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[[Category:New Reviews|Literary Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!{{Frontpage|isbn=295967572X|title=Pale Pieces|author=G M Stevens|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Our unnamed narrator is about to begin a train journey with his companion Django. Where they're going and what the purpose of this journey is, is uncertain. Django found the tickets ''on the floor somewhere'' and has persuaded our narrator to accompany him. Why not? Not much else is clear either -- Remove -->but we are probably in the past as the pair travel to the station by coach and the train is a steam locomotive.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sam ByersMakenna Goodman|title=IdiopathyHelen of Nowhere|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Katherine no longer seeks or expects to It could be happy. She's stuck in argued that the pervading theme of this book is malaise - a hard-to-place and feeling that something in your life is not quite right. The protagonist, a job she hates disgraced professor on the brink of losing both his career and her his relationship , embodies this feeling. However, Goodman counteracts his discomfort with Daniel broke up over a year agoforce which is seductive, radical and unnerving: Helen. Since then sheThe connection between Helen and the protagonist is indirect yet intimate. As the former owner of the countryside house he's had sexual encounters with considering, Helen represents a few men but volta in his life, her motivations have been confusing and disturbing - not least past tied to Katherinehis potential fresh start. She has a vicious wit (actually, calling it ''wit'' is perhaps stretching The realtor who shows the point a little...) which repels protagonist around the people shehouse shares stories about Helen, and describes her as 'd like to attract and attracts the people she'd prefer to repel. Daniel an entity that is with a new girlfriend (wellpure consciousness, there was a beyond form''slight'' overlap) but he's not certain that he loves Angelica. He's Although she lives in a difficult situation: not telling her that he loves her becomes tantamount to telling her that he doesn't love her and as a result he an assisted living facility now, Helen has to tell her that he loves her just to keep on powers beyond comprehension which the reader gets the levelsense are not altogether innocuous.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007412088</amazonuk>1804272205
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{{Frontpage
|author=Olga Tokarczuk
|title=House of Day, House of Night
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=''What's the good of a world that keeps changing like that? How can one go on calmly living in it?''
The title of this spellbinding work, ''House of Day, House of Night'', somewhat reflects this notion of shifting realities - the small, subtle changes which govern our lives, like the shift from day to night, however quotidian, causing chaos. But, the constant in that image is the house, stoic against the ancient diurnal cycle which nonetheless controls how it is perceived.|isbn=1804271918}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sathnam SangheraThea Lenarduzzi|title=Marriage MaterialThe Tower
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=On ''How unctuous are the morning after his fatherfats of another's funeral Arjan Banga was surprised to see his mother opening up the family shop. She was life, how dizzying their sugars in her sixties, recovering from cancer and besides, Bains Stores wasnour bloodstream't exactly thriving. You could even be forgiven for wondering if it was ''open'', with the advert for a bar of chocolate discontinued in 1994 having pride of place in the window and the security shutter stuck at a quarter open. Much as he might wish otherwise Arjan has no choice but to stay in Wolverhampton to help his mother, leaving his job as a graphic designer and his girlfriend, Freya, in limbo. They were supposed to be getting married in December, but that looked increasingly unlikely.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434021903</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lois WaldenJon Fosse and Damion Searls (translator) |title=AfterworldVaim
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The Duvalier family owe their wealth to sugar cane although their gratitude is shown in varying degrees and various ways''All was strange''... From the patriarch William (who never recovered from being hit by a manhole cover) through his wife and children, down to Theodore, This haunting phrase encapsulates the lad who gained comfort (and a certain amount pervading sense of secrecy) from travel and on to their black servant Rheta Botherworldliness which permeates this story set in Vaim, each has had a life. Each also has a story to tell fictional fishing village in Norway which paradoxically could not feel more real for Jatgeir andEline, whether alive or two of the protagonists caught in Afterworld, they're going to tell itits melancholic current.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908129859</amazonuk>1804271829
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate ClanchyClaire-Louise Bennett|title=Meeting the EnglishBig Kiss, Bye-Bye
