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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove --><!-- Vaughan -->{{Frontpage|author=Onyi Nwabineli|title=Allow Me to Introduce Myself[[image:Vaughan Scandal|rating=4.jpg5|leftgenre=General Fiction|linksummary=https://wwwAnuri 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.amazon Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the content about her.co Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so.uk/gp/product/1471164993 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?ie|isbn=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1471164993]]0861546873}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529153298|title==[[Anatomy The List of a Scandal by Sarah Vaughan]]=Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=5 [[image:5star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] Sophie had been married to James for twelve years summary=It's 1979 and two children: to be honest she was more than a little bit in awe of himMargaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. James Whitehouse was an MP and junior minister: perhaps most importantly he was a friend of the prime minister (A woman? I mean, so when he had to admit that hehonestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv'd s family, though. Women have been having an affair he was confident that some contritiondisappearing. Well, a public admission that hethey'd ve been wrongmurdered, that he was not perfect, would soon but to have his career back on track'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. And it seemed as though Miv's upset because she's overheard that was her father wants to move the way it was goingfamily 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, until Down South is a friend of the 'other woman'frightening, parliamentary researcher Olivia Lyttonforeign place, persuaded her to go to the policebest avoided. There was no dispute that For Miv, the relationship had been consensualmove would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, but after James had finished the affair there was an incident in a lift in House of Commons and the police and the Crown Prosecution Service were both of the opinion she'll do anything to prevent that this amounted to rape. The prosecuting counsel is Kate Woodcroft and she She's very determined not worried about the dangers or that Whitehouse is going to be brought her Mum's stopped talking - to bookanyone. [[Anatomy of a Scandal by Sarah Vaughan|Full Review]]<br>}}{{Frontpage<!-- Dean -->|isbn=1035906708[[image:Dean Dark.jpg|lefttitle=Diva|linkauthor=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/178607253X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=178607253X]]Daisy Goodwin|rating===[[Dark Pines by Will Dean]]===4.5 [[image:5star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] Tuva Moodyson works for a local paper in small town Sweden - there summary=We tend to be near an ailing Motherthink of Maria Callas as Greek, but desperate for the big break that will have her moving on she was born to pastures new. Just outside of her townGreek parents in Manhattan, GavrikNew York, two bodies lie deep in the forest - brutally murdered December 1923 and their eyes ripped outonly moved to Athens when she was thirteen. They bring back dark memories for a town that has seen this crime before - and Tuva is desperate Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to find make it more manageable in the killerStates. At first, When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she's just out to write a good story could get appropriate training for her voice - but as she was raised under the crimes continue she finds herself drawn deeper Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and deeper into the forests outside made no secret of Gavrikher preference for her elder sister, filled with stranger characters and dark secretsJackie. Will she find the killer before they find her? [[Dark Pines by Will Dean|Full Review]]<br>}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michelle de KretserAlexander McCall Smith|title=The Life to ComePerfect Passion Company|rating=34.5

|summary=''The Life to Come'' tells the story of several ''interesting'' characters who are all linked by one person: Pippa. The novel Perfect Passion Company is split into five chapters with each one focusing on a different persondating agency in Edinburgh, from Cassie run by Ness and her bizarre relationship with Ash operating as an alternative to George who all the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has finished his thesis asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and is in look after the process of writing his first novel. Pippabusiness, who as Ness is also planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a writer, appears in each while. Katie is coming out of these chaptersa break up with a bad boyfriend, in some cases just as a background characterand so jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. However, what I found most fascinating about And so begins this novel was that de Kretser tells the new story of Pippa's life through all these various appearances from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and leaves the reader Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with a real sense of some new characters who she is as quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a person business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and having watched there's always her development as very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a character.hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1760296708</amazonuk>1846976596

