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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|class-"wikitable" cellpaddinggenre=Literary Fiction|summary="15" 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- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->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<!-- Clark -->|author=Joanne M Harris|-title=A Pocketful of Crows| stylerating="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"5|genre= Confident Readers[[image:034901082X.jpg|linksummary=http://wwwI 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.amazon This is no different.co It is an utter delight.uk/dp/034901082X/ref|isbn=nosim?tag1473222184}}{{Frontpage|author=Frederic Beigbeder and Frank Wynne (translator)|title=thebookbag-21]]A Life Without End|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction| stylesummary="verticalI 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-align: top; textnumbers, 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-align: left;"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 Full Light Wondrous and Tragic Life of Ivan and Ivana'', Condé writes with fervour about the Sun scars left by Clare Clark]]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[[image:5star|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.jpg|linkisbn=Category:{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. 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In 1930's Berlin, three people obsessed with art find themselves swept up into a scandal. Emmeline, a wayward young student, Julius, an anxious middle{|class-aged art expert, and Rachmann, a mysterious art dealer, live in the politically turbulent Weimar Berlin, and soon find themselves whipped up into excitement over the surprise discovery of thirty-two previously unknown paintings by Vincent Van Gogh. Based on a true story and unfolding through the subsequent rise of Hitler and the Nazis, the discovery of the art allows these characters to explore authenticity, vanity and self-delusion. [[In The Full Light of the Sun by Clare Clark|Full Review]]"wikitable" cellpadding="15"<!-- Kazan Caroline Scott -->

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===[[The Phoenix Photographer of Florence the Lost by Philip KazanCaroline Scott]]===

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Deep in May 1921. Edie receives a photograph through the post. There is no letter or note with it. There is nothing written on the Tuscan countryside back of fifteenth century Italy, Onoria survives a massacre that destroys her family and homethe photograph. Alone in the forest, she meets It is a band picture of soldiers whoher husband, believing her to be a boy train and develop her – and the determined Onoria becomes a mercenary – desperate to avoid any situation in which she may feel vulnerable againFrancis. Along the way, she meets ex-soldier Celavini, whose journey to Florence sees him investigating two brutal murders Francis has been missing for four years. As he digs further and uncovers links to his own family history Technically, Celavini must revisit the past he shares with Onoriahas been "missing, in the hope believed killed" but that is not something that they a young widow can lay believe. She hangs on the ghosts of their shared history to restword 'missing', before it's too late..disbelieving the word killed. [[The Phoenix Photographer of Florence the Lost by Philip KazanCaroline Scott|Full Review]]

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===[[The Great Wide Open Dutch House by Douglas Kennedy]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]] Douglas Kennedy's ''The Great Wide Open'' has been described as epic by just about everyone, and it often feels as though that was the intention. Though the novel often feels like a pastiche of the great American novel – epic in scope, preoccupied with matters of money and literature, fixated with New York – it often feels more like Kennedy is trying to reverse-engineer the concept altogether. Initially, the novel presents itself as an intimate study of family drama, in the latter half of the novel it smoothly turns to examining the turn of American society since the 70s, and the rapid rise of the hyper-capitalist neoliberal values that have dominated the west since the election of Ronald Reagan. Though it takes place over a twenty-year period between the 70s and the 90s, it notably always keeps one an eye on the present day (Trump, of course, makes an inevitable and slightly incongruous cameo) such that what happens links subtly into current affairs without ever explicitly referencing them. [[The Great Wide Open by Douglas Kennedy|Full Review]] <!-- d'Eramo -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1782273883.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1782273883/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Deviation by Luce d'Eramo and Anne Milano Appel (translator)]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], [[:Category:Autobiography|Autobiography]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] For those of you who have read books of life in the Nazi camps – and of course, for those of you who have not – this can be considered a next step. It begins, after all, with someone escaping Dachau and fleeing her work assignment during a bombing raid, and you'd not blame her one minute, as her career was deemed to be cess-tank cleaner and sewage unblocker by the Germans. In Munich, she stumbles on help to get her to what seems to be a camp for non-native civilians to look for work, or company, or transport elsewhere, either official or otherwise. But then the next chapter sees her going back into the camp next to Dachau once more, and by then eyebrows are being raised. [[Deviation by Luce d'Eramo and Anne Milano Appel (translator)|Full Review]]  <!-- Chamberlain -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1786076446.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1786076446/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Hidden by Mary Chamberlain]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] When Barbara Hummel arrives, determined to identify the mysterious woman whose photograph she has found among her mother's possessions, Dora and Joe find their worlds upended – and are swiftly forced to confront their pasts. Revisiting their time on the Channel Islands during World War II, Dora remembers a time when she concealed her Jewish identity, and Joe, a Catholic Priest, remembers a time when he hid something very different. In this story of love, loss and betrayal, it remains to be seen whether a speck of light can diffuse the darkest shadows of war… [[The Hidden by Mary Chamberlain|Full Review]] <!-- Clár Ní Chonghaile -->|-| style=''width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;''|[[image:1787198146.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1787198146/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style=''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''|===[[The Reckoning by Clar Ni ChonghaileAnn Patchett]]===

