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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=Donal RyanMakenna Goodman|title=The Thing About DecemberHelen of Nowhere
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Johnsey Cunliffe was always It could be argued that the pervading theme of this book is malaise - a nice boy, but a little slow hard-to- the one place feeling that the other kids picked on and it's much the same something in adult your lifeis not quite right. If you were to ask Johnsey he'd say that he was The protagonist, a gom. Even if you've never met disgraced professor on the word before you know what it meansbrink of losing both his career and his relationship, embodies this feeling. It wasn't too bad whilst Daddy was there - he was a man However, Goodman counteracts his discomfort with a certain presence force which is seductive, radical and even when it was just Johnsey unnerving: Helen. The connection between Helen and his mother he had some supportthe protagonist is indirect yet intimate. But after her death Johnsey was dependant on small kindnesses from other people and at As the mercy former owner of those for whom the countryside house he was 's considering, Helen represents a volta in his life, her past tied to his potential fresh start. The realtor who shows the protagonist around the house shares stories about Helen, and describes her as ''an easy targetentity that is pure consciousness, beyond form''. His life might have continued Although she lives in this rather unsatisfactory way for some time but for an assisted living facility now, Helen has powers beyond comprehension which the reader gets the collision of two eventssense are not altogether innocuous.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781620091</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?''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ashley HayThea Lenarduzzi|title=The Railwayman's WifeTower
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Mackenzie and Anikka Lachlan have all they could possibly want. They live in Thirroul, a close New South Wales coastal community, ''How unctuous are parents to a lovely little girl and now, in 1948, Mac has come through the war years unscathed due to his job at home on the railways. However in a single moment all their luck changes and Anikka becomes a widow, fats of another grieving shadow. Alongside her neighbours (a war poet who can't write now he's home and the local GP who experienced hell while not being able to bring anyone back from its grasp) Anikka must learn the most difficult lesson: life, how to go on livingdizzying their sugars in our bloodstream''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1743318014</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sam ByersJon Fosse and Damion Searls (translator) |title=IdiopathyVaim
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Katherine no longer seeks or expects to be happy. She's stuck in a place and a job she hates and her relationship with Daniel broke up over a year ago. Since then she's had sexual encounters with a few men but her motivations have been confusing and disturbing - not least to Katherine. She has a vicious wit (actually, calling it All was strange''wit'' is perhaps stretching the point a little...) This haunting phrase encapsulates the pervading sense of otherworldliness which repels the people she'd like to attract and attracts the people she'd prefer to repel. Daniel is with a new girlfriend (wellpermeates this story set in Vaim, there was a ''slight'' overlap) but he's not certain that he loves Angelica. He's fictional fishing village in a difficult situation: Norway which paradoxically could not telling her that he loves her becomes tantamount to telling her that he doesn't love her feel more real for Jatgeir and as a result he has to tell her that he loves her just to keep on Eline, two of the levelprotagonists caught in its melancholic current.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007412088</amazonuk>1804271829
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sathnam SangheraClaire-Louise Bennett|title=Marriage MaterialBig Kiss, Bye-Bye |rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=On the morning after his father's funeral Arjan Banga was surprised to see his mother opening up the family shop. She was Everything in her sixtiesthis book, however sweet or seemingly innocent, recovering from cancer is steeped in anguish and besides, Bains Stores wasn't exactly thrivingdistortion. You could even be forgiven for wondering if it was ''open''Even a kiss, with the advert for usually a bar symbol of chocolate discontinued in 1994 having pride intimacy and closeness, becomes evidence of place in love lost. When the window narrator cries out internally, ''come over here and the security shutter stuck at kiss me,'' it is less an invitation than a quarter opendesperate attempt to confirm her emotional numbness. Much as he might wish otherwise Arjan has no choice but to stay in Wolverhampton to help his motherThe imagined recipient of this plea is Xavier, her ex-partner, leaving his job as a graphic designer and his girlfriend, Freya, in limbo. They were supposed ghost she conjures to be getting married in December, but that looked increasingly unlikelytest her detachment.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0434021903</amazonuk>1804271934
