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[[Category:New Reviews|Literary Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|title=The Collected Works of A J Fikry|author=Gabrielle Zevin|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=A J Fikry is not having a good time. He's lost his wife to a car crash, and he's not making that much money. The book store he runs, stuck out on a limb on a quiet island community, is too remote to turn a profit year-round, and he has just dismissed the latest publisher's rep to turn up at his door, partly because her previous counterpart, an inconsequential part of A J's life when all is said and done, had died and he didn't know about it. But his bad time is about to get a lot worse, as the one thing he owns worth the most – a rare book, more valuable than his house, his business, anything – is about to vanish. Which bizarrely will cause several major changes to his one-person household…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408704617</amazonuk>}} {{newreview295967572X|title=The Last Boat HomePale Pieces|author=Dea BrovigG M Stevens|rating=45
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|summary=Then: On the farm above a remote Norwegian hamlet, in 1976, schoolgirl Else Our unnamed narrator is waiting for her mother about to return through the wind begin a train journey with his companion Django. Where they're going and what the snowpurpose of this journey is, is uncertain. She is also clutching at Django found the kitchen table as tickets ''on the contractions worsen. Now: fast forward floor somewhere'' and has persuaded our narrator to 2009accompany him. Else now lives Why not? Not much else is clear either - but we are probably in the town past as the hamlet has grown into, on pair travel to the back of oil money. Her daughter has a daughter of her own, but still spends many a night not coming home. ''She must have met someone'' station by coach and the eleven-year-old granddaughter says matter-of-factly. Else has made a life for herself, running a spa, looking after her daughter and her granddaughter. A quiet life, but not such train is a bad onesteam locomotive.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091954290</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Beggar and the HareMakenna Goodman|authortitle=Tuomas KyroHelen of Nowhere
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Our hero, Vatanescu, It could be argued that the pervading theme of this book is malaise - a fish out of waterhard-to-place feeling that something in your life is not quite right. He's The protagonist, a father without disgraced professor on the brink of losing both his familycareer and his relationship, embodies this feeling. However, Goodman counteracts his discomfort with a man without a homeforce which is seductive, a possibility without a chanceradical and unnerving: Helen. The connection between Helen and the protagonist is indirect yet intimate. HeAs the former owner of the countryside house he's being transported across Europe by considering, Helen represents a criminal people-smugglervolta in his life, her past tied to his potential fresh start. The realtor who is also packing Vatanescu's sister off to shows the cosmetic surgeon then protagonist around the prostitute trade. Our hero is destined to sit in discomforthouse shares stories about Helen, sleet and in hateful gazes of others describes her as a beggar on the streets of Helsinki''an entity that is pure consciousness, beyond form''. But at the same time impossibilities are amassing – one of Although she lives in an assisted living facility now, Helen has powers beyond comprehension which splits Vatanescu from his minder/mentor, and leaves him on the run with a fistful of useless currency. A further impossibility gifts him a friendly, warm companion – a rabbit being chased by local youths jumps into reader gets the sanctuary of his arms, and becomes a welcome source of focussense are not altogether innocuous. From then on many more jumps will be made from one impossibility to another, as the life of this illegal immigrant begins to resonate across his adopted homeland…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780721641</amazonuk>1804272205
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Blazing WorldOlga Tokarczuk|authortitle=Siri HustvedtHouse of Day, House of Night|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary='All intellectual and artistic endeavours…fare better in 'What's the mind good of the crowd when the crowd knows a world that keeps changing like that somewhere behind the great work or the great spoof ? How can one go on calmly living in it can locate a cock and a pair of balls.?' Thus we are introduced to the unforgettable Harriet Burden – larger-than-life, six-foot-tall amazon artist – and to some of the novel's essential elements: musing on what makes intellectual products successful in a postmodern marketplace, feminist resentment of the overvaluing of male achievement, and an unapologetic, playful boldness with language.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444779648</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=All That is Solid Melts into AirThea Lenarduzzi|authortitle=Darragh McKeonThe Tower|rating=45
