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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]]==General fiction==__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jasper Gibson1739526910|title=A Bright Moon For FoolsWhere I've Not Been Lost|author=Glen Sibley|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Jasper Gibson’s debut novel''One year after a suicide attempt blows apart musician Brian O’Malley's life, A Bright Moon For Foolshe arrives in an unfamiliar Devon town to recover. Living with an unexpected housemate at his former manager’s holiday home, tells the story he dreams of Harry Christmas and his drunken escapades in Caracas and the small villages of Venezuelareconnecting with everything he has lost. Harry Christmas is nowhere near But as jolly as his name suggeststhose tentative plans falter, he becomes swept up in fact Harry is drunken conman. He has pushed his luck too far and is forced to fly to Venezuela to evade William Slade, the irate son of a woman Harry fleeced out local world of £27unlikely friendships,000. Harry’s life is defined by booze mobile discos and where to get the next drink; he is having a major breakdown. Slade is no better off and is also having his own mental crisis: unfortunately for Harry, Slade’s breakdown is of a much more psychotic naturesurprising romantic possibilities.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0957468105</amazonuk>''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lisa ScottolineJenny Lecoat|title=Come HomeBeyond Summerland|rating=3.54
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=You divorce a partnerJean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of the occupation. During the war, not Jean's father was arrested for listening to a childbanned radio and soldiers took him away one night, so although Jill leaving Jean and William’s split meant she was no longer legal step mum to his daughter Abby, in some ways she never stopped seeing her as a daughter. Now, mother waiting for years after they last met up, Abby shows up on Jill’s doorstep with some devastating for news about Jill’s ex-husbandof him. News that will unsettle both their lives As the British finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, and the lives of Jill’s new fiancé Samwar is finally over, and their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of her own biological daughterhim. While Abby wants to pull her into untangling But will the truth come as a mysteryrelief, Sam is reluctant to encourage this investigation, and 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 family reunion it will bring, leaving Jill torn between her new family and her old one.occupation?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091944937</amazonuk>1846976537
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Antoine LaurainOnyi Nwabineli|title=The President's HatAllow Me to Introduce Myself
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=The milliners' advertising used Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to say her step-mother Ophelia'to get aheads increasingly popular presence on social media, get a hat'. They would very much approve where she posted every step of this book. Daniel Mercier is a Mr Average - or perhaps a Monsieur Mediocre. HeAnuri's a lowly accountant until one evening he finds himself dining next to French Presidentchildhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, François Mitterrandbasically, who leaves the restaurant without his hatmonetary gain. When Daniel decides Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to keep itget her life back, his life starts suing her step-mother to change and he feels somehow more confidenttake down the content about her. In other strands of the story Anuri is battling alcoholism, Fanny Marquant is having an affair with an older man who clearly has no intention of leaving his wife while celebrated perfumer Pierre Aslan has lost his ability failing to detect smells start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and to create perfumesreceiving money from them for doing so. Bernard Lavallière Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, meanwhile who is struggling to live up to the right wing standards new focus of his wifeOphelia's friends and starts to read the more left wing papersonline empire. At some point Can she save her sister, all will come into contact and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the President's hat and it will have an impact on all of them.same time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908313471</amazonuk>0861546873
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ma Jian1529153298|title=The Dark RoadList of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=One of my many lovable traitsIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, according to my belovedthey've been murdered, is my ability but to absolutely insist I havenhave 'disappeared' doesn't read 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 book before (when he catches me reading it again)frightening, foreign place, best avoided. This has For Miv, the huge benefit of my getting move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to discover it all over again – and prevent that. She's not worried about the massive downside dangers or that I will never get her Mum's stopped talking - to the end of my reading list, which must exist in some kind of Möbius loopanyone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701187530</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julie Sarkissian1035906708|title=Dear LucyDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Dear Lucy. Dear, sweet Lucy. Lucy lives on a farm with Mister and MissusWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but the only person who is truly kind she was born to her is SamanthaGreek parents in Manhattan, who lives there with them. Lucy finds it difficultNew York, sometimes. She doesn’t always have the words in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she needswas thirteen. She tries very hard to be good Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but sometimes her helping is father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more of a hindrancemanageable in the States. But When she knows more was back in Athens - supposedly so that people think. She knows that although Mum Mum sent she could get appropriate training for her to live on voice - she was raised under the farm, she will come back Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her one day. That is why Lucy must never leave the farmelder sister, otherwise Mum Mum won’t know where to find herJackie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444767585</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Brian KimberlingAlexander McCall Smith|title=SnapperThe Perfect Passion Company
