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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Miguel Angel Hernandez and Rhett McNeil (translator)Jenny Lecoat|title= Escape AttemptBeyond Summerland|rating= 3.54|genre= General Fiction|summary= Immigration and radical contemporary art: Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the two themes end of Miguel Ángel Hernándezthe occupation. During the war, Jean's ''Escape Attempt'' are debate-provoking even on their own, but brought together into father was arrested for listening to a banned radio and soldiers took him away one plotnight, they fall nothing short leaving Jean and her mother waiting for years for news of creating a painfully current and ruthlessly polemic novelhim. The brave choice of subject matter takes As the British finally free the Channel islands from the reader on a journey that revolts, angersNazis, and excites: ''Escape Attempt'' the war is an experience finally over, their hopes rise that does not leave they will finally learn what became of him. But will the reader untouchedtruth come as a relief, and locks them in a page-turner that cannot be escaped.or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the informer who told the Nazis about the radio? And what other secrets have been kept throughout the occupation?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>8494365878</amazonuk>1846976537

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Clare MorrallOnyi Nwabineli|title=When the Floods CameAllow Me to Introduce Myself

|summary=Sometime in Anuri spent her childhood on display to the notworld, thanks to her step-too-distant futuremother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, a devastating virus has decimated the population where she posted every step of the UK, striking humans Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and animals alike influencer deals and leaving Britain , basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in a state of quarantine for decades. Most of the survivors have been left infertile her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and the majority of people have relocated to Brightonget her life back, where they rely on airdops from surrounding nations in order suing her step-mother to survivetake down the content about her. Farming Anuri is impossiblebattling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, as weather conditions are harsh undergoing therapy and extreme, including tornadoes, floods secretly abusing people online and blizzardsreceiving money from them for doing so. Not everyone chooses to live in Brighton though. In a block of flats in Birmingham live the resourceful Polanski Family: Popi Most importantly, Mothshe is desperately worried about her little sister, Roza, Boriswho is the new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, Delphine and Lucia. Moth perhaps herself and Popi prefer solitude and isolation and their make-do-and-mend philosophy has ensured their survival in this unconventional environment.her relationship with her father at the same time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444736477</amazonuk>0861546873

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mary Paulson Ellis1529153298|title=The Other Mrs WalkerList of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=45

|summary=It''s 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A photographwoman? I mean, honestly.. Six orange pips sucked dry. A Brazil nut with the Ten Commandments etched into the shell) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. An emerald dress dripping with sequins Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she' This is s overheard that her father wants to move the legacy of Mrs Walkerfamily 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, who died alone in Down South is a freezing Edinburgh flatfrightening, foreign place, drinking her final glass of whiskybest avoided. Nylons wrinkling at For Miv, the kneemove would mean leaving her best friend, white hair hair dyed redSharon, scratches on and she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her cheeks, hollow bones and a liver like pasteMum's stopped talking - to anyone. Who was Mrs Walker and why did she die alone?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447293908</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Mona Awad1035906708|title= 13 Ways of Looking At A Fat GirlDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Liz is fat. Not just plump or chubby or, We tend to think of Maria Callas as my director often describes peopleGreek, ''bubbly''but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, but full onNew York, capital F fatin December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. It Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 's perhaps one of Callas' to make it more manageable in the frustrations of this book States. When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that we never she could get a number, because appropriate training for her voice - she's clearly obsessed with what was raised under the scale showsNazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, but won't share that readingJackie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0143128485</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Deborah BeeAlexander McCall Smith|title=The Last Thing I RememberPerfect Passion Company

