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|summary= Todd Kent is young, rich, stupidly handsome, and well Jean lives on his way to Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the top end of Wall Streetthe occupation. When a new dating app called “Hook” decides to go public During the war, Todd is handpicked by Hook’s eccentric founder Jean's father was arrested for listening to lead the project team. Taking brainy analyst Neha, spoilt party-boy Beaua banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and old flame Tara Taylor with her mother waiting for years for news of him – . As the British finally free the team find themselves thrust into Channel islands from the Nazis, and the hectic circumstances war is finally over, their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of a $14 Billion dealhim. As Silicon Valley and Wall Street clash, But will the death of truth come as a young girl relief, or will find it raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the team at odds with each informer who told the Nazis about the radio? And what other – and spinning wildly out of control. secrets have been kept throughout the occupation?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1922182974</amazonuk>1846976537

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Alena GraedonOnyi Nwabineli|title= The Word ExchangeAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating= 34.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=Welcome Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world , thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of the Anuri''Meme''; the next-generation mobile devices childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Imagine technology so sophisticated that it could anticipate your needs as soon as they come into your mind. Need Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get home? Your Meme will hail a cabher life back, suing her step-mother to take down the content about her. Feeling unwell? The Meme has an app Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for thatdoing so. Negative thoughts? The Meme will intercede on your behalf to call family and friends or even 911 Most importantly, if needed. Yesshe is desperately worried about her little sister, the Meme who is a truly indispensable aid that has revolutionised the way that humans communicate. Critics say that itnew focus of Ophelia's destroying human language and verbal interaction, but don't worry: the Meme has an app for that tooonline empire. If you are lost for words Can she save her sister, the ''Word Exchange'' will supply you and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the word you require. For a small fee of course...same time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780225628</amazonuk>0861546873

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cornelius Medvei1529153298|title=The Making List of Mr BolsoverSuspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It'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, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035906708|title=Diva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5

|summary=Meet Andrew Lynch. He's a graduate civil servant, then he isn't. He's married, then he isn't. He's a librarian, then he isn’t. He starts, We tend to think of all thingsMaria Callas as Greek, but she was born to live in a handmade camp Greek parents in the Sussex countrysideManhattan, and gets a job writing nature notes for a local magazine – until it's clear he's shootingNew York, killing in December 1923 and eating too many of his subjects for his audience's tastesonly moved to Athens when she was thirteen. He turns his efforts Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to writing politicised letters 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the local newspaper, where his nephew is a jobbing hack, which inspires further, more campaigning activitiesStates. Yes, it seems When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that Andrew Lynch's path to she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the top is foretold – but his fate is most definitely anything but natural…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099548690</amazonuk>Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alison Jean LesterAlexander McCall Smith|title=Lillian on LifeThe Perfect Passion Company

|summary=Lillian The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in her late fiftiesEdinburgh, single run by Ness and childless but you shouldn't - for a moment - allow yourself operating as an alternative to think that she has all the online apps in providing a rather sad lifemore personal, tailored service. She's lived through periods of tremendous change in post-war Munich, Paris, London and Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she's now could come to rest, smart and independentlook after the business, in New Yorkas Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. Born in a time when the expectations Katie is coming out of her parents - and of society - were fairly standard as to what a woman should do break up with her lifea bad boyfriend, she seems always and so jumps at the chance to have had a sense that she would disappoint both if she was to be true come home to herselfEdinburgh. She's hot blooded And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and sexually uninhibited and certainly ahead of her time in her viewsthe Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. When we first meet Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her sheabilities, and there's waking up next to always her married lover very helpful (and taking stock of her life. Amongst other things.rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848549520</amazonuk>1846976596

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robert CromptonDean Koontz|title=BunderlinThe Bad Weather Friend

|genre=CrimeParanormal|summary=As Benny is having a child Martin had been fascinated terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and entranced by someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his neighbour Mrs Bundyhome, and it's household menageriepossible 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. Her son Peter was there too but on So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the periphery; Martin was just there delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to visit the animalshelp him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. In adulthood their paths cross again but this time Peter Bunderlin (as heSpike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's now known) isn't so easy to avoid – enemies, if he, Benny, and MartinHarper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's tried! Perhaps if Martin could understand what the heck Peter is up to?wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784078549</amazonuk>1662500491

