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|author=Afonso Cruz Polly Barton|title=What Am I, A Deer?|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Polly Barton's debut novel is an intellectually playful yet emotionally exposed work that uses translation as both subject and Rahul Bery governing metaphor. The narrator, newly relocated from London to Berlin, works translating video games into Japanese through the process of localisation, rewriting language until it feels comfortably familiar to a new audience. Barton treats this as a paradoxical act: arguably, in striving for universality, language is endlessly repackaged, its originality at risk of disappearing altogether. From this, the novel opens out into a wider, resonant question: to what extent do we translate ourselves in order to be understood, accepted, or loved?|isbn=1804272175}}{{Frontpage|author=Maria Stepanova and Sasha Dugdale (translatorTranslator)|title=Kokoschka's DollThe Disappearing Act|rating=2.54

|summary=WellDespite her anonymisation of place names and people, Stepanova's message in this looked very much like a book I could love short work of autofiction is unmistakable. A novelist named M travels from B (ostensibly Berlin) to the get-gotown of F for a literary festival she is to be a guest speaker at. Detoured by erratic train schedules and nudged by forces beyond her control, which is why I picked my review copy her journey slowly bends toward a traveling circus. Swept up and flipped pages over several times before actually reading any in this series of it. I found things events, M eventually offers to potentially delight me each time – a weird section step in the middle on darker stock paper, for a chapter whose number was in circus performer who has unexpectedly left the 20,000s, letters used show. The train functions as narrative forma motif of transience and impermanence, while the circus embodies the reshaping of identity and so on. It intrigued with the subterranean voice a man hears in wartorn Dresden retreat into fantasy, an impulse that what little I knew lies at the very heart of it mentioned, too. But you've seen the star rating that comes with this review, and can tell that if love was on these pages, it was not actually caused by themnovel form itself. So what happened?|isbn=15294026971804272329

|isbn=0571362672295967572X|title=SnowPale Pieces|author=John BanvilleG M Stevens

|genre=Crime (Historical)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 ''Wellon 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.}}{{Frontpage|author=Makenna Goodman|title=Helen of Nowhere|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=It could be argued that the pervading theme of this book is malaise - a hard-to-place feeling that something in your life is not quite right. The protagonist, at least youa disgraced professor on the brink of losing both his career and his relationship, embodies this feeling. However, Goodman counteracts his discomfort with a force which is seductive, radical and unnerving: Helen. The connection between Helen and the protagonist is indirect yet intimate. As the former owner of the countryside house he're s considering, Helen represents a Wexford manvolta 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 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 reader gets the sense are not altogether innocuous.|isbn=1804272205}}{{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?''

So said Colonel Osborne when he welcomed DI St John (pronounced The title of this spellbinding work, 'Sinjun') Strafford to Ballyglass House just before Christmas 1957. Osborne was master of Day, House of Night'', somewhat reflects this notion of shifting realities - the Keelmore Hounds and had done something memorable with small, subtle changes which govern our lives, like the Inniskilling Dragoons at Dunkirk. The niceties had shift from day to be established even when there was a Catholic priest dead on the library floor with some precious bits of his anatomy missing. Strafford was from Roslea at Bunclody and thisnight, along with his good-but-shabby suithowever quotidian, marked him out as of Osborne's class and obviously Protestantcausing chaos. The dead priest was Father Tom Lawless from ScallanstownBut, who - despite the different religions - was constant in that image is the habit of spending time at Ballyglass House. His horse was stabled therehouse, stoic against the ancient diurnal cycle which nonetheless controls how it is perceived.|isbn=1804271918

|author= Tahi SaihateThea Lenarduzzi|title= Astral Season, Beastly SeasonThe Tower|rating= 3.5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= We long for ''How unctuous are the fats of another's life, how dizzying their sugars in our past even though it 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 place to which we can never return. Tahi Saihatewealthy family in the 19th century, who died of tuberculosis after being locked in her debut novel a tower, captures T's imagination. Annie'Astral Seasons fate is, above all, Beastly Season'' illustrates how these rose-tinted glasses often liean enticing story to T. Her novel It is a meditation on youth story which she consumes avariciously, both in a quest for truth and knowledge, and how the things we do as a teenager can seem intensely important in service of myth, fable and often life-alteringfantasy. |isbn= 19162771011804271799

