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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Diney CosteloeJenny Lecoat|title= The Girl With No NameBeyond Summerland|rating= 4|genre= General Fiction |summary= Thirteen year old Lisa escapes from Nazi Germany Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of the Kindertransport and arrives in England in August 1939occupation. She can During the war, Jean't speak s father was arrested for listening to a word of English banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and her only belongings are crammed into a small suitcasemother waiting for years for news of him. Among them As the British finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, and the war is one precious photograph finally over, their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him. But will the truth come as a relief, or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the informer who told the Nazis about the radio? And what other secrets have been kept throughout the occupation?|isbn=1846976537}}{{Frontpage|author=Onyi Nwabineli|title=Allow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Anuri spent her childhood on display to the family world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she has left behind posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in Germany. Lonely her twenties and homesick, not knowing if she will ever see is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her family againlife back, Lisa suing her step-mother to take down the content about her. Anuri is adopted by a childless couplebattling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and then bullied at school secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for being Germandoing so. But worse Most importantly, she is to come when the Blitz blows desperately worried about her new home apartlittle sister, and she wakes up in hospital with no memory of who she is, or where the new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she came from. The authorities give save her a new name sister, and perhaps herself and despatch her to a children's home. With relationship with her father at the war in full swing, what will become of Lisa nowsame time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784970050</amazonuk>0861546873

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Phaedra Patrick1529153298|title=The Curious Charms List of Arthur PepperSuspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating= 45|genre= General Fiction|summary=On the first anniversary of his wife MiriamIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's deathfamily, Arthur Pepper feels he might finally be up though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to the task of clearing out her wardrobe. He hasnhave 'disappeared't got far when he stumbles across a gold charm bracelet he doesn't recognisesound quite so frightening. If he hadn Miv't been feeling so out of sorts s upset because of she's overheard that her father wants to move the anniversary he would never have rung the phone number he found engraved on the golden elephantfamily 'Down South'. That would have been When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a shamefrightening, foreign place, because then he best avoided. For Miv, the move would never have set out on his peculiar quest mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to find out who his wife used to be before she met himprevent that. From York to London, Paris and beyond, Arthur pursues Miriam She's past and learns things not worried about his wife, his children and himself the dangers or that he never imaginedher Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848454368</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonas Jonasson and Rachel Willson-Broyles (translator)1035906708|title=Hitman Anders and the Meaning of It AllDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=34.5

|summary=There's feeling on edgeWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, and there's feeling on edge. Per is a hotel receptionist partly because his father and grandfather didn't give him a better destinyNew York, in December 1923 and partly because he was working there only moved to Athens when it she was a shoddy knocking jointthirteen. He's feeling on edge because someone has decided Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to live there, in room seven, and proudly announced that it's about the first place heCallas's had as an adult to live make it more manageable in that isn't a prison – the man, Hitman Anders, has killed three people in separate fits of rageStates. And now Per is feeling even more on edge because Johanna, a woman When she was back in a dogAthens -collar has turned up, tried to blag twenty kronor supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for a badlyher voice -worded prayer in Per's favour (even though she's been sacked as was raised under the Nazi occupation by a priest mother who mercilessly exploited her and is in fact a rampant atheist)made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, and has now colluded to jointly with Per become Hitman Anders' criminal hit-job agentsJackie. But could anything make a newly rich Per – and Johanna – feel more on edge, than Hitman Anders gaining a conscience…?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008152071</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Esther Gerritsen and Michele Hutchison (translator)Alexander McCall Smith|title= RoxyThe Perfect Passion Company|rating= 34.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= I liked the premise for this novel: The Perfect Passion Company is a young wife (Roxy) is told at dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the beginning of the book that her much older husband has been killed online apps in providing a car accidentmore personal, tailored service. To add to the shock of this, the revelation that he died in the arms of his (naked) lover in the car, on Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the hard shoulderbusiness, as Ness is planning to take a further blow trip to Canada to Roxyget away for a while. I found this an interesting set-Katie is coming out of a break up for with a storybad boyfriend, and wondered how this was going so jumps at the chance to come home to goEdinburgh. As the blurb on the back of the novel tells And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing usto an Edinburgh we already love, ''she is looking for revenge''thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, I thought the book would be but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a development of the character of Roxy into a selfbusiness, or in match-motivatingmaking, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, strong character. But this wasnand there't the case.s always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>9462380643</amazonuk>1846976596

