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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Reif LarsenJenny Lecoat|title= I Am RadarBeyond Summerland|rating= 4|genre= General Fiction|summary= Racial tensions, identity, parental responsibilityJean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of the occupation. During the war, a childJean's best interestfather was arrested for listening to a banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, loveleaving Jean and her mother waiting for years for news of him. As the British finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, scienceand the war is finally over, war – Reif Larsen's ''I Am Radar'' falls nothing short their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of having rich thematic contenthim. Its cornucopia of thematic explorations is interwoven into But will the truth come as a complex web of storiesrelief, taking or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the informer who told the Nazis about the reader on a journey, both literal and figurative, from suburban New Jersey to an Arctic no man's land to Congo and radio? And what other secrets have been kept throughout the Bosnian warzone.occupation?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099593645</amazonuk>1846976537

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Stefan MohamedOnyi Nwabineli|title= Ace of SpidersAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Stanly is frustrated. Having set himself up as LondonAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's protectorincreasingly popular presence on social media, hewhere she posted every step of Anuri's finding that childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the everyday practicalities of superheroism are challenging at bestcontent about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and downright tedious at worstreceiving money from them for doing so. So it's almost a relief when an attempt Most importantly, she is made on his life and Stanly finds himself rushing headlong into a twisted adventuredesperately worried about her little sister, with enemies who is the new and old coming out focus of the woodworkOphelia's online empire. However Can she save her sister, even with his friends and his ever-increasing power behind him, he may have bitten off more than he can chew this time. The monsters are coming… perhaps herself and nothing will ever be her relationship with her father at the same!time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784630675</amazonuk>0861546873

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hannah Rothschild1529153298|title=The Improbability List of LoveSuspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=45

|summary=It's set to be the sale of the century: Russian oligarchs1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, Arab sheikhs, rappers and heiresses are all lined up to bid for honestly...) She's not what'The Improbability of Love's worrying Miv's family, a small Antoine Watteau oil painting depicting a courting couple overlooked by a clownthough. Women have been disappearing. The painting was missing until six months ago Well, when Annie McDee bought it from a junk shop for £75 as a birthday present for an incompatible fellow she met through Internet dating. When he didnthey've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't show for dinner and the junk shop mysteriously burnt down sound quite so that frightening. Miv's upset because she couldn't ask for a refund, s overheard that her father wants to move the painting became hersfamily 'Down South'. Thirty-year-old Annie had been in a rut: after a painful break-up When you're from DesmondYorkshire, with whom she ran Down South is a cheese shop frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and café in Devon, she moved 'll do anything to London and was working as a PA to randy Italian film director Carlo Spinettiprevent that. She also acquired an unwanted roommate: 's not worried about the dangers or that her alcoholic mother, EvieMum's stopped talking - to anyone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408862476</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rebecca Thornton1035906708|title=The Exclusives: No One Can Hurt You More Than a FriendDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin

|summary=Josephine is a successful archaeologist on a dig We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in Amman December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she gets the email she never expected: Freya wants to meet up with herwas thirteen. The reason isn’t such a surprise though. In 1996 Freya and Josephine were best friends at boarding school till Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the aftermath of a night out clubbingStates. Freya desperately wants to talk to Jo about the events When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that ripped their friendship apart, she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the events that Josephine has avoided speaking or thinking about in more than Nazi occupation by a decademother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785770128</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Miroslav PenkovAlexander McCall Smith|title=Stork MountainThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5

|summary=A young manThe Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, his grandfather run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a stork 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 a break up with a broken wing are the ''company of rebels'' bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the heart of chance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this lively tale set in Bulgaria's Strandja Mountains. The storks that return new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the mountains each spring are migrantsIsabel Dalhousie novels, like so many of the people that have passed through the region over the centuriesbut with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. The young narrator is also Katie has no experience in transitrunning a business, born or in Bulgariamatch-making, but raised and educated in America. The story opens with his return to Bulgaria in search of his grandfather who Ness has broken off contact with his family full confidence in America. But the young manher abilities, and there's motives are not as clear cut as first appears.always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473622182</amazonuk>1846976596

