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[[Category:New Reviews|Literary Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!{{Frontpage|isbn=295967572X|title=Pale Pieces|author=G M Stevens|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Our unnamed narrator is about to begin a train journey with his companion Django. Where they're going and what the purpose of this journey is, is uncertain. Django found the tickets ''on the floor somewhere'' and has persuaded our narrator to accompany him. Why not? Not much else is clear either -- Remove -->but we are probably in the past as the pair travel to the station by coach and the train is a steam locomotive.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tomoka Shibasaki and Polly Barton (translator)Makenna Goodman|title=Spring GardenHelen of Nowhere

|summary=It could be argued that the pervading theme of this book is malaise - a hard-to-place feeling that something in your life is not quite right. The rats made their massive colony inside protagonist, a disgraced professor on the ruins brink of an abandoned motion picture palacelosing both his career and his relationship, where for thirty long dark years, an aged blind leader ruled over themembodies this feeling. A beloved figure held in high regardHowever, he rules Goodman counteracts his discomfort with patiencea force which is seductive, understanding, justice radical and loveunnerving: Helen. When a young upstart challenges all he has built, ruling with harsh punishments The connection between Helen and rash decisions, the rats must decide how best to protect their colony in order to preserve all that they have built togetherprotagonist is indirect yet intimate. As the rats clash amongst themselvesformer owner of the countryside house he's considering, some fail Helen represents a volta in his life, her past tied to notice his potential fresh start. The realtor who shows the protagonist around the ever growing threats house shares stories about Helen, and dangers describes her as ''an entity that is pure consciousness, beyond form''. Although she lives in an assisted living facility now, Helen has powers beyond comprehension which the outside world provides - who will come out on top in this very literal rat race?reader gets the sense are not altogether innocuous.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>148344936X</amazonuk>1804272205

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sebastian BarryOlga Tokarczuk|title=Days Without EndHouse of Day, House of Night

|summary=It''What's the mid nineteenth century and Thomas McNulty has left his home good of a world that keeps changing like that? How can one go on calmly living in Sligoit?'' The title of this spellbinding work, ''House of Day, his family dead from famineHouse of Night'', to make a new life in a new nation. He teams up with prairie fairy - a dancer in drag somewhat reflects this notion of shifting realities - John Cole and together they sign up for the US Army. Their journey will take them through small, subtle changes which govern our lives, like the American Indian wars and eventually shift from day to the Civil Warnight, however quotidian, causing chaos. Along the wayBut, the two soldiers form a lasting bond with a young Sioux girl called Winona and their travels take them from Missouri to Wyoming and Tennessee. It's constant in that image is the story of perhaps house, stoic against the most violent birth of a nation in history but ancient diurnal cycle which nonetheless controls how it's also a convention-defying love storyis perceived.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571277004</amazonuk>1804271918

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rose TremainThea Lenarduzzi|title=The Gustav SonataTower

|summary=Gustav Perle grew up ''How unctuous are the fats of another's life, how dizzying their sugars in our bloodstream''. In this compelling novel, Thea Lenarduzzi assumes the identity of T, the protagonist of this tale. Just as T's story is being told, the story of a small town in neutral Switzerlandsecond protagonist is unveiled: Annie, the horrors daughter of a wealthy family in the Second World War seemed distant19th century, but neutrality was maintained partly at the expense who died of those who would seek refuge tuberculosis after being locked in the countrya tower, captures T's imagination. GustavAnnie's father died in mysterious circumstances and whilst Gustav adored his motherfate is, Emilieabove all, she was cold and indifferent an enticing story to himT. Until he met Anton Zwiebel he was It is a lonely child with just one toystory which she consumes avariciously, both in a tin trainquest for truth and knowledge, but he and Anton met at kindergarten where it fell to Gustav to look after the nervous boy. Anton is Jewish and he's a talented pianist, but he lacks the confidence to perform in public. Throughout much service of his life he relies on Gustav's supportmyth, but fails to appreciate just how important, how necessary it is to his wellbeingfable and fantasy. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784700207</amazonuk>1804271799

