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[[Category:New Reviews|Literary Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Claire FullertonMatthew Tree|title=Dancing to an Irish ReelWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5
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|summary=Hailey was on Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a sabbatical from her job in the music business in Los Angeles drunk and taking the holiday chronic underachiever whose dreams of a lifetime to Ireland, when she walked into the Galway Music Centre being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and found a job which she simply couldn't turn downwho had endless crises of self confidence. She also found a home in a local villageSo Tim applied himself to his studies, a liking for the rural life and a man whom she could love. Liam Hennessy was a talented accordion player: music was cultivated his abilities rather than his life daydreams and whilst he was more attracted to Hailey than he had ever been to another woman it wasn't entirely clear whether 'love' could ever be on the cards for himset himself high but achievable ambitions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0990304256</amazonuk>B0CVFXPGP8
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jessie Greengrass B0C47LV1PC|title=An Account of the Decline of the Great Auk, According to One Who Saw It |rating=3|genre=Short Stories|summary=The title story, which appears first, is exactly what it says on the tin: one hunter's story of travelling to remote islands to take part in massive culls of great auks, until they were simply gone. It's always hard to believe that species that once numbered in their millions, such as the passenger pigeon, could go extinct so quickly, but when you read about the brutal slaughter tactics here – swinging clubs and boiling birds alive – you can see how a flightless bird was a sitting target. The narrator makes no real attempt to defend himself: the birds were there for the taking; that was that. Still, he regrets their extinction, because 'in any loss you can see a shadow of the way that you will be lost yourself.' (Those interested in the great auk's extinction may also want to read the 2013 novel ''The Collector of Lost Things'' by Jeremy Page.)|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473610850</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFragility|author=Patricia Park|title=Re JaneMosby Woods|rating=3.54
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|summary= Growing up in Flushing, New York –Jane Re has long been hoping to escape her whole life. A half-Korean, half-American Orphan, Jane struggles to find her place as Can you make a spirited and intelligent young woman growing up in a strict and mirthless family''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, observing is the question should you make it? Or is the traditional Korean principle of “Nunchi” (a combination of good mannersquestion if you did, obligation and hierarchy). Desperate to escape, Jane would it land? The catch is thrilled when she becomes that the au pair answer for a rich couple – two Brooklyn based professors of English, who have adopted a young Chinese girl into their familyboth could well be.... no. Jane soon falls for ''Fragility'' is set as the man city of the familyPortland, but their blossoming affair is soon curtailed by a family deathOregon, prompting Jane’s return cautiously begins to Korea. As she learns more about herself, her history and her culture, Jane must make huge decisions about her life, her future, and her man…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0525427406</amazonuk>emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patricia DunckerMosby Woods|title=Sophie and the Sibyl: A Victorian RomanceWhirly Man Loses His Turn
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|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=''Sophie and the Sibyl'', consciously modelled on John Fowles's ''The French Lieutenant's Woman'West isn', is a postmodern blending of history, fiction, and metafictional commentary. Brothers Max and Wolfgang Duncker really were George Eliot's German publishers, but the accident of their surname matching t the author's makes them her clever stand-indominant force it once was. As the novel opens Nobody in 1872, the venerable English author West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is exploring Homburg and Berlin in the company best course of her 'husband' while ushering her latest novelaction. Governments are flailing. A war here, ''Middlemarch''a push for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is in actual charge. Imagine then, into German translationthere was a man with precognition. Max, Imagine the strategic advantage in this asset; a young cad fond man who can tell you what will happen given any set of casinos and brothelscircumstances. That man would be valuable, has two tasks: ensuring Eliot's loyalty to their publishing houseright? Perhaps the most valuable asset in history. Imagine then, and securing Countess Sophie von Hahn's hand in marriagethat this man loses this ability.What would governments do to get it back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140886052X</amazonuk>B0C9SNG8R1
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sara Baume0571379559|title=Spill Simmer Falter WitherThe House of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams
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|summary=Every Tuesday he goes into town''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the story of four people. This particular Tuesday he sees an advert for a rescue dog thatTess Hembry's been badly treated by its previous ownerroots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in the house on the riverbank, built of broken bricks. Somewhere Insubstantial as it might look, it's stood the ad strikes a resonance passage of time, storms and he adopts the dogfloods. Her husband, calling it Oneeye (yesRichard, one wordstruggles to grow his vegetables, just like that)to complete the delivery rounds - and to bring in sufficient money. Gradually over shared meals a friendship grows They have twin boys - Sonny and develops over Max, the seasons as the spill of spring turns to summerrainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's simmerJamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. People don't believe that they're related, through the falter of autumn much less twins and on to withering winterthere's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she's his nanny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0992817064</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael LaubClaire North|title=Diary House of the Fall|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Diary of the Fall is a story about regret, guilt and resentment. It's told from the point of view of an unnamed narrator, who reflects on not just his own life but also the lives of his father and grandfather.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099581795</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Antoine Laurain, Emily Boyce (translator) and Jane Aitken (translator)|title=The Red NotebookOdysseus
