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[[Category:New Reviews|Literary Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Eric Beck RubinMatthew Tree|title=School of VelocityWe'll Never Know

|summary=Jan's head is dropping him in it. He's a trained concert pianistTimothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, but is having difficulty performing, with a horrendous problem, in that he can hear drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any discordant music, or just in fact horrid noise, when in the wings waiting to perform, of his artistic passions all failed miserably and never the score he is due to followwho had endless crises of self confidence. The devil's tinnitus, you might call it. With another failure behind him, but dignity somewhat intact, Jan decides he has So Tim applied himself to work back through his life to tell us the cause – and we're likewise dropped into an extended flashbackstudies, to cultivated his formative years at art school, with a pretentious drama student, Dirk. The book is a fast-moving exploration of what Jan finds of note (pun intended) through abilities rather than his life, daydreams and all that might have caused his mental problemset himself high but achievable ambitions. But is cognisance of what might lie behind it going to help?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0993506275</amazonuk>B0CVFXPGP8

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0C47LV1PC|title=Fragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, would it land? The catch is that the answer for both could well be.... no. ''Fragility'' is set as the city of Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic}}{{Frontpage|author=Gerard ReveMosby Woods|title=A Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=The Evenings: West isn't the dominant force it once was. Nobody in the West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is the best course of action. Governments are flailing. A war here, a push for climate action there. A Winter's Talefeeling that nobody is in actual charge. Imagine then, there was a man with precognition. Imagine the strategic advantage in this asset; a man 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, that this 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=3.5

|summary=''The EveningsHouse of Broken Bricks'' was voted is the best Dutch novel story of all time by four people. Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in the house on the riverbank, built of broken bricks. Insubstantial as it might look, it's stood the Society passage of Dutch Literaturetime, storms and its authorfloods. Her husband, Richard, Gerard Reve (1923–2006)struggles to grow his vegetables, was to complete the first openly gay writer delivery rounds - and to bring in sufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and Max, the Netherlandsrainbow twins. It Sonny's a historic book for its native country, but will it have the same impact in English translation? Contemporary Dutch novelist Herman Koch compares colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. People don'The Evenings't believe that they' to the works of Kerouac and Salingerre related, much less twins and I can see how it could have achieved cult status for a certain generation, but plot-wise I found it more tedious than revelatorythere's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she's his nanny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782271783</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Henrietta RoseClaire North|title=House of Odysseus|rating=5|genre= Literary Fiction |summary= ''What could matter more than love?'' The follow-Innesup 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 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 throne of the Western Isles. Having survived – politically and physical – the chaotic 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, and his 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 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= NinevehThe Trees Grew Because I Bled There

|genre= General FictionHorror|summary= Henritetta Rose-Inne's 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 ''NinevehBig Bad'' instantly reassures you , whether that you are in the presence of is a confident and talented writer. The story of Katya Grubbshome invader, a second generation pest exterminator who specialises in relocating the bugs monster or a ghost, it usually something tangible and rodents that ruin middle-class garden parties, Rose-Inne writes with by the enviable ability end of describing both the intricacies of Katyastory, beatable. Eric LaRocca's job and ''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is not like that. It is a collection of short stories more interested in the feeling horrors of it simultaneouslyillness, grief and humiliation. Horrors that linger and are harder to defeat than any ''Big Bad''. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910709166</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sara Stridsberg and Deborah Bragan-Turner (translator)Madelaine Lucas|title=The Gravity of LoveThirst for Salt|rating=4.5

|summary=Particularly literate cover… Setting of a real-life mental hospital – in Sweden… Mature themes… Opening with an emotion- and closure-laden death… Yes''Love, I'd read, this book has more than its share of things was supposed to put the potential reader off. Which, in this instance, is quite be a large shame indeed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857054767</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Carys Bray light and others|title=How Much the Heart Can Hold: Seven Stories on Loveweightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravity''|rating=3.5|genre=Short Stories|summary=This Sceptre collection does not have as simple Told from a retrospective view, a remit as it might appear; these are no straightforward love storiesyoung woman unravels the year-long relationship that once defined her. InsteadOverlaid with later wisdom, they each take one aspect of love the narrator relives the affair with a man twenty years her senior from its inception – often one of the ancient Greek classifications summer after finishing university – and provide a whole new way to its sorrowful end the summer after. Set against the backdrop of thinking about it. After an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the 24-year-old narrator's deepening relationship with her older lover, depicting its all-consuming nature, the heart holds a lot of metaphorical weighthow it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and how it altered her irrevocably.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473649420</amazonuk>0861546490

