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|isbnauthor=B077K6BQFDJennifer Saint|title=The Complete Novels: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion |author=Jane AustenElektra|rating=54

|summary=Yes - that's over eighty-one hours Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the story of listening for three women who live in the purchase heavily male dominated world of one audio bookAncient Greece. All six major novels Cassandra, Clytemnestra, and Elektra are read by conmedienne Alison Larkin all bit players in the story of the Trojan War. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the silent women have the most compelling stories and they're presented in the order in which they were publishedmost extreme furies.|isbn=1913097854

|authorisbn=Andrea Bajani and Elizabeth Harris (translator)8409290103|title=If You Kept a Record of SinsOnly|author=Matthew Tree

|summary=This was an incredibly readable novella, but Twenty-one that left me a little conflicted. We start as our hero arrives at Bucharest airport-year-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by his father, and before we even know his gender or the nature of the person cotton-broker AO Lowry: he's addressing in asked his second person monologue of a narrationaccountant, we see him picked up by his mother's chauffeurMr Patrick, and carted off to do all ensure that the necessary introductions before said mother is buried young man got on board the following day. The mother boat and thereafter Patrick was to send him a businesswoman, who clearly left northern Italy monthly allowance. Patrick sent the money regularly and settled in Romania with her (nighta correspondence -time and business) partner, and feelings of abandonment are still strong. And so sorts - sprang up between the two although we flit from current (well, this came out in the original Italian in 2007, so moderately current) Bucharest, hear more about what Lowry has to the ladsay than Patrick. It wasn't that Lowry senior didn's childhoodt care for his son, and see just what it was that he has didn't care to tell her as have him in this country where he might be a private farewell addressdanger to his wife and other children. The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to get the young man on his way.|isbn=1939810965

|author=Afonso Cruz Antoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Rahul Bery Jane Aitken (translator)|title=Kokoschka's DollRed is My Heart|rating=23.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Well[[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white and read in my house. And so was this one, this looked very much like a book although I could love from the get-go, which is why I picked my review copy up and flipped pages over several times before actually reading any of it. I found things to potentially delight me each time have spelled that more accurately – a weird section in the middle on darker stock paper, a chapter whose number this one was in the 20,000s, letters used as narrative formand is, black and white and so onred. It intrigued with the subterranean voice a man hears in wartorn Dresden that what little I knew of it mentionedYes, too. But you've seen the star rating that comes with he has an artistic collaborator on this reviewpiece, and can tell that if love was on these pages, I think it was 's possible to say not actually caused by themone page lacks the influence of some striking visual ideas. So what happened?|isbn=15294026971913547183

|isbn=0571362672B098FFFBH9|title=SnowSnowcub|author=John BanvilleGraham Fulbright|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)Literary Fiction|summary=Fourteen-year-old Rachel is her school''Well, at least you're s animal rights project leader and she and her friend are producing a Wexford man.'' So said Colonel Osborne when he welcomed DI St John (pronounced 'Sinjun') Strafford competition entry to Ballyglass House just before Christmas 1957. Osborne was master of highlight the Keelmore Hounds and had done something memorable with way in which human beings exploit the Inniskilling Dragoons at Dunkirkanimal world. The niceties had to be established even when there was She gets a Catholic priest dead on the library floor with some precious bits great deal of his anatomy missing. Strafford was support from Roslea her family: father Pip Harrison, a lecturer at Bunclody and thisImperial College, along with his good-but-shabby suitLondon, marked him out as of Osborne's class mother Kate and obviously Protestanther twin, Nick. The dead priest was Father Tom Lawless from Scallanstown Kate runs the family business, who - despite the different religions - was a toy shop called Cornucopia in the habit Putney, which is where we'll meet Rachel's main (if unsuspected) source of spending time at Ballyglass House. His horse was stabled thereinformation: five soft toys.

