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|author=Natalia Gracia FreireJeremy Cooper|title=This World Does Not Belong To UsDiscord|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=1804272264}}{{Frontpage|author=Polly Barton|title=What Am I, A Deer?|rating=4
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|summary= Early comments on this Polly Barton's debut novel is an intellectually playful yet emotionally exposed work that uses translation as both subject and governing metaphor. The narrator, newly relocated from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include TremendousLondon to Berlin, works translating video games into Japanese through the process of localisation, rewriting language until it feels comfortably familiar to a delightnew audience. I will agree with the first – tremendous is no understatement – but 'Barton treats this as a delight' paradoxical act: arguably, in striving for universality, language is perhaps using the expression in a way I'm not familiar with. I have to confess my ignorance endlessly repackaged, its originality at risk of the Spanish-language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation heredisappearing altogether. From this, the little I have read (novel opens out into a wider, resonant question: to what extent do we translate ourselves in translation, I don't read Spanish) there does seem order to be a tendency towards the fantastical – the mystical realism. understood, accepted, or loved?|isbn=08615419011804272175
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|author=Jennifer SaintMaria Stepanova and Sasha Dugdale (Translator)|title=ElektraThe Disappearing Act
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Despite her anonymisation of place names and people, Stepanova'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the story s message in this short work of three women who live in autofiction is unmistakable. A novelist named M travels from B (ostensibly Berlin) to the heavily male dominated world town of Ancient GreeceF for a literary festival she is to be a guest speaker at. CassandraDetoured by erratic train schedules and nudged by forces beyond her control, Clytemnestraher journey slowly bends toward a traveling circus. Swept up in this series of events, and Elektra are all bit players M eventually offers to step in for a circus performer who has unexpectedly left the story show. The train functions as a motif of transience and impermanence, while the circus embodies the Trojan War. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us reshaping of identity and a retreat into fantasy, an impulse that often lies at the silent women have the most compelling stories and very heart of the most extreme furiesnovel form itself.|isbn=19130978541804272329
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|isbn=8409290103295967572X|title=If OnlyPale Pieces|author=Matthew TreeG M Stevens|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Our unnamed narrator is about to begin a train journey with his companion Django. Where they're going and what the purpose of this journey is, is uncertain. Django found the tickets ''on the floor somewhere'' and has persuaded our narrator to accompany him. Why not? Not much else is clear either - but we are probably in the past as the pair travel to the station by coach and the train is a steam locomotive.}}{{Frontpage|author=Makenna Goodman|title=Helen of Nowhere
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=TwentyIt could be argued that the pervading theme of this book is malaise -onea hard-yearto-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by place feeling that something in your life is not quite right. The protagonist, a disgraced professor on the brink of losing both his fathercareer and his relationship, cotton-broker AO Lowryembodies this feeling. However, Goodman counteracts his discomfort with a force which is seductive, radical and unnerving: Helen. The connection between Helen and the protagonist is indirect yet intimate. As the former owner of the countryside house he asked 's considering, Helen represents a volta in his accountant, Mr Patricklife, her past tied to ensure that the young man got on board the boat and thereafter Patrick was to send him a monthly allowancehis potential fresh start. Patrick sent The realtor who shows the money regularly and a correspondence - of sorts - sprang up between protagonist around the two although we hear more house shares stories about what Lowry has to say than Patrick. It wasnHelen, and describes her as ''t an entity that Lowry senior didnis pure consciousness, beyond form't care for his son, it was that he didn't care to have him . Although she lives in this country where he might be a danger to his wife and other children. The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to get an assisted living facility now, Helen has powers beyond comprehension which the reader gets the young man on his waysense are not altogether innocuous.|isbn=1804272205
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|author=Antoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)Olga Tokarczuk|title=Red is My HeartHouse of Day, House of Night|rating=3.5|genre=Literary Fiction |summary=[[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white and read ''What's the good of a world that keeps changing like that? How can one go on calmly living in my house. And so was it?'' The title of this onespellbinding work, ''House of Day, House of Night'', although I could have spelled that more accurately – somewhat reflects this one wasnotion of shifting realities - the small, subtle changes which govern our lives, like the shift from day to night, and ishowever quotidian, black and white and redcausing chaos. YesBut, he has an artistic collaborator on this piecethe constant in that image is the house, and I think stoic against the ancient diurnal cycle which nonetheless controls how it's possible to say not one page lacks the influence of some striking visual ideasis perceived.|isbn=19135471831804271918
