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|isbnauthor=B002SQCYWQJennifer Saint|title=The Complete Barchester Chronicles|author=Anthony TrollopeElektra|rating=54

|summary=When I told my daughter that I didn't know what to listen to now that IElektra'd finished [[The Complete Novels: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudiceby Jennifer Saint tells the story of three women who live in the heavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. Cassandra, Mansfield ParkClytemnestra, Emma, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion by Jane Austen|The Complete Novels Elektra are all bit players in the story of Jane Austen]] for the second time on Trojan War. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the trot she had silent women have the perfect answer: The Barchester Chronicles most compelling stories and they were in my inbox in a matter of minutes. They're not ''quite'' as well known as the Austen books but they're an excellent follow onmost extreme furies.|isbn=1913097854

|isbn=B077K6BQFD8409290103|title=The Complete Novels: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion If Only|author=Jane AustenMatthew Tree|rating=4.5

|summary=Yes Twenty-one-year-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by his father, cotton- broker AO Lowry: he asked his accountant, Mr Patrick, to ensure that's over eightythe young man got on board the boat and thereafter Patrick was to send him a monthly allowance. Patrick sent the money regularly and a correspondence -one hours of listening sorts - sprang up between the two although we hear more about what Lowry has to say than Patrick. It wasn't that Lowry senior didn't care for his son, it was that he didn't care to have him in this country where he might be a danger to his wife and other children. The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to get the purchase of young man on his way.}}{{Frontpage|author=Antoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)|title=Red is My Heart|rating=3.5|genre=Literary Fiction |summary=[[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white and read in my house. And so was this one, although I could have spelled that more accurately – this one audio bookwas, and is, black and white and red. All six major novels are read by conmedienne Alison Larkin Yes, he has an artistic collaborator on this piece, and theyI think it're presented in s possible to say not one page lacks the order in which they were publishedinfluence of some striking visual ideas.|isbn=1913547183

|authorisbn=Andrea Bajani and Elizabeth Harris (translator)B098FFFBH9|title=If You Kept a Record of SinsSnowcub|author=Graham Fulbright

|summary=This 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 heFourteen-year-old Rachel is her school's addressing in his second person monologue of animal rights project leader and she and her friend are producing a narration, we see him picked up by his mother's chauffeur, and carted off competition entry to do all highlight the necessary introductions before said mother is buried way in which human beings exploit the following dayanimal world. The mother was She gets a businesswomangreat deal of support from her family: father Pip Harrison, who clearly left northern Italy a lecturer at Imperial College, London, mother Kate and settled in Romania with her (night-time and business) partnertwin, and feelings of abandonment are still strongNick. And so we flit from current (well Kate runs the family business, this came out a toy shop called Cornucopia in the original Italian in 2007Putney, so moderately current) Bucharest, to the ladwhich is where we'll meet Rachel's childhood, and see just what he has to tell her as a private farewell addressmain (if unsuspected) source of information: five soft toys.|isbn=1939810965

|author=Afonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)Yancey Williams|title=KokoschkaCrosshairs of the Devil|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Award-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski is getting on in years and, despite his strenuous objections and thanks to his daughter, finds himself living - or imprisoned, from Eddie's point of view - in room 315 of the Garden of Eden nursing home, with only a trusty nursing aide, Jenkins, for palatable company. Nothing is going to keep Eddie from his stock-in-trade of writing though, so here, for his readers, are his wanderings through his life's Dollwork.|isbn=0986031658}} {{Frontpage|isbn=0008421714|title=Mrs March|author=Virginia Feito|rating=24.5

