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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Suzanne LealJenny Lecoat|title= The Teacher's SecretBeyond Summerland|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Terry has been teaching at his suburban Australian junior school 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 yearsfor news of him. Everyone knows him As the British finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, heck half and the kids in his class have parents who were former pupils war is finally over, their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of hishim. He's an institution. You know But will the sort. And he does not take kindly to truth come as a new young upstart showing up and trying to meddle. He's not nasty about itrelief, but or will it rubs him up 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 wrong way.occupation?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785079077</amazonuk>1846976537

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Diney CosteloeOnyi Nwabineli|title= The Married GirlsAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical General Fiction|summary=Wynsdown, 1949. In Anuri spent her childhood on display to the small Somerset village of Wynsdownworld, Charlotte Shepherd is happily married thanks to farmer Billy. She arrived from Germany her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on the Kindertransport as a child during the war and now feels settled in her adopted home. Meanwhilesocial media, the squirewhere she posted every step of Anuri's fighter pilot sonchildhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, Felixmonetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, has returned suing her step-mother to take down the village with a fiancée in towcontent about her. Daphne Anuri is beautifulbattling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, charming... undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and harbouring secretsreceiving money from them for doing so. After meeting during the war, Felix knows some of Daphne's past Most importantly, but she has worked hard to conceal that which could unravel is desperately worried about her carefully built life. For Charlottelittle sister, too, a dangerous past who is coming back in the shape new focus of fellow refugee, bad boy Harry Black. Forever bound by their childhoods, Charlotte will always care for him, but HarryOphelia's return disrupts the village quiet and it's not long before gossip spreadsonline empire. The war may have ended Can she save her sister, but for these girls, trouble is only just beginning...and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784976121</amazonuk>0861546873

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= J S Rais-Daal1529153298|title= Purple FlameThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating= 45|genre= General Fiction |summary=Life hasnIt't been easy for teenager Zach Fords 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. He just lost his entire family to a freak car accident (A woman? I mean, and hehonestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's barely keeping himself together. Each day is more gruelling than the last, but for Zachfamily, it goes much deeper than the pressure of exams and the threats of bullies and teachers at schoolthough. Zach has a secret power that many seek and a few would kill for Women have been disappearing. He is possessed by a demon Well, they've been murdered, but the demon has a purpose: revenge on the people responsible for Zachto have 'disappeared's pain. As it turns out, the car accident that killed his family wasndoesn't sound quite so accidentalfrightening. Every tragic thing that Miv's upset because she's happened overheard that her father wants to Zach recently has been carefully orchestrated with one mistake — Zach was supposed to die in move the accident, toofamily 'Down South'. Since he didn When you'tre from Yorkshire, he has become Down South is a targetfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, but the demon inside won't let him go quietly. Zach will fightmove would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, even if his behaviour leaves him alone and strugglingshe'll do anything to prevent that. He She'll get his vengeance, but it soon becomes apparent this supernatural battle goes back a lot longer than Zachs not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's lifetime. Something ancient now festers, and a final battle brews amidst Heaven and Hellstopped talking - to anyone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524678872</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Justin Huggler1035906708|title=The Return HomeDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating= 34.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= The uniqueness We tend to think of a boyhood spent growing up in Jersey is conveyed in some memorable imagery in this novelMaria Callas as Greek, intersecting the German wartime occupation of the island, the Afghan resistance but she was born to the Russians Greek parents in the 1980s and present day conflict in Syria. BenManhattan, now working internationally for a human rights advocacy organisationNew York, flits back in December 1923 and forth between reflections on his boyhood and his adult selfonly moved to Athens when she was thirteen. He is both attempting to solve the mystery of what became of his uncle Jack, who had a brief Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but lasting impact on him as a child, and trying her father changed it to decide how 'Callas' to save his disintegrating marriagemake it more manageable in the States. For the first few chapters I enjoyed these time shifts When she was back and forth, advancing with Ben in understanding Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the meaning of events which as an eight year old he could only partly grasp. Ben also develops Nazi occupation by a deepening appreciation of the choices he has mother who mercilessly exploited her and made in life, such as his choice no secret of careerher preference for her elder sister, by examining the influences on his childhood selfJackie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780722028</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anita ShreveAlexander McCall Smith|title=The Stars are FirePerfect Passion Company

|summary=Meet Grace. She's not exactly trapped The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a loveless marriagemore personal, but something like ittailored service. She Ness has no real way away from asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the kitchen sinkbusiness, and two very young children as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to care get away for a while her husband is a civil engineer. Her mother-in-law hates her, but she has Katie is coming out of a great relationship break up with a girlfriend neighbour – except said friend Rosie has a wondrous love lifebad boyfriend, while Grace's experience with sex is getting worse and worseso jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. Things deteriorate when Grace's husbandAnd so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, Genebringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, loses his motherthanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, and retreats from intimacy even furtherbut with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. The small community around Grace – and an endless rain shower – are closing Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in around her. But what would happen to abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and those she cares for if rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a real disaster were to occur?hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408702983</amazonuk>1846976596

