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[[Category:New Reviews|Literary Fiction]]==Literary fiction==__NOTOC__{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joseph O'Connor295967572X|title=Where Have You Been?Pale Pieces|author=G M Stevens
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Irish novelist Joseph OOur unnamed narrator is about to begin a train journey with his companion Django. Where they'Connor has had quite a 2012re going and what the purpose of this journey is, is uncertain. Earlier in Django found the year he joined tickets ''on the ranks of such authors as Edna Ofloor somewhere''Brien, [[:Category:Roddy Doyle|Roddy Doyle]] and Seamus Heaney when he became a recipient of the PEN award for his outstanding contribution has persuaded our narrator to Irish literatureaccompany him. What could possibly top that for a sense of achievementWhy not? Well this, his first book of short stories Not much else is clear either - but we are probably in 20 years, must come pretty close the past as the pair travel to at least equalling it, amply illustrating the reasons for station by coach and the panel's decisiontrain is a steam locomotive.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846556899</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Thomas H CookMakenna Goodman|title=The Crime Helen of Julian WellsNowhere
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=American travel writer Julian Wells walks out It could be argued that the pervading theme of the house he shares with his sister, wanders down this book is malaise - a hard-to the garden lake-place feeling that something in your life is not quite right. The protagonist, rows himself out to a disgraced professor on the centre brink of losing both his career and slits his wristsrelationship, embodies this feeling. He dies alone as he silently watches However, Goodman counteracts his life drip into discomfort with a force which is seductive, radical and unnerving: Helen. The connection between Helen and the waterprotagonist is indirect yet intimate. DevastatedAs the former owner of the countryside house he's considering, Helen represents a volta in his friend and frequent travel companion Philip Anderslife, tries her past tied to come to terms with his potential fresh start. The realtor who shows the loss protagonist around the only way he can: by attempting to understand. Julian dedicated a book to Philiphouse shares stories about Helen, mentioning a and describes her as 'crime' an entity that Philip had witnessedis pure consciousness, beyond form''. Philip had always thought it to be a flip reference to his comment from years before that it would be a crime for Julian to waste time writing a certain piece, but, Although she lives in the light of tragic eventsan assisted living facility now, is this actually Helen has powers beyond comprehension which the case? Is there a crime in reader gets the author's past? As Philip retraces the essence of Julian through his words, the places they visited and people they encountered he slowly uncovers secrets and a dangerous obsessionsense are not altogether innocuous.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908800143</amazonuk>1804272205
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Diana McCaulayOlga Tokarczuk|title=HuracanHouse of Day, House of Night|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=1986 – 30-year-old Leigh McCaulay (''White gal!What'') is returning to Jamaica, s the land good of her birth. Her mother is dead and there is an estate to be settled. Her estranged father is somewhere a world that keeps changing like that? How can one go on the island. Her brother is calmly living in England. This isn't the closest of grieving families. Leigh doesn't even know how her mother died. Indeed, sheit?'s a bit surprised to find out she'd gone back to Jamaica. The residual family had left the island not long after the father's desertion.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845231961</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elizabeth HayThea Lenarduzzi|title=Alone In The ClassroomTower
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary='Other children were out picking that morning'How unctuous are the fats of another's life, but she passed them by how dizzying their sugars in her light-blue dress and sandals..our bloodstream''. she had an empty kettle in each hand and was alone, despite having three sisters.'
