Changes

[[Category:New Reviews|Literary Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!{{Frontpage|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 -- 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= Stephanie Bishop Makenna Goodman|title= The Other Side Helen of the WorldNowhere|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary Fiction |summary= This It could be argued that the pervading theme of this book is malaise - a beautifully written bookhard-to-place feeling that something in your life is not quite right. The protagonist, located a disgraced professor on the brink of losing both in England his career and Australiahis relationship, about adulthoodembodies this feeling. However, changing responsibilitiesGoodman counteracts his discomfort with a force which is seductive, radical and unnerving: Helen. The connection between Helen and the universal desire for identity and belongingprotagonist is indirect yet intimate. This theme is also reflected As the former owner of the countryside house he's considering, Helen represents a volta in his life, her past tied to his potential fresh start. The realtor who shows the search for union protagonist around the house shares stories about Helen, and fulfilment describes her as ''an entity that is pure consciousness, beyond form''. Although she lives in an assisted living facility now, Helen has powers beyond comprehension which the marriage of Henry and Charlotte, struggling with reader gets the changes imposed on them by parenthood and family life across two continentssense are not altogether innocuous. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472230612</amazonuk>1804272205

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Chang Ying-Tai and Darryl Sterk (translator)Olga Tokarczuk|title= The Bear Whispers To Me: The Story House of a Bear and a BoyDay, House of Night|rating= 45|genre= Literary Fiction |summary=Award winning Taiwanese writer Chang Ying-Tai''What's emotive, elegiac fable is a meditation on the art good of storytelling. Its immersive detail and enchanting musical cadences give it a magical, dream world that keeps changing like quality. It is a special work as it is that? How can one of the few examples of Taiwanese fiction available go on calmly living in English. The blind Paiwan poet Monaneng said of aboriginal Taiwanese culture:it?''

"With tender care let us set in motion 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 blood that is once again warm.<br>Let us recall our songslives, like the shift from day to night, our danceshowever quotidian, our sacred ritualscausing chaos.<br> And But, the constant in that image is the tradition of unselfish mutual coexistence between us and house, stoic against the earth. This ancient diurnal cycle which nonetheless controls how it is exactly what "The Bear Whispers to Me" effortlessly doesperceived.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0993215408</amazonuk>1804271918

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Fred UhlmanThea Lenarduzzi|title=ReunionThe Tower

|summary=Hans Schwarz was a jew and attended ''How unctuous are the Karl Alexander Gymnasiumfats of another's life, the most famous grammar school how dizzying their sugars in Wurttembergour bloodstream''. At sixteen he didn't really have a friend and was slightly apart from the other cliques in his class In this compelling novel, until Thea Lenarduzzi assumes the arrival identity of Konradin von HohenfelsT, the elegantly-dressed son protagonist of the aristocracythis tale. For some reason Hans and Konradin became Just as T's story is being told, the best story of friendsa second protagonist is unveiled: Annie, spending the daughter of a glorious summer walking wealthy family in the Swabian hills19th century, who died of tuberculosis after being locked in a tower, comparing their coin collections and talking about everythingcaptures T's imagination. Only slowly does it occur Annie's fate is, above all, an enticing story to Hans that whilst Konradin T. It is made welcome a story which she consumes avariciously, both in his homea quest for truth and knowledge, Hans can only visit Konradin's home when his parents are absent. This was February 1932 and in the closing years service of the Weimar Republicmyth, fable and fantasy. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1860463657</amazonuk>1804271799

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ivan VladislavicJon Fosse and Damion Searls (translator) |title=101 DetectivesVaim|rating=3.54|genre=Short StoriesLiterary Fiction|summary=101 Detectives had me baffled''All was strange''... The book comprises This haunting phrase encapsulates the pervading sense of otherworldliness which permeates this story set in Vaim, a collection of stories fictional fishing village in Norway which explore multiple themes from the perspective paradoxically could not feel more real for Jatgeir and Eline, two of one person. The stories are as varied as the characters presenting the tale to you. This exquisitely written book leaves you asking many questions and pondering many ideasprotagonists caught in its melancholic current. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908276568</amazonuk>1804271829