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tom TomaszewskiJon Fosse and Damion Searls (translator) |title=The Eleventh LetterVaim|rating=34

|summary=At the end of the working day, Christopher is looking over the ghosts of his occupancy of some rooms on Harley Street, before moving up the road to different chambers, and pastures new. He's half impelled and half reluctant to revisit a pair of audio cassettes, on which are interviews by him and someone else of a woman called Louise, who 'All was arrested in Italy in the 1980s for strange''... This haunting phrase encapsulates the double murder pervading sense of two close friends, Kate and John. Hardly aware he's being snowed otherworldliness which permeates this story set in by a London blizzard and the usual British response to any bad weatherVaim, he spontaneously provides shelter to a flame-haired beauty, Kay, who provokes him into playing the tapes. It's an occurrence fictional fishing village in Norway which changes him much paradoxically could not feel more profoundly than he does others at the therapist's couch. Indeedreal for Jatgeir and Eline, the closer he gets to Kay, the closer he gets to the voice two of the victim from decades agoprotagonists caught in its melancholic current. What on earth could be the connection?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>099357582X</amazonuk>1804271829

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Steinunn Sigurdardottir and Philip Roughton (translator)Claire-Louise Bennett|title=The Good LoverBig Kiss, Bye-Bye |rating=24.5

|summary=Karl Everything in this book, however sweet or seemingly innocent, is steeped in anguish and distortion. Even a kiss, usually a global example symbol of intimacy and closeness, becomes evidence of love lost. When the Icelandic speciesnarrator cries out internally, with more than one home abroad and an amanuensis-cum-assistant to do his scheduling and arrange housework while he's going 'come over here and there being a businessman. He has a string of lovers that has stretched into three figureskiss me, partly because with one exception three is the limit of liaisons he'll have with each. But he's also got it is less an invitation than a heart devoted desperate attempt to Una, his teenaged love whom he adores, despite confirm her splitting with him decades agoemotional numbness. On a whim he leaves a beach holiday to go back to one The imagined recipient of the icy limbs of Icelandthis plea is Xavier, witnesses the changes wrought by fifteen years on her – and then ends up staying the night with the woman next door. This is purely platonic, but what with his host knowing everything about the situation, an everex-present taxi driver, and an ex on the line in Americapartner, is there a way he can snatch his love from ghost she conjures to test her marriage and find happiness?detachment.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>9462380139</amazonuk>1804271934

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Eric Beck RubinHelene Bessette and Kate Briggs (translator)|title=School of VelocityLili is Crying

|summary=Jan's head First published in 1953 in French, this novel is dropping him in ita timeless text which wrenches the hearts of its readers just as Bessette wrenches words and sentences from their proper position on the page and positions them elsewhere, disjointed, truncated. Like the lives of her characters, they are often left tragically incomplete. He|isbn=1804271675}}{{Frontpage|author=Jonathan Buckley|title=One Boat|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= ''One Boat''s a trained concert pianist, but is having difficulty performing, with a horrendous problem, in deeply introspective novella that he can hear any discordant musicdefies traditional narrative structure, or just in fact horrid noisedrawing the reader into a contemplative realm of philosophical musings and fragmented memories flowing from our narrator and protagonist, when in Teresa. Set against the wings waiting to performevocative backdrop of a small coastal Greek town, this work masterfully captures the magic of its setting and never the score he is due its power to followprovoke profound introspection. The devil's tinnitus, you might call Teresa herself recognises these qualities as the reason she has visited itafter the death of both her parents. With another failure behind himPrompted by her mourning, but dignity somewhat intacther narrative voice is meditative and deeply self-aware, Jan decides he has to work back through his life to tell us inviting the cause – and we're likewise dropped reader into an extended flashback, to his formative years at art school, with a pretentious drama student, Dirkher labyrinthine cogitations. The book It is a fast-moving exploration of what Jan finds book that not only requires but inspires depth of note (pun intended) through his lifethought, since its narrative structure is fragmentary and all that might have caused his mental problemironically relies on analepsis for its propulsion. But is cognisance of what might lie behind it going to help?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0993506275</amazonuk>1804271764

