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[[Category:New Reviews|Literary Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Andrew Miller295967572X|title= The CrossingPale Pieces|author=G M Stevens|rating= 5
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|summary= Tim and Maud seem, Our unnamed narrator is about to everyone around them, mismatchedbegin a train journey with his companion Django. She, quite literally, falls into his life, Where they're going and they build a life – jobs, a house, a boat, then a child. Tim needs Maud, needs her to complete him, wants desperately to completer her, to help her. But what if Maud the purpose of this journey is already complete? What if she doesn’t need help? When tragedy strikes, Maud will find herself miles away from anyone, on a journey that will change everything, and test her to is uncertain. Django found the utmost.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444753495</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Andrew Michael Hurley|title= The Loney|rating= 5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= Ittickets 's always a privilege when you're given an advance reading copy of something – and a real 'block' when you read on the small print that says floor somewhere'not for resale or quotation'and has persuaded our narrator to accompany him. Fair comment on Why not? Not much else is clear either - but we are probably in the resale bit, but when you get something past as brilliant as ''The Loney'' being required not the pair travel to quote the station by coach and the train is just plain unfaira steam locomotive.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473619823</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Eli Horowitz, Matthew Derby and Kevin MoffettMakenna Goodman|title=The Silent HistoryHelen of Nowhere
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|genre=Science Literary Fiction|summary=Well, they kept this quiet – for reasons It could be argued that will become obvious. A couple the pervading theme of years ago people in America were giving birth to problematic kids. They (the children) were soon found this book is malaise - a hard-to be unnaturally quiet – perhaps crying with hunger or pain, but never even trying to 'ooga-wooga' their way into their parents' hearts. They were later found to be completely unable to speak, they could place feeling that something in your life is not read and indeed they could not understand anything said to them, or shown them, as an instructionquite right. They were physically unable to parse anything as languageThe protagonist, and were in a silent world disgraced professor on the brink of their own. But right about now they losing both his career and we are combining worlds – schools are being set uphis relationship, and funds are being made available, and people are coming down on the endless divide as to whether they are just problematic, disabled – or even the blessedembodies this feeling. In a couple of yearsHowever, however, the problems the virus that is causing these people to be born Goodman counteracts his discomfort with will be shown to be a major problem – and that force which is before the kids themselves change. For they will be able to switch their mental abilities much like a blind man can hear more than the averageseductive, radical and will be able to comprehend body unnerving: Helen. The connection between Helen and facial language much more coherently than anyone elsethe protagonist is indirect yet intimate. Throughout this timelineAs the former owner of the countryside house he's considering, howeverHelen represents a volta in his life, people will be working hard her past tied to try and study his potential fresh start. The realtor who shows the protagonist around the problemhouse shares stories about Helen, and put it right – if indeed describes her as 'right' an entity that is pure consciousness, beyond form''. Although she lives in an assisted living facility now, Helen has powers beyond comprehension which the correct word…reader gets the sense are not altogether innocuous.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>009959286X</amazonuk>1804272205
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Meike ZiervogelOlga Tokarczuk|title=KautharHouse of Day, House of Night|rating=45
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|summary=Meet Lydia. She''What's the good of a normal British girlworld that keeps changing like that? How can one go on calmly living in it?'' The title of this spellbinding work, interested in following both her father''House of Day, and Nadia ComaneciHouse of Night'', into the world somewhat reflects this notion of gymnastics but not brave enough to pull off shifting realities - the larger set piecessmall, and with not much more to interrupt her days than wondering why boys always have to talk about their willies. Now meet Kautharsubtle changes which govern our lives, a white British convert like the shift from day to Islam, devoted follower of the precepts of her religionnight, ardent wife and stalwartly self-fulfillinghowever quotidian, no-nonsense and satisfiedcausing chaos. But what , the constant in that image is this – why is she talking of being alone in a desertthe house, and why is she directly addressing her god regarding stoic against the ancient diurnal cycle which nonetheless controls how she ''can't perform any movement. Because it is torn apart''? Has something gone wrong?perceived.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784630292</amazonuk>1804271918
