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[[Category:New Reviews|Literary Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=295967572X|title=The Blazing WorldPale Pieces|author=Siri HustvedtG 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='All intellectual and artistic endeavours…fare better in It could be argued that the mind pervading theme of the crowd when the crowd knows this book is malaise - a hard-to-place feeling that somewhere behind something in your life is not quite right. The protagonist, a disgraced professor on the great work or the great spoof it can locate brink of losing both his career and his relationship, embodies this feeling. However, Goodman counteracts his discomfort with a cock force which is seductive, radical and unnerving: Helen. The connection between Helen and a pair of ballsthe protagonist is indirect yet intimate.' Thus we are introduced to As the unforgettable Harriet Burden – larger-than-life, six-foot-tall amazon artist – and to some former owner of the novelcountryside house he's essential elements: musing on what makes intellectual products successful considering, Helen represents a volta in a postmodern marketplacehis life, feminist resentment of her past tied to his potential fresh start. The realtor who shows the protagonist around the overvaluing of male achievementhouse shares stories about Helen, and describes her as ''an entity that is pure consciousness, beyond form''. Although she lives in an unapologeticassisted living facility now, playful boldness with languageHelen has powers beyond comprehension which the reader gets the sense are not altogether innocuous.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444779648</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?''
{{newreview|The title=Clever Girl|author=Tessa Hadley|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Stella grows up with her single mother in Bristol in the 1960s; her father left when she was a babyof this spellbinding work, ''House of Day, but her mother has cultivated the convenient myth that he died. In the stand-alone first chapterHouse of Night'', Stella recounts a disturbing incident somewhat reflects this notion of domestic violence that affected her Aunt Andy. Sordid snippets from shifting realities - the ensuing court case stay with Stella over small, subtle changes which govern our lives, like the years; 'Innocent-seeming fragments would get in past my defences…then stick shift from day to my imagination like tarnight, however quotidian, causing chaos.' Even soBut, the novel constant in that follows image is about the way in house, stoic against the ancient diurnal cycle which we engage with memory – facts that linger versus those we, deliberately or subconsciously, choose not to tellnonetheless controls how it is perceived.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099570521</amazonuk>1804271918
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=All That is Solid Melts into AirThea Lenarduzzi|authortitle=Darragh McKeonThe Tower|rating=45
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Moscow, 1986, and a nine-year old piano prodigy is trapped in a subway station by bullies, who carefully break one of his little fingers. Rehearsal cancelled, the boy finds his favourite aunt, who takes him to treatment only to discover her ex-husband the doctor involved. Many miles away a slightly older young man is off on his first hunting trip with ''How unctuous are the men fats of the villageanother's life, only to find diseased cows, and the grouse they seek sickly and weirdly uncoordinated. What has affected them, and will of course affect all the characters how dizzying their sugars in the book, is the nuclear disaster in the plant at Chernobylour bloodstream''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670922706</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|title=The Black Snow|author=Paul Lynch|rating=3In this compelling novel, Thea Lenarduzzi assumes the identity of T, the protagonist of this tale.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Barnabas Kane returned to his birthplace Just as T's story is being told, the story of a second protagonist is unveiled: Annie, the daughter of a wealthy family in Ireland with his family with the goal 19th century, who died of setting up his own farm and raising his son tuberculosis after being locked in a better setting than New Yorktower, captures T's imagination. With his farm of Annie's fate is, above all, an enticing story to T. It is a story which she consumes avariciously, both in a decent size quest for truth and a good herd of cattle all seems well with Kane until out ploughing one day he knowledge, and his farm hand Matthew Peoples spot smoke in the sky from the direction service of his byre. The fire marks the start of a sometimes bleak downward spiral myth, fable and Kane is forced to rely on the kindness of his neighbours who still see him as an outsiderfantasy. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782062041</amazonuk>1804271799
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Truman CapoteJon Fosse and Damion Searls (translator) |title=Breakfast at Tiffany's Vaim|rating=54
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Holly Golightly. Who doesn't know her? Whether in the pages of ''Breakfast at Tiffany's'All was strange', the short novel by Truman Capote or capture on film by Audrey Hepburn, she's an American icon. A young country girl becomes a New York socialite, trading on amusement value to make a life paid for by rich men who are titillated by her outrageous opinions and anecdotes. We ''want'' to know her. And This haunting phrase encapsulates the narrator ''wants'' to know her as muchpervading sense of otherworldliness which permeates this story set in Vaim, if a fictional fishing village in Norway which paradoxically could not feel morereal for Jatgeir and Eline, than we dotwo of the protagonists caught in its melancholic current. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00HX9UTSE</amazonuk>1804271829