|author= Tahi SaihateYancey Williams|title= Astral Season, Beastly SeasonCrosshairs of the Devil|rating= 34.5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= We long for our past even though it Award-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski is a place getting on in years and, despite his strenuous objections and thanks to which we can never return. Tahi Saihatehis daughter, in her debut novel ''Astral Seasonfinds himself living - or imprisoned, Beastly Season'from Eddie' illustrates how these roses point of view -tinted glasses often liein room 315 of the Garden of Eden nursing home, with only a trusty nursing aide, Jenkins, for palatable company. Her novel Nothing is a meditation on youth and how the things we do as a teenager can seem intensely important and often going to keep Eddie from his stock-in-trade of writing though, so here, for his readers, are his wanderings through his life-altering's work.|isbn= 19162771010986031658}}

|authorisbn=Laura Imai Messina0008421714|title=The Phone Box at the End of the WorldMrs March|author=Virginia Feito|rating=4.5

|summary= In The problem began just after the northeast publication of Japan, in Inwate Prefecture a man installed a telephone box in his gardenGeorge March's most successful novel to date. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the last page) seemed to either be reading it or had already done so. ''Inside there is an old blackEvery day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, telephonePatricia asked, disconnectedas she was wrapping the bread, that carries voices into ''but isn't this the wind.first time he's based a character on you?'' It is a real place She mentioned that Johanna, a necessary place, and I am pleased to see the IMPORTANT NOTE that the author attaches to principal character had 'her storymannerisms''. Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for the fact that Johanna is the place is not whore of Nantes - ''a tourist destinationweak, plain, detestable, pathetic, it is a sacred placeunloved, a place that must be left to those who really need itunloveable wretch.|isbn=178658039X''

|authorisbn=Amin MaaloufB005FM76AA|title=The DisorientedDuke's Children|author=Anthony Trollope

|summary= Adam has lived in Paris for years, speaks French more easily than his native Arabic. In fact he hasn't been back The story opens to his homeland for 25 yearsprobably the worst news of all: Lady Glencora Palliser is dead. An old friend Her husband, Plantagenet Palliser, the Duke of Omnium, is dying…or as Adam prefers to think of him a formernearly paralysed by grief and struggling -friend, perhaps not as harsh as an exat the same time -friendto adjust to no longer being prime minister, or maybeeven in office. The falling out was a long time agoHe seeks to protect and guide his three adult children, and Adamwhich is easier said than done when none of them wishes to ''be''s partner has no idea what it was aboutguided. Silverbridge (his elder son, actually called Plantagenet, even so she urges him but always known by his title) and Gerald are destined to be sent down from Oxford and Cambridge respectively and to go knowing that he'll regret not doing sorun up gambling debts, occasionally in eye-watering sums. Not knowing whether he's going because he needs or wants Lady Helen has fallen in love with - and wishes tomarry - Frank Tregear, the penniless son of a poor squire, which the Duke cannot countenance, or simply not least because he was asked, sees echos of what might have happened when hemarried Lady Glencora. He's on the next planeabout to learn that parents do not always get their way. |isbn=B07ZQSK9CY

|authorisbn=Joanne M HarrisB004O37B6A|title=A Pocketful of CrowsThe Prime Minister|author=Anthony Trollope|rating=54|genre= Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary= I have always been Plantagenet Palliser, the Duke of Omnium, is the mind that once youprime minister of a coalition government but he're above pictures privately enraged at the seemingly unstoppable rise of Ferdinand Lopez. Lopex is exotic -book level and before you get to graphic sex & violencesome describe him as Jewish, there others as Portuguese but the truth is that no difference between books for children one knows and books for adults. There are good books and poor onesLopez is not going to explain. And Joanne Harris does not produce poor ones. ''A Pocketful The ladies of Crows'society, even Palliser' s own wife, Lady Glencora, are supporters but after Lopez makes an advantageous marriage Palliser is clearly aimed at placed in the younger readers as witness the use position of the middle initial in the authorhaving to support his wife's name to differentiate from her adult offersactions when Lopez loses a by-election. Ignore that if you have loved anything from The Duke's payment of Lopez'Chocolat'' onwards you election expenses in an attempt to stem gossip about his wife will know that Harris is mistress of the modern fairy tale. This is no different. It is an utter delightcome back to haunt him.|isbn=1473222184

|authorisbn=Frederic Beigbeder and Frank Wynne (translator)B00474HVX4|title=A Life Without EndPhineas Redux|author=Anthony Trollope|rating=4.5