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Salley VickersMichael Grothaus|title= CousinsBeautiful Shining People

|summary=''We donBut fearing something and having it come to pass are two different things. And I't know our own limits so how can we judge the limits m willing to bet most of others? And what we fear will never happen, or we can take steps to change it is easy to forget is that they were so young. Too young to bear all those horribly complicated family strains.''

Salley Vickers' intense family odyssey 'Beautiful Shining People'' revolves around one devastating accident in 1994. Reminiscent of the past, Will Tye's accident has a powerful effect on three generations question of the Tye family, revealing long forgotten truths identity and close kept secretsacceptance. ''Cousins'' pieces together the events leading up to the event from three different close relatives perspectives, in an attempt to understand Of what exactly happened and why it happened that dark nightmeans to be human. His sister, grandmother Of what is real and aunt all recount Will's childhood and growth into an adultwhat is artificial, highlighting both his successes and mistakes whilst reflecting on their own pasts. From whether the outbreak development of the Second World War right up until the present day, the family's mysteries are laid out for all to see. Family loyalties are tested and the lengths you will go to for those you love are questioned. At its heart, ''Cousins'' technology is a love story between two cousins, Will and Cece, littered with complications, potential and realism as well as the struggle to determine your worth when you're youngexciting or frightening. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0241187710</amazonuk>191458564X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Paul BeattyJennifer Saint|title=The SelloutAtalanta

|summary=''This may be hard to believeI was as worthy as any one of them. I would get on board that ship, coming from a black manI vowed. I would take my place, not just in the name of the goddess. It was for the sake of my name, but I've never stolen anythingtoo.Atalanta''

Our black hero and narrator, surname MeAbandoned at birth for being born a daughter rather than a son, first name unknown, was born in Atalanta is raised under the southern Los Angeles suburb protective eye of Dickens the goddess Athemis and subjected fashioned into a formidable huntress, one who longs for adventure. When the opportunity comes – to an isolated upbringing dominated by his father's extreme views on racejoin the Argonauts, supposedly the subject a fierce band of a psychological memoir which will solve their financial problemswarriors, but cruel and unnatural descendent from the Gods themselves – Atalanta seizes the chance to anyone with an ounce of humanity. To add insult to injury Me discovered after his fatherfight in Artemis's death (a racially provoked shooting) that there was no memoirname and carve out her own legendary place in history. A drive-by shooting produces nothing more substantial than What follows is a bill for a drive-whirlwind of challenges and discovery and through funeralit, Atalanta must remember Artemis' fatal warning: that if she marries, but it starts Me on the path which will end in the Supreme Court, the subject of a race trial: ''Me v the United States of America''be her undoing.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786070154</amazonuk>1472292154

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nir BaramAmanthi Harris|title=Good PeopleBeautiful Place|rating=45