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=There's little doubt that Brian Kimberling's debut novelThe Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, ''Snapper'' is run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a slightly unusual bookmore personal, tailored service. The publishers describe it 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 age a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new storyfrom Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and it is after the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a fashionbusiness, or in match-making, but itNess has full confidence in her abilities, and there's more in the vein of an adult looking back on 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 young adult self than the more conventional young person grows up way of looking at thingshouse gets trashed. The narrator Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, Nathandisturbing coffin-sized object to his home, shares many of and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the traits of thing that has trashed his creator. Like Kimberlinghouse! The thing is, he Benny is brought up in Indiana and the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is involved in research of songbirds in that state; effectively a paid bird watchernice person. A really nice person. The title of So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the book though comes not 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 any type nefarious forces for being a good person. Spike is going to take care of birdBenny, but from the snapping turtle that lives in the state. Itand will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a broadly affectionate and wry look at the people of Indiana, known as 'Hoosierswaitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0307908054</amazonuk>1662500491
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Melvyn BraggKatherine Howe|title=Grace and MaryA True Account
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Grace Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to live with a family who run an inn, and Mary being made to work there from a young age. When she hears there is to be a tender and moving account spanning three generations hanging of some pirates in the same familytown, she decides to go and watch. In Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death at the first chapterhands of two vicious pirates. She hides away, we are introduced to ninety-two year old Mary so that they don't find and kill her doting sontoo, John. Mary is in a nursing home and has dementiathen to escape them completely she runs away to sea, hovering in dressing as a limbo-world, precariously balanced between the present boy and joining the pastnotorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. John delights when he catches She soon finds herself in the occasional glimpse thick of the ''real'' Marythings when there is a mutiny on board, and they find a meeting place, of sorts from there we are caught up in their shared world her rip roaring tale of memories and songslife on the ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444762346</amazonuk>0861547438
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lucy Clarke1471180158|title=The Sea SistersMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Kate is as sensibleJamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, focused and down to earth as her sister Mia is reckless and unsettled, so it’s no surprise that it’s Mia for a man who leaves London behind to go traveling's a control freak with all the subtlety of a half brick. With dreams of seeing the USA Jamie's son, Bo, Australia 'has his problems'. He's asthmatic and beyondthe more you read, Mia sets the more you'll suspect that he's on the autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off excitedly with her best friend Finn, but this once in at short notice - she's a lifetime trip tragically becomes just that as some months later Mia is found dead frequent flier in Bali, an apparent suicide plunge. With her life thrown into turmoil and unable to get past the things they said, local A&E and didn’t say, sometimes Bo's not fit enough to each other when Mia was alive, Kate makes a rather Mia-like decision go to leave it all behind tooschool. Armed with Mia’s travel journey, she sets off Missed shifts or the need to retrace her sister’s steps, stop by stop, be away on time to try pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and work out what Mia put in the wrong. It was going through, and what ultimately lead to her deathcome to a head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007481349</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julian ClaryB0CKD1L5JL|title=Briefs EncounteredRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Choosing this book Petr is an orphan. Rescued by the strange, reclusive Bear, he is brought up far from Julian Clary was irresistiblebustling cities and busy human society, in the forests of Washington's Olympic Peninsula. NormallyAfter Bear dies and a brief sojourn in human company, I try not to review books where I’m already familiar and armed with author. But I didn’t feel that seeing him live several times or watching him regularly only a pirate radio transmitter, Petr goes on TV counteda journey through the forest, as I hadn’t read either of his two previous novelsbroadcasting the strange, wild and rarely heard voices he encounters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091938856</amazonuk>
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{{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 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.
