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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah Bourne Jenny Lecoat|title=Two LivesBeyond Summerland|rating=3.54
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|summary=One late afternoon in January 2012, Emma Elliot and Loretta Davidson's Jean lives collide – along on Jersey with their cars. Both her mother where they are running late and driving too fast along this Surrey road. Emma is unharmed and flees celebrating the scene. Little does she know that this incident will have long-term consequences further down end of the lineoccupation. For Loretta, During the effects are more immediate. A social worker in her fortieswar, she has taken Jean's father was arrested for listening to a career break to raise her banned radio and Martin's beloved son Ethansoldiers took him away one night, born after an arduous IVF cycle just over four leaving Jean and her mother waiting for years agofor news of him. Ethan is in critical condition after As the British finally free the Channel islands from the car accident Nazis, and dies during surgery. In her griefthe war is finally over, Loretta turns to Scotch and Valium and drifts away from her husband and their familieshopes 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?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1505233682</amazonuk>1846976537
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Val HennessyOnyi Nwabineli|title=Not Far From DreamlandAllow Me to Introduce Myself
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|summary=Ronald Tonks has reached that stage in life which I call upper middle age: you've qualified for your pension but not yet got Anuri spent her childhood on display to the free television licence barrier. What Ronald world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia''has'' got is a roof that leaks (theres increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's good reason why his home is called 'the shack')childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, a dog who monetary gain. Now Anuri is going bald (in patches) her twenties and money that's in very short supplyshe is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the content about her. On the plus side he has friendsAnuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, mostly platonic undergoing therapy and usually in much the same boat as Ronaldsecretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. But are they downhearted? WellMost importantly, they are occasionallyshe is desperately worried about her little sister, but mostly they're generously optimistic and out to make who is the most new focus of what theyOphelia've got, usually bought from charity shops and jumble saless online empire. ''Not Far From Dreamland'' is the story of a year (2012) in the life of Ronald TonksCan she save her sister, his friends and relatives.perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0704373874</amazonuk>0861546873
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jo McMillan1529153298|title=Motherland: A NovelThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=4.5
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|summary=Jess It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is a teenage Communist which isnPrime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv't a surprise since she comes from a Communist s family, though. Women have been disappearing. Her late father was a card carrying member and Jess spends her weekends selling Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'The Morning Stardisappeared'doesn' with her equally enthused mother Eleanort sound quite so frightening. ItMiv's not only a thankless task, itupset because she's not a very welcome sight for some citizens in their native Tamworth of overheard that her father wants to move the 1970sfamily 'Down South'. However Eleanor and JessWhen you' lives are about to changere from Yorkshire, thanks to an all-expenses paid trip to the GDR – Communist East Germany; Down South is a frightening, foreign place on , best avoided. For Miv, the same side of the Berlin Wall as Jess' move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and Eleanorshe's heartsll do anything to prevent that. However, they both learn She's not worried about the dangers or that even a political heaven has its lessons and, indeed, its downsideher Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473611997</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Eve Chase1035906708|title= Black Rabbit Hall|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction|summary=At Black Rabbit Hall, time goes “syrupy slow.” None of the clocks work properly, but an hour at Black Rabbit is said to last twice as long as a London one, and you don't get a quarter of the things done. Every holiday, the Alton family swap the hustle and bustle of London life for this secluded Cornish retreat, a place that is theirs and theirs alone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718182979</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewDiva|author=Michelle Miller|title=The UnderwritingDaisy Goodwin|rating=4.5