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Elisa AlbertDean Koontz|title= After BirthThe Bad Weather Friend|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary FictionParanormal|summary= This book Benny is definitely not for anyone who has having a rosy picture of new motherhoodterrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. In factOh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, I would probably avoid and it if you are contemplating giving birth in 's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the near futurevery last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. For any woman A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has ever struggled through the first few months been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Spike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of motherhoodBenny's enemies, if he, howeverBenny, or and Harper (a partner of somebody waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491}}{{Frontpage|author=Katherine Howe|title=A True Account|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Hannah Masury is going through itliving in Boston, it is having been sent to live with a family who run an astounding inn, and revelatory readbeing made to work there from a young age. Never before have I read When she hears there is to be a more searinghanging of some pirates in the town, honest she decides to go and open discussion watch. Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death at the hands of two vicious pirates. She hides away, so that they don't find and kill her too, and then to escape them completely she runs away to sea, dressing as a boy and joining the notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. She soon finds herself in the emotional upheaval thick of things when there is a woman often goes through after giving birthmutiny on board, and from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>009959014X</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Pascal Garnier and Emily Boyce (translator)1471180158|title=Too Close to the EdgeMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating=4.5

|summary=Meet Pascal GarnierJamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's a control freak with all the subtlety of a half brick. NormallyJamie's son, in starting a review that wayBo, I'm on about has his problems'. He's asthmatic and the main character of the bookmore you read, but it could be said the biggest character of any Pascal Garnier book is Pascal Garnier, not that more you'll suspect thathe's a flawon the autistic spectrum. Over a halfSometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice -dozen titles Ishe've come to know s a frequent flier in the pattern of his output, local A&E and itsometimes Bo's fair not fit enough to say this example fits it very wellgo to school. Again, not a fault. His thrillers have a small cast list of characters, trapped somehow in a small community, cut off by weather, season Missed shifts or remoteness. Here we the need to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are with Eliette, occasions when Jamie can be controlled and just a handful of others, and watching her as she celebrates put in the return of spring to her remote home, an ex-silk farm in southern Francewrong. All characters have a darkness about them, including Eliette – she had wanted It was going to retire come to the place with her loving, long-term husband, but he died of cancer months before retirementa head. And the final piece of the Garnier pattern is that that darkness, the black surrounding the night stars to use one of the more memorable lines here, is that things – said situation, other people, life itself – cause people to do some equally black and stupid acts…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910477257</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Carol DrinkwaterB0CKD1L5JL|title=The Forgotten SummerRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn

|summary=It Petr is time for an orphan. Rescued by the annual grape harvest at ''Les Cigalesstrange, reclusive Bear,'' he is brought up far from bustling cities and Jane is preparing herself for a busy dayhuman society, overseeing in the workforests of Washington's Olympic Peninsula. At this moment After Bear dies and a brief sojourn in timehuman company, Jane's life seems as perfect as it gets: living in a stunning location and armed with only a husband who adores her and pirate radio transmitter, Petr goes on a job that allows her journey through the freedom to travel. There isforest, howeverbroadcasting the strange, a significant cloud hanging over Jane's perfect world: a vindictive mother in law who despises her and is determined to make her as miserable as possible. Clarrisse Cambon is a woman with an axe to grind wild and poor Jane is the unwilling recipient of her vitriolrarely heard voices he encounters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718183088</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Yann MartelSarah Marsh|title=The High Mountains A Sign of PortugalHer Own|rating=43.5

|summary=Tomas is being thrust into the twentieth CenturyAfter a bout of scarlet fever as a child, and he doesn't like itEllen Lark loses her hearing. He has given himself the job Suddenly plunged into a world of seeking something out in the High Mountains of Portugalsilence, based on an ancient religious diary he found working everything about her life changes. Living in an archive, and to do so he needs a time when the use of his uncle's brand new car to get him there and back in time. His jaw drops when he learns he will have to sign language was seen as something only savages do the driving himself, for he cannot make head nor tail of what anything on the infernal machine does and why. It Ellen is of course sent to a certain kind of progress, a looking forward, which has become quite anathema school where she is taught to him – for ever since he lost his beloved wifelip read, beloved child and fatherbut physically restrained from signing. From here, all she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the space of deaf and using a weeksystem called Visible Speech. At the same time, he has walked everywhere backwards – shielding himself from what really Bell is ahead with a padded behindworking on other inventions and ideas, and never letting sight Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of what he has lostespionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782114696</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Antonio Moresco and Richard Dixon (translator)B0BC3YTCMR|title=Distant LightGood Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira

|summary=Our unnamed narrator might as well ''This story is not for everyone.'' Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of her fifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. She was a very bright student, a bit too nerdy if truth be the only person alivetold, and suffered from vitiligo - people were afraid to hug her in case it's contagious. He knows heIt's not – he still goes down to the nearest inhabited village to buy things to eat and other necessities, and he sees planes spreading their contrails over the remote area he lives in – easy being a black girl whose skin is 84% white. She had a crush on seventeen-year-old Reggie Anderson but never thought he might as well bewould notice her. A lot of his thoughts are about life, however, for Then he has little to do except notice the nature around did: Lavender was very good at math and Reggie asked if she would tutor him, from the smell of lilies burgeoning with nobody else to see them in . She readily agreed: tutoring was something she gladly did at church: this deserted village, to the swallows darting across the ravines of the countrysidewas just an extension. Life – She went to his house and the nature of a light that he sees spring into activity every night at what he thought was a totally lifelessraped her. In shock, empty forest area on land separated from his lookout post in his back garden by she even allowed him to give her a deep, wooded gorge…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0914671421</amazonuk>lift home.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1472263936|title=The Figurine|author=Jonathan EvisonVictoria Hislop|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. She was alone: her mother, Greek by birth, had left the family home and refused to return, but Mary and Hamish (Helena's parents) felt that it would be a pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. Her trip to the family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be the first of several annual visits. She grew to love her grandmother and the family's maid, Dina, but was wary - and frightened - of her grandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. He was proud of his close connections to the Junta and expected his family to uphold his values but saw no reason to accommodate them. His prejudices included Helena's red hair and green eyes - inherited from her father's Scottish ancestors.}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=This 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 Your Lifereleased 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, Harriet Chance!he realises that there is something different about him; he can ''feel'' everything. ''Everything''. Michael isn't ''Michael'' anymore.|isbn=1662500467}} {{Frontpage|isbn=B0BVDC2VWH|title=The Grave Listeners|author=William Frank

|summary=The cruise to Alaska came as something of a surprise to Harriet Chancevillage is isolated and poor. It had been booked 's surrounded by her husband, Bernard, before his death and almost on a whim Harriet decided that she ''would'' go Witching Forest. And the villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and take her best friend Mildred along with herits blossom provides herbal medicines. She might be seventy eightThe black wood of the forest provides heat and warmth, roofs on homes, but when she thought about it there didn't seem to be any reason not to go and it might give them both a new lease even gallows, if needed. The fear of life. She being buried alive is an existential superstition in the village and Bernard had been married for fiftythat is the reason Volushka, a drunken, self-five yearsindulgent, but the cruise would not work out as she hoped and for some lazy lout of the strangest of reasonsa man is tolerated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099592673</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Miguel Angel Hernandez and Rhett McNeil (translator)B0BYF82CXT|title= Escape AttemptSemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone|rating= 3.54|genre= General Fiction|summary= Immigration and radical contemporary art: the two themes of Miguel Ángel Hernández's ''Escape Attempt'' Bill and Amanda are debateliving in a semi-provoking even on their owndetached house, stuck in a depressing rut of boredom and disappointment, but brought together into one plotwhen Terry and Fiona – glamorous, they fall nothing short of creating a painfully current successful and ruthlessly polemic novelvery much in love – move in next door. The brave choice of subject matter takes the reader Despite their different outlooks on a journey that revolts, angerslife, the couples befriend each other and excites: ''Escape Attempt'' life appears to improve for both pairs. But all is an experience that does not leave the reader untouchedwhat it seems, and locks them in a page-turner that cannot be escapedtheir increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>8494365878</amazonuk>''

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Clare MorrallShalini Boland|title=When the Floods CameThe Silent Bride|rating=4.53

|summary=Sometime in the not-too-distant future, a devastating virus has decimated the population of the UK, striking humans Alice and animals alike and leaving Britain in Seth are a state of quarantine for decades. Most of the survivors have been left infertile and the majority of people have relocated to Brighton, where they rely on airdops from surrounding nations match made in order to surviveheaven. Farming He is impossibleeverything she has been searching for; handsome, as weather conditions are harsh and extremeaccomplished, including tornadoesclever, floods funny; total and blizzardsutter husband-material. Not everyone chooses to live She is all he could possibly want in Brighton though. In a block of flats in Birmingham live the resourceful Polanski Family: Popiwife; beautiful, Mothsuccessful, Roza, Boris, Delphine confident… and Lucia. Moth so the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and Popi prefer solitude the wedding is planned and isolation set. 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 make-do-friends assembled to celebrate this joyful day and-mend philosophy when Seth turns to face his approaching bride, Alice's world implodes because she has ensured their survival in this unconventional environmentabsolutely no idea who the man at the altar is, who is waiting for her to become his wife.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444736477</amazonuk>1662507089

