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[[Category:New Reviews|Literary Fiction]]{{adsense2}}__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lea Carpenter295967572X|title=Eleven Days|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Sara raised Jason alone; even when she was with his father it felt as if she was a lone parent. Jason's father always seemed to be away doing something indefinable abroad; then he disappeared leaving her completely. Two years later Jason's father was dead. However Jason is a lad to be proud of, never giving Sara a moment's trouble and now a member of the elite US Navy SEALS. Now he's missing in action… Now she has to hang on and hope.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444776231</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewPale Pieces|author=Lucy Cruickshanks|title=The Trader of SaigonG M Stevens
|rating=5
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|summary=The small community of Noitía Our unnamed narrator is about to begin a place where everyone knows each other train journey with his companion Django. Where they're going and each other’s businesswhat the purpose of this journey is, which considering most of is uncertain. Django found the adults are involved in tickets ''on the one business, smuggling, floor somewhere'' and has persuaded our narrator to accompany him. Why not? Not much else is potentially dangerous knowledge. We follow a small group of three young friends growing up clear either - but we are probably in the area past as they play and learn and even experience a little of the black market dealings. They stumble across a stash of smuggled whisky pair travel to the station by coach and are caught by the charismatic king pin responsible for the trafficking, who teaches them that silence train is the most important lesson to learn when growing up in Noitíaa steam locomotive.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184655568X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ryu MurakamiMakenna Goodman|title=From The Fatherland, With LoveHelen of Nowhere
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=From It could be argued that the pervading theme of this book is malaise - a hard-to-place feeling that something in your life is not quite right. The Fatherlandprotagonist, With Love a disgraced professor on the brink of losing both his career and his relationship, embodies this feeling. However, Goodman counteracts his discomfort with a force which is seductive, radical and unnerving: Helen. The connection between Helen and the protagonist is indirect yet intimate. As the former owner of the countryside house he's considering, Helen represents a 2005 Japanese novel set volta in his life, her past tied to his potential fresh start. The realtor who shows the protagonist around the then-near future of 2011house shares stories about Helen, and describes her as ''an entity that is pure consciousness, beyond form''. Fatherland (as I will abbreviate it) explores Although she lives in an assisted living facility now, Helen has powers beyond comprehension which the reader gets the social and political ramifications of one speculative scenario: what if North Korea invaded Japan?sense are not altogether innocuous.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908968451</amazonuk>1804272205
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Suzanne RindellOlga Tokarczuk|title=The Other TypistHouse of Day, House of Night
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|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The Other Typist is set in 1920s New York City, with Prohibition at its height and Rose Baker, an orphaned young woman, working as a police typist. While she has no real friends, she''What's the good at her job and seems to have the respect of the Sergeant, whom she admires and the Lieutenant Detective, whom she's less keen a world that keeps changing like that? How can one go on. Then a perfect storm comes into their lives, calmly living in the shape of the enchanting Odalie, and nothing will be the same again.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241002885</amazonuk>}}it?''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gabriel WestonThea Lenarduzzi|title=Dirty WorkThe Tower
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=#There ''How unctuous are two women in an operating theatre and when one starts bleeding heavily - fatally - the other freezesfats of another's life, unablehow dizzying their sugars in our bloodstream''. In this compelling novel, despite all her training and undoubted skillsThea Lenarduzzi assumes the identity of T, to do anything at allthe protagonist of this tale. Whatever Just as T's story is being told, the outcome it cannot pass unnoticedstory of a second protagonist is unveiled: Annie, unreported and surgeon Nancy Mullion is called to appear before a tribunal appointed by the General Medical Council. Over daughter of a period of weeks she's forced to confront wealthy family in the effect 19th century, who died of tuberculosis after being locked in a doctor who has killed as well as cured. Youtower, captures T're probably making assumptions now and nodding wiselys imagination. DonAnnie't - because you are almost certainly going s fate is, above all, an enticing story to be wrongT. This will not be the It is a story which you are expecting she consumes avariciously, both in a quest for truth and knowledge, and in service of myth, fable and it was certainly not the story which Nancy's hospital wanted to hearfantasy. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>022409128X</amazonuk>1804271799