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Peter TerrinJon Fosse and Damion Searls (translator) |title=The GuardVaim|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Harry and Michel are very good at their job, even if we might think their job is not that great''All was strange''.. They and they alone are responsible for protecting the building they live in. Designed as an impregnable fortress containing many immense, palatial apartments inhabited by This haunting phrase encapsulates the ultra-rich, the only way pervading sense of otherworldliness which permeates this story set in is through the basement carparkVaim, where they reside a fictional fishing village in their own small patch of territory. They are certainly diligent – inspecting their stash of munitions twice a day, even if nothing Norway which paradoxically could possibly interfere with their supply of bulletsnot feel more real for Jatgeir and Eline, and navigating around the large expanse of space where each two of the forty floors above them has space for three supercarsprotagonists caught in its melancholic current. But while one seems to be dreaming of things he might not get to witness – promotion to guarding villas in Elysian fields with becoming owner's wives, the other seems to be hearing things that might not actually be there to be heard…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857050877</amazonuk>1804271829
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Richard FordClaire-Louise Bennett|title=CanadaBig Kiss, Bye-Bye
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Richard Ford's ''Canada'' opens with one Everything in this book, however sweet or seemingly innocent, is steeped in anguish and distortion. Even a kiss, usually a symbol of intimacy and closeness, becomes evidence of love lost. When the best opening lines that Inarrator cries out internally, 've read in a long time: 'Firstcome over here and kiss me, I'll tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then about the murders, which happened later' it is less an invitation than a desperate attempt to confirm her emotional numbness. The robbery imagined recipient of this plea is the most important part'Xavier, her ex-partner, a ghost she conjures to test her detachment.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0747598606</amazonuk>1804271934
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kevin PowersHelene Bessette and Kate Briggs (translator)|title=The Yellow BirdsLili is Crying|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Daniel Murphy ('Murph') is 18, First published in the American army and about to embark on his first tour of duty 1953 in Iraq. By his side French, this novel is John Bartle, three years older and more experienced in a timeless text which wrenches the army. However neither of them has any notion hearts of its readers just as Bessette wrenches words and sentences from their proper position on the sort of life or job they will face when they get there. The fighting is dirty, unpredictable page and not set out in any text book. Their commanding officerpositions them elsewhere, Sergeant Sterlingdisjointed, is sadistic and without any apparent humanitytruncated. But everything will be alright: Bartle has made a promise to Murph's motherLike the lives of her characters, a promise that will ricochet from the US to Iraq and back againthey are often left tragically incomplete.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444756125</amazonuk>1804271675
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ian McEwanJonathan Buckley|title=Sweet ToothOne Boat|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Ian McEwan's ''Sweet ToothOne Boat'' is part spy novel but more a love story and deeply introspective novella that defies traditional narrative structure, drawing the reader into a tale contemplative realm of deception philosophical musings and half truths. It's alsofragmented memories flowing from our narrator and protagonist, more subtly, a book about the power, role and importance of fictionTeresa. Set in against the 1970sevocative backdrop of a small coastal Greek town, with frequent musical this work masterfully captures the magic of its setting and political references its power to provoke profound introspection. Teresa herself recognises these qualities as the UK at that time, Serena Frome is a beautiful, Cambridge-educated daughter reason she has visited it after the death of an Anglican bishop with a taste for unsuitable romancesboth her parents. From an early affair with a man who turns out to be homosexualPrompted by her mourning, to an affair with an older lecturer she moves on to a surprise job at MI5 where she had a crush on one of her bosses, again narrative voice is meditative and awkwarddeeply self-aware, repressed and unattractive individual before encountering talented author Tom Haley as part of inviting the reader into her job with whom she once again falls in lovelabyrinthine cogitations. Few It is a book that not only requires but inspires depth of these men are what they seemthought, since its narrative structure is fragmentary and neither ironically relies on analepsis for that matter is Serena when she has to hide her job from Haleyits propulsion.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0224097377</amazonuk>1804271764