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Kerrigan in CopenhagenHelene Bessette and Kate Briggs (translator)|authortitle=Thomas E KennedyLili is Crying|rating=24.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Terrence Einhorn Kerrigan is an Irish-Danish American living First published in 1953 in Copenhagen. He French, this novel is 'a full-time writer and translator', who 'thinks timeless text which wrenches the hearts of himself its readers just as a failed poet, which is a less complicated concept than a failed human being'. His newest writing assignment, however, is to 'select a sampling of one hundred of Bessette wrenches words and sentences from their proper position on the best, the most historic, the most congenial of Copenhagen's 1,525 serving houses page and write positions them up for one of a one-hundred-volume travel guide: ''The Great Bars of the Western World'''. Kerriganelsewhere, thoughdisjointed, 'does not wish the book to be written. He wants only to research ittruncated. Forever' - and preferably in Like the company lives of his green-eyed Associateher characters, Annelisethey are often left tragically incomplete.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408841940</amazonuk>1804271675
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lois WaldenJonathan Buckley|title=AfterworldOne Boat
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The Duvalier family owe their wealth ''One Boat'' is a deeply introspective novella that defies traditional narrative structure, drawing the reader into a contemplative realm of philosophical musings and fragmented memories flowing from our narrator and protagonist, Teresa. Set against the evocative backdrop of a small coastal Greek town, this work masterfully captures the magic of its setting and its power to sugar cane although their gratitude provoke profound introspection. Teresa herself recognises these qualities as the reason she has visited it after the death of both her parents. Prompted by her mourning, her narrative voice is meditative and deeply self-aware, inviting the reader into her labyrinthine cogitations. It is shown in varying degrees a book that not only requires but inspires depth of thought, since its narrative structure is fragmentary and various waysironically relies on analepsis for its propulsion. From |isbn=1804271764}}{{Frontpage|author=Eowyn Ivey|title=Black Woods Blue Sky|rating=3.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''Black Woods Blue Sky'' tells the patriarch William (story of Birdie, the young mother of toddler Emaleen, who never recovered from being hit by longs for a life beyond the Alaskan lodge where she works as a bar waitress, a manhole cover) through his wife setting which enables her bad habits and childrenher accidental neglect of Emaleen. Described as a ''wild card'', down she feels stuck in her day-to Theodore-day life, and yearns to cross the lad who gained comfort (and a certain amount of secrecy) from travel Wolverine river and live on the North Fork to their black servant Rheta B, each has had fulfil her desires of a simple lifesurrounded by nature. Each also When she meets Arthur Nielson, a strange, taciturn and solitary man, who says he has a story cabin over there, she feels called to tell go - andbring Emaleen with her. Without realising it, whether alive or in Afterworld, theythis calling will transform hers and Emaleen're going to tell its lives forever.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908129859</amazonuk>1472279042
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate ClanchySally Rooney|title=Meeting the EnglishIntermezzo
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=Struan Robertson was just seventeen, but set to go to Aberdeen to study dentistry, when his English teacher passed him Sally Rooney has studied the chessboard of life and is something of a short advertisementgrandmaster at putting it into words. A literary giant needed a carer. Why not take a gap year? Struan had Her dialogue is gripping and so brilliantly frustrating, as her characters never been to ‘’England’’ before and he would be living in Hampsteadquite say exactly what they feel. On Among the many relationships woven into this story, the plus side he’d been working in a care home central one for readers to earn money unravel is the fraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and he could do the workPeter Koubek. Soon - almost too soon - Struan was the main carer for Phillip PrysIvan, rendered dumb and paralysed by a massive stroke. His family couldn’t take care of him - the young (very young) third wife was too busy socially awkward chess prodigy, contrasts sharply with her painting. His sonhis older brother Peter, Jake, had other things - anything else - to do rather than be a successful lawyer living in his father’s presenceDublin. Juliet had never been her father’s favourite but she wasn’t ‘’exactly’’ stable when it came to helpingFollowing their father's passing after a long battle with cancer, the brothers' already strained relationship faces new trials.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0330535277</amazonuk>0571365469
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michele ForbesFyodor Dostoyevsky|title=Ghost MothWhite Nights
|rating=5
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=As always in Dostoyevsky, the character work is sublime. One is never left wondering what a character is thinking or feeling because Dostoyevsky lays bare their innermost dispositions and temperaments with remarkable clarity.
|isbn=0241619785
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{{Frontpage
|author=James Baldwin
|title=Giovanni's Room
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=''Giovanni's Room'' follows the narrator David, an American man living in Paris, as he navigates his torturous affair with Giovanni, an Italian bartender he meets in a gay bar. While David is engaged to Hella, who is travelling in Spain, the real tension in the novel arises not from his infidelity but from the deeper conflict within himself. It is David's crippling shame and denial of his sexuality that ultimately dooms his relationship with Giovanni.
