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[[Category:New Reviews|Literary Fiction]]==Literary fiction==__NOTOC__{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Thomas H CookMatthew Tree|title=The Crime of Julian WellsWe'll Never Know
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=American travel writer Julian Wells walks out of the house he shares with Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his sisterfather, wanders down to the garden lake, rows himself out to the centre a drunk and slits his wrists. He dies alone as he silently watches his life drip into the water. Devastated, chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his friend artistic passions all failed miserably and frequent travel companion Philip Anders, tries to come to terms with the loss the only way he can: by attempting to understand. Julian dedicated a book to Philip, mentioning a 'crime' that Philip who had witnessedendless crises of self confidence. Philip had always thought it to be a flip reference So Tim applied himself to his comment from years before that it would be a crime for Julian to waste time writing a certain piecestudies, but, in the light of tragic events, is this actually the case? Is there a crime in the author's past? As Philip retraces the essence of Julian through cultivated his abilities rather than his words, the places they visited daydreams and people they encountered he slowly uncovers secrets and a dangerous obsessionset himself high but achievable ambitions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908800143</amazonuk>B0CVFXPGP8
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=B0C47LV1PC
|title=Fragility
|author=Mosby Woods
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, would it land? The catch is that the answer for both could well be.... no.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Helene Gremillon and Alison Anderson (translator)Mosby Woods|title=The ConfidantA Whirly Man Loses His Turn
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=ItThe West isn's 1975 and Camille, having lost her father a while ago, t the dominant force it once was. Nobody in the West is now coming quite sure how to terms with mend this or even if mending it is the recent death best course of her motheraction. Governments are flailing. After plucking up courage and strengthA war here, she goes through the condolence cards but a push for climate action there's one item . A feeling that nobody is in the correspondence pile that's out of placeactual charge. It's addressed to her but from Louis (whom she doesn't know) about Annie (of whom she's never heard). As Louis pours out his storyImagine then, reminiscing about his youth in wartime France, Camille is convinced it's there was a mistake; she shouldn't have received itman with precognition. However Imagine the envelope is definitely addressed to her and, strategic advantage in this asset; a man who can tell you what's morewill happen given any set of circumstances. That man would be valuable, this won't be right? Perhaps the last instalment of Louis' sad memoir most valuable asset in history. Imagine then, that comes through the postthis man loses this ability.What would governments do to get it back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908313293</amazonuk>B0C9SNG8R1
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elizabeth Hay0571379559|title=Alone In The ClassroomHouse of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary='Other children were out picking that morning'The House of Broken Bricks'' is the story of four people. Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she passed them by lives in the house on the riverbank, built of broken bricks. Insubstantial as 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 her lightsufficient money. They have twin boys -blue dress Sonny and sandalsMax, 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 out with his mother that she had an empty kettle in each hand and was alone, despite having three sisters's his nanny.}}{{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=Peter TerrinKay Chronister|title=The GuardDesert Creatures|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Dystopian Fiction|summary=Harry and Michel are very good at their job, even if we might think their job With a world that is not that great. They and they alone are responsible becoming increasingly inhospitable for protecting the building they live in. Designed as an impregnable fortress containing many immensehumanity, palatial apartments inhabited by the ultrapost-rich, the only way in apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Whether it is through the basement carparka robotic takeover, where they reside in their own small patch of territory. They are certainly diligent – inspecting their stash a world devoid of munitions twice water or a daynuclear holocaust, even if nothing could possibly interfere with this genre is a way for humans to cathartically experience their supply most existential fears. ''Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is a new work of bullets, and navigating around the large expanse of space where each post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the forty floors above them has space fears that exist for three supercarshumanity today. But while one seems to be dreaming of things he might not get to witness – promotion to guarding villas in Elysian fields with becoming owner's wives, the other seems to be hearing things It is a shocking novel that might not actually be there still manages to be heard…find hope.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857050877</amazonuk>1803364998
