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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jolien JanzingJenny Lecoat|title=Charlotte Bronte's Secret Love|rating=3.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=This is the second novel by Jolien Janzing, a Dutch author who lives in Belgium. Originally published in Dutch as ''The Master'' in 2013, it is already being made into a film. The flawlessly translated story zeroes in on two momentous years in Charlotte Brontë's life, 1842–3, when she was a pupil and then a teacher at the Pensionnat Heger in Brussels. I read this in tandem with Claire Harman's new biography of Charlotte Brontë; it was particularly fascinating to see that the two books open with the same climactic episode: lovesick Charlotte making a confession at a Catholic church, even though she was an Anglican parson's daughter.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>9462380597</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jojo Moyes|title=After YouBeyond Summerland

|summary=After writing Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of the occupation. During the massively popular ''Me Before You'war, Jean's father was arrested for listening to a banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, all leaving Jean and her mother waiting for years for news of Jojo Moyes' readers were clamouring for morehim. Having been on As the British finally free the Channel islands from the edge of our armchairs during Nazis, and the storywar is finally over, we all wanted to know their hopes rise that they will finally learn what happened to Lou nextbecame of him. Would she be okay? Would she live her life with passion? Where would she go next? So But will the arrival of this story is truth come as a special treatrelief, as or will it continues raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the informer who told the Nazis about the tale of Lou, although perhaps not in radio? And what other secrets have been kept throughout the way we had imagined…occupation?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0718179617</amazonuk>1846976537

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Mike BullenOnyi Nwabineli|title= TrustAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Greg 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 Amanda are happy. Unmarried, but together thirteen years and with two young daughtersbasically, they are very much monetary gain. Now Anuri is in love. Dan her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and Sarah aren't so fortunateto get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the content about her. Their marriage Anuri is going through the motionsbattling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and they're staying together secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for the sake of their troubled teenage sondoing so. Following a business conference away from home Most importantly, one bad decision sends a happy couple into turmoilshe is desperately worried about her little sister, and turns an unhappy couple into lovewho is the new focus of Ophelia's young dreamonline empire. As secrets Can she save her sister, and betrayals threaten to send both relationships out of control, there's only one thing that can keep everything from falling apart: Trustperhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751559253</amazonuk>0861546873

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Menna Van Praag1529153298|title=The Dress Shop Of DreamsList of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey

|summary= Cambridge It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is a city of winding streets and cobbled alleyways and in such a street you will find Prime Minister. (A Stich In Timewoman? I mean, a tiny dress shop filled honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to bursting with dresses have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that will take your breath awayher father wants to move the family 'Down South'. Etta Sparks spends When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her days crafting gowns from jewel-coloured velvets best friend, Sharon, and beaded silks she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that are unlike any dresses you have seen before; once you try one of Ettaher Mum's creations on stopped talking - to anyone.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035906708|title=Diva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and with only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the States. When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a few stitches from mother who mercilessly exploited her expert and rather magical needle - these incrediblemade no secret of her preference for her elder sister, amazing garments have the power to reach within your soul and extract your deepest desire and hidden-away dreamsJackie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749018720</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ruth RendellAlexander McCall Smith|title=Dark CornersThe Perfect Passion Company

|summary=Carl Martin was The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the fortunate position online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. Katie is coming out of having just had his first novel published a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and inheriting his late father's house in Maida Valethe Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. His father had accumulated Katie has no experience in running a collection of homeopathic remedies which really should have been thrown outbusiness, or in match-making, but Carl had other things on his mind Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and never got round rather handsome) neighbour, William, to itlend a hand…|isbn=1846976596}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=The Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Paranormal|summary=Benny is having a terrifically bad day. There was He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his girlfriend Nicolahouse gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, work disturbing coffin-sized object to start on his second novel home, and he wanted to let it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the top floor of 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. Authors are not A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that well offthe delivery to his house is a new friend, you see and he needed some ready money coming ina 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. In addition Spike is going to being a bit remiss about the contents take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of the medicine cabinet Benny's enemies, if he should have been , Benny, and Harper (a bit more careful about waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who he took on as a tenantexactly they are.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091959241</amazonuk>1662500491

