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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sabine DurrantJenny Lecoat|title= Lie with MeBeyond Summerland|rating=54

|summary= Paul is lots Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of thingsthe occupation. A writer. A famous name (or at least he During the war, Jean's father was arrested for listening to a few banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and her mother waiting for years ago). A bit for news of a snobhim. A cheapskate. A ladies' man. And a liar. Oh boy As the British finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, and the war is he a liar. He fibs, he exaggerates, he omits, he tells porkies. Not about the really big stufffinally over, nothing their hopes rise that they will hurt anyone, just a few mistruths to see finally learn what became of him through. It's for keeping up appearances But will the truth come as a relief, really.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>1473608333</amazonuk>1846976537

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andy JonesOnyi Nwabineli|title=The Trouble with Henry and ZoeAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=34.5

|summary= Stop Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for a moment sponsorships and influencer deals and look down at your belly, basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the centre you should have something that looks a little bit like a buttoncontent about her. It may be an innieAnuri is battling alcoholism, or an outiefailing to start her PhD, but just consider it undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for a few momentsdoing so. Do you feel better? NopeMost importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, you shouldnwho is the new focus of Ophelia't do as all that navel-gazing does is make you over think thingss online empire. HoweverCan she save her sister, without and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the concept a million romantic books would never be written as without the human compulsion to destroy things around them, how can any tension arisesame time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471142469</amazonuk>0861546873

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Carol Shields1529153298|title= The Republic of Love|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction|summary= The Republic of Love is a mesh-like novel, peopled with a huge cast of characters interwoven in familial, friendly, neighbourly and romantic relationships. Winnipeg, the city in which virtually all the action in Shield's novel takes place, ties them together. The story follows two single, thirty-something characters, Fay and Tom, who live opposite each other and have a complicated array List of mutual acquaintances but don't know each other. Shields alternates between their two points of view as they are slowly drawn together. This is a domestic novel in the best sense; there is a focus on the beauty and mundanity of ordinary people's unremarkable lives in an unexceptional city, from Fay's satisfaction in the pop sound and toasted crumb smell of her twin slice toaster, to Tom's ungainly Saturday morning jogs. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>9462380899</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewSuspicious Things|author= Penny Parkes|title= Out of PracticeJennie Godfrey|rating= 4|genre= General Fiction|summary=In a last-ditch attempt to save her failing marriage, GP Holly Graham relocates to the charming village of Larkford with her family to work at the local practice. She finds life as a village doctor very different to her previous role in a busy city hospital, and falls in love with the close-knit community and its quirky residents. But just as Larkford is beginning to feel like home, Holly is hit by a bombshell that threatens to destroy everything she has worked so hard to achieve. Can she rise to the challenge and fight for what she loves? Maybe she will discover something about herself in the process.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471153045</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Steven Rowley|title=Lily and the Octopus|rating=45

|summary=Meet Ted FlaskIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A middle-agedwoman? I mean, gay Los Angelinohonestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, he has the one love of his lifethough. While the fall-out of relationships with men sends him to therapy, he can rely on Lily, the DachshundWomen have been disappearing. TheyWell, they've been together through thick and thinmurdered, ever since the little pup – the runt, no less – seemed but to pick Ted outhave 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. TedMiv's sisterupset because she's unusual marriage was almost marred by Lily being under overheard that her father wants to move the surgeonfamily 'Down South's knife, at great expense – but on the whole they have life sorted. He tries to writeWhen you're from Yorkshire, but Friday night Down South is board gamesa frightening, Saturday night is movie nightforeign place, and Sunday night is pizza nightbest avoided. OhFor Miv, and yesthe move would mean leaving her best friend, Lily talks to TedSharon, either in ''FULLY! CAPITALISED! EVER! EXCLAMATORY! BARKS!and she'll do anything to prevent that. She' s not worried about the dangers or in regular speech. Oh, and yes, Lily has an octopus on that her headMum's stopped talking - to anyone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471154343</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julie Cohen1035906708|title=FallingDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5