|summary=Thomas Heiselberg's self-focus pays off when he attracts the best clientele to the American advertising firm he helps establish across Europe from his German home. Meanwhile in Russia Sasha Weissberg is struggling with being in a literaryPadma, free-thinking family that doesn't go down too well with Stalin's regime. 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 effects.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911231006</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Ian McEwan|title=Nutshell|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction |summary=Meet Trudy. Successfully living in a large and valuable London home, she is heavily pregnantyoung Sri Lankan, and in between two men – she has swapped returned to the homeowner, poet and publisher John, for someone completely different, namely Claude, a nasty, brutish and short type. Some people cannot work out why Villa Hibiscus on earth she has made that decision, including our narratorthe southern coast of her home country. Oh, and he himself, our narrator, This is the child a place she's pregnant withspent her formative years. He It is not a very alert young thingplace she was born into, with nothing else 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…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911214330</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Matt Wilven|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 one she thinks of mind lets him start writing his best work in agesas home. He befriends a blackbird in How she came to be at the garden with the help of a bag of sultanasVilla, how it became her home, and begins preparing the babymachinations that have flowed through her life ever since she first arrived there provide the ''score's room. For a short while, everything seems full of peace ' for this gentle and hopeyet subtly violent novel. But Vince and Lyd Padma'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, present fails to escape her past and much like the pressure musical score of appearing 'normal' push Vince into a frighteningfilm, irrational place. Can he fight his that strand weaves its way through it and return to his family?everything that happens at the Villa.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785079689</amazonuk>1784631930

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Carolyn Parkhurst178563335X|title=HarmonySea Defences|author=Hilary Taylor

|summary=Josh and Alexandra Hammond have two daughters. Iris is eleven years old and neurotypical: her brain works in the same way as most peopleWhen we first meet Rachel Bird she'sa trainee vicar, but her elder sister, Tilly, is thirteen sitting in on a PCC meeting and on wondering why they're held when you need to pick the autistic spectrumchildren up. Her parents are finding it difficulthusband, if not impossibleChristopher, to cope with collects six-year-old Hannah and her. Even her special and rather expensive school has indicated that they can't continueelder brother, Jamie, whilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioner. SheThelma's subject to mood swings and unpredictable and inappropriate behaviourdaughter-in-law won't let her see her grandson. Josh Holthorpe, on the Norfolk coast, is lucky - he goes to work - a lovely place, but Alexandra Rachel is stuck struggling to develop a real bond with the problem, which is why Scott Bean, educator parish - and expert she's in parentingawe of the vicar, Gail, appeals to herbut then she's been doing the job for more than thirty years. The name came to her attention Rachel and Christopher hoped that a walk on a couple of occasions: she subscribed to his newsletter, heard him speak and the beach would do them some good - it was stormy but it was probably what he had to say rang a bellthey needed. Before long he was coming to the house for private consultations And then Hannah went missing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340978171</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=William Ryan1398515388|title=The Constant SoldierBoy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Paul Brandt returns home to his village without First of all, it was the earthquake, deep in the arm he left at ocean floor, which created the Russian Front tsunami and this, in defence of Germanyturn, caused the nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and utter devastation. The village looks pretty much the same as he left itdeaths were uncountable, with and the exception loss of the lack of young men and a new buildinglivelihoods was widespread. His home now boasts an SS rest hut, providing officers with entertainment and respite breaks The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of priorities but - six months after the fightingtsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. As Paul passes He wasn't a dog person but the hut for the first time, convenience store owner's comment that he sees something… or rather someone… that will make him return would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to work for those he despises. The subject of open his decision? A girl he once got into trouble with under different circumstances – before she wore car door and Tamon the stripes of a concentration camp prisonerdog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447255011</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Pamela Johnson0989715337|title=Taking in WaterPapa on the Moon|author=Marco North

|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 and sweeping her whole family out to sea. Seven-year-old Lydia was the only one to survive, clinging to the wreckage 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 Warhol.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1534627243</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=A N Wilson|title=Resolution|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|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 one line of work and Some frogs had a higher opinion of himself than was prudent. In Wilson's vision of life on the ''Resolution'', Reinhold seems fussy, argumentative and rather heartless, as when he offers George's dog up as fresh meat when the captain is desperately ill. George, just 18 when he joins gotten into the expedition, is a self-taught illustrator and botanist with a keen ear for languageswell. 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= The Countenance Divine|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary=In 1999, a programmer is trying to fix the millennium bug, but can'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 ''Walter stood waist-deep in 1666the fragrant water, poet naked except for his beaten leather hat. Long strands of their eggs wove around him, sticky gray pearls with tadpoles inside them. Two of the dogs leaned over the opening and revolutionary John Milton completes barked down at the strange noise of the epic for which buckets as he will be remembered centuries laterfilled them. ''

