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|author=Jeremy Cooper|title=Discord|rating= 3.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Discord: a lack of agreement or harmony (as between persons, things, or ideas) The principal example of discord within the novel, as with most instances of discord, is easily located. The two protagonists of the novel, Rebekah Rosen and Evie Bennet, are as different as they come. Rebekah is an uptight, traditional and no-nonsense composer close to retirement, while Evie is a force of nature, bounding onto the musical scene as a precocious saxophonist, oozing with talent and charm. The two, predictably, don't always see eye to eye, their approaches different and Evie's progressive views at odds with Rebekah's conservative leaning. However, something connects them beyond just their musical project: a sort of fragile alliance formed within the clamour.|isbn=014043349X1804272264}}{{Frontpage|author=Polly Barton|title=What Am I, A Deer?|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Polly Barton's debut novel is an intellectually playful yet emotionally exposed work that uses translation as both subject and governing metaphor. The Prime Ministernarrator, newly relocated from London to Berlin, works translating video games into Japanese through the process of localisation, rewriting language until it feels comfortably familiar to a new audience. Barton treats this as a paradoxical act: arguably, in striving for universality, language is endlessly repackaged, its originality at risk of disappearing altogether. From this, the novel opens out into a wider, resonant question: to what extent do we translate ourselves in order to be understood, accepted, or loved?|isbn=1804272175}}{{Frontpage|author=Anthony TrollopeMaria Stepanova and Sasha Dugdale (Translator)|title=The Disappearing Act
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|summary=Plantagenet Palliser, the Duke Despite her anonymisation of Omniumplace names and people, is the prime minister of a coalition government but heStepanova's privately enraged at the seemingly unstoppable rise message in this short work of Ferdinand Lopezautofiction is unmistakable. Lopex is exotic - some describe him as Jewish, others as Portuguese but A novelist named M travels from B (ostensibly Berlin) to the truth is that no one knows and Lopez town of F for a literary festival she is not going to explainbe a guest speaker at. The ladies of societyDetoured by erratic train schedules and nudged by forces beyond her control, even Palliser's own wife, Lady Glencora, are supporters but after Lopez makes an advantageous marriage Palliser is placed her journey slowly bends toward a traveling circus. Swept up in the position this series of having events, M eventually offers to support his wife's actions when Lopez loses step in for a by-electioncircus performer who has unexpectedly left the show. The Duke's payment train functions as a motif of transience and impermanence, while the circus embodies the reshaping of Lopez' election expenses in identity and a retreat into fantasy, an attempt to stem gossip about his wife will come back to haunt himimpulse that lies at the very heart of the novel form itself.|isbn=1804272329
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|isbn=B00474HVX4295967572X|title=Phineas ReduxPale Pieces|author=Anthony TrollopeG M Stevens|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=It's some time since we heard from [[Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope|Phineas Finn]]. Having succeeded in parliament and achieved Our unnamed narrator is about to begin a paying position he fell out train journey with those who provided his income companion Django. Where they're going and returned to Ireland where he married Marywhat the purpose of this journey is, his childhood sweetheartis uncertain. He was fortunate Django found the tickets ''on the floor somewhere'' and has persuaded our narrator to get a job in Cork (or Dublin accompany him. Why not? Not much else is clear either - recollections may vary) and seemed settled into a life of domesticity. To bring Finn back, Trollope had to kill off poor Mary and Phineas emerges but we are probably in London the past as a childless widower with a legacy from an aunt who died at just the right time pair travel to allow the move to be possiblestation by coach and the train is a steam locomotive.
