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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1739526910|title=LucyWhere I've Not Been Lost|author=Glen Sibley|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=''One year after a suicide attempt blows apart musician Brian O’Malley's life, he arrives in an unfamiliar Devon town to recover. Living with an unexpected housemate at his former manager’s holiday home, he dreams of reconnecting with everything he has lost. But as those tentative plans falter, he becomes swept up in a local world of unlikely friendships, mobile discos and surprising romantic possibilities.''}}{{Frontpage|author=Alan KennedyJenny Lecoat|title=Beyond Summerland
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|summary=Lucy is a painterJean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of the occupation. Hiding away in Dundee on VE Day During the war, she returns from a disaster of an exhibition Jean's father was arrested for listening to a letter from a figure from banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and her pastmother waiting for years for news of him. Uncle Albert As the British finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, still in Franceand the war is finally over, wants to sort out his affairs - who their hopes rise that they will get finally learn what after he's deadbecame of him. The letter sends Lucy on But will the truth come as a voyage of discovery - relief, or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the informer who told the Nazis about a past full of artthe radio? And what other secrets have been kept throughout the occupation?|isbn=1846976537}}{{Frontpage|author=Onyi Nwabineli|title=Allow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, lost lovethanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, found lovewhere she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, griefbasically, war monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the content about what could possibly come nexther. Set in pre-war London Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, pre-war undergoing therapy and wartime France secretly abusing people online and windyreceiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, rainy Dundeeshe is desperately worried about her little sister, Lucy who is a love story, but itthe new focus of Ophelia's also a kind of coming-homeonline empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0956469663</amazonuk>0861546873
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Judy Chicurel1529153298|title=If I Knew You Were Going To Be This Beautiful, I Never Would Have Let You GoThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey
|rating=5
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|summary=Katie It's 1979 and her friends in Elephant BeachMargaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, Long Island are going to make the most of summer 1972though. Women have been disappearing. High school is behind themWell, therethey's booze ve been murdered, but to be drunk and weed to be smokedhave 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. ThereMiv's upset because she's also a lot overheard that her father wants to contend withmove the family 'Down South'. This When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a working class communityfrightening, foreign place, ignored and disenfranchised by those with the money and influence to helpbest avoided. Also For Miv, the Vietnam War rages onmove would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, producing local heroes like Luke and Mitchshe'll do anything to prevent that. For some of She's not worried about the young people the future is a blank canvas, for others their future is foreseen dangers or foreshortened. As for Katiethat her Mum's hopes and dreams, they all revolve around the hope of a date with Lukestopped talking - to anyone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472221656</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1035906708|title=The Love Song of Miss Queenie HennessyDiva|author=Rachel JoyceDaisy Goodwin|rating=4.5
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|summary=Rachel Joyce envisions ''The Love Song We tend to think of Miss Queenie Hennessy'' not Maria Callas as a prequel or sequel to [[The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce|The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry]] Greek, but as a companion volume. Giving Queenie's side of the story through an extended letter she is writing was born to Harold from St Bernadine's hospice as she awaits his arrivalGreek parents in Manhattan, Joyce gives readers a new perspective on her character's unrequited love for HaroldNew York, a surprising friendship in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she kept up with his son David until his suicide, and was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her sudden move from Devon father changed it to Northumbria, where 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the States. When she lived was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a quaint beachside cottage mother who mercilessly exploited her and maintained made no secret of her preference for her sea garden until she became ill with cancerelder sister, Jackie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857522450</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The BearAlexander McCall Smith|authortitle=Claire CameronThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=34.5
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|summary=Canadian Claire Cameron was working as The Perfect Passion Company is a counsellor at Algonquin Park dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the early 90'sonline apps in providing a more personal, when a bear attacked and killed two camperstailored service. Here, Cameron revisits Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and re imagines look after the attackbusiness, but gives the campers two childrenas Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and tells so jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the perspective of the daughterIsabel Dalhousie novels, Annabut with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099581469</amazonuk>1846976596