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Eve MakisKatherine Howe|title=The Spice Box LettersA True Account

|summary=Katerina's Armenian grandmother Mariam dies leaving her Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to live with a family who run an inn, and her mother being made to work there from a young age. When she hears there is to be a journal hanging of some pirates in Armenian the town, she decides to go and watch. Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a spice box full young boy's death at the hands of mysterious letterstwo vicious pirates. TheyShe hides away, so that they don're special t find and kill her too, and then to escape them both because theycompletely she runs away to sea, dressing as a boy and joining the notorious Ned Low're the legacy of s pirate ship as a much loved relative but totally indecipherable to the monolingually English paircabin boy. However She soon finds herself in the thick of things when there is a holiday abroad to get over a recent break mutiny on board, and from there we are caught up brings a random encounter for Katerina. When Katerina meets Ara she also meets in her rip roaring tale of life on the key to her grandmother's secret pastocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910124087</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Crompton1471180158|title=Leaving GileadMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating=4.5

|summary=Tom Sparrow finally does what heJamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's always dreamt a control freak with all the subtlety of: buying the former Ridley house near his old childhood homea half brick. As Tom explores he finds Jamie's son, Bo, 'has his new house isnproblems't the only link with his past. ThereHe's something in the outhouse that takes him back to asthmatic and the days of young love and Susanmore you read, the Ridleymore you'll suspect that he's daughteron the autistic spectrum. She had been raised in her parentsSometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she' prohibitive faith as s a Gilead Jehovahfrequent flier in the local A&E and sometimes Bo's Witness which didn't seem a problem not fit enough to go to school. Missed shifts or the need to be away on time to them but they were young pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and experience wasn't on their side…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784077623</amazonuk>put in the wrong. It was going to come to a head.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Emma CraigieB0CKD1L5JL|title= What Was Never Said Radio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn

|summary= This story Petr is narrated an orphan. Rescued by Zahrathe strange, reclusive Bear, he is brought up far from bustling cities and busy human society, a teenage girl who spends her early years in her home country the forests of Somalia before her family move to the UK to escape civil warWashington's Olympic Peninsula. Inevitably, some traditions travel with them After Bear dies and a brief sojourn in the novel Zahra recounts her efforts to protect herself human company, and her younger sister, Samsam, against FGMarmed with only a pirate radio transmitter, Petr goes on a practice that claimed journey through the life of her older sister in Somalia several years previously. Zahra intersperses her account with flashbacks to Somalia and forest, broadcasting the civil war that drove them awaystrange, thus giving a clear picture of the trials that she wild and her family have facedrarely heard voices he encounters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178072179X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= David FinkleSarah Marsh|title= The Man With The OvercoatA Sign of Her Own|rating= 3.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=''Why would anyone - he was soon to ask himself innumerable times - take After a bout of scarlet fever as a coat from child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a complete stranger only because it had been offered?'' world of silence, everything about her life changes. Skip Gerber steps off the elevator after Living in a long day at work; time when the foyer use of his office building sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is busy and buzzy and he does not notice the man holding the overcoat until the man hands it sent to Skip telling him a school where she is taught to ''take very good care of it''lip read, but physically restrained from signing. Skip unthinkingly grasps From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the coat deaf and before he has using a system called Visible Speech. At the chance to realise what he same time, Bell is doing - working on other inventions and that he is now holding an overcoat ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of unknown providence - the man disappears out of the exit door to the buildingespionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0992618525</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fredrik BackmanB0BC3YTCMR|title=My Grandmother Sends Her Regards and ApologisesGood Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira|rating=4.5

