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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Linda GrantJenny Lecoat|title= The Dark CircleBeyond Summerland|rating= 54|genre= General Fiction|summary= It's 1949, and Jean lives on Jersey with the Second World War over, a new decade of recovery is beginning. For East End teenagers Lenny and Miriam, life has been suspended. Diagnosed with tuberculosis, her mother where they are sent away to a sanatorium in Kent, to take the cure, submit to the way of the Doctors, and learn celebrating the deferential way end of the patientoccupation. Through doors newly opened by During the one year old NHS, come Lenny in his striped London drape suitwar, Jean's father was arrested for listening to a banned radio and Miriam in cherry felt red coatsoldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and beret pinned gingerly onto her blue-black curlsmother waiting for years for news of him. Trapped in a sterile closed environment, As the British finally free the twins find themselves meeting air force officers, a car salesman, a university graduate, a mysterious German woman, a member of Channel islands from the AristocracyNazis, andthe war is finally over, arriving to blast away their lethargic submission to authority - an American merchant seamanhopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him. Together they discover that But will the truth come as a cure is tantalisingly just out of reachrelief, and may only be gained through full scale rebellion...or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the informer who told the Nazis about the radio? And what other secrets have been kept throughout the occupation?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>034900675X</amazonuk>1846976537

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Morgan McCarthyOnyi Nwabineli|title= The House of BirdsAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical General Fiction|summary=Oliver has Anuri spent years trying her childhood on display to the world, thanks to convince himself that heher step-mother Ophelia's suited to a life increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of money making in the city, and that he doesnAnuri't miss a s childhood spent in pursuit of mysteryfor sponsorships and influencer deals and, when he cycled around the cobbled lanes of Oxfordbasically, exploring its most intriguing cornersmonetary gain. When his girlfriend Kate inherits a derelict house - Now Anuri is in her twenties and a fierce family feud - she's determined is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to strip itget her life back, sell it and move onsuing her step-mother to take down the content about her. For Oliver though Anuri is battling alcoholism, the house has an allurefailing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and amongst the shelves of a discarded, leather bound secretly abusing people online and gilded volumes, he discovers one that conceals a hidden diary receiving money from the 1920sthem for doing so. So begins a quest to discover Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the identity new focus of the author, Sophia LouisOphelia's online empire. It is a portrait of war and marriage Can she save her sister, isolation and longing perhaps herself and a story that will shape her relationship with her father at the future of the abandoned house - and of Oliver - forever.same time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472205847</amazonuk>0861546873

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christobel Kent1529153298|title=The Loving HusbandList of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=45|genre=Crime General Fiction|summary= When Fran met Nathan everyone assumed she was on the rebound from a lengthy stint at the mercy of Nick The UnsuitableIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I imagine falling pregnant within those first few heady months may have added fuel to that particular fire particularly from where Franmean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's best friend is standingfamily, though. Women have been disappearing. But when this is followed by a hasty wedding and a move to an isolated farmhouse in the FensWell, Fran feels sure that her new role as home-maker and motherthey've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so very different from the London party-girl frightening. Miv's upset because she used 's overheard that her father wants to bemove the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is the right one for hera frightening, foreign place, best avoided. So when Fran wakes in For Miv, the middle of the night to find Nathan's side of the bed completely coldmove would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she goes 'll do anything to look for himprevent that. Finding him bloodied and very much dead was most definitely She's not part of worried about the bargaindangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751562416</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Sanjida O'Connell1035906708|title= Theory of MindDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating= 34.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=Sandra works in a zoo, studying the minds We tend to think of chimpanzeesMaria Callas as Greek, mankind's nearest living relatives. Her involvment with the animals starts but she was born to affect her own relationshipsGreek parents in Manhattan, New York, in particular that with her new boyfriend CorinDecember 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. His energy stimulates Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her, his passion excites her and his work as a TV producer fascinates her, but are his feelings real, or does he want father changed it to 'Callas' to control her? As her feelings preoccupy her, Sandra continues her research into make it more manageable in the emotions of chimps and whether or not they are capable of empathyStates. During a visit to When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the zoo, Sandra meets Nazi occupation by a strange mother who mercilessly exploited her and isolated child, Paul, son made no secret of one of the keepers, and she also meets Kim, a scientist who has built a killer instinct into the robots she makes. As Sandra worries about her friends and preference for her relationshipelder sister, things race to a thrilling climax - putting much more than Sandra's emotions at riskJackie. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1861515480</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Katarina BivaldAlexander McCall Smith|title= The Readers of Broken Wheel RecommendPerfect Passion Company|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= The USA Perfect Passion Company is an odd place at timesa dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and not just during election season. There are operating as an alternative to all sorts of nooks and cranniesthe online apps in providing a more personal, places that time forgot, places that ‘’people’’ forgottailored service. Broken Wheel Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, Iowa as Ness is one such placeplanning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. You’d have no reason Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the chance to come home to go unless you knew someone thereEdinburgh. And Sara doesso begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, her pen-pal Amy. Invited by Amy bringing us to come for a visitan Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with time on her hands due some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a recent redundancybusiness, or in match-making, Sara packs but Ness has full confidence in her bags abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and her booksrather handsome) and buys neighbour, William, to lend a plane ticket from her native Sweden to the US of A.hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>009959367X</amazonuk>1846976596

