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[[Category:New Reviews|Literary Fiction]]==Literary fiction==__NOTOC__{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sir Compton Mackenzie295967572X|title=Whisky Galore|rating=4.5|genre=Humour|summary=The inhabitants of Great Todday and neighbouring Little Todday enjoy embrocation provided by a tot or two of whisky. Unfortunately this is war time. To date the sacrifices in the Hebrides have included their young men and a token black-out (the harbour lights remain on so there seems little point) but more follows. The water of life itself is becoming scarcer and they're approaching Lent. The timing is unfortunate as they don't exactly give it up for Lent, but drink extra as Shrove Tuesday approaches in the spirit of the season. So, as supplies dwindle to extinction, imagine their surprise when a ship containing practically a million bottles of it en route to America founders off the coast. The community launch a covert army-like operation to liberate the alcohol fighting, planning to outwit not the Germans but the islands' Home Guard, HM Customs and Excise and an inept British Intelligence officer. Easy then? Well, an easier task than that which local headmaster George Campbell has. He wants to get married but his mum won't let him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780270925</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewPale Pieces|author=Kevin Smith|title=Jammy DodgerG M Stevens
|rating=5
|genre=HumourLiterary Fiction|summary=It's 1980s Belfast and Artie McCann has it sorted. Having left uni Our unnamed narrator is about to begin a train journey with a literature degree, a love of poetry and no real urge for hard work, he and his mate Oliver discover the joy of Art Council grantscompanion Django. All Where they need to do is establish a literary magazine 're going and bring out an issue (very) occasionally. This frees them up for reliving what the best bits purpose of their former student lifestyle and discussing this journey is, is uncertain. Django found the comparable merits of biscuit varieties. However things start to go awry; not all tickets ''on the magazinefloor somewhere''s would-be contributors are happy (or unarmed) and life begins has persuaded our narrator to appear more unsettledaccompany him. There Why not? Not much else is a way out clear either - but it will take some hard work, an actor we are probably in the past as the pair travel to the station by coach and the train is a remedy for that smell of rotting milksteam locomotive.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908737085</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Helen DeWittMakenna Goodman|title=Lightning RodsHelen of Nowhere
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Joe It could be argued that the pervading theme of this book is malaise - a salesman hard-to-place feeling that something in your life is not quite right. The protagonist, a disgraced professor on the verge brink of giving uplosing both his career and his relationship, embodies this feeling. Having lost all confidence in However, Goodman counteracts his ability to sell vacuum cleaners to Middle Americadiscomfort with a force which is seductive, he creates radical and unnerving: Helen. The connection between Helen and elaborates on a fantasy just for funthe protagonist is indirect yet intimate. It includes As the former owner of the countryside house he's considering, Helen represents a woman being 'serviced' from behindvolta in his life, her partner obscured by a waist high wallpast tied to his potential fresh start. The only thing any over-realtor who shows the protagonist around the-wall voyeur sees house shares stories about Helen, and describes her as ''an entity that is an innocent activity e.gpure consciousness, beyond form''. Although she may manicure her nailslives in an assisted living facility now, Helen has powers beyond comprehension which the reader gets the sense are not altogether innocuous.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908276118</amazonuk>1804272205
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{{Frontpage
|author=Olga Tokarczuk
|title=House of Day, House of Night
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=''What's the good of a world that keeps changing like that? How can one go on calmly living in it?''
