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[[Category:New Reviews|Literary Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nir BaramMatthew Tree|title=Good PeopleWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of self confidence. So Tim applied himself to his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0C47LV1PC|title=Fragility|author=Mosby Woods

|summary=Thomas HeiselbergCan you make a ''Yo birthing person''s self-focus pays off when he attracts joke? And if you could, is the best clientele to question should you make it? Or is the American advertising firm he helps establish across Europe from his German home. Meanwhile in Russia Sasha Weissberg question if you did, would it land? The catch is struggling with being in a literary, free-thinking family that doesn't go down too the answer for both could well with Stalin's regimebe... As World War II arrives, both of their worlds are shaken. As a result both decide to become collaborators rather than resistance fighters for different reasons and with far reaching effectsno.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911231006</amazonuk>''Fragility'' is set as the city of Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ian McEwanMosby Woods|title=NutshellA Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction |summary=Meet TrudyThe West isn't the dominant force it once was. Successfully living Nobody in a large and valuable London home, she the West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is heavily pregnant, and in between two men – she has swapped the homeowner, poet and publisher Johnbest course of action. Governments are flailing. A war here, a push for someone completely different, namely Claude, a nasty, brutish and short typeclimate action there. Some people cannot work out why on earth she has made A feeling that decision, including our narratornobody is in actual charge. OhImagine then, and he himself, our narrator, is the child she's pregnant there was a man withprecognition. He is Imagine the strategic advantage in this asset; a very alert young thing, with nothing else to do but kick here and there, and practice man who can tell you what you might well call mindfulnesswill happen given any set of circumstances. That man would be valuable, and listen right? Perhaps the most valuable asset in on Claude and Trudyhistory. Imagine then, as they calmly talk their way that this man loses this ability. What would governments do to plotting and carrying out murder…get it back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1911214330</amazonuk>B0C9SNG8R1

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Matt Wilven0571379559|title=The Blackbird Singularity|rating= 5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary=Thirty-something writer Vince Watergate sees his partner's pregnancy as a fresh start. He stops taking his lithium and the new clarity of mind lets him start writing his best work in ages. He befriends a blackbird in the garden with the help of a bag of sultanas, and begins preparing the baby's room. For a short while, everything seems full of peace and hope. But Vince and Lyd's first child, despite having died a couple of years earlier, might not have completely left them and the blackbird might not be as friendly as Vince first thought. Lithium withdrawal, stress, and the pressure House of appearing 'normal' push Vince into a frightening, irrational place. Can he fight his way through it and return to his family?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785079689</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewBroken Bricks|author=Carolyn Parkhurst|title=HarmonyFiona Williams

|summary=Josh and Alexandra Hammond have two daughters. Iris ''The House of Broken Bricks'' is eleven years old and neurotypical: her brain works in the same way as most story of four people. Tess Hembry'sroots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but her elder sisterinstead, Tilly, is thirteen and she lives in the house on the autistic spectrumriverbank, built of broken bricks. Her parents are finding Insubstantial as it difficultmight look, if not impossibleit's stood the passage of time, to cope with her. Even her special storms and rather expensive school has indicated that they can't continuefloods. She's subject Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to mood swings complete the delivery rounds - and unpredictable and inappropriate behaviourto bring in sufficient money. Josh is lucky - he goes to work They have twin boys - but Alexandra is stuck with the problem, which is why Scott Bean, educator Sonny and expert in parentingMax, appeals to herthe rainbow twins. The name came to her attention on a couple of occasions: she subscribed to Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his newsletterfather. People don't believe that they're related, heard him speak much less twins and what he had to say rang a bell. Before long he was coming to the house for private consultationsthere's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she's his nanny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340978171</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=William RyanClaire North|title=The Constant SoldierHouse of Odysseus

