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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]]==General fiction==__NOTOC__{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Dickinson1739526910|title=The SchismWhere I've Not Been Lost|author=Glen Sibley|rating=34.5
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|summary=Patrick Farrell works for ''One year after a company that reclaims credit cards from those in debt. He doesnsuicide attempt blows apart musician Brian O’Malley't particularly enjoy the works life, but it gives him plenty of opportunity he arrives in an unfamiliar Devon town to visit recover. Living with an unexpected housemate at his schizophrenic brotherformer manager’s holiday home, Mikehe dreams of reconnecting with everything he has lost. But as those tentative plans falter, which he does regularly. Mike used to be becomes swept up in a fairly decent boxerlocal world of unlikely friendships, but now his only fight is against the paranoid delusion that there are people watching him all the timemobile discos and surprising romantic possibilities.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908434228</amazonuk>''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Syrie JamesJenny Lecoat|title=The Missing Manuscript of Jane AustenBeyond Summerland|rating=54
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|summary=Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of the occupation. During the war, Jean'A newly discovereds father was arrested for listening to a banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, incredibly rareleaving Jean and her mother waiting for years for news of him. As the British finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, handwritten manuscript and the war is finally over, their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of a previously unknown Jane Austen Novel is to appear at auction in Londonhim. The neatly written but heavily corrected pages are for But will the truth come as a full length work entitled 'The Stanhopes'.'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>0425253368</amazonuk>1846976537
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nick AlexanderOnyi Nwabineli|title=The French HouseAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5
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|summary=CC was trapped in a job Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she no longer felt able to do in a city which wasnposted every step of Anuri't really hers childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Her boyfriend, Victor, had moved to France to live Now Anuri is in a farmhouse he'd inherited her twenties and whilst giving everything up she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and moving out there to join him wasn't the most rational decision she'd ever taken it ''did'' feel like a get her life back, suing her step in -mother to take down the right directioncontent about her. Only - there were a couple of problemsAnuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. The south Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of France in January can be bitterly cold, particularly when youOphelia're a good way up a mountains online empire. And it's going to feel even worse when the property you're going to lacks some of Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the most basic facilities - amongst them most of a roof.same time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857896350</amazonuk>0861546873
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lesley Gray1529153298|title=The King's JockeyList of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=45
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|summary=In June 1913 Emily Wilding Davison ran out in front of the KingIt's horse at the Epsom Derby: she died of her injuries1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. Her actions are often quoted in history books and whether you think her to be a suffragette martyr or a deluded (A woman? I mean, few are ignorant of her or honestly...) She's not what she did's worrying Miv's family, though. But how many people remember the jockey who was up on that fateful day? Women have been disappearing. Few will know his nameWell, or that what happened at the Derby would haunt him for years they've been murdered, but to come as he believed himself responsible for killing Emily Davisonhave 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv''The Kings upset because she's Jockeyoverheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South' . When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the story of Herbert move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'Bertiell do anything to prevent that. She' Jones, of s not worried about the life which brought him dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to the Derby and of what happened in the years afterwardsanyone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907947612</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jami Attenberg1035906708|title=The MiddlesteinsDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5
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|summary=Edie Middlestein almost has the American dream within her grasp. She trained We tend to think of Maria Callas as a lawyerGreek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, has a husbandNew York, a daughter who followed her professional footsteps in December 1923 and a son married only moved to an ambitious wife who provided him with two high-achieving childrenAthens when she was thirteen. There are just two flies Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the ointment preventing the dream's arrival: 1States. Edie is When she was back in Athens - supposedly so morbidly obese that she has to undergo surgery; could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and 2. this is the moment made no secret of her husband chooses to leave preference for herelder sister, Jackie. Apart from that…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846689325</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jodi PicoultAlexander McCall Smith|title=The StorytellerPerfect Passion Company|rating=4.5