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|isbnauthor=B098FFFBH9Thea Lenarduzzi|title=Snowcub|author=Graham FulbrightThe Tower|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Fourteen-year-old Rachel is her school's animal rights project leader and she and her friend 'How unctuous are producing a competition entry to highlight the way fats of another's life, how dizzying their sugars in which human beings exploit our bloodstream''. In this compelling novel, Thea Lenarduzzi assumes the identity of T, the animal worldprotagonist of this tale. She gets Just as T's story is being told, the story of a great deal second protagonist is unveiled: Annie, the daughter of support from her a wealthy family: father Pip Harrisonin the 19th century, who died of tuberculosis after being locked in a lecturer at Imperial Collegetower, Londoncaptures T's imagination. Annie's fate is, mother Kate and her twinabove all, Nickan enticing story to T. Kate runs the family businessIt is a story which she consumes avariciously, both in a toy shop called Cornucopia quest for truth and knowledge, and in Putneyservice of myth, which is where we'll meet Rachel's main (if unsuspected) source of information: five soft toysfable and fantasy. |isbn=1804271799
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|author=Yancey WilliamsJon Fosse and Damion Searls (translator) |title=Crosshairs of the DevilVaim|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Award-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski is getting on in years and, despite his strenuous objections and thanks to his daughter, finds himself living - or imprisoned, from Eddie's point 'All was strange''... This haunting phrase encapsulates the pervading sense of view - otherworldliness which permeates this story set in room 315 of the Garden of Eden nursing homeVaim, with only a trusty nursing aide, Jenkins, for palatable company. Nothing is going to keep Eddie from his stock-fictional fishing village in-trade of writing though, so here, Norway which paradoxically could not feel more real for his readersJatgeir and Eline, are his wanderings through his life's worktwo of the protagonists caught in its melancholic current.|isbn=09860316581804271829}}
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|isbnauthor=0008421714Claire-Louise Bennett|title=Mrs March|author=Virginia FeitoBig Kiss, Bye-Bye
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The problem began just after the publication of George March's most successful novel to date. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the last page) seemed to either be reading it Everything in this book, however sweet or had already done soseemingly innocent, is steeped in anguish and distortion. Every day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morningEven a kiss, Patricia askedusually a symbol of intimacy and closeness, as she was wrapping becomes evidence of love lost. When the breadnarrator cries out internally, ''but isncome over here and kiss me,'t this the first time he's based it is less an invitation than a character on you?'' She mentioned that Johanna, the principal character had 'desperate attempt to confirm her mannerisms''emotional numbness. Perhaps The imagined recipient of this would not have matteredplea is Xavier, except for the fact that Johanna is the whore of Nantes her ex- ''partner, a weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretchghost she conjures to test her detachment.''|isbn=1804271934
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|isbnauthor=B005FM76AAHelene Bessette and Kate Briggs (translator)|title=The Duke's Children|author=Anthony TrollopeLili is Crying
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The story opens to probably the worst news of all: Lady Glencora Palliser First published in 1953 in French, this novel is dead. Her husband, Plantagenet Palliser, a timeless text which wrenches the Duke hearts of Omnium, is nearly paralysed by grief its readers just as Bessette wrenches words and struggling - at sentences from their proper position on the same time - to adjust to no longer being prime minister, or even in office. He seeks to protect page and guide his three adult children, which is easier said than done when none of positions them wishes to ''be'' guided. Silverbridge (his elder sonelsewhere, actually called Plantagenet, but always known by his title) and Gerald are destined to be sent down from Oxford and Cambridge respectively and to run up gambling debtsdisjointed, occasionally in eye-watering sumstruncated. Lady Helen has fallen in love with - and wishes to marry - Frank Tregear, Like the penniless son lives of a poor squireher characters, which the Duke cannot countenance, 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 waythey are often left tragically incomplete.|isbn=1804271675
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|isbnauthor=B004O37B6AJonathan Buckley|title=The Prime Minister|author=Anthony TrollopeOne Boat
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Plantagenet Palliser''One Boat'' is a deeply introspective novella that defies traditional narrative structure, drawing the Duke reader into a contemplative realm of Omniumphilosophical musings and fragmented memories flowing from our narrator and protagonist, is Teresa. Set against the prime minister evocative backdrop of a coalition government but he's privately enraged at 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 seemingly unstoppable rise death of Ferdinand Lopezboth her parents. Lopex Prompted by her mourning, her narrative voice is exotic meditative and deeply self- some describe him as Jewishaware, others as Portuguese but inviting the truth reader into her labyrinthine cogitations. It is a book that no one knows not only requires but inspires depth of thought, since its narrative structure is fragmentary and Lopez is not going to explainironically relies on analepsis for its propulsion.