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rachel KushnerJon Fosse and Damion Searls (translator) |title=The FlamethrowersVaim|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Set mainly in New York's art district in the late 1970s, Rachel Kushner's All was strange''The Flamethrowers'' tells ... This haunting phrase encapsulates the pervading sense of otherworldliness which permeates this story of a young girl, known only to the reader as Renoset in Vaim, after the city she comes from. She's a girl who loves motorbikes and photography, but struggles to find her place fictional fishing village in the New York art scene. When she falls Norway which paradoxically could not feel more real for the estranged son, SandroJatgeir and Eline, two of the Italian motorbike manufacturer Valero, himself an artist in New York, Reno finds herself protagonists caught in situations she cannot controlits melancholic current.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846557917</amazonuk>1804271829
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Roland WatsonClaire-GrantLouise Bennett|title=SketcherBig Kiss, Bye-Bye |rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= Nine-year-old Skid Beaumont lives with his three brothersEverything in this book, however sweet or seemingly innocent, father Alrick is steeped in anguish and mother Valerie in the swamps beyond the New Orleans city limitsdistortion. Life is hard and home is Even a rundown shack with no running water but they're only there temporarily; kiss, usually a symbol of intimacy and closeness, becomes evidence of love lost. When the narrator cries out internally, 'temporarily' that is rather long-term. Alrick moved them from their nice home in New Orleans because the land was cheap come over here and soon the city would build out to envelop them. Years later theykiss me,''re still waiting for that it is less an invitation than a desperate attempt to happenconfirm her emotional numbness. Life isn’t exactly mundane though; there are rumours that when Skid's brother Frico draws leftThe imagined recipient of this plea is Xavier, her ex-handedpartner, strange things seem a ghost she conjures to happentest her detachment.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846882427</amazonuk>1804271934
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Francesco PacificoHelene Bessette and Kate Briggs (translator)|title=The Story of My PurityLili is Crying|rating=24.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=In Francesco Pacifico's translated Italian First published in 1953 in French, this novel 'The Story of My Purity', Piero Rosini is a 30 year old, ultraconservative Catholic working for a radical Catholic publishing house. His marriage is devoid timeless text which wrenches the hearts of physical contact, its readers just as Bessette wrenches words and he yearns for his virginal sister-in-law. Largely to escape these longings, he heads for Paris, never sentences from their proper position on the first choice of one seeking to preserve their puritypage and positions them elsewhere, where he is further tempted by a slightly unlikely group of girlsdisjointed, and one in particular, which is further complicated for him by the fact that she is Jewishtruncated. Almost living a separate life in his head, he cannot escape either Like the intellectual or physical constraints lives of his old life in Romeher characters, they are often left tragically incomplete.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0241145058</amazonuk>1804271675
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Philip SingtonJonathan Buckley|title=The Valley of UnknowingOne Boat
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=In the mid-to-late eighties the German Democratic Republic looked like enduring. Bolstered by a system of ''Mitarbeiter'' (''fellow workersOne Boat'' is a much more amenable term than ''informers'') deeply introspective novella that defies traditional narrative structure, drawing the Stasi kept their populace in checkreader into a contemplative realm of philosophical musings and fragmented memories flowing from our narrator and protagonist, Teresa. Western media was easy Set against the evocative backdrop of a small coastal Greek town, this work masterfully captures the magic of its setting and its power to censor in those daysprovoke profound introspection. Border controls were brutalTeresa herself recognises these qualities as the reason she has visited it after the death of both her parents. People were shot on a regular basis trying to cross Prompted by her mourning, her narrative voice is meditative and deeply self-aware, inviting the no-man's-land reader into West Berlin her labyrinthine cogitations. It is a book that not only requires but inspires depth of thought, since its narrative structure is fragmentary and along the other inner German bordersironically relies on analepsis for its propulsion.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099535823</amazonuk>1804271764
