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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Menna Van PraagJenny Lecoat|title=The Dress Shop Of DreamsBeyond Summerland|rating=54

|summary= Cambridge is a city Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of winding streets and cobbled alleyways and in such a street you will find A Stich In Timethe occupation. During the war, Jean's father was arrested for listening to a tiny dress shop filled to bursting with dresses that will take your breath banned radio and soldiers took him awayone night, leaving Jean and her mother waiting for years for news of him. Etta Sparks spends her days crafting gowns As the British finally free the Channel islands from jewel-coloured velvets the Nazis, and beaded silks the war is finally over, their hopes rise that are unlike any dresses you have seen before; once you try one they will finally learn what became of Etta's creations on - and with him. But will the truth come as a few stitches from her expert and rather magical needle - these incrediblerelief, amazing garments 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 power to reach within your soul and extract your deepest desire and hidden-away dreams.occupation?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0749018720</amazonuk>1846976537

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ruth RendellOnyi Nwabineli|title=Dark CornersAllow Me to Introduce Myself

|summary=Carl Martin was in Anuri spent her childhood on display to the fortunate position world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of having just had his first novel published and inheriting his late fatherAnuri's house in Maida Valechildhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. His father had accumulated a collection of homeopathic remedies which really should have been thrown outNow Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, but Carl had other things on his mind and never got round suing her step-mother to ittake down the content about her. There was his girlfriend NicolaAnuri is battling alcoholism, work failing to start on his second novel her PhD, undergoing therapy and he wanted to let the top floor of his house. Authors are not that well off, you see secretly abusing people online and he needed some ready receiving money coming infrom them for doing so. In addition to being a bit remiss Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the contents new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the medicine cabinet he should have been a bit more careful about who he took on as a tenant.same time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091959241</amazonuk>0861546873

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julia Franck and Anthea Bell (translator)1529153298|title=WestThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=3.5|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=Put yourself in the shoes of a young mother to two children, who declares her intention to leave the Communist East Germany for West Berlin, It's 1979 and thus loses her scientist jobMargaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. What would you expect on the other side – shops full of attainable products(A woman? I mean, pleasant neighbourhoodshonestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, nice neighbours, an active and busy new life, where things might feel alien but at least you speak the same language? though. Women have been disappearing. Well, for Nelly Senffthey've been murdered, this is hardly the casebut to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Once past the depressing Eastern exit procedures Miv's upset because she is confronted with more desultory interrogations from those 'welcoming' s overheard that her father wants to move the Westfamily 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, beyond which she and her children (their fatherforeign place, whom she never marriedbest avoided. For Miv, is long assumed dead by the authoritiesmove would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, if nobody else) are practically left in a shared accommodation in a transit campand she'll do anything to prevent that. The shops are full of what is still unobtainable, She's not worried about the children hate their new school – and people still look down on them as being foreign, even if they have only moved across a citydangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099554321</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Beverley Hansford1035906708|title=The Golden AnkletDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=34.5

|summary=Jane Carroll is becoming more We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and more successful as a young journalist on a woman's magazineonly moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Yet, although Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her future looks secure, Jane would like father changed it to 'Callas' to discover make it more about her pastmanageable in the States. As an orphan When she was raised back in a children's home with no information regarding the identity of Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her parents apart from what voice - she was on raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her birth certificate. Therefore armed with this certificate and the help made no secret of her new boyfriend Bob, not to mention genealogist dabbling neighbour Geraldpreference for her elder sister, the search begins. However nothing is as straightforward, or indeed as safe, as she thought it would beJackie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784624675</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jane L GibsonAlexander McCall Smith|title=A Different ReflectionThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5

|summary=Eternal optimist Kat has always believed The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in fairytales Edinburgh, run by Ness and happy endings but can't help but wonder where operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her own life went wrongyounger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. Stuck in Katie is coming out of a dead-end relationship break up with dull workaholic Johna bad boyfriend, it's hardly and so jumps at the happy-ever-after that she'd always hoped forchance to come home to Edinburgh. Things are about And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to changean Edinburgh we already love, howeverthanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, when Kat discovers but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a mysterious house that business, or in match-making, but Ness has been cursed by an enchantment; a full confidence in her abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome Regency beau is trapped within the mirrors and only ) neighbour, William, to lend a declaration of true love can break the spell and release him...hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784622508</amazonuk>1846976596