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sara StewartDean Koontz|title=Whilst I Was OutThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=24.5|genre=General Fiction Paranormal|summary= Sara StewartBenny 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 his home, and it's debut novelpossible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, ''Whilst I Was Out'', opens with Benny is the very last person to deserve all the promise of this bad luck. He is a book intent to delve head-first into invention and oddnessnice person. A really nice person. The narrator of So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the storydelivery to his house is a new friend, Alicea bad weather friend called Spike, is stuck in traffic with her husband – who she refers has been sent to throughout the book as My Dear Husband (or MDH help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for short) – when he suddenly jumps out being a good person. Spike is going to take care of their car Benny, and runs off for seemingly no reason. The scene opens with a mention of domestic abuse but seems much more interested in the inherent malfunction will certainly take care of AliceBenny's husband as she describes his fixation with his bicycle enemies, if he, Benny, and how her and their three children have taken Harper (a back seat to his waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny'finding himself' through affairs and cross-country cyclings wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910903035</amazonuk>1662500491

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Cesca MajorKatherine Howe|title= The Last NightA True Account|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical General Fiction|summary=Spring 1952: Two best friends; Abigail and MaryHannah Masury is living in Boston, sit together on a bench, looking out having been sent to sea. They have big plans, but know that whatever happens they will always be together. They dream of live with a new life in Americafamily who run an inn, each with a handsome husband and being made to work there from a happy familyyoung age. When Abigail's mother dies unexpectedly, however, she hears there is sent to live with her estranged sister be a hanging of some pirates in Devonthe town, she decides to go and the friends are torn apartwatch. Little does she realise that tragedy lies just around the corner, Enthralled and that the ''last night'' will change everything forever. Decades laterhorrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in 2016, a shy furniture-restorer called Irina has been given an unusual commission: to restore an old bureau containing many hidden secrets. As young boy's death at the hands of two stories mergevicious pirates. She hides away, curious Irina tries to piece together exactly what happened on the so that they don''Last Night.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B01FTAPZS2</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Rory Gleeson|title= Rockadoon Shore|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=Cath is worried about t find and kill her friends. DanDan is struggling with the death of his extoo, Lucy is drinking way too much and Steph has become closed off. A weekend then to escape them completely she runs away is just what they need. They travel out to Rockadoon Lodgesea, to dressing as a boy and joining the wilds notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. She soon finds herself in the west thick of Ireland. But the weekend doesn't go to plan. JJ things when there is more concerned with getting high than spending time with thema mutiny on board, while Merc is humiliated and seeks revenge. And when their elderly neighbour Malachy arrives on their doorstep from there we are caught up in the dead her rip roaring tale of night with a gun in his hands, nothing will be life on the same again for any of them..ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473634075</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Brit Bennett1471180158|title= The MothersMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes

|genre= General Fiction|summary= I love it when I get Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's a control freak with all the subtlety of a book so very few have half brick. Jamie's son, Bo, 'has his problems'. He's asthmatic and the more you read yet, but itthe more you'll suspect that he's hard to say what on the autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to be said, when youtake time off at short notice - she's a frequent flier in the local A&E and sometimes Bo're s not allowed fit enough to go to school. Missed shifts or the need to be away on time to quotepick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the wrong. ''All good secrets have It was going to come to a taste before you tell them…''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0399184511</amazonuk>head.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Graham NortonB0CKD1L5JL|title= HoldingRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn|rating= 54|genre= General Fiction|summary=The remote Irish village of Duneen has known little drama, and yet Petr is an orphan. Rescued by the inhabitants are troubled. Sergeant PJ Collins hasn't always been this overweightstrange, mother-of-two Brid Riordan hasn't always been an alcoholicreclusive Bear, he is brought up far from bustling cities and elegant Evelyn Ross hasn't always felt her life a total waste. When busy human remains are discovered on a farmsociety, thought to be those of Tommy Burke, an ex lover in the forests of both Brid and Evelyn, the villageWashington's dark past begins to unravelOlympic Peninsula. As the frustrated PJ struggles to solve After Bear dies and a case for the first time brief sojourn in his lifehuman company, he unearths and armed with only a community's worth of angerpirate radio transmitter, resentmentPetr goes on a journey through the forest, secretsbroadcasting the strange, wild and regretrarely heard voices he encounters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444792008</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ian McEwanSarah Marsh|title=NutshellA Sign of Her Own|rating=43.5|genre=Literary General Fiction |summary=Meet Trudy. Successfully living in After a large and valuable London home, she is heavily pregnant, and in between two men – she has swapped the homeowner, poet and publisher John, for someone completely different, namely Claude, bout of scarlet fever as a nastychild, brutish and short typeEllen Lark loses her hearing. Some people cannot work out why on earth she has made that decisionSuddenly plunged into a world of silence, including our narratoreverything about her life changes. Oh, and he himself, our narratorLiving in a time when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is the child sent to a school where she's pregnant with. He is a very alert young thingtaught to lip read, with nothing else to do but kick physically restrained from signing. From here and there, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and practice what you might well call mindfulnessusing a system called Visible Speech. At the same time, and listen in Bell is working on Claude other inventions and Trudyideas, as they calmly talk their way to plotting and carrying out murder…Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1911214330</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Frederic Dard and Daniel Seton (translator)B0BC3YTCMR|title=CrushGood Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira

|genre=General Fiction |summary=In this ''This story is not for everyone.'' Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of Thelma her fifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. She was a very bright student, a bit too nerdy if truth be told, and Louise, suffered from vitiligo - people were afraid to hug her in case it's Louise we meet first, through her narrationcontagious. SheIt's not easy being a black girl whose skin is 84% white. She had a crush on seventeen -year -old, telling us of a quite awful Reggie Anderson but never thought he would notice her. Then he did: Lavender was very good at math and smelly satellite town of Paris Reggie asked if she lives in, with the sight of factories and stench of food processing plants keeping her companywould tutor him. She lives readily agreed: tutoring was something she gladly did at home with her mother, complete with hare-lip, and abusive step-father, and is working at one of those factories until she sees a paradise in their midst – the ever-sunny, sexy and sophisticated life of church: this was just an American NATO worker extension. She went to his house and his wifehe raped her. ImpulsivelyIn shock, she asks even allowed him to be their maid – and indeed moves into the couple's large, messy give her a lift home. But little does she know what lurks in the shadows in that building, behind their gigantic car and their cute porch swing and al-fresco dining – the unhappiness, and even the tragedy…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782271988</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Emma Burstall1472263936|title= The Cornish Guest House (Tremarnock)Figurine|author=Victoria Hislop|rating= 3.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=''The Cornish Guest House'' is the sequel It was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. She was alone: her mother, Greek by birth, had left the best-selling ''Tremarnock'' which introduced us family home and refused to hard-working Liz return, but Mary and Hamish (Helena's parents) felt that it would be a pity if Helena grew up without knowing her disabled daughter Rosie who were adjusting grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. Her trip to life the family apartment in a small Cornish village by up-market Kolonaki would be the seafirst of several annual visits. The sequel begins six months after She grew to love her grandmother and the first bookfamily's maid, Dina, but was wary - and Liz and Rosie are happily settled in their new lives and enjoying the warmth frightened - of her grandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. He was proud of his close connections to the close-knit community. The village is soon abuzz with gossip, however, as a new couple have just moved in Junta and are planning expected his family to uphold his values but saw no reason to open a guest houseaccommodate them. The affable His prejudices included Helena's red hair and goodgreen eyes -looking Luke soon charms the neighbours by immersing himself into village lifeinherited from her father's Scottish ancestors. His wife Tabitha, on the other hand, seems aloof and reserved. Could she be hiding a secret?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784972495</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jean McNeilDean Koontz|title= The Dhow HouseAfter Death|rating= 3.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Rebecca Laurelson is an English doctor working in an African field hospital in the midst Michael Mace, Head of Security, at a political conflict top secret biological research facility, is among 55 people who die when she a virus is suddenly and inexplicitly forced to leave her postreleased in a bio-hazard accident. She goes Finding himself in a makeshift mortuary, covered in plastic, he has a sense that something very, very bad has happened to stay with her estranged Aunt Julia him – and only him – as he sits up and her family on Africa's east coast away from looks around at the violence shrouded bodies of his dead friends and daily blood shed of warformer colleagues. As he recovers his senses, however their lives are full of beach 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|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=The village is isolated and cocktail parties which contrast greatly to Rebeccapoor. It's way of livingsurrounded by a Witching Forest. But And the threat villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicines. The black wood of war is on the horizon for Julia's family forest provides heat and their fellow white Africans – terror attacks are warmth, roofs on homes, and even gallows, if needed. The fear of being buried alive is an existential superstition in the rise all along the coast village and Rebecca knows more about it than that is the rest reason Volushka, a drunken, self-indulgent, lazy lout of her familya man is tolerated. With unrest brewing will the true reason for Rebecca's hasty departure from her post be revealed?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785079441</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0BYF82CXT|title=The Purple ShadowSemi-Detached|author=Christopher BowdenDeborah Stone

|summary=Colin Mallory is ''Bill and Amanda are living in a young actor semi-detached house, stuck in Paris. Colin had been working with a theatre company putting on English language Shakespeare productions. They were popular but unprofitable so Colin is now at a loose end while his partnerdepressing rut of boredom and disappointment, Bryonywhen Terry and Fiona – glamorous, is off shooting a filmsuccessful and very much in love – move in next door. Before returning to LondonDespite their different outlooks on life, Colin meets up with Paul Barnard, an art gallery director the couples befriend each other and his sister's partnerlife appears to improve for both pairs. At the Galerie Marion DucasseBut all is not what it seems, Colin and Paul come across a paintingtheir increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy. The portrait of a young woman turns out to be Sylvie Ducasse, the great-aunt of the gallery's owner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0955506743</amazonuk>'

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sandra IrelandShalini Boland|title=Beneath The SkinSilent Bride|rating=43|genre=General Fiction |summary= Robert Walton is ex-military – Alice and Seth are a soldier suffering from combat stress and what he now realises is clearly PTSDmatch made in heaven. He prefers to be called Waltis everything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, clever, funny; it's short total and simple and Walt likes things that are not complicatedutter husband-material. Alys She is fragileall he could possibly want in a wife; beautiful, damaged successful, confident… and complicated so the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and not the kind of woman Walt wedding is looking forplanned and set. A taxidermist When the much-anticipated day arrives, Alice is walked down the aisle by trade – a rather macabre one at that – Alys enjoys creating Walter Potter style tableaus in a slightly horrifying tribute to her sole career influence. Alys runs her business from her homefather, which she shares beaming with her sister, Mouse pride and Mouse's son William. It's a strange set up and though Walt needs excitement as she surveys the job congregation – of handyman/gopher/taxidermy assistant ''must not be squeamish – room their friends assembled to celebrate this joyful day and board included'when Seth turns to face his approaching bride, Alice's world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the man at the altar is, he wonders what he has let himself in who is waiting forher to become his wife. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846973619</amazonuk>1662507089

