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|summary=Kate Battista is in an odd and not entirely satisfactory situationJean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of the occupation. At During the age of twenty nine she finds herself working as war, Jean's father was arrested for listening to a teaching assistant ''banned radio and'' running the home for her scientist father (who is eccentricsoldiers took him away one night, to say the least) leaving Jean and her younger sister Bunny, who might be fifteen but is actually three going on thirtymother waiting for years for news of him. Dr Battista has other problems - As the British finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, and when he has a problem he offloads them onto Kate (he's concerned the war is finally over, their hopes rise that she hasn't yet done his taxes)they will finally learn what became of him. This time thoughBut will the truth come as a relief, or will it's serious. raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Pyotr, his brilliant young lab assistant, is in Who was the informer who told the USA on a visa and it's Nazis about to expire. the radio? If that happens Dr Battista is convinced that he'll not be able to complete his work and all that he's done will be for nothing.And what other secrets have been kept throughout the occupation?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099589877</amazonuk>1846976537

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Dawn O'PorterOnyi Nwabineli|title= The CowsAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating= 34.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Reading Anuri spent her childhood on display to the blurb world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for this novelsponsorships and influencer deals and, the first novel for adults by author Dawn O'Porterbasically, I got very excitedmonetary gain. It talks about the cow being a piece of meatNow Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, born suing her step-mother to breed, one of take down the herdcontent about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, and compares this failing to womenstart her PhD, saying how they don't have to fall into a stereotypeundergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. I expected a slightly subversive novel Most importantly, she is desperately worried about feminism. What I found was an easy to readher little sister, enjoyable romp through three modern womenwho is the new focus of Ophelia's livesonline empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008126038</amazonuk>0861546873

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joanna Trollope1529153298|title=City The List of FriendsSuspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey

|summary=It would be unkind 's 1979 and certainly unfair to say that it was Stacey GrantMargaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's mother who was the cause of Stacey losing her job: she might well family, though. Women have been the trigger but it was her managerdisappearing. Well, Jeff Doddsthey've been murdered, who used her request but to work flexibly as an excuse to make her redundanthave 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. There was a lot of Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the family 'supportDown South'. When you' for Stacey - the staff were as stunned as she wasre from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, but in terms of the people she could rely onforeign place, there were just a fewbest avoided. Her mother was out of For Miv, the equation : it was move would mean leaving her dementia which started the problem best friend, Sharon, and her husband Steve was wrapped up in the fact that heshe'd just been promoted ll do anything to board level in his jobprevent that. There She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum'were'' the girls: the four of them had met at University and Stacey, Melissa, Beth and Gaby had been firm friends ever since. And there was Bruno the dogs stopped talking - to anyone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509823476</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Su Bristow1035906708|title= SealskinDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating= 4.5|genre= Fantasy General Fiction|summary= Donald is a young fishermanWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, eking out a lonely living on the west coast of Scotland. One night he witnesses something miraculous ...in December 1923 and makes a terrible mistakeonly moved to Athens when she was thirteen. His action changes lives - not only his own, Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but those of his family and her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the entire tightly knit community States. When she was back in which they live. Can he ever atone Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the wrong he has doneNazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, and can love grow when its foundation is violence?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910633607</amazonuk>Jackie.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Cath WeeksAlexander McCall Smith|title= BlindThe Perfect Passion Company|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= American ex-pat Twyla The Perfect Passion Company is ready a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to be all the perfect motheronline apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. She never dreamed Ness has asked her first child would be anything other than perfect himselfyounger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, but when he's born blind she as Ness is forced planning to take a trip to Canada to re-evaluate her view get away for a while. Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the worldchance 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 very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349410631</amazonuk>1846976596