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|summary=Sage Singer The Perfect Passion Company is scarred both mentally and physically a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has never really got over asked her mother's deathyounger 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. She works as Katie is coming out of a break up with a baker as bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the night work allows her chance to come home to hide away Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from people Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and sleep the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a business, or in daylight hoursmatch-making, but she does develop one friendship which probably only happens because it seems non-threateningNess has full confidence in her abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=The Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Paranormal|summary=Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Josef WeberOh, pillar of the local communityand someone has delivered a really weird, attends the same grief counselling group as Sage disturbing coffin- sized object to his home, and heit's in possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his ninetieshouse! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. But when Sage relaxes into So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the relationship Josef tells her about himself and asks her delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him to diesince Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Sage Spike is shocked at the request going to take care of Benny, and then repelled as Josef tells her more will certainly take care of his storyBenny'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>1444766635</amazonuk>1662500491
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Paula LichtarowiczKatherine Howe|title=The First Book of Calamity LeekA True Account|rating=4.5
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|summary=I know I'm going Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to face live with a dilemma in reviewing this bookfamily who run an inn, because, really, the best way and being made to approach it is to come at it knowing nothing at allwork there from a young age. And it's very hard When she hears there is to write about it without giving be a hanging of some important things away! Let's start with pirates in the basicstown, in that this is a story told by Calamity Leek, a child living together with her 'sisters', taken care of by 'aunty' she decides to go and occasionally visited by 'mother'watch. Calamity is Enthralled and horrified in charge of a book called the Appendixequal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in which everything a young boy's death at the girls could possibly need to know about their lives is writtenhands of two vicious pirates. They live closeted in their own small farmyard areaShe hides away, protected from the outside world by 'the wallso that they don't find and kill her too, their enemies being the 'injuns' and 'demonmales'. I knowthen to escape them completely she runs away to sea, thatdressing as a boy and joining the notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a lot cabin boy. She soon finds herself in the thick of words things when there is a mutiny on board, and from there we are caught up in quotes. Let me explain..her rip roaring tale of life on the ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091944228</amazonuk>0861547438
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Will Storr1471180158|title=The Hunger and the Howling of Killian LoneMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes
|rating=4.5
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|summary=Killian Lone grows up Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's a control freak with all the subtlety of a home lacking in love and securityhalf brick. Jamie's son, Bo, 'has his problems'. For these He's asthmatic and the more you read, the more you'll suspect that he relies 's on his elderly aunt Dorothy, an accomplished cookthe autistic spectrum. Indeed his visits Sometimes Jamie needs to Dorothy revolve around food as he absorbs all take time off at short notice - she can teach him, slowly inheriting her passion 's a frequent flier in the local A&E and skill along with her knowledgesometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to school. This attachment Missed shifts or the need to food then becomes his career choice, leading be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the unfortunate discovery of a family secret that has remained hidden for a very long timewrong. Why 'unfortunate'? There's It was going to come to a reason for its concealment… a very, very good reasonhead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780720807</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tom WinterB0CKD1L5JL|title=Lost and FoundRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn
|rating=4
