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[[Category:New Reviews|Literary Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Paul BeattyMatthew Tree|title=The SelloutWe'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|rating=4

|summary=Can you make a ''Yo birthing person''This may be hard to believejoke? And if you could, coming from a black manis the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, but I've never stolen anythingwould it land? The catch is that the answer for both could well be.... no.''

Isn't that one of 'Fragility'' is set as the great opening lines city of literature? Our black hero and narratorPortland, surname Me, first name unknown, was born in the southern Los Angeles suburb of Dickens and subjected to an isolated upbringing dominated by his father's extreme views on race, supposedly the subject of a psychological memoir which will solve their financial problemsOregon, but cruel and unnatural to anyone with an ounce of humanity. To add insult cautiously begins to injury Me discovered after his father's death (a racially provoked shooting) that there was no memoir. A drive-by shooting produces nothing more substantial than a bill for a drive-through funeral, but it starts Me on emerge from the path which will end in restrictions imposed during the Supreme Court, the subject of a race trial: ''Me v the United States of America''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786070154</amazonuk>covid pandemic

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nir BaramMosby Woods|title=Good PeopleA Whirly Man Loses His Turn

|summary=Thomas HeiselbergThe West isn's self-focus pays off when he attracts t the dominant force it once was. Nobody in the best clientele West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is the American advertising firm he helps establish across Europe from his German homebest course of action. Governments are flailing. A war here, a push for climate action there. Meanwhile A feeling that nobody is in Russia Sasha Weissberg is struggling actual charge. Imagine then, there was a man with being precognition. Imagine the strategic advantage in this asset; a literaryman who can tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. That man would be valuable, right? Perhaps the most valuable asset in history. Imagine then, free-thinking family that doesnthis man loses this ability. What would governments do to get it back?|isbn=B0C9SNG8R1}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0571379559|title=The House of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''The House of Broken Bricks''t go down too well with Stalinis the story of four people. Tess Hembry's regimeroots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in the house on the riverbank, built of broken bricks. As World War II arrivesInsubstantial as it might look, both it's stood the passage of their worlds are shakentime, storms and floods. As a result both decide Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the delivery rounds - and to become collaborators rather than resistance fighters for different reasons bring in sufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and Max, the rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. People don't believe that they're related, much less twins and there's an assumption when Max is out with far reaching effectshis mother that she's his nanny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911231006</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ian McEwanClaire North|title=NutshellHouse of Odysseus|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction |summary=Meet Trudy''What could matter more than love?'' The follow-up to the excellent ''Ithaca'' picks up a few months after where we left off. Successfully living in a large In the palace of Odysseus, with delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without her husband, who sailed to war at Troy and valuable London then by divine intervention never returned home, . As ever she is heavily pregnant, remains surrounded by suitors vying for the throne of the Western Isles. Having survived – politically and in between two men physical – she has swapped the homeownerchaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to Ithaca's shores, Queen Penelope is on the brink of a fragile peace. One that shatters however with the return of Orestes, King of Mycenae, poet and publisher Johnhis sister Elektra, seeking refuge.|isbn=0356516075}}{{Frontpage|author= Kay Chronister|title= Desert Creatures|rating= 4|genre= Dystopian Fiction|summary= With a world that is becoming increasingly inhospitable for someone completely differenthumanity, namely Claudepost-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Whether it is a robotic takeover, a nastyworld devoid of water or a nuclear holocaust, brutish and short typethis genre is a way for humans to cathartically experience their most existential fears. Some people cannot ''Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is a new work out why on earth she has made of post-apocalyptic fiction that decision, including our narrator. Oh, and he himself, our narrator, is aligns many of the child she's pregnant withfears that exist for humanity today. He It is a very alert young thing, with nothing else shocking novel that still manages to do but kick here and there, and practice what you might well call mindfulness, and listen in on Claude and Trudy, as they calmly talk their way to plotting and carrying out murder…find hope.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1911214330</amazonuk>1803364998

{{newreviewfrontpage|isbn=1803363002|author= Matt WilvenEric LaRocca|title=The Blackbird SingularityTrees Grew Because I Bled There

|genre= Literary FictionHorror|summary=Thirty-Horror taps into something writer Vince Watergate sees his partner's pregnancy primeval within us. It is used as a fresh start. He stops taking his lithium way to reflect our darkest emotions and how we as humans react and the new clarity of mind lets him start writing his best work in agesprocess them. He befriends Most horror fiction feature a blackbird in the garden with the help of ''Big Bad'', whether that is a home invader, a monster or a bag of sultanasghost, it usually something tangible and begins preparing , by the babyend of the story, beatable. Eric LaRocca's room''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is not like that. For It is a collection of short whilestories more interested in the horrors of illness, everything seems full of peace grief and hopehumiliation. But Vince Horrors that linger and Lydare harder to defeat than any ''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 of appearing Big Bad'normal' push Vince into a frightening, irrational place. Can he fight his way through it and return to his family?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785079689</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Carolyn ParkhurstMadelaine Lucas|title=HarmonyThirst for Salt

|summary=Josh and Alexandra Hammond have two daughters. Iris is eleven years old and neurotypical: her brain works in the same way as most people's'Love, but her elder sister, Tilly, is thirteen and on the autistic spectrum. Her parents are finding it difficult, if not impossible, to cope with her. Even her special and rather expensive school has indicated that they can't continue. SheI's subject to mood swings and unpredictable and inappropriate behaviour. Josh is lucky - he goes to work - but Alexandra is stuck with the problemd read, which is why Scott Bean, educator and expert in parenting, appeals was supposed to her. The name came to her attention on be a couple of occasions: she subscribed to his newsletterlight and weightless feeling, heard him speak and what he but I had to say rang a bell. Before long he was coming to the house always longed for private consultations.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340978171</amazonuk>gravity''}}{{newreview|author=William Ryan|title=The Constant Soldier|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Paul Brandt returns home to his village without Told from a retrospective view, a young woman unravels the arm he left at the Russian Front in defence of Germanyyear-long relationship that once defined her. The village looks pretty much the same as he left itOverlaid with later wisdom, with the exception of narrator relives the lack of young men and affair with a new building. His home now boasts an SS rest hut, providing officers with entertainment and respite breaks man twenty years her senior from its inception – the fightingsummer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the summer after. As Paul passes Set against the hut backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the first time24-year-old narrator's deepening relationship with her older lover, depicting its all-consuming nature, 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 prisonerhow it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and how it altered her irrevocably.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447255011</amazonuk>0861546490

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Pamela JohnsonMichael Grothaus|title=Taking in WaterBeautiful Shining People

|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Pamela Johnson's third novel is set in 2002 but has its roots in a real-life tragedy from nearly 50 years earlier: in 1953 a storm surge hit the Norfolk coast, destroying Lydia Hutton's grandmother's home But fearing something and sweeping her whole family out having it come to seapass are two different things. Seven-year-old Lydia was the only one And I'm willing to survivebet most of what we fear will never happen, clinging or we can take steps to the wreckage and singing hymns to herself to survivechange it. 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 WaterBeautiful Shining People'', she participated in during a spell in New York City in revolves around the 1960squestion of identity and acceptance. Of what it means to be human. Of what is real and what is artificial, when she was known as 'Layla' and hung around with whether the likes development of Andy Warholtechnology is exciting or frightening.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1534627243</amazonuk>191458564X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=A N WilsonJennifer Saint|title=ResolutionAtalanta|rating=45

|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 the whore of Nantes - ''a resultweak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857059912</amazonuk>''