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[[Category:New Reviews|Literary Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Paula CocozzaMatthew Tree|title= How to Be HumanWe'll Never Know|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= When Mary arrives home Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from work one day to find his father, a magnificent fox on her lawn - drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his ears spiked in attention artistic passions all failed miserably and every hair bristling with who had endless crises of self confidence. So Tim applied himself to his power to surprise - it is only the beginning. He brings gifts (at least, Mary imagines they are gifts)studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and gradually makes set himself at home. And as he listens to Mary, Mary listens back. She begins to hear herself for the first time in years. Her bullish ex-boyfriend, still lurking on the fringes of her life, would be appalled. So would the neighbours with a new baby. They only like wildlife that fits with the decor. But inside Mary a wildness is growing that will not be tamedhigh but achievable ambitions. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786330334</amazonuk>B0CVFXPGP8

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen DunmoreB0C47LV1PC|title=Birdcage WalkFragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=54|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=Bristol 1792: Lizzie married well. John Diner Tredevant is Can you make a property developer who has reached the zenith of his life's work: building a terrace of prestigious houses overlooking 'Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the Avon Gorge. In a time of turbulence as France reaches question should you make it? Or is the dawn of revolution, Britainquestion if you did, including Diner, fears would it may spreadland? The catch is that the answer for both could well be.. This puts Lizzie in a difficult position since her mother and step-father both believe in propagating pamphlets and ideas of egalitarianism for and to all, including women. In other words, they think nothing of spreading ideas of the sort that fanned the French flames. However, that's not Lizzie's only problem… there is a darkness in her husband's past of which she's unawareno.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091959403</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Emma Henderson|title= The Valentine House|rating= 4|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= In June 1914, Sir Anthony Valentine, a keen mountaineer, arrives with his family to spend the summer in their chalet, high in the French Alps. There, for the first time, fourteen-year-old foundling Mathilde starts work as one of the 'uglies' - village girls employed as servants and picked, it is believed, to ensure they donFragility't catch Sir Anthony's roving eye. For Mathilde it is set as the start city of a life-long entanglement with les anglais - strangePortland, exciting peopleOregon, far removed cautiously begins to emerge from the hard grind of farming. Except she soon finds restrictions imposed during the Valentines are less carefree than they appear, with a curiously absent daughter no one talks about. It will be decades - disrupted by war, accidents and a cruel betrayal - before Mathilde discovers the key to the mystery. And in 1976, the year Sir Anthony's great-great grandson comes to visit, she must decide whether to use it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444704028</amazonuk>covid pandemic

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Hannah TintiMosby Woods|title=The Twelve Lives of Samuel HawleyA Whirly Man Loses His Turn

|summary=When she turns twelve, Samuel Hawley teaches his daughter, Loo (short for Louise), how to use her grandfatherThe West isn's riflet the dominant force it once was. Shooting a gun and hotwiring a car prove Nobody in the West is quite sure how to be useful skills for mend this daughter or even if mending it is the best course of action. Governments are flailing. A war here, a fugitivepush for climate action there. Hawley A feeling that nobody is in actual charge. Imagine then, there was a lawless modern cowboy who's had many close shaves over his years on man with precognition. Imagine the run for committing robberies and making dodgy deals. He and his young daughter form strategic advantage in this asset; a cosy unit man who can tell you what will happen given any set of their own; they live off of Chinese food and vending machine snacks circumstances. That man would be valuable, right? Perhaps the most valuable asset in motel rooms and move on every six months or so history. Imagine then, that this man loses this ability. What would governments do to avoid the consequences of his criminal activities. But when they get to Olympus, Massachusetts, Hawley decides it's time to settle down. He buys a house by the water – with cash – and becomes a clean-living fisherman.back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472234367</amazonuk>B0C9SNG8R1

