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[[Category:New Reviews|Literary Fiction]]__NOTOC__{{adsense2Frontpage|author=Jeremy Cooper|title=Discord|rating= 3.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Discord: a lack of agreement or harmony (as between persons, things, or ideas) The principal example of discord within the novel, as with most instances of discord, is easily located. The two protagonists of the novel, Rebekah Rosen and Evie Bennet, are as different as they come. Rebekah is an uptight, traditional and no-nonsense composer close to retirement, while Evie is a force of nature, bounding onto the musical scene as a precocious saxophonist, oozing with talent and charm. The two, predictably, don't always see eye to eye, their approaches different and Evie's progressive views at odds with Rebekah's conservative leaning. However, something connects them beyond just their musical project: a sort of fragile alliance formed within the clamour.|isbn=1804272264}}__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The SonPolly Barton|authortitle=Philipp MeyerWhat Am I, A Deer?|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Philipp MeyerPolly Barton's second debut novel, ''The Son,'' is an epicintellectually playful yet emotionally exposed work that uses translation as both subject and governing metaphor. The narrator, multi-generational saga of Texas life. Tracing the McCullough family newly relocated from London to Berlin, works translating video games into Japanese through the middle process of the nineteenth century localisation, rewriting language until it feels comfortably familiar to the present daya new audience. Barton treats this as a paradoxical act: arguably, Meyer joins those writing today's masterpieces of American 'dirty realism': Ron Rashin striving for universality, [[:Category:David Vann|David Vann]]language is endlessly repackaged, Richard Ford and especially Cormac McCarthyits originality at risk of disappearing altogether. Like McCarthy's ''Blood MeridianFrom this,'' ''The Son'' is the novel opens out into a gory Western that transcends a simplistic cowboys-versus-Indians dichotomy wider, resonant question: to draw broader conclusions about the universality of violence what extent do we translate ourselves in a nihilistic world.order to be understood, accepted, or loved?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857209426</amazonuk>1804272175
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Donal RyanMaria Stepanova and Sasha Dugdale (Translator)|title=The Spinning HeartDisappearing Act
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Despite her anonymisation of place names and people, Stepanova'My father still lives back the road past the weir in the cottage I was reared s message inthis short work of autofiction is unmistakable. I go there every day A novelist named M travels from B (ostensibly Berlin) to see the town of F for a literary festival she is he dead to be a guest speaker at. Detoured by erratic train schedules and every day he lets me downnudged by forces beyond her control, her journey slowly bends toward a traveling circus. He hasn't yet missed a day Swept up in this series of letting me down.' This is how we meet Bobby - Bobby Mahonevents, as we'll learn - and he's brutally honest about his feelings M eventually offers to step in for his father, a circus performer who has deliberately drunk away unexpectedly left the farm he inherited from ''his'' father. But Frank Mahon isn't Bobby's only, or even main, problemshow. He's been earning big money The train functions as Pokey Burke's foreman but the financial crash has hit and Pokey has done a runner. An investment in a fake island off Dubai finished him motif of transience and now he's disappeared. On impermanence, while the circus embodies the estate reshaping of forty houses he was buildingidentity and a retreat into fantasy, just two are occupied and an impulse that lies at the rutted roads are nothing more than a racetrack for very heart of the joyridersnovel form itself.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781620067</amazonuk>1804272329
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Natasha Solomons295967572X|title=The Gallery of Vanished HusbandsPale Pieces|author=G M Stevens
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=On her thirtieth birthday Juliet Montague went out Our unnamed narrator is about to buy begin a fridge for the princely sum of twenty-one guineastrain journey with his companion Django. SheWhere they'd saved hard for it - re going and her parents had given her what the final few pounds - but then Juliet did something impulsive. Instead purpose of buying a fridge she commissioned a portrait of herself and so began her involvement in the post-war art scenethis journey is, is uncertain. Juliet wasn't - by any stretch of Django found the imagination - an artist, but she had a startling ability to spot a tickets ''goodon the floor somewhere'' pictureand has persuaded our narrator to accompany him. It was simply something which she ''knew'', Why not? Not much else is clear either - but we are probably in the past as she had known for certain that her husband had left for good on the day he didn't return home as expectedpair travel to the station by coach and the train is a steam locomotive.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444736345</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=IndiscretionMakenna Goodman|authortitle=Charles DubowHelen of Nowhere|rating=34.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Charles Dubow's debut novel promises to It could be argued that the pervading theme of this book is malaise - a modern day Great Gatsbyhard-to-place feeling that something in your life is not quite right. It too is set amongst The protagonist, a disgraced professor on the rich brink of losing both his career and famous outside New Yorkhis relationship, embodies this feeling. However, it too Goodman counteracts his discomfort with a force which is seductive, radical and unnerving: Helen. The connection between Helen and the protagonist is narrated by indirect yet intimate. As the former owner of the countryside house he's considering, Helen represents a character seemingly on volta in his life, her past tied to his potential fresh start. The realtor who shows the protagonist around the outsidehouse shares stories about Helen, and describes her as ''an entity that is pure consciousness, Maddybeyond form's childhood friend Walter'. Although she lives in an assisted living facility now, Helen has powers beyond comprehension which the reader gets the sense are not altogether innocuous.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007501307</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?''
