==General fiction==
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{{newreview
|author=Eliza Graham
|title=Jubilee
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=As the village celebrates the Queen's Golden Jubilee two people can't help but think back to the Silver Jubilee. Evie Winter and her niece Rachel have vivid memories of the day when Evie's daughter Jessamy wandered off and the mystery of her disappearance has never been solved. She was eleven years old, bright, athletic and loved by her mother and cousin. There would seem to be no explanation as to why she might have disappeared of her own free will and no evidence that she was abducted. Life has carried on, but it has not been the same. It has not been easy.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330509268</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Michael Robotham
|summary=BB - or ''blueyedboy'' in his online persona - is a middle-aged man who lives with his mother in the Yorkshire town of Malbry. He has a dead-end job in a hospital although his mother would have it that he's of some importance. BB has a way of escaping his rather boring life; he writes murderous fantasies on his website in company with other misfits, some of whom he knows in real life. It might be fiction on ''badguysrock'' but he and Albertine share a troubled history and BB's manipulation of friends and enemies causes his past to unravel.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385609507</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Ned Beauman
|title=Boxer, Beetle
|rating=3
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=According to the blurb for Boxer, Beetle, 'This is
a novel for people with breeding… It is clever. It is distinctive. It
is entertaining. We hope you are too.' I like about half of it, so
does that mean I'm on the way to being those things?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340998393</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Craig Silvey
|title=Jasper Jones
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=The title and central character of this book, Jasper Jones is a no-user, a trouble-maker and has, for some reason in his hour of need, sought help from an unlikely source. Charlie Bucktin. Charlie is a rather bookish, quiet, unassuming teenager. And although both boys live in the town of Corrigan, until now, they haven't spoken a word to each other. They live in different worlds. Until now, that is.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099537540</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Thomas Mullen
|title=The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=The country is in deep recession. The economy has collapsed. The banks are hated and there's 'the next round of politicians, assuring us they were not afflicted by the same lack of vision as their predecessors'. Does this sound at all familiar? But just when you think you have strayed into the non-fiction aisle, it all becomes clear. This is 1930s America - full of gangsters, speakeasies, tommy guns, fedoras, beautiful heiresses, bumbling cops and the newly formed FBI, daring bank robberies and kidnaps. Yes, the gang is all here, but 'The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers' is a lot more than your average gangster book and it's a hugely fun story.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007340826</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Alexander McCall Smith
|title=The Dog Who Came In From The Cold (Corduroy Mansions)
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Ah, bliss! To sit down once more to an Alexander McCall Smith story and wish only for someone thoughtful to come and serve me tea and biscuits whilst I read! We are back, once again, with the residents of Corduroy Mansions to earwig on their conversations, their private thoughts and, of course, to catch up with what every one's favourite dog, Freddie de la Hay, has been getting up to. Written once again in serial format for The Daily Telegraph each short chapter is a gem, and all the characters we met previously in Corduroy Mansions are back again to entertain us.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846971616</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Mari Strachan
|title=The Earth Hums in B Flat
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Choosing a child as the viewpoint character of a novel requires confidence and imagination. To succeed is to convince the reader of events at two levels – the child's world within the adult world surrounding her. The very best novels about childhood, like say Harper Lee's classic, 'To Kill a Mockingbird', also reflect a wider cultural truth. In 'The Earth Hums in B Flat', a claustrophobic Welsh village is both protection and straitjacket as the characters struggle to cope with their family secrets. If that sounds a bit tacky, fear not, because the viewpoint character, Gwenni, is all whippet and sharp corners.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847673058</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Brady Udall
|title=The Lonely Polygamist
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Golden Richards bursts onto the printed page. He is the central character and let's be honest, without him there would be no wives, no children, no complicated domestic life - make that, domestic lives. Immediately I pictured Golden in my mind's eye, as a Homer Simpson type - but with lots more children. He's a bumbling, blustering, bear of a man. It's as if he's just 'turned up' for the conception of his children, just idly ambled along when they were born.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224078062</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Helen Slavin
|title=The Stopping Place
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=How often do you pick up a book with no idea at all where it is likely to lead? How often does such a book still have you wondering a hundred pages in? Not bemused, not lost, absolutely sure that it is going to lead somewhere, but still with no clue as to exactly where. How often do you get to the end of a book and think, simply, "Wow!"?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847391869</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Naomi Alderman
|title=The Lessons
|rating=3.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=James has been used to being very clever at school, and it is a shock for him when he goes to Oxford University to find there are lots of people who are more able than he is. He is already struggling when he falls and seriously hurts his knee, and he is also very lonely. Then he meets Jess, who invites him to a party at Mark’s house. Mark soon invites Jess, James and other friends to move in to his run down mansion.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670916293</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Christy Lefteri
|title=A Watermelon, a Fish and a Bible
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=It is 20 July 1974 in the small coastal town of Kyrenia, Cyprus. The radio continues to report that the Turkish forces did not manage to invade, and that they were thrown back into the sea, even as the Greek Cypriot population realises that they have been invaded. The story of this novel is set over just eight days, and is told from the alternating viewpoints of three characters.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849161275</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Heidi W Durrow
|title=The Girl Who Fell From the Sky
|rating=3.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Set in 1980s America, ''The Girl Who Fell From The Sky'' is a story built around a tragic event in a young girl’s childhood. The opening scene introduces you to Rachel, an elusive young girl, not black, not white but ''light skinned-ed'' as she is packed off to live with her grandma after a devastating family event. Immediately, Durrow highlights race and identity as the primary themes, and we follow blue-eyed Rachel as she struggles between two worlds – the white world of her Danish mother, and the other black world of her African-American G.I. father.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1851687459</amazonuk>
}}
