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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rebecca ThorntonJenny Lecoat|title=The Exclusives: No One Can Hurt You More Than Beyond Summerland|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of the occupation. During the war, Jean's father was arrested for listening to a banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and her mother waiting for years for news of him. As the British finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, and the war is finally over, their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him. But will the truth come as a Friendrelief, or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the informer who told the Nazis about the radio? And what other secrets have been kept throughout the occupation?|isbn=1846976537}}{{Frontpage|author=Onyi Nwabineli|title=Allow Me to Introduce Myself

|summary=Josephine is a successful archaeologist Anuri spent her childhood on a dig in Amman when she gets display to the email she never expected: Freya wants world, thanks to meet up with herstep-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. The reason isn’t such a surprise thoughNow 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 content about her. In 1996 Freya Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and Josephine were best friends at boarding school till the aftermath of a night out clubbingreceiving money from them for doing so. Freya Most importantly, she is desperately wants to talk to Jo worried about her little sister, who is the events that ripped their friendship apartnew focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the events that Josephine has avoided speaking or thinking about in more than a decade.same time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785770128</amazonuk>0861546873

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Miroslav Penkov1529153298|title=Stork MountainThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=45

|summary=It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A young manwoman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, his grandfather and a stork with a broken wing are the but to have 'disappeared'company of rebelsdoesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv' at the heart of this lively tale set in Bulgarias upset because she's Strandja Mountains. The storks overheard that return her father wants to move the mountains each spring are migrantsfamily 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, like so many of the people that have passed through the region over the centuries. The young narrator Down South is also in transita frightening, born in Bulgariaforeign place, but raised and educated in Americabest avoided. The story opens with his return For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to Bulgaria in search of his grandfather who has broken off contact with his family in Americaprevent that. But She's not worried about the young mandangers or that her Mum's motives are not as clear cut as first appearsstopped talking - to anyone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473622182</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Elisa Albert1035906708|title= After BirthDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary General Fiction|summary= This book is definitely not for anyone who has a rosy picture We tend to think of new motherhoodMaria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. In fact, I would probably avoid Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it if you are contemplating giving birth more manageable in the near futureStates. For any woman who has ever struggled through When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the first few months of motherhood, however, or Nazi occupation by a partner of somebody mother who is going through it, it is an astounding mercilessly exploited her and revelatory read. Never before have I read a more searingmade no secret of her preference for her elder sister, honest and open discussion of the emotional upheaval a woman often goes through after giving birthJackie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009959014X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Pascal Garnier and Emily Boyce (translator)Alexander McCall Smith|title=Too Close to the EdgeThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5

|summary=Meet Pascal Garnier. NormallyThe Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in starting providing a review that waymore personal, I'm on about the main character of tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the bookbusiness, but it could be said the biggest character of any Pascal Garnier book as Ness is Pascal Garnier, not that that's planning to take a flaw. Over a half-dozen titles I've come trip to know the pattern of his output, and it's fair Canada to say this example fits it very well. Again, not get away for a faultwhile. His thrillers have a small cast list Katie is coming out of characters, trapped somehow in a small community, cut off by weather, season or remoteness. Here we are break up with Eliette, and just a handful of othersbad boyfriend, and watching her as she celebrates so jumps at the return of spring chance to her remote come home, an ex-silk farm in southern Franceto Edinburgh. All characters have a darkness about themAnd so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, including Eliette – she had wanted bringing us to retire an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the place Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with her lovingsome new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a business, longor in match-term husbandmaking, but he died of cancer months before retirement. And the final piece of the Garnier pattern is that that darknessNess has full confidence in her abilities, the black surrounding the night stars to use one of the more memorable lines here, is that things – said situationand there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, other peopleWilliam, life itself – cause people to do some equally black and stupid acts…lend a hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910477257</amazonuk>1846976596

