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[[Category:New Reviews|Literary Fiction]]__NOTOC__{{adsense2Frontpage|isbn=295967572X|title=Pale Pieces|author=G M Stevens|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Our unnamed narrator is about to begin a train journey with his companion Django. Where they're going and what the purpose of this journey is, is uncertain. Django found the tickets ''on the floor somewhere'' and has persuaded our narrator to accompany him. Why not? Not much else is clear either - but we are probably in the past as the pair travel to the station by coach and the train is a steam locomotive.}}__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=A Kind of Eden Makenna Goodman|authortitle=Amanda SmythHelen of Nowhere
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Martin Rawlinson has escaped from It could be argued that the cold dreary English weather 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 exotic heat brink of losing both his career and exotic women of Trinidadhis relationship, embodies this feeling. He might have However, Goodman counteracts his discomfort with a wife force which is seductive, radical and a daughter back home, but home is a long way away unnerving: Helen. The connection between Helen and here the protagonist is indirect yet intimate. As the former owner of the young and beautiful Safiya. Shecountryside house he's considering, Helen represents a journalist 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 could easily have just dismissed him describes her as some sad old white guy''an entity that is pure consciousness, but somehow she didnbeyond form''t. Somehow they talked, and walked, and Although she showed him the real Trinidad and he fell lives in love with heran assisted living facility now, and with her homeHelen has powers beyond comprehension which the reader gets the sense are not altogether innocuous.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846688132</amazonuk>1804272205
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alexander MaksikOlga Tokarczuk|title=A Marker to Measure DriftHouse of Day, House of Night
|rating=5
|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=Jacqueline roams ''What's the beaches of the Greek islands offering massages for money to ward off starvation. It helps but hunger is always with her, lurking alongside the memory good of a former life world that keeps changing like that? How can one go on calmly living in Liberia and the mindit?''s ear voice of her mother. Jacqueline is at least alive and existing, but at what cost?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848548052</amazonuk>}}
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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=Heaven Jon Fosse and HellDamion Searls (translator) |authortitle=Jon Kalman StefanssonVaim
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Iceland, a hundred years ago''All was strange''... From a place that is This haunting phrase encapsulates the very definition pervading sense of rural and remoteotherworldliness which permeates this story set in Vaim, a small fictional fishing boat leaves village in Norway which paradoxically could not feel more real for four hours' hard row to a profitable bank. It carries six men on the way outJatgeir and Eline, and five on the way back. The deceased is the best friend – or perhaps only friend – two of the main character, who is still young enough to merely be known as ''boy''. When he returns to port he enters an almost Camus-like semi-existence, wondering just how much life is an answer, and for what, after the tragedy he has witnessedprotagonists caught in its melancholic current.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849164061</amazonuk>1804271829
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The SonClaire-Louise Bennett|authortitle=Philipp MeyerBig Kiss, Bye-Bye
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Philipp Meyer's second novelEverything in this book, ''The Sonhowever sweet or seemingly innocent,'' is an epicsteeped in anguish and distortion. Even a kiss, usually a symbol of intimacy and closeness, multi-generational saga becomes evidence of Texas lifelove lost. Tracing the McCullough family from the middle of the nineteenth century to When the present daynarrator cries out internally, Meyer joins those writing today's masterpieces of American 'dirty realism': Ron Rash, [[:Category:David Vann|David Vann]], Richard Ford come over here and especially Cormac McCarthy. Like McCarthy's ''Blood Meridiankiss me,'' ''The Son'' it is less an invitation than a gory Western that transcends a simplistic cowboys-versus-Indians dichotomy desperate attempt to draw broader conclusions about the universality confirm her emotional numbness. The imagined recipient of violence in this plea is Xavier, her ex-partner, a nihilistic worldghost she conjures to test her detachment.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857209426</amazonuk>1804271934
