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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Virginia IronsideOnyi Nwabineli|title=No, Thanks! I'm Quite Happy Standing!: Marie Sharp 4Allow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5

|summary=Retired art teacher Marie Sharp is wondering whether it's time Anuri spent her childhood on display to move house the world, thanks to be nearer her son Jack 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 grandson Gene, basically, monetary gain. The wondering doesn't Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take up all down the content about her time though. For a Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start there's the newher PhD, new-age lodger Robin undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online andreceiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, talking she is desperately worried about menher little sister, Marie who is getting on really well with her ex-husband David. This single life in which they dib into each other's worlds on a regular basis seems the perfect way forward. However not all is rosy: friend Pennynew focus of Ophelia's drinking too much plus a holiday in India has unexpected conclusiononline empire. Oh Can she save her sister, and there's perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the burglaries too. Who says that retirement is relaxing and uneventfulsame time?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782069321</amazonuk>|amazonusisbn=<amazonus>1782069321</amazonus>0861546873

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= William Thacker1529153298|title= Lingua FrancaThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating= 2.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Clichéd as it may It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound, language finds itself at quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the very core of human existence and experiencefamily 'Down South'. On the one hand When you're from Yorkshire, it defines individual cognition and thoughts and serves as Down South is a way of communicating these thoughts to others; on the otherfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, it defines the social spheremove would mean leaving her best friend, giving social values to things, reflecting historySharon, and constructing a common identityshe'll do anything to prevent that. It is also what William Thacker She's second novel, not worried about the dangers or that her Mum''Lingua Franca'', revolves arounds stopped talking - to anyone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785079743</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alice Adams1035906708|title=Invincible SummerDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=34.5|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=As Alice Adams's debut novel opens We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in the summer of 1995Manhattan, four university friends are lounging on Bristol's Brandon HillNew York, drinking in December 1923 and contemplating what only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the future holdsStates. There's Eva Andrews, When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised in Sussex under the Nazi occupation by a single father; siblings Sylvie and Lucien Marchant, neglected by their alcoholic mother; who mercilessly exploited her and Benedict Waverleymade no secret of her preference for her elder sister, a rich kid whose parents have a holiday home on CorfuJackie. Eva has a crush on Lucien, while Benedict is besotted with Eva.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509814701</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Catherine BannerAlexander McCall Smith|title=The House at the Edge of NightPerfect Passion Company|rating=4.5

|summary=''The House at the Edge of Night'' Perfect Passion Company is an epic family sagaa dating agency in Edinburgh, spanning some 95 years run by Ness and several generations. The story begins when Amedeo Esposito arrives at the isolated Sicilian island of Castellamare operating as an alternative to serve as all the first doctor online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the island's historybusiness, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. He Katie is immediately captivated by this strange little community; coming out of a break up with a heady mix of traditionbad boyfriend, superstition and ritualso jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. An island And so small is naturally begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a hotbed of gossipbusiness, with 'overheard' confessions being dutifully relayed across the fiveor in match-mile island within minutes of being heard. The benevolent Saint Agata watches over making, but Ness has full confidence in her people abilities, and bestows the odd miracle upon the fortunate. This is the place that Amedeo chooses to make his home there's always her very helpful (and together with his resourceful wife Pinarather handsome) neighbour, William, they slowly restore the 'cursed' House at the Edge of Night to its former glory as lend a bar and meeting place for the locals.hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091959322</amazonuk>1846976596