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|author=Jessie GreengrassMakenna Goodman|title=The High HouseHelen of Nowhere
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Charles Darwin taught It could be argued that all living matter evolved the pervading theme of this book is malaise - a hard-to pass on its genetic material with the implied belief -place feeling that something in your progeny will then pass life is not quite right. The protagonist, a disgraced professor on theirsthe brink of losing both his career and his relationship, embodies this feeling. However, that train of thought Goodman counteracts his discomfort with a force which is slowly seems to have fallen out of favourseductive, radical and unnerving: Helen. Today's young generation are discovering that their parents The connection between Helen and their parents' parents did not seem to think that far aheadthe protagonist is indirect yet intimate. Or they did think that far ahead and thought "itAs the former owner of the countryside house he's not my problem" or "there's nothing I can do". Raising considering, Helen represents a child and living volta in a world on his life, her past tied to his potential fresh start. The realtor who shows the protagonist around the precipice of catastrophe is what drives house shares stories about Helen, and describes her as ''The High Housean entity that is pure consciousness, beyond form'' by Jessie Greengrass. This is Although she lives in an assisted living facility now, Helen has powers beyond comprehension which the reader gets the sense are not a science-fiction novel. This is our reality. This is the life our children and their children will have to livealtogether innocuous.|isbn=18007500721804272205
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|author=Charlie CarrollOlga Tokarczuk|title=The LipHouse of Day, House of Night
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=''Melody Janie RoweWhat'' even s the name is evocative of…probably good of whatever we want a world that keeps changing like that? How can one go on calmly living in it to be?'' The title of this spellbinding work, ''House of Day, and maybe thatHouse of Night''s , somewhat reflects this notion of shifting realities - the small, subtle changes which govern our lives, like the pointshift from day to night, however quotidian, causing chaos. To me But, the name sings of English folk music, but even constant in my use of that word Englishimage is the house, I know I'm putting an emmet take on things. And Melody Janie Rowe stoic against the ancient diurnal cycle which nonetheless controls how it is anti-emmetperceived. |isbn=15293341791804271918
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|isbnauthor=B003UH99X4Thea Lenarduzzi|title=The Eustace Diamonds|author=Anthony TrollopeTower
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=It was generally thought that Sir Florian Eustace had come to regret his marriage but he didn't live long enough for '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 to become a problemtale. After his deathJust as T's story is being told, his wifethe story of a second protagonist is unveiled: Annie, Lizzie - still only the daughter of a wealthy family in her late teens - was the 19th century, who died of tuberculosis after being locked in possession of a very valuable diamond necklace and was determined that she would not hand it over to her husbandtower, captures T's executorsimagination. She was adamant that Sir Florian had given it to her absolutelyAnnie's fate is, above all, although the precise circumstances of the giving varied from telling an enticing story to tellingT. Lady Eustace was not It is a woman to whom truth meant a great deal. All that was important to her now, story which she maintainedconsumes avariciously, was her son. Andboth in a quest for truth and knowledge, and in service of coursemyth, her diamondsfable and fantasy. |isbn=1804271799
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|isbnauthor=B003L7TDMUJon Fosse and Damion Searls (translator) |title=Phineas FinnVaim|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''All was strange''... This haunting phrase encapsulates the pervading sense of otherworldliness which permeates this story set in Vaim, a fictional fishing village in Norway which paradoxically could not feel more real for Jatgeir and Eline, two of the protagonists caught in its melancholic current.|isbn=1804271829}}{{Frontpage|author=Anthony TrollopeClaire-Louise Bennett|title=Big Kiss, Bye-Bye
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Phineas Finn is the son of Dr Malachi FinnEverything in this book, a successful doctor in Killaloe in County Clarehowever sweet or seemingly innocent, who sent his son to London to train as a lawyer. Phineas's interest is more steeped in making influential friends than in becoming anguish and distortion. Even a kiss, usually a lawyer symbol of intimacy and one closeness, becomes evidence of themlove lost. When the narrator cries out internally, Barrington Erle''come over here and kiss me, suggests that he runs for Parliament in the forthcoming election. His father '' it is not entirely in favour of this as members are not remunerated and it would be up to him less an invitation than a desperate attempt to provide financial support for his son as well as funding his electionconfirm her emotional numbness. One of the doctor's patients is Lord Tulla who controls the borough The imagined recipient of Loughshane and by this stroke of luck Finn plea isXavier, eventuallyher ex-partner, elected by a small marginghost she conjures to test her detachment.|isbn=1804271934