But where does How is that for an opening? The style of this novel in the feeling come form of interconnected short stories goes from that succinct and laconic to wistful and musing, turning on a sixpence. And author Marco North, who has the world is about most wonderful turn of phrase, starts as he means to end?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473636507</amazonuk>go on.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Emily BittoDaisy Hildyard|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 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 WhyEmergency

|summary=Lucia Stanton The summary of this book doesn't come close to explaining what is a sarcastic 14-year-old misfit who lives done with her elderly Aunt Lucy in a garage they rent from an evil landlord at the bottom premise.|isbn=1913097811}}  {{Frontpage |author=Sally Oliver |title=The Weight of his large gardenLoss |rating=4 |genre=Literary Fiction |summary= Marianne is grieving. She never comes right out and explains why Traumatised after the death of her sister, she's thereawakes to find strange, but if you read between thick black hairs sprouting from the lines you work out that bones of her father is dead spine which steadily increase in size and volume. Her GP, diagnosing the odd phenomenon as a physical reaction to her mother is grief, recommends she go to stay at Nede, an experimental new treatment centre in a mental hospital – presumably for his murderWales. Aunt Lucy Yet something strange is dignified happening to Marianne and principled – ''Don't do things you aren't proud the other patients at Nede: a metamorphosis ofa kind. As Marianne'' is s memories threaten to overwhelm her, Nede offers her motto – even though they are undeniably poor: Lucia only has one set release from this cycle of clothes memory and mostly lives off pain—but only at a terrible price: that of liquorice and Aunt Lucy's terrible homemade breadidentity itself.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1925355470</amazonuk>086154112X }}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jenn AshworthNatalia Garcia Freire|title=FellThis World Does Not Belong To Us

|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Now her parents have diedEarly comments on this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendous, Annette returns to sell her old childhood home a delight. I will agree with the first – tremendous is no understatement – but there's work to do on a delight' is perhaps using the decrepit building firstexpression in a way I'm not familiar with. As she wanders around and tries I have to make some order confess my ignorance of the overgrown shambles, she's watched by Spanish-language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation here. From the ghost of her motherlittle I have read (in translation, Netty; a spirit with regrets. Netty reminisces about AnnetteI don's childhood and the turning point their lives reached when the mysterious healer Timothy Richardson came t read Spanish) there does seem to stay. It was be a time that promised so much but one for which Netty now needs to make amends, even if she is beyond tendency towards the fantastical – the gravemystical realism.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473630606</amazonuk>0861541901

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sue GeeJennifer Saint|title=TrioElektra

|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=In 'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the winter story of 1936, Steven Coulter's wife, Margaret, dies three women who live in the heavily male dominated world 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 MargaretAncient Greece. GraduallyCassandra, thoughClytemnestra, as spring arrives he starts to take an interest and Elektra are all bit players in other thingsthe story of the Trojan War. His colleague Frank Embleton invites him to a performance by Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the silent women have 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; most compelling stories and their friend George Liddell, the violinist and leader, who is a Royal College of Music graduatemost extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784630616</amazonuk>1472273915

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Stephanie Danler8409290103|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 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>}}{{newreviewIf Only|author=Rodrigo Hasbun and Sophie Hughes (translator)|title=AffectionsMatthew Tree