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= JanClaire-Philipp SendkerLouise Bennett|title= Whispering ShadowsBig Kiss, Bye-Bye |rating= 4.5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= Paul Leibovitz was a journalist. That was beforeEverything in this book, however sweet or seemingly innocent, is steeped in anguish and distortion. Before he had Even a small childkiss, who did not survive as long as he should have. Before the end usually a symbol of the marriage that did not survive the loss intimacy and closeness, becomes evidence of a childlove lost. Now Leibovitz himselfWhen the narrator cries out internally, ''come over here and kiss me, merely survives'' it is less an invitation than a desperate attempt to confirm her emotional numbness. He lives in a kind The imagined recipient of selfthis plea is Xavier, her ex-imposed exile on Lamma, third largest of the Hong Kong islandspartner, a place of greenery and solitudeghost she conjures to test her detachment.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846973309</amazonuk>1804271934

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jo Walton|title= The Just City|rating= 3.5|genre= Dystopian Fiction|summary=Urged on by her brother Apollo, goddess Pallas Athene founds the Just City of Atlantis – a city based on Plato’s republic. Filling it with an assortments of adults collected from throughout time, as well as ten thousand ten year olds, Helene Bessette and Kate Briggs (one of whom is a disguised Apollotranslator). Whilst the city flourishes, the arrival of Socrates may prove to be a fly in the ointment…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472150767</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= David Finkle|title= The Man With The OvercoatLili is Crying|rating= 34.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=''Why would anyone - he was soon to ask himself innumerable times - take a coat from a complete stranger only because it had been offered?'' Skip Gerber steps off the elevator after a long day at work; the foyer of his office building is busy and buzzy and he does not notice the man holding the overcoat until the man hands it to Skip telling him to ''take very good care of it''. Skip unthinkingly grasps the coat and before he has the chance to realise what he is doing - and that he is now holding an overcoat of unknown providence - the man disappears out of the exit door to the building.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0992618525</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Rebecca Dinerstein|title=The Sunlit Night|rating=4

|summary=Frances comes from a 'desperately artistic family', her father a medical illustrator and her mother an interior designer. Along with her younger sister Sarah, she grew up First published in a tiny one-bedroom apartment 1953 in Manhattan: bunk beds for the girls and French, this novel is a fold-out sofa bed for timeless text which wrenches the parents. The claustrophobic atmosphere has gotten to everyone hearts of its readers just as Bessette wrenches words and now, with Frances graduating sentences from college, it looks like their proper position on the family might fall apart. Her parents argue constantly page and disapprove of Sarah's fiancé (not ''just'' because he isn't Jewish). Frances has her own romantic crisis: after a pregnancy scare, Robert breaks up with her. A high-flyer with a future in politicspositions them elsewhere, he tells her that her art has no purpose; it isn't helping anyone. 'What does it matter if you do what you lovedisjointed, if what you love doesn't matter?' she asks her fathertruncated. Still, she has no other prospects, so agrees to take up a painting apprenticeship in Like the furthest reaches lives of Norway; 'All I had was a directionher characters, norththey are often left tragically incomplete.'|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408863049</amazonuk>1804271675

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Claire FullertonJonathan Buckley|title=Dancing to an Irish ReelOne Boat