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|isbnauthor=B003A6W0FOHelene Bessette and Kate Briggs (translator)|title=Can You Forgive Her?|author=Anthony TrollopeLili is Crying
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=On the surface ''Can You Forgive Her?'' looks deceptively simple: it's the story of one woman and two men who are vying with each other for her love. Alice Vavasor was originally engaged to her cousinFirst published in 1953 in French, George Vavasor but she broke off that engagement and later became engaged to John Grey. When we first meet Alice she's on an extended tour of this novel is a timeless text which wrenches the continent with George Vavasor and his sister Kate. It's obvious that there's still a great deal hearts of chemistry between John and Alice - and Kate is all for encouraging the relationship its readers just as it would tie Alice to her. George wants Alice but it's a matter of ''amour propre'' rather than love: he has little consideration for anyone other than himself Bessette wrenches words and sentences from their proper position on the original engagement had fallen through because of his infidelity page and deceitfulnesspositions them elsewhere, disjointed, truncated. This thread is Like the story lives of a very complicated love affair and a woman who lacks confidence in her own judgement. You might not like Alice to start with but you will warm to hercharacters, they are often left tragically incomplete.|isbn=1804271675
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|author=Lucy HollandJonathan Buckley|title=SistersongOne Boat|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= ''One Boat'' is a deeply introspective novella that defies traditional narrative structure, drawing the reader into a contemplative realm of philosophical musings and fragmented memories flowing from our narrator and protagonist, Teresa. Set against the evocative backdrop of a small coastal Greek town, this work masterfully captures the magic of its setting and its power to provoke profound introspection. Teresa herself recognises these qualities as the reason she has visited it after the death of both her parents. Prompted by her mourning, her narrative voice is meditative and deeply self-aware, inviting the reader into her labyrinthine cogitations. It is a book that not only requires but inspires depth of thought, since its narrative structure is fragmentary and ironically relies on analepsis for its propulsion.|isbn=1804271764}}{{Frontpage|author=Eowyn Ivey|title=Black Woods Blue Sky|rating=3.5
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|summary=Sistersong is part ''Black Woods Blue Sky'' tells the story of a genre I particularly enjoyBirdie, the modern retelling young mother of folk and fairy tales. These storiestoddler Emaleen, who longs for most of usa life beyond the Alaskan lodge where she works as a bar waitress, are a cornerstone setting which enables her bad habits and her accidental neglect of childhood and I relish seeing them retold with fresh eyes and Emaleen. Described as a fresh perspective. If handled well these retellings give new ''wild card'', she feels stuck in her day-to-day life , and new meaning yearns to stories that are now becoming increasingly narrow cross the Wolverine river and outdated, fleshing out characters, examining relationships and re-evaluating live on the role North Fork to fulfil her desires of womena simple life surrounded by nature. Sistersong is When she meets Arthur Nielson, a perfect example of a modern retelling done wellstrange, the plot is handled with caretaciturn and solitary man, keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing the characters to come to lifewho says he has a cabin over there, she feels called to feel real go - and humanbring Emaleen with her. Without realising it, most importantly they feel relatable in a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the pre-Saxon age they live in. This is a masterpiece of storytelling this calling will transform hers and I was captivated from beginning to endEmaleen's lives forever.|isbn=15290390371472279042
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|isbnauthor=B002SQCYWQSally Rooney|title=The Complete Barchester ChroniclesIntermezzo|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction |summary=Sally Rooney has studied the chessboard of life and is something of a grandmaster at putting it into words. Her dialogue is gripping and so brilliantly frustrating, as her characters never quite say exactly what they feel. Among the many relationships woven into this story, the central one for readers to unravel is the fraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and Peter Koubek. Ivan, a socially awkward chess prodigy, contrasts sharply with his older brother Peter, a successful lawyer living in Dublin. Following their father's passing after a long battle with cancer, the brothers' already strained relationship faces new trials.|isbn=0571365469}}{{Frontpage|author=Anthony TrollopeFyodor Dostoyevsky|title=White Nights
|rating=5
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=As always in Dostoyevsky, the character work is sublime. One is never left wondering what a character is thinking or feeling because Dostoyevsky lays bare their innermost dispositions and temperaments with remarkable clarity.
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|author=James Baldwin
|title=Giovanni'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.