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Struan Robertson was just seventeenEverything in this book, but set to go to Aberdeen to study dentistryhowever sweet or seemingly innocent, when his English teacher passed him a short advertisementis steeped in anguish and distortion. A literary giant needed Even a carer. Why not take kiss, usually a gap year? Struan had never been to ‘’England’’ before symbol of intimacy and he would be living in Hampsteadcloseness, becomes evidence of love lost. On When the plus side he’d been working in a care home to earn money narrator cries out internally, ''come over here and he could do the work. Soon - almost too soon - Struan was the main carer for Phillip Pryskiss me, rendered dumb and paralysed by '' it is less an invitation than a massive strokedesperate attempt to confirm her emotional numbness. His family couldn’t take care The imagined recipient of him this plea is Xavier, her ex- the young (very young) third wife was too busy with her painting. His sonpartner, Jake, had other things - anything else - a ghost she conjures to do rather than be in his father’s presence. Juliet had never been test her father’s favourite but she wasn’t ‘’exactly’’ stable when it came to helpingdetachment.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0330535277</amazonuk>1804271934
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michele ForbesHelene Bessette and Kate Briggs (translator)|title=Ghost MothLili is Crying|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Belfast 1949: Katherine First published in 1953 in French, this novel is about to become engaged to fireman George Bedford when she meets Tom McKinley. He's bright fun a timeless text which wrenches the hearts of its readers just as Bessette wrenches words and sentences from their proper position on the page and makes her feel more alive than dependablepositions them elsewhere, disjointed, boring George ever couldtruncated. The weight Like the lives of the decision Katherine eventually makes will haunt her for a lifetime. We fast forward to Belfast 1969 and as the troubles in Northern Ireland exacerbate, as do the cracks in Katherine's marriage. In fact 20 years and four children latercharacters, they've become chasmsare often left tragically incomplete.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0297870440</amazonuk>1804271675
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jennifer JohnstonJonathan Buckley|title=A Sixpenny SongOne Boat|rating=34
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Annie's father is dead. She's not particularly upset as itOne Boat''s is a deeply introspective novella that defies traditional narrative structure, drawing the reader into a decade or so since they've had any contactcontemplative realm of philosophical musings and fragmented memories flowing from our narrator and protagonist, Teresa. Dada (he preferred to be called 'Father') had wanted her to go into Set against the family businessevocative backdrop of a small coastal Greek town, this work masterfully captures the magic of its setting and its power to make moneyprovoke profound introspection. She'd wanted to go to Trinity College in Dublin to read English Literature, but instead Teresa herself recognises these qualities as the reason she'd packed a suitcase and left for Londonhas visited it after the death of both her parents. Prompted by her mourning, where she still her narrative voice is meditative and deeply self- working in a bookshop. Her mother died when she was young - Dada had sent aware, inviting the child off to boarding school and did his best to ensure that reader into her mother's name was never referred to again - and it wasn't too long before he remarriedlabyrinthine cogitations. His death brought Annie back to Ireland and she found It is a book that the money had been left to wife number two (as he was confident that she would know how to look after it) not only requires but the house now belonged to Annieinspires depth of thought, since its narrative structure is fragmentary and ironically relies on analepsis for its propulsion.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472209222</amazonuk>1804271764
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alex KovacsEowyn Ivey|title=The Currency of PaperBlack Woods Blue Sky|rating=43.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Maximilian Sacheverell Hollingsworth was - as ''Black Woods Blue Sky'' tells the story of Birdie, the name might suggest - young mother of aristocratic birthtoddler Emaleen, but had broken off all contact with his family and in consequence found himself labouring who longs for forty hours a week in a printing works in Dagenham. He came upon the idea of planning out his entire life and this he did in beyond the course of Alaskan lodge where she works as a single afternoon whilst enjoying bar waitress, a little illicit sick leave in setting which enables her bad habits and her accidental neglect of Emaleen. Described as a pub ''wild card'', she feels stuck in Bloomsbury. He would first become a counterfeiter her day- on a massive scale to- day life, and then yearns to cross the Wolverine river and live on the North Fork to fulfil her desires of a sculptorsimple life surrounded by nature. When she meets Arthur Nielson, filmmakera strange, collector of artefactstaciturn and solitary man, sound artist and mystic. Circumstances would also turn him into who says he has a reclusecabin over there, except on certain wellshe feels called to go -ordered occasionsand bring Emaleen with her. Without realising it, most of which would occur - somewhat to his initial surprise - later in his lifethis calling will transform hers and Emaleen's lives forever.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1564788571</amazonuk>1472279042
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Charlie HillSally Rooney|title=BooksIntermezzo
|rating=4.5