|summary=Contemporary writers are mining The Perfect Passion Company is a rich seam of psychological thrillers dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and, within this genre, I seem operating as an alternative to be particularly attracted to stories featuring comatose protagonists. Comatose protagonists? Isn't that a contradiction all the online apps in terms? True, you do normally expect providing a protagonist to, wellmore personal, do somethingtailored service. And Deborah Mee's heroine Sarah does nothing at all, other than listen, and try and remember, from her unconscious state. In Ness has asked her narrative younger cousin Katie if she offers us nothing more than fractured memories could come and snippets of conversations from around her bedside. Yet with these meagre tools she helps look after the reader build up business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a vivid picture of what while. Katie is happening around her, coming out of her own charactera break up with a bad boyfriend, and of so jumps at the events leading chance to come home to her hospital admissionEdinburgh. As a reader you gradually piece together what made Sarah what she is today And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. At first you see an apparently successful career woman Katie has no experience in running a loving marriage butbusiness, as layers are gradually removedor in match-making, what lies beneath becomes apparent. Sarah's controlling husband but Ness has a sinister brother who comes to sit by full confidence in her bedsideabilities, while her toxic mother wages an ongoing war of words with Sarahand there's spineless father... At times I wanted always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to weep for what happened to Sarah; at other times I wanted to scream at her for letting it happen.lend a hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B0196P0S4W</amazonuk>1846976596

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sharon GuskinDean Koontz|title= The Forgetting TimeBad Weather Friend|rating= 4.5|genre= General FictionParanormal|summary= Janie Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a single motherreally weird, living in New York with her predisturbing coffin-schooler Noah. It's just the two of themsized object to his home, so and it's rather disconcerting when Noah screams out in possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the nightthing that has trashed his house! The thing is, calling for his ''real mom'' and asking when he can go homeBenny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. Night after night this happens He is a nice person. There's other things, too A really nice person. He hates water and regularly goes So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to nursery stinky because his mother simply cannot get house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him in the bathsince Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. He has the odd bizarre turn Spike is going to take care of phrase that comes outBenny, far beyond what one might expect for a child and will certainly take care of his age. He knows certain thingsBenny's enemies, tooif he, without anyone understanding how he picked up this knowledgeBenny, whether it be the names of different reptiles or the plot of books heand Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's never readwild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509806792</amazonuk>1662500491

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Caroline LeaKatherine Howe|title=When The Sky Fell ApartA True Account|rating=4.5

|summary=That was the order Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to live with a family who run an inn, and being made to work there from a young age. When she hears there is to be a hanging of some pirates in which things happened: the sky fell aparttown, Jersey's beaches were bombedshe decides to go and watch. Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, Clement the islandHannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's butcher went up in flames where he stood and then death at the arrival hands of the German armytwo vicious pirates. This will change the life of the island including herbalist EdithShe hides away, so that they don't find and kill her too, neglected child Claudineand then to escape them completely she runs away to sea, former fisherman Maurice dressing as a boy and English Doctor Carterjoining the notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. Each She soon finds herself in the thick of the four lives things when there is a mutiny on the perimeter board, and from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of the island's community but each will come to depend life on the other three in order to continue livingocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1925240746</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Michael Honig1471180158|title= The Senility of Vladimir PMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating= 34.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= In the not-tooJamie Matson works in an upper-distant futureclass grocery store, Vladimir Putin is slowly succumbing to dementia, hidden from for a man who's a control freak with all the world at large in subtlety of a secluded private nursing homehalf brick. Nikolai Ilyich Sheremetev Jamie's son, Bo, 'has what sounds like his problems'. He's asthmatic and the most difficult job in more you read, the world: more you'll suspect that he's on the old manautistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's a frequent flier in the local A&E and sometimes Bo's nursenot fit enough to go to school. Missed shifts or the need to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the wrong. It was going to come to a head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782398066</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ernst Haffner and Michael Hofmann (translator)B0CKD1L5JL|title=Blood BrothersRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn