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|summary=Carol has lived in a state of unhappiness for many yearsPetr is an orphan. Rescued by the strange, reclusive Bear, married to a man she doesn't love (and probably never has) and with a daughter whom she doesn't understand (and probably never will). But Sophie he is just about independent now brought up far from bustling cities and Carol is determined that she's going to tell Bob that busy human society, in the marriage is over - that sheforests of Washington's leaving - but something always gets in the wayOlympic Peninsula. As her frustration grows she writes letters - to the world at large - After Bear dies and posts them. It doesn't ''change'' anythinga brief sojourn in human company, but she does feel better. She even puts and armed with only a smiley face pirate radio transmitter, Petr goes on a journey through the envelopeforest, broadcasting the strange, wild and rarely heard voices he encounters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472101596</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Beth GutcheonSarah Marsh|title=GossipA Sign of Her Own|rating=43.5
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|summary=Loviah FrenchAfter a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Dinah Wainwright and Avis Metcalf met when they were at boarding schoolEllen Lark loses her hearing. Lovie owns Suddenly plunged into a top-class dress shop world of silence, everything about her life changes. Living in Manhattan - a time when the place where women use of a certain class go when they want sign language was seen as something for only savages do, Ellen is sent to a special occasion and school where she is taught to be secure in the knowledge that they will be treated well and discreetlylip read, but physically restrained from signing. Dinah is a columnist From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who chronicles has been teaching the lives of New York's rich deaf and famous, whilst Avis is using a prominent figure in the art worldsystem called Visible Speech. Lovie At the same time, Bell is our narrator working on other inventions and she's also the glue which holds the three women together. They're both devoted to her ideas, and she to them, but Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a small, imagined slight, many decades earlier, has left an icy distance between Dinah and Aviscomplicated tangle of espionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857899821</amazonuk>1035401614
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bernardine BishopB0BC3YTCMR|title=Unexpected Lessons in LoveGood Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira
|rating=4.5
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|summary=Cecilia Banks ''This story is not for everyone.'' Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of her fifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. She was a very bright student, a bit too nerdy if truth be told, and Helen Gatehouse met by chance suffered from vitiligo - people were afraid to hug her in a doctorcase it's waiting room and a friendship developed because they were both cancer survivors, albeit with a colostomycontagious. It was 's not easy being a case of opposites attracting: Cecilia was quiet, reserved, married for the second time and the mother of Ian whom she idolisedblack girl whose skin is 84% white. Helen She had a crush on seventeen-year-old Reggie Anderson but never married, loud in the nicest sense of the word and an authorthought he would notice her. They gave each other mutual support Then he did: Lavender was very good at math and an outlet for their preoccupationsReggie asked if she would tutor him. People with whom you can discuss the, er, intricacies of your stoma are few and far between! The relationship wasn't entirely uncriticalShe readily agreed: tutoring was something she gladly did at church: Helen this was less than impressed when Ian dumped (sorry - there's really no other word for it) a baby on just an extension. She went to his motherhouse and he raped her. Cephas was the result of a fling he'd had with the child's mother and In shock, she'd disappeared. He - even allowed him to give her a war correspondent - was on his way abroadlift home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184854782X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Amanda Prowse1472263936|title=What have I done?The Figurine|author=Victoria Hislop|rating=45
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|summary=When Kate Gavier married Mark Brooker, she It was full of optimism for their marriage and their futurein 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. However She was alone: her mother, Greek by birth, from had left the first day of their marriagefamily home and refused to return, her dreams were shattered as she realised but Mary and Hamish (Helena's parents) felt that Mark was nothing more than it would be a cruel bullypity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. He even insisted on calling her Kathryn rather than Kate which is how she prefers Her trip to the family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be knownthe first of several annual visits. There followed sixteen years of torment and torture as Mark strove She grew to control his wife and punish love her for any wrongdoings – of which there were many. To the outside world though, it looked as though Mark grandmother and Kathryn had the perfect loving marriagefamily's maid, mainly due to Kathryn’s resolve to spare her childrenDina, Dominic but was wary - and Lydiafrightened - of her grandfather, from knowing retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. He was proud of his close connections to the Junta and witnessing their father’s crueltyexpected his family to uphold his values but saw no reason to accommodate them. One day though, she snapped His prejudices included Helena's red hair and, for the first time in green eyes - inherited from her life, fought back. Hours later, Mark was dead and Kathryn was locked up in a police cell being questioned about what happenedfather's Scottish ancestors.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781853789</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joyce Carol OatesDean Koontz|title=Daddy LoveAfter Death|rating=4.53