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Night after NightDean Koontz|authortitle=Phil RickmanThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionParanormal|summary=It's no surprise that when it comes to reality televisionBenny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, broadcasters are fighting amongst themselves for the next big thingand his house gets trashed. Oh, no matter how tastelessand someone has delivered a really weird, basedisturbing coffin-sized object to his home, or exploitative and it may be. That's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the starting point very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Phil Rickman's creepy Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a new thrillerfriend, a bad weather friend called Spike, as tv producer Leo Defford decides who has been sent to launch help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a reality show in a mansion formerly owned by tragically deceased movie star Trinity Ansellgood person. Spike is going to take care of Benny, and perhaps haunted by Henry VIIIwill certainly take care of Benny's last wifeenemies, if he, Benny, Katherine Parrand Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857898698</amazonuk>1662500491
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Green DoorKatherine Howe|authortitle=Christopher BowdenA True Account|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Clare Mallory Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to live with a promising junior barrister working family who run an inn, and being made to work there from a prestigious chambersyoung age. Life When she hears there is pretty good. She's not the type to be taken a hanging of some pirates in by psychics but when cards advertising the services of one Madame Pavonia start arriving town, she decides to go and watch. Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death at the posthands of two vicious pirates. She hides away, so that they don't find and kill her interest is piquedtoo, first by the rainbow spectrum pattern and then by... wellto escape them completely she runs away to sea, something elsedressing as a boy and joining the notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. Tempted to visit She soon finds herself in the fortune-teller at thick of things when there is a local fairmutiny on board, Clare is taken aback at Madame Pavonia's reaction to and from there we are caught up in her and rushes out rip roaring tale of life on the tentocean waves. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0955506735</amazonuk>0861547438
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1471180158|title=TwistMaybe Tomorrow|author=Tom GrassPenny Parkes
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Twist doesnJamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who't know s a control freak with all the subtlety of a half brick. Jamie's son, Bo, 'has his familyproblems'. Homeless He's asthmatic and on the run from more you read, the police, more you'll suspect that he is swiftly caught up 's on the autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's a frequent flier in the world of Dodge, Fagin, Sikes, local A&E and Redsometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to school. As they involve Twist in Missed shifts or the dangerous world of Art theft, his skills are pushed need to be away on time to the limits, and his morals pick Bo up from school are tested by both the murky underworld occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the beauty of Redwrong. It was going to come to a head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409150909</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christopher BlandB0CKD1L5JL|title=Ashes In The WindRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn
|rating=4
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|summary=John Burke Petr is an orphan. Rescued by the strange, reclusive Bear, he is brought up far from bustling cities and Tomas Sullivan may go to busy human society, in the same primary school forests of Washington's Olympic Peninsula. After Bear dies and a brief sojourn in Kerry but even in 1908 they're human company, and armed with only a pirate radio transmitter, Petr goes on two sides a journey through the forest, broadcasting the strange, wild and rarely heard voices he encounters.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sarah Marsh|title=A Sign of Her Own|rating=3.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=After a great dividebout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. John is Anglo Irish protestant and comfortably offSuddenly plunged into a world of silence, being everything about her life changes. Living in a time when the heir use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to Derriquin Castle whereas Tomas a school where she is Irish Catholictaught to lip read, living but physically restrained from signing. From here, she ends up in poverty another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and raised to feel the resentment of the oppressedusing a system called Visible Speech. The fact that John has been brought At the same time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up to believe in Home Rule tragically makes no difference as John, Tomas and their future generations live with the consequences a complicated tangle of a centuries old struggleespionage. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781859337</amazonuk>1035401614
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elisabeth GiffordB0BC3YTCMR|title=Return to FourwindsGood Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Two families gather at Fourwinds ''This story is not for the wedding everyone.'' Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of Nicky and Sarahher fifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. Alice She was a very bright student, a bit too nerdy if truth be told, and Ralph are as proud of their son as Patricia and Peter are of their daughtersuffered from vitiligo - people were afraid to hug her in case it's contagious. However there are secrets festering behind the celebratory facades and thereIt's nothing like prenot easy being a black girl whose skin is 84% white. She had a crush on seventeen-year-wedding jitters old Reggie Anderson but never thought he would notice her. Then he did: Lavender was very good at math and Reggie asked if she would tutor him. She readily agreed: tutoring was something she gladly did at church: this was just an extension. She went to bring such things bubbling his house and he raped her. In shock, she even allowed him to the surfacegive her a lift home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782391142</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1472263936|title=The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy - The Nearly Definitive EditionFigurine|author=Douglas AdamsVictoria Hislop
|rating=5