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chuck PalahniukDean Koontz|title=Make Something UpThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Short Stories Paranormal|summary=What are we Benny is having a terrifically bad day. 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 make of his home, and it's possible that subtitle-seeming writing on whoever or whatever was inside is the front cover – ''stories you can't unread''? Does thing that not apply to all good fiction? has trashed his house! Clearly it The thing is here due to the reputation of the author, and Benny is the baggage his name brings very last person to the pagedeserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. We'd expect So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a dramatic approach from anything Palahniuk writesnew friend, and an added frisson, an extra layera bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from which we might be forced to shrink backnefarious forces for being a good person. But a lot Spike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of the contents donBenny't quite go that far. Yess enemies, things are dramaticif he, when society starts attaching defibrillators to itselfBenny, to create the perfect, simple, care- and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny''The Price s wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491}}{{Frontpage|author=Katherine Howe|title=A True Account|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Hannah Masury is Right''-living in Boston, having been sent to live with a family who run an inn, and Kardashian-) free happinessbeing made to work there from a young age. A man buys When she hears there is to be a horse for his daughter – but boy is it hanging of some pirates in the wrong horse town, she decides to buygo and watch. A man falls Enthralled and horrified in love – yesequal measure, sometimes Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death at the plot summaries hands of these stories really are better off for being short (speaking of whichtwo vicious pirates. She hides away, so that they don't turn find and kill her too, and then to escape them completely she runs away to the three-page entrant here sea, dressing as a taster, itboy and joining the notorious Ned Low'll put you off by dint of being, almost uniquely here, s pirate ship as a nothing story)cabin boy. A call centre worker can't convince people he's on the level and even She soon finds herself in their country – until someone starts riffing back to him. A housing estate report conveys bad regulation violations, but not as bad as the happenings at thick of things when there is a 'Burning Man'-styled festivalmutiny on board, and from there we are caught up in a very clever couple her rip roaring tale of tales. But many too are life on the instances where that extra step has been takenocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099587688</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nick Bantock1471180158|title=Griffin and Sabine 25th Anniversary Edition: An Extraordinary CorrespondenceMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction |summary=Oh Griffin and SabineJamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, where have you been for a man who's a control freak with all my life? the subtlety of a half brick. IJamie've loved epistolary novels s son, Bo, 'has his problems'. He's asthmatic and ones 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 narrative two-local A&E and-fro of letters and bring us closer sometimes Bo's not fit enough to the sender than any omniscient narrator can hope go to doschool. I've still got Missed shifts or the childlike love of picking at an envelope stuck in a book need to be away on time to pull out a sheet of something else – not only is there the wonder at the handmade construction of something so bluntly pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and undeservedly called 'a book', but there is put in the frisson of being the first person wrong. It was going to come to see this artefact evera head. So how have I never seen this book before, and its cycle of sequels, concerning the correspondence between two completely different people?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>145215595X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lisa JewellB0CKD1L5JL|title=The GirlsRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn

|summary=When Clare takes her two tween daughters Pip and Grace to live in leafy Virginia TerracePetr is an orphan. Rescued by the strange, reclusive Bear, she he is hoping for anonymitybrought up far from bustling cities and busy human society, in the forests of Washington's Olympic Peninsula. After Bear dies and a blank slate brief sojourn in human company, and armed with only a fresh start. Not so long agopirate radio transmitter, her story was in all of Petr goes on a journey through the newspapers when her paranoid-schizophrenic husband burned down forest, broadcasting the family home. Her new house seems a world away from her previous life. The crescent has a communal garden at its heartstrange, where friendly neighbours socialise wild and children can run freerarely heard voices he encounters. But does this new freedom come with a price?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099599473</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Russell MardellSarah Marsh|title=Cold CallingA Sign of Her Own|rating=43.5

|summary=Five years onAfter a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Ray still can't get over the loss Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of his girlfriendsilence, everything about her life changes. Five years is Living in a long, long time to pine and mourn but Ray just doesn't seem to be able to get off when the treadmill use of it all. The sign language was seen as something only meaningful relationships he has are with his therapist and best friend Dannysavages do, Ellen is sent to a school where she is taught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. And it's not as though his job provides much From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the way of escape - Ray works for an insurance company as deaf and using a cold callersystem called Visible Speech. This At the same time, Bell is howworking on other inventions and ideas, one day, he comes to speak to Anyaand Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785891219</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jenni FaganB0BC3YTCMR|title=The Sunlight PilgrimsGood Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira

|summary=Dylan walks away ''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 suffered from this familyvitiligo - people were afraid to hug her in case it's contagious. It's small London indie cinema in 2020 to live on not easy being a Scottish caravan siteblack girl whose skin is 84% white. His new neighbours Constance and her transgender 12 She had a crush on seventeen-year -old Stella have troubles of their own, Reggie Anderson but the odd British winter isn't helpingnever thought he would notice her. Then he did: Lavender was very good at math and Reggie asked if she would tutor him. As the country faces true Arctic temperatures life goes on… or She readily agreed: tutoring was something she gladly did at least it tries church: this was just an extension. She went to his house and he raped her. In shock, she even allowed him togive her a lift home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434023302</amazonuk>|amazonus=<amazonus>0434023302</amazonus>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tarjei Vesaas, Torbjorn Stoverud and Michael Barnes (translators)1472263936|title=The BirdsFigurine|author=Victoria Hislop|rating=4.5

