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|author=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 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=B003A6W0FO1804272175}}{{Frontpage|author=Maria Stepanova and Sasha Dugdale (Translator)|title=Can You Forgive HerThe Disappearing Act|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Despite her anonymisation of place names and people, Stepanova's message in this short work of autofiction is unmistakable. A novelist named M travels from B (ostensibly Berlin) to the town 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, her journey slowly bends toward a traveling circus. Swept up in this series of events, M eventually offers to step in for a circus performer who has unexpectedly left the show. The train functions as a motif of transience and impermanence, while the circus embodies the reshaping of identity and a retreat into fantasy, an impulse that lies at the very heart of the novel form itself.|isbn=1804272329}}{{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 - 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=Anthony TrollopeMakenna Goodman|title=Helen of Nowhere

|summary=On It could be argued that the surface ''Can You Forgive Her?'' looks deceptively simple: it's the story pervading theme of one woman and two men who are vying with each other for her love. Alice Vavasor was originally engaged this book is malaise - a hard-to her cousin, George Vavasor but she broke off -place feeling that engagement and later became engaged to John Greysomething in your life is not quite right. When we first meet Alice she's The protagonist, a disgraced professor on an extended tour the brink of the continent with George Vavasor losing both his career and his sister Katerelationship, embodies this feeling. It's obvious that there's still However, Goodman counteracts his discomfort with a great deal of chemistry force which is seductive, radical and unnerving: Helen. The connection between John Helen and Alice - and Kate the protagonist is all for encouraging indirect yet intimate. As the former owner of the relationship as it would tie Alice to her. George wants Alice but itcountryside house he's considering, Helen represents a matter of volta in his life, her past tied to his potential fresh start. The realtor who shows the protagonist around the house shares stories about Helen, and describes her as ''amour proprean entity that is pure consciousness, beyond form'' rather than love: he . Although she lives in an assisted living facility now, Helen has little consideration for anyone other than himself and powers beyond comprehension which the original engagement had fallen through because of his infidelity and deceitfulness. This thread is reader gets the story of a very complicated love affair and a woman who lacks confidence in her own judgement. You might sense are not like Alice to start with but you will warm to heraltogether innocuous.|isbn=1804272205

|author=Lucy HollandOlga Tokarczuk|title=SistersongHouse of Day, House of Night

|summary=Sistersong is part ''What's the good of a genre I particularly enjoyworld that keeps changing like that? How can one go on calmly living in it?'' The title of this spellbinding work, the modern retelling ''House of folk and fairy tales. These storiesDay, for most House of usNight'', are a cornerstone somewhat reflects this notion of childhood and I relish seeing them retold with fresh eyes and a fresh perspective. If handled well these retellings give new life and new meaning shifting realities - the small, subtle changes which govern our lives, like the shift from day to stories that are now becoming increasingly narrow and outdatednight, fleshing out charactershowever quotidian, examining relationships and re-evaluating the role of womencausing chaos. Sistersong is a perfect example of a modern retelling done wellBut, the plot constant in that image is handled with care, keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing the characters to come to life, to feel real and humanhouse, most importantly they feel relatable in a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for stoic against the pre-Saxon age they live in. This ancient diurnal cycle which nonetheless controls how it is a masterpiece of storytelling and I was captivated from beginning to endperceived.|isbn=15290390371804271918

|isbnauthor=B002SQCYWQThea Lenarduzzi|title=The Complete Barchester Chronicles|author=Anthony TrollopeTower

