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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]]==General fiction==__NOTOC__{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elliott HallJenny Lecoat|title=The Children's CrusadeBeyond Summerland
|rating=4
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|summary=We back-track several years to get Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of the low-down and history on Felixoccupation. ItDuring the war, Jean's interestingfather was arrested for listening to a banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, very interesting. He's like some sort leaving Jean and her mother waiting for years for news of American 007 but not all of his plans have been successfulhim. Some have back-fired and he has As the British finally free the Channel islands from the scars to prove it. In fact although in his prime yearsNazis, Felix could be healthier and the war is forced to take regular medicationfinally over, their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him. And throughout But will the truth come as a relief, or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the story Hall tells us why that is. war? Chapter Two, which sees Felix in Nevada opens with Who was the no-nonsense line ''I came to Las Vegas to kill a man.'' But informer whotold the Nazis about the radio? And whywhat other secrets have been kept throughout the occupation? We get the answers all in Hall's good time.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848540752</amazonuk>1846976537
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=J Robert LennonOnyi Nwabineli|title=CastleAllow Me to Introduce Myself
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=In Anuri spent her childhood on display to the late winter of 2006 Erich Loesch returns world, thanks to Gerrysburgher step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, NY (Pop 2310 where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and falling) influencer deals and buys six hundred or so acres of undeveloped land on the edge of the county, basically, monetary gain. Loesch grew up Now Anuri is in Gerrysburgher twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, but he's been away a long timesuing her step-mother to take down the content about her. The place hasn't changed much except through longAnuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, slow declineundergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. There are vacant lots where he remembers homesMost importantly, businessesshe is desperately worried about her little sister, amenities. There are one or two people who remember him, or remember his familyis the new focus of Ophelia's online empire. They remember what happened to Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the family, or heard about what happened to him afterwards.same time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1555975593</amazonuk>0861546873
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rachel Genn1529153298|title=The CureList of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=3.5
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|summary=We get the background on Eugene early on in the story; a troubled childhood with an alcoholic father who was often It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not at homewhat's worrying Miv's family, though. Instead he was working on a building site in London and drinking away much of his wagesWomen have been disappearing. His wife and children didnWell, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't appear sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to benefit much - either financially or emotionallymove the family 'Down South'. Eugene still bears plenty of invisible scars When you're from that time and now grown upYorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would like mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to carve out his own path and thinks a fresh start would be a good ideaprevent that. Although itShe's not altogether a fresh start as he chooses worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to work on the same construction site as his father and even lives in the same lodgings in the East Endanyone. Is this his own unique way of exorcising some ghosts?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184901583X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cathy Glass1035906708|title=Run, Mummy, RunDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Aisha is a youngWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, beautiful in December 1923 and successful woman who has worked hard only moved to get where Athens when she iswas thirteen. But there is one thing missing in her life: a man. Still living with Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her parents at the age of thirty and inexperienced when father changed it comes to men, Aisha wonders if she will ever find a husband'Callas' to make it more manageable in the States. But then When she spots an ad was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the paper Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and plucking up all made no secret of her courage and determinationpreference for her elder sister, she decides to reply. This could be her only chance at love and she doesn't want to waste itJackie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007299281</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Blake MorrisonAlexander McCall Smith|title=The Last WeekendPerfect Passion Company|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=The book opens Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in the sunny month of June when the invitation is givenEdinburgh, via telephone, from Ollie run by Ness and Daisy operating as an alternative to Ian and Emilyall the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Or Em Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as she's called throughout - there's Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a lovely explanation while. Katie is coming out of why Ian insists on shortening his wife's namea break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. And even with so begins this generous and seemingly innocent phone callnew story from Alexander McCall Smith, all hell seems bringing us to break loose as Ian decides an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to de-cipher 44 Scotland Street and the callIsabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Did they mean this? Did they really mean that? And lots of undercurrents Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and negative feelings start rather handsome) neighbour, William, to bubble up.lend a hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>009954234X</amazonuk>1846976596
