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[[Category:New Reviews|Literary Fiction]]==Literary fiction==__NOTOC__{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jeanette WintersonMatthew Tree|title=The Daylight GateWe'll Never Know
|rating=4.5
|genre=FantasyLiterary Fiction|summary=1610s Lancashire, and Alice Nutter 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 Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from those trying to oppress the poorhis father, putting them up a drunk and feeding them when no-one else will. But those poor are seen as sinful by others - amoral, dirty in mind, body chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and spirit, and in league with the devilwho had endless crises of self confidence. And people are beginning So Tim applied himself to question Alice's attitudeshis studies, choice of company - cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams 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 trialsset himself high but achievable ambitions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099561859</amazonuk>B0CVFXPGP8
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tupelo HassmanB0C47LV1PC|title=GirlchildFragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=54
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Rory Dawn Hendrix (RD for short) lives with her mother in Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the ironically named Calle de las Flores or Street of Flowers; a pretty name masking a less than idyllic setting. For Calle question should you make it? Or is a trailer park for those living a life sentence of poverty, the inhabitants being as upwardly mobile as their staticquestion if you did, 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 would it land? The catch is also a Girl Scout and has a handbook to prove it but she's in a troop of one, alone with the ideals of an organisation that she only glimpses through disadvantage and in the same way that she glimpses the materialistic world beyond her means. However, her mother wants more answer for her than the teen pregnancies that seem to have become their family heirloom and there is hope as RD is highly intelligent; but can this both could well be enough?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178087104X</amazonuk>}}.... no.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=James KelmanMosby Woods|title=Mo Said She Was QuirkyA Whirly Man Loses His Turn
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Mo may have said that Helen The West isn't the dominant force it once was quirky - neurotic might have been a more accurate assessment of his partner though. Although not a first person narrative, James Kelman's latest Nobody in the West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is another dramatic monologue, although the first time he has placed a female as his main characterbest course of action. Governments are flailing. Helen is a single motherA war here, working nights as a croupier in a London casinopush for climate action there. Mo A feeling that nobody is her Asian boyfriendin actual charge. In fairness to HelenImagine then, she has there was a lot to worry about - man with precognition. Imagine the strategic advantage in this asset; a damaged upbringing that has seen her older brother leave home without trace, a failed marriage, and a life man who can tell you what will happen given any set of constant strugglecircumstances. As usual with KelmanThat man would be valuable, his approach is tender, yet gritty and often gently amusingright? Perhaps the most valuable asset in history. He's always sympathetic to his main characters. However, if you are new to KelmanImagine then, be warned that he is a writer that is heavy on a distinctive style more than plot per sethis man loses this ability.What would governments do to get it back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0241144566</amazonuk>B0C9SNG8R1
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ivo Stourton0571379559|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 House 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>}} {{newreviewBroken Bricks|author=John Banville|title=Ancient LightFiona Williams|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The narrator in John Banville's 'The House of Broken Bricks'Ancient Light'is the story of four people. Tess Hembry' is Alex Cleaves roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, a stage actor she lives in the curtain call house on the riverbank, built of his careerbroken bricks. For reasons that become clearer towards Insubstantial as it might look, it's stood the end passage of the booktime, storms and floods. Her husband, Richard, he is recalling struggles to grow his first relationshipvegetables, when as a teenager to complete the delivery rounds - and to bring in 1950s Irelandsufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and Max, he had a passionate affair with the rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother of 's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his best friendfather. However People don't believe that they're related, his past much less twins and there's an assumption when Max is also blighted by recollections of out with his own daughtermother that she's suicide ten years previouslyhis nanny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670920614</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David RainClaire North|title=The Heat House of the SunOdysseus
