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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Julie CohenJenny Lecoat|title=FallingBeyond Summerland|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of the occupation. During the war, Jean's father was arrested for listening to a banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and her mother waiting for years for news of him. As the British finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, and the war is finally over, their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him. 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?|isbn=1846976537}}{{Frontpage|author=Onyi Nwabineli|title=Allow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5

|summary=Here is Anuri spent her childhood on display to the story of three womenworld, from three generations within the same family. There is Jo, a forty year old single thanks to her step-mother whose first husband diedOphelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and whose second husband ran off with their nanny, basically, monetary gain. She Now Anuri is left caring for in her older teenage daughter, Lydia, twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her two little ones, Oscar confidence and Iristo get her life back, whilst harbouring a secret that she feels she cannot share with anyonesuing her step-mother to take down the content about her. Her daughter Lydia Anuri is the second female characterbattling alcoholism, and as well as the usual teenage angst she is also dealing with grief, still, over failing to start her father's deathPhD, anger with her mother undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for her second disastrous marriagedoing so. Most importantly, and her own very difficult secret that she is unable to talk to anyone desperately worried about. Finally there's Honor her little sister, who is Jo's mother in law, the mother new focus of JoOphelia's first husband, Stephenonline empire. Honor has a fall, breaks Can she save her hipsister, and is forced to move in perhaps herself and her relationship with Jo for a time as she has no one else who can help her. She too is hiding a secret from father at the world, and as you read the story you begin to wonder if any of these characters actually know who the others are, and if any of them will ever start telling the truth.same time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784160636</amazonuk>0861546873

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jenn Ashworth1529153298|title=FellThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey

|summary=Now her parents It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have diedbeen disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, Annette returns but to sell her old childhood home but therehave 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's work overheard that her father wants to do on move the decrepit building firstfamily 'Down South'. As she wanders around and tries to make some order of When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the overgrown shamblesmove would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she's watched by the ghost of her mother, Netty; a spirit with regretsll do anything to prevent that. Netty reminisces about AnnetteShe's childhood and not worried about the turning point their lives reached when the mysterious healer Timothy Richardson came to stay. It was a time dangers or that promised so much but one for which Netty now needs her Mum's stopped talking - to make amends, even if she is beyond the graveanyone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473630606</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jill Ciment1035906708|title= Act of GodDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=''Act We tend to think of GodMaria 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' is a story about two ageing twins who find a worrying mushroom growing to make it more manageable in the States. When she was back in their cupboard, a landlady searching Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the spotlight Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and a Russian immigrant whose greatest fear is insignificance. What the insurance company describes as an act made no secret of God brings their already overlappedher preference for her elder sister, Brooklyn lives in to sharper focusJackie. What do you do when disaster threatens? Is it survival of the fittest or should we love thy neighbour? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782272119</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Fredrik BackmanAlexander McCall Smith|title=Britt-Marie Was HereThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5

|summary= Brett-Marie 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 never met asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a kitchen she doesn't want trip to Canada to get away for a while. Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the chance to come home to cleanEdinburgh. In factAnd so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, permanently armed thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with bicarbonate of soda some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and window cleaner, shethere's always ready her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to clean anythinglend a hand…|isbn=1846976596}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=The Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Paranormal|summary=Benny is having a terrifically bad day. Her husband Kent is an entrepreneurHe loses his job, you knowhe loses his fiancee, with excellent taste and expensive clotheshis house gets trashed. Yet here she 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, in BorgBenny 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 rundown small townbad weather friend called Spike, in search of her first job who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for 40 yearsbeing a good person. Life takes some odd turns sometimes 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>1473617200</amazonuk>1662500491