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Nicole Dennis-Benn 0571379559|title= Here Comes the Sun The House of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams|rating= 45|genre= Literary Fiction |summary= You have ''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the story of 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 passage of time, storms and floods. Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to assume complete the team behind delivery rounds - and to bring in sufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and Max, the cover sleeve for Nicole Dennis-Bennrainbow twins. Sonny's debut novel Here Comecolouring reflects his mother's the Sun have a keen sense of ironyJamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. Either People don't believe that or none of them read beyond the first pagethey're related, much less twins and there's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she's his nanny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178607124X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Polly ClarkClaire North|title= LarchfieldHouse of Odysseus|rating= 5

|summary=I It's early summer when 'What could matter more than love?'' The follow-up to the excellent ''Ithaca'' picks up a young poetfew months after where we left off. In the palace of Odysseus, Dora Fieldingwith delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without her husband, moves who sailed to Helensburgh on the west coast of Scotland war at Troy and her hopes are first challengedthen by divine intervention never returned home. Newly married, pregnant, As ever she's excited remains surrounded by suitors vying for the prospect throne of a life the Western Isles. Having survived – politically and physical – the chaotic storm that combines family and creativity. She thinks she knows what being a person, a wifeClytemnestra brought to Ithaca's shores, Queen Penelope is on the brink of a mother, meansfragile peace. She is soon shown One that she is wrong. As shatters however with the battle begins for her very sense return of selfOrestes, Dora comes to find the realities King of small town life suffocating, and, eventuallyMycenae, terrifying; until she finds a way to escape reality altogether. Another poet, she discovers, lived in Helensburgh once. Wystan H. Auden, brilliant and awkward at 24, with his first book of poetry publishedsister Elektra, should be embarking on success and society in London. Instead, in 1930, fleeing a broken engagement, he takes a teaching post at Larchfield School for boys where he is mocked for his Englishness and suspected - rightly - of homosexuality. Yet in this repressed limbo Wystan will fall in love for the first time, even as he fights his deepest fearsseeking refuge.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786481928</amazonuk>0356516075

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Otto de Kat and Laura Watkinson (translator)Kay Chronister|title=The Longest NightDesert Creatures|rating=3.54|genre=Literary Dystopian Fiction|summary=Emma has With a philosophy – ''let the dead rest, and love the living''. The problem with world thatis becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, as a 96post-year-old, apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Whether it is that there are too few living left, and so while the love remains she will go through her memoriesa robotic takeover, taking a woozy, diaphanous path through all the major events world devoid of her life. Starting in wartime Berlin with one husbandwater or a nuclear holocaust, who gets snatched from her at work, fleeing to another place to wait this genre is a way for peace, and wait for him in vain, moving humans to Holland and finding cathartically experience their most existential fears. ''Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is a new love, and so on – this wispy journey will show all work of post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the impacts of war, from rationing right up to exile, death and survivalfears that exist for humanity today. The memories are coming strongly here and now, as Emma It is waiting for at least one of her two sons a shocking novel that still manages to visit, and then she will die…find hope.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857056085</amazonuk>1803364998

{{newreviewfrontpage|isbn=1803363002|author= Marisa SilverEric LaRocca|title= Little NothingThe Trees Grew Because I Bled There

|genre= Literary Fiction Horror|summary=In an unnamed country at the beginning of the last centuryHorror 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 peasant couple longs for monster or a child. In despair they turn to gypsy tonics and archaic prescriptionsghost, it usually something tangible and one cold wintery night, by the end of the couplestory, beatable. Eric LaRocca's wish comes true''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is not like that. But the silence that follows the birth forewarns It is a collection of darker days to come. Strangers look on askance and fall speechless short stories more interested in the child's presencehorrors of illness, grief and villagers protectively hush their children as they pass on narrow market laneshumiliation. Pavla is no ordinary child, but then this is no ordinary taleHorrors that linger and are harder to defeat than any ''Big Bad''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786071274</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jeroen Blokhuis and Asja Novak (translator)Madelaine Lucas|title=The Yellow HouseThirst for Salt|rating=35

