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[[Category:New Reviews|Literary Fiction]]==Literary fiction==__NOTOC__ {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Hilary DixonMatthew Tree|title=When Rooks Speak of LoveWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5
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|summary=Arthur Transcombe is Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a middle-aged, grey-haired, drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of self-effacing poetconfidence. Unremarkable really - on the outside. He hasSo Tim applied himself to his studies, however, managed to achieve some success with cultivated his abilities rather than his poems. (Being a guest speaker at the Cheltenham Literary Festival is no mean feat)daydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions. He is also a babe magnet!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1904529429</amazonuk>B0CVFXPGP8
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Malouf B0C47LV1PC|title=Ransom|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Taking his theme from a small part of Homer's Iliad, Malouf tells the story of the king of Troy, Priam's grief-stricken voyage into the Greek camp to ransom Troy's wealth for the body of his fallen son, Hector, killed by the equally grief-stricken Achilles whose great friend Hector had killed in battle before Achilles took his cruel revenge. Malouf tells the story in sparse, yet lyrical and poetic fashion suggesting the personal stories behind the epic themes that Homer related. It is an exquisitely written piece managing to be both deeply moving as well as a great piece of story telling.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701184159</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFragility|author=David Vann |title=Legend of a SuicideMosby Woods|rating=4.5
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|summary=Some books defy categorisation and thatCan you make a 's the case with 'Yo birthing person'Legend of a Suicide''. Is joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it Literary Fiction? Is it a series of short stories linked by a common themeOr is the question if you did, or a novella with supporting pieces? Is it fiction with a strong autobiographical thread running through would itland? The simple catch is that the answer to all these questions is ''yes'' – for the book is all that and moreboth could well be.... It's also a compelling page-turner – I began reading at ten o'clock last night and finished it at three thirty this morning, resenting every moment away from the bookno.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141043784</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andrew Miller Mosby Woods|title=One Morning Like A BirdWhirly Man Loses His Turn
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|summary=Tokyo The West isn't the dominant force it once was. Nobody in 1940 the West is a place that we British tend not quite sure how to give a great deal mend this or even if mending it is the best course of thought toaction. Governments are flailing. Japan entered the A warhere, we saya push for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is in actual charge. Imagine then, there was a man with precognition. Imagine the attack on Pearl Harbour strategic advantage in December 1941this asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. That man would be valuable, completely forgetting that Japan, like right? Perhaps the most of the rest of the worldvaluable asset in history. Imagine then, was already a country at war. She had been fighting in China since 1937 and was making in-roads into European colonial territory in the area as wellthat this man loses this ability.What would governments do to get it back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340825154</amazonuk>B0C9SNG8R1
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sadie Jones 0571379559|title=Small Wars|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction |summary=Even though our world is ostensibly at peace, hundreds The House of localized, unwinnable conflicts continue to grumble on. Mostly, we only hear and care about the ones involving 'our boys', as if war was some giant game of football. But it isn't, and ''Small Wars'' reflects on the casualties of war in a story set in Cyprus in the Two-Way Family Favourites era of the nineteen-fifties. It may turn out to be an important book as the public mood turns against the 'war on terror' in Afghanistan. It's certainly a prescient one.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701184558</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewBroken Bricks|author=Evelyn Waugh|title=A Handful of DustFiona Williams
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|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=A complex class society which evolved into a highly sophisticated culture ''The House of Broken Bricks'' is invariably a fertile ground for development 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 social satiretime, storms and floods. Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the delivery rounds - and British literature would have been hugely depleted if all novels that can be regarded as such were suddenly to disappearbring in sufficient money. Evelyn Waugh made They have twin boys - Sonny and Max, the genre rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his own, and mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. People don'A Handful of Dustt believe that they're related, much less twins and there' s an assumption when Max is a sublime example of out with his mother that she's his mastery of itnanny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141183969</amazonuk>