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Eva HollandDean Koontz|title= The Daughter's SecretBad Weather Friend|rating= 34.5|genre= General FictionParanormal|summary= Six years agoBenny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, Stephanie and Nate ran away togetherhis house gets trashed. She was 15 Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and he it's possible that whoever or whatever was her geography teacherinside 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. Awkward A really nice person. We pick up So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the story with Rosdelivery to his house is a new friend, Steph's mothera bad weather friend called Spike, as she learns that Nate who has been sent to help him since Benny is about to be released clearly under attack from prison, earlier than planned in just 11 days nefarious forces for nowbeing a good person. The book takes place over those 11 days leading up Spike is going to Mr Temperleytake care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's release as Ros struggles to break the news to her daughter. Sheenemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's bound to be devastated by it…isn't she?wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409157040</amazonuk>1662500491

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Hazel McHaffieKatherine Howe|title=Inside of MeA True Account|rating=4.5

|summary=ItHannah 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 never specifically said that India Grayson losing her father when she was eight was death at the cause hands of two vicious pirates. She hides away, so that they don't find and kill her anorexia when too, and then to escape them completely she was fifteen, but you seeruns away to sea, dressing as a boy and joining the notorious Ned Low''losing'' is s pirate ship as a cabin boy. She soon finds herself in the best description thick of what happened. He was things when there is a strong swimmermutiny on board, but even he might have got into difficulties and what other explanation was from there for the pile we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of his clothes life on the beach? Only India never quite believed that he was dead and his body had never been foundocean waves. Had it been something about her that forced him away?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>099262312X</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Monica Wood1471180158|title=The One-in-a-Million BoyMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes

|summary=I do love it when I read Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's a book that stays control freak with me after Iall the subtlety of a half brick. Jamie's son, Bo, 'has his problems've finished reading. This was one of those booksHe's asthmatic and the more you read, rootling its way a little the more into my heart each time I picked it up to readyou'll suspect that he's on the autistic spectrum. ItSometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's a frequent flier in the story, mostly of Miss Ona Vitkus, a one hundred local A&E and four year old lady who has a young boy scout come over sometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to school. Missed shifts or the need to be away on time to help her with jobs and how he ultimately ends pick Bo up changing her life, from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and not at all put in the way you might imagine since before we even begin the story the boy is deadwrong. It was going to come to a head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472228359</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Reif LarsenB0CKD1L5JL|title= I Am RadarRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn|rating= 4|genre= General Fiction|summary= Racial tensionsPetr is an orphan. Rescued by the strange, identityreclusive Bear, parental responsibilityhe is brought up far from bustling cities and busy human society, a childin the forests of Washington's best interestOlympic Peninsula. After Bear dies and a brief sojourn in human company, love, science, war – Reif Larsen's ''I Am Radar'' falls nothing short of having rich thematic content. Its cornucopia of thematic explorations is interwoven into and armed with only a complex web of storiespirate radio transmitter, taking the reader Petr goes on a journeythrough the forest, both literal and figurativebroadcasting the strange, from suburban New Jersey to an Arctic no man's land to Congo wild and the Bosnian warzonerarely heard voices he encounters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099593645</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Stefan MohamedSarah Marsh|title= Ace A Sign of SpidersHer Own|rating= 3.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Stanly is frustrated. Having set himself up After a bout of scarlet fever as London's protectora child, he's finding that the everyday practicalities Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of superheroism are challenging at bestsilence, and downright tedious at worsteverything about her life changes. So it's almost Living in a relief time when an attempt the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is made on his life and Stanly finds himself rushing headlong into sent to a twisted adventureschool where she is taught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. From here, with enemies new she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and old coming out of using a system called Visible Speech. At the woodwork. Howeversame time, even with his friends Bell is working on other inventions and his ever-increasing power behind himideas, he may have bitten off more than he can chew this timeand Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage. The monsters are coming… and nothing will ever be the same!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784630675</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hannah RothschildB0BC3YTCMR|title=The Improbability of LoveGood Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira|rating=4.5

