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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=Frederic Dard and David Bellos (translator)1529153298|title=Bird in a CageThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey

|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A man returns 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 her father wants to move the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the flat he grew up dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035906708|title=Diva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in and where his mother died without his knowledgeManhattan, New York, in December 1923 and finds only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it too desolate more manageable in the States. When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the time Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of year it is – Christmas Eve. Bursting her preference for more lifeher elder sister, despite being Jackie.}}{{Frontpage|author=Alexander McCall Smith|title=The Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=The Perfect Passion Company is a solitary characterdating agency in Edinburgh, he goes run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a restaurantmore personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and finds look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. Katie is coming out of a connection break up with a mother bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. And so 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 business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's always her daughtervery helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=The Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Paranormal|summary=Benny is having a terrifically bad day. They dineHe 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 his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, then go Benny 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 turns out that the cinemadelivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Spike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and sit togetherHarper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny'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 living in Boston, having been sent to live with a family who run an inn, and things happen being made to work there from a young age. When she hears there – is to be a hanging of some pirates in a gentlethe town, no-pressureshe decides to go and watch. Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, no-names-no-packdrill wayHannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death at the hands of two vicious pirates. If this isnShe hides away, so that they don't a reasonable start find and kill her too, and then to escape them completely she runs away to sea, dressing as a novella, consider boy and joining the tag it has notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a noir classiccabin boy. And consider She soon finds herself in the fact the strange woman thick of things when there is the spitting image a mutiny on board, and from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the man's dead wife…ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782271996</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jennifer Donnelly1471180158|title=These Shallow GravesMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating=34.5|genre=Crime (Historical)General Fiction|summary=Jennifer Donnelly wrote one of my allJamie Matson works in an upper-time favourite booksclass grocery store, for a man who's a control freak with all the subtlety of a half brick. Jamie'A Gathering Lights son, Bo, 'has his problems', so I was very excited to read her latest novel and see how it compared. Like ''A Gathering Light' He's asthmatic and the more you read, the more you'll suspect that he'These Shallow Graves's on the autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she' is s a historical novel with a murder mystery at its heart frequent flier in the local A&E and a feisty heroine who challenges sometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to school. Missed shifts or the standards of need to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the daywrong. It was going to come to a head. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471405176</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Virginia IronsideB0CKD1L5JL|title=No, Thanks! I'm Quite Happy Standing!: Marie Sharp 4Radio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn

|summary=Retired art teacher Marie Sharp Petr is wondering whether it's time to move house to be nearer her son Jack and grandson Genean orphan. The wondering doesn't take up all her time though. For a start there's Rescued by the newstrange, reclusive Bear, new-age lodger Robin he is brought up far from bustling cities andbusy human society, talking about men, Marie is getting on really well with her ex-husband David. This single life in which they dib into each otherthe forests of Washington's worlds on a regular basis seems the perfect way forwardOlympic Peninsula. However not all is rosy: friend Penny's drinking too much plus After Bear dies and a holiday brief sojourn in India has unexpected conclusion. Oh and there's the burglaries too. Who says that retirement is relaxing and uneventful?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782069321</amazonuk>|amazonus=<amazonus>1782069321</amazonus>}}{{newreview|author= William Thacker|title= Lingua Franca|rating= 2.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Clichéd as it may sound, language finds itself at the very core of human existence and experience. On the one handcompany, it defines individual cognition and thoughts and serves as armed with only a way of communicating these thoughts to others; pirate radio transmitter, Petr goes on a journey through the otherforest, it defines broadcasting the social sphere, giving social values to things, reflecting historystrange, wild and constructing a common identity. It is also what William Thacker's second novel, ''Lingua Franca'', revolves aroundrarely heard voices he encounters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785079743</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alice AdamsSarah Marsh|title=Invincible SummerA Sign of Her Own