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Donal RyanHelene Bessette and Kate Briggs (translator)|title=The Spinning HeartLili is Crying|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary='My father still lives back the road past the weir First published in the cottage I was reared 1953 in. I go there every day to see French, this novel is he dead and every day he lets me down. He hasn't yet missed a day timeless text which wrenches the hearts of letting me down.' This is how we meet Bobby - Bobby Mahon, its readers just as we'll learn - Bessette wrenches words and he's brutally honest about his feelings for his father, who has deliberately drunk away sentences from their proper position on the farm he inherited from ''his'' father. But Frank Mahon isn't Bobby's onlypage and positions them elsewhere, or even maindisjointed, problemtruncated. He's been earning big money as Pokey Burke's foreman but Like the financial crash has hit and Pokey has done a runner. An investment in a fake island off Dubai finished him and now he's disappeared. On the estate lives of forty houses he was buildingher characters, just two they are occupied and the rutted roads are nothing more than a racetrack for the joyridersoften left tragically incomplete.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781620067</amazonuk>1804271675
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Natasha SolomonsJonathan Buckley|title=The Gallery of Vanished HusbandsOne Boat|rating=54
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=On her thirtieth birthday Juliet Montague went out to buy ''One Boat'' is a fridge for deeply introspective novella that defies traditional narrative structure, drawing the princely sum reader into a contemplative realm of twenty-one guineasphilosophical musings and fragmented memories flowing from our narrator and protagonist, Teresa. She'd saved hard for it - and her parents had given her Set against the final few pounds - but then Juliet did something impulsive. Instead evocative backdrop of buying a fridge small coastal Greek town, this work masterfully captures the magic of its setting and its power to provoke profound introspection. Teresa herself recognises these qualities as the reason she commissioned a portrait has visited it after the death of herself and so began both her involvement in the post-war art sceneparents. Juliet wasn't - Prompted by any stretch of the imagination her mourning, her narrative voice is meditative and deeply self- an artistaware, but she had a startling ability to spot a ''good'' pictureinviting the reader into her labyrinthine cogitations. It was simply something which she ''knew''is a book that not only requires but inspires depth of thought, much as she had known for certain that her husband had left since its narrative structure is fragmentary and ironically relies on analepsis for good on the day he didn't return home as expectedits propulsion.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444736345</amazonuk>1804271764
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=IndiscretionEowyn Ivey|authortitle=Charles DubowBlack Woods Blue Sky
|rating=3.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Charles Dubow's debut novel promises '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 accidental neglect of Emaleen. Described as a ''wild card'', she feels stuck in her day-to-day life, and yearns to cross the Wolverine river and live on the North Fork to be fulfil her desires of a modern day Great Gatsbysimple life surrounded by nature. It too is set amongst the rich When she meets Arthur Nielson, a strange, taciturn and famous outside New Yorksolitary man, who says he has a cabin over there, she feels called to go - and bring Emaleen with her. Without realising it too is narrated by a character seemingly on the outside, Maddythis calling will transform hers and Emaleen's childhood friend Walterlives forever.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007501307</amazonuk>1472279042
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Unfaithfully YoursSally Rooney|authortitle=Nigel WilliamsIntermezzo|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=When Nigel Williams first really burst on to Sally Rooney has studied the best-seller list, chessboard of life and is something of a couple of decades ago, grandmaster at putting it was with a book set in Wimbledon that really quite tickled a younger me – and my motherinto words. But then he produced two more in the same series, Her dialogue is gripping and we soon decided he was a bit of a one-trick ponyso brilliantly frustrating, and could as her characters never be sure how much of quite say exactly what they feel. Among the trilogy we'd readmany relationships woven into this story, or be too eager the central one for readers to read moreunravel is the fraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and Peter Koubek. Flash forwardIvan, a socially awkward chess prodigy, and Williams has certainly branched out – contrasts sharply with his setting this time is Putney. Wimbledon Common is now Putney Heatholder brother Peter, and so ona successful lawyer living in Dublin. But here he provides an epistolatory novel – and if thereFollowing their father's one kind of novel to make me prick up my ears it is one built from letters. It is the blatant two-and-fro timing of the narrativepassing after a long battle with cancer, and the succinctness that characters are formed with, that strike me as obvious benefits of such a book – and Unfaithfully Yours has those and many morebrothers' already strained relationship faces new trials.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472106741</amazonuk>0571365469
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Russian StoriesFyodor Dostoyevsky|authortitle=Francesc SeresWhite Nights
|rating=5
