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[[Category:New Reviews|Literary Fiction]]==Literary fiction==__NOTOC__{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Amy Waldman295967572X|title=The SubmissionPale Pieces|author=G M Stevens
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The front cover of the book that I received for review Our unnamed narrator is subtle (as befitting the sensitive contents) about to begin a train journey with his companion Django. Where they're going and I can see what the two twin towers (as was) depicted in grey in purpose of this journey is, is uncertain. Django found the title word submission. The back cover announces that this novel will be tickets ''Published in time for on the 10th anniversary of 9/11.floor somewhere'' No pressure thenand has persuaded our narrator to accompany him. I open Why not? Not much else is clear either - but we are probably in the book with a certain amount of trepidation, I have past as the pair travel to admit the station by coach and feel slightly as if I'm about to tread on (literary) eggshellsthe train is a steam locomotive. Heavens - what if I don't like the book?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434019321</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
|author=Makenna Goodman
|title=Helen of Nowhere
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=It could be argued that the pervading theme of this book is malaise - a hard-to-place feeling that something in your life is not quite right. The protagonist, a disgraced professor on the brink of losing both his career and his relationship, embodies 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's considering, Helen represents a volta in his life, her past tied to his potential fresh start. The realtor who shows the protagonist around the house shares stories about Helen, and describes her as ''an entity that is pure consciousness, beyond form''. Although she lives in an assisted living facility now, Helen has powers beyond comprehension which the reader gets the sense are not altogether innocuous.
|isbn=1804272205
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{{Frontpage
|author=Olga Tokarczuk
|title=House of Day, House of Night
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=''What's the good of a world that keeps changing like that? How can one go on calmly living in it?''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Daisy WaughThea Lenarduzzi|title=Last Dance with ValentinoThe Tower
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=When I read on ''How unctuous are the front cover that fats of another's life, how dizzying their sugars in our bloodstream''. In this book is described by compelling novel, Thea Lenarduzzi assumes the identity of T, the Sunday Times protagonist of this tale. Just as T''A grippings story is being told, bittersweet love the story'' it wasn't of a particularly good statement for me to read. As second protagonist is unveiled: Annie, the daughter of a rule I don't generally 'do' love stories. If I happen to read one every once wealthy family in the 19th century, who died of tuberculosis after being locked in a while then thattower, captures T's fine by me but I donimagination. Annie't encourage them! Buts fate is, above all, an enticing story to T. It is a story which she consumes avariciously, both the lovely title in a quest for truth and the front cover did their job knowledge, and pulled me in - just a littleservice of myth, fable and fantasy. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>000739120X</amazonuk>1804271799
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maile ChapmanJon Fosse and Damion Searls (translator) |title=Your Presence is Requested at SuvantoVaim
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=American nurse Sunny Taylor needed to get away from home and everything familiar''All was strange''.. She takes a gamble into the unknown and ends up in Finland. The language barrier seems to be This haunting phrase encapsulates the least pervading sense of her problems. As a healthyotherworldliness which permeates this story set in Vaim, relatively young female she sees on a daily basis ailments, minor and major, imagined and otherwise. ''Suvanto'' (fictional fishing village in Norway which gives the novel its title) is the name of the well-known and well-regarded hospital. It operates on a tier system - those who can pay well paradoxically could not feel more real for medical care Jatgeir and those who are less well-off. And the accommodationEline, level two of nursing and medical care and even the food also operate on this tiered systemprotagonists caught in its melancholic current.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099548674</amazonuk>1804271829