|isbn=1804271764}}{{Frontpage|author=Eowyn Ivey|title=Black Woods Blue Sky|rating=3. The ladies 5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''Black Woods Blue Sky'' tells the story of societyBirdie, even Palliserthe young mother of toddler Emaleen, who longs for a life beyond the Alaskan lodge where she works as a bar waitress, a setting which enables her bad habits and her accidental neglect of Emaleen. Described as a ''wild card''s own wife, Lady Glencorashe feels stuck in her day-to-day life, are supporters but after Lopez makes an advantageous marriage Palliser is placed in and yearns to cross the Wolverine river and live on the position North Fork to fulfil her desires of having a simple life surrounded by nature. When she meets Arthur Nielson, a strange, taciturn and solitary man, who says he has a cabin over there, she feels called to support his wifego - and bring Emaleen with her. Without realising it, this calling will transform hers and Emaleen's actions when Lopez loses lives forever.|isbn=1472279042}} {{Frontpage|author=Sally Rooney|title=Intermezzo|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 by-electionsocially awkward chess prodigy, contrasts sharply with his older brother Peter, a successful lawyer living in Dublin. The DukeFollowing their father's payment of Lopezpassing after a long battle with cancer, the brothers' election expenses already strained relationship faces new trials.|isbn=0571365469}}{{Frontpage|author=Fyodor Dostoyevsky|title=White Nights|rating=5|genre=Short Stories|summary=As always in an attempt to stem gossip about his wife will come back to haunt himDostoyevsky, 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.|isbn=0241619785
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|isbnauthor=B00474HVX4James Baldwin|title=Phineas Redux|author=Anthony TrollopeGiovanni'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=This Italian work of feminist fiction holds an air of suspense and tension from the moment our protagonist, Valeria Cossati, purchases her forbidden notebook, and learns about herself in the most intimate and revealing ways.
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|author=Ottessa Moshfegh
|title=My Year of Rest and Relaxation
|rating=3
|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 At best, this novel is a paying position he fell out with those who provided his income scathing critique of modern society and returned to Ireland where he married Maryreveals the fragility of human relationships; at worst, it is the cynical, his childhood sweetheart. He was fortunate to get a job in Cork (or Dublin - recollections may vary) predictable and seemed settled into a life slightly trite tale of domesticityan unlikeable protagonist. To bring Finn backThis unlikely heroine, a slim, Trollope had to kill off poor Mary attractive and Phineas emerges newly orphaned girl in London as a childless widower her twenties is disillusioned with a legacy from an aunt who died at just the right time world, but resolves not to allow the move to be possiblelose sleep over it: in fact, her solution lies in her hibernation.|isbn=1784707422
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|author=Jessie GreengrassMatthew Tree|title=The High HouseWe'll Never Know
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Charles Darwin taught that all living matter evolved Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to pass on its genetic material with the implied belief that your progeny will then pass on theirs. Howeverbe different from his father, that train a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of thought is slowly seems to have fallen out being exceptional at any of favour. Today's young generation are discovering that their parents and their parents' parents did not seem to think that far ahead. Or they did think that far ahead and thought "it's not my problem" or "there's nothing I can do". Raising a child his artistic passions all failed miserably and living in a world on the precipice who had endless crises of catastrophe is what drives ''The High House'' by Jessie Greengrassself confidence. This is not a science-fiction novel. This is our reality. This is the life our children So Tim applied himself to his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and their children will have to liveset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn=1800750072B0CVFXPGP8
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|isbn=B0C47LV1PC|title=Fragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, would it land? The catch is that the answer for both could well be.... no. ''Fragility'' is set as the city of Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic}}{{Frontpage|author=Charlie CarrollMosby Woods|title=A Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=The LipWest 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=0571379559|title=The House of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=''Melody Janie RoweThe House of Broken Bricks'' is the story of four people. even Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in the house on the name is evocative of…probably riverbank, built of whatever we want broken bricks. Insubstantial as it to bemight look, and maybe thatit's stood the pointpassage of time, storms and floods. To me Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the name sings of English folk musicdelivery rounds - and to bring in sufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and Max, but even in my use of the rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. People don't believe that word Englishthey're related, I know Imuch less twins and there'm putting s an emmet take on things. And Melody Janie Rowe assumption when Max is anti-emmetout with his mother that she's his nanny. |isbn=1529334179
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|isbnauthor=B003UH99X4Claire North|title=The Eustace Diamonds|author=Anthony TrollopeHouse of Odysseus
