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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove --> {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Virginia BurgesJenny Lecoat|title=The VirtuosoBeyond Summerland|rating=3.54
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|summary=The title character Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of the occupation. During the war, Jean''The Virtuoso'' is Isabelle Bryants father was arrested for listening to a banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, a professional violinist who has earned the affectionate nickname leaving Jean and her mother waiting for years for news of 'Beethoven's Babe'him. She was As the youngest-ever winner of British finally free the BBC Young Musician of Channel islands from the Year competition Nazis, and gave her first solo performancethe war is finally over, their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of Beethoven's violin concerto, at Royal Albert Hallhim. 'Her violin represented another limb to her But will the truth come as a relief, or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was that precious. It felt so natural, like an extension of her body.' It would hardly be an exaggeration to say that the violin is Isabelle's life.informer who told the Nazis about the radio? And what other secrets have been kept throughout the occupation?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00R07U0B0</amazonuk>1846976537
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anne TylerOnyi Nwabineli|title=A Spool of Blue ThreadAllow Me to Introduce Myself
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Every family has its tales which are told and retold and in the Whitshank family it was Anuri spent her childhood on display to the story of how Abby and Red had fallen in love one ''beautifulworld, breezy, yellow-andthanks to her step-green afternoonmother Ophelia'' in July 1959. It would usually be told s increasingly popular presence on the porch social media, where she posted every step of the Baltimore house which RedAnuri's father had builtchildhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, but on this final time of its telling the circumstances are differentmonetary gain. Abby Now Anuri is in her twenties and Red are aging - even the glorious house she is beginning slowly trying to regain her confidence and to show its age get her life back, suing her step- and decisions have mother to be made take down the content about how her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to look after start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from themfor doing so. All the family are thereMost importantly, even Dennyshe is desperately worried about her little sister, who can generally be relied on to do only what pleases himis the new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0701189517</amazonuk>0861546873
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Miranda Sherry1529153298|title=Black Dog SummerThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=3.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=YesterdayIt'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, Sally was living in a rambling farmstead with they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her teenage daughter Gigifather wants to move the family 'Down South'. Now Sally When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is deada frightening, murderedforeign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and Gigi is alone in she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the worlddangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781859574</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Niyati Keni1035906708|title=Esperanza StreetDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Joseph's We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents send him in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and only moved to work for Auntie Mary and her B&B business on Esperanza StreetAthens when she was thirteen. Over the years there life for Joseph goes on the way Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it has for countless other youngsters from this Filipino town of Puerto. His mother may have died too young and Joseph only sees his father one day a week (and has to suffer church for part of that!) but there's a rhythm Callas' to make it more manageable in the market outside and foreign visitors within Auntie Mary's walls that's familiar and comfortingStates. It's 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 rhythm that's been there mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for generations but things changeher elder sister, sometimes with catastrophic resultsJackie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908276487</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nigel McCleaAlexander McCall Smith|title=A Word Glittering with SpikesThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=34.5
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|summary=We're going The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to follow all the fortunes of two couples (or are they 'would-be couples' or 'might-have-been couples'?) as they navigate the treacherous waters of loveonline apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. David Castledine's first meeting with Jenny Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could hardly have been less auspicious: he hit hercome and look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. He didn't ''actually'' mean to hit her but he threw Katie is coming out of a break up with a stick for his aunt's dog to chase bad boyfriend, and it caught her on so jumps at the headchance to come home to Edinburgh. Head wounds bleed profusely and And so begins this one was no exceptionnew story from Alexander McCall Smith, so David had bringing us to take her back an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to his aunt's apartment 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to clean her upcharm. I suppose there have been worse meetingsKatie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but itNess has full confidence in her abilities, and there's difficult always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to think of one!lend a hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0993025501</amazonuk>1846976596