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Rick BassDean Koontz|title= For a Little WhileThe Bad Weather Friend|rating= 4.5|genre= Short StoriesParanormal|summary=''For a Little While'' Benny is having a collection of twenty-five short stories from Rick Bassterrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. As Oh, and someone previously unacquainted with Basshas delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it' work s possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this new collection was bad luck. He is a wonderful introduction nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his quirkyhouse is a new friend, unusual style which focuses on stripped backa bad weather friend called Spike, simple fables featuring often mundane situationswho 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, mysterious characters and magical experiences. The characters in each tale are beautifully crafted will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and the stories Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are dreamy, loose narratives covering everything from love to death to choices made and chances taken.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782273042</amazonuk>1662500491

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jem LesterKatherine Howe|title= Shtum.A True Account|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Jonah Jewell Hannah Masury is ten years old; he likes Marmite sandwichesliving in Boston, having been sent to live with a family who run an inn, and being outside and sticking exactly made to his routinework there from a young age. He cannot speak but he communicates his wants When she hears there is to be a hanging of some pirates in the town, she decides to go and needs clearlywatch. The adults Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in his life do nothing but speak but a young boy's death at the hands of two vicious pirates. She hides away, so that they do not communicate nearly don't find and kill her too, and then to escape them completely she runs away to sea, dressing as effectively a boy and joining the notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as Jonaha cabin boy. While functioning from She soon finds herself in the outside, this thick of things when there is the story of a family falling mutiny on board, and tearing each other apart. Ben Jewell needs to fight for his son and by doing so needs to learn how to fight for himselffrom there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the ocean waves. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409162982</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Alice Hoffman1471180158|title= FaithfulMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction |summary= Growing up on Long IslandJamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, Shelby Richmond is an ordinary girl until one night an extraordinary tragedy changes her fate. Her best friendfor a man who's future is destroyed in an accident, while Shelby walks away a control freak with all the burden subtlety of guilta half brick. Jamie's son, Bo, 'has his problems'. What happens when a life is turned inside out? When love is something so distant it may as well be a star in He's asthmatic and the more you read, the more you'll suspect that he's on the sky? Moving from a life in her parents basement autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's a life frequent flier in New York City, Shelby remains damaged by the loss of her best friend, stumbling through life blindly local A&E and fighting desperately sometimes Bo's not fit enough to become connected go to anything at allschool. But, as she grows, she discovers emotion, survival and happiness, bundled Missed shifts or the need to be away on time to pick Bo up with dogs, food, books from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and men she's probably best avoiding… Deep put in New York City she find the wrong. It was going to come to a circle of lost and found souls, and the angel who's been watching over her since that fateful night all those years ago…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471157717</amazonuk>head.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Tim PearsB0CKD1L5JL|title= The HorsemanRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn|rating= 4|genre= General Fiction|summary= The Horseman feels like a novel written much earlier than 2016Petr is an orphan. This is in large part because it is set in 1911 in rural Somerset but also because Pears writes in a style which is reminiscent of authors in Rescued by the twentieth centurystrange, if not the nineteenth. Readers who are hoping for actionreclusive Bear, pace he is brought up far from bustling cities and suspense will be sorely disappointed in The Horsemanbusy human society, in which not a lot happens at all; the story could easily be condensed into a couple forests of pagesWashington's Olympic Peninsula. However, if you have After Bear dies and a rainy weekend brief sojourn in human company, and armed with only a cosy cottage somewherepirate radio transmitter, Pears provides Petr goes on a journey through the perfect companionforest, giving readers an antidote to freneticbroadcasting the strange, twenty first century urban lifewild and rarely heard voices he encounters. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1632866935</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Miguel Bonnefoy and Emily Boyce (translator)Sarah Marsh|title=Octavio's JourneyA Sign of Her Own