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Moscow, 1986, and a nine-year old piano prodigy is trapped in a subway station by bullies, who carefully break one of his little fingers. Rehearsal cancelled, the boy finds his favourite aunt, who takes him to treatment only to discover her ex-husband the doctor involved. Many miles away a slightly older young man is off on his first hunting trip with ''How unctuous are the men fats of the villageanother's life, only to find diseased cows, and the grouse they seek sickly and weirdly uncoordinated. What has affected them, and will of course affect all the characters how dizzying their sugars in the book, is the nuclear disaster in the plant at Chernobylour bloodstream''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670922706</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Truman CapoteJon Fosse and Damion Searls (translator) |title=Breakfast at Tiffany's Vaim|rating=54
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Holly Golightly. Who doesn't know her? Whether in the pages of ''Breakfast at Tiffany's'All was strange', the short novel by Truman Capote or capture on film by Audrey Hepburn, she's an American icon. A young country girl becomes a New York socialite, trading on amusement value to make a life paid for by rich men who are titillated by her outrageous opinions and anecdotes. We ''want'' to know her. And This haunting phrase encapsulates the narrator ''wants'' to know her as muchpervading sense of otherworldliness which permeates this story set in Vaim, if a fictional fishing village in Norway which paradoxically could not feel morereal for Jatgeir and Eline, than we dotwo of the protagonists caught in its melancholic current. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00HX9UTSE</amazonuk>1804271829
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patrick NessClaire-Louise Bennett|title=The Crane WifeBig Kiss, Bye-Bye
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=''The Crane Wife'' ticks all my boxesEverything in this book, however sweet or seemingly innocent, is steeped in anguish and distortion. It's by Patrick Ness who is one Even a kiss, usually a symbol of my favourite writers intimacy and closeness, becomes evidence of Young Adult fictionlove lost. It has a basis in myth and legend When the narrator cries out internally, ''come over here and still better in an ancient story new to kiss me. It doesn,''t go on and on and Ariston for half it is less an invitation than a billion pagesdesperate attempt to confirm her emotional numbness. Best The imagined recipient of allthis plea is Xavier, the author includes a shouther ex-out for the brilliant Decemberists. I agree with Ness: this is partner, a band you should look up. A heavy reading schedule meant I didn't get ghost she conjures to it last year when it was first published but now it's out in paperback and here I am. I wasn't disappointedtest her detachment. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857868748</amazonuk>1804271934
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jill DawsonHelene Bessette and Kate Briggs (translator)|title=The Tell-Tale HeartLili is Crying
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Being told that you have six months to live concentrates the mind most wonderfully: fifty First published in 1953 in French, this novel is no age to die, even if you have lived life to a timeless text which wrenches the full. Patrick's heart was giving up hearts of its readers just as Bessette wrenches words and sentences from their proper position on him the page and the Professor of American Studiespositions them elsewhere, disjointed, philanderer and heavy drinker was at truncated. Like the head lives of the list for a heart transplant. His other problems - entirely of his own making - faded into insignificance. Sixteen-year-old Drew Beamish died in a motorcycle accident in the village where he lived in rural Cambridgeshire and it will be his (still beating) heart which is transplanted into Patrick. The two, who had never mether characters, would be permanently joinedthey are often left tragically incomplete.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444731068</amazonuk>1804271675