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gerard ReveEowyn Ivey|title=The Evenings: A Winter's TaleBlack Woods Blue Sky

|summary=''The EveningsBlack Woods Blue Sky'' was voted tells the best Dutch novel story of all time by Birdie, the Society young mother of Dutch Literaturetoddler Emaleen, who longs for a life beyond the Alaskan lodge where she works as a bar waitress, a setting which enables her bad habits and its author, Gerard Reve (1923–2006), was the first openly gay writer in the Netherlandsher accidental neglect of Emaleen. It's Described as a historic book for its native country, but will it have the same impact in English translation? Contemporary Dutch novelist Herman Koch compares ''The Eveningswild card'' , she feels stuck in her day-to -day life, and yearns to cross the works Wolverine river and live on the North Fork to fulfil her desires of Kerouac a simple life surrounded by nature. When she meets Arthur Nielson, a strange, taciturn and Salingersolitary man, and I can see how it could have achieved cult status for who says he has a certain generationcabin over there, but plotshe feels called to go -wise I found and bring Emaleen with her. Without realising it more tedious than revelatory, this calling will transform hers and Emaleen's lives forever.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782271783</amazonuk>1472279042

{{newreview|author=Henrietta Rose-Innes|title= Nineveh|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Henritetta Rose-Inne's ''Nineveh'' instantly reassures you that you are in the presence of a confident and talented writer. The story of Katya Grubbs, a second generation pest exterminator who specialises in relocating the bugs and rodents that ruin middle-class garden parties, Rose-Inne writes with the enviable ability of describing both the intricacies of Katya's job and the feeling of it simultaneously. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910709166</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sara Stridsberg and Deborah Bragan-Turner (translator)Sally Rooney|title=The Gravity of LoveIntermezzo

|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=Particularly literate cover… Setting Sally Rooney has studied the chessboard of life and is something of a real-life mental hospital – in Sweden… Mature themes… Opening with an emotion- grandmaster at putting it into words. Her dialogue is gripping and closure-laden death… Yesso brilliantly frustrating, as her characters never quite say exactly what they feel. Among the many relationships woven into this book has more than its share of things story, the central one for readers to put unravel is the potential reader offfraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and Peter Koubek. WhichIvan, a socially awkward chess prodigy, contrasts sharply with his older brother Peter, a successful lawyer living in this instanceDublin. Following their father's passing after a long battle with cancer, is quite a large shame indeedthe brothers' already strained relationship faces new trials.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857054767</amazonuk>0571365469

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Carys Bray and othersFyodor Dostoyevsky|title=How Much the Heart Can Hold: Seven Stories on LoveWhite Nights|rating=3.5

|summary=This Sceptre collection does not have as simple a remit as it might appear; these are no straightforward love stories. InsteadAs always in Dostoyevsky, they each take one aspect of love – often one of the ancient Greek classifications – and provide character work is sublime. One is never left wondering what a whole new way of character is thinking about it. After all, the heart holds a lot of metaphorical weightor feeling because Dostoyevsky lays bare their innermost dispositions and temperaments with remarkable clarity.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473649420</amazonuk>0241619785

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Salley VickersJames Baldwin|title= CousinsGiovanni's Room|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction |summary=''Giovanni's Room'' follows the narrator David, an American man living in Paris, as he navigates his torturous affair with Giovanni, an Italian bartender he meets in a gay bar. While David is engaged to Hella, who is travelling in Spain, the real tension in the novel arises not from his infidelity but from the deeper conflict within himself. It is David's crippling shame and denial of his sexuality that ultimately dooms his relationship with Giovanni.|isbn=0141186356}}{{Frontpage|author=Alba de Cespedes |title=Forbidden Notebook

