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[[Category:New Reviews|Literary Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=William RyanMatthew Tree|title=The Constant SoldierWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Paul Brandt returns home to his village without the arm he left at the Russian Front in defence of Germany. The village looks pretty much the same as he left it, with the exception of the lack of young men and a new building. His home now boasts an SS rest hut, providing officers with entertainment and respite breaks from the fighting. As Paul passes the hut for the first time, he sees something… or rather someone… that will make him return to work for those he despises. The subject of his decision? A girl he once got into trouble with under different circumstances – before she wore the stripes of a concentration camp prisoner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447255011</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Pamela Johnson|title=Taking in Water|rating=4

|summary=Pamela Johnson's third novel is set in 2002 but has its roots in a real-life tragedy Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from nearly 50 years earlier: in 1953 his father, a storm surge hit the Norfolk coast, destroying Lydia Hutton's grandmother's home drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and sweeping her whole family out to seawho had endless crises of self confidence. Seven-year-old Lydia was the only one So Tim applied himself to survivehis studies, clinging to the wreckage cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and singing hymns to herself to survive. It's a dark part of her past she's never told anyone except Luc, the half-French lover whose iconic performance art piece, ''Taking in Water'', she participated in during a spell in New York City in the 1960s, when she was known as 'Layla' and hung around with the likes of Andy Warholset himself high but achievable ambitions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1534627243</amazonuk>B0CVFXPGP8

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=A N WilsonB0C47LV1PC|title=ResolutionFragility|author=Mosby Woods

|summary=In 1772 Reinhold Forster and his son George were hired as ship's naturalists for the ''Resolution'', the vessel Captain James Cook piloted to New Zealand and back on a three-year voyage of discovery. Once Can you make a Lutheran pastor near Danzig, Reinhold seemed unable to settle to one line of work and had a higher opinion of himself than was prudent. In Wilson's vision of life on the ''ResolutionYo birthing person''joke? And if you could, Reinhold seems fussy, argumentative and rather heartless, as when he offers George's dog up as fresh meat when is the captain question should you make it? Or is desperately ill. George, just 18 when he joins the expeditionquestion if you did, is a self-taught illustrator and botanist with a keen ear for languages. Though precociously intelligent, he is emotionally immature and cannot keep a handle on his masturbation habit or deal with their servant Nally's crush on him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782398279</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Michael Hughes|title= would it land? The Countenance Divine|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary=In 1999, a programmer catch is trying to fix the millennium bug, but can't shake that the sense he's been chosen answer for somethingboth could well be.. In 1888, five women are brutally murdered in the East End by a troubled young man in thrall to a mysterious master. In 1777, an apprentice engraver called William Blake has a defining spiritual experience; thirteen years later this vision returns.  And in 1666, poet and revolutionary John Milton completes the epic for which he will be remembered centuries laterno.

But where does ''Fragility'' is set as the feeling come city of Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to emerge from that the world is about to end?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473636507</amazonuk>restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Emily BittoMosby Woods|title= The Strays|rating= 5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= Lily comes from an ordinary suburban family, but on her first day at a new school she meets Eva: the super-confident middle daughter of artist Evan Trentham. The girls fast become firm friends, to the exclusion of all those ar ound them and it isn't long before Lily is spending more time at the Trentham's than she does at home. Why wouldn't she? Their life is everything her family's isn't.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785079514</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Eowyn Ivey|title=To the Bright Edge of the WorldA Whirly Man Loses His Turn

|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=If youThe West isn're going to go pioneering across unexplored lands, at least be prepared to accept what you seek – namely, what you've never seen beforet the dominant force it once was. That lesson seems quite obvious, but back Nobody in the time of 1885 Allen Forrester West is a little too naïve quite sure how to heed mend this or even if mending itis the best course of action. Governments are flailing. A career soldierwar here, he a push for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is tasked with scouring the potential of the Wolverine River that threads south to the shores of Alaskain actual charge. Imagine then, even though the Russians (who of course used to own the Territory) have had all manner of lethal encounters with those already living there, and even though was a major stretch of man with precognition. Imagine the river has to be traversed strategic advantage in winter when entirely frozen over, as the cliffs either side are too impenetrablethis asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. Allen leaves a much youngerThat man would be valuable, new bride behind – and right from ? Perhaps the get-go his journals force him to pen words about strange happeningsmost valuable asset in history. Imagine then, strange encounters and things of legend coming that this man loses this ability. What would governments do to life. Like I say, what he's never seen before…get it back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472208609</amazonuk>B0C9SNG8R1

