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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Morgan McCarthyB0DGDJRHYD|title= The House of Birds|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=Oliver has spent years trying to convince himself that he's suited to a life of money making in the city, and that he doesn't miss a childhood spent in pursuit of mystery, when he cycled around the cobbled lanes of Oxford, exploring its most intriguing corners. When his girlfriend Kate inherits a derelict house - and a fierce family feud - she's determined to strip it, sell it and move on. For Oliver though, the house has an allure, and amongst the shelves of a discarded, leather bound and gilded volumes, he discovers one that conceals a hidden diary from the 1920s. So begins a quest to discover the identity of the author, Sophia Louis. It is a portrait of war and marriage, isolation and longing and a story that will shape the future of the abandoned house - and of Oliver - forever.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472205847</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewNowhere Man|author=Christobel Kent|title=The Loving HusbandDeborah Stone

|genre=Crime General Fiction|summary= When Fran met Nathan everyone assumed she was on the rebound from In a lengthy stint at quiet suburban house, Patrick is making his final plans. A meticulous man, he makes sure of every preparation, down to the mercy of Nick The Unsuitablelast detail. I imagine falling pregnant within those first few heady months may have added fuel Some last reflections, and then he says goodbye to that particular fire particularly from where Franhis wife, the world, and his life. It's best friend is standinghorribly sad. But when this is followed by a hasty wedding and a move to an isolated farmhouse At work in the Fensher shop, Fran feels sure that his wife Diana is fending off yet another phone call about her new role as home-maker ageing and ailing mother, so very different who needs extricating from the London party-girl she used to yet another accident. It will be, is the right one for her. So when Fran wakes in the middle of the night to find Nathan's side of the bed completely cold, she goes to look for him. Finding him bloodied and very much dead was most definitely not part of the bargaina while before Diana realises what Patrick has done.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751562416</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=1739526910|title= Sanjida OWhere I'Connellve Not Been Lost|titleauthor= Theory of MindGlen Sibley|rating= 34.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=Sandra works in ''One year after a zoo, studying the minds of chimpanzees, mankindsuicide attempt blows apart musician Brian O’Malley's nearest living relatives. Her involvment with the animals starts to affect her own relationshipslife, he arrives in particular that an unfamiliar Devon town to recover. Living with her new boyfriend Corin. His energy stimulates her, an unexpected housemate at his passion excites her and his work as a TV producer fascinates herformer manager’s holiday home, but are his feelings real, or does he want to control her? As her feelings preoccupy her, Sandra continues her research into the emotions dreams of chimps and whether or not they are capable of empathyreconnecting with everything he has lost. During a visit to the zooBut as those tentative plans falter, Sandra meets he becomes swept up in a strange and isolated child, Paul, son of one local world of the keepersunlikely friendships, mobile discos and she also meets Kim, a scientist who has built a killer instinct into the robots she makessurprising romantic possibilities. As Sandra worries about her friends and her relationship, things race to a thrilling climax - putting much more than Sandra's emotions at risk. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1861515480</amazonuk>'

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Katarina BivaldJenny Lecoat|title= The Readers of Broken Wheel RecommendBeyond Summerland|rating= 4|genre= General Fiction|summary= The USA is an odd place at times, and not just during election season. There Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are all sorts celebrating the end of nooks and crannies, places that time forgot, places that ‘’people’’ forgotthe occupation. Broken Wheel During the war, Iowa is one such place. You’d have no reason to go unless you knew someone there. And Sara does, her pen-pal Amy. Invited by Amy Jean's father was arrested for listening to come for a visitbanned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and with time on her hands due to a recent redundancymother waiting for years for news of him. As the British finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, Sara packs her bags (and her books) and buys a plane ticket from her native Sweden to the US war is finally over, their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of Ahim. But will the truth come as a relief, or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the informer who told the Nazis about the radio? And what other secrets have been kept throughout the occupation?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>009959367X</amazonuk>1846976537