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Philip K DickThea Lenarduzzi|title= Humpty Dumpty in OaklandThe Tower|rating= 3.5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= Dick is known primarily as a science fiction writer, most famously for the novel that spawned ''How unctuous are the film fats of another''Blade Runners life, how dizzying their sugars in our bloodstream''.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Stephanie Bishop Claire-Louise Bennett|title= The Other Side of the WorldBig Kiss, Bye-Bye |rating= 4.5|genre= Literary Fiction |summary= This is a beautifully written Everything in this book, located both however sweet or seemingly innocent, is steeped in England anguish and Australiadistortion. Even a kiss, about adulthoodusually a symbol of intimacy and closeness, changing responsibilitiesbecomes evidence of love lost. When the narrator cries out internally, ''come over here and the universal desire for identity and belongingkiss me,'' it is less an invitation than a desperate attempt to confirm her emotional numbness. This theme The imagined recipient of this plea is also reflected in the search for union and fulfilment in the marriage of Henry and CharlotteXavier, her ex-partner, struggling with the changes imposed on them by parenthood and family life across two continentsa ghost she conjures to test her detachment. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472230612</amazonuk>1804271934
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Chang Ying-Tai Helene Bessette and Darryl Sterk Kate Briggs (translator)|title= The Bear Whispers To Me: The Story of a Bear and a BoyLili is Crying|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary Fiction |summary=Award winning Taiwanese writer Chang Ying-Tai's emotiveFirst published in 1953 in French, elegiac fable this novel is a meditation on timeless text which wrenches the art hearts of storytelling. Its immersive detail its readers just as Bessette wrenches words and enchanting musical cadences give it a magical, dream like quality. It is a special work as it is one of sentences from their proper position on the few examples of Taiwanese fiction available in English. The blind Paiwan poet Monaneng said of aboriginal Taiwanese culture: "With tender care let us set in motion our blood that is once again warm.<br>Let us recall our songspage and positions them elsewhere, our dancesdisjointed, our sacred ritualstruncated.<br> And Like the tradition lives of unselfish mutual coexistence between us and the earth. This is exactly what "The Bear Whispers to Me" effortlessly doesher characters, they are often left tragically incomplete.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0993215408</amazonuk>1804271675
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Fred UhlmanJonathan Buckley|title=ReunionOne Boat|rating=54
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|summary=Hans Schwarz was ''One Boat'' is a jew and attended the Karl Alexander Gymnasiumdeeply introspective novella that defies traditional narrative structure, drawing the most famous grammar school in Wurttemberg. At sixteen he didn't really have reader into a friend contemplative realm of philosophical musings and was slightly apart fragmented memories flowing from the other cliques in his classour narrator and protagonist, until Teresa. Set against the arrival evocative backdrop of Konradin von Hohenfelsa small coastal Greek town, this work masterfully captures the elegantly-dressed son magic of its setting and its power to provoke profound introspection. Teresa herself recognises these qualities as the aristocracy. For some reason Hans and Konradin became she has visited it after the best death of friendsboth her parents. Prompted by her mourning, her narrative voice is meditative and deeply self-aware, spending a glorious summer walking in inviting the Swabian hills, comparing their coin collections and talking about everythingreader into her labyrinthine cogitations. Only slowly does it occur to Hans It is a book that whilst Konradin not only requires but inspires depth of thought, since its narrative structure is made welcome in his home, Hans can only visit Konradin's home when his parents are absent. This was February 1932 fragmentary and in the closing years of the Weimar Republicironically relies on analepsis for its propulsion.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1860463657</amazonuk>1804271764
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ivan VladislavicEowyn Ivey|title=101 DetectivesBlack Woods Blue Sky
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|genre=Short StoriesLiterary Fiction|summary=101 Detectives had me baffled. The book comprises ''Black Woods Blue Sky'' tells the story of Birdie, the young mother of toddler Emaleen, who longs for a collection of stories life beyond the Alaskan lodge where she works as a bar waitress, a setting which explore multiple themes from the perspective enables her bad habits and her accidental neglect of one personEmaleen. The stories are as varied Described as a ''wild card'', she feels stuck in her day-to-day life, and yearns to cross the characters presenting Wolverine river and live on the tale North Fork to fulfil her desires of a simple life surrounded by nature. When she meets Arthur Nielson, a strange, taciturn and solitary man, who says he has a cabin over there, she feels called to yougo - and bring Emaleen with her. This exquisitely written book leaves you asking many questions Without realising it, this calling will transform hers and pondering many ideasEmaleen's lives forever. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908276568</amazonuk>1472279042