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patrick NessClaire-Louise Bennett|title=The Crane WifeBig Kiss, Bye-Bye
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=''The Crane Wife'' ticks all my boxesEverything in this book, however sweet or seemingly innocent, is steeped in anguish and distortion. It's by Patrick Ness who is one Even a kiss, usually a symbol of my favourite writers intimacy and closeness, becomes evidence of Young Adult fictionlove lost. It has a basis in myth and legend When the narrator cries out internally, ''come over here and still better in an ancient story new to kiss me. It doesn,''t go on and on and Ariston for half it is less an invitation than a billion pagesdesperate attempt to confirm her emotional numbness. Best The imagined recipient of allthis plea is Xavier, the author includes a shouther ex-out for the brilliant Decemberists. I agree with Ness: this is partner, a band you should look up. A heavy reading schedule meant I didn't get ghost she conjures to it last year when it was first published but now it's out in paperback and here I am. I wasn't disappointedtest her detachment. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857868748</amazonuk>1804271934
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jill DawsonHelene Bessette and Kate Briggs (translator)|title=The Tell-Tale HeartLili is Crying
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Being told that you have six months to live concentrates the mind most wonderfully: fifty First published in 1953 in French, this novel is no age to die, even if you have lived life to a timeless text which wrenches the full. Patrick's heart was giving up hearts of its readers just as Bessette wrenches words and sentences from their proper position on him the page and the Professor of American Studiespositions them elsewhere, disjointed, philanderer and heavy drinker was at truncated. Like the head lives of the list for a heart transplant. His other problems - entirely of his own making - faded into insignificance. Sixteen-year-old Drew Beamish died in a motorcycle accident in the village where he lived in rural Cambridgeshire and it will be his (still beating) heart which is transplanted into Patrick. The two, who had never mether characters, would be permanently joinedthey are often left tragically incomplete.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444731068</amazonuk>1804271675
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The People in the PhotoJonathan Buckley|authortitle=Helene GesternOne Boat|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Hélène Hivert works at the Museum of the History of the Postcard. It is a job she loves, as she finds delving into other people's lives 'most excitingOne Boat''. Luckily, she is 'regularly sent collections to catalogue'a deeply introspective novella that defies traditional narrative structure, drawing the reader into a contemplative realm of philosophical musings and each time fragmented memories flowing from our narrator and protagonist, Teresa. Set against the 'moment evocative backdrop of discovery' gives her a thrill. It may be 'addictive'small coastal Greek town, but 'There is something very moving about this work masterfully captures the thought that just two or three sources can be enough magic of its setting and its power to build a picture of an entire life'provoke profound introspection. But what happens when Teresa herself recognises these qualities as the sources are a bit too close to home, when Hélène must play Holmes among reason she has visited it after the artefacts death of both her parents. Prompted by her mourning, her own family's pastnarrative voice is meditative and deeply self-aware, pondering 'inviting the silence reader into her labyrinthine cogitations. It is a book that not only requires but inspires depth of surfaces'? Well, the professional detachment goes straight out the windowthought, since its narrative structure is fragmentary and what had been a genuine pleasure, tinged by wonder, now becomes an uncomfortable obsessionironically relies on analepsis for its propulsion.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908313544</amazonuk>1804271764
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Atheist's PrayerEowyn Ivey|authortitle=Amy R BiddleBlack Woods Blue Sky
|rating=3.5
|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=I don’t shy away from ''Black Woods Blue Sky'' tells the story of Birdie, the young mother of toddler Emaleen, who longs for a book with life beyond the Alaskan lodge where she works as a little edgebar waitress, in fact [[:Category:Chuck Palahniuk|Chuck Palahniuk]] is one a setting which enables her bad habits and her accidental neglect of my favourite authors and his books can be so sharp you can shave with themEmaleen. On the surface Described as a ''The Atheist’s Prayerwild card'' would seem , she feels stuck in her day-to-day life, and yearns to cross the Wolverine river and live on the North Fork to be courting controversy; why else have such fulfil her desires of a simple life surrounded by nature. When she meets Arthur Nielson, a provocative title? Butstrange, taciturn and solitary man, is it really that shocking? Nope. This is who says he has a story about how people deal cabin over there, she feels called to go - and bring Emaleen with the modern world her. Without realising it, this calling will transform hers and what happens when dangerous ideals infect a vulnerable groupEmaleen's lives forever.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780995822</amazonuk>1472279042
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Three MusketeersSally Rooney|authortitle=Alexandre Dumas and Will Hobson (translator)Intermezzo
|rating=4.5