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jeet ThayilEowyn Ivey|title=NarcopolisBlack Woods Blue Sky|rating=43.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Novels about narcotic substances are notoriously hard to pull off. The challenge is to make ''Black Woods Blue Sky'' tells the induced events interesting and meaningful to story of Birdie, theyoung mother of toddler Emaleen, presumablywho longs for a life beyond the Alaskan lodge where she works as a bar waitress, non-induced readera setting which enables her bad habits and her accidental neglect of Emaleen. In Described as a ''Narcopoliswild card'', Jeet Thayil pulls this off surprisingly well for meshe feels stuck in her day-to-day life, although it's fair and yearns to say that it won't be everyone's taste. It's not a book that cross the Wolverine river and live on the Bombay/Mumbai tourist office will be keen North Fork to promotefulfil her desires of a simple life surrounded by nature. A cover quotation links the book to When she meets Arthur Nielson, a similar vein (OKstrange, taciturn and solitary man, that's who says he has a poor choice of words in the circumstances) cabin over there, she feels called to ''Trainspotting'' go - and bring Emaleen with her. Without realising it, this calling will transform hers and thatEmaleen's not far from the marklives forever.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571275761</amazonuk>1472279042
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Zadie SmithSally Rooney|title=NWIntermezzo
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=Fans Sally Rooney has studied the chessboard of life and is something of Zadie Smith have had a seven year wait since her last book ''On Beauty''grandmaster at putting it into words. In ''NW''Her dialogue is gripping and so brilliantly frustrating, Smith returns to more of the issues addressed in as her brilliant debut novel [[White Teeth by Zadie Smith|White Teeth]]characters never quite say exactly what they feel. Set in parts of London that should be obvious from Among the titlemany relationships woven into this story, the book takes central one for readers to unravel is the lives of four people who grew up on a rough estate fraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and looks at how they have moved on - or notPeter Koubek. All four still live nearby the estate where they grew upIvan, a socially awkward chess prodigy, contrasts sharply with his older brother Peter, a successful lawyer living in Dublin. ThereFollowing their father's multi-cultural tension and passing after a long battle with cancer, the have and have nots of power and money and Smith looks at how much individuals are in control of their destiny and ability to rise out of their upbringing, and how chance encounters can bring you back to your past with a bumpbrothers' already strained relationship faces new trials.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0241144140</amazonuk>0571365469
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Fuminori NakamuraFyodor Dostoyevsky|title=The ThiefWhite Nights
|rating=5
|genre=CrimeShort Stories|summary=The Thief is content roaming the streets of Tokyo, living on the contents of its wealthier citizens' pockets until, his original partner As always in crime (literally) introduces him to KizakiDostoyevsky, a local shady big shot. Kizaki wants the Thief's help on a straightforward jobcharacter work is sublime. He will just be one of One is never left wondering what a team tasked character is thinking or feeling because Dostoyevsky lays bare their innermost dispositions and temperaments with breaking into a rich speculator's home, scaring him a little, taking the contents of his safe and departing. No rough stuff and the financial settlement Kizaki offers will more than compensate the pickpocket for his timeremarkable clarity.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780339135</amazonuk>0241619785
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=A N WilsonJames Baldwin|title=The PotterGiovanni's HandRoom|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=The man of clay that A N Wilson throws onto his storytelling wheel in ''The PotterGiovanni's HandRoom'' is follows the great Josiah Wedgwoodnarrator David, but this is much more than a historic telling of an American man living in Paris, as he navigates his life. Indeedtorturous affair with Giovanni, Josiah already has an Italian bartender he meets in a thriving business at the start of the bookgay bar. What Wilson does particularly impressively While David is engaged to put Wedgwood's achievement and works into the context of the politics and social philosophy of the timesHella, sandwiched between the two great revolutions who is travelling in America and France. In order to do thisSpain, Wilson has to play slightly loose with artistic licence by altering dates and time lines a bit, but it works well. He also balances the real historic figures with several key figures of tension in the novel arises not from his own invention and where infidelity but from the historic figures dondeeper conflict within himself. It is David't quite fit with his narrative, he alters their ages s crippling shame and invents 'facts' to the benefit denial of the fictional narrativehis sexuality that ultimately dooms his relationship with Giovanni.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848879512</amazonuk>0141186356
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jake ArnottAlba de Cespedes |title=The House of RumourForbidden Notebook
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Jake Arnott sees to be one This Italian work of those authors - like [[:Category:Will Self|Will Self]] whom you'll love or loathe. Occasionally, you'll swing feminist fiction holds an air of suspense and tension from one extreme to the other and I'll confess to being a little nervous when I opened the book. We really weren't ''that'' keen when we read [[The Devil's Paintbrush by Jake Arnott|The Devil's Paintbrush]]. Using the deck of Tarot cards as the structure of the book we look at the twentieth century through the life of Larry Zagorski. Imagine history being gently folded together like a cake mixture with episodes sliding against each othermoment our protagonist, flavouring that which they touch. Imagine the real - Aleister Crowley (reprising his appearance in ''The Devil's Paintbrush'')Valeria Cossati, Rudolf Hesspurchases her forbidden notebook, Ian Fleming, Cyril Connolly, Jim Jones and L Ron Hubbard blended with a transexual prostitute, a British pop singer learns about herself in the most intimate and Larry, who writes pulp science fictionrevealing ways.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340922729</amazonuk>1782278222
