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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!{{Frontpage|author=Onyi Nwabineli|title=Allow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, 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- Remove -->mother to take down the content about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to 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 Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873}}{{new reviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karin Slaughter1529153298|title=The Kept WomanList of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey

|summary= Special Agent Will Trent It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is backPrime Minister. Collected by his partner(A woman? I mean, Faithhonestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, to attend the scene of a rather brutal murderthough. Women have been disappearing. Well, Trent queries why the GBI has they've been called in murdered, but to what would usually be a standard homicide investigation for Atlanta PDhave 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Arriving at Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the scenefamily 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, their bossDown South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, Deputy Director Amanda Wagner is somewhat characteristically pacing and barking orders; the victim is none other than ex-cop and all round bad eggmove would mean leaving her best friend, Dale Harding. There is a lot of bloodSharon, presumably due and she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the door-knob and spindle sticking out of Hardingdangers or that her Mum's neckstopped talking - to anyone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780893574</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1035906708|title=Diva|author=Eowyn IveyDaisy Goodwin|titlerating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=To 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 Bright Edge Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of the Worldher preference for her elder sister, Jackie.}}{{Frontpage|author=Alexander McCall Smith|title=The Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5

|summary=If you're going to go pioneering across unexplored landsThe Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, at least be prepared run by Ness and operating as an alternative to accept what you seek – namelyall the online apps in providing a more personal, what you've never seen beforetailored service. That lesson seems quite obviousNess has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, but back in the time of 1885 Allen Forrester as Ness is planning to take a little too naïve trip to heed itCanada to get away for a while. A career soldier, he Katie is tasked coming out of a break up with scouring a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the potential of the Wolverine River that threads south chance to come home to the shores of AlaskaEdinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, even though the Russians (who of course used bringing us to own the Territory) have had all manner of lethal encounters with those an Edinburgh we already living therelove, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and even though a major stretch of the river has Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to be traversed in winter when entirely frozen over, as the cliffs either side are too impenetrablecharm. Allen leaves Katie has no experience in running a much youngerbusiness, new bride behind – and right from the getor in match-go his journals force him to pen words about strange happeningsmaking, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, strange encounters and things of legend coming to life. Like I say, what hethere's never seen before…always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472208609</amazonuk>1846976596

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Gerald WeaverDean Koontz|title=The First First GentlemanBad Weather Friend|rating= 34.5|genre= General FictionParanormal|summary=Anyone picking up ''The First First Gentleman'' might be forgiven for snorting with laughter Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and making someone has delivered a sarcastic comment about how timely really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and potentially satirical it sounds's possible 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. In He is a way they’d be right – but probably nice person. 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 been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for different reasonsbeing a good person. Spike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0993291759</amazonuk>1662500491

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Liam BrownKatherine Howe|title=Wild LifeA True Account

|summary=Adam Britman goes from Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to live with a man with it all family who run an inn, and being made to homeless in the sniff of work there from a lineyoung age. While looking for somewhere When she hears there is to sleep Adam comes across an alternative community be a hanging of some pirates in the local parktown, she decides to go and watch. They've come together Enthralled and created structure (including an unofficial allotment) out of the disorder thathorrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's normally equated with living on death at the streetshands of two vicious pirates. It seems perfect She hides away, so Adam joins that they don't find and kill her too, and then to escape themcompletely she runs away to sea, but perfection can sometimes be an illusiondressing as a boy and joining the notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. As for walking away… that's not going to be easyShe soon finds herself in the thick of things when there is a mutiny on board, and from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785079700</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1471180158|title=Maybe Tomorrow|author= Sabine DurrantPenny Parkes|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's a control freak with all the subtlety of a half brick. Jamie's son, Bo, 'has his problems'. He's asthmatic and the more you read, the more you'll suspect that he's on the autistic 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 not 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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0CKD1L5JL|title= Lie with MeRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn|rating=54