|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=Leaving his home to try Sally Rooney has studied the chessboard of life and is something of a grandmaster at putting it into words. Her dialogue is gripping and join so brilliantly frustrating, as her characters never quite say exactly what they feel. Among the famous musketeers in Parismany relationships woven into this story, young Gascon d'Artagnan encounters troubles on the way but quickly falls central one for readers to unravel is the fraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and Peter Koubek. Ivan, a socially awkward chess prodigy, contrasts sharply with his older brother Peter, a successful lawyer living in Dublin. Following their father's passing after a long battle with title characters Athoscancer, Aramis and Porthosthe brothers' already strained relationship faces new trials. Soon|isbn=0571365469}}{{Frontpage|author=Fyodor Dostoyevsky|title=White Nights|rating=5|genre=Short Stories|summary=As always in Dostoyevsky, the quartet are caught up in character work is sublime. One is never left wondering what a diabolical plot of the wicked Cardinal Richelieu character is thinking or feeling because Dostoyevsky lays bare their innermost dispositions and his accomplice Milady de Winter - can they save the Queen's honour?temperaments with remarkable clarity.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849907498</amazonuk>0241619785
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Eric LundgrenJames Baldwin|title=The FacadesGiovanni's Room
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Sven and Molly Norberg live in ''Giovanni's Room'' follows the narrator David, an American mid-western town of Trude. At least Sven still does; Molly has gone missing. Night after night Sven leaves Kyleman living in Paris, as he navigates his teenage sontorturous affair with Giovanni, home alone while an Italian bartender he scours meets in a gay bar. While David is engaged to Hella, who is travelling in Spain, the streets, revisiting places that he and Molly wandered through together real tension in order to find herthe novel arises not from his infidelity but from the deeper conflict within himself. Meanwhile Trude has problems It is David's crippling shame and denial of its own and the librarians are armed and ready!his sexuality that ultimately dooms his relationship with Giovanni.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0715647679</amazonuk>0141186356
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Romy AshAlba de Cespedes |title=FlounderingForbidden Notebook|rating=54
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Loretta collects her boys Jordy This Italian work of feminist fiction holds an air of suspense and Tom tension from school as if it's the most normal thing moment our protagonist, Valeria Cossati, purchases her forbidden notebook, and learns about herself in the world, but it's not; not for them anyway. Jordy most intimate and Tom have been living with their grandparents after being abandoned by this woman who refuses to be called 'Mum'. As they get further from their eastern Australian home it remains an adventure for Tom but Jordy's more sullen. Once they arrive at their ultimate destination - a ramshackle caravan park - Tom begins to understand why but not before both lads realise that their worries are just beginningrevealing ways.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1921922087</amazonuk>1782278222
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Audrey MageeOttessa Moshfegh|title=The UndertakingMy Year of Rest and Relaxation|rating=53
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Peter Faber has decided to become part At best, this novel is a scathing critique of modern society and reveals the fragility of human relationships; at worst, it is the new Nazi initiativecynical, predictable and slightly trite tale of an unlikeable protagonist. He will marry Katharina SpinellThis unlikely heroine, a woman he won't even meet till their honeymoon. In return he'll receive honeymoon leave from the Russian front while she will secure a widow's pension should anything happen to himslim, hopefully providing the Reich attractive and newly orphaned girl in her twenties is disillusioned with one or two more Aryan babies on the way. Peter may world, but resolves not be the son-to lose sleep over it: in-law Katharina's parents envisaged but their disappointment is blunted by their luxurious lifestyle under the patronage of the sinister Dr Weinart. Howeverfact, this is still wartime and Peter must eventually return to Russia and whatever fate awaits himher solution lies in her hibernation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782391029</amazonuk>1784707422
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Pamela ErensMatthew Tree|title=The VirginsWe'll Never Know
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Set in 1979-80 in an elite boarding school on the east coast of the USA ''The Virgins'' tells the story of two young people. The story is mainly narrated by Bruce Bennett-Jones who would have liked Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to have be different from his father, a close relationship with Aviva Rossner but her unlikely choice was Seung Jung. They're not shy about flaunting their relationship drunk and it's the talk chronic underachiever whose dreams of Auburn Academy, but whilst the watchers believe that the relationship is one being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of unalloyed passionself confidence. So Tim applied himself to his studies, the truth is cultivated his abilities rather different than his daydreams and the couple are set on a path to an inevitable tragedyhimself high but achievable ambitions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848549873</amazonuk>B0CVFXPGP8
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{{Frontpage
|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.
