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[[Category:New Reviews|Literary Fiction]]__NOTOC__{{adsense2Frontpage|isbn=295967572X|title=Pale Pieces|author=G 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.}}__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Every PromiseMakenna Goodman|authortitle=Andrea BajaniHelen of Nowhere|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Italian writer, Andrea Bajani's ''Every Promise'' It could be argued that the pervading theme of this book is malaise - a hard-to-place feeling that something in your life is narrated by Pietronot quite right. His partner, Sara, has left him due to their inability to have a babyThe protagonist, but soon she finds herself pregnant after a one night stand and reliant disgraced professor on Pietro's mother for advice. Meanwhile Pietro meets Olmo, an elderly man who lives in their old family apartment, who reminds Pietro the brink of losing both his career and his own Grandfatherrelationship, Marioembodies this feeling. However, whoGoodman counteracts his discomfort with a force which is seductive, like Olmo, served in Mussolini's ill-fated Russian campaignradical and unnerving: Helen. The connection between Helen and the protagonist is indirect yet intimate. Olmo persuades Pietro to go to Russia to visit As the scenes of some former owner of the photographs countryside house he has to try to come to terms with the past. It's considering, Helen represents a story about the volta in his life, her past, tied to his potential fresh start. The realtor who shows the present and protagonist around the future house shares stories about Helen, and the struggle for one man to make sense of this. Itdescribes her as ''s packed with surpassingly detailed imagery and Bajani an entity that is at times breathtakingly unflinching pure consciousness, beyond form''. Although she lives in exposing an assisted living facility now, Helen has powers beyond comprehension which the reader gets the vulnerability of his narrator. However, it is very much a slow burn of a book and it's sense are not always an easy book to readaltogether innocuous.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857051466</amazonuk>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?''
The title of this spellbinding work, ''House of Day, House of Night'', somewhat reflects this notion of shifting realities - the small, subtle changes which govern our lives, like the shift from day to night, however quotidian, causing chaos. But, the constant in that image is the house, stoic against the ancient diurnal cycle which nonetheless controls how it is perceived.|isbn=1804271918}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andrew PorterThea Lenarduzzi|title=In Between DaysThe Tower|rating=3.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=After Chloe Harding ''How unctuous are the fats of another's life, how dizzying their sugars in our bloodstream''. In this compelling novel, Thea Lenarduzzi assumes the identity of T, the protagonist of this tale. Just as T's story is forced to leave her East Coast collegebeing told, for reasons she refuses to explain to her recently divorced parents or older brother Richardthe story of a second protagonist is unveiled: Annie, her the daughter of a wealthy familyin the 19th century, who died of tuberculosis after being locked in a tower, captures T's imagination. Annie's lives start fate is, above all, an enticing story to unravelT. Will the rest It is a story which she consumes avariciously, both in a quest for truth and knowledge, and in service of them ever find out what caused her fall from gracemyth, fable and can they solve their own problems?fantasy. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0224089838</amazonuk>1804271799
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ivy PochodaJon Fosse and Damion Searls (translator) |title=Visitation StreetVaim|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Red Hook, Brooklyn and it is blisteringly hot''All was strange''.. Two fifteen year old girls decide the best and most exciting way to cool off is to take a small inflatable raft on to the river. The next morning one of This haunting phrase encapsulates the girls is found unconscious and washed ashore with no memory pervading sense of what happened otherworldliness which permeates this story set in the river and the other girl is nowhere to be found. This becomes Vaim, a big local story fictional fishing village in Norway which paradoxically could not feel more real for Jatgeir and the survivorEline, saviour and community have to deal with two of the loss protagonists caught in their different waysits melancholic current.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444778242</amazonuk>1804271829
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Marlen HaushoferClaire-Louise Bennett|title=Nowhere Ending SkyBig Kiss, Bye-Bye
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= Little Meta Everything in this book, however sweet or seemingly innocent, is growing up steeped in anguish and distortion. Even a childhood paradise with two parents who love her and kiss, usually a younger brother to tease symbol of intimacy and train to do all the things that Meta wants him tocloseness, becomes evidence of love lost. However When the world outside Metanarrator cries out internally, ''s paradise will soon change beyond all recognition as the Austria come over here and Germany kiss me,'' it is less an invitation than a desperate attempt to confirm her emotional numbness. The imagined recipient of the 1920s makes way for the Austria and Germany of the 1930sthis plea is Xavier, her ex-partner, a ghost she conjures to test her detachment.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0704373130</amazonuk>1804271934
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lea CarpenterHelene Bessette and Kate Briggs (translator)|title=Eleven DaysLili is Crying
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Sara raised Jason alone; even when she was with his father it felt as if she was a lone parent. Jason's father always seemed to be away doing something indefinable abroad; then he disappeared leaving her completely. Two years later Jason's father was dead. However Jason First published in 1953 in French, this novel is a lad to be proud timeless text which wrenches the hearts of, never giving Sara a moment's trouble its readers just as Bessette wrenches words and now a member of sentences from their proper position on the elite US Navy SEALSpage and positions them elsewhere, disjointed, truncated. Now he's missing in action… Now she has to hang on and hopeLike the lives of her characters, they are often left tragically incomplete.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444776231</amazonuk>1804271675