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Carol DrinkwaterDean Koontz|title=The Forgotten SummerBad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionParanormal|summary=It Benny is time for the annual grape harvest at ''Les Cigaleshaving a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh,'' and Jane is preparing herself for someone has delivered a busy dayreally weird, overseeing the work. At this moment in timedisturbing coffin-sized object to his home, Janeand it's life seems as perfect as 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 gets: living in a stunning location with a husband who adores her and a job turns out that allows her the freedom delivery to travel. There his house isa new friend, howevera bad weather friend called Spike, a significant cloud hanging over Jane's perfect world: a vindictive mother in law who despises her and has been sent to help him since Benny is determined to make her as miserable as possibleclearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Clarrisse Cambon Spike is a woman with an axe going to grind take care of Benny, and poor Jane is the unwilling recipient will certainly take care of her vitriolBenny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0718183088</amazonuk>1662500491

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Yann MartelKatherine Howe|title=The High Mountains of PortugalA True Account|rating=4.5

|summary=Tomas Hannah Masury is being thrust into the twentieth Century, and he doesn't like it. He has given himself the job of seeking something out living in the High Mountains of PortugalBoston, based on having been sent to live with a family who run an ancient religious diary he found working in an archiveinn, and being made to do so he needs the use of his uncle's brand new car to get him work there and back in timefrom a young age. His jaw drops when he learns he will have When she hears there is to do be a hanging of some pirates in the driving himselftown, for he cannot make head nor tail of what anything on the infernal machine does she decides to go and whywatch. It is of course Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a certain kind young boy's death at the hands of progresstwo vicious pirates. She hides away, a looking forwardso that they don't find and kill her too, which has become quite anathema and then to escape them completely she runs away to him – for ever since he lost his beloved wifesea, beloved child dressing as a boy and father, all joining the notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. She soon finds herself in the space thick of a week, he has walked everywhere backwards – shielding himself from what really things when there is ahead with a padded behindmutiny on board, and never letting sight from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of what he has lostlife on the ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782114696</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Antonio Moresco and Richard Dixon (translator)1471180158|title=Distant LightMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes

|summary=Our unnamed narrator might as well be Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's a control freak with all the only person alivesubtlety of a half brick. Jamie's son, Bo, 'has his problems'. He knows he's not – he still goes down to asthmatic and the nearest inhabited village to buy things to eat and other necessitiesmore you read, and the more you'll suspect that he sees planes spreading their contrails over 's on the remote area he lives in – but he might as well beautistic spectrum. A lot of his thoughts are about life, however, for he has little Sometimes Jamie needs to do except take time off at short notice - she's a frequent flier in the nature around him, from the smell of lilies burgeoning with nobody else local A&E and sometimes Bo's not fit enough to see them in this deserted village, go to the swallows darting across the ravines of the countrysideschool. Life – and Missed shifts or the nature of a light that he sees spring into activity every night at what he thought was a totally lifeless, empty forest area need to be away on land separated time to pick Bo up from his lookout post school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in his back garden by the wrong. It was going to come to a deep, wooded gorge…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0914671421</amazonuk>head.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan EvisonB0CKD1L5JL|title=This is Your Life, Harriet Chance!Radio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn

|summary=The cruise to Alaska came as something of a surprise to Harriet ChancePetr is an orphan. It had been booked Rescued by her husbandthe strange, Bernardreclusive Bear, before his death he is brought up far from bustling cities and almost on a whim Harriet decided that she ''wouldbusy human society, in the forests of Washington'' go and take her best friend Mildred along with hers Olympic Peninsula. She might be seventy eightAfter Bear dies and a brief sojourn in human company, but when she thought about it there didn't seem to be any reason not to go and it might give them both armed with only a pirate radio transmitter, Petr goes on a new lease of life. She and Bernard had been married for fifty-five yearsjourney through the forest, but broadcasting the cruise would not work out as she hoped strange, wild and for some of the strangest of reasonsrarely heard voices he encounters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099592673</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Miguel Angel Hernandez and Rhett McNeil (translator)Sarah Marsh|title= Escape AttemptA Sign of Her Own|rating= 3.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Immigration and radical contemporary art: the two themes After a bout of Miguel Ángel Hernández's ''Escape Attempt'' are debate-provoking even on their ownscarlet fever as a child, but brought together Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into one plota world of silence, they fall nothing short everything about her life changes. Living in a time when the use of creating sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a painfully current school where she is taught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and ruthlessly polemic novelusing a system called Visible Speech. The brave choice of subject matter takes At the reader same time, Bell is working on a journey that revolts, angers, other inventions and excites: ''Escape Attempt'' is an experience that does not leave the reader untouchedideas, and locks them Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a page-turner that cannot be escapedcomplicated tangle of espionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>8494365878</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Clare MorrallB0BC3YTCMR|title=When the Floods CameGood Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira

|summary=Sometime in the ''This story is not-too-distant future, a devastating virus has decimated the population of the UK, striking humans and animals alike and leaving Britain in a state of quarantine for decadeseveryone. Most '' Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of the survivors have been left infertile and the majority of people have relocated to Brighton, where they rely on airdops from surrounding nations in order to surviveher fifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. Farming is impossible She was a very bright student, as weather conditions are harsh and extreme, including tornadoesa bit too nerdy if truth be told, floods and blizzards. Not everyone chooses suffered from vitiligo - people were afraid to live hug her in Brighton thoughcase it's contagious. In It's not easy being a block of flats in Birmingham live the resourceful Polanski Family: Popi, Moth, Roza, Boris, Delphine and Luciablack girl whose skin is 84% white. Moth and Popi prefer solitude and isolation and their make She had a crush on seventeen-doyear-old Reggie Anderson but never thought he would notice her. Then he did: Lavender was very good at math and-mend philosophy has ensured their survival in Reggie asked if she would tutor him. She readily agreed: tutoring was something she gladly did at church: this unconventional environmentwas just an extension. She went to his house and he raped her. In shock, she even allowed him to give her a lift home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444736477</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|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 Paulson Ellisand 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.}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=After Death|rating=3|genre=General Fiction|summary= Michael Mace, Head of Security, at a top secret biological research facility, is among 55 people who die when a virus is released in a bio-hazard accident. Finding himself in a makeshift mortuary, covered in plastic, he has a sense that something very, very bad has happened to him – and only him – as he sits up and looks around at the shrouded bodies of his dead friends and former colleagues. As he recovers his senses, he realises that there is something different about him; he can ''feel'' everything. ''Everything''. Michael isn't ''Michael'' anymore.|isbn=1662500467}} {{Frontpage|isbn=B0BVDC2VWH|title=The Other Mrs WalkerGrave Listeners|author=William Frank

|summary=The village is isolated and poor. It''A photographs surrounded by a Witching Forest. Six orange pips sucked dry. A Brazil nut with And the Ten Commandments etched into the shellvillagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicines. An emerald dress dripping with sequins.'' This is The black wood of the legacy of Mrs Walkerforest provides heat and warmth, roofs on homes, who died alone in a freezing Edinburgh flatand even gallows, drinking her final glass if needed. The fear of whisky. Nylons wrinkling at being buried alive is an existential superstition in the village and that is the kneereason Volushka, white hair hair dyed reda drunken, scratches on her cheeksself-indulgent, hollow bones and lazy lout of a liver like pasteman is tolerated. Who was Mrs Walker and why did she die alone?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447293908</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Mona AwadB0BYF82CXT|title= 13 Ways of Looking At A Fat GirlSemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone|rating= 4|genre= General Fiction|summary= Liz is fat. Not just plump or chubby or''Bill and Amanda are living in a semi-detached house, as my director often describes peoplestuck in a depressing rut of boredom and disappointment, ''bubbly''when Terry and Fiona – glamorous, but full successful and very much in love – move in next door. Despite their different outlooks onlife, capital F fatthe couples befriend each other and life appears to improve for both pairs. It's perhaps one of the frustrations of this book that we never get a numberBut all is not what it seems, because sheand their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy.'s clearly obsessed with what the scale shows, but won't share that reading.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0143128485</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Deborah BeeShalini Boland|title=The Last Thing I RememberSilent Bride|rating=4.53