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rodrigo Hasbun and Sophie Hughes (translator)Katherine Howe|title=AffectionsA True Account

|summary=If you thought your teenaged years were a struggle Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to work out the world, and yourself, consider that of Heidi Ertl. Or either of her sisters – this book serves as live with a sort of tribute to these three real-life womenfamily who run an inn, and the lives that came out of their very disjointed youth, forced being made to be rarefied work there from the norm by their family uprooting. Father Hans was one of Leni Riefenstahl's key cameramen, and a Nazi military photographer, before taking the whole family into post-war exile in Boliviayoung age. Their mother would have followed him When she hears there is to the ends be a hanging of some pirates in the earth – as in part would their daughterstown, the older two of which start the book by joining him on an expedition she decides to discover a lost Incan citygo and watch. Heidi Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young, instant love on the trek – but sees boy's death at the dark side hands of such emotions, tootwo vicious pirates. Older sister MonikaShe hides away, who might well be manic depressiveso that they don't find and kill her too, finds something elseand then to escape them completely she runs away to sea, while dressing as a boy and joining the baby of the family stays at home with notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a maudlin mothercabin boy. So much here could be She soon finds herself in the hook thick of things when there is a mutiny on which to hang a full novelboard, but if anything it's and from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the reaction of them all to this unusual formative journey that inspires this bookocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782272135</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jemma Wayne1471180158|title= Chains of SandMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Chains of Sand is Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's a great read about family, faith, survival, and love. It follows control freak with all the story subtlety of two young men: Udi a veteran of the Israeli army who longs for a new future in Londonhalf brick. Jamie's son, and DanielBo, a London banker unsatisfied with 'has his life and yearning for something moreproblems'. The story focuses on their desires to change their lives by moving to different worlds and how this impacts their relationships with friends He's asthmatic and family. As the story unfoldsmore you read, the two protagonistsmore you'll suspect that he's on the autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she' histories are slowly uncovered s a frequent flier in the local A&E and they both have sometimes Bo's not fit enough to overcome the difficulties in their new lives in order go to achieve their dreamsschool. Meanwhile, Missed shifts or the fate of star-crossed love between a Jewish girl need to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and an Arabic man put in Jerusalem the wrong. It was going to come to a decade earlier intertwines with Daniel's life, complicating all that he thinks has become clearhead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785079727</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Marie-Sabine RogerB0CKD1L5JL|title= Soft in the HeadRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn|rating= 4|genre= General Fiction|summary= This novel will make you smile. It's a feel-good story, unusual in its premise and original. Germaine Petr is a 45 year old man who is illiteratean orphan. He has a group of drinking friends who frequently make him Rescued by the butt of their jokesstrange, a mother who calls him a 'half-wit'reclusive Bear, amongst other thingshe is brought up far from bustling cities and busy human society, and a girlfriend whom he appears afraid in the forests of committing toWashington's Olympic Peninsula. Germain spends many afternoons After Bear dies and a brief sojourn in the parkhuman company, counting pigeons and writing his name among armed with only a pirate radio transmitter, Petr goes on a journey through the dead of forest, broadcasting the war memorial. It is here that strange, wild and rarely heard voices he meets Margueritte, a tiny 85 year old woman who tells him she also counts the pigeonsencounters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782271589</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Gregory MaguireSarah Marsh|title= After AliceA Sign of Her Own|rating= 