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[[Category:New Reviews|Literary Fiction]]__NOTOC__{{Frontpage|isbn=295967572X|title=Pale Pieces|author=G M Stevens|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction__NOTOC__<!|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 -- Remove -->but we are probably in the past as the pair travel to the station by coach and the train is a steam locomotive.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Hannah KentMakenna Goodman|title=Burial RitesHelen of Nowhere
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)Literary Fiction|summary=Fridrik, Agnes and Sigridur are accused It could be argued that the pervading theme of murdering two men one Icelandic night this book is malaise - a hard-to-place feeling that something in 1829 before setting fire to their homeyour life is not quite right. Now Agnes awaits executionThe protagonist, imprisoned in a disgraced professor on the farm brink of a lowly local family wholosing both his career and his relationship, rumour has itembodies this feeling. However, wouldn't be too great Goodman counteracts his discomfort with a loss if force which is seductive, radical and unnerving: Helen. The connection between Helen and the prisoner becomes dangerousprotagonist is indirect yet intimate. Margrit Jonsdottir (As the former owner of the farmercountryside house he's wife) doesn't feel threatened and sets the shockedconsidering, Helen represents a volta in his life, malnourished Agnes her past tied to workhis potential fresh start. Gradually Agnes reveals The realtor who shows the events of protagonist around the house shares stories about Helen, and describes her as ''an entity that night to Margrit and Totiis pure consciousness, a young priestbeyond form''. Her version seems to be a little different from what everyone else concludedAlthough she lives in an assisted living facility now, predictably… Or perhaps Helen has powers beyond comprehension which the reader gets the sense are not so predictablyaltogether innocuous.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447233166</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}}{{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''. In this compelling novel, Thea Lenarduzzi assumes the identity of T, the protagonist of this tale. Just as T's story is being told, the story of a second protagonist is unveiled: Annie, the daughter of a wealthy family in the 19th century, who died of tuberculosis after being locked in a tower, captures T's imagination. Annie's fate is, above all, an enticing story to T. It is a story which she consumes avariciously, both in a quest for truth and knowledge, and in service of myth, fable and fantasy. |isbn=1804271799}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jon Fosse and Damion Searls (translator) |title=HarvestVaim|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''All was strange''... This haunting phrase encapsulates the pervading sense of otherworldliness 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 the protagonists caught in its melancholic current.|isbn=1804271829}}{{Frontpage|author=Jim CraceClaire-Louise Bennett|title=Big Kiss, Bye-Bye
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=As harvest comes Everything inthis book, a village finds itself under threathowever sweet or seemingly innocent, is steeped in anguish and distortion. Invaded by Even a series of unfamiliar visitorskiss, it will find itself utterly transformed over usually a short but apocalyptic seven days. We watch through the eyes symbol of Walter Thirsk as three vagabonds escaping the enclosure intimacy and closeness, becomes evidence of their fields are blamed for love lost. When the trangressions of othersnarrator cries out internally, as the chartmaker Mr Quill enumerates the common land''come over here and kiss me, and as Master Kent's benevolent rule ' it is overtaken by less an invitation than a new owner, who comes with enforcers in the name desperate attempt to confirm her emotional numbness. The imagined recipient of ''profitthis plea is Xavier, progress and enterprise'' her ex- or sheep farming as Walter quickly realisespartner, a ghost she conjures to test her detachment.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0330445669</amazonuk>1804271934
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Meg WolitzerHelene Bessette and Kate Briggs (translator)|title=The InterestingsLili is Crying|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Back First published in 1974 six teenagers met at summer camp and did all those things 1953 in French, this novel is a timeless text which you get to do when your parents are not around to stop you. They smoked pot, drank vodka wrenches the hearts of its readers just as Bessette wrenches words and Tangs - and talked way into sentences from their proper position on the night about anything page and everything. Plays were put onpositions them elsewhere, animations were perfecteddisjointed, but most importantly friendships were made that would last for years - for some it would be a lifetimetruncated. Back in 1974, as Nixon left Like the White House under a particularly heavy cloud, 'The Interestings', as one lives of their number called themher characters, knew that they could achieve anything they set their minds to. For three summers they returned to Spirit-in-the-Woods and then they faced the real worldare often left tragically incomplete.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0701188278</amazonuk>1804271675
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Charlotte MendelsonJonathan Buckley|title=Almost EnglishOne Boat