The title of this spellbinding work, ''House of Day, House of Night'', somewhat reflects this notion of shifting realities - the small, subtle changes which govern our lives, like the shift from day to night, however quotidian, causing chaos. But, the constant in that image is the house, stoic against the ancient diurnal cycle which nonetheless controls how it is perceived.|isbn=1804271918}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Padgett PowellThea Lenarduzzi|title=EdistoThe Tower|rating=45
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Welcome to ''How unctuous are the household fats of the Duchess and another's life, how dizzying their sugars in our narratorbloodstream''. In this compelling novel, Simons (pronounced as with two Ms)Thea Lenarduzzi assumes the identity of T, a luxurious building set in the Carolinian coastal town protagonist of Edistothis tale. Just as T's story is being told, and a white household in a friendly black neighbourhood. Our the story starts when of a man arrivessecond protagonist is unveiled: Annie, trying to serve a court order to the maid's daughter, an act which drives of a wealthy family in the maid to flee19th century, and which leads to the man replacing her who died of tuberculosis after being locked in her shacka tower, captures T's imagination. He doesnAnnie't exactly do the housework as she dids fate is, but he does help the household outabove all, for the Duchess is quite Bohemian in attitude, and wants her twelve year old boy an enticing story to be a dazzling authorial prodigyT. He already has It is a stool with his name on at the local black barstory which she consumes avariciously, but the man – who Simons decides to call Taurus – is going to be both in a peculiar father figurequest for truth and knowledge, opening his world up into that and in service of adulthoodmyth, fable and fantasy. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846688124</amazonuk>1804271799
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jose SaramagoJon Fosse and Damion Searls (translator) |title=Raised from the GroundVaim
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Domingos is a feckless man, a man often neglecting his family, and hitting his wife due to too much drinking, a man often leaving everyone behind as he chases work and flees his debts. He calls himself a shoemaker but really he's little different from those around him, who actually do have to move about, chasing what seasonal agricultural work is available. Certainly his children and their children in turn will mostly be bound to the land they sprang from - the 'latifundioAll was strange'' – and ... This haunting phrase encapsulates the spirit pervading sense of both all of themotherworldliness which permeates this story set in Vaim, a fictional fishing village in Norway which paradoxically could not feel more real for Jatgeir and Eline, two of it, throughout the Portuguese twentieth century, are the subjects of this early [[:Category:Jose Saramago|Jose Saramago]] novel, protagonists caught in English for the first time after a thirty-year waitits melancholic current.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846557062</amazonuk>1804271829
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dag SolstadClaire-Louise Bennett|title=Professor Andersen's NightBig Kiss, Bye-Bye |rating=34.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=A Christmastime Everything in Norway. Spending his Christmas Eve alonethis book, yet celebrating the age-old occasion the traditional way just by and for himselfhowever sweet or seemingly innocent, is Professor Andersensteeped in anguish and distortion. While taking time to muse on the party-hosting neighbours lit up in their own apartments across the wayEven a kiss, he sees usually a young woman get roughly manhandled by what he thinks is a young mansymbol of intimacy and closeness, after which their curtains are closed and suspicion is allowed to mount in becomes evidence of love lost. When the Professornarrator cries out internally, 's mind. He attends a dinner party – arriving far too early, to have the opportunity to talk the case 'come over with his best friend – here and goes awaykiss me, spending many hours with his colleague, yet carries on doing nothing about reporting what he '' it is sure was less an invitation than a murderdesperate attempt to confirm her emotional numbness. He and the relationship to the criminal in his mind are the basis The imagined recipient of this short novelplea is Xavier, her ex-partner, a ghost she conjures to test her detachment.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099578425</amazonuk>1804271934
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kari Hotakainen Helene Bessette and Owen F Witesman Kate Briggs (translator)|title=The Human PartLili is Crying|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Salme Malmikunnas attends a literary fair with her daughterFirst published in 1953 in French, Helena but before going inside, Salme meets an author who offers her a small fortune in exchange for her story. He seeks inspiration and feels that Salme's biography this novel is it. Salme agrees only after a fee increase timeless text which wrenches the hearts of its readers just as Bessette wrenches words and so sentences from their regular meetings beginproper position on the page and positions them elsewhere, disjointed, truncated. The author gets a story and Salme unloads Like the lives of her past and present onto this stranger. Meanwhilecharacters, Salme's family continues speeding towards a devastating eventthey are often left tragically incomplete.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857050656</amazonuk>1804271675