|summary=It's set to be the sale of the century: Russian oligarchs, Arab sheikhs, rappers and heiresses are all lined up to bid 'This story is not for everyone.'' Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of her fifteenth birthday when The Improbability of Love''Incident happened. She was a very bright student, a small Antoine Watteau oil painting depicting a courting couple overlooked by a clown. The painting was missing until six months agobit too nerdy if truth be told, when Annie McDee bought and suffered from vitiligo - people were afraid to hug her in case it from a junk shop for £75 as a birthday present for an incompatible fellow she met through Internet dating's contagious. When he didn It't show for dinner and the junk shop mysteriously burnt down so that she couldn't ask for s not easy being a refund, the painting became hersblack girl whose skin is 84% white. Thirty She had a crush on seventeen-year-old Annie had been in a rutReggie Anderson but never thought he would notice her. Then he did: after a painful break-up from Desmond, with whom Lavender was very good at math and Reggie asked if she ran a cheese shop and café in Devon, would tutor him. She readily agreed: tutoring was something she moved to London and gladly did at church: this was working as a PA to randy Italian film director Carlo Spinettijust an extension. She also acquired an unwanted roommate: went to his house and he raped her alcoholic mother. In shock, Evieshe even allowed him to give her a lift home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408862476</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rebecca Thornton1472263936|title=The Exclusives: No One Can Hurt You More Than a FriendFigurine|author=Victoria Hislop|rating=4.5

|summary=Josephine is a successful archaeologist on a dig It was in Amman when she gets 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. She was alone: her mother, Greek by birth, had left the email she never expected: Freya wants family home and refused to meet return, but Mary and Hamish (Helena's parents) felt that it would be a pity if Helena grew up with without knowing hergrandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. The reason isn’t such a surprise thoughHer trip to the family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be the first of several annual visits. In 1996 Freya She grew to love her grandmother and Josephine were best friends at boarding school till the aftermath family's maid, Dina, but was wary - and frightened - of a night out clubbingher grandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. Freya desperately wants He was proud of his close connections to talk the Junta and expected his family to Jo about the events that ripped their friendship apart, the events that Josephine has avoided speaking or thinking about in more than a decadeuphold his values but saw no reason to accommodate them. His prejudices included Helena's red hair and green eyes - inherited from her father's Scottish ancestors.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785770128</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Miroslav PenkovDean Koontz|title=Stork MountainAfter 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=A young man, his grandfather The village is isolated and a stork with a broken wing are the ''company of rebels'' at the heart of this lively tale set in Bulgariapoor. It's Strandja Mountainssurrounded by a Witching Forest. The storks that return to And the mountains each spring are migrants, villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like so many fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicines. The black wood of the people that have passed through the region over the centuries. The young narrator is also in transitforest provides heat and warmth, born in Bulgariaroofs on homes, but raised and educated in Americaeven gallows, if needed. The story opens with his return to Bulgaria in search fear of his grandfather who has broken off contact with his family being buried alive is an existential superstition in America. But the young village and that is the reason Volushka, a drunken, self-indulgent, lazy lout of a man's motives are not as clear cut as first appearsis tolerated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473622182</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Elisa AlbertB0BYF82CXT|title= After BirthSemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone|rating= 4|genre= Literary General Fiction|summary= This book is definitely not for anyone who has ''Bill and Amanda are living in a rosy picture of new motherhood. In factsemi-detached house, I would probably avoid it if you are contemplating giving birth stuck in the near future. For any woman who has ever struggled through the first few months a depressing rut of motherhoodboredom and disappointment, howeverwhen Terry and Fiona – glamorous, or a partner of somebody who is going through itsuccessful and very much in love – move in next door. Despite their different outlooks on life, it is an astounding the couples befriend each other and revelatory readlife appears to improve for both pairs. Never before have I read a more searingBut all is not what it seems, honest and open discussion of the emotional upheaval a woman often goes through after giving birththeir increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009959014X</amazonuk>''

