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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark B MillsJenny Lecoat|title=Waiting Beyond Summerland|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of the occupation. During the war, Jean's father was arrested for listening to a banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and her mother waiting for years for Doggonews of him. As the British finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, and the war is 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
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|summary=Daniel didnAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia't s increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri''quite'' acquire Doggo by accidents childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. His girlfriend got him from Battersea Dogs' Home but when Clara walked out on him without any notice (well Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step- just a letter...) she told him mother to take Doggo backdown the content about her. He wasAnuri is battling alcoholism, she said 'just a dog. A small ugly dog'. And Daniel was all set failing to do just that until he discovered that Doggo would quickly be separated start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from what Dan considered to be a couple of important parts of his anatomythem for doing so. After a rethink Daniel had a Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new job as an advertising copywriter which allowed him to take Doggo to work with him and Doggofocus of Ophelia's career as a 'mental health companion dog' was bornonline empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472218345</amazonuk>0861546873
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529153298|title=Everything I Never Told YouThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Celeste NgJennie Godfrey
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=To understand Lydia’s deathIt'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, we need to understand Lydiathey've been murdered, and but to understand Lydia we need have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to understand Lydia’s parentsmove the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. Marilyn For Miv, who wanted more from the move would mean leaving her life than best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to play prevent that. She's not worried about the dutiful housewifedangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035906708|title=Diva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, who goes but she was born to college Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and only moved to study and realise Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her dreams, not father changed it to 'Callas' to meet make it more manageable in the States. When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a man (mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her own mother’s dream preference for her)elder sister, Jackie.}}{{Frontpage|author=Alexander McCall Smith|title=The Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, goes ahead run by Ness andoperating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, welltailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, she meets as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a manwhile. That man Katie is James, whose credentials for teaching American history are coming out of a break up for debatewith a bad boyfriend, but who nonetheless manages and so jumps at the chance to overcome his background come home to secure a role doing just thatEdinburgh. They settle down And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and have Naththe Isabel Dalhousie novels, then Lydia, then but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a little while laterbusiness, Hannah. An unusual family for 1970s Ohioor in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a happy one. The children are bright, the home is cosy.hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349134286</amazonuk>1846976596
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patrick RothfussDean Koontz|title=The Slow Regard of Silent ThingsBad Weather Friend
|rating=4.5
|genre=FantasyParanormal|summary=Deep below the UniversityBenny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, the ancient home of magic and learninghis house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a young girl lives amongst the cavesreally weird, tunnelsdisturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and abandoned roomsit'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. In Seven days So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, her a bad weather friend will be visiting - one of her few friendscalled Spike, and someone who Auri cannot wait has been sent to seehelp him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Those seven days are filled with Auri Spike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's preparations - her hunt amongst the tunnels enemies, if he, Benny, and caves for Harper (a proper gift, and her thoughts as she goes about her businesswaitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473209323</amazonuk>1662500491
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Dear Committee MembersKatherine Howe|authortitle=Julie SchumacherA True Account
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Jason Fitger (Jay) Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to live with a family who run an inn, and being made to work there from a Professor young age. When she hears there is to be a hanging of creative writing some pirates in the town, she decides to go and literature watch. Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death at the hands of two vicious pirates. She hides away, so that they don't find and kill her too, and then to escape them completely she runs away to sea, dressing as a small university boy and joining the notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. She soon finds herself in the American mid-west. He thick of things when there is also a frustrated novelist with a colourful personal historymutiny on board, much and from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of which bleeds into his professional life, with interesting resultson the ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007586345</amazonuk>0861547438