|summary=''Every 7-year-old needs a superheroThis story is not for everyone. That's just how it is…''  Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of her fifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. She was a very bright student, a bit too nerdy if truth be told, and for Elsa suffered from vitiligo - people were afraid to hug her in case it's her Grancontagious. When Gran dies, Elsa It's not easy being a black girl whose skin is surprised and devastated84% white. Granny can't be She had a crush on seventeen-year-old - Elsa has only known Reggie Anderson but never thought he would notice her for 7 years! . Then he did: Lavender was very good at math and Reggie asked if she would tutor him. She readily agreed: tutoring was something she gladly did at church: this was just an extension. Elsa still has to carry out Gran's last wish though; there are letters She went to be delivered his house and with each delivery Elsa learns something more about Gran the person behind Gran the superherohe raped her. Will it enforce In shock, she even allowed him to give her hero status or destroy it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444775839</amazonuk>a lift home.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Neil Smith1472263936|title=BooThe Figurine|author=Victoria Hislop

|summary=Oliver Dalrymple is deadIt was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. He realised this She was alone: her mother, Greek by birth, had left the moment he woke 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 grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. Her trip to the family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be the rebirthing bedfirst of several annual visits. His friends She grew to love her grandmother and tormentors had always called him Boo because of his ghostly pale complexion and now hethe family's finally earned the nickname fullymaid, Dina, but was wary - and frightened - of her grandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. What he hasn't realised is the way in which he died; he thinks he died of holey heart problems in front He was proud of his locker while reciting close connections to the periodic table. The location is correct Junta and expected his family to uphold his values but, meeting Johnny (an equally dead former classmate) reveals, he was actually murderedsaw no reason to accommodate them. WhatHis prejudices included Helena's worse, their murderer has been spotted there in 13 year oldsred hair and green eyes - inherited from her father' heavens Scottish ancestors.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434023493</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Minette WaltersDean Koontz|title= CellarAfter Death|rating=3|genre=General Fiction|summary= Michael Mace, Head of Security, at a top secret biological research facility, is among 55 people who die when a virus is released in a bio-hazard accident. Finding himself in a makeshift mortuary, covered in plastic, he has a sense that something very, very bad has happened to him – and only him – as he sits up and looks around at the shrouded bodies of his dead friends and former colleagues. As he recovers his senses, he realises that there is something different about him; he can ''feel'' everything. ''Everything''. Michael isn't ''Michael'' anymore.|isbn=1662500467}} {{Frontpage|isbn=B0BVDC2VWH|title=The Grave Listeners|author=William Frank

|summary= To my mind, ''The Dark Room'' village is the most perfect psychological thriller ever written (isolated and Ipoor. It've read lots in this genre)s surrounded by a Witching Forest. In her later works, Minette Walters seemed to veer away from this particular path to glory as her novels became steadily darker And the villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and with increasingly dislikeable charactersits blossom provides herbal medicines. So it was quite refreshing to discover that ''The Cellar'' was written from the point black wood of view of a rather likeable protagonist. Muna is an African child living in, shall we say, somewhat unusual and very cruel conditions: she was stolen and now lives in captivity. Her voice is compelling and from the first page I found myself wanting her to make good her escape from the dreadful - forest provides heat and sadly all too believable - circumstances in which she finds herself. Sowarmth, naturallyroofs on homes, I admired her cunning and resourcefulnesseven gallows, knowing that these attributes would serve her wellif needed. But, The fear of course, this being buried alive is Minette Walters an existential superstition in the village and nothing that is as simple as it first appears. As the story unfolded I found myself questioning who exactly were the victims and whoreason Volushka, a drunken, if anyoneself-indulgent, was innocentlazy lout of a man is tolerated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099594641</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Naomi NovikB0BYF82CXT|title=Uprooted|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Many years ago, in a village deep in Eastern Europe, the locals live a life of relative peace and happiness Semi- knowing to always avoid the wood that borders their land, and safe in the knowledge that they are guarded by a powerful wizard - the Dragon. Aware that he is the one thing keeping them safe from the dangers of the wood, the villagers take part in a ritual called 'The Choosing' every ten years - when a young girl is sent to serve the wizard for a decade.Agnieszka is of age for the choosing, but nobody fears that she will be picked - her best friend Kasia is pretty and graceful, and sure to catch the eye of the immortal Dragon. However, Agnieszka is not aware of the talents she holds that may attract the wizard - talents that the safety of the entire kingdom may come to depend on for their survival...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447294130</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewDetached|author=Barbara Lamplugh|title=Secrets of the PomegranateDeborah Stone