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|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Meet Laure. She's 'What could matter more than love?'' The follow-up to the excellent ''Ithaca'' picks up a widow in few months after where we left off. In the palace of Odysseus, with delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without her 40shusband, who is entering her Parisian apartment building one night when she's mugged, sailed to war at Troy and her handbag stolenthen by divine intervention never returned home. Meet Laurent, a middle-aged bookseller, who happens upon As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for the handbag throne of the following morning in Western Isles. Having survived – politically and physical – the streetchaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to Ithaca's shores, just before Queen Penelope is on the binmen take it away, never to be seen againbrink of a fragile peace. More or less snubbed when trying to hand it to One that shatters however with the police as lost propertyreturn of Orestes, he decides to take it upon himself to reunite the bag with its rightful owner. He has no idea their names are so intimately linkedKing of Mycenae, and despite a lot of things being in the bag (including the titular notebook) there is no cashhis sister Elektra, no phone and no ID documentation at allseeking refuge. What's more – and what looks like making the idea even more fruitless – he has no idea that Laure has fallen into a coma as a result of the mugging…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908313862</amazonuk>0356516075
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Edward Parnell Kay Chronister|title= The Listeners Desert Creatures|rating= 4 |genre= Literary Dystopian Fiction |summary=May 1940. William Abrehart has not spoken since the mysterious death of his father, choosing instead to spend his days in the woods With a world that surround his home. A promise he made to his dying father means that he is responsible becoming increasingly inhospitable for the wellbeing of his two sistershumanity, and their withdrawn motherpost-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Over the course of Whether it is a weekendrobotic takeover, ghosts a world devoid of the past cause buried secretswater or a nuclear holocaust, lies and promises this genre is a way for humans to come spilling out cathartically experience their most existential fears. ''Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is a new work of post- culminating in apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the fears that exist for humanity today. It is a series of shocking eventsnovel that still manages to find hope. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781331065</amazonuk>1803364998
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{{newreviewfrontpage|isbn=1803363002|author=Nadia HashimiEric LaRocca|title=The Pearl a That Broke Its ShellTrees Grew Because I Bled There|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionHorror|summary=Kabul 2007: Rahima 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 her sisters are followed process them. Most horror fiction feature a ''Big Bad'', whether that is a home from school one day by invader, a monster or a boy on his bike. He taunts them innocently enough as little boys doghost, but with no sibling brotherit usually something tangible and, by the end of the girls are unchaperoned in this land story, beatable. Eric LaRocca's ''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is not like that . It is ruled by a collection of short stories more interested in the laws horrors of menillness, grief and humiliation. And as daughters in a household without sons, in a country Horrors that is governed by fear, the consequences will weigh heavily for them alllinger and are harder to defeat than any ''Big Bad''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0062244760</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Norah VincentMadelaine Lucas|title=Adeline: A Novel of Virginia WoolfThirst for Salt
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|summary=Back in 1999, when ''The Hours'Love, I' won the Pulitzer Prized read, Michael Cunningham set was supposed to be a precedent light and weightless feeling, but I had always longed for depicting Woolfgravity''s later life and suicide. Nicole Kidman won Told from a retrospective view, a Best Actress Oscar for young woman unravels the year-long relationship that once defined her role as Woolf in . Overlaid with later wisdom, the film version of narrator relives the novel; she is best remembered for wearing affair with a prosthetic nose. Fast forward 15 man twenty yearsher senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the summer after. In 2014–2015 alone, three major novels about Virginia Woolf have been published. That confluence, especially in a Set against the backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the 24-year that does not mark a significant anniversary, speaks to a continuing interest in Woolf-old narrator's life deepening relationship with her older lover, depicting its all-consuming nature, how it changed her perspective on both romantic and writingsfamilial relationships and how it altered her irrevocably.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349005648</amazonuk>0861546490
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ivan Repila and Sophie Hughes (translator)Michael Grothaus|title=The Boy Who Stole Attila's HorseBeautiful 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.''
