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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Stephen FryJenny Lecoat|title= Mythos: A Retelling of the Myths of Ancient GreeceBeyond Summerland|rating= 54|genre= ReferenceGeneral Fiction|summary= The Greek Myths Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are, arguably, celebrating the end of the greatest stories ever toldoccupation. So old and influential they cast During the war, Jean's father was arrested for listening to a shadow over western tales banned radio and traditionssoldiers took him away one night, yet remain relatable leaving Jean and readable millennia laterher mother waiting for years for news of him. Here comedian As the British finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, actorand the war is finally over, television presenter, actor and author Stephen Fry brings his considerable talent to these special stories and recreates them with their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him. But will the truth come as a witrelief, warmth and humanity that brings them into or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the informer who told the Nazis about the modern age whilst still giving radio? And what other secrets have been kept throughout the honour and respect that such ancient and influential stories deserve. occupation?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0718188721</amazonuk>1846976537

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lorenzo Marone and Shaun Whiteside (Translator)Onyi Nwabineli|title=The Temptation Allow Me to Be HappyIntroduce Myself

|summary=Cesare is 77Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, widowedbasically, generally ignored by the offspring he likes monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and bothered too much by to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the one he doesn'tcontent about her. StillAnuri is battling alcoholism, he finds ways failing to fill his daysstart her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. If he's not taking advantage of his friend-with-benefits arrangement with aging lady of the night RossanaMost importantly, or keeping an eye on his grandsonshe is desperately worried about her little sister, hewho is the new focus of Ophelia's making mischief in league with elderly neighbours like Signora Vitaliano (local mad cat woman) and Marino (the non-IT-literate computer guy)online empire. Their minds are diverted from their usual pursuits when a young couple move into the apartment block providing Cesare Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with a concern and the conviction that he has to do something, whatever her father at the fall out or personal danger.same time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786072882</amazonuk>0861546873

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529153298|title=The List of Suspicious Things|author=Lars Mytting Jennie Godfrey|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's 1979 and Paul Russell Grant Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (TranslatorA woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035906708|title=The Sixteen Trees of the SommeDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin

|summary=While his grandfather lived the past We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was an area of certainty for Edvard. At aged 4 he'd been taken born to live with his grandparentsGreek parents in Manhattan, having survived the accident that killed his parentsNew York, in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Now his grandfather has died revelations are coming Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to light showing Edvard his family history is different from what he'd believed… his motherCallas's birthplace, his mother's name, the whereabouts of late Great-Uncle Einar… and that's without looking to make it more deeply into manageable in the fatal accident itselfStates. Edvard is determined to solve When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the puzzle, Nazi occupation by a determination that will take him away from his native Norway to an area mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of France synonymous with devastation and a remote Scottish island loaded with secretsher preference for her elder sister, Jackie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857056069</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Louis de BernieresAlexander McCall Smith|title=Blue DogThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=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 more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=The Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Paranormal|summary=Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it's 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 bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Spike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491}}{{Frontpage|author=Katherine Howe|title=A True Account|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to live with a family who run an inn, and being made to work there from a young age. When she hears there is to be a hanging of some pirates in the 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 hands of two vicious pirates. She hides away, so that they don't find and kill her too, and then to escape them completely she runs away to sea, dressing as a boy and joining the notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. She soon finds herself in the thick of things when there is a mutiny on board, and from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the ocean waves.|isbn=0861547438}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1471180158|title=Maybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Jamie 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 son, Bo, 'has his problems'. He's asthmatic and the more you read, the more you'll suspect that he's on the autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's a frequent flier in the local A&E and 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 a head.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0CKD1L5JL|title=Radio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn

|summary=MickPetr 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 mother had Olympic Peninsula. After Bear dies and a brief sojourn in human company, and armed with only a pirate radio transmitter, Petr goes on a mental breakdown after his father's death journey through the forest, broadcasting the strange, wild and Mick rarely heard voices he encounters.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sarah Marsh|title=A Sign of Her Own|rating=3.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=After a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, everything about her life changes. Living in a time when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to live in a school where she is taught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the outback with Granpadeaf and using a system called Visible Speech. On At the face same time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of it youespionage.|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.''d think that it  Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of her fifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. She was going to a very bright student, a bit too nerdy if truth be a lonely life for an eleven-yeartold, and suffered from vitiligo -old city boy, with no school people were afraid to attend, hug her in fact no other children anywhere nearcase it's contagious. GranpaIt's busy too: life on not easy being a cattle station black girl whose skin is brutal for anyone, with all the heat 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 the dusthe raped her. But they've all got In shock, she even allowed him to make the best of the situationgive her a lift home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784704172</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah Winman1472263936|title=Tin ManThe Figurine|author=Victoria Hislop

|summary=Ellis is a tin man – someone who practices the under-esteemed art of panel beatingIt was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. He can remove a dintShe was alone: her mother, dent or blemish Greek by expertly applying force so that you can't even feel where birth, had left the mark was. If he has family home and refused to choose what would define his life, thoughreturn, but Mary and Hamish (Helena's parents) felt that it wouldn’t would be his joba pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. It Her trip to the family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be Michael the first of several annual visits. She grew to love her grandmother and Anniethe family's maid, Dina, but was wary - and frightened - of her grandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. Michael, He was proud of his close connections to the lad he grew up with Junta and Annie who completed their triangle, changing expected his family to uphold his values but saw no reason to accommodate them. His prejudices included Helena'everything s red hair and nothinggreen eyes - inherited from her father's Scottish ancestors. Now only Ellis remains…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755390954</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Durian Sukegawa and Alison Watts (translator)Dean Koontz|title= Sweet Bean PasteAfter Death|rating= 53|genre= General Fiction|summary=''Sweet Bean Paste'' centres on SentaroMichael Mace, an ex-con who dreams Head of being Security, at a writer, but instead spends his days making dorayakitop secret biological research facility, is among 55 people who die when a virus is released in a type of Japanese pancakebio-hazard accident. He reluctantly employs Tokue Finding himself in a makeshift mortuary, covered in plastic, an elderly lady with disfigured handshe has a sense that something very, after tasting her divine bean paste - very bad has happened to him – and only him – as he sits up and looks around at the perfect filling for said dorayakishrouded bodies of his dead friends and former colleagues. Predictably As he recovers his senses, he realises that there is something different about him; he can ''feel'' everything. ''Everything''. Michael isn't ''Michael'' anymore.|isbn=1662500467}} {{Frontpage|isbn=B0BVDC2VWH|title=The Grave Listeners|author=William Frank|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=The village is isolated and poor. It's surrounded by a friendship soon blossoms between Witching Forest. And the villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicines. The black wood of the pairforest provides heat and warmth, roofs on homes, despite her age and appearanceeven gallows, if needed. In many waysThe fear of being buried alive is an existential superstition in the village and that is the reason Volushka, this could sound cliché - a protagonist learns a valuable lesson about not judging someone by their appearance after finding a friend in someone they never expected to likedrunken, not exactly an unheardself-indulgent, lazy lout of concepta man is tolerated. Yet, Sukegawa still manages to enthral his audience.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786071959</amazonuk>

 {{newreview <!-- remove 11 Oct -->Frontpage|authorisbn=Terence J FryB0BYF82CXT|title=The Creative Writer for the Creative NewspaperSemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone|rating=1.54

|summary=The man we shall come to know as The Creative Writer was looking out ''Bill and Amanda are living in a semi-detached house, stuck in a depressing rut of the window of his office boredom and disappointment, when he spotted a beautiful woman struggling to stay upright Terry and Fiona – glamorous, successful and very much in love – move in the tornado which was rattling the windows ferociouslynext door. Then he realised that it wasn't just Despite their different outlooks on life, the dreadful weather which was affecting her: the woman was doubled up in pain couples befriend each other and he could see bloodlife appears to improve for both pairs. AmazinglyBut all is not what it seems, no one was stopping to help her, worried, he would find out later that, they might be sued if something went wrong. The Creative Writer had no such worries - he dashed out into the tornado and brought her back into the house, shouting at his grandmother that she should call an ambulancetheir increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524682136</amazonuk>''