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|summary=There are few series It was in 1968 that have garnered such a cult following as 'The Hitchhikers Guide Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. She was alone: her mother, Greek by birth, had left the Galaxyfamily 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. Whether Her trip to the fans have come from family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be the first of several annual visits. She grew to love her grandmother and the radio seriesfamily's maid, the (impossibly hard) computer gameDina, or the (well intentioned but not particularly good) filmwas wary - and frightened - of her grandfather, they are everywhereretired general Stamatis Papagiannis. Ask a room He was proud of people what his close connections to the meaning of life is, Junta and you can be pretty sure a good few will pipe up with expected his family to uphold his values but saw no reason to accommodate them. His prejudices included Helena'42s red hair and green eyes - inherited from her father' as the answers Scottish ancestors.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434023396</amazonuk>
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{{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}} {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0BVDC2VWH|title=DoomedThe Grave Listeners|author=Chuck PalahniukWilliam Frank|rating=2.54
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|summary=The central character, Madison, village is isolated and poor. It's surrounded by a strangely unlikeable narrator who has been murderedWitching Forest. She finds herself in hell but is able to return to Earth to observe And the dramatic goingsvillagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-on like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicines. The black wood of her celebrity parentsthe forest provides heat and warmth, who fit the stereotype of the Brangelina couple - socially responsibleroofs on homes, universally famous and obscenely richeven gallows, if needed. Without giving too much away, Madison The fear of being buried alive is a pawn an existential superstition in Satan’s plan to destroy the earth village and ensure everyone goes to hell. This being Palahniuk, the focus that is on the comedic possibilities reason Volushka, a drunken, self-indulgent, lazy lout of this scenario rather than the moralistica man is tolerated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099552639</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Victoria HislopB0BYF82CXT|title=The SunriseSemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Savvas has everything he needs here ''Bill and Amanda are living in Cyprus: money, a beautiful wife from a rich Greek Cypriot family and a hotel to develop into beacon accommodation for the wellsemi-heeled. It's not everything he wants though. There's always another hotel to buy and deals to be done while Aphroditidetached house, his intelligent wife, becomes more aware stuck in a depressing rut of her position as an ornament rather than a partner. On the other handboredom and disappointment, the Turkish Ozkans when Terry and Greek Georgious have less materially but are, on the wholeFiona – glamorous, happy. Traditionally they should be enemies but Famagusta is a tolerant town successful and a good place to livevery much in love – move in next door. All this changes in 1974: Turkish soldiers land Despite their different outlooks on life, the island and slowly move down through the north, an underground resistance emerges couples befriend each other and life becomes dangerously cheapappears to improve for both pairs. The citizens of Famagusta flee to the southBut all is not what it seems, but two families can’t get out in time: the Ozkans and the Georgioustheir increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755377788</amazonuk>''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Winter HorsesShalini Boland|authortitle=Philip KerrThe Silent Bride|rating=53|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=It’s the winter of 1941 Alice and we Seth are a match made in the Ukraineheaven. He is everything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, clever, funny; total and utter husband-material. A fourteen year old girl She is hiding all he could possibly want in a wood on wife; beautiful, successful, confident… and so the vast inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and the wedding is planned and bitterset. When the much-cold steppe. Her name anticipated day arrives, Alice is Katinkawalked down the aisle by her father, a name from folk song beaming with pride and excitement as she surveys the congregation – their friends assembled to celebrate this joyful day and fairy talewhen Seth turns to face his approaching bride, and Alice's world implodes because she has been befriended by two of absolutely no idea who the man at the wild Przelowski’s horsesaltar is, who is waiting for her to become his wife.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406359831</amazonuk>1662507089
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1787636003|title=Where Love LiesThe Girls of Summer|author=Julie CohenKatie Bishop
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Let's start with It was the basics. Felicity, a children's book author summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and illustrator, has been married to arrived on the lovely Quinn for just a short timeisland. They live in a sweet cottageRachel wasn't exactly innocent but she was, in a wonderful villageperhaps, with Quinn's family nearby. Quinn is the perfect husbandnaive, so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to take an interest in every wayher, and surely Felicity's life can't get any better she was flattered rather than this? wary. You might well guess that anyone starting out in It was quite a book in this way is heading for trouble. Felicity's trouble comes in rather an unusual form however. She begins while before he made any sort of physical approach to experience intense emotions, seemingly preceded her and by smelling a scent that time she recognises from a long time ago in her lifewas obsessed by him. But are the emotions realAlistair worked for Henry Taylor, or is her imagination playing tricks looking after his interests on her? And are these episodes worthy of a trip to the doctor, island and in particular in the bar where all the girls either worked or will he dismiss her olfactory experiences as the random ramblings of a confused woman?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593070844</amazonuk>partied.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=RoomsAmanda Craig|authortitle=Lauren OliverThree Graces