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Talulah Riley0571379559|title= Acts of Love|rating= 4.5|genre= Women's Fiction |summary= Bernadette St John presents herself as the very face of contemporary feminine independence. She is strong, career-driven, beautiful…and definitely holds the attention of the public. For Bernadette is the ''Man Whisperer'', winning herself fame with her ability to coax secrets from the richest and most powerful men of the world, exposing them with controversial distaste in her articles. Hidden behind such a conniving and judgemental persona, however, is a deep insecurity, and a desperate longing to be loved by the perfect man. She has already decided that the newly engaged Tim Bazier is the only candidate for such a position in her heart, and will stop at nothing to win him back from his all-too-lovely fiancé. Yet what is perfect is a subject for discussion, and charismatic entrepreneur Radley Blake's unwavering attention has also fallen upon the feisty journalist. It is a weaving tale The House of ''will-they-wont-they'' that Riley spins here, one that I found myself unable to put down.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473637902</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewBroken Bricks|author=Jesse Ball|title=How to Set a Fire and WhyFiona Williams|rating=45

|summary=Lucia Stanton ''The House of Broken Bricks'' is a sarcastic 14-year-old misfit who the story of four people. Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives with her elderly Aunt Lucy in a garage they rent from an evil landlord at the bottom house on the riverbank, built of his large gardenbroken bricks. She never comes right out and explains why she Insubstantial as it might look, it's therestood the passage of time, storms and floods. Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, but if you read between to complete the lines you work out that her father is dead delivery rounds - and her mother is to bring in a mental hospital – presumably for his murdersufficient money. Aunt Lucy is dignified They have twin boys - Sonny and principled – Max, the rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother'Dons Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. People don't do things you aren't proud ofbelieve that they're related, much less twins and there' s an assumption when Max is her motto – even though they are undeniably poor: Lucia only has one set of clothes and mostly lives off of liquorice and Aunt Lucyout with his mother that she's terrible homemade breadhis nanny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1925355470</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jenn AshworthClaire North|title=FellHouse of Odysseus

|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Now ''What could matter more than love?'' The follow-up to the excellent ''Ithaca'' picks up a few months after where we left off. In the palace of Odysseus, with delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without her parents have diedhusband, Annette returns who sailed to sell her old childhood war at Troy and then by divine intervention never returned home but there's work to do on the decrepit building first. As ever she wanders around and tries to make some order of the overgrown shambles, she's watched remains surrounded by suitors vying for the ghost throne of her mother, Netty; a spirit with regretsthe Western Isles. Netty reminisces about Annette's childhood Having survived – politically and physical – the turning point their lives reached when the mysterious healer Timothy Richardson came to stay. It was a time chaotic storm that promised so much but one for which Netty now needs Clytemnestra brought to make amendsIthaca's shores, even if she Queen Penelope is beyond on the gravebrink of a fragile peace.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473630606</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sue Gee|title=Trio|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=In One that shatters however with the winter return of 1936, Steven Coulter's wifeOrestes, Margaret, dies King of tuberculosisMycenae, leaving their Northumberland cottage cold and empty. His work as a history teacher at Kirkhoughton Boys' School isn't enough to distract him from his grief; he spends his long evenings writing letters to Margaret. Gradually, though, as spring arrives he starts to take an interest in other things. His colleague Frank Embleton invites him to a performance by the Hepplewick Trio: Frank's sister Diana on cello; pianist Margot HeslopElektra, whose mother died when she was young and who looks after her father, a coal mine manager, at Hepplewick Hall; and their friend George Liddell, the violinist and leader, who is a Royal College of Music graduateseeking refuge.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784630616</amazonuk>0356516075

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Stephanie DanlerKay Chronister|title= SweetbitterDesert Creatures

|genre= Literary Dystopian Fiction|summary= Twenty –two year old Tess With a world that is a restless graduate from a broken family. With the intention of finally starting her lifebecoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, she moves to New York City with no real plan but a need to do somethingpost-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. She manages to get Whether it is a job at one of the most exclusive restaurants in town as robotic takeover, a back-waiter and Tess is thrown into the comforting commotion world devoid of New York life. It's at her new job that she becomes fascinated by two people: Simone, water or a know-it-all server and Jakenuclear holocaust, this genre is a handsome yet moody bartenderway for humans to cathartically experience their most existential fears. While the restaurant becomes her home and her colleagues her new family, ''SweetbitterDesert Creatures'' follows Tess through by Kay Chronister is a year new work of post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of her life as she grows and learns about the complexities of human relationshipsfears that exist for humanity today. It is a shocking novel that still manages to find hope.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780749155</amazonuk>1803364998

