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|summary=It is Jean lives on Jersey with a heavy heart that Emilia Nightingale returns home to her mother where they are celebrating the pretty Cotswold town end of Peasebrookthe occupation. Her beloved During the war, Jean's father Julius has just passed was arrested for listening to a banned radio and soldiers took him away; his legacyone night, a well-loved bookshop that serves as a beating heart to the community. Julius was loved by all: he always had time to listen to his customers leaving Jean and share a recuperative cuppa in times her mother waiting for years for news of needhim. However As the British finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, his finances were another matter entirely and Emilia wonders how she can keep the bookshop open with an ever-mounting pile war is finally over, their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of debthim. Greedy property developer Ian Mendip would be only ''too'' happy to help out But will the truth come as a relief, but can Emilia really give up on her father's dreamor 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>140914688X</amazonuk>1846976537

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dorothy KoomsonOnyi Nwabineli|title=When I Was InvisibleAllow Me to Introduce Myself

|summary=Veronika Harper met Veronica Harper aged 8Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, form the start both deciding theywhere she posted every step of Anuri'd stay firm friendss childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Nika Now Anuri is in her twenties and Roni did everything together including their beloved ballet… until something goes terribly wrongshe is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the content about her. This leads Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to a series start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of events that donOphelia't just tear their friendship but also the lives they would otherwise leads online empire. They wish for invisibility Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and choose different ways to accomplish it for her relationship with her father at the sake of their survival; physical as well as emotional.same time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780893361</amazonuk>0861546873

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529153298|title=The List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035906708|title=Diva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|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 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 mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.}}{{Frontpage

|title=My Italian BulldozerThe Perfect Passion Company

|summary=I do love to sit down with The Perfect Passion Company is a new book dating agency in Edinburgh, run by AMS, Ness and operating as an alternative to all the excitement was doubled on this occasion since online apps in providing a new standalone story meant lots of brand new characters to meetmore personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and also look after the book has business, as Ness is planning to take a very intriguingly bizarre title! In this story we trip to Canada to get to meet Paul, away for a food writer who, after while. Katie is coming out of a rather upsetting break-up with his girlfrienda bad boyfriend, heads and so jumps at the chance to Tuscany come home to finish writing his bookEdinburgh. So farAnd so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, so normalbringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but of course things soon get with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a little unusualbusiness, or in match-making, beginning with Paul’s arrest on his arrival but Ness has full confidence in Italy her abilities, and moving swiftly on there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to the point where instead of a hire car he finds himself with lend a hired bulldozer…hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846973554</amazonuk>1846976596

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Grady HendrixDean Koontz|title= My Best The Bad Weather Friend's Exorcism|rating= 4.5|genre= HorrorParanormal|summary=1988Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, Charlestonhe loses his fiancee, South Carolinaand his house gets trashed. High school sophomores Abby Oh, and Gretchen have been best friends since fourth grade. But after an evening of skinnysomeone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-dipping goes disatrously wrongsized object to his home, Gretchen begins to act...different. Sheand it's moodypossible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. She's irritable He is a nice person. And bizarre incidents keep happening whenever she's nearby A really nice person. Abby's investigation leads her So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to some startling discoveries - and by the time their story reaches its terrifying conclusionhis house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, the fate who has 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 Abby Benny, and Gretchen will be determined by certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a single question: Is their friendship enough to beat the devil?waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1594748624</amazonuk>1662500491