|summary=If you were the needy kind''Love, I'd read, would you really join in the drumming-out of town of two people accused of murder purely because of their nationality? Would you get was supposed to be a light and weightless feeling of belonging just because you were there when someone carried , but I had always longed for gravity'' Told from a dead dog down off retrospective view, a mountain? The main character in this novel doesyoung woman unravels the year-long relationship that once defined her. But he has something that will really get him notedOverlaid with later wisdom, well-thought-of, includedthe narrator relives the affair with a man twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the summer after. He has come to Set against the south backdrop of France to set up an artistsisolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' collective, where he can live and work alongside his counterparts, who can inspire each other and best each other to create wonderful art. In fact a muchdetails the 24-year-respected guest is on his way now, so surely he can find kinship? The guestold narrator's name isdeepening relationship with her older lover, after depicting its all-consuming nature, Gauguinhow it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and how it altered her irrevocably. The main character is, of course, Vincent van Gogh…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907320563</amazonuk>0861546490

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jennifer DownMichael Grothaus|title=Our Magic HourBeautiful Shining People|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=There had always been Katy, Audrey and Adam. They've been friends since school and now, along with Audrey's partner Nick, they remain inseparable as young professionals. Then, one day, Katy kills herself. No warning, no reason just no Katy. The four are suddenly three trying to make sense of a moment that leaves so many questions in a world that refuses to pause while they figure it out.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1925240835</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Ayobami Adebayo|title= Stay With Me|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction|summary= I have a ''thing'' about blurbs which give away far too much of the stories. Not this time. This time…''There are things even love can't do…if the burden is too much and stays too long even love bends, cracks, comes close to breaking, and sometimes does break.'' ''But even when it's in a thousand pieces around your feet, that doesn't mean it's no longer love…'' That is the most heart-breakingly beautiful truth I've read in a long time – and it sums up this story. This is a story about love not being enough…but still being love. I hope this becomes a classic, not just in its native Nigeria but around the world. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782119469</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Michael Farris Smith|title= Desperation Road|rating= 5

|summary= Maben is on the run. For a long while it's not clear whether she's running from something or towards But fearing somethingand having it come to pass are two different things. And I'm willing to bet most of what we fear will never happen, or simply back we can take steps to where change it all started. She's got her small daughter with her, and they've been walking for a very long time. It ''s hard on the child, but itBeautiful Shining People's also clear that if it wasn't for revolves around the child Maben would stop running, question of identity and acceptance. Of what it's clear that that would not means to be a good thinghuman. Of what is real and what is artificial, and whether the development of technology is exciting or frightening.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1843449870</amazonuk>191458564X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Samanta Schweblin and Megan McDowell (translator)Jennifer Saint|title=Fever DreamAtalanta|rating=45

|summary=Meet Carla''I was as worthy as any one of them. She's a glamorous older womanI would get on board that ship, with poise and beautyI vowed. I would take my place, and someone who still looks a treat not just in a golden bikinithe name of the goddess. But insideIt was for the sake of my name, shetoo. Atalanta''s different Princess. The biggest issue she seems to bear relates to an event Warrior. Lover. Hero. Abandoned at birth for being born a daughter rather than a few years agoson, when her horse breeder husband had Atalanta is raised under the drama protective eye of both the goddess Athemis and fashioned into a hiredformidable huntress, valuable stallion, and their son, being poisonedone who longs for adventure. Away from When the opportunity comes – to join the right medical treatmentArgonauts, Carla took David to a woman who said fierce band of warriors, descendent from the only hope was a 'migration' Gods themselves – basically, Atalanta seizes the chance to farm fight in Artemis' name and carve out part her own legendary place in history. What follows is a whirlwind of David's spirit challenges and discovery and swap through it with someone else, Atalanta must remember Artemis's, to dilute the toxin. This was a success, as David seems to have survivedfatal warning: that if she marries, although Carla is sure it was the wrong decision – she now sees David as at least part monster. But another odd thing about this tale is that it isn't being narrated by Carla, but by will be her neighbour, another mother called Amanda, who is renting a holiday home nearbyundoing. And the further odd thing is to whom she is narrating this story – it's to David…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786070901</amazonuk>1472292154

