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|author=Yancey WilliamsJeremy Cooper|title=Crosshairs of the DevilDiscord|rating=43.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Award-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski is getting on in years andDiscord: a lack of agreement or harmony (as between persons, despite his strenuous objections and thanks to his daughterthings, finds himself living - or imprisonedideas) The principal example of discord within the novel, from Eddie's point as with most instances of view - in room 315 discord, is easily located. The two protagonists of the Garden of Eden nursing homenovel, with only a trusty nursing aideRebekah Rosen and Evie Bennet, Jenkins, for palatable companyare as different as they come. Nothing Rebekah is going an uptight, traditional and no-nonsense composer close to keep Eddie from his stock-in-trade retirement, while Evie is a force of writing thoughnature, bounding onto the musical scene as a precocious saxophonist, oozing with talent and charm. The two, so herepredictably, for his readersdon't always see eye to eye, are his wanderings through his lifetheir approaches different and Evie's progressive views at odds with Rebekah's workconservative leaning. However, something connects them beyond just their musical project: a sort of fragile alliance formed within the clamour.|isbn=09860316581804272264}}
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|isbnauthor=0008421714Polly Barton|title=Mrs March|author=Virginia FeitoWhat Am I, A Deer?|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The problem began just after the publication of George MarchPolly Barton's most successful debut novel to dateis an intellectually playful yet emotionally exposed work that uses translation as both subject and governing metaphor. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the last page) seemed to either be reading it or had already done so. Every day Mrs March went The narrator, newly relocated from London to the local patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, Patricia askedBerlin, as she was wrapping works translating video games into Japanese through the breadprocess of localisation, ''but isn't rewriting language until it feels comfortably familiar to a new audience. Barton treats this the first time he's based as a character on you?'' She mentioned that Johannaparadoxical act: arguably, in striving for universality, language is endlessly repackaged, the principal character had 'her mannerisms''its originality at risk of disappearing altogether. Perhaps From this would not have mattered, except for the fact that Johanna is the whore of Nantes - ''novel opens out into a weakwider, plainresonant question: to what extent do we translate ourselves in order to be understood, detestableaccepted, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch.''or loved?|isbn=1804272175
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|isbnauthor=B005FM76AAMaria Stepanova and Sasha Dugdale (Translator)|title=The Duke's Children|author=Anthony TrollopeDisappearing Act|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The story opens to probably the worst news Despite her anonymisation of all: Lady Glencora Palliser is dead. Her husbandplace names and people, Plantagenet Palliser, the Duke Stepanova's message in this short work of Omnium, autofiction is nearly paralysed by grief and struggling - at the same time - to adjust to no longer being prime minister, or even in officeunmistakable. He seeks A novelist named M travels from B (ostensibly Berlin) to protect and guide his three adult children, which the town of F for a literary festival she is easier said than done when none of them wishes to ''be'' guideda guest speaker at. Silverbridge (his elder son, actually called Plantagenet, but always known Detoured by his title) erratic train schedules and Gerald are destined to be sent down from Oxford and Cambridge respectively and to run nudged by forces beyond her control, her journey slowly bends toward a traveling circus. Swept up gambling debtsin this series of events, occasionally M eventually offers to step in eye-watering sumsfor a circus performer who has unexpectedly left the show. Lady Helen has fallen in love with - The train functions as a motif of transience and wishes to marry - Frank Tregearimpermanence, while the circus embodies the penniless son reshaping of identity and a poor squireretreat into fantasy, which an impulse that lies at the Duke cannot countenance, not least because he sees echos very heart of what might have happened when he married Lady Glencora. He's about to learn that parents do not always get their waythe novel form itself.|isbn=1804272329
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|isbn=B004O37B6A295967572X|title=The Prime MinisterPale Pieces|author=Anthony TrollopeG M Stevens|rating=45
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Plantagenet Palliser, Our unnamed narrator is about to begin a train journey with his companion Django. Where they're going and what the Duke purpose of Omniumthis journey is, is uncertain. Django found the prime minister of a coalition government but hetickets ''s privately enraged at on the seemingly unstoppable rise of Ferdinand Lopezfloor somewhere'' and has persuaded our narrator to accompany him. Lopex Why not? Not much else is exotic clear either - some describe him as Jewish, others as Portuguese but the truth is that no one knows and Lopez is not going to explain. The ladies of society, even Palliser's own wife, Lady Glencora, we are supporters but after Lopez makes an advantageous marriage Palliser is placed probably in the position of having past as the pair travel to support his wife's actions when Lopez loses the station by coach and the train is a by-election. The Duke's payment of Lopez' election expenses in an attempt to stem gossip about his wife will come back to haunt himsteam locomotive.