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Julia Franck and Anthea Bell (translator)Katherine Howe|title=WestA True Account|rating=34.5|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=Put yourself Hannah Masury is living in the shoes of Boston, having been sent to live with a family who run an inn, and being made to work there from a young mother age. When she hears there is to two childrenbe a hanging of some pirates in the town, who declares her intention she decides to leave the Communist East Germany for West Berlin, go and thus loses her scientist jobwatch. What would you expect on the other side – shops full of attainable products, pleasant neighbourhoods, nice neighbours, an active Enthralled and busy new lifehorrified in equal measure, where things might feel alien but Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death at least you speak the same language? hands of two vicious pirates. WellShe hides away, for Nelly Senff, this is hardly the case. Once past the depressing Eastern exit procedures she is confronted with more desultory interrogations from those 'welcomingso that they don' t find and kill her to the Westtoo, beyond which she and her children (their father, whom then to escape them completely she never marriedruns away to sea, is long assumed dead by dressing as a boy and joining the authorities, if nobody else) are practically left in a shared accommodation in notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a transit campcabin boy. The shops are full She soon finds herself in the thick of what things when there is still unobtainablea mutiny on board, the children hate their new school – and people still look down from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on them as being foreign, even if they have only moved across a citythe ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099554321</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Beverley Hansford1471180158|title=The Golden AnkletMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating=34.5

|summary=Jane Carroll is becoming more and more successful as a young journalist on Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a womanman who's magazinea control freak with all the subtlety of a half brick. YetJamie's son, although her future looks secureBo, Jane would like to discover more about her past'has his problems'. As an orphan she was raised in a childrenHe's home with no information regarding asthmatic and the more you read, the identity of her parents apart from what was more you'll suspect that he's on her birth certificatethe autistic spectrum. Therefore armed with this certificate Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's a frequent flier in the local A&E and the help of her new boyfriend Bob, sometimes Bo's not fit enough to mention genealogist dabbling neighbour Gerald, the search beginsgo to school. However nothing is as straightforward, Missed shifts or indeed as safe, as she thought it would the need to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can becontrolled and put in the wrong. It was going to come to a head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784624675</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane L GibsonB0CKD1L5JL|title=A Different ReflectionRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn

|summary=Eternal optimist Kat has always believed in fairytales Petr is an orphan. Rescued by the strange, reclusive Bear, he is brought up far from bustling cities and happy endings but can't help but wonder where her own life went wrong. Stuck busy human society, in a dead-end relationship with dull workaholic John, itthe forests of Washington's hardly the happy-ever-after that she'd always hoped forOlympic Peninsula. Things are about to change After Bear dies and a brief sojourn in human company, howeverand armed with only a pirate radio transmitter, when Kat discovers Petr goes on a mysterious house that has been cursed by an enchantment; a handsome Regency beau is trapped within journey through the mirrors and only a declaration of true love can break forest, broadcasting the spell strange, wild and release him..rarely heard voices he encounters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784622508</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sandy HogarthSarah Marsh|title=The Glass GirlA Sign of Her Own

|summary=Sandy Hogarth's debut novel opens in 1975 with fifteen-year-old Ruth Bishop attending After a bout of scarlet fever as a party with child, Ellen Lark loses her older sisterhearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, Alexiseverything about her life changes. 'They called me VL, Virgin Lips, because I'd never kissed Living in a boy. Sex wasn't mentioned at home.' That all changes time when Alexis tells Ruth to go outside – someone is waiting for her. It's one the use of Alexis's friendssign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a notorious bad boyschool where she is taught to lip read, and he assaults Ruth right therebut physically restrained from signing. From here, she ends up against in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the housedeaf and using a system called Visible Speech. Could Alexis really have intended for this to happen? Ruth soon learns she At the same time, Bell is pregnant working on other inventions and arranges to move to Australia ideas, and live with her friend Lucy's aunt Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in Melbourne until the birth. She gives her beloved daughter Clare up for adoption, but never stops thinking about her. No one but Lucy knows there ever was a babycomplicated tangle of espionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785071548</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John BoyneB0BC3YTCMR|title=The Boy at the Top of the MountainGood Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira

|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=Meet Pierrot''This story is not for everyone.'' Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of her fifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. As She was a very young child in 1930s Paris he is going to have bright student, a very awkward journey through his young life. His father is a violent drunkbit too nerdy if truth be told, reacting badly and suffered from vitiligo - people were afraid to what he saw hug her in WWI, and although married to case it's contagious. It's not easy being a French woman, black girl whose skin is still staunchly German84% white. That woman, Emilie, is going to die, and leave Pierrot an orphan, which will leave him in She had a home where crush on seventeen-year-old Reggie Anderson but never thought he is bulliedwould notice her. But from the reaches of Europe Then he did: Lavender was very good at math and from the black corners of his family comes an aunt, Beatrix, who will give Reggie asked if she would tutor him a home, of a kind, at a most unusual mountaintop building. It's not her home – She readily agreed: tutoring was something she gladly did at church: this was just works there an extension. She went to his house and had to ask special permission from someone specialhe raped her. The place? The BerghofIn shock, she even allowed him to give her a lift home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857534521</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emma Burstall1472263936|title=Tremarnock: The Lives, Loves and Secrets of a Cornish VillageFigurine|author=Victoria Hislop|rating=45

|summary=Welcome It was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Tremarnock; an idyllic Cornish fishing village with pastel-painted cottages and colourful fishing boats bobbing in Greece. She was alone: her mother, Greek by birth, had left the harbour. This picture-postcard setting is family home and refused to single-mum Liz return, but Mary and Hamish (Helena's parents) felt that it would be a pity if Helena grew up without knowing her disabled daughter, Rosiegrandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. Liz works hard Her trip to make ends meet and relies on the kindness family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be the first of neighbours for childcareseveral annual visits. Thankfully, the community are happy She grew to rally round love her grandmother and provide friendshipthe family's maid, supportDina, a listening ear but was wary - and a cup frightened - of tea for hard-working Lizher grandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. Soon she will need He was proud of his close connections to rely on the Junta and expected his family to uphold his values but saw no reason to accommodate them more than ever, as her life takes an unexpected turn that threatens to destroy . His prejudices included Helena's red hair and green eyes - inherited from her happinessfather's Scottish ancestors.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781857881</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Leigh BardugoDean Koontz|title= Six of CrowsAfter Death|rating= 53|genre= FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary=In The BarrelMichael Mace, anything is possible for the right priceHead of Security, and no one knows this better than criminal mastermindat a top secret biological research facility, Kaz Brekkeris among 55 people who die when a virus is released in a bio-hazard accident. When Kaz is offered Finding himself in a chance at makeshift mortuary, covered in plastic, he has a perilous mission sense that could turn something very, very bad has happened to him – and only him – as he sits up and looks around at the shrouded bodies of his poverty-stricken life upside downdead friends and former colleagues. As he recovers his senses, he realises that there is determined to see the task fulfilled - but something different about him; he woncan ''feel'' everything. ''Everything''. Michael isn't be able to do it alone''Michael'' anymore.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1627792120</amazonuk>1662500467}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dan RhodesB0BVDC2VWH|title=When the Professor Got Stuck in the SnowThe Grave Listeners|author=William Frank|rating=4.5

|summary= Two people are on The village is isolated and poor. It's surrounded by a train on their way to, of all things, a WI meeting where Witching Forest. And the ladies of All Bottoms will be lectured on the nonvillagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-existence of Godlike fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicines. One The black wood of the two people is Professor Richard Dawkinsforest provides heat and warmth, rampant atheistroofs on homes, hectoring scientist chappieand even gallows, and all-round devotee of ''Deal or No Deal''if needed. The other fear of being buried alive is Smee, his mono-named assistant, amanuensis or 'male secretary'. Smee will come to the fore when an existential superstition in the weather sets in village and that is the train journey has to be abandoned some way short of its ultimate destinationreason Volushka, Upper Bottom. Instead the pair fetch up at the isolated yet friendly community of Market Hortona drunken, and the only option for accommodation is taken – yesself-indulgent, the died-in-the-wool non-believer has to be housed by lazy lout of a retired vicar and his wifeman is tolerated. This clash of titanic opinions, peppered with social faux pas aplenty will provide for a particularly English kind of farcical comedy, but one with the legs to go as far as any other Good Books have reached in the past…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910709018</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tania ChandlerB0BYF82CXT|title=Please Don't Leave Me HereSemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone

|summary=To her parents''Bill and Amanda are living in a semi-detached house, the move to Cornwall was an escape to stuck in a better way depressing rut of life. For city-girl Robynboredom and disappointment, it was wetwhen Terry and Fiona – glamorous, remote successful and miserable and she was counting down very much in love – move in next door. Despite their different outlooks on life, the days to University couples befriend each other and her return life appears to civilization. Desperate improve for something to do to entertain herself, Robyn takes a wetsuit and surfboard and makes her way to a secluded coveboth pairs. An inexperienced surfer, she soon gets into difficulty, but But all is rescued from the sea by a young local man called Jago. From that moment onnot what it seems, the two lives and their increasingly interconnected relationships are intertwined by an invisible bond; a bond that will be tested and stretched during the years that followfated for tragedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472211979</amazonuk>''