|genre=Literary General Fiction |summary=Meet OctavioAfter a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. He's Suddenly plunged into a large lunkworld of silence, everything about her life changes. Living in a gentle gianttime when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, living alone in Ellen is sent to a lowly Venezuelan town – a town which onceschool where she is taught to lip read, fleetinglybut physically restrained from signing. From here, had fame, fashion she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and success through using a minor miracle, but has none any longersystem called Visible Speech. OctavioAt the same time, it seemsBell is working on other inventions and ideas, has some unusual habits – here he and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=1035401614}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0BC3YTCMR|title=Good Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=''This story isnot for everyone.'' Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of her fifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. She was a very bright student, marching off a bit too nerdy if truth be told, and suffered from vitiligo - people were afraid to the chemisthug her in case it's contagious. It's with not easy being a table across his back, for it was all the doctor black girl whose skin is 84% white. She had at the time to write a prescription crush onseventeen-year-old Reggie Anderson but never thought he would notice her. Now we never learn exactly what the cause of the prescription Then he did: Lavender was, but we soon find out what the cause of the table is – Octavio cannot read, very good at math and has learned nothing beyond cutting into his palm to allow the wound to let Reggie asked if she would tutor him escape the need . She readily agreed: tutoring was something she gladly did at church: this was just an extension. She went to writehis house and he raped her. Until, that isIn shock, a woman seems to suggest a way for she even allowed him to learn to read and write, and to love – but that experience also proves to Octavio that there is give her a whole host of other things he can put his mind to, both for good, and for bad…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910477311</amazonuk>lift home.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Charlie Laidlaw1472263936|title= The Things We Learn When We're DeadFigurine|author=Victoria Hislop|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction|summary= On the way It was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to a dinner partyGreece. She was alone: her mother, Greek by birth, Lorna Love steps into had left the path of an oncoming car. Waking up in what appears family home and refused to be a hospitalreturn, but Mary and Hamish (Helena's parents) felt that it would be a hospital in which wine is served for supper, everyone avoids pity if Helena grew up without knowing her questions, and grandparents or understanding her nurse looks suspiciously like Sean Connery, it soon transpires that Lorna is Greek heritage. Her trip to the family apartment in Heaven, or, at least, on HVNup-market Kolonaki would be the first of several annual visits. Because HVN is a lost, dysfunctional spaceship, She grew to love her grandmother and God the aging hippy captain. At first Lorna can remember nothingfamily's maid, Dina, but as was wary - and frightened - of her memories return – some goodgrandfather, some bad, she realises that she has a decision retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. He was proud of his close connections to make, the Junta and that maybe, she needs expected his family to uphold his values but saw no reason to find a way home…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786150352</amazonuk>accommodate them. His prejudices included Helena's red hair and green eyes - inherited from her father's Scottish ancestors.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Federico AxatDean Koontz|title= Kill the Next OneAfter Death|rating= 43|genre= ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary= After getting started with the opening chapters Michael Mace, Head of Spanish writerSecurity, Federico Axat's ''Kill the Next One''at a top secret biological research facility, you might be forgiven for thinking you are stuck with one of those machismo riddled tales where is among 55 people who die when a middle-aged man with a mysterious past virus is forced to shoot or blunder his way through released in a by-thebio-numbers thrillerhazard accident. The spectre of Lee Child's successful Jack Reacher series creeping Finding himself in a makeshift mortuary, covered in around the edges of the page. The novel opens with Ted McKay and his Browning pointed to his temple. He plastic, he has the perfect life, including a beautiful wife and two adoring childrensense that something very, but very bad has discovered that happened to him – and only him – as he is also in possession sits up and looks around at the shrouded bodies of an untreatable tumour buried deep within his brain which is slowly killing himdead friends and former colleagues. However, right before As he decides to take the shot and end recovers his lifesenses, he realises that there is a knock on his doorsomething different about him; he can ''feel'' everything. ''Everything''. Michael isn't ''Michael'' anymore. Standing behind it |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 man named Justin Lynch who tells Ted that he represents an allWitching Forest. And the villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants -knowing organisation that turns wouldits bread-be suicides into opportunities to correct like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicines. The black wood of the imbalances forest provides heat and warmth, roofs on homes, and even gallows, if needed. The fear of being buried alive is an existential superstition in the law. Tedvillage and that is the reason Volushka, a drunken, self-indulgent, instead lazy lout of killing himself, could kill someone who really deserves ita man is tolerated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911231065</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Laurie FrankelB0BYF82CXT|title=This Is How It Always IsSemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone

