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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jennifer DownJenny Lecoat|title=Our Magic HourBeyond Summerland|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of the occupation. During the war, Jean's father was arrested for listening to a banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and her mother waiting for years for news of him. As the British finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, and the war is finally over, their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him. But will the truth come as a relief, 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?|isbn=1846976537}}{{Frontpage|author=Onyi Nwabineli|title=Allow Me to Introduce Myself

|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=There had always been KatyAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, Audrey and Adam. Theythanks to her step-mother Ophelia've been friends since school and nows increasingly popular presence on social media, along with Audreywhere she posted every step of Anuri's partner Nickchildhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, they remain inseparable as young professionalsbasically, monetary gain. ThenNow Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, one day, Katy kills herselfsuing her step-mother to take down the content about her. No warningAnuri is battling alcoholism, no reason just no Katyfailing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. The four are suddenly three trying to make sense Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of a moment that leaves so many questions in a world that refuses to pause while they figure it outOphelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1925240835</amazonuk>0861546873

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Ayobami Adebayo1529153298|title= Stay With MeThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction|summary= I have a It''thing'' about blurbs which give away far too much of the storiess 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. Not this time(A woman? I mean, honestly... ) This time…She's not what'There are things even love cans worrying Miv't do…if the burden is too much and stays too long even love bendss family, cracks, comes close to breaking, and sometimes does breakthough. Women have been disappearing.'' Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'But even when itdisappeared's in a thousand pieces around your feet, that doesn't mean itsound quite so frightening. Miv's no longer love…upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the family ' That is the most heart-breakingly beautiful truth IDown South've read in a long time – and it sums up this story. This When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a story about love not being enough…but still being lovefrightening, foreign place, best avoided. I hope this becomes a classicFor Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not just in its native Nigeria but around worried about the worlddangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782119469</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Elan Mastai1035906708|title= All Our Wrong TodaysDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=34.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=Welcome We tend to 2016think of Maria Callas as Greek, but not as we know it. This version of 2016 she was like a picture-perfect scene from a science-fiction movie: a world free from war and povertyborn to Greek parents in Manhattan, with hover carsNew York, space-tourism, food replicators, shiny buildings in December 1923 and AI that catered only moved to every whimAthens when she was thirteen. This Her original surname was the resplendent 2016 we were supposed Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to have, thanks 'Callas' to the invention make it more manageable in 1965 of the Goettreider Engine, which created a sustainable form of energy that transformed the planetStates. With all of the major problems When she was back in the world gone, humans were free to dedicate their time to the pursuit of science and entertainment, culminating in what Athens - supposedly so that she could be get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the most exciting development yet: Nazi occupation by a time machine. But mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of courseher preference for her elder sister, this perfect future would be completely derailed if, say, someone went back in time and messed up Goettreider's experiment. Maybe the result would be a world similar to the one we live in now: the world we were never meant to haveJackie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718184076</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Samanta Schweblin and Megan McDowell (translator)Alexander McCall Smith|title=Fever DreamThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=Meet Carla. She's The Perfect Passion Company is a glamorous older womandating agency in Edinburgh, with poise run by Ness and beauty, and someone who still looks a treat operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a golden bikini. But insidemore personal, she's differenttailored service. The biggest issue Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she seems could come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to bear relates Canada to an event get away for a few years ago, when her horse breeder husband had the drama while. Katie is coming out of both a hired, valuable stallionbreak up with a bad boyfriend, and their son, being poisonedso jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. Away And so begins this new story from the right medical treatmentAlexander McCall Smith, Carla took David bringing us to a woman who said the only hope was a 'migration' – basicallyan Edinburgh we already love, thanks to farm out part of David's spirit 44 Scotland Street and swap it the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with someone else's, some new characters who quickly begin to dilute the toxincharm. This was Katie has no experience in running a successbusiness, or in match-making, as David seems to have survivedbut Ness has full confidence in her abilities, although Carla is sure it was the wrong decision – she now sees David as at least part monster. But another odd thing about this tale is that it isnand there't being narrated by Carla, but by s always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, another mother called AmandaWilliam, who is renting to lend a holiday home nearby. And the further odd thing is to whom she is narrating this story – it's to David…hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786070901</amazonuk>1846976596