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Shanthi SekaranAmanthi Harris|title=Lucky BoyBeautiful Place

|summary=Solimar wants more from Padma, a young Sri Lankan, has returned to the Villa Hibiscus on the southern coast of her life than her Mexican home can offer and now she's 18, she can go find itcountry. Her target This is to get to the USA, a target so blinding that place she doesn't realise what reaching out for it will costspent her formative years. Meanwhile Kavya It is living not a place she was born into, but the American dreamone she thinks of as home. She's rich in friendship How she came to be at the Villa, familyhow it became her home, a loving husband and the machinations that have flowed through her life prospects ever since she first arrived there provide the ''score'' for this gentle and yet Kavya has a baby-shaped hole in her worldsubtly violent novel. The problem is that there Padma's only one baby for both present fails to escape her past and much like the musical score of them… Lucky boy!a film, that strand weaves its way through everything that happens at the Villa.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0735212279</amazonuk>1784631930

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Rick Bass178563335X|title= For a Little While|rating= 4|genre= Short Stories|summary=''For a Little While'' is a collection of twenty-five short stories from Rick Bass. As someone previously unacquainted with Bass' work this new collection was a wonderful introduction to his quirky, unusual style which focuses on stripped back, simple fables featuring often mundane situations, mysterious characters and magical experiences. The characters in each tale are beautifully crafted and the stories are dreamy, loose narratives covering everything from love to death to choices made and chances taken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782273042</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewSea Defences|author=Dorthe Nors|title=Mirror, Shoulder, SignalHilary Taylor|rating=3.5

|summary=Danish author Dorthe Nors has published four novelsWhen we first meet Rachel Bird she's a trainee vicar, sitting in on a novella PCC meeting and a story collectionwondering why they're held when you need to pick the children up. The protagonist of Her husband, Christopher, collects six-year-old Hannah and her latest novelelder brother, forty-something SonjaJamie, has whilst Rachel holds a problem with balance – literallysobbing parishioner. Due to an inner ear condition, if she bends over she Thelma's crippled by dizziness. It's inconvenient given that Sonja is currently taking lessons at Folke Driving School. She's already doing poorly – her angry, sweary instructor Jytte doesndaughter-in-law won't trust let her enough to change gears so does it all for see her – and so can't have them finding out that she gets dizzygrandson. Eventually Sonja switches so Folke himself is her instructor Holthorpe, but he's an odious lecher. She really can't win.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782273123</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Alice Hoffman|title= Faithful|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction |summary= Growing up on Long Islandthe Norfolk coast, Shelby Richmond is an ordinary girl until one night an extraordinary tragedy changes her fate. Her best friend's future is destroyed in an accidenta lovely place, while Shelby walks away with the burden of guilt. What happens when a life but Rachel is turned inside out? When love is something so distant it may as well be a star in the sky? Moving from a life in her parents basement struggling to develop a life in New York City, Shelby remains damaged by real bond with the loss of her best friend, stumbling through life blindly and fighting desperately to become connected to anything at all. But, as she grows, she discovers emotion, survival parish - and happiness, bundled up with dogs, food, books and men she's probably best avoiding… Deep in New York City she find a circle awe of lost and found soulsthe vicar, Gail, and the angel whobut then she's been watching over her since that fateful night all those doing the job for more than thirty years ago…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471157717</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Miguel Bonnefoy and Emily Boyce (translator)|title=Octavio's Journey|rating=3.5|genre=Literary Fiction |summary=Meet Octavio. He's a large lunk, a gentle giant, living alone in a lowly Venezuelan town – a town which once, fleetingly, had fame, fashion Rachel and success through Christopher hoped that a minor miracle, but has none any longer. Octavio, it seems, has walk on the beach would do them some unusual habits – here he is, marching off to the chemist's with a table across his back, for good - it was all the doctor had at the time to write a prescription on. Now we never learn exactly what the cause of the prescription stormy but it was, but we soon find out probably what the cause of the table is – Octavio cannot read, and has learned nothing beyond cutting into his palm to allow the wound to let him escape the need to writethey needed. Until, that is, a woman seems to suggest a way for him to learn to read and write, and to love – but that experience also proves to Octavio that there is a whole host of other things he can put his mind to, both for good, and for bad…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910477311</amazonuk>And then Hannah went missing.