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Victoria Hislop1787636003|title=Cartes Postales from GreeceThe Girls of Summer|author=Katie Bishop

|summary=Postcards from It was the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece keep arriving at Ellie's flat addressed to former occupant Sarah Ibbotsen by a man signing himself as 'A'and arrived on the island. They may not be for Ellie Rachel wasn't exactly innocent but she keeps them anyway and displays the pictures of blue seawas, perhaps, naive, so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to take an interest in her, beaches and countryside until she can't resist it any longer; Ellie's off to Greece for a breakwas flattered rather than wary. Just It was quite a while before he made any sort of physical approach to her and by that time she leaves home a package arrives from Awas obsessed by him. Something very different from Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, looking after his interests on the island and in particular in the fragmented comments on bar where all the cardsgirls either worked or partied. This is a journal full }}{{Frontpage|author=Amanda Craig|title=Three Graces|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary= Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of -the stories told by people he-nation novel. There's met while travelling something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the atmosphere of the day and coming to terms 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 would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's practically synonymous with the genre of contemporary social fiction at this point. She has such a love affair that ended almost before it began. So gift for Ellie weaving the ongoing issues of the day into the journal becomes lives of her guide book characters in a way that feels natural and the journey beginslived-in, never making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472223209</amazonuk>140871468X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alexander McCall Smith152915118X|title=Precious and GracePineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson|rating=4.5

|summary=Friendships can be funny things, and that ''Pineapple Street'' is often the case with Precious story of three women: Sasha, Darley and GraceGeorgiana. This Darley and George are sisters and Sasha is married to their seventeenth book nowbrother Cord. They're Stocktons, and only Sasha isn't a Stockton by birth so we have seen their friendship grow she isn't readily accepted into the tribe. The problem's exacerbated when the clan matriarch, Tilda, asks Cord and develop a great deal over Sasha if they'd like to move into the yearsPineapple Street property. Both women Tilda and Chip have grown renovated and downsized to understandanother property, respect and love each othera street or so away, through business hardshipswhich they own. They won't need any of the furniture from Pineapple Street, personal difficulties so Sasha and all their many and varied casesCord can move straight in. In their current case Nominally, they had a choice but that wasn't the pair have a strong difference of opinions, reality. Darley and yet all is not quite what Georgiana start to call Sasha 'the gold digger'. She's living in ''their'' family home. They use it seems with their investigation, and so perhaps often that they abbreviate it is a case of neither one of them being right, and to 'the situation being something else entirely?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408708124</amazonuk>GD'.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Fiona DavisEmily Critchley|title= The Doll HouseOne Puzzling Afternoon|rating= 4|genre= General FictionCrime|summary= New York City, 2016: Rose 84 year old Edie has quit lived in the same small town for almost her job whole life, but now she is facing a move as a newscaster her son wants to move to another house and investigative journalist – not entirely voluntarily – bring Edie to live with his family, as Edie is starting to lose her memory. However, Edie is tormented by the memory of her childhood friend, Lucy, who went missing over 60 years ago, and now works the worry that there was a secret she was keeping for an on-line outfit with Lucy that somehow might be the thing that reveals the truth of what happened all that time ago. After 'seeing' Lucy in the high street, just as she was the self-mockingly clumsy name last time she saw her, she starts to find pockets of Wordmergememories coming back to her. And yet as she remembers the past, she is forgetting more and more in her day to day life. Will she uncover the truth about Lucy's disappearance before her move, and before her memories are gone forever?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1101984996</amazonuk>1804181250