|genre=HumourGeneral Fiction |summary=Neurology professor Lauren Furrows witnesses Sally Rooney has studied the sudden untimelydeath chessboard of life and is something of two tourists in a bar while on holidaygrandmaster at putting it into words. Birmingham bookshop ownerRichard Anger happens to be in the same bar Her dialogue is gripping and so together our single holidaymakers decide to team up brilliantly frustrating, as an investigatory force to be reckoned withher characters never quite say exactly what they feel.(WellAmong the many relationships woven into this story, Lauren teams up the central one for that. Richard's reasons are more physical thanintellectual readers to begin withunravel is the fraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and Peter Koubek.) The murders seem to emanate from author GarySaylesIvan, a legend in socially awkward chess prodigy, contrasts sharply with his own mind andolder brother Peter, apparentlya successful lawyer living in Dublin. Following their father's passing after a long battle with cancer, fatal to readthe brothers' already strained relationship faces new trials. Elsewherehippy exhibitionists (|isbn=0571365469}}{{Frontpage|author=Fyodor Dostoyevsky|title=White Nights|rating=5|genre=Short Stories|summary=As always in an over-18 way) Zeke and PippaDostoyevsky, are planning theart installation to end all art installations character work is sublime. One is never left wondering what a character is thinking or feeling because Dostoyevsky lays bare their innermost dispositions and, are determined to makeGary the centrepiece, whether he realises it or nottemperaments with remarkable clarity.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781251630</amazonuk>0241619785
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alice McDermottJames Baldwin|title=SomeoneGiovanni's Room
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Marie is growing up in 1920s Brooklyn and, although not financially rich she''Giovanni's Room'' follows the securenarrator David, an American man living in Paris, cared for child of Irish parents from one of the many waves of immigration which the US has promised to welcomeas he navigates his torturous affair with Giovanni, an Italian bartender he meets in a gay bar. Marie's friend Pegeen While David is from Irish/Syrian stock and is dying for romantic love engaged to come her way. Marie's brother Gabe Hella, who is singled out for Catholic seminary and priesthood. Marie thinks travelling in Spain, the future is as safe as real tension in the loved ones around her novel arises not from his infidelity but from the future deeper conflict within himself. It is an unknown country David's crippling shame and her journey towards it hasn't finished yetdenial of his sexuality that ultimately dooms his relationship with Giovanni.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408847248</amazonuk>0141186356
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Ice-Cold HeavenAlba de Cespedes |authortitle=Mirko BonneForbidden Notebook
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=From a space This Italian work of 25 years, feminist fiction holds an air of suspense and tension from the moment our narrator looks back on what happened when he was 12 years old. Twenty five years that had to elapseprotagonist, because that was the promise that he made. He is now happyValeria Cossati, happy to have kept the secret as he promised Sarma he wouldpurchases her forbidden notebook, and happier that he can now tell the story: he can tell us of everything that happened learns about herself in his childhood that year on the shores of the oldest lake in the world, Lake Baikalmost intimate and revealing ways.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0704373246</amazonuk>1782278222
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Rabbit Back Literature SocietyOttessa Moshfegh|authortitle=Pasi Ilmari JaaskelainenMy Year of Rest and Relaxation|rating=3.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Ella Milana At best, this novel is a language scathing critique of modern society and literature supply teacher currently teaching in her hometown reveals the fragility of Rabbit Back and dealing with challenging revelations in her life. Ella human relationships; at worst, it is unexpectedly invited to join the hugely successful cynical, predictable and influential Rabbit Back Literature Societyslightly trite tale of an unlikeable protagonist. This unlikely heroine, a group of nine authors who were hand selected slim, attractive and mentored from childhood by Finland’s greatest author (Laura White) to become literary icons newly orphaned girl in their own right. There weere always intended to be ten members of her twenties is disillusioned with the society world, but Laura White has resolves not selected a new member for decades and the appointment of Ella is a massive literary event. The ceremony to lose sleep over it: in fact, her solution lies in honour of Ella’s new membership to the incredibly elite society is unfortunately overshadowed by Laura White’s disappearance at the ceremony itselfher hibernation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908968982</amazonuk>1784707422
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Angela YoungMatthew Tree|title=Speaking of LoveWe'll Never Know