|author=Laura Imai MessinaJon Fosse and Damion Searls (translator) |title=The Phone Box at the End of the WorldVaim|rating=54

|summary= In ''All was strange''... This haunting phrase encapsulates the northeast pervading sense of Japanotherworldliness which permeates this story set in Vaim, in Inwate Prefecture a man installed a telephone box fictional fishing village in his garden. ''Inside there is an old black, telephone, disconnected, that carries voices into the wind.'' It is a Norway which paradoxically could not feel more real place, a necessary place, for Jatgeir and I am pleased to see the IMPORTANT NOTE that the author attaches to her storyEline, that two of the place is not a tourist destination, it is a sacred place, a place that must be left to those who really need itprotagonists caught in its melancholic current.|isbn=178658039X1804271829

|author=Amin MaaloufClaire-Louise Bennett|title=The DisorientedBig Kiss, Bye-Bye

|summary= Adam has lived Everything in Paris for yearsthis book, speaks French more easily than his native Arabichowever sweet or seemingly innocent, is steeped in anguish and distortion. In fact he hasn't been back to his homeland for 25 years. An old friend is dying…or as Adam prefers to think of him Even a former-friendkiss, perhaps not as harsh as an ex-friendusually a symbol of intimacy and closeness, or maybebecomes evidence of love lost. The falling When the narrator cries out was a long time agointernally, ''come over here and Adamkiss me,''s partner has no idea what it was about, even so she urges him is less an invitation than a desperate attempt to go knowing that he'll regret not doing soconfirm her emotional numbness. Not knowing whether he's going because he needs or wants toThe imagined recipient of this plea is Xavier, or simply because he was askedher ex-partner, he's on the next planea ghost she conjures to test her detachment. |isbn=B07ZQSK9CY1804271934

|author=Joanne M HarrisHelene Bessette and Kate Briggs (translator)|title=A Pocketful of CrowsLili is Crying|rating=4.5|genre= Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary= I have always been First published in 1953 in French, this novel is a timeless text which wrenches the hearts of its readers just as Bessette wrenches words and sentences from their proper position on the mind that once you're above picture-book level page and before you get to graphic sex & violencepositions them elsewhere, there is no difference between books for children and books for adults. There are good books and poor ones. And Joanne Harris does not produce poor onesdisjointed, truncated. ''A Pocketful of Crows'' is clearly aimed at the younger readers as witness Like the use lives of the middle initial in the author's name to differentiate from her adult offers. Ignore that if you have loved anything from ''Chocolat'' onwards you will know that Harris is mistress of the modern fairy tale. This is no different. It is an utter delightcharacters, they are often left tragically incomplete.|isbn=14732221841804271675

|author=Frederic Beigbeder and Frank Wynne (translator)Jonathan Buckley|title=A Life Without EndOne Boat