|summary=Hailey was on ''One Boat'' is a deeply introspective novella that defies traditional narrative structure, drawing the reader into a sabbatical contemplative realm of philosophical musings and fragmented memories flowing from her job in the music business in Los Angeles our narrator and taking protagonist, Teresa. Set against the holiday evocative backdrop of a lifetime to Irelandsmall coastal Greek town, when she walked into this work masterfully captures the Galway Music Centre magic of its setting and found a job which she simply couldn't turn downits power to provoke profound introspection. She also found a home in a local village, a liking for Teresa herself recognises these qualities as the rural life and a man whom reason she could love. Liam Hennessy was a talented accordion player: music was his life and whilst he was more attracted to Hailey than he had ever been to another woman has visited it wasn't entirely clear whether 'love' could ever be on after the cards for himdeath of both her parents.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0990304256</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jessie Greengrass |title=An Account of the Decline of the Great AukPrompted by her mourning, According to One Who Saw It |rating=3|genre=Short Stories|summary=The title story, which appears firsther narrative voice is meditative and deeply self-aware, is exactly what it says on inviting the tin: one hunter's story of travelling to remote islands to take part in massive culls of great auks, until they were simply gonereader into her labyrinthine cogitations. It's always hard to believe is a book that species that once numbered in their millionsnot only requires but inspires depth of thought, such as the passenger pigeon, could go extinct so quickly, but when you read about the brutal slaughter tactics here – swinging clubs since its narrative structure is fragmentary and boiling birds alive – you can see how a flightless bird was a sitting target. The narrator makes no real attempt to defend himself: the birds were there ironically relies on analepsis for the taking; that was that. Still, he regrets their extinction, because 'in any loss you can see a shadow of the way that you will be lost yourself.' (Those interested in the great auk's extinction may also want to read the 2013 novel ''The Collector of Lost Things'' by Jeremy Pageits propulsion.)|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473610850</amazonuk>1804271764

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patricia ParkEowyn Ivey|title=Re JaneBlack Woods Blue Sky

|summary= Growing up in Flushing''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, New York –Jane Re has long been hoping to escape a setting which enables her bad habits and her whole lifeaccidental neglect of Emaleen. A halfDescribed as a ''wild card'', she feels stuck in her day-Korean, halfto-American Orphanday life, Jane struggles and yearns to find her place as a spirited cross the Wolverine river and intelligent young woman growing up in a strict and mirthless family, observing live on the traditional Korean principle North Fork to fulfil her desires of “Nunchi” (a combination of good manners, obligation and hierarchy)simple life surrounded by nature. Desperate to escapeWhen she meets Arthur Nielson, Jane is thrilled when she becomes the au pair for a rich couple – two Brooklyn based professors of Englishstrange, who have adopted a young Chinese girl into their family. Jane soon falls for the taciturn and solitary man of the family, but their blossoming affair is soon curtailed by who says he has a family deathcabin over there, prompting Jane’s return she feels called to Korea. As she learns more about herself, her history go - and bring Emaleen with her culture, Jane must make huge decisions about her life, her future. Without realising it, this calling will transform hers and her man…Emaleen's lives forever.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0525427406</amazonuk>1472279042

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patricia DunckerSally Rooney|title=Sophie and the Sibyl: A Victorian RomanceIntermezzo|rating=4.5|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=''Sophie Sally Rooney has studied the chessboard of life and the Sibyl'', consciously modelled on John Fowles's ''The French Lieutenant's Woman'', is something of a postmodern blending of history, fiction, and metafictional commentarygrandmaster at putting it into words. Brothers Max Her dialogue is gripping and Wolfgang Duncker really were George Eliot's German publishersso brilliantly frustrating, but the accident of their surname matching the author's makes them as her clever stand-incharacters never quite say exactly what they feel. As Among the novel opens in 1872many relationships woven into this story, the venerable English author central one for readers to unravel is exploring Homburg the fraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and Berlin in the company of her 'husband' while ushering her latest novelPeter Koubek. Ivan, ''Middlemarch''a socially awkward chess prodigy, into German translation. Maxcontrasts sharply with his older brother Peter, a young cad fond of casinos and brothels, has two tasks: ensuring Eliotsuccessful lawyer living in Dublin. Following their father's loyalty to their publishing housepassing after a long battle with cancer, and securing Countess Sophie von Hahnthe brothers's hand in marriagealready strained relationship faces new trials.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140886052X</amazonuk>0571365469