|summary=Well, this looked very much like a book I could love from The problem began just after the publication of George March's most successful novel to date. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the get-go, which is why I picked my review copy up and flipped pages over several times before actually last page) seemed to either be reading any of itor had already done so. I found things Every day Mrs March went to potentially delight me each time – a weird section in the middle local patisserie to buy olive bread but on darker stock paperthat particular morning, a chapter whose number Patricia asked, as she was in wrapping the 20bread,000s, letters used as narrative form, and so ''but isn't this the first time he's based a character on. you?'' It intrigued with the subterranean voice a man hears in wartorn Dresden She mentioned that what little I knew of it mentionedJohanna, toothe principal character had 'her mannerisms''. But you've seen Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for the star rating fact that comes with this reviewJohanna is the whore of Nantes - ''a weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, and can tell that if love was on these pagesunloved, it was not actually caused by themunloveable wretch. So what happened?|isbn=1529402697''

|isbn=0571362672B005FM76AA|title=SnowThe Duke's Children|author=John BanvilleAnthony Trollope|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)Literary Fiction|summary=''Well, at least you're a Wexford man.'' So said Colonel Osborne when he welcomed DI St John (pronounced 'Sinjun') Strafford The story opens to Ballyglass House just before Christmas 1957probably the worst news of all: Lady Glencora Palliser is dead. Osborne was master Her husband, Plantagenet Palliser, the Duke of the Keelmore Hounds Omnium, is nearly paralysed by grief and had done something memorable with struggling - at the Inniskilling Dragoons at Dunkirksame time - to adjust to no longer being prime minister, or even in office. The niceties had He seeks to be established even protect and guide his three adult children, which is easier said than done when there was a Catholic priest dead on the library floor with some precious bits none of his anatomy missingthem wishes to ''be'' guided. Strafford was Silverbridge (his elder son, actually called Plantagenet, but always known by his title) and Gerald are destined to be sent down from Roslea at Bunclody Oxford and Cambridge respectively and thisto run up gambling debts, along occasionally in eye-watering sums. Lady Helen has fallen in love with his good-butand wishes to marry -shabby suitFrank Tregear, marked him out as the penniless son of Osborne's class and obviously Protestant. The dead priest was Father Tom Lawless from Scallanstowna poor squire, who - despite which the different religions - was in the habit Duke cannot countenance, not least because he sees echos of spending time at Ballyglass Housewhat might have happened when he married Lady Glencora. His horse was stabled thereHe's about to learn that parents do not always get their way.

|authorisbn= Tahi SaihateB004O37B6A|title= Astral Season, Beastly SeasonThe Prime Minister|author=Anthony Trollope|rating= 3.54|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= We long for our past even though it Plantagenet Palliser, the Duke of Omnium, is the prime minister of a place coalition government but he's privately enraged at the seemingly unstoppable rise of Ferdinand Lopez. Lopex is exotic - some describe him as Jewish, others as Portuguese but the truth is that no one knows and Lopez is not going to which we can never returnexplain. Tahi Saihate The ladies of society, in her debut novel even Palliser''Astral Seasons own wife, Lady Glencora, Beastly Season'' illustrates how these rose-tinted glasses often lie. Her novel are supporters but after Lopez makes an advantageous marriage Palliser is a meditation on youth and how placed in the things we do as position of having to support his wife's actions when Lopez loses a teenager can seem intensely important and often lifeby-alteringelection. The Duke's payment of Lopez' election expenses in an attempt to stem gossip about his wife will come back to haunt him.|isbn= 1916277101

|authorisbn=Laura Imai MessinaB00474HVX4|title=The Phone Box at the End of the WorldPhineas Redux|author=Anthony Trollope|rating=4.5

|summary= In the northeast of Japan, It's some time since we heard from [[Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope|Phineas Finn]]. Having succeeded in Inwate Prefecture parliament and achieved a man installed paying position he fell out with those who provided his income and returned to Ireland where he married Mary, his childhood sweetheart. He was fortunate to get a telephone box job in his gardenCork (or Dublin - recollections may vary) and seemed settled into a life of domesticity. ''Inside there is an old blackTo bring Finn back, telephone, disconnected, that carries voices into the wind.'' It is Trollope had to kill off poor Mary and Phineas emerges in London as a real place, childless widower with a necessary place, and I am pleased legacy from an aunt who died at just the right time to see the IMPORTANT NOTE that allow the author attaches move 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 itpossible.|isbn=178658039X