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nicholas HoggDean Koontz|title=The Hummingbird Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Paranormal|summary=Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the Beardelivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Spike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491}}{{Frontpage|author=Katherine Howe|title=A True Account|rating=34.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Sam Taylor seems Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to have a charmed life – live with a City job that brings him wealth and prestigefamily who run an inn, a wonderful fiancée and being made to work there from a lovely London homeyoung age. But all this can't compensate for a childhood that contained great sorrow; he When she hears there is haunted by to be a sense hanging of being somehow incompletesome pirates in the town, she decides to go and watch. When Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a chance encounter young boy's death at the hands of two vicious pirates. She hides away, so that they don't find and kill her too, and then to escape them completely she runs away to sea, dressing as a wedding brings 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 new woman into this mutiny on board, and from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life, he begins to hope that he has found everything he really needson the ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184901647X</amazonuk>0861547438
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lisa Jewell1471180158|title=The Making of UsMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Lydia, Robyn and Dean are three completely different people with only one thing Jamie Matson works in common. According to an online donor registryupper-class grocery store, they were for a man who's a control freak with all fathered by the same sperm donor. Some have known subtlety of their heritage for a whilehalf brick. Jamie's son, others are just finding outBo, but none of them knew the other two existed'has his problems'. Until now. At He's asthmatic and the same timemore you read, their donor father's life is slipping away. His last wish is to know of the impact his more you'noblell suspect that he' act may have had, the legacy it is leaving s on the worldautistic spectrum. And Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's a frequent flier in this information age itthe local A&E and sometimes Bo's not that hard fit enough to go to school. Missed shifts or the need to trace your roots, unless, that is, you're searching for people who don't want be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be foundcontrolled and put in the wrong. It was going to come to a head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846055741</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jenn AshworthB0CKD1L5JL|title=Cold Light|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''Cold Light'' is the story of three teenage girls who become involved in a predatory adult world. As the story opens we're looking back on what happened from a decade later and we know that one of the girls, Chloë, died in a Valentine's Day suicide pact. The town council has finally decided on a memorial to Chloë – it's to be a summerhouse at the side of the pond where she drowned, although it's difficult to understand quite why anyone would want to sit there. The ground-breaking ceremony is being televised when it becomes obvious that something has gone terribly wrong. But Lola, our narrator, knows that they've found a body. She also knows who it is.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444721445</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewRadio Free Olympia|author=Kristina McMorris|title=Letters From HomeJeffrey Dunn
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Liz Stephens accompanies a couple of friends to a GI social occasionPetr is an orphan. She's content Rescued by the strange, reclusive Bear, he is brought up far from bustling cities and already 'spoken for' so she wouldn't normally be here where essentially most people are foot-loose and fancy-free. But shebusy human society, in the forests of Washington's promised her good friend Betty to come alongOlympic Peninsula. As the evening progresses with lots of singing After Bear dies and dancinga brief sojourn in human company, things become both interesting and just armed with only a little dangerous. But for whom? Who are we talking about here? Liz bumps into one of pirate radio transmitter, Petr goes on a journey through the many GIs present. His name's Morgan. An instant spark is there - or so someone believes. But they both end forest, broadcasting the evening on a less-than-satisfactory note. Liz returns to her life with her soon-to-be-fiance strange, wild and Morgan goes off to warrarely heard voices he encounters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847562418</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Steve HelySarah Marsh|title=How I Became a Famous NovelistA Sign of Her Own|rating=43.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=With an uncompromising title like 'How I Became After a Famous Novelist'bout of scarlet fever as a child, this clearly isn't intended to be Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a subtle bookworld of silence, everything about her life changes. So I can hardly complain Living in a time when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a cynical look at 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 writing industry swings raw punches in every directiondeaf and using a system called Visible Speech. It just isn't my sort of humour At the same time, but equallyBell is working on other inventions and ideas, if you rave about 'The Office' you will likely enjoy this book far more than I have doneand Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849015724</amazonuk>1035401614
