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[[Category:New Reviews|Literary Fiction]]==Literary fiction==__NOTOC__{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Naomi Alderman295967572X|title=The Liars' GospelPale Pieces|author=G M Stevens
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=In Our unnamed narrator is about to begin a train journey with his companion Django. Where they''The Liars' Gospel'', Naomi Alderman gives re going and what the perspective purpose of four people on the recent death of a Jewish man named Yehoshuahthis journey is, who is more commonly known these days by the anglicized name of Jesusuncertain. These perspectives include Miryam (Mary), Django found the teachertickets 's mother, Iehuda of Qeriot (Judas Iscariot), a one time follower of 'on the man, Caiaphas, the High Priest of the great Temple in Jerusalem floor somewhere'' and finally Bar-Avo, Barabbas, a rebel who is determined has persuaded our narrator to bring down the occupying Roman presenceaccompany him. What makes this such a remarkable book Why not? Not much else is clear either - but we are probably in the past as the sheer visceral nature of pair travel to the story telling. Each story is vividly told, station by coach and Alderman evokes the time and place to such train is a level that you half expect to have developed a sun tan while reading the booksteam locomotive.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>067091990X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Pat BarkerMakenna Goodman|title=TobyHelen of Nowhere|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=It could be argued that the pervading theme of this book is malaise - a hard-to-place feeling that something in your life is not quite right. The protagonist, a disgraced professor on the brink of losing both his career and his relationship, embodies this feeling. However, Goodman counteracts his discomfort with a force which is seductive, radical and unnerving: Helen. The connection between Helen and the protagonist is indirect yet intimate. As the former owner of the countryside house he's Roomconsidering, Helen represents a volta in his life, her past tied to his potential fresh start. The realtor who shows the protagonist around the house shares stories about Helen, and describes her as ''an entity that is pure consciousness, beyond form''. Although she lives in an assisted living facility now, Helen has powers beyond comprehension which the reader gets the sense are not altogether innocuous.|isbn=1804272205}}{{Frontpage|author=Olga Tokarczuk|title=House of Day, House of Night
|rating=5
|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 What's the clock back to good of a time when they were more innocent. But looking back, the summer of 1912 would seem idyllic: world that keeps changing like that? How can one go on calmly living in 1917 Toby was reported it?'Missing, Believed Killed'. Elinor was determined 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>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tupelo HassmanThea Lenarduzzi|title=GirlchildThe Tower
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Rory Dawn Hendrix (RD for short) lives with her mother in ''How unctuous are the ironically named Calle de las Flores or Street fats of Flowers; a pretty name masking a less than idyllic setting. For Calle is a trailer park for those living a another's life sentence of poverty, the inhabitants being as upwardly mobile as how dizzying 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 is also a Girl Scout and has a handbook to prove it but shesugars in our bloodstream''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 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 be enough?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178087104X</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=James KelmanJon Fosse and Damion Searls (translator) |title=Mo Said She Was QuirkyVaim
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Mo may have said that Helen ''All was quirky - neurotic might have been a more accurate assessment of his partner though. Although not a first person narrative, James Kelmanstrange''s latest is another dramatic monologue, although the first time he has placed a female as his main character. Helen is a single mother, working nights as a croupier in a London casino. Mo is her Asian boyfriend. In fairness to HelenThis haunting phrase encapsulates the pervading sense of otherworldliness which permeates this story set in Vaim, she has a lot to worry about - a damaged upbringing that has seen her older brother leave home without tracefictional fishing village in Norway which paradoxically could not feel more real for Jatgeir and Eline, a failed marriage, and a life two of constant struggle. As usual with Kelman, his approach is tender, yet gritty 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 protagonists caught in its melancholic current.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0241144566</amazonuk>1804271829
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ivo StourtonClaire-Louise Bennett|title=The Book Lover's TaleBig Kiss, Bye-Bye |rating=4.5|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Matt will admit that his writing career failedEverything in this book, however sweet or seemingly innocent, is steeped in anguish and so he had to join his wife in interior designdistortion. Even a kiss, usually a symbol of intimacy and closeness, where he can use his becomes evidence of love of books to arrange - at a cost - lost. When the contentsnarrator cries out internally, design ''come over here and most importantly the colourskiss me, of upper class people's home libraries for them. He'll concede that it's is less an invitation than a good way desperate attempt to get into the houses, and beds, confirm her emotional numbness. The imagined recipient of rich womenthis plea is Xavier, such as his latest flameher ex-partner, Claudiaa ghost she conjures to test her detachment. But why is this, his confession, talking of murder?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552773875</amazonuk>1804271934