|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=As Alice Adams's debut novel opens 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 summer use of 1995sign language was seen as something only savages do, four university friends are lounging on Bristol's Brandon HillEllen is sent to a school where she is taught to lip read, drinking and contemplating what the future holdsbut physically restrained from signing. There's Eva Andrews From here, raised she ends up in Sussex by another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and using a single father; siblings Sylvie system called Visible Speech. At the same time, Bell is working on other inventions and Lucien Marchantideas, neglected by their alcoholic mother; and Benedict Waverley, Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a rich kid whose parents have a holiday home on Corfu. Eva has a crush on Lucien, while Benedict is besotted with Evacomplicated tangle of espionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509814701</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Catherine BannerB0BC3YTCMR|title=The House at the Edge of NightGood Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira|rating=4.5

|summary=''The House at the Edge of NightThis story is not for everyone.'' is an epic family saga 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, spanning some 95 years and several generations. The story begins when Amedeo Esposito arrives at the isolated Sicilian island of Castellamare suffered from vitiligo - people were afraid to serve as the first doctor hug her in the islandcase it's historycontagious. He It's not easy being a black girl whose skin is immediately captivated by this strange little community; a heady mix of tradition, superstition and ritual84% white. An island so small is naturally She had a hotbed of gossip, with 'overheard' confessions being dutifully relayed across the fivecrush on seventeen-year-mile island within minutes of being heardold Reggie Anderson but never thought he would notice her. The benevolent Saint Agata watches over her people Then he did: Lavender was very good at math and bestows the odd miracle upon the fortunateReggie asked if she would tutor him. This is the place that Amedeo chooses She readily agreed: tutoring was something she gladly did at church: this was just an extension. She went to make his home house and together with his resourceful wife Pinahe raped her. In shock, they slowly restore the 'cursed' House at the Edge of Night she even allowed him to its former glory as give her a bar and meeting place for the localslift home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091959322</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chuck Palahniuk1472263936|title=Make Something UpThe Figurine|author=Victoria Hislop

|genre=Short Stories General Fiction|summary=What are we to make of that subtitle-seeming writing on the front cover – ''stories you can't unread''? Does It was in 1968 that not apply Helena McCloud made her first trip to all good fiction? Greece. Clearly it is here due to the reputation of She was alone: her mother, Greek by birth, had left the author, family home and the baggage his name brings refused to the page. We'd expect a dramatic approach from anything Palahniuk writesreturn, but Mary and an added frisson, an extra layer, from which we might Hamish (Helena's parents) felt that it would be forced to shrink backa pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. But a lot Her trip to the family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be the first of the contents don't quite go that farseveral annual visits. Yes, things are dramatic, when society starts attaching defibrillators She grew to itself, to create love her grandmother and the perfectfamily's maid, simpleDina, carebut was wary - (''The Price is Right''and frightened -of her grandfather, and Kardashian-) free happinessretired general Stamatis Papagiannis. A man buys a horse for He was proud of his daughter – but boy is it close connections to the wrong horse Junta and expected his family to buy. A man falls in love – yes, sometimes the plot summaries of these stories really are better off for being short (speaking of which, don't turn uphold his values but saw no reason to the three-page entrant here as a taster, it'll put you off by dint of being, almost uniquely here, a nothing story)accommodate them. A call centre worker can't convince people heHis prejudices included Helena's on the level red hair and even 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 a green eyes - inherited from her father'Burning Man'-styled festival, in a very clever couple of taless Scottish ancestors. But many too are the instances where that extra step has been taken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099587688</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nick BantockDean Koontz|title=Griffin 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 Sabine 25th Anniversary Edition: An Extraordinary Correspondencelooks 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 Grave Listeners|author=William Frank

|genre=General Fiction |summary=Oh Griffin The village is isolated and Sabine, where have you been all my life? Ipoor. It've loved epistolary novels and ones that take s surrounded by a Witching Forest. And the narrative twovillagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and-fro its blossom provides herbal medicines. The black wood of letters the forest provides heat and warmth, roofs on homes, and bring us closer to the sender than any omniscient narrator can hope to doeven gallows, if needed. I've still got the childlike love The fear of picking at being buried alive is an envelope stuck existential superstition in a book to pull out a sheet of something else – not only the village and that is there the wonder at the handmade construction reason Volushka, a drunken, self-indulgent, lazy lout of something so bluntly and undeservedly called 'a book', but there man is the frisson of being the first person to see this artefact evertolerated. 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 JewellB0BYF82CXT|title=The GirlsSemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone