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Adolfo Garcia OrtegaJonathan Buckley|title=Desolation IslandOne Boat|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=In Madeira''One Boat'' is a deeply introspective novella that defies traditional narrative structure, in drawing the first months reader into a contemplative realm of the new millennium, a man named Oliver Griffin collars a total stranger to explain his lifetime’s obsession with a South American island called Desolation. Griffin is a philosophical musings and fragmented memories flowing from our narrator as gabby as Melville’s Ishmael but twice as ramblingand protagonist, and what he recounts is less a coherent story than a neverending cabinet of curiositiesTeresa. This magical realist take on Set against the history evocative backdrop of a place involves forbidden love, sixteenth-century automatons, mysterious Balkan castles, war crimes, death at sea, Jewish folkloresmall coastal Greek town, this work masterfully captures the personal lives magic of French authors its setting and its power to provoke profound introspection. Teresa herself recognises these qualities as the reason she has visited it after the sexual conduct death of famous Spanish explorersboth her parents. Prompted by her mourning, her narrative voice is meditative and deeply self-aware, each bizarre strand twisted together by inviting the novel’s own weird internal logic reader into one astonishing her labyrinthine cogitations. It is a book that not only requires but inspires depth of thought, since its narrative structure is fragmentary and delightful patternironically relies on analepsis for its propulsion.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099516934</amazonuk>1804271764
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Emma BeckerEowyn Ivey|title=MonsieurBlack Woods Blue Sky
|rating=3.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=She is ''Black Woods Blue Sky'' tells the story of Birdie, the young mother of toddler Emaleen, who longs for a life beyond the Alaskan lodge where she works as a twenty-year old studentbar waitress, with an average cleavage a setting which enables her bad habits and her accidental neglect of Emaleen. Described as a big bum. He is 45''wild card'', a married cosmetic surgeonshe feels stuck in her day-to-day life, and a friend of yearns to cross the Wolverine river and live on the family, having worked with North Fork to fulfil her uncle for yearsdesires of a simple life surrounded by nature. They might be an unlikely couple – at least outside the realms of erotic fiction they are – but as When she puts itmeets Arthur Nielson, she wants him to ''show me what a strange, taciturn and solitary man was like, who says he has a real mancabin over there, a man who could fill my body '''she feels called to go - and''' my mind''bring Emaleen with her. The consequences are in Without realising it, this novelcalling will transform hers and Emaleen's lives forever.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780334761</amazonuk>1472279042
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Thomas KeneallySally Rooney|title=The Daughters Intermezzo|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction |summary=Sally Rooney has studied the chessboard of life and is something of Marsa grandmaster at putting it into words. Her dialogue is gripping and so brilliantly frustrating, as her characters never quite say exactly what they feel. Among the many relationships woven into this story, the central one for readers to unravel is the fraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and Peter Koubek. Ivan, a socially awkward chess prodigy, contrasts sharply with his older brother Peter, a successful lawyer living in Dublin. Following their father's passing after a long battle with cancer, the brothers' already strained relationship faces new trials.|isbn=0571365469}}{{Frontpage|author=Fyodor Dostoyevsky|title=White 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=Expectations ahead This Italian work of Thomas Keneally's 'The Daughters feminist fiction holds an air of Mars' are understandably high. He regularly features on the Booker shortlist suspense and has won tension from the prize in the past with ''Shindler's Ark''. While his subject mattermoment our protagonist, World War IValeria Cossati, is hardly the most original, his slant on the story ispurchases her forbidden notebook, and this is a book that deserves to sit with learns about herself in the very best of the many books on that subject, including ''All Quiet on the Western Front'' and ''Birdsong''. It's that good most intimate and that powerfulrevealing ways.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340951877</amazonuk>1782278222
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joseph O'ConnorOttessa Moshfegh|title=Where Have You Been?My Year of Rest and Relaxation|rating=53
