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|summary=To Jean lives on Jersey with her parents, mother where they are celebrating the move to Cornwall was an escape to a better way end of lifethe occupation. For city-girl Robyn, it was wet During the war, remote and miserable and she Jean's father was counting down the days to University and her return to civilization. Desperate arrested for something to do listening to entertain herself, Robyn takes a wetsuit banned radio and surfboard soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and makes her way to a secluded covemother waiting for years for news of him. An inexperienced surfer As the British finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, she soon gets into difficultyand the war is finally over, but is rescued from their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him. But will the sea by truth come as a young local man called Jago. From that moment onrelief, the two lives are intertwined by an invisible bond; a bond that or will be tested and stretched it raise further questions around what else happened during the years that follow.war? Who was the informer who told the Nazis about the radio? And what other secrets have been kept throughout the occupation?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472211979</amazonuk>1846976537

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anne BarnettOnyi Nwabineli|title=The Largest Baby in Ireland After The FamineAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating= 4.5

|summary=She was all colour 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 Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and sway, basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and as far away as imaginable from to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the local womencontent about her. Pale Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, pale skin undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and strong dark auburn hair falling free to large wide hipsreceiving money from them for doing so. She wore a purple shawl. That night Felix Most importantly, a bachelorshe is desperately worried about her little sister, aged 43, living in who is the house he was born in, dreamt new focus of purpleOphelia's online empire. Purple in the shape of a woman.And just like that Can she save her sister, things change. I love this passage. It shows how strong the human pull is. Even when men and women are surrounded by great events - war, political upheaval, famine, depression - individual human desires can change perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the picture in an instant.same time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>186151526X</amazonuk>0861546873

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alexander Cordell1529153298|title=The Hosts List of RebeccaSuspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey

|summary=At the end of [[Rape of the Fair Country by Alexander Cordell|Rape of the Fair Country]] Iestyn Mortymer had 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 sentenced murdered, but to deportation for seven years have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because of she's overheard that her father wants to move the part he played in the Chartist rebellion and the Newport Rising of 1839family 'Down South'. His motherWhen you're from Yorkshire, wifeDown South is a frightening, Marieforeign place, younger brotherbest avoided. For Miv, Jethrothe move would mean leaving her best friend, sisterSharon, Morfydd and the two children of the family returned she'll do anything to the land, living on a farm owned by Marieprevent that. She's grandfather. The life was hard and not just for worried about the Mortymers, with poverty breathing over their shoulders and it was made worse by the tollgates installed by landowners, effectively adding a levy to any produce which the farmers attempted dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to moveanyone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B0100NC1GM</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alexander McCall Smith1035906708|title=The Woman Who Walked in SunshineDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5

|summary=Back We tend to Botswana I go, having saved this newest outing in the No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series for a delightful weekend read. I never tire think of these charactersMaria Callas as Greek, and I always look forward but she was born to seeing what is happening Greek parents in their lives. This time around the story is about holidaysManhattan, amongst other thingsNew York, in December 1923 and the tricky plans only moved to persuade Mma Ramostwe to take a holidayAthens when she was thirteen. But what is Mma Makutsi up Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to? 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the States. Does When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she have plans to take over could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the agency entirely whilst Mma Ramotswe is away? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408706660</amazonuk>Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Aldous HuxleyAlexander McCall Smith|title= After Many A Summer|rating= 4|genre= Dystopian Fiction|summary= Like many of us, I suspect, I knew nothing of Huxley other than the "required reading" of ''Brave New World''. Naturally, on that basis alone, he was pigeon-holed in my head under the heading ''Sci-fi - must check out further''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784870358</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jill Ciment|title=Heroic MeasuresThe Perfect Passion Company

|summary=Ruth The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and Alex Cohen have operating as an alternative to move from their beloved New York apartmentall the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. They love itNess has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, but it's five floors up and there's no elevatoras Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. Reluctantly they're having an open day for prospective purchasers - Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and hoping that they'll be able so jumps at the chance to come home to buy something not ''too'' far out which has that elusive elevatorEdinburgh. It's not just themAnd so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, either. There's Dorothy. Dorothy ('Dottie' thanks to those 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who know her well) is their Daschundquickly begin to charm. She's getting on Katie has no experience in yearsrunning a business, or in match-making, but then so are Ruth Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and Alex. Then - the day before the open house - two things happen. An unmarked petrol truck is blocking the citythere's main tunnel always her very helpful (and there's no sign of the driver. You don't even need to have ''long'' memories rather handsome) neighbour, William, to worry about terrorists in Manhattan. Then Dottie yelps in pain and she can't stand up.lend a hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782271945</amazonuk>1846976596