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Catherine BurnsShalini Boland|title= The VisitorsSilent Bride|rating= 53|genre= ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Marion Zetland lives with her domineering older brotherAlice and Seth are a match made in heaven. He is everything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, Johnclever, funny; total and utter husband-material. She is all he could possibly want in a decaying Georgian townhouse on the edge of a northern seaside resort. A timid spinster in her fifties who still sleeps with teddy bearswife; beautiful, successful, Marion does her best to shut out confident… and so the shocking secret that John keeps in inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and the cellarwedding is planned and set. Until, suddenly When the much-anticipated day arrives, John has a heart attack and Marion Alice is forced to go walked down to the cellar herself aisle by her father, beaming with pride and face excitement as she surveys the gruesome truth that her brother has kept hidden. As questions are asked congregation – their friends assembled to celebrate this joyful day and secrets unravelwhen Seth turns to face his approaching bride, maybe John isnAlice't s world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the only one with a dark sideman at the altar is, who is waiting for her to become his wife.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1787199851</amazonuk>1662507089

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= J R Ward1787636003|title= Devil's CutThe Girls of Summer|author=Katie Bishop|rating= 45|genre= General Fiction|summary=I feel as though I came to this book under false pretenses. I requested It was the book thinking I was getting a murder mystery summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and instead I arrived on the island. Rachel wasn't exactly innocent but she was thrown head first into a roaring family saga. Indeed, said murder mystery though pivotal in the history of the familyperhaps, naive, is more of a quiet subplot and catalyst from where to begin the storytelling for the book. And so it was I was met with the Baldwine family and the Bradford Bourbon Company. The initial meeting is a romantic one as the family are presented high up in their castle on the hill when thirty-four-year- or old Alistair Wright started to take an interest in this case from their beautiful Kentuckian Bradford Family Estate replete with tea rosesher, fruit trees and hazy Southern sunshineshe was flattered rather than wary. It isn't long however was quite a while before Ward transports the reader from such rolling splendour 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 darkest corners of human psychology wherein fathers island and sons may share in particular in the bar where all the same lover, brothers are divided by suspicion and jealousy and women are used as trophies and commoditiesgirls either worked or partied.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349417024</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Phill FeatherstoneAmanda Craig|title= Paradise Girl|rating= 3|genre= General Fiction|summary= Kerryl Shaw lives on a Yorkshire farm – a somewhat idealised one that survives on a few hens and two or three cows and a few sheep. The kind of farm that might have been profitable in the 1950s but by the time Kerryl has arrived should have been struggling. A teenage boy not pulling his weight, now that the grandparents are old and the father is dead, would not be met with exasperated indulgence. There are no stock-hands, no farm managers, no applications for subsidies, or worries about the tax return. Maybe the unwelcome wind turbine covers the costs of the rest of it. Already, in setting, it's feeling a little unreal. But maybe we can forgive that… |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785898728</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sandra Aragona|title=Sorting the Priorities: Ambassadress and Beagle Survive DiplomacyThree Graces

|summary=Sarah is married to Giorgio and when we first meet them heFew styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of-the-nation novel. There's Something Very Senior in something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the foreign ministry in Rome, much to atmosphere of the disappointment of his mother who thought that he'd be there for her (in Sicily), but not only does he go day and marry a foreignercapture it, he has a job which will take him all over crafting an image of the worldcountry as it stands in one particular moment. Such To say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's practically synonymous with the life genre of the diplomatcontemporary social fiction at this point. Their two daughters have to lead She has such a pretty peripatetic life too, but when gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the family comes day into our the lives they're all of her characters in Rome a way that feels natural and lived- in, never making them ciphers for the time being - and just back from Nigeria. To add to the confusion there's Beaglesocial commentary but instead fully realised people, just about as undiplomatic a dog as you'll encountergrappling with issues far larger than themselves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1542733405</amazonuk>140871468X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Thomas Neviaser152915118X|title=You Dear, Sweet ManPineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson

|summary=Bobby Fastow's journey to work on 'Pineapple Street'' is the subway was an oasis story of calm in an otherwise exhausting daythree women: nothing was required of himSasha, Darley and Georgiana. He could sit Darley and relax, gazing at the adverts until he got to his stop George are sisters and went Sasha is married to his physically-demanding jobtheir brother Cord. The ad for BurgerBlast caught his eye: They're Stocktons, only Sasha isn't a beautiful woman was sitting on a boardroom table, encouraging you to read about Stockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the businesstribe. The problem's exacerbated when the clan matriarch, Tilda, asks Cord and Sasha if they'd like to move into the Pineapple Street property. Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to another property, a street or so away , which they own. They won't need any of the furniture from artery-choking food to Pineapple Street, so Sasha and Cord can move straight in. Nominally, they had a healthier menu, choice but it that wasn't the message which caught Bobby's attentionreality. It was Darley and Georgiana start to call Sasha 'the womangold digger'. She seemed 's living in ''their'' family home. They use it so often that they abbreviate it to be looking directly at him and he could have sworn that she winked..'the GD'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0976018527</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Laura SolomonEmily Critchley|title=Taking WainuiOne Puzzling Afternoon|rating=24|genre=General FictionCrime|summary= This 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 starting to lose her memory. However, Edie is tormented by the first time I have come across Laura Solomon's workmemory of her childhood friend, Lucy, who went missing over 60 years ago, and the worry that there was a New Zealand writer who has won writing prizes secret she was keeping for both her fiction and poetryLucy that somehow might be the thing that reveals the truth of what happened all that time ago. Although this book appears After 'seeing' Lucy in the high street, just as she was the last time she saw her, she starts to be a collection find pockets of short storiesmemories coming back to her. And yet as she remembers the past, I found its format somewhat confusingshe is forgetting more and more in her day to day life. Will she uncover the truth about Lucy's disappearance before her move, and before her memories are gone forever?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>8193409353</amazonuk>1804181250

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Debbie HowellsMadelaine Lucas|title= The Death of HerThirst for Salt|rating= 35|genre= General Literary Fiction|summary=In a quiet part of rural Cornwall''Love, I'd read, villagers are shocked was supposed to learn that be a local woman has been attacked light and left weightless feeling, but I had always longed for dead in gravity'' Told from a maize field. So severe are her injuriesretrospective view, a young woman unravels the year-long relationship that once defined her memory has been affected and she struggles to remember details of her life. She tells Overlaid with later wisdom, the police that she thinks narrator relives the affair with a man twenty years her name is Eviesenior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the summer after. Then, she remembers something else; she has a threeSet against the backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the 24-year-old daughter called Angel. Where is Angel, and what happened to her when her mother was attacked? The police frantically search for Angelnarrator's whereaboutsdeepening relationship with her older lover, but depicting its all-consuming nature, how it changed her perspective on closer examination of Evie's cottage, they find no evidence of a child ever having lived there..both romantic and familial relationships and how it altered her irrevocably.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509834648</amazonuk>0861546490

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alexander McCall Smith0008506337|title=The House of Unexpected SistersGarnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore

|summary=Dear Mma Ramotswe is backThe love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, for the eighteenth (!) book apparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in the series, love. Richard was twenty-one and described by Margo's mother as 'an older man'. Her parents worried that Richard's influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and having a beautiful book it isglittering career. I ran through In the whole tumult of emotions whilst reading this storyevent, with all they eloped and Richard took her away from the usual moments Isle of humour, annoying (Wight. Margo did go to Oxford and yet endearing) idiosyncrasies of characterwent on to become a well-respected journalist. The couple had three children: Rachel, low level mystery solving Imogen and endless cups of redbush teaSasha. There is a case for Life was lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, the family home on the agency with a lady who has been wrongfully fired from her jobIsle of Wight. ThereEven then the doubts about Richard's the worrying, background presence of Mma Makutsidrinking were never far from Margo's nemesis, Violet Sepotho, who must surely have been involved mind: ''she would never be able to leave him in this poor ladycharge''s job woes. And there is the difficult discovery of an unknown family member for Mma Ramotswe, and an unwelcome return from another Then Richard left them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408708140</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Maja Lunde and Diane Oatley (translator)1914585402|title=The History of BeesDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross|rating=4.5

