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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|class-"wikitable" cellpaddingauthor="15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->Laura Imai Messina<!-- Davies -->|title=The Phone Box at the End of the World|-rating=5| stylegenre="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Literary Fiction[[image:1786074443.jpg|linksummary=http://wwwIn the northeast of Japan, in Inwate Prefecture a man installed a telephone box in his garden.amazon ''Inside there is an old black, telephone, disconnected, that carries voices into the wind.co'' 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.uk/dp/1786074443/ref|isbn=nosim?tag178658039X}}{{Frontpage|author=Amin Maalouf|title=thebookbag-21]]The Disoriented|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction| stylesummary="verticalAdam 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-align: top; textfriend, perhaps not as harsh as an ex-align: left;"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==[[Tirzah and the Prince A Pocketful of Crows by Deborah Kay Davies]]|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary= [[image:4I 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.5star It is an utter delight.jpg|linkisbn=Category:{1473222184}}{{Frontpage|author=Frederic Beigbeder and Frank Wynne (translator)|title=A Life Without End|rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction=4|genre=Literary Fiction]] |summary= This is I looked at the calendar the other week, and disappointedly realised I have a quiet birthday this year – I know, yet another one. It won't be one of the major numbers, but remarkable story, written in the time when I have the same number as Heinz varieties looms on the horizon. And then a style reminiscent few of Ethe big 0-numbers, and if all goes well, I'll be an OBE. M (Which of course stands for Over Bloody Eighty. Forster, ) Now if that''[Tirzah and s the Prince extent of Crowsmy mid-life crisis, I guess I have to be happy. Our author here doesn'' has no great 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 stirring action but rather small ripples that make they end up with a huge impact. Tirzah child, which is at least a young girl way of sixteen raised in a small Welsh town in continuing the 1970s by highly religious parents as part life of a strict religious community. The book follows Tirzah though a tumultuous year as she tries to decide who she wants to behis genes, and what she wants a motive to do with her lifekeep on going. [[Tirzah and But how can he get to not flick the Prince of Crows by Deborah Kay Davies'final way out' switch, especially when foie gras tastes so nice?|Full Review]]isbn=1642860670}}<!-- Brooke Fieldhouse -->{{Frontpage|-author= Maryse Condé| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|The Wondrous and Tragic Life of Ivan and Ivana[[image:1789013992.jpg|linkrating=http://www4.amazon.co.uk/dp/1789013992/ref5|genre=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Literary Fiction| stylesummary="verticalWe live in a post-alignworld: top; textpost-colonialism, post-modernism, post truth. The list goes on. There are numerous works that utilise the prefix post-align: 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===[[The Gilded Ones by Brooke Fieldhouse]]===}}{{Frontpage[[image:4star.jpg|linkauthor=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:CrimeUkamaka Olisakwe|Crime]]title= Ogadinma Or, [[:Category:Literary FictionEverything Will Be All Right|rating= 5|genre= Literary Fiction]] It was |summary= The new novel by Ukamaka Olisakwe is a look at the trauma and heartache of being a hot day 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 1984 every scene and Pulse had two job interviews for it is her narrative voice that leads the daystory, but although Olisakwe writes in third person. This provides a sense of detachment for the heat wasn't reader and highlights the only reason why he wasnisolation of Ogadinma. She is exiled from her father't feeling on top forms 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. He'd had |isbn=1911648160}}{{Frontpage|author=Elliot Reed|title=A Key to Treehouse Living|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=This is the story of a disturbing dream young boy, William Tyce, who is being raised by his uncle after the night beforedeath of his mother and his father's abandonment. HeHowever, it isn'd been following a Porsche on a difficult route, probably somewhere t told in the Alps when the Porsche went off the roadusual narrative way. The passengerInstead, the book is made up of glossary entries, written by William, as a manway of describing certain events, situations and emotions. It runs alphabetically, was deadstarting with ABSENCE, but the woman was still alivethen moving to ALPHABETICAL ORDER. As I began to read I did find myself thinking 'what on earth?!'but Isoon grew used to the style, and was instead caught up in William'm Freia...'', she saids 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= ''ItWould Be Night in Caracas's spelled ' illuminates the German wayeveryday horrors of modern day Venezuela.It begins with the death of Adelaida Falcon's mother and chronicles Adelaida' Of the two job interviews, the first was s coming to terms with an up-and-coming design studio her new solitude in Brighton this world and her attempts to escape it would almost certainly be good for Pulse's career. The second was with a run-down practice based in an old London house Danger stalks the shadows and headed by Patrick Lloyd-Lewis, whose wife, Freia, had recently died in unexplained circumstances. The link with a society where the dream of the night before was too much for Pulse establishment is crumbling, who can you turn to refuse the offer of a job. He couldn't resist the lure of the mystery. [[The Gilded Ones by Brooke Fieldhouse? |Full Review]]isbn=0062936867}}