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jill SantopoloDean Koontz|title= The Light We LostBad Weather Friend|rating= 34.5|genre= General FictionParanormal|summary=11th September 2001Benny is having a terrifically bad day. Lucy He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and Gabe meet in New York on his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a day really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it's possible that will change their lives – and whoever or whatever was inside is the world – forever. As the city burns behind themthing that has trashed his house! The thing is, they kiss for Benny is the very first timelast person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. Over So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the next thirteen years they are torn apartdelivery to his house is a new friend, then brought back togethera bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Spike is going to take care of Benny, time and time again. Itwill certainly take care of Benny's a journey of dreamsenemies, of desiresif he, of jealousyBenny, of forgiveness – and above all, love. As Lucy is faced with Harper (a devastating choice, she wonders whether their love is a matter of destiny or chancewaitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008224560</amazonuk>1662500491

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Allie RogersKatherine Howe|title= Little GoldA True Account|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= The heat Hannah Masury is oppressive and storms are brewing in Brighton living in the summer of 1982. Little GoldBoston, having been sent to live with a boyish girl on the brink of adolescencefamily who run an inn, is struggling with the reality of her broken family and being made to work there from a home descending into chaosyoung age. Her only refuge When she hears there is to be a hanging of some pirates in the tree town, she decides to go and watch. Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death at the end hands of her gardentwo vicious pirates. Into her fractured life steps elderly neighbour She hides away, Peggy Baxter. The connection between the two is instant, but just when it seems so that Little Gold has found solacethey don't find and kill her too, outsiders appear who seek and then to escape them completely she runs away to take advantage of her frail family sea, dressing as a boy and joining the notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. She soon finds herself in the worst way possible. In an era thick of things when so much there is hard to speak alouda mutiny on board, can Little Gold share enough and from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of her life to avert disaster? And can Peggy Baxter, a woman running out of time and with her own secrets to bear, recognise on the danger before it's too late?ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1787199959</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Meg Howrey1471180158|title= The WanderersMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating= 34.5|genre= General Fiction |summary= Set Jamie Matson works in the near futurean upper-class grocery store, NASA prepares to send three astronauts in to space to put for a man who's a control freak with all the first humans on Marssubtlety of a half brick. Helen Kane Jamie's son, Yoshi TanakaBo, 'has his problems'. He's asthmatic and Sergei Kuznetsov are the trio selected for more you read, the mission, but they must first prove themselves by spending seventeen months in a simulation more you'll suspect that mirrors conditions he's on Marsthe autistic spectrum. Each of the astronauts has their own reason for taking part Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's a frequent flier in the mission local A&E and their relationships with their families will 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 put in the wrong. It was going to come to the ultimate test as they begin this journey of discovery and escapisma head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471146650</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0CKD1L5JL|title=Radio Free Olympia|author= Lisa McInerneyJeffrey Dunn|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary= Petr is an orphan. Rescued by the strange, reclusive Bear, he is brought up far from bustling cities and busy human society, in the forests of Washington's Olympic Peninsula. After Bear dies and a brief sojourn in human company, and armed with only a pirate radio transmitter, Petr goes on a journey through the forest, broadcasting the strange, wild and rarely heard voices he encounters.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sarah Marsh|title= Blood MiraclesA Sign of Her Own|rating= 43.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Like all twenty-year-oldsAfter a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, everything about her life changes. Living in a time when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ryan Cusack Ellen is sent to a school where she is trying taught to get his head around lip read, but physically restrained from signing. From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who he has been teaching the deaf and using a system called Visible Speech. At the same time, Bell isworking on other inventions and ideas, 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 is not for everyone.'' Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of her fifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. She was a good time for his boss to exploit his dual heritage by opening very bright student, a new black market route bit too nerdy if truth be told, and suffered from Italy vitiligo - people were afraid to Irelandhug her in case it's contagious. It 's not easy being a black girl whose skin is certainly not 84% white. She had a good time for his adored girlfriend to decide crush on seventeen-year-old Reggie Anderson but never thought he's irreparably corruptedwould notice her. And Then he really wishes he hadn't accidentally caught the eye of 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 ornery grandmother who fancies herself extension. She went to his saviourhouse and he raped her. In shock, she even allowed him to give her a lift home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444798898</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Cat Clarke1472263936|title= GirlhoodThe Figurine|author=Victoria Hislop|rating= 45|genre= General Fiction|summary=''Girlhood'' focuses on a group of friends; HarperIt was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. She was alone: her mother, RowanGreek by birth, Lily had left the family home and Amarefused to return, who are fast approaching but Mary and Hamish (Helena's parents) felt that it would be a pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. Her trip to the end of term at an elite boarding school family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be the middle first of nowhereseveral annual visits. The arrival She grew to love her grandmother and the family's maid, Dina, but was wary - and frightened - of Kirsty causes a seismic shift in this previously supportive friendship group and Harper soon finds herself caught between her old friends grandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. He was proud of his close connections to the Junta and the mysterious new girl who seems expected his family to uphold his values but saw no reason to have so much in common with accommodate them. His prejudices included Helena's red hair and green eyes - inherited from herfather's Scottish ancestors. But is Kirsty who she claims to be?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784292737</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Suellen DaintyDean Koontz|title= The HousekeeperAfter Death|rating= 4.53|genre= General Fiction|summary= Annie has broken the cardinal rule Michael Mace, Head of never mixing business with pleasureSecurity, at a top secret biological research facility, and so is among 55 people who die when the latter ends, she's left without the former, and a virus is released in need of a new jobbio-hazard accident. She never thought about being Finding himself in a housekeepermakeshift mortuary, but her OCD tendencies mixed with years of working covered in hospitality mean she's quite capableplastic, especially when an opportunity arises with her girl crushhe has a sense that something very, Emma Helmsleyvery bad has happened to him – and only him – as he sits up and looks around at the shrouded bodies of his dead friends and former colleagues. As he recovers his senses, one half of 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 poor. It's surrounded by a wellWitching Forest. And the villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants -known celeb couple its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicines. The black wood of the forest provides heat and warmth, roofs on the London circuithomes, and even gallows, if needed. Nothing The fear of being buried alive is ever as it seems, though, an existential superstition in the village and Annie soon finds that behind those tall walls there is the reason Volushka, a family no less dysfunctional than anyone else'sdrunken, despite their fameself-indulgent, fortune, and front page headlineslazy lout of a man is tolerated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1476771405</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen PhillipsB0BYF82CXT|title=The Beautiful BureaucratSemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone|rating=4.5