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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.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anna Quindlen1472263936|title=Every Last OneThe Figurine|author=Victoria Hislop
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Mary Beth Latham is contemplating It was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. She was alone: her averagemother, Greek by birth, ordinary life where every day is more of less had left the same. Would things be better if life were more excitingfamily home and refused to return, varied, newsworthy? Is but Mary and Hamish (Helena's parents) felt that it would be a legitimate thing pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. Her trip to hope for? They say the family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be the first of several annual visits. She grew to be careful what you wish forlove her grandmother and the family's maid, Dina, but was wary - and Mary Beth never comes right out frightened - of her grandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. He was proud of his close connections to the Junta and says this is what she wants, expected his family to uphold his values but there are hints saw no reason to this effectaccommodate them. His prejudices included Helena's red hair and green eyes - inherited from her father's Scottish ancestors.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099537966</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=John LawtonDean Koontz|title=A Lily After 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 Fieldshrouded 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
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=The book opens in the early 1930s in Vienna where we meet one of the main characters; ten year old Meret. She's gifted musically village is isolated and in particular in playing the cellopoor. Even at this tender age, people are talking about her starry future on the world stage. She is the apple of her father's eye and soon sheIt's being given extra musical tuition surrounded by a kind but much older manWitching Forest. He's old enough to be her grandfather but nevertheless they strike up a rather unusual friendship with music being And the common denominator. But some of their conversations are serious villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and quite grown-up for a young girl, not yet into pubertyits blossom provides herbal medicines. The tutor, Viktor Rosen is Jewish and has already suffered at the hands black wood of the Germans. Meret progresses at such a pace that before you know itforest provides heat and warmth, she's performing in public. Her life appears to be wonderful and full of future promise.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1611856019</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kim Newman|title=Anno Dracula|rating=3.5|genre=Horror|summary=The story begins in London. It is 1888 and Queen Victoria is roofs on the throne. She has recently remarriedhomes, taking as her husband the infamous vampire Count Dracula. Dracula's influence is all around London as more and more of its citizens turn willingly to vampirismeven gallows, whilst others resist its temptationsif needed. A distinct sense The fear of social and political unrest being buried alive is an existential superstition in the air as factions speak out against village and that is the race of vampiresreason Volushka, somehow spurred on by the serial killer at large. Known at first as the Silver Knifea drunken, but later as Jack the Ripperself-indulgent, this killer targets young vampire women in Whitechapel, prostitutes who have recently turned to vampirism, known as new-bornslazy lout of a man is tolerated. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857680838</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alexander BaronB0BYF82CXT|title=There's No HomeSemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=It's the year 1943 'Bill and Sicily has been invaded (along with other parts Amanda are living in a semi-detached house, stuck in a depressing rut of Europe). The menfolk have gone (will they return?) boredom and disappointment, when Terry and the womenFiona – glamorous, children successful and old people left behind are a sorry sightvery much in love – move in next door. ImpoverishedDespite their different outlooks on life, ragged the couples befriend each other and with barely enough food life appears to eatimprove for both pairs. A British company of soldiers rolls into town ... and everything changes. The men are foot-soreBut all is not what it seems, exhausted and dirty. They their increasingly interconnected relationships are also glassy-eyed with the horrors of war. And as if that were not enough, the Sicilian sun beats down on them mercilesslyfated for tragedy. But there's some good news - they're here to rest and recuperate for a while.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956308600</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Raj KumarShalini Boland|title=SharafThe Silent Bride|rating=4.53