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|summary=A short while agoMichael Mace, I read [[The Corn Maiden 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 Other Nightmares by Joyce Carol Oates]] only him – as he sits up and was moved by looks around at the sheer emotional impact shrouded bodies of the stories it containedhis dead friends and former colleagues. This was especially true of the title storyAs he recovers his senses, which looked at the impact on a family torn by the disappearance of their daughterhe realises that there is something different about him; he can ''feel'' everything. The synopsis of ''Daddy LoveEverything''. Michael isn't '' suggested a similar impact, given the nature of the story and what IMichael'd recently discovered about the power of Oates' writinganymore.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781850658</amazonuk>1662500467}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=J E RyderB0BVDC2VWH|title=Blood PoolThe Grave Listeners|author=William Frank
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|summary=Samantha Shelley was surprised to become the owner of a boatyard when her husband died in The village is isolated and poor. It's surrounded by a cliff fallWitching Forest. She had worked in And the East Devon boatyard villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - run it in fact its bread- for quite some time but it's the men of the Shelley 'blood pool' who have always inherited the land for the past two hundred yearslike fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicines. She was aware The black wood of ill-feeling against her in the villageforest provides heat and warmth, roofs on homes, but her priority was to keep the business running as smoothly as possible for herself and for the staff she employedeven gallows, if needed. There was some support The fear of being buried alive is an existential superstition in the village - an old friend, known to one and all as 'that is the Prof' reason Volushka, a drunken, self- had always been there for her and willing to listen to her outpourings or just to chatter as she drank coffee. Then he disappeared in violent circumstancesindulgent, lazy lout of a man is tolerated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00AR0XFX2</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julia GregsonB0BYF82CXT|title=Jasmine NightsSemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone
|rating=4
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|summary=The temptingly titled Jasmine Nights starts promisingly. Saba''Bill and Amanda are living in a semi-detached house, stuck in a talented singer whose gift to the war is entertaining the troopsdepressing rut of boredom and disappointment, comes from an unhappy family backgroundwhen Terry and Fiona – glamorous, successful and one that has little patience for very much in love – move in next door. Despite their different outlooks on life, the opportunities couples befriend each other and life appears to improve for women brought about by warboth pairs. DomBut all is not what it seems, a fighter pilot who has sustained injuries, is feeling displaced - the war has changed his world foreverand their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409103048</amazonuk>''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Toni JordanShalini Boland|title=Nine DaysThe Silent Bride|rating=53
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|summary=Christopher 'Kip' Westaway lives Alice and Seth are a match made in a suburb of Melbourneheaven. He is everything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, Australia with mother Jeanclever, sister Connie funny; total and his twin, Francisutter husband-material. Kip's mother considers him She is all he could possibly want in a layabout who doesn't deserve the special privileges of his educationally elite brother wife; beautiful, successful, confident… and so he works at the big house next door for inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and the Hustings, caring for their horseswedding is planned and set. One When the much-anticipated day Mr Husting presents Kip arrives, Alice is walked down the aisle by her father, beaming with a shilling; pride and excitement as she surveys the congregation – their little secret. As its 1939friends assembled to celebrate this joyful day and when Seth turns to face his approaching bride, thatAlice's a fair amount of money so Kip hides it awayworld implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the man at the altar is, not realising how special that coin will who is waiting for her to become as the decades passhis wife.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444763555</amazonuk>1662507089
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah Butler1787636003|title=Ten Things I've Learnt About LoveThe Girls of Summer|author=Katie Bishop
|rating=5
