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|isbnauthor=B005FM76AAJeremy 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 Duketwo, predictably, don't always see eye to eye, their approaches different and Evie's progressive views at odds with Rebekah's Childrenconservative leaning. However, something connects them beyond just their musical project: a sort of fragile alliance formed within the clamour.|isbn=1804272264}}{{Frontpage|author=Anthony TrollopePolly Barton|title=What Am I, A Deer?|rating=4.5
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|summary=The story opens to probably the worst news of all: Lady Glencora Palliser Polly Barton's debut novel is deadan intellectually playful yet emotionally exposed work that uses translation as both subject and governing metaphor. Her husbandThe narrator, Plantagenet Pallisernewly relocated from London to Berlin, works translating video games into Japanese through the Duke process of Omniumlocalisation, is nearly paralysed by grief and struggling - at the same time - rewriting language until it feels comfortably familiar to adjust to no longer being prime ministera new audience. Barton treats this as a paradoxical act: arguably, or even in office. He seeks to protect and guide his three adult childrenstriving for universality, which language is easier said than done when none endlessly repackaged, its originality at risk of them wishes to ''be'' guideddisappearing altogether. Silverbridge (his elder sonFrom this, actually called Plantagenetthe novel opens out into a wider, but always known by his title) and Gerald are destined resonant question: to be sent down from Oxford and Cambridge respectively and to run up gambling debts, occasionally in eye-watering sums. Lady Helen has fallen what extent do we translate ourselves in love with - and wishes order to marry - Frank Tregear, the penniless son of a poor squirebe understood, which the Duke cannot countenanceaccepted, not least because he sees echos of what might have happened when he married Lady Glencora. He's about to learn that parents do not always get their way.or loved?|isbn=1804272175
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|isbnauthor=B004O37B6AMaria Stepanova and Sasha Dugdale (Translator)|title=The Prime Minister|author=Anthony TrollopeDisappearing Act
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|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 story which she consumes avariciously, both in a woman to whom quest for truth meant a great dealand knowledge, and in service of myth, fable and fantasy. |isbn=1804271799}}{{Frontpage|author=Jon Fosse and Damion Searls (translator) |title=Vaim|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''All that was important to her nowstrange''... This haunting phrase encapsulates the pervading sense of otherworldliness which permeates this story set in Vaim, she maintained, was her son. Anda fictional fishing village in Norway which paradoxically could not feel more real for Jatgeir and Eline, two of course, her diamondsthe protagonists caught in its melancholic current.|isbn=1804271829
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|isbnauthor=B003L7TDMUClaire-Louise Bennett|title=Phineas Finn|author=Anthony TrollopeBig 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 Emaleen. Described as a ''wild card'', she feels stuck in her day-to-day life, and I relish seeing them retold with fresh eyes yearns to cross the Wolverine river and live on the North Fork to fulfil her desires of a fresh perspectivesimple life surrounded by nature. If handled well these retellings give new life When she meets Arthur Nielson, a strange, taciturn and new meaning solitary man, who says he has a cabin over there, she feels called to stories that are now becoming increasingly narrow go - and outdated, fleshing out charactersbring Emaleen with her. Without realising it, examining relationships this calling will transform hers and re-evaluating Emaleen's lives forever.|isbn=1472279042}} {{Frontpage|author=Sally Rooney|title=Intermezzo|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction |summary=Sally Rooney has studied the role chessboard of women. Sistersong life and is a perfect example something of a modern retelling done well, the plot grandmaster at putting it into words. Her dialogue is handled with caregripping and so brilliantly frustrating, keeping its archaic historical as her characters never quite say exactly what they feel but allowing . Among the characters to come to lifemany relationships woven into this story, the central one for readers to feel real unravel is the fraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and humanPeter Koubek. Ivan, a socially awkward chess prodigy, contrasts sharply with his older brother Peter, most importantly they feel relatable in a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the pre-Saxon age they live successful lawyer living inDublin. This is Following their father's passing after a masterpiece of storytelling and I was captivated from beginning to endlong battle with cancer, the brothers' already strained relationship faces new trials.|isbn=15290390370571365469