|summary=Meet Josephine. Married to Joseph Jones, she has kept her maiden name to keep at least some character to her identity. As opposed to her new boss, who has no gender, no face, ''Bill and horrid halitosis. The job Josephine is forced to choose is Amanda are living in a simple onesemi-detached house, stuck in a depressing rut of taking a file's paper contentsboredom and disappointment, clicking up the subject on a huge database, entering a date newly printed on the sheetwhen Terry and Fiona – glamorous, successful and repeating. Told to obey strict secrecy rules, she starts to find unusual signs of malignance all over very much in love – a man move in a grey sweatshirt following her, post redirected when nobody knows where Josephine and Joseph are even living from one month to the nextdoor. Despite their different outlooks on life, and a husband missing from the marital bed more couples befriend each other and more often… Is there a way life appears to improve for her find a spark of happiness in the humdrum, windowless cell she worksboth pairs. But all is not what it seems, and the horrid housing that is all the couple can afford?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782273328</amazonuk>their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy.''

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Roisin MeaneyShalini Boland|title= The ReunionSilent Bride|rating= 53|genre= General Fiction|summary= This Alice and Seth are a match made in heaven. He is everything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, clever, funny; total and utter husband-material. She is all he could possibly want in a wife; beautiful, successful, confident… and so the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and the wedding is planned and set. When the much-anticipated day arrives, Alice is an emotional story about walked down the lives of two Irish sistersaisle by her father, beginning beaming with pride and excitement as she surveys the congregation – their invitation friends assembled to attend a twenty year reunion back at their Convent High School. They are both unsure whether celebrate this joyful day and when Seth turns to goface his approaching bride, their adult lives having veered off in totally different and dramatic directions since leaving school. We find out that Alice's world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the man at the sisters have each suffered terrible life eventsaltar is, changing them who is waiting for ever from the children they were. The story reveals how they begin her to re-build their lives, supporting one another and becoming much closer in the processbecome his wife.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>144479972X</amazonuk>1662507089