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lucy CruickshanksJonathan Buckley|title=The Trader of SaigonOne Boat|rating=54|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=In ''One Boat'' is a deeply introspective novella that defies traditional narrative structure, drawing the Saigon reader into a contemplative realm of the 1980s the Vietnam War is over but the traces remain. Alexander has deserted philosophical musings and fragmented memories flowing from the US army our narrator and makes a comfortable living selling girls to local business menprotagonist, Teresa. Phuc used to be Set against the evocative backdrop of a business mansmall coastal Greek town, complete with mansion this work masterfully captures the magic of its setting and the means its power to keep his wife and three children in affluenceprovoke profound introspection. Now his family live in a shanty hut, afraid of Teresa herself recognises these qualities as the ruling government that spies through reason she has visited it after the eyes death of childrenboth her parents. At last he finds a way outPrompted by her mourning, his luck just needs to hold. Hanh also lives in povertyher narrative voice is meditative and deeply self-aware, desperately trying to help inviting the reader into her sick mother with the pittance she earns from cleaning one labyrinthine cogitations. It is a book that not only requires but inspires depth of the city's many open latrines. Then one day she meets someone who offers so much more. His name thought, since its narrative structure is Alexanderfragmentary and ironically relies on analepsis for its propulsion.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782063218</amazonuk>1804271764
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Manuel RivasEowyn Ivey|title=All Is SilenceBlack Woods Blue Sky
|rating=3.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The small community ''Black Woods Blue Sky'' tells the story of Noitía is Birdie, the young mother of toddler Emaleen, who longs for a place life beyond the Alaskan lodge where everyone knows each other and each other’s businessshe works as a bar waitress, a setting which considering most enables her bad habits and her accidental neglect of the adults are involved in the one business, smuggling, is potentially dangerous knowledgeEmaleen. We follow Described as a small group of three young friends growing up ''wild card'', she feels stuck in her day-to-day life, and yearns to cross the area as they play Wolverine river and learn and even experience live on the North Fork to fulfil her desires of a little of the black market dealingssimple life surrounded by nature. They stumble across When she meets Arthur Nielson, a stash of smuggled whisky strange, taciturn and are caught by the charismatic king pin responsible for the traffickingsolitary man, who teaches them that silence is the most important lesson says he has a cabin over there, she feels called to learn when growing up in Noitíago - and bring Emaleen with her. Without realising it, this calling will transform hers and Emaleen's lives forever.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184655568X</amazonuk>1472279042
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ryu MurakamiSally Rooney|title=From The Fatherland, With LoveIntermezzo
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=From The FatherlandSally 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, With Love 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 2005 Japanese novel set 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 then-near future of 2011brothers' already strained relationship faces new trials. Fatherland (as I will abbreviate it) explores the social and political ramifications of one speculative scenario: what if North Korea invaded Japan?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908968451</amazonuk>0571365469
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Suzanne RindellFyodor Dostoyevsky|title=The Other TypistWhite 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.|isbn=0241619785}}{{Frontpage|author=James Baldwin|title=Giovanni's Room|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=The Other Typist is set ''Giovanni's Room'' follows the narrator David, an American man living in 1920s New York CityParis, as he navigates his torturous affair with Prohibition at its height and Rose BakerGiovanni, an orphaned young woman, working as Italian bartender he meets in a police typistgay bar. While she has no real friendsDavid is engaged to Hella, who is travelling in Spain, she's good at her job and seems to have the respect of real tension in the Sergeant, whom she admires and novel arises not from his infidelity but from the Lieutenant Detective, whom shedeeper conflict within himself. It is David's less keen on. Then a perfect storm comes into their lives, in the shape crippling shame and denial of the enchanting Odalie, and nothing will be the same againhis sexuality that ultimately dooms his relationship with Giovanni.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0241002885</amazonuk>0141186356
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ioanna Bourazopoulou and Yannis Panas (Translator)Alba de Cespedes |title=What Lot's Wife SawForbidden Notebook
|rating=4
|genre=Science Literary Fiction|summary= It's been over 20 years since The Overflow came, flooding half This Italian work of feminist fiction holds an air of Europe. Around the same time Violet Salt, a new multi-functional mineral, appeared, its production now governed globally by suspense and tension from the mysteriousmoment our protagonist, all-powerful Consortium. Meanwhile back in Europe The ColonyValeria Cossati, a haven for those escaping floods and indeed justicepurchases her forbidden notebook, is ruled by Governor Bera and six officials, the 'Purple Stars'. All seems to be well learns about herself in a despotic, lawless way until the six wake up to the realisation that the Governor has died mysteriously in the night. The Consortium needs answers so choose the greatest crossword compiler of the age, Phileas Book, to investigate, whether he wants to or notmost intimate and revealing ways.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1845025474</amazonuk>1782278222