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sebastian FaulksDean Koontz|title= Where my Heart Used to BeatThe Bad Weather Friend|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction Paranormal|summary= In the early 1980’s, on Benny is having a small island off the South of Franceterrifically bad day. He loses his job, a Doctor named Robert Hendricks confronts he loses his life – memories of warsfiancee, workand his house gets trashed. Oh, lovesand someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and losses. As it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his history house! The thing is explored and questioned by his host, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. Hendricks recalls days in Scottish universitiesSo fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, Italian trenchesa bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. mental asylums and windswept beaches. Links Spike is going to the past are uncoveredtake care of Benny, and the raw wounds they expose will certainly take Hendricks on a search for sanity and raises the question – is life comprised care of events themselvesBenny's enemies, if he, Benny, or the way in which an individual chooses to remember them?and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091936837</amazonuk>1662500491

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alexander McCall SmithKatherine Howe|title=The Revolving Door of LifeA True Account|rating=4.5

|summary=I am always happy Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to sit back down live with old friendsa family who run an inn, and being made to catch up on what has been happening on Scotland Streetwork there from a young age. As When she hears there is to be a hanging of some pirates in the last episode [[Bertietown, she decides to go and watch. Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's Guide to Life and Mothers by Alexander McCall Smith]] there is plenty death at the hands of Bertie throughout the whole storytwo vicious pirates. Bertie is my favourite character by farShe hides away, so this was very pleasing to me! Our other favourites are there that they don't find and kill her too, howeverand then to escape them completely she runs away to sea, so theredressing as a boy and joining the notorious Ned Low's something to please everyonepirate ship as a cabin boy. She soon finds herself in the thick of things when there is a mutiny on board, and from Bruce being, well, Bruce, and dear Angus reciting a poem at there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the endocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846973287</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Rachel Elliott1471180158|title= Whispers Through A Megaphone|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Miriam doesn’t speak. Well, that’s not strictly true. She does speak, but nothing above a whisper which makes it hard to have a conversation with her. Particularly as she hasn’t left her house in three years. But today is the day. She’s going to open that door and walk outside. She really is. Ralph has finally twigged (and with no small amount of surprise) that his wife Sadie doesn’t actually love him. And now he’s not sure if she ever really did. Having spent so much time regurgitating his every moment onto Social Media, Ralph hasn’t really had a chance to think about it. But now he has, it is so shockingly awful that he has decided to run away. And of all the places he could run away to, he has chosen the same woods that Miriam has picked to be the first place she will visit out-of-doors. And Sadie? Well, she’s had enough of reading Tweets and living vicariously through the posts of others. Sadie is going to have an adventure of her own. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0992918227</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewMaybe Tomorrow|author=Gregoire Delacourt|title=The First Thing You SeePenny Parkes|rating=34.5

|summary=Arthur Dreyfuss is Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's a fairly run control freak with all the subtlety of the mill young mana half brick. He likes big breastsJamie's son, carsBo, Juplier beer and big breasts'has his problems'. He’s also rather keen on big breasts. A good-looking boy, even if he does say so himself He''…like Ryan Goslings asthmatic and the more you read, only better lookingthe more you'll suspect that he' we will s on the autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to take him time off at his word, although one would had thought short notice - she's a better looking Ryan Gosling would have had his fill of Zepplin chested females so as frequent flier in the local A&E and sometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to dilute his desire for themschool. In any event, I suspect his longings stem Missed shifts or the need to be away on time to pick Bo up from the fact that a young mechanic living a quiet school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and uneventful life put in a tiny village in rural France is unlikely to have a multitude of such femmes crossing his path in search of their daily baguettethe wrong. That said, when Arthur one day opens his front door It was going to come to find a rather distressed but undeniably luscious Scarlett Johansson on his doorstep, he does not question his luck. He invites her in. As you dohead. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0297871021</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John PiperB0CKD1L5JL|title=Claude's JourneyRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn