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sara StewartOnyi Nwabineli|title=Whilst I Was OutAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=24.5|genre=General Fiction |summary= Sara StewartAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's debut novelincreasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri''Whilst I Was Out'', opens with all the promise of a book intent to delve head-first into invention s childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and oddness. The narrator of the story, Alicebasically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is stuck in traffic with her husband – who twenties and she refers is slowly trying to throughout regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the book as My Dear Husband (or MDH for short) – when he suddenly jumps out of their car content about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and runs off receiving money from them for seemingly no reasondoing so. The scene opens with a mention of domestic abuse but seems much more interested in Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the inherent malfunction new focus of AliceOphelia's husband as online empire. Can she describes his fixation with his bicycle and how save her sister, and their three children have taken a back seat to his 'finding himself' through affairs perhaps herself and cross-country cycling.her relationship with her father at the same time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910903035</amazonuk>0861546873

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Cesca Major1529153298|title= The Last NightList of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating= 45|genre= Historical General Fiction|summary=Spring 1952: Two best friends; Abigail It's 1979 and MaryMargaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, sit together on a benchhonestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, looking out to seathough. They Women have big plansbeen disappearing. Well, but know that whatever happens they will always be together. They dream of a new life in America've been murdered, each with a handsome husband and a happy familybut to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. When Abigail Miv's mother dies unexpectedly, however, upset because she is sent 's overheard that her father wants to live with her estranged sister in Devon, and the friends are torn apart. Little does she realise that tragedy lies just around the corner, and that move the family 'Down South'last night. When you'' will change everything forever. Decades laterre from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, in 2016foreign place, a shy furniture-restorer called Irina has been given an unusual commission: to restore an old bureau containing many hidden secretsbest avoided. As For Miv, the two stories mergemove would mean leaving her best friend, curious Irina tries Sharon, and she'll do anything to piece together exactly what happened on prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum''Last Nights stopped talking - to anyone.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B01FTAPZS2</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Rory Gleeson1035906708|title= Rockadoon ShoreDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=Cath is worried about her friends. DanDan is struggling with the death We tend to think of his exMaria Callas as Greek, Lucy is drinking way too much and Steph has become closed off. A weekend away is just what they need. They travel out but she was born to Rockadoon LodgeGreek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and only moved to the wilds in the west of IrelandAthens when she was thirteen. But the weekend doesn Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas't go to plan. JJ is make it more concerned with getting high than spending time with them, while Merc is humiliated and seeks revengemanageable in the States. And when their elderly neighbour Malachy arrives on their doorstep When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the dead Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of night with a gun in his handsher preference for her elder sister, nothing will be the same again for any of them..Jackie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473634075</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Brit BennettAlexander McCall Smith|title= The MothersPerfect Passion Company

|genre= General Fiction|summary= I love it when I The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a book while. Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so very few have read yetjumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, but it's hard bringing us to say what needs an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to be said44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, when you're not allowed but with some new characters who quickly begin to quotecharm. Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there''All good secrets have s always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a taste before you tell them…''hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0399184511</amazonuk>1846976596

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Graham NortonDean Koontz|title= HoldingThe Bad Weather Friend|rating= 4.5|genre= General FictionParanormal|summary=The remote Irish village of Duneen has known little dramaBenny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and yet the inhabitants are troubledhis house gets trashed. Sergeant PJ Collins hasn't always been this overweight, mother-of-two Brid Riordan hasn't always been an alcoholic Oh, and elegant Evelyn Ross hasn't always felt her life a total waste. When human remains are discovered on someone has delivered a farmreally weird, thought disturbing coffin-sized object to be those of Tommy Burkehis home, an ex lover of both Brid and Evelynit's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the village's dark past begins very last person to unraveldeserve all this bad luck. As the frustrated PJ struggles to solve He is a case nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the first time in delivery to his lifehouse is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, he unearths who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a communitygood person. Spike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's worth of angerenemies, resentmentif he, secretsBenny, and regretHarper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444792008</amazonuk>1662500491

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ian McEwanKatherine Howe|title=NutshellA True Account

|genre=Literary General Fiction |summary=Meet Trudy. Successfully Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to live with a large family who run an inn, and valuable London home, being made to work there from a young age. When she hears there is heavily pregnant, and to be a hanging of some pirates in between two men – she has swapped the homeownertown, poet and publisher John, for someone completely different, namely Claude, a nasty, brutish she decides to go and short typewatch. Some people cannot work out why on earth she has made that decisionEnthralled and horrified in equal measure, including our narratorHannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death at the hands of two vicious pirates. OhShe hides away, so that they don't find and he himselfkill her too, our narratorand then to escape them completely she runs away to sea, is dressing as a boy and joining the child shenotorious Ned Low's pregnant withpirate ship as a cabin boy. He She soon finds herself in the thick of things when there is a very alert young thingmutiny on board, with nothing else to do but kick here and from there, and practice what you might well call mindfulness, and listen we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on Claude and Trudy, as they calmly talk their way to plotting and carrying out murder…the ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1911214330</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Frederic Dard and Daniel Seton (translator)1471180158|title=CrushMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes

|genre=General Fiction |summary=In this story Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's a control freak with all the subtlety of Thelma and Louise, ita half brick. Jamie's Louise we meet firstson, through her narrationBo, 'has his problems'. SheHe's a seventeen year old, telling us of a quite awful asthmatic and smelly satellite town of Paris she lives inthe more you read, with the sight of factories and stench of food processing plants keeping her companymore you'll suspect that he's on the autistic spectrum. She lives Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at home with her mother, complete with hareshort notice -lip, and abusive step-father, and is working at one of those factories until she sees 's a paradise frequent flier in their midst – the ever-sunny, sexy local A&E and sophisticated life of an American NATO worker and his wifesometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to school. Impulsively, she asks Missed shifts or the need to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be their maid – controlled and indeed moves into put in the couple's large, messy homewrong. But little does she know what lurks in the shadows in that building, behind their gigantic car and their cute porch swing and al-fresco dining – the unhappiness, and even the tragedy…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782271988</amazonuk>It was going to come to a head.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Emma BurstallB0CKD1L5JL|title= The Cornish Guest House (Tremarnock)Radio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn|rating= 3.54|genre= General Fiction|summary=''The Cornish Guest House'' Petr is the sequel to the best-selling ''Tremarnock'' which introduced us to hard-working Liz and her disabled daughter Rosie who were adjusting to life in a small Cornish village an orphan. Rescued by the sea. The sequel begins six months after the first bookstrange, reclusive Bear, he is brought up far from bustling cities and Liz and Rosie are happily settled busy human society, in their new lives and enjoying the warmth forests of the close-knit communityWashington's Olympic Peninsula. The village is soon abuzz with gossip, however, as After Bear dies and a new couple have just moved brief sojourn in human company, and are planning to open armed with only a pirate radio transmitter, Petr goes on a guest house. The affable and good-looking Luke soon charms journey through the neighbours by immersing himself into village life. His wife Tabithaforest, on broadcasting the other handstrange, seems aloof wild and reservedrarely heard voices he encounters. Could she be hiding a secret?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784972495</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jean McNeilSarah Marsh|title= The Dhow HouseA Sign of Her Own|rating= 3.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Rebecca Laurelson is an English doctor working in an African field hospital 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 midst use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a political conflict when school where she is suddenly and inexplicitly forced taught to leave her postlip read, but physically restrained from signing. She goes to stay with her estranged Aunt Julia and her family on Africa's east coast away from From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the violence deaf and daily blood shed of war, however their lives are full of beach and cocktail parties which contrast greatly to Rebecca's way of livingusing a system called Visible Speech. But At the threat of war same time, Bell is working on the horizon for Julia's family other inventions and their fellow white Africans – terror attacks are on the rise all along the coast ideas, and Rebecca knows more about it than the rest Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of her familyespionage. With unrest brewing will the true reason for Rebecca's hasty departure from her post be revealed?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785079441</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0BC3YTCMR|title=The Purple ShadowGood Girls Die|author=Christopher BowdenAyura Ayira|rating=4.5

|summary=Colin Mallory ''This story is a young actor in Parisnot for everyone. Colin had been working with a theatre company putting on English language Shakespeare productions'' Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of her fifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. They were popular but unprofitable so Colin is now at She was a loose end while his partner, Bryonyvery bright student, is off shooting a film. Before returning to London, Colin meets up with Paul Barnardbit too nerdy if truth be told, an art gallery director and his sistersuffered from vitiligo - people were afraid to hug her in case it's partnercontagious. At the Galerie Marion Ducasse, Colin and Paul come across It's not easy being a paintingblack girl whose skin is 84% white. The portrait of She had a young woman turns out to be Sylvie Ducasse, the greatcrush on seventeen-aunt of the gallery's owner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0955506743</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sandra Ireland|title=Beneath The Skin|rating=4|genre=General Fiction |summary= Robert Walton is exyear-military – a soldier suffering from combat stress and what old Reggie Anderson but never thought he now realises is clearly PTSDwould notice her. He prefers to be called Walt; it's short Then he did: Lavender was very good at math and simple and Walt likes things that are not complicatedReggie asked if she would tutor him. Alys is fragile, damaged and complicated and not the kind of woman Walt is looking forShe readily agreed: tutoring was something she gladly did at church: this was just an extension. A taxidermist by trade – a rather macabre one at that – Alys enjoys creating Walter Potter style tableaus in a slightly horrifying tribute She went to his house and he raped her sole career influence. Alys runs her business from her homeIn shock, which she shares with even allowed him to give her sister, Mouse and Mouse's son William. It's a strange set up and though Walt needs the job – of handyman/gopher/taxidermy assistant ''must not be squeamish – room and board included'', he wonders what he has let himself in forlift home. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973619</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1472263936|title=The Figurine