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The People in the PhotoJonathan Buckley|authortitle=Helene GesternOne Boat|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Hélène Hivert works at the Museum of the History of the Postcard. It is a job she loves, as she finds delving into other people's lives 'most excitingOne Boat''. Luckily, she is 'regularly sent collections to catalogue'a deeply introspective novella that defies traditional narrative structure, drawing the reader into a contemplative realm of philosophical musings and each time fragmented memories flowing from our narrator and protagonist, Teresa. Set against the 'moment evocative backdrop of discovery' gives her a thrill. It may be 'addictive'small coastal Greek town, but 'There is something very moving about this work masterfully captures the thought that just two or three sources can be enough magic of its setting and its power to build a picture of an entire life'provoke profound introspection. But what happens when Teresa herself recognises these qualities as the sources are a bit too close to home, when Hélène must play Holmes among reason she has visited it after the artefacts death of both her parents. Prompted by her mourning, her own family's pastnarrative voice is meditative and deeply self-aware, pondering 'inviting the silence reader into her labyrinthine cogitations. It is a book that not only requires but inspires depth of surfaces'? Well, the professional detachment goes straight out the windowthought, since its narrative structure is fragmentary and what had been a genuine pleasure, tinged by wonder, now becomes an uncomfortable obsessionironically relies on analepsis for its propulsion.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908313544</amazonuk>1804271764
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Atheist's PrayerEowyn Ivey|authortitle=Amy R BiddleBlack Woods Blue Sky
|rating=3.5
|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=I don’t shy away from ''Black Woods Blue Sky'' tells the story of Birdie, the young mother of toddler Emaleen, who longs for a book with life beyond the Alaskan lodge where she works as a little edgebar waitress, in fact [[:Category:Chuck Palahniuk|Chuck Palahniuk]] is one a setting which enables her bad habits and her accidental neglect of my favourite authors and his books can be so sharp you can shave with themEmaleen. On the surface Described as a ''The Atheist’s Prayerwild card'' would seem , she feels stuck in her day-to-day life, and yearns to cross the Wolverine river and live on the North Fork to be courting controversy; why else have such fulfil her desires of a simple life surrounded by nature. When she meets Arthur Nielson, a provocative title? Butstrange, taciturn and solitary man, is it really that shocking? Nope. This is who says he has a story about how people deal cabin over there, she feels called to go - and bring Emaleen with the modern world her. Without realising it, this calling will transform hers and what happens when dangerous ideals infect a vulnerable groupEmaleen's lives forever.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780995822</amazonuk>1472279042
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Three MusketeersSally Rooney|authortitle=Alexandre Dumas and Will Hobson (translator)Intermezzo
|rating=4.5
|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=Leaving his home to try Sally Rooney has studied the chessboard of life and is something of a grandmaster at putting it into words. Her dialogue is gripping and join so brilliantly frustrating, as her characters never quite say exactly what they feel. Among the famous musketeers in Parismany relationships woven into this story, young Gascon d'Artagnan encounters troubles on the way but quickly falls 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 title characters Athoscancer, Aramis and Porthosthe brothers' already strained relationship faces new trials. Soon|isbn=0571365469}}{{Frontpage|author=Fyodor Dostoyevsky|title=White Nights|rating=5|genre=Short Stories|summary=As always in Dostoyevsky, the quartet are caught up in character work is sublime. One is never left wondering what a diabolical plot of the wicked Cardinal Richelieu character is thinking or feeling because Dostoyevsky lays bare their innermost dispositions and his accomplice Milady de Winter - can they save the Queen's honour?temperaments with remarkable clarity.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849907498</amazonuk>0241619785
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Eric LundgrenJames Baldwin|title=The FacadesGiovanni's Room
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Sven and Molly Norberg live in ''Giovanni's Room'' follows the narrator David, an American mid-western town of Trude. At least Sven still does; Molly has gone missing. Night after night Sven leaves Kyleman living in Paris, as he navigates his teenage sontorturous affair with Giovanni, home alone while an Italian bartender he scours meets in a gay bar. While David is engaged to Hella, who is travelling in Spain, the streets, revisiting places that he and Molly wandered through together real tension in order to find herthe novel arises not from his infidelity but from the deeper conflict within himself. Meanwhile Trude has problems It is David's crippling shame and denial of its own and the librarians are armed and ready!his sexuality that ultimately dooms his relationship with Giovanni.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0715647679</amazonuk>0141186356
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Romy AshAlba de Cespedes |title=FlounderingForbidden Notebook|rating=54