|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 s some time when I have the same number as Heinz varieties looms on the horizonsince we heard from [[Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope|Phineas Finn]]. And then Having succeeded in parliament and achieved a few of the big 0-numbers, paying position he fell out with those who provided his income and if all goes wellreturned to Ireland where he married Mary, I'll be an OBEhis childhood sweetheart. He was fortunate to get a job in Cork (Which of course stands for Over Bloody Eighty.or Dublin - recollections may vary) Now if that's the extent and seemed settled into a life of my mid-life crisis, I guess I have to be happydomesticity. Our author here doesn't use that exact phraseTo bring Finn back, but he might be said Trollope had to be living one. Determined to find out how to prolong life for kill off poor Mary and Phineas emerges in London as long as he wants – he would like to see 400 – he hops right into bed a childless widower with a legacy from an aunt who died at just the assistant right time to allow 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 move to keep on goingbe possible. But how can he get to not flick the 'final way out' switch, especially when foie gras tastes so nice?|isbn=1642860670

|author= Maryse CondéJessie Greengrass|title= The Wondrous and Tragic Life of Ivan and IvanaHigh House|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= We live in a post- world: post-colonialismCharles Darwin taught that all living matter evolved to pass on its genetic material with the implied belief that your progeny will then pass on theirs. However, post-modernism, post truththat train of thought is slowly seems to have fallen out of favour. The list goes on. There Today's young generation are numerous works discovering that utilise the prefix post- in their categorisation, but perhaps none more so than Maryse Condéparents and their parents' parents did not seem to think that far ahead. In her new novel, Or they did think that far ahead and thought "it's not my problem" or "there'The Wondrous s nothing I can do". Raising a child and Tragic Life living in a world on the precipice of Ivan and Ivanacatastrophe is what drives ''The High House'', Condé writes with fervour about the scars left by colonialism on the countries to which it latched itselfJessie Greengrass. Ivan and Ivana are twins born in Guadeloupe, This is not a French overseas departmentscience-fiction novel. They grow up with intense and passionate feelings for each otherThis is our reality. As they grow up This is the life our children and move overseas, the ravages of a post-colonial society drive them apart with tragic consequencestheir children will have to live.|isbn=16428606971800750072

|author= Ukamaka OlisakweCharlie Carroll|title= Ogadinma Or, Everything Will Be All RightThe Lip|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 RightMelody Janie Rowe''. Ogadinma even the name is the eponymous heroine evocative of…probably of whatever we want it to be, and maybe that's the story.point. We are with her in every scene and it is her narrative voice that leads To me the storyname sings of English folk music, although Olisakwe writes but even in third person. This provides a sense my use of detachment for the reader and highlights the isolation of Ogadinma. She is exiled from her fatherthat word English, I know I's home and sent to Lagos where she is married to m putting an older man named Tobeemmet take on things. Their marriage descends into violence and indignities and Ogadinma must utilise her resourcefulness to escape And Melody Janie Rowe is anti-emmet.|isbn=19116481601529334179

|authorisbn=Elliot ReedB003UH99X4|title=A Key to Treehouse LivingThe Eustace Diamonds|author=Anthony Trollope|rating=45|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=This is the story of It was generally thought that Sir Florian Eustace had come to regret his marriage but he didn't live long enough for this to become a young boyproblem. After his death, William Tycehis wife, who is being raised by his uncle after the death Lizzie - still only in her late teens - was in possession of his mother a very valuable diamond necklace and his fatherwas determined that she would not hand it over to her husband's abandonmentexecutors. HoweverShe was adamant that Sir Florian had given it to her absolutely, it isn't told in although the precise circumstances of the usual narrative waygiving varied from telling to telling. Instead, the book is made up of glossary entries, written by William, as Lady Eustace was not a woman to whom truth meant a way of describing certain events, situations and emotionsgreat deal. It runs alphabeticallyAll that was important to her now, starting with ABSENCEshe maintained, then moving to ALPHABETICAL ORDERwas her son. As I began to read I did find myself thinking 'what on earth?!' but I soon grew used to the styleAnd, of course, and was instead caught up in William's storyher diamonds.|isbn=1911545418