|summary=Home in Bristol, Alice gets the news from her sister's partner, Paco. Her sister, Deborah Hardy, was on board one of the trains bombed at Madrid's Atocha station on 11 March. No one can yet confirm whether she is alive or dead. Deb had moved to Granada nearly 20 years ago, after her divorce from Mark's father, Bill and was starting to make Amanda are living in a name for herself as semi-detached house, stuck in a scholar depressing rut of women in Andalusia's history. Alice boredom and disappointment, when Terry and her nine-year-old son Timmy fly to Spain to find that Deb is aliveFiona – glamorous, but successful and very much in a coma love – move in hospitalnext door. Over Despite their different outlooks on life, the weeks she keeps vigil for Deb, Alice lives in her sister's home in Granada couples befriend each other and reads her diaries, which proves life appears to be a way of feeling closer to her and learning more about her than she ever knewimprove for both pairs. MeanwhileBut all is not what it seems, Mark and Paco keep their distance, working through their complicated grief in their own waysincreasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781323690</amazonuk>''

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Menna Van PraagShalini Boland|title=The House At The End Of Hope StreetSilent Bride|rating=53

|summary= Alba Ashby Alice and Seth are a match made in heaven. He is everything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, clever, funny; total and utter husband-material. She is all he could possibly want in a wallflower of a girlwife; studiousbeautiful, bookish successful, confident… and excruciatingly shy, so when tragedy wields its ponderous bolt, she the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and the wedding is less able than most to adjust to life as she now knows itplanned and set. In one of When the much-anticipated day arrives, Alice is walked down the aisle by her midnight walks around historical Cambridgefather, beaming with pride and excitement as she finds herself at surveys the door congregation – their friends assembled to Number 11 Hope Street. It is house that celebrate this joyful day and when Seth turns to face his approaching bride, Alice's world implodes because she has never before seen; quirky and turreted with a wild garden and grandly Victorian in hue and Alba absolutely no idea who the man at the altar is enchanted by it. So she does something that she would never normally do, in a million years. She knocks on the doorwho is waiting for her to become his wife.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0749018623</amazonuk>1662507089

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sara Gruen1787636003|title=At The Water's EdgeGirls of Summer|author=Katie Bishop

|summary=An indiscretion at a party causes Ellis Hyde's parents to disown him, coming, as it does, hot on It was the heels of his father not understanding why Ellis has been summer when Rachel Evans turned down for war service. To prove he's not a coward, Ellis, his new wife Maddie eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and best friend Hank leave arrived on the US for Scotlandisland. He's determined they will succeed where Ellis' father failed years before: they will find the Loch Ness monster. Maddie isnRachel wasn't as convinced exactly innocent but then she also thinks was, perhaps, naive, so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to take an interest in her, she knows Elliswas flattered rather than wary. She It was quite a 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 locals at island and in particular in the inn bar where they're stranded by all the global conflict will discover a lot more about him, and indeed themselvesgirls either worked or partied.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473604702</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah LeipcigerAmanda Craig|title=The Mountain Can WaitThree Graces

|summary=Tom Berry is a quiet man Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of-the- one nation novel. There's something so utterly compelling about any writer who lives for can catch hold of the atmosphere of the day and in naturecapture it, spending a half crafting an image of his year running a small team the country as it stands in remote, isolated forestsone particular moment. To say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's practically synonymous with the genre of contemporary social fiction at this point. The other half he spends tending to his family - She has such a small group whom he brought up almost single handedly, following gift for weaving the departure ongoing issues of his wife. A good, determined man, we learn the day into the lives of Tom's life running forestry teams her characters in remote wilderness, before an accident forces Tom to leave his routine a way that feels natural and seek out his son lived- and both become troubled by the events of the accidentin, never making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, as well as ghosts of the past that may cause more pain grappling with issues far larger than either man had anticipatedthemselves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472223896</amazonuk>140871468X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elizabeth Renzetti152915118X|title=Based on a True Story|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Augusta Price, middle-aged, washed up, substance-addicted actress has just left rehab for the innumerable time. Her only friend in the world is her equally washed-up former mentor. Augusta has recently received a sudden upsurge of interest and income when her tell all memoir became a baffling best-seller. Frances Bleeker is an American journalist who came to London with high hopes, that were quickly dashed by the reality of the British magazine market. The two meet when Frances is sent to interview Augusta about her book where Frances realises there’s far more to the story of Augusta’s life than she’s cared to put in words. Needless to say, young, optimistic Frances and self-obsessed, drunk Augusta don’t exactly hit it off at once. But when Frances loses her job and Augusta needs a ghost writer for her new book, the two offer each other a lifeline ... or enough rope to hang themselves. As Frances will learn by delving into her past, people close to Augusta don’t come away unscathed. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782395539</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewPineapple Street|author=Xavier Leret|title=The Romeo and Juliet KillersJenny Jackson|rating=34.5