|summary=Claude is the baby of the family. He's very bright. He has a vocabulary way beyond his years so he can hold his own 'Bill and Amanda are living in the rough and tumble of a semi-detached house containing four older brothers, an emergency doctor mother stuck in a depressing rut of boredom and a writer father. Claude also likes to wear dresses. He wants to become a night fairy disappointment, when he grows up. And one dayTerry and Fiona – glamorous, Claude becomes Poppysuccessful and very much in love – move in next door. He becomes she. Poppy's parentsDespite their different outlooks on life, Penn the couples befriend each other and Rosie, aren't too concerned at first - children all like life appears to try on different identities and why should Claude/Poppy be any different? improve for both pairs. But all is not what it soon becomes clear that Poppy isnseems, and their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy.''t play-acting at being a girl. Poppy is a girl. And things get complicated...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472241584</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Alexandra KleemanShalini Boland|title= You Too Can Have A Body Like MineThe Silent Bride|rating= 43|genre= General Fiction|summary=A woman known only as A lives in an unnamed American city with her roommate, B, Alice and boyfriend, C, who wants her to join him on Seth are a reality dating showmatch made in heaven. A eats mostly popsicles and oranges He is everything she has been searching for; handsome, watches endless amounts of televisionaccomplished, often just for the commercials — particularly the recurring cartoon escapades of Kandy Katclever, the mascot for an entirely chemical dessert — funny; total and models herself on an impossible standard of beautyutter husband-material. She fixates on the fifteen minutes of fame is all he could possibly want in a local celebrity named Michael has earned after buying up a Wally's Supermarket's entirewife; beautiful, successful, confident… and increasingly ample, supply of vealso the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and the wedding is planned and set. Meanwhile When the much-anticipated day arrives, B Alice is attempting to make herself a twin of Awalked down the aisle by her father, who in turn hungers for something beaming with pride and excitement as she surveys the congregation – their friends assembled to give meaning celebrate this joyful day and when Seth turns to her lifeface his approaching bride, something aside from CAlice's pornography addiction. Maybe something like what's gotten into her neighbors across world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the man at the streetaltar is, the family who's begun ''ghosting'' themselves beneath white sheets with holes cut is waiting for eyes…her to become his wife.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008210845</amazonuk>1662507089

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1787636003|title=The Girls of Summer|author=Tomoka Shibasaki Katie Bishop|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It was the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the island. Rachel wasn't exactly innocent but she was, perhaps, naive, so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to take an interest in her, she was flattered rather than wary. It was quite a while before he made any sort of physical approach to her and by that time she was obsessed by him. Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, looking after his interests on the island and Polly Barton (translator)in particular in the bar where all the girls either worked or partied.}}{{Frontpage|author=Amanda Craig|title=Spring GardenThree Graces