|author=Amin MaaloufJessie Greengrass|title=The DisorientedHigh House

|summary= Adam has lived in Paris for years, speaks French more easily than his native Arabic. In fact he hasn't been back Charles Darwin taught that all living matter evolved to his homeland for 25 yearspass on its genetic material with the implied belief that your progeny will then pass on theirs. An old friend However, that train of thought is dying…or as Adam prefers slowly seems to think have fallen out of him a former-friend, perhaps not as harsh as an ex-friend, or maybefavour. The falling out was a long time ago, and AdamToday's partner has no idea what it was about, even so she urges him to go knowing young generation are discovering that hetheir parents and their parents'll regret parents did not doing soseem to think that far ahead. Not knowing whether heOr they did think that far ahead and thought "it's going because he needs not my problem" or wants to, or simply because he was asked, he"there's nothing I can do". Raising a child and living in a world on the next planeprecipice of catastrophe is what drives ''The High House'' by Jessie Greengrass. This is not a science-fiction novel. This is our reality. This is the life our children and their children will have to live. |isbn=B07ZQSK9CY1800750072

|author=Joanne M HarrisCharlie Carroll|title=A Pocketful of CrowsThe Lip

|genre= Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|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 CrowsMelody Janie Rowe'' even the name is clearly aimed at the younger readers as witness the use evocative of…probably of the middle initial in the authorwhatever we want it to be, and maybe that's name to differentiate from her adult offersthe point. Ignore To me the name sings of English folk music, but even in my use of that if you have loved anything from word English, I know I''Chocolat'' onwards you will know that Harris is mistress of the modern fairy talem putting an emmet take on things. This And Melody Janie Rowe is no different. It is an utter delightanti-emmet.|isbn=14732221841529334179

|authorisbn=Frederic Beigbeder and Frank Wynne (translator)B003UH99X4|title=A Life Without EndThe Eustace Diamonds|author=Anthony Trollope|rating=45

|summary=I looked at the calendar the other week, and disappointedly realised I have a birthday this year – I know, yet another one. It wonwas generally thought that Sir Florian Eustace had come to regret his marriage but he didn't be one of the major numbers, but the time when I have the same number as Heinz varieties looms on the horizonlive long enough for this to become a problem. And then After his death, his wife, Lizzie - still only in her late teens - was in possession of a few of the big 0-numbers, very valuable diamond necklace and if all goes well, Iwas determined that she would not hand it over to her husband'll be an OBE. (Which of course stands for Over Bloody Eightys executors.) Now if She was adamant that's Sir Florian had given it to her absolutely, although the extent precise circumstances of my mid-life crisis, I guess I have the giving varied from telling to be happytelling. Our author here doesn't use that exact phrase, but he might be said Lady Eustace was not a woman to be living onewhom truth meant a great deal. Determined All that was important 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 interviewsher now, she maintained, and they end up with a childwas her son. And, which is at least a way of continuing the life of his genescourse, and a motive to keep on goingher diamonds. But how can he get to not flick the 'final way out' switch, especially when foie gras tastes so nice?|isbn=1642860670

|authorisbn= Maryse CondéB003L7TDMU|title= The Wondrous and Tragic Life of Ivan and IvanaPhineas Finn|author=Anthony Trollope|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= We live Phineas Finn is the son of Dr Malachi Finn, a successful doctor in Killaloe in County Clare, who sent his son to London to train as a post- world: post-colonialism, post-modernism, post truthlawyer. The list goes on. There are numerous works that utilise the prefix post- Phineas's interest is more in their categorisation, but perhaps none more so making influential friends than Maryse Condé. In her new novel, ''The Wondrous in becoming a lawyer and Tragic Life one of Ivan and Ivana''them, Barrington Erle, Condé writes with fervour about the scars left by colonialism on suggests that he runs for Parliament in the countries to which it latched itselfforthcoming election. Ivan His father is not entirely in favour of this as members are not remunerated and Ivana are twins born in Guadeloupe, a French overseas department. They grow it would be up with intense and passionate feelings to him to provide financial support for each otherhis son as well as funding his election. As they grow up One of the doctor's patients is Lord Tulla who controls the borough of Loughshane and move overseasby this stroke of luck Finn is, eventually, the ravages of elected by a post-colonial society drive them apart with tragic consequencessmall margin.|isbn=1642860697