{{newreview|title=Crumbs|author=Miha Mazzini|rating=3.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=We are in a hell of man's own making – a town that is basically one huge foundry, whose men go from working there to a bar then to (someone's) bed in three eight hour shifts, or so it seems. Egon isnFragility't one of those men, or isn't any more, for he works at other things than is set as the foundry – namely churning out trashy low-brow fiction, and a lot city of wheeling and a lot more dealing. He still keeps his shift in at the bar and in people's bedsPortland, thoughOregon, all cautiously begins to emerge from the while looking out for number one. He has several friendships on restrictions imposed during the go, and several sexual partners at the same time, yet drinks so much it's hard to say he exactly cherishes himself above all – if anything he doesn't care that much about anyone. He certainly cares for something however – his beloved stash of Cartier cologne has run out, and he'll as like as not do anything for more…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908754397</amazonuk>covid pandemic
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Amy Grace LoydMosby Woods|title=The Affairs of OthersA Whirly Man Loses His Turn
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Five years ago Celia CassillThe West isn's husband died leaving her t the owner of dominant force it once was. Nobody in the Brooklyn apartment block in which she lives. She's fastidious as West is quite sure how to whom she lets and mend this or even if mending it is understandably hesitant when George (one the best course of her longstanding tenants) wants to temporarily sub-let to action. Governments are flailing. A war here, a friend while he goes abroadpush for climate action there. Celia eventually agrees and so A feeling that nobody is in moves Hopeactual charge. Imagine then, there was a lady man with precognition. Imagine the strategic advantage in this asset; a man who has just left her husband and for whom life is as complicated as she makes Celia'scan 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?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0297871188</amazonuk>B0C9SNG8R1
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Donal Ryan0571379559|title=The Thing About DecemberHouse of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Johnsey Cunliffe was always a nice boy''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 a little slow - instead, she lives in the one that house on the other kids picked on and riverbank, built of broken bricks. Insubstantial as it might look, it's much stood the same in adult lifepassage of time, storms and floods. If you were Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the delivery rounds - and to ask Johnsey he'd say that he was a gombring in sufficient money. Even if you've never met They have twin boys - Sonny and Max, the word before you know what it meansrainbow twins. It wasnSonny't too bad whilst Daddy was there - he was a man with a certain presence and even when it was just Johnsey and s colouring reflects his mother he had some support's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. But after her death Johnsey was dependant on small kindnesses from other people People don't believe that they're related, much less twins and at the mercy of those for whom he was there's an easy target. His life might have continued in this rather unsatisfactory way for some time but for the collision of two eventsassumption when Max is out with his mother that she's his nanny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781620091</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=James McBrideKay Chronister|title=The Good Lord BirdDesert Creatures|rating=4|genre=Historical Dystopian Fiction|summary=Henry With a world that is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, post-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Whether it is a robotic takeover, a world devoid of water or a nuclear holocaust, this genre is a way for humans to cathartically experience their most existential fears. ''The OnionDesert Creatures' Shackleford lives as Henrietta (or just plain Onion) until he's 17 due to by Kay Chronister is a misunderstanding new work of post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the fears that may prove too dangerous exist for him humanity today. It is a shocking novel that still manages to correctfind hope. |isbn=1803364998}}{{frontpage|isbn=1803363002|author= Eric LaRocca|title= The reason Trees Grew Because I Bled There|rating= 5|genre= Horror|summary= Horror taps into something primeval within us. It is used as a way to reflect our darkest emotions and how we as humans react and process them. Most horror fiction feature a ''Big Bad'', whether that the person under this misapprehension is a home invader, a monster or a ghost, it usually something tangible and, by the fiercely well-meaning slavery abolitionist (with the emphasis on end of the story, beatable. Eric LaRocca's 'fiercely') John Brown. As Onion accompanies him on his quest to free every slave they encounter, he discovers that BrownThe Trees Grew Because I Bled There's philanthropy only stretches so far. Meanwhile it's is not like that time . It is a collection of short stories more interested in the 19th century when a shadow spreads over Americahorrors of illness, one that will cause a historic scar almost as great as grief and humiliation. Horrors that of slavery but Brown is oblivious linger and are harder to this. He doesndefeat than any ''Big Bad''t; want to start a civil war, just an armed slave revolt.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594486344</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ashley HayMadelaine Lucas|title=The Railwayman's WifeThirst for Salt