As the blurb saysWhen we first meet Danny and his elder sister, Maeve Conroy, they're both living at The Dutch House with their parents and under the gaze of the portraits of the former owners whose oil paintings still hang on the walls. It'In s a cottage in Normandy, Lina Rose strange family dynamic: Cyril Conroy is writing distant and the closest Danny seems to the daughter she abandoned as a baby''…the whole of Chonghaile's second novel come to him is when he goes out with him on a series of letters addressed to DianeSaturday collecting rents from properties the family owns. Lina Elna Conroy is now in her seventies loving, but absent increasingly often until the point comes when the children are told that she will not be returning. In other circumstances this might have affected Maeve and Diane Danny deeply, but their primary relationship is a mother herself. They have met just once since Lina gave her up for adoptionwith each other. It was not 's a good meetingbond which only death will break. [[The Reckoning Dutch House by Clar Ni ChonghaileAnn Patchett|Full Review]]<!-- Abbs -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1473691206.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1473691206/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Frieda by Annabel Abbs]]===

[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]], [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]] Married to English Professor Ernest Weekley, aristocrat Frieda Von Richtofen finds herself stifled by the confines of married life. Visiting family in Munich, she becomes captivated by the ideas of revolution and free love. Meeting the penniless writer D.H. Lawrence, she finds herself drawn into a passionate affair and a tempestuous relationship, changing the course of both their lives, and unleashing a creative outpouring that will change the course of literature forever. [[Frieda by Annabel Abbs|Full Review]] <!-- Susan Fletcher Tove Jansson -->

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===[[House of Glass A Winter Book by Susan FletcherTove Jansson]]===

[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], [[:Category:Historical FictionShort Stories|Historical FictionShort Stories]]

Clara suffered from Tove Jansson's worldwide fame lasts on the Moomin books, written in the 1940s and later becoming television characters of the simplicity, naivety and sheer 'Osteogenesis imperfectagoodness'': these days it that would probably be called brittle bone disease and whilst there is still no curelater produce flowerpot men or teletubbies. Simple drawings, simple stories, treatments have advancedsimple goodness. At the beginning What is often forgotten outside of the twentieth century it meant her native Finland is that Clara she was confined to her home, living life through a window and serious writer…that she wrote for adults as well as children…and that she had a feeling for the tales her mother, Charlotte, brought home. Both became far too knowledgeable about bones natural world and the sounds they made on breaking. Charlotte would ''list bones like continents''. Clara would simple life that not only escape the house after her mother's death informed those child- like trolls but went far beyond any fantasy of a tumour at how the age of thirty nine - and in her wanderings discovered Kew Gardens. Her growing knowledge of tropical plants led to the offer of a job stocking a newly-built glass house at Shadowbrook in Gloucestershireworld might be. [[House of Glass A Winter Book by Susan FletcherTove Jansson|Full Review]]

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===[[The Water Thief Summer Book by Claire HajajTove Jansson]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]]

Nick is in the middle of wedding preparations when he decides to leave his fiancée behind in London and take up a post in some un-named west African country providing engineering support for the building of a children's hospital. He has no idea what he is getting himself into[[image:5star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Water Thief by Claire Hajaj|Full ReviewLiterary Fiction]]

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===[[Aftershocks Snowflake, AZ by A N WilsonMarcus Sedgwick]]===

[[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]