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anne BarnettShalini Boland|title=The Largest Baby in Ireland After The FamineSilent Bride|rating= 43

|summary=She was all colour Alice and swaySeth are a match made in heaven. He is everything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, and as far away as imaginable from the local women. Paleclever, pale skin funny; total and strong dark auburn hair falling free to large wide hipsutter husband-material. She wore is all he could possibly want in a purple shawl. That night Felixwife; beautiful, a bachelorsuccessful, aged 43, living in confident… and so the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and the house he was born in, dreamt of purplewedding is planned and set. Purple in When the shape of a woman.And just like thatmuch-anticipated day arrives, things change. I love this passage. It shows how strong Alice is walked down the human pull is. Even when men and women are surrounded aisle by great events - warher father, political upheavalbeaming with pride and excitement as she surveys the congregation – their friends assembled to celebrate this joyful day and when Seth turns to face his approaching bride, famineAlice's world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the man at the altar is, depression - individual human desires can change the picture in an instantwho is waiting for her to become his wife.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>186151526X</amazonuk>1662507089

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alexander Cordell1787636003|title=The Hosts Girls of RebeccaSummer|author=Katie Bishop

|summary=At It was the end of [[Rape of the Fair Country by Alexander Cordell|Rape of the Fair Country]] Iestyn Mortymer had been sentenced to deportation for seven years because of the part he played in the Chartist rebellion summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the Newport Rising of 1839island. His motherRachel wasn't exactly innocent but she was, wifeperhaps, Marienaive, younger brotherso when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to take an interest in her, Jethro, sister, Morfydd and the two children she was flattered rather than wary. It was quite a while before he made any sort of the family returned physical approach to the land, living on a farm owned her and by that time she was obsessed by Marie's grandfatherhim. The life was hard and not just Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, looking after his interests on the Mortymers, with poverty breathing over their shoulders island and it was made worse by in particular in the tollgates installed by landowners, effectively adding a levy to any produce which bar where all the farmers attempted to movegirls either worked or partied.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B0100NC1GM</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alexander McCall SmithAmanda Craig|title=The Woman Who Walked in SunshineThree Graces|rating=4.5

|summary=Back to Botswana I go, having saved this newest outing in Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of-the No 1 Ladies-nation novel. There' Detective Agency series for a delightful weekend read. I never tire s something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the atmosphere of these characters, the day and I always look forward to seeing what is happening in their lives. This time around the story is about holidayscapture it, amongst other things, and crafting an image of the tricky plans to persuade Mma Ramostwe to take a holidaycountry as it stands in one particular moment. But what To say that Amanda Craig is Mma Makutsi up to? Does skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she have plans to take over 's practically synonymous with the agency entirely whilst Mma Ramotswe is away? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408706660</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Aldous Huxley|title= After Many A Summer|rating= 4|genre= Dystopian Fiction|summary= Like many of us, I suspect, I knew nothing contemporary social fiction at this point. She has such a gift for weaving the ongoing issues of Huxley other than the "required reading" day into the lives of ''Brave New World''. Naturally, on her characters in a way that basis alone, he was pigeonfeels natural and lived-holed in my head under the heading ''Sci-fi - must check out further'', never making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784870358</amazonuk>140871468X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jill Ciment152915118X|title=Heroic MeasuresPineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson

|summary=Ruth ''Pineapple Street'' is the story of three women: Sasha, Darley and Georgiana. Darley and Alex Cohen have George are sisters and Sasha is married to move from their beloved New York apartmentbrother Cord. They love it're Stocktons, but itonly Sasha isn's five floors up and theret a Stockton by birth so she isn's no elevatort readily accepted into the tribe. Reluctantly theyThe problem're having an open day for prospective purchasers - s exacerbated when the clan matriarch, Tilda, asks Cord and hoping that Sasha if they'll be able d like to move into the Pineapple Street property. Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to buy something not ''too'' far out another property, a street or so away, which has that elusive elevatorthey own. ItThey won's not just themt need any of the furniture from Pineapple Street, eitherso Sasha and Cord can move straight in. ThereNominally, they had a choice but that wasn's Dorothyt the reality. Dorothy (Darley and Georgiana start to call Sasha 'Dottiethe gold digger' to those who know her well) is their Daschund. She's getting on living in years, but then ''their'' family home. They use it so are Ruth and Alexoften that they abbreviate it to 'the GD'. Then - }}{{Frontpage|author=Emily Critchley|title=One Puzzling Afternoon|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=84 year old Edie has lived in the day before the open same small town for almost her whole life, but now she is facing a move as her son wants to move to another house - two things happenand bring Edie to live with his family, as Edie is starting to lose her memory. An unmarked petrol truck However, Edie is blocking tormented by the city's main tunnel memory of her childhood friend, Lucy, who went missing over 60 years ago, and the worry that there's no sign was a secret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be the thing that reveals the truth of the driverwhat happened all that time ago. You donAfter 't even need seeing' Lucy in the high street, just as she was the last time she saw her, she starts to have ''long'' find pockets of memories coming back to worry about terrorists her. And yet as she remembers the past, she is forgetting more and more in Manhattanher day to day life. Then Dottie yelps in pain and Will she canuncover the truth about Lucy't stand up.s disappearance before her move, and before her memories are gone forever?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782271945</amazonuk>1804181250

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sebastian FaulksMadelaine Lucas|title= Where my Heart Used to BeatThirst for Salt|rating= 5|genre= General Literary Fiction |summary= In the early 1980’s''Love, I'd read, on was supposed to be a small island off the South of Francelight and weightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravity'' Told from a Doctor named Robert Hendricks confronts his life – memories of warsretrospective view, work, loves, and lossesa young woman unravels the year-long relationship that once defined her. As his history is explored and questioned by his hostOverlaid with later wisdom, Hendricks recalls days in Scottish universities, Italian trenches, mental asylums and windswept beaches. Links to the past are uncovered, and narrator relives the raw wounds they expose take Hendricks on affair with a search for sanity and raises man twenty years her senior from its inception – the question summer after finishing university – is life comprised to its sorrowful end the summer after. Set against the backdrop of events themselvesan 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, or the way in which an individual chooses to remember them?how it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and how it altered her irrevocably.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091936837</amazonuk>0861546490

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alexander McCall Smith0008506337|title=The Revolving Door of LifeGarnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore

|summary=I am always happy to sit back down with old friendsThe love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, to catch up on what has been happening apparently on Scotland Streetboth sides. As Margo was just sixteen when they fell in the last episode [[Bertielove. Richard was twenty-one and described by Margo's mother as 'an older man'. Her parents worried that Richard's Guide influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Life Oxford and having a glittering career. In the event, they eloped and Mothers by Alexander McCall Smith]] there is plenty Richard took her away from the Isle of Bertie throughout the whole storyWight. Bertie is my favourite character by far, so this was very pleasing Margo did go to Oxford and went on to me! become a well-respected journalist. Our other favourites are there tooThe couple had three children: Rachel, howeverImogen and Sasha. Life was lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, so therethe family home on the Isle of Wight. Even then the doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's something mind: ''she would never be able to please everyone, from Bruce being, well, Bruce, and dear Angus reciting a poem at the endleave him in charge''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973287</amazonuk>Then Richard left them.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Rachel Elliott1914585402|title= Whispers Through A MegaphoneDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Miriam doesn’t speak. Well, that’s not strictly true. She does speak, but nothing above I reviewed David F Ross's book [[There's Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's Only One Danny Garvey]] a whisper which makes it hard to have a conversation with her. Particularly as she hasn’t left her house in three couple of years. But today is the day. She’s going to open that door back and walk outside. She really is. Ralph has finally twigged (remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and with no small amount of surprise) that his wife Sadie doesn’t actually love himaffecting it was. 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 It was 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 togripping, he has chosen the same woods that Miriam has picked to be the first place she will visit out-of-doors. And Sadie? Wellemotionally wounding read, she’s had enough of reading Tweets and living vicariously through the posts rereading my review of others. Sadie is going to it my main takeaway was that I might not have an adventure of her ownlavished enough praise on it. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0992918227</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gregoire DelacourtLucy Ashe|title=The First Thing You SeeClara and Olivia|rating=34.5