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|author=Alba de Cespedes
|title=Forbidden Notebook
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=When I told my daughter that I didn't know what to listen to now that I'd finished [[The Complete Novels: Sense This Italian work of feminist fiction holds an air of suspense and Sensibilitytension from the moment our protagonist, Pride and PrejudiceValeria Cossati, Mansfield Parkpurchases her forbidden notebook, Emma, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion by Jane Austen|The Complete Novels of Jane Austen]] for the second time on learns about herself in the trot she had the perfect answer: The Barchester Chronicles most intimate and they were in my inbox in a matter of minutes. They're not ''quite'' as well known as the Austen books but they're an excellent follow onrevealing ways.|isbn=1782278222
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|isbnauthor=B077K6BQFDOttessa Moshfegh|title=The Complete Novels: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey My Year of Rest and Persuasion |author=Jane AustenRelaxation|rating=53
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Yes - that's over eighty-one hours At best, this novel is a scathing critique of listening for modern society and reveals the purchase fragility of one audio bookhuman relationships; at worst, it is the cynical, predictable and slightly trite tale of an unlikeable protagonist. All six major novels are read by conmedienne Alison Larkin This unlikely heroine, a slim, attractive and they're presented newly orphaned girl in her twenties is disillusioned with the order world, but resolves not to lose sleep over it: in fact, her solution lies in which they were publishedher hibernation.|isbn=1784707422
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|author=Andrea Bajani and Elizabeth Harris (translator)Matthew Tree|title=If You Kept a Record of SinsWe'll Never Know
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=This was an incredibly readable novellaTimothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, but one that left me a little conflicted. We start as our hero arrives at Bucharest airport, drunk and before we even know his gender or the nature chronic underachiever whose dreams of the person he's addressing in his second person monologue being exceptional at any of a narration, we see him picked up by his mother's chauffeur, artistic passions all failed miserably and carted off to do all the necessary introductions before said mother is buried the following day. The mother was a businesswoman, who clearly left northern Italy and settled in Romania with her (night-time and business) partner, and feelings had endless crises of abandonment are still strongself confidence. And so we flit from current (well, this came out in the original Italian in 2007, so moderately current) Bucharest, So Tim applied himself to the lad's childhoodhis studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and see just what he has to tell her as a private farewell addressset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn=1939810965B0CVFXPGP8
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|authorisbn=Afonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)B0C47LV1PC|title=Kokoschka's DollFragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=2.54
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Well, this looked very much like Can you make a book I ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could love from the get-go, which is why I picked my review copy up and flipped pages over several times before actually reading any of the question should you make it. I found things to potentially delight me each time – a weird section in ? Or is the middle on darker stock paperquestion if you did, a chapter whose number was in would it land? The catch is that the 20,000s, letters used as narrative form, and so onanswer for both could well be.... It intrigued with the subterranean voice a man hears in wartorn Dresden that what little I knew of it mentioned, toono. But you ''Fragility''ve seen is set as the star rating that comes with this reviewcity of Portland, and can tell that if love was on these pagesOregon, it was not actually caused by them. So what happened?|isbn=1529402697cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic
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|author=Mosby Woods|title=A Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= The West isn't the dominant force it once was. Nobody in the West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is the best course of action. Governments are flailing. A war here, a push for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is in actual charge. Imagine then, there was a man with precognition. Imagine the strategic advantage in this asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. 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?|isbn=B0C9SNG8R1}}{{Frontpage|isbn=05713626720571379559|title=SnowThe House of Broken Bricks|author=John BanvilleFiona Williams
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|genre=Crime (Historical)Literary Fiction|summary=''WellThe House of Broken Bricks'' 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 house on the riverbank, built of broken bricks. Insubstantial as it might look, at least youit's stood the passage of time, storms and floods. Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the delivery rounds - and to bring in sufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and Max, the rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. People don't believe that they're a Wexford manrelated, much less twins and there's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she's his nanny.}}{{Frontpage|author=Claire North|title=House of Odysseus|rating=5|genre= Literary Fiction |summary= ''What could matter more than love?''
