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|summary=We're in Naples, in recent historyTimothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a drunk and it's raining. It will in fact rain for four days solid – and seeing as it's October everyone's dressed for chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all seasons failed miserably and expecting a bit who had endless crises of greyself confidence. So Tim applied himself to his studies, but this is taking the proverbial. It's also making the city cultivated his abilities rather dangerous – when people report a huge sink-hole appearing in one street it's soon found that a pair of cars went into it, than his daydreams and two people have died, and more passed on with a whole building collapsingset himself high but achievable ambitions. What's more, some strange noises are coming from an abandoned civic palace. Is the city being told something by these strange events, or can a journalist find a logic behind the circumstances?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1911508067</amazonuk>B0CVFXPGP8

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Iosi HavilioB0C47LV1PC|title= Petite FleurFragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= Every now and then Can you read make a book ''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 leaves you thinking “well I have the answer for both could well be.... no idea what just happened but I know I enjoyed it”. This  ''Fragility'' is set as the city of Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic}}{{Frontpage|author=Mosby Woods|title=A Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= The West isn't the dominant force it once was. Nobody in the West is quite sure how I felt after reading Petite Fleurto 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 feeling that nobody is in actual charge. Imagine then, there was a man with precognition. Imagine the fifth novel (perhaps 'long paragraph' strategic advantage in this asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. That man would be more appropriate) from cult Argentinian writer Iosi Haviliovaluable, right? Perhaps the most valuable asset in history. Imagine then, that this man loses this ability.What would governments do to get it back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1911508040</amazonuk>B0C9SNG8R1

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tania Hershman0571379559|title=Some The House of Us Glow More Than OthersBroken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams|rating=4.5|genre=Short Stories Literary Fiction|summary=I won't be alone in stating that reading short 'The House of Broken Bricks'' is the story collections can be slightly awkwardof four people. Going through from A-Z, witnessing a bounty of ideas and characters Tess Hembry's roots are in short order can Jamaica: temperamentally she might be too muchhappier there, but do you have instead, she lives in the house on the riverbank, built of broken bricks. Insubstantial as it might look, it's stood the right to pick passage of time, storms and choose according floods. Her husband, Richard, struggles to what appealsgrow his vegetables, to complete the delivery rounds - and what time you have to fill? bring in sufficient money. The sequence has carefully been consideredThey have twin boys - Sonny and Max, surelythe rainbow twins. Such would appear to be the case hereSonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. The last time I read one of this authorPeople don't believe that they're related, much less twins and there's collections, an assumption when Max is out with [[The White Road by Tania Hershman|The White Road]], the only real difficulty was holding back and rationing them, but here you not only get a whopping forty pieces of writing, they are also spread into sectionshis mother that she's his nanny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910061484</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=James KelmanClaire North|title=That Was a Shiver, and Other StoriesHouse of Odysseus|rating=3.5|genre=Short Stories Literary Fiction |summary=This is ''What could matter more than love?'' The follow-up to the ninth book of short stories by this author, which means heexcellent ''Ithaca''s presented just as many collections of picks up a few months after where we left off. In the short form as he has novels. You will find it hard to think palace of another author that has been so noted for longer works (what Odysseus, with [[How Late It Wasdelicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without her husband, How Late who sailed to war at Troy and then by James Kelman|How Late It Was, How Late]] winning divine intervention never returned home. As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for the Booker) but who is so generous in presenting shorter pieces for throne of the time-poor, or those like me who see Western Isles. Having survived – politically and physical – the variety in a writerchaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to Ithaca's short or less typical works to be shores, Queen Penelope is on the more interesting places to turnbrink of a fragile peace. Opening these pages, from One that shatters however with the pen return of such an esteemed proOrestes, came with no small sense King of anticipationMycenae, and his sister Elektra, seeking refuge.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786890909</amazonuk>0356516075