|summary=Contemporary writers Alice and Seth are mining a rich seam of psychological thrillers and, within this genre, I seem to be particularly attracted to stories featuring comatose protagonistsmatch made in heaven. Comatose protagonists? Isn't that a contradiction in terms? True He is everything she has been searching for; handsome, you do normally expect a protagonist toaccomplished, wellclever, do somethingfunny; total and utter husband-material. And Deborah Mee's heroine Sarah does nothing at She is allhe could possibly want in a wife; beautiful, other than listensuccessful, confident… and try so the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and remember, from her unconscious state. In her narrative she offers us nothing more than fractured memories the wedding is planned and snippets of conversations from around her bedsideset. Yet with these meagre tools she helps When the reader build up a vivid picture of what much-anticipated day arrives, Alice is happening around walked down the aisle by herfather, of her own character, beaming with pride and of excitement as she surveys the events leading congregation – their friends assembled to her hospital admission. As a reader you gradually piece together what made Sarah what she is today. At first you see an apparently successful career woman in a loving marriage but, as layers are gradually removedcelebrate this joyful day and when Seth turns to face his approaching bride, what lies beneath becomes apparent. SarahAlice's controlling husband world implodes because she has a sinister brother absolutely no idea who comes to sit by her bedsidethe man at the altar is, while who is waiting for her toxic mother wages an ongoing war of words with Sarah's spineless father... At times I wanted to weep for what happened to Sarah; at other times I wanted to scream at her for letting it happenbecome his wife.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B0196P0S4W</amazonuk>1662507089

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Sharon Guskin1787636003|title= The Forgetting TimeGirls of Summer|author=Katie Bishop|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Janie is a single mother, living in New York with her pre-schooler Noah. It's just was the two of them, so it's rather disconcerting summer when Noah screams out in Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the night, calling for his ''real mom'' and asking when he can go homeisland. Night after night this happens. There Rachel wasn's other thingst exactly innocent but she was, perhaps, naive, too. He hates water and regularly goes so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to nursery stinky because his mother simply cannot get him take an interest in the bathher, she was flattered rather than wary. He has the odd bizarre turn It was quite a while before he made any sort of phrase physical approach to her and by that comes outtime she was obsessed by him. Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, far beyond what one might expect for a child of looking after his age. He knows certain things, too, without anyone understanding how he picked up this knowledge, whether it be interests on the island and in particular in the bar where all the names of different reptiles girls either worked or the plot of books he's never readpartied.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509806792</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Caroline LeaAmanda Craig|title=When The Sky Fell ApartThree Graces|rating=4.5

|summary=That was Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the order in which things happened: state-of-the sky fell apart, Jersey-nation novel. There's beaches were bombedsomething so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the atmosphere of the day and capture it, Clement crafting an image of the islandcountry as it stands in one particular moment. To say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's butcher went up in flames where he stood and then practically synonymous with the arrival genre of the German armycontemporary social fiction at this point. This will change She has such a gift for weaving the life ongoing issues of the island including herbalist Edith, neglected child Claudine, former fisherman Maurice and English Doctor Carter. Each of day into the four lives on the perimeter of the island's community her characters in a way that feels natural and lived-in, never making them ciphers for social commentary but each will come to depend on the other three in order to continue livinginstead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1925240746</amazonuk>140871468X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Michael Honig152915118X|title= The Senility of Vladimir PPineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson|rating= 34.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= In ''Pineapple Street'' is the not-too-distant futurestory of three women: Sasha, Vladimir Putin Darley and Georgiana. Darley and George are sisters and Sasha is slowly succumbing married to dementiatheir brother Cord. They're Stocktons, hidden from only Sasha isn't a Stockton by birth so she 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 world at large in Pineapple Street property. Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to another property, a secluded private nursing homestreet or so away, which they own. Nikolai Ilyich Sheremetev has what sounds like They won't need any of the most difficult job furniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and Cord can move straight in . Nominally, they had a choice but that wasn't the reality. Darley and Georgiana start to call Sasha 'the world: hegold digger'. She's living in ''their'' family home. They use it so often that they abbreviate it to 'the old manGD's nurse.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782398066</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ernst Haffner and Michael Hofmann (translator)Emily Critchley|title=Blood BrothersOne Puzzling Afternoon