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Irish novelist Joseph O'Connor has had quite At best, this novel is a 2012. Earlier in scathing critique of modern society and reveals the year he joined fragility of human relationships; at worst, it is the ranks of such authors as Edna O'Briencynical, [[:Category:Roddy Doyle|Roddy Doyle]] predictable and Seamus Heaney when he became a recipient slightly trite tale of the PEN award for his outstanding contribution to Irish literaturean unlikeable protagonist. What could possibly top that for This unlikely heroine, a sense of achievement? Well thisslim, his first book of short stories attractive and newly orphaned girl in 20 yearsher twenties is disillusioned with the world, must come pretty close but resolves not to at least equalling lose sleep over it: in fact, amply illustrating the reasons for the panel's decisionher solution lies in her hibernation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846556899</amazonuk>1784707422
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Thomas H CookMatthew Tree|title=The Crime of Julian WellsWe'll Never Know
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=American travel writer Julian Wells walks out of the house he shares with Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his sisterfather, wanders down to the garden lake, rows himself out to the centre a drunk and slits his wrists. He dies alone as he silently watches his life drip into the water. Devastated, chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his friend artistic passions all failed miserably and frequent travel companion Philip Anders, tries to come to terms with the loss the only way he can: by attempting to understand. Julian dedicated a book to Philip, mentioning a 'crime' that Philip who had witnessedendless crises of self confidence. Philip had always thought it to be a flip reference So Tim applied himself to his comment from years before that it would be a crime for Julian to waste time writing a certain piecestudies, but, in the light of tragic events, is this actually the case? Is there a crime in the author's past? As Philip retraces the essence of Julian through cultivated his abilities rather than his words, the places they visited daydreams and people they encountered he slowly uncovers secrets and a dangerous obsessionset himself high but achievable ambitions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908800143</amazonuk>B0CVFXPGP8
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=B0C47LV1PC
|title=Fragility
|author=Mosby Woods
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, would it land? The catch is that the answer for both could well be.... no.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Helene Gremillon and Alison Anderson (translator)Mosby Woods|title=The ConfidantA Whirly Man Loses His Turn
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=ItThe West isn's 1975 and Camille, having lost her father a while ago, t the dominant force it once was. Nobody in the West is now coming quite sure how to terms with mend this or even if mending it is the recent death best course of her motheraction. Governments are flailing. After plucking up courage and strengthA war here, she goes through the condolence cards but a push for climate action there's one item . A feeling that nobody is in the correspondence pile that's out of placeactual charge. It's addressed to her but from Louis (whom she doesn't know) about Annie (of whom she's never heard). As Louis pours out his storyImagine then, reminiscing about his youth in wartime France, Camille is convinced it's there was a mistake; she shouldn't have received itman with precognition. However Imagine the envelope is definitely addressed to her and, strategic advantage in this asset; a man who can tell you what's morewill happen given any set of circumstances. That man would be valuable, this won't be right? Perhaps the last instalment of Louis' sad memoir most valuable asset in history. Imagine then, that comes through the postthis man loses this ability.What would governments do to get it back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908313293</amazonuk>B0C9SNG8R1
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elizabeth Hay0571379559|title=Alone In The ClassroomHouse of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary='Other children were out picking that morning'The House of Broken Bricks'' is the story of four people. Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she passed them by lives in the house on the riverbank, built of broken bricks. Insubstantial as it might look, it's stood the passage of time, storms and floods. Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the delivery rounds - and to bring in her lightsufficient money. They have twin boys -blue dress Sonny and sandalsMax, the rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage.Max takes after his father. People don't believe that they're related, much less twins and there's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she had an empty kettle in each hand and was alone, despite having three sisters's his nanny.}}{{Frontpage|author=Claire North|title=House of Odysseus|rating=5|genre= Literary Fiction |summary= ''What could matter more than love?''