In This is a country very much like New Zealanddeep, but at 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 same time most avowedly notcuriously named town of Snowflake, two women will find loveArizona. Strong love tooThese people are sick, for our narrator will say that her first attraction for her partner was the only thing to make sense but it's not a sickness you've heard of all those exaggerated songs she. Instead, they'd heardre environmentally ill – affected by household chemicals and fabrics, pesticides, static electricity, and books radiation – and poems shetheir only ''cure'd read, and plays she'd acted is to stay in – works of art that had until then seemed sheer hyperbolethe town away from the real world. It was entirely unrequited love for quite some time, but Though it does burgeon, or so we're promised from the off, because of something quite drastic – s about a major earthquake very much like the one that hit Christchurchreal place, but at the same time most avowedly notpeople in it are fictional. This book then It really is a place apart, quite literally cut off from the combined exploration of the lovers and the story of the quakeoutside world – people are even required to decontaminate themselves thoroughly before becoming fully integrated. [[Aftershocks Snowflake, AZ by A N WilsonMarcus Sedgwick|Full Review]]

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===[[Tirzah and the Prince of Crows The Nightjar by Deborah Kay DaviesHewitt]]===

[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]], [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]]

This is a quiet but remarkable story, written in a style reminiscent of E. M. Forster, ''[Tirzah and the Prince of CrowsThe Nightjar'' has no great is an unusual and stirring action but rather small ripples that make a huge impactexciting story. Tirzah is Alice Wyndham lives a young girl of sixteen raised normal life in London until she finds a small Welsh town in the 1970s by highly religious parents as part of a strict religious communitybox on her doorstep one morning and her life begins to unravel, fast. From that very moment, her life is flooded with magic, loss, expectation and particularly, betrayal. As everything around her shifts, all that she knows, all that she thinks she knows, must change. The book follows Tirzah though a tumultuous year as Who can she trust? Who must she tries to decide who trust? Who will she wants to betrust? More importantly, and what can she wants to do with her life. even trust herself? [[Tirzah and the Prince of Crows The Nightjar by Deborah Kay DaviesHewitt|Full Review]]

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| style="''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"''|===[[The Gilded Ones Train Man by Brooke FieldhouseAndrew Mulligan]]===

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It was a hot day in 1984 and Pulse had two job interviews for the dayI came to this book thinking I knew just what to expect, but even though it is [[:Category:Andy Mulligan|the heat wasnauthor't the only reason why he wasn't feeling on top form. He'd had a disturbing dream the night before. He'd been following a Porsche on a difficult route, probably somewhere s]] debut in the Alps when adult novel market (hence the Porsche went off the road. The passenger, a man, was dead, but the woman was still alivemore mature name – he used to be an Andy). ''I'm Freia...''thought it simple to sum up, she said. ''It's spelled the German way.'' Of the two job interviews, the first was with an up-and-coming design studio in Brighton and it would almost certainly be good for Pulse's career. The second was with tale of a runmiddle-down practice based in an old London house and headed by Patrick Lloyd-Lewis, whose wife, Freia, had recently died in unexplained circumstances. The link with the dream of the night before was aged man who knows too much for Pulse to refuse about train travel having his life turned around in the offer of a jobmost pleasant way. He couldnI hadn't resist the lure of the mystery. opened it when I'd shelved it alongside [[:Category:Chris Cleave|Chris Cleave]], and [[The Gilded Ones by Brooke Fieldhouse:Category:David Nicholls|Full ReviewDavid Nicholls]]. I expected some whimsy, some warmth and some affirmative loveliness.

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===[[The Lost Letters of William Woolf A Perfect Explanation by Helen CullenEleanor Anstruther]]===

[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]] William Woolf is a letter detective, working in the Dead Letters Depot in East London. He spends his days deciphering smudged addresses, tracking down mysterious people and reading endless letters of love, guilt, death, hope, and everyday life. [[The Lost Letters of William Woolf by Helen Cullen|Full Review]] <!-- Dehnel -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1786073579.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1786073579/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Lala by Jacek Dehnel and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]] ''This is the mysterious nature of storytelling: the same start can also mean different endings, and different starts can lead to the same finale. It's all subordinate to the greater narrative, which starts somewhere in Kiev''. This beautiful book is exactly that, the mysterious art of storytelling. The wayward meanderings of memory, of tangents and digressions, 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 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, the heir to a lucrative shoe factory based in southern China. More idealistic than his profit-obsessed father, and less motivated solely by the bottom line, he's unsure of himself: unsure whether he can continue his father's success. But complications arise when he starts to question how morally sound the business really is, 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 Historical Fiction|Literary Historical Fiction]]