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Loretta collects her boys Jordy This Italian work of feminist fiction holds an air of suspense and Tom tension from school as if it's the most normal thing moment our protagonist, Valeria Cossati, purchases her forbidden notebook, and learns about herself in the world, but it's not; not for them anyway. Jordy most intimate and Tom have been living with their grandparents after being abandoned by this woman who refuses to be called 'Mum'. As they get further from their eastern Australian home it remains an adventure for Tom but Jordy's more sullen. Once they arrive at their ultimate destination - a ramshackle caravan park - Tom begins to understand why but not before both lads realise that their worries are just beginningrevealing ways.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1921922087</amazonuk>1782278222
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Audrey MageeOttessa Moshfegh|title=The UndertakingMy Year of Rest and Relaxation|rating=53
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Peter Faber has decided to become part At best, this novel is a scathing critique of modern society and reveals the fragility of human relationships; at worst, it is the new Nazi initiativecynical, predictable and slightly trite tale of an unlikeable protagonist. He will marry Katharina SpinellThis unlikely heroine, a woman he won't even meet till their honeymoon. In return he'll receive honeymoon leave from the Russian front while she will secure a widow's pension should anything happen to himslim, hopefully providing the Reich attractive and newly orphaned girl in her twenties is disillusioned with one or two more Aryan babies on the way. Peter may world, but resolves not be the son-to lose sleep over it: in-law Katharina's parents envisaged but their disappointment is blunted by their luxurious lifestyle under the patronage of the sinister Dr Weinart. Howeverfact, this is still wartime and Peter must eventually return to Russia and whatever fate awaits himher solution lies in her hibernation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782391029</amazonuk>1784707422
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Pamela ErensMatthew Tree|title=The VirginsWe'll Never Know
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Set in 1979-80 in an elite boarding school on the east coast of the USA ''The Virgins'' tells the story of two young people. The story is mainly narrated by Bruce Bennett-Jones who would have liked Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to have be different from his father, a close relationship with Aviva Rossner but her unlikely choice was Seung Jung. They're not shy about flaunting their relationship drunk and it's the talk chronic underachiever whose dreams of Auburn Academy, but whilst the watchers believe that the relationship is one being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of unalloyed passionself confidence. So Tim applied himself to his studies, the truth is cultivated his abilities rather different than his daydreams and the couple are set on a path to an inevitable tragedyhimself high but achievable ambitions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848549873</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=Amy Grace LoydMosby Woods|title=The Affairs of OthersA Whirly Man Loses His Turn
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Five years ago Celia CassillThe West isn's husband died leaving her t the owner of dominant force it once was. Nobody in the Brooklyn apartment block in which she lives. She's fastidious as West is quite sure how to whom she lets and mend this or even if mending it is understandably hesitant when George (one the best course of her longstanding tenants) wants to temporarily sub-let to action. Governments are flailing. A war here, a friend while he goes abroadpush for climate action there. Celia eventually agrees and so A feeling that nobody is in moves Hopeactual charge. Imagine then, there was a lady man with precognition. Imagine the strategic advantage in this asset; a man who has just left her husband and for whom life is as complicated as she makes Celia'scan tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. That man would be valuable, right? Perhaps the most valuable asset in history. Imagine then, that this man loses this ability.What would governments do to get it back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0297871188</amazonuk>B0C9SNG8R1
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Donal Ryan0571379559|title=The Thing About DecemberHouse of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Johnsey Cunliffe was always a nice boy''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the story of four people. Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but a little slow - instead, she lives in the one that house on the other kids picked on and riverbank, built of broken bricks. Insubstantial as it might look, it's much stood the same in adult lifepassage of time, storms and floods. If you were Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the delivery rounds - and to ask Johnsey he'd say that he was a gombring in sufficient money. Even if you've never met They have twin boys - Sonny and Max, the word before you know what it meansrainbow twins. It wasnSonny't too bad whilst Daddy was there - he was a man with a certain presence and even when it was just Johnsey and s colouring reflects his mother he had some support's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. But after her death Johnsey was dependant on small kindnesses from other people People don't believe that they're related, much less twins and at the mercy of those for whom he was there's an easy target. His life might have continued in this rather unsatisfactory way for some time but for the collision of two eventsassumption when Max is out with his mother that she's his nanny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781620091</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=James McBrideKay Chronister|title=The Good Lord BirdDesert Creatures|rating=4|genre=Historical Dystopian Fiction|summary=Henry 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. ''The OnionDesert Creatures' Shackleford lives as Henrietta (or just plain Onion) until he's 17 due to by Kay Chronister is a misunderstanding new work of post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the fears that may prove too dangerous exist for him humanity today. It is a shocking novel that still manages to correctfind hope. |isbn=1803364998}}{{frontpage|isbn=1803363002|author= Eric LaRocca|title= The reason 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 how we as humans react and process them. Most horror fiction feature a ''Big Bad'', whether that the person under this misapprehension is a home invader, a monster or a ghost, it usually something tangible and, by the fiercely well-meaning slavery abolitionist (with the emphasis on end of the story, beatable. Eric LaRocca's 'fiercely') John Brown. As Onion accompanies him on his quest to free every slave they encounter, he discovers that BrownThe Trees Grew Because I Bled There's philanthropy only stretches so far. Meanwhile it's is not like that time . It is a collection of short stories more interested in the 19th century when a shadow spreads over Americahorrors of illness, one that will cause a historic scar almost as great as grief and humiliation. Horrors that of slavery but Brown is oblivious linger and are harder to this. He doesndefeat than any ''Big Bad''t; want to start a civil war, just an armed slave revolt.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594486344</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ashley HayMadelaine Lucas|title=The Railwayman's WifeThirst for Salt
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Mackenzie and Anikka Lachlan have all they could possibly want. They live in Thirroul''Love, a close New South Wales coastal communityI'd read, are parents was supposed to be a lovely little girl light and now, in 1948weightless feeling, 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, another grieving shadow. Alongside her neighbours (a war poet who canbut I had always longed for gravity'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: how to go on living.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1743318014</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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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sathnam SangheraJennifer Saint|title=Marriage MaterialAtalanta
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=On the morning after his father's funeral Arjan Banga 'I was surprised to see his mother opening up 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 family shopgoddess. She It was in her sixtiesfor the sake of my name, recovering from cancer and besides, Bains Stores wasntoo. Atalanta''t exactly thriving Princess. You could even be forgiven Warrior. Lover. Hero. Abandoned at birth for wondering if it was ''open''being born a daughter rather than a son, with Atalanta is raised under the advert for a bar of chocolate discontinued in 1994 having pride protective eye of place in the window goddess Athemis and the security shutter stuck at fashioned into a quarter openformidable huntress, one who longs for adventure. Much as he might wish otherwise Arjan has no choice but When the opportunity comes – to stay in Wolverhampton to help his motherjoin the Argonauts, leaving his job as a graphic designer fierce band of warriors, descendent from the Gods themselves – Atalanta seizes the chance to fight in Artemis' name and his girlfriend, Freya, carve out her own legendary place in limbohistory. They were supposed to be getting married in DecemberWhat follows is a whirlwind of challenges and discovery and through it, but Atalanta must remember Artemis' fatal warning: that looked increasingly unlikelyif she marries, it will be her undoing.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0434021903</amazonuk>1472292154