|summary=Here is the story We tend to think of three womenMaria Callas as Greek, from three generations within the same family. There is Jobut she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, a forty year old single mother whose first husband diedNew York, in December 1923 and whose second husband ran off with their nanny. She is left caring for her older teenage daughter, Lydia, and her two little ones, Oscar and Iris, whilst harbouring a secret that she feels only moved to Athens when she cannot share with anyonewas thirteen. Her daughter Lydia is the second female character, and as well as the usual teenage angst she is also dealing with grief, still, over original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father's death, anger with her mother for her second disastrous marriage, and her own very difficult secret that she is unable changed it to talk to anyone about. Finally there's Honor who is JoCallas's mother to make it more manageable in law, the mother of Jo's first husband, StephenStates. Honor has a fall, breaks her hip, and is forced to move When she was back in with Jo Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a time as she has no one else mother who can help mercilessly exploited her. She too is hiding a and made no secret from the world, and as you read the story you begin to wonder if any of these characters actually know who the others areher preference for her elder sister, and if any of them will ever start telling the truthJackie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784160636</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jenn AshworthAlexander McCall Smith|title=FellThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5

|summary=Now her parents have diedThe Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, Annette returns to sell her old childhood home but there's work run by Ness and operating as an alternative to do on all the decrepit building firstonline apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. As Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she wanders around could come and tries look after the business, as Ness is planning to make some order take a 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 overgrown shambleschance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, she's watched by bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the ghost of her motherIsabel Dalhousie novels, Netty; a spirit but with regretssome new characters who quickly begin to charm. Netty reminisces about AnnetteKatie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's childhood always her very helpful (and the turning point their lives reached when the mysterious healer Timothy Richardson came rather handsome) neighbour, William, to stay. It was lend a time that promised so much but one for which Netty now needs to make amends, even if she is beyond the grave.hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473630606</amazonuk>1846976596

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jill CimentDean Koontz|title= Act of GodThe Bad Weather Friend|rating= 4.5|genre= General FictionParanormal|summary=''Act of God'' Benny is having a story about two ageing twins who find terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a worrying mushroom growing in their cupboardreally 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 landlady searching nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the spotlight and delivery to his house is a new friend, a Russian immigrant whose greatest fear bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is insignificanceclearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. What the insurance company describes as an act Spike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of God brings their already overlappedBenny's enemies, if he, Benny, Brooklyn lives in to sharper focusand Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are. What do you do when disaster threatens? Is it survival of the fittest or should we love thy neighbour? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782272119</amazonuk>1662500491

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Fredrik BackmanKatherine Howe|title=Britt-Marie Was HereA True Account|rating=4.5

|summary= Brett-Marie has never met Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to live with a family who run an inn, and being made to work there from a kitchen young age. When she doesn't want hears there is to be a hanging of some pirates in the town, she decides to cleango and watch. In fact, permanently armed with bicarbonate of soda Enthralled and window cleanerhorrified in equal measure, sheHannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's always ready to clean anythingdeath at the hands of two vicious pirates. Her husband Kent is an entrepreneurShe hides away, so that they don't find and kill her too, you knowand then to escape them completely she runs away to sea, with excellent taste dressing as a boy and expensive clothesjoining the notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. Yet here she She soon finds herself in the thick of things when there is, in Borg, a rundown small townmutiny on board, and from there we are caught up in search her rip roaring tale of her first job for 40 years. Life takes some odd turns sometimeslife on the ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473617200</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rodrigo Hasbun and Sophie Hughes (translator)1471180158|title=AffectionsMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes

|summary=If you thought your teenaged years were Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's a struggle to work out control freak with all the world, and yourself, consider that subtlety of Heidi Ertla half brick. Or either of her sisters – this book serves as a sort of tribute to these three real-life womenJamie's son, and the lives that came out of their very disjointed youthBo, forced to be rarefied from the norm by their family uprooting'has his problems'. Father Hans was one of Leni RiefenstahlHe's key cameramen, asthmatic and a Nazi military photographerthe more you read, before taking the whole family into post-war exile in Boliviamore you'll suspect that he's on the autistic spectrum. Their mother would have followed him Sometimes Jamie needs to the ends of the earth – as take time off at short notice - she's a frequent flier in part would their daughters, the older two of which start the book by joining him on an expedition local A&E and sometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to discover a lost Incan cityschool. Heidi finds young, instant love Missed shifts or the need to be away on the trek – but sees the dark side of such emotions, too. Older sister Monika, who might well time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be manic depressive, finds something else, while controlled and put in the baby of the family stays at home with a maudlin motherwrong. So much here could be the hook on which It was going to come to hang a full novel, but if anything it's the reaction of them all to this unusual formative journey that inspires this bookhead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782272135</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jemma WayneB0CKD1L5JL|title= Chains of SandRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn|rating= 4|genre= General Fiction|summary= Chains of Sand Petr is a great read about familyan orphan. Rescued by the strange, faithreclusive Bear, survivalhe is brought up far from bustling cities and busy human society, and love. It follows in the story forests of two young men: Udi a veteran of the Israeli army who longs for Washington's Olympic Peninsula. After Bear dies and a new future brief sojourn in Londonhuman company, and Danielarmed with only a pirate radio transmitter, Petr goes on a London banker unsatisfied with his life and yearning for something more. The story focuses on their desires to change their lives by moving to different worlds and how this impacts their relationships with friends and family. As journey through the story unfoldsforest, broadcasting the two protagonists' histories are slowly uncovered and they both have to overcome the difficulties in their new lives in order to achieve their dreams. Meanwhilestrange, the fate of star-crossed love between a Jewish girl wild and an Arabic man in Jerusalem a decade earlier intertwines with Daniel's life, complicating all that rarely heard voices he thinks has become clearencounters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785079727</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Marie-Sabine RogerSarah Marsh|title= Soft in the HeadA Sign of Her Own|rating= 43.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= This novel will make you smile. It's After a bout of scarlet fever as a feel-good storychild, unusual in its premise and originalEllen Lark loses her hearing. Germaine is Suddenly plunged into a 45 year old man who is illiterateworld of silence, everything about her life changes. He has Living in a group of drinking friends who frequently make him time when the butt use of their jokessign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a mother who calls him a 'half-wit'school where she is taught to lip read, amongst other thingsbut physically restrained from signing. From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and using a girlfriend whom he appears afraid of committing tosystem called Visible Speech. Germain spends many afternoons in At the parksame time, counting pigeons Bell is working on other inventions and writing his name among the dead of the war memorial. It is here that he meets Margueritteideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a tiny 85 year old woman who tells him she also counts the pigeonscomplicated tangle of espionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782271589</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Gregory MaguireB0BC3YTCMR|title= After AliceGood Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira|rating= 4.5|genre= FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary=When Alice fell down the rabbit hole''This story is not for everyone.'' Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of her fifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. She was a very bright student, a bit too nerdy if truth be told, she found Wonderland as rife with inconsistent rule and abrasive egos as the world she left behind. But how did Victorian Oxford react suffered from vitiligo - people were afraid to Alicehug her in case it's departure? When Alicecontagious. It's friend Ada, mentioned briefly in ''Alice in Wonderland'' sets out to visit Alice, not easy being a black girl whose 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 arrives a minute too latewould tutor him. Tumbling down the rabbit hole herself, She readily agreed: tutoring was something she embarks on gladly did at church: this was just an odyssey extension. She went to find Alice his house and bring he raped her safely . In shock, she even allowed him to give her a lift home from this surreal world below the world. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472230469</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Isabel Allende1472263936|title= The Japanese LoverFigurine|author=Victoria Hislop|rating= 45|genre= General Fiction|summary= The Japanese Lover is an unassuming novel. The beginning leads the reader It was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to anticipate an enjoyable light read, a good holiday book perhaps – a very well plotted story with an interesting cast of characters and settingsGreece. Irena She was alone: her mother, a Moldovan girl with elfin looks and a passion for fantasy novelsGreek by birth, starts working in bohemian care had left the family home Lark House in San Francisco. She meets the stately and somewhat aloof Alma Belasco, whose story starts refused to unravelreturn, beginning with but Mary and Hamish (Helena's parents) felt that it would be a pity if Helena grew up without knowing her being brought over from Poland (just as Jews became increasingly vulnerable grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. Her trip to the Nazis) family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be the first of several annual visits. She grew to love her wealthy aunt grandmother and uncle in Cliff House, San Franciscothe family's maid, as a little girl. Allende almost makes us think that this opening toneDina, entertaining but fairly shallowwas wary - and frightened - of her grandfather, will continue for the rest retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. He was proud of his close connections to the novelJunta and expected his family to uphold his values but saw no reason to accommodate them. His prejudices included Helena's red hair and green eyes - inherited from her father's Scottish ancestors.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471152197</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Midge RaymondDean Koontz|title= My Last ContinentAfter Death|rating= 4.53|genre= General Fiction|summary=Only at the end of the worldMichael Mace, among the glaciers and icebergs Head of AntarcticaSecurity, do Deb and Keller feel at homea top secret biological research facility, is among 55 people who die when a virus is released in a bio-hazard accident. For Finding himself in a few blissful weeks each year they study the habits of penguinsmakeshift mortuary, finding solace in their work and covered in each other. Yet Antarcticaplastic, like their romancehe has a sense that something very, is imperilled by the world very bad has happened to him – and only him – as he sits up and looks around at the northshrouded bodies of his dead friends and former colleagues. A new season has begun 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 Grave Listeners|author=William Frank|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=The village is isolated and poor. It's surrounded by a Witching Forest. And the two play tour guide to villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicines. The black wood of the passengers forest provides heat and warmth, roofs on homes, and even gallows, if needed. The fear of being buried alive is an existential superstition in the expedition ship village and that ferries them to their research destination. But when Keller fails to appearis the reason Volushka, Deb has to consider new feelings of lovea drunken, lossself-indulgent, and lazy lout of a voyage deep into both the Antarctic, and the human heartman is tolerated. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1501124706</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Leah FlemingB0BYF82CXT|title=The Last PearlSemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone