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robert WalserEowyn Ivey|title=The Walk and other storiesBlack Woods Blue Sky|rating=3.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The publication ''Black Woods Blue Sky'' tells the story of this collection Birdie, the young mother of around forty short stories affords toddler Emaleen, who longs for a life beyond the English speaking public Alaskan lodge where she works as a unique opportunity; that of reading Walserbar waitress, possibly the leading modernist writer a setting which enables her bad habits and her accidental neglect of Swiss German in the last centuryEmaleen. He has received high praise in Described as a ''wild card''A Place , she feels stuck in her day-to-day life, and yearns to cross the Wolverine river and live on the Country'North Fork to fulfil her desires of a simple life surrounded by nature. When she meets Arthur Nielson, a strange, W G Sebald's recently published posthumous collection taciturn and solitary man, who says he is well-known as being has a significant influence on Franz Kafka. His work here dates from 1907 cabin over there, she feels called to 1929 go - and along bring Emaleen with his poetry won him recognition with Berlin's avant gardeher. He combines lyrical delicacy with detailed observation; reflective melancholy with criticism of brash commercialism. The fine writing in Without realising it, this volume strives to achieve a hard won integrity together with an experimental capacity for reflection. It challenges the reader calling will transform hers and provokes him to new insightsEmaleen's lives forever.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846689589</amazonuk>1472279042
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joydeep Roy-BhattacharyaSally Rooney|title=The WatchIntermezzo|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=Fyodor Dostoyevsky|title=White Nights
|rating=5
|genre=Literary FictionShort Stories|summary= Nizam pushes a barrow up to a fortified US army base As always in AfghanistanDostoyevsky, the character work is sublime. What One is she doing there? How will never left wondering what a character 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 |summary=''Giovanni's Room'' follows the soldiers react? What do they believe: their experiencenarrator David, an American man living in Paris, their trainingas he navigates his torturous affair with Giovanni, their gut reaction or an Italian bartender he meets in a young girl amputee gay bar. While David is engaged to Hella, who is travelling in Spain, the middle of real tension in the desert who may be novel arises not from his infidelity but from the last thing they ever see?deeper conflict within himself. It is David's crippling shame and denial of his sexuality that ultimately dooms his relationship with Giovanni.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099565773</amazonuk>0141186356
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anthony CartwrightAlba de Cespedes |title=How I Killed Margaret ThatcherForbidden Notebook|rating=3.54
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=What motivates someone to become a killer? When This Italian work of feminist fiction holds an air of suspense and tension from the reader first meets Sean Bullmoment our protagonist, Valeria Cossati, he is nine years oldpurchases her forbidden notebook, living a seemingly carefree and happy existence surrounded by his family and friends in a close-knit community learns about herself in Dudley, West Midlands. He loves Star Wars and playing football with his school friends and adores his teenage uncle Johnny, who tells him stories and creates the most wonderful pieces of artintimate and revealing ways.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781251576</amazonuk>1782278222
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jenni FaganOttessa Moshfegh|title=The PanopticonMy Year of Rest and Relaxation|rating=53
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Imagine reading At best, this novel is a book set in a Scottish children’s care home. It’s about a violent scathing critique of modern society and a deeply disturbed fifteen year old drug addict whoreveals the fragility of human relationships; at worst, when she was elevenit is the cynical, found her prostitute foster mother murdered in the bathtubpredictable and slightly trite tale of an unlikeable protagonist. That’s the set-up of Jenni Fagan’s ''The Panopticon''This unlikely heroine, a slim, attractive and that’s what it’s about – but newly orphaned girl in her twenties is disillusioned with the funny thing is that whatever you’re picturing in your head right nowworld, and what I was imagining before I sat down but resolves not to read lose sleep over it: in fact, bears absolutely no resemblance to the book Fagan has actually writtenher solution lies in her hibernation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099558645</amazonuk>1784707422
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jess RichardsMatthew Tree|title=Cooking with BonesWe'll Never Know
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= Sisters Amber and Maya run away Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from homehis father, the city a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of Paradon, being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and arrive in a small village. Finding an old cottage, the girls settle in comfortably, hidden from the locals' sight while joining in with their customs as Amber backs honey cakes each night from the ingredients left daily outside the cottage and the instructions who had endless crises of the former occupant's cookery booksself confidence. Now they've moved away from their old life Amber tries to encourage Maya So Tim applied himself to stand on her own two feet which isn't easy. For Maya is a formwandererhis studies, engineered to reflect other's wants; a role in which it's difficult to exist normally, let alone while trying to adjust to change… cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and, indeed, unexpected deathset himself high but achievable ambitions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444738038</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.