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|isbnauthor=B00474HVX4Makenna Goodman|title=Phineas Redux|author=Anthony TrollopeHelen of Nowhere
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=It's some time since we heard from [[Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope|Phineas Finn]]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. Having succeeded in parliament and achieved The protagonist, a paying position he fell out with those who provided disgraced professor on the brink of losing both his income career and returned to Ireland where he married Maryhis relationship, embodies this feeling. However, Goodman counteracts his childhood sweetheartdiscomfort with a force which is seductive, radical and unnerving: Helen. He was fortunate to get The connection between Helen and the protagonist is indirect yet intimate. As the former owner of the countryside house he's considering, Helen represents a job volta in Cork (or Dublin - recollections may vary) and seemed settled into a his life of domesticity, her past tied to his potential fresh start. To bring Finn backThe realtor who shows the protagonist around the house shares stories about Helen, Trollope had to kill off poor Mary and Phineas emerges describes her as ''an entity that is pure consciousness, beyond form''. Although she lives in London as a childless widower with a legacy from an aunt who died at just assisted living facility now, Helen has powers beyond comprehension which the right time to allow reader gets the move to be possiblesense are not altogether innocuous.|isbn=1804272205
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|author=Jessie GreengrassOlga Tokarczuk|title=The High Houseof Day, House of Night|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Charles Darwin taught that all living matter evolved to pass on its genetic material with ''What's the implied belief that your progeny will then pass on theirs. However, that train good of thought is slowly seems to have fallen out of favour. Today's young generation are discovering a world that their parents and their parents' parents did not seem to think keeps changing like that far ahead. Or they did think that far ahead and thought "? How can one go on calmly living in it?'s not my problem" or "there's nothing I can do". Raising a child and living in a world on the precipice The title of catastrophe is what drives this spellbinding work, ''The High Houseof Day, House of Night'' by Jessie Greengrass. This is not a science, somewhat reflects this notion of shifting realities -fiction novel. This is the small, subtle changes which govern our realitylives, like the shift from day to night, however quotidian, causing chaos. This But, the constant in that image is the life our children and their children will have to livehouse, stoic against the ancient diurnal cycle which nonetheless controls how it is perceived.|isbn=18007500721804271918
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|author=Charlie CarrollThea Lenarduzzi|title=The LipTower
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=''Melody Janie RoweHow unctuous are the fats of another's life, how dizzying their sugars in our bloodstream'' even . In this compelling novel, Thea Lenarduzzi assumes the name is evocative of…probably identity of whatever we want it to beT, and maybe thatthe protagonist of this tale. Just as T's story is being told, the point. To me story of a second protagonist is unveiled: Annie, the name sings daughter of English folk musica wealthy family in the 19th century, but even who died of tuberculosis after being locked in my use of that word Englisha tower, I know Icaptures T's imagination. Annie'm putting s fate is, above all, an emmet take on thingsenticing story to T. And Melody Janie Rowe It is anti-emmeta story which she consumes avariciously, both in a quest for truth and knowledge, and in service of myth, fable and fantasy. |isbn=15293341791804271799
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|isbnauthor=B003UH99X4Jon Fosse and Damion Searls (translator) |title=The Eustace Diamonds|author=Anthony TrollopeVaim|rating=54
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=It ''All was generally thought that Sir Florian Eustace had come to regret his marriage but he didnstrange''t live long enough for ... This haunting phrase encapsulates the pervading sense of otherworldliness which permeates this to become story set in Vaim, a problem. After his death, his wife, Lizzie - still only fictional fishing village in her late teens - was in possession of a very valuable diamond necklace Norway which paradoxically could not feel more real for Jatgeir and was determined that she would not hand it over to her husband's executors. She was adamant that Sir Florian had given it to her absolutelyEline, although the precise circumstances two of the giving varied from telling to telling. Lady Eustace was not a woman to whom truth meant a great deal. All that was important to her now, she maintained, was her son. And, of course, her diamondsprotagonists 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 First published in 1953 in French, this novel is a timeless text which wrenches the surface ''Can You Forgive Her?'' looks deceptively simple: it's hearts of its readers just as Bessette wrenches words and sentences from their proper position on the story of one woman page and two men who are vying with each other for her lovepositions them elsewhere, disjointed, truncated. Alice Vavasor was originally engaged to Like the lives of her cousincharacters, George Vavasor but she broke off that engagement and later became engaged to John Greythey are often left tragically incomplete. When we first meet Alice she|isbn=1804271675}}{{Frontpage|author=Jonathan Buckley|title=One Boat|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= ''One Boat's on an extended tour of the continent with George Vavasor and his sister Kate. It's obvious is a deeply introspective novella that there's still defies traditional narrative structure, drawing the reader into a great deal contemplative realm of chemistry between John philosophical musings and Alice - fragmented memories flowing from our narrator and Kate is all for encouraging protagonist, Teresa. Set against the evocative backdrop of a small coastal Greek town, this work masterfully captures the relationship as it would tie Alice magic of its setting and its power to herprovoke profound introspection. George wants Alice but Teresa herself recognises these qualities as the reason she has visited it's a matter of ''amour propre'' rather than love: he has little consideration for anyone other than himself and after the original engagement had fallen through because death of his infidelity and deceitfulnessboth her parents. This thread Prompted by her mourning, her narrative voice is meditative and deeply self-aware, inviting the story of a very complicated love affair and a woman who lacks confidence in reader into her own judgementlabyrinthine cogitations. You might It is a book that not like Alice to start with only requires but you will warm to herinspires depth of thought, since its narrative structure is fragmentary and ironically relies on analepsis for its propulsion.|isbn=1804271764
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|author=Lucy HollandEowyn Ivey|title=SistersongBlack Woods Blue Sky|rating=3.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|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 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 earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and this, in turn, caused the nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and utter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, and the younger readers as witness loss of livelihoods was widespread. The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the use 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's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and Tamon the middle initial dog jumped in .}} {{Frontpage|isbn=0989715337|title=Papa on the Moon|author=Marco North|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary='s name to differentiate from her adult offers'Some frogs had gotten into the well. Ignore that if you have loved anything from ''Chocolat '' onwards you will know that Harris is mistress Walter stood waist-deep in the fragrant water, naked except for his beaten leather hat. Long strands of their eggs wove around him, sticky gray pearls with tadpoles inside them. Two of the dogs leaned over the opening and barked down at the strange noise of the modern fairy talebuckets as he filled them. This '' How is no differentthat for an opening? The style of this novel in the form of interconnected short stories goes from succinct and laconic to wistful and musing, turning on a sixpence. It is an utter delightAnd author Marco North, who has the most wonderful turn of phrase, starts as he means to go on.|isbn=1473222184
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