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|summary= Todd Kent is youngWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, richbut she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, stupidly handsomeNew York, in December 1923 and well on his way only moved to the top of Wall StreetAthens when she was thirteen. When a new dating app called “Hook” decides Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to go public, Todd is handpicked by Hook’s eccentric founder 'Callas' to lead make it more manageable in the project teamStates. Taking brainy analyst Neha, spoilt party When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice -boy Beau, and old flame Tara Taylor with him – she was raised under the team find themselves thrust into the hectic circumstances of Nazi occupation by a $14 Billion deal. As Silicon Valley mother who mercilessly exploited her and Wall Street clashmade no secret of her preference for her elder sister, the death of a young girl will find the team at odds with each other – and spinning wildly out of controlJackie. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1922182974</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Alena GraedonAlexander McCall Smith|title= The Word ExchangePerfect Passion Company|rating= 34.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=Welcome to the world of the ''Meme''; the next-generation mobile device. Imagine technology so sophisticated that it could anticipate your needs as soon as they come into your mind. Need to get home? Your Meme will hail a cab. Feeling unwell? The Meme has an app for that. Negative thoughts? The Meme will intercede on your behalf to call family and friends or even 911, if needed. Yes, the Meme is a truly indispensable aid that has revolutionised the way that humans communicate. Critics say that it's destroying human language and verbal interaction, but don't worry: the Meme has an app for that too. If you are lost for words, the ''Word Exchange'' will supply you with the word you require. For a small fee of course...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780225628</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Cornelius Medvei|title=The Making of Mr Bolsover|rating=4
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|summary=Meet Andrew Lynch. He's 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 graduate civil servantmore personal, then he isn'ttailored service. He's marriedNess has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, then he isn't. He's as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a librarian, then he isn’twhile. He starts, Katie is coming out of all things, to live in a handmade camp in the Sussex countryside, and gets break up with a job writing nature notes for a local magazine – until it's clear he's shootingbad boyfriend, killing and eating too many of his subjects for his audience's tastesso jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. He turns his efforts And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to writing politicised letters an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the local newspaperIsabel Dalhousie novels, where his nephew is but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a jobbing hackbusiness, which inspires furtheror in match-making, more campaigning activities. Yesbut Ness has full confidence in her abilities, it seems that Andrew Lynchand there's path always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to the top is foretold – but his fate is most definitely anything but natural…lend a hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099548690</amazonuk>1846976596
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alison Jean LesterDean Koontz|title=Lillian on LifeThe Bad Weather Friend
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|genre=General FictionParanormal|summary=Lillian Benny is in her late fiftieshaving a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, single and childless but you shouldn't - for his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a moment really weird, disturbing coffin- allow yourself sized object to think his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that she has a rather sad life. trashed his house! She's lived through periods of tremendous change in post-war MunichThe thing is, Paris, London and she's now come Benny is the very last person to rest, smart and independent, in New Yorkdeserve all this bad luck. Born in He is a time when nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the expectations of her parents - and of society - were fairly standard as delivery to what his house is a new friend, a woman should do with her lifebad weather friend called Spike, she seems always who has been sent to have had help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a sense that she would disappoint both if she was to be true to herselfgood person. She's hot blooded and sexually uninhibited Spike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly ahead take care of her time in her views. When we first meet her sheBenny's waking up next to her married lover enemies, if he, Benny, and taking stock of her life. Amongst other thingsHarper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848549520</amazonuk>1662500491
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robert CromptonKatherine Howe|title=BunderlinA True Account
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|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=As Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to live with a child Martin had been fascinated family who run an inn, and entranced by his neighbour Mrs Bundy's household menageriebeing made to work there from a young age. Her son Peter was When she hears there too but on is to be a hanging of some pirates in the periphery; Martin was just there town, she decides to visit the animalsgo and watch. In adulthood their paths cross again but this time Peter Bunderlin (as heEnthralled and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's now known) isndeath at the hands of two vicious pirates. She hides away, so that they don't so easy find and kill her too, and then to escape them completely she runs away to avoid – sea, dressing as a boy and Martinjoining the notorious Ned Low's tried! pirate ship as a cabin boy. Perhaps if Martin could understand what She soon finds herself in the heck Peter thick of things when there is a mutiny on board, and from there we are caught up to?in her rip roaring tale of life on the ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784078549</amazonuk>0861547438
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eve Makis1471180158|title=The Spice Box LettersMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes
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|summary=KaterinaJamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's Armenian grandmother Mariam dies leaving her and her mother a journal in Armenian and control freak with all the subtlety of a spice box full of mysterious lettershalf brick. Jamie's son, Bo, 'has his problems'. TheyHe're special s asthmatic and the more you read, the more you'll suspect that he's on the autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to them both because theytake time off at short notice - she're s a frequent flier in the legacy of a much loved relative but totally indecipherable local A&E and sometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to the monolingually English pairschool. However a holiday abroad Missed shifts or the need to be away on time to get over a recent break pick Bo up brings a random encounter for Katerinafrom school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the wrong. When Katerina meets Ara she also meets the key It was going to come to her grandmother's secret pasta head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910124087</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert CromptonB0CKD1L5JL|title=Leaving GileadRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn
|rating=4
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|summary=Tom Sparrow finally does what he's always dreamt of: buying Petr is an orphan. Rescued by the former Ridley house near his old childhood home. As Tom explores strange, reclusive Bear, he finds his new house isn't the only link with his past. There's something is brought up far from bustling cities and busy human society, in the outhouse that takes him back to the days forests of young love and Susan, the RidleyWashington's daughterOlympic Peninsula. She had been raised After Bear dies and a brief sojourn in her parents' prohibitive faith as human company, and armed with only a Gilead Jehovah's Witness which didn't seem pirate radio transmitter, Petr goes on a problem to them but they were young journey through the forest, broadcasting the strange, wild and experience wasn't on their side…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784077623</amazonuk>rarely heard voices he encounters.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Emma CraigieSarah Marsh|title= What Was Never Said A Sign of Her Own|rating=43.5
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|summary= This story is narrated by ZahraAfter a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a teenage girl who spends world of silence, everything about her early years life changes. Living in her home country a time when the use of Somalia before her family move sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to the UK a school where she is taught to escape civil warlip read, but physically restrained from signing. Inevitably From here, some traditions travel with them and she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the novel Zahra recounts her efforts to protect herself deaf and her younger sister, Samsam, against FGM, using a practice that claimed system called Visible Speech. At the life of her older sister in Somalia several years previously. Zahra intersperses her account with flashbacks to Somalia same time, Bell is working on other inventions and the civil war that drove them awayideas, thus giving and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a clear picture complicated tangle of the trials that she and her family have facedespionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178072179X</amazonuk>1035401614
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= David FinkleB0BC3YTCMR|title= The Man With The OvercoatGood Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira|rating= 34.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=''Why would anyone - he This story is not for everyone.'' Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of her fifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. She was soon to ask himself innumerable times - take a coat very bright student, a bit too nerdy if truth be told, and suffered from a complete stranger only because vitiligo - people were afraid to hug her in case it had been offered?'s contagious. It' s not easy being a black girl whose skin is 84% white. Skip Gerber steps off the elevator after She had a long day at work; the foyer of his office building is busy and buzzy and crush on seventeen-year-old Reggie Anderson but never thought he does not would notice the man holding the overcoat until the man hands it to Skip telling him to ''take her. Then he did: Lavender was very good care of it''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. Skip unthinkingly grasps the coat and before he has the chance She went to realise what he is doing - his house and that he is now holding an overcoat of unknown providence - the man disappears out of the exit door raped her. In shock, she even allowed him to the buildinggive her a lift home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0992618525</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fredrik Backman1472263936|title=My Grandmother Sends Her Regards and ApologisesThe Figurine|author=Victoria Hislop