|summary=Postcards from It was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece keep arriving at Ellie. She was alone: her mother, Greek by birth, had left the family home and refused to return, but Mary and Hamish (Helena's flat addressed to former occupant Sarah Ibbotsen by parents) felt that it would be a man signing himself as 'A'pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. They may not Her trip to the family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be for Ellie the first of several annual visits. She grew to love her grandmother and the family's maid, Dina, but she keeps them anyway was wary - and displays the pictures frightened - of blue seaher grandfather, beaches retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. He was proud of his close connections to the Junta and countryside until she canexpected his family to uphold his values but saw no reason to accommodate them. His prejudices included Helena't resist it any longer; Ellies red hair and green eyes - inherited from her father's off to Greece for Scottish ancestors.}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=After Death|rating=3|genre=General Fiction|summary= Michael Mace, Head of Security, at a top secret biological research facility, is among 55 people who die when a virus is released in a breakbio-hazard accident. Just before she leaves home Finding himself in a makeshift mortuary, covered in plastic, he has a package arrives from Asense 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. Something very As he recovers his senses, he realises that there is something different from the fragmented comments on the cardsabout him; he can ''feel'' everything. ''Everything''. This 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 isolated and poor. It's surrounded by a journal full Witching Forest. And the villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicines. The black wood of the stories told by people he's met while travelling forest provides heat and warmth, roofs on homes, and coming to terms with a love affair that ended almost before it beganeven gallows, if needed. So for Ellie The fear of being buried alive is an existential superstition in the journal becomes her guide book village and that is the journey beginsreason Volushka, a drunken, self-indulgent, lazy lout of a man is tolerated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472223209</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alexander McCall SmithB0BYF82CXT|title=Precious and GraceSemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone|rating=54

|summary=Friendships can be funny things''Bill and Amanda are living in a semi-detached house, stuck in a depressing rut of boredom and disappointment, when Terry and that is often the case with Precious Fiona – glamorous, successful and Gracevery much in love – move in next door. This is Despite their seventeenth book nowdifferent outlooks on life, and so we have seen their friendship grow and develop a great deal over the years. Both women have grown to understand, respect and love couples befriend each other, through business hardships, personal difficulties and all their many and varied caseslife appears to improve for both pairs. In their current case the pair have a strong difference of opinions, and yet But all is not quite what it seems with their investigation, and so perhaps it is a case of neither one of them being right, and the situation being something else entirely?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408708124</amazonuk>their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy.''

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Fiona DavisShalini Boland|title= The Doll HouseSilent Bride|rating= 43|genre= General Fiction|summary= New York CityAlice and Seth are a match made in heaven. He is everything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, 2016: Rose has quit her job as clever, funny; total and utter husband-material. She is all he could possibly want in a newscaster wife; beautiful, successful, confident… and so the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and investigative journalist – not entirely voluntarily – the wedding is planned and now works for an onset. When the much-line outfit anticipated day arrives, Alice is walked down the aisle by her father, beaming with pride and excitement as she surveys the self-mockingly clumsy name of Wordmergecongregation – their friends assembled to celebrate this joyful day and when Seth turns to face his approaching bride, Alice's world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the man at the altar is, who is waiting for her to become his wife.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1101984996</amazonuk>1662507089