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alison MooreOttessa Moshfegh|title=The LighthouseMy Year of Rest and Relaxation|rating=53
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=When we first meet Futh he's on a North Sea ferry on his way to At best, this novel is a walking holiday in Germany. There's no sense scathing critique of enthusiasm or anticipation: Futh's middle aged modern society and recently separatedreveals the fragility of human relationships; at worst, seemingly without friends or family. He always wanted a dog, but keeps stick insects. The holiday seems to be something which, when it is overthe cynical, he will have done it predictable and will then return to his new flatslightly trite tale of an unlikeable protagonist. It begins and will end at HellhausThis unlikely heroine, a guesthouse run by Bernard slim, attractive and his wife Ester. He gets on well enough newly orphaned girl in her twenties is disillusioned with Ester the world, but is at a loss resolves not to understand a rather hostile encounter with Bernard. He sets out the following morning for a week of walkinglose sleep over it: in fact, thinking and remembering. Meanwhile Ester - untouched by her meeting with Futh - continues solution lies in her lonely life punctuated by the occasional casual sexual encounter which she barely hides from Bernardhibernation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907773177</amazonuk>1784707422
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nicola BarkerMatthew Tree|title=The YipsWe'll Never Know
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Stuart Ransom is Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a golfing has-been drunk and he's the only one who doesn't realise it. If chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his recollections are anything to go by (artistic passions all failed miserably and who can tell?) he was on a par with the besthad endless crises of self confidence. Times have changed though; the handicap isn't what it once was and age and alcohol have taken their toll. HoweverSo Tim applied himself to his studies, hope springs eternal and there's always one more match, so perhaps this is it. Meanwhile Gene, who splits cultivated his time between working at the hotel in which Stuart is staying and reading electricity meters, encounters an agoraphobic, exotic tattooist. Valentine is a woman struggling with an unhealthily precocious 2 year-old, a brother flirting with criminality and a brain-injured mother who has become more abilities rather than a little eccentric. Add Gene's wife Rev Sheila his daydreams and her personal crisis into the mix and it becomes a recipe for disaster, it's just a case of waiting for it to eruptset himself high but achievable ambitions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007476655</amazonuk>B0CVFXPGP8
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=B0C47LV1PC
|title=Fragility
|author=Mosby Woods
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, would it land? The catch is that the answer for both could well be.... no.
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|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Anneli Strandli lives with insomniacally introverted Berry WalkerThe West isn't the dominant force it once was. Nobody in the West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is the best course of action. Governments are flailing. A war here, among others but not a push for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is in actual charge. Imagine then, there was a romantically co-habiting wayman with precognition. They all share student accommodation complete with attendant noise and comings and goingsImagine the strategic advantage in this asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. Berry isn’t That man would be valuable, right? Perhaps the most forthcoming of people but Anneli discovers a manuscript valuable asset in his desk and sohistory. Imagine then, sneaking into his room to read it, she hopes to discover from his writings the essence of Berry that his private nature hidesthis man loses this ability. Meanwhile Berry is falling in love but has difficulty communicating What would governments do to get it to the person concerned.back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908775521</amazonuk>B0C9SNG8R1
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Heller0571379559|title=The Dog Stars|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=We are in North America in a near but post-Apocalyptic future. Those few humans to survive a pandemic have to be treated as carriers, and/or armed and desperate, and so are particularly of note to military-minded survivalist Bangley. And climate and eco-problems have killed off many common species, something closer to narrator Hig's heart, as he's a more placid, huntin', shootin' and fishin' guy. These two solitary men are an unlikely partnership, but both look out for each other in complementary ways. Bangley has his watch-tower, while Hig takes off in his Cessna to get away from it all, and his flights act as a first line of defense. But is it all life could be, for Hig and his dog and Bangley? What is Hig still to make House of the last inviting contact he heard on his plane's radio - even if that was three years ago? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755392590</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewBroken Bricks|author=Mette Jakobsen|title=The Vanishing ActFiona Williams|rating=45