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|author= Tahi SaihateKay Chronister|title= Astral Season, Beastly SeasonDesert Creatures|rating= 3.54|genre= Literary Dystopian Fiction|summary= We long With a world that is becoming increasingly inhospitable for our past even though humanity, post-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Whether it is a place robotic takeover, a world devoid of water or a nuclear holocaust, this genre is a way for humans to which we can never returncathartically experience their most existential fears. Tahi Saihate, in her debut novel ''Astral Season, Beastly SeasonDesert Creatures'' illustrates how these roseby Kay Chronister is a new work of post-tinted glasses often lieapocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the fears that exist for humanity today. Her It is a shocking novel that still manages to find hope.|isbn=1803364998}}{{frontpage|isbn=1803363002|author= Eric LaRocca|title= The Trees Grew Because I Bled There|rating= 5|genre= Horror|summary= Horror taps into something primeval within us. It is used as a meditation on youth way to reflect our darkest emotions and how the things we do 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 teenager can seem intensely important collection of short stories more interested in the horrors of illness, grief and humiliation. Horrors that linger and often life-alteringare harder to defeat than any ''Big Bad''.|isbn= 1916277101
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|author=Laura Imai MessinaMadelaine Lucas|title=The Phone Box at the End of the WorldThirst for Salt
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= In ''Love, I'd read, was supposed to be a light and weightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravity'' Told from a retrospective view, a young woman unravels the northeast of Japanyear-long relationship that once defined her. Overlaid with later wisdom, in Inwate Prefecture the narrator relives the affair with a man installed a telephone box in his gardentwenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the summer after. Set against the backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt''Inside there is an details the 24-year-old blacknarrator's deepening relationship with her older lover, telephonedepicting its all-consuming nature, disconnected, that carries voices into the windhow it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and how it altered her irrevocably.|isbn=0861546490}}{{Frontpage|author= Michael Grothaus|title=Beautiful Shining People|rating=4|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= '' It is a real place, a necessary place, But fearing something and having it come to pass are two different things. And I am pleased 'm willing to bet most of what we fear will never happen, or we can take steps to see change it.'' ''Beautiful Shining People'' revolves around the IMPORTANT NOTE that the author attaches question of identity and acceptance. Of what it means to her storybe human. Of what is real and what is artificial, that and whether the place is not a tourist destination, it development of technology is a sacred place, a place that must be left to those who really need itexciting or frightening.|isbn=178658039X191458564X
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|author=Amin MaaloufJennifer Saint|title=The DisorientedAtalanta|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= Adam has lived ''I was as worthy as any one of them. I would get on board that ship, I vowed. I would take my place, not just in Paris the name of the goddess. It was for yearsthe sake of my name, speaks French more easily than his native Arabictoo. In fact he hasnAtalanta''t been back to his homeland Princess. Warrior. Lover. Hero. Abandoned at birth for 25 years. An old friend being born a daughter rather than a son, Atalanta is dying…or as Adam prefers to think raised under the protective eye of him the goddess Athemis and fashioned into a former-friendformidable huntress, perhaps not as harsh as an ex-friendone who longs for adventure. When the opportunity comes – to join the Argonauts, a fierce band of warriors, or maybedescendent from the Gods themselves – Atalanta seizes the chance to fight in Artemis' name and carve out her own legendary place in history. The falling out was What follows is a long time ago, whirlwind of challenges and discovery and Adam's partner has no idea what through it was about, even so Atalanta must remember Artemis' fatal warning: that if she urges him to go knowing that he'll regret not doing so. Not knowing whether he's going because he needs or wants tomarries, or simply because he was asked, he's on the next planeit will be her undoing. |isbn=B07ZQSK9CY1472292154
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|author=Joanne M Amanthi Harris|title=A Pocketful of CrowsBeautiful Place
|rating=5