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Pitre1471180158|title=Fives and Twenty-Fives Maybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=In Iraq any soldier within 5 metres Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's a control freak with all the subtlety of a roadside bomb explosion will die as even an armoured truck will be torn to pieceshalf brick. Being within 25 metres of a roadside explosion would be fatal to foot soldiersJamie's son, Bo, 'has his problems'. Lieutenant Pete Donovan He's asthmatic and his US marine unit know this better than anyonethe more you read, the more you'll suspect that he's on the autistic spectrum. Their job Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's a frequent flier in Iraq is to repair the roads but itlocal A&E and sometimes Bo's not as simple as it soundsfit enough to go to school. Every pothole (yes, ''every'' pothole) contains a bomb; even Missed shifts or the kerbstones could need to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be dummies filled with explosivescontrolled and put in the wrong. That's why every serviceman and woman has it drilled into them: no matter what, no matter where, always watch your fives and twenty-fivesIt was going to come to a head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00M7S1NL8</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0CKD1L5JL|title=The TowerRadio Free Olympia|author=Alessandro GallenziJeffrey Dunn|rating=34
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=AmmanPetr is an orphan. Rescued by the strange, Jordanreclusive Bear, he is brought up far from bustling cities and even while busy human society, in the worldforests of Washington's tallest building is still being constructed, Biblia are hard at work insideOlympic Peninsula. The global Internet conglomerate is undergoing its efforts to digitise the entire world's knowledgeAfter Bear dies and a brief sojourn in human company, including and armed with only a priceless archive held by a local dignitarypirate radio transmitter, when one of the workers involved - Petr goes on behalf of a journey through the Vatican - vanishesforest, along with some unknown quantities of broadcasting the works. Enter Peter Simms from Englandstrange, wild and a classy Italian colleague, to help relocate whatever it was that was missing - in the face of threats from elsewhere in the Muslim kingdom..rarely heard voices he encounters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846883377</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=EmmaSarah Marsh|authortitle=Alexander McCall SmithA Sign of Her Own
|rating=3.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=When I read about the plan to re-imagine Jane Austen's novels through contemporaryAfter a bout of scarlet fever as a child, bestselling authors I wasn't entirely sure this was a good thingEllen Lark loses her hearing. Sense and Sensibility by Joanna Trollope? Really? But then, Suddenly plunged into a world of coursesilence, my eyes lit upon everything about her life changes. Living in a time when the magic author's nameuse of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Alexander McCall Smith! Not only had been asked Ellen is sent to a school where she is taught to be involvedlip read, but physically restrained from signing. From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the book he was going to work deaf and using a system called Visible Speech. At the same time, Bell is working on was my most favourite Austen bookother inventions and ideas, Emmaand Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage. What could possibly go wrong?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007553854</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=Judy Chicurel1472263936|title=If I Knew You Were Going To Be This Beautiful, I Never Would Have Let You GoThe Figurine|author=Victoria Hislop
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Katie It was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. She was alone: her mother, Greek by birth, had left the family home and refused to return, but Mary and Hamish (Helena's parents) felt that it would be a pity if Helena grew up without knowing her friends grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. Her trip to the family apartment in Elephant Beach, Long Island are going to make up-market Kolonaki would be the most first of summer 1972several annual visits. High school is behind them, thereShe grew to love her grandmother and the family's booze maid, Dina, but was wary - and frightened - of her grandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. He was proud of his close connections to be drunk the Junta and weed expected his family to be smokeduphold his values but saw no reason to accommodate them. ThereHis prejudices included Helena's red hair and green eyes - inherited from her father's also Scottish ancestors.}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=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 lot makeshift mortuary, covered in plastic, he has a sense that something very, very bad has happened to contend withhim – and only him – as he sits up and looks around at the shrouded bodies of his dead friends and former colleagues. This As he recovers his senses, he realises that there is something different about him; he can ''feel'' everything. ''Everything''. Michael isn't ''Michael'' anymore.|isbn=1662500467}} {{Frontpage|isbn=B0BVDC2VWH|title=The Grave Listeners|author=William Frank|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=The village is a working class community, ignored isolated and disenfranchised poor. It's surrounded by those with a Witching Forest. And the money villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and influence to helpits blossom provides herbal medicines. Also The black wood of the Vietnam War rages forest provides heat and warmth, roofs onhomes, producing local heroes like Luke and Mitcheven gallows, if needed. For some The fear of being buried alive is an existential superstition in the young people village and that is the future is reason Volushka, a blank canvasdrunken, for others their future is foreseen or foreshortened. As for Katie's hopes and dreamsself-indulgent, they all revolve around the hope lazy lout of a date with Lukeman is tolerated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472221656</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0BYF82CXT|title=The Love Song of Miss Queenie HennessySemi-Detached|author=Rachel JoyceDeborah Stone