|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}} {{Frontpage|isbn=1471186393B003L7TDMU|title=Photographer of the LostPhineas Finn|author=Caroline ScottAnthony Trollope

|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=May 1921. Edie receives a photograph through the post. There Phineas Finn is no letter or note with it. There is nothing written on the back son of the photographDr Malachi Finn, a successful doctor in Killaloe in County Clare, who sent his son to London to train as a lawyer. It Phineas's interest is more in making influential friends than in becoming a picture lawyer and one of her husbandthem, Barrington Erle, Francis. Francis has been missing suggests that he runs for four yearsParliament in the forthcoming election. Technically, he has been "missing, believed killed" but that His father is not something that a young widow can believeentirely in favour of this as members are not remunerated and it would be up to him to provide financial support for his son as well as funding his election. She hangs on One of the word 'missingdoctor's patients is Lord Tulla who controls the borough of Loughshane and by this stroke of luck Finn is, eventually, disbelieving the word killedelected by a small margin.

|isbn=1509896465B003A6W0FO|title=The NightjarCan You Forgive Her?|author=Deborah HewittAnthony Trollope

|genre=FantasyLiterary Fiction|summary=On the surface ''The NightjarCan You Forgive Her?'' is an unusual looks deceptively simple: it's the story of one woman and two men who are vying with each other for her love. Alice Vavasor was originally engaged to her cousin, George Vavasor but she broke off that engagement and exciting storylater became engaged to John Grey. When we first meet Alice Wyndham lives a normal life in London until she finds a box 's on her doorstep one morning an extended tour of the continent with George Vavasor and her life begins to unravel, fasthis sister Kate. From It's obvious that very moment, there's still a great deal of chemistry between John and Alice - and Kate is all for encouraging the relationship as it would tie Alice to her life . George wants Alice but it's a matter of ''amour propre'' rather than love: he has little consideration for anyone other than himself and the original engagement had fallen through because of his infidelity and deceitfulness. This thread is flooded with magic, loss, expectation the story of a very complicated love affair and particularly, betrayala woman who lacks confidence in her own judgement. As everything around You might not like Alice to start with but you will warm to her shifts, all that she knows, all that she thinks she knows, must change. Who can she trust? Who must she trust? Who will she trust? More importantly, can she even trust herself?

|isbnauthor=0857058738Lucy Holland|title=Equator|author=Antonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)Sistersong|rating=3.5|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=It strikes me that nobody can speak well Sistersong is part of a genre I particularly enjoy, the Wild West outside the walls modern retelling of a theme parkfolk and fairy tales. Our agent to see how bad it was here is Pete FergusonThese stories, who bristles at the indignity for most of the white man against Native 'Indian'us, who spends days being physically sick while indulging in are a cornerstone of childhood and I relish seeing them retold with fresh eyes and a buffalo hunt, fresh perspective. If handled well these retellings give new life and who hates the way man – new meaning to stories that are now becoming increasingly narrow and womanoutdated, of course – can turn against fellow man at fleshing out characters, examining relationships and re-evaluating the bat role of an eyelidwomen. But this book Sistersong is about so much more than the 1870s USAa perfect example of a modern retelling done well, and the attendant problems plot is handled with gold rushescare, pioneer spirits and racial genocide. He finds himself trying keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing the characters to come to find this book's version of Utopialife, namely the Equator, where everything is upside downto feel real and human, people walk on their heads with rocks most importantly they feel relatable in their pockets to keep them on a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the ground to counter the antipre-gravity, and where, who knows, things might actually be betterSaxon age they live in. But that equator This is a long way away – and there's a whole adventure full masterpiece of Mexico storytelling and Latin America between him and it… I was captivated from beginning to end.|isbn=1529039037

|isbn=1526614960B002SQCYWQ|title=The Dutch HouseComplete Barchester Chronicles|author=Ann PatchettAnthony Trollope

|summary=When we first meet Danny I told my daughter that I didn't know what to listen to now that I'd finished [[The Complete Novels: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and his elder sisterPrejudice, Maeve ConroyMansfield Park, they're both living at Emma, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion by Jane Austen|The Dutch House with their parents and under the gaze Complete Novels of Jane Austen]] for the portraits of second time on the former owners whose oil paintings still hang on trot she had the walls. It's a strange family dynamicperfect answer: Cyril Conroy is distant The Barchester Chronicles and the closest Danny seems to come to him is when he goes out with him on they were in my inbox in a Saturday collecting rents from properties the family ownsmatter of minutes. Elna Conroy is loving, but absent increasingly often until They're not ''quite'' as well known as the point comes when the children are told that she will not be returning. In other circumstances, this might have affected Maeve and Danny deeply, Austen books but their primary relationship is with each other. Itthey's a bond which only death will breakre an excellent follow on.