|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=It's Berlin, and Petr is an orphan. Rescued by the Nazis are on their way to powerstrange, even if they will never cross these pages themselves. The city – huge, glamorousreclusive Bear, he is brought up far from bustlingcities and busy human society, vicious in the way it can swallow people – is home to forests of Washington's Olympic Peninsula. After Bear dies and a brief sojourn in human company, and armed with only a countless hoard of teenagerspirate radio transmitter, but we focus Petr goes on just a few, most of whom have been in some corrective institution or other before now. They call themselves journey through the Blood Brothersforest, even if all they share is broadcasting the most unglamorous drudgery of going from one doss-house to anotherstrange, balancing the cost of a few cigarettes with that of a warm room for a few hours or some stale rolls to eatwild and rarely heard voices he encounters. But en route to them is another 'Borstal' escapee, Willi. Surely his fate is going to be nothing if not more of the same?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099594048</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=C G MettsSarah Marsh|title=Waltzing in ViennaA Sign of Her Own|rating=43.5

|summary=Filmmaker C G Metts has written four nonfiction booksAfter a bout of scarlet fever as a child, several Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of them silence, everything about her life changes. Living in a time when the use of local interest sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to South Carolina natives and visitors. This a school where she is his first novel, however, and you may be surprised taught to learn that it is an enjoyable chick lit/women's fiction romp. Three girlfriends meet up again in Charleston; in their early fortieslip read, they're facing turning points in their professional and personal lives. As they reminisce about summers spent together at Folly Beach during college and resume their communal marijuana smoking habit, they summon the courage to decide what they want but physically restrained from middle age and refresh their sex livessigning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0692533346</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Hanneke Hendrix and David Doherty (translator)|title= The Dyslexic Hearts Club|rating= 3.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= I recently reviewed a novel by another Scandinavian novelist From here, Helle Helle, [[This Should be Written she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the Present Tense by Helle Helle deaf and Martin Aitken (translator)|This Should be Written in the Present Tense]], and I expected this novel by Hanneke Hendrix to be very similarusing a system called Visible Speech. It wasn't. That's not totally a bad thing – many people will enjoy At the fast-pacedsame time, dialogue driven novel that ''The Dyslexic Hearts Club'' Bell is. It just wasn't exactly what I was expectingworking on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>9462380678</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adam BaronB0BC3YTCMR|title=BlackheathGood Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira

|summary=Househusband James ''This story is happy in Blackheathnot for everyone.'' Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of her fifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. He's started doing standShe was a very bright student, a bit too nerdy if truth be told, and suffered from vitiligo -up again so that he too has an achievement people were afraid to hug her in his life to balance wife Alicecase it's award winning poetrycontagious. Children Ida and Dominic are doing well so all It's not easy being a black girl whose skin is great84% white. Elsewhere in the area Amelia is equally happy with She had a crush on seventeen-year-old Reggie Anderson but never thought he would notice her actor husband Richard, her own career . Then he did: Lavender was very good at math and children Niamh 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 his house and teenage Michaelhe raped her. Sometimes happiness isn't enough though andIn shock, as the worlds of the two families start she even allowed him to mingle, things start changing for each of themgive her a lift home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908434902</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rebecca Lim1472263936|title=AfterlightThe Figurine|author=Victoria Hislop

