking when he can go homes been convicted of murder. Night after night this happens. There With the current state of medical knowledge, it's other things, too. He hates water and regularly goes hard to nursery stinky because think otherwise than that the prosecution would never have been brought but Joe Marr has spent his mother simply cannot get him first few days in the bath. He has the odd bizarre turn of phrase that comes outHMP Queen's Bench, far beyond what one might expect for a child of his agerelatively new prison. He knows certain things's just getting used to his roommate, tooMervyn, without anyone understanding how he picked up this knowledge, whether it and learning to be the names wary of different reptiles or the plot of books he's never readMcArthur brothers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509806792</amazonuk>