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{{Frontpage
|author=Alba de Cespedes
|title=Forbidden Notebook
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Belfast 1949: Katherine is about to become engaged to fireman George Bedford when she meets Tom McKinley. He's bright fun This Italian work of feminist fiction holds an air of suspense and makes tension from the moment our protagonist, Valeria Cossati, purchases her feel more alive than dependableforbidden notebook, boring George ever could. The weight of the decision Katherine eventually makes will haunt her for a lifetime. We fast forward to Belfast 1969 and as the troubles learns about herself in Northern Ireland exacerbate, as do the cracks in Katherine's marriage. In fact 20 years most intimate and four children later, they've become chasmsrevealing ways.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0297870440</amazonuk>1782278222
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jennifer JohnstonOttessa Moshfegh|title=A Sixpenny SongMy Year of Rest and Relaxation
|rating=3
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Annie's father At best, this novel is dead. She's not particularly upset as a scathing critique of modern society and reveals the fragility of human relationships; at worst, it's a decade or so since they've had any contact. Dada (he preferred to be called 'Father') had wanted her to go into is the family businesscynical, to make moneypredictable and slightly trite tale of an unlikeable protagonist. She'd wanted to go to Trinity College in Dublin to read English LiteratureThis unlikely heroine, but instead she'd packed a suitcase slim, attractive and left for London, where she still is - working newly orphaned girl in a bookshop. Her mother died when she was young - Dada had sent the child off to boarding school and did his best to ensure that her mother's name was never referred to again - and it wasn't too long before he remarried. His death brought Annie back to Ireland and she found that twenties is disillusioned with the money had been left to wife number two (as he was confident that she would know how world, but resolves not to look after lose sleep over it) but the house now belonged to Annie: in fact, her solution lies in her hibernation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472209222</amazonuk>1784707422
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alex KovacsMatthew Tree|title=The Currency of PaperWe'll Never Know
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Maximilian Sacheverell Hollingsworth was - as the name might suggest - of aristocratic birthTimothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, but had broken off all contact with his family a drunk and in consequence found himself labouring for forty hours a week in a printing works in Dagenham. He came upon the idea chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of planning out his entire life artistic passions all failed miserably and this he did in the course who had endless crises of a single afternoon whilst enjoying a little illicit sick leave in a pub in Bloomsburyself confidence. He would first become a counterfeiter - on a massive scale - and then a sculptorSo Tim applied himself to his studies, filmmaker, collector of artefacts, sound artist and mystic. Circumstances would also turn him into a recluse, except on certain well-ordered occasions, most of which would occur - somewhat to cultivated his initial surprise - later in abilities rather than his lifedaydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1564788571</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|author=Alice McDermottMosby Woods|title=SomeoneA Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= Marie is growing up The West isn't the dominant force it once was. Nobody in 1920s Brooklyn and, although not financially rich she's the secure, cared for child of Irish parents from one of West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is the many waves best course of immigration which the US has promised to welcomeaction. Governments are flailing. Marie's friend Pegeen is from Irish/Syrian stock and is dying A war here, a push for romantic love to come her wayclimate action there. Marie's brother Gabe A feeling that nobody is singled out for Catholic seminary and priesthoodin actual charge. Imagine then, there was a man with precognition. Marie thinks Imagine the future is as safe as strategic advantage in this asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. That man would be valuable, right? Perhaps the loved ones around her but the future is an unknown country and her journey towards most valuable asset in history. Imagine then, that this man loses this ability. What would governments do to get it hasn't finished yet.back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408847248</amazonuk>B0C9SNG8R1
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{{newreview|title=The Ice-Cold Heaven|author=Mirko BonneFrontpage|ratingisbn=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=They say that if you fall off a horse you should get back on one right away, but even so… I don't think many people who had only just left their first love – a shopgirl in their village – for their second – exploring the world on sailing cargo ships – would leap to a further voyage having been wrecked and stranded off the coast of South America for well over a week. But Merce here does – he wants to follow his best friend on to a ship called ''The Endurance'' and head with Shackleton to the Antarctic. But Merce is only seventeen, and is rejected – causing him to stow away onto one of the world's worst ever journeys.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715645846</amazonuk>}} {{newreview0571379559|title=The Year House of Miracle and GriefBroken Bricks|author=Leonid BorodinFiona Williams
