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[[Category:New Reviews|Literary Fiction]]__NOTOC__ {{Frontpage|author= Tahi Saihate|title= Astral Season, Beastly Season|rating= 3.5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= We long for our past even though it is a place to which we can never return. Tahi Saihate, in her debut novel ''Astral Season, Beastly Season'' illustrates how these rose-tinted glasses often lie. Her novel is a meditation on youth and how the things we do as a teenager can seem intensely important and often life-altering.|isbn= 1916277101}}
{{Frontpage|author=Laura Imai Messina|title=The Phone Box at the End of the World|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= In the northeast of Japan, in Inwate Prefecture a man installed a telephone box in his garden. ''Inside there is an old black, telephone, disconnected, that carries voices into the wind.'' It is a real place, a necessary place, and I am pleased to see the IMPORTANT NOTE that the author attaches to her story, that the place is not a tourist destination, it is a sacred place, a place that must be left to those who really need it.|isbn=178658039X}}{{Frontpage|author=Amin Maalouf|title=The Disoriented|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Adam has lived in Paris for years, speaks French more easily than his native Arabic. In fact he hasn't been back to his homeland for 25 years. An old friend is dying…or as Adam prefers to think of him a former-friend, perhaps not as harsh as an ex-friend, or maybe. The falling out was a long time ago, and Adam's partner has no idea what it was about, even so she urges him to go knowing that he'll regret not doing so. Not knowing whether he's going because he needs or wants to, or simply because he was asked, he's on the next plane. |isbn=B07ZQSK9CY}}{{Frontpage|author=Joanne M Harris|title=A Pocketful of Crows|rating=5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= I have always been of the mind that once you're above picture-book level and before you get to graphic sex & violence, there is no difference between books for children and books for adults. There are good books and poor ones. And Joanne Harris does not produce poor ones. ''A Pocketful of Crows'' is clearly aimed at the younger readers as witness the use of the middle initial in the author's name to differentiate from her adult offers. Ignore that if you have loved anything from ''Chocolat'' onwards you will know that Harris is mistress of the modern fairy tale. This is no different. It is an utter delight.|isbn=1473222184}}{{Frontpage|author=Frederic Beigbeder and Frank Wynne (translator)|title=A Life Without End|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=I looked at the calendar the other week, and disappointedly realised I have a birthday this year – I know, yet another one. It won't be one of the major numbers, but the time when I have the same number as Heinz varieties looms on the horizon. And then a few of the big 0-numbers, and if all goes well, I'll be an OBE. (Which of course stands for Over Bloody Eighty.) Now if that's the extent of my mid-life crisis, I guess I have to be happy. Our author here doesn't use that exact phrase, but he might be said to be living one. Determined to find out how to prolong life for as long as he wants – he would like to see 400 – he hops right into bed with the assistant to the first geneticist he interviews, and they end up with a child, which is at least a way of continuing the life of his genes, and a motive to keep on going. But how can he get to not flick the 'final way out' switch, especially when foie gras tastes so nice?|isbn=1642860670}}{{Frontpage|author= Maryse Condé|title= The Wondrous and Tragic Life of Ivan and Ivana|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= We live in a post- world: post-colonialism, post-modernism, post truth. The list goes on. There are numerous works that utilise the prefix post- in their categorisation, but perhaps none more so than Maryse Condé. In her new novel, ''The Wondrous and Tragic Life of Ivan and Ivana'', Condé writes with fervour about the scars left by colonialism on the countries to which it latched itself. Ivan and Ivana are twins born in Guadeloupe, a French overseas department. They grow up with intense and passionate feelings for each other. As they grow up and move overseas, the ravages of a post-colonial society drive them apart with tragic consequences.|isbn=1642860697}}{{Frontpage|author= Ukamaka Olisakwe|title= Ogadinma Or, Everything Will Be All Right|rating= 5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= The new novel by Ukamaka Olisakwe is a look at the trauma and heartache of being a woman in 1980s Nigeria. The title is ''Ogadinma Or, Everything Will Be All Right''. Ogadinma is the eponymous heroine of the story.. We are with her in every scene and it is her narrative voice that leads the story, although Olisakwe writes in third person. This provides a sense of detachment for the reader and highlights the isolation of Ogadinma. She is exiled from her father's home and sent to Lagos where she is married to an older man named Tobe. Their marriage descends into violence and indignities and Ogadinma must utilise her resourcefulness to escape.|isbn=1911648160}}{{Frontpage|author=Elliot Reed|title=A Key to Treehouse Living|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=This is the story of a young boy, William Tyce, who is being raised by his uncle after the death of his mother and his father's abandonment. However, it isn't told in the usual narrative way. Instead, the book is made up of glossary entries, written by William, as a way of describing certain events, situations and emotions. It runs alphabetically, starting with ABSENCE, then moving to ALPHABETICAL ORDER. As I began to read I did find myself thinking 'what on earth?!' but I soon grew used to the style, and was instead caught up in William's story.