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jan-Philipp SendkerSally Rooney|title= Whispering ShadowsIntermezzo|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary General Fiction|summary= Paul Leibovitz was Sally Rooney has studied the chessboard of life and is something of a journalistgrandmaster at putting it into words. That was before. Before he had a small childHer dialogue is gripping and so brilliantly frustrating, who did not survive as long as he should haveher characters never quite say exactly what they feel. Before Among the end of many relationships woven into this story, the marriage that did not survive central one for readers to unravel is the loss of fraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and Peter Koubek. Ivan, a child. Now Leibovitz himselfsocially awkward chess prodigy, contrasts sharply with his older brother Peter, merely survivesa successful lawyer living in Dublin. He lives in Following their father's passing after a kind of self-imposed exile on Lammalong battle with cancer, third largest of the Hong Kong islands, a place of greenery and solitudebrothers' already strained relationship faces new trials.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846973309</amazonuk>0571365469
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jo WaltonFyodor Dostoyevsky|title= The Just CityWhite Nights|rating= 3.5|genre= Dystopian FictionShort Stories|summary=Urged on by her brother ApolloAs always in Dostoyevsky, goddess Pallas Athene founds the Just City of Atlantis – a city based on Plato’s republiccharacter work is sublime. Filling it with an assortments of adults collected from throughout time, as well as ten thousand ten year olds, (one of whom One is never left wondering what a disguised Apollo)character is thinking or feeling because Dostoyevsky lays bare their innermost dispositions and temperaments with remarkable clarity. Whilst the city flourishes, the arrival of Socrates may prove to be a fly in the ointment…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472150767</amazonuk>0241619785
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= David FinkleJames Baldwin|title= The Man With The OvercoatGiovanni's Room|rating= 34.5|genre= General Literary Fiction|summary=''Why would anyone - he was soon to ask himself innumerable times - take a coat from a complete stranger only because it had been offered?Giovanni's Room'' Skip Gerber steps off follows the elevator after narrator David, an American man living in Paris, as he navigates his torturous affair with Giovanni, an Italian bartender he meets in a long day at work; the foyer of his office building gay bar. While David is engaged to Hella, who is busy and buzzy and he does not notice travelling in Spain, the man holding real tension in the overcoat until novel arises not from his infidelity but from the man hands it to Skip telling him to ''take very good care of it''deeper conflict within himself. Skip unthinkingly grasps the coat and before he has the chance to realise what he It is doing - David's crippling shame and denial of his sexuality that he is now holding an overcoat of unknown providence - the man disappears out of the exit door to the buildingultimately dooms his relationship with Giovanni.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0992618525</amazonuk>0141186356
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rebecca DinersteinAlba de Cespedes |title=The Sunlit NightForbidden Notebook
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|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Frances comes from a 'desperately artistic family', her father a medical illustrator and her mother This Italian work of feminist fiction holds an interior designer. Along with her younger sister Sarah, she grew up in a tiny one-bedroom apartment in Manhattan: bunk beds for the girls air of suspense and a fold-out sofa bed for the parents. The claustrophobic atmosphere has gotten to everyone and now, with Frances graduating tension from college, it looks like the family might fall apart. Her parents argue constantly and disapprove of Sarah's fiancé (not ''just'' because he isn't Jewish). Frances has her own romantic crisis: after a pregnancy scare, Robert breaks up with her. A high-flyer with a future in politicsmoment our protagonist, he tells her that her art has no purpose; it isn't helping anyone. 'What does it matter if you do what you loveValeria Cossati, if what you love doesn't matter?' she asks purchases her father. Stillforbidden notebook, she has no other prospects, so agrees to take up a painting apprenticeship and learns about herself in the furthest reaches of Norway; 'All I had was a direction, northmost intimate and revealing ways.'|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408863049</amazonuk>1782278222
