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[[Category:New Reviews|Literary Fiction]]==Literary fiction==__NOTOC__ {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Bernard BeckettMatthew Tree|title=AugustWe'll Never Know|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=In an alternate world, Tristan and Grace come from The City, a closed and enclosed society in which religion dominates. Tristan had been an acolyte at St Augustine's. He spent a childhood being drilled in philosophical discussion of free will by the Rector. A star pupil, a single event made him question everything he had been taught. Grace had spent the first part of her childhood in the convent, but a single act of kindness led to her excommunication. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857387898</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Daisy Waugh|title=Last Dance with Valentino|rating=5
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|summary=When I read on the front cover that this book is described by the Sunday Times as ''A grippingTimothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, bittersweet love story'' it wasn't a particularly good statement for me to readdrunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of self confidence. As a rule I don't generally 'do' love stories. If I happen So Tim applied himself to read one every once in a while then that's fine by me but I don't encourage them! Buthis studies, both the lovely title cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and the front cover did their job and pulled me in - just a littleset himself high but achievable ambitions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>000739120X</amazonuk>B0CVFXPGP8
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Maile ChapmanB0C47LV1PC|title=Your Presence is Requested at SuvantoFragility|author=Mosby Woods
|rating=4
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|summary=American nurse Sunny Taylor needed to get away from home and everything familiar. She takes a gamble into the unknown and ends up in Finland. The language barrier seems to be the least of her problems. As a healthy, relatively young female she sees on Can you make a daily basis ailments, minor and major, imagined and otherwise. ''SuvantoYo birthing person'' (which gives joke? And if you could, is the novel its title) question should you make it? Or is the name of question if you did, would it land? The catch is that the answer for both could well-known and well-regarded hospitalbe... It operates on a tier system - those who can pay well for medical care and those who are less well-off. And the accommodation, level of nursing and medical care and even the food also operate on this tiered systemno.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099548674</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Judith HermannMosby Woods|title=AliceA Whirly Man Loses His Turn
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The West isn''Alice'' t the dominant force it once was. Nobody in the West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is a collection of five short stories, linked thematically since they all deal with the subject best course of death, but they action. Governments are also linked because the central character, Aliceflailing. A war here, a push for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is the same in each storyactual charge. So rather than feeling like short stories Imagine then, there was a man with precognition. Imagine the book has strategic advantage in this asset; a hint man who can tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. That man would be valuable, right? Perhaps the novel most valuable asset in history. Imagine then, that this man loses this ability. What would governments do to get it, yet the stories are never completed or fully told so it's a novel where you're not always sure what's going on.back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184668529X</amazonuk>B0C9SNG8R1
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=S J Watson0571379559|title=Before I Go To SleepThe House of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Rather ironically, 'Before I Go To Sleep'The House of Broken Bricks'' is not a book that you will forget the story of four people. Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in a hurrythe house on the riverbank, built of broken bricks. Imagine Insubstantial as it might look, if you willit's stood the passage of time, waking up every morning with no memory of who you arestorms and floods. Her husband, Richard, where you arestruggles to grow his vegetables, or who to complete the person lying next delivery rounds - and to you bring in bed issufficient money. You can remember things during They have twin boys - Sonny and Max, the day, but once you go to sleep, your mind is effectively wiped cleanrainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. This is the slightly unusual form of amnesia People don't believe that the narratorthey're related, Christine suffers from in Watsonmuch less twins and there's first novel an assumption when Max is out with his mother that is a daring and gripping literary thrillershe's his nanny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857520172</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?''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jacqueline YallopKay Chronister|title=ObedienceDesert Creatures|rating=4|genre=Literary Dystopian Fiction|summary=The story opens with With a much younger Sister Bernard - no more than a girl really. The daily lives of the nuns world that is regulated, with long hours becoming increasingly inhospitable for prayerhumanity, meditation and solitudepost-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Everyone Whether it is houseda robotic takeover, fed and watered adequately and that's as far as it goes. No little luxuries to speak a world devoid of. Nothing to temper the harshness and the silence. Visits from family members are forbidden also. Howeverwater or a nuclear holocaust, the young Sister Bernard appears this genre is a way for humans to not only be coping very well with all of this but even embracing itcathartically experience their most existential fears. She doesn't grumble or complain about anything. However, even although she may appear saintly she 'Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is human, just like the rest a new work of post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of us and temptation does come along in the shape of fears that exist for humanity today. It is a young manshocking novel that still manages to find hope. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857891014</amazonuk>1803364998