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|summary=Alice returns home to spend time with her dying fatherIt was the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the island. SheRachel wasn's been travelling in Mongoliat exactly innocent but she was, perhaps, naive, finding temporary escape from the issues that had haunted her life so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to take an interest in London but now, on her return, events bring the pain she thought was behind her into sharp focusflattered rather than wary. Meanwhile Daniel is an elderly vagrant who calls the streets It was quite a while before he made any sort of London homephysical approach to her and by that time she was obsessed by him. He seeks Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, looking after his lost child, leaving a trail of random items across interests on the city island and in particular in the bar where all the hope of reunion like someone occupying a verse of ''Eleanor Rigby''. Disparate lives, seeking love and acceptance in a world that seems to exclude itgirls either worked or partied.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447222490</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gavin ExtenceAmanda Craig|title=The Universe Versus Alex WoodsThree Graces
|rating=4.5
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|summary= While reFew styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-entering the UK with some human ashes and a stash of marijuana, Alex Woods is stopped by customs and referred to -the police-nation novel. It all started 6 years before when, as an 11 year old living in EnglandThere's West Country, his escape from bullies necessitates breaking into a shed; something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the shed atmosphere of a man with a gun pointing at Alex. The man is American Vietnam veteran Isaac Peterson the day andcapture it, whatever his school teachers may crafting an image of the country as it stands in one particular moment. To say to the contrary, that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this is the moment when Alexwould be embarrassingly inadequate: she's education really begins; practically synonymous with the genre of contemporary social fiction at this and point. She has such a gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the moment when he was hit on day into the head by lives of her characters in a passing meteor of courseway that feels natural and lived-in, never making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444765884</amazonuk>140871468X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Carolyn Mathews152915118X|title=Transforming PandoraPineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson|rating=4.5
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|summary=When we first meet Pandora Armstrong in ''Pineapple Street'' is the spring story of 2003 three women: Sasha, Darley and Georgiana. Darley and George are sisters and Sasha is married to their brother Cord. They're Stocktons, only Sasha isn't a Stockton by birth so sheisn't readily accepted into the tribe. The problem's grieving for her husbandexacerbated when the clan matriarch, Tilda, Mikeasks Cord and Sasha if they'd like to move into the Pineapple Street property. Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to another property, who had died just a few weeks beforestreet or so away, which they own. It hadnThey won't been his first heart attack need any of the furniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and he Cord can move straight in. Nominally, they had reduced his workload a choice but this attack was fatalthat wasn't the reality. He was only in his fifties Darley and Pandora feels that heGeorgiana start to call Sasha 'd been snatched away from her as theythe gold digger'd only been married for a few years. When a friend suggests that she goes with her to an Evening of Clairvoyance she runs out of excuses to refuse and although she She's not exactly living in ''convincedtheir'' by what she hears there's a lingering doubtfamily home. A spirit voice mentioned her children and Pandora was adamant They use it so often that she didn't have any children - they abbreviate itto 's actually quite a sore point - but that wasnthe GD't true of Mike.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780997450</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chloe HooperEmily Critchley|title=The EngagementOne Puzzling Afternoon
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|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Chloe Hooper's gothic84 year old Edie has lived in the same small town for almost her whole life, psychological thriller concerns an affair between but now she is facing a thirty-something English girl, Liese, working in Australia at move as her uncle's real estate business son wants to move to another house and a blandly handsome Australian farmerbring Edie to live with his family, Alexander. Set over one weekend as Liese Edie is heading starting to Alexander's remote family farm for lose her memory. However, Edie is tormented by the first time for a weekend memory of passion, this is a classic 'girl trapped in spooky house and situation' story with a darkher childhood friend, sexual twist. LieseLucy, who trained as an interior architectwent missing over 60 years ago, met Alexander while showing him around exclusive Melbourne properties and, has somehow managed to get herself into the worry that there was a situation whereby Alexander pays her secret she was keeping for her attentions, believing Lucy that somehow might be the thing that she is some kind reveals the truth of prostitutewhat happened all that time ago. He After 'seeing's even paying her handsomely for her Lucy in the high street, just as she was the last time at the weekend. With debts of she saw her own, Liese willingly encourages this perception with little idea she starts to find pockets of memories coming back to her. And yet as she remembers the problems past, she is forgetting more and more in her day to which this fantasy will leadday life. Will she uncover the truth about Lucy's disappearance before her move, and before her memories are gone forever?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0224096346</amazonuk>1804181250