|summary=Bees are a handy symbol of the planetI reviewed David F Ross's environmental degradation, as youbook [[There'll know if you've read anything s Only One Danny Garvey by [[:Category:Dave GoulsonDavid F Ross|Dave GoulsonThere's Only One Danny Garvey]] – whose endorsement is featured proudly on the cover a couple of this Uyears back and remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and affecting it was.K. release It was a gripping, emotionally wounding read, and rereading my review of Norwegian children's writer Maja Lunde's first novel for adultsit my main takeaway was that I might not have lavished enough praise on it. The creatures also provide subtle links between the book's three story lines.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471162745</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jem VanstonLucy Ashe|title=A Cat Called Dog 2 - The One with the KittensClara and Olivia|rating=4.5

|summary=GeorgeThe year is 1933. The place? Sadler's Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, Dog twins no less. Identical on the cat and Eric outside but not, we learn, on the stray were indulging themselves with a philosophical discussion when they heard some strange mewinginside. Three kittens had found their way into the garden and told the resident cats that their mother had told them to run away when a two-legs cat catcher came for them allAnd not on stage, either. Mother couldnBecause there't run as she had s a lot that builds a sore paw, but Daisy, Maisie and Boo had run and run and rundancer. They'd no idea what happened to her - Some things that can be taught or how learnt – discipline, attention to get back home again. George is getting on in years detail – and wouldnsome things, that ''je ne sais quoi'', that don't like to upset his two legscome from the classroom. A stage presence, a charm, a ''joie de vivre''. The Ladydifference between a hard-worker, by being away from home for too long, so he appoints Dog as leader of an expedition to reunite the kittens and their Mothera star.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786293390</amazonuk>0861544080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Susi OsborneHeather Fawcett|title=Angelica StoneEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

|summary=I'd say that Angelica Stone was known as Angel to her friendsEmily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, but and she's not big on friends. She has the sort of background you dread hearing about: sexually abused as a childtravelled extensively, grabbed by the care system and didnresearched meticulously, to write her life't so much fall through s work, the cracks as escaped its clutches very first encyclopaedia of faeries. Whilst she is brilliant at research and then had speaking to learn how to copefaeries, she is not so good with people. She's been told that So when she's taintedfinds herself far, far North in the small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the village matriarch, that she ruins every relationship without intending is not sure what she has done, nor how to redeem herself and that she's best staying away from 'decent' peopleput her final investigations for her book back on the right track. One of Enter Wendell Bambleby, her jobs is working in a supermarket dashingly handsome and it's there that she meets Lola Moriarty insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and ''shedelight, much to Emily's'' a completely different kettle of fishfrustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1911320947</amazonuk>0356519120