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Steven AmsterdamClaire-Louise Bennett|title=Things We Didn't See ComingBig Kiss, Bye-Bye |rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=This Everything in this book has gained praise from the likes of the Washington Post , however sweet or seemingly innocent, is steeped in anguish and the Financial times so I was really looking forward to distortion. Even a kiss, usually a good - even great read. But did I get it? I think that opening on the eve symbol of the millennium (the most recent one) is pretty special in itself intimacy and should be a good 'hook' to draw closeness, becomes evidence of love lost. When the reader in. The narratorcries out internally, young''come over here and kiss me, male (not named as yet) and his family are packing the family car for the journey ahead. The poor car is full to bursting. Dad is a sceptic and he's taking no chances with this millennium situation and he's instructed his family to pack more it is less an invitation than the usual festive presents this time. They've (well, dad has) made the decision a desperate attempt to get as far away from London as they can - just in caseconfirm her emotional numbness. Just in case The imagined recipient of what exactly this plea is never mentionedXavier, only implied. So it's New Year celebrations with the grandparentsher ex-partner, a ghost she conjures to test her detachment.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>009954704X</amazonuk>1804271934
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alexander MaksikHelene Bessette and Kate Briggs (translator)|title=You Deserve NothingLili is Crying
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Does the world need another 'inspirational teacher lets down students' story? It's debatableFirst published in 1953 in French, but this one novel is really rather gooda timeless text which wrenches the hearts of its readers just as Bessette wrenches words and sentences from their proper position on the page and positions them elsewhere, disjointed, truncated. Like the lives of her characters, they are often left tragically incomplete.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848545703</amazonuk>1804271675
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Judith HermannJonathan Buckley|title=AliceOne Boat
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=''AliceOne Boat'' is a collection of five short storiesdeeply introspective novella that defies traditional narrative structure, linked thematically since they all deal with drawing the subject reader into a contemplative realm of deathphilosophical musings and fragmented memories flowing from our narrator and protagonist, but they are also linked because Teresa. Set against the central character, Aliceevocative backdrop of a small coastal Greek town, is this work masterfully captures the same in each storymagic of its setting and its power to provoke profound introspection. So rather than feeling like short stories Teresa herself recognises these qualities as the book reason she has a hint visited it after the death of the novel to itboth her parents. Prompted by her mourning, her narrative voice is meditative and deeply self-aware, yet inviting the stories are never completed or fully told so it's reader into her labyrinthine cogitations. It is a novel where you're book that not always sure what's going only requires but inspires depth of thought, since its narrative structure is fragmentary and ironically relies onanalepsis for its propulsion.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184668529X</amazonuk>1804271764
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=S J WatsonEowyn Ivey|title=Before I Go To SleepBlack Woods Blue Sky|rating=3.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Rather ironically, 'Before I Go To Sleep' is not Black Woods Blue Sky'' tells the story of Birdie, the young mother of toddler Emaleen, who longs for a life beyond the Alaskan lodge where she works as a book that you will forget in bar waitress, a hurrysetting which enables her bad habits and her accidental neglect of Emaleen. ImagineDescribed as a ''wild card'', if you willshe feels stuck in her day-to-day life, waking up every morning with no memory and yearns to cross the Wolverine river and live on the North Fork to fulfil her desires of who you area simple life surrounded by nature. When she meets Arthur Nielson, a strange, where you aretaciturn and solitary man, or who the person lying next says he has a cabin over there, she feels called to you in bed is. You can remember things during the day, but once you go to sleep, your mind is effectively wiped clean- and bring Emaleen with her. This is the slightly unusual form of amnesia that the narratorWithout realising it, Christine suffers from in Watsonthis calling will transform hers and Emaleen's first novel that is a daring and gripping literary thrillerlives forever.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857520172</amazonuk>1472279042
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Amos OzSally Rooney|title=My MichaelIntermezzo|rating=4.5|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=The Introduction to this book Sally Rooney has studied the chessboard of life and is something of a lovely sub-heading - 'Forty Years Later' where Oz admits freely that nowgrandmaster at putting it into words. Her dialogue is gripping and so brilliantly frustrating, today, he wouldn't attempt or .as her characters never quite say exactly what they feel.. 'dare write an entire novel in a female voice.' But I found his open telling of why and how he came to write Among the book in many relationships woven into this story, the first place interesting and rather enchanting and whetted my appetite central one for readers to get on unravel is the fraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and read the bookPeter Koubek. For exampleIvan, Oz wrote most of the book in the cramped confines of a toiletsocially awkward chess prodigy, would you believe. But for me what caught my attention was the fact that he tells contrasts sharply with his readers that Hannaholder brother Peter, the central character, was a successful lawyer living in his head and determined to he heardDublin. 'Just shut up and write' she tells him. A TranslatorFollowing their father's Note follows before we get to passing after a long battle with cancer, the story properbrothers' already strained relationship faces new trials.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>009952905X</amazonuk>0571365469