|summary=''This may be hard to believe, coming from a black man, but I've never stolen anything.'' Isn't that one Italian work of the great opening lines feminist fiction holds an air of literature? Our black hero suspense and narratortension from the moment our protagonist, surname MeValeria Cossati, first name unknownpurchases her forbidden notebook, was born and learns about herself in the southern Los Angeles suburb of Dickens most intimate and subjected to an isolated upbringing dominated by his father's extreme views on race, supposedly the subject of a psychological memoir which will solve their financial problems, but cruel and unnatural to anyone with an ounce of humanity. To add insult to injury Me discovered after his father's death (a racially provoked shooting) that there was no memoir. A drive-by shooting produces nothing more substantial than a bill for a drive-through funeral, but it starts Me on the path which will end in the Supreme Court, the subject of a race trial: ''Me v the United States of America''revealing ways.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786070154</amazonuk>1782278222

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nir BaramOttessa Moshfegh|title=Good PeopleMy Year of Rest and Relaxation|rating=43

|summary=Thomas Heiselberg's self-focus pays off when he attracts the At best clientele to the American advertising firm he helps establish across Europe from his German home. Meanwhile in Russia Sasha Weissberg , this novel is struggling with being in a literaryscathing critique of modern society and reveals the fragility of human relationships; at worst, free-thinking family that doesn't go down too well with Stalin's regime. As World War II arrivesit is the cynical, both predictable and slightly trite tale of their worlds are shakenan unlikeable protagonist. As This unlikely heroine, a result both decide to become collaborators rather than resistance fighters for different reasons slim, attractive and newly orphaned girl in her twenties is disillusioned with far reaching effectsthe world, but resolves not to lose sleep over it: in fact, her solution lies in her hibernation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1911231006</amazonuk>1784707422

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ian McEwanMatthew Tree|title=NutshellWe'll Never Know

|genre=Literary Fiction |summary=Meet Trudy. Successfully living in a large and valuable London home, she is heavily pregnant, and in between two men – she has swapped the homeowner, poet and publisher John, for someone completely Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different, namely Claudefrom his father, a nasty, brutish drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and short typewho had endless crises of self confidence. Some people cannot work out why on earth she has made that decision, including our narrator. OhSo Tim applied himself to his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and he set himself, our narrator, is the child she's pregnant withhigh but achievable ambitions. He is a very alert young thing, with nothing else to do but kick here and there, and practice what you might well call mindfulness, and listen in on Claude and Trudy, as they calmly talk their way to plotting and carrying out murder…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1911214330</amazonuk>B0CVFXPGP8

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Matt WilvenB0C47LV1PC|title=The Blackbird Singularity|rating= 5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary=Thirty-something writer Vince Watergate sees his partner's pregnancy as a fresh start. He stops taking his lithium and the new clarity of mind lets him start writing his best work in ages. He befriends a blackbird in the garden with the help of a bag of sultanas, and begins preparing the baby's room. For a short while, everything seems full of peace and hope. But Vince and Lyd's first child, despite having died a couple of years earlier, might not have completely left them and the blackbird might not be as friendly as Vince first thought. Lithium withdrawal, stress, and the pressure of appearing 'normal' push Vince into a frightening, irrational place. Can he fight his way through it and return to his family?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785079689</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFragility|author=Carolyn Parkhurst|title=HarmonyMosby Woods|rating=54

|summary=Josh and Alexandra Hammond have two daughters. Iris is eleven years old and neurotypical: her brain works in the same way as most peopleCan you make a ''Yo birthing person''s, but her elder sister, Tillyjoke? And if you could, is thirteen and on the autistic spectrum. Her parents are finding question should you make it difficult, ? Or is the question if not impossibleyou did, to cope with her. Even her special and rather expensive school has indicated would it land? The catch is that they can't continuethe answer for both could well be. She's subject to mood swings and unpredictable and inappropriate behaviour. Josh is lucky - he goes to work - but Alexandra is stuck with the problem, which is why Scott Bean, educator and expert in parenting, appeals to her. The name came to her attention on a couple of occasions: she subscribed to his newsletter, heard him speak and what he had to say rang a bell. Before long he was coming to the house for private consultationsno.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340978171</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=William Ryan|title=The Constant Soldier|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Paul Brandt returns home to his village without the arm he left at ''Fragility'' is set as the Russian Front in defence city of Germany. The village looks pretty much the same as he left itPortland, with the exception of the lack of young men and a new building. His home now boasts an SS rest hutOregon, providing officers with entertainment and respite breaks cautiously begins to emerge from the fighting. As Paul passes the hut for restrictions imposed during the first time, he sees something… or rather someone… that will make him return to work for those he despises. The subject of his decision? A girl he once got into trouble with under different circumstances – before she wore the stripes of a concentration camp prisoner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447255011</amazonuk>covid pandemic