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|isbnauthor=B002SQCYWQFyodor Dostoyevsky|title=The Complete Barchester Chronicles|author=Anthony TrollopeWhite 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 drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at Bucharest airport, any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and before we even know his gender or the nature who had endless crises of the person he's addressing in self confidence. So Tim applied himself to his second person monologue of a narrationstudies, we see him picked up by cultivated his abilities rather than his motherdaydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0C47LV1PC|title=Fragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Can you make a 's chauffeur'Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, and carted off to do all is the question should you make it? Or is the necessary introductions before said mother question if you did, would it land? The catch is buried that the following dayanswer for both could well be... The mother was a businesswoman, who clearly left northern Italy and settled in Romania with her (night-time and business) partner, and feelings of abandonment are still strong. And so we flit from current (well, this came out in no. ''Fragility'' is set as the original Italian in 2007city of Portland, so moderately current) BucharestOregon, cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the lad's childhood, and see just what he has to tell her as a private farewell address.|isbn=1939810965covid pandemic
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|author=Afonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)Mosby Woods|title=Kokoschka's DollA Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=2.54
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Well, this looked very much like a book I could love from The West isn't the get-go, which is why I picked my review copy up and flipped pages over several times before actually reading any of dominant force itonce was. I found things Nobody in the West is quite sure how to potentially delight me each time – a weird section in mend this or even if mending it is the middle on darker stock paperbest course of action. Governments are flailing. A war here, a chapter whose number was push for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is in the 20actual charge. Imagine then,000s, letters used as narrative form, and so onthere was a man with precognition. It intrigued with Imagine the subterranean voice strategic advantage in this asset; a man hears in wartorn Dresden that who can tell you what little I knew will happen given any set of it mentionedcircumstances. That man would be valuable, tooright? Perhaps the most valuable asset in history. But you've seen the star rating Imagine then, that comes with this review, and can tell that if love was on these pages, man loses this ability. What would governments do to get it was not actually caused by them. So what happenedback?|isbn=1529402697B0C9SNG8R1
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|isbn=05713626720571379559|title=SnowThe House of Broken Bricks|author=John BanvilleFiona Williams
|rating=5
|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 SeasonDesert Creatures|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, Beastly Seasonthis 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 fears that exist for humanity today. 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= 35|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= ''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 year-long relationship that once defined her. Overlaid 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 backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the 24-year-old narrator's 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 irrevocably.|isbn=0861546490}}{{Frontpage|author= Michael Grothaus|title=Beautiful Shining People|rating=4
|genre= Literary Fiction
|summary= We long for our past even though ''But fearing something and having it is a place come to pass are two different things. And I'm willing to which bet most of what we fear will never happen, or we can never returntake steps to change it. Tahi Saihate, in her debut novel ''Astral Season, Beastly Season ''Beautiful Shining People'' illustrates how these rose-tinted glasses often lierevolves around the question of identity and acceptance. Of what it means to be human. Her novel Of what is real and what is a meditation on youth artificial, and how whether the things we do as a teenager can seem intensely important and often life-alteringdevelopment of technology is exciting or frightening.|isbn= 1916277101191458564X
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|author=Laura Imai MessinaJennifer Saint|title=The Phone Box at the End of the WorldAtalanta
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= In the northeast ''I was as worthy as any one of Japanthem. I would get on board that ship, I vowed. I would take my place, not just in Inwate Prefecture a man installed a telephone box in his gardenthe name of the goddess. ''Inside there is an old black, telephoneIt was for the sake of my name, disconnected, that carries voices into the windtoo.Atalanta'' It Princess. Warrior. Lover. Hero. Abandoned at birth for being born a daughter rather than a son, Atalanta is raised under the protective eye of the goddess Athemis and fashioned into a real placeformidable huntress, one who longs for adventure. When the opportunity comes – to join the Argonauts, a necessary placefierce band of warriors, and I am pleased to see descendent from the IMPORTANT NOTE that Gods themselves – Atalanta seizes the author attaches chance to fight in Artemis' name and carve out her story, that the own legendary place in history. What follows is not a tourist destination, whirlwind of challenges and discovery and through it is a sacred place, a place Atalanta must remember Artemis' fatal warning: that must if she marries, it will be left to those who really need ither undoing.|isbn=178658039X1472292154