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jacqueline YallopFyodor Dostoyevsky|title=ObedienceWhite Nights|rating=45|genre=Literary FictionShort Stories|summary=The story opens with a much younger Sister Bernard - no more than a girl really. The daily lives of As always in Dostoyevsky, the nuns character work is regulated, with long hours for prayer, meditation and solitudesublime. Everyone One is housed, fed and watered adequately and that's as far as it goes. No little luxuries to speak of. Nothing to temper the harshness never left wondering what a character is thinking or feeling because Dostoyevsky lays bare their innermost dispositions and the silence. Visits from family members are forbidden also. However, the young Sister Bernard appears to not only be coping very well temperaments with all of this but even embracing it. She doesn't grumble or complain about anything. However, even although she may appear saintly she is human, just like the rest of us and temptation does come along in the shape of a young manremarkable clarity. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857891014</amazonuk>0241619785
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Aatish TaseerJames Baldwin|title=NoonGiovanni's Room|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary='Noon' sits somewhere between 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 collection of related short stories and a full blown novel gay bar. While David is engaged to Hella, who is travelling in that it tells four different episodes Spain, the real tension in Rehan Tabassumthe novel arises not from his infidelity but from the deeper conflict within himself. It is David's life, spread over a couple crippling shame and denial of decades. It explores some large issues thoughhis sexuality that ultimately dooms his relationship with Giovanni.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0330540416</amazonuk>0141186356
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Louis B JonesAlba de Cespedes |title=RadianceForbidden Notebook
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Mark Perdue took his daughter, Carlotta – or Lotta, as she's known – on an indulgent fantasy weekend in Los Angeles. Lotta and some other teenagers were going to live the celebrity lifestyle for a few days, with gigs, recordings and stretch limos to ferry them around. Mark's got problems This Italian work of his own. He ''was'' feminist fiction holds an eminent physicist but illness has taken its toll. His wife is still suffering the emotional effects air of a late-term abortion – the family called the foetus 'Noddy' – suspense and Lotta can't reconcile how she feels about tension from the loss of her unborn siblingmoment our protagonist, Valeria Cossati, even going as far as to say that she would have given up the next ten years of purchases her life to look after the child. And Mark? Wellforbidden notebook, on the tarmac at LAX it dawns on him that a heart attack would be a convenient way out of everything.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>158243736X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Alice LaPlante|title=Turn of Mind|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=This is a beautifully-presented book with its eye-catching front cover and poetic title. Jennifer has had a busy and fulfilling professional life as a well-respected medical surgeon. Until now. She's gradually losing bits of her mind to Alzheimer's. Her family is supportive and keep popping learns about herself in on a regular basis plus there's now a live-in carer, Magdalena, so that daily life the most intimate and daily chores are just about coveredrevealing ways.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846554632</amazonuk>1782278222
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jose Saramago and Margaret Jull CostaOttessa Moshfegh|title=The Elephant's JourneyMy Year of Rest and Relaxation|rating=3.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=This At best, this novel is inspired by a real event – scathing critique of modern society and reveals the marriage gift fragility of an elephant from Dom João III of Portugal to his cousin Maximilianhuman relationships; at worst, it is the Hapsburg Archduke cynical, predictable and slightly trite tale of Austriaan unlikeable protagonist. When the gift was acceptedThis unlikely heroine, the elephant Solomona slim, his mahout Subhro attractive and numerous soldiersnewly orphaned girl in her twenties is disillusioned with the world, oxen and porters, walked from Lisbon but resolves not to Vienna to deliver the presentlose sleep over it: in fact, arriving her solution lies in 1552. This is the story of that journeyher hibernation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099546884</amazonuk>1784707422