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sandy HogarthDean Koontz|title=The Glass GirlBad Weather Friend|rating=34.5|genre=Paranormal|summary=Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Spike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of 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.|isbn=1662500491}}{{Frontpage|author=Katherine Howe|title=A True Account|rating=4.5

|summary=Sandy Hogarth's debut novel opens Hannah Masury is living in 1975 Boston, having been sent to live with fifteen-year-old Ruth Bishop attending a party with her older sisterfamily who run an inn, Alexisand being made to work there from a young age. 'They called me VL When she hears there is to be a hanging of some pirates in the town, Virgin Lipsshe decides to go and watch. Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, because I'd never kissed Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy. Sex wasn't mentioned s death at homethe hands of two vicious pirates. She hides away, so that they don' That all changes when Alexis tells Ruth to go outside – someone is waiting for t find and kill her. It's one of Alexis's friends, a notorious bad boytoo, and he assaults Ruth right there, up against the house. Could Alexis really have intended for this then to happen? Ruth soon learns escape them completely she is pregnant and arranges runs away to move to Australia sea, dressing as a boy and live with her friend Lucyjoining the notorious Ned Low's aunt pirate ship as a cabin boy. She soon finds herself in Melbourne until the birth. She gives her beloved daughter Clare thick of things when there is a mutiny on board, and from there we are caught up for adoption, but never stops thinking about in her. No one but Lucy knows there ever was a babyrip roaring tale of life on the ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785071548</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Boyne1471180158|title=The Boy at the Top of the MountainMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes

|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=Meet Pierrot. As Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's a very young child in 1930s Paris he is going to have control freak with all the subtlety of a very awkward journey through his young lifehalf brick. His father is a violent drunkJamie's son, reacting badly to what he saw in WWIBo, and although married to a French woman, is still staunchly German'has his problems'. That woman, Emilie, is going to die, He's asthmatic and leave Pierrot an orphanthe more you read, which will leave him in a home where the more you'll suspect that he is bullied's on the autistic spectrum. But from Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's a frequent flier in the reaches of Europe local A&E and from the black corners of his family comes an aunt, Beatrix, who will give him a home, of a kind, at a most unusual mountaintop building. Itsometimes Bo's not her home – she just works there and had fit enough to go to school. Missed shifts or the need to be away on time to ask special permission pick Bo up from someone specialschool are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the wrong. The place? The BerghofIt was going to come to a head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857534521</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emma BurstallB0CKD1L5JL|title=Tremarnock: The Lives, Loves and Secrets of a Cornish VillageRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn

|summary=Welcome to Tremarnock; Petr is an idyllic Cornish fishing village with pastel-painted cottages orphan. Rescued by the strange, reclusive Bear, he is brought up far from bustling cities and colourful fishing boats bobbing busy human society, in the harbourforests of Washington's Olympic Peninsula. This picture-postcard setting is home to single-mum Liz After Bear dies and her disabled daughtera brief sojourn in human company, Rosie. Liz works hard to make ends meet and relies armed with only a pirate radio transmitter, Petr goes on a journey through the kindness of neighbours for childcare. Thankfullyforest, broadcasting the community are happy to rally round and provide friendship, supportstrange, a listening ear wild and a cup of tea for hard-working Liz. Soon she will need to rely on them more than ever, as her life takes an unexpected turn that threatens to destroy her happinessrarely heard voices he encounters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781857881</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Leigh BardugoSarah Marsh|title= Six A Sign of CrowsHer Own|rating= 3.5|genre= FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary=In The BarrelAfter a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, anything is possible for everything about her life changes. Living in a time when the right priceuse of sign language was seen as something only savages do, and no one knows this better than criminal mastermindEllen is sent to a school where she is taught to lip read, Kaz Brekkerbut physically restrained from signing. When Kaz is offered From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and using a chance at a perilous mission that could turn his poverty-stricken life upside downsystem called Visible Speech. At the same time, he Bell is determined to see the task fulfilled - but he won't be able to do it aloneworking on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1627792120</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dan RhodesB0BC3YTCMR|title=When the Professor Got Stuck in the SnowGood Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira

|summary= Two people are on ''This story is not for everyone.'' Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of her fifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. She was a train on their way to, of all thingsvery bright student, a WI meeting where the ladies of All Bottoms will bit too nerdy if truth be lectured on the non-existence of God. One of the two people is Professor Richard Dawkins, rampant atheist, hectoring scientist chappietold, and allsuffered from vitiligo -round devotee of ''Deal or No Dealpeople were afraid to hug her in case it's contagious. It's not easy being a black girl whose skin is 84% white. The other is Smee, his monoShe had a crush on seventeen-year-named assistant, amanuensis or 'male secretary'old Reggie Anderson but never thought he would notice her. Smee will come to the fore when the weather sets in Then he did: Lavender was very good at math and the train journey has to be abandoned some way short of its ultimate destination, Upper BottomReggie asked if she would tutor him. Instead the pair fetch up She readily agreed: tutoring was something she gladly did at the isolated yet friendly community of Market Horton, and the only option for accommodation is taken – yes, the died-in-the-wool non-believer has church: this was just an extension. She went to be housed by a retired vicar his house and his wifehe raped her. This clash of titanic opinionsIn shock, peppered with social faux pas aplenty will provide for she even allowed him to give her a particularly English kind of farcical comedy, but one with the legs to go as far as any other Good Books have reached in the past…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910709018</amazonuk>lift home.

 {{Frontpage|isbn=1472263936|title=The Figurine|author=Victoria Hislop|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. She was alone: her mother, Greek by birth, had left the family home and refused to return, but Mary and 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 family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be the first of several annual visits. She grew to love her grandmother and the family's maid, Dina, but was wary - and frightened - of her grandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. He was proud of his close connections to the Junta 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.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tania ChandlerDean Koontz|title=Please DonAfter 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 Leave Me Here''Michael'' anymore.|isbn=1662500467}} {{Frontpage|isbn=B0BVDC2VWH|title=The Grave Listeners|author=William Frank

|genre=fictionGeneral Fiction|summary= If you like unreliable narrators then this The village is isolated and poor. It's surrounded by a Witching Forest. And the book for youvillagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicines. In Brigitte, The black wood of the protagonist of Please Don't Leave Me Hereforest provides heat and warmth, Tania Chandler has created an unforgettable troubled character whose fractured mental state leads to erratic thought processesroofs on homes, vivid and none too pleasant dreams and an inability, or unwillingnesseven gallows, to recover her memory of her former lifeif needed. None The fear of which being buried alive is helped by her drink problem an existential superstition in the village andthat is the reason Volushka, a drunken, as the story progressesself-indulgent, an addiction to prescription medicationlazy lout of a man is tolerated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1925228258</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emylia HallB0BYF82CXT|title=The Sea Between UsSemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone|rating=54

|summary=To her parents''Bill and Amanda are living in a semi-detached house, the move to Cornwall was an escape to stuck in a better way depressing rut of life. For city-girl Robynboredom and disappointment, it was wetwhen Terry and Fiona – glamorous, remote successful and miserable and she was counting down very much in love – move in next door. Despite their different outlooks on life, the days to University couples befriend each other and her return life appears to civilization. Desperate improve for something to do to entertain herself, Robyn takes a wetsuit and surfboard and makes her way to a secluded coveboth pairs. An inexperienced surfer, she soon gets into difficulty, but But all is rescued from the sea by a young local man called Jago. From that moment onnot what it seems, the two lives and their increasingly interconnected relationships are intertwined by an invisible bond; a bond that will be tested and stretched during the years that followfated for tragedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472211979</amazonuk>''

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anne BarnettShalini Boland|title=The Largest Baby in Ireland After The FamineSilent Bride|rating= 43

|summary=She was all colour Alice and swaySeth are a match made in heaven. He is everything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, and as far away as imaginable from the local women. Paleclever, pale skin funny; total and strong dark auburn hair falling free to large wide hipsutter husband-material. She wore is all he could possibly want in a purple shawl. That night Felixwife; beautiful, a bachelorsuccessful, aged 43, living in confident… and so the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and the house he was born in, dreamt of purplewedding is planned and set. Purple in When the shape of a woman.And just like thatmuch-anticipated day arrives, things change. I love this passage. It shows how strong Alice is walked down the human pull is. Even when men and women are surrounded aisle by great events - warher father, political upheavalbeaming with pride and excitement as she surveys the congregation – their friends assembled to celebrate this joyful day and when Seth turns to face his approaching bride, famineAlice's world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the man at the altar is, depression - individual human desires can change the picture in an instantwho is waiting for her to become his wife.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>186151526X</amazonuk>1662507089