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Pascal Garnier and Emily Boyce (translator)Shalini Boland|title=Too Close to the EdgeThe Silent Bride|rating=43

|summary=Meet Pascal GarnierAlice and Seth are a match made in heaven. NormallyHe is everything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, clever, funny; total and utter husband-material. She is all he could possibly want in starting a review that waywife; beautiful, I'm on about the main character of the booksuccessful, but it could be said confident… and so the biggest character of any Pascal Garnier book inevitable proposal is Pascal Garnier, not that that's a flaw. Over a half-dozen titles I've come to know eagerly accepted by Alice and the pattern of his output, wedding is planned and it's fair to say this example fits it very wellset. AgainWhen the much-anticipated day arrives, not a fault. His thrillers have a small cast list of characters, trapped somehow in a small community, cut off Alice is walked down the aisle by weatherher father, season or remoteness. Here we are beaming with Eliette, pride and just a handful of others, and watching her excitement as she celebrates surveys the return of spring to her remote home, an ex-silk farm in southern France. All characters have a darkness about them, including Eliette congregation – she had wanted their friends assembled to retire celebrate this joyful day and when Seth turns to the place with her lovingface his approaching bride, long-term husband, but he died of cancer months before retirement. And Alice's world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the final piece of man at the Garnier pattern altar is that that darkness, the black surrounding the night stars to use one of the more memorable lines here, who is that things – said situation, other people, life itself – cause people waiting for her to do some equally black and stupid acts…become his wife.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910477257</amazonuk>1662507089

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Carol Drinkwater1787636003|title=The Forgotten Girls of Summer|author=Katie Bishop|rating=45

|summary=It is time for was the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the annual grape harvest at island. Rachel wasn''Les Cigalest exactly innocent but she was, perhaps,'' and Jane is preparing herself for a busy daynaive, overseeing the work. At this moment so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to take an interest in timeher, Jane's life seems as perfect as it gets: living in she was flattered rather than wary. It was quite a stunning location with a husband who adores while before he made any sort of physical approach to her and a job by that allows her the freedom to traveltime she was obsessed by him. There is Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, however, a significant cloud hanging over Jane's perfect world: a vindictive mother looking after his interests on the island and in particular in law who despises her and is determined to make her as miserable as possible. Clarrisse Cambon is a woman with an axe to grind and poor Jane is the unwilling recipient of her vitriolbar where all the girls either worked or partied.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718183088</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Yann MartelAmanda Craig|title=The High Mountains of PortugalThree Graces|rating=4.5

|summary=Tomas is being thrust into the twentieth Century, and he doesn't Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like it. He has given himself the job state-of seeking -the-nation novel. There's something out in so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the High Mountains atmosphere of Portugalthe day and capture it, based on crafting an ancient religious diary he found working image of the country as it stands in an archive, and to do so he needs one particular moment. To say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's practically synonymous with the use genre of his uncle's brand new car to get him there and back in timecontemporary social fiction at this point. His jaw drops when he learns he will have to do She has such a gift for weaving the driving himself, for he cannot make head nor tail ongoing issues of what anything on the infernal machine does and why. It is day into the lives of course her characters in a certain kind of progressway that feels natural and lived-in, a looking forward, which has become quite anathema to him – never making them ciphers for ever since he lost his beloved wifesocial commentary but instead fully realised people, beloved child and father, all in the space of a week, he has walked everywhere backwards – shielding himself from what really is ahead grappling with a padded behind, and never letting sight of what he has lostissues far larger than themselves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782114696</amazonuk>140871468X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Antonio Moresco and Richard Dixon (translator)152915118X|title=Distant LightPineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson