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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]]===

When we first meet Danny and his elder sister, Maeve Conroy, they''This is re both living at The Dutch House with their parents and under the gaze of the mysterious nature portraits of storytelling: the same start can also mean different endings, and different starts can lead to former owners whose oil paintings still hang on the same finalewalls. It's all subordinate a strange family dynamic: Cyril Conroy is distant and the closest Danny seems to come to him is when he goes out with him on a Saturday collecting rents from properties the greater narrative, which starts somewhere in Kiev''family owns. This beautiful book Elna Conroy is exactly that, the mysterious art of storytelling. The wayward meanderings of memory, of tangents and digressions, of side notes and elaborationsloving, but above all that of affection; for both absent increasingly often until the story and point comes when the storyteller. What makes us who we children are if told that she will not our culture and heritage and in be returning. In other circumstances this book our narrator re-lives might have affected Maeve and re-tells the story of his heritage told to him by his grandmotherDanny deeply, but their primary relationship is with each other. It's a bond which only death will break. [[Lala The Dutch House by Jacek Dehnel and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)Ann Patchett|Full Review]]

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===[[The Emperor of Shoes A Winter Book by Spencer WiseTove Jansson]]===

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Tove Jansson''The Emperor of Shoes'' is s worldwide fame lasts on the story of Alex CohenMoomin books, written in the heir to a lucrative shoe factory based in southern China. More idealistic than his profit-obsessed father, 1940s and less motivated solely by later becoming television characters of the bottom linesimplicity, henaivety and sheer 's unsure of himself: unsure whether he can continue his fathergoodness's successthat would later produce flowerpot men or teletubbies. Simple drawings, simple stories, simple goodness. But complications arise when he starts to question how morally sound What is often forgotten outside of her native Finland is that she was a serious writer…that she wrote for adults as well as children…and that she had a feeling for the business really is, natural world and whether the workers are being given a fair dealsimple life that not only informed those child-like trolls but went far beyond any fantasy of how the world might be. [[The Emperor of Shoes A Winter Book by Spencer WiseTove Jansson|Full Review]]

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===[[The Aviator Summer Book by Eugene Vodolazkin and Lisa Hayden (Translator)Tove Jansson]]===

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Innokenty Petrovich Platonov wakes up in a hospital bed with no recollection of who he Tove Jansson's short novel about Summer is several worlds away from the Moomintrolls she is or how he got theremost famous for outside her native Scandinavia. He is tended by a single doctorBook yourself an afternoon this Summer, Doctor Geiger, who gives him a pencil and notebook take yourself and encourages him to write down his observations and memories. The notebook is thickSummer Book somewhere quiet, like a novel. How can Innokenty fill it if he cannot remember anything? But slowly the memories start to return, memories preferably within sight and sound of childhood holidays at the beachsea, of life in the dacha, of the airfield settle back and the aviators...and the island...it seems like some memories may prepare to be better left buried. He remembers that he is the same age as the century, born in 1900transported. But if that is the case, how is he still a young man when the pills by his bedside are dated 1999? [[The Aviator Summer Book by Eugene Vodolazkin and Lisa Hayden (Translator)Tove Jansson|Full Review]]

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===[[The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland Snowflake, AZ by Nicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)Marcus Sedgwick]]===

[[image:43.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]]