|summary=I looked at ''One Boat'' is a deeply introspective novella that defies traditional narrative structure, drawing the calendar the other week, reader into a contemplative realm of philosophical musings and fragmented memories flowing from our narrator and disappointedly realised I have a birthday this year – I knowprotagonist, yet another oneTeresa. It won't be one Set against the evocative backdrop of the major numbersa small coastal Greek town, but this work masterfully captures the time when I have magic of its setting and its power to provoke profound introspection. Teresa herself recognises these qualities as the same number as Heinz varieties looms on reason she has visited it after the horizondeath of both her parents. And then a few of the big 0-numbersPrompted by her mourning, her narrative voice is meditative and if all goes welldeeply self-aware, I'll be an OBEinviting the reader into her labyrinthine cogitations. (Which It is a book that not only requires but inspires depth of course stands thought, since its narrative structure is fragmentary and ironically relies on analepsis for Over Bloody Eightyits propulsion.|isbn=1804271764}}{{Frontpage|author=Eowyn Ivey|title=Black Woods Blue Sky|rating=3.) Now if that5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''Black Woods Blue Sky''s tells the story of Birdie, the young mother of toddler Emaleen, who longs for a life beyond the extent Alaskan lodge where she works as a bar waitress, a setting which enables her bad habits and her accidental neglect of my midEmaleen. Described as a ''wild card'', she feels stuck in her day-to-day life crisis, I guess I have and yearns to be happycross the Wolverine river and live on the North Fork to fulfil her desires of a simple life surrounded by nature. Our author here doesn't use that exact phraseWhen she meets Arthur Nielson, a strange, taciturn and solitary man, but who says he might be said has a cabin over there, she feels called to be living onego - and bring Emaleen with her. Without realising it, this calling will transform hers and Emaleen's lives forever.|isbn=1472279042}} {{Frontpage|author=Sally Rooney|title=Intermezzo|rating=4. Determined to find out how to prolong 5|genre=General Fiction |summary=Sally Rooney has studied the chessboard of life for and is something of a grandmaster at putting it into words. Her dialogue is gripping and so brilliantly frustrating, as long as he wants – he would like to see 400 – he hops right her characters never quite say exactly what they feel. Among the many relationships woven into bed with this story, the assistant central one for readers to unravel is the first geneticist he interviewsfraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and Peter Koubek. Ivan, and they end up with a childsocially awkward chess prodigy, which is at least a way of continuing the life of contrasts sharply with his genesolder brother Peter, and a motive to keep on goingsuccessful lawyer living in Dublin. But how can he get to not flick Following their father's passing after a long battle with cancer, the brothers'final way out' switch, especially when foie gras tastes so nice?already strained relationship faces new trials.|isbn=16428606700571365469

|author= Maryse CondéFyodor Dostoyevsky|title= The Wondrous and Tragic Life of Ivan and IvanaWhite Nights|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary FictionShort Stories|summary= We live As always in a post- world: post-colonialism, post-modernismDostoyevsky, post truth. The list goes on. There are numerous works that utilise the prefix post- in their categorisation, but perhaps none more so than Maryse Condécharacter work is sublime. In her new novel, ''The Wondrous and Tragic Life of Ivan and Ivana'', Condé writes with fervour about the scars One is never left by colonialism on the countries to which it latched itself. Ivan and Ivana are twins born in Guadeloupe, wondering what a French overseas department. They grow up with intense and passionate feelings for each other. As they grow up character is thinking or feeling because Dostoyevsky lays bare their innermost dispositions and move overseas, the ravages of a post-colonial society drive them apart temperaments with tragic consequencesremarkable clarity.|isbn=16428606970241619785

|author= Ukamaka OlisakweJames Baldwin|title= Ogadinma Or, Everything Will Be All RightGiovanni's Room|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= The new novel by Ukamaka Olisakwe is a look at the trauma and heartache of being a woman in 1980s Nigeria. The title is ''Ogadinma Or, Everything Will Be All RightGiovanni's Room''. Ogadinma is follows the eponymous heroine of the story.. We are narrator David, an American man living in Paris, as he navigates his torturous affair with her Giovanni, an Italian bartender he meets in every scene and it a gay bar. While David is engaged to Hella, who is her narrative voice that leads travelling in Spain, the story, although Olisakwe writes real tension in third person. This provides a sense of detachment for the reader and highlights novel arises not from his infidelity but from the isolation of Ogadinmadeeper conflict within himself. She It is exiled from her fatherDavid's home crippling shame and sent to Lagos where she is married to an older man named Tobe. Their marriage descends into violence and indignities and Ogadinma must utilise her resourcefulness to escapedenial of his sexuality that ultimately dooms his relationship with Giovanni.|isbn=19116481600141186356

|author=Elliot ReedAlba de Cespedes |title=A Key to Treehouse LivingForbidden Notebook

