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|isbnauthor=0857527231Jenny Lecoat|title=Dog Days|author=Ericka WallerBeyond Summerland|rating=54

|summary=George Dempsey is exceedingly angryJean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of the occupation. ItDuring the war, Jean's eight days since his wife, Ellenfather was arrested for listening to a banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, died leaving Jean and it's the first time that she's let her mother waiting for years for news of him down. He's lostAs the British finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, bereft without her ( he ''needs his wifeand the war is finally over, like a snail needs its shell'')their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him. He misses their ordered life and rather than bringing him meals to leave on But will the doorsteptruth come as a relief, he'd much rather have a good row with someone. or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the war? He's particularly angry Who was the informer who told the Nazis about the dachshund puppy which Helen brought home just three weeks before she died. radio? She even dared to contradict him when he told her that And what other secrets have been kept throughout the dog wasn't staying. Now he's lumbered with a dog he doesn't want and a load of busybodies who are trying to interfere in his life. Worst of all is Betty, who won't take no for an answer. Betty knits jumpers for Lucky, her greyhound. Lucky spends a lot of time trying to escape from and destroy them.occupation?|isbn=1846976537

|author=Martin VenningOnyi Nwabineli|title=The Primary ObjectiveAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=24.5

|summary= Sometimes a book starts off slowly, but eventually draws you in Anuri spent her childhood on display to caring about the characters or simply wanting world, thanks to know what happens next. Sometimes it doesnher step-mother Ophelia't. The basic premise is a good one – a clandestine organisations increasingly popular presence on social media, operating as a charity, but funded by various governments around the world where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and partially (maybe, I'm not sure) under the auspices of the UNbasically, with the primary objective of keeping the peace, by any means possiblemonetary gain. Diplomacy Now Anuri is always the first option in her twenties and sometimes one that needs she is slowly trying to be carried out by third parties, but for situations when that looks unlikely regain her confidence and to yield results Peace International maintains a call-on list of field operativesget her life back, exsuing her step-militarymother to take down the content about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, medicsfailing to start her PhD, scientists or anyone else with a taste for adventure undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and willing to risk their life receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the sake new focus of itOphelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=18004611000861546873

|authorisbn=Karen M McManus1529153298|title=The CousinsList of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey

|summary= The rich It's 1979 and famous Story Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family led a life of luxury on Gull Cove Island, until 25 years ago when each of the Story children - Andersthough. Women have been disappearing. Well, Archerthey've been murdered, Adam and Allison - received a mysterious letter 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 their mother and were cut off completely. But nowYorkshire, Down South is a quarter of a century laterfrightening, foreign place, their children have been called to return to the island for the summer by their grandmotherbest avoided. What does she want with For Miv, the cousins? Why did she cut off move would mean leaving her children all those years ago? Are the deaths on Gull Cove Island really what they seem? The dark web of twisted liesbest friend, Sharon, secrets and tragedy she'll do anything to prevent that has held . She's not worried about the Story family up - and held them apart dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - for a quarter of a century is about to come crashing downanyone.|isbn=0241376947

|authorisbn=Ruth Hogan1035906708|title=Madame BurovaDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin

|summary=This book lets us discover several people in different stages We tend to think of life in the early 1970s, all vaguely connected. So we have a bullied half-cast boy (Maria Callas as he would have been called then)Greek, a girl but she was born to Greek parents in a humdrum job wanting to become a singerManhattan, and chieflyNew York, Imelda, the third generation of Madame Burova, ''Tarot-Reader, Palmist in December 1923 and Clairvoyant'', only moved to use Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her familyfather changed it to 's sea-front booth. The singer, the scryer and the suffererCallas's mother will all become staff at a revamped holiday camp, but just before then we see Imelda fly solo for the first time to make it more manageable in the family stallStates. We also see her on her last day, fifty years later, When she was back in possession of a pair of letters Athens - supposedly so that will change everything she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a woman called Billie. Just mother who is she, mercilessly exploited her and who delivered the secrets about made no secret of her preference for her to Imeldaelder sister, and why did it have to remain a secret all this time?|isbn=152937331XJackie.