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Claire FullertonOttessa Moshfegh|title=Dancing to an Irish ReelMy Year of Rest and Relaxation|rating=43
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|summary=Hailey was on At best, this novel is a sabbatical from her job in the music business in Los Angeles scathing critique of modern society and taking reveals the holiday fragility of a lifetime to Irelandhuman relationships; at worst, when she walked into it is the Galway Music Centre cynical, predictable and found a job which she simply couldn't turn downslightly trite tale of an unlikeable protagonist. She also found This unlikely heroine, a home slim, attractive and newly orphaned girl in a local villageher twenties is disillusioned with the world, a liking for the rural life and a man whom she could love. Liam Hennessy was a talented accordion player: music was his life and whilst he was more attracted but resolves not to Hailey than he had ever been to another woman lose sleep over it wasn't entirely clear whether 'love' could ever be on the cards for him: in fact, her solution lies in her hibernation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0990304256</amazonuk>1784707422
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jessie Greengrass Matthew Tree|title=An Account of the Decline of the Great Auk, According to One Who Saw It |rating=3|genre=Short Stories|summary=The title story, which appears first, is exactly what it says on the tin: one hunter's story of travelling to remote islands to take part in massive culls of great auks, until they were simply gone. It's always hard to believe that species that once numbered in their millions, such as the passenger pigeon, could go extinct so quickly, but when you read about the brutal slaughter tactics here – swinging clubs and boiling birds alive – you can see how a flightless bird was a sitting target. The narrator makes no real attempt to defend himself: the birds were there for the taking; that was that. Still, he regrets their extinction, because 'in any loss you can see a shadow of the way that you will be lost yourself.' (Those interested in the great auk's extinction may also want to read the 2013 novel ''The Collector of Lost Things'We' by Jeremy Page.)|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473610850</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Patricia Park|title=Re Janell Never Know|rating=34.5
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|summary= Growing up in Flushing, New York –Jane Re has long been hoping Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to escape her whole life. A half-Korean, half-American Orphanbe different from his father, Jane struggles to find her place as a spirited and intelligent young woman growing up in a strict drunk and mirthless family, observing the traditional Korean principle chronic underachiever whose dreams of “Nunchi” (a combination being exceptional at any of good manners, obligation his artistic passions all failed miserably and hierarchy)who had endless crises of self confidence. Desperate So Tim applied himself to escape, Jane is thrilled when she becomes the au pair for a rich couple – two Brooklyn based professors of English, who have adopted a young Chinese girl into their family. Jane soon falls for the man of the familyhis studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but their blossoming affair is soon curtailed by a family death, prompting Jane’s return to Koreaachievable ambitions. As she learns more about herself, her history and her culture, Jane must make huge decisions about her life, her future, and her man…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0525427406</amazonuk>B0CVFXPGP8
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Patricia DunckerB0C47LV1PC|title=Sophie and the Sibyl: A Victorian RomanceFragility|author=Mosby Woods
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|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Every Tuesday he goes into town. This particular Tuesday he sees an advert for Can you make a rescue dog that's been badly treated by its previous owner. Somewhere 'Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the ad strikes a resonance and he adopts question should you make it? Or is the dogquestion if you did, calling would it Oneeye (yes, one word, just like land? The catch is that)the answer for both could well be. Gradually over shared meals a friendship grows and develops over the seasons ... no. ''Fragility'' is set as the spill city of spring turns Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to summer's simmer, through emerge from the restrictions imposed during the falter of autumn and on to withering winter.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0992817064</amazonuk>covid pandemic
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael LaubMosby Woods|title=Diary of the FallA Whirly Man Loses His Turn
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|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Diary of The West isn't the dominant force it once was. Nobody in the Fall West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is the best course of action. Governments are flailing. A war here, a story about regretpush for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is in actual charge. Imagine then, guilt and resentmentthere was a man with precognition. It's told from Imagine the point strategic advantage in this asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of view of an unnamed narratorcircumstances. That man would be valuable, who reflects on not just his own life but also right? Perhaps the lives of his father and grandfathermost valuable asset in history. Imagine then, that this man loses this ability.What would governments do to get it back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099581795</amazonuk>B0C9SNG8R1