''Beautiful Shining People'' revolves around the question of identity and acceptance. Of what it means to be human. Of what is real and what is artificial, and whether the development of technology is exciting or frightening.
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{{Frontpage
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|title=Atalanta
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=If you pick up a copy ''I was as worthy as any one of this book you realise how small it isthem. You'll knowI would get on board that ship, of courseI vowed. I would take my place, that pockets hardly exist that are normally big enough to hold what we used to call a pocket book, but here is not just in the exception to prove name of the rulegoddess. Itwas for the sake of my name, too. Atalanta''s wee Princess. Warrior. Lover. The story Hero. Abandoned at birth for being born a daughter rather than a son, Atalanta is on raised under the protective eye of the goddess Athemis and fashioned into a hundred pagesformidable huntress, one who longs for adventure. The concision is partly down When the opportunity comes – to it starting after join the beginning, for we first meet Big and Small, two brothersArgonauts, once they're stuck down a large well in the middle fierce band of a forest. Tasked with a family errandwarriors, theydescendent from the Gods themselves – Atalanta seizes the chance to fight in Artemis're trapped at the bottom of a natural Erlenmeyer flask, name and even a desperate move cannot get either carve outher own legendary place in history. This What follows is the story a whirlwind of the next three months in their existencechallenges and discovery and through it, as they brave hungerAtalanta must remember Artemis' fatal warning: that if she marries, delirium, loss of language, and the brute and unstinting human selfishness needed for existenceit will be her undoing.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782271015</amazonuk>1472292154
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jamie KornegayAmanthi Harris|title=SoilBeautiful Place|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=Jay Mize Padma, a young Sri Lankan, has returned to the Villa Hibiscus on the southern coast of her home country. This is a scientific man with a particular interest in soil and agricultureplace she spent her formative years. He decides he It is not a place she was born into, but the one she thinks of as home. How she came to pioneer a revolution in farming techniques be at the Villa, how it became her home, and uproots his wife the machinations that have flowed through her life ever since she first arrived there provide the ''score'' for this gentle and son to set up an experimental farm on a plot of land in the countryyet subtly violent novel. Jay is also an obsessive man and his plans take over, becoming his only focus and causing his family Padma's present fails to leave him. Then flooding ruins his crops escape her past and he is left at much like the end musical score of his tether; things only get worse when Jay finds a dead body on his land and his tenuous grip on his sanity is releasedfilm, that strand weaves its way through everything that happens at the Villa.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473607035</amazonuk>1784631930
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karen Campbell178563335X|title=RiseSea Defences|author=Hilary Taylor|rating=45
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|summary=Justine is running for her life. SheWhen we first meet Rachel Bird she's had enough of being someone elsea trainee vicar, sitting in on a PCC meeting and wondering why they's property, of being subjected re held when you need to pick the kind of love that has seen her tattooed and owned and beaten children up. Her husband, Christopher, collects six-year-old Hannah and rented out to others to earn her keepelder brother, Jamie, whilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioner. So sheThelma's taken what isndaughter-in-law won't herslet her see her grandson. Holthorpe, on the Norfolk coast, is a lovely place, but then was never actually his either, Rachel is struggling to develop a real bond with the parish - and she's packed a bagin awe of the vicar, Gail, waited until he is drunk-enough asleep not to hear her say goodbye to but then she's been doing the dog, job for more than thirty years. Rachel and has leftChristopher hoped that a walk on the beach would do them some good - it was stormy but it was probably what they needed. And then Hannah went missing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408857928</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dorthe Nors1398515388|title=Karate Chop, and Minna Needs Rehearsal Space|rating=3.5|genre=Short Stories|summary=The reviewer picks up the book.<br>The book is called ''Minna Needs Rehearsal Space''.<br>The book is entirely made out of one-sentence paragraphs.<br>The one-sentence paragraphs are very seldom poetic, but normally are grammatically correct sentences.<br>The one-sentence paragraphs on the whole have just one verb, unless regarding that from reported or unreported speech.<br>The book concerns a middle-aged musician Boy and composer who does indeed need rehearsal space.<br>The book concerns a woman who suddenly gets more space than she wants when her boyfriend leaves her.<br>The boyfriend's departure causes a lot of people crowding around Minna, which causes a problem.<br>The problem might be resolved by a trip away from her city flat.<br>The title of the book might be ironic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782271198</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewDog|author=Chigozie Obioma|title=The FishermenSeishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating=4.5