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=This brilliant and varied collection of short stories is the product of a current academic interest As always in cross-cultural translation. Francisco Guillen Serés is a Catalan professor of Art History from Aragon. A RussophileDostoyevsky, he has travelled widely to collect stories from those writing during the past hundred years of Russian history. These have been translated into Catalan and then into English. These unusual and delightful stories, some twenty one of them written by five writers read fluently and engagingly. They form an informative tapestry of Soviet and post-Soviet life, moving back in time with the older, earlier writers like Bergchenko, who died in the siege of Stalingrad, at the end. Ranging over mythic and symbolic tales to realistic portrayals of personal relationships; love trysts in St Petersburg, ferocious bears in the deep heart of the Taiga to the perils of becoming lost in continuous orbit in space. All aspects are impressively recounted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085705158X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Parrots|author=Filippo Bologna|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. 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 the career of The Master, legitimize the efforts of The Beginner and assure The Writer a place in the annals of historycharacter work is sublime. The setting of Rome One is utilised to provide both never left wondering what a stunning backdrop and one that character is sympathetic to the mood of our characters. The stories of our three protagonists are interwoven in a delightfully clear fashion; Bologna's prose is delicate thinking or feeling because Dostoyevsky lays bare their innermost dispositions 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 Prizetemperaments with remarkable clarity.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908968192</amazonuk>0241619785
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=In The Dutch MountainsJames Baldwin|authortitle=Cees NooteboomGiovanni's Room
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Often''Giovanni's Room'' follows the narrator David, an American man living in Paris, as he navigates his torturous affair with Giovanni, when asked if what I’m reading an Italian bartender he meets in a gay bar. While David is a good book I hesitate before answeringengaged to Hella, who is travelling in Spain, trying to decide what the asker really meansreal tension in the novel arises not from his infidelity but from the deeper conflict within himself. Do they mean It is it exciting? Funny? Full David's crippling shame and denial of interesting characters? Recently, someone asked me his sexuality 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 ultimately dooms his relationship with a strong positive feeling about it, it’s also left me a little befuddledGiovanni.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782067191</amazonuk>0141186356
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Every PromiseAlba de Cespedes |authortitle=Andrea BajaniForbidden Notebook
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=This Italian writer, Andrea Bajani's ''Every Promise'' is narrated by Pietro. His partner, Sara, has left him due to their inability to have a baby, but soon she finds herself pregnant after a one night stand and reliant on Pietro's mother for advice. Meanwhile Pietro meets Olmo, work of feminist fiction holds an elderly man who lives in their old family apartment, who reminds Pietro air of his own Grandfathersuspense and tension from the moment our protagonist, MarioValeria Cossati, whopurchases her forbidden notebook, like Olmo, served in Mussolini's ill-fated Russian campaign. Olmo persuades Pietro to go to Russia to visit the scenes of some of the photographs he has to try to come to terms with the past. It's a story and learns about the past, the present and the future and the struggle for one man to make sense of this. It's packed with surpassingly detailed imagery and Bajani is at times breathtakingly unflinching herself in exposing the vulnerability of his narrator. However, it is very much a slow burn of a book most intimate and it's not always an easy book to readrevealing ways.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857051466</amazonuk>1782278222
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andrew PorterOttessa Moshfegh|title=In Between DaysMy Year of Rest and Relaxation|rating=3.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=After Chloe Harding At best, this novel is a scathing critique of modern society and reveals the fragility of human relationships; at worst, it is forced to leave the cynical, predictable and slightly trite tale of an unlikeable protagonist. This unlikely heroine, a slim, attractive and newly orphaned girl in her East Coast collegetwenties is disillusioned with the world, for reasons she refuses to explain but resolves not to lose sleep over it: in fact, her recently divorced parents or older brother Richard, solution lies in her family's lives start to unravelhibernation. 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>1784707422
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ivy PochodaMatthew Tree|title=Visitation StreetWe'll Never Know
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Red HookTimothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, Brooklyn a drunk 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 chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of the girls is found unconscious his artistic passions all failed miserably and washed ashore with no memory who had endless crises of what happened in the river and the other girl is nowhere self confidence. So Tim applied himself to be found. This becomes a big local story and the survivorhis studies, saviour cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and community have to deal with the loss in their different waysset himself high but achievable ambitions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444778242</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.