|summary=When I told my daughter that I didn't know what to listen to now that I'd finished [[The Complete Novels: Sense and SensibilityHow unctuous are the fats of another's life, Pride and Prejudicehow dizzying their sugars in our bloodstream''. In this compelling novel, Mansfield ParkThea Lenarduzzi assumes the identity of T, Emmathe protagonist of this tale. Just as T's story is being told, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion by Jane Austen|The Complete Novels the story of Jane Austen]] for the a second time on protagonist is unveiled: Annie, the trot she had daughter of a wealthy family in the perfect answer: The Barchester Chronicles and they were 19th century, who died of tuberculosis after being locked in my inbox 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 matter quest for truth and knowledge, and in service of minutesmyth, fable and fantasy. They|isbn=1804271799}}{{Frontpage|author=Jon Fosse and Damion Searls (translator) |title=Vaim|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary='re not 'All was strange'quite'' as well known as ... 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 Austen books but they're an excellent follow onprotagonists caught in its melancholic current.|isbn=1804271829

|isbnauthor=B077K6BQFDClaire-Louise Bennett|title=The Complete Novels: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, EmmaBig Kiss, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion |author=Jane AustenBye-Bye |rating=4.5

|summary=Yes - that's over eighty-one hours Everything in this book, however sweet or seemingly innocent, is steeped in anguish and distortion. Even a kiss, usually a symbol of listening for the purchase intimacy and closeness, becomes evidence of one audio booklove lost. All six major novels are read by conmedienne Alison Larkin When the narrator cries out internally, ''come over here and theykiss me,'re presented in the order in which they were published' it is less an invitation than a desperate attempt to confirm her emotional numbness. The imagined recipient of this plea is Xavier, her ex-partner, a ghost she conjures to test her detachment.|isbn=1804271934

|author=Andrea Bajani Helene Bessette and Elizabeth Harris Kate Briggs (translator)|title=If You Kept a Record of SinsLili is Crying

|summary=This was an incredibly readable novellaFirst published in 1953 in French, but one that left me this novel is a little conflicted. We start timeless text which wrenches the hearts of its readers just as our hero arrives at Bucharest airport, Bessette wrenches words and before we even know his gender or sentences from their proper position on the nature of the person he's addressing in his second person monologue of a narrationpage and positions them elsewhere, we see him picked up by his mother's chauffeurdisjointed, and carted off to do all truncated. Like the necessary introductions before said mother is buried the following day. The mother was a businesswoman, who clearly left northern Italy and settled in Romania with lives of her (night-time and business) partnercharacters, and feelings of abandonment they are still strong. And so we flit from current (well, this came out in the original Italian in 2007, so moderately current) Bucharest, to the lad's childhood, and see just what he has to tell her as a private farewell addressoften left tragically incomplete.|isbn=19398109651804271675

|author=Afonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)Jonathan Buckley|title=Kokoschka's DollOne Boat|rating=2.54

|summary=Well''One Boat'' is a deeply introspective novella that defies traditional narrative structure, this looked very much like drawing the reader into a book I could love contemplative realm of philosophical musings and fragmented memories flowing from our narrator and protagonist, Teresa. Set against the get-goevocative backdrop of a small coastal Greek town, which is why I picked my review copy up this work masterfully captures the magic of its setting and flipped pages over several times before actually reading any of itits power to provoke profound introspection. I found things to potentially delight me each time – a weird section in Teresa herself recognises these qualities as the middle on darker stock paper, a chapter whose number was in reason she has visited it after the 20death of both her parents. Prompted by her mourning,000s, letters used as her narrative formvoice is meditative and deeply self-aware, and so oninviting the reader into her labyrinthine cogitations. It intrigued with the subterranean voice is a man hears in wartorn Dresden book that what little I knew not only requires but inspires depth of it mentioned, too. But you've seen the star rating that comes with this reviewthought, since its narrative structure is fragmentary and can tell that if love was ironically relies on these pages, it was not actually caused by themanalepsis for its propulsion. So what happened?|isbn=15294026971804271764