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Claire North1787636003|title= The End Girls of the DaySummer|author=Katie Bishop|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction|summary= At It was the end of summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the dayisland. Rachel wasn't exactly innocent but she was, perhaps, Death visits everyone. Right before thatnaive, Charlie does. You might meet him so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to take an interest in a hospitalher, in she was flattered rather than wary. It was quite a warzone, or at the scene while before he made any sort of a traffic accidentphysical approach to her and by that time she was obsessed by him.Then again Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, you might meet him at looking after his interests on the North Pole - he gets everywhere. From jungles to deserts to tundra, you may come across Charlie. Would you shake him by island and in particular in the hand, take bar where all the gift he offers, girls either worked or would you pay no attention to the words he says? Sometimes he is sent as a courtesy, sometimes as a warning. He never knows whichpartied.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0316316741</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Marie NDiaye and Jordan Stump (translator)Amanda Craig|title= LadivineThree Graces|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Ladivine centres on Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of-the life -nation novel. There's something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of Clarisse, a woman tormented by guilt and shame over her abandonment the atmosphere of her mother, the day and Clarisse's daughter Ladivinecapture it, a woman haunted by her mother's choicescrafting an image of the country as it stands in one particular moment. As tragedy unfolds the mysteries of ClarisseTo say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's life and her determination to escape a past she cannot reconcile practically synonymous with her ambition irreparably alter the lives genre of her daughter and husband. The sadness contemporary social fiction at the heart of this book is that Clarisse, driven by shame about her background chooses to create another life and identity and through this deception creates an insurmountable barrier between herself and point. She has such a gift for weaving the rest ongoing issues of the world. When given day into the opportunity to let down lives of her defences characters in a way that feels natural and be honest about who she truly islived-in, Clarisse falls prey to a violentnever making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, damaged man and finds herself drawn into an intoxicating web of violence, drunk on truth and freedom to exist without pretencegrappling with issues far larger than themselves. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848666047</amazonuk>140871468X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= E G Rodford152915118X|title= The Surgeon's Case: George Kocharyan Mystery 2Pineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime General Fiction|summary=In ''Pineapple Street'' is the second instalment story of this seriesthree women: Sasha, Private Investigator Darley and Georgiana. Darley and George Kocharyan has been hired by a well-known local man are sisters and Sasha is married to track down some missing valuablestheir brother Cord. Bill Galbraith They're Stocktons, only Sasha isn't a world-famous surgeon at CambridgeStockton by birth so she isn's Addenbrooket readily accepted into the tribe. The problem's Hospital who hosts a popular medical television programmeexacerbated when the clan matriarch, has had his briefcase stolen by his live-in domestic servantTilda, Auroraasks Cord and Sasha if they'd like to move into the Pineapple Street property. According Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to Galbraithanother property, this briefcase contains confidential notes concerning an important patient a street or so away, which they own. They won't need any of his at the hospitalfurniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and Cord can move straight in. George agrees to look into the theft Nominally, assuming it will be they had a relatively easy choice but that wasn't the reality. Darley and straightforward case – little does he know, heGeorgiana start to call Sasha 'the gold digger'. She's about living in ''their'' family home. They use it so often that they abbreviate it to enter a world of deceit and dysfunction'the GD'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178565005X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Diney CosteloeEmily Critchley|title=The New NeighboursOne Puzzling Afternoon

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Dartmouth Circle 84 year old Edie has always been lived in the epitome of British middle class propriety. Manicured lawnssame small town for almost her whole life, well-kept but now she is facing a move as her son wants to move to another house facades… All is where it should be and life bring Edie to live with his family, as Edie is orderedstarting to lose her memory. However, with Edie is tormented by the disrupting influence memory of her childhood friend, Lucy, who went missing over 60 years ago, and the worry that there was a secret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be the thing that reveals the towntruth of what happened all that time ago. After 'seeing's university students out Lucy in the high street, just as she was the last time she saw her, she starts to find pockets of sight memories coming back to her. And yet as she remembers the past, she is forgetting more and out of mindmore in her day to day life. ImagineWill she uncover the truth about Lucy's disappearance before her move, thenand before her memories are gone forever?|isbn=1804181250}}{{Frontpage|author=Madelaine Lucas|title=Thirst 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 horror when narrator relives the good citizens of affair with a man twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the Circle hear that one of their houses… THEIR houses… has been bought as student accommodationsummer after. Will it be Set against the harbinger backdrop of doom they expect?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.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784972665</amazonuk>0861546490