|isbn=1911545418}}{{Frontpage|author= Karina Sainz Borgo and Elizabeth Bryer (translator)|title= It Would Be Night in Caracas|rating= 4|genre= Literary Fiction |summary= ''It Would Be Night in Caracas'' illuminates the everyday horrors of modern day Venezuela. It begins with the death of Adelaida Falcon's mother and chronicles Adelaida's coming to terms with her new solitude in this world and her attempts to escape it. Danger stalks the shadows and, in a society where the establishment is crumbling, who can you turn to? |isbn=0062936867}} {|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE--><!-- Cullen Caroline Scott -->
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===[[The Photographer of the Lost Letters of William Woolf by Helen CullenCaroline Scott]]===
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William Woolf May 1921. Edie receives a photograph through the post. There is a no letter detective, working in or note with it. There is nothing written on the back of the Dead Letters Depot in East Londonphotograph. He spends his days deciphering smudged addresses, tracking down mysterious people and reading endless letters It is a picture of loveher husband, guiltFrancis. Francis has been missing for four years. Technically, deathhe has been "missing, hopebelieved killed" but that is not something that a young widow can believe. She hangs on the word 'missing', and everyday lifedisbelieving the word killed. [[The Photographer of the Lost Letters of William Woolf by Helen CullenCaroline Scott|Full Review]]
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===[[Lala The Dutch House by Jacek Dehnel and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)Ann Patchett]]===
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''This is the mysterious nature of storytelling: the same start can also mean different endingsWhen we first meet Danny and his elder sister, and different starts can lead to the same finale. It's all subordinate to the greater narrativeMaeve Conroy, which starts somewhere in Kievthey''. This beautiful book is exactly that, the mysterious art of storytelling. re both living at The wayward meanderings of memory, of tangents Dutch House with their parents and digressions, under the gaze of side notes and elaborations, but above all that of affection; for both the story and the storyteller. What makes us who we are if not our culture and heritage and in this book our narrator re-lives and re-tells the story of his heritage told to him by his grandmother. [[Lala by Jacek Dehnel and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)|Full Review]] <!-- Wise -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0857302183.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0857302183/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Emperor portraits of Shoes by Spencer Wise]]=== [[image:3star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]] ''The Emperor of Shoes'' is the story of Alex Cohen, former owners whose oil paintings still hang on the heir to a lucrative shoe factory based in southern Chinawalls. More idealistic than his profit-obsessed father, and less motivated solely by the bottom line, he It's unsure of himselfa strange family dynamic: unsure whether he can continue his father's success. But complications arise when he starts to question how morally sound the business really Cyril Conroy is, distant and whether the workers are being given a fair deal. [[The Emperor of Shoes by Spencer Wise|Full Review]] <!-- Vodolazkin -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1786072718.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1786072718/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Aviator by Eugene Vodolazkin and Lisa Hayden (Translator)]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]] Innokenty Petrovich Platonov wakes up in a hospital bed with no recollection of who he closest Danny seems to come to him is or how when he got there. He is tended by a single doctor, Doctor Geiger, who gives goes out with him on a pencil and notebook and encourages him to write down his observations and memoriesSaturday collecting rents from properties the family owns. The notebook Elna Conroy is thickloving, like a novel. How can Innokenty fill it if he cannot remember anything? But slowly but absent increasingly often until the memories start to return, memories of childhood holidays at point comes when the beach, of life in the dacha, of the airfield and the aviators..children are told that she will not be returning. In other circumstances this might have affected Maeve and the island...it seems like some memories may be better left buried. He remembers that he Danny deeply, but their primary relationship is the same age as the century, born in 1900with each other. But if that is the case, how is he still It's a young man when the pills by his bedside are dated 1999? bond which only death will break. [[The Aviator Dutch House by Eugene Vodolazkin and Lisa Hayden (Translator)Ann Patchett|Full Review]]
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===[[The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland A Winter Book by Nicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)Tove Jansson]]===