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=David Rain is far too young to be writing this exquisitely. That's all I'm going to say.What could matter more than love?''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jeremy ChambersKay Chronister|title=The Vintage and the GleaningDesert Creatures|rating=54|genre=Literary Dystopian Fiction|summary=SmithyWith a world that is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, post-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Whether it is a retired sheep shearerrobotic takeover, now works on a vineyard in the countryside of Victoria, Australia. Too poor to retire and too ill from the after effects of his former alcoholic lifestyle to return to the physically arduous world devoid of shearing, he exists rather than lives amongst his mates and near his son and daughter-in-law. Meanwhile rumours abound about the deeds of local thug, Brett Clayton and, whether true water or nota nuclear holocaust, he's definitely someone this genre is a way for humans to be avoidedcathartically experience their most existential fears. However, when Brett's wife Charlotte leaves him and asks Smithy to take her in, he does so without 'Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is a second thoughtnew work of post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the fears that exist for humanity today. Sheltered under his roof and protection, Charlotte confides in Smithy, forcing him It is a shocking novel that still manages to remember his own past and dreamsfind hope. Meanwhile the unspoken question remains: Brett knows where Charlotte is so what's he going to do about it?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780871635</amazonuk>1803364998
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{{newreviewfrontpage|isbn=1803363002|author=Timeri N MurariEric LaRocca|title=The Taliban Cricket ClubTrees Grew Because I Bled There|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionHorror|summary=We all knowHorror 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 think we knowa ghost, how oppressive life was for Afghansit usually something tangible and, particularly Afghan women, under by the end of the Taliban regimestory, but when you read this novel, boy do you get beatable. Eric LaRocca's ''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is not like that. It is a sense collection of how tough it really wasshort stories more interested in the horrors of illness, grief and humiliation. Horrors that linger and are harder to defeat than any ''Big Bad''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1742378846</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alix OhlinMadelaine Lucas|title=InsideThirst for Salt
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Grace''Love, a therapistI'd read, stumbles upon was supposed to be a young man in the woods who has attempted to commit suicide, light and her vocational interests are immediately engaged. The novel takes us through their complex relationshipweightless feeling, both its surface routines and day to day moments but also Grace's eventually successful search I had always longed for the reasons behind Tuggravity's desperation. Ohlin interlaces with this the story of Mitch, Grace's ex-husband, and of Annie, one of her clients, chronicling both their relationship with Grace, but also their network of families and friends, acquaintances and colleagues.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780871104</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=Sarah QuigleyJennifer Saint|title=The ConductorAtalanta
|rating=5
|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=Composer Dmitri Shostakovich can block anything out whilst he's writing music: his wife Nina's voice, his children arguing, even the side effects I was as worthy as any one of living in Stalinist Leningradthem. HoweverI would get on board that ship, life is about to become more than an annoying distraction from music as Germany declares war on Russia and gradually initiates what history will come to know as the Siege of LeningradI vowed. Shostakovich then realisesI would take my place, not just as gradually, that his music may serve a purpose to sustain his compatriots in the absence name of sufficient food and hope. His Seventh Symphony becomes a protest against oppression, but he needs an orchestra to play it and the top musicians have been evacuated to save the country's cultural heritagegoddess. He therefore turns to Karl Eliasberg, It was for the aspiring but third rate conductor sake of a cobbled together orchestra. Music can create miracles but, for Eliasberg and his musiciansmy name, being able to play it will be the biggest miracle of alltoo.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190880002X</amazonuk>}}Atalanta''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sam ThompsonAmanthi Harris|title=Communion TownBeautiful Place
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Communion Town – one city but it may as well be many as each person's perception Padma, a young Sri Lankan, has returned to the Villa Hibiscus on the southern coast of it her home country. This is coloured by their experiences within ita place she spent her formative years. Each chapter introduces us to It is not a different storyplace she was born into, a different viewpoint and therefore, practically a different citybut the one she thinks of as home. Starting with How she came to be at the ominousVilla, creepy story of Nicolashow it became her home, and the machinations that have flowed through stories encapsulating such themes as recaptured friendship, murder her life ever since she first arrived there provide the ''score'' for this gentle and yet subtly violent novel. Padma's present fails to escape her past and an enigmatic take on much like the life musical score of a private investigatorfilm, we start to piece together that strand weaves its way through everything that happens at the nature of Communion Town..Villa. or do we?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007454767</amazonuk>1784631930
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Austin Ratner178563335X|title=The Jump ArtistSea Defences|author=Hilary Taylor|rating=45