Innokenty Petrovich Platonov wakes up in Enid Campbell was a hospital bed with no recollection woman who, on the face of it, had everything. Leading the life of an aristocrat – full of who he is or how he got thereinherited wealth and splendour, glamourous locales and high expectations. He is tended Only Enid's life has been plagued by a single doctor, Doctor Geigermental illness – undiagnosed, who gives him a pencil untreated and notebook threatening both Enid and encourages him those close to write down his observations and memoriesher. The notebook After losing custody of her children, Enid sells her son to her sister for £500 – but is thickthis an act of greed, like a novel. How can Innokenty fill it if he cannot remember anythingor an act of desperation? But slowly Exploring the memories start to return, memories true story of childhood holidays at the beachher own grandmother, of life in Eleanor Anstruther has found the dachaperfect subject for an explosive, of the airfield and the aviators...moving and the island..beautifully well written debut.it seems like some memories may be better left buried. He remembers that he is the same age as the century, born in 1900. But if that is the case, how is he still a young man when the pills by his bedside are dated 1999? [[The Aviator A Perfect Explanation by Eugene Vodolazkin and Lisa Hayden (Translator)Eleanor Anstruther|Full Review]]

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===[[The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland Choke by Nicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)Sofie Laguna]]===

[[image:4.5star2star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]]

Jane Ashland is dying. ThatThere's a description of a very early scene here – but alsodull, dispiriting pang of course, a platitude disappointment that can apply to all of us. Jane's life, if anything, is going up comes when you try something everyone else loves and down in levels of pleasure, energy – sobriety – in these pages, but we soon learn find out that you're really not into it recently found a very deeply dark down place. Here then, scattered through a timeline-bending narrative, we have her days finding a Lincolnesque lover as a student in New York, glimpses of therapy, a drive to find her ancestors Coffee. Ice skating. A new Netflix series. Books are like that takes her from rural America to Norway – and a trip there with a new-found friend to watch the musk oxen, of all thingsbut doubly so. And nowhere in sight is anything like a platitude… [[The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland Choke by Nicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)Sofie Laguna|Full Review]]

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===[[Black Sugar Equator by Miguel Bonnefoy Antonin Varenne and Emily Boyce Sam Taylor (translator)]]===

[[image:4star3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]], [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]

Miguel BonnefoyIt strikes me that nobody can speak well of the Wild West outside the walls of a theme park. Our agent to see how bad it was here is Pete Ferguson, who bristles at the indignity of white man against Native 's Indian''Black Sugar'' is , who spends days being physically sick while indulging in a sensual epic chronicling three generations buffalo hunt, and who hates the way man – and woman, of course – can turn against fellow man at the Otero familybat of an eyelid. The tale begins But this book is about so much more than the 1870s USA, and the attendant problems with the disappearance of Captain Henry Morgangold rushes, pioneer spirits and racial genocide. He finds himself trying to find this book's treasure and then illustrates version of Utopia, namely the power this treasure holds over people. Multiple Equator, where everything is upside down, people become obsessed walk on their heads with finding this fabled treasure that has become an urban legend rocks in their pockets to keep them on the town in which ground to counter the story anti-gravity, and where, who knows, things might actually be better. But that equator is set. a long way away – and there's a whole adventure full of Mexico and Latin America between him and it… [[Black Sugar Equator by Miguel Bonnefoy Antonin Varenne and Emily Boyce Sam Taylor (translator)|Full Review]]

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===[[The Zero and Nights of the One Creaking Bed by Ryan RubyToni Kan]]===

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''The Zero and Nights of the OneCreaking Bed'' is a collection of short stories by Toni Kan. The series of stories tell of the lives and lusts of an incredibly well written assortment of characters living in and well crafted book. We meet our narrator, Owenaround Lagos, on the plane to New York for the funeral of his best friendNigeria. He is still reeling after recent eventsNigeria, a suicide pact in which his friend died but he livedthis collection, and he is going through the motions of the funeral and consoling family whilst still trying to get to grips imbued with his its very own feelings heart of grief and guilt. So far, so simpledarkness. But this is where Danger stalks the talent of Ryan Ruby steps in shadows and slowly, so slowly, he reveals little tantalising clues that all is not what it seems, people are killed for nothing more than a throw-away comment here, wrong look. Kan writes with a mis-step there, vitality and it becomes clear passion that Owen is not allows these cynical stories to achieve a reliable narratorglimmer of hope. [[The Zero and Nights of the One Creaking Bed by Ryan RubyToni Kan|Full Review]]