|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=This is the story Italian work of a young boy, William Tyce, who is being raised by his uncle after the death feminist fiction holds an air of his mother suspense and his father's abandonment. However, it isn't told in tension from the usual narrative way. Insteadmoment our protagonist, the book is made up of glossary entriesValeria Cossati, written by Williampurchases her forbidden notebook, as a way of describing certain events, situations and emotions. It runs alphabetically, starting with ABSENCE, then moving to ALPHABETICAL ORDER. As I began to read I did find myself thinking 'what on earth?!' but I soon grew used to learns about herself in the style, most intimate and was instead caught up in William's storyrevealing ways.|isbn=19115454181782278222

|author= Karina Sainz Borgo and Elizabeth Bryer (translator)Ottessa Moshfegh|title= It Would Be Night in CaracasMy Year of Rest and Relaxation|rating= 43|genre= Literary Fiction |summary= ''It Would Be Night in Caracas'' illuminates the everyday horrors At best, this novel is a scathing critique of modern day Venezuela. It begins with society and reveals the death fragility of Adelaida Falcon's mother and chronicles Adelaida's coming to terms with her new solitude in this world and her attempts to escape human relationships; at worst, it. Danger stalks is the shadows cynical, predictable andslightly trite tale of an unlikeable protagonist. This unlikely heroine, a slim, attractive and newly orphaned girl in a society where her twenties is disillusioned with the establishment is crumblingworld, who can you turn but resolves not to? lose sleep over it: in fact, her solution lies in her hibernation.|isbn=00629368671784707422}}

|isbnauthor=1471186393Matthew Tree|title=Photographer of the Lost|author=Caroline ScottWe'll Never Know

|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=May 1921. Edie receives Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a photograph through the post. There is no letter or note with it. There is nothing written on the back drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of the photograph. It is a picture his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of her husband, Francisself confidence. Francis has been missing for four years. TechnicallySo Tim applied himself to his studies, he has been "missing, believed killed" cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but that is not something that a young widow can believe. She hangs on the word 'missing', disbelieving the word killedachievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|isbn=1509896465B0C47LV1PC|title=The NightjarFragility|author=Deborah HewittMosby Woods|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyLiterary Fiction|summary=Can you make a ''The NightjarYo 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 an unusual and exciting storythat the answer for both could well be... Alice Wyndham lives a normal life in London until she finds a box on her doorstep one morning and her life begins to unravel, fast. From that very moment, her life no. ''Fragility'' is flooded with magicset as the city of Portland, lossOregon, expectation and particularly, betrayal. As everything around her shifts, all that she knows, all that she thinks she knows, must change. Who can she trust? Who must she trust? Who will she trust? More importantly, can she even trust herself?cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic

|isbnauthor=0857058738Mosby Woods|title=Equator|author=Antonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)A Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=3.54|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=It strikes me that nobody can speak well of the Wild The West outside isn't the walls of a theme parkdominant force it once was. Our agent Nobody in the West is quite sure how to see how bad mend this or even if mending it was here is Pete Ferguson, who bristles at the indignity best course of the white man against Native 'Indian'action. Governments are flailing. A war here, who spends days being physically sick while indulging in a buffalo hunt, and who hates the way man – and woman, of course – can turn against fellow man at the bat of an eyelidpush for climate action there. But this book A feeling that nobody is about so much more than the 1870s USAin actual charge. Imagine then, and the attendant problems there was a man with gold rushes, pioneer spirits and racial genocideprecognition. He finds himself trying to find Imagine the strategic advantage in this book's version asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of Utopiacircumstances. That man would be valuable, namely right? Perhaps the Equator, where everything is upside down, people walk on their heads with rocks most valuable asset in their pockets to keep them on the ground to counter the anti-gravityhistory. Imagine then, and where, who knows, things might actually be betterthat this man loses this ability. But that equator is a long way away – and there's a whole adventure full of Mexico and Latin America between him and it… What would governments do to get it back?|isbn=B0C9SNG8R1

|isbn=15266149600571379559|title=The Dutch Houseof Broken Bricks|author=Ann PatchettFiona Williams