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Kate MildenhallKay Chronister|title= SkylarkingDesert Creatures

|genre= General Dystopian Fiction |summary= Kate and Harriet are best friends growing up together on an isolated Australian cape. As the daughters of the lighthouse keepers, the two girls share everything, until With a fisherman, McPhail, arrives in their small community. When Kate witnesses the desire world that flares between him and Harriet, she is torn by her feelings of envy and longing. An innocent moment in McPhail's hut then occurs that threatens to tear their peaceful community apart. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785079239</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Joanna Walsh|title=Worlds from the Word's End|rating=3.5|genre=Short Stories|summary=We here at The Bookbag liked this author's fairly recent collection of short storiesbecoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, [[Vertigo by Joanna Walsh|Vertigo]]post-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. I myself missed out, but that seemed to be vignettes from one character's narration – here we get homosexual male narrators and Whether it is a host morerobotic takeover, as well as much less of the sadness prevalent before. Having had a brief encounter with this author courtesy world devoid of her entry into the [[Bookshelf (Object Lessons) by Lydia Pyne|Object Lessons]] series, I was intrigued by her name being stamped on water or a selection of shorts. Was it the ideal calling card? Let's face itnuclear holocaust, the very short story itself can be a postcard – let's say, from a specific hotel or two, as we see here. Perhaps I should have geared myself up, however, for such intricate writing on said postcards – and for the exotic locations from which they came…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911508105</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Raja Alem, Katharine Halls (translator) and Adam Talib (translator)|title= The Dove's Necklace|rating= 3|this genre= Literary Fiction|summary= I always hated Lit-Crit at school, so it came as something as is a surprise that I ended up reviewing books, way for fun. Now I understand. Finally, I see why literary critics get so up-in-arms about lowly book reviewers. There is a difference. This book explains it all. The author is ''the first woman humans to win the International Prize for Arabic fiction'' for this bookcathartically experience their most existential fears. The book also the LiBerator prize for ''the best book translated into GermanDesert Creatures'' in 2014. I suspect it's not done yet. ''The Times'' tells us that it ''exemplifies everything that by Kay Chronister is currently shaking the foundations a new work of Arab society.'' I am sure post-apocalyptic fiction that not only will more plaudits fall upon aligns many of the author and the book, but also fears that it will become a classic, spoken of in the same breath as the international classics: Proust, Márquez, Joyce, Rushdie, Nabokov…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715651757</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Daniel Kehlmann and Ross Benjamin (translator)|title=You Should Have Left|rating=4exist for humanity today.5|genre=General Fiction |summary=Our narrator It is a screenwriter, tasked with coming up with a sequel shocking novel that still manages to his hit movie ''Besties'' – a film which helped pay for a house, but which his actress wife keeps letting him know, isn't ''art''find hope. To concentrate, the family – he, the wife, and their four year old daughter – have rented a large, modern house at the end of a horrid, hairpin bend-filled road, in a charming alpine landscape. But things aren't right. The couple are at loggerheads too much, things keep unsettling our narrator, and the sole shopkeeper for miles around is ready with the Hammer Horror styled warnings of strange events. Quickly we see the book's title in all its galling clarity – but it isn't too late to get out… is it? And out of what, exactly?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786484048</amazonuk>1803364998

{{newreviewfrontpage|isbn=1803363002|author= Tove JanssonEric LaRocca|title= Letters From KlaraThe Trees Grew Because I Bled There

|genre= Literary FictionHorror|summary= Famed in the UK for her creation of the Moomin family, Jansson Horror taps into something primeval within us. It is rather belatedly beginning used as a way to gather the richly deserved esteem for her adult writingsreflect our darkest emotions and how we as humans react and process them. For that I offer my heart-felt thanks to publishers Most horror fiction feature a ''Sort of booksBig Bad'' , whether that is a home invader, a monster or a ghost, it usually something tangible and Thomas Teal, who has been responsible for most by the end of the translationsstory, beatable. Receiving this one, two things strike: firstly Eric LaRocca's ''The Trees Grew Because I somehow seem to have missed one Bled There'' is not like that. It is a collection of short stories more interested in the serieshorrors of illness, grief and secondly therehumiliation. Horrors that linger and are harder to defeat than any ''Big Bad'll come a time sooner rather than later when there'll be no more to be had. The former will be rectified, the latter is a sad thought.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908745614</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tom Malmquist and Henning Koch (translator)Madelaine Lucas|title=In Every Moment We Are Still AliveThirst for Salt|rating=4.5

|summary=Tom Malmquist is ''Love, I'd read, was supposed to be a poet from Sweden. Originally published in Swedish in 2015light and weightless feeling, this is his first work of prose. While itbut I had always longed for gravity''s being marketed as  Told from a novelretrospective view, it reads more like a stylized memoiryoung woman unravels the year-long relationship that once defined her. Similar Overlaid with later wisdom, the narrator relives the affair with a man twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to Karl Ove Knausgaardits sorrowful end the summer after. Set against the backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the 24-year-old narrator's booksdeepening relationship with her older lover, depicting its all-consuming nature, how it features the author as the central character changed her perspective on both romantic and narrator, familial relationships and the story of grief how it tells is a highly personal onealtered her irrevocably.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473640008</amazonuk>0861546490