|summary=One routinePetr is an orphan. Rescued by the strange, reclusive Bear, he is brought up far from bustling cities and busy human society, normally uneventful journey changes Claudein the forests of Washington's life forever,Olympic Peninsula. It begins with After Bear dies and a chance encounter brief sojourn in human company, and armed with only a malevolent hen party and carries pirate radio transmitter, Petr goes on with a journey through the forest, broadcasting the betrayal of those he thought strange, wild and rarely heard voices he could trust sending him into a spiral of captivity and fetishist slaveryencounters. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00EJQSLLG</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Beth MillerSarah Marsh|title= The Good NeighbourA Sign of Her Own|rating= 43.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Minette has not had the best experience After a bout of neighbours. It's hard when you have a new born. They're not known for being quiet scarlet fever as a mouse at all times and occasionallychild, well, occasionally they scream through the night. So she's glad when the nasty couple move and are replaced by Cath and Ellen Lark loses her two kidshearing. A fellow mother! An ally! Surely she will be more understanding?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091956331</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Fausto Brizzi|title= One Hundred Days of Happiness|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Sometimes ''Serendipity'' coerces ''Fate'' Suddenly plunged into making sure you read a particular bookworld of silence, everything about her life changes. I picked ''One Hundred Days…'' off the shelf on Living in a time when the back of the blurb from an author use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a book I haven't actually school where she is taught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. I confused From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the title of their book with one I adoreddeaf and using a system called Visible Speech. Make of that what you willAt the same time, I'm going to call it a happy accidentBell is working on other inventions and ideas, because this is and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a book many complicated tangle of us really need to readespionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447269012</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=S E CraythorneB0BC3YTCMR|title=How You See MeGood Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira

|summary=Daniel's father 'This story is ill after a stroke and so Daniel needs to go home to Norfolk to nurse himnot for everyone.'' Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of her fifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. While there he continues to write letters to his beloved girlfriend AliceShe was a very bright student, a bit too nerdy if truth be told, his sister Mab and his boss suffered from vitiligo - people were afraid to keep them up to datehug her in case it's contagious. The problems in DanielIt's life are not easy being a black girl whose skin is 84% white. She had a lot closer crush on seventeen-year-old Reggie Anderson but never thought he would notice her. 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. She went to home than those his house and he's left behind in his normal life thoughraped her. Gradually the reasons why Daniel left Norfolk return In shock, she even allowed him to him, increasing in intensity until it's much, much too lategive her a lift home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908434562</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeremy Massey 1472263936|title=The Last Four Days Of Paddy BuckleyFigurine|author=Victoria Hislop|rating=45

|summary= Paddy Buckley is a grieving widower who has worked for years for Gallagher'sIt was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. She was alone: her mother, Greek by birth, a long-established—some say had left the best—funeral family home in Dublin. One night driving home after an unexpected encounter with a clientand refused to return, Paddy hits but Mary and Hamish (Helena's parents) felt that it would be a pedestrian crossing the streetpity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. He pulls over and gets out of his car, intending Her trip to do the right thingfamily apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be the first of several annual visits. As he bends over She grew to help love her grandmother and the man, he recognizes him. Itfamily's Donal Cullenmaid, Dina, brother but was wary - and frightened - of one her grandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. He was proud of his close connections to the most notorious mobsters in DublinJunta and expected his family to uphold his values but saw no reason to accommodate them. And he His prejudices included Helena's dead. Shocked red hair and scared, Paddy jumps back in his car and drives away before anyone notices whatgreen eyes - inherited from her father's happenedScottish ancestors.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594634858</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=James LovegroveDean Koontz|title=Sherlock Holmes 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}} {{Frontpage|isbn=B0BVDC2VWH|title=The Thinking EngineGrave Listeners|author=William Frank