43.5|genre= FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary=When Alice fell down 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 rabbit holeuse of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a school where she found Wonderland as rife with inconsistent rule and abrasive egos as the world she left behind. But how did Victorian Oxford react is taught to Alice's departure? When Alice's friend Adalip read, mentioned briefly in ''Alice in Wonderland'' sets out to visit Alicebut physically restrained from signing. From here, she arrives ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and using a minute too latesystem called Visible Speech. Tumbling down At the rabbit hole herselfsame time, she embarks Bell is working on an odyssey to find Alice other inventions and ideas, and bring her safely home from this surreal world below the worldEllen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472230469</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Isabel AllendeB0BC3YTCMR|title= The Japanese LoverGood Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= The Japanese Lover ''This story is an unassuming novelnot for everyone. '' Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of her fifteenth birthday when The beginning leads the reader to anticipate an enjoyable light read, a good holiday book perhaps – Incident happened. She was a very well plotted story with an interesting cast of characters and settings. Irenabright student, a Moldovan girl with elfin looks and a passion for fantasy novelsbit too nerdy if truth be told, starts working in bohemian care home Lark House in San Francisco. She meets the stately and somewhat aloof Alma Belasco, whose story starts to unravel, beginning with her being brought over suffered from Poland (just as Jews became increasingly vulnerable to the Nazis) vitiligo - people were afraid to hug her wealthy aunt and uncle in Cliff House, San Francisco, as case it's contagious. It's not easy being a little black girlwhose skin is 84% white. She had a 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. Allende almost makes us think that She readily agreed: tutoring was something she gladly did at church: this opening tonewas just an extension. She went to his house and he raped her. In shock, entertaining but fairly shallow, will continue for the rest of the novelshe even allowed him to give her a lift home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471152197</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Midge Raymond1472263936|title= My Last ContinentThe Figurine|author=Victoria Hislop|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=Only at the end of the world, among the glaciers and icebergs of Antarctica, do Deb and Keller feel at home. For a few blissful weeks each year they study the habits of penguins, finding solace It was in their work and in each other1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. Yet Antarctica She was alone: her mother, like their romanceGreek by birth, is imperilled by had left the world family home and refused to the north. A new season has begunreturn, but Mary and the two play tour guide Hamish (Helena's parents) felt that it would be a pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. Her trip to the passengers on family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be the expedition ship that ferries them to their research destinationfirst of several annual visits. But when Keller fails to appear, Deb has She grew to consider new feelings of loveher grandmother and the family's maid, lossDina, but was wary - and a voyage deep into both frightened - of her grandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. He was proud of his close connections to the Antarctic, Junta and expected his family to uphold his values but saw no reason to accommodate them. His prejudices included Helena's red hair and the human heartgreen eyes - inherited from her father's Scottish ancestors. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1501124706</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Leah FlemingDean 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 bio-hazard accident. Finding himself in a makeshift mortuary, covered in plastic, he has a sense that something very, very bad has happened to him – and only him – as he sits up and looks around at the shrouded bodies of his dead friends and former colleagues. As he recovers his senses, he realises that there is something different about him; he can ''feel'' everything. ''Everything''. Michael isn't ''Michael'' anymore.|isbn=1662500467}} {{Frontpage|isbn=B0BVDC2VWH|title=The Last PearlGrave Listeners|author=William Frank