|author=Eowyn Ivey|title=Black Woods Blue Sky|rating=3.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''Black Woods Blue Sky'' tells the story of Birdie, the young mother of toddler Emaleen, who longs for a life beyond the Alaskan lodge where she works as a bar waitress, a setting which enables her bad habits and her accidental neglect of Emaleen. Described as a ''wild card'', she feels stuck in her day-to-day life, and yearns to cross the Wolverine river and live on the North Fork to fulfil her desires of a simple life surrounded by nature. When she meets Arthur Nielson, a strange, taciturn and solitary man, who says he has a cabin over there, she feels called to go - and bring Emaleen with her. Without realising it, this calling will transform hers and Emaleen's lives forever.|isbn=05713626721472279042}} {{Frontpage|author=Sally Rooney|title=SnowIntermezzo|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction |summary=Sally Rooney has studied the chessboard of life and is something of a grandmaster at putting it into words. Her dialogue is gripping and so brilliantly frustrating, as her characters never quite say exactly what they feel. Among the many relationships woven into this story, the central one for readers to unravel is the fraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and Peter Koubek. Ivan, a socially awkward chess prodigy, contrasts sharply with his older brother Peter, a successful lawyer living in Dublin. Following their father's passing after a long battle with cancer, the brothers' already strained relationship faces new trials.|isbn=0571365469}}{{Frontpage|author=John BanvilleFyodor Dostoyevsky|title=White Nights

|genre=Crime (Historical)Short Stories|summary=''WellAs always in Dostoyevsky, at least you're the character work is sublime. One is never left wondering what a Wexford mancharacter 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 Room|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction So said Colonel Osborne when he welcomed DI St John (pronounced |summary=''Giovanni's Room'Sinjun') Strafford to Ballyglass House just before Christmas 1957. Osborne was master of follows the Keelmore Hounds and had done something memorable narrator David, an American man living in Paris, as he navigates his torturous affair with the Inniskilling Dragoons at DunkirkGiovanni, an Italian bartender he meets in a gay bar. The niceties had While David is engaged to be established even when there was a Catholic priest dead on Hella, who is travelling in Spain, the real tension in the library floor with some precious bits of his anatomy missing. Strafford was novel arises not from Roslea at Bunclody and this, along with his good-infidelity but-shabby suit, marked him out as of Osbornefrom the deeper conflict within himself. It is David's class crippling shame and obviously Protestant. The dead priest was Father Tom Lawless from Scallanstown, who - despite the different religions - was in the habit denial of spending time at Ballyglass House. His horse was stabled therehis sexuality that ultimately dooms his relationship with Giovanni.|isbn=0141186356

|author= Tahi SaihateAlba de Cespedes |title= Astral Season, Beastly SeasonForbidden Notebook|rating= 3.54|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= We long for This Italian work of feminist fiction holds an air of suspense and tension from the moment our past even though it is a place to which we can never return. Tahi Saihateprotagonist, Valeria Cossati, in purchases her debut novel ''Astral Seasonforbidden notebook, Beastly Season'' illustrates how these rose-tinted glasses often lie. Her novel is a meditation on youth and how learns about herself in the things we do as a teenager can seem intensely important most intimate and often life-alteringrevealing ways.|isbn= 19162771011782278222

|author=Laura Imai MessinaOttessa Moshfegh|title=The Phone Box at the End My Year of the WorldRest and Relaxation|rating=53

|summary= In At best, this novel is a scathing critique of modern society and reveals the northeast fragility of Japanhuman relationships; at worst, in Inwate Prefecture a man installed a telephone box in his garden. ''Inside there it is the cynical, predictable and slightly trite tale of an old black, telephone, disconnected, that carries voices into the windunlikeable protagonist.'' It is a real placeThis unlikely heroine, a necessary placeslim, attractive and I am pleased to see newly orphaned girl in her twenties is disillusioned with the IMPORTANT NOTE that the author attaches to her storyworld, that the place is but resolves not a tourist destination, to lose sleep over it is a sacred place: in fact, a place that must be left to those who really need ither solution lies in her hibernation.|isbn=178658039X1784707422