|summary=In this hyperThe village is isolated and poor. It's surrounded by a Witching Forest. And the villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants -connected world, it is not difficult to conceive its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicines. The black wood of machines that can answer perplexing questions in the blink of an eyeforest provides heat and warmth, roofs on homes, communicate over a vast network or and even seemingly outsmart humansgallows, if needed. Of course, The fear of being buried alive is an existential superstition in the year 1895village and that is the reason Volushka, such a machine would be viewed with deep suspicion and curiosity; hailed as a miracledrunken, self-indulgent, or condemned as the work lazy lout of dark supernatural forces. James Lovegrove put this idea to the test in his latest Sherlock Holmes adventure, ''The Thinking Engine'', which pits a man against machine in the ultimate battle of witsis tolerated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783295031</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=C B CalicoB0BYF82CXT|title=Dandelion AngelSemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone

|summary=In her Author's Note, debut novelist C.B. Calico reveals that ''Dandelion Angel'' was inspired by Bill and Amanda are living in a nonsemi-fiction workdetached house, ''Understanding the Borderline Mother'' by Christine Ann Lawson. The four mother/daughter relationships stuck in this Germany-set novel – all marked to some extent by dysfunctiona depressing rut of boredom and disappointment, physical when Terry and/or verbal abuseFiona – glamorous, successful and borderline personality disorder very much in love – are based move in next door. Despite their different outlooks on Lawson's metaphorical classifications: the hermit, the queenlife, the waif, couples befriend each other and the witchlife appears to improve for both pairs. Looping back through her four storylines in three complete cyclesBut all is not what it seems, Calico shows how mental illness is rooted in childhood experiences and can go on to affect a whole familytheir increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B0112SC9CA</amazonuk>''

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Eli Horowitz, Matthew Derby and Kevin MoffettShalini Boland|title=The Silent HistoryBride|rating=4.53|genre=Science General Fiction|summary=Well, they kept this quiet – for reasons that will become obvious. A couple of years ago people Alice and Seth are a match made in America were giving birth to problematic kidsheaven. They (the children) were soon found to be unnaturally quiet – perhaps crying with hunger or painHe is everything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, clever, but never even trying to 'oogafunny; total and utter husband-wooga' their way into their parents' heartsmaterial. They were later found to be completely unable to speak, they could not read and indeed they She is all he could not understand anything said to them, or shown them, as an instruction. They were physically unable to parse anything as language, and were possibly want in a silent world of their own. But right about now they and we are combining worlds – schools are being set upwife; beautiful, and funds are being made availablesuccessful, confident… and people are coming down on so the endless divide as to whether they are just problematic, disabled – or even inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and the blessedwedding is planned and set. In a couple of yearsWhen the much-anticipated day arrives, howeverAlice is walked down the aisle by her father, the problems the virus that is causing these people to be born beaming with will be shown to be a major problem – pride and that is before excitement as she surveys the kids themselves change. For they will be able congregation – their friends assembled to switch their mental abilities much like a blind man can hear more than the average, celebrate this joyful day and will be able when Seth turns to comprehend body and facial language much more coherently than anyone else. Throughout this timelineface his approaching bride, however, people will be working hard to try and study Alice's world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the man at the problemaltar is, and put it right – if indeed 'right' who is the correct word…waiting for her to become his wife.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>009959286X</amazonuk>1662507089

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Crown and Jamie Searle Romanelli (translator)1787636003|title=SiriusThe Girls of Summer|author=Katie Bishop|rating=35