|summary=The village is isolated and poor. It''I always think, without s surrounded by a Witching Forest. And the grit there would be no pearlvillagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicines. Sorrows have a way The black wood of strengthening the heartforest provides heat and warmth, never forget roofs on homes, and even gallows, if needed. The fear of being buried alive is an existential superstition in the village and thatis the reason Volushka, childa drunken, self-indulgent, lazy lout of a man is tolerated.''}}

Greta Costello lives {{Frontpage|isbn=B0BYF82CXT|title=Semi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=''Bill and Amanda are living in a semi-detached house, stuck in poverty with her mother a depressing rut of boredom and siblings disappointment, when Terry and must work as a skivvy to put bread on the table. She manages to find some joy Fiona – glamorous, successful and very much in her work though, especially love – move in her 'Sabbath' job working for a kindly old widowed Jewnext door. The two become friends Despite their different outlooks on life, the couples befriend each other and he offers life appears to take her on as his apprentice, stringing pearlsimprove for both pairs. Could this highly-skilled job be her key to a better life? At the same timeBut all is not what it seems, many miles away in Scotland, Jem Baillie and his father can't contain their delight when they discover a magnificent, flawless freshwater pearl at the end of a long day of fishingincreasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy. They call the pearl 'Queenie' and from that pivotal moment, the fates of Greta, Jem and Queenie will be inextricably linked.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471140970</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Matthew StephenShalini Boland|title= BaturiThe Silent Bride|rating= 4.53|genre= General Fiction|summary= It's Nigeria Alice and Seth are a match made in heaven. He is everything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, clever, funny; total and it's the 80sutter husband-material. Matthew She is all he could possibly want in a VSOwife; beautiful, on a placement at a college teaching electronics. Or trying to at any ratesuccessful, confident… and so the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and the wedding is planned and set. When language skills are limited and resources are scarcethe much-anticipated day arrives, you have to make Alice is walked down the most of what you've gotaisle by her father, even if that means teaching beaming with pride and excitement as she surveys the odd class on American culture rather than rewiring. If I tell you that the ''Prime Directive'' applies a lot congregation – their friends assembled to celebrate this joyful day and when you're a VSOSeth turns to face his approaching bride, youAlice'll appreciate s world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the difficulties Matthew has when his students want to stray further into man at the modern world and learn about how things work in Britainaltar is, 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 in a country not too far away)who is waiting for her to become his wife. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00OISR3AK</amazonuk>1662507089

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Carys Bray1787636003|title=The Museum Girls of YouSummer|author=Katie Bishop

|summary= It is was the summer, school is out, the days are long, the bumblebees are big when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and blousy Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the allotment where Clover helps her dad with the vegetables needs weeding and wateringisland. She likes the allotment; it helps Rachel wasn't exactly innocent but she was, perhaps, naive, so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to take an interest in her think, she was flattered rather than wary. This summer, Clover is going It was quite a while before he made any sort of physical approach to unravel the mystery of her mother, Becky Brookfield and work out what makes her father so sad. All the by that timeshe was obsessed by him. It's hard to be a kid with a dead motherAlistair worked for Henry Taylor, but Clover thinks it's even harder to be dad with a dead wifelooking after his interests on the island and in particular in the bar where all the girls either worked or partied.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091959608</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Simon Van BooyAmanda Craig|title= Father's DayThree Graces|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=When devastating news shatters Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of-the life -nation novel. There's something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of six year old Harvey, she finds herself in the care atmosphere of a veteran social workerthe day and capture it, Wanda, and alone crafting an image of the country as it stands in the world save for one relative 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 never met - such a disabled ex-con, haunted by a violent past he can't escape. Moving between past and present, Father's Day weaves together gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the day into the story lives of Harvey's childhood on Long Island, and her life as characters in a young woman way that feels natural and lived-in Paris, never making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780749694</amazonuk>140871468X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Angela Lambert152915118X|title=Kiss and KinPineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson|rating=4.5