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Austin RatnerWhen we first meet Rachel Bird she's debut novela trainee vicar, sitting in on a PCC meeting and wondering why they're held when you need to pick the children up. Her husband, Christopher, collects six-year-old Hannah and her elder brother, Jamie, whilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioner. Thelma'The Jump Artist's daughter-in-law won't let her see her grandson. Holthorpe, first published in on the US in 2009Norfolk coast, is a fictionalised account of the extraordinary life of celebrated photographerlovely place, Philippe Halsman. Born but Rachel is struggling to develop a Latvian Jew, as a young man in 1928 he was walking in the Austrian mountains when he saw his father fall to his death. This would be traumatic for anyone, but the issues were compounded when he was accused of murder by real bond with the Austrian courts in what was probably antiparish -semitic and certainly xenophobic in explanation. Philippeshe's second trialin awe of the vicar, the first failing potentially because his mother had engaged a Jewish lawyerGail, details but then she's been doing the fundamental lack of evidence job for more than thirty years. Rachel and shoddy police work behind Christopher hoped that a walk on the accusationbeach would do them some good - it was stormy but it was probably what they needed. And then Hannah went missing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670921599</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin Amis1398515388|title=Lionel Asbo|rating=3.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Martin Amis can be relied upon to create some pretty nasty, self-centred central characters. Usually they are upper class cads The Boy and bounders but in Lionel Asbo his central character is at the polar opposite in terms of class. He's violent, uncouth and ignorant. He's a criminal whose usual sidekicks are a pair of vicious pit bulls. His 'manner' is a fictitious down trodden area of London called Diston Town where he lives in a tower block with his nephew, Des, who in fact is the central character in the book. Des, in contrast is far more sympathetic - intelligent and kind, that is if you overlook the fact that as a 15 year old he had an affair with his grandmother, Lionel's mother. Hey, no one's perfect. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224096206</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewDog|author=Ben Fountain|title=Billy Lynn's Long Halftime WalkSeishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=In Ben Fountain's ''Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk''First of all, it was the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, Billy which created the tsunami and what is left of his Bravo troop colleagues are back from this, in turn, caused the war in Iraq following a brave firefight caught on camera by embedded journalistsnuclear meltdown. The result was complete and utter devastation. The US armydeaths were uncountable, keen to gain PR from the event has brought them back on an optimistically titled 'Victory Tour' despite and the loss of livelihoods was widespread. The fact that they are all to be re-deployed the next week. The majority of many pets were separated from their owners came far down the book takes place on the last day list of this tour when Billy is in his homepriorities but -state of Texas, where six months after the Bush link makes it even more protsunami -war, as the boys are invited to attend that most American of PR events, the Thanksgiving football game at the Dallas Cowboys stadiumKazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. Accompanying the troop is He wasn't a veteran Hollywood producer who has promised dog person but the soldiers convenience store owner's comment that he can sell their story would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to a movie studio for mega-bucks. If only it were that simpleopen his car door and Tamon the dog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857864386</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=L R Fredericks0989715337|title=Farundell|rating=3.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=American Paul Asher is damaged by memories and dreams originating from World War I, or at least he thinks that's where they're from. Once the war is over and, as he's estranged from his father in the US, Paul decides to remain in the UK to find work. Work comes to him as he's asked to assist Lord Percy Damory at Farundell, the Damory ancestral home. Paul's job is straightforward: Sir Percy needs someone to whom he can dictate memoirs of a well-travelled life among distant tribes. However Paul's life at Farundell will be anything but straightforward thanks to the Damorys' apparent eccentricities, an ancestor from the 18th century who refuses to be labelled as a ghost and, of course, there's Sylvie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184854328X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=L R Fredericks|title=Fate|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=It's the 18th century and 11 year old Francis Damory is spoken to by great great grandfather, Tobias. Nothing odd except that Tobias is dead and speaks via a portrait in Farundell, the family's Oxfordshire home. Hence begins the obsession that will take the adult Sir Francis across the world and through a lifetime of adventures to track Tobias down. The longer Francis looks, the more he realises that Great Great Grandfather isn't dead and that, therefore, Francis wants whatever he's Papa on.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184854331X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Natasa Dragnic and Liesl Schillinger (translator)|title=Every Day, Every Hour|rating=4.5|genre=Humour|summary=Dora and Luka meet and become firm friends. In normal situations one might add ''and a whole lot more'' to that sentence, but Dora and Luka are in Kindergarten, which makes their intense relationship hard to define. As they grow into adults, however, it becomes obvious that there is something between them and no matter how much they, or their circumstances, try to fight this it is there and is not going to fade away. Dora’s parents move her across the continent, careers develop and flourish, out of nowhere they are enveloped by family lives, but still there is an invisible bond that draws them back to one another.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701186941</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMoon|author=Alissa Walser and Jamie Bulloch (translator)|title=MesmerizedMarco North
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=There are those who say that, on an individual level, books are like Marmite: you love it or you hate it. Oh, if only it were so easy''Some frogs had gotten into the well.''