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=For some people it's impossible Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to tell another person that they love them and both are damaged. Iris could not tell her daughterbe different from his father, Vivie, that she loved her a drunk and Matthew, Vivie's childhood friend, neighbour and would-be lover could not tell her how he felt. For chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all three the result was years of separation with Vivie feeling that she was fundamentally unloveable failed miserably and the whole situation was further complicated by Iris's mental disintegration and her treatment removing most who had endless crises of her memories of Vivie's childhoodself confidence. If that sounds depressing and soul-destroying then I am doing ''Speaking of Love'' an injustice because it's also a story of trustSo Tim applied himself to his studies, reconciliation cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and learning to speak about your feelingsset himself high but achievable ambitions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00G4401G4</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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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Crow BlueMosby Woods|authortitle=Adriana LisboaA Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=3.54
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Having lost her mother at The 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 age best course of thirteenaction. Governments are flailing. A war here, Evangelina embarks on a quest to not only find her biological father, but to delve into the past and discover things about her mother she never knewpush for climate action there. Set predominantly A feeling that nobody is in North America and Brazilactual charge. Imagine then, this novel explores Vanja's journeys, both physical and emotional, as well as her relationships there was a man with key characters, precognition. Imagine the strategic advantage in particular, that this asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of her Mother's ex husband, Fernandocircumstances. Uprooting herself when barely a teenagerThat man would be valuable, Vanja leaves her home country of Brazil to live with Fernando right? Perhaps the most valuable asset in Colorado, the only connection she has at her disposal to enable her to trace her roots and biological familyhistory. Narrated beautifully in the first personImagine then, the reader is propelled into the thoughts and feelings of the young but courageous, determined and, at times, very wise, adolescent girlthat this man loses this ability.What would governments do to get it back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408838303</amazonuk>B0C9SNG8R1
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0571379559|title=Close Your EyesThe House of Broken Bricks|author=Ewan MorrisonFiona Williams
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=1981''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the story of four people. Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: Emma remembers driving through a blizzard. That istemperamentally she might be happier there, her mother was drivingbut instead, she was just a childlives in the house on the riverbank, built of broken bricks. She remembers her mother singingInsubstantial as it might look, it's stood the passage of time, storms and floods. Throughout everythingHer husband, what she remembersRichard, what everyone remembersstruggles to grow his vegetables, is how her mother sangto complete the delivery rounds - and to bring in sufficient money. ActuallyThey have twin boys - Sonny and Max, she remembers lots of other things about her the rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Snippets mostlyMax takes after his father. Then she remembers losing her… being dropped in London at her DadPeople don't believe that they'sre related, who didnmuch less twins and there't really seem like the dad s an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she remembered… then ''the Social'' taking her aways his nanny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099565757</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= Kay Chronister|title= Desert 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, this 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 CommitmentsTrees Grew Because I Bled There|rating= 5|genre= Horror|summary= Horror taps into something primeval within us. It is used as a way to reflect our darkest emotions and how we as humans react and process them. Most horror fiction feature a ''Big Bad'', whether that is a home invader, a monster or a ghost, it usually something tangible and, by the end of the story, beatable. Eric LaRocca's ''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is not like that. It is a collection of short stories more interested in the horrors of illness, grief and humiliation. Horrors that linger and are harder to defeat than any ''Big Bad''.}}{{Frontpage|author=Roddy DoyleMadelaine Lucas|title=Thirst for Salt
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=It's the mid to late 1980s, and Outspan, Derek and Ray have just formed a band. The trio is three days old, with 'Ray on the Casio and his little sister's glockenspielLove, Outspan on his brotherI's acoustic guitard read, [was supposed to be a light and] Derek on nothing', as he can't afford a bass. They already feel directionless. They don't mind Depeche Modeweightless feeling, but Derek and Outspan draw the line at The Human League, which is one of RayI had always longed for gravity's favourite groups. Such musical differences are already darkening the band's conception. There is also a problem with their name: And And And. Ray believes they should have an explanation mark after the second And, as it would 'look deadly on the posters'. Outspan, however, thinks Ray's an idiot, and tells him where to stick his second exclamation mark. But Outspan has a plan. They need to find Jimmy Rabbitte, for when it comes to music, Jimmy knows.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009958753X</amazonuk>}}
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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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{{Frontpage
