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|author= Simon Van Booy

|title= Father's Day

|rating= 5

|genre= General Fiction

|summary=When devastating news shatters the life of six year old Harvey, she finds herself in the care of a veteran social worker, Wanda, and alone in the world save for one relative she has never met - a disabled ex-con, haunted by a violent past he can't escape. Moving between past and present, Father's Day weaves together the story of Harvey's childhood on Long Island, and her life as a young woman in Paris.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780749694</amazonuk>

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|author=Thomas Keneally

|summary= I had heard much about this novel before I read it for review, by which I mean I had heard it was profane, strange and had a daring subject matter accompanied by elements of humour. I have to say that whilst I agree it is certainly profane and strange and incredibly innovative, I didn't find much humour in it at all.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908276665</amazonuk>

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~~|author=Jon Kalman Stefansson and Philip Roughton (translator)~~

~~|title=The Heart of Man~~

~~|rating=3~~

~~|genre=Literary Fiction~~

|summary=What could be better than an existentialist book from rural Iceland, full of gnomic comments about how close life and death are, that has as its core a journey taken by, amongst others, a naïve and hormonal teenaged lad and a full coffin? Why, I hear you cry, a trilogy concerning the same. Yes, it's the obvious answer, really – why else would we come to this third part, where the survivors of the expedition rest up, note the women giving them help, and see how eminently close the circle of life is to the figure of a snake swallowing its tail through, among other things, dogs rutting in a church below the coffin's bier?

~~|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184866236X</amazonuk>~~

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