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|isbnauthor=B003L7TDMUPolly Barton|title=Phineas FinnWhat 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=1804272175}}{{Frontpage|author=Anthony TrollopeMaria Stepanova and Sasha Dugdale (Translator)|title=The 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

|summary=Phineas Finn Our unnamed narrator is the son of Dr Malachi Finn, about to begin a successful doctor in Killaloe in County Clare, who sent train journey with his son to London to train as a lawyercompanion Django. PhineasWhere they's interest is more in making influential friends than in becoming a lawyer re going and one what the purpose of themthis journey is, Barrington Erle, suggests that he runs for Parliament in is uncertain. Django found the tickets ''on the forthcoming electionfloor somewhere'' and has persuaded our narrator to accompany him. His father Why not? Not much else is not entirely clear either - but we are probably in favour of this the past as members are not remunerated and it would be up to him the pair travel to provide financial support for his son as well as funding his election. One of the doctor's patients is Lord Tulla who controls station by coach and the borough of Loughshane and by this stroke of luck Finn train is, eventually, elected by a small marginsteam locomotive.

|isbnauthor=B003A6W0FOMakenna Goodman|title=Can You Forgive Her?|author=Anthony TrollopeHelen 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 page and positions them elsewhere, disjointed, truncated. Like the person he's addressing in his second person monologue lives of a narrationher characters, we see him picked up by his motherthey are often left tragically incomplete.|isbn=1804271675}}{{Frontpage|author=Jonathan Buckley|title=One Boat|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= ''One Boat''s chauffeuris a deeply introspective novella that defies traditional narrative structure, and carted off to do all drawing the necessary introductions before said mother is buried the following day. The mother was reader into a businesswoman, who clearly left northern Italy contemplative realm of philosophical musings and settled in Romania with her (night-time fragmented memories flowing from our narrator and business) partnerprotagonist, and feelings Teresa. Set against the evocative backdrop of abandonment are still strong. And so we flit from current (wella small coastal Greek town, this came out in work masterfully captures the original Italian in 2007, so moderately current) Bucharest, magic of its setting and its power to provoke profound introspection. Teresa herself recognises these qualities as the reason she has visited it after the lad's childhooddeath of both her parents. Prompted by her mourning, her narrative voice is meditative and see just what he has to tell deeply self-aware, inviting the reader into her as labyrinthine cogitations. It is a private farewell addressbook that not only requires but inspires depth of thought, since its narrative structure is fragmentary and ironically relies on analepsis for its propulsion.|isbn=19398109651804271764

|author=Afonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)Eowyn Ivey|title=Kokoschka's DollBlack Woods Blue Sky|rating=23.5

|summary=Well''Black Woods Blue Sky'' tells the story of Birdie, the young mother of toddler Emaleen, this looked very much like who longs for a book I could love from life beyond the get-goAlaskan lodge where she works as a bar waitress, a setting which is why I picked my review copy up enables her bad habits and flipped pages over several times before actually reading any her accidental neglect of itEmaleen. I found things to potentially delight me each time – Described as a weird section ''wild card'', she feels stuck in her day-to-day life, and yearns to cross the middle Wolverine river and live on darker stock paperthe North Fork to fulfil her desires of a simple life surrounded by nature. When she meets Arthur Nielson, a chapter whose number was in the 20strange, taciturn and solitary man,000swho says he has a cabin over there, letters used as narrative formshe feels called to go - and bring Emaleen with her. Without realising it, this calling will transform hers and so onEmaleen's lives forever.|isbn=1472279042}} {{Frontpage|author=Sally Rooney|title=Intermezzo|rating=4. It intrigued with 5|genre=General Fiction |summary=Sally Rooney has studied the subterranean voice chessboard of life and is something of a man hears in wartorn Dresden that what little I knew of grandmaster at putting it mentionedinto words. Her dialogue is gripping and so brilliantly frustrating, tooas her characters never quite say exactly what they feel. But you've seen Among the star rating that comes with many relationships woven into this reviewstory, the central one for readers to unravel is the fraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and can tell that if love was on these pagesPeter 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, it was not actually caused by themthe brothers' already strained relationship faces new trials. So what happened?|isbn=15294026970571365469

|isbnauthor=0571362672Fyodor Dostoyevsky|title=Snow|author=John BanvilleWhite 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

|summary= The new novel by Ukamaka Olisakwe is a look at the trauma ''But fearing something and heartache having it come to pass are two different things. And I'm willing to bet most of being a woman in 1980s Nigeriawhat we fear will never happen, or we can take steps to change it. The title is ''Ogadinma Or, Everything Will Be All Right ''Beautiful Shining People''. Ogadinma is revolves around the eponymous heroine question of the storyidentity and acceptance.Of what it means to be human. We are with her in every scene Of what is real and it what is her narrative voice that leads the storyartificial, although Olisakwe writes in third person. This provides a sense of detachment for the reader and highlights whether the isolation development of Ogadinma. She is exiled from her father's home and sent to Lagos where she technology is married to an older man named Tobe. Their marriage descends into violence and indignities and Ogadinma must utilise her resourcefulness to escapeexciting or frightening.|isbn=1911648160191458564X