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ross RaisinMatthew Tree|title=WaterlineWe'll Never Know
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Raisin has an enviable portfolio for one so youngTimothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, having been named ''Sunday Times Young Writer Of The Year 2009'' a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his [[God's Own Country by Ross Raisin|previous novel]] receiving fulsome praise. No pressure then with this book. The story opens with artistic passions all members failed miserably and who had endless crises of the Little family paying their respects self confidence. So Tim applied himself to Cathy. Some have travelled further than others as they all squeeze into Mick's modest househis studies, somewhere in Glasgow. A less-cultivated his abilities rather than-posh part. Mick is obviously numb with the shock of it all (even although his wife's death was not sudden - she had been ill for some time). It's clear that some of the family, distant members, feel uncomfortable daydreams and don't quite know how to actset himself high but achievable ambitions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0670917354</amazonuk>B0CVFXPGP8
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jamil AhmadB0C47LV1PC|title=The Wandering FalconFragility|author=Mosby Woods
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary="In the tangle of crumblingCan you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, weather-beaten and broken hills, where is the borders of Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan meet, question should you make it? Or is a military outpost…" Thus begins the tale of Tor Bazquestion if you did, would it land? The catch is that the Black Falconanswer for both could well be... To this desolate place come two wanderers, a man and a woman seeking refuge. no.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anthony BurgessMosby Woods|title=A Clockwork OrangeWhirly Man Loses His Turn
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=A Clockwork Orange comes under The West isn't the dominant force it once was. Nobody in the West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is the heading best course of "books you feel you ought to have read by now"action. Mostly these Governments are books 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 don't necessarily want to read, but are considered such classics that an inability to pass what will happen given any kind set of comment upon them suggests a gaping hole circumstances. That man would be valuable, right? Perhaps the most valuable asset in your educationhistory.Imagine then, that this man loses this ability. What would governments do to get it back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0241951445</amazonuk>B0C9SNG8R1
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anna Gavalda0571379559|title=Breaking AwayThe House of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams|rating=45
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Garance ''The 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 her way to a family weddingthe riverbank, built of broken bricks. In the car with her brother and his wife she thinks about all her siblingsInsubstantial as it might look, whatit's happened in their lives stood the passage of time, storms and who they have all becomefloods. Throughout Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the journey she finds herself bickering constantly with her sisterdelivery rounds -and to bring insufficient money. They have twin boys -law who always rubs her up the wrong waySonny and Max, and for the first time Garance senses some tension from her brother too who is usually calm and collected at all timesrainbow twins. Is everything okay in Sonny's colouring reflects his life or is mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his wife finally beginning to wear his patience thin? father. They take a detour en route to pick up another siblingPeople don't believe that they're related, much to Carine's annoyance, less twins and then on reaching the wedding there's a surprise in store for all of them as the four siblings find themselves on an unplanned escape, together once again, rediscovering their youthful selves in a fun, brief break from their real livesassumption when Max is out with his mother that she's his nanny. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906040400</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Haley TannerClaire North|title=Vaclav and LenaHouse of Odysseus