|summary=This ''Pineapple Street'' is a book that suggests love across the tracks – all the while making the reader ask 'just how chuffing wide story of three women: Sasha, Darley and Georgiana. Darley and George are those tracks supposed sisters and Sasha is married to be?!their brother Cord. They' Franky is re Stocktons, only Sasha isn't a hard-done-Stockton by schoolboy, whose ultra-Catholic parents are stifling him in all aspects of life, birth so much so itshe isn't readily accepted into the tribe. The problem's likely that exacerbated when he gets the clan matriarch, Tilda, asks Cord and Sasha if they'd like to move into trouble by witnessing some porn on a friend's mobile phone at school it was really the hardware that he was gawping at in amazementPineapple Street property. Hardware is nothing Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to Daizeeanother property, the underage a street hookeror so away, who knows what hard stuffs she likes and what she doesnwhich they own. They won'tneed any of the furniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and what her punters – and her motherCord can move straight in. Nominally, back when they had a connection – enjoyed, or needed, en route choice but that wasn't the reality. Darley and Georgiana start to call Sasha 'the gold digger'. She's living in ''their'' family home. They use it. Their unlikely connection is so often that they abbreviate it to 'the subject of this gritty novellaGD'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910213187</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Pascal Garnier and Melanie Florence (translator)Emily Critchley|title=BoxesOne Puzzling Afternoon

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Meet Brice. He's an illustrator, who had picked an ideal house 84 year old Edie has lived in the country with his journalist wife, only same small town for almost her to disappear assumed dead on assignment abroad. Therefore he's having to make the move himselfwhole life, which he does – but without now she is facing a move as her at the other end he finds it hard son wants to move to another house and bring Edie to kick live with his new life into gearfamily, as Edie is starting to lose her memory. YesHowever, a cat adopts himEdie is tormented by the memory of her childhood friend, Lucy, who went missing over 60 years ago, and he gets to know the names worry that there was a secret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be the thing that reveals the truth of some new people, but what happened all that's ittime ago. WhatAfter 'seeing's moreLucy in the high street, just as she was the last time she saw her, one she starts to find pockets of those people memories coming back to her. And yet as she remembers the past, she is Blanche, attired most suitably forgetting more and more in all-whiteher day to day life. Will she uncover the truth about Lucy's disappearance before her move, who herself is missing someone – someone of whom Brice is the spitting image…and before her memories are gone forever?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910477044</amazonuk>1804181250

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kevin MaherMadelaine Lucas|title=Last Night on EarthThirst for Salt|rating=4.5|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Baby Bonnie is born in London in 1996 ''Love, I'd read, was supposed to Jay be a light and Shauna weightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravity'' Told from a retrospective view, a young woman unravels the year-long relationship that once defined her traumatic birth and . Overlaid with later wisdom, the narrator relives the aftermath causes affair with a man twenty years her senior from its inception – the previously happy couple summer after finishing university – to separateits sorrowful end the summer after. Jay looks back searching Set against the backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the 24-year-old narrator's deepening relationship with her older lover, depicting its all-consuming nature, how he got to this point it changed her perspective on both romantic and Shauna looks for answers in psychotherapy with a less than orthodox Danish analyst. Meanwhile both share Bonnie familial relationships and worry about where they go from herehow it altered her irrevocably. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408705079</amazonuk>0861546490