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{{newreviewfrontpage|isbn=1803363002|author=Richard FordEric LaRocca|title=CanadaThe Trees Grew Because I Bled There|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionHorror|summary=Richard FordHorror 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 's 'Big Bad'Canada'' opens with one , whether that is a home invader, a monster or a ghost, it usually something tangible and, by the end of the best opening lines that Istory, beatable. Eric LaRocca's 've read in a long time: 'First, The Trees Grew Because IBled There''ll tell about the robbery our parents committedis not like that. Then about It is a collection of short stories more interested in the murdershorrors of illness, which happened latergrief and humiliation. The robbery is the most important partHorrors that linger and are harder to defeat than any ''Big Bad''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747598606</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kevin PowersMadelaine Lucas|title=The Yellow BirdsThirst for Salt
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Daniel Murphy ('Murph') is 18Love, in the American army and about I'd read, was supposed to embark on his first tour of duty in Iraq. By his side is John Bartle, three years older be a light and more experienced in the army. However neither of them has any notion of the sort of life or job they will face when they get there. The fighting is dirtyweightless feeling, unpredictable and not set out in any text book. Their commanding officer, Sergeant Sterling, is sadistic and without any apparent humanity. But everything will be alright: Bartle has made a promise to Murphbut I had always longed for gravity''s mother, a promise that will ricochet from the US to Iraq and back again.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444756125</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jeet ThayilMichael Grothaus|title=NarcopolisBeautiful Shining People
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Novels about narcotic substances are notoriously hard to pull off. The challenge is to make the induced events interesting and meaningful to the, presumably, non-induced reader. In ''Narcopolis'', Jeet Thayil pulls this off surprisingly well for me, although But fearing something and having it's fair come to say that it won't be everyone's tastepass are two different things. ItAnd I's not a book that the Bombay/Mumbai tourist office m willing to bet most of what we fear will be keen never happen, or we can take steps to promotechange it. A cover quotation links the book to a similar vein (OK, that's a poor choice of words in the circumstances) to ''Trainspotting'' and that's not far from the mark.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571275761</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Fuminori NakamuraJennifer Saint|title=The ThiefAtalanta
|rating=5
|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=The Thief is content roaming the streets of Tokyo, living on the contents of its wealthier citizens' pockets until, his original partner in crime (literally) introduces him to Kizaki, a local shady big shot. Kizaki wants the Thief's help on a straightforward job. He will just be I was as worthy as any one of a team tasked with breaking into a rich speculator's homethem. I would get on board that ship, scaring him a littleI vowed. I would take my place, taking not just in the contents name of his safe and departingthe goddess. No rough stuff and It was for the financial settlement Kizaki offers will more than compensate the pickpocket for his timesake of my name, too.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780339135</amazonuk>}}Atalanta''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alison MooreAmanthi Harris|title=The LighthouseBeautiful Place
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=When we first meet Futh he's on Padma, a North Sea ferry young Sri Lankan, has returned to the Villa Hibiscus on his way to the southern coast of her home country. This is a walking holiday in Germanyplace she spent her formative years. There's no sense of enthusiasm or anticipation: Futh's middle aged and recently separated, seemingly without friends or family. He always wanted It is not a dogplace she was born into, but keeps stick insectsthe one she thinks of as home. The holiday seems How she came to be something whichat the Villa, when how it is overbecame her home, he will have done it and will then return to his new flat. It begins and will end at Hellhaus, a guesthouse run by Bernard and his wife Ester. He gets on well enough with Ester but is at a loss to understand a rather hostile encounter with Bernard. He sets out the following morning for a week of walking, thinking and remembering. Meanwhile Ester - untouched by machinations that have flowed through her meeting with Futh - continues her lonely life punctuated by ever since she first arrived there provide the occasional casual sexual encounter which she barely hides from Bernard.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907773177</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Nicola Barker|title=The Yips|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Stuart Ransom is a golfing has-been and he's the only one who doesn't realise it. If his recollections are anything to go by (and who can tell?) he was on a par with the best. Times have changed though; the handicap isnscore't what it once was and age and alcohol have taken their toll. However, hope springs eternal and there's always one more match, so perhaps for this is it. Meanwhile Gene, who splits his time between working at the hotel in which Stuart is staying gentle and reading electricity meters, encounters an agoraphobic, exotic tattooistyet subtly violent novel. Valentine is a woman struggling with an unhealthily precocious 2 year-old, a brother flirting with criminality and a brain-injured mother who has become more than a little eccentric. Add Gene Padma's wife Rev Sheila present fails to escape her past and her personal crisis into much like the mix and it becomes musical score of a recipe for disasterfilm, it's just a case of waiting for it to eruptthat strand weaves its way through everything that happens at the Villa.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007476655</amazonuk>1784631930