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Virginia Macgregor1398515388|title= Before I Was YoursThe Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Rosie can see clearly her future family First of all, it was the earthquake, deep in her mind. And when that doesn't happenthe ocean floor, she adapts. So maybe she won't carry which created the baby inside hertsunami and this, in turn, but that lovely blonde girl at caused the adoption event could be their new daughternuclear meltdown. The result was complete and utter devastation. Yes The deaths were uncountable, she looks like she belongs to them already. It's meant to be. Except it's not. Rosie and Sam don't get to have a genetic child the loss of livelihoods was widespread. The fact that many pets were separated from their own, and they don't get to adopt owners came far down the perfect blonde girl. They end up with list of priorities but - six months after the exact opposite: tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a boy from Kenya with dog outside a peculiar back story and an ardent wish not to be adoptedconvenience store. As optimistic as Rosie and Sam try to be, this isn He wasn't quite what they pictured or hoped fora dog person but the convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and Tamon the dog jumped in. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751565229</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author= Gabrielle ZevinChristopher Bowden|title= Young Jane YoungMr Magenta|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=Aviva Grossman, an ambitious Congressional intern in Florida, makes the life-changing mistake of having an affair with her boss - who is beloved, admired, successful, and very married - and blogging about it. When the affair comes to light, the Congressman doesnChristopher Bowden't take the fall, but Aviva does, and her life s latest novel is over before it hardly begins. She becomes a late-night talk show punchline; she is slut-shamed, labelled as fat and ugly, and considered patient untangling of a blight on politics in general.How does one go on after this? In Avivaseemingly ordinary woman's caselife, she sees no way carried out but to change by her name and move to a remote town in Mainenephew after she has died. She starts over as The aunt who always provided a wedding planner, tries to be smarter about her life, safe harbour and to raise her daughter to be strong and confident.But when, at the urging a little bit of others, she decides indulgence to run for public office herself, that long-ago mistake trails her via the Internet like a scarlet A. These days, Google guarantees young nephew had had a much more interesting life than that the past is never, nephew Stephen had ever, truly past, that everything you've done will live on for everyone realised and it seems to him an obligation to know about for find it all eternity. And it's only a matter of time until Aviva/Jane's daughter, Ruby, finds out who her mother was, and is, and must decide whether she can still respect her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408709805</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Henrietta Rose-InnesJennifer Mason|title= Green LionPartitions of Unity|rating= 4|genre= General Fiction|summary= The opening 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 series of disappearances. In ''Green LionPartitions of Unity'' is an apparently simple premise; a young South African man, Con, is tasked with picking up the belongings of an old friend, Mark, who is lying in she sets her mind to solving a coma in hospitalmurder. Mark worked at a small zoo with a rare black-maned lioness, who mauled him and caused the coma. However, as the story unfolds, Rose-Innes reveals an unflinching embrace of the messiness of human and animal life, and their troubled interactions. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910709255</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alexander McCall SmithWill Carver|title=A Time of Love and TartanThe Daves Next Door|rating=54|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 fateful moment.|isbn= 1914585186}} {{Frontpage|author=Jennifer Mason|title=Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery|rating=4

|summary=Here we are''A struggling poetry zine, back on Scotland Street, eager to see what everyone (especially Bertie…) has been up to! This is now the twelfth book a mom-and-pop mobile diner in the Scotland Street series which is remarkable. That Northern California redwoods, a serial novel has such momentum, and that 400-meter hurdler who just missed the characters within have become so very familiar to AMS's loyal readers2004 Olympics, is a testament to his skills as a writer. This time around our nerves are on edge as Pat ventures back towards a relationship with the dreadful Bruce! Surely shewomen'll see sense...won't she?! Matthew, of all people, is in trouble s track coach with the police, Irene is busy planning a PhD, and Bertie? Could there be a happy ending yen for Bertie in the air?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973821</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jess Richards|title= City of Circles|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy|summary= Danu is a tightrope walker who is mourning her parentsbullwhips, after a disease has ravaged the circus where she grew up. Her mother has entrusted her billionaire with a locket that hides a secret. Over state-of-the years, Danu pushes away her grief and develops elaborate and successful high-wire acts with Morrieart S&M dungeon, a charismatic hunchback who wants to marry her. When the circus returns to Danu'man serving a life sentence in Alabama, an enigmatic signature, K(s birthplace, Matryoshkax), Danu is enchanted by the templeson a cheap oil painting, spice mists, and pleasure seekers within the intoxicating outer circle districtan erotic art dealer in Georgia... Here, she finally gains the courage to open her mother's locket, and discovers the name ' This is just a sample of a stranger who lives behind the locked gate cast of the Inner Circle. Fated to remain characters and settings in Matryoshka, Danu attempts to resolve this mysteryPreposterous. Will she and Morrie ever be reunitedAs you can see, or some keeping up will something far more unexpected be waiting for her in the mysterious heart required! The basic premise of the city?this mystery story goes like this...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473656680</amazonuk>B09STS96HS