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tina Seskis0008506337|title=When We Were FriendsThe Garnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore

|summary= Six friends meet at Bristol University; six very different people from six very different backgroundsThe love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, apparently on both sides. Six lives intertwined Margo was just sixteen when they fell in love. Richard was twenty-one and described by Margo's mother as 'an assortment 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 ways… breakWight. Margo did go to Oxford and went on to become a well-upsrespected journalist. The couple had three children: Rachel, marriagesImogen and Sasha. Life was lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, careers, motherhood and bereavement; until one night six become fivethe 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''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405917954</amazonuk >Then Richard left them.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Laub1914585402|title=Diary of the FallDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross|rating=4.5

|summary=Diary I reviewed David F Ross's book [[There's Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's Only One Danny Garvey]] a couple of the Fall is years back and remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and affecting it was. It was a story about regretgripping, emotionally wounding read, guilt and resentment. It's told from the point rereading my review of view of an unnamed narrator, who reflects it my main takeaway was that I might not have lavished enough praise on not just his own life but also the lives of his father and grandfatherit.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099581795</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=James WilsonLucy Ashe|title=The Summer of Broken StoriesClara and Olivia|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=England 1950: Soon-to-be-10, Mark Davenant is a typical lad with a typical lad's life. He loves adding to his model train layout, he plays with his mates and walking best friend Barney the dog. It's on one such walk he comes across Aubrey, an elderly writer living in the forest. They build a friendship based on shared stories and imaginings. Not all in the village are accepting though and, when they try to drive Aubrey out, Mark feels himself torn between old loyalties and new4.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846883571</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Alexander McCall Smith|title= The Novel Habits of Happiness|rating=5

|summary=There The year is 1933. The place? Sadler's Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are some authors who I pick up with a contented sighsisters, knowing that I am in safe handstwins no less. Alexander McCall Smith is currently my favouriteIdentical on the outside but not, we learn, and thank goodness he is so prolific with his writing that my reading habit is fed on a regular basis! This is the tenth novel in the Sunday Philosophy Club seriesinside. And not on stage, and we settle down once more to either. Because there's a lot that builds a visit dancer. Some things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, attention to Isabel Dalhousie in her beloved Edinburgh. Isabel is wonderingdetail – and some things, perhaps belatedlythat ''je ne sais quoi'', if she is sometimes rather judgmental of peoplethat don't come from the classroom. In particularA stage presence, she’s having an awful lot of qualms about her niecea charm, Cat’s, latest romancea ''joie de vivre''. Will Isabel find herself forced to interveneThe difference between a hard-worker, or can she sit back and let nature take its course?a star.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408706636</amazonuk>0861544080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nina George and Simon Pare (translator)Heather Fawcett|title=The Little Paris BookshopEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

|summary=Monsieur Perdu has a barge Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on the Seinefaerie lore, and in that barge he she has his bookshop. Actuallytravelled extensively, and researched meticulously, rather than being a normal sort of bookshop it is more of a chemistto write her life'swork, since he the very first encyclopaedia of faeries. Whilst she is something of a literary apothecary, prescribing books brilliant at research and speaking to his customers that he senses will soothe their soulsfaeries, and relieve whatever troubles are ailing themshe is not so good with people. He only So 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 to speak to them a littledone, sometimes only has nor how to see them, redeem herself and he instinctively knows which put her final investigations for her book will help themback on the right track. Despite his skills Enter Wendell Bambleby, howeverher dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, much to Emily's frustration. But why is he seems unable to diagnose and resolve his own emotional issues and here? What does he want? And what exactly is, as going on with the translation of his French surname tells us, Mr Lost.faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349140359</amazonuk>0356519120

