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[[Category:New Reviews|Literary Fiction]]==Literary fiction==__NOTOC__{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Aravind AdigaMatthew Tree|title=Last Man In TowerWe'll Never Know
|rating=4.5
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|summary=Following a Man Booker winning book like [[The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga|The White Tiger]] is always going Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a daunting challenge for drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any writer, let alone one when that book was the author's first novelof his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of self confidence. In 'Last Man in Tower' Adiga perhaps sensibly turns So Tim applied himself to a proven structure that allows his story-telling skills to flourish. Gone are clever structural ideasstudies, like 'The White Tiger's' letter format cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and instead we get a straightforward engaging story set in modern day Mumbai where a rich builder is seeking to force residents of an old apartment block to sell their flats to enable redevelopmenthimself high but achievable ambitions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848875169</amazonuk>B0CVFXPGP8
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|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The front cover is graphic and telling. A frozen London with its skyscrapers emitting black smoke and random fires across Can you make a desolate landscape. As early as the second paragraph we see that something is wrong, something cataclysmic has happened with the lines ''People are eating the birds ... fighting over a handful of scorched sparrows.Yo birthing person'' The story joke? And if you could, is told in the first person by question should you make it? Or is the central character which gives question if you did, would it immediacy and draws land? The catch is that the reader straight inanswer for both could well be.... no.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224093754</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Sag HarborMosby Woods|authortitle=Colson WhiteheadA Whirly Man Loses His Turn
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Colson Whitehead wanted The West isn't the dominant force it once was. Nobody in the West is quite sure how to write something personal mend this or even if mending it is the best course of action. Governments are flailing. A war here, a push for his fourth bookclimate action there. A feeling that nobody is in actual charge. Imagine then, so he chose an autobiographical novel, based on his experiences as there was a vacationing youngsterman with precognition. Sag Harbor really does exist - at Imagine the far end of Long Island and next to the up-market Hamptons. It has strategic advantage in this asset; a history man who can tell you what will happen given any set of whaling and an association with John Steinbeckcircumstances. Within easy reach of New YorkThat man would be valuable, right? Perhaps the most valuable asset in 1985 it was an affluent black enclave within a largehistory. Imagine then, white middle-class holiday areathat this man loses this ability.What would governments do to get it back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099531887</amazonuk>B0C9SNG8R1
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Carlos Alba0571379559|title=The Songs House of Manolo EscobarBroken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams|rating=45
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Antonio ''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the second-born son to Spanish parentsstory of four people. Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, living she lives in Glasgowthe house on the riverbank, built of broken bricks. He Insubstantial as it might look, it's embarrassed to be anything other than Scottishstood the passage of time, storms and he tries everything floods. Her husband, Richard, struggles to hide grow his family background from friends at schoolvegetables, refusing to speak Spanish with his parents complete the delivery rounds - and struggling to forge his own identity bring in lifesufficient money. In his middle age They have twin boys - Sonny and Max, he suddenly finds the rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his life falling apart around him as mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his marriage begins to fail and his increasingly frail father becomes obsessed with the proper burial of his parents back in Spain. Antonio continues to play a rather emotionally distant part in his parents People don't believe that they' livesre related, but then finds himself drawn further much less twins and further into the truth about there's an assumption when Max is out with his fathermother that she's past which, ultimately, leads him to question his own past and the path his future might takenanny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184697173X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ann PatchettClaire North|title=State House of WonderOdysseus
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Anders Eckman is dead. The news has been delivered in the form an aerogram – remember those blue paper-cum-envelope things we used to use to write to foreign pen-pals when the notion of befriending a person you'd never met in a foreign country still seemed exotic'What could matter more than love? ''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Douglas KennedyKay Chronister|title=The MomentDesert Creatures|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Dystopian Fiction|summary=After I'd read the blurb on the back cover I gave With a bit of world that is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, post-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Whether it is a shrug as if to say, wellrobotic takeover, I've read quite a number world devoid of books recently where undying love has been found in war-torn Europewater or a nuclear holocaust, so was this book going to be different, or better? Thomas Nesbitt, middle-aged, disillusioned with love and more than genre is a tad world-weary is trying way for humans to move on in his lifecathartically experience their most existential fears. His marriage of more than twenty years is dissolving before his very eyes. But rather than being upset, he's feeling as if a weight has been lifted from his shoulders. He and his wife were never really 'Desert Creatures'in love'' in the true sense by Kay Chronister is a new work of post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the phrase, despite having a daughter togetherfears that exist for humanity today. And there's It is a very good reason as shocking novel that still manages to why Thomas is like this and the rest of the book tells us why, warts and allfind hope.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091795842</amazonuk>1803364998