{{newreviewfrontpage|isbn=1803363002|author=Rodrigo Hasbun and Sophie Hughes (translator)Eric LaRocca|title=AffectionsThe Trees Grew Because I Bled There|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionHorror|summary=If you thought your teenaged years were Horror taps into something primeval within us. It is used as a struggle way to work out the world, reflect our darkest emotions and how we as humans react and yourselfprocess them. Most horror fiction feature a ''Big Bad'', consider whether that of Heidi Ertl. Or either of her sisters – this book serves as is a home invader, a monster or a sort of tribute to these three real-life womenghost, it usually something tangible and , by the lives that came out end of their very disjointed youththe story, forced to be rarefied from the norm by their family uprootingbeatable. Father Hans was one of Leni RiefenstahlEric LaRocca's key cameramen, and ''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is not like that. It is a Nazi military photographer, before taking the whole family into post-war exile in Bolivia. Their mother would have followed him to the ends collection of the earth – as short stories more interested in part would their daughters, the older two horrors of which start the book by joining him on an expedition to discover a lost Incan city. Heidi finds youngillness, instant love on the trek – but sees the dark side of such emotions, toogrief and humiliation. Older sister Monika, who might well be manic depressive, finds something else, while the baby of the family stays at home with a maudlin mother. So much here could be the hook on which Horrors that linger and are harder to hang a full novel, but if anything itdefeat than any ''Big Bad''s the reaction of them all to this unusual formative journey that inspires this book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782272135</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sun-mi HwangMadelaine Lucas|title= The Dog who Dared to DreamThirst for Salt|rating= 45|genre= Literary Fiction|summary=From the very beginning, Scraggly knows that she is different to her brothers and sisters. Her siblings have short, glossy coats, but Scraggly's blue/black fur is long'Love, wild and untamed. She may be an outsider, but she still enjoys life with her family in Grandpa ScreecherI's sunny yardd read, even if it means putting up with the evil cat next door. Scraggly dreams that things can stay this way forever, but fate has other plans. One tragic night, everything she loves is cruelly ripped away from her. As she struggles was supposed to rebuild be a new life light and family weightless feeling, but I had always longed for herself, she comes to understand that sadness, betrayal and loss are an inevitable part of life. Can Scraggly ever learn to trust another human again?gravity''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349142106</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Sarah Perry|title= The Essex Serpent|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= I confess to Told from a bias… when I came across retrospective view, a reference to Sarah Perry's latest novel; I wanted to read it for two reasons onlyyoung woman unravels the year-long relationship that once defined her. She is a local writerOverlaid with later wisdom, and the book is set in narrator relives the affair with a place not too far away, but that I have yet man twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to explore and which fascinates me: its sorrowful end the Blackwater estuary in Essexsummer after. That's a place of Set against the kind of wide open skies and mud creeks that you will find up much backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the Norfolk 24-year-old narrator's deepening relationship with her older lover, depicting its all-consuming nature, how it changed her perspective on both romantic and Suffolk coast as well, familial relationships and a landscape type that probably only appeals to a certain type of personhow it altered her irrevocably.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178125544X</amazonuk>0861546490

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Susan BealeMichael Grothaus|title=The Good GuyBeautiful Shining People

|summary=California''But fearing something and having it come to pass are two different things. Summer 1969. Fourteen year old Evie Boyd is a thoughtful yet bored teenager from a broken home. The attention she craves is nowhere And I'm willing to be found in the form bet most of her neglectful, serial dating motherwhat we fear will never happen, or even in we can take steps to change it.'' ''Beautiful Shining People'' revolves around the friendship question of her fickle best friend Connieidentity and acceptance. Abandoned by those around her, Evie's path collides with Suzanne – a mysterious older girl who introduces Evie Of what it means to a strange yet thrilling new lifebe human. Of what is real and what is artificial, offering her and whether the intimate relationship her life back home lacksdevelopment of technology is exciting or frightening.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784740446</amazonuk>191458564X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Simon Van BooyJennifer Saint|title= Father's DayAtalanta|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction|summary=When devastating news shatters the life of six year old Harvey, she finds herself in the care of a veteran social worker, Wanda, and alone in the world save for one relative she has never met - a disabled ex-con, haunted by a violent past he can't escape. Moving between past and present, Father's Day weaves together the story of Harvey's childhood on Long Island, and her life as a young woman in Paris.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780749694</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Thomas Keneally|title=Napoleon's Last Island|rating=4.5