|author=Stephen ClarkeAlexander McCall Smith|title=The Spy Who Inspired MePerfect Passion Company|rating=4.5

|summary=This The Perfect Passion Company is a spoof spy storydating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, that isn't about James Bondtailored service. Or Ian FlemingNess 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. But it features Katie is coming out of a break up with a man called Ian Lemmingbad boyfriend, who dresses well and 'likes so jumps at the ladies' 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 who works for the secret serviceIsabel Dalhousie novels, but in the planning side of things more than the active servicewith some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Lemming finds himself put on a mission with Katie has no experience in running a female spy called Margauxbusiness, and the pair end up stranded or in Normandymatch-making, with Margaux on a desperate mission to unearth traitors but Ness has full confidence in the resistance networkher abilities, and Lemming desperately trying there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to keep up with her!lend a hand…|isbn=29521638551846976596

|author=Andrea Bajani and Elizabeth Harris (translator)Dean Koontz|title=If You Kept a Record of SinsThe Bad Weather Friend

|genre=Literary FictionParanormal|summary=This was an incredibly readable novella, but one that left me Benny is having a little conflictedterrifically bad day. We start as our hero arrives at Bucharest airport He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and before we even know his gender or the nature of the person he's addressing in his second person monologue of house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a narrationreally weird, we see him picked up by disturbing coffin-sized object to his motherhome, and it's chauffeurpossible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, and carted off Benny is the very last person to do deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the necessary introductions before said mother delivery to his house is buried the following day. The mother was a businesswomannew friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly left northern Italy and settled in Romania with her (night-time and business) partnerunder attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Spike is going to take care of Benny, and feelings will certainly take care of abandonment are still strong. And so we flit from current (wellBenny's enemies, this came out in the original Italian in 2007if he, so moderately current) BucharestBenny, to the ladand Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's childhood, and see just what he has to tell her as a private farewell addresswild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=19398109651662500491

|author=David F RossKatherine Howe|title= There's Only One Danny GarveyA True Account

|summary= Years agoHannah Masury is living in Boston, Danny Garvey was having been sent to live with a family who run an inn, and being made to work there from a footballing prodigy playing for his local clubyoung age. Everyone predicted When she hears there is to be a bright future – but his career hanging of some pirates in professional football never quite worked out. Thirteen years onthe town, convinced she decides to return home by his "uncle" Higgy to visit his dying mothergo and watch. Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, Danny takes over Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death at the shambolic hands of two vicious pirates. She hides away, so that they don't find and once-great team he used to play for kill her too, and tries then to reform escape themcompletely 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= 19131935000861547438}}

|authorisbn=Gail Honeyman1471180158|title=Eleanor Oliphant is Completely FineMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes

|summary= Eleanor Oliphant is almost 30. She lives Jamie Matson works in Glasgow, alone. And she likes it that way. She works 9an upper-5class grocery store, 5 days for a man who's a week, and spends control freak with all the weekend not drunk, but not sober. alonesubtlety of a half brick. And she likes it that way. She lives by a routine, and that Jamie's fineson, Bo, thankyouverymuch'has his problems'. Nothing is missing from her life. Except everything is. Until one day He's asthmatic and the more you read, at a concert she won tickets for in an office raffle, she sees the man she is sure will be her husband. Eleanor begins a journey to make herself the best version of herself more you'll suspect that she can, in order to secure this beautiful musician. Then, as shehe's on her way home one Friday, she and the new IT guy autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at her office see short notice - she's a man collapse frequent flier in the street local A&E and stay close sometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to him in hospitalschool. Then, before she knows it, her once quiet life becomes a hubbub of social engagements with Missed shifts or the man's family and friends, with Raymond need to be away on time to pick Bo up from IT school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and of course her side project of falling put in love with Johnnie Lomond. But just as her life seems to be looking up, things take a turn for the worsewrong. Is Johnnie all he's cracked up to be? What secrets does Eleanor have from her childhood? Eleanor's walls have been broken down and she has It was going to fight her way out of the shadows - but maybe she doesn't have come to do it alonea head.|isbn=0008172145

|isbn=B08GFSK2WZB0CKD1L5JL|title=The Karma TrapRadio Free Olympia|author=Lisette BoydJeffrey Dunn