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|author=Amin MaaloufAmanthi Harris|title=The DisorientedBeautiful Place|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= Adam Padma, a young Sri Lankan, has lived in Paris for years, speaks French more easily than his native Arabicreturned to the Villa Hibiscus on the southern coast of her home country. In fact he hasn't been back to his homeland for 25 This is a place she spent her formative years. An old friend It is dying…or as Adam prefers to think of him not a former-friendplace she was born into, perhaps not as harsh but the one she thinks of as an ex-friend, or maybehome. The falling out was a long time ago How she came to be at the Villa, and Adam's partner has no idea what how it was aboutbecame her home, even so and the machinations that have flowed through her life ever since she urges him to go knowing that hefirst arrived there provide the ''score''ll regret not doing sofor this gentle and yet subtly violent novel. Not knowing whether he Padma's going because he needs or wants present fails toescape her past and much like the musical score of a film, or simply because he was asked, he's on that strand weaves its way through everything that happens at the next planeVilla. |isbn=B07ZQSK9CY1784631930
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|authorisbn=Joanne M Harris178563335X|title=A Pocketful of CrowsSea Defences|author=Hilary Taylor
|rating=5
|genre= Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary= I have always been of the mind that once youWhen we first meet Rachel Bird she's a trainee vicar, sitting in on a PCC meeting and wondering why they're above pictureheld when you need to pick the children up. Her husband, Christopher, collects six-book level year-old Hannah and before you get to graphic sex & violenceher elder brother, Jamie, whilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioner. Thelma's daughter-in-law won't let her see her grandson. Holthorpe, on the Norfolk coast, is a lovely place, there but Rachel is no difference between books for children struggling to develop a real bond with the parish - and books she's in awe of the vicar, Gail, but then she's been doing the job for adultsmore than thirty years. There are Rachel and Christopher hoped that a walk on the beach would do them some good books and poor ones- it was stormy but it was probably what they needed. And Joanne Harris does not produce poor onesthen Hannah went missing.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1398515388|title=The Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating=4. ''A Pocketful 5|genre=General Fiction|summary=First of Crows'' is clearly aimed at all, it was the younger readers as witness earthquake, deep in the use of ocean floor, which created the middle initial tsunami and this, in turn, caused the author's name to differentiate from her adult offersnuclear meltdown. The result was complete and utter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, and the loss of livelihoods was widespread. Ignore The fact that if you have loved anything many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of priorities but - six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. He wasn't a dog person but the convenience store owner'Chocolat'' onwards you will know s comment that Harris is mistress of he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and Tamon the modern fairy tale. This is no differentdog jumped in. It is an utter delight.|isbn=1473222184
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|authorisbn=Frederic Beigbeder and Frank Wynne (translator)0989715337|title=A Life Without EndPapa on the Moon|author=Marco North
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=I looked at ''Some frogs had gotten into the calendar the other week, and disappointedly realised I have a birthday this year – I know, yet another onewell. It won't be one of ' ''Walter stood waist-deep in the major numbersfragrant water, but the time when I have the same number as Heinz varieties looms on the horizonnaked except for his beaten leather hat. And then a few Long strands of the big 0-numberstheir eggs wove around him, and if all goes well, I'll be an OBEsticky gray pearls with tadpoles inside them. (Which Two of course stands for Over Bloody Eighty.) Now if that's the extent of my mid-life crisis, I guess I have to be happy. Our author here doesn't use that exact phrase, but he might be said to be living one. 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 the assistant to dogs leaned over the first geneticist he interviews, opening and they end up with a child, which is barked down at least a way the strange noise of continuing the life of his genes, and a motive to keep on goingbuckets as he filled them. But how can he get to not flick the 'final way out' switch, especially when foie gras tastes so nice?|isbn=1642860670}}{{Frontpage|author= Maryse Condé|title= How is that for an opening? The Wondrous and Tragic Life style of Ivan and Ivana|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= We live this novel in a post- world: post-colonialism, post-modernism, post truth. The list goes on. There are numerous works that utilise the prefix post- in their categorisation, but perhaps none more so than Maryse Condé. In her new novel, ''The Wondrous and Tragic Life form of Ivan interconnected short stories goes from succinct and Ivana'', Condé writes with fervour about the scars left by colonialism on the countries laconic to which it latched itself. Ivan wistful and Ivana are twins born in Guadeloupemusing, turning on a French overseas departmentsixpence. They grow up with intense and passionate feelings for each other. As they grow up and move overseasAnd author Marco North, who has the ravages most wonderful turn of a post-colonial society drive them apart with tragic consequencesphrase, starts as he means to go on.|isbn=1642860697
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