|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction |summary=Paul Brandt returns home ''What could matter more than love?'' The follow-up to his village without the arm he excellent ''Ithaca'' picks up a few months after where we left at off. In the Russian Front in defence palace of Germany. The village looks pretty much the same as he left itOdysseus, with delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without her husband, who sailed to war at Troy and then by divine intervention never returned home. As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for the exception throne of the lack of young men and a new buildingWestern Isles. His home now boasts an SS rest hut, providing officers with entertainment Having survived – politically and respite breaks from the fighting. As Paul passes the hut for physical – the first time, he sees something… or rather someone… chaotic storm that will make him return Clytemnestra brought to work for those he despisesIthaca's shores, Queen Penelope is on the brink of a fragile peace. The subject of his decision? A girl he once got into trouble One that shatters however with under different circumstances – before she wore the stripes return of a concentration camp prisonerOrestes, King of Mycenae, and his sister Elektra, seeking refuge.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447255011</amazonuk>0356516075

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Pamela JohnsonKay Chronister|title=Taking Desert Creatures|rating= 4|genre= Dystopian Fiction|summary= With a world that is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, post-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Whether it is a robotic takeover, a world devoid of water or a nuclear holocaust, this genre is a way for humans to cathartically experience their most existential fears. ''Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is a new work of post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the fears that exist for humanity today. It is a shocking novel that still manages to find hope.|isbn=1803364998}}{{frontpage|isbn=1803363002|author= Eric LaRocca|title= The Trees Grew Because I Bled There|rating= 5|genre= Horror|summary= Horror taps into something primeval within us. It is used as a way to reflect our darkest emotions and how we as humans react and process them. Most horror fiction feature a ''Big Bad'', whether that is a home invader, a monster or a ghost, it usually something tangible and, by the end of the story, beatable. Eric LaRocca's ''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is not like that. It is a collection of short stories more interested in Waterthe horrors of illness, grief and humiliation. Horrors that linger and are harder to defeat than any ''Big Bad''.}}{{Frontpage|author=Madelaine Lucas|title=Thirst for Salt|rating=45

|summary=Pamela Johnson's third novel is set in 2002 'Love, I'd read, was supposed to be a light and weightless feeling, but has its roots in I had always longed for gravity'' Told from a real-life tragedy from nearly 50 years earlier: in 1953 retrospective view, a storm surge hit young woman unravels the Norfolk coastyear-long relationship that once defined her. Overlaid with later wisdom, destroying Lydia Hutton's grandmother's home and sweeping the narrator relives the affair with a man twenty years her whole family out senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to seaits sorrowful end the summer after. SevenSet against the backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the 24-year-old Lydia was the only one to survive, clinging to the wreckage and singing hymns to herself to survive. Itnarrator's a dark part of deepening relationship with her past she's never told anyone except Lucolder lover, the halfdepicting its all-French lover whose iconic performance art piececonsuming nature, ''Taking in Water'', she participated in during a spell in New York City in the 1960s, when she was known as 'Layla' how it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and hung around with the likes of Andy Warholhow it altered her irrevocably.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1534627243</amazonuk>0861546490

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=A N WilsonMichael Grothaus|title=ResolutionBeautiful Shining People

|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 a Lutheran pastor near Danzig, Reinhold seemed unable to settle to I was as worthy as any one line of work and had a higher opinion of himself than was prudentthem. In Wilson's vision of life I would get on the ''Resolution''board that ship, Reinhold seems fussy, argumentative and rather heartless, as when he offers George's dog up as fresh meat when the captain is desperately illI vowed. GeorgeI would take my place, not just 18 when he joins in the name of the expedition, is a self-taught illustrator and botanist with a keen ear goddess. It was for languages. Though precociously intelligentthe sake of my name, he is emotionally immature and cannot keep a handle on his masturbation habit or deal with their servant Nally's crush on himtoo.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782398279</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Michael Hughes|title= The Countenance Divine|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary=In 1999, a programmer is trying to fix the millennium bug, but canAtalanta't shake the sense he's been chosen for something. 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 laterPrincess. Warrior. Lover. Hero.