|summary=Our unnamed narrator might as well be ''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 person aliveSasha isn't a Stockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the tribe. He knows heThe problem's not – he still goes down to exacerbated when the nearest inhabited village to buy things to eat and other necessitiesclan matriarch, Tilda, asks Cord and he sees planes spreading their contrails over Sasha if they'd like to move into the remote area he lives in – but he might as well bePineapple Street property. A lot of his thoughts are about lifeTilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to another property, howevera street or so away, for he has little to do except notice which they own. They won't need any of the nature around himfurniture from Pineapple Street, from the smell of lilies burgeoning with nobody else to see them so Sasha and Cord can move straight in this deserted village. Nominally, to the swallows darting across the ravines of they had a choice but that wasn't the countrysidereality. Life – Darley and Georgiana start to call Sasha 'the nature of a light gold digger'. She's living in ''their'' family home. They use it so often that he sees spring into activity every night at what he thought was a totally lifeless, empty forest area on land separated from his lookout post in his back garden by a deep, wooded gorge…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0914671421</amazonuk>they abbreviate it to 'the GD'.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jonathan EvisonEmily Critchley|title=This is Your Life, Harriet Chance!One Puzzling Afternoon

|summary=The cruise to Alaska came as something of a surprise to Harriet Chancelove affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, apparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in love. It had been booked Richard was twenty-one and described by her husband, Bernard, before his death and almost on a whim Harriet decided that she Margo's mother as 'wouldan older man'. Her parents worried that Richard' go and s influence would take her best friend Mildred along with away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and having a glittering career. In the event, they eloped and Richard took heraway from the Isle of Wight. She might be seventy eight, but when she thought about it there didn't seem Margo did go to be any reason not Oxford and went on to go become a well-respected journalist. The couple had three children: Rachel, Imogen and it might give them both a new lease of lifeSasha. She Life was lived in London and Bernard had been married for fifty-five yearsholidays were spent at Sandcove, but the cruise would not work out as she hoped and for some family home on the Isle of Wight. Even then the strangest of reasonsdoubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able to leave him in charge''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099592673</amazonuk>Then Richard left them.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Miguel Angel Hernandez and Rhett McNeil (translator)1914585402|title= Escape AttemptDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross|rating= 34.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Immigration and radical contemporary art: the two themes of Miguel Ángel HernándezI reviewed David F Ross's book [[There's Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There'Escape Attempt'' are debate-provoking even on their own, but brought together into one plot, they fall nothing short s Only One Danny Garvey]] a couple of creating a painfully current years back and remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and ruthlessly polemic novelaffecting it was. The brave choice of subject matter takes the reader on It was a journey that revoltsgripping, angersemotionally wounding read, and excites: ''Escape Attempt'' is an experience rereading my review of it my main takeaway was that does I might not leave the reader untouched, and locks them in a page-turner that cannot be escapedhave lavished enough praise on it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>8494365878</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Clare MorrallLucy Ashe|title=When the Floods CameClara and Olivia

|summary=Sometime in The year is 1933. The place? Sadler's Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, twins no less. Identical on the outside but not-too-distant future, a devastating virus has decimated we learn, on the population of the UKinside. And not on stage, striking humans and animals alike and leaving Britain in either. Because there's a lot that builds a state of quarantine for decadesdancer. Most of the survivors have been left infertile and the majority of people have relocated to BrightonSome things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, where they rely on airdops from surrounding nations in order attention to survive. Farming is impossible, as weather conditions are harsh detail – and extremesome things, including tornadoesthat ''je ne sais quoi'', floods and blizzardsthat don't come from the classroom. Not everyone chooses to live in Brighton though. In A stage presence, a block of flats in Birmingham live the resourceful Polanski Family: Popicharm, Moth, Roza, Boris, Delphine and Luciaa ''joie de vivre''. Moth and Popi prefer solitude and isolation and their make-doThe difference between a hard-worker, and-mend philosophy has ensured their survival in this unconventional environmenta star.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444736477</amazonuk>0861544080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mary Paulson EllisHeather Fawcett|title=The Other Mrs WalkerEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

|summary=Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life''A photograph. Six orange pips sucked dry. A Brazil nut with s work, the Ten Commandments etched into the shellvery first encyclopaedia of faeries. An emerald dress dripping Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, she is not so good with sequinspeople.'' This is So when she finds herself far, far North in the legacy small village of Mrs WalkerHrafvsnik, having somehow offended the village matriarch, who died alone in a freezing Edinburgh flatshe is not sure what she has done, drinking nor how to redeem herself and put her final glass of whiskyinvestigations for her book back on the right track. Nylons wrinkling at the knee Enter Wendell Bambleby, white hair hair dyed red, scratches on her cheeksdashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, hollow bones all charm and a liver like pastedelight, much to Emily's frustration. Who was Mrs Walker and But why did she die aloneis he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447293908</amazonuk>0356519120