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sara BaumeFyodor Dostoyevsky|title=Spill Simmer Falter WitherWhite Nights

|genre=Literary FictionShort Stories|summary=Every Tuesday he goes into townAs always in Dostoyevsky, the character work is sublime. This particular Tuesday he sees an advert for One is never left wondering what a rescue dog thatcharacter is thinking or feeling because Dostoyevsky lays bare their innermost dispositions and temperaments with remarkable clarity.|isbn=0241619785}}{{Frontpage|author=James Baldwin|title=Giovanni's been badly treated by its previous ownerRoom|rating=4. Somewhere 5|genre=Literary Fiction |summary=''Giovanni's Room'' follows the ad strikes a resonance and narrator David, an American man living in Paris, as he adopts the dognavigates his torturous affair with Giovanni, calling it Oneeye (yesan Italian bartender he meets in a gay bar. While David is engaged to Hella, one wordwho is travelling in Spain, just like that). Gradually over shared meals a friendship grows and develops over the seasons as real tension in the novel arises not from his infidelity but from the spill of spring turns to summerdeeper conflict within himself. It is David's simmer, through the falter crippling shame and denial of autumn and on to withering winterhis sexuality that ultimately dooms his relationship with Giovanni.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0992817064</amazonuk>0141186356

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael LaubAlba de Cespedes |title=Diary of the FallForbidden Notebook

|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Diary This Italian work of the Fall is a story about regret, guilt feminist fiction holds an air of suspense and resentment. It's told tension from the point of view of an unnamed narratormoment our protagonist, Valeria Cossati, purchases her forbidden notebook, who reflects on not just his own life but also and learns about herself in the lives of his father most intimate and grandfatherrevealing ways.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099581795</amazonuk>1782278222

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Antoine Laurain, Emily Boyce (translator) and Jane Aitken (translator)Ottessa Moshfegh|title=The Red NotebookMy Year of Rest and Relaxation|rating=53|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Meet Laure. She's At best, this novel is a widow in her 40sscathing critique of modern society and reveals the fragility of human relationships; at worst, who it is entering her Parisian apartment building one night when she's muggedthe cynical, predictable and her handbag stolenslightly trite tale of an unlikeable protagonist. Meet LaurentThis unlikely heroine, a middle-aged booksellerslim, who happens upon the handbag the following morning attractive and newly orphaned girl in her twenties is disillusioned with the streetworld, just before the binmen take it away, never but resolves not to be seen again. More or less snubbed when trying to hand lose sleep over it to the police as lost property: in fact, he decides to take it upon himself to reunite the bag with its rightful owner. He has no idea their names are so intimately linked, and despite a lot of things being her solution lies in the bag (including the titular notebook) there is no cash, no phone and no ID documentation at allher hibernation. What's more – and what looks like making the idea even more fruitless – he has no idea that Laure has fallen into a coma as a result of the mugging…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908313862</amazonuk>1784707422

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Edward Parnell Matthew Tree|title= The Listeners |rating= 4 |genre= Literary Fiction |summary=May 1940. William Abrehart has not spoken since the mysterious death of his father, choosing instead to spend his days in the woods that surround his home. A promise he made to his dying father means that he is responsible for the wellbeing of his two sisters, and their withdrawn mother. Over the course of a weekend, ghosts of the past cause buried secrets, lies and promises to come spilling out - culminating in a series of shocking events. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781331065</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Nadia Hashimi|title=The Pearl a That Broke Its ShellWe'll Never Know

|summary=Kabul 2007: Rahima and her sisters are followed home Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from school one day by his father, a boy on drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his bikeartistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of self confidence. He taunts them innocently enough as little boys doSo Tim applied himself to his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but with no sibling brother, the girls are unchaperoned in this land that is ruled by the laws of men. And as daughters in a household without sons, in a country that is governed by fear, the consequences will weigh heavily for them allachievable ambitions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0062244760</amazonuk>B0CVFXPGP8

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Norah VincentB0C47LV1PC|title=Adeline: A Novel of Virginia WoolfFragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=54

|summary=Back in 1999, when Can you make a ''The HoursYo birthing person'' won the Pulitzer Prizejoke? And if you could, Michael Cunningham set a precedent for depicting Woolf's later life and suicide. Nicole Kidman won a Best Actress Oscar for her role as Woolf in is the film version of question should you make it? Or is the novel; she question if you did, would it land? The catch is best remembered that the answer for wearing a prosthetic noseboth could well be... Fast forward 15 years. In 2014–2015 alone, three major novels about Virginia Woolf have been publishedno. That confluence ''Fragility'' is set as the city of Portland, especially in a year that does not mark a significant anniversaryOregon, speaks cautiously begins to a continuing interest in Woolf's life and writings.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349005648</amazonuk>emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ivan Repila and Sophie Hughes (translator)Mosby Woods|title=The Boy Who Stole Attila's HorseA Whirly Man Loses His Turn