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gabriel WestonOttessa Moshfegh|title=Dirty WorkMy Year of Rest and Relaxation|rating=53
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=#There are two women in an operating theatre At best, this novel is a scathing critique of modern society and when one starts bleeding heavily - fatally - reveals the other freezesfragility of human relationships; at worst, unableit is the cynical, despite all her training predictable and undoubted skillsslightly trite tale of an unlikeable protagonist. This unlikely heroine, to do anything at all. Whatever the outcome it cannot pass unnoticeda slim, unreported attractive and surgeon Nancy Mullion newly orphaned girl in her twenties is called to appear before a tribunal appointed by disillusioned with the General Medical Council. Over a period of weeks she's forced world, but resolves not to confront the effect of being a doctor who has killed as well as cured. You're probably making assumptions now and nodding wisely. Don't - because you are almost certainly going to be wrong. This will not be the story which you are expecting and lose sleep over it was certainly not the story which Nancy's hospital wanted to hear: in fact, her solution lies in her hibernation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>022409128X</amazonuk>1784707422
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rachel KushnerMatthew Tree|title=The FlamethrowersWe'll Never Know
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Set mainly in New York's art district in the late 1970s, Rachel Kushner's ''The Flamethrowers'' tells the story of a young girl, known only Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to the reader as Renobe different from his father, after the city she comes from. She's a girl drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and who loves motorbikes and photography, but struggles had endless crises of self confidence. So Tim applied himself to find her place in the New York art scene. When she falls for the estranged son, Sandro, of the Italian motorbike manufacturer Valerohis studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself an artist in New York, Reno finds herself in situations she cannot controlhigh but achievable ambitions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846557917</amazonuk>B0CVFXPGP8
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Roland Watson-GrantB0C47LV1PC|title=SketcherFragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=54
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= Nine-year-old Skid Beaumont lives with his three brothers, father Alrick and mother Valerie in the swamps beyond the New Orleans city limits. Life is hard and home is Can you make a rundown shack with no running water but they're only there temporarily; a 'temporarilyYo birthing person'' that joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it? Or is rather long-term. Alrick moved them from their nice home in New Orleans because the question if you did, would it land was cheap and soon ? The catch is that the city would build out to envelop themanswer for both could well be... Years later they're still waiting for that to happen. Life isn’t exactly mundane though; there are rumours that when Skid's brother Frico draws left-handed, strange things seem to happenno.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846882427</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Philip SingtonMosby Woods|title=The Valley of UnknowingA Whirly Man Loses His Turn
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=In The West isn't the dominant force it once was. Nobody in the mid-West is quite sure how to-late eighties mend this or even if mending it is the German Democratic Republic looked like enduringbest course of action. Bolstered by Governments are flailing. A war here, a system of ''Mitarbeiter'' (''fellow workers'' push for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is in actual charge. Imagine then, there was a much more amenable term than ''informers'') man with precognition. Imagine the Stasi kept their populace strategic advantage in checkthis asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. Western media was easy to censor That man would be valuable, right? Perhaps the most valuable asset in those dayshistory. Border controls were brutalImagine then, that this man loses this ability. People were shot on a regular basis trying What would governments do to cross the no-man's-land into West Berlin and along the other inner German borders.get it back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099535823</amazonuk>B0C9SNG8R1
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Walser0571379559|title=The Walk and other storiesHouse of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=''The publication House of this collection Broken Bricks'' is the story of around forty short stories affords four people. Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in the English speaking public a unique opportunity; that house on the riverbank, built of reading Walserbroken bricks. Insubstantial as it might look, possibly it's stood the leading modernist writer passage of Swiss German 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 last centuryrainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. He has received high praise in Max takes after his father. People don'A Place in the Countryt believe that they're related, W G Sebaldmuch less twins and there's recently published posthumous collection and he an assumption when Max is well-known as being a significant influence on Franz Kafka. His work here dates from 1907 to 1929 and along out with his poetry won him recognition with Berlinmother that she's avant garde. He combines lyrical delicacy with detailed observation; reflective melancholy with criticism of brash commercialism. The fine writing in this volume strives to achieve a hard won integrity together with an experimental capacity for reflection. It challenges the reader and provokes him to new insightshis nanny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846689589</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
|author=Claire North
|title=House of Odysseus
|rating=5
|genre= Literary Fiction
|summary= ''What could matter more than love?''