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patrick Modiano, Sempe (illustrator) and William Rodarmor (translator)Dean Koontz|title=Catherine CertitudeThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersParanormal|summary=What little I know of Patrick Modiano was gained from the number of 'noBenny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, we've never heard of himhe loses his fiancee, either' articles and summaries that came our way when he won the Nobel Prize for Literature at the end of 2014his house gets trashed. They suggested his oeuvre was matureOh, and someone has delivered a really weird, slightly thrillerdisturbing coffin-based but not exclusively sosized object to his home, and asked lots of accumulative questions regarding identity with regard 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 the Vichy government during WWIIdeserve all this bad luck. Identity He is a lot more fixed in this musing little piece, nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the adult voice-over looks back over delivery to his house is a new friend, a wide removebad weather friend called Spike, and says there will always be who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a little bit of her living the events and situations of the bookgood person. Those situations are Spike is going to take care of a young dance-school attendeeBenny, and her loving will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and much-loved father, living Harper (a cosy life in Paris – even if the girl never once really works waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out what it is her father does for a living…who exactly they are.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783443022</amazonuk>1662500491
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=R D ShanksKatherine Howe|title=A Reverie of BrothersTrue Account|rating=34.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=The castle of Delzean's walls have always protected Emperor EliHannah Masury is living in Boston, his sons, sisterhaving been sent to live with a family who run an inn, niece and nephew being made to work there from a young age. When she hears there is to be a hanging of some pirates in the ravages town, she decides to go and watch. Enthralled and poverty of the people horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death at the city beyondhands of two vicious pirates. However the days may be numbered 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 burgeoning revolution has infiltrated its walls thanks to boy and joining the rebel movement known notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as The Eyesa cabin boy. Their plan necessitates She soon finds herself in the unwitting involvement thick of the spoiltthings when there is a mutiny on board, egotistical aforementioned niece, Princess Ava. Unfortunately and from there will be collateral damage with tragic effectswe are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1505631394</amazonuk>0861547438
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nick Harkaway1471180158|title=TigermanMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=BattleJamie Matson works in an upper-weary and suffering from PTSDclass grocery store, 40-year-old Sergeant Lester Ferris is posted to for a man who's a control freak with all the island subtlety of Mancreu to mark time till his retirementa half brick. With no family of his ownJamie's son, Bo, Lester takes a local lad under 'has his wing; an adolescent who lives his own life through comic books problems'. He's asthmatic and superheroes in the hope that he can be adopted. Despite Mancreu beginning to churn with more than its customary black marketeeringyou read, Lester realises the more you'll suspect that he has a job 's on his hands, not only the autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to take care of an island that sees him as time off at short notice - she's a government puppet but also convince someone that he is frequent flier in the stuff of heroism local A&E and to convince himself while hesometimes Bo's at itnot fit enough to go to school. Missed shifts or the need to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the wrong. It was going to come to a head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099591758</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karen Thompson WalkerB0CKD1L5JL|title=The Age of MiraclesRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn
|rating=4
|genre=Dystopian General Fiction|summary=''The Age of Miracles'' was one of those much-talked about books that I never got Petr is an orphan. Rescued by the time to read on its first go around. I'm not sure how I managed that, but I did. Anywaystrange, it got debut author Thompson Walker a seven figure deal after a bidding war and it has dystopian themesreclusive Bear, so it he is right brought up my alley far from bustling cities and not busy human society, in the sort forests of thing IWashington'd usually misss Olympic Peninsula. And so After Bear dies and a brief sojourn in human company, and armed with only a pirate radio transmitter, I was happy that Simon & Schuster decided to reissue it for Petr goes on a YA market journey through the forest, broadcasting the strange, wild and even happier that they decided to send me a copyrarely heard voices he encounters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471124851</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gary KuryloSarah Marsh|title=The Seventh SimianA Sign of Her Own