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{{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.}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Suzanne Bugler1472263936|title=The Safest PlaceFigurine|author=Victoria Hislop
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Jane and David Berry have always lived and worked It was in London1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. However She was alone: her mother, since their children have come alongGreek by birth, had left the house has felt too cramped family home and Jane has often dreamed of moving away. When their son Sam fails refused to get a place at his chosen secondary schoolreturn, but Mary and Hamish (Helena's parents) felt that is the catalyst she needs to start making it would be a pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her dream a realityGreek heritage. The only problem is that the rest of Her trip to the family are not quite as enthusiastic about moving as she apartment in up-market Kolonaki would have hopedbe the first of several annual visits. David will have She grew to commute every day to London love her grandmother and the children are anxious about starting a new schoolfamily's maid, Dina, but was wary - and frightened - of her grandfather, particularly Sam who finds it difficult to make friendsretired general Stamatis Papagiannis. Even Jane starts He was proud of his close connections to wonder if it was a good idea, isolated in a house miles from anywhere, finding it difficult the Junta and expected his family to get uphold his values but saw no reason to know the local communityaccommodate them. His prejudices included Helena's red hair and green eyes - inherited from her father's Scottish ancestors.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330544969</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maria SempleDean Koontz|title=WhereAfter 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'd You Go, Bernadette' anymore.|isbn=1662500467}} {{Frontpage|isbn=B0BVDC2VWH|title=The Grave Listeners|author=William Frank
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Much like the missing question mark in the title it would seem, Bernadette has disappearedThe village is isolated and poor. Maria SempleIt's ''Where'd You Go, Bernadette'' works as both surrounded by a physical Witching Forest. And the villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and emotional questionits blossom provides herbal medicines. Bernadette Fox is The black wood of the wife of Elgie Branchforest provides heat and warmth, a star at Microsoft in Seattleroofs on homes, and mother of 15 year oldeven gallows, Beeif needed. The narrative begins with Bee wondering where her mother had gone, but then quickly moves to fear of being buried alive is an epistolary format told existential superstition in e-mails, notes the village and messages between that is the major playersreason Volushka, including some rather obnoxious mothers at Bee's school, one of whom also works at Microsoft with Elgie. We are taken back a few weeks to when Bernadette was around and a seemingly somewhat angry mother prior to her mysterious disappearance. One of the delights about the bookdrunken, which along with being very funny on issues like helicopter parentingself-indulgent, corporate life and, er, Canadians, is that it emerges that Bernadette is more than a wife and mother but has a past career lazy lout of her own as a talented architect which she has sacrificed for one reason or another. Thus, in many ways she disappeared long before her physical disappearanceman is tolerated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0316204269</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christopher CurrieB0BYF82CXT|title=The Ottoman MotelSemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone|rating=3.54
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Simon Sawyer is 11 years old''Bill and Amanda are living in a semi-detached house, forced on stuck in a road-trip with his parents to visit his grandmotherdepressing rut of boredom and disappointment, when Terry and Fiona – glamorous, Iris. Iris is living successful and very much in some backwater town hemmed love – move in next door. Despite their different outlooks on three sides by corn fieldslife, the couples befriend each other and on the fourth by the sealife appears to improve for both pairs. The town But all is called Reception in a heavy-handed attempt at ironynot what it seems, as we learn the town actually has no reception for mobile phones and is pretty much isolated from the rest of the world but their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for a few dirt tracks leading outtragedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908737190</amazonuk>''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Susie SteinerShalini Boland|title=HomecomingThe Silent Bride|rating=3.