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{{Frontpage
|author=Thea Lenarduzzi
|title=The Tower
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= ''How unctuous are the fats of another's life, how dizzying their sugars in our bloodstream''.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The ParrotsJon Fosse and Damion Searls (translator) |authortitle=Filippo BolognaVaim
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=When confronted with the topic of parrots, most people would describe them as tamed tropical birds that are taught to repeat simple phrases, having no particular intelligence to engender an originality of their own''All was strange''. Filippo Bologna has not in fact written a book about birds, but about writers - in fact, three writers. Just as the Neo-Pagans have a liking of the Triple Goddesses of The Maiden, The Mother and The Crone, our three writers are similarly split into The Beginner, The Writer, and The Master. All three of these novelists are battling it out for The Prize, a prestigious award that would revitalise This haunting phrase encapsulates the career pervading sense of The Masterotherworldliness which permeates this story set in Vaim, legitimize the efforts of The Beginner and assure The Writer a place fictional fishing village in the annals Norway which paradoxically could not feel more real for Jatgeir and Eline, two of history. The setting of Rome is utilised to provide both a stunning backdrop and one that is sympathetic to the mood of our characters. The stories of our three protagonists are interwoven caught in a delightfully clear fashion; Bologna's prose is delicate and descriptive, but not at the sacrifice of pacing. The stage is set; the characters have learned their lines. There is just one problem... out of the three writers, none of them deserves to win The Prizeits melancholic current.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908968192</amazonuk>1804271829
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Claire-Louise Bennett|title=In Big Kiss, Bye-Bye |rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Everything in this book, however sweet or seemingly innocent, is steeped in anguish and distortion. Even a kiss, usually a symbol of intimacy and closeness, becomes evidence of love lost. When the narrator cries out internally, ''come over here and kiss me,'' it is less an invitation than a desperate attempt to confirm her emotional numbness. The Dutch Mountainsimagined recipient of this plea is Xavier, her ex-partner, a ghost she conjures to test her detachment.|isbn=1804271934}}{{Frontpage|author=Cees NooteboomHelene Bessette and Kate Briggs (translator)|title=Lili is Crying
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=OftenFirst published in 1953 in French, when asked if what I’m reading this novel is a good book I hesitate before answeringtimeless text which wrenches the hearts of its readers just as Bessette wrenches words and sentences from their proper position on the page and positions them elsewhere, disjointed, trying to decide what truncated. Like the asker really means. Do they mean is it exciting? Funny? Full lives of interesting her characters? Recently, someone asked me that and when I hesitated they gave me this as a clarifier: “Are you better off for having read it?”. In this instance, yes. I think I am. However, despite coming away from this book with a strong positive feeling about it, it’s also are often left me a little befuddledtragically incomplete.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782067191</amazonuk>1804271675
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Every PromiseJonathan Buckley|authortitle=Andrea BajaniOne Boat
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Italian writer, Andrea Bajani's ''Every PromiseOne Boat'' is narrated by Pietro. His partner, Sara, has left him due to their inability to have a babydeeply introspective novella that defies traditional narrative structure, but soon she finds herself pregnant after drawing the reader into a one night stand contemplative realm of philosophical musings and fragmented memories flowing from our narrator and reliant on Pietro's mother for adviceprotagonist, Teresa. Meanwhile Pietro meets Olmo, an elderly man who lives in their old family apartment, who reminds Pietro Set against the evocative backdrop of his own Grandfathera small coastal Greek town, Mario, who, like Olmo, served in Mussolini's ill-fated Russian campaign. Olmo persuades Pietro to go to Russia to visit this work masterfully captures the scenes of some magic of its setting and its power to provoke profound introspection. Teresa herself recognises these qualities as the photographs he reason she has to try to come to terms with visited it after the pastdeath of both her parents. It's a story about the pastPrompted by her mourning, the present and the future her narrative voice is meditative and deeply self-aware, inviting the struggle for one man to make sense of thisreader into her labyrinthine cogitations. It's packed with surpassingly detailed imagery and Bajani is at times breathtakingly unflinching in exposing the vulnerability a book that not only requires but inspires depth of his narrator. Howeverthought, it since its narrative structure is very much a slow burn of a book fragmentary and it's not always an easy book to readironically relies on analepsis for its propulsion.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857051466</amazonuk>1804271764