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=In the late nineteen eighties sixteen year old Marina ''One Boat'' is a border at Combe schooldeeply introspective novella that defies traditional narrative structure, destined - as she drawing the reader into a contemplative realm of philosophical musings and all about her know - for Cambridge fragmented memories flowing from our narrator and protagonist, Teresa. Set against the medical profession. After her first term she's wonders if she's made a mistake as it's definitely not like it was at Ealing Girls. There, evocative backdrop of a girl whose mother is emotionally fragile doesn't stand outsmall coastal Greek town, even if this work masterfully captures the mother gets magic of its setting and its power to sleep on provoke profound introspection. Teresa herself recognises these qualities as the reason she has visited it after the sofa in death of both her in-laws' flat because their son - parents. Prompted by her husband - upped and left mourning, her and their daughter. You would still fit in even if the family you're living with narrative voice is Hungarian meditative and hasn't entirely left deeply self-aware, inviting the ways of the old country behindreader into her labyrinthine cogitations. At Combe there's too much about Marina It is a book that she could be mocked not only requires but inspires depth of thought, since its narrative structure is fragmentary and ironically relies on analepsis for - or could get her a cruel nickname. Marina simply doesn't fit in, but the family have sacrificed everything so that she can go thereits propulsion.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>144721997X</amazonuk>1804271764
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=1Q84: The Complete TrilogyEowyn Ivey|authortitle=Haruki MurakamiBlack Woods Blue Sky|rating=3.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The ''1Q84Black Woods Blue Sky'' trilogy istells the story of Birdie, without doubt, an impressive book. In many waysthe young mother of toddler Emaleen, who longs for a life beyond the trilogy almost has to be read in this way Alaskan lodge where she works as the three component books make little sense on their own. The first book in the series in particular is almost completely baffling if taken in isolation. It does, thougha bar waitress, demand a degree of dedication, setting which enables her bad habits and if the prospect her accidental neglect of Emaleen. Described as a 1300 page novel ''wild card'', she feels stuck in which not a huge amount happens in terms of plot her day-to-day life, and in which there is a significant level of repetition leaves you cold, then this might not be yearns to cross the best entry point into Wolverine river and live on the wonderful world of Haruki Murakami. As often with Murakami though, it's possible North Fork to read this book at a number fulfil her desires of levels. On the surface it's a love story set in a slightly fantastical setting with a little bit of crime thrown insimple life surrounded by nature. At When she meets Arthur Nielson, a deeper levelstrange, he explores the thin lines between imagination taciturn and realitysolitary man, life and death and what you might call yin and yang. It's who says he has a novel where balance cabin over there, she feels called to go - and vacuums play a big partbring Emaleen with her. It seems counter-intuitive to call a book of Without realising it, this magnitude 'delicate', but thatcalling will transform hers and Emaleen's just how the story appearslives forever.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099578077</amazonuk>1472279042
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=A Kind of Eden Sally Rooney|authortitle=Amanda SmythIntermezzo
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=Martin Rawlinson Sally Rooney has escaped from studied the cold dreary English weather to the exotic heat chessboard of life and exotic women is something of Trinidada grandmaster at putting it into words. He might have a wife Her dialogue is gripping and a daughter back homeso brilliantly frustrating, as her characters never quite say exactly what they feel. Among the many relationships woven into this story, but home is a long way away and here the central one for readers to unravel is the young fraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and beautiful SafiyaPeter Koubek. She's Ivan, a journalist and could easily have just dismissed him as some sad old white guysocially awkward chess prodigy, but somehow she didn't. Somehow they talkedcontrasts sharply with his older brother Peter, and walked, and she showed him the real Trinidad and he fell a successful lawyer living in love Dublin. Following their father's passing after a long battle with hercancer, and with her homethe brothers' already strained relationship faces new trials.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846688132</amazonuk>0571365469
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alexander MaksikFyodor Dostoyevsky|title=A Marker to Measure DriftWhite Nights
|rating=5
|genre=CrimeShort Stories|summary=Jacqueline roams As always in Dostoyevsky, the beaches of the Greek islands offering massages for money to ward off starvationcharacter work is sublime. It helps but hunger One is always with her, lurking alongside the memory of never left wondering what a former life in Liberia character is thinking or feeling because Dostoyevsky lays bare their innermost dispositions and the mind's ear voice of her mothertemperaments with remarkable clarity. Jacqueline is at least alive and existing, but at what cost?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848548052</amazonuk>0241619785