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Peter TerrinKay Chronister|title=The GuardDesert Creatures|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Dystopian Fiction|summary=Harry and Michel are very good at their job, even if we might think their job With a world that is not that great. They and they alone are responsible becoming increasingly inhospitable for protecting the building they live in. Designed as an impregnable fortress containing many immensehumanity, palatial apartments inhabited by the ultrapost-rich, the only way in apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Whether it is through the basement carparka robotic takeover, where they reside in their own small patch of territory. They are certainly diligent – inspecting their stash a world devoid of munitions twice water or a daynuclear holocaust, even if nothing could possibly interfere with this genre is a way for humans to cathartically experience their supply most existential fears. ''Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is a new work of bullets, and navigating around the large expanse of space where each post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the forty floors above them has space fears that exist for three supercarshumanity today. But while one seems to be dreaming of things he might not get to witness – promotion to guarding villas in Elysian fields with becoming owner's wives, the other seems to be hearing things It is a shocking novel that might not actually be there still manages to be heard…find hope.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857050877</amazonuk>1803364998
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{{newreviewfrontpage|isbn=1803363002|author=Richard FordEric LaRocca|title=CanadaThe Trees Grew Because I Bled There|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionHorror|summary=Richard FordHorror taps into something primeval within us. It is used as a way to reflect our darkest emotions and how we as humans react and process them. Most horror fiction feature a 's 'Big Bad'Canada'' opens with one , whether that is a home invader, a monster or a ghost, it usually something tangible and, by the end of the best opening lines that Istory, beatable. Eric LaRocca's 've read in a long time: 'First, The Trees Grew Because IBled There''ll tell about the robbery our parents committedis not like that. Then about It is a collection of short stories more interested in the murdershorrors of illness, which happened latergrief and humiliation. The robbery is the most important partHorrors that linger and are harder to defeat than any ''Big Bad''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747598606</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kevin PowersMadelaine Lucas|title=The Yellow BirdsThirst for Salt
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Daniel Murphy ('Murph') is 18Love, in the American army and about I'd read, was supposed to embark on his first tour of duty in Iraq. By his side is John Bartle, three years older be a light and more experienced in the army. However neither of them has any notion of the sort of life or job they will face when they get there. The fighting is dirtyweightless feeling, unpredictable and not set out in any text book. Their commanding officer, Sergeant Sterling, is sadistic and without any apparent humanity. But everything will be alright: Bartle has made a promise to Murphbut I had always longed for gravity''s mother, a promise that will ricochet from the US to Iraq and back again.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444756125</amazonuk>}}
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{{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=Zadie SmithJennifer Saint|title=NWAtalanta|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Fans of Zadie Smith have had a seven year wait since her last book ''On Beauty''I was as worthy as any one of them. In ''NW''I would get on board that ship, Smith returns to more of the issues addressed in her brilliant debut novel [[White Teeth by Zadie Smith|White Teeth]]I vowed. Set I would take my place, not just in parts of London that should be obvious from the title, the book takes the lives name of four people who grew up on a rough estate and looks at how they have moved on - or not. All four still live nearby the estate where they grew upgoddess. There's multi-cultural tension and It was for the have and have nots of power and money and Smith looks at how much individuals are in control sake of their destiny and ability to rise out of their upbringingmy name, and how chance encounters can bring you back to your past with a bumptoo.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241144140</amazonuk>}}Atalanta''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jake ArnottAmanthi Harris|title=The House of RumourBeautiful Place|rating=45
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Jake Arnott sees to be one of those authors - like [[:Category:Will Self|Will Self]] whom you'll love or loathe. OccasionallyPadma, a young Sri Lankan, you'll swing from one extreme has returned to the other and I'll confess to being a little nervous when I opened Villa Hibiscus on the booksouthern coast of her home country. We really weren't ''that'' keen when we read [[The Devil's Paintbrush by Jake Arnott|The Devil's Paintbrush]]This is a place she spent her formative years. Using It is not a place she was born into, but the deck one she thinks of Tarot cards as home. How she came to be at the structure of Villa, how it became her home, and the book we look at the twentieth century machinations that have flowed through the her life of Larry Zagorski. Imagine history being gently folded together like a cake mixture with episodes sliding against each other, flavouring that which they touch. Imagine ever since she first arrived there provide the real - Aleister Crowley (reprising his appearance in ''The Devilscore's Paintbrush'for this gentle and yet subtly violent novel. Padma'), Rudolf Hess, Ian Fleming, Cyril Connolly, Jim Jones s present fails to escape her past and L Ron Hubbard blended with much like the musical score of a transexual prostitutefilm, a British pop singer and Larry, who writes pulp science fictionthat strand weaves its way through everything that happens at the Villa.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340922729</amazonuk>1784631930