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Mackenzie and Anikka Lachlan have all they could possibly want. They live in Thirroul''Love, a close New South Wales coastal communityI'd read, are parents was supposed to be a lovely little girl light and now, in 1948weightless feeling, Mac has come through the war years unscathed due to his job at home on the railways. However in a single moment all their luck changes and Anikka becomes a widow, another grieving shadow. Alongside her neighbours (a war poet who canbut I had always longed for gravity't write now he's home and the local GP who experienced hell while not being able to bring anyone back from its grasp) Anikka must learn the most difficult lesson: how to go on living.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1743318014</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|author=Amy Tan|title=The Joy Luck Club|rating=4Told from a retrospective view, a young woman unravels the year-long relationship that once defined her.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= The Joy Luck Club was Jing Mei's mother's idea. After arriving in Overlaid with later wisdom, the narrator relives the US affair with a man twenty years her senior from China in 1949 she invited three other Chinese immigrant ladies its inception – the summer after finishing university – to joinits sorrowful end the summer after. The four would meet to play Mah Jong and feast on morsels that none of them could really afford. Once played out, they shared stories Set against the backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the land they24-year-old narrator'd left. The evenings evolve over time; the food becomes affordables deepening relationship with her older lover, men join the discussions but the core remains the same. Four Chinese mothers living a new life while sharing moments enjoyed and regretteddepicting its all-consuming nature, discussing their children how it changed her perspective on both romantic and parents familial relationships and telling stories of wisdom, happiness and, sometimes, intense painhow it altered her irrevocably.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B0031Y9DPU</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.''
{{newreview|author=Sam Byers|title=Idiopathy|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Katherine no longer seeks or expects to be happy. She's stuck in a place and a job she hates and her relationship with Daniel broke up over a year ago. Since then she's had sexual encounters with a few men but her motivations have been confusing and disturbing - not least to Katherine. She has a vicious wit (actually, calling it ''witBeautiful Shining People'' is perhaps stretching revolves around the point a littlequestion of identity and acceptance.Of what it means to be human..) which repels the people she'd like to attract Of what is real and attracts the people she'd prefer to repel. Daniel what is with a new girlfriend (wellartificial, there was a ''slight'' overlap) but he's not certain that he loves Angelica. He's in a difficult situation: not telling her that he loves her becomes tantamount to telling her that he doesn't love her and as a result he has to tell her that he loves her just to keep on whether the leveldevelopment of technology is exciting or frightening.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007412088</amazonuk>191458564X
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sathnam SangheraJennifer Saint|title=Marriage MaterialAtalanta
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=On the morning after his father's funeral Arjan Banga 'I was surprised to see his mother opening up the family shopas worthy as any one of them. She was in her sixtiesI would get on board that ship, recovering from cancer and besides, Bains Stores wasn't exactly thrivingI vowed. You could even be forgiven for wondering if it was ''open''I would take my place, with not just in the advert for a bar name of chocolate discontinued in 1994 having pride of place in the window and goddess. It was for the security shutter stuck at a quarter open. Much as he might wish otherwise Arjan has no choice but to stay in Wolverhampton to help his mother, leaving his job as a graphic designer and his girlfriendsake of my name, Freya, in limbotoo. They were supposed to be getting married in December, but that looked increasingly unlikely.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434021903</amazonuk>}}Atalanta''