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gayle Forman1787636003|title=Leave MeThe Girls of Summer|author=Katie Bishop

|summary= When you've had a heart attack It was the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and frightened arrived on the hell out of not just yourself, but your husband, your children – if they had known - your mother and your best friend, you imagine that some long overdue TLC is about to come your wayisland. YouRachel wasn're thinking cardst exactly innocent but she was, flowersperhaps, being waited on handnaive, foot and finger and even though the imminent influx of culinary gifts are likely so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to be low fat, low sugar and taste like the box they came take an interest inher, they're coming, right? she was flattered rather than wary. And you'll probably get It was quite a couple while before he made any sort of months off work physical approach to her and not even have to think about the laundryby that time she was obsessed by him. Or Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, looking after his interests on the island and in particular in the housework? Or taking bar where all the twins to school? Right? Right???? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>147115677X</amazonuk>girls either worked or partied.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lisa UngerAmanda Craig|title=Ink and BoneThree Graces|rating=4.5

|summary= Finlay Montgomery, Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like her grandmother Eloise before her is a very powerful and gifted psychicthe state-of-the-nation novel. Sensitive to There's something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the unseen, unheard and unknowable, she spends her days among atmosphere of the dead. Visited, bothered, harassed day and sometimes tauntedcapture it, Finlay does her best to manage crafting an image of the gifts that Mother Nature has sought to bestowcountry as it stands in one particular moment. But life is not To say that simple and studying for your degree Amanda Craig is testing skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's practically synonymous with five other visitors in the room who are all trying to get your attention 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 the loudest a way that feels natural and most distracting way possiblelived-in, never making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147115047X</amazonuk>140871468X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Annelies Verbeke 152915118X|title= Thirty DaysPineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson|rating= 24.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Thirty Days doesn’t seem to know what it ''Pineapple Street'' is about. The novel follows Alphonse, a Senegalese painter decorator living in the Flanders region story of Belgium with his girlfriend three women: Sasha, Darley and childhood friend Cat, who Georgiana. Darley and George are sisters and Sasha is recovering from cancermarried to their brother Cord. Verbeke puts They're Stocktons, only Sasha isn't a major emphasis on their intimate but often volatile Stockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the tribe. The problem's exacerbated when the clan matriarch, Tilda, asks Cord and unsteady relationship, as Sasha if they try 'd like to navigate a new lifestyle in a small town, away from move into the cityPineapple Street property. However Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to another property, there are several other storylines which vie for our attention: Alphonse’s troubled clients who treat him as a sounding board and therapiststreet or so away, his experiences which they own. They won't need any of racism as a black man the furniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and Cord can move straight in . Nominally, they had a rural area, Cat’s difficult, warring parents, choice but that wasn't the couple’s elderly neighbour Willem who is obsessed with war graves reality. Darley and has a knack for appearing at precisely Georgiana start to call Sasha 'the wrong moment, and an illegal refugee camp gold digger'. She's living in field trenches a few miles away''their'' family home. They use it so often that they abbreviate it to 'the GD'. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>9462380899</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Oldest GameEmily Critchley|authortitle=Sue LegerOne Puzzling Afternoon

|summary=Moving The love affair between Margo Garnett and eyepoet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, apparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in love. Richard was twenty-one and described by Margo's mother as 'an older man'. Her parents worried that Richard's influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve -opening story going to Oxford and having a glittering career. In the event, they eloped and Richard took her away from the Isle of a Romanian woman trafficked into Amsterdam Wight. Margo did go to Oxford and forced went on to work as become a prostitutewell-respected journalist. Sue Leger gives us all pause for thought here 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 drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able to leave him in charge''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524635014</amazonuk>Then Richard left them.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Tom Connolly1914585402|title= Men Like AirDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= I reviewed David F Ross's book [[There's Only One April in Manhattan, the destinies of four very different men are about to collide. Nineteen year old Finn has just arrived in the city along with his volatile girlfriend Dilly, determined to even the score with his older brother Jack for abandoning him in the UK in the aftermath of their parentsDanny Garvey by David F Ross|There' deaths. Across town, successful gallery owner Leo Emerson is haunted by loneliness, unsettled by the contrast between his life and that s Only One Danny Garvey]] a couple of his brother in law years back and oldest friend William, who is content in both his faith remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and his marriageaffecting it was. When Finn wanders in to Leo's galleryIt was a gripping, emotionally wounding read, a series of unexpected and interconnected events unfold, changing the lives rereading my review of all four men togetherit my main takeaway was that I might not have lavished enough praise on it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908434880</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=How I Became a DrifterLucy Ashe|authortitle=Christmas PhilipClara and Olivia|reviewerrating=Jill Murphy4.5