|isbn=0954899520B077K6BQFD|title=A Winter BookThe Complete Novels: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion |author=Tove JanssonJane Austen

|summary=Tove JanssonYes - that's worldwide fame lasts on the Moomin books, written in over eighty-one hours of listening for the 1940s and later becoming television characters purchase of the simplicity, naivety one audio book. All six major novels are read by conmedienne Alison Larkin and sheer they'goodness' that would later produce flowerpot men or teletubbies. Simple drawings, simple stories, simple goodness. 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 re presented in the natural world and the simple life that not only informed those child-like trolls but went far beyond any fantasy of how the world might beorder in which they were published.

|isbnauthor=0954221710Andrea Bajani and Elizabeth Harris (translator)|title=The Summer Book|author=Tove JanssonIf You Kept a Record of Sins|rating=4.5

|summary=Tove JanssonThis was an incredibly readable novella, but one that left me a little conflicted. We start as our hero arrives at Bucharest airport, and before we even know his gender or the nature of the person he's addressing in his second person monologue of a narration, we see him picked up by his mother's short novel about Summer chauffeur, and carted off to do all the necessary introductions before said mother is several worlds away from buried the Moomintrolls she is most famous for outside her native Scandinaviafollowing day. Book yourself an afternoon this SummerThe mother was a businesswoman, who clearly left northern Italy and take yourself settled in Romania with her (night-time and The Summer Book somewhere quietbusiness) partner, preferably within sight and sound feelings of abandonment are still strong. And so we flit from current (well, this came out in the original Italian in 2007, so moderately current) Bucharest, to the sealad's childhood, settle back and prepare see just what he has to be transportedtell her as a private farewell address.|isbn=1939810965

|isbnauthor=1788542347Afonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)|title=Snowflake, AZ|author=Marcus SedgwickKokoschka's Doll|rating=32.5

|summary=This is Well, this looked very much like a deepbook I could love from the get-go, interesting read, unlike which is why I picked my review copy up and flipped pages over several times before actually reading any book of it. I've read in quite some found things to potentially delight me each time. The novel's story follows – a young man named Ash weird section in the process of joining middle on darker stock paper, a community of sick people chapter whose number was in the curiously named town 20,000s, letters used as narrative form, and so on. It intrigued with the subterranean voice a man hears in wartorn Dresden that what little I knew of Snowflakeit mentioned, Arizonatoo. These people are sick But you've seen the star rating that comes with this review, and can tell that if love was on these pages, but itwas not actually caused by them. So what happened?|isbn=1529402697}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0571362672|title=Snow|author=John Banville|rating=5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary='s not a sickness you've heard of. InsteadWell, theyat least you're environmentally ill – affected by household chemicals and fabrics, pesticides, static electricity, and radiation – and their only a Wexford man.''cure So said Colonel Osborne when he welcomed DI St John (pronounced 'Sinjun' is ) Strafford to stay in Ballyglass House just before Christmas 1957. Osborne was master of the Keelmore Hounds and had done something memorable with the town away from Inniskilling Dragoons at Dunkirk. The niceties had to be established even when there was a Catholic priest dead on the real worldlibrary floor with some precious bits of his anatomy missing. Though it Strafford was from Roslea at Bunclody and this, along with his good-but-shabby suit, marked him out as of Osborne's about a real placeclass and obviously Protestant. The dead priest was Father Tom Lawless from Scallanstown, who - despite the people different religions - was in it are fictionalthe habit of spending time at Ballyglass House. It really is a place apart, quite literally cut off from the outside world – people are even required to decontaminate themselves thoroughly before becoming fully integrated His horse was stabled there.