But where does Abandoned at birth for being born a daughter rather than a son, Atalanta is raised under the protective eye of the goddess Athemis and fashioned into a formidable huntress, one who longs for adventure. When the opportunity comes – to join the feeling come Argonauts, a fierce band of warriors, descendent from that the world Gods themselves – Atalanta seizes the chance to fight in Artemis' name and carve out her own legendary place in history. What follows is about to end?a whirlwind of challenges and discovery and through it, Atalanta must remember Artemis' fatal warning: that if she marries, it will be her undoing.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473636507</amazonuk>1472292154

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Emily BittoAmanthi Harris|title= The StraysBeautiful Place|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 World|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=If you're going to go pioneering across unexplored lands, at least be prepared to accept what you seek – namely, what you've never seen before. That lesson seems quite obvious, but back in the time of 1885 Allen Forrester is a little too naïve to heed it. A career soldier, he is tasked with scouring the potential of the Wolverine River that threads south to the shores of Alaska, 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 a major stretch of the river has to be traversed in winter when entirely frozen over, as the cliffs either side are too impenetrable. Allen leaves a much younger, new bride behind – and right from the get-go his journals force him to pen words about strange happenings, strange encounters and things of legend coming to life. Like I say, what he's never seen before…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472208609</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Talulah Riley|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 of ''will-they-wont-they'' that Riley spins here, one that I found myself unable to put down.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473637902</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jesse Ball|title=How to Set a Fire and Why|rating=4

|summary=Lucia Stanton Padma, a young Sri Lankan, has returned to the Villa Hibiscus on the southern coast of her home country. This is a sarcastic 14-year-old misfit who lives with place she spent her elderly Aunt Lucy in formative years. It is not a garage they rent from an evil landlord at place she was born into, but the bottom one she thinks of his large gardenas home. She never comes right out and explains why How she's therecame to be at the Villa, how it became her home, but if you read between and the lines you work out machinations that have flowed through her father is dead and her mother is in a mental hospital – presumably for his murder. Aunt Lucy is dignified and principled – life ever since she first arrived there provide the ''Donscore't do things you aren't proud offor this gentle and yet subtly violent novel. Padma'' is s present fails to escape her motto – even though they are undeniably poor: Lucia only has one set of clothes past and mostly lives off much like the musical score of liquorice and Aunt Lucy's terrible homemade breada film, that strand weaves its way through everything that happens at the Villa.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1925355470</amazonuk>1784631930

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jenn Ashworth178563335X|title=FellSea Defences|author=Hilary Taylor

|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Now her parents have diedWhen we first meet Rachel Bird she's a trainee vicar, Annette returns sitting in on a PCC meeting and wondering why they're held when you need to sell pick the children up. Her husband, Christopher, collects six-year-old Hannah and her old childhood home but thereelder brother, Jamie, whilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioner. Thelma's work daughter-in-law won't let her see her grandson. Holthorpe, on the Norfolk coast, is a lovely place, but Rachel is struggling to do on develop a real bond with the decrepit building first. As parish - and she wanders around and tries to make some order 's in awe of the overgrown shamblesvicar, Gail, but then she's watched by been doing the ghost of her mother, Netty; a spirit with regretsjob for more than thirty years. Netty reminisces about Annette's childhood Rachel and Christopher hoped that a walk on the turning point their lives reached when the mysterious healer Timothy Richardson came to stay. It beach would do them some good - it was a time that promised so much stormy but one for which Netty now needs to make amends, even if she is beyond the graveit was probably what they needed. And then Hannah went missing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473630606</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sue Gee1398515388|title=Trio|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=In the winter of 1936, Steven Coulter's wife, Margaret, dies of tuberculosis, 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 Heslop, whose mother died when she was young and who looks after her father, a coal mine manager, at Hepplewick Hall; The Boy and their friend George Liddell, the violinist and leader, who is a Royal College of Music graduate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784630616</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewDog|author= Stephanie Danler|title= Sweetbitter|rating= 4|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= Twenty –two year old Tess is a restless graduate from a broken family. With the intention of finally starting her life, she moves to New York City with no real plan but a need to do something. She manages to get a job at one of the most exclusive restaurants in town as a back-waiter and Tess is thrown into the comforting commotion of New York life. It's at her new job that she becomes fascinated by two people: Simone, a know-it-all server and Jake, a handsome yet moody bartender. While the restaurant becomes her home Seishu Hase and her colleagues her new family, ''Sweetbitter'' follows Tess through a year of her life as she grows and learns about the complexities of human relationships.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780749155</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Rodrigo Hasbun and Sophie Hughes Alison Watts (translator)|title=Affections