|summary=Meet LeviIt was the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the island. HeRachel wasn's a humble little dog living with a loving family. They've spent so much time with him he has learnt some tricks – not only the usual onest exactly innocent but she was, of beggingperhaps, or playing deadnaive, but walking on two legs, somersaulting on so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to his two other pawstake an interest in her, and giving the Hitler saluteshe was flattered rather than wary. If this It was 2015 in the UK quite a while before he would be shoe-in for Britain's Got Talent (although the Hitler salute might lose him a few votes, made any sort of physical approach to be honest) but this is 1930s Berlin, her and things are starting to get horrendously tough and nasty for Jewish families like hisby that time she was obsessed by him. Querying the statute laws that demand a formalisation of Jewish names Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, looking after his owners rename Levi after Sirius, interests on the Great Dog island and in particular in the night skiesbar where all the girls either worked or partied. But nobody can foresee what happens when Jews are pushed harder and harder from their neighbourhoods, and nobody can see what a Great Dog star Sirius can become, in the most unlikely of milieux – Hollywood…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784081981</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Meike ZiervogelAmanda Craig|title=KautharThree Graces|rating=4.5|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=Meet LydiaFew styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of-the-nation novel. SheThere's a normal British girl, interested in following both her father, something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the atmosphere of the day and Nadia Comanecicapture it, into the world crafting an image of gymnastics but not brave enough to pull off the larger set pieces, and country as it stands in one particular moment. To say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's practically synonymous with not much more to interrupt her days than wondering why boys always have to talk about their williesthe genre of contemporary social fiction at this point. Now meet Kauthar, She has such a white British convert to Islam, devoted follower gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the precepts day into the lives of her religion, ardent wife characters in a way that feels natural and stalwartly selflived-fulfillingin, no-nonsense and satisfied. But what is this – why is she talking of being alone in a desertnever making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, and why is she directly addressing her god regarding how she ''can't perform any movementgrappling with issues far larger than themselves. Because it is torn apart''? Has something gone wrong?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784630292</amazonuk>140871468X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julia Heaberlin152915118X|title=Black Eyed SusansPineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson

|summary=I knew little about this book before I started it - other than ''Pineapple Street'' is the intriguing title story of three women: Sasha, Darley and Georgiana. Darley and George are sisters and the scant information that it Sasha is married to their brother Cord. They're Stocktons, only Sasha isn't a psychological mystery about a girl who survives abduction Stockton by a serial killerbirth so she isn't readily accepted into the tribe. For those who The problem's exacerbated when the clan matriarch, like meTilda, canasks Cord and Sasha if they't resist suspense (and it seems that many people do fall d like to move into this category, according to the bestseller lists at least), this is enticement enoughPineapple Street property. And I was not disappointed: this story offers psychological uncertainty Tilda and Chip have renovated and suspense from start downsized to finishanother property, a street or so away, which they own. The narrative alternates between present day and They won't need any of the pastfurniture from Pineapple Street, each section lasting just a couple of pagesso Sasha and Cord can move straight in. I found this structure tricky at first Nominally, although each chapter does offer they had a helpful timeline choice but that wasn't the reality. Darley and Georgiana start to call Sasha 'the chapters are short enough that itgold digger'. She's easy to reorient yourselfliving in ''their'' family home. Once I got used to the choppy style I found They use it so often that they abbreviate it did work, and it worked really well, reflecting to 'the constant flashbacks and mental turmoil experienced by Tessa, the protagonistGD'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718181336</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Tessa McWattEmily Critchley|title= Higher Ed One Puzzling Afternoon|rating= 2.54|genre= General FictionCrime|summary= Robin works at 84 year old Edie has lived in the same small town for almost her whole life, but now she is facing a universitymove as her son wants to move to another house and bring Edie to live with his family, as Edie is starting to lose her memory. Olivia However, Edie is one tormented by the memory of his studentsher childhood friend, Lucy, who went missing over 60 years ago, and the worry that there was a secret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be the thing that reveals the truth of what happened all that time ago. Francine works behind After 'seeing' Lucy in the scenes in adminhigh street, just as she was the last time she saw her, she starts to find pockets of memories coming back to her. Katrin And yet as she remembers the past, she is a waitress in a local café, forgetting more and Ed has a role more in a rather unique bit of local governmenther day to day life. This bizarre cast of characters are Will she uncover the stars of ''Higher Ed'truth about Lucy's disappearance before her move, a story which eventually combines all of their lives.and before her memories are gone forever?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1925228045</amazonuk>1804181250

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Mary KubicaMadelaine Lucas|title= Pretty BabyThirst for Salt|rating= 5|genre= General Literary Fiction|summary= On her morning commute ''Love, I'd read, was supposed to workbe a light and weightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravity'' Told from a retrospective view, Heidi sees something a young woman unravels the year-long relationship that shakes once defined her. A young girlOverlaid with later wisdom, barely older than the narrator relives the affair with a man twenty years her own pre-teen daughter, huddling in senior from its inception – the rain on summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the platform, clutching a tiny babysummer after. ItSet against the backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the 24-year-old narrator's a distressing situation 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 stays on altered her mind for the rest of the day. So much so that when she sees the girl again, she feels obligated to helpirrevocably.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848453965</amazonuk>0861546490

