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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Eve ChaseJenny Lecoat|title= Black Rabbit Hall|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction|summary=At Black Rabbit Hall, time goes “syrupy slow.” None of the clocks work properly, but an hour at Black Rabbit is said to last twice as long as a London one, and you don't get a quarter of the things done. Every holiday, the Alton family swap the hustle and bustle of London life for this secluded Cornish retreat, a place that is theirs and theirs alone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718182979</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Michelle Miller|title=The UnderwritingBeyond Summerland

|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=UprootedSemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone|rating=54|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary=Many years ago, ''Bill and Amanda are living in a village deep semi-detached house, stuck in Eastern Europe, the locals live a life depressing rut of relative peace boredom and happiness - knowing to always avoid the wood that borders their landdisappointment, when Terry and Fiona – glamorous, successful and safe very much in love – move in the knowledge that they are guarded by a powerful wizard - the Dragonnext door. Aware that he is the one thing keeping them safe from the dangers of the woodDespite their different outlooks on life, the villagers take part in a ritual called 'The Choosing' every ten years - when a young girl is sent couples befriend each other and life appears to serve the wizard improve for a decadeboth pairs.Agnieszka But all is of age for the choosingnot what it seems, 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 their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for their survivaltragedy...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447294130</amazonuk>''

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Barbara LamplughShalini Boland|title=Secrets of the PomegranateThe Silent Bride|rating=43

|summary=Home Alice and Seth are a match made in Bristolheaven. He is everything she has been searching for; handsome, Alice gets the news from her sister's partneraccomplished, clever, Pacofunny; total and utter husband-material. Her sister She is all he could possibly want in a wife; beautiful, Deborah Hardysuccessful, was on board one of confident… and so the trains bombed at Madrid's Atocha station on 11 March. No one can yet confirm whether she inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and the wedding is alive or deadplanned and set. Deb had moved to Granada nearly 20 years ago When the much-anticipated day arrives, after Alice is walked down the aisle by her divorce from Mark's father, beaming with pride and was starting excitement as she surveys the congregation – their friends assembled to make a name for herself as a scholar of women in Andalusia's history. Alice celebrate this joyful day and her nine-year-old son Timmy fly to Spain when Seth turns to find that Deb is alive, but in a coma in hospital. Over the weeks she keeps vigil for Debface his approaching bride, Alice lives in her sister's home in Granada and reads world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the man at the altar is, who is waiting for her diaries, which proves to be a way of feeling closer to her and learning more about her than she ever knew. Meanwhile, Mark and Paco keep their distance, working through their complicated grief in their own waysbecome his wife.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781323690</amazonuk>1662507089

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Menna Van Praag1787636003|title=The House At The End Of Hope StreetGirls of Summer|author=Katie Bishop

|summary= Alba Ashby is a wallflower of a girl; studiousIt was the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the island. Rachel wasn't exactly innocent but she was, perhaps, bookish and excruciatingly shynaive, so when tragedy wields its ponderous bolt, she is less able than most thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to adjust to life as she now knows it. In one of take an interest in her midnight walks around historical Cambridge, she finds herself at the door to Number 11 Hope Streetwas flattered rather than wary. It is house that she has never was quite a while before seen; quirky he made any sort of physical approach to her and turreted with a wild garden and grandly Victorian in hue and Alba is enchanted by it. So she does something that time she would never normally do, in a million yearswas obsessed by him. She knocks Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, looking after his interests on the doorisland and in particular in the bar where all the girls either worked or partied.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749018623</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sara GruenAmanda Craig|title=At The Water's EdgeThree Graces|rating=4.5