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=George Jackson Petr is thirty-three years oldan orphan. Rescued by the strange, reclusive Bear, absolutely gorgeous to look at - he is brought up far from bustling cities and singlebusy human society, in the forests of Washington's Olympic Peninsula. She's not had sex for eight months After Bear dies and she's stuck a brief sojourn in the karma trap: an awful lot of bad luck is being visited human company, and armed with only a pirate radio transmitter, Petr goes on her and she has a real talent for attracting drama. Her life's chaotic: she dealt with the leak from the shower by putting something down at the bottom of the stairs to absorb the water - then the shower fell journey through the roof whilst she was in it and left herforest, stark nakedbroadcasting the strange, staring at the pervy postman. She only has to take her mother's dog out for a walk for her to end up with dog poo spattered across her face - wild and a photo being taken by someone who shares it around the officerarely heard voices he encounters.

|author=Matt HaigSarah 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 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 deaf and using a system called Visible Speech. At the same time, Bell is working 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 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=The Midnight LibraryFigurine|author=Victoria Hislop

|summary= Between life and death there is a library. And so, 38 minutes after Nora decided to die, she finds herself It was in the Midnight Library. Everything 1968 that could've gone wrong in Nora's life has. Her cat died, she lost her job, Helena McCloud made her brother won't speak first trip to Greece. She was alone: hermother, her parents are deadGreek by birth, had left the boy she teaches piano family home and refused to no longer cares about pianoreturn, she called off but Mary and Hamish (Helena's parents) felt that it would be a pity if Helena grew up without knowing her wedding, and old Mr Banerjee next door no longer needs grandparents or understanding her helpGreek heritage. She gave Her trip to the family apartment in up on all -market Kolonaki would be the things that would've let first of several annual visits. She grew to love her escape grandmother and the wetfamily's maid, cold town Dina, but was wary - and frightened - of Bedford and given her life some purposeful direction. So at 23:22grandfather, she realises that she isn't made for life and decides to dieretired general Stamatis Papagiannis. But instead He was proud of death, she finds his close connections to the library. Each infinite shelf is filled with books, each book providing a chance Junta and expected his family to uphold his values but saw no reason to try another life she could have lived, in a parallel timeaccommodate them. And so, just after midnight on Tuesday the 18th of April, Nora Seed begins to live every life she could His prejudices included Helena's red hair and green eyes - inherited from her father'ves Scottish ancestors.|isbn=1786892731

|author=Vincent PanettiereDean Koontz|title=These Thy GiftsAfter Death|rating=3|genre=General Fiction|summary= 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 bio-hazard accident. Finding himself in a makeshift mortuary, covered in plastic, he has a sense that something very, very 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, 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

|summary=The village is isolated and poor. It''2006 is s surrounded by a tumultuous year for Witching Forest. And the Catholic Churchvillagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicines. Reports The black wood of horrific sexual abuse are becoming widespreadthe forest provides heat and warmth, roofs on homes, and even gallows, if needed. Monsignor Steven Trimboli The fear of being buried alive is an existential superstition in the village and that is troubled. He worries for the future reason Volushka, a drunken, self-indulgent, lazy lout of the church—and rightly soa man is tolerated. A new crime will soon reverberate throughout his church and hit closer to home than he ever imagined.''}}