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|summary=''Every 7-year-old needs a superheroIt was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. ThatShe was alone: her mother, Greek by birth, had left the family home and refused to return, but Mary and Hamish (Helena's just how parents) felt that it is…'' would be a pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. Her trip to the family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be the first of several annual visits. She grew to love her grandmother and for Elsa itthe family's maid, Dina, but was wary - and frightened - of her Grangrandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. When Gran dies, Elsa is surprised He was proud of his close connections to the Junta and devastatedexpected his family to uphold his values but saw no reason to accommodate them. Granny canHis prejudices included Helena't be old s red hair and green eyes - Elsa has only known inherited from her for 7 years! Elsa still has to carry out Granfather's last wish though; there are letters to be delivered and with each delivery Elsa learns something more about Gran the person behind Gran the superheroScottish ancestors. Will it enforce her hero status or destroy it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444775839</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Neil SmithDean Koontz|title=BooAfter Death|rating=53|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 Grave Listeners|author=William Frank|rating=4
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|summary=Oliver Dalrymple The village is deadisolated and poor. It's surrounded by a Witching Forest. He realised this And the moment he woke up in villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicines. The black wood of the rebirthing bed. His friends forest provides heat and tormentors had always called him Boo because of his ghostly pale complexion warmth, roofs on homes, and now he's finally earned the nickname fullyeven gallows, if needed. What he hasn't realised The fear of being buried alive is the way in which he died; he thinks he died of holey heart problems an existential superstition in front of his locker while reciting the periodic table. The location village and that is correct butthe reason Volushka, meeting Johnny (an equally dead former classmate) revealsa drunken, he was actually murdered. What's worseself-indulgent, their murderer has been spotted there in 13 year olds' heavenlazy lout of a man is tolerated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434023493</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Minette WaltersB0BYF82CXT|title= CellarSemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone
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|summary= To my mind, ''The Dark Room'' is the most perfect psychological thriller ever written (Bill and I've read lots Amanda are living in this genre). In her later worksa semi-detached house, Minette Walters seemed to veer away from this particular path to glory as her novels became steadily darker stuck in a depressing rut of boredom and with increasingly dislikeable characters. So it was quite refreshing to discover that ''The Cellar'' was written from the point of view of a rather likeable protagonist. Muna is an African child living indisappointment, shall we saywhen Terry and Fiona – glamorous, somewhat unusual successful and very cruel conditions: she was stolen and now lives much in captivity. Her voice is compelling and from the first page I found myself wanting her to make good her escape from the dreadful - and sadly all too believable - circumstances love – move in which she finds herselfnext door. SoDespite their different outlooks on life, naturally, I admired her cunning the couples befriend each other and resourcefulness, knowing that these attributes would serve her welllife appears to improve for both pairs. But, of course, this is Minette Walters and nothing all is as simple as not what it first appears. As the story unfolded I found myself questioning who exactly were the victims seems, and who, if anyone, was innocenttheir increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099594641</amazonuk>''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Naomi NovikShalini Boland|title=Uprooted|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Many years ago, in a village deep in Eastern Europe, the locals live a life of relative peace and happiness - knowing to always avoid the wood that borders their land, and safe in the knowledge that they are guarded by a powerful wizard - the Dragon. Aware that he is the one thing keeping them safe from the dangers of the wood, the villagers take part in a ritual called 'The Choosing' every ten years - when a young girl is sent to serve the wizard for a decade.Agnieszka is of age for the choosing, but nobody fears that she will be picked - her best friend Kasia is pretty and graceful, and sure to catch the eye of the immortal Dragon. However, Agnieszka is not aware of the talents she holds that may attract the wizard - talents that the safety of the entire kingdom may come to depend on for their survival...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447294130</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Barbara Lamplugh|title=Secrets of the PomegranateSilent Bride|rating=43
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|summary=Home Alice and Seth are a match made in Bristolheaven. He is everything she has been searching for; handsome, Alice gets the news from her sister's partneraccomplished, clever, Pacofunny; total and utter husband-material. Her sister She is all he could possibly want in a wife; beautiful, Deborah Hardysuccessful, was on board one of confident… and so the trains bombed at Madrid's Atocha station on 11 March. No one can yet confirm whether she inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and the wedding is alive or deadplanned and set. Deb had moved to Granada nearly 20 years ago When the much-anticipated day arrives, after Alice is walked down the aisle by her divorce from Mark's father, beaming with pride and was starting excitement as she surveys the congregation – their friends assembled to make a name for herself as a scholar of women in Andalusia's history. Alice celebrate this joyful day and her nine-year-old son Timmy fly to Spain when Seth turns to find that Deb is alive, but in a coma in hospital. Over the weeks she keeps vigil for Debface his approaching bride, Alice lives in her sister's home in Granada and reads world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the man at the altar is, who is waiting for her diaries, which proves to be a way of feeling closer to her and learning more about her than she ever knew. Meanwhile, Mark and Paco keep their distance, working through their complicated grief in their own waysbecome his wife.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781323690</amazonuk>1662507089