|summary= A freak motorbike accident It was in 1968 that claims the life of your parents is really all it takes Helena McCloud made her first trip to make your world fall apartGreece. You might hope that a new beginning in a different high school is going She was alone: her mother, Greek by birth, had left the family home and refused to jumpstart your life; return, but Mary and Hamish (Helena's parents) felt that it would be a chance pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. Her trip to reinvent yourself as just Sophie Teague, rather than Sophie-The-One-Whose-Parentsthe family apartment in up-Died might just market Kolonaki would be all you need to get bythe first of several annual visits. But before Sophie gets She grew to love her grandmother and the chance to find outfamily's maid, Dina, but was wary - and frightened - of her grandfather, she is visited by Everetired general Stamatis Papagiannis. Eve isn’t like other girlsHe was proud of his close connections to the Junta and expected his family to uphold his values but saw no reason to accommodate them. She is beautiful His prejudices included Helena's red hair and mesmerizing and Eve needs Sophie to be green eyes - inherited from her gofather's Scottish ancestors.}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=After Death|rating=3|genre=General Fiction|summary= Michael Mace, Head of Security, at a top secret biological research facility, is among 55 people who die when a virus is released in a bio-to girlhazard accident. Because Eve can’t do much for herself since she died. Eve is Finding himself in a makeshift mortuary, covered in plastic, he has a ghost sense that something very, very bad has happened to him – and only him – as he sits up and dealing with looks around at the shrouded bodies of his dead who have 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 ''unfinished businessMichael'' could be the biggest challenge of Sophie’s lifeanymore.|amazonukisbn=1662500467}} {{Frontpage|isbn=B0BVDC2VWH|title=The Grave Listeners|author=William Frank|rating=<amazonuk>1925240495</amazonuk>4|genre=General Fiction|summary=The village is isolated and poor. It's surrounded by a Witching Forest. And the villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicines. The black wood of the forest provides heat and warmth, roofs on homes, and even gallows, if needed. The fear of being buried alive is an existential superstition in the village and that is the reason Volushka, a drunken, self-indulgent, lazy lout of a man is tolerated.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adriana TrigianiB0BYF82CXT|title=All The Stars In The HeavensSemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone

|summary=It was 1935 ''Bill and Loretta Young wanted fame and success Amanda are living in a semi-detached house, stuck in Hollywood. Part a depressing rut of it was being young (just twenty one) boredom and beautiful but she was also conscious that the money she brought in mattered to her family. She was hungry for love too: her father had left disappointment, when she was young. Her step-father had done little better Terry and there was a ''need'' for a man she could love Fiona – glamorous, successful and look up to. She developed a reputation for falling very much in love with her leading men: first it was Spencer Tracy but – move in next door. Despite their different outlooks on life, the set of ''The Call of the Wild'' she fell couples befriend each other and life appears to improve for Clark Gable - both pairs. But all is not what it seems, and he their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for hertragedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471136345</amazonuk>''

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Kaui Hart HemmingsShalini Boland|title= The PossibilitiesSilent Bride|rating= 3.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Sarah's son Alice and Seth are a match made in heaven. He is everything she has just died been searching for; handsome, accomplished, clever, funny; total and utter husband-material. She is all he could possibly want in an avalanche a wife; beautiful, successful, confident… and as such this so the inevitable proposal is a book very much about bereavement eagerly accepted by Alice and grieving the wedding is planned and what nextset. It's odd When the much-anticipated day arrives, Alice is walked down the aisle by her father, beaming with pride and excitement as she surveys the congregation – their friends assembled to think that a basis of personal tragedy made celebrate this an intriguing readjoyful day and when Seth turns to face his approaching bride, but that was Alice's world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the caseman at the altar is, who is waiting for her to become his wife.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099597780</amazonuk>1662507089

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Frank Hurst1787636003|title=The Postmistress Girls of Nong KhaiSummer|author=Katie Bishop|rating=45