|summary=It's six months since 'Pineapple Street'' is the death story of Harriet Capel's husband three women: Sasha, Darley and Georgiana. Darley and Georgeare sisters and Sasha is married to their brother Cord. Looking back sheThey's concluded that she was fond ofre Stocktons, but probably not only Sasha isn't a Stockton by birth so she isn'in love'', with himt readily accepted into the tribe. They had two sons and itThe problem's exacerbated when the elder of theseclan matriarch, Tilda, Roderick whoasks Cord and Sasha if they's married d like to Jennifermove into the Pineapple Street property. They Tilda and Chip have three childrenrenovated and downsized to another property, a street or so away, but therewhich they own. They won's been a rather silly feud between t need any of the Capels furniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and JenniferCord can move straight in. Nominally, they had a choice but that wasn's family, t the Gaunts, which dates back reality. Darley and Georgiana start to call Sasha 'the couplegold digger's wedding, when Clarissa Gaunt, Jennifer. She's mother said something unpleasant living in the church which dropped into one of those silences which always occur when you say something which you really shouldn't. Honours (or should it be 'their'dishonours'family home. They use it so often that they abbreviate it to '?) were even when George Capel later said something crass and vulgar about the brideGD's mother and was overheard.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1861514301</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Liz FenwickEmily Critchley|title= Under a Cornish SkyOne Puzzling Afternoon|rating= 3.54|genre= General FictionCrime|summary=''Under a Cornish Sky'' is 84 year old Edie has lived in the story of two very different women who are forced to work together to complete a common goal. Their personalities couldn't be more differentsame small town for almost her whole life, so expect fireworks along the way! Shy Demi but now she is facing a move as timid as a mouse her son wants to move to another house and although she is a skilled architectbring Edie to live with his family, she as Edie is never able starting to succeed in lose her career because others take credit for her workmemory. In relationships However, she Edie is easily manipulated into doing things tormented by the memory of her childhood friend, Lucy, who went missing over 60 years ago, and the worry that there was a secret she doesn't always feel comfortable with; a fact was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be the thing that reveals the truth of what happened all that is not lost on her sleazy current boyfriend, Matttime ago. Lady-of- After 'seeing' Lucy in the-Manor Victoriahigh street, on just as she was the other hand, simply oozes self confidence. Although last time she is in saw her sixties, she has the body starts to find pockets of a much younger woman and has no trouble getting men memories coming back to do exactly what her. And yet as she wants. Despite a long list of younger lovers providing a pleasurable distractionremembers the past, her one true love she is the family home of Boscawen, a glorious estate set forgetting more and more in her day to day life. Will she uncover the picturesque Cornish countrysidetruth about Lucy's disappearance before her move, not far from the sea.and before her memories are gone forever?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409148289</amazonuk>1804181250

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Alison UmmingerMadelaine Lucas|title= My Favourite Manson GirlThirst for Salt|rating= 45|genre= General Literary Fiction|summary= Fifteen year old Anna has had an excruciating year, topped off with new stepparents and a new school. So she ''borrows'' her familyLove, I's credit cardd read, was supposed to be a light and runs away to LA to crash with her sister. But Hollywood isnweightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravity't the escape she needs, and it soon dawns on her: she's trapped in  Told from a town full of lost souls and wannabesretrospective view, a young woman unravels the year-long relationship that once defined her. Overlaid with no friendslater wisdom, no cash and no return ticket. When the narrator relives the affair with a man twenty years her sister's obsessive ex offers her a job researching senior from its inception – the murderous Manson girls for his next indie film, she accepts summer after finishing university – albeit reluctantly. This is not quite to its sorrowful end the summer Anna had in mind; but after. Set against the more she learns about backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the girls and 24-year-old narrator's deepening relationship with her fateolder lover, the more she comes to understand depicting its all-consuming nature, how it changed her family – perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and herselfhow it altered her irrevocably. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472150848</amazonuk>0861546490

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Louise Candlish0008506337|title=The Swimming PoolGarnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore|rating=45

|summary=''The Swimming Pool'love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O' is the story of a woman Leary was all- Natalie consuming, apparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in love. Richard was twenty- whose eyes are dazzled one and described by a glamorous couple who live nearbyMargo's mother as 'an older man'. Natalie and husband Ed have a 13-year-old daughter, Molly, and are the kind of Her parents youworried that Richard'd steer clear of at the school gates for fear of offending their politically correct sensibilities. Molly has a phobia of water. Rather than keep s influence would take her away from rivers what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and poolshaving a glittering career. In the event, they subject eloped and Richard took her to a childhood away from the Isle of therapyWight. They keep up with changes Margo did go to Molly's phone code so they can check up Oxford and went on her messagesto become a well-respected journalist. They don't believe in private education and they eat nutritionally supplemented pizzas. Louise Candlish pokes delicious fun at this The couplehad three children: Rachel, particularly at dull-as-ditchwater Ed whose moral rectitude stifles poor Natalie, desperate to break out of her mould. Enter Lara Channing. Lara is a champion synchronised swimmer Imogen and former starletSasha. Her beauty, wealth Life was lived in London and warmth have a magnetic attraction for Natalie who proves powerless to resist Lara's charmsholidays were spent at Sandcove, although she is less sure the family home on the Isle of Lara's enigmatic husband, MilesWight. The novel charts Natalie Even then the doubts about Richard's journey as she is enticed away drinking were never far from Ed and into LaraMargo's web, and there is an increasing sense of unease as events unfold. Add mind: ''she would never be able to this heady mix a few additional ingredients, a heatwave, an outdoor pool and a gaggle of teenagers, and you have a recipe for disasterleave him in charge''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405927321</amazonuk>Then Richard left them.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kit de Waal1914585402|title=My Name Dashboard Elvis is LeonDead|author=David F Ross|rating=4.5