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gayle FormanMadelaine Lucas|title=Leave MeThirst for Salt|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= ''Love, I'd read, was supposed to be a light and weightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravity'' Told from a retrospective view, a young woman unravels the year-long relationship that once defined her. Overlaid with later wisdom, the narrator relives the affair with a man twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the summer after. Set against the backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the 24-year-old narrator's deepening relationship with her older lover, depicting its all-consuming nature, how it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and how it altered her irrevocably.|isbn=0861546490}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008506337|title=The Garnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore

|summary= When youThe love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O've had a heart attack and frightened the hell out of not Leary was all-consuming, apparently on both sides. Margo was just yourself, but your husband, your children – if sixteen when they had known fell in love. Richard was twenty- your one and described by Margo's mother and your best friend, you imagine as 'an older man'. Her parents worried that some long overdue TLC is about Richard's influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to come your wayOxford and having a glittering career. You're thinking cardsIn the event, flowers, being waited on hand, foot they eloped and finger and even though Richard took her away from the imminent influx Isle of culinary gifts are likely Wight. Margo did go to be low fat, low sugar Oxford and taste like the box they came in, they're coming, right? went on to become a well-respected journalist. And you'll probably get a The couple of months off work had three children: Rachel, Imogen and not even have to think about the laundrySasha. Or Life was lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, the family home on the housework? Isle of Wight. Or taking Even then the twins doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able to school? Right? Right???? leave him in charge''. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>147115677X</amazonuk>Then Richard left them.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lisa Unger1914585402|title=Ink and BoneDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross|rating=4.5

|summary= Finlay Montgomery, like her grandmother Eloise before her is I reviewed David F Ross's book [[There's Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's Only One Danny Garvey]] a very couple of years back and remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and gifted psychicaffecting it was. Sensitive to the unseen, unheard and unknowable, she spends her days among the dead. VisitedIt was a gripping, botheredemotionally wounding read, harassed and sometimes taunted, Finlay does her best to manage the gifts rereading my review of it my main takeaway was that Mother Nature has sought to bestow. But life is I might not that simple and studying for your degree is testing with five other visitors in the room who are all trying to get your attention in the loudest and most distracting way possiblehave lavished enough praise on it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147115047X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Annelies Verbeke Lucy Ashe|title= Thirty DaysClara and Olivia|rating= 24.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Thirty Days doesn’t seem to know what it The year is about1933. The novel follows Alphonse, a Senegalese painter decorator living in the Flanders region of Belgium with his girlfriend place? Sadler's Wells. Ballerinas Clara and childhood friend CatOlivia are sisters, who is recovering from cancertwins no less. Verbeke puts a major emphasis Identical on their intimate the outside but often volatile and unsteady relationshipnot, as they try to navigate a new lifestyle in a small townwe learn, away from on the cityinside. HoweverAnd not on stage, either. Because there are several other storylines which vie for our 's a lot that builds a dancer. Some things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, attention: Alphonse’s troubled clients who treat him as a sounding board to detail – and therapistsome things, his experiences of racism as a black man in a rural areathat ''je ne sais quoi'', Cat’s difficultthat don't come from the classroom. A stage presence, warring parentsa charm, the couple’s elderly neighbour Willem who is obsessed with war graves and has a knack for appearing at precisely the wrong moment''joie de vivre''. The difference between a hard-worker, and an illegal refugee camp in field trenches a few miles awaystar. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>9462380899</amazonuk>0861544080

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Oldest GameHeather Fawcett|authortitle=Sue LegerEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

|summary=Moving Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and eye-opening story she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life's work, the very first encyclopaedia of a Romanian woman trafficked into Amsterdam faeries. Whilst she is brilliant at research and forced speaking to faeries, she is not so good with people. So when she finds herself far, far North in the small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the village matriarch, she is not sure what she has done, nor how to work as a prostituteredeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on the right track. Sue Leger gives us Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all pause for thought 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>1524635014</amazonuk>0356519120