|summary=When we first meet Danny and his elder sister, Maeve Conroy, they're both living at 'The Dutch House with their parents and under the gaze of Broken Bricks'' is the portraits story of four people. Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in the former owners whose oil paintings still hang house on the wallsriverbank, built of broken bricks. ItInsubstantial as it might look, it's a strange family dynamic: Cyril Conroy is distant stood the passage of time, storms and floods. Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the closest Danny seems delivery rounds - and to come to him bring in sufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and Max, the rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. People don't believe that they're related, much less twins and there's an assumption when Max is when he goes out with him on his mother that she's his nanny.}}{{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 Saturday collecting rents from properties 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 family ownsWestern Isles. Elna Conroy Having survived – politically and physical – the chaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to Ithaca's shores, Queen Penelope is loving, but absent increasingly often until on the point comes when brink of a fragile peace. One that shatters however with the children are told return of Orestes, King of Mycenae, and his sister Elektra, seeking refuge.|isbn=0356516075}}{{Frontpage|author= Kay Chronister|title= Desert Creatures|rating= 4|genre= Dystopian Fiction|summary= With a world that she will not be returningis becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, post-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. In other circumstancesWhether it is a robotic takeover, a world devoid of water or a nuclear holocaust, this might have affected Maeve genre is a way for humans to cathartically experience their most existential fears. ''Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is a new work of post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the fears that exist for humanity today. It is a shocking novel that still manages to find hope.|isbn=1803364998}}{{frontpage|isbn=1803363002|author= Eric LaRocca|title= The Trees Grew Because I Bled There|rating= 5|genre= Horror|summary= Horror taps into something primeval within us. It is used as a way to reflect our darkest emotions and how we as humans react and Danny deeplyprocess them. Most horror fiction feature a ''Big Bad'', but their primary relationship whether that is with each othera home invader, a monster or a ghost, it usually something tangible and, by the end of the story, beatable. ItEric LaRocca's ''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is not like that. It is a bond which only death will breakcollection of short stories more interested in the horrors of illness, grief and humiliation. Horrors that linger and are harder to defeat than any ''Big Bad''.

|isbnauthor=0954899520Madelaine Lucas|title=A Winter Book|author=Tove JanssonThirst for Salt

|summary=Tove Jansson's worldwide fame lasts on 'Love, I'd read, was supposed to be a light and weightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravity'' Told from a retrospective view, a young woman unravels the Moomin booksyear-long relationship that once defined her. Overlaid with later wisdom, written in the 1940s and later becoming television characters narrator relives the affair with a man twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the summer after. Set against the backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the simplicity24-year-old narrator's deepening relationship with her older lover, depicting its all-consuming nature, naivety how it changed her perspective on both romantic and sheer familial relationships and how it altered her irrevocably.|isbn=0861546490}}{{Frontpage|author= Michael Grothaus|title=Beautiful Shining People|rating=4|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= ''goodnessBut fearing something and having it come to pass are two different things. And I' that would later produce flowerpot men m willing to bet most of what we fear will never happen, or teletubbieswe can take steps to change it.'' ''Beautiful Shining People'' revolves around the question of identity and acceptance. Simple drawings, simple stories, simple goodnessOf what it means to be human. What Of what is often forgotten outside of her native Finland real and what is that she was a serious writer…that she wrote for adults as well as children…and that she had a feeling for the natural world artificial, and whether the simple life that not only informed those child-like trolls but went far beyond any fantasy development of how the world might betechnology is exciting or frightening.|isbn=191458564X

|isbnauthor=0954221710Jennifer Saint|title=The Summer Book|author=Tove JanssonAtalanta