|author=Amin MaaloufMatthew Tree|title=The DisorientedWe'll Never Know

|summary= Adam has lived in Paris for years, speaks French Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more easily than his native Arabic. In fact he hasn't been back to be different from his homeland for 25 years. An old friend is dying…or as Adam prefers to think of him a former-friendfather, perhaps not as harsh as an ex-friend, or maybe. The falling out was a long time ago, drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and Adam's partner has no idea what it was about, even so she urges him to go knowing that he'll regret not doing sowho had endless crises of self confidence. Not knowing whether he's going because he needs or wants So Tim applied himself tohis studies, or simply because he was asked, he's on the next planecultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions. |isbn=B07ZQSK9CYB0CVFXPGP8

|authorisbn=Joanne M HarrisB0C47LV1PC|title=A Pocketful of CrowsFragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=54|genre= Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary= I have always been of Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the mind that once question should you're above picture-book level and before make it? Or is the question if you get to graphic sex & violencedid, there would it land? The catch is no difference between books that the answer for children and books for adultsboth could well be... There are good books and poor ones. And Joanne Harris does not produce poor onesno.  ''A Pocketful of CrowsFragility'' is clearly aimed at the younger readers set as witness the use city of the middle initial in the author's name Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to differentiate emerge 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 delight.|isbn=1473222184restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic

|author=Frederic Beigbeder and Frank Wynne (translator)Mosby Woods|title=A Life Without EndWhirly Man Loses His Turn

|summary=I looked at the calendar the other week, and disappointedly realised I have a birthday this year – I know, yet another one. It wonThe West isn't be one of the major numbers, but dominant force it once was. Nobody in the time when I have West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is the same number as Heinz varieties looms on the horizonbest course of action. Governments are flailing. And then A war here, a few of the big 0-numbers, and if all goes well, I'll be an OBE. (Which of course stands push for Over Bloody Eightyclimate action there.) Now if A feeling that's the extent of my mid-life crisis, I guess I have to be happynobody is in actual charge. Our author here doesn't use that exact phraseImagine then, but he might be said to be living onethere was a man with precognition. Determined to find out how to prolong life for as long as he wants – he would like to see 400 – he hops right into bed with Imagine the assistant to the first geneticist he interviews, and they end up with strategic advantage in this asset; a childman who can tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. That man would be valuable, which is at least a way of continuing right? Perhaps the life of his genesmost valuable asset in history. Imagine then, and a motive that this man loses this ability. What would governments do to keep on going. But how can he get to not flick the 'final way out' switch, especially when foie gras tastes so niceit back?|isbn=1642860670B0C9SNG8R1

|authorisbn= Maryse Condé0571379559|title= The Wondrous and Tragic Life House of Ivan and IvanaBroken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= We live ''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the story of four people. Tess Hembry's roots are in a post- worldJamaica: post-colonialismtemperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, post-modernismshe lives in the house on the riverbank, post truthbuilt of broken bricks. The list goes on Insubstantial as it might look, it's stood the passage of time, storms and floods. There are numerous works that utilise Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the prefix postdelivery rounds - and to bring in their categorisationsufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and Max, but perhaps none more so than Maryse Condéthe rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. In her new novel People don't believe that they're related, much less twins and there's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she'The Wondrous and Tragic Life s his nanny.}}{{Frontpage|author=Claire North|title=House of Ivan and IvanaOdysseus|rating=5|genre= Literary Fiction |summary= ''What could matter more than love?'', Condé writes with fervour about  The follow-up to the scars excellent ''Ithaca'' picks up a few months after where we left by colonialism on off. In the countries palace of Odysseus, with delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without her husband, who sailed to which it latched itself. Ivan war at Troy and Ivana are twins born in Guadeloupe, a French overseas departmentthen by divine intervention never returned home. They grow up with intense and passionate feelings As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for each otherthe throne of the Western Isles. As they grow up Having survived – politically and move overseasphysical – the chaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to Ithaca's shores, Queen Penelope is on the ravages brink of a post-colonial society drive them apart fragile peace. One that shatters however with tragic consequencesthe return of Orestes, King of Mycenae, and his sister Elektra, seeking refuge.|isbn=16428606970356516075