{{newreview <!-- remove 29/12 -->Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=Servants The Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Paranormal|summary=Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it'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. He is a 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 being a good person. Spike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of the UndergroundBenny'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.|isbn=1662500491}}{{Frontpage|author=David SsembajjoKatherine Howe|title=A True Account|rating=34.5

|summary=Having experienced a terrible famine Hannah Masury is living in his own countryBoston, Kalamchi leaves having been sent to travel and learn. He returns live with a burning desire family who run an inn, and being made to feed his people - but not only work there from a young age. When she hears there is to feed their stomachs but be a hanging of some pirates in the town, she decides to feed their mindsgo and watch. Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, too. Kalamchi wants to raise his peopleHannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's consciousness death at the hands of two vicious pirates. She hides away, so that they can fight against don't find and kill her too, and then to escape them completely she runs away to sea, dressing as a boy and joining the dictator Bamutu - chillingly known notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as ''president for a cabin boy. She 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 and after death''on the ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848765800</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreview <!-- remove 28/12 -->Frontpage|authorisbn=Rob Murphy1471180158|title=Rotten to the CoreMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers General Fiction|summary=ItJamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's 2009, and Russia look like being awarded a control freak with all the football World Cup hosting rights for the oh-so-distant 2018 tournament - that is, until England stick their oar insubtlety of a half brick. They have solved their hooligan problem Jamie's son, and improved their transport systemBo, and so at last are valid final holders'has his problems'. Watching this is France, who have to reciprocate with the Russians who helped them get France He'98, s asthmatic and they have a plan. At this stage the UEFA European championship of 2016 has not been awardedmore you read, and while France remain favourites to get the job, again some upstart idea has poked its head above more you'll suspect that he's on the parapet autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's a joint offering from Wales and Scotland. Yes, these two tiny countries, separated by 200 miles and without a brilliant connection from one to frequent flier in the other, local A&E and without some vital posh hotels here and there, and with no serious claim sometimes Bo's not fit enough to soccer fame when it comes go to winning things, are unlikely hostsschool. But what if France could persuade Missed shifts or the world it was a good idea - and let Russian espionage prove it not need to be so, with all the while the French around away on time to pick Bo up the pieces? All of the UK would from school are occasions when Jamie can be damaged, meaning England '18 would be dead controlled and put in the water, and Russia would win outwrong. And who's It was going to come to say the Brits, with their devolution habits, and their first coalition government in a long time, could not get through without damaging themselves?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1546282998</amazonuk>head.

{{newreview <!-- remove 28/12 -->Frontpage|authorisbn=Paul StidolphB0CKD1L5JL|title=Forests in the SaharaRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn

|genre=Thrillers General Fiction|summary=''Everyone I speak to thinks you are going to come to some sort of sticky endPetr is an orphan.'' Those are not Rescued by the most promising words a man can hear strange, reclusive Bear, he is brought up far from his new partnerbustling cities and busy human society, but she doesnin the forests of Washington't lie in this instances Olympic Peninsula. He is Jeffrey Harvey, After Bear dies and a young Cambridge professorbrief sojourn in human company, who has been dabbling and armed with some extra-curricular work, creating GM trees that can keep vast quantities of water purified. Get an iceberg or three worth of H2O near Africa, where clean water is still only a scarce resourcepirate radio transmitter, and the trees can do their bit and the water will advance the place and make Jeffrey Petr goes on a well-respected global entrepreneur. If, that is, he can get round all the problems in his life - fractions in the start-up involved in journey through the projectforest, a finance officer embezzling broadcasting the funds for gambling - ohstrange, wild and a man ready to accuse Jeffrey of murder and theft of research data on a case reaching back several years. It seems the lovely girlfriend was right to see no shortage of possible sticky ends..rarely heard voices he encounters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1546282351</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= John BanksSarah Marsh|title= WA Sign of Her Own|rating= 43.5|genre= General Fiction |summary=On 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 slopes use of Mt Hood in Oregonsign language was seen as something only savages do, an 1000-year old Viking Ellen is discovered frozen - three thousand miles further west than any previously known Viking explorationsent to a school where she is taught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. Josh Kinninger is inspired by From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the Viking discovery - three personal catastrophes having left him angry, unmoored deaf and with his world in turmoilusing a system called Visible Speech. Beginning a journey westward At the same time, he's filled with a desire to wreak vengeance Bell is working on the individuals he other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds morally corruptherself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0983333416</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Ellen WilesB0BC3YTCMR|title=The Invisible CrowdGood Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=''This novel follows the plight story is not for everyone.'' Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of Eritrean Yonas Kelati as he tries to make a life for himself in Englandher fifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. He and She was a good friendvery bright student, Gebrea bit too nerdy if truth be told, escape and suffered from prison only vitiligo - people were afraid to be thrown into captivity again: trafficked hug her in case it's contagious. It's not easy being a black girl whose skin is 84% white. She had a shellfish factory where they have 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 tutor him. She readily agreed: tutoring was something she gladly did at church: this was just an extension. She went to earn their ‘payment’ to the malicious Aziz for entering the UK illegallyhis house and he raped her. When Yonas escapes In shock, the story really startsshe even allowed him to give her a lift home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008228817</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Tony Peake1472263936|title= North FacingThe Figurine|author=Victoria Hislop|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=At school It was in Pretoria in 19621968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. She was alone: her mother, Greek by birth, Paul Harvey struggles had left the family home and refused to fit in - desperate to join the popular group no matter what return, but Mary and Hamish (Helena's parents) felt that it may takewould be a pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. His focus on surviving the perils of school so intense, that he fails Her trip to see the turbulence family apartment in both South Africa and the larger world up- with market Kolonaki would be the arrest first of Nelson Mandela and the Cuban Missile Crisis affecting the actions of the adults around himseveral annual visits. A new She grew to love her grandmother and charismatic teacher decides to educate the boys in the unstable situation in the world outside family's maid, Dina, but was wary - and a growing awareness frightened - of her grandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. He was proud of both that and his sexuality pushes Paul Harvey into decisions that he later comes close connections to regret - the Junta and their weight pushes him expected his family to return to South Africa in the present day - a man in uphold his sixties keen values but saw no reason to make sense of a troubled accommodate them. His prejudices included Helena's red hair and utterly fascinating pastgreen eyes - inherited from her father's Scottish ancestors. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0995590028</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Abi CurtisDean Koontz|title= Water & GlassAfter Death|rating= 53|genre= General Fiction |summary= Something 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 happenedto him – and only him – as he sits up and looks around at the shrouded bodies of his dead friends and former colleagues. As he recovers his senses, he realises that there is something very nasty 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|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=The village is isolated and on poor. It's surrounded by a submarine a pregnant elephant is one 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 only a handful of animals living below the waves. We follow Nerissa Craneforest provides heat and warmth, a vetroofs on homes, as she remembers recent eventsand even gallows, looks after if needed. The fear of being buried alive is an existential superstition in the animals village and falls into that is the reason Volushka, a world drunken, self-indulgent, lazy lout of intriguea man is tolerated. }} {{Frontpage|isbn=B0BYF82CXT|title=Semi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|amazonuksummary=<amazonuk>0995465754</amazonuk>''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 very much in love – move in next door. Despite their different outlooks on life, the couples befriend each other and life appears to improve for both pairs. But all is not what it seems, and their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy.''