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alexander Cordell1787636003|title=The Hosts Girls of RebeccaSummer|author=Katie Bishop

|summary=At It was the end of [[Rape of the Fair Country by Alexander Cordell|Rape of the Fair Country]] Iestyn Mortymer had been sentenced to deportation for seven years because of the part he played in the Chartist rebellion summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the Newport Rising of 1839island. His motherRachel wasn't exactly innocent but she was, wifeperhaps, Marienaive, younger brotherso when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to take an interest in her, Jethro, sister, Morfydd and the two children she was flattered rather than wary. It was quite a while before he made any sort of the family returned physical approach to the land, living on a farm owned her and by that time she was obsessed by Marie's grandfatherhim. The life was hard and not just Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, looking after his interests on the Mortymers, with poverty breathing over their shoulders island and it was made worse by in particular in the tollgates installed by landowners, effectively adding a levy to any produce which bar where all the farmers attempted to movegirls either worked or partied.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B0100NC1GM</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alexander McCall SmithAmanda Craig|title=The Woman Who Walked in SunshineThree Graces|rating=4.5

|summary=Back to Botswana I goFew styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of-the-nation novel. There's something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the atmosphere of the day and capture it, having saved crafting an image of the country as it stands in one particular moment. To say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this newest outing in would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's practically synonymous with the No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series genre of contemporary social fiction at this point. She has such a gift for a delightful weekend read. I never tire weaving the ongoing issues of the day into the lives of these her characters, in a way that feels natural and I always look forward to seeing what is happening lived-in their lives. This time around the story is about holidays, amongst other thingsnever making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, and the tricky plans to persuade Mma Ramostwe to take a holidaygrappling with issues far larger than themselves. But what is Mma Makutsi up to? Does she have plans to take over the agency entirely whilst Mma Ramotswe is away? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408706660</amazonuk>140871468X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Aldous Huxley152915118X|title= After Many A Summer|rating= 4|genre= Dystopian Fiction|summary= Like many of us, I suspect, I knew nothing of Huxley other than the "required reading" of ''Brave New World''. Naturally, on that basis alone, he was pigeon-holed in my head under the heading ''Sci-fi - must check out further''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784870358</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewPineapple Street|author=Jill Ciment|title=Heroic MeasuresJenny Jackson

|summary=Ruth ''Pineapple Street'' is the story of three women: Sasha, Darley and Georgiana. Darley and Alex Cohen have George are sisters and Sasha is married to move from their beloved New York apartmentbrother Cord. They love it're Stocktons, but itonly Sasha isn's five floors up and theret a Stockton by birth so she isn's no elevatort readily accepted into the tribe. Reluctantly theyThe problem're having an open day for prospective purchasers - s exacerbated when the clan matriarch, Tilda, asks Cord and hoping that Sasha if they'll be able d like to move into the Pineapple Street property. Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to buy something not ''too'' far out another property, a street or so away, which has that elusive elevatorthey own. ItThey won's not just themt need any of the furniture from Pineapple Street, eitherso Sasha and Cord can move straight in. ThereNominally, they had a choice but that wasn's Dorothyt the reality. Dorothy (Darley and Georgiana start to call Sasha 'Dottiethe gold digger' to those who know her well) is their Daschund. She's getting on living in years, but then ''their'' family home. They use it so are Ruth and Alexoften that they abbreviate it to 'the GD'. Then - }}{{Frontpage|author=Emily Critchley|title=One Puzzling Afternoon|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=84 year old Edie has lived in the day before the open same small town for almost her whole life, but now she is facing a move as her son wants to move to another house - two things happenand bring Edie to live with his family, as Edie is starting to lose her memory. An unmarked petrol truck However, Edie is blocking tormented by the city's main tunnel memory of her childhood friend, Lucy, who went missing over 60 years ago, and the worry that there's no sign was a secret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be the thing that reveals the truth of the driverwhat happened all that time ago. You donAfter 't even need seeing' Lucy in the high street, just as she was the last time she saw her, she starts to have ''long'' find pockets of memories coming back to worry about terrorists her. And yet as she remembers the past, she is forgetting more and more in Manhattanher day to day life. Then Dottie yelps in pain and Will she canuncover the truth about Lucy't stand up.s disappearance before her move, and before her memories are gone forever?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782271945</amazonuk>1804181250