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Michel DeonMichael Grothaus|title= Your Father's RoomBeautiful Shining People|rating= 4.5

|summary= ''But fearing something and having it come to pass are two different things. And I don't feel altogether qualified m willing to bet most of what we fear will never happen, or we can take steps to review Michel Déonchange it.'s 2004 fictionalised memoir ' 'Your Father's RoomBeautiful Shining People'', translated here into English for revolves around the first timequestion of identity and acceptance. I hadn't heard of Déon before receiving my copy, let alone read any of his books, published over a 70 year period Of what it means to much acclaim in his homelandbe human. But it's part of Of what is real and what is artificial, and whether the pleasure development of book reviewing to read with no prior knowledge technology is exciting or prejudice, all the more so if you discover an absolute gemfrightening.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910477346</amazonuk>191458564X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Naomi AldermanJennifer Saint|title= The PowerAtalanta|rating= 5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary=It started with ''I was as worthy as any one of them. I would get on board that ship, I vowed. I would take my place, not just in the name of the girls and spreadgoddess. From younger woman to older woman, it It was awoken and everything changed. Womankind now has for the power sake of electricity in their fingertips andmy name, slowly too. Atalanta'' Princess. Warrior. Lover. Hero. Abandoned at firstbirth for being born a daughter rather than a son, Atalanta is raised under the balance protective eye of power in the world starts shiftinggoddess Athemis and fashioned into a formidable huntress, one who longs for adventure. We follow When the opportunity comes – to join the stories of different peopleArgonauts, in different walks a fierce band of lifewarriors, who see this descendent from the very beginning and hurtle towards 'Gods themselves – Atalanta seizes the eventchance to fight in Artemis'name and carve out her own legendary place in history. One thing in this startling new development What follows is certaina whirlwind of challenges and discovery and through it, Atalanta must remember Artemis' fatal warning: that if she marries, patriarchal archetypes and chauvinist thinkers are in for the shock of their lives. Literallyit will be her undoing. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0670919969</amazonuk>1472292154

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anna PitoniakAmanthi Harris|title=The FuturesBeautiful Place|rating=45

|summary=When we first meet Evan PeckPadma, a young Sri Lankan, he has just started at Yale Collegereturned to the Villa Hibiscus on the southern coast of her home country. This is a place she spent her formative years. It is not a place she was born into, where he plays ice hockeybut the one she thinks of as home. Like lots of How she came to be at the other playersVilla, he is actually Canadianhow it became her home, from small-town British Columbia. One night after a party Evan meets Julia Edwards at their dorm and they go out the machinations that have flowed through her life ever since she first arrived there provide the ''score'' for pizzathis gentle and yet subtly violent novel. She technically has a boyfriend from Padma's present fails to escape her Boston boarding school days, but they soon break up past and before long Julia and Evan have become inseparablemuch like the musical score of a film, as they will remain for that strand weaves its way through everything that happens at the rest of their college yearsVilla.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0718184564</amazonuk>1784631930