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Frederic Dard and David Bellos (translator)Katherine Howe|title=Bird in a CageA True Account|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=A man returns to the flat he grew up Hannah Masury is living in and where his mother died without his knowledge, and finds it too desolate for the time of year it is – Christmas Eve. Bursting for more lifeBoston, despite being a solitary character, he goes having been sent to live with a restaurantfamily who run an inn, and finds a connection with being made to work there from a mother with her daughteryoung age. They dine, then go When she hears there is to be a hanging of some pirates in the cinematown, she decides to go and sit togetherwatch. Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, and things happen from there – Hannah finds herself embroiled in a gentle, no-pressure, no-names-no-packdrill wayyoung boy's death at the hands of two vicious pirates. If this isnShe hides away, so that they don't a reasonable start find and kill her too, and then to escape them completely she runs away to sea, dressing as a novella, consider boy and joining the tag it has notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a noir classiccabin boy. And consider She soon finds herself in the fact the strange woman thick of things when there is the spitting image a mutiny on board, and from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the man's dead wife…ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782271996</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jennifer Donnelly1471180158|title=These Shallow GravesMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating=34.5|genre=Crime (Historical)General Fiction|summary=Jennifer Donnelly wrote one of my allJamie Matson works in an upper-time favourite booksclass grocery store, for a man who's a control freak with all the subtlety of a half brick. Jamie'A Gathering Lights son, Bo, 'has his problems', so I was very excited to read her latest novel and see how it compared. Like ''A Gathering Light' He's asthmatic and the more you read, the more you'll suspect that he'These Shallow Graves's on the autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she' is s a historical novel with a murder mystery at its heart frequent flier in the local A&E and a feisty heroine who challenges sometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to school. Missed shifts or the standards of need to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the daywrong. It was going to come to a head. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471405176</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Virginia IronsideB0CKD1L5JL|title=No, Thanks! I'm Quite Happy Standing!: Marie Sharp 4Radio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn

|summary=Retired art teacher Marie Sharp Petr is wondering whether it's time to move house to be nearer her son Jack and grandson Gene. The wondering doesn't take up all her time thoughan orphan. For a start there's Rescued by the newstrange, new-age lodger Robin reclusive Bear, he is brought up far from bustling cities andbusy human society, talking about men, Marie is getting on really well with her ex-husband David. This single life in which they dib into each otherthe forests of Washington's worlds on a regular basis seems the perfect way forwardOlympic Peninsula. However not all is rosy: friend Penny's drinking too much plus After Bear dies and a holiday brief sojourn in India has unexpected conclusion. Oh human company, and there's armed with only a pirate radio transmitter, Petr goes on a journey through the forest, broadcasting the burglaries toostrange, wild and rarely heard voices he encounters. Who says that retirement is relaxing and uneventful?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782069321</amazonuk>|amazonus=<amazonus>1782069321</amazonus>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= William ThackerSarah Marsh|title= Lingua Franca|rating= 2.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Clichéd as it may sound, language finds itself at the very core of human existence and experience. On the one hand, it defines individual cognition and thoughts and serves as a way A Sign of communicating these thoughts to others; on the other, it defines the social sphere, giving social values to things, reflecting history, and constructing a common identity. It is also what William Thacker's second novel, ''Lingua Franca'', revolves around.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785079743</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Alice Adams|title=Invincible SummerHer Own

|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=As Alice Adams's debut novel opens After a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, everything about her life changes. Living in a time when the summer use of 1995sign language was seen as something only savages do, four university friends are lounging on Bristol's Brandon HillEllen is sent to a school where she is taught to lip read, drinking and contemplating what the future holdsbut physically restrained from signing. There's Eva Andrews From here, raised she ends up in Sussex by another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and using a single father; siblings Sylvie system called Visible Speech. At the same time, Bell is working on other inventions and Lucien Marchantideas, neglected by their alcoholic mother; and Benedict Waverley, Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a rich kid whose parents have a holiday home on Corfu. Eva has a crush on Lucien, while Benedict is besotted with Evacomplicated tangle of espionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509814701</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Catherine BannerB0BC3YTCMR|title=The House at the Edge of NightGood Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira|rating=4.5

|summary=''The House at the Edge of NightThis story is not for everyone.'' is an epic family saga Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of her fifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. She was a very bright student, a bit too nerdy if truth be told, spanning some 95 years and several generations. The story begins when Amedeo Esposito arrives at the isolated Sicilian island of Castellamare suffered from vitiligo - people were afraid to serve as the first doctor hug her in the islandcase it's historycontagious. He It's not easy being a black girl whose skin is immediately captivated by this strange little community; a heady mix of tradition, superstition and ritual84% white. An island so small is naturally She had a hotbed of gossip, with 'overheard' confessions being dutifully relayed across the fivecrush on seventeen-year-mile island within minutes of being heardold Reggie Anderson but never thought he would notice her. The benevolent Saint Agata watches over her people Then he did: Lavender was very good at math and bestows the odd miracle upon the fortunateReggie asked if she would tutor him. This is the place that Amedeo chooses She readily agreed: tutoring was something she gladly did at church: this was just an extension. She went to make his home house and together with his resourceful wife Pinahe raped her. In shock, they slowly restore the 'cursed' House at the Edge of Night she even allowed him to its former glory as give her a bar and meeting place for the localslift home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091959322</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chuck Palahniuk1472263936|title=Make Something UpThe Figurine|author=Victoria Hislop