The follow-up to the excellent ''Ithaca'' picks up a few months after where we left off. In the palace of Odysseus, with delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without her husband, 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 the Western Isles. Having survived – politically and physical – the chaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to Ithaca's shores, 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.|isbn=0356516075}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joydeep Roy-BhattacharyaKay Chronister|title=The WatchDesert Creatures|rating=54|genre=Literary Dystopian Fiction|summary= Nizam pushes With a barrow up to a fortified US army base in Afghanistanworld that is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, post-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. What Whether it is she doing there? How will the soldiers react? What do they believe: their experiencea robotic takeover, their traininga world devoid of water or a nuclear holocaust, this genre is a way for humans to cathartically experience their gut reaction or most existential fears. ''Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is a young girl amputee in the middle new work of post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the desert who may be the last thing they ever see?fears that exist for humanity today. It is a shocking novel that still manages to find hope.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099565773</amazonuk>1803364998
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{{newreviewfrontpage|isbn=1803363002|author=Anthony CartwrightEric LaRocca|title=How The Trees Grew Because I Killed Margaret ThatcherBled There|rating=3.5|genre=Literary FictionHorror|summary=What motivates someone Horror taps into something primeval within us. It is used as a way to become reflect our darkest emotions and how we as humans react and process them. Most horror fiction feature a killer? When the reader first meets Sean Bull''Big Bad'', he whether that is nine years olda home invader, living a seemingly carefree monster or a ghost, it usually something tangible and happy existence surrounded , by his family and friends in the end of the story, beatable. Eric LaRocca's ''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is not like that. It is a close-knit community collection of short stories more interested in Dudleythe horrors of illness, West Midlandsgrief and humiliation. He loves Star Wars Horrors that linger and playing football with his school friends and adores his teenage uncle Johnny, who tells him stories and creates the most wonderful pieces of artare harder to defeat than any ''Big Bad''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781251576</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jenni FaganMadelaine Lucas|title=The PanopticonThirst for Salt
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Imagine reading ''Love, I'd read, was supposed to be a book set in light and weightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravity'' Told from a Scottish children’s care home. It’s about retrospective view, a violent and a deeply disturbed fifteen young woman unravels the year old drug addict who-long relationship that once defined her. Overlaid with later wisdom, when she was eleven, found the narrator relives the affair with a man twenty years her prostitute foster mother murdered in senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the bathtubsummer after. That’s Set against the set-up backdrop of Jenni Fagan’s an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'The Panopticon'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 that’s what it’s about – but the funny thing is that whatever you’re picturing in your head right now, familial relationships and what I was imagining before I sat down to read how it, bears absolutely no resemblance to the book Fagan has actually writtenaltered her irrevocably.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099558645</amazonuk>0861546490
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{{Frontpage
|author= Michael Grothaus
|title=Beautiful Shining People
|rating=4
|genre= Literary Fiction
|summary= ''But fearing something and having it come to pass are two different things. And I'm willing to bet most of what we fear will never happen, or we can take steps to change it.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate AtkinsonJennifer Saint|title=Life After LifeAtalanta
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Spanning the period from just before World War One to the end of World War Two, Kate Atkinson's ''Life After Life'' tells the story I was as worthy as any one of Ursula Toddthem. Or more accuratelyI would get on board that ship, it tells the potential stories of Ursula ToddI vowed. If you've seen the movie ''Sliding Doors'' then you will have some idea of the concept Atkinson explores; that of small changes I would take my place, not just in life leading to different outcomes, many of which lead to tragic endings but strangely the book manages to be a celebration name of the spirit of Ursula and is often quite upliftinggoddess. It's a book that sounds like it is going to be much more confusing than it is though and was for the result is a very special book indeedsake of my name, too. ItAtalanta''s that rare thing of a book that has a strong literary style but which is also very readable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385618670</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Therese Anne FowlerAmanthi Harris|title=Z: A Novel of Zelda FitzgeraldBeautiful Place