|authorisbn= Ukamaka OlisakweB003A6W0FO|title= Ogadinma Or, Everything Will Be All RightCan You Forgive Her?|author=Anthony Trollope|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= The new novel by Ukamaka Olisakwe is a look at On the trauma and heartache of being a woman in 1980s Nigeria. The title is surface ''Can You Forgive Her?'Ogadinma Or, Everything Will Be All Right'looks deceptively simple: it'. Ogadinma is s the eponymous heroine story of the story.. We one woman and two men who are vying with each other for her in every scene and it is love. Alice Vavasor was originally engaged to her narrative voice cousin, George Vavasor but she broke off that leads engagement and later became engaged to John Grey. When we first meet Alice she's on an extended tour of the story, although Olisakwe writes in third personcontinent with George Vavasor and his sister Kate. This provides It's obvious that there's still a sense great deal of detachment chemistry between John and Alice - and Kate is all for encouraging the reader relationship as it would tie Alice to her. George wants Alice but it's a matter of ''amour propre'' rather than love: he has little consideration for anyone other than himself and highlights the isolation original engagement had fallen through because of Ogadinmahis infidelity and deceitfulness. She This thread is exiled from the story of a very complicated love affair and a woman who lacks confidence in her father's home and sent own judgement. You might not like Alice to Lagos where she is married start with but you will warm to an older man named Tobe. Their marriage descends into violence and indignities and Ogadinma must utilise her resourcefulness to escape.|isbn=1911648160

|author=Elliot ReedLucy Holland|title=A Key to Treehouse LivingSistersong|rating=45|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=This Sistersong is the story part of a young boygenre I particularly enjoy, William Tyce, who is being raised by his uncle after the death modern retelling of his mother folk and his father's abandonment. However, it isn't told in the usual narrative wayfairy tales. InsteadThese stories, the book is made up for most of glossary entriesus, written by William, as are a way cornerstone of describing certain eventschildhood and I relish seeing them retold with fresh eyes and a fresh perspective. If handled well these retellings give new life and new meaning to stories that are now becoming increasingly narrow and outdated, fleshing out characters, situations examining relationships and emotionsre-evaluating the role of women. It runs alphabeticallySistersong is a perfect example of a modern retelling done well, starting the plot is handled with ABSENCEcare, then moving keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing the characters to ALPHABETICAL ORDER. As I began come to read I did find myself thinking 'what on earth?!' but I soon grew used life, to feel real and human, most importantly they feel relatable in a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the style, pre-Saxon age they live in. This is a masterpiece of storytelling and I was instead caught up in William's storycaptivated from beginning to end.|isbn=19115454181529039037

|authorisbn= Karina Sainz Borgo and Elizabeth Bryer (translator)B002SQCYWQ|title= It Would Be Night in CaracasThe Complete Barchester Chronicles|author=Anthony Trollope|rating= 45|genre= Literary Fiction |summary= When I told my daughter that I didn't know what to listen to now that I'It Would Be Night in Caracas'' illuminates d finished [[The Complete Novels: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion by Jane Austen|The Complete Novels of Jane Austen]] for the second time on the everyday horrors of modern day Venezuela. It begins with trot she had the death of Adelaida Falcon's mother perfect answer: The Barchester Chronicles and chronicles Adelaida's coming to terms with her new solitude they were in this world and her attempts to escape it. Danger stalks the shadows and, my inbox in a society where matter of minutes. They're not ''quite'' as well known as the establishment is crumbling, who can you turn to? |isbn=0062936867Austen books but they're an excellent follow on.}}

|isbn=1471186393B077K6BQFD|title=Photographer of the LostThe Complete Novels: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion |author=Caroline ScottJane Austen|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=May 1921. Edie receives a photograph through the post. There is no letter or note with it. There is nothing written on the back Yes - that's over eighty-one hours of listening for the photograph. It is a picture purchase of her husband, Francis. Francis has been missing for four years. Technically, he has been "missing, believed killed" but that is not something that a young widow can believeone audio book. She hangs on the word 'missingAll six major novels are read by conmedienne Alison Larkin and they', disbelieving re presented in the word killedorder in which they were published.