|summary=We're somewhere It was in rural Scandinavia1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. She was alone: her mother, on Greek by birth, had left the shores of a large lakefamily home and refused to return, but in Mary and Hamish (Helena's parents) felt that it would be a community relying on pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. Her trip to the farmland that is scattered family apartment in amongst up-market Kolonaki would be the woodsfirst of several annual visits. Our chief concerns are brother She grew to love her grandmother and sister – Mattis and Hege. He, Mattis, is what the other villagers call 'simplefamily' – sures maid, he knows a few things about lifeDina, but was wary - and what makes a clever person and what makes a wellfrightened -turned phraseof her grandfather, and how to talk to girls and when to not stare at them, but he is definitely not quite as the others would wishretired general Stamatis Papagiannis. Those others include He was proud of his sister, who is seeing her life waste away in listening close connections to the Junta and expected his chatter, knitting jumpers family to make ends meet, and regretting in her own small way what has got her uphold his values but saw no reason to middle-age in this situationaccommodate them. But His prejudices included Helena's red hair and green eyes - inherited from this galling introduction, you should take away the bigger picture – even if there is no way out, the life in this countryside is brilliantly conveyed, full of sun as well as shade, of labour and of idleness, and wit and charm as much as hardship. I defy you to read this and think this corner of Scandinavia bleakher father's Scottish ancestors.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0914671200</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Diney CosteloeDean Koontz|title= The Girl With No NameAfter Death|rating= 43|genre= General Fiction |summary= Thirteen year old Lisa escapes from Nazi Germany on 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 Kindertransport shrouded bodies of his dead friends and arrives in England in August 1939former colleagues. She As he recovers his senses, he realises that there is something different about him; he can''feel'' everything. ''Everything''. Michael isn't speak ''Michael'' anymore.|isbn=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 word of English Witching Forest. And the villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and her only belongings are crammed into a small suitcaseits blossom provides herbal medicines. Among them is one precious photograph The black wood of the family she has left behind in Germany. Lonely forest provides heat and homesickwarmth, not knowing if she will ever see her family againroofs on homes, Lisa is adopted by a childless coupleand even gallows, and then bullied at school for if needed. The fear of being German. But worse buried alive is to come when an existential superstition in the Blitz blows her new home apart, village and she wakes up in hospital with no memory of who she that isthe reason Volushka, or where she came from. The authorities give her a new name and despatch her to drunken, self-indulgent, lazy lout of a children's homeman is tolerated. With the war in full swing, what will become of Lisa now?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784970050</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Phaedra PatrickB0BYF82CXT|title=The Curious Charms of Arthur PepperSemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone|rating= 4|genre= General Fiction|summary=On the first anniversary of his wife Miriam's death'Bill and Amanda are living in a semi-detached house, Arthur Pepper feels he might finally be up to the task stuck in a depressing rut of clearing out her wardrobe. He hasn't got far boredom and disappointment, when he stumbles across a gold charm bracelet he doesn't recogniseTerry and Fiona – glamorous, successful and very much in love – move in next door. If he hadn't been feeling so out of sorts because of the anniversary he would never have rung the phone number he found engraved Despite their different outlooks on life, the golden elephant. That would have been a shame, because then he would never have set out on his peculiar quest couples befriend each other and life appears to find out who his wife used to be before she met himimprove for both pairs. From York to LondonBut all is not what it seems, Paris and beyond, Arthur pursues Miriamtheir increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy.''s past and learns things about his wife, his children and himself that he never imagined.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848454368</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jonas Jonasson and Rachel Willson-Broyles (translator)Shalini Boland|title=Hitman Anders and the Meaning of It AllThe Silent Bride