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Kerrigan in CopenhagenAmanthi Harris|authortitle=Thomas E KennedyBeautiful Place|rating=2.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Terrence Einhorn Kerrigan Padma, a young Sri Lankan, has returned to the Villa Hibiscus on the southern coast of her home country. This is an Irish-Danish American living in Copenhagena place she spent her formative years. He It is 'not a full-time writer and translator'place she was born into, who 'but the one she thinks of himself as a failed poet, which is a less complicated concept than a failed human being'home. His newest writing assignment, however, is How she came to 'select a sampling of one hundred of be at the bestVilla, how it became her home, and the most historic, machinations that have flowed through her life ever since she first arrived there provide the most congenial of Copenhagen's 1,525 serving houses and write them up for one of a one-hundred-volume travel guide: ''The Great Bars of the Western World'score''for this gentle and yet subtly violent novel. Kerrigan, though, Padma'does not wish the book s present fails to be written. He wants only to research it. Forever' - escape her past and preferably in much like the company musical score of his green-eyed Associatea film, Annelisethat strand weaves its way through everything that happens at the Villa.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408841940</amazonuk>1784631930
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lois Walden178563335X|title=AfterworldSea Defences|author=Hilary Taylor|rating=45
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The Duvalier family owe their wealth to sugar cane although their gratitude is shown When we first meet Rachel Bird she's a trainee vicar, sitting in varying degrees on a PCC meeting and various wayswondering why they're held when you need to pick the children up. From the patriarch William (who never recovered from being hit by a manhole cover) through his wife and childrenHer husband, down to TheodoreChristopher, the lad who gained comfort (collects six-year-old Hannah and a certain amount of secrecy) from travel and on to their black servant Rheta Bher elder brother, Jamie, each has had whilst Rachel holds a lifesobbing parishioner. Thelma's daughter-in-law won't let her see her grandson. Each also has Holthorpe, on the Norfolk coast, is a story lovely place, but Rachel is struggling to tell develop a real bond with the parish - andshe's in awe of the vicar, whether alive or in AfterworldGail, theybut then she're going to tell s been doing the job for more than thirty years. Rachel and Christopher hoped that a walk on the beach would do them some good - it was stormy but itwas probably what they needed. And then Hannah went missing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908129859</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate Clanchy1398515388|title=Meeting The Boy and the EnglishDog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=Struan Robertson First of all, it was just seventeenthe earthquake, but set to go to Aberdeen to study dentistrydeep in the ocean floor, when his English teacher passed him a short advertisement. A literary giant needed a carer. Why not take a gap year? Struan had never been to ‘’England’’ before which created the tsunami and he would be living this, in Hampsteadturn, caused the nuclear meltdown. On the plus side he’d been working in a care home to earn money The result was complete and he could do the workutter devastation. Soon - almost too soon - Struan was the main carer for Phillip PrysThe deaths were uncountable, rendered dumb and paralysed by a massive strokethe loss of livelihoods was widespread. His family couldn’t take care The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of him priorities but - six months after the young (very young) third wife was too busy with her painting. His son, Jake, had other things tsunami - anything else - to do rather than be in his father’s presenceKazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. Juliet had never been her father’s favourite He wasn't a dog person but she wasn’t ‘’exactly’’ stable when it came the convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to helpingopen his car door and Tamon the dog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330535277</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michele Forbes0989715337|title=Ghost MothPapa on the Moon|author=Marco North|rating=54
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Belfast 1949: Katherine is about to become engaged to fireman George Bedford when she meets Tom McKinley''Some frogs had gotten into the well. He's bright fun and makes her feel more alive than dependable' ''Walter stood waist-deep in the fragrant water, naked except for his beaten leather hat. Long strands of their eggs wove around him, boring George ever couldsticky gray pearls with tadpoles inside them. The weight Two of the decision Katherine eventually makes will haunt her for a lifetime. We fast forward to Belfast 1969 dogs leaned over the opening and as barked down at the strange noise of the troubles in Northern Ireland exacerbate, buckets as do the cracks in Katherinehe filled them.'s marriage. In fact 20 years and four children later, they've become chasms.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0297870440</amazonuk>}}
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