|summary=It's Berlin'Love, and the Nazis are on their way to powerI'd read, even if they will never cross these pages themselves. The city – huge, glamorous, bustling, vicious in the way it can swallow people – is home was supposed to be a countless hoard of teenagerslight and weightless feeling, but we focus on just I had always longed for gravity'' Told from a fewretrospective view, most of whom have been in some corrective institution or other before nowa young woman unravels the year-long relationship that once defined her. They call themselves Overlaid with later wisdom, the Blood Brothers, even if all they share is narrator relives the most unglamorous drudgery of going affair with a man twenty years her senior from one doss-house its inception – the summer after finishing university – to another, balancing its sorrowful end the summer after. Set against the cost backdrop of a few cigarettes with that of a warm room an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for a few hours or some stale rolls to eat. But en route to them is another Salt''Borstaldetails the 24-year-old narrator' escapees deepening relationship with her older lover, depicting its all-consuming nature, Willihow it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and how it altered her irrevocably. Surely his fate is going to be nothing if not more of the same?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099594048</amazonuk>0861546490

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=C G Metts0008506337|title=Waltzing in ViennaThe Garnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore|rating=45

|summary=Filmmaker C G Metts has written four nonfiction booksThe love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, several of them of local interest apparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in love. Richard was twenty-one and described by Margo's mother as 'an older man'. Her parents worried that Richard's influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to South Carolina natives Oxford and visitorshaving a glittering career. This is his first novel, however In the event, they eloped and Richard took her away from the Isle of Wight. Margo did go to Oxford and you may be surprised went on to learn that it is an enjoyable chick lit/women's fiction rompbecome a well-respected journalist. Three girlfriends meet up again in Charleston; in their early forties The couple had three children: Rachel, they're facing turning points Imogen and Sasha. Life was lived in their professional London and personal lives. As they reminisce about summers holidays were spent together at Folly Beach during college and resume their communal marijuana smoking habitSandcove, they summon the courage family home on the Isle of Wight. Even then the doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able to decide what they want from middle age and refresh their sex livesleave him in charge''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0692533346</amazonuk>Then Richard left them.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Hanneke Hendrix and David Doherty (translator)1914585402|title= The Dyslexic Hearts ClubDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross|rating= 34.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= I recently reviewed a novel by another Scandinavian novelist, Helle Helle, David F Ross's book [[This Should be Written in the Present Tense There's Only One Danny Garvey by Helle Helle and Martin Aitken (translator)David F Ross|This Should be Written in the Present TenseThere's Only One Danny Garvey]], a couple of years back and I expected this novel remember being absolutely floored by Hanneke Hendrix to be very similarhow powerful and affecting it was. It wasn't. That's not totally was a bad thing – many people will enjoy the fast-pacedgripping, emotionally wounding read, dialogue driven novel and rereading my review of it my main takeaway was that ''The Dyslexic Hearts Club'' is. It just wasn't exactly what I was expectingmight not have lavished enough praise on it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>9462380678</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Adam BaronLucy Ashe|title=BlackheathClara and Olivia

|summary=Househusband James The year is happy in Blackheath1933. 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. HeBecause there's started doing standa 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 the classroom. A stage presence, a charm, a ''joie de vivre''. The difference between a hard-up again so that he too worker, and a star.|isbn=0861544080}}{{Frontpage|author=Heather Fawcett|title=Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has an achievement in his travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life to balance wife Alice's award winning poetrywork, the very first encyclopaedia of faeries. Children Ida Whilst she is brilliant at research and Dominic are doing well speaking to faeries, she is not so all is greatgood with people. Elsewhere So when she finds herself far, far North in the area Amelia small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the village matriarch, she is equally happy with not sure what she has done, nor how to redeem herself and put her final investigations for her actor husband Richardbook back on the right track. Enter Wendell Bambleby, her own career dashingly handsome and children Niamh insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and teenage Michaeldelight, much to Emily's frustration. Sometimes happiness isn't enough though and, as the worlds of But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the two families start to mingle, things start changing for each of them.faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908434902</amazonuk>0356519120