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Stephan Collishaw178563335X|title= The Song of the StorkSea Defences|author=Hilary Taylor|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= Stephan Collishaw has achieved When we first meet Rachel Bird she's a trainee vicar, sitting in on a rare feat – PCC meeting and wondering why they're held when you need to pick the children up. Her husband, Christopher, collects six-year-old Hannah and her elder brother, Jamie, whilst Rachel holds a novel set amidst sobbing parishioner. Thelma's daughter-in-law won't let her see her grandson. Holthorpe, on the horrors Norfolk coast, is a lovely place, but Rachel is struggling to develop a real bond with the parish - and she's in awe of Nazi tyranny the vicar, Gail, but then she's been doing the job for more than thirty years. Rachel and Christopher hoped that does not shy away from human suffering, a walk on the beach would do them some good - it was stormy but does not drown in it eitherwas probably what they needed. And then Hannah went missing. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785079190</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Sabrina Mahfouz1398515388|title= The Things I Would Tell You: British Muslim Women WriteBoy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating= 4.5|genre= AnthologiesGeneral Fiction|summary= What does First of all, it mean to be British was the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and Muslim? This is a question these writers tackle with stunning claritythis, in turn, caused the nuclear meltdown. Modern day British society has a varied sense of cultural heritage; it is a society that is changing The result was complete and moving forward as it adds more utter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, and more voices to the population, but is also one that has an undercurrent loss of anxiety and fear towards those that are minoritieslivelihoods was widespread. So this collection displays how all The fact that fear is received; it comes in many pets were separated from their owners came far down the form list of stereotypical labels priorities but - six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. He wasn't a dog person but the convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and racial prejudice, which are themes eloquently reproduced hereTamon the dog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0863561462</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= David Szalay0989715337|title= All That Man IsPapa on the Moon|author=Marco North|rating= 54|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= Two teenage boys on an Inter Rail trip ''Some frogs had gotten into the well.'' ''Walter stood waist-deep in the fragrant water, naked except for his beaten leather hat. Long strands of their eggs wove around Europe find themselves staying him, sticky gray pearls with a frustrated housewife on tadpoles inside them. Two of the dogs leaned over the opening and barked down at the outskirts strange noise of Prague, a driftless young Frenchman discovers sexual fulfilment on a package holiday in Cyprus, a lovestruck Hungarian minder the buckets as he filled them.'' How is embroiled that for an opening? The style of this novel in a prostitution racket at an upmarket London hotel, a Belgian academic is forced the form of interconnected short stories goes from succinct and laconic to confront his egotism when his partner becomes pregnantwistful and musing, turning on a Danish tabloid journalist exposes a high-ranking politician's love affairsixpence. And author Marco North, a property developer inspects a new project in who has the French alpsmost wonderful turn of phrase, a Scot living in Croatia fails in love and business, a Russian millionaire confronts divorce, an elderly English politician survives a road accident in Italystarts as he means to go on. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099593696</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Elizabeth HayDaisy Hildyard|title= His Whole LifeEmergency|rating= 54|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= If you think that ''un-put-down-able'' is the greatest accolade for a The summary of this book, think again. ''Put-down-able'' can be stronger praise: ''His Whole Life'doesn' t come close to explaining what is put-down-able. It encourages you to put it down, to wrap yourself in the slow-moving story, the exquisite writing, the subtleties of done with the characters, and just walk around for a while with them slowly sinking in; it encourages you to come back to it again and again; mostly it encourages you to put it down, to read it slowly, because you don't want it to endpremise.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857055445</amazonuk>1913097811}} {{newreviewFrontpage |author= Phillip LewisSally Oliver |title= The BarrowfieldsWeight of Loss |rating= 4|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= Just before Henry Aster's birthMarianne is grieving. Traumatised after the death of her sister, his fathershe awakes to find strange, a frustrated novelist and lawyer, reluctantly returns to thick black hairs sprouting from the remote North Carolina mountains bones of her spine which steadily increase in which he was improbably raised size and installs his young family in a gothic mansion - nicknamed 'the vulture house' - worthy of his hero Edgar Allan Poevolume. ThereHer GP, Henry grows up under diagnosing the desk of this fierce and brilliant man. But when a death in the family tips his father toward a fearsome unravelling, what was once odd phenomenon as a young son's reverence is poisoned, and Henry flees, not physical reaction to return until years later when he, tooher grief, must recommends she go home again.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473636825</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Paula Cocozza|title= How to Be Human|rating= 4stay at Nede, an experimental new treatment centre in Wales.5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= When Mary arrives home from work one day Yet something strange is happening to find a magnificent fox on her lawn - his ears spiked in attention Marianne and every hair bristling with his power to surprise - it is only the beginning. He brings gifts (other patients at least, Mary imagines they are gifts), and gradually makes himself at homeNede: a metamorphosis of a kind. And as he listens As Marianne's memories threaten to Maryoverwhelm her, Mary listens back. She begins to hear herself for the first time in years. Her bullish ex-boyfriend, still lurking on the fringes Nede offers her release from this cycle of her life, would be appalled. So would the neighbours with a new baby. They memory and pain—but only like wildlife that fits with the decor. But inside Mary at a wildness is growing terrible price: that will not be tamedof identity itself. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786330334</amazonuk>086154112X }}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Helen DunmoreNatalia Garcia Freire|title=Birdcage WalkThis World Does Not Belong To Us