''Fragility'' is set as the city of Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate AtkinsonMosby Woods|title=Life After LifeA Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=54
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Spanning The West isn't the dominant force it once was. Nobody in the period from just before World War One West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is the end best course of World War Two, Kate Atkinson's ''Life After Life'' tells the story of Ursula Toddaction. Governments are flailing. Or more accuratelyA war here, it tells the potential stories of Ursula Todda push for climate action there. If you've seen the movie ''Sliding Doors'' then you will have some idea of the concept Atkinson explores; A feeling that of small changes nobody is in life leading to different outcomesactual charge. Imagine then, many of which lead to tragic endings but strangely there was a man with precognition. Imagine the book manages to be strategic advantage in this asset; a celebration man who can tell you what will happen given any set of the spirit of Ursula and is often quite upliftingcircumstances. It's a book that sounds like it is going to That man would be much more confusing than it is though and valuable, right? Perhaps the result is a very special book indeedmost valuable asset in history. It's Imagine then, that rare thing of a book that has a strong literary style but which is also very readablethis man loses this ability.What would governments do to get it back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0385618670</amazonuk>B0C9SNG8R1
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emily Perkins0571379559|title=The ForrestsHouse of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= This ''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the chronicle story of four people. Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in the Forrest family during house on the life riverbank, built of daughter Dorothybroken bricks. They move (Insubstantial as it might look, it'they' being Dorothys stood the passage of time, storms and floods. Her husband, father FrankRichard, mother Lee and siblings Michaelstruggles to grow his vegetables, Evelyn to complete the delivery rounds - and little Ruthie) from New York to New Zealand at bring in sufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and Max, the age of seven years oldrainbow twins. Frank hopes the migration will signal a change in Sonny's colouring reflects his luck as well as a new life for mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his familyfather. HePeople don's right in t believe that changes follow but they're related, much less twins and there are as many to shake their stability as to still it and the past remains with each of them as well as the ''de'' ''facto'' adoptee Daniel. Indeed, Dorothy grows to realise that the past s an assumption when Max is a garment out with his mother thatshe's worn in some form throughout an entire lifetimehis nanny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140883149X</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?''