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Heather O'NeillDean Koontz|title= The Lonely Hearts HotelBad Weather Friend|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction Paranormal|summary=Two babies are abandoned in Benny is having a Montreal orphanage in the winter of 1914terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Pierrot is Oh, and someone has delivered a piano prodigyreally weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and Rose lights up even it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the dreariest room with her dancing and comedy. As they travel around the city performing clown routinesthing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the children fall in love with each other and dream up very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a plan nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the most extraordinary show the world delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has ever seenbeen sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Seperated as teenagers and sent off Spike is going to work during the Great Depressiontake care of Benny, both descend into the cityand will certainly take care of Benny's underworld - dabbling in sexenemies, if he, drugsBenny, and theft. Will Rose and Pierrot ever reunite? And if they do - what lengths will they go to to make their dream come true? One thingHarper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's for sure - neither wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they nor the theatre nor the underworld will ever look the same..are.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849163359</amazonuk>1662500491

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Min Jin LeeKatherine Howe|title= PachinkoA True Account|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= I have often said that much of what I know of the worldHannah Masury is living in Boston, its geographyhaving been sent to live with a family who run an inn, history and politics, I have learned being made to work there from reading story booksa young age. Because I learn this wayWhen she hears there is to be a hanging of some pirates in the town, I do wonder about people who profess not she decides to read fictiongo and watch. I wonder how much of Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death at the truth hands of how the world really is passes them by as a resulttwo vicious pirates. In the light of 2016 in the UK She hides away, so that they don't find and the USAkill her too, I wonder if this is a concern and then to be added escape them completely she runs away to all of the others about cuts to arts funding and arts learning sea, dressing as a boy and joining the absolute necessity of having public libraries where children can start to choose for themselves at notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. She soon finds herself in the earliest age, which stories to read, uncensored by the views thick of those who might think they know better. I say all this because Pachinko things when there is yet one more of those books that did not just make me think differently about what I thought I knewa mutiny on board, but actually opened and from there we are caught up to me a world that I knew nothing about: the world in her rip roaring tale of life on the ethnic Korean in Japanocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786691353</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Shanthi Sekaran1471180158|title=Lucky BoyMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating=4.5|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=Solimar wants more from her life than her Mexican home can offer and now sheJamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's a control freak with all the subtlety of a half brick. Jamie's 18son, Bo, she can go find it'has his problems'. Her target is to get to He's asthmatic and the USAmore you read, a target so blinding the more you'll suspect that she doesnhe't realise what reaching out for it will cost. Meanwhile Kavya is living s on the American dreamautistic spectrum. SheSometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's rich a frequent flier in friendship, family, a loving husband the local A&E and life prospects sometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to school. Missed shifts or the need to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and yet Kavya has a baby-shaped hole put in her worldthe wrong. The problem is that there's only one baby for both of them… Lucky boy!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0735212279</amazonuk>It was going to come to a head.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anne TylerB0CKD1L5JL|title=Vinegar GirlRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn

|summary=Kate Battista Petr is in an odd and not entirely satisfactory situationorphan. At Rescued by the age of twenty nine she finds herself working as a teaching assistant ''and'' running the home for her scientist father (who is eccentricstrange, to say the least) and her younger sister Bunnyreclusive Bear, who might be fifteen but he is actually three going on thirty. Dr Battista has other problems - brought up far from bustling cities and when he has a problem he offloads them onto Kate (he's concerned that she hasn't yet done his taxes). This time thoughbusy human society, itin the forests of Washington's seriousOlympic Peninsula. PyotrAfter Bear dies and a brief sojourn in human company, his brilliant young lab assistantand armed with only a pirate radio transmitter, is in the USA Petr goes on a visa journey through the forest, broadcasting the strange, wild and it's about to expire. If that happens Dr Battista is convinced that he'll not be able to complete his work and all that rarely heard voices he's done will be for nothingencounters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099589877</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Dawn O'PorterSarah Marsh|title= The CowsA Sign of Her Own|rating= 3.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Reading the blurb for this novelAfter a bout of scarlet fever as a child, the first novel for adults by author Dawn O'PorterEllen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, I got very excitedeverything about her life changes. It talks about Living in a time when the cow being a piece use of meatsign language was seen as something only savages do, born Ellen is sent to breed, one of the herd, and compares this a school where she is taught to womenlip read, saying how they don't have to fall into a stereotypebut physically restrained from signing. I expected From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and using a slightly subversive novel about feminismsystem called Visible Speech. What I found was an easy to readAt the same time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, enjoyable romp through three modern women's livesand Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008126038</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0BC3YTCMR|title=Good Girls Die|author=Joanna TrollopeAyura Ayira|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=''This story is not for everyone.'' Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of her fifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. She was a very bright student, a bit too nerdy if truth be told, and suffered from vitiligo - people were afraid to hug her in case it's contagious. It's not easy being a black girl whose skin is 84% white. She had a crush on seventeen-year-old Reggie Anderson but never thought he would notice her. Then he did: Lavender was very good at math and Reggie asked if she would tutor him. She readily agreed: tutoring was something she gladly did at church: this was just an extension. She went to his house and he raped her. In shock, she even allowed him to give her a lift home.}} {{Frontpage|isbn=1472263936|title=City of FriendsThe Figurine|author=Victoria Hislop

|summary=It would be unkind and certainly unfair was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to say that it Greece. She was Stacey Grant's alone: her mother who was , Greek by birth, had left the cause of Stacey losing her job: she might well have been the trigger family home and refused to return, but Mary and Hamish (Helena's parents) felt that it was would be a pity if Helena grew up without knowing her manager, Jeff Dodds, who used grandparents or understanding her request Greek heritage. Her trip to work flexibly as an excuse the family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be the first of several annual visits. She grew to make love her redundant. There was a lot of grandmother and the family''support'' for Stacey - the staff were as stunned as she wass maid, Dina, but in terms was wary - and frightened - of the people she could rely onher grandfather, there were just a fewretired general Stamatis Papagiannis. Her mother He was out proud of his close connections to the equation : it was her dementia which started the problem Junta and her husband Steve was wrapped up in the fact that he'd just been promoted expected his family to board level in uphold his jobvalues but saw no reason to accommodate them. There His prejudices included Helena's red hair and green eyes - inherited from her father'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 Scottish ancestors.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509823476</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Su BristowDean Koontz|title= SealskinAfter Death|rating= 43|genre= Fantasy General Fiction|summary= Donald 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 young fishermanbio-hazard accident. Finding himself in a makeshift mortuary, eking out covered in plastic, he has a lonely living on sense that something very, very bad has happened to him – and only him – as he sits up and looks around at the west coast shrouded bodies of Scotlandhis dead friends and former colleagues. One night As he recovers his senses, he witnesses realises that there is something miraculous 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 makes poor. It's surrounded by a terrible mistakeWitching Forest. His action changes lives And the villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - not only his ownits bread-like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicines. The black wood of the forest provides heat and warmth, roofs on homes, and even gallows, but those if needed. The fear of his family being buried alive is an existential superstition in the village and that is the entire tightly knit community in which they live. Can he ever atone for the wrong he has donereason Volushka, a drunken, self-indulgent, and can love grow when its foundation lazy lout of a man is violence?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910633607</amazonuk>tolerated.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Cath WeeksB0BYF82CXT|title= BlindSemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= American ex''Bill and Amanda are living in a semi-pat Twyla is ready detached house, stuck in a depressing rut of boredom and disappointment, when Terry and Fiona – glamorous, successful and very much in love – move in next door. Despite their different outlooks on life, the couples befriend each other and life appears to be the perfect motherimprove for both pairs. She never dreamed her first child would be anything other than perfect himselfBut all is not what it seems, but when heand their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy.''s born blind she is forced to re-evaluate her view of the world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349410631</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Rick BassShalini Boland|title= For a Little WhileThe Silent Bride|rating= 43|genre= Short StoriesGeneral Fiction|summary=''For Alice and Seth are a Little While'' match made in heaven. He is a collection of twentyeverything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, clever, funny; total and utter husband-five short stories from Rick Bassmaterial. As someone previously unacquainted with Bass' work this new collection was She is all he could possibly want in a wonderful introduction to his quirkywife; beautiful, successful, unusual style which focuses on stripped backconfident… and so the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and the wedding is planned and set. When the much-anticipated day arrives, simple fables featuring often mundane situationsAlice is walked down the aisle by her father, mysterious characters beaming with pride and magical experiences. The characters in each tale are beautifully crafted 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 implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the stories are dreamyman at the altar is, loose narratives covering everything from love who is waiting for her to death to choices made and chances takenbecome his wife.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782273042</amazonuk>1662507089