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1398515388|title=The Boy and the Dog|author=Tomoka Shibasaki Seishu Hase and Polly Barton Alison Watts (translator)|title=Spring Garden

|genre=General Fiction |summary=MurakamiFirst of all, it was the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and (long before this, in turn, caused the film) Endo's ''Silence''nuclear meltdown. That's my limit as regards contemporary Japanese writing. But now there's Tomoka Shibasaki, The result was complete and her noted work ''Spring Garden''utter devastation. Which, make no mistake, is definitely Japanese. For instance, if I told you it starts with a man looking up to watch his female neighbour on her balconyThe deaths were uncountable, and concerns obsession, you could well think it the loss of livelihoods was his about herwidespread. But no – perhaps only in The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the west is list of priorities but - six months after the gaze so male. The obsession is very much hers here, and it – and the novel – concern tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a singular houseconvenience store. And He wasn't a dog person but the very singular country it lives in, convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and Tamon the changes it is going through…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782272704</amazonuk>dog jumped in.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Laura Kaye0989715337|title= English AnimalsPapa on the Moon|author=Marco North|rating= 54|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= When Mirka gets a job ''Some frogs had gotten into the well.'' ''Walter stood waist-deep in a country house in rural Englandthe fragrant water, naked except for his beaten leather hat. Long strands of their eggs wove around him, she has no idea sticky gray pearls with tadpoles inside them. Two of the struggle she faces to make sense of a very English couple, dogs leaned over the opening and a way barked down at the strange noise of life the buckets as he filled them.'' How is that is entirely alien to her. Richard for an opening? The style of this novel in the form of interconnected short stories goes from succinct and Sophie are chaotic, drunken, frequently outrageous but also warm, generous and kind laconic to Mirka, despite their argumentative wistful and turbulent marriage. Mirka is swiftly commandeered by Richard for his latest money-making enterprise, taxidermymusing, and soon surpasses him in skill. After turning on a traumatic break two years ago with her family in Slovakia, Mirka finds to her surprise that she is happy at Fairmont Hallsixpence. But when she tells Sophie that she is gayAnd author Marco North, everything she values is put in danger and she must learn who has the hard way what she really believes inmost wonderful turn of phrase, starts as he means to go on.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140870823X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Charles D BlanchardDaisy Hildyard|title=Kingdom's EndEmergency

|summary=The rats made their massive colony inside summary of this book doesn't come close to explaining what is done with the ruins premise.|isbn=1913097811}}  {{Frontpage |author=Sally Oliver |title=The Weight of an abandoned motion picture palaceLoss |rating=4 |genre=Literary Fiction |summary= Marianne is grieving. Traumatised after the death of her sister, where for thirty long dark yearsshe awakes to find strange, an aged blind leader ruled over them. A beloved figure held thick black hairs sprouting from the bones of her spine which steadily increase in high regard, he rules with patience, understanding, justice size and lovevolume. When Her GP, diagnosing the odd phenomenon as a young upstart challenges all he has builtphysical reaction to her grief, ruling with harsh punishments and rash decisionsrecommends she go to stay at Nede, the rats must decide how best to protect their colony an experimental new treatment centre in order Wales. Yet something strange is happening to preserve all that they have built togetherMarianne and the other patients at Nede: a metamorphosis of a kind. As the rats clash amongst themselvesMarianne's memories threaten to overwhelm her, some fail to notice the ever growing threats Nede offers her release from this cycle of memory and dangers pain—but only at a terrible price: that the outside world provides - who will come out on top in this very literal rat race?of identity itself.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>148344936X</amazonuk>086154112X }}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sebastian BarryNatalia Garcia Freire|title=Days Without EndThis World Does Not Belong To Us