|isbn=B0BYF82CXT|title=Semi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=''Bill and Amanda are living in a semi-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 improve for both pairs. But all is not what it seems, and their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy.''}}{{Frontpage|author=Delia OwensShalini Boland|title=The Silent Bride|rating=3|genre=General Fiction|summary= 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 walked down the aisle by her father, beaming with pride and 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 man at the altar is, who is waiting for her to become his wife.|isbn=1662507089}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787636003|title=Where The Crawdads SingGirls of Summer|author=Katie Bishop

|summary= In 1952, Kya's mother disappeared up It was the dirt track to town, wearing her alligator heels, summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and never came home. Then one by one her siblings left, ran from the shack arrived on the North Carolina marsh that served as home and the life that would lead to nothing island. Rachel wasn't exactly innocent but sufferingshe was, perhaps, naive, leaving 7so when thirty-four-year-old Kya with her drunken father. Years pass and Kya - now nicknamed 'Marsh-Girl' – still yearns for a mother that would never return and grew up far too fast for a girl who can neither read nor write. Finally, one night her father never came home leaving Kya completely alone Alistair Wright started to survive on the marsh. Eventually, as the years drift painfully by, the time comes when Kya, now take an emotional and vastly intelligent young womaninterest in her, yearns for company besides the gulls and the land, yearning to be loved and to be heldshe was flattered rather than wary. So, when 2 boys from the town It was quite a while before he made any sort of Barkley Cove find their way physical approach to her, and by that time she finds a new way of lifewas obsessed by him. But in 1969 Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, looking after his interests on the body of former star quarterback island and new husband Chase Andrews is found lying in particular in the mud of bar where all the marsh, and everyone in town immediately suspects the mysterious, run-down Marsh-Girlgirls either worked or partied. Who is Kya now, after years of isolation and a broken, hardened heart? Is she really capable of murder?|isbn=1472154665

|author=Amanda Craig|title=Three Graces|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary= Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of-the-nation novel. There's something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the atmosphere of the day and capture it, crafting an image of the country as it stands in one particular moment. To say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's practically synonymous with the genre of contemporary social fiction at this point. She has such a gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the day into the lives of her characters in a way that feels natural and lived-in, never making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselves.|isbn=1473692407140871468X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=152915118X|title=Pineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=''Pineapple Street'' is the story of three women: Sasha, Darley and Georgiana. Darley and George are sisters and Sasha is married to their brother Cord. They're Stocktons, only Sasha isn't a Stockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the tribe. The Book 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 Two Waysthe furniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and Cord can move straight in. Nominally, they had a choice but that wasn't the reality. Darley and Georgiana start to call Sasha 'the gold digger'. She's living in ''their'' family home. They use it so often that they abbreviate it to 'the GD'.}}{{Frontpage|author=Jodi PicoultEmily Critchley|title=One Puzzling Afternoon

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Dawn Edelstein 84 year old Edie has lived in the same small town for almost her whole life, but now she is facing a death doula: 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 memory of her childhood friend, Lucy, who went missing over 60 years ago, and the worry that's someone who is there was a secret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be the thing that reveals the truth of what happened all that time ago. After 'seeing' Lucy in the person who is dyinghigh street, just as she was the last time she saw her, she starts to make their passage find pockets of memories coming back to whatever they believe in her. And yet as easy as possible she remembers the past, she is forgetting more and more in her day to support their carersday life. ItWill she uncover the truth about Lucy's a rewardingdisappearance before her move, caring occupation and Dawn puts before her heart 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 soul into it weightless feeling, but this wasnI had always longed for gravity''t always  Told from a retrospective view, a young woman unravels the year-long relationship that once defined her life. Some fifteen Overlaid with later wisdom, the narrator relives the affair with a man twenty years ago she was a graduate student at Yale working towards her doctorate: as senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the summer after. Set against the backdrop of an Egyptologist, she was working isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the 24-year-old narrator's deepening relationship with her supervisorolder lover, Professor Ian Dumphriesdepicting its all-consuming nature, how it changed her perspective on the Djehutyakht tombs at Deir el-Bersha on the Nile in Middle Egypt. Then she was Dawn McDowell: that was both romantic and familial relationships and how it altered her maiden name, the name she published underirrevocably.|isbn=0861546490