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alexander McCall Smith0008506337|title=A Distant View of EverythingThe Garnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore

|summary=Ah, Isabel Dalhousie! The more I read about Isabellove affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, the more I like herapparently on both sides. I could see, Margo was just sixteen when they fell in this book in particular, how annoying she could potentially be love. Richard was twenty-one and described by Margo's mother as a friend, since she is forever gazing off into the distance, heading into 'an older man'. Her parents worried that Richard's influence would take her inner imaginings rather than staying focussed on the conversation, and yet I think away from what they felt she would be an interesting, and thoughtcould achieve -provoking, sort of friend going to haveOxford and having a glittering career. In this, the eleventh novel in the seriesevent, Isabel finds herself once more embroiled in someone else's business. She, they eloped and Richard took her husband Jamie, are starting away from the Isle of Wight. Margo did go to be resigned Oxford and went on to the fact that she just can't help but get involved! become a well-respected journalist. Mysteries aboundThe couple had three children: Rachel, both Imogen and Sasha. Life was lived in this business London and in her own holidays were spent at Sandcove, the family life, as we watch her day home on 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 day doings up leave him in Edinburghcharge''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408709392</amazonuk>Then Richard left them.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Margaret Forster1914585402|title= How to Measure a CowDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross|rating=34.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Seeking to escape her past, Tara has left London, resettling way up north in Cumbria where no-one knows her. She quickly settles into an anonymous, unexciting life, observed only I reviewed David F Ross's book [[There's Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's Only One Danny Garvey]] a couple of years back and remember being absolutely floored by Nancy, her elderly neighbour who begins to develop an odd obsession with herhow powerful and affecting it was. MeanwhileIt was a gripping, her three childhood friends are baffled by her disappearanceemotionally wounding read, and resolve to get back in touch with herrereading my review of it my main takeaway was that I might not have lavished enough praise on it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784702307</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Steven AnthonyLucy Ashe|title=Isaac Montgomery for the Love of BethClara and Olivia|rating=34.5

|summary=There The year is 1933. The place? Sadler's Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are words to describe sisters, twins no less. Identical on the Isaac Montgomery outside but not, we meet at the beginning of learn, on the storyinside. Unfortunately they're And not words you usually use in polite companyon stage, either. HeBecause there'd worked for many years in stockbroking and had made s a substantial fortune, but his life was devoid of much in the way of personal relationships. When he required lot that builds a woman as an escort, he paiddancer. He assumed Some things that if he was having a good timecan be taught or learnt – discipline, then she were too - if he even bothered attention to think about it. He had a friend whom he didn't see all that often detail – and it was when he thought about Phil some things, that a little ''jealousyje ne sais quoi'' crept into Isaac, that don's heartt come from the classroom. You seeA stage presence, Phil was engaged to Penelope and they were obviously happya charm, a ''joie de vivre''. Isaac began to wonder what love was The difference between a hard- worker, and how you went about finding someone to share your life witha star.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>152466815X</amazonuk>0861544080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Kate BeaufoyHeather Fawcett|title= The Gingerbread HouseEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries|rating= 4|genre= General Fiction|summary=''The Gingerbread House'' Emily Wilde is not a cottage from a fairytale where a wicked old witch lives but it is in a wonderful rural settingan expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, perfect for getting away from it all. Or it would beand researched meticulously, if it werento write her life't for s work, the lady who lives there whovery first encyclopaedia of faeries. Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, while she is not so good with people. So when she finds herself far from a witch, can be a bit far North in the small village of a b*tch. It's Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the village matriarch, she is not entirely her fault. Eleanor sure what she has dementia done, nor how to redeem herself and put her final investigations for her fading mind makes book back on the right track. Enter Wendell Bambleby, her confuseddashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, angry all charm and quite hard work delight, much to care for. With her current carer off to attend her daughterEmily's wedding, Eleanor's daughter in law Tess steps up to assume this role in frustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the interim, bringing her precocious daughter Katia with her.faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785300865</amazonuk>0356519120