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{{newreviewfrontpage|isbn=1803363002|author=Aatish TaseerEric LaRocca|title=NoonThe Trees Grew Because I Bled There|rating=45|genre=Literary FictionHorror|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 is a home invader, a monster or a ghost, it usually something tangible and, by the end of the story, beatable. Eric LaRocca's ''NoonThe Trees Grew Because I Bled There' sits somewhere between ' is not like that. It is a collection of related short stories more interested in the horrors of illness, grief and a full blown novel in humiliation. Horrors that it tells four different episodes in Rehan Tabassumlinger and are harder to defeat than any ''Big Bad''s life, spread over a couple of decades. It explores some large issues though.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330540416</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Louis B JonesMadelaine Lucas|title=Radiance|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Mark Perdue took his daughter, Carlotta – or Lotta, as she's known – on an indulgent fantasy weekend in Los Angeles. Lotta and some other teenagers were going to live the celebrity lifestyle Thirst for a few days, with gigs, recordings and stretch limos to ferry them around. Mark's got problems of his own. He ''was'' an eminent physicist but illness has taken its toll. His wife is still suffering the emotional effects of a late-term abortion – the family called the foetus 'Noddy' – and Lotta can't reconcile how she feels about the loss of her unborn sibling, even going as far as to say that she would have given up the next ten years of her life to look after the child. And Mark? Well, on the tarmac at LAX it dawns on him that a heart attack would be a convenient way out of everything.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>158243736X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Alice LaPlante|title=Turn of Mind|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=This is a beautifully-presented book with its eye-catching front cover and poetic title. Jennifer has had a busy and fulfilling professional life as a well-respected medical surgeon. Until now. She's gradually losing bits of her mind to Alzheimer's. Her family is supportive and keep popping in on a regular basis plus there's now a live-in carer, Magdalena, so that daily life and daily chores are just about covered.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846554632</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jose Saramago and Margaret Jull Costa|title=The Elephant's JourneySalt|rating=3.5
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|summary=This novel is inspired by a real event – the marriage gift of an elephant from Dom João III of Portugal to his cousin Maximilian''Love, I'd read, the Hapsburg Archduke of Austria. When the gift was accepted, the elephant Solomon, his mahout Subhro and numerous soldiers, oxen supposed to be a light and porters, walked from Lisbon to Vienna to deliver the presentweightless feeling, arriving in 1552. This is the story of that journey.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099546884</amazonuk>}}but I had always longed for gravity''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jamil AhmadMichael Grothaus|title=The Wandering FalconBeautiful Shining People
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction|summary="In the tangle of crumbling, weather-beaten ''But fearing something and broken hills, where the borders of Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan meet, is a military outpost…" Thus begins the tale of Tor Baz, the Black Falcon. To this desolate place having it come to pass are two wanderersdifferent things. And I'm willing to bet most of what we fear will never happen, a man and a woman seeking refugeor we can take steps to change it. ''
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|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Vaclav and Lena are both children of Russian immigrants, growing up in Brooklyn. Vaclav dreams of becoming a fantastic magician, with his friend Lena ''I was as his assistant, and worthy as children they practise their routine together, making lists any one of the things they'll need, the costumes they will wear and the tricks they will performthem. Vaclav is confident and happy, but Lena is quietI would get on board that ship, withdrawn and struggles with speaking EnglishI vowed. Yet Vaclav believesI would take my place, always, that they are destined to be togethernot just in the name of the goddess. Even when Lena disappears one day and is gone from his life It was for many years still he hopes thatthe sake of my name, somehow, he will find her againtoo.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434020443</amazonuk>}}Atalanta''
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|rating=5