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Piper0008506337|title=La Crème de la CremThe Garnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore|rating=35

|summary=Gala night at Frere Jacques restaurant where the local political The love affair between Margo Garnett and good gather for a banquetpoet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, apparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in love. Everyone is looking forward to a good night Richard was twenty-one and described by Margo's mother as 'an older man'. Her parents worried thatRichard's influence would take her away from what they'll havefelt she could achieve - going to Oxford and having a glittering career. In the event, just not quite in they eloped and Richard took her away from the way they envisagedIsle of Wight. Indeed it will be a night Margo did go to Oxford and went on to remember for become a long time to comewell-respected journalist. The couple had three children: Rachel, Imogen and Sasha. Life was lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, for all the wrong reasons courtesy family home on the Isle of the little something in the dessertWight. Meanwhile young people are going missing on a scale that Even then the town of Tresside has doubts about Richard's drinking were never experienced before but Tresside doesnfar from Margo's mind: 't know the half of it… yet!'she would never be able to leave him in charge''. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00G4A2RQ0</amazonuk>Then Richard left them.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Katie Everson1914585402|title= DropDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Katie Everson’s debut novel, ‘Drop,’ is I reviewed David F Ross's book [[There's Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's Only One Danny Garvey]] a tale couple of grief years back and healing, whirlwind romance remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and brutal honestyaffecting it was. We follow the story of Carla - straight-A-studentIt was a gripping, rule-abiding daughter and somewhat uninteresting friend - who is determined to change her predictable life. When her absentee mother is offered a job in Londonemotionally wounding read, Carla transfers to yet another school and this time she is desperate to rereading my review of it my main takeaway was that I might not be overlookedhave lavished enough praise on it. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406356271</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= John NivenLucy Ashe|title= The Sunshine Cruise CompanyClara and Olivia|rating= 4.5|genre= HumourGeneral Fiction|summary= Susan Frobisher The year is 1933. The place? Sadler's Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Julie Wickham live in a small Dorset townOlivia are sisters, twins no less. Identical on the outside but not, we learn, on the inside. Friends since schoolAnd not on stage, they live fairly uneventful lives – Susan has either. Because there's a lovely house and lot that builds a lengthy marriage dancer. Some things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, attention to accountant Barry, whereas Julie is doing slightly less well detail – living in a council flat and working in an old peoplesome things, that ''je ne sais quoi''s home. When Barry is found dead trussed up in a sex dungeon, it transpires that he has been leading a hidden life for years, and his expensive fetishes lead to don't come from the bank moving to take Susan's homeclassroom. Struck by both desperation and a sense of injusticeA stage presence, Sue and Julie conspire to rob a bankcharm, taking along their friend Jill – a devout Christian conflicted due to lack of money and ''joie de vivre''. The difference between a terminally ill grandsonhard-worker, and Ethel – a foul mouthed resident of the nursing home longing for adventurestar.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0434023183</amazonuk>0861544080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Paula McGrathHeather Fawcett|title= GenerationEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries|rating= 4|genre= General Fiction|summary=How can we know the effect that our choices may have Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on the next generation? Even a seemingly minor decision faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life's work, the potential very first encyclopaedia of faeries. Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to create ripples and waves faeries, she is not so good with people. So when she finds herself far, far North in the small village of unforeseen repercussions in Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the future. This fascinating theme village matriarch, she is explored in “Generation”not sure what she has done, an intelligently-written début novel that approaches nor how to redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on the subject from multiple perspectives over an eighty-year periodright track. Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, 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>147361483X</amazonuk>0356519120