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=John BanvilleHelene Bessette and Kate Briggs (translator)|title=Ancient LightLili is Crying
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The narrator First published in John Banville's ''Ancient Light'' 1953 in French, this novel is Alex Cleave, a stage actor in timeless text which wrenches the curtain call of his career. For reasons that become clearer towards the end hearts of its readers just as Bessette wrenches words and sentences from their proper position on the book, he is recalling his first relationshippage and positions them elsewhere, when as a teenager in 1950s Irelanddisjointed, he had a passionate affair with truncated. Like the mother lives of his best friend. Howeverher characters, his past is also blighted by recollections of his own daughter's suicide ten years previouslythey are often left tragically incomplete.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0670920614</amazonuk>1804271675
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David RainJonathan Buckley|title=The Heat of the SunOne Boat|rating=54
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=David Rain ''One Boat'' is far too young a deeply introspective novella that defies traditional narrative structure, drawing the reader into a contemplative realm of philosophical musings and fragmented memories flowing from our narrator and protagonist, Teresa. Set against the evocative backdrop of a small coastal Greek town, this work masterfully captures the magic of its setting and its power to be writing this exquisitelyprovoke profound introspection. That's all I'm going to sayTeresa herself recognises these qualities as the reason she has visited it after the death of both her parents. OhPrompted by her mourning, her narrative voice is meditative and deeply self-aware, you need me to justify inviting the reader into her labyrinthine cogitations. It is a book that comment? not only requires but inspires depth of thought, since its narrative structure is fragmentary and ironically relies on analepsis for its propulsion.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857892037</amazonuk>1804271764
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jeremy ChambersEowyn Ivey|title=The Vintage and the GleaningBlack Woods Blue Sky|rating=3.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Smithy''Black Woods Blue Sky'' tells the story of Birdie, the young mother of toddler Emaleen, who longs for a retired sheep shearer, now life beyond the Alaskan lodge where she works on as a vineyard in the countryside of Victoriabar waitress, Australia. Too poor to retire a setting which enables her bad habits and too ill from the after effects her accidental neglect of his former alcoholic lifestyle to return to the physically arduous world of shearingEmaleen. Described as a ''wild card'', he exists rather than lives amongst his mates and near his son and daughtershe feels stuck in her day-into-law. Meanwhile rumours abound about the deeds of local thugday life, Brett Clayton and, whether true or not, he's definitely someone yearns to be avoided. However, when Brett's wife Charlotte leaves him cross the Wolverine river and asks Smithy live on the North Fork to take fulfil her indesires of a simple life surrounded by nature. When she meets Arthur Nielson, he does so without a second thought. Sheltered under his roof strange, taciturn and protectionsolitary man, Charlotte confides in Smithywho says he has a cabin over there, forcing him she feels called to remember his own past go - and dreamsbring Emaleen with her. Meanwhile the unspoken question remains: Brett knows where Charlotte is so whatWithout realising it, this calling will transform hers and Emaleen's he going to do about it?lives forever.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780871635</amazonuk>1472279042
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Timeri N MurariSally Rooney|title=The Taliban Cricket ClubIntermezzo
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=We all knowSally Rooney has studied the chessboard of life and is something of a grandmaster at putting it into words. Her dialogue is gripping and so brilliantly frustrating, or think we knowas her characters never quite say exactly what they feel. Among the many relationships woven into this story, how oppressive life was the central one for Afghansreaders to unravel is the fraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and Peter Koubek. Ivan, particularly Afghan womena socially awkward chess prodigy, under the Taliban regimecontrasts sharply with his older brother Peter, but when you read this novela successful lawyer living in Dublin. Following their father's passing after a long battle with cancer, boy do you get a sense of how tough it really wasthe brothers' already strained relationship faces new trials.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1742378846</amazonuk>0571365469
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alix OhlinFyodor Dostoyevsky|title=InsideWhite Nights
|rating=5
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=As always in Dostoyevsky, the character work is sublime. One is never left wondering what a character is thinking or feeling because Dostoyevsky lays bare their innermost dispositions and temperaments with remarkable clarity.