|summary=When Clare takes her two tween daughters Pip ''Bill and Amanda are living in a semi-detached house, stuck in a depressing rut of boredom and disappointment, when Terry and Fiona – glamorous, successful and Grace to live very much in love – move in leafy Virginia Terracenext door. Despite their different outlooks on life, she the couples befriend each other and life appears to improve for both pairs. But all is hoping not what it seems, and their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for anonymity, a blank slate tragedy.''}}{{Frontpage|author=Shalini Boland|title=The Silent Bride|rating=3|genre=General Fiction|summary= Alice and Seth are a fresh startmatch made in heaven. Not so long ago He is everything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, clever, her story was funny; total and utter husband-material. She is all he could possibly want in all of a wife; beautiful, successful, confident… and so the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and the wedding is planned and set. When the newspapers when her paranoidmuch-schizophrenic husband burned anticipated day arrives, Alice is walked down the family home. Her new house seems a aisle by her father, beaming 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, Alice's world away from her previous life. The crescent implodes because she has a communal garden absolutely no idea who the man at its heartthe altar is, where friendly neighbours socialise and children can run freewho is waiting for her to become his wife. But does this new freedom come with a price?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099599473</amazonuk>1662507089

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Russell Mardell1787636003|title=Cold CallingThe Girls of Summer|author=Katie Bishop|rating=45

|summary=Five years It was the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on, Ray still can't get over the loss of his girlfriendisland. Five years is a long, long time to pine and mourn but Ray just doesn Rachel wasn't seem exactly innocent but she was, perhaps, naive, so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to be able to get off the treadmill of it alltake an interest in her, she was flattered rather than wary. The only meaningful relationships It was quite a while before he has are with his therapist made any sort of physical approach to her and best friend Dannyby that time she was obsessed by him. And it's not as though Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, looking after his job provides much interests on the island and in particular in the way of escape - Ray works for an insurance company as a cold caller. This is how, one day, he comes to speak to Anyabar where all the girls either worked or partied.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785891219</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jenni FaganAmanda Craig|title=The Sunlight PilgrimsThree Graces

|summary=Dylan walks away from Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of-the-nation novel. There's something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the atmosphere of the day and capture it, crafting an image of the country as it stands in one particular moment. To say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this familywould be embarrassingly inadequate: she's small London indie cinema practically synonymous with the genre of contemporary social fiction at this point. She has such a gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the day into the lives of her characters in 2020 to live on a Scottish caravan site. His new neighbours Constance way that feels natural and her transgender 12 year old Stella have troubles of their ownlived-in, never making them ciphers for social commentary but the odd British winter isn't helping. As the country faces true Arctic temperatures life goes on… or at least it tries toinstead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434023302</amazonuk>|amazonusisbn=<amazonus>0434023302</amazonus>140871468X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tarjei Vesaas, Torbjorn Stoverud and Michael Barnes (translators)152915118X|title=The BirdsPineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson

|summary=We're somewhere in rural Scandinavia, on 'Pineapple Street'' is the shores story of a large lakethree women: Sasha, but in a community relying on the farmland that is scattered in amongst the woodsDarley and Georgiana. Our chief concerns Darley and George are sisters and Sasha is married to their brother and sister – Mattis and HegeCord. HeThey're Stocktons, Mattis, is what only Sasha isn't a Stockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the other villagers call tribe. The problem'simple' – sures exacerbated when the clan matriarch, he knows a few things about lifeTilda, asks Cord and what makes a clever person and what makes a well-turned phrase, and how Sasha if they'd like to talk to girls and when to not stare at them, but he is definitely not quite as move into the others would wishPineapple Street property. Those others include his sisterTilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to another property, who is seeing her life waste a street or so away in listening to his chatter, knitting jumpers to make ends meetwhich they own. They won't need any of the furniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and regretting Cord can move straight in her own small way what has got her to middle-age in this situation. But from this galling introductionNominally, you should take away they had a choice but that wasn't the bigger picture – even if there is no way out, reality. Darley and Georgiana start to call Sasha 'the life gold digger'. She's living 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''their'' family home. I defy you They use it so often that they abbreviate it to read this and think this corner of Scandinavia bleak'the GD'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0914671200</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Diney CosteloeEmily Critchley|title= The Girl With No NameOne Puzzling Afternoon|rating= 4|genre= General Fiction Crime|summary= Thirteen 84 year old Lisa escapes from Nazi Germany on Edie has lived in the Kindertransport and arrives in England in August 1939. She can't speak same small town for almost her whole life, but now she is facing a word of English move as her son wants to move to another house and bring Edie to live with his family, as Edie is starting to lose her only belongings are crammed into a small suitcasememory. Among them However, Edie is one precious photograph tormented by the memory of the family she has left behind in Germany. Lonely and homesickher childhood friend, not knowing if she will ever see her family againLucy, Lisa is adopted by a childless couplewho went missing over 60 years ago, and then bullied at school the worry that there was a secret she was keeping for being GermanLucy that somehow might be the thing that reveals the truth of what happened all that time ago. But worse is to come when After 'seeing' Lucy in the high street, just as she was the Blitz blows last time she saw her new home apart, and she wakes up in hospital with no memory starts to find pockets of who memories coming back to her. And yet as she isremembers the past, or where she came from. The authorities give her a new name is forgetting more and despatch more in her day to a childrenday life. Will she uncover the truth about Lucy's home. With the war in full swingdisappearance before her move, what will become of Lisa nowand before her memories are gone forever?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784970050</amazonuk>1804181250

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Phaedra PatrickMadelaine Lucas|title=The Curious Charms of Arthur PepperThirst for Salt|rating= 45|genre= General Literary Fiction|summary=On the first anniversary of his wife Miriam's death'Love, I'd read, Arthur Pepper feels he might finally was supposed to be up to the task of clearing out her wardrobe. He hasn't got far when he stumbles across a gold charm bracelet he doesnlight and weightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravity't recognise. If he hadn't been feeling so out of sorts because of  Told from a retrospective view, a young woman unravels the anniversary he would never have rung year-long relationship that once defined her. Overlaid with later wisdom, the phone number he found engraved on narrator relives the golden elephant. That would have been affair with a shame, because then he would never have set out on his peculiar quest man twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to find out who his wife used to be before she met himits sorrowful end the summer after. From York to LondonSet against the backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the 24-year-old narrator's deepening relationship with her older lover, Paris and beyonddepicting its all-consuming nature, Arthur pursues Miriam's past how it changed her perspective on both romantic and learns things about his wife, his children familial relationships and himself that he never imaginedhow it altered her irrevocably.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848454368</amazonuk>0861546490

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonas Jonasson and Rachel Willson-Broyles (translator)0008506337|title=Hitman Anders and the Meaning of It AllThe Garnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore|rating=35