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=With its subtitle "Forbidden love Alice and Seth are a match made in the kingdom of faith heaven. He is everything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, clever, funny; total and honour", I expected something entirely different from ''Sharaf'' to what it deliveredutter husband-material. For the second time She is all he could possibly want in as many weeks I had misjudged a book wife; beautiful, successful, confident… and so the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted byAlice and the wedding is planned and set. When the much-anticipated day arrives, if not its cover exactlyAlice is walked down the aisle by her father, certainly by its setting beaming with pride and excitement as she surveys the congregation – their friends assembled to celebrate this joyful day and its blurbwhen 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.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1905802331</amazonuk>1662507089
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Watson1787636003|title=ElevenThe Girls of Summer|author=Katie Bishop|rating=45
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=The book's title has been well thought out. Xavier Ireland, It was the main character has summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the number ''Eleven'' if you take his initials as Roman numbers (XI) and there are eleven individuals who are involved in this chain reaction of eventsisland. When I read the blurb on the back cover, what caught my eye above all else was the line 'whether the choices we donRachel wasn't make affect us just as powerfully as those we do.' And of courseexactly innocent but she was, perhaps, naive, so when we thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to take no action about something an interest in our livesher, it's she was flattered rather than wary. It was quite a form while before he made any sort of action physical approach to her and by that time she was obsessed by him. Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, looking after his interests on the island and in particular in effectthe bar where all the girls either worked or partied.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184983136X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mavis CheekAmanda Craig|title=The Lovers of Pound HillThree Graces
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Archaeologist Molly Bonner had something about her. She definitely wasn't dressed for the country when she arrived in Lufferton Boney and she'd captured Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the heart state-of one young man before she'd even walked down -the street-nation novel. She captured another when she offered money to work on There's something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the Gnome atmosphere of Pound Hillthe day and capture it, but Miles Whittington was ruled by his wallet and he was keen to make money out crafting an image of the Gnomecountry as it stands in one particular moment. The Gnome, you see, was what might euphemistically To say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be called embarrassingly inadequate: she'well endowed' and Miles had visions of charging visitors to make use s practically synonymous with the genre of the, er, fertility ritescontemporary social fiction at this point. One thing was certain – none of She has such a gift for weaving the villagers ongoing issues of Lufferton Boney would be the same by day into the time lives of her characters in a way that Molly Bonner (not only an archaeologist feels natural and lived-in, never making them ciphers for social commentary but also the archaeologist's granddaughter) had finished her workinstead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091931665</amazonuk>140871468X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alan Warner152915118X|title=The Stars in the Bright SkyPineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson|rating=4.5|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=In 1999''Pineapple Street'' is the story of three women: Sasha, Alan Warner introduced us Darley and Georgiana. Darley and George are sisters and Sasha is married to their brother Cord. They're Stocktons, only Sasha isn't a wonderful set of characters in Stockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the tribe. The Sopranosproblem' s exacerbated when a school choir from a backwater town in Scotland went on a trip the clan matriarch, Tilda, asks Cord and Sasha if they'd like to move into the big cityPineapple Street property. Much debauchery ensued Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to another property, a street or so away, which they own. They won'The Stars t need any of the furniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and Cord can move straight in the Bright Sky. Nominally, they had a choice but that wasn' once again reunites most of t the original gang reality. Darley and there is no need Georgiana start to have read call Sasha 'the first book to pick up on the diverse charactersgold digger'. She's living in ''their'' family home. Now though, They use it so often that theyabbreviate it to 've grown up (or at least got older!) and are gathered at Gatwick Airport to set off on a girlsthe GD' holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009946182X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Geraint AndersonEmily Critchley|title=Just BusinessOne Puzzling Afternoon
|rating=4
|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=The inside cover blurb tells us that the author himself 84 year old Edie has worked lived in the square mile in Londonsame small town for almost her whole life, but now she is facing a move as her son wants to move to another house and bring Edie to live with his family, as Edie is starting to lose her memory. However, Edie is tormented by the memory of her childhood friend, Lucy, who went missing over 60 years ago, so presumably he'll have first-hand experience in and the worry that there was a secret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be the thing that reveals the world truth of financewhat happened all that time ago. The book is bang up-to-dateAfter 'seeing' Lucy in the high street, just as it mentions she was the first whiff last time she saw her, she starts to find pockets of memories coming back to her. And yet as she remembers the sub-prime disaster which seemed past, she is forgetting more and more in her day to start day life. Will she uncover the whole collapse of the (up till then) safe truth about Lucy's disappearance before her move, and often extremely well-paid banking sector.before her memories are gone forever?