|genre=Short Stories General Fiction|summary=What are we to make of that subtitle-seeming writing on the front cover – ''stories you can't unread''? Does It was in 1968 that not apply Helena McCloud made her first trip to all good fiction? Greece. Clearly it is here due to the reputation of She was alone: her mother, Greek by birth, had left the author, family home and the baggage his name brings refused to the page. We'd expect a dramatic approach from anything Palahniuk writesreturn, but Mary and an added frisson, an extra layer, from which we might Hamish (Helena's parents) felt that it would be forced to shrink backa pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. But a lot Her trip to the family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be the first of the contents don't quite go that farseveral annual visits. Yes, things are dramatic, when society starts attaching defibrillators She grew to itself, to create love her grandmother and the perfectfamily's maid, simpleDina, carebut was wary - (''The Price is Right''and frightened -of her grandfather, and Kardashian-) free happinessretired general Stamatis Papagiannis. A man buys a horse for He was proud of his daughter – but boy is it close connections to the wrong horse Junta and expected his family to buy. A man falls in love – yes, sometimes the plot summaries of these stories really are better off for being short (speaking of which, don't turn uphold his values but saw no reason to the three-page entrant here as a taster, it'll put you off by dint of being, almost uniquely here, a nothing story)accommodate them. A call centre worker can't convince people heHis prejudices included Helena's on the level red hair and even in their country – until someone starts riffing back to him. A housing estate report conveys bad regulation violations, but not as bad as the happenings at a green eyes - inherited from her father'Burning Man'-styled festival, in a very clever couple of taless Scottish ancestors. But many too are the instances where that extra step has been taken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099587688</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nick BantockDean Koontz|title=Griffin After Death|rating=3|genre=General Fiction|summary= Michael Mace, Head of Security, at a top secret biological research facility, is among 55 people who die when a virus is released in a bio-hazard accident. Finding himself in a makeshift mortuary, covered in plastic, he has a sense that something very, very bad has happened to him – and only him – as he sits up and Sabine 25th Anniversary Edition: An Extraordinary Correspondencelooks around at the shrouded bodies of his dead friends and former colleagues. As he recovers his senses, he realises that there is something different about him; he can ''feel'' everything. ''Everything''. Michael isn't ''Michael'' anymore.|isbn=1662500467}} {{Frontpage|isbn=B0BVDC2VWH|title=The Grave Listeners|author=William Frank

|genre=General Fiction |summary=Oh Griffin The village is isolated and Sabine, where have you been all my life? Ipoor. It've loved epistolary novels and ones that take s surrounded by a Witching Forest. And the narrative twovillagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and-fro its blossom provides herbal medicines. The black wood of letters the forest provides heat and warmth, roofs on homes, and bring us closer to the sender than any omniscient narrator can hope to doeven gallows, if needed. I've still got the childlike love The fear of picking at being buried alive is an envelope stuck existential superstition in a book to pull out a sheet of something else – not only the village and that is there the wonder at the handmade construction reason Volushka, a drunken, self-indulgent, lazy lout of something so bluntly and undeservedly called 'a book', but there man is the frisson of being the first person to see this artefact evertolerated. So how have I never seen this book before, and its cycle of sequels, concerning the correspondence between two completely different people?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>145215595X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lisa JewellB0BYF82CXT|title=The GirlsSemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone

|summary=When Clare takes her two tween daughters Pip ''Bill and Amanda are living in a semi-detached house, stuck in a depressing rut of boredom and disappointment, when Terry and Fiona – glamorous, successful and Grace to live very much in love – move in leafy Virginia Terracenext door. Despite their different outlooks on life, she the couples befriend each other and life appears to improve for both pairs. But all is hoping not what it seems, and their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for anonymity, a blank slate tragedy.''}}{{Frontpage|author=Shalini Boland|title=The Silent Bride|rating=3|genre=General Fiction|summary= Alice and Seth are a fresh startmatch made in heaven. Not so long ago He is everything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, clever, her story was funny; total and utter husband-material. She is all he could possibly want in all of a wife; beautiful, successful, confident… and so the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and the wedding is planned and set. When the newspapers when her paranoidmuch-schizophrenic husband burned anticipated day arrives, Alice is walked down the family home. Her new house seems a aisle by her father, beaming 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, Alice's world away from her previous life. The crescent implodes because she has a communal garden absolutely no idea who the man at its heartthe altar is, where friendly neighbours socialise and children can run freewho is waiting for her to become his wife. But does this new freedom come with a price?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099599473</amazonuk>1662507089