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=It was generally thought that Sir Florian Eustace had come ''What could matter more than love?'' The follow-up to regret his marriage but he didnthe excellent ''Ithaca''t live long enough for this to become picks up a problemfew months after where we left off. After his deathIn the palace of Odysseus, his wifewith delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without her husband, Lizzie - still only in her late teens - was in possession who sailed to war at Troy and then by divine intervention never returned home. As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for the throne of a very valuable diamond necklace the Western Isles. Having survived – politically and was determined physical – the chaotic storm that she would not hand it over Clytemnestra brought to her husbandIthaca's executorsshores, Queen Penelope is on the brink of a fragile peace. One that shatters however with the return of Orestes, King of Mycenae, and his sister Elektra, seeking refuge. She was adamant |isbn=0356516075}}{{Frontpage|author= Kay Chronister|title= Desert Creatures|rating= 4|genre= Dystopian Fiction|summary= With a world that Sir Florian had given is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, post-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Whether it is a robotic takeover, a world devoid of water or a nuclear holocaust, this genre is a way for humans to her absolutely, although the precise circumstances cathartically experience their most existential fears. ''Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is a new work of post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the giving varied from telling fears that exist for humanity today. It is a shocking novel that still manages to tellingfind hope. Lady Eustace was not |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 woman way to whom truth meant reflect our darkest emotions and how we as humans react and process them. Most horror fiction feature a great deal. All ''Big Bad'', whether that was important to her nowis a home invader, a monster or a ghost, it usually something tangible and, she maintainedby the end of the story, was her sonbeatable. Eric LaRocca's ''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is not like that. And, It is a collection of short stories more interested in the horrors of courseillness, her diamondsgrief and humiliation. Horrors that linger and are harder to defeat than any ''Big Bad''.
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|isbnauthor=B003L7TDMUMadelaine Lucas|title=Phineas Finn|author=Anthony TrollopeThirst for Salt|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Phineas Finn is the son of Dr Malachi Finn''Love, a successful doctor in Killaloe in County ClareI'd read, who sent his son was supposed to London to train as be a lawyer. Phineaslight and weightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravity''s interest is more in making influential friends than in becoming Told from a lawyer and one of themretrospective view, Barrington Erlea young woman unravels the year-long relationship that once defined her. Overlaid with later wisdom, suggests that he runs for Parliament in the forthcoming electionnarrator 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. His father is not entirely in favour Set against the backdrop of this as members are not remunerated and it would be up to him to provide financial support an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for his son as well as funding his election. One of Salt'' details the doctor24-year-old narrator's patients is Lord Tulla who controls the borough of Loughshane and by this stroke of luck Finn isdeepening relationship with her older lover, eventuallydepicting its all-consuming nature, elected by a small marginhow it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and how it altered her irrevocably.|isbn=0861546490
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|isbnauthor=B003A6W0FOMichael Grothaus|title=Can You Forgive Her?|author=Anthony TrollopeBeautiful Shining People|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=On the surface ''Can You Forgive Her?'' looks deceptively simple: But fearing something and having it's the story of one woman and come to pass are two men who are vying with each other for her lovedifferent things. Alice Vavasor was originally engaged And I'm willing to her cousinbet most of what we fear will never happen, George Vavasor but she broke off that engagement and later became engaged or we can take steps to John Greychange it. When we first meet Alice she's on an extended tour of the continent with George Vavasor and his sister Kate. It's obvious that there's still a great deal of chemistry between John and Alice - and Kate is all for encouraging the relationship as it would tie Alice to her. George wants Alice but it's a matter of ''amour propreBeautiful Shining People'' rather than love: he has little consideration for anyone other than himself and revolves around the original engagement had fallen through because question of his infidelity identity and deceitfulnessacceptance. This thread Of what it means to be human. Of what is real and what is artificial, and whether the story development 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 hertechnology is exciting or frightening.|isbn=191458564X
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|author=Lucy HollandJennifer Saint|title=SistersongAtalanta
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Sistersong is part ''I was as worthy as any one of a genre them. I would get on board that ship, I vowed. I particularly enjoywould take my place, not just in the modern retelling name of folk and fairy talesthe goddess. These stories, It was for most the sake of usmy name, are too. Atalanta'' Princess. Warrior. Lover. Hero. Abandoned at birth for being born a daughter rather than a cornerstone son, Atalanta is raised under the protective eye of childhood and I relish seeing them retold with fresh eyes the goddess Athemis and fashioned into a fresh perspectiveformidable huntress, one who longs for adventure. If handled well these retellings give new life and new meaning When the opportunity comes – to stories that are now becoming increasingly narrow and outdated, fleshing out charactersjoin the Argonauts, examining relationships and re-evaluating the role of women. Sistersong is a perfect example fierce band of a modern retelling done wellwarriors, descendent from the plot is handled with care, keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing Gods themselves – Atalanta seizes the characters chance to come to life, to feel real fight in Artemis' name and human, most importantly they feel relatable in a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the pre-Saxon age they live carve out her own legendary place inhistory. This What follows is a masterpiece whirlwind of storytelling challenges and I was captivated from beginning to enddiscovery and through it, Atalanta must remember Artemis' fatal warning: that if she marries, it will be her undoing.|isbn=15290390371472292154