|summary=Arthur Dreyfuss The year is a fairly run of 1933. The place? Sadler's Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, twins no less. Identical on the mill young man. He likes big breastsoutside but not, carswe learn, Juplier beer and big breastson the inside. He’s also rather keen And not on big breastsstage, either. A good-looking boyBecause there's a lot that builds a dancer. Some things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, attention to detail – and some things, even if he does say so himself that ''…like Ryan Gosling, only better lookingje ne sais quoi'' we will take him at his word, although one would had thought a better looking Ryan Gosling would have had his fill of Zepplin chested females so as to dilute his desire for themthat don't come from the classroom. In any eventA stage presence, I suspect his longings stem from the fact that a young mechanic living charm, a quiet and uneventful life in ''joie de vivre''. The difference between a tiny village in rural France is unlikely to have a multitude of such femmes crossing his path in search of their daily baguette. That saidhard-worker, when Arthur one day opens his front door to find and a rather distressed but undeniably luscious Scarlett Johansson on his doorstep, he does not question his luck. He invites her in. As you dostar. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0297871021</amazonuk>0861544080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=John PiperHeather Fawcett|title=ClaudeEmily Wilde's JourneyEncyclopaedia of Faeries

|summary=One routineEmily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, normally uneventful journey changes Claudeto write her life's life foreverwork,the very first encyclopaedia of faeries. It begins Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, she is not so good with a chance encounter with a malevolent hen party people. 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 done, nor how to redeem herself and carries put her final investigations for her book back on with the betrayal of those right 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 thought here? What does he could trust sending him into a spiral of captivity and fetishist slavery. want? And what exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00EJQSLLG</amazonuk>0356519120

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Beth Miller1398515388|title= The Good NeighbourBoy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Minette has not had First of all, it was the best experience earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and this, in turn, caused the nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and utter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, and the loss of neighbourslivelihoods was widespread. It's hard when you have 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 new bornconvenience store. They He wasn're not known for being quiet as t a mouse at all times and occasionally, well, occasionally they scream through dog person but the night. So sheconvenience store owner's glad when comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and Tamon the nasty couple move and are replaced by Cath and her two kidsdog jumped in. A fellow mother! An ally! Surely she will be more understanding?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091956331</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author= Fausto BrizziChristopher Bowden|title= One Hundred Days of HappinessMr Magenta|rating= 54|genre= General Fiction|summary= Sometimes Christopher Bowden''Serendipity'' coerces ''Fate'' into making sure you read s latest novel is a particular book. I picked ''One Hundred Days…'' off the shelf on the back of the blurb from an author patient untangling of a book I havenseemingly ordinary woman't actually reads life, carried out by her nephew after she has died. I confused the title The aunt who always provided a safe harbour and a little bit of their book with one I adored. Make of that what you will, I'm going indulgence to call it a happy accident, because this is young nephew had had a book many of us really need much more interesting life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and it seems to him an obligation to readfind it all out.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447269012</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=S E CraythorneJennifer Mason|title=How You See MePartitions of Unity|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary= Here at Bookbag Towers, we first met Elizabeth Cromwell, dominatrix and unintentional detective in [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], when she investigated and unravelled a series of disappearances. In ''Partitions of Unity'', she sets her mind to solving a murder...|isbn=B09LQR9FRF}}{{Frontpage|author=Will Carver|title=The Daves Next Door|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary= Five strangers come together in one moment as a suicide bomber prepares to detonate his vest on a London tube line. As their fates overlap, the story is told in backwards order, leading up to the fateful moment.5|isbn= 1914585186}} {{Frontpage|author=Jennifer Mason|title=Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery|rating=4

|summary=Daniel's father is ill after 'A struggling poetry zine, a stroke mom-and so Daniel needs to go home to Norfolk to nurse him. While there he continues to write letters to his beloved girlfriend Alice-pop mobile diner in the Northern California redwoods, a 400-meter hurdler who just missed the 2004 Olympics, his sister Mab and his boss to keep them up to date. The problems in Daniela women's track coach with a yen for bullwhips, a billionaire with a state-of-the-art S&M dungeon, a man serving a life are sentence in Alabama, an enigmatic signature, K(s, x), on a lot closer to home than those he's left behind cheap oil painting, an erotic art dealer in his normal life thoughGeorgia... Gradually '' This is just a sample of the reasons why Daniel left Norfolk return to him, increasing cast of characters and settings in intensity until it's muchPreposterous. As you can see, much too latesome keeping up will be required! The basic premise of this mystery story goes like this...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908434562</amazonuk>B09STS96HS