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Minou ''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the story of four people. Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in the house on a sparsely occupiedthe riverbank, temperate islandbuilt of broken bricks. In fact Insubstantial as it might look, it's stood the only occupants apart from Minou and her Papa are Priest (the Priest)passage of time, Boxman (a maker of magical boxes) storms and a dog called No Namefloods. Minou’s mother used Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the delivery rounds - and to live there toobring in sufficient money. She arrived on a boat with a bowl containing a peacock (a real live one called… yes… Peacock)They have twin boys - Sonny and Max, the rainbow twins. But then one day Mama disappeared completely apart from one shoeSonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. Minou misses her and the way People don't believe that she encouraged Minou’s imaginationthey're related, completely at odds much less twins and there's an assumption when Max is out with her father’s logical philosophical outlook. Papa doesn’t believe his mother that Mama will return and so has symbolically buried the shoe but Minou thinks differently: Mama will come backshe's his nanny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099572478</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
|author=Claire North
|title=House of Odysseus
|rating=5
|genre= Literary Fiction
|summary= ''What could matter more than love?''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Deborah LevyKay Chronister|title=Swimming HomeDesert Creatures|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Dystopian Fiction|summary=JoeWith a world that is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, post-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Whether it is a poet and Isabelrobotic takeover, his war-correspondent wife and their teenage daughter Nina rent a luxurious villa in the South world devoid of France and invite water or a nuclear holocaust, this genre is a way for humans to cathartically experience their friends Laura and Mitchell to join themmost existential fears. On their first day there Nina finds what appears to be a naked body floating in the swimming pool, but it's Kitty Finch. She pleads 'Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is a mixnew work of post-up over booking dates and when told apocalyptic fiction that all aligns many of the local hotels are fully booked fears that exist for some days Isabel offers her the use of the spare bedroom at the villahumanity today. There's no obvious reason for why she does this, but what does become clear It is a shocking novel that Kitty suffers from depression - and she's stopped taking her medicationstill manages to find hope.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908276029</amazonuk>1803364998
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{{newreviewfrontpage|isbn=1803363002|author=Manu JosephEric LaRocca|title=The Illicit Happiness of Other PeopleTrees Grew Because I Bled There|rating=3.5|genre=Literary FictionHorror|summary=Meet what the first chapter calls 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 process them. Most horror fiction feature a ''the underdog familyBig Bad''. Tamil immigrants to Madras, they are below the breadline due to Ousep's constant drinkingwhether that is a home invader, and by him being a failed writer monster or a ghost, it usually something tangible and mediocre journalist. His wife Mariamma has, shall we sayby the end of the story, problems, their younger son is fixated on the beautiful girl next doorbeatable. But their other son Unni is a Eric LaRocca's ''cartoonist hottieThe Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' - is not like that. It is a handsome prodigy collection of short stories more interested in the comic strip world - or he was until he took a nosedive off their roof three years agohorrors of illness, aged 17grief and humiliation. Ousep is still tracking through his son's friends Horrors that linger and output, trying are harder to seek the cause of this suicide, and what we have here is the journey of the family as he struggles towards the truthdefeat than any ''Big Bad''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848543093</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Naomi AldermanMadelaine Lucas|title=The Liars' GospelThirst for Salt
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=In ''The Liars' Gospel'', Naomi Alderman gives the perspective of four people on the recent death of a Jewish man named Yehoshuah, who is more commonly known these days by the anglicized name of Jesus. These perspectives include Miryam (Mary)Love, the teacherI's mother, Iehuda of Qeriot (Judas Iscariot)d read, was supposed to be a one time follower of the man, Caiaphas, the High Priest of the great Temple in Jerusalem light and finally Bar-Avoweightless feeling, Barabbas, a rebel who is determined to bring down the occupying Roman presence. What makes this such a remarkable book is the sheer visceral nature of the story telling. Each story is vividly told, and Alderman evokes the time and place to such a level that you half expect to have developed a sun tan while reading the book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>067091990X</amazonuk>}}but I had always longed for gravity''
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{{Frontpage
|author= Michael Grothaus
|title=Beautiful Shining People
|rating=4
|genre= Literary Fiction