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|summary=1961 was a year of changePadma, a timeyoung Sri Lankan, as Jacobsen puts it, ''when men became boys and housewives women''has returned to the Villa Hibiscus on the southern coast of her home country. At the outset Finn and his mother are leading This is a quiet, rather timorous life in a working class Oslo suburbplace she spent her formative years. Then change overwhelms them, It is not through world eventsa place she was born into, but in the form one she thinks of a mysterious child who is Finnas home. How she came to be at the Villa, how it became her home, and the machinations that have flowed through her life ever since she first arrived there provide the ''score''s half sisterfor this gentle and yet subtly violent novel. Linda is not like other children and Finn Padma's attempt present fails to deal with escape her impact on his family is past and much like the central thread in this quintessential story musical score of growing upa film, that strand weaves its way through everything that happens at the Villa.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857050184</amazonuk>1784631930
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Salman Rushdie178563335X|title=Luka and the Fire of Life|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Back in 1990, Salman Rushdie followed up his controversial 'Satanic Verses' with a book dedicated to his then nine year old son, Zafar, called 'Haroun and the Sea of Stories'. Now, his second son, Milan, finally gets a book of his own, although he had to wait until he was 13 for his father to get around to it. 'Luka and the Fire of Life' is very much a follow up to 'Haroun' and it is certainly helpful, although not necessary, if you have read that book as many of the events in the first book are referred to here.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099555328</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewDefences|author=Manuel de Lope and John Cullen (Translator)|title=The Wrong BloodHilary Taylor|rating=45
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|summary=Although de Lope has written over When we first meet Rachel Bird she's a dozen novelstrainee vicar, this is sitting in on a PCC meeting and wondering why they're held when you need to pick the first to be translated into Englishchildren up. The cover is as pretty as Her husband, Christopher, collects six-year-old Hannah and her elder brother, Jamie, whilst Rachel holds a picture and screams sobbing parishioner. Thelma's daughter-in-law won'Spanisht let her see her grandson.' So farHolthorpe, so good. But I have to admit that on the whole most of Norfolk coast, is a lovely place, but Rachel is struggling to develop a real bond with the European novels Iparish - and she've read over s in awe of the last year or sovicar, Gail, have fallen short of but then she's been doing the mark job for memore than thirty years. Rachel and Christopher hoped that a walk on the beach would do them some good - it was stormy but it was probably what they needed. Will this one prove to be different?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099551853</amazonuk>And then Hannah went missing.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Aravind Adiga1398515388|title=Last Man In TowerThe Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=Following a Man Booker winning book like [[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 White Tiger by Aravind Adiga|result was complete and utter devastation. The White Tiger]] is always going to be a daunting challenge for any writerdeaths were uncountable, let alone one when that book and the loss of livelihoods was the author's first novelwidespread. In 'Last Man in Tower' Adiga perhaps sensibly turns to a proven structure The fact that allows his storymany pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of priorities but - six months after the tsunami -telling skills to flourishKazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. Gone are clever structural ideas, like He wasn'The White Tigert a dog person but the convenience store owner's' letter format comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and instead we get a straightforward engaging story set Tamon the dog jumped in modern day Mumbai where a rich builder is seeking to force residents of an old apartment block to sell their flats to enable redevelopment.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848875169</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christos Tsiolkas0989715337|title=Loaded|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Ari is just nineteen, of Greek descent but living in Melbourne with his family. He's gay, unemployed and not in education. He wants to get away from the traditional Greek life of his parents and their friends but has no idea how to do it. He falls back Papa on the only life that he knows: clubs, parties, anonymous sex, a cocktail of drugs and alcohol. But will even this be enough to dull the pain? Told vividly in the first person and sexually explicit it's a short book – a novella – which grabs you and has no intention of letting you go until it spits you out at the other end.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099757710</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMoon|author=Alain Mabanckou|title=Memoirs of a PorcupineMarco North
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The protagonist of this novel is an ordinary Congolese porcupine until Papa Kibandi performs an ancient ritual involving a hallucinogenic cocktail called ''mayamvumbi'', and transforms him Some frogs had gotten into his son's harmful doublethe well. The insecure younger Kibandi becomes more and more embittered as his life goes on, and sends his porcupine to 'eat' anybody he feels the least bit threatened by, a process whereby that person's life essence is sucked out, killing them instantly. Over one hundred victims later and following his master's death at the hands of a vengeful baby, our narrator retires to the hollow of a baobab tree where he writes this confessional.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846687675</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Sag HarborDaisy Hildyard|authortitle=Colson WhiteheadEmergency