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Menna Van Praag1787636003|title=The House At The End Of Hope StreetGirls of Summer|author=Katie Bishop
|rating=5
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|summary= Alba Ashby is a wallflower of a girl; studiousIt was the summer when 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, bookish and excruciatingly shynaive, so when tragedy wields its ponderous bolt, she is less able than most thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to adjust to life as she now knows it. In one of take an interest in her midnight walks around historical Cambridge, she finds herself at the door to Number 11 Hope Streetwas flattered rather than wary. It is house that she has never was quite a while before seen; quirky he made any sort of physical approach to her and turreted with a wild garden and grandly Victorian in hue and Alba is enchanted by it. So she does something that time she would never normally do, in a million yearswas obsessed by him. She knocks Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, looking after his interests on the doorisland and in particular in the bar where all the girls either worked or partied.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749018623</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sara GruenAmanda Craig|title=At The Water's EdgeThree Graces|rating=4.5
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|summary=An indiscretion at a party causes Ellis Hyde's parents to disown him, coming, as it does, hot on Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the heels state-of his father not understanding why Ellis has been turned down for war service-the-nation novel. To prove heThere's not a cowardsomething so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the atmosphere of the day and capture it, Ellis, his new wife Maddie and best friend Hank leave crafting an image of the US for Scotlandcountry as it stands in one particular moment. HeTo say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's determined they will succeed where Ellis' father failed years before: they will find practically synonymous with the Loch Ness monster. Maddie isn't as convinced but then she also thinks she knows Ellisgenre of contemporary social fiction at this point. She and has such a gift for weaving the locals at ongoing issues of the inn where they're stranded by day into the global conflict will discover lives of her characters in a lot more about himway that feels natural and lived-in, never making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, and indeed grappling with issues far larger than themselves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473604702</amazonuk>140871468X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah Leipciger152915118X|title=The Mountain Can WaitPineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson
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|summary=Tom Berry ''Pineapple Street'' is a quiet man - one who lives for and in nature, spending a half the story of his year running a small team in remotethree women: Sasha, isolated forestsDarley and Georgiana. The other half he spends tending Darley and George are sisters and Sasha is married to his family - their brother Cord. They're Stocktons, only Sasha isn't a small group whom he brought up almost single handedly, following Stockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the departure of his wifetribe. A goodThe problem's exacerbated when the clan matriarch, determined manTilda, we learn of Tomasks Cord and Sasha if they's life running forestry teams in remote wilderness, before an accident forces Tom d like to leave his routine move into the Pineapple Street property. Tilda and seek out his son - Chip have renovated and both become troubled by the events downsized to another property, a street or so away, which they own. They won't need any of the accidentfurniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and Cord can move straight in. Nominally, as well as ghosts of they had a choice but that wasn't the reality. Darley and Georgiana start to call Sasha 'the past gold digger'. She's living in ''their'' family home. They use it so often that may cause more pain than either man had anticipatedthey abbreviate it to 'the GD'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472223896</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elizabeth RenzettiEmily Critchley|title=Based on a True StoryOne Puzzling Afternoon
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|genre=Women's FictionCrime|summary=Augusta Price, middle-aged, washed up, substance-addicted actress 84 year old Edie has just left rehab for the innumerable time. Her only friend lived in the world same small town for almost her whole life, but now she is facing a move as her equally washed-up former mentor. Augusta has recently received a sudden upsurge of interest son wants to move to another house and income when her tell all memoir became a baffling best-seller. Frances Bleeker is an American journalist who came bring Edie to London live with high hopeshis family, that were quickly dashed by the reality of the British magazine market. The two meet when Frances as Edie is sent starting to interview Augusta about lose her book where Frances realises there’s far more to memory. However, Edie is tormented by the story memory of Augusta’s life than she’s cared to put in words. Needless to sayher childhood friend, youngLucy, optimistic Frances and self-obsessedwho went missing over 60 years ago, drunk Augusta don’t exactly hit it off at once. But when Frances loses her job and Augusta needs the worry that there was a ghost writer secret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be the thing that reveals the truth of what happened all that time ago. After 'seeing' Lucy in the high street, just as she was the last time she saw her new book, the two offer each other a lifeline ... or enough rope she starts to find pockets of memories coming back to hang themselvesher. As Frances will learn by delving into her And yet as she remembers the past, people close she is forgetting more and more in her day to Augusta don’t come away unscathedday life. Will she uncover the truth about Lucy's disappearance before her move, and before her memories are gone forever?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782395539</amazonuk>1804181250