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Alice and Sandra are deadFew styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of-the-nation novel. Ghosts trapped in There's something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the atmosphere of the house they lived day and died capture it, crafting an image of the country as it stands in, they have bickered and squabbled for yearsone particular moment. To say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's practically synonymous with the genre of contemporary social fiction at this point. Distraction She has such a gift for them comes in weaving the ongoing issues of the day into the form lives of her characters in a real, live family way that feels natural and lived- Carolinein, her daughter Minnanever making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, son Trenton, and Minna's daughter Amy. Arriving to mourn and sort affairs following the death of Minna and Trenton's father, arguments and old wounds soon open upgrappling with issues far larger than themselves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444760769</amazonuk>140871468X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=152915118X|title=Burnt Tongues: An Anthology of Transgressive Short StoriesPineapple Street|author=Chuck Palahniuk, Dennis Widmyer and Richard ThomasJenny Jackson|rating=4.5|genre=Short StoriesGeneral Fiction|summary=Saying certain things out loud just don’t sound right''Pineapple Street'' is the story of three women: Sasha, Darley and Georgiana. Some things 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 disturbing 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 Pineapple Street property. Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to another property, a street or politically incorrect that you are best off leaving them inside your headso away, or better yet not thinking which they own. They won't need any of them at allthe furniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and Cord can move straight in. When these words are spoken Nominally, they could lead to had a choice but that wasn't the sensation of Burnt Tongue; an aftereffect of knowing what you said was wrongreality. Are you prepared Darley and Georgiana start to enter call Sasha 'the world of Transgressive Fiction gold digger'. She's living in ''their'' family home. They use it so often that aims they abbreviate it to disturb, alienate, disgust and question?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178329552X</amazonuk>'the GD'.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=UsEmily Critchley|authortitle=David NichollsOne Puzzling Afternoon
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|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Douglas Petersen 84 year old Edie has lived in the same small town for almost her whole life, but now she is facing a mild-manneredmove as her son wants to move to another house and bring Edie to live with his family, middle-aged biochemistas Edie is starting to lose her memory. He However, Edie is tormented by the memory of her childhood friend, Lucy, who went missing over 60 years ago, and Connie have been married the worry that there was a secret she was keeping for about two decadesLucy that somehow might be the thing that reveals the truth of what happened all that time ago. Their son After 'seeing' Lucy in the high street, just as she was the last time she saw her, Albieshe starts to find pockets of memories coming back to her. And yet as she remembers the past, she is your average sullen teenager with a messy room forgetting more and bohemian affectationsmore in her day to day life. He and Douglas argue Will she uncover the truth about everything, but especially about AlbieLucy's chosen career path: he hopes to be a photographerdisappearance before her move, taking after his artist mother, but Douglas wants him to study something more practical and rigorous at uni. Still, Douglas thinks things before her memories are going pretty well for his family – until one night Connie sits up in bed and tells him she thinks she wants to leave him.gone forever?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>034089699X</amazonuk>1804181250
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{{Frontpage
|author=Madelaine Lucas
|title=Thirst for Salt
|rating=5
|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|isbn=0008506337|title=Mambo In ChinatownThe Garnett Girls|author=Jean KwokGeorgina Moore
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=The daughter of an immigrant noodle makerlove affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, who lives with her father and younger sister apparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in a love. Richard was twenty-one room apartment in Chinatown, is not the sort of person you might imagine 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 Oxford and having a skilled and elegant dancerglittering career. And In the event, indeed, Charlie isn’t any they eloped and Richard took her away from the Isle of those things as we meet herWight. By day she washes pots in her father’s restaurant, by night she encourages her sister Lisa Margo did go to succeed in school Oxford and succeed in went on to become a way that Charlie herself wasn’t able towell-respected journalist. But she dreams of more The couple had three children: Rachel, Imogen and Sasha. Life was lived in London and when an entry level job holidays were spent at a dance school is advertisedSandcove, the family home on the Isle of Wight. Even then the doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she suddenly wants it more than anything she’s ever wanted, everwould never be able to leave him in charge''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594633223</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1914585402|title=Help for the HauntedDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=John SearlesDavid F Ross|rating=34.5
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|summary=Rose I reviewed David F Ross's book [[There's Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's Only One Danny Garvey]] a couple of years back and Sylvester Mason make their living from helping the haunted, performing exorcisms remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and running seminars across America on the subject of the paranormalaffecting it was. When they are murdered in It was a churchgripping, their daughtersemotionally wounding read, Rose and Sylvi, are left negotiating the complex legacy their work has left behindrereading my review of it my main takeaway was that I might not have lavished enough praise on it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751555908</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Boris FishmanLucy Ashe|title=A Replacement LifeClara and Olivia