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jem Lester1787636003|title= Shtum.The Girls of Summer|author=Katie Bishop|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Jonah Jewell is ten years old; he likes Marmite sandwiches, being outside It was the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and sticking arrived on the island. Rachel wasn't exactly innocent but she was, perhaps, naive, so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to his routinetake an interest in her, she was flattered rather than wary. He cannot speak but It was quite a while before he communicates his wants and needs clearly. The adults in his life do nothing but speak but they do not communicate nearly as effectively as Jonah. While functioning from the outside, this is the story made any sort of a family falling physical approach to her and tearing each other apartby that time she was obsessed by him. Ben Jewell needs to fight Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, looking after his son interests on the island and by doing so needs to learn how to fight for himselfin particular in the bar where all the girls either worked or partied. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409162982</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Alice HoffmanAmanda Craig|title= FaithfulThree Graces|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction |summary= Growing up on Long IslandFew 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, Shelby Richmond is crafting an ordinary girl until image of the country as it stands in one night an extraordinary tragedy changes her fateparticular moment. Her best friendTo say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's future is destroyed in an accident, while Shelby walks away practically synonymous with the burden genre of guiltcontemporary social fiction at this point. What happens when She has such a life is turned inside out? When love is something so distant it may as well be a star in gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the sky? Moving from a life in her parents basement to a life in New York City, Shelby remains damaged by day into the loss lives of her best friend, stumbling through life blindly characters in a way that feels natural and fighting desperately to become connected to anything at all. But, as she grows, she discovers emotionlived-in, survival and happinessnever making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, bundled up grappling with dogs, food, books and men she's probably best avoiding… Deep in New York City she find a circle of lost and found souls, and the angel who's been watching over her since that fateful night all those years ago…issues far larger than themselves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471157717</amazonuk>140871468X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Tim Pears152915118X|title= The HorsemanPineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= The Horseman feels like a novel written much earlier than 2016. This ''Pineapple Street'' is in large part because it is set in 1911 in rural Somerset but also because Pears writes in a style which is reminiscent the story of authors in the twentieth centurythree women: Sasha, if not the nineteenthDarley and Georgiana. Readers who Darley and George are hoping for action, pace sisters and suspense will be sorely disappointed in The HorsemanSasha is married to their brother Cord. They're Stocktons, in which not only Sasha isn't a lot happens at all; Stockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the story could easily be condensed into a couple of pagestribe. However The problem's exacerbated when the clan matriarch, Tilda, asks Cord and Sasha if you they'd like to move into the Pineapple Street property. Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to another property, a rainy weekend street or so away, which they own. They won't need any of the furniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and Cord can move straight in . Nominally, they had a cosy cottage somewhere, Pears provides choice but that wasn't the reality. Darley and Georgiana start to call Sasha 'the perfect companion, giving readers an antidote gold digger'. She's living in ''their'' family home. They use it so often that they abbreviate it to frenetic, twenty first century urban life'the GD'. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1632866935</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Miguel Bonnefoy and Emily Boyce (translator)Critchley|title=Octavio's JourneyOne Puzzling Afternoon|rating=3.54|genre=Literary Fiction Crime|summary=Meet Octavio. He's a large lunk, a gentle giant, living alone 84 year old Edie has lived in a lowly Venezuelan the same small town – for almost her whole life, but now she is facing a town which once, fleetingly, had fame, fashion move as her son wants to move to another house and success through a minor miraclebring Edie to live with his family, but has none any longeras Edie is starting to lose her memory. OctavioHowever, Edie is tormented by the memory of her childhood friend, it seemsLucy, has some unusual habits – here he iswho went missing over 60 years ago, marching off to and the chemist's with worry that there was a table across his back, secret she was keeping for it was all Lucy that somehow might be the doctor had at thing that reveals the truth of what happened all that time to write a prescription onago. Now we never learn exactly what After 'seeing' Lucy in the cause of high street, just as she was the prescription waslast time she saw her, but we soon she starts to find out what the cause pockets of the table is – Octavio cannot read, and has learned nothing beyond cutting into his palm to allow the wound memories coming back to let him escape the need to writeher. UntilAnd yet as she remembers the past, that she is, a woman seems to suggest a way for him to learn to read and write, forgetting more and more in her day to love – but that experience also proves to Octavio that there is a whole host of other things he can put his mind to, both for goodday life. Will she uncover the truth about Lucy's disappearance before her move, and for bad…before her memories are gone forever?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910477311</amazonuk>1804181250