{{newreview|title=Kerrigan in Copenhagen|author=Thomas E Kennedy|rating=2Princess.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Terrence Einhorn Kerrigan is an Irish-Danish American living in CopenhagenWarrior. He is 'a full-time writer and translator', who 'thinks of himself as a failed poet, which is a less complicated concept than a failed human being'Lover. His newest writing assignment, however, is to 'select a sampling of one hundred of the best, the most historic, the most congenial of Copenhagen's 1,525 serving houses and write them up for one of a one-hundred-volume travel guide: ''The Great Bars of the Western World'''Hero. Kerrigan, though, 'does not wish the book to be written. He wants only to research it. Forever' - and preferably in the company of his green-eyed Associate, Annelise.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408841940</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|author=Lois Walden|title=Afterworld|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=The Duvalier family owe their wealth to sugar cane although their gratitude Abandoned at birth for being born a daughter rather than a son, Atalanta is shown in varying degrees raised under the protective eye of the goddess Athemis and various waysfashioned into a formidable huntress, one who longs for adventure. From When the patriarch William (who never recovered from being hit by a manhole cover) through his wife and children, down opportunity comes – to Theodorejoin the Argonauts, the lad who gained comfort (and a certain amount fierce band of secrecy) warriors, descendent from travel the Gods themselves – Atalanta seizes the chance to fight in Artemis' name and on to their black servant Rheta B, each has had a lifecarve out her own legendary place in history. Each also has What follows is a story to tell whirlwind of challenges and discovery andthrough it, whether alive or in AfterworldAtalanta must remember Artemis' fatal warning: that if she marries, they're going to tell itwill be her undoing.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908129859</amazonuk>1472292154
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate ClanchyAmanthi Harris|title=Meeting the EnglishBeautiful Place|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Struan Robertson was just seventeenPadma, a young Sri Lankan, but set has returned to go to Aberdeen to study dentistry, when his English teacher passed him a short advertisementthe Villa Hibiscus on the southern coast of her home country. A literary giant needed This is a carerplace she spent her formative years. Why It is not take a gap year? Struan had never been place she was born into, but the one she thinks of as home. How she came to ‘’England’’ before and he would be living in Hampstead. On at the plus side he’d been working in a care Villa, how it became her home to earn money , and he could do the work. Soon - almost too soon - Struan was machinations that have flowed through her life ever since she first arrived there provide the main carer ''score'' for Phillip Prys, rendered dumb this gentle and paralysed by a massive strokeyet subtly violent novel. His family couldn’t take care Padma's present fails to escape her past and much like the musical score of him - a film, that strand weaves its way through everything that happens at the young (very young) third wife was too busy with her painting. His son, Jake, had other things - anything else - to do rather than be in his father’s presence. Juliet had never been her father’s favourite but she wasn’t ‘’exactly’’ stable when it came to helpingVilla.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0330535277</amazonuk>1784631930
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michele Forbes178563335X|title=Ghost MothSea Defences|author=Hilary Taylor
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Belfast 1949: Katherine is about When we first meet Rachel Bird she's a trainee vicar, sitting in on a PCC meeting and wondering why they're held when you need to become engaged to fireman George Bedford when she meets Tom McKinleypick the children up. He's bright fun Her husband, Christopher, collects six-year-old Hannah and makes her feel more alive than dependableelder brother, Jamie, boring George ever couldwhilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioner. The weight of the decision Katherine eventually makes will haunt Thelma's daughter-in-law won't let her see her for a lifetimegrandson. We fast forward Holthorpe, on the Norfolk coast, is a lovely place, but Rachel is struggling to Belfast 1969 develop a real bond with the parish - and as she's in awe of the troubles in Northern Ireland exacerbatevicar, Gail, as do the cracks in Katherinebut then she's marriagebeen doing the job for more than thirty years. In fact 20 years Rachel and four children later, Christopher hoped that a walk on the beach would do them some good - it was stormy but it was probably what they've become chasmsneeded. And then Hannah went missing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0297870440</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jennifer Johnston1398515388|title=A Sixpenny SongThe Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating=34.5|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=Annie's father is dead. She's not particularly upset as First of all, it's a decade or so since they've had any contact. Dada (he preferred