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Tom Connolly1398515388|title= Men Like AirThe Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= One April in ManhattanFirst of all, it was the destinies of four very different men are about to collide. Nineteen year old Finn has just arrived earthquake, deep in the city along with his volatile girlfriend Dillyocean floor, determined to even which created the score with his older brother Jack for abandoning him tsunami and this, in turn, caused the UK in nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and utter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, and the aftermath loss of livelihoods was widespread. The fact that many pets were separated from their parents' deaths. Across town, successful gallery owner Leo Emerson is haunted by loneliness, unsettled by owners came far down the contrast between his life and that list of his brother in law and oldest friend William, who is content in both his faith and his marriagepriorities but - six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. When Finn wanders in to Leo He wasn't a dog person but the convenience store owner's gallery, a series of unexpected comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and interconnected events unfold, changing Tamon the lives of all four men togetherdog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908434880</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=How I Became a DrifterChristopher Bowden|authortitle=Christmas PhilipMr Magenta|reviewerrating=Jill Murphy4

|summary=Fictionalised autobiography told in Christopher Bowden's latest novel is a stream-patient untangling of-consciousness stylea seemingly ordinary woman's life, carried out by her nephew after she has died. An unconventional voice speaking The aunt who always provided a safe harbour and a little bit of the universal search for love indulgence to a young nephew had had a much more interesting life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and acceptance.|rating=3it seems to him an obligation to find it all out.5 |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>152463588X</amazonuk> B0B6Z9VJDW

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jane CorryJennifer Mason|title= My Husband's WifePartitions of Unity|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Autumn 2000. Newly married lawyer Lily Here at Bookbag Towers, we first met Elizabeth Cromwell, dominatrix and unintentional detective in [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], when she investigated and her artist husband Ed have unravelled a small apartment in Londonseries of disappearances. Fresh from the honeymoon, theyIn ''Partitions of Unity''re still settling in to their new roles, and their neighbour Francesca and she sets her 9 year old daughter Carla help mind to take the pressure off solving a little bitmurder...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0241256488</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Peter Ho DaviesWill Carver|title= The FortunesDaves Next Door|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Clashes of cultures or cultural enrichment? Xenophobia or embracing diversity?Today's hot topics focus much on cultures meeting and notions of foreignness, especially Five strangers come together in the context of migration. As such, Peter Ho Davies could not have chosen one moment as a more current and thought-provoking theme for ''The Fortunes'': through four different stories, the novel documents some of the history of Chinese people in America over more than century. From railroad workers, laundry owners, and prostitutes suicide bomber prepares to film stars and adoptive parents, ''The Fortunes'' tells tales of searching for identity detonate his vest on both national and personal levels.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340980230</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Paul Read|title= The Art Teacher|rating= 4.5|genre= Thrillers |summary=Patrick Owen managed seven years at Highfields Secondary School without punching a pupil in the faceLondon tube line. A mediocre teacherAs their fates overlap, stuck the story is told in a struggling school ruled by violent pupilsbackwards order, Patrick goes home every night leading up to an empty flat, and an existence filled with reminders of his life as a faded rock star. When one pupil over steps the mark, a brief mistake plunges Patrick into a world of danger, violence, and the glare of the mediafateful moment. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785079573</amazonuk>1914585186}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alexander McCall SmithJennifer Mason|title=The Bertie ProjectPreposterous: A 44 Scotland Street NovelAn Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery

|summary=Catching up ''A struggling poetry zine, a mom-and-pop mobile diner in the Northern California redwoods, a 400-meter hurdler who just missed the 2004 Olympics, a women's track coach with a yen for bullwhips, a billionaire with old friends is a pleasurestate-of-the-art S&M dungeon, a man serving a life sentence in Alabama, an enigmatic signature, and it'K(s good to be back , x), on Scotland Streeta cheap oil painting, finding out what everyone is getting up toan erotic art dealer in Georgia... Irene '' This is back, just a sample of course, from her travels to the middle-eastcast of characters and settings in Preposterous. Bruce has fallen in loveAs you can see, Matthew and Elspeth have triplet troubles, and somebody has an extremely unfortunate accident…some keeping up will be required! The basic premise of this mystery story goes like this...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846973597</amazonuk>B09STS96HS