|summary=An indiscretion at a party causes Ellis Hyde's parents to disown him, coming, as it does, hot on Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the heels state-of his father not understanding why Ellis has been turned down for war service-the-nation novel. To prove heThere's not a cowardsomething so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the atmosphere of the day and capture it, Ellis, his new wife Maddie and best friend Hank leave crafting an image of the US for Scotlandcountry as it stands in one particular moment. HeTo say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's determined they will succeed where Ellis' father failed years before: they will find practically synonymous with the Loch Ness monster. Maddie isn't as convinced but then she also thinks she knows Ellisgenre of contemporary social fiction at this point. She and has such a gift for weaving the locals at ongoing issues of the inn where they're stranded by day into the global conflict will discover lives of her characters in a lot more about himway that feels natural and lived-in, never making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, and indeed grappling with issues far larger than themselves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473604702</amazonuk>140871468X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah Leipciger152915118X|title=The Mountain Can WaitPineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson

|summary=Tom Berry ''Pineapple Street'' is a quiet man - one who lives for and in nature, spending a half the story of his year running a small team in remotethree women: Sasha, isolated forestsDarley and Georgiana. The other half he spends tending Darley and George are sisters and Sasha is married to his family - their brother Cord. They're Stocktons, only Sasha isn't a small group whom he brought up almost single handedly, following Stockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the departure of his wifetribe. A goodThe problem's exacerbated when the clan matriarch, determined manTilda, we learn of Tomasks Cord and Sasha if they's life running forestry teams in remote wilderness, before an accident forces Tom d like to leave his routine move into the Pineapple Street property. Tilda and seek out his son - Chip have renovated and both become troubled by the events downsized to another property, a street or so away, which they own. They won't need any of the accidentfurniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and Cord can move straight in. Nominally, as well as ghosts of they had a choice but that wasn't the reality. Darley and Georgiana start to call Sasha 'the past gold digger'. She's living in ''their'' family home. They use it so often that may cause more pain than either man had anticipatedthey abbreviate it to 'the GD'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472223896</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elizabeth RenzettiEmily Critchley|title=Based on a True StoryOne Puzzling Afternoon

|genre=Women's FictionCrime|summary=Augusta Price, middle-aged, washed up, substance-addicted actress 84 year old Edie has just left rehab for the innumerable time. Her only friend lived in the world same small town for almost her whole life, but now she is facing a move as her equally washed-up former mentor. Augusta has recently received a sudden upsurge of interest son wants to move to another house and income when her tell all memoir became a baffling best-seller. Frances Bleeker is an American journalist who came bring Edie to London live with high hopeshis family, that were quickly dashed by the reality of the British magazine market. The two meet when Frances as Edie is sent starting to interview Augusta about lose her book where Frances realises there’s far more to memory. However, Edie is tormented by the story memory of Augusta’s life than she’s cared to put in words. Needless to sayher childhood friend, youngLucy, optimistic Frances and self-obsessedwho went missing over 60 years ago, drunk Augusta don’t exactly hit it off at once. But when Frances loses her job and Augusta needs the worry that there was a ghost writer 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, just as she was the last time she saw her new book, the two offer each other a lifeline ... or enough rope she starts to find pockets of memories coming back to hang themselvesher. As Frances will learn by delving into her And yet as she remembers the past, people close she is forgetting more and more in her day to Augusta don’t come away unscathedday life. Will she uncover the truth about Lucy's disappearance before her move, and before her memories are gone forever?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782395539</amazonuk>1804181250

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Xavier LeretMadelaine Lucas|title=The Romeo and Juliet KillersThirst for Salt|rating=35|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=This is a book that suggests love across the tracks – all the while making the reader ask 'just how chuffing wide are those tracks 'Love, I'd read, was supposed to be?!a light and weightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravity' Franky is ' Told from a hard-done-by schoolboy, whose ultra-Catholic parents are stifling him in all aspects of liferetrospective view, so much so it's likely that when he gets into trouble by witnessing some porn on a friend's mobile phone at school it was really young woman unravels the hardware year-long relationship that he was gawping at in amazementonce defined her. Hardware is nothing to DaizeeOverlaid with later wisdom, the underage street hooker, who knows what hard stuffs she likes and what she doesn't, and what narrator relives the affair with a man twenty years her punters senior from its inception – and her mother, back when they had a connection the summer after finishing university – enjoyed, or needed, en route to itits sorrowful end the summer after. Their unlikely connection is Set against the subject backdrop of this gritty novellaan isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the 24-year-old narrator's deepening relationship with her older lover, depicting its all-consuming nature, how it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and how it altered her irrevocably.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910213187</amazonuk>0861546490