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alison Moore178563335X|title=The LighthouseSea Defences|author=Hilary Taylor
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=When we first meet Futh heRachel Bird she's a trainee vicar, sitting in on a North Sea ferry on his way 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 walking holiday in Germanysobbing parishioner. ThereThelma's no sense of enthusiasm or anticipation: Futhdaughter-in-law won's middle aged and recently separatedt let her see her grandson. Holthorpe, on the Norfolk coast, seemingly without friends or family. He always wanted is a doglovely place, but keeps stick insects. The holiday seems Rachel is struggling to be something whichdevelop a real bond with the parish - and she's in awe of the vicar, when it is overGail, he will have done it and will but then return to his new flatshe's been doing the job for more than thirty years. It begins Rachel and will end at Hellhaus, Christopher hoped that a guesthouse run by Bernard and his wife Ester. He gets walk on well enough with Ester the beach would do them some good - it was stormy but is at a loss to understand a rather hostile encounter with Bernardit was probably what they needed. He sets out the following morning for a week of walking, thinking and remembering. Meanwhile Ester - untouched by her meeting with Futh - continues her lonely life punctuated by the occasional casual sexual encounter which she barely hides from BernardAnd then Hannah went missing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907773177</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicola Barker1398515388|title=The YipsBoy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Gordon and Georgina Kingdom spent years being like many other couples. They had jobsFirst of all, friendsit was the earthquake, holidaysdeep in the ocean floor, a springer spaniel named Kipling which created the tsunami and a life togetherthis, in turn, caused the nuclear meltdown. Then Georgina became ill The result was complete and Gordon took early retirement to nurse her betterutter devastation. He treats retirement with the same methodical efficiency he employed at work. He records Georgina's careThe deaths were uncountable, her progress and shares her waking moments, feeding her and sitting with herthe loss of livelihoods was widespread. However, as she spends a lot The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of time asleep, Gordon is left to entertain himself and so, priorities but - six months after the same man who led the local Neighbourhood Watch, watches his neighbours, noting points of interest and visible activities in alphabetically filed dossierstsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. TheyHe wasn're all there: Don across t a dog person but the road who borrows garden tools on a more permanent basis than Gordon convenience store owner's comment that he would like, art award winner young Benny who paints with call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his eyes shut, the lady next car door who throws footballs over the fence and Tamon the new woman across the road, Angelica. Except, when Angelica moves into the street, Gordon's interest becomes more focused than usualdog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190877598X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Will Self0989715337|title=UmbrellaPapa on the Moon|author=Marco North|rating=2.54
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Will Self's 'Some frogs had gotten into the well.''Umbrella '' spans a century taking three interwoven Walter stood waist-deep in the fragrant water, naked except for his beaten leather hat. Long strands. One features Audrey Dearthof their eggs wove around him, who in 1918 is a munitions worker who falls ill sticky gray pearls with encephalitis lethargica, a brain disease that spread tadpoles inside them. Two of the dogs leaned over Europe after the Great War rendering many opening and barked down at the strange noise of its victims speechless and motionlessthe buckets as he filled them. She '' How is incarcerated in Friern hospital where, that for an opening? The style of this novel in the early 1970s a psychiatristform of interconnected short stories goes from succinct and laconic to wistful and musing, Zach Busner wakes her from her stupor using turning on a new drugsixpence. In the final threadAnd author Marco North, in 2010 the asylum who has closed and the now retired Busner travels across north London seeking the truth about his encounter with his former patient. While that sounds like a fascinating story in its own rightmost wonderful turn of phrase, be warned. Self's approach is ambitiously modernistic making this a very heavy going tome even by Self's standardsstarts as he means to go on.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408820145</amazonuk>
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