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755381726</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''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Megan Abbott0008506337|title=The End of EverythingGarnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Connolly The love affair between Margo Garnett and [[Tell No One by Harlan Coben|Harlan Coben]]poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, apparently on both of whom I've readsides. So, it Margo was off to a pretty good startjust sixteen when they fell in love. The front cover graphics Richard was twenty-one and large print scream out described by Margo'thrillers mother as '. We get the essence of Cody early on. He's a an older man who likes to do his own thing and doesn't take kindly to orders or red tape. All Her parents worried that red tape is shit, is probably how Cody Richard's influence would describe it in his own colourful and downtake her away from what they felt she could achieve -going to-earth fashionOxford and having a glittering career. He looks older than his years. In the event, Maybe that's down to a messy domestic life they eloped and also to Richard took her away from the hours he puts in on the jobIsle of Wight. He lives Margo did go to Oxford and went on his own and has to become a teenage son he doesn't see often enoughwell-respected journalist. OhThe couple had three children: Rachel, Imogen and he smokes like a chimney Sasha. Life was lived in London and drinks like a fishholidays were spent at Sandcove, the family home on the Isle of Wight. In short, heEven then the doubts about Richard's a mess. But somehow he stumbles through his police work - with a lot of help and support drinking were never far from a long-suffering colleagueMargo's mind: ''she would never be able to leave him in charge''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848872984</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Justine Kilkerr1914585402|title=Advice for StraysDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=If you have ever fancied a grown up version of I reviewed David F Ross's book [[The Tiger Who Came to Tea There's Only One Danny Garvey by Judith KerrDavid F Ross|The Tiger who came to TeaThere's Only One Danny Garvey]], the cover a couple of this Vintage edition should hook you into reading Justine Kilkerr's first novel. Here sits a sad years back and patient-looking lion, and the female figure beside him, hidden remember being absolutely floored by an umbrella, has that same vulnerable look of mother how powerful and child in Judith Kerr's classic children's picture bookaffecting it was. At first this seems like It was a ridiculous connectiongripping, but thinking about emotionally wounding read, and rereading my review of it later my main takeaway was that I'm struck with the analogy, might not to mention the similarity in authors' nameshave lavished enough praise on it. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099535262</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Heather GudenkaufLucy Ashe|title=These Things HiddenClara and Olivia
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Golden girl Allison Glenn was living The year is 1933. The place? Sadler's Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, twins no less. Identical on the perfect teenage life until she was imprisoned for a monstrous crimeoutside but not, we learn, on the inside. And not on stage, either. Now sheBecause there's twenty-one and has been released from prison to live in a halfway houselot that builds a dancer. Allison is keen Some things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, attention to put detail – and some things, that ''je ne sais quoi'', that don't come from the past behind herclassroom. A stage presence, a charm, but when she returns to her home town of Linden Falls she soon discovers that no one has forgotten her crimea ''joie de vivre''. The difference between a hard-worker, least of all her parents and her little sister, Brynna star.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>077830437X</amazonuk>0861544080
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Meg WolitzerHeather Fawcett|title=The UncouplingEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Dory Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and Robby Lang had one of those marriages that everyone envies. They're not just loversshe has travelled extensively, they're best friends too and they never seem researched meticulously, to tire write her life's work, the very first encyclopaedia of each otherfaeries. They're both popular teachers Whilst she is brilliant at Eleanor Roosevelt High School ('Elro' research and speaking to those who know it well) where their daughter faeries, she is a studentnot so good with people. It's sometimes difficult to have your parent teaching at your schoolSo when she finds herself far, far North in the small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the village matriarch, she is not sure what she has done, but everything seems nor how to rub along reasonably well redeem herself and Dory was delighted when daughter Willa got a part in put her final investigations for her book back on the school playright track. It's ''Lysistrata'' Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and whilst the drama teacher has to tone it down a little it still the play about the women insufferable rival who refuse arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, much to have sex Emily's frustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with their men until they call a halt to the war they're fighting.faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0701186216</amazonuk>0356519120