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sebastian FaulksMadelaine Lucas|title= Where my Heart Used to BeatThirst for Salt|rating= 5|genre= General Literary Fiction |summary= In the early 1980’s''Love, I'd read, on was supposed to be a small island off the South of Francelight and weightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravity'' Told from a Doctor named Robert Hendricks confronts his life – memories of warsretrospective view, work, loves, and lossesa young woman unravels the year-long relationship that once defined her. As his history is explored and questioned by his hostOverlaid with later wisdom, Hendricks recalls days in Scottish universities, Italian trenches, mental asylums and windswept beaches. Links to the past are uncovered, and narrator relives the raw wounds they expose take Hendricks on affair with a search for sanity and raises man twenty years her senior from its inception – the question summer after finishing university – is life comprised to its sorrowful end the summer after. Set against the backdrop of events themselvesan 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, or the way in which an individual chooses to remember them?how it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and how it altered her irrevocably.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091936837</amazonuk>0861546490

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alexander McCall Smith0008506337|title=The Revolving Door of LifeGarnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore

|summary=I am always happy to sit back down with old friendsThe love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, to catch up on what has been happening apparently on Scotland Streetboth sides. As Margo was just sixteen when they fell in the last episode [[Bertielove. Richard was twenty-one and described by Margo's mother as 'an older man'. Her parents worried that Richard's Guide influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Life Oxford and having a glittering career. In the event, they eloped and Mothers by Alexander McCall Smith]] there is plenty Richard took her away from the Isle of Bertie throughout the whole storyWight. Bertie is my favourite character by far, so this was very pleasing Margo did go to Oxford and went on to me! become a well-respected journalist. Our other favourites are there tooThe couple had three children: Rachel, howeverImogen and Sasha. Life was lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, so therethe family home on the Isle of Wight. Even then the doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's something mind: ''she would never be able to please everyone, from Bruce being, well, Bruce, and dear Angus reciting a poem at the endleave him in charge''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973287</amazonuk>Then Richard left them.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Rachel Elliott1914585402|title= Whispers Through A MegaphoneDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Miriam doesn’t speak. Well, that’s not strictly true. She does speak, but nothing above I reviewed David F Ross's book [[There's Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's Only One Danny Garvey]] a whisper which makes it hard to have a conversation with her. Particularly as she hasn’t left her house in three couple of years. But today is the day. She’s going to open that door back and walk outside. She really is. Ralph has finally twigged (remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and with no small amount of surprise) that his wife Sadie doesn’t actually love himaffecting it was. And now he’s not sure if she ever really did. Having spent so much time regurgitating his every moment onto Social Media, Ralph hasn’t really had It was a chance to think about it. But now he has, it is so shockingly awful that he has decided to run away. And of all the places he could run away togripping, he has chosen the same woods that Miriam has picked to be the first place she will visit out-of-doors. And Sadie? Wellemotionally wounding read, she’s had enough of reading Tweets and living vicariously through the posts rereading my review of others. Sadie is going to it my main takeaway was that I might not have an adventure of her ownlavished enough praise on it. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0992918227</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gregoire DelacourtLucy Ashe|title=The First Thing You SeeClara and Olivia|rating=34.5

|summary=Arthur Dreyfuss The year is a fairly run of 1933. The place? Sadler's Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, twins no less. Identical on the mill young man. He likes big breastsoutside but not, carswe learn, Juplier beer and big breastson the inside. He’s also rather keen And not on big breastsstage, either. A good-looking boyBecause there's a lot that builds a dancer. Some things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, attention to detail – and some things, even if he does say so himself that ''…like Ryan Gosling, only better lookingje ne sais quoi'' we will take him at his word, although one would had thought a better looking Ryan Gosling would have had his fill of Zepplin chested females so as to dilute his desire for themthat don't come from the classroom. In any eventA stage presence, I suspect his longings stem from the fact that a young mechanic living charm, a quiet and uneventful life in ''joie de vivre''. The difference between a tiny village in rural France is unlikely to have a multitude of such femmes crossing his path in search of their daily baguette. That saidhard-worker, when Arthur one day opens his front door to find and a rather distressed but undeniably luscious Scarlett Johansson on his doorstep, he does not question his luck. He invites her in. As you dostar. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0297871021</amazonuk>0861544080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=John PiperHeather Fawcett|title=ClaudeEmily Wilde's JourneyEncyclopaedia of Faeries

|summary=One routineEmily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, normally uneventful journey changes Claudeto write her life's life foreverwork,the very first encyclopaedia of faeries. It begins Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, she is not so good with a chance encounter with a malevolent hen party people. So when she finds herself far, far North in the small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the village matriarch, she is not sure what she has done, nor how to redeem herself and carries put her final investigations for her book back on with the betrayal of those right track. Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, much to Emily's frustration. But why is he thought here? What does he could trust sending him into a spiral of captivity and fetishist slavery. want? And what exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00EJQSLLG</amazonuk>0356519120