|summary=It's the mid nineteenth century and Thomas McNulty has left his home in Sligo, his family dead Early comments on this debut novel from famineEcuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendous, to make a new life in a new nationdelight. He teams up I will agree with prairie fairy - the first – tremendous is no understatement – but 'a dancer delight' is perhaps using the expression in drag - John Cole and together they sign up for the US Armya way I'm not familiar with. Their journey will take them through the American Indian wars and eventually I have to confess my ignorance of the Civil WarSpanish-language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation here. Along From the waylittle I have read (in translation, the two soldiers form I don't read Spanish) there does seem to be a lasting bond with a young Sioux girl called Winona and their travels take them from Missouri to Wyoming and Tennessee. It's tendency towards the story of perhaps fantastical – the most violent birth of a nation in history but it's also a convention-defying love storymystical realism.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571277004</amazonuk>0861541901

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rose TremainJennifer Saint|title=The Gustav SonataElektra|rating=54

|summary=Gustav Perle grew up in a small town in neutral Switzerland: the horrors of the Second World War seemed distant, but neutrality was maintained partly at 'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the expense story of those three women who would seek refuge live in the countryheavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. Gustav's father died in mysterious circumstances and whilst Gustav adored his motherCassandra, EmilieClytemnestra, she was cold and indifferent to himElektra are all bit players in the story of the Trojan War. Until he met Anton Zwiebel he was a lonely child with just one toy, a tin train, but he and Anton met at kindergarten where it fell to Gustav to look after Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the silent women have the nervous boy. Anton is Jewish most compelling stories and he's a talented pianist, but he lacks the confidence to perform in public. Throughout much of his life he relies on Gustav's support, but fails to appreciate just how important, how necessary it is to his wellbeingmost extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784700207</amazonuk>1472273915

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tom Tomaszewski8409290103|title=The Eleventh LetterIf Only|author=Matthew Tree|rating=34.5

|summary=At the end of the working dayTwenty-one-year-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by his father, cotton-broker AO Lowry: he asked his accountant, Mr Patrick, Christopher is looking over to ensure that the ghosts of his occupancy of some rooms young man got on Harley Street, before moving up board the road to different chambers, boat and pastures new. He's half impelled and half reluctant thereafter Patrick was to revisit a pair of audio cassettes, on which are interviews by send him and someone else of a woman called Louise, who was arrested in Italy in the 1980s for the double murder of two close friends, Kate and Johnmonthly allowance. Hardly aware he's being snowed in by a London blizzard Patrick sent the money regularly and the usual British response to any bad weather, he spontaneously provides shelter to a flamecorrespondence -haired beauty, Kay, who provokes him into playing of sorts - sprang up between the tapestwo although we hear more about what Lowry has to say than Patrick. Itwasn's an occurrence which changes him much more profoundly than he does others at the therapistt that Lowry senior didn's couch. Indeedt care for his son, the closer it was that he gets didn't care to Kay, the closer have him in this country where he gets might be a danger to the voice of the victim from decades agohis wife and other children. What The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to get the young man on earth could be the connection?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>099357582X</amazonuk>his way.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Steinunn Sigurdardottir Antoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Philip Roughton Jane Aitken (translator)|title=The Good LoverRed is My Heart|rating=23.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Karl is a global example of the Icelandic species[[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white and read in my house. And so was this one, with although I could have spelled that more than accurately – this one home abroad was, and an amanuensis-cum-assistant to do his scheduling is, black and arrange housework while he's going here white and there being a businessmanred. He Yes, he has a string of lovers that has stretched into three figuresan artistic collaborator on this piece, partly because with one exception three is the limit of liaisons he'll have with each. But heand I think it's also got a heart devoted to Una, his teenaged love whom he adores, despite her splitting with him decades ago. On a whim he leaves a beach holiday to go back possible to say not one of page lacks the icy limbs influence of Iceland, witnesses the changes wrought by fifteen years on her – and then ends up staying the night with the woman next doorsome striking visual ideas. This is purely platonic, but what with his host knowing everything about the situation, an ever-present taxi driver, and an ex on the line in America, is there a way he can snatch his love from her marriage and find happiness?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>9462380139</amazonuk>1913547183