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Russell Mardell1787636003|title=Cold CallingThe Girls of Summer|author=Katie Bishop|rating=45

|summary=Five years It was the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on, Ray still can't get over the loss of his girlfriendisland. Five years is a long, long time to pine and mourn but Ray just doesn Rachel wasn't seem exactly innocent but she was, perhaps, naive, so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to be able to get off the treadmill of it alltake an interest in her, she was flattered rather than wary. The only meaningful relationships It was quite a while before he has are with his therapist made any sort of physical approach to her and best friend Dannyby that time she was obsessed by him. And it's not as though Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, looking after his job provides much interests on the island and in particular in the way of escape - Ray works for an insurance company as a cold caller. This is how, one day, he comes to speak to Anyabar where all the girls either worked or partied.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785891219</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jenni FaganAmanda Craig|title=The Sunlight PilgrimsThree Graces

|summary=Dylan walks away from Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of-the-nation novel. There's something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the atmosphere of the 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 familywould be embarrassingly inadequate: she's small London indie cinema practically synonymous with the genre 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 2020 to live on a Scottish caravan site. His new neighbours Constance way that feels natural and her transgender 12 year old Stella have troubles of their ownlived-in, never making them ciphers for social commentary but the odd British winter isn't helping. As the country faces true Arctic temperatures life goes on… or at least it tries toinstead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434023302</amazonuk>|amazonusisbn=<amazonus>0434023302</amazonus>140871468X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tarjei Vesaas, Torbjorn Stoverud and Michael Barnes (translators)152915118X|title=The BirdsPineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson

|summary=We're somewhere in rural Scandinavia, on 'Pineapple Street'' is the shores story of a large lakethree women: Sasha, but in a community relying on the farmland that is scattered in amongst the woodsDarley and Georgiana. Our chief concerns Darley and George are sisters and Sasha is married to their brother and sister – Mattis and HegeCord. HeThey're Stocktons, Mattis, is what only Sasha isn't a Stockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the other villagers call tribe. The problem'simple' – sures exacerbated when the clan matriarch, he knows a few things about lifeTilda, asks Cord and what makes a clever person and what makes a well-turned phrase, and how Sasha if they'd like to talk to girls and when to not stare at them, but he is definitely not quite as move into the others would wishPineapple Street property. Those others include his sisterTilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to another property, who is seeing her life waste a street or so away in listening to his chatter, knitting jumpers to make ends meetwhich they own. They won't need any of the furniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and regretting Cord can move straight in her own small way what has got her to middle-age in this situation. But from this galling introductionNominally, you should take away they had a choice but that wasn't the bigger picture – even if there is no way out, reality. Darley and Georgiana start to call Sasha 'the life gold digger'. She's living in this countryside is brilliantly conveyed, full of sun as well as shade, of labour and of idleness, and wit and charm as much as hardship''their'' family home. I defy you They use it so often that they abbreviate it to read this and think this corner of Scandinavia bleak'the GD'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0914671200</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Diney CosteloeEmily Critchley|title= The Girl With No NameOne Puzzling Afternoon|rating= 4|genre= General Fiction Crime|summary= Thirteen 84 year old Lisa escapes from Nazi Germany on Edie has lived in the Kindertransport and arrives in England in August 1939. She can't speak same small town for almost her whole life, but now she is facing a word of English move as her son wants to move to another house and bring Edie to live with his family, as Edie is starting to lose her only belongings are crammed into a small suitcasememory. Among them However, Edie is one precious photograph tormented by the memory of the family she has left behind in Germany. Lonely and homesickher childhood friend, not knowing if she will ever see her family againLucy, Lisa is adopted by a childless couplewho went missing over 60 years ago, and then bullied at school the worry that there was a secret she was keeping for being GermanLucy that somehow might be the thing that reveals the truth of what happened all that time ago. But worse is to come when After 'seeing' Lucy in the high street, just as she was the Blitz blows last time she saw her new home apart, and she wakes up in hospital with no memory starts to find pockets of who memories coming back to her. And yet as she isremembers the past, or where she came from. The authorities give her a new name is forgetting more and despatch more in her day to a childrenday life. Will she uncover the truth about Lucy's home. With the war in full swingdisappearance before her move, what will become of Lisa nowand before her memories are gone forever?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784970050</amazonuk>1804181250