to be called 'Father') had wanted her to go into was the family businessearthquake, to make money. She'd wanted to go to Trinity College deep in Dublin to read English Literaturethe ocean floor, but instead she'd packed a suitcase which created the tsunami and left for Londonthis, where she still is - working in a bookshopturn, caused the nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and utter devastation. Her mother died when she The deaths were uncountable, and the loss of livelihoods was young widespread. The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of priorities but - Dada had sent six months after the child off to boarding school and did his best to ensure that her mother's name was never referred to again tsunami - and it Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. He wasn't too long before he remarried. His death brought Annie back to Ireland and she found a dog person but the convenience store owner's comment that the money had been left to wife number two (as he was confident that she would know how call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to look after it) but open his car door and Tamon the house now belonged to Anniedog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472209222</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alex Kovacs0989715337|title=The Currency of PaperPapa on the Moon|author=Marco North|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Maximilian Sacheverell Hollingsworth was - as the name might suggest - of aristocratic birth, but ''Some frogs had broken off all contact with his family and in consequence found himself labouring for forty hours a week in a printing works in Dagenham. He came upon gotten into the idea of planning out his entire life and this he did in the course of a single afternoon whilst enjoying a little illicit sick leave in a pub in Bloomsbury. He would first become a counterfeiter - on a massive scale - and then a sculptor, filmmaker, collector of artefacts, sound artist and mystic. Circumstances would also turn him into a recluse, except on certain well-ordered occasions, most of which would occur - somewhat to his initial surprise - later in his life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1564788571</amazonuk>}}''
{{newreview|author=Charlie Hill|title=Books|rating=4.5|genre=Humour|summary=Neurology professor Lauren Furrows witnesses the sudden untimelydeath of two tourists in a bar while on holiday. Birmingham bookshop ownerRichard Anger happens to be ''Walter stood waist-deep in the same bar so together our single holidaymakers decide to team up as an investigatory force to be reckoned with.(Wellfragrant water, Lauren teams up naked except for thathis beaten leather hat. Richard's reasons are more physical thanintellectual to begin Long strands of their eggs wove around him, sticky gray pearls withtadpoles inside them.) The murders seem to emanate from author GarySayles, a legend in his own mind and, apparently, fatal to read. Elsewherehippy exhibitionists (in an Two of the dogs leaned over-18 way) Zeke the opening and Pippa, are planning barked down at theart installation to end all art installations and, are determined to makeGary strange noise of the centrepiece, whether buckets as he realises it or notfilled them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781251630</amazonuk>}}''
{{newreview|author=Alice McDermott|title=Someone|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Marie How is growing up in 1920s Brooklyn and, although not financially rich she's the secure, cared that for child of Irish parents from one an opening? The style of this novel in the many waves form of immigration which the US has promised to welcome. Marie's friend Pegeen is interconnected short stories goes from Irish/Syrian stock succinct and is dying for romantic love laconic to come her way. Marie's brother Gabe is singled out for Catholic seminary wistful and priesthoodmusing, turning on a sixpence. Marie thinks And author Marco North, who has the future is most wonderful turn of phrase, starts as safe as the loved ones around her but the future is an unknown country and her journey towards it hasn't finished yethe means to go on.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408847248</amazonuk>
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{{newreview|title=The Ice-Cold Heaven|author=Mirko Bonne|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=They say that if you fall off a horse you should get back Move on one right away, but even so… I don't think many people who had only just left their first love – a shopgirl in their village – for their second – exploring the world on sailing cargo ships – would leap to a further voyage having been wrecked and stranded off the coast of South America for well over a week. But Merce here does – he wants to follow his best friend on to a ship called ''The Endurance'' and head with Shackleton to the Antarctic. But Merce is only seventeen, and is rejected – causing him to stow away onto one of the world's worst ever journeys.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715645846</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Paranormal Reviews]]
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