|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=If you thought your teenaged years were a struggle to work out the world, and yourselfTwenty-one-year-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by his father, consider that of Heidi Ertl. Or either of her sisters – this book serves as a sort of tribute to these three realcotton-life womenbroker AO Lowry: he asked his accountant, and the lives that came out of their very disjointed youthMr Patrick, forced to be rarefied from ensure that the young man got on board the norm by their family uprootingboat and thereafter Patrick was to send him a monthly allowance. Father Hans was one of Leni Riefenstahl's key cameramen, Patrick sent the money regularly and a Nazi military photographer, before taking the whole family into postcorrespondence -war exile in Bolivia. Their mother would have followed him to the ends of sorts - sprang up between the earth – as in part would their daughters, the older two of which start the book by joining him on an expedition although we hear more about what Lowry has to discover a lost Incan citysay than Patrick. Heidi finds young It wasn't that Lowry senior didn't care for his son, instant love on the trek – but sees the dark side of such emotions, too. Older sister Monika, who it was that he didn't care to have him in this country where he might well be manic depressive, finds something else, while the baby of the family stays at home with a maudlin motherdanger to his wife and other children. So much here could be The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to get the hook young man on which to hang a full novel, but if anything it's the reaction of them all to this unusual formative journey that inspires this bookhis way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782272135</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sun-mi Hwang|title= The Dog who Dared to Dream|rating= 4|genre= Literary Fiction|summary=From the very beginning, Scraggly knows that she is different to her brothers and sisters. Her siblings have shortAntoine Laurain, glossy coats, but Scraggly's blue/black fur is long, wild Le Sonneur and untamed. She may be an outsider, but she still enjoys life with her family in Grandpa Screecher's sunny yard, 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 to rebuild a new life and family 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?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349142106</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Sarah PerryJane Aitken (translator)|title= The Essex SerpentRed is My Heart|rating= 43.5|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 Guy|rating=4

|summary=September 1964[[: an Indian summer in suburban Massachusetts. Ted McDougall is a twenty-three-year-old Goodyear tyre salesman who lives with his wife Abigail Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and ten-month-old daughter Mindy in the up-white and-coming Elm Grove community. Both Ted and Abigail feel unappreciated read in their rolesmy house. Ted knows his in-laws wanted him to become a lawyer And so was this one, although I could have spelled that more accurately – this one was, and join Abigail's father's firmis, but he's a good salesman black and white and wishes they wouldn't look down on him for itred. Meanwhile AbigailYes, he has an American history buffartistic collaborator on this piece, canand I think it't master s possible to say not one page lacks the domestic arts influence of cooking and cleaning, much as she tries, and longs to go back to schoolsome striking visual ideas.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473630339</amazonuk>1913547183

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Emma ClineB098FFFBH9|title= The GirlsSnowcub|author=Graham Fulbright|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary=California. Summer 1969. Fourteen -year -old Evie Boyd Rachel is her school's animal rights project leader and she and her friend are producing a thoughtful yet bored teenager from a broken home. The attention she craves is nowhere competition entry to be found highlight the way in which human beings exploit the form animal world. She gets a great deal of support from her neglectfulfamily: father Pip Harrison, a lecturer at Imperial College, London, serial dating motherKate and her twin, or even Nick. Kate runs the family business, a toy shop called Cornucopia in the friendship of her fickle best friend Connie. Abandoned by those around herPutney, Eviewhich is where we'll meet Rachel's path collides with Suzanne – a mysterious older girl who introduces Evie to a strange yet thrilling new life, offering her the intimate relationship her life back home lacksmain (if unsuspected) source of information: five soft toys.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784740446</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Simon Van BooyYancey Williams|title= Father's DayCrosshairs of the Devil|rating= 4.5|genre= General Literary Fiction|summary=When devastating news shatters the life of six year old HarveyAward-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski is getting on in years and, despite his strenuous objections and thanks to his daughter, she finds herself himself living - or imprisoned, from Eddie's point of view - in room 315 of the care Garden of Eden nursing home, with only a veteran social workertrusty nursing aide, WandaJenkins, and alone in the world save for one relative she has never met palatable company. Nothing is going to keep Eddie from his stock- a disabled exin-contrade of writing though, so here, for his readers, haunted by a violent past he canare 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 publication of George March't escapes 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. Moving between past and present Every day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, Patricia asked, as she was wrapping the bread, Father's Day weaves together 'but isn't this the story of Harveyfirst time he's childhood based a character on Long Islandyou?'' She mentioned that Johanna, and the principal character had 'her life as mannerisms''. Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for the fact that Johanna is the whore of Nantes - ''a young woman in Parisweak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780749694</amazonuk>''