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=From a space ''The House of 25 yearsBroken Bricks'' is the story of four people. Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, our narrator looks back but instead, she lives in the house on what happened when he was 12 years oldthe riverbank, built of broken bricks. Twenty five years that had to elapseInsubstantial as it might look, because that was it's stood the promise that he madepassage of time, storms and floods. He is now happy Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, happy to complete the delivery rounds - and to bring in sufficient money. They have kept twin boys - Sonny and Max, the secret as he promised Sarma he wouldrainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. People don't believe that they're related, much less twins and happier that he can now tell the story: he can tell us of everything there's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that happened in she's his childhood that year on the shores of the oldest lake in the world, Lake Baikalnanny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0704373246</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|titleauthor=The Rabbit Back Literature SocietyKay Chronister|authortitle=Pasi Ilmari JaaskelainenDesert Creatures|rating=3.54|genre=Literary Dystopian Fiction|summary=Ella Milana With a world that is a language and literature supply teacher currently teaching in her hometown of Rabbit Back and dealing with challenging revelations in her lifebecoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, post-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Ella Whether it is unexpectedly invited to join the hugely successful and influential Rabbit Back Literature Societya robotic takeover, a group world devoid of nine authors who were hand selected and mentored from childhood by Finland’s greatest author (Laura White) water or a nuclear holocaust, this genre is a way for humans to become literary icons in cathartically experience their own rightmost existential fears. There weere always intended to be ten members ''Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is a new work of post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the society but Laura White has not selected a new member fears that exist for decades and the appointment of Ella humanity today. It is a massive literary event. The ceremony in honour of Ella’s new membership shocking novel that still manages to the incredibly elite society is unfortunately overshadowed by Laura White’s disappearance at the ceremony itselffind hope.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908968982</amazonuk>1803364998
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{{newreviewfrontpage|isbn=1803363002|author=Angela YoungEric LaRocca|title=Speaking of LoveThe Trees Grew Because I Bled There|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionHorror|summary=For some people it's impossible Horror taps into something primeval within us. It is used as a way to tell another person that they love reflect our darkest emotions and how we as humans react and process them and both are damaged. Iris could not tell her daughter, VivieMost horror fiction feature a ''Big Bad'', whether that she loved her and Matthewis a home invader, Vivie's childhood frienda monster or a ghost, neighbour it usually something tangible and would-be lover could not tell her how he felt. For all three , by the result was years end of separation with Vivie feeling that she was fundamentally unloveable and the whole situation was further complicated by Irisstory, beatable. Eric LaRocca's mental disintegration and her treatment removing most ''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is not like that. It is a collection of her memories short stories more interested in the horrors of Vivie's childhoodillness, grief and humiliation. If Horrors that sounds depressing linger and soul-destroying then I am doing are harder to defeat than any ''Speaking of Love'Big Bad' an injustice because it's also a story of trust, reconciliation and learning to speak about your feelings.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00G4401G4</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Call of the UndertowMadelaine Lucas|authortitle=Linda CracknellThirst for Salt
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=If you ''Love, I'd read , was supposed to be a lot of bookslight and weightless feeling, then the fact of your life is that you are but I had always part-way through at least one of them. You read all of the time. Over breakfast, in the bath, waiting longed for trains, on trainsgravity'' Told from a retrospective view, between trains. You make a cup of tea in order to have an excuse to sityoung woman unravels the year-and-read for half an hourlong relationship that once defined her. But even soOverlaid with later wisdom, most of your reading is done in stolen moments – often in moments when the narrator relives the affair with a nagging voice man twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the summer after. Set against the gremlin-centre backdrop of your brain is reminding you that you an isolated Australian coastal town ''shouldThirst for Salt'' be doing something elsedetails the 24-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>1908754303</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.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Close Your EyesJennifer Saint|authortitle=Ewan MorrisonAtalanta
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=1981: Emma remembers driving through a blizzard''I was as worthy as any one of them. I would get on board that ship, I vowed. That isI would take my place, her mother not just in the name of the goddess. It was drivingfor the sake of my name, she was just a childtoo. Atalanta'' Princess. Warrior. Lover. She remembers her mother singingHero. Throughout everything Abandoned at birth for being born a daughter rather than a son, what she remembersAtalanta is raised under the protective eye of the goddess Athemis and fashioned into a formidable huntress, what everyone remembers, is how her mother sangone who longs for adventure. ActuallyWhen the opportunity comes – to join the Argonauts, she remembers lots a fierce band of other things about warriors, descendent from the Gods themselves – Atalanta seizes the chance to fight in Artemis' name and carve out her motherown legendary place in history. Snippets mostly. Then she remembers losing her… being dropped in London at her Dad'sWhat follows is a whirlwind of challenges and discovery and through it, who didnAtalanta must remember Artemis't really seem like the dad fatal warning: that if she remembered… then ''the Social'' taking marries, it will be her awayundoing.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099565757</amazonuk>1472292154