|author=Elliot ReedJennifer Saint|title=A Key to Treehouse LivingAtalanta|rating=45|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=This is the story ''I was as worthy as any one of a young boythem. I would get on board that ship, William TyceI vowed. I would take my place, who is being raised by his uncle after not just in the death name of his mother and his father's abandonmentthe goddess. HoweverIt was for the sake of my name, it isntoo. Atalanta''t told in the usual narrative way Princess. Warrior. Lover. Hero. Instead Abandoned at birth for being born a daughter rather than a son, Atalanta is raised under the book is made up protective eye of glossary entriesthe goddess Athemis and fashioned into a formidable huntress, written by Williamone who longs for adventure. When the opportunity comes – to join the Argonauts, as a way fierce band of describing certain eventswarriors, situations descendent from the Gods themselves – Atalanta seizes the chance to fight in Artemis' name and emotionscarve out her own legendary place in history. It runs alphabeticallyWhat follows is a whirlwind of challenges and discovery and through it, starting with ABSENCE, then moving to ALPHABETICAL ORDER. As I began to read I did find myself thinking Atalanta must remember Artemis'what on earth?!' but I soon grew used to the stylefatal warning: that if she marries, and was instead caught up in William's storyit will be her undoing.|isbn=19115454181472292154

|author= Karina Sainz Borgo and Elizabeth Bryer (translator)Amanthi Harris|title= It Would Be Night in CaracasBeautiful Place|rating= 45|genre= Literary Fiction |summary= Padma, a young Sri Lankan, has returned to the Villa Hibiscus on the southern coast of her home country. This is a place she spent her formative years. ''It Would Be Night in Caracas'' illuminates is not a place she was born into, but the everyday horrors one she thinks of modern day Venezuelaas home. It begins with 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 death of Adelaida Falcon's mother 'score'' for this gentle and chronicles Adelaidayet subtly violent novel. Padma's coming present fails to terms with escape her new solitude in this world past and her attempts to escape it. Danger stalks much like the shadows andmusical score of a film, in a society where that strand weaves its way through everything that happens at the establishment is crumbling, who can you turn to? Villa.|isbn=00629368671784631930}}

|isbn=1471186393178563335X|title=Photographer of the LostSea Defences|author=Caroline ScottHilary Taylor|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=May 1921When we first meet Rachel Bird she's a trainee vicar, sitting in on a PCC meeting and wondering why they're held when you need to pick the children up. Edie receives Her husband, Christopher, collects six-year-old Hannah and her elder brother, Jamie, whilst Rachel holds a photograph through the postsobbing parishioner. There is no letter or note with it Thelma's daughter-in-law won't let her see her grandson. There is nothing written Holthorpe, on the back of the photograph. It Norfolk coast, is a lovely place, but Rachel is struggling to develop a picture real bond with the parish - and she's in awe of her husbandthe vicar, Gail, Francis. Francis has but then she's been missing doing the job for four more than thirty years. Technically, he has been "missing, believed killed" but that is not something Rachel and Christopher hoped that a young widow can believewalk on the beach would do them some good - it was stormy but it was probably what they needed. She hangs on the word 'And then Hannah went missing', disbelieving the word killed.

|isbn=15098964651398515388|title=The NightjarBoy and the Dog|author=Deborah HewittSeishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)

|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary=''The Nightjar'' is an unusual First of all, it was the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and exciting storythis, in turn, caused the nuclear meltdown. Alice Wyndham lives a normal life in London until she finds a box on her doorstep one morning The result was complete and her life begins to unravel, fastutter devastation. From that very moment, her life is flooded with magic The deaths were uncountable, and the loss, expectation and particularly, betrayalof livelihoods was widespread. As everything around her shifts, all The fact that she knows, all many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of priorities but - six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. He wasn't a dog person but the convenience store owner's comment that she thinks she knows, must changehe would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and Tamon the dog jumped in. Who can she trust? Who must she trust? Who will she trust? More importantly, can she even trust herself?

|isbn=08570587380989715337|title=EquatorPapa on the Moon|author=Antonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)Marco North|rating=3.54|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=It strikes me that nobody can speak ''Some frogs had gotten into the well of .'' ''Walter stood waist-deep in the Wild West outside the walls fragrant water, naked except for his beaten leather hat. Long strands of a theme parktheir eggs wove around him, sticky gray pearls with tadpoles inside them. Our agent to see how bad it was here is Pete Ferguson, who bristles at the indignity Two of the white man against Native 'Indian', who spends days being physically sick while indulging in a buffalo hunt, and who hates dogs leaned over the way man – opening and woman, of course – can turn against fellow man barked down at the bat strange noise of the buckets as he filled them.'' How is that for an eyelid. But opening? The style of this book is about so much more than novel in the 1870s USA, form of interconnected short stories goes from succinct and laconic to wistful and the attendant problems with gold rushesmusing, pioneer spirits and racial genocideturning on a sixpence. He finds himself trying to find this book's version of UtopiaAnd author Marco North, namely who has the Equator, where everything is upside downmost wonderful turn of phrase, people walk on their heads with rocks in their pockets starts as he means to keep them go on the ground to counter the anti-gravity, and where, who knows, things might actually be better. But that equator is a long way away – and there's a whole adventure full of Mexico and Latin America between him and it…