|summary=Mike Rawlins' rise through It was the ranks in summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the investigation department of Customs and Excise has been steadyisland. Rachel wasn't exactly innocent but she was, perhaps, naive, culminating so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to take an interest in his dream posting: attachment to the British Embassyher, Thailandshe was flattered rather than wary. It gets even better when was quite a while before he realises a name from his past is also operating out made any sort of the country on the other side of the lawphysical approach to her and by that time she was obsessed by him. Mike's attempts to nail him over Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, looking after his interests on the years have become personal island and now, thanks to local informant or 'Postmistress' Lek, prosecution is a possibility. What Mike doesn't realise is in particular in the cost bar where all the chase will exact… not yet anywaygirls either worked or partied.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785890573</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author= James MacManusAmanda Craig|title= Midnight in BerlinThree Graces|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical General Fiction|summary= Berlin – 1938Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of-the-nation novel. In There's something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the British Embassy, military attaché Colonel Macrae prepares to defy his ambassador atmosphere of the day and governmentcapture it, and assassinate Hitler. Elsewhere, Sara Sternschein appears on stage in her role crafting an image of the country as the lead it stands in the Gestapoone particular moment. To say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's brothel – practically synonymous with the Salon Kittygenre of contemporary social fiction at this point. She has no choice, such a gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the day into the lives of her twin brother is being held characters in a concentration camp. In the Gestapo Headquartersway that feels natural and lived-in, Obergruppenfuhrer Joaqim Bonner waits and watches – with his eyes on Sara Sternschein as his secret weapon. As Colonel Macrae gathers intelligence never making them ciphers for his mission he finds himself drawn to Salon Kitty – social commentary but does Sara hold the key to thwarting Hitlerinstead fully realised people, or is Macrae being manipulated?grappling with issues far larger than themselves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0715650335</amazonuk>140871468X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Virginia Macgregor152915118X|title=The Astonishing Return of Norah WellsPineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson

|summary=Fay''Pineapple Street'' is the story of three women: Sasha, Adam, the girls teenager Ella Darley and Georgiana. Darley and George are sisters and little 6 year old Willa seem a happy familySasha is married to their brother Cord. They are on the whole're Stocktons, itonly Sasha isn's just Ella who t a Stockton by birth so she isn'treadily accepted into the tribe. FayThe problem's exacerbated when the clan matriarch, Tilda, named by asks Cord and Sasha if they'd like to move into the ladies across Pineapple Street property. Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to another property, a street or so away, which they own. They won't need any of the road 'The Mother that Stayed' moved furniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and Cord can move straight in after Norah. Nominally, 'The Mother they had a choice but that Leftwasn', wentt the reality. Now sheDarley and Georgiana start to call Sasha 'the gold digger's taken Norah. She's place living in the family's life and Adams' bedtheir'' family home. Ella just wants her mother They use it so often that they abbreviate it to come home and then, 6 years after she went, Norah does'the GD'. How will she fit in and, just as importantly, why did she come back?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751554200</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Holly SeddonEmily Critchley|title=Try Not To BreatheOne Puzzling Afternoon