''Fragility'' is set as the city of Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Marlen HaushoferMosby Woods|title=Nowhere Ending SkyA Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= Little Meta The 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 the best course of action. Governments are flailing. A war here, a push for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is growing up in actual charge. Imagine then, there was a childhood paradise man with two parents who love her and a younger brother to tease and train to do all the things that Meta wants him toprecognition. However Imagine the world outside Meta's paradise strategic advantage in this asset; a man who can tell you what will soon change beyond all recognition as the Austria and Germany happen given any set of circumstances. That man would be valuable, right? Perhaps the 1920s makes way for the Austria and Germany of the 1930smost valuable asset in history. Imagine then, that this man loses this ability.What would governments do to get it back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0704373130</amazonuk>B0C9SNG8R1
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lea Carpenter0571379559|title=Eleven DaysThe House of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams|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''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the story of four people. JasonTess Hembry's father always seemed to roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be away doing something indefinable abroad; then he disappeared leaving her completelyhappier there, but instead, she lives in the house on the riverbank, built of broken bricks. Two years later JasonInsubstantial as it might look, it's father was deadstood the passage of time, storms and floods. However Jason is a lad Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the delivery rounds - and to be proud ofbring in sufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and Max, never giving Sara a momentthe rainbow twins. Sonny's trouble and now a member of the elite US Navy SEALScolouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. Now hePeople don't believe that they're related, much less twins and there's missing in action… Now an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she has to hang on and hope's his nanny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444776231</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=Manuel RivasKay Chronister|title=All Is SilenceDesert Creatures|rating=3.54|genre=Literary Dystopian Fiction|summary=The small community of Noitía With a world that is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, post-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Whether it is a place where everyone knows each other and each other’s businessrobotic takeover, which considering most a world devoid of the adults are involved in the one business, smugglingwater or a nuclear holocaust, this genre is potentially dangerous knowledgea way for humans to cathartically experience their most existential fears. We follow ''Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is a small group new work of three young friends growing up in the area as they play and learn and even experience a little post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the black market dealingsfears that exist for humanity today. They stumble across It is a stash of smuggled whisky and are caught by the charismatic king pin responsible for the trafficking, who teaches them shocking novel that silence is the most important lesson still manages to learn when growing up in Noitíafind hope.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184655568X</amazonuk>1803364998
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{{newreviewfrontpage|isbn=1803363002|author=Ryu MurakamiEric LaRocca|title=From The Fatherland, With LoveTrees Grew Because I Bled There|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionHorror|summary=From The FatherlandHorror taps into something primeval within us. It is used as a way to reflect our darkest emotions and how we as humans react and process them. Most horror fiction feature a ''Big Bad'', With Love whether that is a 2005 Japanese novel set in home invader, a monster or a ghost, it usually something tangible and, by the then-near future end of 2011the story, beatable. Fatherland (as Eric LaRocca's ''The Trees Grew Because I will abbreviate it) explores Bled There'' is not like that. It is a collection of short stories more interested in the social horrors of illness, grief and political ramifications of one speculative scenario: what if North Korea invaded Japan?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908968451</amazonuk>humiliation. Horrors that linger and are harder to defeat than any ''Big Bad''.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Suzanne RindellMadelaine Lucas|title=The Other TypistThirst for Salt
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The Other Typist is set in 1920s New York City''Love, I'd read, with Prohibition at its height was supposed to be a light and Rose Bakerweightless feeling, an orphaned but I had always longed for gravity'' Told from a retrospective view, a young womanunravels the year-long relationship that once defined her. Overlaid with later wisdom, working as the narrator relives the affair with a police typist. While she has no real friends, she's good at man twenty years her job and seems senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to have its sorrowful end the summer after. Set against the respect backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the Sergeant, whom she admires and the Lieutenant Detective, whom she24-year-old narrator's less keen on. Then a perfect storm comes into their livesdeepening relationship with her older lover, in the shape of the enchanting Odaliedepicting its all-consuming nature, how it changed her perspective on both romantic and nothing will be the same againfamilial relationships and how it altered her irrevocably.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0241002885</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=Gabriel WestonJennifer Saint|title=Dirty WorkAtalanta