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Pamela JohnsonMosby Woods|title=Taking in WaterA Whirly Man Loses His Turn

|summary=Pamela JohnsonThe West isn's third novel is set in 2002 but has its roots in a real-life tragedy from nearly 50 years earlier: in 1953 a storm surge hit t the Norfolk coast, destroying Lydia Hutton's grandmother's home and sweeping her whole family out to seadominant force it once was. Seven-year-old Lydia was Nobody in the only one to survive, clinging West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is the wreckage and singing hymns to herself to survivebest course of action. Governments are flailing. It's a dark part of her past she's never told anyone except Luc, the half-French lover whose iconic performance art piece, ''Taking in Water''A war here, she participated in during a spell push for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is in New York City in the 1960sactual charge. Imagine then, when she there was known as 'Layla' and hung around a man with precognition. Imagine the likes strategic advantage in this asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of Andy Warholcircumstances.That man would be valuable, right? Perhaps the most valuable asset in history. Imagine then, that this man loses this ability. What would governments do to get it back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1534627243</amazonuk>B0C9SNG8R1

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=A N Wilson0571379559|title=ResolutionThe House of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams|rating=45

|summary=In 1772 Reinhold Forster and his son George were hired as ship's naturalists for the 'The House of Broken Bricks'Resolution'is the story of four people. Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in the vessel Captain James Cook piloted to New Zealand and back house on a three-year voyage the riverbank, built of broken bricks. Insubstantial as it might look, it's stood the passage of discoverytime, storms and floods. Once a Lutheran pastor near Danzig Her husband, Reinhold seemed unable Richard, struggles to settle grow his vegetables, to complete the delivery rounds - and to one line of work bring in sufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and had a higher opinion of himself than was prudentMax, the rainbow twins. In Wilson Sonny's vision of life on the colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. People don'Resolution't believe that they're related, Reinhold seems fussy, argumentative much less twins and rather heartless, as when he offers Georgethere's dog up as fresh meat an assumption when the captain Max is desperately ill. George, just 18 when he joins the expedition, is a self-taught illustrator and botanist out with a keen ear for languages. Though precociously intelligent, he is emotionally immature and cannot keep a handle on his masturbation habit or deal with their servant Nallymother that she's crush on himhis nanny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782398279</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Michael HughesClaire North|title= The Countenance DivineHouse of Odysseus|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary=In 1999, a programmer is trying to fix the millennium bug, but can't shake the sense he's been chosen for something. In 1888, five women are brutally murdered in the East End by a troubled young man in thrall to a mysterious master. In 1777, an apprentice engraver called William Blake has a defining spiritual experience; thirteen years later this vision returns. What could matter more than love?''

And in 1666The follow-up to the excellent ''Ithaca'' picks up a few months after where we left off. In the palace of Odysseus, poet with delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without her husband, who sailed to war at Troy and revolutionary John Milton completes then by divine intervention never returned home. As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for the throne of the Western Isles. Having survived – politically and physical – the chaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to Ithaca's shores, Queen Penelope is on the epic for which he will be remembered centuries laterbrink of a fragile peace. One that shatters however with the return of Orestes, King of Mycenae, and his sister Elektra, seeking refuge. |isbn=0356516075}}{{Frontpage|author= Kay Chronister|title= Desert CreaturesBut where does |rating= 4|genre= Dystopian Fiction|summary= With a world that is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, post-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Whether it is a robotic takeover, a world devoid of water or a nuclear holocaust, this genre is a way for humans to cathartically experience their most existential fears. ''Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is a new work of post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the feeling come from fears that the world exist for humanity today. It is about a shocking novel that still manages to end?find hope.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473636507</amazonuk>1803364998