|summary=Tove Jansson's short novel about Summer '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 my name, too. Atalanta'' Princess. Warrior. Lover. Hero. Abandoned at birth for being born a daughter rather than a son, Atalanta is several worlds away raised under the protective eye of the goddess Athemis and fashioned into a formidable huntress, one who longs for adventure. When the opportunity comes – to join the Argonauts, a fierce band of warriors, descendent from the Moomintrolls she is most famous for outside Gods themselves – Atalanta seizes the chance to fight in Artemis' name and carve out her native Scandinaviaown legendary place in history. Book yourself an afternoon this Summer, What follows is a whirlwind of challenges and take yourself discovery and The Summer Book somewhere quietthrough it, preferably within sight and sound of the seaAtalanta must remember Artemis' fatal warning: that if she marries, settle back and prepare to it will be transportedher undoing.|isbn=1472292154

|isbnauthor=1788542347Amanthi Harris|title=Snowflake, AZ|author=Marcus SedgwickBeautiful Place|rating=3.5

|summary=This is a deep, interesting readPadma, unlike any book I've read in quite some time. The novel's story follows a young man named Ash in Sri Lankan, has returned to the Villa Hibiscus on the process southern coast of joining her home country. This is a community of sick people in the curiously named town of Snowflake, Arizonaplace she spent her formative years. These people are sick It is not a place she was born into, but it's not a sickness you've heard the one she thinks ofas home. Instead How she came to be at the Villa, they're environmentally ill – affected by household chemicals and fabrics, pesticides, static electricityhow it became her home, and radiation – and their only the machinations that have flowed through her life ever since she first arrived there provide the ''curescore'' is to stay in the town away from the real worldfor this gentle and yet subtly violent novel. Though it Padma's about a real place, present fails to escape her past and much like the people in it are fictional. It really is musical score of a place apartfilm, quite literally cut off from that strand weaves its way through everything that happens at the outside world – people are even required to decontaminate themselves thoroughly before becoming fully integratedVilla.|isbn=1784631930

|isbn=1784742716178563335X|title=Train ManSea Defences|author=Andrew MulliganHilary Taylor|rating=2.5

|summary=I came When 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 this book thinking I knew just what to expectpick the children up. Her husband, Christopher, collects six-year-old Hannah and her elder brother, Jamie, whilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioner. Thelma's daughter-in-law won't let her see her grandson. Holthorpe, on the Norfolk coast, is a lovely place, even though it but Rachel is [[:Category:Andy Mulligan|struggling to develop a real bond with the authorparish - and she's]] debut in awe of the adult novel market (hence vicar, Gail, but then she's been doing the job for more mature name – he used to be an Andythan 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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1398515388|title=The Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating=4. I thought 5|genre=General Fiction|summary=First of all, it simple to sum upwas the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and this, in turn, caused the tale nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and utter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, and the loss of a middlelivelihoods was widespread. The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of priorities but -aged man who knows too much about train travel having his life turned around in six months after the most pleasant waytsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. I hadnHe wasn't opened it when Ia dog person but the convenience store owner'd shelved it alongside [[:Category:Chris Cleave|Chris Cleave]], s comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and [[:Category:David Nicholls|David Nicholls]]. I expected some whimsy, some warmth and some affirmative lovelinessTamon the dog jumped in.}}

|isbn=17846316470989715337|title=A Perfect ExplanationPapa on the Moon|author=Eleanor AnstrutherMarco North|rating=54

|summary=Enid Campbell was a woman who''Some frogs had gotten into the well.'' ''Walter stood waist-deep in the fragrant water, on the face naked except for his beaten leather hat. Long strands of ittheir eggs wove around him, had everythingsticky gray pearls with tadpoles inside them. Leading Two of the dogs leaned over the opening and barked down at the life strange noise of an aristocrat – full of inherited wealth and splendour, glamourous locales and high expectationsthe buckets as he filled them. Only Enid's life has been plagued by mental illness – undiagnosed, untreated and threatening both Enid and those close to her. After losing custody of her children, Enid sells her son to her sister ' How is that for £500 – but is this an act opening? The style of greed, or an act of desperation? Exploring this novel in the true story form of her own grandmotherinterconnected short stories goes from succinct and laconic to wistful and musing, turning on a sixpence. And author Marco North, Eleanor Anstruther who has found the perfect subject for an explosivemost wonderful turn of phrase, moving and beautifully well-written debutstarts as he means to go on.