|isbn=0241619785
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{{Frontpage
|author=James Baldwin
|title=Giovanni's Room
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=''Giovanni's Room'' follows the narrator David, an American man living in Paris, as he navigates his torturous affair with Giovanni, an Italian bartender he meets in a gay bar. While David is engaged to Hella, who is travelling in Spain, the real tension in the novel arises not from his infidelity but from the deeper conflict within himself. It is David's crippling shame and denial of his sexuality that ultimately dooms his relationship with Giovanni.
|isbn=0141186356
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{{Frontpage
|author=Alba de Cespedes
|title=Forbidden Notebook
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Grace, a therapist, stumbles upon a young man in the woods who has attempted to commit suicide, and her vocational interests are immediately engaged. The novel takes us through their complex relationship, both its surface routines This Italian work of feminist fiction holds an air of suspense and day to day moments but also Grace's eventually successful search for tension from the reasons behind Tug's desperation. Ohlin interlaces with this the story of Mitch, Grace's ex-husbandmoment our protagonist, and of AnnieValeria Cossati, one of purchases her clientsforbidden notebook, chronicling both their relationship with Grace, but also their network of families and friends, acquaintances learns about herself in the most intimate and colleaguesrevealing ways.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780871104</amazonuk>1782278222
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michel HouellebecqOttessa Moshfegh|title=The Map My Year of Rest and the TerritoryRelaxation|rating=53
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Jed MartinAt best, initially this novel is a photographer scathing critique of modern society and later painterreveals the fragility of human relationships; at worst, has a singular take on it is the world cynical, predictable and his craftslightly trite tale of an unlikeable protagonist. This novel takes him from obscurity as unlikely heroine, a reclusive student to fame as the doyenne of the contemporary art scene slim, attractive and newly orphaned girl in this journey we see exposed both the underlying values but in many ways the essential emptiness of her twenties is disillusioned with the art world. He is 'taken up', feted and courted by critics and patrons, by those who know nothing but monetary value, and Houellebecq doesn't let any opportunity for a sharp gibe at galleries, art critics and agents go past. The key resolves not to Jed's fame is ironically his complete anonymitylose sleep over it: in fact, and Houellebecq’s creation of the catarrh dribbling agent Marylin who manages Jed’s ‘outing’ is one of the classics of modern satireher solution lies in her hibernation. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099554577</amazonuk>1784707422
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jose SaramagoMatthew Tree|title=CainWe'll Never Know
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Death is only the beginning, or so some sayTimothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a drunk and the first death chronic underachiever whose dreams of one human being exceptional at the hands of another - Cain's slaying any of Abel with what always seemed an unlikely murder weapon - is the start of this excoriating drive through what Cain felt when set against the god that both snubbed his sacrifices and allowed, despite alleged omnipotence, the murder in the first place. Riding a donkey, this Cain takes up life as personal guard artistic passions all failed miserably and lover to Lilith, but also leaves the Land of Nod for diverse Old Testament locations, where he sees the stories of the golden calf, the tower who had endless crises of Babel, Sodom and Gomorrah and more at first handself confidence. All they ever do is make him realise the gulf between what god is supposed So Tim applied himself to benevolently embody, and how he acts.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099552248</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sarah Quigley|title=The Conductor|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Composer Dmitri Shostakovich can block anything out whilst he's writing music: his wife Nina's voicestudies, cultivated his children arguing, even the side effects of living in Stalinist Leningrad. However, life is about to become more abilities rather 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 Leningrad. Shostakovich then realises, just as gradually, that his music may serve a purpose to sustain his compatriots in the absence of sufficient food daydreams 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 heritage. He therefore turns to Karl Eliasberg, the aspiring but third rate conductor of a cobbled together orchestra. Music can create miracles set himself high but, for Eliasberg and his musicians, being able to play it will be the biggest miracle of allachievable ambitions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>190880002X</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=Austin RatnerMosby Woods|title=The Jump ArtistA Whirly Man Loses His Turn