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Phaedra PatrickMadelaine Lucas|title=The Curious Charms of Arthur PepperThirst for Salt|rating= 45|genre= General Literary Fiction|summary=On the first anniversary of his wife Miriam's death'Love, I'd read, Arthur Pepper feels he might finally was supposed to be up to the task of clearing out her wardrobe. He hasn't got far when he stumbles across a gold charm bracelet he doesnlight and weightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravity't recognise. If he hadn't been feeling so out of sorts because of  Told from a retrospective view, a young woman unravels the anniversary he would never have rung year-long relationship that once defined her. Overlaid with later wisdom, the phone number he found engraved on narrator relives the golden elephant. That would have been affair with a shame, because then he would never have set out on his peculiar quest man twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to find out who his wife used to be before she met himits sorrowful end the summer after. From York to LondonSet 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, Paris and beyonddepicting its all-consuming nature, Arthur pursues Miriam's past how it changed her perspective on both romantic and learns things about his wife, his children familial relationships and himself that he never imaginedhow it altered her irrevocably.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848454368</amazonuk>0861546490

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonas Jonasson and Rachel Willson-Broyles (translator)0008506337|title=Hitman Anders and the Meaning of It AllThe Garnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore|rating=35

|summary=ThereThe love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O's feeling on edgeLeary was all-consuming, and there's feeling apparently on edgeboth sides. Per is a hotel receptionist partly because his father and grandfather didn't give him a better destiny, and partly because he Margo was working there just sixteen when it was a shoddy knocking jointthey fell in love. He's feeling on edge because someone has decided to live there, in room seven, Richard was twenty-one and proudly announced that itdescribed by Margo's about the first place hemother as 's had as an adult to live in older man'. Her parents worried that isnRichard't s influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and having a prison – glittering career. In the manevent, Hitman Anders, has killed three people in separate fits they eloped and Richard took her away from the Isle of rageWight. And now Per is feeling even more Margo did go to Oxford and went on edge because Johanna, a woman in to become a dogwell-collar has turned uprespected journalist. The couple had three children: Rachel, tried to blag twenty kronor for a badly-worded prayer Imogen and Sasha. Life was lived in PerLondon and holidays were spent at Sandcove, the family home on the Isle of Wight. Even then the doubts about Richard's favour (even though shedrinking were never far from Margo's been sacked as a priest and is mind: ''she would never be able to leave him in fact a rampant atheist), and has now colluded to jointly with Per become Hitman Anderscharge'' criminal hit-job agents. But could anything make a newly rich Per – and Johanna – feel more on edge, than Hitman Anders gaining a conscience…?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008152071</amazonuk>Then Richard left them.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Esther Gerritsen and Michele Hutchison (translator)1914585402|title= RoxyDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross|rating= 34.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= I liked the premise for this novel: a young wife (Roxy) is told at the beginning of the reviewed David F Ross's book that her much older husband has been killed in [[There's Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's Only One Danny Garvey]] a car accident. To add to the shock couple of this, the revelation that he died in the arms of his (naked) lover in the car, on the hard shoulder, is a further blow to Roxy. I found this an interesting set-up for a story, years back and wondered remember being absolutely floored by how this powerful and affecting it was going to go. As the blurb on the back of the novel tells usIt was a gripping, ''she is looking for revenge''emotionally wounding read, and rereading my review of it my main takeaway was that I thought the book would be a development of the character of Roxy into a self-motivating, strong character. But this wasn't the casemight not have lavished enough praise on it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>9462380643</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Eva HollandLucy Ashe|title= The Daughter's SecretClara and Olivia|rating= 34.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Six years agoThe year is 1933. The place? Sadler's Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, Stephanie and Nate ran away togethertwins no less. She was 15Identical on the outside but not, we learn, and he was her geography teacheron the inside. AwkwardAnd not on stage, either. We pick up the story with Ros, StephBecause there's mother, as she learns a lot that builds a dancer. Some things that Nate is about to can be released from prisontaught or learnt – discipline, earlier than planned in just 11 days for now. The book takes place over those 11 days leading up attention to Mr Temperleydetail – and some things, that ''je ne sais quoi''s release as Ros struggles to break , that don't come from the news to her daughterclassroom. SheA stage presence, a charm, a ''joie de vivre's bound to be devastated by it…isn't she?. The difference between a hard-worker, and a star.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409157040</amazonuk>0861544080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Hazel McHaffieHeather Fawcett|title=Inside Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of MeFaeries