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=FamiliarJames Baldwin|authortitle=J Robert LennonGiovanni's Room
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Is there a greater change in ''Giovanni's Room'' follows the life of a middle-aged woman than the death of her teenage son? Elisa might have thought notnarrator David, having been forced to bury fifteen year old Silasan American man living in Paris, and try and move on as he navigates his torturous affair with her husband Derek and the year-older sonGiovanni, Sam. But an Italian bartender he meets in a greater change occurs on the way back from her annual, solo pilgrimage to his grave – something very weird happens to the universegay bar. She pops from one car While David is engaged to anotherHella, from under a cloudless sky to a slightly greyer one – and from her self as Elisa to a world where people call her Lisa, where she who is plumper, travelling in a different jobSpain, stiil married to Derek the real tension in the same home – novel arises not from his infidelity but still from the mother deeper conflict within himself. It is David's crippling shame and denial of two young men…his sexuality that ultimately dooms his relationship with Giovanni.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846689473</amazonuk>0141186356
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Sorrow of AngelsAlba de Cespedes |authortitle=Jon Kalman StefanssonForbidden Notebook|rating=3.54
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Our decidedly unheroic main character has been at the café for three weeks now, so we are following on very closely This Italian work of feminist fiction holds an air of suspense and tension from [[Heaven and Hell by Jon Kalman Stefansson|Heaven and Hell]]. After the tragedy and soul-searching of that first bookmoment our protagonist, he seems settled in the ridiculous family that has formed around him thereValeria Cossati, finding employment, enjoying the literature, yet being very intrigued by the female body. The man who is still young enough to be known only as ''the boy'' might have latched on to stability for oncepurchases her forbidden notebook, and replaced learns about herself in the family and best friend he had lost. But everything is restless in this environment, most intimate and once again he might just be tempted to go on a journey, with another male companion, despite the harshness of the surroundsrevealing ways.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857051652</amazonuk>1782278222
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Heaven and HellOttessa Moshfegh|authortitle=Jon Kalman StefanssonMy Year of Rest and Relaxation|rating=43
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=IcelandAt best, this novel is a hundred years ago. From a place that scathing critique of modern society and reveals the fragility of human relationships; at worst, it is the very definition cynical, predictable and slightly trite tale of rural and remotean unlikeable protagonist. This unlikely heroine, a small fishing boat leaves for four hours' hard row to a profitable bank. It carries six men on the way outslim, attractive and five on the way back. The deceased newly orphaned girl in her twenties is disillusioned with the best friend – or perhaps only friend – of the main characterworld, who is still young enough to merely be known as ''boy''. When he returns but resolves not to port he enters an almost Camus-like semi-existence, wondering just how much life is an answer, and for whatlose sleep over it: in fact, after the tragedy he has witnessedher solution lies in her hibernation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849164061</amazonuk>1784707422
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The SonMatthew Tree|authortitle=Philipp MeyerWe'll Never Know
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Philipp Meyer's second novelTimothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, ''The Son,'' is an epic, multi-generational saga a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of Texas lifeself confidence. Tracing the McCullough family from the middle of the nineteenth century So Tim applied himself to the present day, Meyer joins those writing today's masterpieces of American 'dirty realism': Ron Rash, [[:Category:David Vann|David Vann]]his studies, Richard Ford cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and especially Cormac McCarthy. Like McCarthy's ''Blood Meridian,'' ''The Son'' is a gory Western that transcends a simplistic cowboys-versus-Indians dichotomy to draw broader conclusions about the universality of violence in a nihilistic worldset himself high but achievable ambitions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857209426</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=Donal RyanMosby Woods|title=The Spinning HeartA Whirly Man Loses His Turn