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Vaclav and Lena are both children of Russian immigrants, growing up in Brooklyn. Vaclav dreams of becoming a fantastic magician, with his friend Lena as his assistant, and as children they practise their routine together, making lists of the things they'll need, the costumes they will wear and the tricks they will perform. Vaclav is confident and happy, but Lena is quiet, withdrawn and struggles with speaking English. Yet Vaclav believes, always, that they are destined to be together. Even when Lena disappears one day and is gone from his life for many years still he hopes that, somehow, he will find her again.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434020443</amazonuk>}}'What could matter more than love?''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Helen HumphreysKay Chronister|title=The Reinvention of LoveDesert Creatures|rating=4|genre=Historical Dystopian Fiction|summary='The Reinvention of Love' is one of those stories With a world that is so bizarre and strange that it could only be based on factual eventsbecoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, post-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Essentially Whether it is a goodrobotic takeover, old-fashioned love triangle set mostly in Paris in the period from the 1830s to the 1860s; a world where fighting duels is devoid of water or a commonplace event. The triangle features the great French literary writer Victor Hugonuclear holocaust, his wife Adèle and the altogether strange critic Charles Saint-Beuve who narrates much of this story, with brief breaks genre is a way for Adèlehumans to cathartically experience their most existential fears. ''Desert Creatures''s side by Kay Chronister is a new work of post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of events and some letters written by the Hugo's youngest daughter, also called Adèle (but let's call her, as she was known to her family, Dédé fears that exist for humanity today. It is a shocking novel that still manages to avoid confusion)find hope.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846687985</amazonuk>1803364998
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{{newreviewfrontpage|isbn=1803363002|author=Wesley StaceEric LaRocca|title=Charles Jessold, Considered as a MurdererThe Trees Grew Because I Bled There|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeHorror|summary="Nothing in recent 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 prepared me for the power feature a ''Big Bad'', whether that is a home invader, a monster or a ghost, it usually something tangible and , by the polish of this subtle tale end of English music in the makingstory, beatable. Eric LaRocca's ''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is not like that. It is a chiller wrapped collection of short stories more interested in an enigma [New Statesman]" "His handling of dry comic dialogue and cynical affectation is reminiscent the horrors of P G Wodehouse… an intelligentillness, fun grief and thoughtful piece of fiction [Independent on Sunday]" Just two of the previous reviews humiliation. Horrors that adorn the back cover of linger and are harder to defeat than any ''Big Bad'Charles Jessold…'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099546574</amazonuk>.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Roy Jacobsen, Don Bartlett (translator) and Don Shaw (translator)Madelaine Lucas|title=Child WonderThirst for Salt
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=1961 was a year of change, a time, as Jacobsen puts it, ''when men became boys and housewives women'Love, I'. At the outset Finn and his mother are leading a quietd read, rather timorous life in was supposed to be a working class Oslo suburb. Then change overwhelms them, not through world eventslight and weightless feeling, but in the form of a mysterious child who is FinnI had always longed for gravity's half sister. Linda is not like other children and Finn's attempt to deal with her impact on his family is the central thread in this quintessential story of growing up.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857050184</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Manuel de Lope and John Cullen (Translator)Michael Grothaus|title=The Wrong BloodBeautiful Shining People
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Although de Lope has written over a dozen novels, this is the first to be translated into English. The cover is as pretty as a picture and screams 'Spanish.' So far, so goodBut fearing something and having it come to pass are two different things. But And I have 'm willing to admit that on the whole bet most of the European novels I've read over the last year what we fear will never happen, or so, have fallen short of the mark for mewe can take steps to change it. Will this one prove to be different?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099551853</amazonuk>}}''
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|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Interviewed by BBC film critic Mark Kermode shortly before his 60th birthday, Woody Allen gave the bequiffed ''I was as worthy as any one this somewhat startling piece of advicethem. I would get on board that ship, ''You get to I vowed. I would take my ageplace, you realise that when you die you're really not losing that much.'' Those words sprang to mind while reading ''Whatever'', first novel by Michel Houellebecq. The main protagonist just in ''Whatever'' may be only half the age name of the film directorgoddess. It was for the sake of my name, but the outlook on life shared by both men seems strikingly similartoo. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846687845</amazonuk>}}Atalanta''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ann PatchettAmanthi Harris|title=State of WonderBeautiful Place