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{{Frontpage
|author=Madelaine Lucas
|title=Thirst for Salt
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|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= ''Love, I'd read, was supposed to be a light and weightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravity''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sophie Divry0008506337|title=The Library of Unrequited LoveGarnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore
|rating=5
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|summary=Prepare yourself to try a book the likes of which youThe love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'd never particularly expectLeary was all-consuming, apparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in love. Richard was twenty-one and prepare yourself to find it becoming a favourite – one described by Margo's mother as 'an older man'. Her parents worried that has a snappy story, yet is a monologue, one that concerns Richard's influence would take her away from what we all love – books, they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and lovehaving a glittering career. In the event, yet one that also intrigues they eloped and tempts us with other, very diverse subjectsRichard took her away from the Isle of Wight. One morning our narrator turns up Margo did go to start work early at her geography station in a very large but provincial library, Oxford and finds went on to become a lockedwell-in regularrespected journalist. Over the next hour The couple had three children: Rachel, Imogen and twenty or so (for I read it out loud) she talks to him, barely allowing him a word Sasha. Life was lived in edgeways, London and what we get is one bigholidays were spent at Sandcove, fat lump of a paragraph the family home on the Isle of her worldWight. Told you Even then the doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able to be prepared for the unusual…leave him in charge''. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857051415</amazonuk>Then Richard left them.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Owen Martell1914585402|title=IntermissionDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross|rating=4.5
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|summary=I reviewed David F Ross's book [[There is a line in Alan Bennett's play Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There'The History Boys' that I loves Only One Danny Garvey]] a couple of years back and remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and affecting it was. It talks about 'subjunctive history'was a gripping, emotionally wounding read, imagining things and rereading my review of it my main takeaway was that I might not have happened. In ''Intermission'', his first book in English as opposed to Welsh, Owen Martell borrows this idea, taking an event a surmising what may have happened afterwardslavished enough praise on it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434022047</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Samantha HarveyLucy Ashe|title=All is SongClara and Olivia|rating=34.5
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|summary=Some books The year is 1933. The place? Sadler's Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are hard worksisters, twins no less. Identical on the outside but not, we learn, on the inside. And not on stage, either. I have no problem with Because there's a lot that if I feel there’s builds a reason to persevere; if I dancer. Some things that can sense that the book is going be taught or learnt – discipline, attention to deliver a story detail – and some things, that ''je ne sais quoi'', that don't come from the hard work is necessary to enjoy it fullyclassroom. A stage presence, then I will happily plod alonga charm, rea ''joie de vivre''. The difference between a hard-reading sections if necessaryworker, to get the full benefit of the noveland a star.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099566060</amazonuk>0861544080
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jenn AshworthHeather Fawcett|title=The Friday Gospels|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=There are five in the Leeke family. Martin is the father and he works in the mail sorting office. There's not a lot of ''pleasure'' in Martin's life, but if you were making a list you'd put Bovril at the top of it. She's a labrador and Martin's obsessed with her training. Well, he's partly obsessed with the training and the training is partly an excuse for his other obsession. Nina owns two labradors and Martin sees them (he and Nina, that is - not he and the labs) as having a future together. It would be easy to be critical, but Martin's wife is in a wheelchair. PaulineEmily Wilde's been unwell since the birth Encyclopaedia of their youngest child. She's not quite doubly incontinent, but accidents are frequent and embarrassing. She's also got a penchant for spending on home improvements - despite the fact that there ''really'' isn't the money for them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444707728</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Wm Paul Young|title=Cross RoadsFaeries