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mary Paulson Ellis1787636003|title=The Other Mrs WalkerGirls of Summer|author=Katie Bishop|rating=45

|summary=''A photograph. Six orange pips sucked dry. A Brazil nut with It was the Ten Commandments etched into summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the shell. An emerald dress dripping with sequinsisland. Rachel wasn'' This is the legacy of Mrs Walkert exactly innocent but she was, perhaps, naive, who died alone so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to take an interest in her, she was flattered rather than wary. It was quite a freezing Edinburgh flat, drinking while before he made any sort of physical approach to her final glass of whiskyand by that time she was obsessed by him. Nylons wrinkling at the knee Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, white hair hair dyed red, scratches looking after his interests on her cheeks, hollow bones the island and a liver like pastein particular in the bar where all the girls either worked or partied. Who was Mrs Walker and why did she die alone?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447293908</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Mona AwadAmanda Craig|title= 13 Ways of Looking At A Fat GirlThree Graces|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Liz is fat. Not just plump or chubby or, as my director often describes people, ''bubbly'', but full on, capital F fatFew styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of-the-nation novel. ItThere's perhaps one something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the atmosphere of the frustrations day and capture it, crafting an image of the country as it stands in one particular moment. To say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this book that we never get a number, because would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's clearly obsessed practically synonymous with what the scale showsgenre of contemporary social fiction at this point. She has such a gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the day into the lives of her characters in a way that feels natural and lived-in, never making them ciphers for social commentary but won't share that readinginstead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0143128485</amazonuk>140871468X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Deborah Bee152915118X|title=The Last Thing I RememberPineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson

|summary=Contemporary writers ''Pineapple Street'' is the story of three women: Sasha, Darley and Georgiana. Darley and George are mining a rich seam of psychological thrillers sisters and, within this genre, I seem Sasha is married to be particularly attracted to stories featuring comatose protagoniststheir brother Cord. Comatose protagonists? Isn They're Stocktons, only Sasha isn't that a contradiction in terms? True, you do normally expect a protagonist to, well, do somethingStockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the tribe. And Deborah Mee The problem's heroine Sarah does nothing at allexacerbated when the clan matriarch, other than listenTilda, asks Cord and try Sasha if they'd like to move into the Pineapple Street property. Tilda and rememberChip have renovated and downsized to another property, from her unconscious statea street or so away, which they own. In her narrative she offers us nothing more than fractured memories and snippets They won't need any of conversations the furniture from around her bedside. Yet with these meagre tools she helps the reader build up a vivid picture of what is happening around her, of her own characterPineapple Street, so Sasha and of the events leading to her hospital admissionCord can move straight in. As Nominally, they had a reader you gradually piece together what made Sarah what she is todaychoice but that wasn't the reality. At first you see an apparently successful career woman in a loving marriage but, as layers are gradually removed, what lies beneath becomes apparent Darley and Georgiana start to call Sasha 'the gold digger'. Sarah She's controlling husband has a sinister brother who comes to sit by her bedside, while her toxic mother wages an ongoing war of words with Sarahliving in ''their''s spineless fatherfamily home... At times I wanted They use it so often that they abbreviate it to weep for what happened to Sarah; at other times I wanted to scream at her for letting it happen'the GD'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B0196P0S4W</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sharon GuskinEmily Critchley|title= The Forgetting TimeOne Puzzling Afternoon|rating= 54|genre= General FictionCrime|summary= Janie 84 year old Edie has lived in the same small town for almost her whole life, but now she is facing a single mothermove as her son wants to move to another house and bring Edie to live with his family, living in New York with as Edie is starting to lose her pre-schooler Noahmemory. It's just However, Edie is tormented by the two memory of themher childhood friend, Lucy, who went missing over 60 years ago, so it's rather disconcerting when Noah screams out in and the night, calling worry that there was a secret she was keeping for his ''real momLucy that somehow might be the thing that reveals the truth of what happened all that time ago. After 'seeing' and asking when he can go home. Night after night this happens. There's other things, too. He hates water and regularly goes to nursery stinky because his mother simply cannot get him Lucy in the bath. He has high street, just as she was the odd bizarre turn of phrase that comes outlast time she saw her, far beyond what one might expect for a child she starts to find pockets of his agememories coming back to her. He knows certain things And yet as she remembers the past, too, without anyone understanding how he picked up this knowledge, whether it be the names of different reptiles or she is forgetting more and more in her day to day life. Will she uncover the plot of books hetruth about Lucy's never read.disappearance before her move, and before her memories are gone forever?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509806792</amazonuk>1804181250