|genre=General Fiction |summary=Murakami, and (long before Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of-the film) Endo's ''Silence''-nation novel. ThatThere's my limit as regards contemporary Japanese writing. But now there's Tomoka Shibasaki, something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the atmosphere of the day and her noted work ''Spring Garden''. Which, make no mistake, is definitely Japanese. For instance, if I told you capture it starts with a man looking up to watch his female neighbour on her balcony, and concerns obsession, you could well think crafting an image of the country as it was his about herstands in one particular moment. But no – perhaps only in the west To say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's practically synonymous with the gaze so malegenre of contemporary social fiction at this point. The obsession is very much hers here, and it – and She has such a gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the novel – concern a singular house. And day into the very singular country it lives of her characters in a way that feels natural and lived-in, and the changes it is going through…never making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782272704</amazonuk>140871468X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Laura Kaye152915118X|title= English AnimalsPineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary General Fiction|summary= When Mirka gets a job in a country house in rural England, she has no idea of ''Pineapple Street'' is the struggle she faces to make sense story of a very English couplethree women: Sasha, Darley and Georgiana. Darley and George are sisters and a way of life that Sasha is entirely alien married to hertheir brother Cord. Richard and Sophie are chaotic They're Stocktons, drunkenonly Sasha isn't a Stockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the tribe. The problem's exacerbated when the clan matriarch, frequently outrageous but also warmTilda, generous asks Cord and Sasha if they'd like to move into the Pineapple Street property. Tilda and Chip have renovated and kind downsized to Mirkaanother property, a street or so away, despite their argumentative and turbulent marriagewhich they own. Mirka is swiftly commandeered by Richard for his latest money-making enterprise, taxidermy They won't need any of the furniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and soon surpasses him Cord can move straight in skill. After Nominally, they had a traumatic break two years ago with her family in Slovakia, Mirka finds to her surprise choice but that she is happy at Fairmont Hallwasn't the reality. But when she tells Sophie that she is gay, everything she values is put in danger Darley and she must learn Georgiana start to call Sasha 'the hard way what she really believes gold digger'. She's living in''their'' family home. They use it so often that they abbreviate it to 'the GD'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140870823X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Rory GleesonEmily Critchley|title= Rockadoon ShoreOne Puzzling Afternoon|rating= 4.5|genre= General FictionCrime|summary=Cath 84 year old Edie has lived in the same small town for almost her whole life, but now she is facing a move as her son wants to move to another house and bring Edie to live with his family, as Edie is worried about starting to lose her friendsmemory. DanDan However, Edie is struggling with tormented by the death memory of his exher childhood friend, Lucy is drinking way too much , who went missing over 60 years ago, and Steph has become closed offthe worry that there was a secret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be the thing that reveals the truth of what happened all that time ago. A weekend away is After 'seeing' Lucy in the high street, just what they need. They travel out to Rockadoon Lodgeas she was the last time she saw her, she starts to the wilds in the west find pockets of Irelandmemories coming back to her. But And yet as she remembers the weekend doesn't go to plan. JJ past, she is forgetting more concerned with getting high than spending time with them, while Merc is humiliated and seeks revengemore in her day to day life. And when their elderly neighbour Malachy arrives on their doorstep in Will she uncover the dead of night with a gun in his handstruth about Lucy's disappearance before her move, nothing will be the same again for any of them...and before her memories are gone forever?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473634075</amazonuk>1804181250

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Eliza GrahamMadelaine Lucas|title= Another Day GoneThirst for Salt|rating= 3.5|genre= General Literary Fiction|summary=A single event from the past has the power ''Love, I'd read, was supposed to create be a chain-reaction that has powerful consequences in the future. This is a theme explored light and expanded upon in ''Another Day Goneweightless feeling,but I had always longed for gravity'' the story of sisters Sara and Polly who, despite being close during childhood Told from a retrospective view, have grown emotionally distant from one another after Polly discovers a devastating family secretyoung woman unravels the year-long relationship that once defined her. We join their story at Overlaid with later wisdom, the point where narrator relives the prodigal sister, Polly, returns home after affair with a man twenty years of no contact with her familysenior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the summer after. Sarah contacts their old nanny Bridie in Set against the hope backdrop of piecing together an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the family mystery and unearthing the secrets before it is too late, but Bridie24-year-old narrator's memory is failing deepening relationship with her older lover, depicting its all-consuming nature, how it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and some secrets may be lost foreverhow it altered her irrevocably.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1503940039</amazonuk>0861546490

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ruth Hogan0008506337|title=The Keeper of Lost ThingsGarnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore|rating=45