|genre= Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary= I have always been Padma, a young Sri Lankan, has returned to the Villa Hibiscus on the southern coast of the mind that once you're above picture-book level and before you get to graphic sex & violence, there is no difference between books for children and books for adultsher home country. There are good books and poor onesThis is a place she spent her formative years. And Joanne Harris does It is not produce poor onesa place she was born into, but the one she thinks of as home. How she came to be at the Villa, how it became her home, and the machinations that have flowed through her life ever since she first arrived there provide the ''A Pocketful of Crowsscore'' is clearly aimed at the younger readers as witness the use of the middle initial in the authorfor this gentle and yet subtly violent novel. Padma's name present fails to differentiate from escape her adult offers. Ignore past and much like the musical score of a film, that if you have loved anything from ''Chocolat'' onwards you will know strand weaves its way through everything that Harris is mistress of happens at the modern fairy tale. This is no different. It is an utter delightVilla.|isbn=14732221841784631930
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|authorisbn=Frederic Beigbeder and Frank Wynne (translator)178563335X|title=A Life Without EndSea Defences|author=Hilary Taylor|rating=45
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=I looked at the calendar the other weekWhen we first meet Rachel Bird she's a trainee vicar, sitting in on a PCC meeting and disappointedly realised I have a birthday this year – I know, yet another one. It wonwondering why they't be one of the major numbers, but the time re held when I have you need to pick the same number as Heinz varieties looms on the horizonchildren up. And then a few of the big 0Her husband, Christopher, collects six-year-numbersold Hannah and her elder brother, and if all goes wellJamie, I'll be an OBEwhilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioner. (Which of course stands for Over Bloody Eighty.) Now if thatThelma's the extent of my middaughter-in-life crisis, I guess I have to be happy. Our author here doesnlaw won't use that exact phrase, but he might be said to be living onelet her see her grandson. Determined to find out how to prolong life for as long as he wants – he would like to see 400 – he hops right into bed with Holthorpe, on the assistant to the first geneticist he interviewsNorfolk coast, and they end up with is a childlovely place, which but Rachel is at least struggling to develop a way real bond with the parish - and she's in awe of continuing the life of his genesvicar, Gail, but then she's been doing the job for more than thirty years. Rachel and Christopher hoped that a motive to keep walk on goingthe beach would do them some good - it was stormy but it was probably what they needed. But how can he get to not flick the 'final way out' switch, especially when foie gras tastes so nice?|isbn=1642860670And then Hannah went missing.
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|authorisbn= Maryse Condé1398515388|title= The Wondrous Boy and Tragic Life of Ivan the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and IvanaAlison Watts (translator)|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary General Fiction|summary= We live First of all, it was the earthquake, deep in a post- world: post-colonialismthe ocean floor, which created the tsunami and this, post-modernismin turn, post truthcaused the nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and utter devastation. The list goes ondeaths were uncountable, and the loss of livelihoods was widespread. There are numerous works The fact that utilise many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of priorities but - six months after the prefix posttsunami - in their categorisation, but perhaps none more so than Maryse CondéKazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. In her new novel, He wasn't a dog person but the convenience store owner'The Wondrous and Tragic Life of Ivan s comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and Ivana'', Condé writes with fervour about Tamon the scars left by colonialism on the countries to which it latched itself. Ivan and Ivana are twins born dog jumped in Guadeloupe, a French overseas department. They grow up with intense and passionate feelings for each other. As they grow up and move overseas, the ravages of a post-colonial society drive them apart with tragic consequences.|isbn=1642860697
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|authorisbn= Ukamaka Olisakwe0989715337|title= Ogadinma Or, Everything Will Be All RightPapa on the Moon|author=Marco North|rating= 54|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= The new novel by Ukamaka Olisakwe is a look at ''Some frogs had gotten into the trauma and heartache of being a woman in 1980s Nigeriawell. The title is ''Ogadinma Or, Everything Will Be All Right ''Walter stood waist-deep in the fragrant water, naked except for his beaten leather hat. Ogadinma is the eponymous heroine Long strands of the story.. We are their eggs wove around him, sticky gray pearls with her in every scene and it is her narrative voice that leads the story, although Olisakwe writes in third persontadpoles inside them. This provides a sense Two of detachment for the reader dogs leaned over the opening and highlights barked down at the isolation strange noise of Ogadinmathe buckets as he filled them. She '' How is exiled that for an opening? The style of this novel in the form of interconnected short stories goes from her father's home succinct and sent laconic to Lagos where she is married to an older man named Tobewistful and musing, turning on a sixpence. Their marriage descends into violence and indignities and Ogadinma must utilise her resourcefulness And author Marco North, who has the most wonderful turn of phrase, starts as he means to escapego on.|isbn=1911648160
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