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{{newreviewfrontpage|isbn=1803363002|author=Aminatta FornaEric LaRocca|title=The Memory of LoveTrees Grew Because I Bled There|rating=5|genre=Literary FictionHorror|summary=The setting for this story 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 is a hospital in Freetownhome invader, a monster or a ghost, Sierra Leoneit usually something tangible and, soon after by the government has declared an end to an 11 year civil warof the story, beatable. Eric LaRocca's ''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is not like that. How can people come to terms with It is a collection of short stories more interested in the terrible things horrors of illness, grief and humiliation. Horrors that have happened? Actually, can they come linger and are harder to terms with those things?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408809656</amazonuk>defeat than any ''Big Bad''.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jenn AshworthMadelaine Lucas|title=Cold LightThirst for Salt
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=''Cold LightLove, I'' is the story of three teenage girls who become involved in a predatory adult world. As the story opens we're looking back on what happened from a decade later and we know that one of the girls, Chloëd read, died in a Valentine's Day suicide pact. The town council has finally decided on a memorial to Chloë – it's was supposed to be a summerhouse at the side of the pond where she drownedlight and weightless feeling, although itbut I had always longed for gravity's difficult to understand quite why anyone would want to sit there. The ground-breaking ceremony is being televised when it becomes obvious that something has gone terribly wrong. But Lola, our narrator, knows that they've found a body. She also knows who it is.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444721445</amazonuk>}}
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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=Jennifer EganSaint|title=A Visit From the Goon SquadAtalanta
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Apparently there's a saying that 'time's a goon' - no, I'd never heard of it and to be fair, neither had the first character to whom it is said in Jennifer Egan's 'A Visit from the Goon Squad', but together with a pair of epigraphs from Proust, it's clear that time is very definitely what is being explored here. Egan's subject area is all loosely based around the music world. Her central character, if one can be said to exist, is Bennie Salazar, a music mogul who we encounter both directly and tangentially at various stages of his up and down career. ''Goon Squad'' is also the title of an Elvis Costello track, continuing the music theme was as Egan uses the music industry worthy as a lens to examine time.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849010331</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Lauren Liebenberg|title=The West Rand Jive Cats Boxing Club|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Best friends Tommy and Chris are 12 years old. It is 1958 and they are growing up in a small mining town near Johannesburg, South Africa. They are learning to box and to dance to rock and roll music.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1844084892</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=James Frey|title=The Final Testament any one of the Holy Bible|rating=3them.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=The Rabbis say I would get on board that all the signs are there from the birth of Ben Zion Avrohom that he is the Messiahship, I vowed. That's a lot of anyone to cope with andI would take my place, like Jesus, there's much of Ben's early life that is untold here. When he is involved not just in an horrific accident on a building site that he miraculously survives, albeit with terrible scaring, the prophecies appear to be true. He develops a form name of epilepsy during which he appears to speak to Godthe goddess. He is fluent in ancient languages despite never learning them, knows all It was for the Holy books by heart and yet distains all forms sake of religionmy name, instead spreading his message of love to all who meet him in modern day New Yorktoo.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848543174</amazonuk>}}Atalanta''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elia Barcelo and David Frye (Translator)Amanthi Harris|title=The Goldsmith's SecretBeautiful Place|rating=3.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary='The Goldsmith's Secret' Padma, a young Sri Lankan, has a wonderfully romantic beginning; alone returned to the Villa Hibiscus on the southern coast of her home country. This is a snowy night in New York, the craftsman place she spent her formative years. It is puzzling over how to tell his storynot a place she was born into, and how to separate reality from but the overwhelming memories in his mindone she thinks of as home. The romance continues as How she came to be at the story unfoldsVilla, with the goldsmith taking us back to the town and time of his youthhow it became her home, and the chance meeting machinations that led him to find have flowed through her life ever since she first arrived there provide the love of his life''score'' for this gentle and yet subtly violent novel. Telling Padma's present fails to escape her past and much like the tale musical score of romance from many perspectivesa film, we learn the town of Villasanta has labelled his love, the mysterious Celia, as 'a marked woman' and that strand weaves its way through everything that happens at the 'black widow'Villa. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857050052</amazonuk>1784631930