|summary=There's feeling on edge, Alice and there's feeling on edge. Per is Seth are a hotel receptionist partly because his father and grandfather didn't give him a better destiny, and partly because he was working there when it was a shoddy knocking jointmatch made in heaven. He's feeling on edge because someone is everything she has decided to live therebeen searching for; handsome, accomplished, in room sevenclever, funny; total and proudly announced that it's about the first place utter husband-material. She is all he's had as an adult to live could possibly want in that isn't a prison – the manwife; beautiful, Hitman Anderssuccessful, has killed three people in separate fits of rageconfident… and so the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and the wedding is planned and set. And now Per When the much-anticipated day arrives, Alice is feeling even more on edge because Johannawalked down the aisle by her father, a woman in a dog-collar has turned upbeaming with pride and excitement as she surveys the congregation – their friends assembled to celebrate this joyful day and when Seth turns to face his approaching bride, tried to blag twenty kronor for a badly-worded prayer in PerAlice's favour (even though world implodes because she's been sacked as a priest and has absolutely no idea who the man at the altar is in fact a rampant atheist), and has now colluded who is waiting for her to jointly with Per become Hitman Anders' criminal hit-job agentshis wife. But could anything make a newly rich Per – and Johanna – feel more on edge, than Hitman Anders gaining a conscience…?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008152071</amazonuk>1662507089

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Esther Gerritsen and Michele Hutchison (translator)1787636003|title= RoxyThe Girls of Summer|author=Katie Bishop|rating= 35|genre= General Fiction|summary= I liked It was the premise for this novel: a young wife (Roxy) is told at the beginning of summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the book that her much older husband has been killed in a car accidentisland. To add to the shock of thisRachel wasn't exactly innocent but she was, the revelation that he died in the arms of his (naked) lover in the carperhaps, on the hard shouldernaive, is a further blow so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to Roxytake an interest in her, she was flattered rather than wary. I found this an interesting set-up for It was quite a story, while before he made any sort of physical approach to her and wondered how this by that time she was going to goobsessed by him. As Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, looking after his interests on the blurb on island and in particular in the bar where all the girls either worked or partied.}}{{Frontpage|author=Amanda Craig|title=Three Graces|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary= Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the back state-of -the -nation novel tells us, ''she is looking for revenge'. There's something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the atmosphere of the day and capture it, I thought crafting an image of the book country as it stands in one particular moment. To say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's practically synonymous with the genre of contemporary social fiction at this point. She has such a development gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the character day into the lives of Roxy into her characters in a selfway that feels natural and lived-motivatingin, strong character. But this wasn't the casenever making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>9462380643</amazonuk>140871468X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Eva Holland152915118X|title= The Daughter's SecretPineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson|rating= 34.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Six years ago''Pineapple Street'' is the story of three women: Sasha, Stephanie Darley and Nate ran away togetherGeorgiana. She was 15, Darley and George are sisters and he was her geography teacherSasha is married to their brother Cord. Awkward They're Stocktons, only Sasha isn't a Stockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the tribe. We pick up The problem's exacerbated when the story with Rosclan matriarch, Tilda, Stephasks Cord and Sasha if they's motherd like to move into the Pineapple Street property. Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to another property, a street or so away, as she learns that Nate is about to be released which they own. They won't need any of the furniture from prisonPineapple Street, earlier than planned so Sasha and Cord can move straight in just 11 days for now. The book takes place over those 11 days leading up Nominally, they had a choice but that wasn't the reality. Darley and Georgiana start to Mr Temperleycall Sasha 's release as Ros struggles to break the news to her daughtergold digger'. She's bound living in ''their'' family home. They use it so often that they abbreviate it to be devastated by it…isn't she?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409157040</amazonuk>the GD'.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Hazel McHaffieEmily Critchley|title=Inside of MeOne Puzzling Afternoon

|summary=ItThe love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O's never specifically said that India Grayson losing her father when she Leary was eight all-consuming, apparently on both sides. Margo was the cause of her anorexia just sixteen when she they fell in love. Richard was fifteen, but you see, twenty-one and described by Margo's mother as 'losingan older man'. Her parents worried that Richard' is s influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and having a glittering career. In the event, they eloped and Richard took her away from the best description Isle of what happenedWight. He was Margo did go to Oxford and went on to become a strong swimmerwell-respected journalist. The couple had three children: Rachel, but even he might have got into difficulties Imogen and what other explanation Sasha. Life was there for lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, the pile of his clothes family home on the beach? Isle of Wight. Only India Even then the doubts about Richard's drinking were never quite believed that he was dead and his body had far from Margo's mind: ''she would never been foundbe able to leave him in charge''. Had it been something about her that forced him away?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>099262312X</amazonuk>Then Richard left them.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Monica Wood1914585402|title=The One-in-a-Million BoyDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross

|summary=I do love it when I read a reviewed David F Ross's book that stays with me after I[[There's Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There've finished reading. This was one s Only One Danny Garvey]] a couple of those books, rootling its way a little more into my heart each time I picked years back and remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and affecting it up to readwas. It's the storywas a gripping, mostly of Miss Ona Vitkus, a one hundred and four year old lady who has a young boy scout come over to help her with jobs and how he ultimately ends up changing her lifeemotionally wounding read, and rereading my review of it my main takeaway was that I might not at all in the way you might imagine since before we even begin the story the boy is deadhave lavished enough praise on it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472228359</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Reif LarsenLucy Ashe|title= I Am RadarClara and Olivia|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Racial tensionsThe year is 1933. The place? Sadler's Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, twins no less. Identical on the outside but not, identitywe learn, parental responsibilityon the inside. And not on stage, a childeither. Because there's best interesta lot that builds a dancer. Some things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, love, scienceattention to detail – and some things, war – Reif Larsenthat 's 'je ne sais quoi'I Am Radar', that don' falls nothing short of having rich thematic contentt come from the classroom. Its cornucopia of thematic explorations is interwoven into A stage presence, a complex web of storiescharm, taking the reader on a journey''joie de vivre''. The difference between a hard-worker, both literal and figurative, from suburban New Jersey to an Arctic no man's land to Congo and the Bosnian warzonea star.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099593645</amazonuk>0861544080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Stefan MohamedHeather Fawcett|title= Ace of Spiders|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Stanly is frustrated. Having set himself up as London's protector, heEmily Wilde's finding that the everyday practicalities of superheroism are challenging at best, and downright tedious at worst. So it's almost a relief when an attempt is made on his life and Stanly finds himself rushing headlong into a twisted adventure, with enemies new and old coming out of the woodwork. However, even with his friends and his ever-increasing power behind him, he may have bitten off more than he can chew this time. The monsters are coming… and nothing will ever be the same!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784630675</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Hannah Rothschild|title=The Improbability Encyclopaedia of LoveFaeries

|summary=ItEmily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life's set to be work, the sale very first encyclopaedia of the century: Russian oligarchs, Arab sheikhs, rappers faeries. Whilst she is brilliant at research and heiresses are all lined up speaking to bid for ''The Improbability of Love''faeries, a small Antoine Watteau oil painting depicting a courting couple overlooked by a clownshe is not so good with people. The painting was missing until six months ago, So 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 and finds herself far, far North in the junk shop mysteriously burnt down so that she couldn't ask for a refundsmall village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the painting became hers. Thirty-year-old Annie had been in a rut: after a painful break-up from Desmondvillage matriarch, with whom she ran a cheese shop and café in Devonis not sure what she has done, she moved nor how to London redeem herself and was working as a PA to randy Italian film director Carlo Spinettiput her final investigations for her book back on the right track. She also acquired an unwanted roommate: Enter Wendell Bambleby, her alcoholic motherdashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, Evieall charm and delight, much to Emily's frustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408862476</amazonuk>0356519120

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rebecca Thornton1398515388|title=The Exclusives: No One Can Hurt You More Than a FriendBoy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)

|summary=Josephine is a successful archaeologist on a dig First of all, it was the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and this, in Amman when she gets turn, caused the email she never expected: Freya wants to meet up with hernuclear meltdown. The reason isn’t such a surprise thoughresult was complete and utter devastation. In 1996 Freya The deaths were uncountable, and Josephine the loss of livelihoods was widespread. The fact that many pets were best friends at boarding school till separated from their owners came far down the aftermath list of priorities but - six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a night out clubbingconvenience store. Freya desperately wants to talk to Jo about He wasn't a dog person but the events convenience store owner's comment that ripped their friendship apart, he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and Tamon the events that Josephine has avoided speaking or thinking about dog jumped in more than a decade.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785770128</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Miroslav PenkovChristopher Bowden|title=Stork MountainMr Magenta