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rebecca Lim1398515388|title=AfterlightThe Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating=4.5

|summary= A freak motorbike accident that claims the life First of your parents is really all , it takes to make your world fall apart. You might hope that a new beginning was the earthquake, deep in a different high school is going to jumpstart your life; that a chance to reinvent yourself as just Sophie Teaguethe ocean floor, rather than Sophie-The-One-Whose-Parents-Died might just be all you need to get by. But before Sophie gets which created the chance to find outtsunami and this, in turn, she is visited by Evecaused the nuclear meltdown. Eve isn’t like other girlsThe result was complete and utter devastation. She is beautiful The deaths were uncountable, and mesmerizing and Eve needs Sophie to be her go-to girlthe loss of livelihoods was widespread. Because Eve can’t do much for herself since she diedThe 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 convenience store. Eve is He wasn't a ghost and dealing with dog person but the dead who have convenience store owner''unfinished business'' could be s comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and Tamon the biggest challenge of Sophie’s lifedog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1925240495</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Adriana TrigianiChristopher Bowden|title=All The Stars In The HeavensMr Magenta

|summary=It was 1935 and Loretta Young wanted fame and success in Hollywood. Part Christopher Bowden's latest novel is a patient untangling of it was being young (just twenty one) and beautiful but she was also conscious that the money she brought in mattered to her family. She was hungry for love too: a seemingly ordinary woman's life, carried out by her father had left when nephew after she was younghas died. Her step-father had done The aunt who always provided a safe harbour and a little better and there was bit of indulgence to a ''need'' for young nephew had had a man she could love much more interesting life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and look up it seems to. She developed a reputation for falling in love with her leading men: first him an obligation to find it was Spencer Tracy but on the set of ''The Call of the Wild'' she fell for Clark Gable - and he for herall out.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471136345</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Kaui Hart HemmingsJennifer Mason|title= The PossibilitiesPartitions of Unity|rating= 3.54|genre= General Fiction|summary= Sarah's son has just died Here at Bookbag Towers, we first met Elizabeth Cromwell, dominatrix and unintentional detective in an avalanche [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], when she investigated and as such this is unravelled a book very much about bereavement and grieving and what nextseries of disappearances. ItIn ''Partitions of Unity''s odd , she sets her mind to think that solving a basis of personal tragedy made this an intriguing read, but that was the casemurder...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099597780</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Frank HurstWill Carver|title=The Postmistress of Nong KhaiDaves 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=Mike Rawlins' rise through the ranks 'A struggling poetry zine, a mom-and-pop mobile diner in the investigation department of Customs and Excise has been steadyNorthern California redwoods, culminating in his dream posting: attachment to a 400-meter hurdler who just missed the British Embassy2004 Olympics, Thailand. It gets even better when he realises a name from his past is also operating out women's track coach with a yen for bullwhips, a billionaire with a state-of -the country on the other side of the law. Mike'-art S&M dungeon, a man serving a life sentence in Alabama, an enigmatic signature, K(s attempts to nail him over the years have become personal and now, thanks to local informant or 'Postmistress' Lekx), prosecution is on a possibilitycheap oil painting, an erotic art dealer in Georgia.. What Mike doesn.''t realise  This is just a sample of the cost the chase cast of characters and settings in Preposterous. As you can see, some keeping up will exact… not yet anywaybe required! The basic premise of this mystery story goes like this...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785890573</amazonuk>B09STS96HS

{{newreview|author= James MacManus|title= Midnight in Berlin|rating= 4|genre= Historical Fiction|summary= Berlin – 1938. In the British Embassy, military attaché Colonel Macrae prepares to defy his ambassador and government, and assassinate Hitler. Elsewhere, Sara Sternschein appears Move on stage in her role as the lead in the Gestapo's brothel – the Salon Kitty. She has no choice, her twin brother is being held in a concentration camp. In the Gestapo Headquarters, Obergruppenfuhrer Joaqim Bonner waits and watches – with his eyes on Sara Sternschein as his secret weapon. As Colonel Macrae gathers intelligence for his mission he finds himself drawn to Salon Kitty – but does Sara hold the key to thwarting Hitler, or is Macrae being manipulated?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715650335</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Graphic Novels Reviews]]