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Caroline LeaMadelaine Lucas|title=Thirst for Salt|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= ''Love, I'd read, was supposed to be a light and weightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravity'' Told from a retrospective view, a young woman unravels the year-long relationship that once defined her. Overlaid with later wisdom, the narrator relives the affair with a man twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the summer after. Set against the backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the 24-year-old narrator's deepening relationship with her older lover, depicting its all-consuming nature, how it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and how it altered her irrevocably.|isbn=0861546490}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008506337|title=When The Sky Fell ApartGarnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore

|summary=That The love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was the order all-consuming, apparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in which things happened: the sky fell apart, Jerseylove. Richard was twenty-one and described by Margo's beaches were bombed, Clement the islandmother as 'an older man'. Her parents worried that Richard's butcher went up in flames where he stood influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and having a glittering career. In the event, they eloped and then Richard took her away from the arrival Isle of the German armyWight. Margo did go to Oxford and went on to become a well-respected journalist. This will change the life of the island including herbalist EdithThe couple had three children: Rachel, neglected child Claudine, former fisherman Maurice Imogen and English Doctor CarterSasha. Each of Life was lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, the four lives family home on the perimeter Isle of Wight. Even then the islanddoubts about Richard's community but each will come drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able to depend on the other three leave him in order to continue livingcharge''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1925240746</amazonuk>Then Richard left them.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Michael Honig1914585402|title= The Senility of Vladimir PDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross|rating= 34.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= In the not-too-distant future, Vladimir Putin is slowly succumbing to dementia, hidden from the world at large in a secluded private nursing home. Nikolai Ilyich Sheremetev has what sounds like the most difficult job in the world: heI reviewed David F Ross's book [[There's the old manOnly One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's nurseOnly One Danny Garvey]] a couple of years back and remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and affecting it was. It was a gripping, emotionally wounding read, and rereading my review of it my main takeaway was that I might not have lavished enough praise on it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782398066</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ernst Haffner and Michael Hofmann (translator)Lucy Ashe|title=Blood BrothersClara and Olivia|rating=4.5|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=ItThe year is 1933. The place? Sadler's Berlin, Wells. Ballerinas Clara and the Nazis Olivia are on their way to powersisters, even if they will never cross these pages themselvestwins no less. The city – hugeIdentical on the outside but not, glamorouswe learn, bustlingon the inside. And not on stage, vicious in the way it either. Because there's a lot that builds a dancer. Some things that can swallow people be taught or learnt – is home discipline, attention to a countless hoard of teenagersdetail – and some things, but we focus on just a fewthat ''je ne sais quoi'', most of whom have been in some corrective institution or other before nowthat don't come from the classroom. They call themselves the Blood BrothersA stage presence, even if all they share is the most unglamorous drudgery of going from one doss-house to anothera charm, balancing the cost of a few cigarettes with that of a warm room for a few hours or some stale rolls to eat. But en route to them is another 'Borstal' escapeejoie de vivre''. The difference between a hard-worker, Williand a star. Surely his fate is going to be nothing if not more of the same?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099594048</amazonuk>0861544080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=C G MettsHeather Fawcett|title=Waltzing in ViennaEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

|summary=Filmmaker C G Metts Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has written four nonfiction bookstravelled extensively, several of them and researched meticulously, to write her life's work, the very first encyclopaedia of local interest to South Carolina natives and visitorsfaeries. This Whilst she is his first novel, however, brilliant at research and you may be surprised speaking to learn that it faeries, she is an enjoyable chick lit/women's fiction rompnot so good with people. Three girlfriends meet up again So when she finds herself far, far North in Charleston; in their early fortiesthe small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the village matriarch, she is not sure what she has done, they're facing turning points in their professional nor how to redeem herself and personal livesput her final investigations for her book back on the right track. As they reminisce about summers spent together at Folly Beach during college Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and resume their communal marijuana smoking habitdelight, they summon the courage much to decide Emily's frustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And what they want from middle age and refresh their sex lives.exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0692533346</amazonuk>0356519120