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|author=Claire North
|title=House of Odysseus
|rating=5
|genre= Literary Fiction
|summary= ''What could matter more than love?''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Bryony Doran Kay Chronister|title=The China BirdDesert Creatures|rating=4|genre=Literary Dystopian Fiction|summary=Edward With a world that is a sad and solitary figure. Late middle-agedbecoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, twistedpost-spined and hump-backedapocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Whether it is a robotic takeover, a loner who works in the archive basement world devoid of the librarywater or a nuclear holocaust, lodges with Mrs Ingrams who makes his tea and ruins his laundry, and hoards letters from his motherthis genre is a way for humans to cathartically experience their most existential fears. Like many an unmarried man with an aging, widowed mother, Edward finds his relationship with her somewhat strained. Unlike ''Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is a new work of post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of those men, his relationship was always the fears that wayexist for humanity today. She It is rude and demanding, and he either doesn't have the strength or the inclination a shocking novel that still manages to force the issue with her. Apart from an occasion half-hearted reprimand, he stands back, ignores, makes excusesfind hope.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>095556302X</amazonuk>1803364998
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{{newreviewfrontpage|isbn=1803363002|author=Jude Morgan Eric LaRocca|title=The Taste of SorrowTrees Grew Because I Bled There|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionHorror|summary=The children were born in ThorntonHorror 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 suburb of Bradfordhome invader, and compared with where they were to go it was a soft living. Howarth was high up on the Yorkshire Moorsmonster or a ghost, industrialised it usually something tangible and with weather which chilled to , by the end of the bonestory, beatable. Eric LaRocca's ''The parsonage was four-square but draughty and Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is not exactly welcominglike that. They, It is a collection of short stories more interested in the horrors of courseillness, were the Brontë familygrief and humiliation. The father was the impoverished curate Horrors that linger and his six children had somehow are harder to be cared for after his wifedefeat than any ''Big Bad''s death from cancer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755338898</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Agnes Owens Madelaine Lucas|title=The Complete NovellasThirst for Salt
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Who is Agnes Owens? A Scottish author who portrays working class life from the nineteen forties and fifties. Now an octogenarian''Love, apparently Agnes Owens started writing at the age of 58. Here are five previously published stories collected into one new editionI'd read, was supposed to be a companion volume to her short storieslight and weightless feeling, published in 2008. but I donhad always longed for gravity't think you'll be disappointed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846971373</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=James LeverMichael Grothaus|title=Me CheetaBeautiful Shining People
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|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Straight out of the golden age of Hollywood comes the bitchiest, ''But fearing something and having it come to pass are two different things. And I'm willing to bet most revealing memoir from one of its stars. There are scores to be settledwhat we fear will never happen, stars or we can take steps to be insulted, secrets to be hinted at none too subtley, and lost opportunities to be longed forchange it. Oh, and the star telling all? Well, for those of you who can't tell from the title (or even the picture on the front cover) it's Cheeta - chimpanzee star of the Tarzan films.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007280165</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Colm Toibin Jennifer Saint|title=BrooklynAtalanta
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Colm Tóibín's quietly powerful new novel, Brooklyn, opens in the author's own home town I was as worthy as any one of Enniscorthythem. I would get on board that ship, County Wexford in the 1950sI vowed. We are sitting with his conscientiously introverted heroineI would take my place, Eilis Lacey, as she watches through not just in the upstairs living room window as her more glamorous older sister Rose walks briskly home from work. Rose is popular at name of the local golf club, with many male admirers. Meanwhile, Eilis' three brothers have all gone to England where there is work to be hadgoddess. There are few opportunities in Enniscorthy, It was for employment or anything else. Eilis is lucky to be offered a Sunday job in Miss Kelly's grocery shopthe sake of my name, a shop Eilis' widowed mother will not entertoo. Later, Eilis will entertain her mother and sister with imitations of Miss KellyAtalanta's voice. Showing everything only through Eilis' eyes, Tóibín brilliantly evokes life in the claustrophobically tight-knit town.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670918121</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Roddy DoyleAmanthi Harris|title=Paddy Clarke Ha Ha HaBeautiful Place