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Austin Ratner's debut novel, ''The Jump ArtistWest isn'', first published t the dominant force it once was. Nobody in the US in 2009, West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is a fictionalised account of the extraordinary life best course of celebrated photographeraction. Governments are flailing. A war here, Philippe Halsmana push for climate action there. Born a Latvian JewA feeling that nobody is in actual charge. Imagine then, as there was a young man with precognition. Imagine the strategic advantage in 1928 he was walking in the Austrian mountains when he saw his father fall to his deaththis asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. This That man would be traumatic for anyonevaluable, but the issues were compounded when he was accused of murder by right? Perhaps the Austrian courts in what was probably anti-semitic and certainly xenophobic most valuable asset in explanationhistory. Philippe's second trialImagine then, the first failing potentially because his mother had engaged a Jewish lawyer, details the fundamental lack of evidence and shoddy police work behind the accusationthat this man loses this ability.What would governments do to get it back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0670921599</amazonuk>B0C9SNG8R1
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin Amis0571379559|title=Lionel AsboThe House of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams|rating=3.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Martin Amis can ''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the story of four people. Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be relied upon to create some pretty nastyhappier there, self-centred central characters. Usually they are upper class cads and bounders but instead, she lives in Lionel Asbo his central character is at the polar opposite in terms house on the riverbank, built of classbroken bricks. He Insubstantial as it might look, it's violentstood the passage of time, uncouth storms and ignorantfloods. 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 Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his nephewvegetables, Des, who in fact is to complete the central character delivery rounds - and to bring in the booksufficient money. Des, in contrast is far more sympathetic They have twin boys - intelligent Sonny and kindMax, that is if you overlook the fact rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. People don't believe that as a 15 year old he had they're related, much less twins and there's an affair assumption when Max is out with his grandmother, Lionel's mother. Hey, no onethat she's perfecthis nanny. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224096206</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
|author=Claire North
|title=House of Odysseus
|rating=5
|genre= Literary Fiction
|summary= ''What could matter more than love?''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=L R FredericksKay Chronister|title=FarundellDesert Creatures|rating=3.54|genre=Historical Dystopian Fiction|summary=American Paul Asher With a world that is damaged by memories and dreams originating from World War Ibecoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, or at least he thinks that's where they're frompost-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Once the war Whether it is over anda robotic takeover, as he's estranged from his father in the USa world devoid of water or a nuclear holocaust, Paul decides this genre is a way for humans to remain in the UK to find workcathartically experience their most existential fears. Work comes to him as he's asked to assist Lord Percy Damory at Farundell, the Damory ancestral home. Paul's job Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is straightforward: Sir Percy needs someone to whom he can dictate memoirs a new work of a wellpost-travelled life among distant tribesapocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the fears that exist for humanity today. However Paul's life at Farundell will be anything but straightforward thanks It is a shocking novel that still manages to the Damorys' apparent eccentricities, an ancestor from the 18th century who refuses to be labelled as a ghost and, of course, there's Sylviefind hope.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184854328X</amazonuk>1803364998