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1398515388|title=The Boy and the Dog|author= Hanneke Hendrix Seishu Hase and David Doherty Alison Watts (translator)|title= The Dyslexic Hearts Club|rating= 34.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= I recently reviewed a novel by another Scandinavian novelistFirst of all, Helle Helleit was the earthquake, [[This Should be Written deep in the Present Tense by Helle Helle ocean floor, which created the tsunami and Martin Aitken (translator)|This Should be Written this, in turn, caused the Present Tense]], nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and I expected this novel by Hanneke Hendrix to be very similarutter devastation. It wasn'tThe deaths were uncountable, and the loss of livelihoods was widespread. That's not totally a bad thing – The fact that many people will enjoy pets were separated from their owners came far down the fastlist of priorities but -paced, dialogue driven novel that ''The Dyslexic Hearts Club'' issix months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. It just He wasn't exactly what I was expectinga dog person but the convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and Tamon the dog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>9462380678</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Adam BaronChristopher Bowden|title=BlackheathMr Magenta|rating=4.5

|summary=Househusband James Christopher Bowden's latest novel is happy in Blackheath. Hea patient untangling of a seemingly ordinary woman's started doing stand-up again so that he too has an achievement in his life to balance wife Alice's award winning poetry. Children Ida and Dominic are doing well so all is great. Elsewhere in the area Amelia is equally happy with her actor husband Richard, carried out by her own career and children Niamh and teenage Michaelnephew after she has died. Sometimes happiness isn't enough though The aunt who always provided a safe harbour and, as the worlds a little bit of the two families start indulgence to mingle, things start changing for each of thema young 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>1908434902</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rebecca LimJennifer Mason|title=AfterlightPartitions of Unity|rating=54

|summary= A freak motorbike accident that claims the life of your parents is really all it takes to make your world fall apart. You might hope that a new beginning Here at Bookbag Towers, we first met Elizabeth Cromwell, dominatrix and unintentional detective in a different high school is going to jumpstart your life; that a chance to reinvent yourself as just Sophie Teague, rather than Sophie-The-One-Whose-Parents-Died might just be all you need to get [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by. But before Sophie gets the chance to find outJennifer Mason|Preposterous]], when she is visited by Eve. Eve isn’t like other girls. She is beautiful investigated and mesmerizing and Eve needs Sophie to be her go-to girlunravelled a series of disappearances. Because Eve can’t do much for herself since she died. Eve is a ghost and dealing with the dead who have In ''unfinished businessPartitions of Unity'' could be the biggest challenge of Sophie’s life, she sets her mind to solving a murder...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1925240495</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Adriana TrigianiWill Carver|title=All The Stars In The HeavensDaves 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.|isbn= 1914585186}} {{Frontpage|author=Jennifer Mason|title=Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery

|summary=It was 1935 ''A struggling poetry zine, a mom-and Loretta Young wanted fame and success -pop mobile diner in Hollywood. Part of it was being young (the Northern California redwoods, a 400-meter hurdler who just twenty one) and beautiful but she was also conscious that missed the money she brought in mattered to her family. She was hungry for love too: her father had left when she was young. Her step-father had done little better and there was 2004 Olympics, a women''need'' s track coach with a yen for bullwhips, a billionaire with a state-of-the-art S&M dungeon, a man she could love and look up to. She developed serving a reputation for falling life sentence in love with her leading men: first it was Spencer Tracy but Alabama, an enigmatic signature, K(s, x), on the set of a cheap oil painting, an erotic art dealer in Georgia...''The Call  This is just a sample of the Wild'' she fell for Clark Gable - cast of characters and he for hersettings in Preposterous. As you can see, some keeping up will be required! The basic premise of this mystery story goes like this...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471136345</amazonuk>B09STS96HS