The follow-up to the excellent ''Ithaca'' picks up a few months after where we left off. In the palace of Odysseus, with delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without her husband, who sailed to war at Troy and then by divine intervention never returned home. As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for the throne of the Western Isles. Having survived – politically and physical – the chaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to Ithaca's shores, Queen Penelope is on the brink of a fragile peace. One that shatters however with the return of Orestes, King of Mycenae, and his sister Elektra, seeking refuge.|isbn=0356516075}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elif ShafakKay Chronister|title=HonourDesert Creatures|rating=54|genre=CrimeDystopian Fiction|summary=Jamila and Pembe are twins whoWith a world that is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, growing up among the Kurdish in Turkeypost-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Whether it is a robotic takeover, are as wrapped in the customs a world devoid of water or a nuclear holocaust, this genre is a way for humans to cathartically experience their Muslim faith most existential fears. ''Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is a new work of post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the fears that exist for humanity today. It is a shocking novel that still manages to find hope.|isbn=1803364998}}{{frontpage|isbn=1803363002|author= Eric LaRocca|title= The Trees Grew Because I Bled There|rating= 5|genre= Horror|summary= Horror taps into something primeval within us. It is used as a way to reflect our darkest emotions and heritage how we as they are in the love of their familyhumans react and process them. Jamila develops Most horror fiction feature a talent ''Big Bad'', whether that will make her is a home invader, a monster or a ghost, it usually something tangible and, by the hub end of her communitythe story, beatable. PembeEric LaRocca's destiny lies over the sea as she migrates to England with her husband Adem in search of a better life''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is not like that. However, the destiny they travel towards It is oh so different from a collection of short stories more interested in the destiny horrors of which they dreamillness, grief and humiliation. Horrors that linger and are harder to defeat than any ''Big Bad''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670921165</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Therese Anne FowlerMadelaine Lucas|title=Z: A Novel of Zelda FitzgeraldThirst for Salt
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=As Therese Anne Fowler points out in her acknowledgements, views on the relationship between F Scott Fitzgerald and his wife and muse, Zelda, tend to split into 'Team Scott' and Love, I'Team Zelda'. The former believe that it d read, was Zelda's instability supposed to be a light and possessiveness that limited Scott's creative output while the latter argue that it was Scottweightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravity's debauched behaviour that led to Zelda's mental problems. ''Z'' takes Told from a more balanced retrospective view , a young woman unravels the year- the truth of the matter is long relationship that they needed each other but were tragically, mutually destructiveonce defined her. Getting the fact-based fiction tone right is always a challengeOverlaid with later wisdom, and this is exacerbated when the author gives a writer narrator relives the narrative voice, and Zelda was affair with a talented writer in man twenty years her own right as well as a dancer, artist and general social phenomenonsenior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the summer after. However Fowler pulls it off with aplomb in what is a sensitive and engrossing story Set against the backdrop of Zelda - an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt''details the First Flapper24-year-old narrator's deepening relationship with her older lover, depicting its all-consuming nature, how it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and how it altered her irrevocably.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444761404</amazonuk>0861546490
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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.''
''Beautiful Shining People'' revolves around the question of identity and acceptance. Of what it means to be human. Of what is real and what is artificial, and whether the development of technology is exciting or frightening.|isbn=191458564X}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sheila HetiJennifer Saint|title=How Should A Person Be?Atalanta|rating=35
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Much has been made in the media about the similarity in approach of Sheila Heti's fictionalised autobiographical ''How Should A Person Be?'' and Lena Dunham's HBO television series ''Girls''I was as worthy as any one of them. They certainly share a similarly bleak and introspective view of life, both are apparently based I would get on the writer's own experienceboard that ship, both have a somewhat knowingly shock factor particularly when it comes to sex and both leave me somewhat depressed and sadI vowed. And both have been critical successes I would take my place, not just in the USname of the goddess. Indeed, ''How Should A Person Be?'' also features on the 2013 long list It was for the [[Women's Prize for Fiction 2013|Womensake of my name, too. Atalanta's Prize for Fiction]], although it's not easy to assess where the fiction starts and the reality stops. In fact, the conceit is also somewhat similar to the scripted reality shows that dominate certain television channels. The effect is something that is interesting as a concept and exercise but less than enjoyable to read.