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Rachel Joyce envisions ''The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy'' not as Bill and Amanda are living in a prequel or sequel to [[The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce|The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry]] but as semi-detached house, stuck in a companion volume. Giving Queenie's side depressing rut of the story through an extended letter she is writing to Harold from St Bernadine's hospice as she awaits his arrivalboredom and disappointment, when Terry and Fiona – glamorous, Joyce gives readers a new perspective successful and very much in love – move in next door. Despite their different outlooks on her character's unrequited love for Harold, a surprising friendship she kept up with his son David until his suicidelife, the couples befriend each other and her sudden move from Devon life appears to Northumbriaimprove for both pairs. But all is not what it seems, where she lived in a quaint beachside cottage and maintained her sea garden until she became ill with cancertheir increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857522450</amazonuk>''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The BearShalini Boland|authortitle=Claire CameronThe Silent Bride
|rating=3
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Canadian Claire Cameron was working as Alice and Seth are a counsellor at Algonquin Park match made in the early 90'sheaven. He is everything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, clever, when a bear attacked funny; total and killed two campersutter husband-material. HereShe is all he could possibly want in a wife; beautiful, successful, Cameron revisits confident… and so the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and re imagines the attackwedding is planned and set. When the much-anticipated day arrives, but gives Alice is walked down the campers two childrenaisle by her father, beaming with pride and tells excitement as she surveys the story from congregation – their friends assembled to celebrate this joyful day and when Seth turns to face his approaching bride, Alice's world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the perspective of man at the daughteraltar is, Annawho is waiting for her to become his wife.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099581469</amazonuk>1662507089
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1787636003|title=Night after NightThe Girls of Summer|author=Phil RickmanKatie Bishop|rating=45
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=It's no surprise was the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that when it comes to reality television, broadcasters are fighting amongst themselves for she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the next big thingisland. Rachel wasn't exactly innocent but she was, no matter how tastelessperhaps, basenaive, or exploitative it may be. That's the starting point for Phil Rickman's creepy new thriller, as tv producer Leo Defford decides so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to launch a reality show take an interest in her, she was flattered rather than wary. It was quite a mansion formerly owned while before he made any sort of physical approach to her and by tragically deceased movie star Trinity Ansell, and perhaps haunted that time she was obsessed by him. Alistair worked for Henry VIII's last wifeTaylor, Katherine Parrlooking after his interests on the island and in particular in the bar where all the girls either worked or partied.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857898698</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Green DoorAmanda Craig|authortitle=Christopher BowdenThree Graces|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Clare Mallory is a promising junior barrister working from a prestigious chambers. Life is pretty goodFew styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of-the-nation novel. SheThere's not something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the type to be taken in by psychics but when cards advertising the services atmosphere of one Madame Pavonia start arriving in the postday and capture it, her interest is piqued, first by crafting an image of the rainbow spectrum pattern and then by... well, something elsecountry as it stands in one particular moment. Tempted to visit the fortune-teller at a local fair, Clare To say that Amanda Craig is taken aback skilled at Madame Pavoniadoing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's reaction to practically synonymous with the genre of contemporary social fiction at this point. She has such a gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the day into the lives of her characters in a way that feels natural and rushes out of the tentlived-in, never making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselves. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0955506735</amazonuk>140871468X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=152915118X|title=TwistPineapple Street|author=Tom GrassJenny Jackson