|summary=If you thought your teenaged years were a struggle to work out First of all, it was the earthquake, deep in the worldocean floor, which created the tsunami and yourself, consider that of Heidi Ertl. Or either of her sisters – this book serves as a sort of tribute to these three real-life women, and the lives that came out of their very disjointed youthin turn, forced to be rarefied from caused the norm by their family uprootingnuclear meltdown. Father Hans The result was one of Leni Riefenstahl's key cameramen, complete and a Nazi military photographer, before taking the whole family into post-war exile in Boliviautter devastation. Their mother would have followed him to the ends of the earth – as in part would their daughtersThe deaths were uncountable, and the older two loss of which start the book by joining him on an expedition to discover a lost Incan citylivelihoods was widespread. Heidi finds young, instant love on The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the trek – list of priorities but sees - six months after the dark side of such emotions, too. Older sister Monika, who might well be manic depressive, finds something else, while the baby of the family stays at home with tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a maudlin motherconvenience store. So much here could be the hook on which to hang He wasn't a full novel, dog person but if anything itthe convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and Tamon the reaction of them all to this unusual formative journey that inspires this bookdog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782272135</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Sun-mi Hwang0989715337|title= The Dog who Dared to DreamPapa on the Moon|author=Marco North|rating= 4|genre= Literary Fiction|summary=From ''Some frogs had gotten into the very beginning, Scraggly knows that she is different to her brothers and sisterswell. Her siblings have short, glossy coats, but Scraggly's blue/black fur is long' ''Walter stood waist-deep in the fragrant water, wild and untamednaked except for his beaten leather hat. She may be an outsiderLong strands of their eggs wove around him, but she still enjoys life with her family in Grandpa Screecher's sunny yard, even if it means putting up sticky gray pearls with tadpoles inside them. Two of the dogs leaned over the opening and barked down at the strange noise of the evil cat next doorbuckets as he filled them. Scraggly dreams '' How is that things can stay for an opening? The style of this way forever, but fate has other plans. One tragic night, everything she loves is cruelly ripped away novel in the form of interconnected short stories goes from her. As she struggles succinct and laconic to rebuild a new life wistful and family for herselfmusing, she comes to understand that sadnessturning on a sixpence. And author Marco North, betrayal and loss are an inevitable part who has the most wonderful turn of lifephrase, starts as he means to go on. Can Scraggly ever learn to trust another human again?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349142106</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sarah PerryDaisy Hildyard|title= The Essex Serpent|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= I confess to a bias… when I came across a reference to Sarah Perry's latest novel; I wanted to read it for two reasons only. She is a local writer, and the book is set in a place not too far away, but that I have yet to explore and which fascinates me: the Blackwater estuary in Essex. That's a place of the kind of wide open skies and mud creeks that you will find up much of the Norfolk and Suffolk coast as well, and a landscape type that probably only appeals to a certain type of person.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178125544X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Susan Beale|title=The Good GuyEmergency