|summary= ''But fearing something and having it come to pass are two different things. And I'm willing to bet most of what we fear will never happen, or we can take steps to change it.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tupelo HassmanJennifer Saint|title=GirlchildAtalanta
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Rory Dawn Hendrix (RD for short) lives with her mother in the ironically named Calle de las Flores or Street ''I was as worthy as any one of Flowers; a pretty name masking a less than idyllic settingthem. For Calle is a trailer park for those living a life sentence of povertyI would get on board that ship, the inhabitants being as upwardly mobile as their static, seedy homesI vowed. RD has half brothers but they live with their father, leaving RD to live alone with her mother and nearby grandmotherI would take my place, a father being a luxury that Rory Dawn has learnt to live without. Rory Dawn is also a Girl Scout and has a handbook to prove it but she's not just in a troop of one, alone with the ideals name of an organisation that she only glimpses through disadvantage and in the same way that she glimpses the materialistic world beyond her meansgoddess. However, her mother wants more It was for her than the teen pregnancies that seem to have become their family heirloom and there is hope as RD is highly intelligent; but can this be enough?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178087104X</amazonuk>}}sake of my name, too. Atalanta''
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|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=David Rain 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 is far too young not a place she was born into, but the one she thinks of as home. How she came to be writing 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 ''score'' for this exquisitelygentle and yet subtly violent novel. That Padma's all I'm going present fails to say. Ohescape her past and much like the musical score of a film, you need me to justify that comment? strand weaves its way through everything that happens at the Villa.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857892037</amazonuk>1784631930
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeremy Chambers178563335X|title=The Vintage and the GleaningSea Defences|author=Hilary Taylor
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Smithy, When we first meet Rachel Bird she's a retired sheep shearertrainee vicar, now works sitting in on a vineyard in PCC meeting and wondering why they're held when you need to pick the countryside of Victoria, Australiachildren up. Too poor to retire Her husband, Christopher, collects six-year-old Hannah and too ill from the after effects of his former alcoholic lifestyle to return to the physically arduous world of shearingher elder brother, Jamie, he exists rather than lives amongst his mates and near his son and whilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioner. Thelma's daughter-in-lawwon't let her see her grandson. Meanwhile rumours abound about Holthorpe, on the deeds of local thugNorfolk coast, is a lovely place, Brett Clayton but Rachel is struggling to develop a real bond with the parish - andshe's in awe of the vicar, whether true or notGail, hebut then she's definitely someone to be avoidedbeen doing the job for more than thirty years. However, when Brett's wife Charlotte leaves him Rachel and asks Smithy to take her in, he does so without Christopher hoped that a second thoughtwalk on the beach would do them some good - it was stormy but it was probably what they needed. Sheltered under his roof and protection, Charlotte confides in Smithy, forcing him to remember his own past and dreamsAnd then Hannah went missing. Meanwhile the unspoken question remains: Brett knows where Charlotte is so what's he going to do about it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780871635</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Timeri N Murari1398515388|title=The Taliban Cricket ClubBoy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=We First of all know, or think we know, how oppressive life it was for Afghansthe earthquake, particularly Afghan womendeep in the ocean floor, under which created the Taliban regimetsunami and this, in turn, but when you read this novelcaused the nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and utter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, boy do you get a sense and the loss of how tough it really livelihoods waswidespread. The fact that 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 he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and Tamon the dog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1742378846</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alix Ohlin0989715337|title=InsidePapa on the Moon|author=Marco North|rating=54
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Grace, a therapist, stumbles upon a young man in ''Some frogs had gotten into the woods who has attempted to commit suicide, and her vocational interests are immediately engagedwell. The novel takes us through their complex relationship, both its surface routines and day to day moments but also Grace's eventually successful search for the reasons behind Tug's desperation. Ohlin interlaces with this the story of Mitch, Grace ''s exWalter stood waist-husbanddeep in the fragrant water, and naked except for his beaten leather hat. Long strands of Annietheir eggs wove around him, one of her clients, chronicling both their relationship sticky gray pearls with Grace, but also their network tadpoles inside them. Two of families the dogs leaned over the opening and friends, acquaintances and colleaguesbarked down at the strange noise of the buckets as he filled them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780871104</amazonuk>}}''
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