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The CommitmentsAmanthi Harris|authortitle=Roddy DoyleBeautiful Place
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=It's the mid to late 1980sPadma, and Outspan, Derek and Ray have just formed a band. The trio is three days oldyoung Sri Lankan, with 'Ray has returned to the Villa Hibiscus on the Casio and his little sister's glockenspiel, Outspan on his brother's acoustic guitar, [and] Derek on nothing', as he can't afford southern coast of her home country. This is a bassplace she spent her formative years. They already feel directionless. They don't mind Depeche Mode It is not a place she was born into, but Derek and Outspan draw the line at The Human League, which is one she thinks of Ray's favourite groupsas home. Such musical differences are already darkening How she came to be at the Villa, how it became her home, and the band's conception. There is also a problem with their name: And And And. Ray believes they should machinations that have an explanation mark after flowed through her life ever since she first arrived there provide the second And, as it would 'look deadly on the posters'score'' for this gentle and yet subtly violent novel. Outspan, however, thinks Ray Padma's an idiot, present fails to escape her past and tells him where to stick his second exclamation mark. But Outspan has much like the musical score of a plan. They need to find Jimmy Rabbittefilm, for when it comes to music, Jimmy knowsthat strand weaves its way through everything that happens at the Villa.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>009958753X</amazonuk>1784631930
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=178563335X|title=The Madonna on the MoonSea Defences|author=Rolf BauerdickHilary Taylor|rating=35
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Things are certainly strange When we first meet Rachel Bird she's a trainee vicar, sitting in on a PCC meeting and wondering why they're held when you need to pick the small rural town of Baia Luna; all the stereotypes one would suspect in a newly-Communist mountain village are turned on their headchildren up. People vocally feel free to dismiss the Soviet changes Her husband, Christopher, collects six-year-old Hannah and technologyher elder brother, but secretly at the dead of night enter the fields to try and hear the sounds of Sputnik blipping its orbit overheadJamie, whilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioner. Gypsy men willingly get baptised into the ways and religions of their Thelma's daughter-in-law won'gajo'' neighbourst let her see her grandson. The most forceful character Holthorpe, on the Norfolk coast, is a teenager called Fritzlovely place, best friend but Rachel is struggling to develop a real bond with the parish - and she's in awe of narrator Pavelthe vicar, and son to an ethnic German photographer. Part of FritzGail, but then she's power seems to rest on him knowing a lot been doing the job for more than others about thirty years. Rachel and Christopher hoped that a walk on the village schoolteacher – enough, perhaps, for her to disappear overnight?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848875045</amazonuk>beach would do them some good - it was stormy but it was probably what they needed. And then Hannah went missing.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Aimee Bender1398515388|title=The Color MasterBoy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)
|rating=4.5
|genre=Short StoriesGeneral Fiction|summary=Another parade First of fascinatingall, unusual personalities and oddevents from it was the author of [[Willful Creatures by Aimee Bender|WillfulCreatures]]. This time out [[:Category:Aimee Bender|Aimee]]introduces us to people like Hans earthquake, deep in the fake Naziocean floor, young William to whomall people look which created the same tsunami and Janet who decides to spice up herlove-life with detrimental resultsthis, in turn, caused the nuclear meltdown. Among other things we alsowitness a less-than-altruistic anti-war demonstration The result was complete and an oddoccurrence in an orchard showing how odd an apple-only diet could makeusutter devastation.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091953898</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=David Vann|title=Goat Mountain|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= The eleven-year-old boy, his fatherdeaths were uncountable, grandfather and Tom, a family friend, the loss of livelihoods was widespread. The fact that many pets were on separated from their annual hunting trip to owners came far down the list of priorities but - six months after the family's 640tsunami -acre ranch in northern CaliforniaKazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. Strictly the boy He wasn't old enough to hunt a dog person but family lore said the convenience store owner's comment that this time he would be allowed call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to kill open his first buck. On the way to their camp they spotted a poacher car door and Tamon the boy's father set up his rifle and loaded it - hoping that shooting the bolt would tell the poacher that he'd been spotted. The boy - we never know his name - was allowed to look through the rifle site, but he pulled the triggerdog jumped in. Nothing would ever be the same again. For any of them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434021989</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0989715337|title=Over My Dead BodyPapa on the Moon|author=Hazel McHaffieMarco North
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The mother of a patient in dire need of a heart, and a pair of lungs, ceases to pray for the survival of her son for the following uncomfortable reason: 'Feels like you're asking for somebody else to dieSome frogs had gotten into the well.' Though merely an extra in the main plot of McHaffie's ''Over My Dead Body'', the situation of this mother quite successfully conveys just how complex the ethics of organ donation are.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0992623103</amazonuk>}}
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