|summary= Paul Petr is lots of thingsan orphan. A writer. A famous name (or at least Rescued by the strange, reclusive Bear, he was a few years ago). A bit is brought up far from bustling cities and busy human society, in the forests of a snob. A cheapskate. A ladiesWashington' mans Olympic Peninsula. And After Bear dies and a liar. Oh boybrief sojourn in human company, is he and armed with only a liar. He fibspirate radio transmitter, he exaggeratesPetr goes on a journey through the forest, he omitsbroadcasting the strange, wild and rarely heard voices he tells porkies. Not about the really big stuff, nothing that will hurt anyone, just a few mistruths to see him through. It's for keeping up appearances, reallyencounters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473608333</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andy JonesSarah Marsh|title=The Trouble with Henry and ZoeA Sign of Her Own

|summary= Stop for After a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a moment and look down at your bellyworld of silence, everything about her life changes. Living in a time when the centre you should have use of sign language was seen as something that looks only savages do, Ellen is sent to a little bit like school where she is taught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and using a buttonsystem called Visible Speech. It may be an innieAt the same time, or an outieBell is working on other inventions and ideas, but just consider it and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=1035401614}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0BC3YTCMR|title=Good Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=''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 few momentsbit too nerdy if truth be told, and suffered from vitiligo - people were afraid to hug her in case it's contagious. Do you feel better? Nope, you shouldnIt't do as all that navel-gazing does s not easy being a black girl whose skin is make you over think things84% white. However, without the concept She had a million romantic books crush on seventeen-year-old Reggie Anderson but never thought he would notice her. Then he did: Lavender was very good at math and Reggie asked if she would never be written as without the human compulsion tutor him. She readily agreed: tutoring was something she gladly did at church: this was just an extension. She went to destroy things around themhis house and he raped her. In shock, how can any tension arise?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471142469</amazonuk>she even allowed him to give her a lift home.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Carol Shields1472263936|title= The Republic of LoveFigurine|author=Victoria Hislop|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction|summary= The Republic of Love is a mesh-like novel, peopled with a huge cast of characters interwoven It was in familial1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. She was alone: her mother, friendlyGreek by birth, neighbourly had left the family home and romantic relationshipsrefused 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. Winnipeg, Her trip to the city family apartment in which virtually all up-market Kolonaki would be the action in Shieldfirst of several annual visits. She grew to love her grandmother and the family's novel takes placemaid, ties them together. The story follows two singleDina, thirtybut was wary -something characters, Fay and Tomfrightened - of her grandfather, who live opposite each other and have a complicated array of mutual acquaintances but don't know each otherretired general Stamatis Papagiannis. Shields alternates between their two points He was proud of view as they are slowly drawn together. This is a domestic novel in his close connections to the best sense; there is a focus on the beauty Junta and mundanity of ordinary peopleexpected his family to uphold his values but saw no reason to accommodate them. His prejudices included Helena's unremarkable lives in an unexceptional city, red hair and green eyes - inherited from Fay's satisfaction in the pop sound and toasted crumb smell of her twin slice toaster, to Tomfather's ungainly Saturday morning jogsScottish ancestors. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>9462380899</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Penny ParkesDean Koontz|title= Out of PracticeAfter Death|rating= 43|genre= General Fiction|summary=In a last-ditch attempt to save her failing marriageMichael Mace, GP Holly Graham relocates to the charming village Head of Larkford with her family to work Security, at the local practicea top secret biological research facility, is among 55 people who die when a virus is released in a bio-hazard accident. She finds life as Finding himself in a village doctor very different to her previous role makeshift mortuary, covered in plastic, he has a busy city hospitalsense that something very, very bad has happened to him – and only him – as he sits up and falls in love with looks around at the close-knit community shrouded bodies of his dead friends and its quirky residentsformer colleagues. But just as Larkford As he recovers his senses, he realises that there is beginning to something different about him; he can ''feel like home, Holly '' everything. ''Everything''. Michael isn't ''Michael'' anymore.|isbn=1662500467}} {{Frontpage|isbn=B0BVDC2VWH|title=The Grave Listeners|author=William Frank|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=The village is hit isolated and poor. It's surrounded by a bombshell that threatens to destroy everything she has worked so hard to achieveWitching Forest. And the villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicines. Can she rise to The black wood of the challenge forest provides heat and warmth, roofs on homes, and fight for what she loves? Maybe she will discover something about herself even gallows, if needed. The fear of being buried alive is an existential superstition in the processvillage and that is the reason Volushka, a drunken, self-indulgent, lazy lout of a man is tolerated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471153045</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steven RowleyB0BYF82CXT|title=Lily and the OctopusSemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone