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Beth Miller1398515388|title= The Good Neighbour|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Minette has not had the best experience of neighbours. It's hard when you have a new born. They're not known for being quiet as a mouse at all times Boy and occasionally, well, occasionally they scream through the night. So she's glad when the nasty couple move and are replaced by Cath and her two kids. A fellow mother! An ally! Surely she will be more understanding?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091956331</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewDog|author= Fausto Brizzi|title= One Hundred Days of Happiness|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Sometimes ''Serendipity'' coerces ''Fate'' into making sure you read a particular book. I picked ''One Hundred Days…'' off the shelf on the back of the blurb from an author of a book I haven't actually read. I confused the title of their book with one I adored. Make of that what you will, I'm going to call it a happy accident, because this is a book many of us really need to read.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447269012</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=S E Craythorne|title=How You See MeSeishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)

|summary=Daniel's father is ill after a stroke First of all, it was the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and this, in turn, caused the nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and so Daniel needs to go home to Norfolk to nurse himutter devastation. While there he continues to write letters to his beloved girlfriend AliceThe deaths were uncountable, his sister Mab and his boss to keep them up to datethe loss of livelihoods was widespread. The problems in Danielfact 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 convenience store. He wasn's life are t a lot closer to home than those hedog person but the convenience store owner's left behind in comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his normal life though. Gradually car door and Tamon the reasons why Daniel left Norfolk return to him, increasing dog jumped in intensity until it's much, much too late.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908434562</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jeremy Massey Christopher Bowden|title=The Last Four Days Of Paddy BuckleyMr Magenta

|summary= Paddy Buckley Christopher Bowden's latest novel is a grieving widower who has worked for years for Gallagherpatient untangling of a seemingly ordinary woman'slife, a long-established—some say the best—funeral home in Dublincarried out by her nephew after she has died. One night driving home after an unexpected encounter with The aunt who always provided a client, Paddy hits safe harbour and a pedestrian crossing the street. He pulls over and gets out little bit of his car, intending indulgence to do the right thing. As he bends over a young nephew had had a much more interesting life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and it seems to help the man, he recognizes him. It's Donal Cullen, brother of one of the most notorious mobsters in Dublin. And he's dead. Shocked and scared, Paddy jumps back in his car and drives away before anyone notices what's happenedan obligation to find it all out.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1594634858</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=James LovegroveJennifer Mason|title=Sherlock Holmes - The Thinking EnginePartitions of Unity

|summary=In this hyper-connected worldHere at Bookbag Towers, it is not difficult to conceive of machines that can answer perplexing questions in the blink of an eye, communicate over a vast network or even seemingly outsmart humans. Of coursewe first met Elizabeth Cromwell, dominatrix and unintentional detective in the year 1895[[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], such a machine would be viewed with deep suspicion when she investigated and curiosity; hailed as unravelled a miracle, or condemned as the work series of dark supernatural forcesdisappearances. James Lovegrove put this idea to the test in his latest Sherlock Holmes adventure, In ''The Thinking EnginePartitions of Unity'', which pits man against machine in the ultimate battle of witsshe sets her mind to solving a murder...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783295031</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=C B CalicoWill Carver|title=Dandelion AngelThe 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: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery

|summary=In her Author's Note'A struggling poetry zine, a mom-and-pop mobile diner in the Northern California redwoods, debut novelist C.B. Calico reveals that ''Dandelion Angel'' was inspired by a non400-fiction workmeter hurdler who just missed the 2004 Olympics, a women''Understanding s track coach with a yen for bullwhips, a billionaire with a state-of-the Borderline Mother'' by Christine Ann Lawson. The four mother/daughter relationships -art S&M dungeon, a man serving a life sentence in this Germany-set novel – all marked to some extent by dysfunctionAlabama, physical and/or verbal abusean enigmatic signature, and borderline personality disorder – are based on Lawson'K(s metaphorical classifications: the hermit, the queenx), the waifon a cheap oil painting, and the witchan erotic art dealer in Georgia... Looping back through her four storylines in three complete cycles, Calico shows how mental illness '' This is rooted just a sample of the cast of characters and settings in childhood experiences and Preposterous. As you can go on to affect a whole familysee, some keeping up will be required! The basic premise of this mystery story goes like this...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B0112SC9CA</amazonuk>B09STS96HS