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|genre=Spirituality and ReligionGeneral Fiction|summary=Wm. Paul YoungEmily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life's debut novel ''The Shack'' was a revelation in many wayswork, the very first encyclopaedia of faeries. Whilst many disagreed she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, she is not so good with his theologypeople. So when she finds herself far, far North in the small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the village matriarch, it was refreshing she is not sure what she has done, nor how to see such an overtly faith based redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on the bestseller listsright track. PersonallyEnter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, I found it a very moving story all charm and whilst I thought it helpful on some pointsdelight, it tended much to skim over othersEmily's frustration. Now we get to see if Young can repeat his success But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with his new novel, ''Cross Roads''.the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444745972</amazonuk>0356519120
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Francesca Segal1398515388|title=The InnocentsBoy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating=4.5
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|summary=Francesca Segal's debut novelFirst of all, it was the earthquake, ''The Innocents'' is set deep in upper classthe ocean floor, which created the tsunami and this, Jewishin turn, North Londoncaused the nuclear meltdown. Adam is about to marry his childhood sweetheart, Rachel, The result was complete and is working as a lawyer in her father's businessutter devastation. Into this romantic idyl though comes Ellie The deaths were uncountable, Rachel's wayward cousin who has been forced to flee and the US following an appearance in an 'art house' movie loss of dubious repute and, it turns out, further scandallivelihoods was widespread. Ellie is everything The fact that Rachel is not; 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 model, worldly, sexy and temptingconvenience store. As Adam gets drawn into wanting to He wasn'rescuet a dog person but the convenience store owner' her and look after her, s comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his whole future with Rachel is thrown into doubt car door and Tamon the story becomes a will they, won't they get together narrativedog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701186992</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kimberley FreemanChristopher Bowden|title=Wildflower HillMr Magenta|rating=54
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|summary=Christopher Bowden'tis the season to be…thoroughly depressed if yous latest novel is a patient untangling of a seemingly ordinary woman're anything like me – can't bear the colds life, the grey, the forced jollitycarried out by her nephew after she has died. Whatever book I pick up at this time The aunt who always provided a safe harbour and a little bit of year needs indulgence to be a highly effective escapist tonic, otherwise there's young nephew had had a good chance I won't even finish much more interesting life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and it. So I'd like seems to him an obligation to thank Kimberley Freeman for the most find it all-encompassing, escapist and enjoyable novel I can remember reading in winter; something tells me I'll revisit this one a few timesout.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780877080</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Harriet LaneJennifer Mason|title=Alys, AlwaysPartitions of Unity|rating=54
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|summary=Harriet Lane's debut novelHere at Bookbag Towers, ''Alyswe first met Elizabeth Cromwell, Always'' garnered a raft of favourable coverage from the professional reviewers when it was first published dominatrix and unintentional detective in hardback. Concerning[[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], as it does, a young woman who works as a sub-editor in a publishing company when she investigated and unravelled a Booker winning novelistseries of disappearances. In ''Partitions of Unity'', there is always the chance that this was due she sets her mind to the reviewers merely recognizing the world that is portrayedsolving a murder. This view is unfounded though - it is a superbly drawn, frequently very funny, and often psychologically chilling story of ambition and class differences. It thoroughly deserves all the praise that has been heaped upon it.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780220014</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rebecca HarringtonWill Carver|title=PenelopeThe Daves Next Door
|rating=4
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|summary=Penelope is Five strangers come together in one moment as a suicide bomber prepares to detonate his vest on a socially awkward Harvard student, chronicling her first year at the famed institutionLondon tube line. She has a thing for Hercule Poirot (don’t we all?), is allergic to catsAs their fates overlap, and quite worryingly believes that ''Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights'' is one of the best films of all times. She story is determined to make friends but finds the options quite limited. Her roommates are either too studious (Emma) or too dubious (Lan) and the boys downstairs are peculiar creaturestold in backwards order, leading up to say the least. The dashing, mysterious foreigner Gustav is worth a second glance, but never seems to be where she wants him to be, when she wants him to be there, which is annoyingfateful moment.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1844089266</amazonuk>1914585186}} Move on to [[Newest Graphic Novels Reviews]]