|summary=September 1964: an Indian summer in suburban MassachusettsMarianne is grieving. Ted McDougall is a twenty-three-year-old Goodyear tyre salesman who lives with his wife Abigail and ten-month-old daughter Mindy 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 the up-size and-coming Elm Grove communityvolume. Both Ted and Abigail feel unappreciated 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 their rolesWales. Ted knows his in-laws wanted him Yet something strange is happening to become Marianne and the other patients at Nede: a metamorphosis of a lawyer and join Abigailkind. As Marianne's father's firmmemories 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|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Early 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 he's a good salesman and wishes they wouldndelight' is perhaps using the expression in a way I't look down on him for itm not familiar with. I have to confess my ignorance of the Spanish-language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation here. Meanwhile Abigail, an American history buff From the little I have read (in translation, canI don't master read Spanish) there does seem to be a tendency towards the domestic arts of cooking and cleaning, much as she tries, and longs to go back to schoolfantastical – the mystical realism.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473630339</amazonuk>0861541901

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Emma ClineJennifer Saint|title= The GirlsElektra|rating= 4|genre= Literary Fiction|summary=California. Summer 1969. Fourteen year old Evie Boyd is a thoughtful yet bored teenager from a broken home. The attention she craves is nowhere to be found 'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the story of three women who live in the form heavily male dominated world of her neglectfulAncient Greece. Cassandra, serial dating motherClytemnestra, or even and Elektra are all bit players in the friendship story of her fickle best friend Conniethe Trojan War. Abandoned by those around her, Evie's path collides with Suzanne – a mysterious older girl who introduces Evie to a strange yet thrilling new life, offering her Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the silent women have the most compelling stories and the intimate relationship her life back home lacksmost extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784740446</amazonuk>1472273915

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Simon Van Booy8409290103|title= Father's Day|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>}}{{newreviewIf Only|author=Thomas Keneally|title=Napoleon's Last IslandMatthew Tree

|summary=It's not usual to open a review with the history of how the book came Twenty-one-year-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by his father, cotton-broker AO Lowry: he asked his accountant, Mr Patrick, to be written but with ''Napoleon's Last Island'' ensure that the story sheds an intriguing light young man got on board the plot. In 2012 author Thomas Keneally boat and thereafter Patrick was given tickets to an exhibition of Napoleonic artefacts: uniforms, furniture, china, paintings, military decorations, snuff boxes and memorabilia as well as Napoleon's death masksend him a monthly allowance. He was intrigued as to how Patrick sent the exhibits money regularly and particularly a correspondence - of sorts - sprang up between the mask came two although we hear more about what Lowry has to be in Australiasay than Patrick. Some pieces in the exhibition had been bought in later but most came from the descendants of the Balcombe family It wasn't that Lowry senior didn't care for his son, who came it was that he didn't care to the colony have him in the first half of the nineteenth century, from St Helena via Englandthis country where he might be a danger to his wife and other children. The result of Keneally's research into alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to get the story is ''Napoleon's Last Island''young man on his way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473625335</amazonuk>

{{newreview|title=The Natural Way of ThingsFrontpage|author=Charlotte Wood|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|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 madAntoine Laurain, but all lunatics thought that. Verla just sits, still Le Sonneur and frozen, waiting. And soon enough, two men arrive to reveal their fate. Yolanda and Verla, along with eight other girls, have been brought to a remote farmhouse surrounded by an electrified fence. 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, not their guardians.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1760291870</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Emma GeenJane Aitken (translator)|title=The Many Selves of Katherine NorthRed is My Heart

|genre=Science Literary Fiction|summary=As a Bristol-area 'phenomenaut', nineteen-year-old Kit projects herself into the lab-grown bodies of all sorts of creatures. She's recently spent a lot of time as a fox (appropriate given her nickname) [[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white and got particularly close with a vixen named Tomokoread in my house. It's becoming much harder for her to leave the animal world behind at the end of her 'jumps'. Even after BuckleyAnd so was this one, although I could have spelled that more accurately – this one was, her neuroengineerand is, signals her to 'Come home' black and white and she resumes her original bodyred. Yes, she he has trouble giving up animal tendencies like territorialisman artistic collaborator on this piece, toileting outdoors and raiding binsI think it's possible to say not one page lacks the influence of some striking visual ideas.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408858436</amazonuk>1913547183