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Salmon178563335X|title=The Coffee StorySea Defences|author=Hilary Taylor
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Teddy EverettWhen we first meet Rachel Bird she's a trainee vicar, head of Everett sitting in on a PCC meeting and Sons Coffee is dyingwondering why they're held when you need to pick the children up. Her husband, Christopher, slowly collects six-year-old Hannah and painfullyher elder brother, of cancerJamie, whilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioner. The Coffee Story is his story, told Thelma's daughter-in his own (very descriptive) words-law won't let her see her grandson. It goes from (although not necessarily in this order) his childhood in EnglandHolthorpe, on the Norfolk coast, is a lovely place, his adolescence in Ethiopia and then his life in but Rachel is struggling to develop a real bond with the USA parish - and Cuba. Itshe's his time in Cuba which has put him where he is now – in prison. For his crimes he would normally have suffered awe of the death penaltyvicar, Gail, but his sentence was commuted because of his illness and now then she's been doing the doctors try to save himjob for more than thirty years. Or perhaps Rachel and Christopher hoped that a walk on the beach would do them some good - it was stormy but it's that was probably what they're trying to persuade Teddy that they're trying to save him – whether he wants to be saved or notneeded. And then Hannah went missing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444724703</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrew Miller1398515388|title=PureThe Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating=4.5|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=I've read Miller's ''Oxygen'' First of all, it was the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and ''this, in turn, caused the nuclear meltdown. The Optimists'' so I result was looking forward to reading this novelcomplete and utter devastation. The story opens in deaths were uncountable, and the opulence loss of the Palace of Versailleslivelihoods was widespread. We are given vivid descriptions of both The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the scale list of the palace and its grandeur. Jeanpriorities but -Baptiste Baratte, six months after the young engineer, seems completely overtsunami -awed by the whole occasionKazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. Even although heHe wasn't a dog person but the convenience store owner's not entirely sure what is expected of him in Paris, comment that he accepts. He needs would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to eat, after allopen his car door and Tamon the dog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444724258</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anne Enright0989715337|title=The Forgotten WaltzPapa on the Moon|author=Marco North
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Anne Enright's 2007 Booker prize winning [[The Gathering by Anne Enright|The Gathering]] addressed the gloomy subjects of the three D's; death, depression and dysfunctional families. Her latest book, ''The Forgotten Waltz'', set in Dublin in 2009, sees her turning her attentions to a love affair. A more uplifting subject you might think. Well only up to a point. The affair in question you see is that of her narrator, Gina, who is already married to the generally good, if undynamic, Connor, while on the other end, the subject of the affair is the older, Seán, also married and neighbour of Gina's sister. In case your moral compass isn't stretched quite enough by this, Seán and his wife Aileen, also have a young daughter who suffers from epilepsy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>022408903X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Leila Aboulela|title=Lyrics Alley|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=The front cover photograph is eye-catching and lovely and has the appeal of saying to potential readers - read me. The book's title is both poetic and enigmatic. I was keen to get reading but before I could, I'm faced with a page listing Some frogs had gotten into the ''Principal Characters'' and another page setting out the Abuzeid family tree. It did put me off slightly, I have to admit. I tend to think that with a modern, average-paged work of fiction a list of characters is well, a list too far. So, yes, for the first couple of chapters I was constantly flicking back and forth to remind myself who everyone was. Not so good for those lazy readers out there, I'm thinking.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0297860097</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Shehan Karunatilaka|title=Chinaman|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=After the 1996 World Cup, dying sports journalist WG Karunasena decides that the world needs 'a half decent documentary on Sri Lankan cricket'. He sets out to make the said documentary, focusing on the mysterious Pradeep Mathew, the 1980's spin bowler he considers to have been his country's greatest ever player. But Mathew disappeared some time ago and everywhere Karunasena turns he is faced with more complications as he tries to find out more on what happened to him…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>022409145X</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Roma TearneDaisy Hildyard|title=The SwimmerEmergency