{{newreviewfrontpage|isbn=1803363002|author= Emily BittoEric LaRocca|title= The StraysTrees Grew Because I Bled There

|genre= Horror|summary= Horror taps into something primeval within us. It is used as a way to reflect our darkest emotions and how we as humans react and process them. Most horror fiction feature a ''Big Bad'', whether that is a home invader, a monster or a ghost, it usually something tangible and, by the end of the story, beatable. Eric LaRocca's ''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is not like that. It is a collection of short stories more interested in the horrors of illness, grief and humiliation. Horrors that linger and are harder to defeat than any ''Big Bad''.}}{{Frontpage|author=Madelaine Lucas|title=Thirst for Salt|rating=5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= Lily comes ''Love, I'd read, was supposed to be a light and weightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravity'' Told from an ordinary suburban familya retrospective view, but on her first day at a new school she meets Eva: young woman unravels the superyear-confident middle daughter of artist Evan Trenthamlong relationship that once defined her. The girls fast become firm friendsOverlaid with later wisdom, the narrator relives the affair with a man twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the summer after. Set against the exclusion backdrop of all those ar ound them and it isnan isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt''t long before Lily is spending more time at details the Trentham24-year-old narrator's than she does at home. Why wouldn't she? Their life is everything deepening relationship with her older lover, depicting its all-consuming nature, how it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and how it altered her family's isn'tirrevocably.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785079514</amazonuk>0861546490

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Eowyn IveyMichael Grothaus|title=To the Bright Edge of the WorldBeautiful Shining People

|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=If you're going 'But fearing something and having it come to go pioneering across unexplored lands, at least be prepared pass are two different things. And I'm willing to accept what you seek – namely, bet most of what you've we fear will never seen before. That lesson seems quite obvioushappen, but back in the time of 1885 Allen Forrester is a little too naïve or we can take steps to heed change it. A career soldier, he is tasked with scouring the potential of the Wolverine River that threads south to '' ''Beautiful Shining People'' revolves around the shores question of Alaska, even though the Russians (who of course used to own the Territory) have had all manner of lethal encounters with those already living there, identity and even though a major stretch of the river has acceptance. Of what it means to be traversed in winter when entirely frozen over, as the cliffs either side are too impenetrablehuman. Allen leaves a much youngerOf what is real and what is artificial, new bride behind – and right from whether the get-go his journals force him to pen words about strange happenings, strange encounters and things development of legend coming to lifetechnology is exciting or frightening. Like I say, what he's never seen before…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472208609</amazonuk>191458564X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Talulah RileyJennifer Saint|title= Acts of LoveAtalanta|rating= 4.5|genre= Women's Literary Fiction |summary= Bernadette St John presents herself ''I was as the very face worthy as any one of contemporary feminine independencethem. She is strongI would get on board that ship, career-drivenI vowed. I would take my place, beautiful…and definitely holds not just in the attention name of the publicgoddess. For Bernadette is It was for the sake of my name, too. Atalanta''Man Whisperer'' Princess. Warrior. Lover. Hero. Abandoned at birth for being born a daughter rather than a son, winning herself fame with her ability to coax secrets from Atalanta is raised under the richest and most powerful men protective eye of the world, exposing them with controversial distaste in her articles. Hidden behind such a conniving goddess Athemis and judgemental persona, however, is fashioned into a deep insecurityformidable huntress, and a desperate longing to be loved by the perfect manone who longs for adventure. She has already decided that When the newly engaged Tim Bazier is opportunity comes – to join the only candidate for such Argonauts, a position in her heartfierce band of warriors, and will stop at nothing descendent from the Gods themselves – Atalanta seizes the chance to win him back from his all-too-lovely fiancé. Yet what is perfect is a subject for discussion, fight in Artemis' name and charismatic entrepreneur Radley Blake's unwavering attention has also fallen upon the feisty journalistcarve out her own legendary place in history. It What follows is a weaving tale whirlwind of challenges and discovery and through it, Atalanta must remember Artemis''will-they-wont-they'' fatal warning: that Riley spins hereif she marries, one that I found myself unable to put downit will be her undoing.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473637902</amazonuk>1472292154