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Kerry Hudson1398515388|title= ThirstThe Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= London – Summer. AlenaFirst of all, a young siberian immigrant is caught stealing shoes. Daveit was the earthquake, deep in the man who catches herocean floor, is a security guard – surviving on a minimal income which created the tsunami and with little drive to better his quietthis, in turn, repetitive lifecaused the nuclear meltdown. As Alena The result was complete and Dave grow closerutter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, Dave finds his life turned upside and the loss of livelihoods was widespread. The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far downthe list of priorities but - six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. But will Alena ever let down her guard, He wasn't a dog person but the convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and reveal Tamon the truth about her past?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099589893</amazonuk>dog jumped in.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author= Lesley PearseChristopher Bowden|title= Without a TraceMr Magenta|rating= 4|genre= General Fiction|summary=CassieChristopher Bowden's arrival was bound to cause latest novel is a stir in the sleepy Somerset village patient untangling of Sawbridgea seemingly ordinary woman's life, carried out by her nephew after she has died. She had flaming red hair, The aunt who always provided a voluptuous figure accentuated by very tight clothing, towering heels, heavy make-up safe harbour and no wedding ring. But the thing that really shocked the locals was the fact that she had a little mixed-race girl in tow. Petal, as she was called, soon melted the hearts bit of the residents, but no such courtesy was extended indulgence to Cassie, who was dubbed 'a young nephew had had a much more interesting life than that red-headed whore' by some. Her only friend was the kind shopkeeper Molly Heywood, who would often visit Cassie nephew Stephen had ever realised and Petal at their isolated stone cottage on the outskirts of the villageit seems to him an obligation to find it all out.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>024196153X</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Eva RiceJennifer Mason|title=Love Notes for FreddiePartitions of Unity

|summary=Marnie is an innocentHere at Bookbag Towers, mathematical genius schoolgirl whowe first met Elizabeth Cromwell, unfortunatelydominatrix and unintentional detective in [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], gets expelled from her fancy boarding school. Julie is her teacher, formerly when she investigated and unravelled a dancer, rigorously private about her past. Freddie is the boy that both series of them fall in love withdisappearances. Revealed through the eyes of two of the three main characters, this is a slow-moving, but rather beautifully told, love story. It has the same vintage feel that Eva Rice used so well in In ''The Lost Art Partitions of Keeping SecretsUnity'' and it cleverly winds its way through Marnie's story in the 1960's as well as Julie's past in pre-WW2 New York, she sets her mind to solving a murder...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782064486</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Kat GordonWill Carver|title= Artificial Anatomy of ParksThe Daves Next Door|rating= 54|genre= General Fiction|summary=One morning Five strangers come together in 2002, twenty-one year old Tallulah Park is woken in her depressing bedsit by the phonecall announcing her father's heart attack. From this bleak beginning springs Kat Gordon's gripping debut novel of moment as a dysfunctional upper middle class family with suicide bomber prepares to detonate his vest on a history of papering over the cracks and ignoring the uncomfortable and unfittingLondon tube line. Tallulah has been doing her fair share of powering on and pretending things don't existAs their fates overlap, but it seems like this might turn out to be the time story is told in backwards order, leading up to stop running away. With the reluctant help of two aunts, an old family friend and her own imperfect recollections, and with a vivid imagining of her late grandmother as the voice of conscience, Tallulah sets out to answer some long-standing questions about her family and her own pastfateful moment.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785079867</amazonuk>1914585186}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dido Butterworth and Tim FlanneryJennifer Mason|title=The Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery of the Venus Island Fetish|rating=34|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=Meet Archie Meek. He's about to leave the Venus Islands, where he's lived for the last five yearsA struggling poetry zine, a mom-and return to Sydney, where he'll take his office -pop mobile diner in the museum and fill it with all Northern California redwoods, a 400-meter hurdler who just missed the cultural artefacts he2004 Olympics, a women's found and wildlife he's plucked or pickled. That's not to ignore the fact he'll count as something quite alien himselftrack coach with a yen for bullwhips, a billionaire with his filleda state-of-out frame, nearly allthe-over suntan and totemic tattooart S&M dungeon, a man serving a life sentence in amongst other changes to his body. But what'Alabama, an enigmatic signature, K(s this? When he gets back, he finds one of the main Venus Islands artefacts that caused him to go there in the first placex), on a hugecheap oil painting, macabre ceremonial fetish mask, purloined as corporate artworkan erotic art dealer in Georgia... And some '' This is just a sample of the curators he wishes to work alongside have vanishedcast of characters and settings in Preposterous. Is the weird society As you can see, some keeping up will be required! The basic premise of the museum he's returning to, perchance, even weirder, stranger and more violent than the cannibalistic society he's waving farewell to?this mystery story goes like this...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1922079308</amazonuk>B09STS96HS