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|isbnauthor=B002SQCYWQAmanthi Harris|title=The Complete Barchester Chronicles|author=Anthony TrollopeBeautiful Place
|rating=5
|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 and SensibilityPadma, Pride and Prejudicea young Sri Lankan, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion by Jane Austen|The Complete Novels of Jane Austen]] for has returned to the second time Villa Hibiscus on the trot southern coast of her home country. This is a place she had spent her formative years. It is not a place she was born into, but the perfect answer: The Barchester Chronicles and they were in my inbox in a matter one she thinks of minutesas home. They 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 're not 'score'quite'for this gentle and yet subtly violent novel. Padma' as well known as s present fails to escape her past and much like the musical score of a film, that strand weaves its way through everything that happens at the Austen books but they're an excellent follow onVilla.|isbn=1784631930
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|isbn=B077K6BQFD178563335X|title=The Complete Novels: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion Sea Defences|author=Jane AustenHilary Taylor
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Yes - thatWhen we first meet Rachel Bird she's over eighty-one hours of listening for a trainee vicar, sitting in on a PCC meeting and wondering why they're held when you need to pick the purchase of one audio bookchildren up. All Her husband, Christopher, collects six major novels are read by conmedienne Alison Larkin -year-old Hannah and theyher elder brother, Jamie, whilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioner. Thelma're presented s daughter-in -law won't let her see her grandson. Holthorpe, on the Norfolk coast, is a lovely place, but Rachel is struggling to develop a real bond with the order parish - and she's in which awe of the vicar, Gail, but then she's been doing the job for more than thirty years. Rachel and Christopher hoped that a walk on the beach would do them some good - it was stormy but it was probably what they were publishedneeded. And then Hannah went missing.
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|isbn=1398515388|title=The Boy and the Dog|author=Andrea Bajani Seishu Hase and Elizabeth Harris Alison Watts (translator)|title=If You Kept a Record of Sins
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=This First of all, it was an incredibly readable novellathe earthquake, but one that left me a little conflicted. We start as our hero arrives at Bucharest airportdeep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and before we even know his gender or the nature of the person he's addressing this, in his second person monologue of a narration, we see him picked up by his mother's chauffeurturn, and carted off to do all caused the necessary introductions before said mother is buried the following daynuclear meltdown. The mother result was a businesswoman, who clearly left northern Italy complete and settled in Romania with her (night-time and business) partnerutter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, and feelings the loss of abandonment are still stronglivelihoods was widespread. And so we flit The fact that many pets were separated from current (well, this their owners came out in far down the list of priorities but - six months after the original Italian in 2007, so moderately current) Bucharest, to tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. He wasn't a dog person but the ladconvenience store owner's childhood, and see just what comment that he has would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to tell her as a private farewell addressopen his car door and Tamon the dog jumped in.|isbn=1939810965
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|authorisbn=Afonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)0989715337|title=Kokoschka's DollPapa on the Moon|author=Marco North|rating=2.54
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Well, this looked very much like a book I could love from ''Some frogs had gotten into the getwell.'' ''Walter stood waist-godeep in the fragrant water, which is why I picked my review copy up and flipped pages over several times before actually reading any naked except for his beaten leather hat. Long strands of ittheir eggs wove around him, sticky gray pearls with tadpoles inside them. I found things to potentially delight me each time – a weird section in Two of the middle on darker stock paper, a chapter whose number was in dogs leaned over the 20,000s, letters used as narrative form, opening and so on. It intrigued with barked down at the subterranean voice a man hears in wartorn Dresden that what little I knew strange noise of it mentioned, toothe buckets as he filled them. But you've seen the star rating ' How is that comes with for an opening? The style of this reviewnovel in the form of interconnected short stories goes from succinct and laconic to wistful and musing, and can tell that if love was turning on these pagesa sixpence. And author Marco North, it was not actually caused by themwho has the most wonderful turn of phrase, starts as he means to go on. So what happened?|isbn=1529402697
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