|author= Ukamaka OlisakweKay Chronister|title= Ogadinma OrDesert Creatures|rating= 4|genre= Dystopian Fiction|summary= With a world that is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, post-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Whether it is a robotic takeover, a world devoid of water or a nuclear holocaust, Everything Will Be All Rightthis 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

|genre= Literary FictionHorror|summary= The new novel by Ukamaka Olisakwe Horror taps into something primeval within us. It is used as a look at the trauma way to reflect our darkest emotions and how we as humans react and heartache of being process them. Most horror fiction feature a woman in 1980s Nigeria. The title is ''Ogadinma Or, Everything Will Be All RightBig Bad''. Ogadinma , whether that is a home invader, a monster or a ghost, it usually something tangible and, by the eponymous heroine end of the story, beatable.Eric LaRocca's ''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is not like that. We are with her It is a collection of short stories more interested in every scene the horrors of illness, grief and it is her narrative voice humiliation. Horrors that leads linger and are harder to defeat than any ''Big Bad''.}}{{Frontpage|author=Madelaine Lucas|title=Thirst for Salt|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= ''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 storyyear-long relationship that once defined her. Overlaid with later wisdom, although Olisakwe writes in third personthe 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. This provides a sense Set against the backdrop of detachment an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the reader and highlights the isolation of Ogadinma. She is exiled from her father24-year-old narrator's home and sent to Lagos where she is married to an deepening relationship with her older man named Tobe. Their marriage descends into violence lover, depicting its all-consuming nature, how it changed her perspective on both romantic and indignities familial relationships and Ogadinma must utilise how it altered her resourcefulness to escapeirrevocably.|isbn=19116481600861546490

|author=Elliot ReedMichael Grothaus|title=A Key to Treehouse LivingBeautiful Shining People

|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=This is the story of a young boy, William Tyce, who is being raised by his uncle after the death of his mother ''But fearing something and his fatherhaving it come to pass are two different things. And I's abandonment. Howeverm willing to bet most of what we fear will never happen, or we can take steps to change it isn.'' 't told in 'Beautiful Shining People'' revolves around the usual narrative way. Instead, the book is made up question of glossary entries, written by William, as a way of describing certain events, situations identity and emotionsacceptance. It runs alphabetically, starting with ABSENCE, then moving Of what it means to ALPHABETICAL ORDERbe human. As I began to read I did find myself thinking 'Of what is real and what on earth?!' but I soon grew used to the styleis artificial, and was instead caught up in William's storywhether the development of technology is exciting or frightening.|isbn=1911545418191458564X

|author= Karina Sainz Borgo and Elizabeth Bryer (translator)Jennifer Saint|title= It Would Be Night in CaracasAtalanta|rating= 45|genre= Literary Fiction |summary= ''It Would Be Night 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 Caracas'' illuminates the everyday horrors name of modern day Venezuelathe goddess. It begins with was for the death sake of Adelaida Falconmy name, too. Atalanta''s mother  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 chronicles Adelaida's coming 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 Gods themselves – Atalanta seizes the chance to terms with her new solitude fight in this world Artemis' name and carve out her attempts to escape itown legendary place in history. Danger stalks the shadows What follows is a whirlwind of challenges and discovery andthrough it, in a society where the establishment is crumblingAtalanta must remember Artemis' fatal warning: that if she marries, who can you turn to? it will be her undoing.|isbn=00629368671472292154}}