|summary=Meet Ted Flask. A middle''Bill and Amanda are living in a semi-ageddetached house, gay Los Angelino, he has the one love stuck in a depressing rut of his life. While the fall-out of relationships with men sends him to therapy, he can rely on Lilyboredom and disappointment, the Dachshund. They've been together through thick when Terry and thin, ever since the little pup Fiona – the runtglamorous, no less successful and very much in love – seemed to pick Ted outmove in next door. Ted's sister's unusual marriage was almost marred by Lily being under the surgeon's knifeDespite their different outlooks on life, at great expense – but on the whole they have couples befriend each other and life sortedappears to improve for both pairs. He tries to write, but Friday night But all is board games, Saturday night is movie nightnot what it seems, and Sunday night is pizza nighttheir increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy. Oh, and yes, Lily talks to Ted, either in ''FULLY! CAPITALISED! EVER! EXCLAMATORY! BARKS!'' or in regular speech. Oh, and yes, Lily has an octopus on her head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471154343</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Julie CohenShalini Boland|title=FallingThe Silent Bride|rating=53

|summary=Here is the story of three women, from three generations within the same familyAlice and Seth are a match made in heaven. There He is Joeverything she has been searching for; handsome, a forty year old single mother whose first husband diedaccomplished, clever, funny; total and whose second utter husband ran off with their nanny-material. She is left caring for her older teenage daughterall he could possibly want in a wife; beautiful, Lydiasuccessful, confident… and her two little ones, Oscar so the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and the wedding is planned and Iris, whilst harbouring a secret that she feels she cannot share with anyoneset. Her daughter Lydia is When the second female charactermuch-anticipated day arrives, and as well as Alice is walked down the usual teenage angst she is also dealing with grief, still, over aisle by her father's death, anger beaming with her mother for her second disastrous marriage, pride and her own very difficult secret that excitement as she is unable surveys the congregation – their friends assembled to talk celebrate this joyful day and when Seth turns to anyone about. Finally there's Honor who is Jo's mother in lawface his approaching bride, the mother of JoAlice's first husband, Stephen. Honor has a fall, breaks her hip, and is forced to move in with Jo for a time as world implodes because she has absolutely no one else idea who can help her. She too the man at the altar is hiding a secret from the world, and as you read the story you begin who is waiting for her to wonder if any of these characters actually know who the others are, and if any of them will ever start telling the truthbecome his wife.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784160636</amazonuk>1662507089

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jenn Ashworth1787636003|title=FellThe Girls of Summer|author=Katie Bishop

|summary=Now her parents have died, Annette returns to sell her old childhood home but there's work to do on It was the decrepit building first. As summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she wanders and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and tries to make some order of the overgrown shambles, she's watched by arrived on the ghost of her mother, Netty; a spirit with regretsisland. Netty reminisces about AnnetteRachel wasn's childhood and the turning point their lives reached t exactly innocent but she was, perhaps, naive, so when the mysterious healer Timothy Richardson came thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to staytake an interest in her, she was flattered rather than wary. It was quite a while before he made any sort of physical approach to her and by that time that promised so much but one she was obsessed by him. Alistair worked for which Netty now needs to make amendsHenry Taylor, even if she is beyond looking after his interests on the island and in particular in the bar where all the gravegirls either worked or partied.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473630606</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jill CimentAmanda Craig|title= Act of GodThree Graces|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=''Act of God'' is a story about two ageing twins who find a worrying mushroom growing in their cupboard, a landlady searching for the spotlight and a Russian immigrant whose greatest fear is insignificance. What the insurance company describes as an act of God brings their already overlapped, Brooklyn lives in to sharper focus. What do you do when disaster threatens? Is it survival of the fittest or should we love thy neighbour? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782272119</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Fredrik Backman|title=Britt-Marie Was Here|rating=5