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|summary=This book is essentially a cautionary family tale First of four brothers and the way they react to a prophecy about them by all, it was the local madman. It is alsoearthquake, deep in a sensethe ocean floor, a coming-of-age story where Benwhich created the tsunami and this, the young narratorin turn, is plunged into premature adulthood under caused the most brutal of circumstancesnuclear meltdown. And it is about brotherly loveThe result was complete and utter devastation. None of these descriptions The deaths were uncountable, however, convey and the loss of livelihoods was widespread. The fact that this book is written by an exciting new voice in African literary fiction.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0957548850</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jennifer Clement|title=Prayers for many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of priorities but - six months after the Stolen|rating=3.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Ladydi Garcia Martínez lives in rural Chilpancingo, Mexico, with her mother, Rita, who works as tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a cleaning lady for dog outside a rich familyconvenience store. Like many of He wasn't a dog person but the men in their town who left to find work, Ladydiconvenience store owner's father crossed the river into America, where comment that he is rumoured would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to have another family. As a result, this is very much a matriarchal community. Rita describes open his car door and Tamon the situation for Ladydi's teacher: 'You men don't get it, yet, do you? This is a land of womendog jumped in. Mexico belongs to women.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099587599</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Grossman0989715337|title=Falling Out of TimePapa on the Moon|author=Marco North
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|summary=Like ''Some frogs had gotten into the central characters in well.''Falling Out of Time ''Walter stood waist-deep in the fragrant water, Israeli author David Grossman lost naked except for his son, a soldier named Uri, during the Middle East conflictbeaten leather hat. In this multifaceted examination Long strands of bereavementtheir eggs wove around him, it seems that everyone has lost a childsticky gray pearls with tadpoles inside them. The genre-bending mixture Two of poetry, absurdist dialogue, the dogs leaned over the opening and barked down at the strange noise of the buckets as he filled them.'' How is that for an inverted fairy tale reflects opening? The style of this novel in the difficulty form of ever capturing grief in language. Each story interconnected short stories goes from succinct and laconic to wistful and each strategy is like musing, turning on a new way sixpence. And author Marco North, who has the most wonderful turn of approaching the unspeakablephrase, starts as he means to go on.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099583720</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Samantha EllisDaisy Hildyard|title=How To Be A Heroine: Or, what I've learned from reading too muchEmergency
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|summary=The summary of this book doesn''How t come close to be a Heroine'' explaining what is done with the premise.|isbn=1913097811}} {{Frontpage |author=Sally Oliver |title=The Weight of Loss |rating=4 |genre=Literary Fiction |summary= Marianne is a pleasant 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 addictive readvolume. Playwright Samantha Ellis looks back at her childhood Her GP, diagnosing the odd phenomenon as a voracious reader 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 remembers the characters that influenced other patients at Nede: a metamorphosis of a kind. As Marianne's memories threaten to overwhelm her. These are as diverse as Sylvia Plath, ''Little Women'' Nede offers her release from this cycle of memory and Scheherazadepain—but only at a terrible price: that of identity itself.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099575566</amazonuk>086154112X }}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ian WalthewNatalia Garcia Freire|title=The Complex Chemistry of LossThis World Does Not Belong To Us
|rating=5
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|summary=It probably tells you a lot about the atmosphere of Early comments on this book that for the whole time I was reading itdebut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendous, a delight. I thought will agree with the title was first – tremendous is no understatement – but 'a delight'If is perhaps using the expression in a way I Fall, 'm not familiar with. I Die''have to confess my ignorance of the Spanish-language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation here. That missing second From the little I have read (in translation, I don''If'' is probably at t read Spanish) there does seem to be a tendency towards the crux of fantastical – the whole talemystical realism.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>043402306X</amazonuk>0861541901
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Virginia BurgesJennifer Saint|title=The Virtuoso|rating=3.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=The title character of ''The Virtuoso'' is Isabelle Bryant, a professional violinist who has earned the affectionate nickname of 'Beethoven's Babe'. She was the youngest-ever winner of the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition and gave her first solo performance, of Beethoven's violin concerto, at Royal Albert Hall. 'Her violin represented another limb to her, it was that precious. It felt so natural, like an extension of her body.' It would hardly be an exaggeration to say that the violin is Isabelle's life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00R07U0B0</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Adam Foulds|title=In The Wolf's MouthElektra