|summary=It's 'I was as worthy as any one of them. I would get on board that ship, I vowed. I would take my place, not usual to open a review with just in the history name of how the book came to be written but with ''Napoleon's Last Island'' the story sheds an intriguing light on the plotgoddess. In 2012 author Thomas Keneally It was given tickets to an exhibition for the sake of Napoleonic artefacts: uniformsmy name, furniture, china, paintings, military decorations, snuff boxes and memorabilia as well as Napoleontoo. Atalanta''s death mask Princess. Warrior. Lover. He was intrigued as to how the exhibits and particularly the mask came to be in AustraliaHero. Some pieces in the exhibition had been bought in later but most came from  Abandoned at birth for being born a daughter rather than a son, Atalanta is raised under the descendants protective eye of the Balcombe familygoddess Athemis and fashioned into a formidable huntress, one who came longs for adventure. When the opportunity comes – to join the colony in the first half Argonauts, a fierce band of the nineteenth centurywarriors, descendent from St Helena via Englandthe Gods themselves – Atalanta seizes the chance to fight in Artemis' name and carve out her own legendary place in history. The result What follows is a whirlwind of Keneally's research into the story is ''Napoleon's Last Island'challenges and discovery and through it, Atalanta must remember Artemis'fatal warning: that if she marries, it will be her undoing.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473625335</amazonuk>1472292154

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Natural Way of ThingsAmanthi Harris|authortitle=Charlotte WoodBeautiful Place

|summary=Yolanda and Verla wake up disorientated. They realise they've been drugged. Yolanda thinks that perhaps they are in some kind of mental facility - She knew she was not madPadma, but all lunatics thought that. Verla just sitsa young Sri Lankan, still and frozen, waiting. And soon enough, two men arrive has returned to reveal their fatethe Villa Hibiscus on the southern coast of her home country. Yolanda and Verla, along with eight other girls, have been brought to This is a remote farmhouse surrounded by an electrified fenceplace she spent her formative years. Their heads are shaved. They are dressed in uncomfortable, scratchy, Amish-style clothes. They are tied together like a chain gang. And, like any chain gang, their days are marked with forced labour. Two men, one more cruel than the other, and a so-called nurse are their jailers, It is not their guardians.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1760291870</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Emma Geen|title=The Many Selves of Katherine North|rating=3.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=As a Bristol-area 'phenomenaut'place she was born into, nineteen-year-old Kit projects herself into but the lab-grown bodies one she thinks of all sorts of creatures. She's recently spent a lot of time as a fox (appropriate given her nickname) and got particularly close with a vixen named Tomokohome. It's becoming much harder for her How she came to leave the animal world behind be at the end of her 'jumps'. Even after BuckleyVilla, how it became her neuroengineerhome, signals and the machinations that have flowed through her to life ever since she first arrived there provide the ''score'Come home' for this gentle and she resumes yet subtly violent novel. Padma's present fails to escape her original body, she has trouble giving up animal tendencies past and much like territorialismthe musical score of a film, toileting outdoors and raiding binsthat strand weaves its way through everything that happens at the Villa.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408858436</amazonuk>1784631930

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sjon and Victoria Cribb (translator)178563335X|title=Moonstone: The Boy Who Never WasSea Defences|author=Hilary Taylor

|summary=SixteenWhen we first meet Rachel Bird she's a trainee vicar, sitting in on a PCC meeting and wondering why they're held when you need to pick the children up. Her husband, Christopher, collects six-year-old Mani Stein Hannah and her elder brother, Jamie, whilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioner. Thelma's daughter- Moonstone in translation - existed on the fringes of societylaw won't let her see her grandson. He lived in Reykjavik and in 1918 the night sky (and the day for that matter) was lit by the eruptions of Holthorpe, on the Katla volcano. The Great War was ragingNorfolk coast, or possibly grinding onis a lovely place, but life Rachel is struggling to develop a real bond with the parish - and she's in awe of the capital carried on much as usual. There were shortagesvicar, such as coalGail, but there was then she's been doing the new fashion and it was job for the movies that Mani lived, seeing every production he could, sometimes several timesmore than thirty years. He dreamed about Rachel and Christopher hoped that a walk on the films, changing beach would do them to suit his tastes, working his own life into the plotssome good - it was stormy but it was probably what they needed. But there was another reason why Mani was a misfit: Mani was gay and frequently made a living as a sex workerAnd then Hannah went missing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473613132</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Conor O'Callaghan1398515388|title=Nothing on EarthThe Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)