|summary=ItEmily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life's never specifically said that India Grayson losing her father work, the very first encyclopaedia of faeries. Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, she is not so good with people. So when she was eight was finds herself far, far North in the cause small village of her anorexia when she was fifteenHrafvsnik, but you seehaving somehow offended the village matriarch, ''losing'' she is the best description of not sure what happened. He was a strong swimmershe has done, but even he might have got into difficulties nor how to redeem herself and what other explanation was there put her final investigations for the pile of his clothes her book back on the beachright track. Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, much to Emily's frustration. But why is he here? Only India never quite believed that What does he was dead and his body had never been found. want? Had it been something about her that forced him awayAnd what exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>099262312X</amazonuk>0356519120

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Monica Wood1398515388|title=The One-in-a-Million Boyand the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)

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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author= Reif LarsenChristopher Bowden|title= I Am RadarMr Magenta|rating= 4|genre= General Fiction|summary= Racial tensions, identity, parental responsibility, Christopher Bowden's latest novel is a patient untangling of a childseemingly ordinary woman's best interest, love, sciencelife, war – Reif Larsen's ''I Am Radar'' falls nothing short of having rich thematic contentcarried out by her nephew after she has died. Its cornucopia The aunt who always provided a safe harbour and a little bit of thematic explorations is interwoven into indulgence to a complex web of stories, taking the reader on young nephew had had a journey, both literal much more interesting life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and figurative, from suburban New Jersey it seems to him an Arctic no man's land obligation to Congo and the Bosnian warzonefind it all out.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099593645</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Stefan MohamedJennifer Mason|title= Ace Partitions of SpidersUnity|rating= 54|genre= General Fiction|summary= Stanly is frustrated. Having set himself up as London's protectorHere at Bookbag Towers, he's finding that the everyday practicalities of superheroism are challenging at bestwe first met Elizabeth Cromwell, dominatrix and downright tedious at worst. So it's almost a relief unintentional detective in [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], when an attempt is made on his life she investigated and Stanly finds himself rushing headlong into unravelled a twisted adventure, with enemies new and old coming out series of the woodworkdisappearances. HoweverIn ''Partitions of Unity'', even with his friends and his ever-increasing power behind him, he may have bitten off more than he can chew this timeshe sets her mind to solving a murder... The monsters are coming… and nothing will ever be the same!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784630675</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Hannah RothschildWill Carver|title=The Improbability of LoveDaves 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's set to be 'A struggling poetry zine, a mom-and-pop mobile diner in the sale of Northern California redwoods, a 400-meter hurdler who just missed the century: Russian oligarchs2004 Olympics, Arab sheikhsa women's track coach with a yen for bullwhips, rappers and heiresses are all lined up to bid for ''The Improbability a billionaire with a state-of Love''-the-art S&M dungeon, a small Antoine Watteau oil painting depicting man serving a courting couple overlooked by life sentence in Alabama, an enigmatic signature, K(s, x), on a clown. The cheap oil painting was missing until six months ago, when Annie McDee bought it from a junk shop for £75 as a birthday present for an incompatible fellow she met through Internet datingerotic art dealer in Georgia... When he didn't show for dinner and the junk shop mysteriously burnt down so that she couldn't ask for  This is just a refund, sample of the painting became hers. Thirty-year-old Annie had been in a rut: after a painful break-up from Desmond, with whom she ran a cheese shop cast of characters and café settings in DevonPreposterous. As you can see, she moved to London and was working as a PA to randy Italian film director Carlo Spinettisome keeping up will be required! The basic premise of this mystery story goes like this.. She also acquired an unwanted roommate: her alcoholic mother, Evie.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408862476</amazonuk>B09STS96HS