|summary=If you pick up a copy of this book you realise how small The West isn't the dominant force it once was. Nobody in the West is. You'll know, of course, that pockets hardly exist that are normally big enough quite sure how to hold what we used to call a pocket book, but here mend this or even if mending it is the exception to prove the rulebest course of action. It's weeGovernments are flailing. The story is on A war here, a hundred pagespush for climate action there. The concision A feeling that nobody is partly down to it starting after the beginning, for we first meet Big and Small, two brothers, once they're stuck down a large well in the middle of a forestactual charge. Tasked with a family errandImagine then, they're trapped at the bottom of there was a natural Erlenmeyer flask, and even a desperate move cannot get either outman with precognition. This is Imagine the story strategic advantage in this asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. That man would be valuable, right? Perhaps the next three months most valuable asset in their existencehistory. Imagine then, as they brave hunger, delirium, loss of language, and the brute and unstinting human selfishness needed for existencethat this man loses this ability.What would governments do to get it back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782271015</amazonuk>B0C9SNG8R1

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jamie Kornegay0571379559|title=SoilThe House of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=Jay Mize ''The House of Broken Bricks'' is a scientific man with a particular interest the story of four people. Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in soil the house on the riverbank, built of broken bricks. Insubstantial as it might look, it's stood the passage of time, storms and agriculturefloods. He decides he is the one Her husband, Richard, struggles to pioneer a revolution in farming techniques and uproots grow his wife vegetables, to complete the delivery rounds - and son to set up an experimental farm on a plot of land bring in the countrysufficient money. Jay is also an obsessive man They have twin boys - Sonny and his plans take overMax, becoming the rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his only focus and causing mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his family to leave himfather. Then flooding ruins his crops People don't believe that they're related, much less twins and he there's an assumption when Max is left at the end of out with his tether; things only get worse when Jay finds a dead body on mother that she's his land and his tenuous grip on his sanity is releasednanny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473607035</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Karen CampbellClaire North|title=RiseHouse of Odysseus|rating=45|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Justine is running for her life. She's had enough of being someone else's property, of being subjected What could matter more than love?'' The follow-up to the kind excellent ''Ithaca'' picks up a few months after where we left off. In the palace of love that has seen her tattooed and owned and beaten and rented out to others Odysseus, with delicate care Queen Penelope continues to earn rule without her keep. So she's taken what isn't hershusband, but who sailed to war at Troy and then was by divine intervention never actually his either, returned home. As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for the throne of the Western Isles. Having survived – politically and shephysical – the chaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to Ithaca's packed a bagshores, waited until he Queen Penelope is drunk-enough asleep not to hear her say goodbye to on the brink of a fragile peace. One that shatters however with the dogreturn of Orestes, King of Mycenae, and has lefthis sister Elektra, seeking refuge.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408857928</amazonuk>0356516075

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dorthe NorsKay Chronister|title=Karate Chop, and Minna Needs Rehearsal SpaceDesert Creatures|rating=3.54|genre=Short StoriesDystopian Fiction|summary=The reviewer picks up the book.<br>The book is called ''Minna Needs Rehearsal Space''.<br>The book With a world that is entirely made out of one-sentence paragraphs.<br>The one-sentence paragraphs are very seldom poeticbecoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, but normally are grammatically correct sentences.<br>The onepost-sentence paragraphs on the whole have just one verb, unless regarding that from reported or unreported speechapocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill.<br>The book concerns Whether it is a middle-aged musician and composer who does indeed need rehearsal space.<br>The book concerns robotic takeover, a woman who suddenly gets more space than she wants when her boyfriend leaves her.<br>The boyfriend's departure causes world devoid of water or a lot of people crowding around Minnanuclear holocaust, which causes this genre is a problemway for humans to cathartically experience their most existential fears.<br>The problem might be resolved ''Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is a trip away from her city flat.<br>The title new work of post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the book might be ironicfears that exist for humanity today. It is a shocking novel that still manages to find hope.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782271198</amazonuk>1803364998