|summary=On a sweltering night in what is a blisteringly hot summer a young girl hammers at a man's door and when let 'Some frogs had gotten into the house tells him that her father has disappeared well.''too ''Walter stood waist-deep in the fragrant water, naked except for his beaten leather hat. Gradually her story emergesLong strands of their eggs wove around him, sticky gray pearls with tadpoles inside them. Two of a home on one of those estates so common in Ireland after the collapse dogs leaned over the opening and barked down at the strange noise of the Celtic Tiger with only the occasional house occupied and others only part builtbuckets as he filled them. It could be any one '' How is that for an opening? The style of hundreds this novel in the form of Irish towns at that time interconnected short stories goes from succinct and its main feature is the lack of hope that it will never be any better. Our narrator tells her story, much, he says, as it was told laconic to him wistful and we hear of musing, turning on a life on sixpence. And author Marco North, who has the edge most wonderful turn of povertyphrase, with strange noises in the night, words written in the dust starts as he means to go on the windows mirrored by those written in blue ink on her skin.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781620342</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Per Olov Enquist and Deborah Bragan-Turner (translator)Daisy Hildyard|title=Emergency|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=The summary of this book doesn't come close to explaining what is done with the premise.|isbn=1913097811}}  {{Frontpage |author=Sally Oliver |title=The Parable BookWeight of Loss |rating=34 |genre=Literary Fiction |summary= Marianne is grieving. Traumatised after the death of her sister, she awakes to find strange, thick black hairs sprouting from the bones of her spine which steadily increase in size and volume.Her GP, diagnosing the odd phenomenon as a physical reaction to her grief, recommends she go to stay at Nede, an experimental new treatment centre in Wales. Yet something strange is happening to Marianne and the other patients at Nede: a metamorphosis of a kind. As Marianne's memories threaten to overwhelm her, Nede offers her release from this cycle of memory and pain—but only at a terrible price: that of identity itself.|isbn= 086154112X }} {{Frontpage|author=Natalia Garcia Freire|title=This World Does Not Belong To Us|rating=5

|summary=ItEarly comments on this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendous, a delight. I will agree with the first – tremendous is no understatement – but 'a delight's not only springtime when is perhaps using the expression in a manway I's fancies turn m not familiar with. I have to thoughts confess my ignorance of love – he can also do it in the autumn of his life, as does the man involved Spanish-language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation here. But being a well-known author, and being beholden to silence, can he really put his thoughts on paper? It happened a long time ago, and he only met From the woman concerned a couple of timeslittle I have read (in translation, but with it being such a powerful event and such a slightly unusual circumstance, what should he do? It takes a notebook of his fatherI don's love poems t read Spanish) there does seem to his mother, that he finds both incomplete and scorched, to give him be a tendency towards the green light fantastical – the voice from the past that says to him, 'go for it'. And what we read here is a resultmystical realism.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857059912</amazonuk>0861541901

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maggie O'FarrellJennifer Saint|title=This Must Be the PlaceElektra

|summary=Maggie O'FarrellElektra's globe-trotting seventh novel opens by Jennifer Saint tells the story of three women who live in 2010 with Daniel Sullivan, an American linguistics professorthe heavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. He lives with his wife ClaudetteCassandra, a French actress who retreated from the limelightClytemnestra, and their two children Elektra are all bit players in a remote home in Donegalthe story of the Trojan War. It was 10 years ago Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that he first came here often the silent women have the most compelling stories and met Claudette by chance when her van had a flat tire; he struck up a conversation with her son Ari and gave the boy tips for dealing with his stutter. Now, preparing to fly back to Brooklyn for his father's ninetieth birthday party, he's caught short by a long-lost voice he hears on the radio. It belongs to Nicola Janks, a former lover he last saw 24 years ago; when he learns that she died soon after they were together, he determines to figure out whether he played a role, even if he doesn't like what he findsmost extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755358805</amazonuk>1472273915