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|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=In Sicily, bandits steal 'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the story of three women who live in the sheep heavily male dominated world of a young shepherd. Distraught, he seeks out his local Mafioso for helpAncient Greece. Sixteen years later, two men are traveling to Sicily - oneCassandra, a young English officerClytemnestra, and the other an American infantryman. They Elektra are all soon thrust into a war that is greater and more terrible than anything they could have dreamed, and they all must find different ways to survive its terrors.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009958686X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Eliza Robertson|title=Wallflowers|rating=4|genre=Short Stories|summary=Eliza Robertson won the Man Booker Scholarship and Curtis Brown Prize while completing her MA bit players in Creative Writing at the University story of East Angliathe Trojan War. ''Wallflowers'' is already a bestseller in Robertson's native Canada. There is quite some variety across Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the silent women have the seventeen most compelling stories. Broadly speaking, though, there are a few themes: moving on from loss, finding love in the midst of gentle madness, and interactions with the natural world, often on the edge of Canada's British Columbia wildernessmost extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408856794</amazonuk>1472273915
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Edith Pearlman|title=Honeydew|rating=4|genre=Short Stories|summary=American short story writer [[:Category:Edith Pearlman|Edith Pearlman]] brings us a compilation of stories that have only been seen separately in magazines over the years. This follows on from the huge success of ''Binocular Vision'' (in 2013), the short story collection that led to Ms Pearlman being presented with the National Critics' Circle Award. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444797018</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|authorisbn=Robert Schneider8409290103|title=Brother of Sleep|rating=3.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''Brother of Sleep'' tells the story of Elias Johannes Alder, a child born into a god forsaken village high in the Austrian Vorarlberg. He came into the world as a silent child, while his mother was screaming and the midwife wasn't really paying attention. It took a couple of loud intonations of the Te Deum from the neglectful nurse before he finally uttered a sound. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715649205</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewIf Only|author=Edwidge Danticat|title=Claire of the Sea LightMatthew Tree
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Claire Limye Lamne (Claire of 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 Sea Light) is born in young man got on board the fishing village of Ville Rose, Haiti as her mother diesboat and thereafter Patrick was to send him a monthly allowance. Her father Nozias, Patrick sent the money regularly and a poor fisherman, spends his life trying correspondence - of sorts - sprang up between the two although we hear more about what Lowry has to make a better life say than Patrick. It wasn't that Lowry senior didn't care for his baby son, it was that he didn't care to such an extent that have him in this country where he eventually encourages might be a local fabric seller danger to take Clairehis wife and other children. This happens on the night of Claire's 7th birthday; the night that little Claire goes missing The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to get the fabric seller can take heryoung man on his way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782068511</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rebecca LeeAntoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)|title=Bobcat and Other StoriesRed is My Heart
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|genre=Short StoriesLiterary Fiction |summary=The first story in ''Bobcat'' is the title story, [[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white and this alone is worth the price of admission. Plaster it with prizes, put it read in anthologies; it deserves every accolade it can getmy house. HoweverAnd so was this one, the last story echoes the firstalthough I could have spelled that more accurately – this one was, and the five tales in between are strangely repetitiveis, most with Midwestern North American narrators black and 1980s university settingswhite and red. MoreoverYes, all seven are in he has an artistic collaborator on this piece, and I think it's possible to say not one page lacks the first-person; I would have appreciated more variety influence of perspectivesome striking visual ideas.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1922182311</amazonuk>1913547183
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mary CostelloB098FFFBH9|title=Academy StreetSnowcub|author=Graham Fulbright