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Pascal Garnier and Melanie Florence (translator)0008506337|title=BoxesThe Garnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore|rating=45

|summary=Meet BriceThe love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, apparently on both sides. HeMargo was just sixteen when they fell in love. Richard was twenty-one and described by Margo's mother as 'an illustrator, who had picked an ideal house in the country with his journalist wife, only for her to disappear assumed dead on assignment abroadolder man'. Therefore heHer parents worried that Richard's influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and having to make a glittering career. In the move himselfevent, which he does – but without they eloped and Richard took her at away from the other end he finds it hard Isle of Wight. Margo did go to kick his new life into gearOxford and went on to become a well-respected journalist. YesThe couple had three children: Rachel, a cat adopts himImogen and Sasha. Life was lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, and he gets to know the names family home on the Isle of some new people, but thatWight. Even then the doubts about Richard's it. Whatdrinking were never far from Margo's more, one of those people is Blanche, attired most suitably mind: ''she would never be able to leave him in all-white, who herself is missing someone – someone of whom Brice is the spitting image…charge''. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910477044</amazonuk>Then Richard left them.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kevin Maher1914585402|title=Last Night on EarthDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross

|summary=Baby Bonnie is born in London in 1996 to Jay and Shauna but her traumatic birth and the aftermath causes the previously happy 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 to separate. Jay looks of years back searching for and remember being absolutely floored by how he got to this point powerful and Shauna looks for answers in psychotherapy with affecting it was. It was a less than orthodox Danish analyst. Meanwhile both share Bonnie gripping, emotionally wounding read, and worry about where they go from hererereading my review of it my main takeaway was that I might not have lavished enough praise on it. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408705079</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tina SeskisLucy Ashe|title=When We Were FriendsClara and Olivia|rating=4.5

|summary= Six friends meet at Bristol University; six very different people The year is 1933. The place? Sadler's Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, twins no less. Identical on the outside but not, we learn, on the inside. And not on stage, either. Because there's a lot that builds a dancer. Some things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, attention to detail – and some things, that ''je ne sais quoi'', that don't come from six very different backgroundsthe classroom. Six lives intertwined in an assortment of ways… break-upsA stage presence, marriagesa charm, careersa ''joie de vivre''. The difference between a hard-worker, motherhood and bereavement; until one night six become fivea star.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405917954</amazonuk >0861544080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael LaubHeather Fawcett|title=Diary Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of the FallFaeries

|summary=Diary of the Fall Emily Wilde is a story about regretan expert academic scholar on faerie lore, guilt and resentment. Itshe has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life's told from work, the point very first encyclopaedia of view faeries. Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, she is not so good with people. So when she finds herself far, far North in the small village of an unnamed narratorHrafvsnik, having somehow offended the village matriarch, she is not sure what she has done, who reflects nor how to redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on not just his own life but also the lives of his father right track. Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and grandfatherdelight, much to Emily's frustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099581795</amazonuk>0356519120

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=James Wilson1398515388|title=The Summer of Broken StoriesBoy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating=4.5

|summary=England 1950: Soon-to-be-10First of all, it was the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and this, in turn, Mark Davenant is a typical lad with a typical lad's lifecaused the nuclear meltdown. He loves adding to his model train layout, he plays with his mates The result was complete and walking best friend Barney the dogutter devastation. It's on one such walk he comes across AubreyThe deaths were uncountable, an elderly writer living in and the forestloss of livelihoods was widespread. They build The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of priorities but - six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a friendship based on shared stories and imaginingsconvenience store. Not all in He wasn't a dog person but the village are accepting though and, when they try convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to drive Aubrey out, Mark feels himself torn between old loyalties open his car door and newTamon the dog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846883571</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alexander McCall SmithChristopher Bowden|title= The Novel Habits of HappinessMr Magenta|rating=54