|summary= BrettFew styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of-the-Marie has never met a kitchen she doesnnation novel. There't want to clean. In fact, permanently armed with bicarbonate s something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the atmosphere of soda the day and window cleanercapture it, crafting an image of the country as it stands in one particular moment. To say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's always ready to clean anything. Her husband Kent is an entrepreneur, you know, practically synonymous with excellent taste and expensive clothesthe genre of contemporary social fiction at this point. Yet here she is, She has such a gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the day into the lives of her characters in Borg, a rundown small townway that feels natural and lived-in, in search of her first job never making them ciphers for 40 years. Life takes some odd turns sometimessocial commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473617200</amazonuk>140871468X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rodrigo Hasbun and Sophie Hughes (translator)152915118X|title=AffectionsPineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson

|summary=If you thought your teenaged years were a struggle to work out ''Pineapple Street'' is the worldstory of three women: Sasha, Darley and yourself, consider that of Heidi ErtlGeorgiana. Or either of her Darley and George are sisters – this book serves as a sort of tribute and Sasha is married to these three real-life women, and the lives that came out of their very disjointed youthbrother Cord. They're Stocktons, forced to be rarefied from only Sasha isn't a Stockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the norm by their family uprootingtribe. Father Hans was one of Leni RiefenstahlThe problem's key cameramenexacerbated when the clan matriarch, Tilda, asks Cord and a Nazi military photographer, before taking Sasha if they'd like to move into the whole family into post-war exile in BoliviaPineapple Street property. Their mother would Tilda and Chip have followed him renovated and downsized to the ends another property, a street or so away, which they own. They won't need any of the earth – as furniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and Cord can move straight in part would their daughters, the older two of which start the book by joining him on an expedition to discover a lost Incan city. Heidi finds youngNominally, instant love on the trek – they had a choice but sees that wasn't the dark side of such emotions, tooreality. Older sister Monika, who might well be manic depressive, finds something else, while the baby of Darley and Georgiana start to call Sasha 'the gold digger'. She's living in ''their'' family stays at home with a maudlin mother. So much here could be the hook on which They use it so often that they abbreviate it to hang a full novel, but if anything it's the reaction of them all to this unusual formative journey that inspires this bookGD'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782272135</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jemma WayneEmily Critchley|title= Chains of SandOne Puzzling Afternoon|rating= 4|genre= General FictionCrime|summary= Chains of Sand 84 year old Edie has lived in the same small town for almost her whole life, but now she is facing a great read about move as her son wants to move to another house and bring Edie to live with his family, faithas Edie is starting to lose her memory. However, Edie is tormented by the memory of her childhood friend, Lucy, survivalwho went missing over 60 years ago, and love. It follows the story of two young men: Udi worry that there was a veteran secret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be the thing that reveals the truth of what happened all that time ago. After 'seeing' Lucy in the Israeli army who longs for a new future in Londonhigh street, and Danieljust as she was the last time she saw her, a London banker unsatisfied with his life and yearning for something more. The story focuses on their desires she starts to change their lives by moving find pockets of memories coming back to different worlds and how this impacts their relationships with friends and familyher. As And yet as she remembers the story unfoldspast, the two protagonists' histories are slowly uncovered she is forgetting more and they both have to overcome the difficulties more in their new lives in order her day to achieve their dreamsday life. Meanwhile, Will she uncover the fate of star-crossed love between a Jewish girl and an Arabic man in Jerusalem a decade earlier intertwines with Danieltruth about Lucy's lifedisappearance before her move, complicating all that he thinks has become clear.and before her memories are gone forever?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785079727</amazonuk>1804181250