|rating=3.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Edith has lived alone for many years and she has become irascible and rather anti-socialAfter a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. She avoids even going Suddenly plunged into the nearby village to do a world of silence, everything about her shopping and life changes. Living in a time when the use of sign language was seen as something only human being savages do, Ellen is sent to a school where she sees with any regularity 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 local shopkeeper who makes grocery deliveries to her deaf and makes an art form of palming off using a system called Visible Speech. At the strange old lady with overpricedsame time, underweight goods. If it weren't for her catBell is working on other inventions and ideas, Edith would have no companionship at alland Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00Q4SETM2</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=Stewart Foster1472263936|title=We Used to Be KingsThe Figurine|author=Victoria Hislop|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Tom 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 Jack are 18 todayrefused to return, but Mary and Hamish (Helena's parents) felt that it would be a pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. Not that they have much cause for celebration Her trip to the family apartment in up- stuck in a home for troubled childrenmarket Kolonaki would be the first of several annual visits. She grew to love her grandmother and the family's maid, Dina, they are constantly examined but was wary - and questioned by doctorsfrightened - of her grandfather, when all they want is retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. He was proud of his close connections to be left alone the Junta and expected his family to uphold his values but saw no reason to live life togetheraccommodate them. His prejudices included Helena's red hair and green eyes - inherited from her father's Scottish ancestors.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099584190</amazonuk>
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{{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 makeshift mortuary, covered in plastic, he has a sense that something very, very bad has happened to him – and only him – as he sits up and looks around at the shrouded bodies of his dead friends and former colleagues. As he recovers his senses, he realises that there is something different about him; he can ''feel'' everything. ''Everything''. Michael isn't ''Michael'' anymore.|isbn=1662500467}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Victoria AveyardB0BVDC2VWH|title=Red QueenThe Grave Listeners|author=William Frank
|rating=4
|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=Mare The village is isolated and poor. It's surrounded by a Red Witching Forest. And the villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - a race kept in lives its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicines. The black wood of poverty the forest provides heat and servitude by the Silverswarmth, roofs on homes, a race with wealth and mutant powers that allow them to live lives even gallows, if needed. The fear of luxury. Learning to survive amongst being buried alive is an existential superstition in the slum like conditions village and that is the Reds inhabitreason Volushka, a drunken, Mare is swiftly thrown into the world of the Silvers self- one that proves to be more dangerous than she had ever imaginedindulgent, with treachery, plots and deadly games lurking round every cornerlazy lout of a man is tolerated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409155846</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Margaret WildB0BYF82CXT|title=The Vanishing MomentSemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone
|rating=4
|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=This book appealed to me on various grounds. It is teen fiction (''Bill andAmanda are living in a semi-detached house, joy stuck in a depressing rut of joysboredom and disappointment, devoid of werewolves when Terry and dystopia)Fiona – glamorous, it is by an Australian author (under-represented successful and very much in love – move in next door. Despite their different outlooks on UK shelves)life, the couples befriend each other and life appears to improve for both pairs. But all is not what it involves parallel universes (tantalising philosophical what-ifs). I was intrigued to see if the author could live up to my expectationsseems, and their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1743315902</amazonuk>''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jack SheffieldShalini Boland|title=The Silent NightBride|rating=3.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=I read Alice and Seth are a couple of Jack Sheffield’s books about five years agomatch made in heaven. He is everything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, clever, funny; total and enjoyed them very muchutter husband-material. They were written She is all he could possibly want in a similar style to those popularised bywife; beautiful, for instancesuccessful, James Herriot or [[:Category:Gervase Phinn|Gervase Phinn]], told mostly in confident… and so the first person, describing inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and the author’s first couple of years as Headmaster at a small village primary school in Yorkshirewedding is planned and set. The village of Ragley When the much-anticipated day arrives, Alice is fictionalwalked down the aisle by her father, beaming with pride and excitement as are most of she surveys the characterscongregation – their friends assembled to celebrate this joyful day and when Seth turns to face his approaching bride, but Alice's world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the incidents and situations encountered are based on man at the author’s experiencealtar is, who is waiting for her to become his wife.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552167045</amazonuk>1662507089