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Ria, solitary, middle-aged poet, was idly watching the river one night when she saw a swimmer. It wasn't just the time of day which was unusual, but the river was hardly clean – and then she heard a noise downstairs. In this remote part of Suffolk it wasn't unusual to leave doors unlocked and the following morning she realised that a loaf of bread had been stolen. It was strange that she didn't really feel fear, but when the visits and minor thefts continued she waited up to catch the swimmer, who stole small amounts of food – and played the piano like an angel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007301596</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tea Obreht|title=The Tiger's Wife|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Téa Obreht's 'The Tiger's Wife' comes with a fair degree of hype from the US, and largely it lives up to it, which is no small achievement. The main story is set in Yugoslavia and explores a young doctor, Natalia, seeking for the truth about her grandfatherthis book doesn's death, while on a mission to deliver much needed medical aid t come close to an orphanage in the war-ravaged Balkans. But explaining what sets this book apart is the intricate weaving of reality done with the myths and stories of the region. In particular there are two myths that represent a good chunk of the page count: the story of a tiger who has escaped from captivity after the World War two bombing of Belgrade and who has settled near a remote mountain village where Natalia's grandfather is growing up, and who develops a strange relationship with a deaf-mute girl who becomes known as 'the tiger's wife'; and a mysterious story of the 'Deathless Man' whom the grandfather encounters at various points in his life who appears to have the power to foresee others' death without being able to die himselfpremise.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0297859013</amazonuk>1913097811}}
{{newreviewFrontpage |author=Graham SwiftSally Oliver |title=Wish You Were HereThe Weight of Loss |rating=4 |genre=Literary Fiction |summary= Marianne is grieving. Traumatised after the death of her sister, she awakes to find strange, thick black hairs sprouting from the bones of her spine which steadily increase in size and volume. Her GP, diagnosing the odd phenomenon as a physical reaction to her grief, recommends she go to stay at Nede, an experimental new treatment centre in Wales. Yet something strange is happening to Marianne and the other patients at Nede: a metamorphosis of a kind. As Marianne's memories threaten to overwhelm her, Nede offers her release from this cycle of memory and pain—but only at a terrible price: that of identity itself.|isbn= 086154112X }} {{Frontpage|author=Natalia Garcia Freire|title=This World Does Not Belong To Us
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Early comments on this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendous, a delight. I cannot tell you exactly how long after will agree with the first – tremendous is no understatement – but 'a delight' is perhaps using the expression in a way I finished this book that 'm not familiar with. I sat, holding it, in stunned silence for have to confess my ignorance of the Spanish- but it was light when language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation here. From the little I finished it and dark when have read (in translation, I put it down. Some books can do that don't read Spanish) there does seem to you. This is one of thembe a tendency towards the fantastical – the mystical realism.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0330535838</amazonuk>0861541901
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=John BurnsideJennifer Saint|title=The Summer of DrowningElektra
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The 'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the story is narrated of three women who live in the first person by the daughter a decade or so after the tragedyheavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. SoCassandra, Clytemnestra, she has a healthy dose of hindsight which shows itself time and time again with sentiments such as ... if only I'd have known back then ... and ...I thought it was a Elektra are all bit strange at players in the time story of the Trojan War... if you get my drift. Burnside takes his time to set Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the silent women have the scene (spartan) most compelling stories and his characters (a mere handful). His chosen location is the arresting emptiness of somewhere deep in the Arctic Circle so straight away he's caught my imagination - with hismost extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>022406178X</amazonuk>1472273915
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Edward St Aubyn8409290103|title=At Last|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=In ''At Last'', Edward St Aubyn returns to the Melrose family, the subject of both ''Some Hope'' and of his Booker-shortlisted [[Mother's Milk by Edward St Aubyn|Mother's Milk]]. I confess that I have still not got around to reading the first of the trilogy, but loved ''Mother's Milk'' and found that I wasn't greatly disadvantaged by not having read the previous book. ''At Last'' could also be read as a stand-alone book, but I wouldn't advise this approach. You will miss out on so much that if you are planning on reading it, you really should read at least ''Mother's Milk'' first. This isn't much of an inconvenience as it's a terrific book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330435906</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewIf Only|author=Deborah Kay Davies|title=True Things About MeMatthew Tree
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Take Twenty-one benefit office worker; bored-year-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by his father, cotton-broker AO Lowry: he asked his accountant, listlessMr Patrick, to ensure that the young man got on board the boat and thereafter Patrick was to send him a walking study in destructive human behaviourmonthly allowance. Add Patrick sent the money regularly and a recently releasedcorrespondence - of sorts - sprang up between the two although we hear more about what Lowry has to say than Patrick. It wasn't that Lowry senior didn't care for his son, jobless ex-con with it was that he didn't care to have him in this country where he might be a glint in danger to his eye wife and taste for masochismother children. Throw all caution The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to get the wind and collide these two ingredients by means of visceral, brutal and almost wordless sex in an underground car park and you have the opening chapters of Deborah Kay Davies's debut novelyoung man on his way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847678319</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Geraldine BrooksAntoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)|title=Caleb's CrossingRed is My Heart|rating=43.5|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=Let's start, as Geraldine Brooks has, with a fact[[:Category: Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white and read in 1665 the first Native American, Caleb Cheeshateaumauk, graduated from Harvard Collegemy house. Around And so was thisone, Brooks has created a wholly fictional story (the known facts are so few although I could have spelled that more accurately – this one was, and is largely unavoidable), black and white and red. The stroke of genius here is to put the story into the words of the entirely fictitious Bethia MayfieldYes, the daughter of he has an English minister artistic collaborator on what we now call Marthathis piece, and I think it's Vinyard, where Caleb lived in the Wampanoag tribe. At various points in her life, Bethia sets down events concerning her early secret friendship with Caleb on the island, possible to accompanying him and her brother to Harvard and say not one page lacks the subsequent eventsinfluence of some striking visual ideas.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007333536</amazonuk>1913547183