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Twist doesn't know his family'Pineapple Street'' is the story of three women: Sasha, Darley and Georgiana. Homeless Darley and on 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 run from tribe. The problem's exacerbated when the policeclan matriarch, he is swiftly caught up in Tilda, asks Cord and Sasha if they'd like to move into the world of DodgePineapple Street property. Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to another property, Fagina street or so away, Sikeswhich they own. They won't need any of the furniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and RedCord can move straight in. As Nominally, they involve Twist in had a choice but that wasn't the dangerous world of Art theft, his skills are pushed reality. Darley and Georgiana start to call Sasha 'the limits, and his morals are tested by both gold digger'. She's living in ''their'' family home. They use it so often that they abbreviate it to 'the murky underworld and the beauty of RedGD'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409150909</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Christopher BlandEmily Critchley|title=Ashes In The WindOne Puzzling Afternoon
|rating=4
|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=John Burke and Tomas Sullivan may go to 84 year old Edie has lived in the same primary school in Kerry small town for almost her whole life, but even in 1908 they're on two sides of now she is facing a great dividemove 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. John However, Edie is Anglo Irish protestant tormented by the memory of her childhood friend, Lucy, who went missing over 60 years ago, and comfortably offthe worry that there was a secret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be the thing that reveals the truth of what happened all that time ago. After 'seeing' Lucy in the high street, being just as she was the heir to Derriquin Castle whereas Tomas is Irish Catholiclast time she saw her, living in poverty and raised she starts to feel the resentment find pockets of the oppressedmemories coming back to her. The fact that John has been brought up to believe in Home Rule tragically makes no difference And yet as Johnshe remembers the past, Tomas she is forgetting more and their future generations live with more in her day to day life. Will she uncover the consequences of a centuries old struggle.truth about Lucy's disappearance before her move, and before her memories are gone forever?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781859337</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|isbn=0008506337|title=The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy - The Nearly Definitive EditionGarnett Girls|author=Douglas AdamsGeorgina Moore
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=There are few series that have garnered such a cult following 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's mother as 'The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxyan older man'. Whether the fans have come Her parents worried that Richard's influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and having a glittering career. In the radio seriesevent, they eloped and Richard took her away from the (impossibly hard) computer game, or the (Isle of Wight. Margo did go to Oxford and went on to become a well intentioned but not particularly good) film-respected journalist. The couple had three children: Rachel, they are everywhereImogen and Sasha. Ask a room Life was lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, the family home on the Isle of people what Wight. Even then the meaning of life is, and you can doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be pretty sure a good few will pipe up with able to leave him in charge'42' as the answer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434023396</amazonuk>Then Richard left them.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1914585402|title=DoomedDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=Chuck PalahniukDavid F Ross|rating=24.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=The central character, Madison, is I reviewed David F Ross's book [[There's Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's Only One Danny Garvey]] a strangely unlikeable narrator who has been murdered. She finds herself in hell but is able to return to Earth to observe the dramatic goings-on couple of her celebrity parents, who fit the stereotype of the Brangelina couple - socially responsible, universally famous years back and remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and obscenely richaffecting it was. Without giving too much awayIt was a gripping, emotionally wounding read, Madison is a pawn in Satan’s plan to destroy the earth and ensure everyone goes to hell. This being Palahniuk, the focus is rereading my review of it my main takeaway was that I might not have lavished enough praise on the comedic possibilities of this scenario rather than the moralisticit.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099552639</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Victoria HislopLucy Ashe|title=The SunriseClara and Olivia|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Savvas has everything he needs here in Cyprus: money, a beautiful wife from a rich Greek Cypriot family and a hotel to develop into beacon accommodation for the well-heeledThe year is 1933. ItThe place? Sadler's not everything he wants thoughWells. There's always another hotel to buy Ballerinas Clara and deals to be done while AphroditiOlivia are sisters, his intelligent wife, becomes more aware of her position as an ornament rather than a partnertwins no less. On Identical on the other handoutside but not, the Turkish Ozkans and Greek Georgious have less materially but arewe learn, on the wholeinside. And not on stage, happyeither. Traditionally they should be enemies but Famagusta is Because there's a tolerant town and lot that builds a good place dancer. Some things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, attention to live. All this changes in 1974: Turkish soldiers land on the island detail – and slowly move down through some things, that ''je ne sais quoi'', that don't come from the northclassroom. A stage presence, an underground resistance emerges and life becomes dangerously cheapa charm, a ''joie de vivre''. The citizens of Famagusta flee to the southdifference between a hard-worker, but two families can’t get out in time: the Ozkans and the Georgiousa star.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755377788</amazonuk>0861544080