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marcus Dalrymple1398515388|title=Flesh The Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Blood: True FictionAlison Watts (translator)

|summary=Brit John Colson is First of all, it was the earthquake, deep in Mexico teachingthe ocean floor, having been invited out there by his godfather which created the tsunami and local school owner Carlos Manuel Fermin. John soon settles this, inturn, soon forming a love of caused the countrynuclear meltdown. But then it all changes… The result was complete and utter devastation. Visiting a public toilet at The deaths were uncountable, and the wrong moment means loss of livelihoods was widespread. The fact that John hears many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of priorities but - six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a murder being committed beyond his cubicle doordog outside a convenience store. He goes to wasn't a dog person but the police as convenience store owner's comment that he would in call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and Tamon the UK but this is Mexico; from that moment on John Colson is a marked man. Meanwhile elsewhere dog jumped in Mexico tourists are being attracted by more than hot sunshine and tacos.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1502821087</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Antoine Laurain, Emily Boyce (translator) and Jane Aitken (translator)Christopher Bowden|title=The Red NotebookMr Magenta|rating=54

|summary=Meet Laure. SheChristopher Bowden's latest novel is a patient untangling of a widow in her 40s, who is entering her Parisian apartment building one night when sheseemingly ordinary woman's muggedlife, and carried out by her handbag stolennephew after she has died. Meet Laurent, The aunt who always provided a safe harbour and a middle-aged bookseller, who happens upon the handbag the following morning in the street, just before the binmen take it away, never little bit of indulgence to be seen again. More or less snubbed when trying to hand a young nephew had had a much more interesting life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and it seems to the police as lost property, he decides him an obligation to take find it upon himself to reunite the bag with its rightful owner. He has no idea their names are so intimately linked, and despite a lot of things being in the bag (including the titular notebook) there is no cash, no phone and no ID documentation at allout. What's more – and what looks like making the idea even more fruitless – he has no idea that Laure has fallen into a coma as a result of the mugging…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908313862</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stefan MohamedJennifer Mason|title=Bitter SixteenPartitions of Unity|rating=54

|summary=Stanly Bird is about to turn sixteen - a solitary teen in a small Welsh townHere at Bookbag Towers, he has few friends. Unless you count his talking dog, Daryl... A splitting headache on the eve of his birthday soon develops into incredible powerswe first met Elizabeth Cromwell, dominatrix and Stanly swiftly finds himself defending his neighbourhood, falling unintentional detective in love[[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], when she investigated and gaining his first real friendsunravelled a series of disappearances. When jealous rivalsIn ''Partitions of Unity'', she sets her mind to solving a mysterious figure and a horrific evil come into play though, Stanly finds himself cast away from home, and struggling to save everything he has come to hold dearmurder...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784630136</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Fiona NeillWill Carver|title=The Good GirlDaves Next Door|rating=4.5

|summary= Romy is a sixth former who is unremarkable. A good student from Five strangers come together in one moment as a professional family, her aspiration is suicide bomber prepares to become detonate his vest on a doctor, and it’s an achievable, rather than lofty goal. Or it was. Because a video has surfaced and it shows Romy doing something that is hardly going to help her medical school application. Or her future career. Or her future life, full stopLondon tube line. For AilsaAs their fates overlap, the head teacherstory is told in backwards order, she has the double whammy of trying leading up to keep the school out of the headlines and protect her child who is now at the centre of the controversy. And it’s clearly all the neighbours’ faultfateful moment.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0718181271</amazonuk>1914585186}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Christina NicholJennifer Mason|title=Waiting for the ElectricityPreposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery|rating=4.5

|summary=Slims Achmed Makashvili is determined to leave his native Georgia. It's 'A struggling poetry zine, a country buffeted mom-and often invaded by its neighbours and plagued -pop mobile diner in the Northern California redwoods, a 400-meter hurdler who just missed the 2004 Olympics, a women's track coach with lack of amenities. On hearing that Hilary Clinton is running a competitionyen for bullwhips, a billionaire with a state-of-the prize for which is -art S&M dungeon, a trip to the States and knowing all he has to do is overstay his visa for man serving a better lifesentence in Alabama, an enigmatic signature, K(s, x), on a cheap oil painting, Slimsan erotic art dealer in Georgia...' letters to Hilary begin' This is just a sample of the cast of characters and settings in Preposterous. Eventually he gets to the US but… WellAs you can see, some keeping up will be careful what you wish forrequired! The basic premise of this mystery story goes like this...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0715649876</amazonuk>B09STS96HS