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David LodgeB098FFFBH9|title=Ginger, You're Barmy|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Jonathan is a few days away from completing his National Service. Within the week he will dash off to Majorca with his girlfriend, and who knows, he might even do more than chastely cup her breast under her clothing. But it's a bittersweet week for Jonathan, as he looks back on the beginnings of his two years spent most reluctantly in the army, and especially the time spent with his best companion, and his girlfriend's ex, Mike.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099554135</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewSnowcub|author=David Lodge|title=A Man of PartsGraham Fulbright
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The man of parts in question here Fourteen-year-old Rachel is HG Wells in this fictionalised biography. He was indeed her school's animal rights project leader and she and her friend are producing a man of many talents and interests, although competition entry to highlight the parts that most exercise way in which human beings exploit the interest of David Lodge are the great author's private partsanimal world. You see, not only was HG She gets a prolific writer great deal of fiction that incorporated a staggering amount of visionary ideas (tankssupport from her family: father Pip Harrison, airborne warfare and atomic bombs) - although admittedly some of his ideas have yet to come to pass such as time machines and Martian invasion - but he was also something of a political philosopher and idealistlecturer at Imperial College, being a central figure for a while in the Fabian movementLondon, mother Kate and an ardent practitioner of the concept of free love.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846554969</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=George Makana Clark|title=The Raw Man|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=The Prologue opens bang up to date: 2011her twin, Nick. The language is poeticKate runs the family business, liltinga toy shop called Cornucopia in Putney, evocative but tinged with sadness and sets the tone for the rest of the book. Lots of unanswered questions hang in the air throughout. The location which is South Africa and section headings such as where we'The Earthworks of the Universell meet Rachel' and 'The Story-Ghost' give a flavour s main (if unsuspected) source of its contentsinformation: five soft toys.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224090461</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Delphine de ViganYancey Williams|title=Underground TimeCrosshairs of the Devil
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Mathilde Award-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski is unhappy at work. More than just unhappy actuallygetting on in years and, because after expressing an opinion different despite his strenuous objections and thanks to her boss he has frozen her out his daughter, finds himself living - or imprisoned, from Eddie's point of view - in room 315 of the team and bullied her mentally and emotionally Garden of Eden nursing home, with only a trusty nursing aide, Jenkins, for monthspalatable company. Mathilde Nothing is a woman on the edge of breaking point, feeling increasingly browgoing to keep Eddie from his stock-in-beaten by both the demands trade of city life and her awful boss. Meanwhile Thibault is an emergency on-call doctorwriting though, racing from one district to another through the nightmares of Parisian trafficso here, unhappy in for his relationship and also strugglingreaders, mentally, to surviveare his wanderings through his life's work. Will today be the day that changes everything?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408811111</amazonuk>0986031658}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Siri Hustvedt0008421714|title=The Summer Without MenMrs March|author=Virginia Feito
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Sometime The problem began just after Miathe publication of George March's husband of thirty years, Boris, suggests a marriage 'pause', Mia goes mad and finds herself in a psychiatric hospitalmost successful novel to date. Although this Brief Psychotic Disorder does not Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the last long, she remains fragile and retreats page) seemed to the town in Minnesota where she was brought up and where her elderly mother still liveseither be reading it or had already done so. While Boris cavorts with Every day Mrs March went to the Pauselocal patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, Patricia asked, as she struggles through was wrapping the summerbread, learning to live without him. ''but isn't this the first time he's based a character on you?'' She builds relationships with mentioned that Johanna, the principal character had 'her mothermannerisms''s friends, with her neighbours and with a group of teenage girls who form her creative writing class. Written in Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for the first personfact that Johanna is the whore of Nantes - ''a weak, plain, the book catalogues her progress using these friendshipsdetestable, her pastpathetic, her reading and her shrinkunloved, Dr Sunloveable wretch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444710524</amazonuk>''
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