|summary=In The love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, apparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in love. Richard was twenty-one and described by Margo's mother as 'Try not to Breathean older man'. Her parents worried that Richard' Holly Seddon offers an addition s influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and having a glittering career. In the somewhat overflowing thriller shelves. Of courseevent, they eloped and Richard took her away from the reason this particular segment is bursting at the seams is because thrillers, especially psychological ones, are just so compellingIsle of Wight. And there have been some good Margo did go to Oxford and went on to become a well- respected journalist. The couple had three children: Rachel, Imogen and hugely successful - books Sasha. Life was lived in this category out there London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, the family home on the Isle of late (before-I-go-Wight. Even then the doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able to-sleep-Ileave him in charge''ll-be-gone-with-a-girl-on-a-train). So how does Holly Seddon match up?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782399453</amazonuk>Then Richard left them.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= J Paul Henderson1914585402|title= The Last of the BowmansDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=When Greg BowmanI reviewed David F Ross's eighty-three year old father Lyle dies he leaves some unfinished business. Itbook [[There's up to Greg – black sheep of the Bowmans – to start learning the meaning of the word responsibility and sort his errant family out, preferably without them noticing what heOnly One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's up to Only One Danny Garvey]] a couple of years back and assisted only remember being absolutely floored by the gentle nudging of his father's ghosthow powerful and affecting it was. Can he do it before he returns to his altogether more carefree life in AmericaIt was a gripping, and without causing any further trouble? As Greg begins to sort out his father's house and affairsemotionally wounding read, he untangles some complicated webs of deception and unearths a few family secrets, including some rereading my review of his ownit my main takeaway was that I might not have lavished enough praise on it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843442779</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Haraldur Erlendsson and Keith HagenbachLucy Ashe|title= The Man Who Drew Triangles: Magician, mystic or out of his mind?Clara and Olivia|rating= 34.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=The year is 1933. The place? Sadler'Magicians Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, twins no less. Identical on the outside but not, we learn, mysticon the inside. And not on stage, either. Because there's a lot that builds a dancer. Some things that can be taught or out of his mind?learnt – discipline, attention to detail – and some things, that ''je ne sais quoi'', that don' Consider t come from the following: 27-year-old Olafclassroom. A stage presence, disembarks a flight from his homeland, Icelandcharm, seats himself on a broken terminal at Heathrow airport, and begins to meditate, to reach his guides''joie de vivre''. Attracting the attention of Irish airport securityThe difference between a hard-worker, he is eventually sectioned and escorted to a psychiatric unitstar.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785351478</amazonuk>0861544080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lina Wolff and Frank Perry (translator)Heather Fawcett|title= Bret Easton Ellis and the Other DogsEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries|rating= 54|genre= General Fiction|summary= UpstairsEmily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, a flat where mother and daughter struggle from pay cheque researched meticulously, to pay cheque; downstairswrite her life's work, the love nest very first encyclopaedia of a dying writer and her last of many conquestsfaeries. Bret Easton Ellis Whilst she is brilliant at research and the Other Dogs speaking to faeries, she is a multilayered testimonial to not so good with people. So when she finds herself far, far North in the writersmall village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the eccentric Alba Cambóvillage matriarch, gathered by Aracelishe is not sure what she has done, nor how to redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on the teenager upstairsright track. Through Araceli Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, much to Emily's bird's-eye view, anecdotes unfold as told by lovers, business acquaintances (often both – for frustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with Alba Cambó you can never know), and the short stories of Cambó herself.faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908276649</amazonuk>0356519120

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Danielle McLaughlin1398515388|title=Dinosaurs on Other PlanetsThe Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)

|genre=Short Stories General Fiction|summary=Seeing as First of all, it was the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and this book is clearly a talented author hitting , in turn, caused the ground running, I will dispense with any major preamblenuclear meltdown. We start with a tale of a daughter affected by the emotions of her parents as they separate – The result was complete and the influence of a certain school-teacher – from the mother's point of viewutter devastation. An ancient input shows how alienThe deaths were uncountable, and the modern day domesticity how regular, the isolation of a woman can feel, as events are peppered by minor acts loss of destructionlivelihoods was widespread. But men can be alienated too – especially one, a reluctant guest at a party for children hosted by someone he once had an affair with – he feels The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the new form list of this influence in priorities but - six months after the light of another one he has had to try and abandontsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. He wasn'All About Alice' – thatt a dog person but the convenience store owner's what the title character wants to say but has nobody to speak it to, but is it her – mid-40s and single, living with her father – comment that is most removed from her dreams or her old friend and now child factory, Marian? And we complete a lap of the calendar with the wintry tale of a man unable he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to tell open his work superiors of car door and Tamon the problems he faces at home – a new home, recently built like so many one sees while driving round Irelanddog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473613701</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gary D SchmidtChristopher Bowden|title=Orbiting JupiterMr Magenta|rating=4.5|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=Twelve year-old Jack is informed that his parents will be fostering another boy – fourteen year-old Joseph. But Joseph isn't like most fourteen year-olds. HeChristopher Bowden's troubled: the rumour latest novel is that he spent time in juvenile incarceration for trying to kill his teacher. And therea patient untangling of a seemingly ordinary woman's something else about Josephlife, too: he carried out by her nephew after she has died. The aunt who always provided a safe harbour and a little bit of indulgence to a daughteryoung nephew had had a much more interesting life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and it seems to him an obligation to find it all out.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783443944</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tasha KavanaghJennifer Mason|title=Things We Have In CommonPartitions of Unity

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