|summary=Everything that is precious to Leon gets taken away. His Action Man toys, his home, his mum, and his brother. The world seems utterly unfair, and so he sneaks 20p here, and 50p there, out of peopleI reviewed David F Ross's book [[There's Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's purses, whilst building up Only One Danny Garvey]] a rucksack full couple of all the things he's going to need when he finds his baby brother, years back and remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and reunites his familyaffecting it was. Through all his planning he still manages to find enjoyment in small things, like It was a Curly Wurlygripping, or riding his bikeemotionally wounding read, or planting seeds with his new friends and rereading my review of it my main takeaway was that I might not have lavished enough praise on the allotments, but how will he cope when he finally faces the truth of his new life without his familyit.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241207088</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Rufi ThorpeLucy Ashe|title= Dear Fang, With LoveClara and Olivia|rating= 4|genre= General Fiction|summary= After seventeen year-old Vera's mental breakdown, her father Lucas takes her on a trip to the tiny Lithuanian town of Vilnius to recover and reconnect with their family history.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472152158</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Simon Bill|title= Artist in Residence|rating= 5

|summary= The nameless protagonist of artist Simon Billyear is 1933. The place? Sadler's first novel is almost instantly dislikeableWells. 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. HeBecause there's a slob with an alcohol problem whose endeavours in the art world appear lackadaisical and who seems to have behaved questionably to his ex-girlfriend Susanlot that builds a dancer. In his antiheroSome things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, Bill gives himself an uphill struggle attention to keep detail – and some things, that ''je ne sais quoi'', that don't come from the reader turning pages, let alone engage their sympathyclassroom. And yetA stage presence, Artist in Residence is a funnycharm, thoughta ''joie de vivre''. The difference between a hard-provokingworker, informative read which is all the more enjoyable for the mental and emotional demands it places on the readera star.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908745576</amazonuk>0861544080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Paul CornellHeather Fawcett|title= Who Killed Sherlock Holmes?|rating= 4.5|genre= Fantasy |summary=The Great Detecitve's ghost has walked LondonEmily Wilde's streets for an age, given shape by people's memories. Now someone's put a ceremonial dagger throug his chest. But what's the motive? And who - or what - could kill a ghost? When policing London's supernatural underworld, eliminating the impossible is not an option. DI James Quill and his detectives have learnt this the hard way. Gifted with the Sight, they'll pursue a criminial genius - who'll lure them into a Sherlockian maze Encyclopaedia of clues and evidence. The team also have thier own demons to fight. They've been to Hell and back (literally) but now the unit is falling apart...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447273265</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Veronica Henry|title=How to Find Love in a Book ShopFaeries

|summary=It Emily Wilde is with a heavy heart that Emilia Nightingale returns home an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life's work, the pretty Cotswold town very first encyclopaedia of Peasebrookfaeries. Her beloved father Julius has just passed away; his legacy Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, a well-loved bookshop that serves as a beating heart to the communityshe is not so good with people. Julius was loved by all: he always had time to listen to his customers and share a recuperative cuppa So when she finds herself far, far North in times the small village of need. HoweverHrafvsnik, having somehow offended the village matriarch, she is not sure what she has done, his finances were another matter entirely nor how to redeem herself and Emilia wonders how she can keep put her final investigations for her book back on the bookshop open with an ever-mounting pile of debtright track. Greedy property developer Ian Mendip would be only ''too'' happy to help out Enter Wendell Bambleby, but can Emilia really give up on her fatherdashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, much to Emily's dreamfrustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140914688X</amazonuk>0356519120