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Jane Ashland is dying. ThatTove Jansson's a description of a very early scene here – but alsoworldwide fame lasts on the Moomin books, written in the 1940s and later becoming television characters of coursethe simplicity, a platitude naivety and sheer 'goodness' that can apply to all of uswould later produce flowerpot men or teletubbies. Jane's lifeSimple drawings, if anythingsimple stories, simple goodness. What is going up and down in levels often forgotten outside of pleasure, energy – sobriety – in these pages, but we soon learn her native Finland is that it recently found she was a very deeply dark down place. Here then, scattered through a timeline-bending narrative, we have her days finding a Lincolnesque lover serious writer…that she wrote for adults as well as children…and that she had a student in New York, glimpses of therapy, a drive to find her ancestors feeling for the natural world and the simple life that takes her from rural America to Norway – and a trip there with a newnot only informed those child-found friend to watch like trolls but went far beyond any fantasy of how the musk oxen, of all thingsworld might be. And nowhere in sight is anything like a platitude… [[The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland A Winter Book by Nicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)Tove Jansson|Full Review]]
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===[[Black Sugar The Summer Book by Miguel Bonnefoy and Emily Boyce (translator)Tove Jansson]]===
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Miguel BonnefoyTove Jansson's ''Black Sugar'' short novel about Summer is a sensual epic chronicling three generations of several worlds away from the Otero familyMoomintrolls she is most famous for outside her native Scandinavia. Book yourself an afternoon this Summer, and take yourself and The tale begins with Summer Book somewhere quiet, preferably within sight and sound of the disappearance of Captain Henry Morgan's treasure sea, settle back and then illustrates the power this treasure holds over people. Multiple people become obsessed with finding this fabled treasure that has become an urban legend in the town in which the story is setprepare to be transported. [[Black Sugar The Summer Book by Miguel Bonnefoy and Emily Boyce (translator)Tove Jansson|Full Review]]
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===[[The Zero and the One by Ryan Ruby]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]] ''The Zero and the One'' is an incredibly well written and well crafted book. We meet our narrator, Owen, on the plane to New York for the funeral of his best friend. He is still reeling after recent events, a suicide pact in which his friend died but he livedSnowflake, and he is going through the motions of the funeral and consoling family whilst still trying to get to grips with his own feelings of grief and guilt. So far, so simple. But this is where the talent of Ryan Ruby steps in and slowly, so slowly, he reveals little tantalising clues that all is not what it seems, a throw-away comment here, a mis-step there, and it becomes clear that Owen is not a reliable narrator. [[The Zero and the One by Ryan Ruby|Full Review]] <!-- Miles -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0553447580.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0553447580/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Anatomy of a Miracle AZ by Jonathan MilesMarcus Sedgwick]]===
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Look closely at This is a deep, interesting read unlike any book I've read in quite some time. The novel's story follows a young man named Ash in the process of joining a community of sick people in the cover curiously named town of Jonathan MilesSnowflake, Arizona. These people are sick, but it's third novel and not a sickness you'll see the central drama depicted: white wheelchair tracks snake up from the bottom and stop three-quarters ve heard of the way from the top. Instead, where they are replaced 're environmentally ill – affected by footprints. On 23 August 2014household chemicals and fabrics, pesticides, static electricity, wheelchair-bound veteran Cameron Harris stands up and walks outside the Biz-E-Bee convenience store radiation – and their only ''cure'' is to stay in Biloxi, Mississippi. In the rest of the novel we find out how he got to this point and what others – ranging town away from his doctor to representatives of the Roman Catholic Church – will make of his recoveryreal world. Was Though it 's about a miraclereal place, or an explainable medical phenomenon? [[Anatomy of a Miracle by Jonathan Miles|Full Review]] <!-- Mcneil -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Mcneil Fire.jpg|left|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1785078992/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Fire on the Mountain by Jean McNeil]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]] This is an unusual book, people in style it feels like a novel by E M Forster; with a deep study at the minutiae of life and thought, yet the plot and content is thoroughly modernare fictional. The bulk of the story It really is told through the perspective of Nicka place apart, and we see his point of view on life around him. The main characters of quite literally cut off from the book, however, outside world – people are Pieter and Riaan, as it is these characters who fascinate Nick and are the focus of his contemplation and crisiseven required to decontaminate themselves thoroughly before becoming fully integrated. [[Fire on the Mountain Snowflake, AZ by Jean McNeilMarcus Sedgwick|Full Review]]