|summary=Anthony Peardew lost the The love of his life before affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, apparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they marriedfell in love. In the midst of his tragedy he found solace Richard was twenty-one and purpose in collecting described by Margo's mother as 'an older man'lost things. Her parents worried that Richard' s influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - things that were left behind on trains, in parks, or found in going to Oxford and having a glittering career. In the gutterevent, they eloped and he records each and every one carefully, in Richard took her away from the hope that perhaps some day they can be reunited with their rightful ownerIsle of Wight. He writes stories about the items he finds, becoming Margo did go to Oxford and went on to become a published authorwell-respected journalist. HoweverThe couple had three children: Rachel, as he grows older Imogen and Sasha. Life was lived in London and starts to realise that he is dyingholidays were spent at Sandcove, he knows he must hand over the task to someone else choosing his housekeeper, Laura, to take family home on what is, the Isle of Wight. Even then the doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able to her, a completely unknown aspect of his lifeleave him in charge''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473635462</amazonuk>Then Richard left them.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Mike Gayle1914585402|title= The Hope Family CalendarDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross|rating= 34.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Mr Tom Hope is becoming Mr No Hope. His wife has been killed in an accident, and heI reviewed David F Ross's book [[There's Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's now left, haplessly trying to bring up their two young daughtersOnly One Danny Garvey]] a couple of years back and remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and affecting it was. While his mother in law is It was a help in the beginninggripping, emotionally wounding read, she soon adopts a cruel-to-be-kind approach and decides to leave him to rereading my review of it my main takeaway was that I might not have lavished enough praise on it, knowing the only way he'll step up is if he has no choice in the matter.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473608953</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nadiya HussainLucy Ashe|title=The Secret Lives of the Amir SistersClara and Olivia|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=The Amirs are dysfunctional: there's really no other way of putting it. They're of Bangladeshi origin and they're the only Muslim family in the small village of Wyvernage. On the surface they look to be happy, but actually each of the sisters is struggling in her own way. For the most part they're doing it quietly, but it's not always the case. The eldest is Fatima. Her name's often abbreviated to Fatti: it's not meant unkindly, but she's well upholstered and at thirty she's unmarried. Even her mother doesn't seem to think that there's much point in trying to find a husband for her.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008192251</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jesse Loncraine|title=In the Field|rating=3.5

|summary= The year is 1933. The place? Sadler''In s Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, twins no less. Identical on the outside but not, we learn, on the Fieldinside. And not on stage, either. Because there'' is essentially s a lot that builds a story of two mothers who have been separated from their sonsdancer. Liz Some things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, attention to detail – and her (adult) son Orin are both Western journalistssome things, that ''je ne sais quoi'', while Christine and her 12-year-old son Paul are that don't come from the classroom. A stage presence, a remote village in East Africa. After major surgerycharm, Liz flies to East Africa to find her son who has gone walkabouta ''joie de vivre''. At the same timeThe difference between a hard-worker, Christine is mourning the loss of her own family: her husband has been killed and her son abducted by militiaa star.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910369179</amazonuk>0861544080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=PJ VanstonHeather Fawcett|title=Rasmus: A Television TaleEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

|summary=ItEmily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life's all about the ratings in work, the world very first encyclopaedia of TVfaeries. Therefore Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, she is not so good with people. So when she finds herself far, far North in the BBCsmall village of Hrafvsnik, part of having somehow offended the British televisual establishment since TV was inventedvillage matriarch, feels it she is not sure what she has nothing done, nor how to fear from a new internet channelredeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on the right track. However those in control don't understand what – Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who – arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, much to Emily's frustration. But why is behind this new phenomenon. he here? What does he want? The mysterious Rasmus has a plan and some savagely innovative ideas; nothing can stand in his way.And what exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785893610</amazonuk>0356519120

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jere Krakoff1398515388|title=Something Is Rotten in Fettig: A SatireThe Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)

|summary=Leopold Plotkin finds himself First of all, it was the earthquake, deep in some very hot water when he initiates the Mud Crisis. Leopold inherited ocean floor, which created the family butcher's shop tsunami and he is a very good this, in turn, caused the nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and skilled butcherutter devastation. But he doesn't like people watching him work The deaths were uncountable, and is generally lacking in social skillsthe loss of livelihoods was widespread. The shopfact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of priorities but - six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. He wasn't a dog person but the convenience store owner's trade suffers comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and Leopold decides to cover Tamon the window with mud so that no-one can see insidedog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1681141973</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The BoyChristopher Bowden|authortitle=Wytske VersteegMr Magenta|rating=54