|summary=A young man, his grandfather and Christopher Bowden's latest novel is a stork with patient untangling of a broken wing are the ''company of rebels'' at the heart of this lively tale set in Bulgariaseemingly ordinary woman's Strandja Mountainslife, carried out by her nephew after she has died. The storks that return aunt who always provided a safe harbour and a little bit of indulgence to the mountains each spring are migrants, like so many of the people a young nephew had had a much more interesting life than that have passed through the region over the centuries. The young narrator is also in transit, born in Bulgaria, but raised nephew Stephen had ever realised and educated in America. The story opens with his return it seems to him an obligation 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 appearsfind it all out.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473622182</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Elisa AlbertJennifer Mason|title= After BirthPartitions of Unity|rating= 4|genre= Literary General Fiction|summary= This book is definitely not for anyone who has a rosy picture of new motherhood. In factHere at Bookbag Towers, I would probably avoid it if you are contemplating giving birth in the near future. For any woman who has ever struggled through the we first few months of motherhoodmet Elizabeth Cromwell, howeverdominatrix and unintentional detective in [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], or when she investigated and unravelled a partner series of somebody who is going through it, it is an astounding and revelatory readdisappearances. Never before have I read a more searingIn ''Partitions of Unity'', honest and open discussion of the emotional upheaval she sets her mind to solving a woman often goes through after giving birthmurder...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>009959014X</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Pascal Garnier and Emily Boyce (translator)Will Carver|title=Too Close to the EdgeThe Daves Next Door

|summary=Meet Pascal Garnier. Normally, Five strangers come together in starting a review that way, I'm on about the main character of the book, but it could be said the biggest character of any Pascal Garnier book is Pascal Garnier, not that that's a flaw. Over one moment as a half-dozen titles I've come suicide bomber prepares to know the pattern of detonate his output, and it's fair to say this example fits it very well. Again, not vest on a faultLondon tube line. His thrillers have a small cast list of charactersAs their fates overlap, trapped somehow in a small community, cut off by weather, season or remoteness. Here we are with Eliette, and just a handful of others, and watching her as she celebrates the return of spring to her remote home, an ex-silk farm story is told in southern France. All characters have a darkness about thembackwards order, including Eliette – she had wanted to retire leading up to the place with her loving, long-term husband, but he died of cancer months before retirementfateful moment. 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 and stupid acts…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910477257</amazonuk>1914585186}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Carol DrinkwaterJennifer Mason|title=The Forgotten SummerPreposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery

|summary=It is time for the annual grape harvest at ''Les CigalesA struggling poetry zine,'' a mom-and Jane is preparing herself for -pop mobile diner in the Northern California redwoods, a busy day, overseeing 400-meter hurdler who just missed the work. At this moment in time2004 Olympics, Janea women's life seems as perfect as it gets: living in track coach with a yen for bullwhips, a stunning location billionaire with a husband who adores her and state-of-the-art S&M dungeon, a man serving a job that allows her the freedom to travel. There islife sentence in Alabama, howeveran enigmatic signature, a significant cloud hanging over Jane'K(s perfect world: , x), on a vindictive mother cheap oil painting, an erotic art dealer in law who despises her and is determined to make her as miserable as possibleGeorgia... Clarrisse Cambon '' This is just a woman with an axe to grind sample of the cast of characters and poor Jane is the unwilling recipient settings in Preposterous. As you can see, some keeping up will be required! The basic premise of her vitriolthis mystery story goes like this...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0718183088</amazonuk>B09STS96HS

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Yann MartelB0B2N7MVYM|title=The High Mountains Calculations of PortugalRational Men|author=Daniel Godfrey|rating=45

|summary=Tomas is being thrust into It's the twentieth Century10th of December 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marr. Just to put what happens in context, and he doesnthe Cuban missile crisis is still very fresh in people't like its minds. He The world has given himself the job of seeking something barely had a chance to breathe out in . But for Joe Marr, it's not the High Mountains of Portugal, based on an ancient religious diary he found working in an archive, and to do so he needs missile crisis that's at the use front of his unclemind. He's brand new car to get him there and back in timebeen convicted of murder. His jaw drops when he learns he will have With the current state of medical knowledge, it's hard to do think otherwise than that the driving himselfprosecution would never have been brought but Joe Marr has spent his first few days in HMP Queen's Bench, for he cannot make head nor tail of what anything on the infernal machine does and whya relatively new prison. It is of course a certain kind of progress, a looking forward, which has become quite anathema He's just getting used to him – for ever since he lost his beloved wife, beloved child and father, all in the space of a weekroommate, he has walked everywhere backwards – shielding himself from what really is ahead with a padded behindMervyn, and never letting sight learning to be wary of what he has lostthe McArthur brothers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782114696</amazonuk>