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Ann Alice and Joe Hartle Seth are approaching their sixties and hoping to slow down a littlematch made in heaven. Their sheep farming life He is starting to take its toll everything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, clever, funny; total and it’s an enticing thought that they may be able to pass the farm on to their son Maxutter husband-material. The only problem She is that all he could possibly want in a wife; beautiful, successful, confident… and so the farm inevitable proposal is hardly making any profit eagerly accepted by Alice and Max is not the most capable person in the world. Added to that, Max’s wife Primrose wedding is expecting a baby planned and that is not without its difficultiesset. The Hartle’s other son When the much-anticipated day arrives, BartholomewAlice is walked down the aisle by her father, is far away in London trying beaming with pride and excitement as she surveys the congregation – their friends assembled to run his own business celebrate this joyful day and also scared about committing when Seth turns to face his girlfriendapproaching bride, Ruby. The family Alice's world implodes because she has started to fall apart over absolutely no idea who the years but when things go badly wrong on man at the farm including a barn fire and a virus that spreads through the sheep and newborn lambsaltar is, there who is the opportunity waiting for her to pull together and start anewbecome his wife. Is this something that the family can do or will they fall apart even more?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571297196</amazonuk>1662507089
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Val Harris1787636003|title=The Song the Waves Sing Girls of Summer|author=Katie Bishop|rating=3.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Some time has passed since we [[Sea Creatures by Val Harris|last saw]] It was the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the Moon familyisland. Charlie Moon has been released from prison. His sister Olivia is in New York Rachel wasn't exactly innocent but Jenna is still she was, perhaps, naive, so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to take an interest in Cornwallher, where she's turned the family home into a B&Bwas flattered rather than wary. Their father Brendan is It was quite a reformed character and while before he's moved made any sort of physical approach to Looe, where he's a partner in an art galleryher and by that time she was obsessed by him. But everyone's life has its ups and downs: Olivia is made redundant Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, looking after his interests on the island and in particular in the only logical move is back to bar where all the UK. Then Brendan overhears a conversation and realises that his business partner is deep in an art fraudgirls either worked or partied.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0955599784</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=O H RobssonAmanda Craig|title=The SparkThree Graces|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Kristoffer lives in a house on Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the edge state-of a lake in Western Norway with his dog and occasional company from his friend Mats-the-nation novel. By profession he’s a photographer There's something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the atmosphere of the day and enough business comes his way to keep him capture it, crafting an image of the way he wishes to livecountry as it stands in one particular moment. He’s relaxed - too much so To say that Amanda Craig is skilled at times when you’re relying on him (always a mistake) to doing this would be punctualembarrassingly inadequate: she's practically synonymous with the genre of contemporary social fiction at this point. There She has been such a gift for weaving the occasional girlfriend - some ongoing issues of them pretty stunning - but none the day into the lives of them ever came up to Eva whom he met when they were both her characters in their teens a way that feels natural and working lived-in the local hotel to earn some money. His grandfather has a summer cabin up in the mountains and Kristoffer’s happy to go up to spend time , never making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with him and take him his supplies. You might think that’s pretty idyllic - and it isissues far larger than themselves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00BJOS364</amazonuk>140871468X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Megan Shepherd152915118X|title=The Madman's DaughterPineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson|rating=34.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Teenager Juliet Moreau has ''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 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 Pineapple Street, so Sasha and Cord can move straight in. Nominally, they had a hard 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=Emily Critchley|title=One Puzzling Afternoon|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=84 year old Edie has lived in the same small town for almost her whole life since , 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 father memory. However, Edie is tormented by the memory of her childhood friend, Lucy, who went missing over 60 years ago, and the worry that there was a secret she was vilified by Victorian societykeeping for Lucy that somehow might be the thing that reveals the truth of what happened all that time ago. Thinking him long deadAfter 'seeing' Lucy in the high street, just as she scrapes a living as best was the last time she saw her, she can – but a chance discovery at a macabre event leads starts to find pockets of memories coming back to her to learn that he . And yet as she remembers the past, she is alive forgetting more and more in her day to day life is cast into chaos. Will she uncover the truth about Lucy's disappearance before her move, and before her memories are gone forever?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007500203</amazonuk>1804181250