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Marie-Sabine RogerMadelaine Lucas|title= Soft in the HeadThirst for Salt|rating= 45|genre= General Literary Fiction|summary= This novel will make you smile. It's '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 feelyoung woman unravels the year-good storylong relationship that once defined her. Overlaid with later wisdom, unusual in its premise and original. Germaine is the narrator relives the affair with a 45 year old man who is illiteratetwenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the summer after. He has a group of drinking friends who frequently make him Set against the butt backdrop of their jokes, a mother who calls him a an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt''halfdetails the 24-year-witold narrator's deepening relationship with her older lover, amongst other thingsdepicting its all-consuming nature, how it changed her perspective on both romantic and a girlfriend whom he appears afraid of committing to. Germain spends many afternoons in the park, counting pigeons familial relationships and writing his name among the dead of the war memorial. It is here that he meets Margueritte, a tiny 85 year old woman who tells him she also counts the pigeonshow it altered her irrevocably.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782271589</amazonuk>0861546490

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Gregory Maguire0008506337|title= After AliceThe Garnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore|rating= 45|genre= FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary=When Alice 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 down in love. Richard was twenty-one and described by Margo's mother as 'an older man'. Her parents worried that Richard's influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and having a glittering career. In the rabbit holeevent, she found Wonderland as rife with inconsistent rule they eloped and abrasive egos as Richard took her away from the world she left behindIsle of Wight. But how Margo did Victorian go to Oxford react and went on to Alicebecome a well-respected journalist. The couple had three children: Rachel, Imogen and Sasha. Life was lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, the family home on the Isle of Wight. Even then the doubts about Richard's departure? When Alicedrinking were never far from Margo's friend Ada, mentioned briefly in mind: ''Alice she would never be able to leave him in Wonderlandcharge'' sets out to visit Alice, she arrives a minute too late. Tumbling down the rabbit hole herself, she embarks on an odyssey to find Alice and bring her safely home from this surreal world below the world Then Richard left them. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472230469</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Isabel Allende1914585402|title= The Japanese LoverDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= The Japanese Lover is an unassuming novel. The beginning leads the reader to anticipate an enjoyable light read, a good holiday I reviewed David F Ross's book perhaps – [[There's Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's Only One Danny Garvey]] a very well plotted story with an interesting cast couple of characters years back and settingsremember being absolutely floored by how powerful and affecting it was. Irena, It was a Moldovan girl with elfin looks and a passion for fantasy novelsgripping, starts working in bohemian care home Lark House in San Francisco. She meets the stately and somewhat aloof Alma Belascoemotionally wounding read, whose story starts to unravel, beginning with her being brought over from Poland (just as Jews became increasingly vulnerable to the Nazis) to her wealthy aunt and uncle in Cliff House, San Francisco, as a little girl. Allende almost makes us think rereading my review of it my main takeaway was that this opening tone, entertaining but fairly shallow, will continue for the rest of the novelI might not have lavished enough praise on it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471152197</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Midge RaymondLucy Ashe|title= My Last ContinentClara and Olivia|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=Only at The year is 1933. The place? Sadler's Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, twins no less. Identical on the end of the worldoutside but not, we learn, among on the glaciers and icebergs of Antarcticainside. And not on stage, do Deb and Keller feel at homeeither. For Because there's a lot that builds a few blissful weeks each year they study the habits of penguinsdancer. Some things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, finding solace in their work attention to detail – and in each other. Yet Antarcticasome things, like their romancethat ''je ne sais quoi'', is imperilled by the world to that don't come from the northclassroom. A new season has begunstage presence, a charm, and the two play tour guide to the passengers on the expedition ship that ferries them to their research destinationa ''joie de vivre''. But when Keller fails to appear, Deb has to consider new feelings of love, lossThe difference between a hard-worker, and a voyage deep into both the Antarctic, and the human heartstar. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1501124706</amazonuk>0861544080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Leah FlemingHeather Fawcett|title=The Last PearlEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