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Colson Whitehead wanted to write something personal for his fourth book, so he chose an autobiographical novel, based on his experiences as a vacationing youngster. Sag Harbor really does exist - at the far end of Long Island and next to the up-market Hamptons. It has a history of whaling and an association with John Steinbeck. Within easy reach of New York, in 1985 it was an affluent black enclave within a large, white middle-class holiday area.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099531887</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Carlos Alba|title=The Songs summary of Manolo Escobar|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Antonio is the second-born son to Spanish parents, living in Glasgow. Hethis book doesn's embarrassed t come close to be anything other than Scottish, and he tries everything to hide his family background from friends at school, refusing to speak Spanish explaining what is done with his parents and struggling to forge his own identity in life. In his middle age, he suddenly finds his life falling apart around him as 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' lives, but then finds himself drawn further and further into the truth about his father's past which, ultimately, leads him to question his own past and the path his future might takepremise.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184697173X</amazonuk>1913097811}}
{{newreviewFrontpage |author=Ann PatchettSally Oliver |title=State The Weight of WonderLoss |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=Anders Eckman is deadEarly comments on this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendous, a delight. The news has been delivered in I will agree with the form an aerogram first – remember those blue paper-cum-envelope things we used to use to write to foreign pen-pals when the notion of befriending tremendous is no understatement – but 'a person youdelight'd never met is perhaps using the expression in a foreign country still seemed exotic? This flimsy piece of paper was delivered to Eckmanway I's employersm not familiar with. After all it was them that had sent him down I have to confess my ignorance of the Brazilian Amazon to find Spanish-language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation here. From the enigmatic and evasive Dr Annik Swensonlittle I have read (in translation, and more precisely find out exactly how she was getting on with developing I don't read Spanish) there does seem to be a tendency towards the drug that was costing fantastical – the firm so much of their research budgetmystical realism.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408818590</amazonuk>0861541901
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jean RhysJennifer Saint|title=Wide Sargasso SeaElektra|rating=54
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=In 'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the late eighteen thirties story of three women who live in the father heavily male dominated world of an English gentleman conspires to marry him off to a landed Jamaican Creole as a means of giving his second son an estate and stopping him being a burden on the familyAncient Greece. Written in the nineteen sixtiesCassandra, 'Wide Sargasso Sea' was inspired by Rochester's first wife in ''Jane Eyre''Clytemnestra, and is an impressionistic, hallucinatory account Elektra are all bit players in the story of the Trojan War. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that woman's alienation and subsequent descent into madness that can be read as a prequel to often the silent women have the Bronte novel. The book covers Antoinette's childhood in Jamaica and her honeymoon on a small Caribbean island with her new husband and their domestic servants, most compelling stories and the point of view shifts between Antoinette and her husbandmost extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0241951550</amazonuk>1472273915
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Douglas Kennedy8409290103|title=The MomentIf Only|author=Matthew Tree
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=After I'd read Twenty-one-year-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by his father, cotton-broker AO Lowry: he asked his accountant, Mr Patrick, to ensure that the blurb young man got on board the back cover I gave a bit of a shrug as if boat and thereafter Patrick was to say, well, I've read quite send him a number of books recently where undying love has been found in war-torn Europe, so was this book going to be different, or better? monthly allowance. Thomas Nesbitt, middle-aged, disillusioned with love Patrick sent the money regularly and more than a tad worldcorrespondence -weary is trying to move on in his life. His marriage of sorts - sprang up between the two although we hear more about what Lowry has to say than twenty years is dissolving before Patrick. It wasn't that Lowry senior didn't care for his very eyes. But rather than being upsetson, it was that hedidn's feeling as if t care to have him in this country where he might be a weight has been lifted from danger to his shoulders. He wife and his wife were never really ''in love'' in the true sense of the phrase, despite having a daughter togetherother children. And there's a very good reason as The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to why Thomas is like this and get the rest of the book tells us why, warts and allyoung man on his way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091795842</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Aminatta Forna|title=The Memory of Love|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=The setting for this story is a hospital in FreetownAntoine Laurain, Sierra Leone, soon after the government has declared an end to an 11 year civil war. How can people come to terms with the terrible things that have happened? Actually, can they come to terms with those things?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408809656</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jenn AshworthLe Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)|title=Cold Light|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''Cold Light'' 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, Chloë, died in a Valentine's Day suicide pact. The town council has finally decided on a memorial to Chloë – it's to be a summerhouse at the side of the pond where she drowned, although it'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 Red is.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444721445</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Alain Mabanckou|title=Broken GlassMy Heart