|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=Bristol 1792: Lizzie married wellEarly comments on this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendous, a delight. John Diner Tredevant I will agree with the first – tremendous is no understatement – but 'a property developer who has reached delight' is perhaps using the zenith of his lifeexpression in a way I's work: building a terrace of prestigious houses overlooking the Avon Gorgem not familiar with. In a time I have to confess my ignorance of turbulence as France reaches the dawn of revolution, Britain, including Diner, fears it may spread. This puts Lizzie in a difficult position since her mother and stepSpanish-father both believe in propagating pamphlets and ideas of egalitarianism for and to all, including womenlanguage literary tradition so forgive my generalisation here. In other words, they think nothing of spreading ideas of From the sort that fanned the French flames. Howeverlittle I have read (in translation, that's not LizzieI don's only problem… t read Spanish) there is does seem to be a darkness in her husband's past of which she's unawaretendency towards the fantastical – the mystical realism.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091959403</amazonuk>0861541901

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Emma HendersonJennifer Saint|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 don't catch Sir Anthony's roving eye. For Mathilde it is the start of a life-long entanglement with les anglais - strange, exciting people, far removed from the hard grind of farming. Except she soon finds 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>}}{{newreview|author=Hannah Tinti|title=The Twelve Lives of Samuel HawleyElektra

|summary=When she turns twelve, Samuel Hawley teaches his daughter, Loo (short for Louise), how to use her grandfather's rifle. Shooting a gun and hotwiring a car prove to be useful skills for this daughter of a fugitive. Hawley is a lawless modern cowboy whoElektra's had many close shaves over his years on by Jennifer Saint tells the run for committing robberies and making dodgy deals. He and his young daughter form a cosy unit story of their own; they three women who live off of Chinese food and vending machine snacks in motel rooms and move on every six months or so to avoid the consequences heavily male dominated world of his criminal activitiesAncient Greece. But when they get to OlympusCassandra, MassachusettsClytemnestra, Hawley decides it's time to settle downand Elektra are all bit players in the story of the Trojan War. He buys a house by Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the silent women have the water – with cash – most compelling stories and becomes a clean-living fishermanthe most extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472234367</amazonuk>1472273915

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Nicole Dennis-Benn 8409290103|title= Here Comes the Sun If Only|author=Matthew Tree|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary Fiction |summary= You have Twenty-one-year-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by his father, cotton-broker AO Lowry: he asked his accountant, Mr Patrick, to assume ensure that the young man got on board the team behind boat and thereafter Patrick was to send him a monthly allowance. Patrick sent the cover sleeve for Nicole Dennismoney regularly and a correspondence - of sorts -Bennsprang up between the two although we hear more about what Lowry has to say than Patrick. It wasn's debut novel Here Comet that Lowry senior didn's the Sun t care for his son, it was that he didn't care to have him in this country where he might be a keen sense of ironydanger to his wife and other children. Either that or none of them read beyond The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to get the first pageyoung man on his way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178607124X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Polly ClarkAntoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)|title= LarchfieldRed is My Heart|rating= 3.5|genre= Literary Fiction |summary=I It's early summer when a young poet, Dora Fielding, moves to Helensburgh on the west coast of Scotland [[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and her hopes are first challenged. Newly married, pregnant, she's excited by the prospect of a life that combines family white and creativityread in my house. She thinks she knows what being a personAnd so was this one, a wife, a mother, means. She is soon shown although I could have spelled that she is wrong. As the battle begins for her very sense of self, Dora comes to find the realities of small town life suffocatingmore accurately – this one was, andis, eventually, terrifying; until she finds a way to escape reality altogether. Another poet, she discovers, lived in Helensburgh once. Wystan H. Auden, brilliant black and awkward at 24, with his first book of poetry published, should be embarking on success white and society in Londonred. InsteadYes, in 1930he has an artistic collaborator on this piece, fleeing a broken engagement, he takes a teaching post at Larchfield School for boys where he is mocked for his Englishness and suspected - rightly - I think it's possible to say not one page lacks the influence of homosexuality. Yet in this repressed limbo Wystan will fall in love for the first time, even as he fights his deepest fearssome striking visual ideas.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786481928</amazonuk>1913547183