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Charlie LaidlawMadelaine Lucas|title= The Things We Learn When We're DeadThirst for Salt|rating= 5|genre= General Literary Fiction|summary= On the way to a dinner party''Love, I'd read, Lorna Love steps into the path of an oncoming car. Waking up in what appears was supposed to be a hospitallight and weightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravity'' Told from a hospital in which wine is served for supperretrospective view, everyone avoids a young woman unravels the year-long relationship that once defined her questions. Overlaid with later wisdom, and the narrator relives the affair with a man twenty years her nurse looks suspiciously like Sean Connery, it soon transpires that Lorna is in Heaven, or, at least, on HVNsenior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the summer after. Because HVN is a lost, dysfunctional spaceship, and God Set against the backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the aging hippy captain. At first Lorna can remember nothing, but as 24-year-old narrator's deepening relationship with her memories return – some goodolder lover, some bad, she realises that she has a decision to makedepicting its all-consuming nature, how it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and that maybe, she needs to find a way home…how it altered her irrevocably.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786150352</amazonuk>0861546490

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Federico Axat0008506337|title= Kill the Next OneThe Garnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore|rating= 45|genre= ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary= After getting started with the opening chapters of Spanish writerThe love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, Federico Axatapparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in love. Richard was twenty-one and described by Margo's mother as 'an older man'Kill the Next One. Her parents worried that Richard'', you might be forgiven for thinking you are stuck with one of those machismo riddled tales where a middles influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve -aged man with a mysterious past is forced going to shoot or blunder his way through Oxford and having a by-glittering career. In the-numbers thriller. The spectre of Lee Child's successful Jack Reacher series creeping in around event, they eloped and Richard took her away from the edges Isle of the pageWight. The novel opens with Ted McKay Margo did go to Oxford and his Browning pointed went on to his templebecome a well-respected journalist. He has the perfect life The couple had three children: Rachel, including a beautiful wife Imogen and two adoring children, but has discovered that he is also Sasha. Life was lived in possession of an untreatable tumour buried deep within his brain which is slowly killing him. HoweverLondon and holidays were spent at Sandcove, right before he decides to take the shot and end his life, there is a knock family home on his doorthe Isle of Wight. Standing behind it is a man named Justin Lynch who tells Ted that he represents an all-knowing organisation that turns Even then the doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would-never be suicides into opportunities able to correct the imbalances of the lawleave him in charge''. Ted, instead of killing himself, could kill someone who really deserves it Then Richard left them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911231065</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Laurie Frankel1914585402|title=This Is How It Always IsDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross|rating=4.5