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andrew PorterEowyn Ivey|title=In Between DaysBlack Woods Blue Sky
|rating=3.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=After Chloe Harding is forced to leave ''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 bar waitress, a setting which enables her bad habits and her East Coast collegeaccidental neglect of Emaleen. Described as a ''wild card'', for reasons she refuses feels stuck in her day-to explain -day life, and yearns to cross the Wolverine river and live on the North Fork to fulfil her recently divorced parents or older brother Richarddesires of a simple life surrounded by nature. When she meets Arthur Nielson, a strange, taciturn and solitary man, who says he has a cabin over there, she feels called to go - and bring Emaleen with her family. Without realising it, this calling will transform hers and Emaleen's lives start to unravelforever. Will the rest of them ever find out what caused her fall from grace, and can they solve their own problems?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0224089838</amazonuk>1472279042
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ivy PochodaSally Rooney|title=Visitation StreetIntermezzo
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Sally 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, 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
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{{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=Red Hook, Brooklyn and it is blisteringly hot. Two fifteen year old girls decide the best and most exciting way to cool off is to take a small inflatable raft on to the river. The next morning one This Italian work of the girls is found unconscious and washed ashore with no memory feminist fiction holds an air of what happened in the river suspense and tension from the other girl is nowhere to be found. This becomes a big local story moment our protagonist, Valeria Cossati, purchases her forbidden notebook, and learns about herself in the survivor, saviour most intimate and community have to deal with the loss in their different revealing ways.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444778242</amazonuk>1782278222
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Marlen HaushoferOttessa Moshfegh|title=Nowhere Ending SkyMy Year of Rest and Relaxation|rating=4.53
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= Little Meta At best, this novel is growing up in a childhood paradise with two parents who love her and a younger brother to tease scathing critique of modern society and train to do all reveals the things that Meta wants him to. However fragility of human relationships; at worst, it is the world outside Meta's paradise will soon change beyond all recognition as the Austria cynical, predictable and Germany slightly trite tale of the 1920s makes way for the Austria an unlikeable protagonist. This unlikely heroine, a slim, attractive and Germany of newly orphaned girl in her twenties is disillusioned with the 1930sworld, but resolves not to lose sleep over it: in fact, her solution lies in her hibernation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0704373130</amazonuk>1784707422
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lea CarpenterMatthew Tree|title=Eleven DaysWe'll Never Know
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Sara raised Jason alone; even when she was with his father it felt as if she was a lone parent. Jason's father always seemed Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be away doing something indefinable abroad; then he disappeared leaving her completely. Two years later Jason's different from his father was dead. However Jason is , a lad to be proud drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of, never giving Sara a moment's trouble his artistic passions all failed miserably and now a member who had endless crises of the elite US Navy SEALSself confidence. Now he's missing in action… Now she has So Tim applied himself to hang on his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and hopeset himself high but achievable ambitions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444776231</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=Manuel RivasMosby Woods|title=All Is SilenceA Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=3.54
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The small community of Noitía West isn't the dominant force it once was. Nobody in the West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is a place where everyone knows each other and each other’s business, which considering most the best course of the adults action. Governments are involved in the one business, smugglingflailing. A war here, a push for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is potentially dangerous knowledgein actual charge. We follow Imagine then, there was a small group of three young friends growing up man with precognition. Imagine the strategic advantage in the area as they play and learn and even experience this asset; a little man who can tell you what will happen given any set of the black market dealingscircumstances. They stumble across a stash of smuggled whisky and are caught by the charismatic king pin responsible for the traffickingThat man would be valuable, who teaches them that silence is right? Perhaps the most important lesson to learn when growing up valuable asset in Noitíahistory.Imagine then, that this man loses this ability. What would governments do to get it back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184655568X</amazonuk>B0C9SNG8R1