|summary=ThereThe love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O's feeling on edgeLeary was all-consuming, and there's feeling apparently on edgeboth sides. Per is a hotel receptionist partly because his father and grandfather didn't give him a better destiny, and partly because he Margo was working there just sixteen when it was a shoddy knocking jointthey fell in love. He's feeling on edge because someone has decided to live there, in room seven, Richard was twenty-one and proudly announced that itdescribed by Margo's about the first place hemother as 's had as an adult to live in older man'. Her parents worried that isnRichard't s influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and having a prison – glittering career. In the manevent, Hitman Anders, has killed three people in separate fits they eloped and Richard took her away from the Isle of rageWight. And now Per is feeling even more Margo did go to Oxford and went on edge because Johanna, a woman in to become a dogwell-collar has turned uprespected journalist. The couple had three children: Rachel, tried to blag twenty kronor for a badly-worded prayer Imogen and Sasha. Life was lived in PerLondon and holidays were spent at Sandcove, the family home on the Isle of Wight. Even then the doubts about Richard's favour (even though shedrinking were never far from Margo's been sacked as a priest and is mind: ''she would never be able to leave him in fact a rampant atheist), and has now colluded to jointly with Per become Hitman Anderscharge'' criminal hit-job agents. But could anything make a newly rich Per – and Johanna – feel more on edge, than Hitman Anders gaining a conscience…?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008152071</amazonuk>Then Richard left them.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Esther Gerritsen and Michele Hutchison (translator)1914585402|title= RoxyDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross|rating= 34.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= I liked the premise for this novel: a young wife (Roxy) is told at the beginning of the reviewed David F Ross's book that her much older husband has been killed in [[There's Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's Only One Danny Garvey]] a car accident. To add to the shock couple of this, the revelation that he died in the arms of his (naked) lover in the car, on the hard shoulder, is a further blow to Roxy. I found this an interesting set-up for a story, years back and wondered remember being absolutely floored by how this powerful and affecting it was going to go. As the blurb on the back of the novel tells usIt was a gripping, ''she is looking for revenge''emotionally wounding read, and rereading my review of it my main takeaway was that I thought the book would be a development of the character of Roxy into a self-motivating, strong character. But this wasn't the casemight not have lavished enough praise on it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>9462380643</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Eva HollandLucy Ashe|title= The Daughter's SecretClara and Olivia|rating= 34.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Six years agoThe year is 1933. The place? Sadler's Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, Stephanie and Nate ran away togethertwins no less. She was 15Identical on the outside but not, we learn, and he was her geography teacheron the inside. AwkwardAnd not on stage, either. We pick up the story with Ros, StephBecause there's mother, as she learns a lot that builds a dancer. Some things that Nate is about to can be released from prisontaught or learnt – discipline, earlier than planned in just 11 days for now. The book takes place over those 11 days leading up attention to Mr Temperleydetail – and some things, that ''je ne sais quoi''s release as Ros struggles to break , that don't come from the news to her daughterclassroom. SheA stage presence, a charm, a ''joie de vivre's bound to be devastated by it…isn't she?. The difference between a hard-worker, and a star.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409157040</amazonuk>0861544080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Hazel McHaffieHeather Fawcett|title=Inside Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of MeFaeries

|summary=ItEmily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life's never specifically said that India Grayson losing her father work, the very first encyclopaedia of faeries. Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, she is not so good with people. So when she was eight was finds herself far, far North in the cause small village of her anorexia when she was fifteenHrafvsnik, but you seehaving somehow offended the village matriarch, ''losing'' she is the best description of not sure what happened. He was a strong swimmershe has done, but even he might have got into difficulties nor how to redeem herself and what other explanation was there put her final investigations for the pile of his clothes her book back on the beachright track. Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, much to Emily's frustration. But why is he here? Only India never quite believed that What does he was dead and his body had never been found. want? Had it been something about her that forced him awayAnd what exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>099262312X</amazonuk>0356519120

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Monica Wood1398515388|title=The One-in-a-Million Boyand the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)