|summary=Kito was Christopher Bowden's latest novel is a withdrawn child. It was difficult for his parentspatient untangling of a seemingly ordinary woman's life, especially his mother, to reach himcarried out by her nephew after she has died. Like many children The aunt who turn inwards, he struggled always provided a safe harbour and a little bit of indulgence to make friends at school. And those he did make seemed only a young nephew had had a much more interesting life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and it seems to use him for access an obligation to his games consoles. His dark skin also marked him find it all out for bullying. Kito went missing after a class trip to the beach. His body was discovered when it washed up on the sand. Kito had drowned.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908446501</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jodi PicoultJennifer Mason|title=Small Great ThingsPartitions of Unity|rating=54

|summary=Ruth Jefferson is 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 unravelled a nurseseries of disappearances. She looks after new mothers and their babies and sheIn ''s the sort Partitions of nurse that you hope youUnity'll encounter when it's your turn, or the turn of anyone close she sets her mind to yousolving a murder. She cares and she's good at her job, very good, in fact. Turk and Brittany Bauer and their new son, Davis, were under her care, only Turk took strong exception to Ruth having anything to do with their child: Turk and Brittany were white supremacists - and Ruth Jefferson was black, an African American and despite all her experience she was banned from caring from Davis Bauer.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444788000</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Karen JenningsWill Carver|title= Travels With My FatherThe Daves Next Door|rating= 4|genre= General Fiction |summary= Despite the coda, this does not feel like ''an autobiographical novel''. I am not sure why Jennings felt the need to couch it Five strangers come together in those terms unless there is much in the structure that is fiction. I'm hoping there isn't. I am hoping that the fiction is purely that conceit that this pretends one moment as a suicide bomber prepares to be detonate his vest on a novelLondon tube line. If that was necessary to get it publishedAs their fates overlap, then I'll applaud the subterfuge, because this is writing that needs to be read. It story is – if as true as I want it to be – a delicate reminiscence: a daughter's ''told in memoriam'' backwards order, leading up to a father she loved, worshipped, idealised, cared-for, lived with, and yes (in true daughterly fashion) at times, hated. A father who was, therefore, a good dadthe fateful moment. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907320695</amazonuk>1914585186}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Elin HilderbrandJennifer Mason|title= Winter StormsPreposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery|rating= 54|genre= General Fiction|summary= ''A year is struggling poetry zine, a long time mom-and-pop mobile diner in the life of the Quinn family. So much can happen. For some people this can Northern California redwoods, a 400-meter hurdler who just be births and deaths and missed the whole circle of life2004 Olympics, but for the Quinn family ita women's more love trianglestrack coach with a yen for bullwhips, felonies, drug dealers who stalk you, exa billionaire with a state-of-husbands who haunt you, and business opportunities transplanted from the scorching Caribbean to the cooler north east coast of America. As spring leads to summer-art S&M dungeon, leads to autumn leads to winter we follow the extended family on Nantucket and a man serving a life sentence in nearby cities Alabama, an enigmatic signature, K(Bostons, Manhattanx) and learn that as divisive as life can be, there are some ties that will always bind youon a cheap oil painting, an erotic art dealer in Georgia... In this case '' This is just a sample of the tie is called Bart, cast of characters and whatever else is happeningsettings in Preposterous. As you can see, if he returns then everything else some keeping up will all be ok.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473620570</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Ross Armstrong|title= required! The Watcher|rating= 4|genre= Thrillers |summary= Lily Gullick lives with her husband Aiden in a new-build flat opposite an estate which has been marked for demolitionbasic premise of this mystery story goes like this. A keen birdwatcher, she can't help spying on her neighbours. Then one day Lily sees something suspicious through her binoculars and soon her elderly neighbour Jean is found dead. Lily, intrigued by the social divide in her local area as it becomes increasingly gentrified, knows that she has to act. But her interference is not going unnoticed, and as she starts to get close to the truth, her own life comes under threat.But can Lily really trust everything she sees?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008181187</amazonuk>B09STS96HS