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{{newreviewfrontpage|isbn=1803363002|author=L R FredericksEric LaRocca|title=FateThe Trees Grew Because I Bled There|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionHorror|summary=Horror taps into something primeval within us. It's the 18th century and 11 year old Francis Damory is spoken used as a way to by great great grandfatherreflect our darkest emotions and how we as humans react and process them. Most horror fiction feature a ''Big Bad'', Tobias. Nothing odd except whether that Tobias is dead a home invader, a monster or a ghost, it usually something tangible and speaks via a portrait in Farundell, by the familyend of the story, beatable. Eric LaRocca's Oxfordshire home''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is not like that. Hence begins It is a collection of short stories more interested in the obsession horrors of illness, grief and humiliation. Horrors that will take the adult Sir Francis across the world linger and through a lifetime of adventures are harder to track Tobias down. The longer Francis looks, the more he realises that Great Great Grandfather isndefeat than any ''Big Bad't dead and that, therefore, Francis wants whatever he's on.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184854331X</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
|author=Madelaine Lucas
|title=Thirst for Salt
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= ''Love, I'd read, was supposed to be a light and weightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravity''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alissa Walser and Jamie Bulloch (translator)Michael Grothaus|title=MesmerizedBeautiful Shining People
|rating=4
|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=Celebrated scientist (at least in his own mind) Franz Anton Mesmer is called upon ''But fearing something and having it come to cure the blindness of 18 year old piano virtuoso and courtier's daughter Marie Theresia Paradispass are two different things. Despite the unease of her parents, Mesmer installs Marie into his 'magnetic hospitalAnd I' where, alongside his other patients, she settles in m willing to a regime bet most of treatmentwhat we fear will never happen, including free access or we can take steps to Mesmer's beloved pianochange it. Mesmer is the Paradis' last resort and so they're happy to pay for success but they come to realise that the final cost may not be entirely financial and he realises that the result may not be beneficial to all parties.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857051008</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lionel ShriverJennifer Saint|title=The New RepublicAtalanta|rating=35
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Lionel Shriver adds a beard-shaped appendage to Southern Portugal in The New Republic and immediately has it fighting for independence, taking a wry look at terrorism ''I was as well worthy as the ethics any one of the international press corpsthem. After a series of international terrorism actsI would get on board that ship, the Os Soldados Ousados De BarbaI vowed. I would take my place, or not just in the SOB for short, have gone quiet at name of the same time as charismatic journalist Barrington Sadler has vanished without a tracegoddess. Insecure former lawyer Edgar Kellogg steps into Barrington's post: Kellogg on It was for the hunt for serial killerssake of my name, as it weretoo. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007459807</amazonuk>}}Atalanta''
Abandoned at birth for being born a daughter rather than a son, Atalanta is raised under the protective eye of the goddess Athemis and fashioned into a formidable huntress, one who longs for adventure. When the opportunity comes – to join the Argonauts, a fierce band of warriors, descendent from the Gods themselves – Atalanta seizes the chance to fight in Artemis''Breathless'' name and carve out her own legendary place in history. What follows is one a whirlwind of those challenges and discovery and through it, Atalanta must remember Artemis' fatal warning: that I neither love nor hateif she marries, and yet am not totally uninspired by eitherit will be her undoing. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857051032</amazonuk>1472292154
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Hilary MantelAmanthi Harris|title=Bring up the BodiesBeautiful Place