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===[[The Baghdad Clock by Shahad Al Rawi]]===
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''The Baghdad Clock'' is a tale of two friends growing up during the first and second Iraqi war. Shahad Al Rawi uses magic realism to illustrate the displacement felt by a young girl and her neighbourhood. The novel introduces us to the various characters surrounding the protagonist. They are full of life and yet never seem to add anything to the central narrative. Rawi, it would seem, has a problem with telling a story. [[The Baghdad Clock by Shahad Al Rawi|Full Review]]
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===[[The Coffin Path Nightjar by Katherine ClementsDeborah Hewitt]]===
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Maybe you've heard about Scarcross Hall? Hidden 'The Nightjar'' is an unusual and exciting story. Alice Wyndham lives a normal life in London until she finds a box on the old coffin path her doorstep one morning and her life begins to unravel, fast. From that winds from the village to the moor topvery moment, the villagers only speak of it in hushed tones - of how it's a foreboding place filled her life is flooded with evil. Mercy Booth has lived there since birthmagic, loss, expectation and she's always loved the grand house and its isolationparticularly, but a recurrence of strange events begins to unsettle betrayal. As everything around her. From objects disappearing through to a shadowy presence sensed in the houseshifts, all that she knows, mysteries come to light all that she thinks she knows, must change. Who can only be solved by Mercy unearthing long-buried secrets. And she trust? Who must she trust? Who will a dark stranger help Mercy protect everything she has come to love or tear it from her grasptrust? More importantly, can she even trust herself? [[The Coffin Path Nightjar by Katherine ClementsDeborah Hewitt|Full Review]]
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It| style='s 1957, and we're somewhere in Switzerland, and there's just one case on everyone's lips – the simple fact that a politician has gone into the crowded room of one of those 'the place to go' restaurants, and point blank shot a professor everyone there must have known, and ferried a British companion to the airport in his chauffeurvertical-align: top; text-driven Rolls before handing himself in to face the murder rap. Of course healign: left;'s found guilty, even if the gun involved has managed to disappear. He's certainly of much interest, not only to our narrator, a young lawyer called Spaet – even if he rarely gets to frequent such establishments with such people, he is eager to know more, especially once he is actually tasked by the man in hand to look into things a second time. But what's this, where he opens his testimony about the affair with the conclusion, that he himself will need to turn killer to redress the balance? |===[[The Execution of Justice Train Man by Friedrich Durrenmatt and John E Woods (translator)|Full ReviewAndrew Mulligan]]===
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I came to this book thinking I knew just what to expect, even though it is [[:Category:Andy Mulligan| style="verticalthe author's]] debut in the adult novel market (hence the more mature name – he used to be an Andy). I thought it simple to sum up, the tale of a middle-alignaged man who knows too much about train travel having his life turned around in the most pleasant way. I hadn't opened it when I'd shelved it alongside [[: top; text-alignCategory: left;"Chris Cleave|===Chris Cleave]], and [[The Impostor by Javier Cercas and Frank Wynne (translator):Category:David Nicholls|David Nicholls]]===. I expected some whimsy, some warmth and some affirmative loveliness.
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Enric Marco is without doubt an extraordinary man. A veteran of the Spanish Civil War, honoured for his bravery on the battlefield. A political prisoner of two fascist regimes. A survivor of the Nazi concentration camps. A prominent figure in the clandestine resistance against Franco's tyranny. A tireless warrior for social justice and the defence of human rights. A national hero. But the most extraordinary thing about Enric Marco is this: that he is really none of these things. He is an impostor. And Javier Cercas sets out to tell his story – the true story of Spain's most notorious liar. [[The Impostor by Javier Cercas and Frank Wynne (translator)|Full Review]] <!-- Badoe Anstruther -->
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Sante was a baby when she was washed ashore in a sea-chest laden with treasure. It seems she is the sole survivor of the tragic sinking of a ship carrying migrants and refugees. Her people. Fourteen years on she's a member of Mama Rose's unique and dazzling circus. But, from their watery grave, the unquiet dead are calling Sante to avenge them. A bamboo flute. A golden bangle. A ripening mango which must not fall... if Sante is to tell their story and her own. [[A Jigsaw of Fire and Stars by Yaba Badoe|Full Review]]
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===[[The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao A Perfect Explanation by Martha Batalha and Eric M B Becker (translator)Eleanor Anstruther]]===