|summary=I do love First of all, it when I read a book that stays with me after I've finished readingwas the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and this, in turn, caused the nuclear meltdown. This The result was one complete and utter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, and the loss of those books, rootling its way a little more into my heart each time I picked it up to readlivelihoods was widespread. It's The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the story, mostly list of Miss Ona Vitkus, priorities but - six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a one hundred and four year old lady who has convenience store. He wasn't a young boy scout come over dog person but the convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to help her with jobs open his car door and how he ultimately ends up changing her life, and not at all Tamon the dog jumped in the way you might imagine since before we even begin the story the boy is dead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472228359</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author= Reif LarsenChristopher Bowden|title= I Am RadarMr Magenta|rating= 4|genre= General Fiction|summary= Racial tensions, identity, parental responsibility, a childChristopher Bowden's best interest, love, science, war – Reif Larsen's ''I Am Radar'' falls nothing short of having rich thematic content. Its cornucopia of thematic explorations latest novel is interwoven into a complex web patient untangling of stories, taking the reader on a journey, both literal and figurative, from suburban New Jersey to an Arctic no manseemingly ordinary woman's land to Congo and the Bosnian warzone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099593645</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Stefan Mohamed|title= Ace of Spiders|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Stanly is frustrated. Having set himself up as London's protectorlife, he's finding that the everyday practicalities of superheroism are challenging at best, and downright tedious at worstcarried out by her nephew after she has died. So it's almost The aunt who always provided a relief when an attempt is made on his life safe harbour and Stanly finds himself rushing headlong into a twisted adventure, with enemies new and old coming out little bit of the woodwork. However, even with his friends indulgence to a young nephew had had a much more interesting life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and his ever-increasing power behind it seems to him, he may have bitten off more than he can chew this timean obligation to find it all out. The monsters are coming… and nothing will ever be the same!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784630675</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Hannah RothschildJennifer Mason|title=The Improbability Partitions of LoveUnity

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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rebecca ThorntonWill Carver|title=The Exclusives: No One Can Hurt You More Than a FriendDaves Next Door|rating=4.5

|summary=Josephine is Five strangers come together in one moment as a successful archaeologist suicide bomber prepares to detonate his vest on a dig in Amman when she gets the email she never expected: Freya wants to meet up with her. The reason isn’t such a surprise thoughLondon tube line. In 1996 Freya and Josephine were best friends at boarding school till the aftermath of a night out clubbing. Freya desperately wants to talk to Jo about the events that ripped As their friendship apartfates overlap, the events that Josephine has avoided speaking or thinking about story is told in more than a decadebackwards order, leading up to the fateful moment.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785770128</amazonuk>1914585186}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Miroslav PenkovJennifer Mason|title=Stork MountainPreposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery

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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Elisa AlbertB0B2N7MVYM|title= After Birth|rating= 4|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= This book is definitely not for anyone who has a rosy picture The Calculations of new motherhood. In fact, I would probably avoid it if you are contemplating giving birth in the near future. For any woman who has ever struggled through the first few months of motherhood, however, or a partner of somebody who is going through it, it is an astounding and revelatory read. Never before have I read a more searing, honest and open discussion of the emotional upheaval a woman often goes through after giving birth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009959014X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewRational Men|author=Pascal Garnier and Emily Boyce (translator)|title=Too Close to the EdgeDaniel Godfrey|rating=45

|summary=Meet Pascal GarnierIt's the 10th of December 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marr. Normally, Just to put what happens in starting a review that waycontext, I'm on about the main character of the book, but it could be said the biggest character of any Pascal Garnier book Cuban missile crisis is Pascal Garnier, not that thatstill very fresh in people's a flawminds. Over The world has barely had a half-dozen titles I've come chance to know the pattern of his outputbreathe out. But for Joe Marr, and it's fair to say this example fits it very well. Again, not a faultthe missile crisis that's at the front of his mind. His thrillers have a small cast list He's been convicted of characters, trapped somehow in a small community, cut off by weather, season or remotenessmurder. Here we are with Eliette, and just a handful With the current state of othersmedical knowledge, and watching her as she celebrates it's hard to think otherwise than that the return of spring to her remote homeprosecution would never have been brought but Joe Marr has spent his first few days in HMP Queen's Bench, an ex-silk farm in southern Francea relatively new prison. All characters have a darkness about them, including Eliette – she had wanted He's just getting used to retire to the place with her lovinghis roommate, long-term husbandMervyn, but he died of cancer months before retirement. And the final piece of the Garnier pattern is that that darkness, the black surrounding the night stars and learning to use one be wary 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>McArthur brothers.