|summary=''I always thinkBill and Amanda are living in a semi-detached house, without the grit there would be no pearl. Sorrows have stuck in a way depressing rut of strengthening the heartboredom and disappointment, never forget thatwhen Terry and Fiona – glamorous, child.'' Greta Costello lives successful and very much in love – move in poverty with her mother and siblings and must work as a skivvy to put bread next door. Despite their different outlooks on life, the table. She manages couples befriend each other and life appears to find some joy in her work though, especially in her 'Sabbath' job working improve for a kindly old widowed Jewboth pairs. The two become friends and he offers to take her on as his apprenticeBut all is not what it seems, stringing pearls. Could this highly-skilled job be her key to a better life? At the same time, many miles away in Scotland, Jem Baillie 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 summerwhen Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the island. Rachel wasn't exactly innocent but she was, perhaps, naive, school is outso when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to take an interest in her, the days are longshe was flattered rather than wary. It was quite a while before he made any sort of physical approach to her and by that time she was obsessed by him. Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, looking after his interests on the bumblebees are big and blousy island and in particular in the allotment bar where Clover helps her dad with all the vegetables needs weeding and wateringgirls either worked or partied.}}{{Frontpage|author=Amanda Craig|title=Three Graces|rating=4. She likes 5|genre=General Fiction|summary= Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of-the allotment; it helps her think-nation novel. This summer, Clover is going to unravel There's something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the mystery atmosphere of her motherthe day and capture it, Becky Brookfield and work out what makes her father so sad. All crafting an image of the timecountry as it stands in one particular moment. ItTo say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's hard to be practically synonymous with the genre of contemporary social fiction at this point. She has such a kid with gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the day into the lives of her characters in a dead motherway that feels natural and lived-in, never making them ciphers for social commentary but Clover thinks it's even harder to be dad instead fully realised people, grappling with a dead wifeissues far larger than themselves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091959608</amazonuk>140871468X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Simon Van Booy152915118X|title= Father's DayPineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=When devastating news shatters ''Pineapple Street'' is the life story of six year old Harveythree 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 finds herself in 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 care of Pineapple Street property. Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to another property, a veteran social workerstreet or so away, Wandawhich they own. They won't need any of the furniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and alone Cord can move straight in the world save for one relative she has never met - a disabled ex-con. Nominally, haunted by they had a violent past he canchoice but that wasn't escapethe reality. Moving between past Darley and present, FatherGeorgiana start to call Sasha 's Day weaves together the story of Harveygold digger'. She's childhood on Long Island, and her life as a young woman living in Paris''their'' family home. They use it so often that they abbreviate it to 'the GD'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780749694</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Angela LambertEmily Critchley|title=Kiss and KinOne Puzzling Afternoon