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Iain Broome178563335X|title=A is for AngelicaSea Defences|author=Hilary Taylor
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Anneli Strandli lives with insomniacally introverted Berry WalkerWhen we first meet Rachel Bird she's a trainee vicar, among others but not sitting in on a romantically coPCC meeting and wondering why they're held when you need to pick the children up. Her husband, Christopher, collects six-habiting wayyear-old Hannah and her elder brother, Jamie, whilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioner. They all share student accommodation complete with attendant noise and comings and goingsThelma's daughter-in-law won't let her see her grandson. Berry isn’t Holthorpe, on the most forthcoming of people Norfolk coast, is a lovely place, but Anneli discovers Rachel is struggling to develop a manuscript real bond with the parish - and she's in his desk and soawe of the vicar, sneaking into his room to read itGail, but then she hopes to discover from his writings 's been doing the essence of Berry that his private nature hidesjob for more than thirty years. Meanwhile Berry is falling in love Rachel and Christopher hoped that a walk on the beach would do them some good - it was stormy but has difficulty communicating it to the person concernedwas probably what they needed. And then Hannah went missing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908775521</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Heller1398515388|title=The Boy and the Dog Stars|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=We are in North America in a near but post-Apocalyptic future. Those few humans to survive a pandemic have to be treated as carriers, and/or armed and desperate, and so are particularly First of note to military-minded survivalist Bangley. And climate and eco-problems have killed off many common speciesall, something closer to narrator Hig's heartit was the earthquake, as he's a more placiddeep in the ocean floor, huntin', shootin' which created the tsunami and fishin' guy. These two solitary men are an unlikely partnershipthis, but both look out for each other in complementary waysturn, caused the nuclear meltdown. Bangley has his watch-tower, while Hig takes off in his Cessna to get away from it all, The result was complete and his flights act as a first line of defenseutter devastation. But is it all life could be The deaths were uncountable, for Hig and his dog and Bangley? What is Hig still to make the loss of the last inviting contact he heard on his plane's radio - even if that livelihoods was three years ago? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755392590</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mette Jakobsen|title=The Vanishing Act|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Minou lives on a sparsely occupied, temperate islandwidespread. In The fact the only occupants apart that many pets were separated from Minou and her Papa are Priest (their owners came far down the Priest), Boxman (a maker list of magical boxes) and priorities but - six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog called No Nameoutside a convenience store. Minou’s mother used to live there too. She arrived on He wasn't a boat with a bowl containing a peacock (a real live one called… yes… Peacock). But then one day Mama disappeared completely apart from one shoe. Minou misses her and dog person but the way convenience store owner's comment that she encouraged Minou’s imagination, completely at odds with her father’s logical philosophical outlook. Papa doesn’t believe that Mama will return he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and so has symbolically buried Tamon the shoe but Minou thinks differently: Mama will come backdog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099572478</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ned Beauman0989715337|title=The Teleportation AccidentPapa on the Moon|author=Marco North
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Joe, a poet and Isabel, his war-correspondent wife and their teenage daughter Nina rent a luxurious villa in the South of France and invite their friends Laura and Mitchell to join them. On their first day there Nina finds what appears to be a naked body floating in the swimming pool, but it's Kitty Finch. She pleads a mix-up over booking dates and when told that all 'Some frogs had gotten into the local hotels are fully booked for some days Isabel offers her the use of the spare bedroom at the villawell. There's no obvious reason for why she does this, but what does become clear is that Kitty suffers from depression - and she's stopped taking her medication.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908276029</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Pat BarkerDaisy Hildyard|title=Toby's RoomEmergency|rating=54