|isbnauthor=1509896465Andrea Bajani and Elizabeth Harris (translator)|title=The Nightjar|author=Deborah HewittIf You Kept a Record of Sins

|summary=When we first meet Danny and his elder sisterThis was an incredibly readable novella, Maeve Conroybut one that left me a little conflicted. We start as our hero arrives at Bucharest airport, they're both living at The Dutch House with their parents and under before we even know his gender or the gaze nature of the portraits person he's addressing in his second person monologue of the former owners whose oil paintings still hang on the walls. Ita narration, we see him picked up by his mother's a strange family dynamic: Cyril Conroy is distant chauffeur, and carted off to do all the closest Danny seems to come to him necessary introductions before said mother is when he goes out with him on a Saturday collecting rents from properties buried the family ownsfollowing day. Elna Conroy is lovingThe mother was a businesswoman, who clearly left northern Italy and settled in Romania with her (night-time and business) partner, but absent increasingly often until the point comes when the children and feelings of abandonment are told that she will not be returningstill strong. In other circumstancesAnd so we flit from current (well, this might have affected Maeve and Danny deeplycame out in the original Italian in 2007, so moderately current) Bucharest, but their primary relationship is with each other. Itto the lad's childhood, and see just what he has to tell her as a bond which only death will breakprivate farewell address.|isbn=1939810965

|isbnauthor=0954899520Afonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)|title=A Winter Book|author=Tove JanssonKokoschka's Doll|rating=2.5

|summary=Tove Jansson's worldwide fame lasts on Well, this looked very much like a book I could love from the Moomin booksget-go, written 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 – a weird section in the 1940s and later becoming television characters of middle on darker stock paper, a chapter whose number was in the simplicity20, naivety and sheer 'goodness' that would later produce flowerpot men or teletubbies. Simple drawings000s, simple storiesletters used as narrative form, simple goodnessand so on. What is often forgotten outside of her native Finland is that she was It intrigued with the subterranean voice a serious writer…that she wrote for adults as well as children…and man hears in wartorn Dresden that she had a feeling for what little I knew of it mentioned, too. But you've seen the natural world star rating that comes with this review, and the simple life can tell that if love was on these pages, it was not only informed those child-like trolls but went far beyond any fantasy of how the world might beactually caused by them. So what happened?|isbn=1529402697

|isbn=09542217100571362672|title=The Summer BookSnow|author=Tove JanssonJohn Banville

|genre=Literary FictionCrime (Historical)|summary=Tove Jansson's short novel about Summer is several worlds away from 'Well, at least you're a Wexford man.'' So said Colonel Osborne when he welcomed DI St John (pronounced 'Sinjun') Strafford to Ballyglass House just before Christmas 1957. Osborne was master of the Keelmore Hounds and had done something memorable with the Inniskilling Dragoons at Dunkirk. The niceties had to be established even when there was a Catholic priest dead on the Moomintrolls she is most famous for outside her native Scandinavialibrary floor with some precious bits of his anatomy missing. Book yourself an afternoon Strafford was from Roslea at Bunclody and this Summer, along with his good-but-shabby suit, marked him out as of Osborne's class and take yourself and obviously Protestant. The Summer Book somewhere quietdead priest was Father Tom Lawless from Scallanstown, preferably within sight and sound who - despite the different religions - was in the habit of the sea, settle back and prepare to be transportedspending time at Ballyglass House. His horse was stabled there.