|isbn=02412959550008506337|title=TrioThe Garnett Girls|author=William BoydGeorgina Moore

|summary=It The love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was 1968: the year when Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King were assassinatedall-consuming, apparently on both sides. It's also the year Margo was just sixteen when YSK Films are making a movie they fell in Brightonlove. ItRichard was twenty-one and described by Margo's called mother as 'an older man'Emily Bracegirdle. Her parents worried that Richard's Extremely Useful Ladder influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and having a glittering career. In the Moon''event, or ''Ladder they eloped and Richard took her away from the Moon'' as it's known on setIsle of Wight. Anny Viklund is the female star in a production which is proving Margo did go to Oxford and went on to be just become a little bit racketywell-respected journalist. There are odd pressures The couple had three children: Rachel, Imogen and Sasha. Life was lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, the family home on the producer, Talbot Kydd, to employ this old actor friend for a couple Isle of days because he needs Wight. Even then the money, allow a fading star doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able to use his catchphrase, or include a song from the leading man, whose musical star is fadingleave him in charge''. Then Richard left them.

|authorisbn=Anna Bruno1914585402|title=Ordinary HazardsDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross|rating=24.5

|summary= Some books either grab you or bore youI 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 how powerful and affecting it was. And this It was a gripping, emotionally wounding read, and rereading my review of it my main takeaway was one that I wanted so badly to like but unfortunately, I just wasn't hookedmight not have lavished enough praise on it.|isbn=1471184862

|isbnauthor=1712435728Lucy Ashe|title=Jamie's Keepsake|author=Michael GallagherClara and Olivia

|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=When we first meet Alex Hannah, heThe year is 1933. The place? Sadler's just being released from the Southern General HospitalWells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, twins no less. The nurse thinks he'll come back to visit Identical on the other patients outside but Alex has no intention of doing that: he's been there for a yearnot, we learn, on the same ward where his brother died and nowinside. And not on stage, with his hair all shorn off, heeither. Because there's going home in his dead brother's clothesa lot that builds a dancer. He wants Some things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, attention to get outside detail – and back with his friends: his brothersome things, Forbesthat ''je ne sais quoi'', says that don't come from the fresh air will do him good and his mother tells him that heclassroom. A stage presence, a charm, a ''joie de vivre''s not to mention TB and to say it was tonsillitis. Good luck with that oneThe difference between a hard-worker, Alexand a star.|isbn=0861544080

|author=Helen FisherHeather Fawcett|title=Space HopperEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries|rating=3.54

|summary=Faye lost Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her mum when she was life's work, the very youngfirst encyclopaedia of faeries. She was raised by some elderly neighbours after her mum died from a cold that got worse, Whilst she is brilliant at research and although they were kind and very good speaking to her faeries, she of course missed her mum enormouslyis not so good with people. So whenshe finds herself far, unexpectedlyfar North in the small village of Hrafvsnik, she discovers a time travel conduit (via an old space hopper box in her attic) that takes her back to having somehow offended the 70's and her mumvillage matriarch, she revels in the chance is not sure what she has done, nor how to create some memories redeem herself and get to know put her final investigations for her book back on the woman who meant so much to herright track. The time travelling, however, is neither easy nor safeEnter Wendell Bambleby, and Faye fears that her husband won't believe what's happening dashingly handsome and so lies to him instead. The lies grow more tangledinsufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and Faye begins delight, much to wonder if itEmily's safe for her to return one last time to the pastfrustration. Should she try to see her mum one last time before her mum's death, or will it change her own future forever to attempt itBut why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|isbn=14711886630356519120