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846557542</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Taiye SelasiAmanthi Harris|title=Ghana Must GoBeautiful Place|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Kweku SaiPadma, fathera young Sri Lankan, husband and doctor, awakes early one morning and wanders outside into his Ghanaian gardenhas returned to the Villa Hibiscus on the southern coast of her home country. As he gazes back at his house, he suffers This is a fatal heart attack and, during his last moments reflects on his life and a family fragmentedplace she spent her formative years. On hearing It is not a place she was born into, but the one she thinks of his deathas home. How she came to be at the Villa, how it became her home, his children and the machinations that have flowed through her life ever since she first wife Folasade look back on what they were before arrived there provide the ''score'' for this gentle and, thanks in part to Folasadeyet subtly violent novel. Padma's present fails to escape her past and Kweku's actionsmuch like the musical score of a film, what they've becomethat strand weaves its way through everything that happens at the Villa.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0670919861</amazonuk>1784631930
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michele Roberts178563335X|title=IgnoranceSea Defences|author=Hilary Taylor
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Michèle RobertsWhen we first meet Rachel Bird she's ''Ignorance'' is a beautifully writtentrainee vicar, lyrical story about life sitting in wartime Franceon a PCC meeting and wondering why they're held when you need to pick the children up. Narrated mainly by two characters Her husband, Christopher, Jeanne and Mariecollects six-year-Angèle, it jumps back old Hannah and forward in time and is an enthralling mixture of guilther elder brother, faithJamie, and survival. The two girls could not be more differentwhilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioner. Marie-Angèle is the grocer Thelma's daughter while Jeanne -in-law won't let her see her grandson. Holthorpe, on the Norfolk coast, is the daughter of a Jewish mother who washes clothes for lovely place, but Rachel is struggling to develop a living. The two girls together go to real bond with the village convent for their education but come from different ends parish - and she's in awe of the social spectrum. When the German occupation arrivesvicar, Gail, the two girls' experiences are very different but both are then she'ignorant' of each others plight and their judgements are repeatedly shown to be wide of s been doing the markjob for more than thirty years. In fact Rachel and Christopher hoped that a walk on the book could just as well have been titled 'Judgement'beach would do them some good - it was stormy but it was probably what they needed. Just when you think you know one through the eyes of the other, you get the opposite view of things And then Hannah went missing. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408831155</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Carrie Tiffany1398515388|title=Mateship with BirdsThe Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=In First of all, it was the early nineteen fifties a lonelyearthquake, deep in the ocean floor, middle-aged farmer observed which created the birds on his land tsunami and recorded what he saw this, in turn, caused the blank pages of his milk ledgernuclear meltdown. His animals and the birds were his family The result was complete and his land - difficult though it could be - a part of himutter devastation. Whilst Harry watched and recordedThe deaths were uncountable, his neighbour, Betty, watched Harry and recorded the childhood illnesses and accidents loss of her two childrenlivelihoods was widespread. By day she worked in a nursing home where she was a lunchtime 'wife', sitting at The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the bedside of some list of priorities but - six months after the old men in her caretsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. Her daughter, Hazel, kept He wasn't a nature notebook which was completely factual dog person but the convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and accepting of birth and death Tamon the dog jumped in a way that can only be achieved by those who live with livestock - and deadstock - on a daily basis.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447219864</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anouk Markovits0989715337|title=I Am ForbiddenPapa on the Moon|author=Marco North|rating=54
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The date is 1939 and ''Some frogs had gotten into the place is what we know as Romania and Hungarywell. Young Zalman Stern is stopped by soldiers and '' ''Walter stood waist-deep in the fragrant water, naked except for a moment he feels this is his last moment on Earthbeaten leather hat. Meanwhile, not too far awayLong strands of their eggs wove around him, one moment 5 year old Josef Lichtenstein is playing sticky gray pearls with his baby sister, tadpoles inside them. Two of the next his childhood is deleted by dogs leaned over the same bigotry opening and blood that deletes herbarked down at the strange noise of the buckets as he filled them. One day their paths will meet. This '' How is that for an opening? The style of this novel in the story form of Zalmaninterconnected short stories goes from succinct and laconic to wistful and musing, Josefturning on a sixpence. And author Marco North, their descendants; their struggles, their beliefs; who has the cost most wonderful turn of escape and the cost of remainingphrase, starts as he means to go on.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099571943</amazonuk>
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