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{{Frontpage
|author=Madelaine Lucas
|title=Thirst for Salt
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= ''Love, I'd read, was supposed to be a light and weightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravity''
Told from a retrospective view, a young woman unravels the year-long relationship that once defined her. Overlaid with later wisdom, the narrator relives the affair with a man twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the summer after. Set against the backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the 24-year-old narrator's deepening relationship with her older lover, depicting its all-consuming nature, how it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and how it altered her irrevocably.|isbn=0861546490}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=A M Homes0008506337|title=May We Be ForgivenThe Garnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore|rating=45
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=The love 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. Richard was twenty-one and described by Margo'May We Be Forgivens mother as 'an older man'. Her parents worried that Richard' is not an easy book s influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to summariseOxford and having a glittering career. The book is narrated by Harold In the event, a fairly pedestrian academic teacher they eloped and aspiring writer Richard took her away from the Isle of history Wight. Margo did go to Oxford and particularly the Nixon era. We don't have went on to wait long for the catalyst that changes his life fundamentally over the course of become a yearwell-respected journalist. His high flying The couple had three children: Rachel, younger brother, George, is involved Imogen and Sasha. Life was lived in a car accident shortly after Thanksgiving London and an adulterous encounter will change holidays were spent at Sandcove, the family home on the lives Isle of Harold and George foreverWight. AM Homes offers a biting satire of Even then the American Dream, taking swipes at materialism, families that are more nuclear fallout than nuclear, Internet sex sites and the dependence on drugs and psychiatrists doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able to keep people on the straight and narrowleave him in charge''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847083234</amazonuk>Then Richard left them.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Goolrick1914585402|title=Heading Out to WonderfulDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Charlie Beale returned from the war in Europe and 1948 found him in Brownsburg, Virginia. HeI reviewed David F Ross's book [[There's Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There'd been driving around looking for somewhere to settle and all he had with him were two suitcases. s Only One contained an excellent set Danny Garvey]] a couple of butchers' knives - years back and remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and the other affecting it was full of money. Brownsburg seemed like It was a fine place to stay gripping, emotionally wounding read, and before long he had a job with Will Haislett and the Haislett family became ''his'' family. He'd never hankered after children but their five-year-old son, Sam found a place in his heart. Life rereading my review of it my main takeaway was that I might not have been good if lavished enough praise on it had continued in this vein, but Charlie Beale met Sylvan Glass.s|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091953677</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mohsin HamidLucy Ashe|title=How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising AsiaClara and Olivia
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Inside Mohsin Hamid's ''How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia'' The year is a bitter-sweet love story disguised as a self help book1933. ItThe place? Sadler's a well structured concept Wells. Ballerinas Clara and works nicelyOlivia are sisters, twins no less. Each chapter is presented in Identical on the format of those common to the self help genreoutside but not, we learn, with advice like 'Move to on the City'inside. And not on stage, either. Because there'Get an Education' etcs a lot that builds a dancer.Some things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, although the chapter entitled 'Be Prepared attention to Use Violence' is a notable omission from most business tomes detail – and self help books. After some general chatty comments in the self help book stylethings, the attention turns to two people who are named only that 'the boy' and je ne sais quoi'the pretty girl', charting their rise and fall that don't come from rural poverty in an unnamed Asian country (although it certainly feels like Pakistan) to business success and wealth in the cityclassroom. A stage presence, a charm, a ''joie de vivre''. The two are not difference between a couplehard-worker, but their lives cross at frequent times and he, in particular, remains infatuated with his childhood acquaintancea star.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0241144663</amazonuk>0861544080