|author=Jennifer Saint
|title=Atalanta
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=''I was as worthy as any one of them. I would get on board that ship, I vowed. I would take my place, not just in the name of the goddess. It was for the sake of my name, too. Atalanta''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Peter Stjernstrom and Rod Bradbury (translator)Amanthi Harris|title=The Best Book in the WorldBeautiful Place
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Titus Jensen may 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 not have written many great novels for a while (if ever) place she was born into, but his festival readings the one she thinks of others' works are renownedas home. Why How she came to be at the Villa, how it became her home, his rendition of ''The Diseases of and the machinations that have flowed through her life ever since she first arrived there provide the Swedish Monarchs from Gustavas Vasa to Gustav V'' has been compared favourably to his offerings from score''Handbook for Volvo 245this gentle and yet subtly violent novel. Padma''. However, one drunken night he s present fails to escape her past and romantic poet Eddie X agree that their fame on much like the festival circuit would be insignificant by comparison if they could write the best book in the world; musical score of a combination of all genresfilm, appealing to all tastes and making all that strand weaves its way through everything that happens at the best seller categoriesVilla. They start work on it the next day but, rather than collaborate, each wants the lone glory. The race (or should that be battle?) to the publishing date is on!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1843914808</amazonuk>1784631930
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adriaan van Dis178563335X|title=BetrayalSea Defences|author=Hilary Taylor|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= Dutchman Mulder renews his acquaintance with his old friend Donald as he returns to South AfricaWhen we first meet Rachel Bird she's a trainee vicar, sitting in on a land he knew well in PCC meeting and wondering why they're held when you need to pick the days of apartheidchildren up. Life may have moved on Her husband, Christopher, collects six-year-old Hannah and apartheid ceased but some things have worsenedher elder brother, Jamie, whilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioner. Have Mulder and Donald made any difference at all? Thelma's daughter-in-law won't let her see her grandson. As they recall their shadier youthHolthorpe, on the Norfolk coast, is a lovely place, they have one more chance but Rachel is struggling to struggle for someonedevelop a real bond with the parish - and she's in awe of the vicar, Gail, but then she's freedom against all odds been doing the job for more than thirty years. Rachel and Christopher hoped that a violent societywalk on the beach would do them some good - it was stormy but it was probably what they needed. And then Hannah went missing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857051849</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1398515388|title=Her Privates WeThe Boy and the Dog|author=Frederic ManningSeishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=Ernest Hemingway called Frederic Manning's ''Her Privates We'' 'The finest and noblest book First of men in war' he had ever read. But Hemingway wasn't a very trustworthy manall, so we tend to defer judgement. He isit was the earthquake, howeverdeep in the ocean floor, useful for contrast. Hemingway's tales of war (such as ''A Farewell to Arms'' and ''For Whom which created the Bell Tolls'') usually involve macho misfits tsunami and trite love stories, feats of derring-do and filmic dialogue; all the thingsthis, in factturn, that have no place in Manning's First World War novelcaused the nuclear meltdown. Why is this? Well, by the time Hemingway started driving a Red Cross ambulance on the Italian front (1918), Manning's service The result was already overcomplete and utter devastation. Nevertheless The deaths were uncountable, unlike the illustrious (and self-mythologising) Hemingway, Manning spent his war deep in the trenches loss of livelihoods was widespread. The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the Somme, mixing it with list of priorities but - six months after the proletarian soldierytsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. As such, He wasn''Her Privates We'' is t a brutal novel concerning dog person but the convenience store owner'subterranean, furtive, twilight life' of the average Tommy, a work of startling power, s comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and one that completely eclipses Tamon the war novels of the romantic Hemingwaydog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184668787X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ruth Ozeki0989715337|title=A Tale for Papa on the Time BeingMoon|author=Marco North|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= Ruth finds a 'Hello Kitty' bag washed up on Some frogs had gotten into the shore of Whaletown, the small Canadian island that she and her husband Oliver call homewell. As Ruth opens it and begins reading the diary safely protected inside, she learns about Nao, a teenager in Japan. Through her writing Nao becomes real and the tales of her varied life, struggles at school and fascinating relatives compels Ruth to search for her, or at least to discover her fate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857867970</amazonuk>}}''
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