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=As Therese Anne Fowler points out in her acknowledgementsPadma, views on the relationship between F Scott Fitzgerald and his wife and muse, Zeldaa young Sri Lankan, tend has returned to split into 'Team Scott' and 'Team Zelda'. The former believe that it was Zelda's instability and possessiveness that limited Scott's creative output while the latter argue that it was Scott's debauched behaviour that led to Zelda's mental problems. ''Z'' takes a more balanced view - Villa Hibiscus on the truth southern coast of the matter her home country. This is that they needed each other but were tragically, mutually destructivea place she spent her formative years. Getting the fact-based fiction tone right It is always not a challengeplace she was born into, and this is exacerbated when but the author gives a writer one she thinks of as home. How she came to be at the narrative voiceVilla, how it became her home, and Zelda was a talented writer in the machinations that have flowed through her own right as well as a dancer, artist life ever since she first arrived there provide the ''score'' for this gentle and general social phenomenonyet subtly violent novel. However Fowler pulls it off with aplomb in what is a sensitive Padma's present fails to escape her past and engrossing story much like the musical score of Zelda - 'a film, that strand weaves its way through everything that happens at the First Flapper'Villa.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444761404</amazonuk>1784631930
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sheila Heti178563335X|title=How Should A Person Be?Sea Defences|author=Hilary Taylor|rating=35
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Much has been made in the media about the similarity in approach of Sheila HetiWhen we first meet Rachel Bird she's fictionalised autobiographical ''How Should A Person Be?'a trainee vicar, sitting in on a PCC meeting and wondering why they' re held when you need to pick the children up. Her husband, Christopher, collects six-year-old Hannah and Lena Dunhamher elder brother, Jamie, whilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioner. Thelma's HBO television series ''Girls'daughter-in-law won't let her see her grandson. They certainly share a similarly bleak and introspective view of life Holthorpe, both are apparently based on the writer's own experienceNorfolk coast, both have is a somewhat knowingly shock factor particularly when it comes lovely place, but Rachel is struggling to sex develop a real bond with the parish - and both leave me somewhat depressed and sad. And both have been critical successes she's in awe of the US. Indeedvicar, ''How Should A Person Be?'' also features on the 2013 long list for the [[Women's Prize for Fiction 2013|Women's Prize for Fiction]]Gail, although itbut then she's not easy to assess where been doing the fiction starts job for more than thirty years. Rachel and the reality stops. In fact, the conceit is also somewhat similar to the scripted reality shows that dominate certain television channels. The effect is something Christopher hoped that is interesting as a concept and exercise walk on the beach would do them some good - it was stormy but less than enjoyable to readit was probably what they needed. And then Hannah went missing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846557542</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Barbara Kingsolver1398515388|title=Flight BehaviourThe Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=Set First of all, it was the earthquake, deep in rural Tennesseethe ocean floor, Dellarobia Turnbow is a young motherwhich created the tsunami and this, trapped in turn, caused the nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and utter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, and the loss of a shotgun wedding in a largely loveless marriage on her husband's failing family farm dominated by livelihoods was widespread. The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the disapproval list of her Godpriorities but -fearing mother in law. She dreams of escape with equally unsuitable younger men until one day on her way to acting on this impulse for six months after the first time, she encounters an act of nature that will change her life for goodtsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. Barbara Kingsolver perfectly captures in the opening paragraphs the sense of entrapment and dissatisfaction of Dellarobia and doesn He wasn't let up for a momentdog person but the convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and Tamon the dog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571290779</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nikolai Leskov, Richard Pevear (translator) and Larissa Volokhonsky (translator)0989715337|title=The Enchanted Wanderer and Other StoriesPapa on the Moon|author=Marco North
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=This is a collection of 17 Nikolai Leskov stories as mixed in subject matter as they are in length''Some frogs had gotten into the well. From the very short ''Spirit of Madame de Genlis ''Walter stood waist-deep in the fragrant water, naked except for his beaten leather hat. Long strands of their eggs wove around him, warning sticky gray pearls with tadpoles inside them. Two of the dire consequences dogs leaned over the opening and barked down at the strange noise of selecting literature for a mollycoddled princess, to the novella-length buckets as he filled them.'' How is that for an opening? The Enchanted Wanderer'' telling style of this novel in the tale form of the apparently immortal monk who prayed for suicide victims, Leskov (aided greatly by the talented translators Richard Pevear interconnected short stories goes from succinct and laconic to wistful and Larissa Volokhonsky) unlocks the moresmusing, traditionsturning on a sixpence. And author Marco North, religion and superstitions who has the most wonderful turn of 19th century Russia for a modern readershipphrase, starts as he means to go on.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099577356</amazonuk>
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