|rating=3.5
|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=In the Congolese bar of Credit Gone West[[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white and read in my house. And so was this one, although I could have spelled that more accurately – this one was, and is, the owner Stubborn Snail wants a record of the lives of those who drink thereblack and white and red. The man Yes, he chooses has an artistic collaborator on this piece, and I think it's possible to write it? Disgraced schoolteacher Broken Glass, who fills up a notebook with the stories of say not one page lacks the bar’s patrons – or at least their versions influence of those talessome striking visual ideas.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184668675X</amazonuk>1913547183
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David BezmozgisB098FFFBH9|title=The Free WorldSnowcub|author=Graham Fulbright|rating=34.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=ItFourteen-year-old Rachel is her school's animal rights project leader and she and her friend are producing a competition entry to highlight the late 1970's and way in which human beings exploit the animal world. She gets a great deal of support from her family of Latvian Jews: father Pip Harrison, a lecturer at Imperial College, London, the Krasnanskysmother Kate and her twin, are emigrating from the Soviet UnionNick. They're made to stay in Rome whilst they apply to live in Kate runs the States and they find themselves trapped family business, a toy shop called Cornucopia in a strange migratory limboPutney, belonging nowhere and tied to no-one but each otherwhich is where we'll meet Rachel's main (if unsuspected) source of information: five soft toys.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670920053</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jennifer EganYancey Williams|title=A Visit From Crosshairs of the Goon SquadDevil|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Apparently there's a saying that 'time's a goon' Award- nowinning crime writer Eddie Jablonski is getting on in years and, I'd never heard of it despite his strenuous objections and thanks to be fairhis daughter, neither had the first character to whom it is said in Jennifer Eganfinds himself living - or imprisoned, from Eddie's 'A Visit from point of view - in room 315 of the Goon Squad'Garden of Eden nursing home, but together with only a pair of epigraphs from Prousttrusty nursing aide, Jenkins, it's clear that time is very definitely what is being explored herefor palatable company. Egan's subject area Nothing is all loosely based around the music world. Her central charactergoing to keep Eddie from his stock-in-trade of writing though, if one can be said to existso here, is Bennie Salazarfor his readers, a music mogul who we encounter both directly and tangentially at various stages of are his wanderings through his up and down career. life''Goon Squad'' is also the title of an Elvis Costello track, continuing the music theme as Egan uses the music industry as a lens to examine times work.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849010331</amazonuk>0986031658}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lauren Liebenberg0008421714|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>}} {{newreviewMrs March|author=James Frey|title=The Final Testament of the Holy BibleVirginia Feito|rating=34.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=The Rabbis say that all the signs are there from the birth of Ben Zion Avrohom that he is the Messiah. That's a lot of anyone to cope with and, like Jesus, there's much of Ben's early life that is untold here. When he is involved 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 of epilepsy during which he appears to speak to God. He is fluent in ancient languages despite never learning them, knows all the Holy books by heart and yet distains all forms of religion, instead spreading his message of love to all who meet him in modern day New York.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848543174</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mirza Waheed|title=The Collaborator|rating=3
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The Collaborator problem began just after the publication of George March's most successful novel to date. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the title is our narrator, a sensitive bookish young manlast page) seemed to either be reading it or had already done so. He is Every day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, Patricia asked, as she was wrapping the son of bread, ''but isn't this the headman of first time he's based a small village in a side valley of character on you?'' She mentioned that Johanna, the Kashmirprincipal character had 'her mannerisms''. The heritage of Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for the people fact that Johanna is that the whore of nomads. The village has been settled for less than Nantes - ''a generation. Everything they have has been built by the sheer hard graft of the people themselves… including the recently completed mosqueweak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670918954</amazonuk>''
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