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The West isn'My father still lives back t the road past the weir dominant force it once was. Nobody in the cottage I was reared in. I go there every day West is quite sure how to see mend this or even if mending it is he dead and every day he lets me downthe best course of action. Governments are flailing. He hasn't yet missed A war here, a day of letting me downpush for climate action there.' This A feeling that nobody is how we meet Bobby - Bobby Mahon, as we'll learn - and he's brutally honest about his feelings for his father, who has deliberately drunk away the farm he inherited from ''his'' fatherin actual charge. But Frank Mahon isn't Bobby's onlyImagine then, or even main, problemthere was a man with precognition. He's been earning big money as Pokey Burke's foreman but Imagine the financial crash has hit and Pokey has done strategic advantage in this asset; a runnerman who can tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. An investment That man would be valuable, right? Perhaps the most valuable asset in a fake island off Dubai finished him and now he's disappearedhistory. On the estate of forty houses he was buildingImagine then, just two are occupied and the rutted roads are nothing more than a racetrack for the joyridersthat this man loses this ability.What would governments do to get it back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781620067</amazonuk>B0C9SNG8R1
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Natasha Solomons0571379559|title=The Gallery House of Vanished HusbandsBroken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=On her thirtieth birthday Juliet Montague went out to buy a fridge for ''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the princely sum story of twenty-one guineasfour people. SheTess Hembry'd saved hard for it - and her parents had given her s roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in the house on the final few pounds - but then Juliet did something impulsiveriverbank, built of broken bricks. Instead Insubstantial as it might look, it's stood the passage of buying a fridge she commissioned a portrait of herself time, storms and so began her involvement in floods. Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the postdelivery rounds -war art sceneand to bring in sufficient money. Juliet wasn't They have twin boys - by any stretch of Sonny and Max, the imagination - an artist, but she had a startling ability to spot a rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother'good'' pictures Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. It was simply something which she ''knewPeople don't believe that they're related, much as less twins and there's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she had known for certain that her husband had left for good on the day he didn't return home as expecteds his nanny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444736345</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?''
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|titleauthor=IndiscretionKay Chronister|authortitle=Charles DubowDesert Creatures|rating=3.54|genre=Literary Dystopian Fiction|summary=Charles Dubow's debut novel promises to be With a modern day Great Gatsbyworld that is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, post-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. It too Whether it is set amongst the rich and famous outside New Yorka robotic takeover, a world devoid of water or a nuclear holocaust, it too this genre is narrated a way for humans to cathartically experience their most existential fears. ''Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is a character seemingly on new work of post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the outside, Maddy's childhood friend Walterfears that exist for humanity today. It is a shocking novel that still manages to find hope.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007501307</amazonuk>1803364998
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{{newreviewfrontpage|titleisbn=Unfaithfully Yours1803363002|author=Nigel WilliamsEric LaRocca|title= The Trees Grew Because I Bled There|rating=45|genre=General FictionHorror|summary=When Nigel Williams first really burst on Horror taps into something primeval within us. It is used as a way to the best-seller list, reflect our darkest emotions and how we as humans react and process them. Most horror fiction feature a couple of decades ago''Big Bad'', it was with a book set in Wimbledon whether that really quite tickled is a younger me – and my mother. But then he produced two more in the same serieshome invader, and we soon decided he was a bit of monster or a one-trick ponyghost, it usually something tangible and could never be sure how much , by the end of the trilogy we'd read, or be too eager to read more. Flash forwardstory, and Williams has certainly branched out – his setting this time is Putneybeatable. Wimbledon Common is now Putney Heath, and so on. But here he provides an epistolatory novel – and if thereEric LaRocca's one kind of novel to make me prick up my ears it ''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is one built from lettersnot like that. It is a collection of short stories more interested in the blatant two-and-fro timing horrors of the narrativeillness, grief and the succinctness humiliation. Horrors that characters linger and are formed with, that strike me as obvious benefits of such a book – and Unfaithfully Yours has those and many moreharder to defeat than any ''Big Bad''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472106741</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Russian StoriesMadelaine Lucas|authortitle=Francesc SeresThirst for Salt