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Edward Kelsey MooreHeather Fawcett|title=The Supremes at EarlEmily Wilde's All-You-Can-EatEncyclopaedia of Faeries
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=In PlainviewEmily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, Indiana there are three women who have been friends since their teens. Forty years after they first met they're still known as the Supremesand she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, the name given to them by Big Earl at his All-You-Can-Eat diner. The dinerwrite her life's now run by his sonwork, Little Earl, but you'll find the Supremes very first encyclopaedia of faeries. Whilst she is brilliant at the table in the window every Sundayresearch and speaking to faeries, after church, along she is not so good with their familiespeople. Odette tells us her own storySo when she finds herself far, far North in the small village of Hrafvsnik, from having somehow offended the time village matriarch, she was born in a sycamore treeis not sure what she has done, which made nor how to redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on the fearless soul she isright track. But now sheEnter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, much to Emily's up against something which even she might not be able to face downfrustration. Clarice was always the well-brought-up young lady as well as being a musician of some considerable merit, but her husband But why is causing her problems. he here? What does he want? Even serial philanderers would be in awe of And what Richmond gets up to.exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444758020</amazonuk>0356519120
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eleanor Henderson1398515388|title=Ten Thousand SaintsThe Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating=34.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Eleanor Henderson's debut novel ''Ten Thousand Saints'' is set First of all, it was the earthquake, deep in late 1980s Vermont the ocean floor, which created the tsunami andthis, more memorablyin turn, New Yorkcaused the nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and utter devastation. Opening in 1987 we discover in The deaths were uncountable, and the second sentence loss of livelihoods was widespread. The fact that one many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of priorities but - six months after the two boys hiding under the stands to the Vermont school football field on match day will die that nighttsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. It He wasn's t a powerful opening. From then on, dog person but the book deals first with Teddyconvenience store owner's death and then with the life comment that he has left behind in the form of would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his friend Jude, Jude's sort of step sister Eliza and Teddy's older brother Johnny. It's a world of broken homes and the trinity of sex and drugs and rock car door and roll, or more specifically punk. Henderson is particularly good at evoking Tamon the underground scene dog jumped in New York at the time before the unlikely combination of AIDS and mayoral intervention combined to clean up the city.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780872194</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robert DickinsonChristopher Bowden|title=The SchismMr Magenta|rating=34
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Patrick Farrell works for Christopher Bowden's latest novel is a patient untangling of a company that reclaims credit cards from those in debt. He doesnseemingly ordinary woman't particularly enjoy the works life, but it gives him plenty carried out by her nephew after she has died. The aunt who always provided a safe harbour and a little bit of opportunity indulgence to visit his schizophrenic brother, Mike, which he does regularly. Mike used to be a fairly decent boxer, but now his only fight is against the paranoid delusion young nephew had had a much more interesting life than that there are people watching nephew Stephen had ever realised and it seems to him an obligation to find it all the timeout.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908434228</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Syrie JamesJennifer Mason|title=The Missing Manuscript Partitions of Jane AustenUnity|rating=54
|genre=General Fiction
|summary='A newly discoveredHere at Bookbag Towers, we first met Elizabeth Cromwell, incredibly raredominatrix and unintentional detective in [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], handwritten manuscript when she investigated and unravelled a series of a previously unknown Jane Austen Novel is to appear at auction in Londondisappearances. The neatly written but heavily corrected pages are for a full length work entitled In ''Partitions of Unity'The Stanhopes', she sets her mind to solving a murder...'|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0425253368</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF
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{{Frontpage
|author=Will Carver
|title=The Daves Next Door
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= Five strangers come together in one moment as a suicide bomber prepares to detonate his vest on a London tube line. As their fates overlap, the story is told in backwards order, leading up to the fateful moment.
|isbn= 1914585186
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