|summary=Claude is the baby of the family. HeI reviewed David F Ross's book [[There's Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's very bright. He has Only One Danny Garvey]] a vocabulary way beyond his couple of years so he can hold his own in the rough back and tumble of a house containing four older brothers, an emergency doctor mother remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and a writer father. Claude also likes to wear dressesaffecting it was. He wants to become It was a night fairy when he grows up. And one daygripping, Claude becomes Poppy. He becomes she. Poppy's parentsemotionally wounding read, Penn and Rosie, aren't too concerned at first - children all like to try on different identities and why should Claude/Poppy be any different? But rereading my review of it soon becomes clear my main takeaway was that Poppy isn't play-acting at being a girl. Poppy is a girl. And things get complicated...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472241584</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Alexandra Kleeman|title= You Too Can Have A Body Like Mine|rating= 4|genre= General Fiction|summary=A woman known only as A lives in an unnamed American city with her roommate, B, and boyfriend, C, who wants her to join him I might not have lavished enough praise on a reality dating show. A eats mostly popsicles and oranges, watches endless amounts of television, often just for the commercials — particularly the recurring cartoon escapades of Kandy Kat, the mascot for an entirely chemical dessert — and models herself on an impossible standard of beauty. She fixates on the fifteen minutes of fame a local celebrity named Michael has earned after buying up a Wally's Supermarket's entire, and increasingly ample, supply of veal. Meanwhile, B is attempting to make herself a twin of A, who in turn hungers for something to give meaning to her life, something aside from C's pornography addictionit. Maybe something like what's gotten into her neighbors across the street, the family who's begun ''ghosting'' themselves beneath white sheets with holes cut for eyes…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008210845</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tomoka Shibasaki and Polly Barton (translator)Lucy Ashe|title=Spring GardenClara and Olivia

|genre=General Fiction |summary=MurakamiThe year is 1933. The place? Sadler's Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, and (long before twins no less. Identical on the outside but not, we learn, on the film) Endo's ''Silence''inside. That's my limit as regards contemporary Japanese writingAnd not on stage, either. But now Because there's Tomoka Shibasakia lot that builds a dancer. Some things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, attention to detail – and her noted work some things, that ''Spring Gardenje ne sais quoi''. Which, make no mistake, is definitely Japanesethat don't come from the classroom. For instanceA stage presence, if I told you it starts with a man looking up to watch his female neighbour on her balconycharm, and concerns obsession, you could well think it was his about hera ''joie de vivre''. But no – perhaps only in the west is the gaze so male. The obsession is very much hers heredifference between a hard-worker, and it – and the novel – concern a singular housestar. And the very singular country it lives in, and the changes it is going through…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782272704</amazonuk>0861544080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Laura KayeHeather Fawcett|title= English AnimalsEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries|rating= 54|genre= Literary General Fiction|summary= When Mirka gets a job in a country house in rural EnglandEmily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has no idea travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life's work, the very first encyclopaedia of the struggle faeries. Whilst she faces is brilliant at research and speaking to make sense of a very English couplefaeries, and a way of life that she is entirely alien to hernot so good with people. Richard and Sophie are chaotic So when she finds herself far, far North in the small village of Hrafvsnik, drunkenhaving somehow offended the village matriarch, frequently outrageous but also warmshe is not sure what she has done, generous and kind nor how to Mirka, despite their argumentative redeem herself and turbulent marriageput her final investigations for her book back on the right track. Mirka is swiftly commandeered by Richard for his latest money-making enterprise Enter Wendell Bambleby, taxidermyher dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and soon surpasses him in skill. After a traumatic break two years ago with her family in Slovakiadelight, Mirka finds much to her surprise that she is happy at Fairmont HallEmily's frustration. But when she tells Sophie that she why is gay, everything she values he here? What does he want? And what exactly is put in danger and she must learn going on with the hard way what she really believes in.faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140870823X</amazonuk>0356519120