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=When confronted with the topic of parrots''Love, most people would describe them as tamed tropical birds that are taught to repeat simple phrasesI'd read, having no particular intelligence was supposed to engender an originality of their own. Filippo Bologna has not in fact written be a book about birdslight and weightless feeling, 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 I had always longed 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 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 in a delightfully clear fashion; Bolognagravity''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 Prize.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908968192</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=Andrew PorterJennifer Saint|title=In Between DaysAtalanta|rating=3.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=After Chloe Harding is forced to leave her East Coast college''I was as worthy as any one of them. I would get on board that ship, for reasons she refuses to explain to her recently divorced parents or older brother RichardI vowed. I would take my place, her family's lives start to unravelnot just in the name of the goddess. Will It was for the rest sake of them ever find out what caused her fall from gracemy name, and can they solve their own problems?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224089838</amazonuk>}}too. Atalanta''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lea CarpenterAmanthi Harris|title=Eleven DaysBeautiful Place|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Sara raised Jason alone; even when she was with his father it felt as if she was Padma, a lone parent. Jason's father always seemed young Sri Lankan, has returned to be away doing something indefinable abroad; then he disappeared leaving the Villa Hibiscus on the southern coast of her completelyhome country. Two This is a place she spent her formative years later Jason's father was dead. However Jason It is not a lad place she was born into, but the one she thinks of as home. How she came to be proud ofat the Villa, how it became her home, never giving Sara a momentand the machinations that have flowed through her life ever since she first arrived there provide the ''score''s trouble for this gentle and now a member of the elite US Navy SEALSyet subtly violent novel. Now he Padma's missing in action… Now she has present fails to hang on escape her past and hopemuch like the musical score of a film, that strand weaves its way through everything that happens at the Villa.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444776231</amazonuk>1784631930
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lucy Cruickshanks178563335X|title=The Trader of SaigonSea Defences|author=Hilary Taylor
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The small community of Noitía is When we first meet Rachel Bird she's a trainee vicar, sitting in on a place where everyone knows each other 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 each other’s businessher elder brother, Jamie, which considering most of the adults are involved whilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioner. Thelma's daughter-in -law won't let her see her grandson. Holthorpe, on the one businessNorfolk coast, smugglingis a lovely place, but Rachel is potentially dangerous knowledge. We follow struggling to develop a small group of three young friends growing up in real bond with the area as they play parish - and learn and even experience a little she's in awe of the black market dealingsvicar, Gail, but then she's been doing the job for more than thirty years. They stumble across Rachel and Christopher hoped that a stash of smuggled whisky and are caught by the charismatic king pin responsible for walk on the trafficking, who teaches beach would do them that silence is the most important lesson to learn when growing up in Noitíasome good - it was stormy but it was probably what they needed. And then Hannah went missing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184655568X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ryu Murakami1398515388|title=From The Fatherland, With LoveBoy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=From First of all, it was the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and this, in turn, caused the nuclear meltdown. The Fatherlandresult was complete and utter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, With Love is a 2005 Japanese novel set in and the loss of livelihoods was widespread. The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of priorities but - six months after the thentsunami -near future of 2011Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. Fatherland (as I will abbreviate it) explores He wasn't a dog person but the social convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and political ramifications of one speculative scenario: what if North Korea invaded Japan?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908968451</amazonuk>Tamon the dog jumped in.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Suzanne Rindell0989715337|title=The Other TypistPapa on the Moon|author=Marco North|rating=54
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The Other Typist is set in 1920s New York City, with Prohibition at its height and Rose Baker, an orphaned young woman, working as a police typist''Some frogs had gotten into the well. While she has no real friends, she's good at her job and seems to have ' ''Walter stood waist-deep in the respect of the Sergeant, whom she admires and the Lieutenant Detectivefragrant water, whom she's less keen onnaked except for his beaten leather hat. Then a perfect storm comes into Long strands of their liveseggs wove around him, in sticky gray pearls with tadpoles inside them. Two of the shape of dogs leaned over the enchanting Odalie, opening and nothing will be barked down at the strange noise of the same againbuckets as he filled them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241002885</amazonuk>}}''
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