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ryu Murakami0571379559|title=From The Fatherland, With LoveHouse of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=From ''The FatherlandHouse of Broken Bricks'' is the story of four people. Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, With Love is a 2005 Japanese novel set but instead, she lives in the then-near future house on the riverbank, built of 2011broken bricks. Fatherland ( Insubstantial as I will abbreviate it) explores might look, it's stood the passage of time, storms and floods. Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the social delivery rounds - and to bring in sufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and political ramifications of one speculative scenario: what if North Korea invaded Japan?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908968451</amazonuk>Max, 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's his nanny.
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{{Frontpage
|author=Claire North
|title=House of Odysseus
|rating=5
|genre= Literary Fiction
|summary= ''What could matter more than love?''
The follow-up to the excellent ''Ithaca'' picks up a few months after where we left off. In the palace of Odysseus, with delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without her husband, who sailed to war at Troy and then by divine intervention never returned home. As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for the throne of the Western Isles. Having survived – politically and physical – the chaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to Ithaca's shores, Queen Penelope is on the brink of a fragile peace. One that shatters however with the return of Orestes, King of Mycenae, and his sister Elektra, seeking refuge.|isbn=0356516075}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Suzanne RindellKay Chronister|title=The Other TypistDesert Creatures|rating=54|genre=Literary Dystopian Fiction|summary=The Other Typist With a world that is set in 1920s New York Citybecoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, with Prohibition at its height and Rose Bakerpost-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Whether it is a robotic takeover, an orphaned young womana world devoid of water or a nuclear holocaust, working as this genre is a police typistway for humans to cathartically experience their most existential fears. While she has no real friends, she's good at her job and seems to have the respect 'Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is a new work of post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the Sergeant, whom she admires and the Lieutenant Detective, whom she's less keen onfears that exist for humanity today. Then It is a perfect storm comes into their lives, in the shape of the enchanting Odalie, and nothing will be the same againshocking novel that still manages to find hope.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0241002885</amazonuk>1803364998
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{{newreviewfrontpage|isbn=1803363002|author=Ioanna Bourazopoulou and Yannis Panas (Translator)Eric LaRocca|title=What Lot's Wife SawThe Trees Grew Because I Bled There|rating=45|genre=Science FictionHorror|summary= Horror taps into something primeval within us. Itis used as a way to reflect our darkest emotions and how we as humans react and process them. Most horror fiction feature a ''Big Bad''s been over 20 years since The Overflow came, flooding half of Europe. Around the same time Violet Saltwhether that is a home invader, a new multi-functional mineralmonster or a ghost, appearedit usually something tangible and, its production now governed globally by the mysteriousend of the story, all-powerful Consortiumbeatable. Meanwhile back in Europe Eric LaRocca's ''The Colony, a haven for those escaping floods and indeed justice, is ruled by Governor Bera and six officials, the Trees Grew Because I Bled There'Purple Stars'is not like that. All seems to be well in It is a despotic, lawless way until the six wake up to the realisation that the Governor has died mysteriously collection of short stories more interested in the night. The Consortium needs answers so choose the greatest crossword compiler horrors of the age, Phileas Bookillness, grief and humiliation. Horrors that linger and are harder to investigate, whether he wants to or notdefeat than any ''Big Bad''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845025474</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gabriel WestonMadelaine Lucas|title=Dirty WorkThirst for Salt
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=#There are two women in an operating theatre and when one starts bleeding heavily - fatally - the other freezes''Love, unableI'd read, despite all her training was supposed to be a light and undoubted skillsweightless feeling, to do anything at all. Whatever the outcome it cannot pass unnoticedbut I had always longed for gravity'' Told from a retrospective view, unreported and surgeon Nancy Mullion is called to appear before a tribunal appointed by young woman unravels the General Medical Councilyear-long relationship that once defined her. Over Overlaid with later wisdom, the narrator relives the affair with a period of weeks she's forced man twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to confront its sorrowful end the effect summer after. Set against the backdrop of being a doctor who has killed as well as cured. Youan isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt''re probably making assumptions now and nodding wisely. Dondetails the 24-year-old narrator't s deepening relationship with her older lover, depicting its all- because you are almost certainly going to be wrong. This will not be the story which you are expecting consuming nature, how it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and how it was certainly not the story which Nancy's hospital wanted to hearaltered her irrevocably.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>022409128X</amazonuk>0861546490