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joanne Harris8409290103|title=Different ClassIf Only|author=Matthew Tree|rating=4.5

|summary= St Oswald's Grammar School For Boys is in crisis. A murdered schoolboyTwenty-one-year-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by his father, a procession of new Head Masterscotton-broker AO Lowry: he asked his accountant, a(nother) new Head MasterMr Patrick, a Crisis Intervention Team to ensure that the young man got on board the boat and thereafter Patrick was to send him a potential merger with St Oswald's all female counterpart, Mulberry Housemonthly allowance. Roy Straitley is not altogether dismayed at Patrick sent the prospect money regularly and a correspondence - of delaying his retirement; St Oswald's sorts - sprang up between the two although we hear more about what Lowry has been his life, man and boy and a crisis is a crisis after all is said and done, isnto say than Patrick. It wasn't it? Itthat Lowry senior didn's probably his duty to stay and right the ship. So when the latest of the new Head Masters and t care for his duo of crisis managers walk into the staff roomson, Straitley canit was that he didn't quite believe care to have him in this country where he might be a danger to his old eyeswife and other children. The new Head is an ex-pupil of St Oswald's; a boy who, in alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to get the young man on his time at the esteemed old School caused such an uproarious scandal that one of the Masters ended up in prison! |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385619235</amazonuk>way.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Bill BeverlyAntoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)|title= DodgersRed is My Heart|rating= 3.5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= Judging a book by its cover can mislead. It can especially mislead if you don't look closely at the cover [[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white and are just grabbed by the ''feel'' or ''style'' of the design of the thing. Being misled is not necessarily a bad thing. For reasons best left read in the depths of my addled brainhouse. And so was this one, the styling of Dodgers had me thinking 'noir'. although I could have spelled that more accurately – this one was expecting late fifties, early sixtiesand is, black and white and red. If I'd looked closerYes, he has an artistic collaborator on this piece, and Ithink it'd have seen that it is much more contemporary than thats possible to say not one page lacks the influence of some striking visual ideas. Then again…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1843448572</amazonuk>1913547183

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alice AdamsB098FFFBH9|title=Invincible SummerSnowcub|author=Graham Fulbright|rating=34.5

|summary=As Alice AdamsFourteen-year-old Rachel is her school's debut novel opens animal rights project leader and she and her friend are producing a competition entry to highlight the way in which human beings exploit the summer animal world. She gets a great deal of 1995support from her family: father Pip Harrison, four university friends are lounging on Bristol's Brandon Hill, drinking and contemplating what the future holds. There's Eva Andrewsa lecturer at Imperial College, raised in Sussex by a single father; siblings Sylvie and Lucien MarchantLondon, neglected by their alcoholic mother; Kate and Benedict Waverleyher twin, a rich kid whose parents have a holiday home on CorfuNick. Eva has Kate runs the family business, a crush on Lucientoy shop called Cornucopia in Putney, while Benedict which is besotted with Evawhere we'll meet Rachel's main (if unsuspected) source of information: five soft toys.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509814701</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Birgul OguzYancey Williams|title= HahCrosshairs of the Devil|rating= 34.5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= I was interested Award-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski is getting on in years and, despite his strenuous objections and thanks to receive this book for review as I knew it was written in a modernhis daughter, interesting stylefinds himself living - or imprisoned, being effectively a collection from Eddie's point of view - in room 315 of the Garden of short storiesEden nursing home, but appearing more in with only a novel structure. I wastrusty nursing aide, howeverJenkins, rather disappointed with the bookfor palatable company. Whilst it does have some very fine examples Nothing is going to keep Eddie from his stock-in-trade of prose writing within the storiesthough, so here, I felt disconnected from the narratorfor his readers, who is are his wanderings through his life's work.|isbn=0986031658}} {{Frontpage|isbn=0008421714|title=Mrs March|author=Virginia Feito|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=The problem began just after the daughter publication of a recently deceased man who was involved in a Turkish military coup in 1980George 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. There is therefore a lot of examples of Every day Mrs March went to the narrator relating local patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, Patricia asked, as she was wrapping the conversations they had shared regarding bread, ''but isn't this the first time he'revolutions based a character on you?'' She mentioned that Johanna, and the way this principal character had affected the daughter's upbringing and childhoodher mannerisms''. Another Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for the fact that Johanna is the whore of Nantes - 'story' then delves into a seemingly disconnected wander through the townweak, plain, detestable, whereby we see the narrator working at gutting fishpathetic, and talking about a man she finds repulsiveunloved, but who appears to be in love with herunloveable wretch. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>9462380740</amazonuk>''