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Schneider1787636003|title=Brother The Girls of SleepSummer|author=Katie Bishop|rating=3.5|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=''Brother of Sleep'' tells It was the story of Elias Johannes Alder, a child born into a god forsaken village high in summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the Austrian Vorarlbergisland. He came into the world as a silent child, while his mother was screaming and the midwife Rachel wasn't really paying attentionexactly innocent but she was, perhaps, naive, so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to take an interest in her, she was flattered rather than wary. It took was quite a couple of loud intonations while before he made any sort of 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 the Te Deum from bar where all the neglectful nurse before he finally uttered a soundgirls either worked or partied. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715649205</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joanne GrahamAmanda Craig|title=To The Edge of ShadowsThree Graces|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Sarah awakes from a coma to find her world destroyedFew styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of-the-nation novel. There's something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the atmosphere of the day and capture it, a long lost aunt her only remaining family, and life crafting an image of the country as it stands in one particular moment. To say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she knows it irrevocably changed forever's practically synonymous with the genre of contemporary social fiction at this point. Moving to She has such a new town and a new school, making new friends is gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the day into the least lives of her challenges as she struggles to regain her physical characters in a way that feels natural and mental health following the accidentlived-in, never making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910162841</amazonuk>140871468X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Leanne Hall152915118X|title=This is ShynessPineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson
|rating=4.5
|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=''This is ShynessPineapple Street'' is an unusual the story of three women: Sasha, Darley and brilliant story about Wolfboy Georgiana. Darley and George are sisters and WildgirlSasha is married to their brother Cord. They're Stocktons, two strangers who meet in only Sasha isn't a pub in Stockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the town of Shynesstribe. The teenagers are drawn togetherproblem'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, each adopting a different identity street or so for away, which they own. They won't need any of the night furniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and Cord can move straight in. Nominally, they can be anyone had a choice but themselvesthat 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'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1921656522</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Antonin Varenne and Frank Wynne (translator)Emily Critchley|title=Loser's CornerOne Puzzling Afternoon
|rating=4
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Meet Georges Crozat. He's a policeman 84 year old Edie has lived in Paris, who boxes on the side. After a bout that leads to an same small town for almost embarrassing victoryher whole life, he but now she is made two offers – one from facing a clearly corrupt man behind the scenes in the sportmove as her son wants to move to another house and bring Edie to live with his family, who seems as Edie is starting to offer a few thrown fights for Georgeslose her memory. However, then some kind Edie is tormented by the memory of status as assistant – trainingher childhood friend, guidingLucy, profiteering; who went missing over 60 years ago, and the other comes from worry that there was a man known always as ''secret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be the thing that reveals the Pakistani'' (or an unkind abbreviation truth of what happened all that), who has a friend of a friend who wants someone to do an enemy a mischief with their fiststime ago. Georges doesnAfter 't take too long to choose the latter. In alternating chapters, however, weseeing're Lucy in the 1950shigh street, and a rookie to just as she was the forces, Pascal Verinilast time she saw her, is being shipped out she starts to Algeria find pockets of memories coming back to work on her. And yet as she remembers the civil war causing the republic past, she is forgetting more and more in her day to break away and become independent from Franceday life. Like GeorgesWill she uncover the truth about Lucy's disappearance before her move, he finds his situation one which also causes what may be misguided violence, even if he has a very different attitude to it.and before her memories are gone forever?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857052276</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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{{Frontpage
|isbn=0008506337
|title=The Garnett Girls
|author=Georgina Moore
|rating=5
|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's mother as 'an older man'. 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 event, they eloped and Richard took her away from the Isle of Wight. Margo did go to Oxford and went on to become a well-respected journalist. The couple had three children: Rachel, Imogen and Sasha. Life was lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, the family home on the Isle of Wight. Even then the doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able to leave him in charge''.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tammy Cohen1914585402|title=Dying for ChristmasDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross|rating=34.5|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=The I reviewed David F Ross's book starts off promisingly enough with an introduction by Jessica, the narrator, who informs us that she is imprisoned [[There's Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's Only One Danny Garvey]] a stranger who is handsome couple of years back and charming remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and extremely sadisticaffecting it was. Jessica then recounts the events leading up to and during her incarceration, which takes place over the Christmas period. Her jailer, Dominic, has prepared twelve presents for herIt was a gripping, for the Twelve Days of Christmasemotionally wounding read, and each present-opening episode builds up a sense rereading my review of dread while providing a deepening understanding of the sinister and bitter mind at work. Genuinely creepy stuffit my main takeaway was that I might not have lavished enough praise on it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784160172</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Paul SussmanLucy Ashe|title=The Final Testimony of Raphael Ignatius PhoenixClara and