{{newreviewfrontpage|isbn=1803363002|author=Chigozie ObiomaEric LaRocca|title=The FishermenTrees Grew Because I Bled There|rating=45|genre=General FictionHorror|summary=This book Horror taps into something primeval within us. It is essentially used as a cautionary family tale of four brothers way to reflect our darkest emotions and the way they how we as humans react to a prophecy about and process them by the local madman. It Most horror fiction feature a ''Big Bad'', whether that is alsoa home invader, in a sense, monster or a coming-of-age story where Benghost, the young narratorit usually something tangible and, is plunged into premature adulthood under by the most brutal end of circumstancesthe story, beatable. And it Eric LaRocca's ''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is about brotherly lovenot like that. None It is a collection of short stories more interested in the horrors of these descriptionsillness, however, convey the fact grief and humiliation. Horrors that this book is written by an exciting new voice in African literary fictionlinger and are harder to defeat than any ''Big Bad''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0957548850</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jennifer ClementMadelaine Lucas|title=Prayers Thirst for the StolenSalt|rating=3.5

|summary=Ladydi Garcia Martínez lives in rural Chilpancingo''Love, MexicoI'd read, with her motherwas supposed to be a light and weightless feeling, Rita, who works as a cleaning lady but I had always longed for gravity'' Told from a rich family. Like many of the men in their town who left to find workretrospective view, Ladydi's father crossed a young woman unravels the river into America, where he is rumoured to have another familyyear-long relationship that once defined her. As a resultOverlaid with later wisdom, this is very much the narrator relives the affair with a matriarchal communityman twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the summer after. Rita describes Set against the situation backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for LadydiSalt's teacher: 'You men dondetails the 24-year-old narrator't get its deepening relationship with her older lover, yetdepicting its all-consuming nature, do you? This is a land of women. Mexico belongs to womenhow it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and how it altered her irrevocably.'|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099587599</amazonuk>0861546490

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David GrossmanMichael Grothaus|title=Falling Out of TimeBeautiful Shining People

|summary=Like the central characters in ''Falling Out 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 the name of the goddess. It was for the sake of Timemy name, too. Atalanta'', Israeli author David Grossman lost his  Princess. Warrior. Lover. Hero. Abandoned at birth for being born a daughter rather than a son, Atalanta is raised under the protective eye of the goddess Athemis and fashioned into a soldier named Uriformidable huntress, during one who longs for adventure. When the Middle East conflict. In this multifaceted examination of bereavementopportunity comes – to join the Argonauts, it seems that everyone has lost a child. The genre-bending mixture fierce band of poetry, absurdist dialoguewarriors, descendent from the Gods themselves – Atalanta seizes the chance to fight in Artemis' name and an inverted fairy tale reflects the difficulty of ever capturing grief carve out her own legendary place in languagehistory. Each story and each strategy What follows is like a new way whirlwind of approaching the unspeakablechallenges and discovery and through it, Atalanta must remember Artemis' fatal warning: that if she marries, it will be her undoing.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099583720</amazonuk>1472292154

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Samantha EllisAmanthi Harris|title=How To Be A Heroine: Or, what I've learned from reading too muchBeautiful Place|rating=45

|summary=''How Padma, a young Sri Lankan, has returned to be the Villa Hibiscus on the southern coast of her home country. This is a Heroine'' place she spent her formative years. It is not a pleasant and addictive readplace she was born into, but the one she thinks of as home. Playwright Samantha Ellis looks back How she came to be at the Villa, how it became her childhood as a voracious reader home, and remembers the characters machinations that influenced have flowed through her. These are as diverse as Sylvia Plath, life ever since she first arrived there provide the ''score'Little Women'for this gentle and yet subtly violent novel. Padma' s present fails to escape her past and Scheherazademuch like the musical score of a film, that strand weaves its way through everything that happens at the Villa.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099575566</amazonuk>1784631930