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Joe HillShalini Boland|title= Strange WeatherThe Silent Bride|rating= 53|genre= Horror General Fiction|summary= Strange Weather Alice and Seth are a match made in heaven. He is everything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, clever, funny; total and utter husband-material. She is all he could possibly want in a collection of four short novels all linked bywife; beautiful, unsurprisinglysuccessful, strange confident… and cataclysmic weather. Each novel so the inevitable proposal is distinct eagerly accepted by Alice and showcases Hill's restrained yet vivid style which takes everyday events the wedding is planned and makes them bitinglyset. When the much-anticipated day arrives, acerbically macabre or blindingly beautifulAlice is walked down the aisle by her father, often switching from one sentence beaming with pride and excitement as she surveys the congregation – their friends assembled to the next. As Hill himself says celebrate this joyful day and when Seth turns to face his approaching bride, Alice''the beauty of the s world and implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the horror of man at the world were twined together''altar is, never who is this truer than in Strange Weather where moments of abject horror are coupled with raw beautywaiting for her to become his wife.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147322117X</amazonuk>1662507089

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fiona Mitchell1787636003|title=The Maid's RoomGirls of Summer|author=Katie Bishop

|summary=In some apartments in Singapore you'll find a bomb shelter - airless and without a window. It will probably house was the washing machine summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the other domestic paraphernalia thatisland. Rachel wasn's got nowhere else t exactly innocent but she was, perhaps, naive, so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to gotake an interest in her, she was flattered rather than wary. There'll be It was quite a mattress on the floor while before he made any sort of this stifling room, with the heat increased physical approach to her and by that time she was obsessed by the tumble dryerhim. This is Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, looking after his interests on the maid's room. It's possibly better than sleeping under the dining room table, but not by much. Back island and in 2009 there were 201,000 female domestic workers particular in Singapore, many not earning any money for a year until they've repaid 'training' and other fees to the agency, many living in 'bar where all the maid's room'girls either worked or partied.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473659566</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Amanda Craig|title=Scoop Three Graces|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary= Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the Yearstate-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 would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's 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 a way that feels natural and lived-in, never making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselves.|isbn= 140871468X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=152915118X|title=Pineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=''Pineapple Street'' is the story of three women: Sasha, Darley and Georgiana. Darley and George are sisters and Sasha is married to their brother Cord. They're Stocktons, only Sasha isn't a Stockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the tribe. The problem's exacerbated when the clan matriarch, Tilda, asks Cord and Sasha if they'd like to move into the Pineapple Street property. Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to another property, a street or so away, which they own. They won't need any of the furniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and Cord can move straight in. Nominally, they had a choice but that wasn't the reality. Darley and Georgiana start to call Sasha 'the gold digger'. She's living in ''their'' family home. They use it so often that they abbreviate it to 'the GD'.}}{{Frontpage|author=Tom ClaverEmily Critchley|title=One Puzzling Afternoon

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Martin 84 year old Edie has lived in the same small town for almost her whole life, but now she is an ambitious journalist working on the Financial Reviewfacing a 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 memory. Martin However, Edie is good at his job - accuratetormented by the memory of her childhood friend, Lucy, dedicatedwho went missing over 60 years ago, hardworking and with the worry that there was a good nose secret she was keeping for a scoop. But Martin is also uninterested in Lucy that somehow might be the thing that reveals the culture truth of what happened all that comes with reportingtime ago. He has a wife and two daughters at home and he doesn After 'seeing't want to waste time and money Lucy in the pubhigh street, talking macho nonsense with just as she was the other hacks. He is a far cry from his colleague Tom de Lacylast time she saw her, a charismatic, silver-spooned charmer with piercing blue eyesshe starts to find pockets of memories coming back to her. Tom doesn't just grab And yet as she remembers the limelight though - he also grabs the promotion past, she is forgetting more and more in her day to industrial correspondentday life. And that is Will she uncover the job Martin not only wantedtruth about Lucy's disappearance before her move, but needed.and before her memories are gone forever?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1788036220</amazonuk>1804181250

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