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=It is 1944. Tess Lohan's mother has just died at age 40, of tuberculosis. SevenFourteen-year-old Tess Rachel is one of six children her school's animal rights project leader and she and her friend are producing a competition entry to highlight the way in a rural Irish familywhich human beings exploit the animal world. They live at Easterfield, She gets a centuries-old manor house. A teacher later tells Tess the history great deal of support from her homefamily: built in 1678father Pip Harrison, it was a famine hospital in the 1840s; there are numerous corpses buried on the land. He hints there may be many ghosts on the propertylecturer at Imperial College, London, but the only one that haunts Tess is her dead mother. 'Memories and traces of her mother must linger all over the house – in rooms Kate and halls and landings. The dent of her feet on a rug. On a cuptwin, the mark of her handNick.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782114181</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Rob Doyle|title=Here Are Kate runs the Young Men|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''Here are the Young Men'' surges forward, oozing edginessfamily business, from the very first sentence. Is that a bad thing? Probably not. It just means that readers may at times slip out of the storytoy shop called Cornucopia in Putney, feel themselves taking a step back and admiring the spare coolness which is where we'll meet Rachel's main (if unsuspected) source of the novel before easing back into the narrativeinformation: five soft toys.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408863731</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robert EdricYancey Williams|title=Sanctuary|rating=3|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Everyone knows Charlotte, Emily and Anne. Not many know that this famous trio Crosshairs of literary sisters also had a brother, Patrick Branwell Brontë, born the year after Charlotte and a year before Emily. Like his sisters, he had literary ambitions: he wrote juvenile stories, poems and translations from the Greek; he also trained as a painter (you have most likely seen his famous painting of his sisters). Again like his sisters, however, he was destined to die young.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857522876</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Takashi Hiraide|title=The Guest CatDevil
|rating=4.5
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|summary=''The Guest Cat'' had me at the cover. The reflective green material makes the cat's eyes glow and glint eerily Award-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski is getting on in the light. There is something ethereal years and otherworldly about this novella , despite his strenuous objections and that is before I've even read a single word. This simple story about a Japanese couple and the cat that decides thanks to adopt them has become an international besthis daughter, finds himself living -seller and I was keen to find out why.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447279409</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Susan Hill|title=Black Sheep|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Mount or imprisoned, from Eddie's point of Zeal is a mining village, and no mistake. Three concentric semiview -circular streets align across in room 315 of the side Garden of Eden nursing home, with only a hilltrusty nursing aide, like the rows of seats in an amphitheatreJenkins, with little thought at all allowed for the life above the crest of the hill, and a lot of effort and dreams focused on the coal mine at the village's corepalatable company. The Howker family (and how evocative that name Nothing is, so akin going to the noise keep Eddie from his stock-in-trade of hawking coal dust from one's lungs)writing though, and Ted and Roseso here, the youngest of the clanfor his readers, in particular, will face the destiny the environment they grow up in gives them – with only the merest glimmers of hope and the faintest of sparks to latch on to as regards a likeable futureare his wanderings through his life's work. But if that is a faint spark, then how safe is it so close to the tinderbox of a coal mine?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>009953956X</amazonuk>0986031658}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sue Peebles0008421714|title=Snake RoadMrs March|author=Virginia Feito
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|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=No one listened when Peggy Kirkpatrick The problem began talking about a baby called Eleanor - well, no one except her granddaughter Agatha. You see, Peggy is elderly and she has dementia. No one has heard just after the publication of George March'Eleanor's most successful novel to date. Some days are better than others, Everyone but none are particularly good. Peggy's unpredictable and sometimes it is - quite literally - a fight Mrs March (we know her first name only on the last page) seemed to wash her and she'll either go outside in her nightdress be reading it or wear multiple skirts indoorshad already done so. The burden is carried most of Every day Mrs March went to the time by her daughterlocal patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, Patricia asked, Maryas she was wrapping the bread, ''but itisn't this the first time he's Aggie who attends based a character on you?'' She mentioned that Johanna, the dementia carersprincipal character had ' group in her place and it was probably mannerisms''. Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for the fact that provoked her into listening more carefully to what her Gran was saying and trying to learn more about her history in Johanna is the hope whore of keeping Peggy in the presentNantes - ''a weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099575841</amazonuk>''
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