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|summary=Veronika Harper met Veronica Harper aged 8First of all, it was the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and this, in turn, form caused the start both deciding they'd stay firm friendsnuclear meltdown. Nika The result was complete and Roni did everything together including their beloved ballet… until something goes terribly wrongutter devastation. This leads to a series The deaths were uncountable, and the loss of events livelihoods was widespread. The fact that donmany pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of priorities but - six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. He wasn't just tear their friendship a dog person but also the lives they convenience store owner's comment that he would otherwise lead. They wish for invisibility call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and choose different ways to accomplish it for Tamon the sake of their survival; physical as well as emotionaldog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780893361</amazonuk>

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|summary=I do love to sit down with Christopher Bowden's latest novel is a patient untangling of a new book seemingly ordinary woman's life, carried out by AMS, her nephew after she has died. The aunt who always provided a safe harbour and the excitement was doubled on this occasion since a new standalone story meant lots little bit of brand new characters indulgence to meet, and also the book has a very intriguingly bizarre title! In this story we get to meet Paul, young nephew had had a food writer who, after a rather upsetting break-up with his girlfriend, heads much more interesting life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and it seems to Tuscany him an obligation to finish writing his bookfind it all out. So far, so normal, but of course things soon get a little unusual, beginning with Paul’s arrest on his arrival in Italy and moving swiftly on to the point where instead of a hire car he finds himself with a hired bulldozer…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846973554</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Grady HendrixJennifer Mason|title= My Best Friend's ExorcismPartitions of Unity|rating= 54|genre= HorrorGeneral Fiction|summary=1988Here at Bookbag Towers, Charlestonwe first met Elizabeth Cromwell, South Carolina. High school sophomores Abby dominatrix and unintentional detective in [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], when she investigated and Gretchen have been best friends since fourth grade. But after an evening unravelled a series of skinny-dipping goes disatrously wrong, Gretchen begins to act...differentdisappearances. SheIn 's moody. She's irritable. And bizarre incidents keep happening whenever shePartitions of Unity's nearby. Abby's investigation leads , she sets her mind to some startling discoveries - and by the time their story reaches its terrifying conclusion, the fate of Abby and Gretchen will be determined by solving a single question: Is their friendship enough to beat the devil?murder...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1594748624</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Frederic Dard and David Bellos (translator)Will Carver|title=Bird in a CageThe Daves Next Door|rating=54|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=A man returns 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 flat he grew up story is told in and where his mother died without his knowledgebackwards order, and finds it too desolate for leading up to the time of year it is – Christmas Evefateful moment. Bursting for more life|isbn= 1914585186}} {{Frontpage|author=Jennifer Mason|title=Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=''A struggling poetry zine, despite being a solitary charactermom-and-pop mobile diner in the Northern California redwoods, he goes to a restaurant400-meter hurdler who just missed the 2004 Olympics, and finds a connection women's track coach with a mother yen for bullwhips, a billionaire with her daughter. They dine, then go to the cinema, and sit together, and things happen from there – in a gentle, nostate-pressure, noof-namesthe-no-packdrill way. If this isn't art S&M dungeon, a reasonable start to man serving a novellalife sentence in Alabama, an enigmatic signature, K(s, consider the tag it has as x), on a noir classiccheap oil painting, an erotic art dealer in Georgia... And consider the fact the strange woman '' This is just a sample of the spitting image cast of characters and settings in Preposterous. As you can see, some keeping up will be required! The basic premise of the man's dead wife…this mystery story goes like this...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782271996</amazonuk>B09STS96HS