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Mona Awad1398515388|title= 13 Ways of Looking At A Fat Girl|rating= 4|genre= General Fiction|summary= Liz is fat. Not just plump or chubby or, as my director often describes people, ''bubbly'', but full on, capital F fat. It's perhaps one of the frustrations of this book that we never get a number, because she's clearly obsessed with what The Boy and the scale shows, but won't share that reading.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0143128485</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewDog|author=Deborah Bee|title=The Last Thing I RememberSeishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)

|summary=Contemporary writers are mining a rich seam First of psychological thrillers andall, within this genreit was the earthquake, I seem to be particularly attracted to stories featuring comatose protagonists. Comatose protagonists? Isn't that a contradiction deep in terms? Truethe ocean floor, you do normally expect a protagonist towhich created the tsunami and this, wellin turn, do somethingcaused the nuclear meltdown. And Deborah Mee's heroine Sarah does nothing at all, other than listen, The result was complete and try and rememberutter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, from her unconscious state. In her narrative she offers us nothing more than fractured memories and snippets the loss of conversations livelihoods was widespread. The fact that many pets were separated from around her bedside. Yet with these meagre tools she helps their owners came far down the reader build up a vivid picture of what is happening around her, of her own character, and list of priorities but - six months after the events leading to her hospital admission. As tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a reader you gradually piece together what made Sarah what she is today. At first you see an apparently successful career woman in dog outside a loving marriage but, as layers are gradually removed, what lies beneath becomes apparentconvenience store. Sarah He wasn's controlling husband has t a sinister brother who comes to sit by her bedside, while her toxic mother wages an ongoing war of words with Sarahdog person but the convenience store owner's spineless father... At times I wanted comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to weep for what happened to Sarah; at other times I wanted to scream at her for letting it happenopen his car door and Tamon the dog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B0196P0S4W</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sharon GuskinChristopher Bowden|title= The Forgetting TimeMr Magenta|rating= 54|genre= General Fiction|summary= Janie Christopher Bowden's latest novel is a single mother, living in New York with her pre-schooler Noah. Itpatient untangling of a seemingly ordinary woman's just the two of themlife, so it's rather disconcerting when Noah screams carried out in the night, calling for his ''real mom'' and asking when he can go home. Night by her nephew after night this happensshe has died. There's other things, too. He hates water The aunt who always provided a safe harbour and a little bit of indulgence to a young nephew had had a much more interesting life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and regularly goes it seems to nursery stinky because his mother simply cannot get him in the bath. He has the odd bizarre turn of phrase that comes an obligation to find it all out, far beyond what one might expect for a child of his age. He knows certain things, too, without anyone understanding how he picked up this knowledge, whether it be the names of different reptiles or the plot of books he's never read.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509806792</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Caroline LeaJennifer Mason|title=Partitions of Unity|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary= 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 ''Partitions of Unity'', she sets her mind to solving a murder...|isbn=B09LQR9FRF}}{{Frontpage|author=Will Carver|title=When The Sky Fell ApartDaves 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=54

|summary=That was ''A struggling poetry zine, a mom-and-pop mobile diner in the order in which things happened: Northern California redwoods, a 400-meter hurdler who just missed the sky fell apart2004 Olympics, Jerseya women's beaches were bombedtrack coach with a yen for bullwhips, Clement a billionaire with a state-of-the island'-art S&M dungeon, a man serving a life sentence in Alabama, an enigmatic signature, K(s butcher went up , x), on a cheap oil painting, an erotic art dealer in flames where he stood and then the arrival of the German armyGeorgia... '' This will change is just a sample of the life cast of the island including herbalist Edith, neglected child Claudine, former fisherman Maurice characters and English Doctor Cartersettings in Preposterous. Each As you can see, some keeping up will be required! The basic premise of the four lives on the perimeter of the island's community but each will come to depend on the other three in order to continue livingthis mystery story goes like this...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1925240746</amazonuk>B09STS96HS