|isbnauthor=1471186393Amanthi Harris|title=Photographer of the Lost|author=Caroline ScottBeautiful Place|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=May 1921. Edie receives Padma, a photograph through young Sri Lankan, has returned to the post. There is no letter or note with it. There is nothing written Villa Hibiscus on the back southern coast of the photographher home country. It This is a picture of place she spent her husband, Francis. Francis has been missing for four formative years. Technically, he has been "missing, believed killed" but that It is not something that a young widow can believeplace she was born into, but the one she thinks of as home. She hangs on How she came to be at the Villa, how it became her home, and the machinations that have flowed through her life ever since she first arrived there provide the word 'missing'score'' for this gentle and yet subtly violent novel. Padma's present fails to escape her past and much like the musical score of a film, disbelieving that strand weaves its way through everything that happens at the word killedVilla.|isbn=1784631930

|isbn=1509896465178563335X|title=The NightjarSea Defences|author=Deborah HewittHilary Taylor|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyLiterary Fiction|summary=When we first meet Rachel Bird she''The Nightjar'' is an unusual and exciting story. Alice Wyndham lives s a normal life trainee vicar, sitting in London until she finds on a box on her doorstep one morning PCC meeting and her life begins wondering why they're held when you need to unravelpick the children up. Her husband, fast. From that very momentChristopher, collects six-year-old Hannah and her life is flooded with magicelder brother, lossJamie, expectation and particularly, betrayalwhilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioner. As everything around Thelma's daughter-in-law won't let her see her shiftsgrandson. Holthorpe, on the Norfolk coast, all that she knowsis a lovely place, all that but Rachel is struggling to develop a real bond with the parish - and she thinks she knows's in awe of the vicar, must change. Who can she trust? Who must she trust? Who will she trust? More importantlyGail, can but then she even trust herself?'s been doing the job 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.

|isbn=08570587381398515388|title=EquatorThe Boy and the Dog|author=Antonin Varenne Seishu Hase and Sam Taylor Alison Watts (translator)|rating=34.5|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=It strikes me that nobody can speak well First of the Wild West outside the walls of a theme park. Our agent to see how bad all, it was here is Pete Ferguson, who bristles at the indignity of the white man against Native 'Indian'earthquake, who spends days being physically sick while indulging deep in a buffalo huntthe ocean floor, and who hates which created the way man – tsunami and womanthis, of course – can in turn against fellow man at , caused the bat of an eyelidnuclear meltdown. The result was complete and utter devastation. But this book is about so much more than the 1870s USAThe deaths were uncountable, and the attendant problems with gold rushes, pioneer spirits and racial genocideloss of livelihoods was widespread. He finds himself trying to find this book's version of Utopia, namely the Equator, where everything is upside The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down, people walk on their heads with rocks in their pockets to keep them on the ground to counter list of priorities but - six months after the antitsunami -gravity, and where, who knows, things might actually be betterKazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. But that equator is He wasn't a long way away – and theredog person but the convenience store owner's a whole adventure full of Mexico comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and Latin America between him and it… Tamon the dog jumped in.

|isbn=15266149600989715337|title=The Dutch HousePapa on the Moon|author=Ann PatchettMarco North|rating=54

|summary=When we first meet Danny and ''Some frogs had gotten into the well.'' ''Walter stood waist-deep in the fragrant water, naked except for his elder sister, Maeve Conroybeaten leather hat. Long strands of their eggs wove around him, they're both living at The Dutch House sticky gray pearls with their parents tadpoles inside them. Two of the dogs leaned over the opening and under barked down at the gaze strange noise of the portraits of the former owners whose oil paintings still hang on the wallsbuckets as he filled them. It's a strange family dynamic: Cyril Conroy ' How is distant that for an opening? The style of this novel in the form of interconnected short stories goes from succinct and the closest Danny seems laconic to come to him is when he goes out with him wistful and musing, turning on a Saturday collecting rents from properties the family ownssixpence. Elna Conroy is lovingAnd author Marco North, but absent increasingly often until who has the point comes when the children are told that she will not be returning. In other circumstancesmost wonderful turn of phrase, this might have affected Maeve and Danny deeply, but their primary relationship is with each other. It's a bond which only death will breakstarts as he means to go on.