|summary=ItThe love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O's six months since the death of Harriet Capel's husband GeorgeLeary was all-consuming, apparently on both sides. Looking back she's concluded that she Margo was fond of, but probably not ''just sixteen when they fell in love'', with him. They had two sons Richard was twenty-one and itdescribed by Margo's the elder of these, Roderick whomother as 'an older man's married to Jennifer. They have three children, but thereHer parents worried that Richard's been influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and having a rather silly feud between glittering career. In the Capels event, they eloped and Jennifer's family, Richard took her away from the Gaunts, which dates back Isle of Wight. Margo did go to Oxford and went on to the become a well-respected journalist. The couple's weddinghad three children: Rachel, when Clarissa GauntImogen and Sasha. Life was lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, Jennifer's mother said something unpleasant in the church which dropped into one family home on the Isle of those silences which always occur when you say something which you really shouldn'tWight. Honours (or should it be Even then the doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: 'dishonours'she would never be able to leave him in charge'?) were even when George Capel later said something crass and vulgar about the bride's mother and was overheard.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1861514301</amazonuk>Then Richard left them.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Liz Fenwick1914585402|title= Under a Cornish SkyDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross|rating= 34.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=I reviewed David F Ross's book [[There's Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There'Under s Only One Danny Garvey]] a Cornish Sky'' is the story couple of two very different women who are forced to work together to complete a common goal. Their personalities couldn't be more different, so expect fireworks along the way! Shy Demi is as timid as a mouse years back and remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and although she is a skilled architect, she is never able to succeed in her career because others take credit for her workaffecting it was. In relationships, she is easily manipulated into doing things she doesn't always feel comfortable with; It was a fact that is not lost on her sleazy current boyfriend, Matt. Lady-of-the-Manor Victoria, on the other handgripping, simply oozes self confidence. Although she is in her sixtiesemotionally wounding read, she has the body of a much younger woman and has no trouble getting men to do exactly what she wants. Despite a long list rereading my review of younger lovers providing a pleasurable distraction, her one true love is the family home of Boscawen, a glorious estate set in the picturesque Cornish countryside, it my main takeaway was that I might not far from the seahave lavished enough praise on it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409148289</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Alison UmmingerLucy Ashe|title= My Favourite Manson GirlClara and Olivia|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Fifteen The year old Anna has had an excruciating year, topped off with new stepparents and a new schoolis 1933. So she ''borrows'' her familyThe place? Sadler's credit cardWells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, and runs away to LA to crash with her sistertwins no less. But Hollywood isn't Identical on the escape she needsoutside but not, and it soon dawns we learn, on the inside. And not on her: shestage, either. Because there's trapped in a town full of lost souls lot that builds a dancer. Some things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, attention to detail – and wannabessome things, with no friendsthat ''je ne sais quoi'', no cash and no return ticketthat don't come from the classroom. When her sister's obsessive ex offers her A stage presence, a job researching the murderous Manson girls for his next indie filmcharm, she accepts – albeit reluctantlya ''joie de vivre''. This is not quite the summer Anna had in mind; but the more she learns about the girls and her fateThe difference between a hard-worker, the more she comes to understand her family – and herselfa star. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472150848</amazonuk>0861544080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Louise CandlishHeather Fawcett|title=The Swimming PoolEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

|summary=''The Swimming Pool'' Emily Wilde is the story of a woman - Natalie - whose eyes are dazzled by a glamorous couple who live nearby. Natalie and husband Ed have a 13-year-old daughter, Mollyan expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and are the kind of parents you'd steer clear of at the school gates for fear of offending their politically correct sensibilities. Molly she has a phobia of water. Rather than keep her away from rivers travelled extensively, and poolsresearched meticulously, they subject to write her to a childhood of therapy. They keep up with changes to Mollylife's phone code so they can check up on her messages. They don't believe in private education and they eat nutritionally supplemented pizzas. Louise Candlish pokes delicious fun at this couplework, particularly at dull-as-ditchwater Ed whose moral rectitude stifles poor Natalie, desperate to break out the very first encyclopaedia of her mouldfaeries. Enter Lara Channing. Lara Whilst she is a champion synchronised swimmer and former starlet. Her beauty, wealth brilliant at research and warmth have a magnetic attraction for Natalie who proves powerless speaking to resist Lara's charmsfaeries, although she is less sure not so good with people. So when she finds herself far, far North in the small village of Lara's enigmatic husbandHrafvsnik, having somehow offended the village matriarch, Miles. The novel charts Natalie's journey as she is enticed away from Ed and into Lara's webnot sure what she has done, nor how to redeem herself and there is an increasing sense of unease as events unfoldput her final investigations for her book back on the right track. Add to this heady mix a few additional ingredients Enter Wendell Bambleby, a heatwaveher dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, an outdoor pool all charm and a gaggle of teenagersdelight, and you have a recipe for disastermuch 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>1405927321</amazonuk>0356519120