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eric Beck RubinB098FFFBH9|title=School of VelocitySnowcub|author=Graham Fulbright

|summary=JanFourteen-year-old Rachel is her school's head is dropping him animal rights project leader and she and her friend are producing a competition entry to highlight the way in itwhich human beings exploit the animal world. He's She gets a trained concert pianist, but is having difficulty performinggreat deal of support from her family: father Pip Harrison, with a horrendous problem, in that he can hear any discordant musiclecturer at Imperial College, or just in fact horrid noise, when in the wings waiting to performLondon, mother Kate and never the score he is due to follow. The devil's tinnitusher twin, you might call itNick. With another failure behind him, but dignity somewhat intact, Jan decides he has to work back through his life to tell us Kate runs the cause – and we're likewise dropped into an extended flashbackfamily business, to his formative years at art school, with a pretentious drama studenttoy shop called Cornucopia in Putney, Dirk. The book which is a fast-moving exploration of what Jan finds of note where we'll meet Rachel's main (pun intendedif unsuspected) through his life, and all that might have caused his mental problemsource of information: five soft toys. But is cognisance of what might lie behind it going to help?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0993506275</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gerard ReveYancey Williams|title=The Evenings: A Winter's TaleCrosshairs of the Devil|rating=34.5

|summary=''The Evenings'' was voted the best Dutch novel of all time by the Society of Dutch LiteratureAward-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski is getting on in years and, despite his strenuous objections and its authorthanks to his daughter, Gerard Reve (1923–2006)finds himself living - or imprisoned, was the first openly gay writer in the Netherlands. Itfrom Eddie's a historic book for its native country, but will it have the same impact point of view - in English translation? Contemporary Dutch novelist Herman Koch compares ''The Evenings'' to room 315 of the works Garden of Kerouac and SalingerEden nursing home, and I can see how it could have achieved cult status for with only a certain generationtrusty nursing aide, Jenkins, but plot-wise I found it more tedious than revelatoryfor palatable company.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782271783</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Henrietta RoseNothing is going to keep Eddie from his stock-Innes|title= Nineveh|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Henritetta Rosein-Inne's ''Nineveh'' instantly reassures you that you are in the presence trade of a confident and talented writer. The story of Katya Grubbswriting though, so here, a second generation pest exterminator who specialises in relocating the bugs and rodents that ruin middle-class garden partiesfor his readers, Rose-Inne writes with the enviable ability of describing both the intricacies of Katyaare his wanderings through his life's job and the feeling of it simultaneouslywork. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910709166</amazonuk>0986031658}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sara Stridsberg and Deborah Bragan-Turner (translator)0008421714|title=The Gravity of LoveMrs March|author=Virginia Feito

|summary=Particularly literate cover… Setting The problem began just after the publication of a real-life mental hospital – in Sweden… George March's most successful novel to date. Mature themes… 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. Opening with an emotion- and closure-laden death… 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, ''but isn't this the first time he's based a character on you?'' YesShe mentioned that Johanna, this book has more than its share of things to put the potential reader offprincipal character had 'her mannerisms''. Which, in Perhaps this instancewould not have mattered, except for the fact that Johanna is quite the whore of Nantes - ''a large shame indeedweak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857054767</amazonuk>''