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Xavier LeretMadelaine Lucas|title=The Romeo and Juliet KillersThirst for Salt|rating=35|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=This is a book that suggests love across the tracks – all the while making the reader ask 'just how chuffing wide are those tracks 'Love, I'd read, was supposed to be?!a light and weightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravity' Franky is ' Told from a hard-done-by schoolboy, whose ultra-Catholic parents are stifling him in all aspects of liferetrospective view, so much so it's likely that when he gets into trouble by witnessing some porn on a friend's mobile phone at school it was really young woman unravels the hardware year-long relationship that he was gawping at in amazementonce defined her. Hardware is nothing to DaizeeOverlaid with later wisdom, the underage street hooker, who knows what hard stuffs she likes and what she doesn't, and what narrator relives the affair with a man twenty years her punters senior from its inception – and her mother, back when they had a connection the summer after finishing university – enjoyed, or needed, en route to itits sorrowful end the summer after. Their unlikely connection is Set against the subject backdrop of this gritty novellaan 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.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910213187</amazonuk>0861546490
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Pascal Garnier and Melanie Florence (translator)0008506337|title=BoxesThe Garnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore|rating=45
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Meet BriceThe love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, apparently on both sides. HeMargo was just sixteen when they fell in love. Richard was twenty-one and described by Margo's mother as 'an illustrator, who had picked an ideal house in the country with his journalist wife, only for her to disappear assumed dead on assignment abroadolder man'. Therefore heHer parents worried that Richard's influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and having to make a glittering career. In the move himselfevent, which he does – but without they eloped and Richard took her at away from the other end he finds it hard Isle of Wight. Margo did go to kick his new life into gearOxford and went on to become a well-respected journalist. YesThe couple had three children: Rachel, a cat adopts himImogen and Sasha. Life was lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, and he gets to know the names family home on the Isle of some new people, but thatWight. Even then the doubts about Richard's it. Whatdrinking were never far from Margo's more, one of those people is Blanche, attired most suitably mind: ''she would never be able to leave him in all-white, who herself is missing someone – someone of whom Brice is the spitting image…charge''. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910477044</amazonuk>Then Richard left them.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kevin Maher1914585402|title=Last Night on EarthDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Baby Bonnie is born in London in 1996 to Jay and Shauna but her traumatic birth and the aftermath causes the previously happy I reviewed David F Ross's book [[There's Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's Only One Danny Garvey]] a couple to separate. Jay looks of years back searching for and remember being absolutely floored by how he got to this point powerful and Shauna looks for answers in psychotherapy with affecting it was. It was a less than orthodox Danish analyst. Meanwhile both share Bonnie gripping, emotionally wounding read, and worry about where they go from hererereading my review of it my main takeaway was that I might not have lavished enough praise on it. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408705079</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tina SeskisLucy Ashe|title=When We Were FriendsClara and Olivia|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= Six friends meet at Bristol University; six very different people The year is 1933. The place? Sadler's Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, twins no less. Identical on the outside but not, we learn, on the inside. And not on stage, either. Because there's a lot that builds a dancer. Some things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, attention to detail – and some things, that ''je ne sais quoi'', that don't come from six very different backgroundsthe classroom. Six lives intertwined in an assortment of ways… break-upsA stage presence, marriagesa charm, careersa ''joie de vivre''. The difference between a hard-worker, motherhood and bereavement; until one night six become fivea star.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405917954</amazonuk >0861544080
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael LaubHeather Fawcett|title=Diary Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of the FallFaeries