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=There's Padma, a fair chance that if you pick up a South American novelyoung Sri Lankan, it's going has returned to score quite highly the Villa Hibiscus on the 'seriously odd' scale. Martín Kohan's School for Patriots, translated by Nick Caistor, doesn't disappoint in that regardsouthern coast of her home country. The main character, María Teresa, This is an innocent, shy teaching assistant at a Buenos Aires school that is run on military academy style disciplineplace she spent her formative years. The running of the school It is itself something of not a surprise place she was born into, but that's not what makes this strangethe one she thinks of as home. What ramps up How she came to be at the 'odd' factor here is Villa, how it became her home, and the machinations that have flowed through her life ever since she spends vast amounts of this short novel hiding in first arrived there provide the boys' loo, ostensibly to catch young boys smoking despite there being no evidence that any student has contravened 'score'' for this rule in this locationgentle and yet subtly violent novel. One might say she has nothing Padma's present fails to go on. Then againescape her past and much like the musical score of a film, best not in that strand weaves its way through everything that happens at the circumstancesVilla. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846687438</amazonuk>1784631930
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alonso Cueto and Frank Wynne (translator)178563335X|title=The Blue HourSea Defences|author=Hilary Taylor
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Adrian OrmacheWhen we first meet Rachel Bird she's a trainee vicar, middle class Peruvian lawyer, has sitting in on a beautiful wife, two daughters of PCC meeting and wondering why they're held when you need to pick the sort to make any parent proud and a comfortable lifestylechildren up. His parents divorced when he was small soHer husband, Christopher, collects six-year-old Hannah and her elder brother, as he lived with his motherJamie, he has fragmented memories of whilst Rachel holds a gruff, distant dadsobbing parishioner. Despite his fatherThelma's aloofdaughter-in-law won't let her see her grandson. Holthorpe, on the Norfolk coast, dictatorial manneris a lovely place, Adrian has always comforted himself but Rachel is struggling to develop a real bond with the fact he played a useful role as a landparish -bound naval officerand she's in awe of the vicar, Gail, fighting Senderista terrorists but then she's been doing the job for the good of Perumore than thirty years. After Rachel and Christopher hoped that a walk on the death of his mother everything changesbeach would do them some good - it was stormy but it was probably what they needed. Adrian finds documents that lead him away from his beliefs, towards a truth that will shatter more than his father's imageAnd then Hannah went missing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434019410</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fannie Flagg1398515388|title=I Still Dream About YouThe Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating=4.5|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=At the age First of 60all, Maggie Fortenbury's glory days seem to have passed her by. An ex-Miss Alabamait was the earthquake, she headed for deep in the fame she dreamt of in 'ocean floor, which created the Big Apple' tsunami and endedthis, insteadin turn, making disastrous life choices that took her along a different routecaused the nuclear meltdown. However she had made one good decision: to work for the diminutive Hazel Whisenkott, midget The result was complete and founder of Red Mountain Realtyutter devastation. Now, as Hazel is deadThe deaths were uncountable, and despite her friendship with her colleagues (obese, optimistic Brenda and moaning Ethel), suicide seems the next logical steploss of livelihoods was widespread. It has to be done correctly as Maggie comes The fact that many pets were separated from an era when you wouldntheir owners came far down the list of priorities but - six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. He wasn't want a dog person but the convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to let anyone down or any commitment unfulfilled. Therefore picking her final day becomes increasingly difficult when other things get open his car door and Tamon the dog jumped in the way, including a troupe of Whirling Dervishes. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099555484</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fiona McGregor0989715337|title=Indelible InkPapa on the Moon|author=Marco North
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Once wealthy, middle class Australian suburbanite Marie King never thought she'd be starting a new life at 59 but here she is, divorced and having to sell 'Some frogs had gotten into the marital home. Unfortunately, attached to the marital home is the marital garden into which Marie didn't only give life but also pour her own life. However, Marie tries to be positive and decides that if she's going to be a new person, she may as well go the whole way. This means tattoos (much to her offsprings' horror) and an unlikely friendship with tattooist Rhys. With that comes the realisation that the privileged suburb of Mossman isn't all there is to Sydney. There's much more to the city, and indeed herself, than she first thought.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857894129</amazonuk>}}
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