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Walthew178563335X|title=The Complex Chemistry of LossSea Defences|author=Hilary Taylor

|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Deep When we first meet Rachel Bird she's a trainee vicar, sitting in rural France James Kerr was admitted to on a psychiatric clinic. His mental problems were deep PCC meeting and intractablewondering why they're held when you need to pick the children up. Superficially he seemed never to have got over the sudden death of his mother Her husband, Christopher, collects six-year-old Hannah and sister when he was her elder brother, Jamie, whilst Rachel holds a child and after their death his relationship with his father had deteriorated because his father refused to speak of their losssobbing parishioner. There were additional factors too: Kerr had spent some time in Afghanistan Thelma's daughter-in a secret capacity-law won't let her see her grandson. In fact much of his life since he went Holthorpe, on the Norfolk coast, is a lovely place, but Rachel is struggling to university had involved putting up develop a frontreal bond with the parish - and she's in awe of the vicar, Gail, but then she's been doing something else in the backgroundjob for more than thirty years. Rachel and Christopher hoped that a walk on the beach would do them some good - it was stormy but it was probably what they needed. And then Hannah went missing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00OLMHCW2</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Christie1398515388|title=If I Fall, If I DieThe Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)

|summary=The title character First of ''The Virtuoso'' is Isabelle Bryantall, a professional violinist who has earned the affectionate nickname of 'Beethoven's Babe'. She it was the youngest-ever winner of earthquake, deep in the BBC Young Musician of ocean floor, which created the Year competition tsunami and gave her first solo performancethis, of Beethoven's violin concertoin turn, at Royal Albert Hallcaused the nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and utter devastation. 'Her violin represented another limb to her The deaths were uncountable, it and the loss of livelihoods was widespread. The fact that precious. It felt so natural, like an extension many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of her bodypriorities but - six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. He wasn' It t a dog person but the convenience store owner's comment that he would hardly be an exaggeration call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to say that open his car door and Tamon the violin is Isabelle's lifedog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00R07U0B0</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adam Foulds0989715337|title=In The Wolf's MouthPapa on the Moon|author=Marco North

|summary=In Sicily, bandits steal the sheep of a young shepherd. Distraught, he seeks out his local Mafioso for help. Sixteen years later, two men are traveling to Sicily - one, a young English officer, and the other an American infantryman. They are all soon thrust ''Some frogs had gotten into a war that is greater and more terrible than anything they could have dreamed, and they all must find different ways to survive its terrors.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009958686X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Eliza Robertson|title=Wallflowers|rating=4|genre=Short Stories|summary=Eliza Robertson won the Man Booker Scholarship and Curtis Brown Prize while completing her MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Angliawell. ''Wallflowers '' is already a bestseller Walter stood waist-deep in Robertson's native Canada. There is quite some variety across the seventeen storiesfragrant water, naked except for his beaten leather hat. Broadly speaking, though, there are a few themes: moving on from loss, finding love in the midst Long strands of gentle madnesstheir eggs wove around him, and interactions sticky gray pearls with the natural world, often on the edge of Canada's British Columbia wildernesstadpoles inside them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408856794</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Edith Pearlman|title=Honeydew|rating=4|genre=Short Stories|summary=American short story writer [[:Category:Edith Pearlman|Edith Pearlman]] brings us a compilation Two of stories that have only been seen separately in magazines the dogs leaned over the years. This follows on from opening and barked down at the huge success strange noise of the buckets as he filled them.''Binocular Vision'' (in 2013), the short story collection that led to Ms Pearlman being presented with the National Critics' Circle Award. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444797018</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Robert Schneider|title=Brother How is that for an opening? The style of Sleep|rating=3.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''Brother of Sleep'' tells this novel in the story form of Elias Johannes Alderinterconnected short stories goes from succinct and laconic to wistful and musing, turning on a child born into a god forsaken village high in the Austrian Vorarlbergsixpence. He came into the world as a silent childAnd author Marco North, while his mother was screaming and who has the midwife wasn't really paying attention. It took a couple most wonderful turn of loud intonations of the Te Deum from the neglectful nurse before phrase, starts as he finally uttered a soundmeans to go on. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715649205</amazonuk>