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Antoine Laurain, Emily Boyce (translator) and Jane Aitken (translator)0571379559|title=The Red NotebookHouse of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams
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|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Kabul 2007''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the story of four people. Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: Rahima and her sisters are followed home from school one day by a boy on his bike. He taunts them innocently enough as little boys dotemperamentally she might be happier there, but with no sibling brotherinstead, she lives in the girls are unchaperoned in this land that is ruled by house on the laws riverbank, built of menbroken bricks. And Insubstantial as daughters it might look, it's stood the passage of time, storms and floods. Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the delivery rounds - and to bring in a household without sonssufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and Max, in a country the rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. People don't believe that they're related, much less twins and there's an assumption when Max is governed by fear, the consequences will weigh heavily for them allout with his mother that she's his nanny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0062244760</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Norah VincentClaire North|title=Adeline: A Novel House of Virginia WoolfOdysseus
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|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Back in 1999, when ''What could matter more than love?'' The Hoursfollow-up to the excellent '' won Ithaca'' picks up a few months after where we left off. In the Pulitzer Prizepalace of Odysseus, with delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without her husband, Michael Cunningham set a precedent for depicting Woolf's later life who sailed to war at Troy and suicidethen by divine intervention never returned home. Nicole Kidman won a Best Actress Oscar As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for her role as Woolf in the film version throne of the novel; she Western Isles. Having survived – politically and physical – the chaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to Ithaca's shores, Queen Penelope is best remembered for wearing on the brink of a prosthetic nosefragile peace. Fast forward 15 years. In 2014–2015 aloneOne that shatters however with the return of Orestes, three major novels about Virginia Woolf have been published. That confluenceKing of Mycenae, especially in a year that does not mark a significant anniversaryand his sister Elektra, speaks to a continuing interest in Woolf's life and writingsseeking refuge.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349005648</amazonuk>0356516075
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ivan Repila and Sophie Hughes (translator)Kay Chronister|title=The Boy Who Stole Attila's HorseDesert Creatures|rating=4|genre=Literary Dystopian Fiction|summary=If you pick up With a copy of this book you realise how small world that is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, post-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Whether it is. You'll knowa robotic takeover, a world devoid of course, that pockets hardly exist that are normally big enough to hold what we used to call water or a pocket booknuclear holocaust, but here this genre is the exception a way for humans to prove the rulecathartically experience their most existential fears. It's wee. The story is on a hundred pages. The concision is partly down to it starting after the beginning, for we first meet Big and Small, two brothers, once they're stuck down a large well in the middle of a forest. Tasked with a family errand, theyDesert Creatures''re trapped at the bottom of a natural Erlenmeyer flask, and even by Kay Chronister is a desperate move cannot get either out. This is the story new work of the next three months in their existence, as they brave hunger, delirium, loss post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of language, and the brute and unstinting human selfishness needed fears that exist for existencehumanity today. It is a shocking novel that still manages to find hope.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782271015</amazonuk>1803364998