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Anders Eckman is dead. The news Padma, a young Sri Lankan, has been delivered in returned to the form an aerogram – remember those blue paper-cum-envelope things we used to use to write to foreign pen-pals when Villa Hibiscus on the notion southern coast of befriending a person you'd never met in a foreign her home country still seemed exotic? . This flimsy piece of paper was delivered to Eckman's employersis a place she spent her formative years. After all it It is not a place she was them that had sent him down to born into, but the Brazilian Amazon one she thinks of as home. How she came to find be at the enigmatic and evasive Dr Annik SwensonVilla, how it became her home, and more precisely find out exactly how she was getting on with developing the drug machinations that was costing have flowed through her life ever since she first arrived there provide the firm so ''score'' for this gentle and yet subtly violent novel. Padma's present fails to escape her past and much like the musical score of their research budgeta film, that strand weaves its way through everything that happens at the Villa.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408818590</amazonuk>1784631930
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jean Rhys178563335X|title=Wide Sargasso SeaDefences|author=Hilary Taylor
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=In the late eighteen thirties the father of an English gentleman conspires to marry him off to When we first meet Rachel Bird she's a landed Jamaican Creole as trainee vicar, sitting in on a means of giving his second son an estate PCC meeting and stopping him being a burden on wondering why they're held when you need to pick the familychildren up. Written in the nineteen sixties Her husband, 'Wide Sargasso Sea' was inspired by Rochester's first wife in ''Jane Eyre''Christopher, collects six-year-old Hannah and is an impressionisticher elder brother, Jamie, hallucinatory account of that woman's alienation and subsequent descent into madness that can be read as whilst Rachel holds a prequel to the Bronte novelsobbing parishioner. The book covers Antoinette Thelma's childhood daughter-in Jamaica and -law won't let her see her honeymoon grandson. Holthorpe, on the Norfolk coast, is a small Caribbean island lovely place, but Rachel is struggling to develop a real bond with her new husband the parish - and their domestic servantsshe's in 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 point of view shifts between Antoinette and her husbandbeach would do them some good - it was stormy but it was probably what they needed. And then Hannah went missing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241951550</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Douglas Kennedy1398515388|title=The MomentBoy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=After I'd read the blurb on the back cover I gave a bit First of a shrug as if to sayall, wellit was the earthquake, I've read quite a number of books recently where undying love has been found deep in war-torn Europethe ocean floor, so was which created the tsunami and this book going to be different, or better? Thomas Nesbittin turn, middle-aged, disillusioned with love and more than a tad world-weary is trying to move on in his lifecaused the nuclear meltdown. His marriage of more than twenty years is dissolving before his very eyesThe result was complete and utter devastation. But rather than being upsetThe deaths were uncountable, he's feeling as if a weight has been lifted from his shouldersand the loss of livelihoods was widespread. He and his wife The fact that many pets were never really ''in love'' in separated from their owners came far down the true sense list of priorities but - six months after the phrase, despite having tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a daughter togetherconvenience store. And thereHe wasn't a dog person but the convenience store owner's a very good reason as comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to why Thomas is like this open his car door and Tamon the rest of the book tells us why, warts and alldog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091795842</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Aminatta Forna0989715337|title=The Memory of LovePapa on the Moon|author=Marco North|rating=54
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The setting for this story is a hospital ''Some frogs had gotten into the well.'' ''Walter stood waist-deep in Freetownthe fragrant water, Sierra Leonenaked except for his beaten leather hat. Long strands of their eggs wove around him, soon after sticky gray pearls with tadpoles inside them. Two of the dogs leaned over the government has declared opening and barked down at the strange noise of the buckets as he filled them.'' How is that for an end opening? The style of this novel in the form of interconnected short stories goes from succinct and laconic to an 11 year civil warwistful and musing, turning on a sixpence. How can people come to terms with And author Marco North, who has the terrible things that have happened? Actuallymost wonderful turn of phrase, can they come starts as he means to terms with those things?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408809656</amazonuk>go on.
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