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jesse BallAmanthi Harris|title=How to Set a Fire and WhyBeautiful Place|rating=45

|summary=Lucia Stanton Padma, a young Sri Lankan, has returned to the Villa Hibiscus on the southern coast of her home country. This is a sarcastic 14-year-old misfit who lives with place she spent her elderly Aunt Lucy in formative years. It is not a garage they rent from an evil landlord at place she was born into, but the bottom one she thinks of his large gardenas home. She never comes right out and explains why How she's therecame to be at the Villa, how it became her home, but if you read between and the lines you work out machinations that have flowed through her father is dead and her mother is in a mental hospital – presumably for his murder. Aunt Lucy is dignified and principled – life ever since she first arrived there provide the ''Donscore't do things you aren't proud offor this gentle and yet subtly violent novel. Padma'' is s present fails to escape her motto – even though they are undeniably poor: Lucia only has one set of clothes past and mostly lives off much like the musical score of liquorice and Aunt Lucy's terrible homemade breada film, that strand weaves its way through everything that happens at the Villa.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1925355470</amazonuk>1784631930

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jenn Ashworth178563335X|title=FellSea Defences|author=Hilary Taylor

|summary=Now her parents have diedFirst of all, it was the earthquake, Annette returns to sell her old childhood home but there's work to do on deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and this, in turn, caused the decrepit building firstnuclear meltdown. As she wanders around The result was complete and tries to make some order of the overgrown shamblesutter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, she's watched by and the ghost loss of her mother, Netty; a spirit with regretslivelihoods was widespread. Netty reminisces about Annette's childhood and The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the turning point their lives reached when list of priorities but - six months after the mysterious healer Timothy Richardson came to staytsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. It was He wasn't a time dog person but the convenience store owner's comment that promised so much but one for which Netty now needs he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to make amends, even if she is beyond open his car door and Tamon the gravedog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473630606</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sue Gee0989715337|title=TrioPapa on the Moon|author=Marco North

|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=In ''Some frogs had gotten into the winter of 1936, Steven Coulterwell.'' ''s wifeWalter stood waist-deep in the fragrant water, Margaret, dies naked except for his beaten leather hat. Long strands of tuberculosis, leaving their Northumberland cottage cold and empty. His work as a history teacher at Kirkhoughton Boys' School isn't enough to distract eggs wove around him from his grief; he spends his long evenings writing letters to Margaret. Gradually, though, as spring arrives he starts to take an interest in other thingssticky gray pearls with tadpoles inside them. His colleague Frank Embleton invites him to a performance by Two of the dogs leaned over the Hepplewick Trio: Frank's sister Diana on cello; pianist Margot Heslop, whose mother died when she was young opening and who looks after her father, a coal mine manager, barked down at Hepplewick Hall; and their friend George Liddell, the violinist and leader, who is a Royal College strange noise of Music graduatethe buckets as he filled them.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784630616</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Stephanie Danler|title= Sweetbitter|rating= 4|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= Twenty –two year old Tess How is a restless graduate from a broken family. With the intention of finally starting her life, she moves to New York City with no real plan but a need to do something. She manages to get a job at one that for an opening? The style of the most exclusive restaurants this novel in town as a back-waiter and Tess is thrown into the comforting commotion form of New York life. It's at her new job that she becomes fascinated by two people: Simone, a know-it-all server interconnected short stories goes from succinct and laconic to wistful and Jakemusing, turning on a handsome yet moody bartendersixpence. While And author Marco North, who has the restaurant becomes her home and her colleagues her new familymost wonderful turn of phrase, ''Sweetbitter'' follows Tess through a year of her life starts as she grows and learns about the complexities of human relationshipshe means to go on.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780749155</amazonuk>