|summary=If youThe love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O've never read an Alexander McCall Smith novelLeary was all-consuming, but have always thought you might like to try, one day then this might be the book to start withapparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in love. Rather than face the daunting task of leaping into Richard was twenty-one of his now very long-running series, this is a standalone novel, and it gives a good flavour of AMSdescribed by Margo's mother as 'an older man'. Her parents worried that Richard's style, the way he can write influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to evoke Oxford and having a feeling of time and placeglittering career. In the event, they eloped and Richard took her away from the warm optimism underlying his words that is so very reassuring Isle of Wight. Margo did go to Oxford and comforting went on to readbecome a well-respected journalist. It calls itself 'a wartime romance', which it isThe couple had three children: Rachel, Imogen and yet it is much more than that besidesSasha. Focussing mainly on Val, a young woman working as a Land Girl, we see her falling Life was lived in love with an American pilotLondon and holidays were spent at Sandcove, Mike Rogersthe family home on the Isle of Wight. Thanks to a sheepdog on ValEven then the doubts about Richard's farm (the Peter Woodhouse drinking were never far from the title) their lives become entwined with that of a German soldier, and the book shows us a variety of friendships as they grow and develop over the yearsMargo's mind: ''she would never be able to leave him in charge''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846974097</amazonuk>Then Richard left them.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Krysten Ritter1914585402|title= BonfireDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=It has been ten years since Abby Williams left home and scrubbed away all visible evidence of her small town roots. Now working as an environmental lawyer in Chicago, she has a thriving career, a modern apartment, and her pick of meaningless one-night stands.But when a new case takes her back home to Barrens, Indiana, the life Abby painstakingly created begins to crack. Tasked with investigating Optimal Plastics, the townI reviewed David F Ross's book [[There's most high-profile company and economic heart, Abby begins to find strange connections to BarrensOnly One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There' biggest scandal from more than s Only One Danny Garvey]] a decade ago involving the popular Kaycee Mitchell couple of years back and her closest friends--just before Kaycee disappeared for good.Abby knows the key to solving any case lies in the weak spots, the unanswered questions. But as she tries desperately to find out what really happened to Kaycee, troubling memories begin to resurface remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and she begins to doubt her own observationsaffecting it was. And when she unearths an even more disturbing secret--It was a ritual called ''The Gamegripping,'' it will threaten the reputationsemotionally wounding read, and lives, rereading my review of the community and risk exposing a darkness it my main takeaway was that may consume herI might not have lavished enough praise on it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524759848</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Alice HoffmanLucy Ashe|title= The Rules of MagicClara and Olivia|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction |summary= I've read several of Alice HoffmanThe year is 1933. The place? Sadler's novelsWells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, twins no less. Identical on the outside but not, although strangelywe learn, on the inside. And not the one sheon stage, either. Because there's most famous for ''Practical Magic''a lot that builds a dancer. Some things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, which went on attention to be made into a film. detail – and some things, that ''The Rules of Magicje ne sais quoi'' is the long-awaited prequel to , that book, and tells the story of three siblings of don't come from the Owens family; Franny, Jet and Vincentclassroom. The two sistersA stage presence, Franny and Jeta charm, go on to become the two aunts in the a ''Practical Magicjoie de vivre'' story. The difference between a hard-worker, and a star.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471157679</amazonuk>0861544080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Stephen FryHeather Fawcett|title= Mythos: A Retelling Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of the Myths of Ancient GreeceFaeries|rating= 54|genre= ReferenceGeneral Fiction|summary= The Greek Myths areEmily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, arguablyto write her life's work, the greatest stories ever toldvery first encyclopaedia of faeries. So old Whilst she is brilliant at research and influential they cast a shadow over western tales and traditionsspeaking to faeries, yet remain relatable and readable millennia latershe is not so good with people. Here comedian So when she finds herself far, actorfar North in the small village of Hrafvsnik, television presenterhaving somehow offended the village matriarch, she is not sure what she has done, actor and author Stephen Fry brings his considerable talent nor how to these special stories redeem herself and recreates them with a witput her final investigations for her book back on the right track. Enter Wendell Bambleby, warmth her dashingly handsome and humanity that brings them into the modern age whilst still giving the honour insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and respect that such ancient and influential stories deservedelight, much to Emily's frustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0718188721</amazonuk>0356519120