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Rory Gleeson1398515388|title= Rockadoon ShoreThe Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=Cath is worried about her friends. DanDan is struggling with First of all, it was the earthquake, deep in the death of his exocean floor, Lucy is drinking way too much which created the tsunami and Steph has become closed off. A weekend away is just what they need. They travel out to Rockadoon Lodgethis, to the wilds in turn, caused the west of Irelandnuclear meltdown. But the weekend doesn't go to plan The result was complete and utter devastation. JJ is more concerned with getting high than spending time with them The deaths were uncountable, while Merc is humiliated and seeks revengethe loss of livelihoods was widespread. And when The fact that many pets were separated from their elderly neighbour Malachy arrives on their doorstep in owners came far down the dead list of night with priorities but - six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. He wasn't a gun in dog person but the convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his hands, nothing will be car door and Tamon the same again for any of them..dog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473634075</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author= Eliza GrahamChristopher Bowden|title= Another Day GoneMr Magenta|rating= 3.54|genre= General Fiction|summary=A single event from the past has the power to create a chain-reaction that has powerful consequences in the future. This Christopher Bowden's latest novel is a theme explored and expanded upon in ''Another Day Gone,'' the story patient untangling of sisters Sara and Polly who, despite being close during childhood, have grown emotionally distant from one another after Polly discovers a devastating family secret. We join their story at the point where the prodigal sisterseemingly ordinary woman's life, Polly, returns home carried out by her nephew after years of no contact with her familyshe has died. Sarah contacts their old nanny Bridie in the hope The aunt who always provided a safe harbour and a little bit of piecing together the family mystery indulgence to a young nephew had had a much more interesting life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and unearthing the secrets before it is too late, but Bridie's memory is failing and some secrets may be lost foreverseems to him an obligation to find it all out.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1503940039</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ruth HoganJennifer Mason|title=The Keeper Partitions of Lost ThingsUnity

|summary=Anthony Peardew lost the love of his life before they married. In the midst of his tragedy he found solace and purpose in collecting 'lost things' - things that were left behind on trainsHere at Bookbag Towers, in parkswe first met Elizabeth Cromwell, or found dominatrix and unintentional detective in the gutter[[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], when she investigated and he records each and every one carefully, in the hope that perhaps some day they can be reunited with their rightful owner. He writes stories about the items he finds, becoming unravelled a published authorseries of disappearances. However, as he grows older and starts to realise that he is dying, he knows he must hand over the task to someone else choosing his housekeeper, LauraIn ''Partitions of Unity'', she sets her mind to take on what is, to her, solving a completely unknown aspect of his lifemurder...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473635462</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Mike GayleWill Carver|title= The Hope Family CalendarDaves Next Door|rating= 3.54|genre= General Fiction|summary= Mr Tom Hope is becoming Mr No Hope. His wife has been killed Five strangers come together in an accident, and he's now left, haplessly trying one moment as a suicide bomber prepares to bring up their two young daughters. While detonate his mother in law is vest on a help in the beginningLondon tube line. As their fates overlap, she soon adopts a cruel-to-be-kind approach and decides to leave him to it, knowing the only way he'll step up story is if he has no choice told in backwards order, leading up to the matterfateful moment.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473608953</amazonuk>1914585186}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nadiya HussainJennifer Mason|title=The Secret Lives of the Amir SistersPreposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery

|summary= ''In A struggling poetry zine, a mom-and-pop mobile diner in the Northern California redwoods, a 400-meter hurdler who just missed the Field2004 Olympics, a women'' is essentially s track coach with a yen for bullwhips, a billionaire with a story state-of two mothers who have been separated from their sons. Liz and her -the-art S&M dungeon, a man serving a life sentence in Alabama, an enigmatic signature, K(adults, x) son Orin are both Western journalists, while Christine and her 12-year-old son Paul are from on a remote village cheap oil painting, an erotic art dealer in East AfricaGeorgia.. After major surgery, Liz flies to East Africa to find her son who has gone walkabout. At the same time, Christine '' This is mourning just a sample of the loss cast of her own family: her husband has been killed characters and her son abducted by militiasettings in Preposterous. As you can see, some keeping up will be required! The basic premise of this mystery story goes like this...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910369179</amazonuk>B09STS96HS