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=I'm kind of Padma, a reverse literary snobyoung Sri Lankan, in that I tend has returned to avoid books that win awardsthe Villa Hibiscus on the southern coast of her home country. I've found that such books are often very well written, but they're not always good readingThis is a place she spent her formative years. As shameful as it It is to admitnot a place she was born into, I would much rather read for story but the one she thinks of as for fancy wordshome. Clearly I'm not alone How she came to be at the Villa, as in 1993how it became her home, and the machinations that have flowed through her life ever since she first arrived there provide the year Roddy Doyle's 'score'Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha'for this gentle and yet subtly violent novel. Padma' won s present fails to escape her past and much like the Booker Prizemusical score of a film, that strand weaves its way through everything that happens at the bestseller lists contained [[:Category:John Grisham|John Grisham]], Sue Townsend and Jeffrey ArcherVilla.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099535084</amazonuk>1784631930
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah Waters 178563335X|title=The Little StrangerSea Defences|author=Hilary Taylor
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=When was the last time you couldnwe first meet Rachel Bird she't put s a trainee vicar, sitting in on a Booker nominated novel down? PCC meeting and wondering why they're held when you need to pick the children up. Sarah WatersHer husband, Christopher, collects six-year-old Hannah and her elder brother, Jamie, author of acclaimed novels whilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioner. Thelma's daughter-in-law won'Fingersmitht let her see her grandson. Holthorpe, on the Norfolk coast, is a lovely place, but Rachel is struggling to develop a real bond with the parish - and she's in awe of the vicar, Gail, but then she' s been doing the job for more than thirty years. Rachel and ''The Night Watch'' has written Christopher hoped that a chilling psychological ghost story that kept me guessing until walk on the very last pagebeach would do them some good - it was stormy but it was probably what they needed. And then Hannah went missing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1844086011</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=James Kelman 1398515388|title=How Late It Was, How LateThe Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Meet Andrew Whittaker. In some untold time First of recent American historyall, it was the earthquake, he is forced through a failed marriage deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and an artistic temperament at odds with so many other peoplethis, to let properties to tenants he does not likein turn, for $120 a monthcaused the nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and utter devastation. The lodgers might not like deaths were uncountable, and the state loss of livelihoods was widespread. The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the buildings list of priorities but - ceilings falling through and so on six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. He wasn't a dog person but thatthe convenience store owner's another matter. He comment that he would much prefer call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to be left alone in front of open his little Olivetti typewriter car door and create art. He runs a literary journal, of a kind, called "Soap", which no-one likes, no-one reads (and often, with dodgy, cheap printing, no-one could physically read it anyway), and which makes him poorer Tamon the dog jumped in time, money and spirit.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0297856499</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emily Bronte 0989715337|title=Wuthering HeightsPapa on the Moon|author=Marco North|rating=54
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=In 1801 Lockwood, one of our narrators, arrived at Wuthering Heights on the Yorkshire moors. He was renting nearby Thrushcross Grange from the rude and surly Heathcliff, but when one of Heathcliff's dogs attacked him and the weather turned against him he was forced to stay overnight. In his room he found a diary written by a young girl by the name of Catherine Earnshaw, who was close to Heathcliff as a child and it was this which caused Lockwood to have a terrifying dream in which Catherine's ghost fought to get Some frogs had gotten into the room through the windowwell. His screams of fear brought Heathcliff to the room and when Lockwood told him what he had seen Heathcliff asked him to leave the room and then sobbed as be begged Cathy to come in. Lockwood persuades the housekeeper, Nelly Dean (our other narrator), to tell him the story behind what has happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009953052X</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Colum McCann Daisy Hildyard|title=Let The Great World SpinEmergency