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lorenzo Marone and Shaun Whiteside (Translator)1398515388|title=The Temptation to Be HappyBoy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)

|summary=Cesare is 77First of all, widowedit was the earthquake, generally ignored by deep in the offspring he likes ocean floor, which created the tsunami and bothered too much by this, in turn, caused the one he doesn'tnuclear meltdown. Still, he finds ways to fill his daysThe result was complete and utter devastation. If he's not taking advantage of his friend-with-benefits arrangement with aging lady of the night Rossana, or keeping an eye on his grandsonThe deaths were uncountable, he's making mischief in league with elderly neighbours like Signora Vitaliano (local mad cat woman) and Marino (the non-IT-literate computer guy)loss of livelihoods was widespread. Their minds are diverted The fact that many pets were separated from their usual pursuits when owners came far down the list of priorities but - six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a young couple move into the apartment block providing Cesare with dog outside a convenience store. He wasn't a concern and dog person but the conviction convenience store owner's comment that he has would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to do something, whatever open his car door and Tamon the fall out or personal dangerdog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786072882</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lars Mytting Christopher Bowden|title=Mr Magenta|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary= Christopher Bowden's latest novel is a patient untangling of a seemingly ordinary woman's life, carried out by her nephew after she has died. The aunt who always provided a safe harbour and Paul Russell Grant (Translator)a little bit of indulgence to a young nephew had had a much more interesting life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and it seems to him an obligation to find it all out. |isbn= B0B6Z9VJDW}}{{Frontpage|author=Jennifer Mason|title=The Sixteen Trees Partitions of the SommeUnity|rating=4.5

|summary=While his grandfather lived the past was an area Here at Bookbag Towers, we first met Elizabeth Cromwell, dominatrix and unintentional detective in [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], when she investigated and unravelled a series of certainty for Edvarddisappearances. At aged 4 heIn 'd been taken to live with his grandparents, having survived the accident that killed his parents. Now his grandfather has died revelations are coming to light showing Edvard his family history is different from what he'd believed… his mother's birthplace, his motherPartitions of Unity's name, the whereabouts of late Great-Uncle Einar… and that's without looking more deeply into the fatal accident itself. Edvard is determined to solve the puzzle, a determination that will take him away from his native Norway she sets her mind to an area of France synonymous with devastation and solving a remote Scottish island loaded with secretsmurder...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857056069</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Louis de BernieresWill Carver|title=Blue DogThe Daves Next Door

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