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{{newreview|title=The Winter HorsesFrontpage|author=Philip KerrHeather Fawcett|ratingtitle=5|genre=Teens|summary=It’s the winter Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of 1941 and we are in the Ukraine. A fourteen year old girl is hiding in a wood on the vast and bitter-cold steppe. Her name is Katinka, a name from folk song and fairy tale, and she has been befriended by two of the wild Przelowski’s horses.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406359831</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Where Love Lies|author=Julie CohenFaeries|rating=54
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=LetEmily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life's start with work, the basicsvery first encyclopaedia of faeries. Felicity, a children's book author Whilst she is brilliant at research and illustratorspeaking to faeries, has been married to the lovely Quinn for just a short timeshe is not so good with people. They live in a sweet cottageSo when she finds herself far, far North in a wonderful the small villageof Hrafvsnik, with Quinn's family nearby. Quinn is having somehow offended the perfect husbandvillage matriarch, in every wayshe is not sure what she has done, nor how to redeem herself and surely Felicity's life can't get any better than this? You might well guess that anyone starting out in a put her final investigations for her book in this way is heading for troubleback on the right track. FelicityEnter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, much to Emily's trouble comes in rather an unusual form however. She begins to experience intense emotions, seemingly preceded by smelling a scent that she recognises from a long time ago in her lifefrustration. But are the emotions real, or why is her imagination playing tricks on herhe here? What does he want? And are these episodes worthy of a trip to the doctor, or will he dismiss her olfactory experiences as what exactly is going on with the random ramblings of a confused womanfaerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0593070844</amazonuk>0356519120
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1398515388|title=RoomsThe Boy and the Dog|author=Lauren OliverSeishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Alice First of all, it was the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and Sandra are dead. Ghosts trapped this, in turn, caused the house they lived nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and died inutter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, they have bickered and squabbled for yearsthe loss of livelihoods was widespread. Distraction for them comes in The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the form list of priorities but - six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a real, live family - Caroline, her daughter Minna, son Trenton, and Minnadog outside a convenience store. He wasn't a dog person but the convenience store owner's daughter Amy. Arriving comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to mourn open his car door and sort affairs following Tamon the death of Minna and Trenton's father, arguments and old wounds soon open updog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444760769</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Burnt Tongues: An Anthology of Transgressive Short StoriesChristopher Bowden|authortitle=Chuck Palahniuk, Dennis Widmyer and Richard ThomasMr Magenta
|rating=4
|genre=Short StoriesGeneral Fiction|summary=Saying certain things Christopher Bowden's latest novel is a patient untangling of a seemingly ordinary woman's life, carried out loud just don’t sound rightby her nephew after she has died. Some things are so disturbing or politically incorrect 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 you are best off leaving them inside your head, or better yet not thinking of them at all. When these words are spoken they could lead nephew Stephen had ever realised and it seems to the sensation of Burnt Tongue; him an aftereffect of knowing what you said was wrongobligation to find it all out. Are you prepared to enter the world of Transgressive Fiction that aims to disturb, alienate, disgust and question?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178329552X</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=UsJennifer Mason|authortitle=David NichollsPartitions of Unity
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Douglas Petersen is a mild-mannered, middle-aged biochemist. He and Connie have been married for about two decades. Their sonHere at Bookbag Towers, Albiewe first met Elizabeth Cromwell, is your average sullen teenager with a messy room dominatrix and bohemian affectations. He and Douglas argue about everything, but especially about Albie's chosen career pathunintentional detective in [[Preposterous: he hopes to be a photographerAn Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], taking after his artist mother, but Douglas wants him to study something more practical when she investigated and rigorous at uniunravelled a series of disappearances. StillIn ''Partitions of Unity'', Douglas thinks things are going pretty well for his family – until one night Connie sits up in bed and tells him she thinks she wants sets her mind to leave himsolving a murder...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>034089699X</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Will Carver|title=Delicious!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}} {{Frontpage|author=Ruth ReichlJennifer Mason|title=Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery
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