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Diary of the Fall Emily Wilde is a story about regretan expert academic scholar on faerie lore, guilt and resentment. Itshe has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life's told from work, the point very first encyclopaedia of view faeries. Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, she is not so good with people. So when she finds herself far, far North in the small village of an unnamed narratorHrafvsnik, having somehow offended the village matriarch, she is not sure what she has done, who reflects nor how to redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on not just his own life but also the lives of his father right track. Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and grandfatherdelight, 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>0099581795</amazonuk>0356519120
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=James Wilson1398515388|title=The Summer of Broken StoriesBoy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=England 1950: Soon-to-be-10First of all, it was the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and this, in turn, Mark Davenant is a typical lad with a typical lad's lifecaused the nuclear meltdown. He loves adding to his model train layout, he plays with his mates The result was complete and walking best friend Barney the dogutter devastation. It's on one such walk he comes across AubreyThe deaths were uncountable, an elderly writer living in and the forestloss of livelihoods was widespread. They build The fact that many 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 friendship based on shared stories and imaginingsconvenience store. Not all in He wasn't a dog person but the village are accepting though and, when they try convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to drive Aubrey out, Mark feels himself torn between old loyalties open his car door and newTamon the dog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846883571</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alexander McCall SmithChristopher Bowden|title= The Novel Habits of HappinessMr Magenta|rating=54
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=There are some authors 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 I pick up with always provided a contented sigh, knowing that I am in safe hands. Alexander McCall Smith is currently my favourite, harbour and thank goodness he is so prolific with his writing that my reading habit is fed on a regular basis! This is the tenth novel in the Sunday Philosophy Club series, and we settle down once more little bit of indulgence to a visit young nephew had had a much more interesting life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and it seems to Isabel Dalhousie in her beloved Edinburgh. Isabel is wondering, perhaps belatedly, if she is sometimes rather judgmental of people. In particular, she’s having him an awful lot of qualms about her niece, Cat’s, latest romanceobligation to find it all out. Will Isabel find herself forced to intervene, or can she sit back and let nature take its course?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408706636</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nina George and Simon Pare (translator)Jennifer Mason|title=The Little Paris BookshopPartitions of Unity
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Monsieur Perdu has a barge on the SeineHere at Bookbag Towers, we first met Elizabeth Cromwell, dominatrix and unintentional detective in that barge he has his bookshop. Actually[[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], rather than being when she investigated and unravelled a normal sort series of bookshop it is more disappearances. In ''Partitions of a chemistUnity''s, since he is something of she sets her mind to solving a literary apothecary, prescribing books to his customers that he senses will soothe their souls, and relieve whatever troubles are ailing themmurder. He only has to speak to them a little, sometimes only has to see them, and he instinctively knows which book will help them. Despite his skills, however, he seems unable to diagnose and resolve his own emotional issues and he is, as the translation of his French surname tells us, Mr Lost.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349140359</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Marcus DalrympleWill Carver|title=Flesh and BloodThe 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.|isbn= 1914585186}} {{Frontpage|author=Jennifer Mason|title=Preposterous: True FictionAn Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery|rating=4.5
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|summary=Brit John Colson is in Mexico teaching''A struggling poetry zine, having been invited out there by his godfather a mom-and local school owner Carlos Manuel Fermin. John soon settles -pop mobile diner inthe Northern California redwoods, soon forming a love 400-meter hurdler who just missed the 2004 Olympics, a women's track coach with a yen for bullwhips, a billionaire with a state-of -the country-art S&M dungeon, a man serving a life sentence in Alabama, an enigmatic signature, K(s, x), on a cheap oil painting, an erotic art dealer in Georgia. But then it all changes… Visiting ..'' This is just a public toilet at sample of the wrong moment means that John hears a murder being committed beyond his cubicle doorcast of characters and settings in Preposterous. He As you can see, some keeping up will be required! The basic premise of this mystery story goes to the police as he would in the UK but like this is Mexico; from that moment on John Colson is a marked man. Meanwhile elsewhere in Mexico tourists are being attracted by more than hot sunshine and tacos..|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1502821087</amazonuk>B09STS96HS
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