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{{newreviewfrontpage|isbn=1803363002|author=Jamie KornegayEric LaRocca|title=SoilThe Trees Grew Because I Bled There|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeHorror|summary=Jay Mize Horror taps into something primeval within us. It is used as a scientific man with a particular interest in soil way to reflect our darkest emotions and how we as humans react and agricultureprocess them. He decides he Most horror fiction feature a ''Big Bad'', whether that is the one to pioneer a revolution in farming techniques home invader, a monster or a ghost, it usually something tangible and uproots his wife and son to set up an experimental farm on a plot , by the end of land in the countrystory, beatable. Jay Eric LaRocca's ''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is also an obsessive man and his plans take over, becoming his only focus and causing his family to leave himnot like that. Then flooding ruins his crops and he It is left at a collection of short stories more interested in the end horrors of his tether; things only get worse when Jay finds a dead body on his land illness, grief and humiliation. Horrors that linger and his tenuous grip on his sanity is releasedare harder to defeat than any ''Big Bad''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473607035</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Karen CampbellMadelaine Lucas|title=RiseThirst for Salt|rating=45
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|summary=Justine is running ''Love, I'd read, was supposed to be a light and weightless feeling, but I had always longed for her life. Shegravity's had enough of being someone else's property Told from a retrospective view, of being subjected to a young woman unravels the kind of love year-long relationship that has seen once defined her. Overlaid with later wisdom, the narrator relives the affair with a man twenty years her tattooed and owned and beaten and rented out senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to others to earn her keepits sorrowful end the summer after. So sheSet against the backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt's taken what isn't hers, but then was never actually his either, and shedetails the 24-year-old narrator's packed a bagdeepening relationship with her older lover, waited until he is drunkdepicting its all-enough asleep not to hear consuming nature, how it changed her say goodbye to the dog, perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and has lefthow it altered her irrevocably.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408857928</amazonuk>0861546490
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dorthe NorsMichael Grothaus|title=Karate Chop, and Minna Needs Rehearsal Space|rating=3.5|genre=Short Stories|summary=The reviewer picks up the book.<br>The book is called ''Minna Needs Rehearsal Space''.<br>The book is entirely made out of one-sentence paragraphs.<br>The one-sentence paragraphs are very seldom poetic, but normally are grammatically correct sentences.<br>The one-sentence paragraphs on the whole have just one verb, unless regarding that from reported or unreported speech.<br>The book concerns a middle-aged musician and composer who does indeed need rehearsal space.<br>The book concerns a woman who suddenly gets more space than she wants when her boyfriend leaves her.<br>The boyfriend's departure causes a lot of people crowding around Minna, which causes a problem.<br>The problem might be resolved by a trip away from her city flat.<br>The title of the book might be ironic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782271198</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Chigozie Obioma|title=The FishermenBeautiful Shining People
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|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=This book is essentially a cautionary family tale of four brothers ''But fearing something and the way they react having it come to a prophecy about them by the local madmanpass are two different things. It is also, in a sense, a coming-And I'm willing to bet most of-age story where Benwhat we fear will never happen, or we can take steps to change it.'' ''Beautiful Shining People'' revolves around the young narrator, is plunged into premature adulthood under the most brutal question of circumstancesidentity and acceptance. And Of what it means to be human. Of what is about brotherly love. None of these descriptionsreal and what is artificial, however, convey and whether the fact that this book development of technology is written by an exciting new voice in African literary fictionor frightening.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0957548850</amazonuk>191458564X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jennifer ClementSaint|title=Prayers for the StolenAtalanta|rating=3.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Ladydi Garcia Martínez lives ''I was as worthy as any one of them. I would get on board that ship, I vowed. I would take my place, not just in rural Chilpancingothe name of the goddess. It was for the sake of my name, Mexicotoo. Atalanta'' Princess. Warrior. Lover. Hero. Abandoned at birth for being born a daughter rather than a son, with her mother, RitaAtalanta is raised under the protective eye of the goddess Athemis and fashioned into a formidable huntress, one who works as a cleaning lady longs for a rich familyadventure. Like many of When the men in their town who left opportunity comes – to find workjoin the Argonauts, Ladydi's father crossed a fierce band of warriors, descendent from the Gods themselves – Atalanta seizes the river into America, where he is rumoured chance to have another familyfight in Artemis' name and carve out her own legendary place in history. As What follows is a resultwhirlwind of challenges and discovery and through it, this is very much a matriarchal community. Rita describes the situation for LadydiAtalanta must remember Artemis's teacherfatal warning: 'You men don't get that if she marries, it, yet, do you? This is a land of women. Mexico belongs to womenwill be her undoing.'|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099587599</amazonuk>1472292154