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sjon and Victoria Cribb (translator)B098FFFBH9|title=Moonstone: The Boy Who Never WasSnowcub|author=Graham Fulbright|rating=4.5

|summary=SixteenFourteen-year-old Mani Stein - Moonstone in translation - existed on the fringes of society. He lived in Reykjavik Rachel is her school's animal rights project leader and in 1918 the night sky (she and her friend are producing a competition entry to highlight the day for that matter) was lit by the eruptions of way in which human beings exploit the Katla volcanoanimal world. The Great War was ragingShe gets a great deal of support from her family: father Pip Harrison, or possibly grinding on, but life in the capital carried on much as usual. There were shortagesa lecturer at Imperial College, such as coalLondon, but there was the new fashion mother Kate and it was for the movies that Mani livedher twin, seeing every production he could, sometimes several timesNick. He dreamed about Kate runs the filmsfamily business, changing them to suit his tastesa toy shop called Cornucopia in Putney, working his own life into the plots. But there was another reason why Mani was a misfitwhich is where we'll meet Rachel's main (if unsuspected) source of information: Mani was gay and frequently made a living as a sex workerfive soft toys.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473613132</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Conor O'CallaghanYancey Williams|title=Nothing on EarthCrosshairs of the Devil

|summary=On a sweltering night Award-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski is getting on in what is a blisteringly hot summer a young girl hammers at a manyears and, despite his strenuous objections and thanks to his daughter, finds himself living - or imprisoned, from Eddie's door and when let into the house tells him that her father has disappeared ''too''. Gradually her story emerges, point of a home on one view - in room 315 of those estates so common in Ireland after the collapse Garden of the Celtic Tiger Eden nursing home, with only the occasional house occupied and others only part builta trusty nursing aide, Jenkins, for palatable company. It could be any one of hundreds of Irish towns at that time and its main feature Nothing is the lack going to keep Eddie from his stock-in-trade of hope that it will never be any better. Our narrator tells her storywriting though, muchso here, he saysfor his readers, as it was told to him and we hear of a are his wanderings through his life on the edge of poverty, with strange noises in the night, words written in the dust on the windows mirrored by those written in blue ink on her skin's work.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781620342</amazonuk>0986031658}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Per Olov Enquist and Deborah Bragan-Turner (translator)0008421714|title=The Parable BookMrs March|author=Virginia Feito|rating=34.5

|summary=ItThe problem began just after the publication of George March's not most successful novel to date. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only springtime when a man's fancies turn on the last page) seemed to thoughts of love – he can also do either be reading it in the autumn of his life, as does the man involved hereor had already done so. But being a well-known author, and being beholden Every day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to silencebuy olive bread but on that particular morning, can he really put his thoughts on paper? It happened a long time agoPatricia asked, and he only met as she was wrapping the woman concerned a couple of timesbread, ''but with it being such isn't this the first time he's based a powerful event and such a slightly unusual circumstance, what should he docharacter on you? '' It takes a notebook of his father's love poems to his mother, She mentioned that he finds both incomplete and scorchedJohanna, to give him the green light – the voice from the past that says to him, principal character had 'her mannerisms'go for it'. And what we read here Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for the fact that Johanna is a result.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857059912</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Maggie O'Farrell|title=This Must Be the Place|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Maggie Owhore of Nantes - 'Farrell's globe-trotting seventh novel opens in 2010 with Daniel Sullivana weak, an American linguistics professor. He lives with his wife Claudetteplain, a French actress who retreated from the limelightdetestable, and their two children in a remote home in Donegal. It was 10 years ago that he first came here 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. Nowpathetic, preparing to fly back to Brooklyn for his father's ninetieth birthday partyunloved, heunloveable wretch.'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 finds.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755358805</amazonuk>