|authorisbn= Claire McGowan1398515388|title=The PushBoy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Six mums-to-be meet at a prenatal class. It's NCT ''style''First of all, it was the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and this, in turn, but not caused the proper NCTnuclear meltdown. This bit is important, but you have to wait a little to see why The result was complete and utter devastation. This being London The deaths were uncountable, such a class attracts a wide variety and the loss of people, livelihoods was widespread. The fact that many pets were separated from all sorts their owners came far down the list of backgrounds, priorities but for most of - six months after the ladies tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. He wasn't a dog person but the thing they have in common is itconvenience store owner's their first baby. Probably after comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and Tamon the first one, you don't have time for classes, or think you've got child-rearing down patdog jumped in.|isbn=1542019990

|isbnauthor=0008378363Christopher Bowden|title=One Perfect Morning|author=Pamela CraneMr Magenta|rating=3.54|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=A husband Christopher Bowden's latest novel is about to have his throat cut in his own beda patient untangling of a seemingly ordinary woman's life, carried out by her nephew after she has died. To find out The aunt who - always provided a safe harbour and why - we need a little bit of indulgence to go back nine days and twenty years. Mackenzie, Robin a young nephew had had a much more interesting life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and Lily met when they all went it seems to the same college in Monroeville, Pennsylvania and twenty years later they're still the best of friends. When they first met they called themselves the Spicier Girls as a nod him an obligation to the famous girl band of the day. Lily would be Adventure Spice, Robin the Homemaker and Mackenzie - well, Mackenzie would be the supporting actress in her own life. She married Owen, her college sweetheart and they have a daughter, Aria, who's now fifteen-year-oldfind it all out.|isbn= B0B6Z9VJDW

|isbnauthor=B07WWSCGVSJennifer Mason|title=The Lies You Told|author=Harriet TycePartitions of Unity|rating=54|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Year six student Robin Spence isn't happy about having to start a new school. She's left the school 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 loved in New York investigated and now she's going to Ashams in North Londonunravelled a series of disappearances. ItIn 's very upmarket; places are rare as hens' teeth and as the pupils have all been there ''foreverPartitions of Unity'', they have their established groups. Robin's going she sets her mind to be an outsider. And why is this happening? Well, over a matter of solving a few days her parents' marriage fell apartmurder. Andrew Spence is staying in New York - he works for a securities firm - and her mother, Sadie Roper, has come back to London to pick up her practice as a criminal barrister. That's easier said than done when you've been out of the market place - and the country - for more than ten years.|isbn=B09LQR9FRF

|author=Antoine LaurainWill Carver|title=The Readers RoomDaves 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 fateful moment.|isbn= 1914585186}} {{Frontpage|author=Jennifer Mason|title=Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery|rating=4

|rating=3.5|summary=Violaine's publishing house has had 'A struggling poetry zine, a great success, mom-and it was through -pop mobile diner in the slush pile of unsolicited manuscripts. The three people Northern California redwoods, a 400-meter hurdler who work in just missed the Readers2004 Olympics, a women' Room to sift through what is ninetys track coach with a yen for bullwhips, a billionaire with a state-of-nine per cent dross – plus the fourth advisor -art S&M dungeon, a man serving a life sentence in her rarefied mansion up the road – all agreed the book would be Alabama, an enigmatic signature, K(s, x), on a huge smashcheap oil painting, and so it has provenan erotic art dealer in Georgia... But there are several 'howevers' to that. As in, however – Violaine herself  This is not having life all her own way, for she has been involved in just a near-fatal accident, and starts this book coming round from a coma. And, however – despite all urging, sample of the author cast of the book has never once made themselves known to the publishers in person, characters and settings in factPreposterous. As you can see, offered some keeping up a most peculiar statement-come-threat in their last emailwill be required! The basic premise of this mystery story goes like this... What is going to befall Violaine, her memory, her staff – and how much is any of it due to the hit novel? And just where the heck did that come from?|isbn=1910477974B09STS96HS