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Elinor Brooke and her brother Toby had always been close but one day their relationship became more intimate than is acceptable. The trick then, as Toby said, was to get back to how their relationship was before. Toby concentrated on calling her 'sis', whilst Elinor was never quite certain how they could turn the clock back to a time when they were more innocent. But looking back, the summer summary of 1912 would seem idyllic: in 1917 Toby was reported this book doesn'Missing, Believed Killed'. Elinor was determined t come close to find out how Toby died and her one route to this knowledge was Kit Neville who was a fellow student of hers at the Slade School of Art and who was in the fox hole when Toby met his fate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241144574</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jeanette Winterson|title=The Daylight Gate|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=1610s Lancashire, and Alice Nutter explaining what is the best landowner you could wish for. Single, rich and connected, she takes no sides in the religious schisms James I has inherited, and takes no bull from those trying to oppress the poor, putting them up and feeding them when no-one else will. But those poor are seen as sinful by others - amoral, dirty in mind, body and spirit, and in league done with the devil. And people are beginning to question Alice's attitudes, choice of company - and ageless beauty. This, then, is the based-on-truth story of how Alice Nutter got to be one of the accused in the Pendle Witch trialspremise.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099561859</amazonuk>1913097811}}
{{newreviewFrontpage |author=Tupelo HassmanSally Oliver |title=GirlchildThe 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=Rory Dawn Hendrix (RD for short) lives with her mother in the ironically named Calle de las Flores or Street of Flowers; Early comments on this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendous, a pretty name masking a less than idyllic settingdelight. For Calle is a trailer park for those living a life sentence of poverty, I will agree with the inhabitants being as upwardly mobile as their static, seedy homes. RD has half brothers but they live with their father, leaving RD to live alone with her mother and nearby grandmother, a father being a luxury that Rory Dawn has learnt to live without. Rory Dawn first – tremendous is also a Girl Scout and has a handbook to prove it no understatement – but she's in a troop of one, alone with delight' is perhaps using the ideals of an organisation that she only glimpses through disadvantage and expression in the same a way that she glimpses the materialistic world beyond her meansI'm not familiar with. However, her mother wants more for her than the teen pregnancies that seem I have to have become their family heirloom and there is hope as RD is highly intelligent; but can this be enough?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178087104X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Anita Desai|title=The Artist of Disappearance|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Anita Desai's ''The Artist of Disappearance'' is a collection of three novellas with several satisfying unifying features. All are set in modern day India, all involve some looking back in time and all three involve some consideration confess my ignorance of the creative art Spanish- who it is for, what happens to it once it leaves language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation here. From the artist's control and who 'owns' it. Most of all, each one is beautifully writtenlittle I have read (in translation, with strong characters and evocative descriptions of personal loss. In terms of length each is relatively short - around 50 pages long - but after each one you feel that youI don've been engrossed in the story just as much as if you had t read Spanish) there does seem to be a novel of more conventional lengthtendency towards the fantastical – the mystical realism.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099553953</amazonuk>0861541901
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=James KelmanJennifer Saint|title=Mo Said She Was QuirkyElektra
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Mo may have said that Helen was quirky - neurotic might have been a more accurate assessment of his partner though. Although not a first person narrative, James Kelman's latest is another dramatic monologue, although Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the first time he has placed a female as his main character. Helen is a single mother, working nights as a croupier story of three women who live in a London casinothe heavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. Mo is her Asian boyfriend. In fairness to HelenCassandra, she has a lot to worry about - a damaged upbringing that has seen her older brother leave home without trace, a failed marriageClytemnestra, and a life Elektra are all bit players in the story of constant strugglethe Trojan War. As usual with Kelman, his approach is tender, yet gritty Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the silent women have the most compelling stories and often gently amusing. He's always sympathetic to his main characters. However, if you are new to Kelman, be warned that he is a writer that is heavy on a distinctive style more than plot per sethe most extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0241144566</amazonuk>1472273915
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ivo Stourton8409290103|title=The Book Lover's Tale|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Matt will admit that his writing career failed, and so he had to join his wife in interior design, where he can use his love of books to arrange - at a cost - the contents, design and most importantly the colours, of upper class people's home libraries for them. He'll concede that it's a good way to get into the houses, and beds, of rich women, such as his latest flame, Claudia. But why is this, his confession, talking of murder?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552773875</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewIf Only|author=John Banville|title=Ancient LightMatthew Tree