''Breathless'' is one Walter stood waist-deep in the fragrant water, naked except for his beaten leather hat. Long strands of those that I neither love nor hatetheir eggs wove around him, sticky gray pearls with tadpoles inside them. Two of the dogs leaned over the opening and yet am not totally uninspired by eitherbarked down at the strange noise of the buckets as he filled them. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857051032</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Martin KohanDaisy Hildyard|title=School for PatriotsEmergency
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=There's a fair chance that if you pick up a South American novel, it's going to score quite highly on the 'seriously odd' scale. Martín Kohan's School for Patriots, translated by Nick Caistor, The summary of this book doesn't disappoint in that regard. The main character, María Teresa, is an innocent, shy teaching assistant at a Buenos Aires school that is run on military academy style discipline. The running of the school is itself something of a surprise but that's not come close to explaining what makes this strange. What ramps up the 'odd' factor here is that she spends vast amounts of this short novel hiding in the boys' loo, ostensibly to catch young boys smoking despite there being no evidence that any student has contravened this rule in this location. One might say she has nothing to go on. Then again, best not in done with the circumstancespremise. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846687438</amazonuk>1913097811}}
{{newreviewFrontpage |author=Alonso Cueto Sally Oliver |title=The 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 Frank Wynne (translator)pain—but only at a terrible price: that of identity itself.|isbn= 086154112X }} {{Frontpage|author=Natalia Garcia Freire|title=The Blue HourThis World Does Not Belong To Us
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Adrian OrmacheEarly comments on this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendous, middle class Peruvian lawyer, has a beautiful wife, two daughters of the sort to make any parent proud and a comfortable lifestyledelight. His parents divorced when he was small so, as he lived I will agree with his mother, he has fragmented memories of the first – tremendous is no understatement – but 'a gruff, distant dad. Despite his fatherdelight's aloof, dictatorial manner, Adrian has always comforted himself with is perhaps using the fact he played expression in a useful role as a land-bound naval officer, fighting Senderista terrorists for the good of Peruway I'm not familiar with. After I have to confess my ignorance of the death of his mother everything changesSpanish-language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation here. Adrian finds documents that lead him away from his beliefsFrom the little I have read (in translation, I don't read Spanish) there does seem to be a tendency towards a truth that will shatter more than his father's imagethe fantastical – the mystical realism.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0434019410</amazonuk>0861541901
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Fannie FlaggJennifer Saint|title=I Still Dream About YouElektra|rating=54
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=At the age of 60, Maggie Fortenbury's glory days seem to have passed her Elektra' by. An ex-Miss Alabama, she headed for Jennifer Saint tells the fame she dreamt story of three women who live in 'the Big Apple' and ended, instead, making disastrous life choices that took her along a different route. However she had made one good decision: to work for the diminutive Hazel Whisenkott, midget and founder heavily male dominated world of Red Mountain RealtyAncient Greece. NowCassandra, as Hazel is deadClytemnestra, and despite her friendship with her colleagues (obese, optimistic Brenda and moaning Ethel), suicide seems Elektra are all bit players in the story of the next logical stepTrojan War. It has to be done correctly as Maggie comes from an era when you wouldn't want to let anyone down or any commitment unfulfilled. Therefore picking her final day becomes increasingly difficult when other things get in Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the silent women have the most compelling stories and the way, including a troupe of Whirling Dervishesmost extreme furies. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099555484</amazonuk>1472273915
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fiona McGregor8409290103|title=Indelible InkIf Only|author=Matthew Tree|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Once wealthyTwenty-one-year-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by his father, middle class Australian suburbanite Marie King never thought she'd be starting a new life at 59 but here she iscotton-broker AO Lowry: he asked his accountant, Mr Patrick, divorced to ensure that the young man got on board the boat and having thereafter Patrick was to sell the marital homesend him a monthly allowance. Unfortunately, attached to Patrick sent the marital home is money regularly and a correspondence - of sorts - sprang up between the marital garden into which Marie two although we hear more about what Lowry has to say than Patrick. It wasn't that Lowry senior didn't only give life but also pour her own life. Howevercare for his son, Marie tries to be positive and decides it was that if shehe didn's going t care to have him in this country where he might be a new person, she may as well go the whole way. This means tattoos (much danger to her offsprings' horror) his wife and an unlikely friendship with tattooist Rhys. With that comes the realisation that the privileged suburb of Mossman isn't all there is to Sydneyother children. There's much more The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to get the city, and indeed herself, than she first thoughtyoung man on his