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Pam Jenoff1398515388|title=The Orphan's TaleBoy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)

|summary=Herr Neuroff's circus has a secret: as well as a much needed wartime source First of entertainmentall, it's also refuge to Jews escaping uncertain concentration camp fates. One such personwas the earthquake, Astriddeep in the ocean floor, a trapeze which created the tsunami and high wire artistthis, lives a precarious life in which her possible discovery would be more dangerous than her nightly actturn, caused the nuclear meltdown. She's an expert who has perfected her art over time The result was complete and therefore resents Neuroff demanding she teach Noa, a non-circus family new comer, quicklyutter devastation. There's a reason behind The deaths were uncountable, and the circus owner's demand thoughloss of livelihoods was widespread. Noa arrives at The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the circus endangered by an act list of kindness: priorities but - six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a Jewish baby she stole from dog outside a Nazi train before leaving the Netherlandsconvenience store. It was He wasn't a spur of dog person but the moment decision convenience store owner's comment that will bind her he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to Astrid open his car door and their future, no matter how long… or short… a time that may beTamon the dog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848455364</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Otto de Kat and Laura Watkinson (translator)Christopher Bowden|title=The Longest NightMr Magenta|rating=3.54|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=Emma has Christopher Bowden's latest novel is a patient untangling of a philosophy – seemingly ordinary woman''let the dead rests life, and love the living''carried out by her nephew after she has died. The problem with that, as aunt who always provided a 96-year-old, is that there are too few living left, safe harbour and so while the love remains she will go through her memories, taking a woozy, diaphanous path through all the major events little bit of her indulgence to a young nephew had had a much more interesting life. Starting in wartime Berlin with one husband, who gets snatched from her at work, fleeing to another place than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and it seems to wait for peace, and wait for him in vain, moving an obligation to Holland and finding new love, and so on – this wispy journey will show find it all the impacts of war, from rationing right up to exile, death and survivalout. The memories are coming strongly here and now, as Emma is waiting for at least one of her two sons to visit, and then she will die…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857056085</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Irvine WelshJennifer Mason|title= The Blade ArtistPartitions of Unity|rating= 54|genre= Crime General Fiction|summary=So. In the interest of honest disclosure I should tell you that I love Irvine Welsh's work and I must confess to a particularly gruesome fancy for BegbieHere at Bookbag Towers, the notoriously violentwe first met Elizabeth Cromwell, terrifying protector/tormentor of the Trainspotting gang. Whilst this means you are unlikely to receive an unbiased reviewdominatrix and unintentional detective in [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], it does mean you will get when she investigated and unravelled a passionate oneseries of disappearances. It is fair to say that I loved In ''The Blade Artist'' and my only critique would be that it was over too quickly. For those Partitions of you who may not be familiar with Welsh's earlier manifestations have no fear, you can pick up 'Unity'The Blade Artist'' and be transfixed by Jim Francis, artist, father, husband and elegant thugshe sets her mind to solving a murder.. For those of you with previous knowledge of Francis Begbie you'll be instantly drawn back into the world of a man previously defined by petty vengeance, violence and blood.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178470055X</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Amanda RobertsWill Carver|title=The Roots of Daves Next Door|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary= Five strangers come together in one moment as a suicide bomber prepares to detonate his vest on a London tube line. As their fates overlap, the story is told in backwards order, leading up to the Treefateful moment.|isbn= 1914585186}} {{Frontpage|author=Jennifer Mason|title=Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery

|summary=The strength of ''A struggling poetry zine, a tree comes not from what you can see, not from the trunk, the branches mom-and -pop mobile diner in the leavesNorthern California redwoods, but from what you can't see a 400- meter hurdler who just missed the roots. Disturbance to the roots can be devastating. It2004 Olympics, a women's similar in human beings. Annie had lived track coach with a yen for 63 yearsbullwhips, secure in a billionaire with a state-of-the love of her parents-art S&M dungeon, Elsie and Frank. She'd looked after them a man serving a life sentence in her home Alabama, an enigmatic signature, K(s, x), on a cheap oil painting, an erotic art dealer in their final years and it was quite by chance that she came across their wedding certificate when she was sorting out their effectsGeorgia... They had not been married until ''after'' her birth, but her birth certificate showed Frank as her father  This is just a sample of the cast of characters and that her mother was married to himsettings in Preposterous. Something didn't add As you can see, some keeping up and there was one inescapable conclusion: the man she'd loved as her father all those years ''wasn't'' her father after allwill be required! The basic premise of this mystery story goes like this...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1909716863</amazonuk>B09STS96HS