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David GrossmanAmanthi Harris|title=Falling Out of TimeBeautiful Place|rating=45
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|summary=Like the central characters in ''Falling Out of Time'', Israeli author David Grossman lost his sonPadma, a soldier named Uriyoung Sri Lankan, during has returned to the Middle East conflictVilla Hibiscus on the southern coast of her home country. In this multifaceted examination of bereavement, it seems that everyone has lost This is a childplace she spent her formative years. The genre-bending mixture It is not a place she was born into, but the one she thinks of poetryas home. How she came to be at the Villa, absurdist dialoguehow it became her home, and an inverted fairy tale reflects the difficulty of machinations that have flowed through her life ever capturing grief in languagesince she first arrived there provide the ''score'' for this gentle and yet subtly violent novel. Each story Padma's present fails to escape her past and each strategy is much like the musical score of a new film, that strand weaves its way of approaching through everything that happens at the unspeakableVilla.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099583720</amazonuk>1784631930
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Samantha Ellis178563335X|title=How To Be A Heroine: Or, what I've learned from reading too muchSea Defences|author=Hilary Taylor|rating=45
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=When we first meet Rachel Bird she's a trainee vicar, sitting in on a PCC meeting and wondering why they'How re held when you need to be pick the children up. Her husband, Christopher, collects six-year-old Hannah and her elder brother, Jamie, whilst Rachel holds a Heroinesobbing parishioner. Thelma's daughter-in-law won' t let her see her grandson. Holthorpe, on the Norfolk coast, is a lovely place, but Rachel is struggling to develop a pleasant real bond with the parish - and addictive readshe's in awe of the vicar, Gail, but then she's been doing the job for more than thirty years. Playwright Samantha Ellis looks back at her childhood as Rachel and Christopher hoped that a voracious reader and remembers walk on the characters that influenced herbeach would do them some good - it was stormy but it was probably what they needed. These are as diverse as Sylvia Plath, ''Little Women'' and ScheherazadeAnd then Hannah went missing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099575566</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Walthew1398515388|title=The Complex Chemistry of LossBoy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Deep First of all, it was the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and this, in rural France James Kerr turn, caused the nuclear meltdown. The result was admitted to a psychiatric cliniccomplete and utter devastation. His mental problems The deaths were deep uncountable, and intractable. Superficially he seemed never to have got over the sudden death loss of his mother and sister when he livelihoods was a child and after their death his relationship with his father had deteriorated because his father refused to speak of their losswidespread. There The fact that many pets were additional factors too: Kerr had spent some time in Afghanistan in separated from their owners came far down the list of priorities but - six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a secret capacityconvenience store. In fact much of his life since He wasn't a dog person but the convenience store owner's comment that he went would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to university had involved putting up a front, but doing something else open his car door and Tamon the dog jumped in the background.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00OLMHCW2</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Christie0989715337|title=If I Fall, If I DiePapa on the Moon|author=Marco North|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=It probably tells you a lot about ''Some frogs had gotten into the atmosphere of this book that for the whole time I was reading it, I thought the title was well.''If I Fall, I Die ''Walter stood waist-deep in the fragrant water, naked except for his beaten leather hat. Long strands of their eggs wove around him, sticky gray pearls with tadpoles inside them. Two of the dogs leaned over the opening and barked down at the strange noise of the buckets as he filled them. That missing second ''If'' How is probably at that for an opening? The style of this novel in the crux form of interconnected short stories goes from succinct and laconic to wistful and musing, turning on a sixpence. And author Marco North, who has the whole talemost wonderful turn of phrase, starts as he means to go on.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>043402306X</amazonuk>
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