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=On the day that SlavaThe year is 1933. The place? Sadler's Russian Jewish grandmother is buried in their new homeland of Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, twins no less. Identical on the USoutside but not, a letter arrives from we learn, on the German Conference inside. And not on Material Claims Against Germany offering her financial restitution for her war years spent in stage, either. Because there's a concentration camplot that builds a dancer. All she would have needed to do would Some things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, attention to write a letter about her whereabouts detail – and experiences during World War II. Itsome things, that ''s too late for her but Slavaje ne sais quoi's granddad wants Slava to complete the form in his grandfather's name instead. The fact , that Slavadon's granddad was never in t come from the classroom. A stage presence, a charm, a German concentration camp is immaterial; surely Slava could write something? He's a journalist after all and his granddad did suffer during the war; every Jew in Minsk suffered. This put's Slavajoie de vivre's filial devotion to the test but little does he know it's only the beginning. The difference between a hard-worker, and a star.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0957548834</amazonuk>0861544080
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Bleeding EdgeHeather Fawcett|authortitle=Thomas PynchonEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries|rating=34
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Thomas Pynchon Emily Wilde is a major American novelist. Published for 40 yearsan expert academic scholar on faerie lore, his books are always surprising and highly originalshe has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life's work, the intense privacy very first encyclopaedia of the author mean that they are often still a mystery when releasedfaeries. Having read ''Bleeding Edge'' Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, I can confirm that it she is still somewhat not so good with people. So when she finds herself far, far North in the small village of a mystery to me. Maxine Tarnow is a great main character - a working mother separated from her husbandHrafvsnik, having somehow offended the village matriarch, she is equal parts sassy not sure what she has done, nor how to funny, redeem herself and makes put her final investigations for a reliable companion along her book back on the wayright track. Some of the other characters encountered along the way are truly bizarre - Conkling Speedwell probably 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 here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the most prominent!faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099590360</amazonuk>0356519120
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1398515388|title=The RevolutionsBoy and the Dog|author=Felix GilmanSeishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating=34.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=It is Victorian era London and Arthur Shaw loses his job First of all, it was the earthquake, deep in the great stormocean floor, which created the tsunami and this, but in amongst turn, caused the wind nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and rain he also finds his future fianceeutter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, a writer by and the name loss of Josephine who has been known to skitter about livelihoods was widespread. The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the outskirts list of priorities but - six months after the occult scene so popular at the timetsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. When He wasn't a mysterious man turns up at one of dog person but the meetings convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and offers Arthur a job, something seems amissTamon the dog jumped in. What are Arthur and Josephine getting themselves into?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472113276</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Handsome Man's De Luxe CafeChristopher Bowden|authortitle=Alexander McCall SmithMr Magenta|rating=54
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=When I finished the fourteenth Christopher Bowden's latest novel in this series I felt very warm and happyis a patient untangling of a seemingly ordinary woman's life, carried out by her nephew after she has died. Things were going so well for all the characters, The aunt who always provided a safe harbour and it seemed a little bit of indulgence to a young nephew had had a much more interesting life than that Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi nephew Stephen had reached a wonderful high in their friendship. Of course, these things cannot last ever realised and, surprisingly, I found that I was rather glad of the return of some of Mma Makuti's more outspoken nature! Just what is she getting up it seems to him an obligation to this time?find it all out. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408704331</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Life of a BananaJennifer Mason|authortitle=P P WongPartitions of Unity|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=It has all the makings of a Victorian melodrama. A young girl’s mother dies on her 13th birthday. She Here at Bookbag Towers, we first met Elizabeth Cromwell, dominatrix and her brother are packed off to live with evil grandmotherunintentional detective in [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], strange uncle when she investigated and flighty auntunravelled a series of disappearances. But this is very much a 21st century tale for the protagonistIn ''Partitions of Unity'', Xing Li, is she sets her mind to solving a British born Chinese girlmurder...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>191005321X</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF
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|author=Will Carver
|title=The Daves Next Door
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= Five strangers come together in one moment as a suicide bomber prepares to detonate his vest on a London tube line. As their fates overlap, the story is told in backwards order, leading up to the fateful moment.
|isbn= 1914585186
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