|summary=Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life''I always thinks work, without the grit there would be no pearlvery first encyclopaedia of faeries. Sorrows have a way Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, she is not so good with people. So when she finds herself far, far North in the small village of strengthening Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the heartvillage matriarch, never forget thatshe is not sure what she has done, child.'' Greta Costello lives in in poverty with her mother nor how to redeem herself and siblings and must work as a skivvy to put bread her final investigations for her book back on the tableright track. She manages to find some joy in her work though Enter Wendell Bambleby, especially in her 'Sabbath' job working for a kindly old widowed Jew. The two become friends dashingly handsome and he offers to take her on as his apprenticeinsufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, stringing pearls. Could this highly-skilled job be her key to a better life? At the same time, many miles away in Scotland, Jem Baillie all charm and his father can't contain their delight when they discover a magnificent, flawless freshwater pearl at the end of a long day of fishingmuch to Emily's frustration. They call But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the pearl 'Queenie' and from that pivotal moment, the fates of Greta, Jem and Queenie will be inextricably linked.faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471140970</amazonuk>0356519120

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Matthew Stephen1398515388|title= BaturiThe Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= It's Nigeria and First of all, it's was the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the 80s. Matthew is a VSOtsunami and this, in turn, on a placement at a college teaching electronicscaused the nuclear meltdown. Or trying to at any rate The result was complete and utter devastation. When language skills are limited The deaths were uncountable, and resources are scarce, you have to make the most loss of what you've got, even if livelihoods was widespread. The fact that means teaching many pets were separated from their owners came far down the odd class on American culture rather than rewiring. If I tell you that list of priorities but - six months after the ''Prime Directive'' applies tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a lot when youconvenience store. He wasn're t a VSO, youdog person but the convenience store owner'll appreciate the difficulties Matthew has when s comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his students want to stray further into car door and Tamon the modern world and learn about how things work in Britain, concepts of inventions such as ATMs that are decades off reaching Nigeria (Those days may still be some way off. I actually had a hand written bank card a few years ago while a VSO dog jumped in a country not too far away). |amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00OISR3AK</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Carys BrayChristopher Bowden|title=The Museum of YouMr Magenta|rating=54

|summary= It Christopher Bowden's latest novel is summera patient untangling of a seemingly ordinary woman's life, school is carried out, the days are long, the bumblebees are big and blousy and the allotment where Clover helps by her dad with the vegetables needs weeding nephew after she has died. The aunt who always provided a safe harbour and watering. She likes the allotment; it helps her think. This summer, Clover is going to unravel the mystery a little bit of her mother, Becky Brookfield and work out what makes her father so sad. All the time. It's hard indulgence to be a kid with young nephew had had a dead mother, but Clover thinks much more interesting life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and it's even harder seems to him an obligation to be dad with a dead wifefind it all out.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091959608</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Simon Van BooyJennifer Mason|title= Father's DayPartitions of Unity|rating= 54|genre= General Fiction|summary=When devastating news shatters the life of six year old HarveyHere at Bookbag Towers, she finds herself in the care of a veteran social worker, Wandawe first met Elizabeth Cromwell, dominatrix and alone unintentional detective in the world save for one relative [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], when she has never met - investigated and unravelled a disabled ex-con, haunted by a violent past he canseries of disappearances. In 't escape. Moving between past and present, Father's Day weaves together the story Partitions of HarveyUnity''s childhood on Long Island, and she sets her life as mind to solving a young woman in Parismurder...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780749694</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Angela LambertWill Carver|title=Kiss and KinThe Daves Next Door|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary= Five strangers come together in one moment as a suicide bomber prepares to detonate his vest on a London tube line. As their fates overlap, the story is told in backwards order, leading up to the fateful moment.|isbn= 1914585186}} {{Frontpage|author=Jennifer Mason|title=Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery

|summary=It's six months since the death of Harriet Capel's husband George. Looking back she's concluded that she was fond ofA struggling poetry zine, but probably not ''a mom-and-pop mobile diner in love''the Northern California redwoods, with him. They had two sons and it's a 400-meter hurdler who just missed the elder of these2004 Olympics, Roderick whoa women's married to Jennifer. They have three childrentrack coach with a yen for bullwhips, but there's been a rather silly feud between billionaire with a state-of-the Capels and Jennifer's family-art S&M dungeon, a man serving a life sentence in Alabama, the Gauntsan enigmatic signature, which dates back to the couple'K(s wedding, when Clarissa Gauntx), Jennifer's mother said something unpleasant on a cheap oil painting, an erotic art dealer in the church which dropped into one of those silences which always occur when you say something which you really shouldn'tGeorgia... Honours (or should it be ''dishonours''?) were even when George Capel later said something crass and vulgar about  This is just a sample of the bride's mother cast of characters and was overheardsettings in Preposterous. As you can see, some keeping up will be required! The basic premise of this mystery story goes like this...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1861514301</amazonuk>B09STS96HS

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Liz FenwickB0B2N7MVYM|title= Under a Cornish Sky|rating= 3.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=''Under a Cornish Sky'' is the story of two very different women who are forced to work together to complete a common goal. Their personalities couldn't be more different, so expect fireworks along the way! Shy Demi is as timid as a mouse and although she is a skilled architect, she is never able to succeed in her career because others take credit for her work. In relationships, she is easily manipulated into doing things she doesn't always feel comfortable with; a fact that is not lost on her sleazy current boyfriend, Matt. Lady-of-the-Manor Victoria, on the other hand, simply oozes self confidence. Although she is in her sixties, she has the body of a much younger woman and has no trouble getting men to do exactly what she wants. Despite a long list of younger lovers providing a pleasurable distraction, her one true love is the family home of Boscawen, a glorious estate set in the picturesque Cornish countryside, not far from the sea.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409148289</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Alison Umminger|title= My Favourite Manson Girl|rating= 4|genre= General Fiction|summary= Fifteen year old Anna has had an excruciating year, topped off with new stepparents and a new school. So she ''borrows'' her family's credit card, and runs away to LA to crash with her sister. But Hollywood isn't the escape she needs, and it soon dawns on her: she's trapped in a town full The Calculations of lost souls and wannabes, with no friends, no cash and no return ticket. When her sister's obsessive ex offers her a job researching the murderous Manson girls for his next indie film, she accepts – albeit reluctantly. This is not quite the summer Anna had in mind; but the more she learns about the girls and her fate, the more she comes to understand her family – and herself. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472150848</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewRational Men|author= Louise Candlish|title=The Swimming PoolDaniel Godfrey|rating=45

|summary=It''The Swimming Pool'' is s the story 10th of a woman - Natalie - whose eyes are dazzled by a glamorous couple who live nearbyDecember 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marr. Natalie and husband Ed have a 13-year-old daughter Just to put what happens in context, Molly, and are the kind of parents youCuban missile crisis is still very fresh in people'd steer clear of at the school gates for fear of offending their politically correct sensibilitiess minds. Molly The world has barely had a phobia of waterchance to breathe out. Rather than keep her away from rivers and pools But for Joe Marr, they subject her to a childhood of therapy. They keep up with changes to Mollyit's phone code so they can check up on her messages. They donnot the missile crisis that't believe in private education and they eat nutritionally supplemented pizzas. Louise Candlish pokes delicious fun s at this couple, particularly at dull-as-ditchwater Ed whose moral rectitude stifles poor Natalie, desperate to break out the front of her mouldhis mind. Enter Lara Channing He's been convicted of murder. Lara is a champion synchronised swimmer and former starlet. Her beauty With the current state of medical knowledge, wealth and warmth have a magnetic attraction for Natalie who proves powerless to resist Larait's charms, although she is less sure of Larahard to think otherwise than that the prosecution would never have been brought but Joe Marr has spent his first few days in HMP Queen's enigmatic husbandBench, Milesa relatively new prison. The novel charts Natalie's journey as she is enticed away from Ed and into Lara He's web, and there is an increasing sense of unease as events unfold. Add just getting used to this heady mix a few additional ingredientshis roommate, a heatwaveMervyn, an outdoor pool and a gaggle learning to be wary of teenagers, and you have a recipe for disasterthe McArthur brothers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405927321</amazonuk>