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Natasha Solomons1398515388|title=The Novel in Boy and the ViolaDog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Elise Landau arrived in England in 1938First of all, it was the earthquake, a refugee from Vienna where she and her family had had a good lifestyle. In England she's destined for Tyneford deep in Dorset where she'll be a parlour maid at the big house. She's not exactly looking forward to itocean floor, but she's escaped Vienna with some of her mother's jewels sewn into which created the seams of her dresses tsunami and her father's latest novelthis, in manuscriptturn, is hidden in caused the body of her violanuclear meltdown. Her sister is leaving for the USA The result was complete and her parents hope to followutter devastation. Surely Elise will be able to join them before too long? The deaths were uncountable, and the loss of livelihoods was widespread. She knows The fact that she wonmany pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of priorities but - six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. He wasn't like Englanda dog person but the convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and Tamon the dog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>034099567X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Paul MagrsChristopher Bowden|title=The Bride That Time ForgotMr Magenta|rating=3.54
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Christmas Christopher Bowden's latest novel is approaching in the seaside town a patient untangling of Whitby and Brenda is busy sprucing up her B&B. She hasn't seen her best friend, neighbour and investigating partner Effie for a few weeks, since Effieseemingly ordinary woman's strange gentleman friend Alucard life, carried out by her nephew after she has reappeareddied. Brenda The aunt who always provided a safe harbour and Effie are the guardians a little bit of the gateway indulgence to Hell which just happens a young nephew had had a much more interesting life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and it seems to be right on their doorstep in Whitby, but since Effie has shut herself away, Brenda has turned him an obligation to her friend Robert, the owner of the local hotel to help her with her investigations into the ever present strange goings on in the town, involving vampires, monsters and a rather strange carfind it all out. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755359453</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Naomi WoodJennifer Mason|title=The Godless BoysPartitions of Unity
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Britain. 1986. The country became 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 theocracy during the 1950s and since then outbreaks series of secular terrorism have been dealt with by exiledisappearances. The atheists have been sent In ''Partitions of Unity'', she sets her mind to the Island where they can burn churches as they pleasesolving a murder.. Aside from a weekly boat bringing donated supplies, the exiled must shift as best they can on a remote snippet of land in the North Sea. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0330530127</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=James Patterson and Neil McMahonWill Carver|title=ToysThe Daves Next Door
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=The novel has Five strangers come together in one moment as a very glamorous opening. We're at President Jacklin's inauguration party and the easy flow of narration gets me seamlessly and effortlessly into the story. There are plenty of comments and observations pertaining suicide bomber prepares to the super-duper hi-tech times of the story, so as early as page 10 Hays and detonate his beautiful wife Lizbeth, who are invitees, are attended to by vest on a well-trained and well-programmed ''iJeeves butler.'' I loved that phrase. It made me smile. The Bakers are an impressive and influential coupleLondon tube line. As part of the 'elite' society they expect a flawless, ordered life for themselves and their family. And Patterson then informs us that mere human beings have been relegated to menial work and most of them live pitiful lives and serves them rightfates overlap, apparently. They're despised but their labour is necessary to oil the wheels of the important daily lives of the elites. But the elites have extremely ambitious plans. Can they pull them off?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846057701</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Louise Welsh|title=Naming the Bones|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Murray Watson story is a Doctor of English Literature embarking on a year-long sabbatical to pursue his long-held dream of writing the definitive biography of Archie Lunan andtold in backwards order, as a specifically intended by-product, restore Lunan's poetry leading up to its rightful place in the high canon of Scots creativityfateful moment.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847672566</amazonuk>1914585186}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anita ShreveJennifer Mason|title=RescuePreposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=When we meet Peter Webster he's 'A struggling poetry zine, a mom-and-pop mobile diner in the Northern California redwoods, a rookie paramedic 400-meter hurdler who takes an emergency call to help just missed the 2004 Olympics, a drunk driver whowomen's been badly injured in track coach with a car crash. It was touch and go as to whether or not Sheila Arsenault made ityen for bullwhips, but she did and afterwards Webster can't get her out a billionaire with a state-of his thoughts. Every instinct tells him that he shouldn't get involved with her – that it'll mean trouble – but perhaps it was -the long-art S&M dungeon, shininga man serving a life sentence in Alabama, dark hair that tipped the balance and Webster is involved an enigmatic signature, K(s, x), on a cheap oil painting, an erotic art dealer in an intense love affairGeorgia... He's also involved in Sheila's life – for better or for worse.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408700735</amazonuk>}}
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