Jane Ashland This is dyinga deep, interesting read unlike any book I've read in quite some time. ThatThe novel's story follows a description young man named Ash in the process of joining a very early scene here – but alsocommunity of sick people in the curiously named town of Snowflake, of courseArizona. These people are sick, but it's not a platitude that can apply to all sickness you've heard of us. JaneInstead, they's lifere environmentally ill – affected by household chemicals and fabrics, pesticides, if anythingstatic electricity, is going up and down in levels of pleasure, energy – sobriety radiation – and their only ''cure'' is to stay in these pages, but we soon learn that the town away from the real world. Though it recently found 's about a very deeply dark down real place, the people in it are fictional. Here then, scattered through It really is a timeline-bending narrative, we have her days finding a Lincolnesque lover as a student in New York, glimpses of therapyplace apart, a drive to find her ancestors that takes her quite literally cut off from rural America to Norway the outside world – and a trip there with a new-found friend people are even required to watch the musk oxen, of all thingsdecontaminate themselves thoroughly before becoming fully integrated. And nowhere in sight is anything like a platitude… [[The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland Snowflake, AZ by Nicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)Marcus Sedgwick|Full Review]]

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===[[Black Sugar The Nightjar by Miguel Bonnefoy and Emily Boyce (translator)Deborah Hewitt]]===

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Miguel Bonnefoy's ''Black SugarThe Nightjar'' is an unusual and exciting story. Alice Wyndham lives a normal life in London until she finds a sensual epic chronicling three generations of the Otero familybox on her doorstep one morning and her life begins to unravel, fast. The tale begins From that very moment, her life is flooded with the disappearance of Captain Henry Morgan's treasure magic, loss, expectation and then illustrates the power this treasure holds over peopleparticularly, betrayal. Multiple people become obsessed with finding this fabled treasure As everything around her shifts, all that she knows, all that has become an urban legend in the town in which the story is setshe thinks she knows, must change. Who can she trust? Who must she trust? Who will she trust? More importantly, can she even trust herself? [[Black Sugar The Nightjar by Miguel Bonnefoy and Emily Boyce (translator)Deborah Hewitt|Full Review]]

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| style=''The Zero and the Onevertical-align: top; text-align: left;'' 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 lived, 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 Train Man by Ryan Ruby|Full ReviewAndrew Mulligan]]===

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| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===More fool me. [[Anatomy of a Miracle Train Man by Jonathan MilesAndrew Mulligan|Full Review]]===

[[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]] Look closely at the cover of Jonathan Miles's third novel and you'll see the central drama depicted: white wheelchair tracks snake up from the bottom and stop three-quarters of the way from the top, where they are replaced by footprints. On 23 August 2014, wheelchair-bound veteran Cameron Harris stands up and walks outside the Biz-E-Bee convenience store in Biloxi, Mississippi. In the rest of the novel we find out how he got to this point and what others – ranging from his doctor to representatives of the Roman Catholic Church – will make of his recovery. Was it a miracle, or an explainable medical phenomenon? [[Anatomy of a Miracle by Jonathan Miles|Full Review]] <!-- Mcneil Anstruther -->

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===[[Fire on the Mountain A Perfect Explanation by Jean McNeilEleanor Anstruther]]===

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This is an unusual bookEnid Campbell was a woman who, in style on the face of it feels like a novel by E M Forster; with a deep study at , had everything. Leading the minutiae life of an aristocrat – full of inherited wealth and splendour, glamourous locales and high expectations. Only Enid's life has been plagued by mental illness – undiagnosed, untreated and thought, yet the plot threatening both Enid and content is thoroughly modernthose close to her. The bulk After losing custody of the story her children, Enid sells her son to her sister for £500 – but is told through the perspective this an act of Nickgreed, and we see his point or an act of view on life around him. The main characters desperation? Exploring the true story of her own grandmother, Eleanor Anstruther has found the book, however, are Pieter and Riaanperfect subject for an explosive, as it is these characters who fascinate Nick and are the focus of his contemplation moving and crisisbeautifully well written debut. [[Fire on the Mountain A Perfect Explanation by Jean McNeilEleanor Anstruther|Full Review]]