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kit de Waal1398515388|title=My Name is LeonThe Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating=4.5

|summary=Everything that is precious to Leon gets taken away. His Action Man toysFirst of all, his homeit was the earthquake, his mumdeep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and his brotherthis, in turn, caused the nuclear meltdown. The world seems utterly unfair, result was complete and so he sneaks 20p hereutter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, and 50p there, out the loss of livelihoods was widespread. The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of peoplepriorities but - six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. He wasn's purses, whilst building up t a rucksack full of all dog person but the things heconvenience store owner's going comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to need when he finds open his baby brother, car door and reunites his family. Through all his planning he still manages to find enjoyment Tamon the dog jumped in small things, like a Curly Wurly, or riding his bike, or planting seeds with his new friends on the allotments, but how will he cope when he finally faces the truth of his new life without his family.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241207088</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author= Rufi ThorpeChristopher Bowden|title= Dear Fang, With LoveMr Magenta|rating= 4|genre= General Fiction|summary= After seventeen year-old VeraChristopher Bowden's latest novel is a patient untangling of a seemingly ordinary woman's mental breakdownlife, carried out by her father Lucas takes her on nephew after she has died. The aunt who always provided a safe harbour and a trip to the tiny Lithuanian town little bit of Vilnius indulgence to recover a young nephew had had a much more interesting life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and reconnect with their family historyit seems to him an obligation to find it all out.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472152158</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Simon BillJennifer Mason|title= Artist in ResidencePartitions of Unity|rating= 54

|summary= The nameless protagonist of artist Simon Bill's Here at Bookbag Towers, we first novel is almost instantly dislikeable. He's a slob with an alcohol problem whose endeavours met Elizabeth Cromwell, dominatrix and unintentional detective in the art world appear lackadaisical [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], when she investigated and who seems to have behaved questionably to his ex-girlfriend Susanunravelled a series of disappearances. In his antihero''Partitions of Unity'', Bill gives himself an uphill struggle she sets her mind to keep the reader turning pages, let alone engage their sympathysolving a murder.. And yet, Artist in Residence is a funny, thought-provoking, informative read which is all the more enjoyable for the mental and emotional demands it places on the reader.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908745576</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Paul CornellWill Carver|title= Who Killed Sherlock Holmes?The Daves Next Door|rating= 4|genre=General Fiction|summary= Five strangers come together in one moment as a suicide bomber prepares to detonate his vest on a London tube line. As their fates overlap, the story is told in backwards order, leading up to the fateful moment.5|isbn= 1914585186}} {{Frontpage|author=Jennifer Mason|title=Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery|rating=4|genre= Fantasy General Fiction|summary=The Great Detecitve's ghost has walked London'A struggling poetry zine, a mom-and-pop mobile diner in the Northern California redwoods, a 400-meter hurdler who just missed the 2004 Olympics, a women's streets track coach with a yen for an agebullwhips, given shape by people's memories. Now someone's put a ceremonial dagger throug his chest. But what's billionaire with a state-of-the motive? And who - or what - could kill art S&M dungeon, a man serving a ghost? When policing London'life sentence in Alabama, an enigmatic signature, K(s supernatural underworld, eliminating the impossible is not x), on a cheap oil painting, an optionerotic art dealer in Georgia.. 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  This is just a Sherlockian maze sample of clues the cast of characters and evidencesettings in Preposterous. As you can see, some keeping up will be required! The team also have thier own demons to fight. They've been to Hell and back (literally) but now the unit is falling apartbasic premise of this mystery story goes like this...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447273265</amazonuk>B09STS96HS