|summary=Fictionalised autobiography told in The year is 1933. The place? Sadler's Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, twins no less. Identical on the outside but not, we learn, on the inside. And not on stage, either. Because there's a lot that builds a stream-of-consciousness styledancer. An unconventional voice speaking of Some things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, attention to detail – and some things, that ''je ne sais quoi'', that don't come from the universal search for love classroom. A stage presence, a charm, a ''joie de vivre''. The difference between a hard-worker, and acceptance.|rating=3a star.5 |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>152463588X</amazonuk> 0861544080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jane CorryHeather Fawcett|title= My HusbandEmily Wilde's WifeEncyclopaedia of Faeries|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Autumn 2000Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life's work, the very first encyclopaedia of faeries. Newly married lawyer Lily Whilst she is brilliant at research and her artist husband Ed have a speaking to faeries, she is not so good with people. So when she finds herself far, far North in the small apartment in London. Fresh from village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the honeymoonvillage matriarch, they're still settling in she is not sure what she has done, nor how to their new rolesredeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on the right track. Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and their neighbour Francesca insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and her 9 year old daughter Carla help delight, much to take Emily's frustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the pressure off a little bit.faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0241256488</amazonuk>0356519120

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Peter Ho Davies1398515388|title= The FortunesBoy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Clashes First of cultures or cultural enrichment? Xenophobia or embracing diversity?Today's hot topics focus much on cultures meeting all, it was the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and notions of foreignnessthis, especially in turn, caused the context of migrationnuclear meltdown. As such, Peter Ho Davies could not have chosen a more current The result was complete and thought-provoking theme for ''utter devastation. The Fortunes'': through four different storiesdeaths were uncountable, and the novel documents some loss of livelihoods was widespread. The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the history list of Chinese people in America over more than centurypriorities but - six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. From railroad workers, laundry owners, and prostitutes to film stars and adoptive parents, He wasn't a dog person but the convenience store owner'The Fortunes'' tells tales of searching for identity on both national s comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and personal levelsTamon the dog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340980230</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author= Paul ReadChristopher Bowden|title= The Art TeacherMr Magenta|rating= 4.5|genre= Thrillers General Fiction|summary=Patrick Owen managed seven years at Highfields Secondary School without punching Christopher Bowden's latest novel is a patient untangling of a pupil in the faceseemingly ordinary woman's life, carried out by her nephew after she has died. A mediocre teacher, stuck in The aunt who always provided a struggling school ruled by violent pupils, Patrick goes home every night to an empty flat, safe harbour and an existence filled with reminders a little bit of his life as a faded rock star. When one pupil over steps the mark, indulgence to a brief mistake plunges Patrick into young nephew had had a world of danger, violence, much more interesting life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and the glare of the mediait seems to him an obligation to find it all out. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785079573</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alexander McCall SmithJennifer Mason|title=The Bertie Project: A 44 Scotland Street NovelPartitions of Unity

|summary=Catching up with old friends is a pleasureHere at Bookbag Towers, we first met Elizabeth Cromwell, dominatrix and it's good to be back on Scotland Streetunintentional detective in [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], finding out what everyone is getting up towhen she investigated and unravelled a series of disappearances. Irene is back, In ''Partitions of courseUnity'', from she sets her travels mind to the middle-eastsolving a murder... Bruce has fallen in love, Matthew and Elspeth have triplet troubles, and somebody has an extremely unfortunate accident…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846973597</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Rowan Hisayo BuchananWill Carver|title= Harmless Like YouThe Daves Next Door|rating= 54

|summary= This is the debut novel from Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, but you would never know it. It is an accomplished, unusual, poetically written story about Five strangers come together in one moment as a suicide bomber prepares to detonate his vest on a young Japanese girl, Yuki Oyama, who has lived most of her life in New YorkLondon tube line. As suchtheir fates overlap, she feels an outsider: the American girls at school ignore her and she finds the rituals of her parents' home suffocating. Her father has hopes of her studying medicinestory is told in backwards order, but leading up to the only thing Yuki enjoys is artfateful moment.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473638321</amazonuk>1914585186}} Move on to [[Newest Graphic Novels Reviews]]