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===[[The Execution of Justice Choke by Friedrich Durrenmatt and John E Woods (translator)Sofie Laguna]]===

[[image:2.5star2star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:CrimeLiterary Fiction|CrimeLiterary Fiction]]

ItThere's 1957a dull, dispiriting pang of disappointment that comes when you try something everyone else loves and wefind out that you're somewhere in Switzerland, and there's just one case on everyone's lips – the simple fact that a politician has gone really not 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 chauffeur-driven Rolls before handing himself in to face the murder rapit. Coffee. Ice skating. Of course he's found guilty, even if the gun involved has managed to disappearA new Netflix series. He's certainly of much interest, not only to our narratorBooks are like that, 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 timebut doubly so. 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 Choke by Friedrich Durrenmatt and John E Woods (translator)Sofie Laguna|Full Review]]

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[[image:Cercas_Impostor0857058738.jpg|left|link=httpshttp://www.amazon.co.uk/gpdp/product0857058738/0857056506ref=nosim?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0857056506]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Impostor by Javier Cercas and Frank Wynne (translator)]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]] 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]]

===[[The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao Equator by Martha Batalha Antonin Varenne and Eric M B Becker Sam Taylor (translator)]]===

[[image:43.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]], [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]

On It strikes me that nobody can speak well of the surfaceWild West outside the walls of a theme park. Our agent to see how bad it was here is Pete Ferguson, young housewife Euridice Gusmao has it all. A nice-enoughwho bristles at the indignity of white man against Native 'Indian', parent-pleasing husband with who spends days being physically sick while indulging in a steady banking jobbuffalo hunt, two young children upon whom to doteand who hates the way man – and woman, of course – can turn against fellow man at the bat of an immaculate home complete eyelid. But this book is about so much more than the 1870s USA, and the attendant problems with maidgold rushes, pioneer spirits and racial genocide. That He finds himself trying to find this book's all anyone could ever wantversion of Utopia, isn't it? Not Euridice. She has an inexplicable ache inside her for something morenamely the Equator, like many of us. Yet each of her pet projectswhere everything is upside down, from a desire people walk on their heads with rocks in their pockets to publish a recipe book keep them on the ground to starting a cottage sewing industry in her living roomcounter the anti-gravity, and where, who knows, are met with scorn from her stern husband Antenorthings might actually be better. He wants But that equator is a wife who doesnlong way away – and there't draw attention to herself, whose only domains are her house s a whole adventure full of Mexico and Latin America between him and her family. it… [[The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao Equator by Martha Batalha Antonin Varenne and Eric M B Becker Sam Taylor (translator)|Full Review]]

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===[[The Dark-Blue Winter Overcoat and other stories from Nights of the North Creaking Bed by Sjon Hodgkinson and Ten Hodgkinson (editors)Toni Kan]]===

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A compilation like this should be nigh on brilliant. It's not one author's best short works, itNights of the Creaking Bed''s that of is a dozen. It's not from one snapshot in time, as some were written the year collection of publication and some in the 1960sshort stories by Toni Kan. It's not from one tiny patch The series of author's desk or one set stories tell of laptop keys, but from the entire Nordic world, whether that be urban Scandinavia, the Faroes lives and other island groups, or Greenland. That is a world that's changing – as the Greenland-born author now lusts of an assortment of characters living in Brooklyn, and the Iraqi blood on these pagesaround Lagos, testifyNigeria. It's a world where new roads and new building works mean a family living on the edge Nigeria, in this collection, is imbued with its very own heart of darkness. Danger stalks the forest at the beginning of the story shadows and people are being surrounded by other life by the end, and killed for nothing more than a wrong look. Kan writes with the influence of centuries of folklore featured, a lot more than vitality and passion that changes – sometimes it seems allows these cynical stories to be even the characters' species… achieve a glimmer of hope. [[The Dark-Blue Winter Overcoat and other stories from Nights of the North Creaking Bed by Sjon Hodgkinson and Ten Hodgkinson (editors)Toni Kan|Full Review]]