Olivia|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=On the eve of the The year 2000is 1933. The place? Sadler's Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, Raphael Ignatius Phoenix decides that he has had enoughtwins no less. Having lived for a century, he takes his own life Identical on the roof of his castleoutside but not, we learn, swallowing a small white pill he has kept on his person for almost 90 yearsthe inside. In the days beforeAnd not on stage, he had written his story all over the walls of the castle - either. Because there's a lot that builds a story dancer. Some things that takes in an Edwardian childhoodcan be taught or learnt – discipline, attention to detail – and some things, Hollywood in the 1920that ''je ne sais quoi''s, that don't come from the Second World Warclassroom. A stage presence, life as a butler in a stately homecharm, life in a rock band in the 60's, time spent in 'joie de vivre''. The difference between a nursing homehard-worker, and finally life in the castle - amongst other, enchanting talesa star.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552779679</amazonuk>0861544080
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jane StubbsHeather Fawcett|title=Thornfield HallEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries|rating=54
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=I canEmily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life't say that I'm a fan of reworkings of classic books: [[Emma by Alexander McCall Smith|some]] suck s work, the life out very first encyclopaedia of the original, [[Jane Eyrotica by Charlotte Bronte faeries. Whilst she is brilliant at research and Karena Rose|others]] fail speaking to add anything - and why would you want to read an inferior version faeries, she is not so good with people. So when you can read she finds herself far, far North in the small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the real thing? Generallyvillage matriarch, she is not sure what she has done, I try nor how to avoid them - redeem herself and I'm still not certain why I made an exception put her final investigations for ''Thornfield Hall'' - it certainly wasn't the headless woman (sigh...) her book back on the cover - but I added it to my reading pileright track. IEnter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, much to Emily'm glad that I dids frustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782395245</amazonuk>0356519120
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Simon Wroe1398515388|title=Chop ChopThe Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary='Monocle' isn't his real nameFirst of all, but that's what it was the brigade at ''The Swan'' would call him once they knew him well enough to insult him. He has an English Literature degreeearthquake, you seedeep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and this, in turn, caused the chefs think that's what he would have wornnuclear meltdown. The result was complete and utter devastation. He'd no interest in cooking The deaths were uncountable, but was two months behind on his rent and being the lowest-rung chef in a gastropub in Camden loss of livelihoods was the only job that he could getwidespread. His coThe fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of priorities but -workers are deranged and borderline criminal whilst six months after the head chef, Bob is tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a top-rank sadist constantly on the look out for material on which to practiceconvenience store. Monocle has little choice He wasn't a dog person but the convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to stay - given open his car door and Tamon the situation between his parents, going home isn't really an optiondog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241000009</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Suzanne McCourtChristopher Bowden|title=The Lost ChildMr Magenta|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Sylvie lives in Christopher Bowden's latest novel is a patient untangling of a small Australian fishing village with seemingly ordinary woman's life, carried out by her mum, dad and elder brother, Duncnephew after she has died. However all that is about to change The aunt who always provided a safe harbour and a little Sylvie finds herself in the middle bit of dramas she neither understands nor controls. Her world may never be the same but she tries indulgence to a young nephew had had a much more interesting life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and it seems to him an obligation to make sense of find it, Trollop, clingy mother, moody father and allout. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1922147788</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Monique RoffeyJennifer Mason|title=House Partitions of AshesUnity
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=There had been unrest Here at Bookbag Towers, we first met Elizabeth Cromwell, dominatrix and unintentional detective in the Caribbean City of Silk in Sans Amen for some time with people growing increasingly belligerent about the perceived corruption of the government. Then the day came [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], when The Leader called the Brothers together she investigated and told them that they were going to make history: they would take over the House unravelled a series of Power and the television studios and reclaim what was rightfully theirsdisappearances. Part In ''Partitions of this Unity'revolution' is Ashes, she sets her mind to solving a quiet, bookish young man who seems to feel most guilty about the lie he told his wife - that he'd be back home for dinner - when he left the housemurder. He'd been swayed by The Leader's rhetoric and finds himself a part of the rag-tag band of ill-trained but probably over-armed young men and teens who invade the House of Power. It would not go as they expected.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471126668</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}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Betsy TobinJennifer Mason|title=Things We Couldn't ExplainPreposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery|rating=4.5
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