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On Enid Campbell was a woman who, on the surfaceface of it, young housewife Euridice Gusmao has it allhad everything. A nice-enoughLeading the life of an aristocrat – full of inherited wealth and splendour, parent-pleasing husband with a steady banking job, two young children upon whom to dote, an immaculate home complete with maidglamourous locales and high expectations. ThatOnly Enid's all anyone could ever wantlife has been plagued by mental illness – undiagnosed, isn't it? Not Euridice. She has an inexplicable ache inside untreated and threatening both Enid and those close to her for something more, like many of us. Yet each After losing custody of her pet projectschildren, from a desire to publish a recipe book Enid sells her son to starting a cottage sewing industry in her living roomsister for £500 – but is this an act of greed, are met with scorn from or an act of desperation? Exploring the true story of her stern husband Antenor. He wants a wife who doesn't draw attention to herselfown grandmother, Eleanor Anstruther has found the perfect subject for an explosive, whose only domains are her house moving and her familybeautifully well written debut. [[The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao A Perfect Explanation by Martha Batalha and Eric M B Becker (translator)Eleanor Anstruther|Full Review]]
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===[[The Dark-Blue Winter Overcoat and other stories from the North Choke by Sjon Hodgkinson and Ten Hodgkinson (editors)Sofie Laguna]]===
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A compilation like this should be nigh on brilliant. ItThere's not one author's best short works, it's that of a dozen. It's not from one snapshot in timedull, as some were written the year dispiriting pang of publication disappointment that comes when you try something everyone else loves and some in the 1960s. Itfind out that you's re really not from one tiny patch of author's desk or one set of laptop keys, but from the entire Nordic world, whether that be urban Scandinavia, the Faroes and other island groups, or Greenlandinto it. Coffee. That is a world that's changing – as the Greenland-born author now living in Brooklyn, and the Iraqi blood on these pages, testifyIce skating. It's a world where A new roads and new building works mean a family living on the edge of the forest at the beginning of the story Netflix series. Books are being surrounded by other life by the endlike that, and with the influence of centuries of folklore featured, a lot more than that changes – sometimes it seems to be even the characters' species… but doubly so. [[The Dark-Blue Winter Overcoat and other stories from the North Choke by Sjon Hodgkinson and Ten Hodgkinson (editors)Sofie Laguna|Full Review]]
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===[[Companions Equator by Christina Hesselholdt Antonin Varenne and Paul Russell Garrett Sam Taylor (translator)]]===
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''Companions'' is written as It strikes me that nobody can speak well of the Wild West outside the walls of a series of monologues, where six middle-aged friends take theme park. Our agent to see how bad it in turns to narrate scenes from their liveswas here is Pete Ferguson, charting who bristles at the intimate details indignity of their holidayswhite man against Native 'Indian', dinner parties, families, marriages, affairs and work lives who spends days being physically sick while indulging in a style that mixes honesty buffalo hunt, and openness with fantasy who hates the way man – and evasion. The charm woman, of course – can turn against fellow man at the novel lies in bat of an eyelid. But this book is about so much more than the way 1870s USA, and the friendsattendant problems with gold rushes, pioneer spirits and racial genocide. He finds himself trying to find this book' voices bicker with one another among s version of Utopia, namely the pagesEquator, where everything is upside down, as we discover that there are always several sides people walk on their heads with rocks in their pockets to keep them on the same story. We learn most about ground to counter the characters not through what they say about themselves but through what the others say about them. Along the wayanti-gravity, there is heartbreak and griefwhere, but this who knows, things might actually be better. But that equator is always offset by an abundance a long way away – and there's a whole adventure full of humour Mexico and Latin America between him and a writing style that never fails to be refreshingly light-hearted. it… [[Companions Equator by Christina Hesselholdt Antonin Varenne and Paul Russell Garrett Sam Taylor (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[Stranger Nights of the Creaking Bed by David BergenToni Kan]]===
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''StrangerNights of the Creaking Bed'' tells is a collection of short stories by Toni Kan. The series of stories tell of the story lives and lusts of an assortment of Ísocharacters living in and around Lagos, Nigeria. Nigeria, a young Guatemalan womanin this collection, and her affair is imbued with an American doctorits very own heart of darkness. When an accident forces him to return to Danger stalks the States, she is left pregnant shadows and lonelypeople are killed for nothing more than a wrong look. Her anguish becomes even more profound when her daughter is abducted, Kan writes with a vitality and taken passion that allows these cynical stories to live with the doctor and his wife. What followed - tales achieve a glimmer of the journey Íso embarked upon in the hope of finding her baby - was an amazing story of the lengths a mother will go to in order to save her child. [[Stranger Nights of the Creaking Bed by David BergenToni Kan|Full Review]]
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