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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=Roland Watson-GrantJennifer Saint|title=SketcherAtalanta
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= Nine-year-old Skid Beaumont lives with his three brothers, father Alrick and mother Valerie in the swamps beyond the New Orleans city limits. Life is hard and home is a rundown shack with no running water but they're only there temporarily; a 'temporarily' I was as worthy as any one of them. I would get on board that is rather long-termship, I vowed. Alrick moved them from their nice home I would take my place, not just in New Orleans because the land name of the goddess. It was cheap and soon for the city would build out to envelop themsake of my name, too. Years later theyAtalanta're still waiting for that to happen. Life isn’t exactly mundane though; there are rumours that when Skid's brother Frico draws left-handed, strange things seem to happen.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846882427</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robert WalserAmanthi Harris|title=The Walk and other storiesBeautiful Place
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The publication Padma, a young Sri Lankan, has returned to the Villa Hibiscus on the southern coast of this collection her home country. This is a place she spent her formative years. It is not a place she was born into, but the one she thinks of around forty short stories affords as home. How she came to be at the English speaking public a unique opportunity; that of reading WalserVilla, how it became her home, possibly and the leading modernist writer of Swiss German in machinations that have flowed through her life ever since she first arrived there provide the last century. He has received high praise in 'A Place in the Country', W G Sebaldscore''s recently published posthumous collection for this gentle and he is well-known as being a significant influence on Franz Kafkayet subtly violent novel. His work here dates from 1907 Padma's present fails to 1929 escape her past and along with his poetry won him recognition with Berlin's avant garde. He combines lyrical delicacy with detailed observation; reflective melancholy with criticism much like the musical score of brash commercialism. The fine writing in this volume strives to achieve a hard won integrity together with an experimental capacity for reflection. It challenges film, that strand weaves its way through everything that happens at the reader and provokes him to new insightsVilla.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846689589</amazonuk>1784631930
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya178563335X|title=The WatchSea Defences|author=Hilary Taylor
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= Nizam pushes When we first meet Rachel Bird she's a trainee vicar, sitting in on a barrow PCC meeting and wondering why they're held when you need to pick the children up to . Her husband, Christopher, collects six-year-old Hannah and her elder brother, Jamie, whilst Rachel holds a fortified US army base sobbing parishioner. Thelma's daughter-in Afghanistan-law won't let her see her grandson. What Holthorpe, on the Norfolk coast, is a lovely place, but Rachel is struggling to develop a real bond with the parish - and she's in awe of the vicar, Gail, but then she 's been doing there? the job for more than thirty years. How will Rachel and Christopher hoped that a walk on the soldiers react? What beach would do them some good - it was stormy but it was probably what they believe: their experienceneeded. And then Hannah went missing.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1398515388|title=The Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=First of all, it was the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and this, in turn, their trainingcaused the nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and utter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, and the loss of livelihoods was widespread. The fact that many pets were separated from their gut reaction or a young girl amputee in owners came far down the middle list of priorities but - six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. He wasn't a dog person but the desert who may be convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and Tamon the last thing they ever see?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099565773</amazonuk>dog jumped in.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anthony Cartwright0989715337|title=How I Killed Margaret ThatcherPapa on the Moon|author=Marco North|rating=3.54
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=What motivates someone to become a killer?''Some frogs had gotten into the well.''
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