way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857894129</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jude MorganAntoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)|title=The Secret Life of William ShakespeareRed is My Heart|rating=43.5|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=Books about Shakespeare vary hugely both [[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white and read in terms of approach and qualitymy house. Some focus on historical factAnd so was this one, while others play rather although I could have spelled that more loosely with the romance of his life. Fortunately for readersaccurately – this one was, and is, Jude Morgan's books are rather more reliably excellentblack and white and red. What's moreYes, he has a track record of fiction that concerns great writersan artistic collaborator on this piece, having previously tackled the Brontës (and I think it''The Taste of Sorrow'') and s possible to say not one page lacks the romantic poets (''Passion''). So my expectations were already quite high coming into his ''The Secret Life influence of William Shakespeare'' - expectations that he has again surpassedsome striking visual ideas.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755358228</amazonuk>1913547183
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David VannB098FFFBH9|title=DirtSnowcub|author=Graham Fulbright
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=We're back in the midFourteen-nineteenyear-eighties in a suburb of Sacramento and Galen lives with his mother on the family walnut farm. The farmold Rachel is her school's not what it was, largely having been left animal rights project leader and she and her friend are producing a competition entry to its own devices since highlight the way in which human beings exploit the death of Galen's abusive grandfather some years beforeanimal world. Galen's ''She gets a great deal of support from her family: father'' is something of an unknown quantity - his Pip Harrison, a lecturer at Imperial College, London, mother won't even discuss who he was or tell Galen anything about himKate and her twin, but then she's able to shut her mind to most things which she finds unpleasantNick. ''Her'' mother has been moved from Kate runs the farm to family business, a nursing home - shetoy shop called Cornucopia in Putney, which is where we's still quite active but her memory is going. Suzie-Qll meet Rachel's sister, Helen is determined to get her hands on the family money for the benefit main (if unsuspected) source of her seventeen-year-old daughter, Jenniferinformation: five soft toys.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434021962</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chuck PalahniukYancey Williams|title=Invisible Monsters RemixCrosshairs of the Devil
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary='Don't expect this to be the kind of story that goes: Award-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski is getting on in years and then, despite his strenuous objections and thenthanks to his daughter, finds himself living - or imprisoned, and then.from Eddie' And yet... Once upon a time I collected a couple s point of view - in room 315 of the Garden of Palahniuk booksEden nursing home, upon his firstwith only a trusty nursing aide, ''Fight Club''-inspired flush of British successJenkins, and never got round to reading themfor palatable company. And then the book reviewing gods conspired Nothing is going to give me [[Pygmy by Chuck Palahniuk|Pygmy]], [[Tellkeep Eddie from his stock-All by Chuck Palahniuk|Tellin-All]] and [[Damned by Chuck Palahniuk|Damned]] to peruse. And then I still didn't go back through trade of writing though, so here, for his past works. But then he revised Invisible Monstersreaders, are his wanderings through his second-written and third-published novel, and I got to look at it after alllife's work.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099575051</amazonuk>0986031658}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marie N'Diaye and John Fletcher (translator)0008421714|title=Three Strong WomenMrs March|author=Virginia Feito
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=As it says on The problem began just after the tin, this powerful publication of George March's most successful novel revolves around three women, connected by their strength and two countries and diverse cultures to date. Everyone but Mrs March (France and Africawe know her first name only on the last page) but also other, more subtle factorsseemed to either be reading it or had already done so. (More of Every day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to buy olive bread but on that later.) First there's lawyerparticular morning, NorahPatricia asked, returning to Africa at as she was wrapping the behest of her estranged father. There has never been love lost between thembread, mainly because her father prefers to ignore his female offspring; therefore his reason for ''but isn't this the summons is first time he's based a mystery, until... character on you?'' The second story is She mentioned that of African teacherJohanna, Fanta, forced by an event beyond the principal character had 'her control to leave Africa and settle in France with her husband Rudymannerisms''. Then Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for the final section belongs to Khady, widowed after three years fact that Johanna is the whore of marriage and sent to France by her CinderellaNantes -esque mother-in-law. As Khady's status as 'a childless widow is financially unattractiveweak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, it has been deemed that she would be of more use sending money back from Europeunloveable wretch... once she has entered France as an illegal immigrant.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857050567</amazonuk>''
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