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The narrator in John Banville's ''Ancient Light'' is Alex CleaveTwenty-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 young man got on board the boat and thereafter Patrick was to send him a stage actor in monthly allowance. Patrick sent the curtain call money regularly and a correspondence - of his careersorts - sprang up between the two although we hear more about what Lowry has to say than Patrick. For reasons It wasn't that become clearer towards the end of the bookLowry senior didn't care for his son, it was that he is recalling his first relationship, when as a teenager didn't care to have him in 1950s Ireland, this country where he had might be a passionate affair with the mother of danger to his best friendwife and other children. However, The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to get the young man on his past is also blighted by recollections of his own daughter's suicide ten years previouslyway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670920614</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David RainAntoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)|title=The Heat of the SunRed is My Heart|rating=3.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=David Rain [[: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 far too young to be writing , black and white and red. Yes, he has an artistic collaborator on this exquisitely. Thatpiece, and I think it's all I'm going possible to saynot one page lacks the influence of some striking visual ideas. Oh, you need me to justify that comment? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857892037</amazonuk>1913547183
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeremy ChambersB098FFFBH9|title=The Vintage and the GleaningSnowcub|author=Graham Fulbright|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Smithy, a retired sheep shearer, now works on Fourteen-year-old Rachel is her school's animal rights project leader and she and her friend are producing a vineyard in the countryside of Victoria, Australia. Too poor competition entry to retire and too ill from highlight the after effects of his former alcoholic lifestyle to return to way in which human beings exploit the physically arduous animal world of shearing, he exists rather than lives amongst his mates and near his son and daughter-in-law. Meanwhile rumours abound about the deeds She gets a great deal of local thugsupport from her family: father Pip Harrison, Brett Clayton and, whether true or nota lecturer at Imperial College, he's definitely someone to be avoided. HoweverLondon, when Brett's wife Charlotte leaves him mother Kate and asks Smithy to take her intwin, he does so without a second thoughtNick. Sheltered under his roof and protectionKate runs the family business, Charlotte confides a toy shop called Cornucopia in SmithyPutney, forcing him to remember his own past and dreams. Meanwhile the unspoken question remains: Brett knows which is where Charlotte is so whatwe'll meet Rachel's he going to do about it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780871635</amazonuk>main (if unsuspected) source of information: five soft toys.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Timeri N MurariYancey Williams|title=The Taliban Cricket ClubCrosshairs of the Devil
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=We all knowAward-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski is getting on in years and, despite his strenuous objections and thanks to his daughter, finds himself living - or think we knowimprisoned, how oppressive life was for Afghans, particularly Afghan women, under from Eddie's point of view - in room 315 of the Taliban regime, but when you read this novel, boy do you get a sense Garden of how tough it really was.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1742378846</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Alix Ohlin|title=Inside|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=GraceEden nursing home, with only a therapisttrusty nursing aide, stumbles upon a young man in the woods who has attempted to commit suicideJenkins, and her vocational interests are immediately engagedfor palatable company. The novel takes us through their complex relationship, both its surface routines and day Nothing is going to day moments but also Grace's eventually successful search for the reasons behind Tug's desperation. Ohlin interlaces with this the story of Mitch, Grace's exkeep Eddie from his stock-in-husband, and trade of Anniewriting though, one of her clientsso here, chronicling both their relationship with Gracefor his readers, but also their network of families and friends, acquaintances and colleaguesare his wanderings through his life's work.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780871104</amazonuk>0986031658}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michel Houellebecq0008421714|title=The Map and the TerritoryMrs March|author=Virginia Feito|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Jed Martin, initially a photographer and later painter, has a singular take The 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 world and his craftlast page) seemed to either be reading it or had already done so. This novel takes him from obscurity as a reclusive student Every day Mrs March went to fame as the doyenne of the contemporary art scene and in this journey we see exposed both the underlying values local patisserie to buy olive bread but in many ways on that particular morning, Patricia asked, as she was wrapping the essential emptiness of the art world. He is bread, 'taken up', feted and courted by critics and patrons, by those who know nothing but monetary value, and Houellebecq doesnisn't let any opportunity for this the first time he's based a sharp gibe at galleriescharacter on you?'' She mentioned that Johanna, art critics and agents go pastthe principal character had 'her mannerisms''. The key to Jed's fame is ironically his complete anonymity Perhaps this would not have mattered, and Houellebecq’s creation of except for the catarrh dribbling agent Marylin who manages Jed’s ‘outing’ fact that Johanna is one of the classics whore of modern satireNantes - ''a weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099554577</amazonuk>''
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