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Otto de Kat and Laura Watkinson (translator)B098FFFBH9|title=The Longest NightSnowcub|author=Graham Fulbright|rating=34.5

|summary=Emma has a philosophy – ''let the dead rest, and love the living''. The problem with that, as a 96Fourteen-year-old, Rachel is that there are too few living left, her school's animal rights project leader and so while the love remains she will go through and her memories, taking friend are producing a woozy, diaphanous path through all competition entry to highlight the way in which human beings exploit the major events of her lifeanimal world. Starting in wartime Berlin with one husband, who She gets snatched a great deal of support from her family: father Pip Harrison, a lecturer at workImperial College, fleeing to another place to wait for peaceLondon, mother Kate and wait for him in vainher twin, moving to Holland and finding new love, and so on – this wispy journey will show all Nick. Kate runs the impacts of warfamily business, from rationing right up to exile, death and survival. The memories are coming strongly here and nowa toy shop called Cornucopia in Putney, as Emma which is waiting for at least one where we'll meet Rachel's main (if unsuspected) source of her two sons to visit, and then she will die…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857056085</amazonuk>information: five soft toys.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Marisa SilverYancey Williams|title= Little Nothing|rating= 5|genre= Literary Fiction |summary=In an unnamed country at the beginning Crosshairs of the last century, a peasant couple longs for a child. In despair they turn to gypsy tonics and archaic prescriptions, and one cold wintery night, the couple's wish comes true. But the silence that follows the birth forewarns of darker days to come. Strangers look on askance and fall speechless in the child's presence, and villagers protectively hush their children as they pass on narrow market lanes. Pavla is no ordinary child, but then this is no ordinary tale.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786071274</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jeroen Blokhuis and Asja Novak (translator)|title=The Yellow HouseDevil|rating=34.5

|summary=If you were the needy kindAward-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski is getting on in years and, despite his strenuous objections and thanks to his daughter, would you really join in the drummingfinds himself living -out or imprisoned, from Eddie's point of town view - in room 315 of two people accused the Garden of murder purely because of their nationality? Would you get Eden nursing home, with only a feeling of belonging just because you were there when someone carried a dead dog down off a mountain? The main character in this novel doestrusty nursing aide, Jenkins, for palatable company. But he has something that will really get him noted, wellNothing is going to keep Eddie from his stock-thoughtin-trade ofwriting though, included. He has come to the south of France to set up an artists' collectiveso here, where he can live and work alongside for his counterpartsreaders, who can inspire each other and best each other to create wonderful art. In fact a much-respected guest is on are his wanderings through his way now, so surely he can find kinship? The guestlife's name is, after all, Gauguinwork. The main character is, of course, Vincent van Gogh…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907320563</amazonuk>0986031658}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jennifer Down0008421714|title=Our Magic HourMrs March|author=Virginia Feito

|summary=There had always been Katy, Audrey and Adam. They've been friends since school and now, along with AudreyThe problem began just after the publication of George March's partner Nick, they remain inseparable as young professionalsmost successful novel to date. Then, one day, Katy kills herself. No warning, no reason just no Katy. The four are suddenly three trying Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the last page) seemed to make sense of a moment that leaves either be reading it or had already done 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 Every day Mrs March went to the burden is too much and stays too long even love bendslocal patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, cracksPatricia asked, comes close to breakingas she was wrapping the bread, and sometimes does break.'' but isn''But even when itt this the first time he's in based a thousand pieces around your feet, that doesncharacter on you?'t mean it's no longer love… She mentioned that Johanna, the principal character had 'her mannerisms' 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 Perhaps this would not being enough…but still being love. I hope this becomes a classichave mattered, not just in its native Nigeria but around except for the world. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782119469</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Michael Farris Smith|title= Desperation Road|rating= 5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= Maben fact that Johanna is on the run. For a long while itwhore of Nantes - 's not clear whether she's running from something or towards somethinga weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, or simply back to where it all started. She's got her small daughter with herunloved, and they've been walking for a very long timeunloveable wretch. It's hard on the child, but it's also clear that if it wasn't for the child Maben would stop running, and it's clear that that would not be a good thing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843449870</amazonuk>