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=#There are two women ''I was as worthy as any one of them. I would get on board that ship, I vowed. I would take my place, not just in an operating theatre and when one starts bleeding heavily - fatally - the other freezesname of the goddess. It was for the sake of my name, unabletoo. Atalanta'' Princess. Warrior. Lover. Hero. Abandoned at birth for being born a daughter rather than a son, despite all her training Atalanta is raised under the protective eye of the goddess Athemis and undoubted skillsfashioned into a formidable huntress, to do anything at allone who longs for adventure. Whatever When the outcome it cannot pass unnoticed, unreported and surgeon Nancy Mullion is called opportunity comes – to appear before a tribunal appointed by join the General Medical Council. Over Argonauts, a period fierce band of weeks she's forced warriors, descendent from the Gods themselves – Atalanta seizes the chance to confront the effect of being a doctor who has killed as well as cured. Youfight in Artemis're probably making assumptions now name and nodding wiselycarve out her own legendary place in history. DonWhat follows is a whirlwind of challenges and discovery and through it, Atalanta must remember Artemis't - because you are almost certainly going to be wrong. This fatal warning: that if she marries, it will not be the story which you are expecting and it was certainly not the story which Nancy's hospital wanted to hearher undoing.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>022409128X</amazonuk>1472292154
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rachel KushnerAmanthi Harris|title=The FlamethrowersBeautiful Place|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Set mainly in New York's art district in the late 1970sPadma, Rachel Kushner's ''The Flamethrowers'' tells the story of a young girlSri Lankan, known only has returned to the reader as Reno, after Villa Hibiscus on the city southern coast of her home country. This is a place she comes fromspent her formative years. She's It is not a girl who loves motorbikes and photographyplace she was born into, but struggles the one she thinks of as home. How she came to find be at the Villa, how it became her place in home, and the New York art scene. When machinations that have flowed through her life ever since she falls first arrived there provide the ''score'' for this gentle and yet subtly violent novel. Padma's present fails to escape her past and much like the estranged son, Sandromusical score of a film, of that strand weaves its way through everything that happens at the Italian motorbike manufacturer Valero, himself an artist in New York, Reno finds herself in situations she cannot controlVilla.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846557917</amazonuk>1784631930
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Roland Watson-Grant178563335X|title=SketcherSea Defences|author=Hilary Taylor
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= NineWhen we first meet Rachel Bird she's a trainee vicar, sitting in on a PCC meeting and wondering why they're held when you need to pick the children up. Her husband, Christopher, collects six-year-old Skid Beaumont lives with his three brothersHannah and her elder brother, Jamie, father Alrick and mother Valerie whilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioner. Thelma's daughter-in the swamps beyond the New Orleans city limits-law won't let her see her grandson. Life Holthorpe, on the Norfolk coast, is hard and home a lovely place, but Rachel is struggling to develop a rundown shack real bond with no running water the parish - and she's in awe of the vicar, Gail, but theythen she're only there temporarily; a 'temporarily' that is rather long-terms been doing the job for more than thirty years. Alrick moved them from their nice home in New Orleans because the land was cheap Rachel and soon Christopher hoped that a walk on the city beach would build out to envelop do them. Years later some good - it was stormy but it was probably what they're still waiting for that to happenneeded. Life isn’t exactly mundane though; there are rumours that when Skid's brother Frico draws left-handed, strange things seem to happenAnd then Hannah went missing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846882427</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Francesco Pacifico1398515388|title=The Story of My PurityBoy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating=24.5|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=In Francesco Pacifico's translated Italian novel 'The Story First of My Purity'all, Piero Rosini is a 30 year oldit was the earthquake, ultraconservative Catholic working for a radical Catholic publishing house. His marriage is devoid of physical contactdeep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and he yearns for his virginal sister-this, in-lawturn, caused the nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and utter devastation. Largely to escape these longings The deaths were uncountable, he heads for Paris, never and the first choice loss of one seeking to preserve livelihoods was widespread. The fact that many pets were separated from their purity, where he is further tempted by a slightly unlikely group owners came far down the list of girls, and one in particular, which is further complicated for him by priorities but - six months after the fact that she is Jewishtsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. Almost living He wasn't a separate life in dog person but the convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his head, he cannot escape either car door and Tamon the intellectual or physical constraints of his old life dog jumped in Rome.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241145058</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Philip Sington0989715337|title=The Valley of UnknowingPapa on the Moon|author=Marco North
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=In the mid-to-late eighties ''Some frogs had gotten into the German Democratic Republic looked like enduringwell. Bolstered by a system of ''Mitarbeiter '' (''fellow workersWalter stood waist-deep in the fragrant water, naked except for his beaten leather hat. Long strands of their eggs wove around him, sticky gray pearls with tadpoles inside them. Two of the dogs leaned over the opening and barked down at the strange noise of the buckets as he filled them.'' How is a much more amenable term than ''informers'') that for an opening? The style of this novel in the Stasi kept their populace in check. Western media was easy form of interconnected short stories goes from succinct and laconic to censor in those days. Border controls were brutal. People were shot wistful and musing, turning on a regular basis trying sixpence. And author Marco North, who has the most wonderful turn of phrase, starts as he means to cross the no-man's-land into West Berlin and along the other inner German bordersgo on.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099535823</amazonuk>
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