|summary=There are some authors Christopher Bowden's latest novel is a patient untangling of a seemingly ordinary woman's life, carried out by her nephew after she has died. The aunt who I pick up with always provided a contented sigh, knowing that I am in safe hands. Alexander McCall Smith is currently my favourite, harbour 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 series, and we settle down once more little bit of indulgence to a visit young nephew had had a much more interesting life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and it seems to Isabel Dalhousie in her beloved Edinburgh. Isabel is wondering, perhaps belatedly, if she is sometimes rather judgmental of people. In particular, she’s having him an awful lot of qualms about her niece, Cat’s, latest romanceobligation to find it all out. Will Isabel find herself forced to intervene, or can she sit back and let nature take its course?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408706636</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nina George and Simon Pare (translator)Jennifer Mason|title=The Little Paris BookshopPartitions of Unity

|summary=Monsieur Perdu has a barge on the SeineHere at Bookbag Towers, we first met Elizabeth Cromwell, dominatrix and unintentional detective in that barge he has his bookshop. Actually[[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], rather than being when she investigated and unravelled a normal sort series of bookshop it is more disappearances. In ''Partitions of a chemistUnity''s, since he is something of she sets her mind to solving a literary apothecary, prescribing books to his customers that he senses will soothe their souls, and relieve whatever troubles are ailing themmurder. He only has to speak to them a little, sometimes only has to see them, and he instinctively knows which book will help them. Despite his skills, however, he seems unable to diagnose and resolve his own emotional issues and he is, as the translation of his French surname tells us, Mr Lost.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349140359</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Marcus DalrympleWill Carver|title=Flesh and Blood: True FictionThe Daves Next Door|rating=4.5

|summary=Brit John Colson is Five strangers come together in Mexico teaching, having been invited out there by his godfather and local school owner Carlos Manuel Fermin. John soon settles in, soon forming a love of the country. But then it all changes… Visiting a public toilet at the wrong one moment means that John hears as a murder being committed beyond suicide bomber prepares to detonate his cubicle doorvest on a London tube line. He goes to As their fates overlap, the police as he would story is told in backwards order, leading up to the UK but this is Mexico; from that fateful moment on John Colson is a marked man. Meanwhile elsewhere in Mexico tourists are being attracted by more than hot sunshine and tacos.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1502821087</amazonuk>1914585186}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Antoine Laurain, Emily Boyce (translator) and Jane Aitken (translator)Jennifer Mason|title=The Red NotebookPreposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery|rating=54

|summary=Meet Laure. She's a widow in her 40s, who is entering her Parisian apartment building one night when she's muggedA struggling poetry zine, a mom-and her handbag stolen. Meet Laurent-pop mobile diner in the Northern California redwoods, a middle400-aged bookseller, meter hurdler who happens upon the handbag the following morning in the street, just before missed the binmen take it away2004 Olympics, never to be seen again. More or less snubbed when trying to hand it to the police as lost propertya women's track coach with a yen for bullwhips, he decides to take it upon himself to reunite a billionaire with a state-of-the bag with its rightful owner. He has no idea their names are so intimately linked-art S&M dungeon, and despite a lot of things being man serving a life sentence in the bag Alabama, an enigmatic signature, K(including the titular notebooks, x) there is no cash, no phone and no ID documentation at allon a cheap oil painting, an erotic art dealer in Georgia... 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 ' This is just a result sample of the mugging…cast of characters and settings in Preposterous. As you can see, some keeping up will be required! The basic premise of this mystery story goes like this...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908313862</amazonuk>B09STS96HS

A splitting headache Move on the eve of his birthday soon develops into incredible powers, and Stanly swiftly finds himself defending his neighbourhood, falling in love, and gaining his first real friends. When jealous rivals, 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 dear.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784630136</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Fiona Neill|title=The Good Girl|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary= Romy is a sixth former who is unremarkable. A good student from a professional family, her aspiration is to become 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 stop. For Ailsa, the head teacher, she has the double whammy of trying 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’ fault.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718181271</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Graphic Novels Reviews]]