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=This was one of those books where, after I closed it, I sat very quietly, just breathing out and breathing in, holding onto the last moments The summary of a good story. Although it was a little slow to start, I found myself more and more caught up in the charactersthis book doesn' lives, how they were all so cleverly interlinked, woven together. The core of the story takes place on the 7th of August, 1974, the day that Philippe Petit walked on a high wire between the twin towers of the World Trade Centre in New York, and we begin with his high wire walk. Petit is never directly named, and although there are flashes back t come close to his training for the event, and his feelings and experience at the time, his explaining what is not the focus of the story, but merely the hook upon which all done with the other characters hang togetherpremise.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0747597227</amazonuk>1913097811}}
{{newreviewFrontpage |author=A S ByattSally Oliver |title=PossessionThe Weight of Loss |rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=A S Byatt won Marianne is grieving. Traumatised after the Booker Prize for Possession death of her sister, she awakes to find strange, thick black hairs sprouting from the bones of her spine which steadily increase in 1990 size and this volume. Her GP, diagnosing the odd phenomenon as a physical reaction to her grief, recommends she go to stay at Nede, an experimental new edition of treatment centre in Wales. Yet something strange is happening to Marianne and the novel is part other patients at Nede: a metamorphosis of a celebration of Booker winners produced by Vintage Bookskind. Presumably in an attempt As Marianne's memories threaten to make these literary prize-winners more accessibleoverwhelm her, Vintage has published the series in mass market format. This edition Nede offers her release from this cycle of Possession is therefore similar in size memory and appearance to an airport lounge blockbuster. More on pain—but only at a terrible price: that laterof identity itself.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099535157</amazonuk>086154112X }} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andrew J H Sharp Natalia Garcia Freire|title=The Ghosts of EdenThis World Does Not Belong To Us
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|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=1983: Michael LaceyEarly comments on this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendous, a consultant surgeon delight. I will agree with the first – tremendous is no understatement – but 'a delight' is flying into Uganda perhaps using the expression in a way I'm not familiar with. I have to attend a medical conferenceconfess my ignorance of the Spanish-language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation here. On From the plane he struggles against his memories of a child buried little I have read (in Africatranslation, against his claustrophobia, and against I don't read Spanish) there does seem to be a tendency towards the fantastical – the unwelcome conversation of his neighbouring passenger: a passenger apparently afflicted by a native cursemystical realism.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0955861330</amazonuk>0861541901
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|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Adam is being watched over 'Elektra' by a godJennifer Saint tells the story of three women who live in the heavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. NoCassandra, not that Adam - this one is a young manClytemnestra, and Elektra are all bit players in his twenties, staring out the window at story of the midsummer's dawn breaking, in his old family home, where his father - Adam senior - lies comatose, dying from a strokeTrojan War. And not Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that god, either - this is Hermes, who will be our narrator as often the family (Adam's wife, mother, younger sister) wake up to silent women have the new day, most compelling stories and have cause to remember other times. We'll see also that Zeus, too, is one of the household gods - and is still doing his old, randy, visitation tricksmost extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0330450247</amazonuk>1472273915
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ben Okri8409290103|title=The Famished Road|rating=3|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=After eternities in the ever beautiful and kind spirits world, Azaro the spirit child decides to be born, and to be born for good - not wander between the world of spirits and the living, as he used to, not pain his parents by the sudden deaths time after time, but to break an oath to his fellow spirits and settle. His parents are happy, he is content and curious, but the spirit world does not let Azaro go easily. Azaro is haunted by ghosts, while his parents are haunted by poverty, and both struggle for survival and relative security.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099535122</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewIf Only|author=Roma Tearne|title=Brixton BeachMatthew Tree
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=When Twenty-one-year-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by his father, cotton-broker AO Lowry: he asked his accountant, Mr Patrick, to ensure that the young man got on board the terrorist bombs bring London boat and thereafter Patrick was to send him a standstill in July 2005, monthly allowance. Patrick sent the money regularly and a doctor heads out in frantic searchcorrespondence - of sorts - sprang up between the two although we hear more about what Lowry has to say than Patrick. He can It wasn't that Lowry senior didn't find hercare for his son, and it was that he knows she candidn't call care to have him. This image opens ''Brixton Beach'' and hangs over it as in this country where he might be a threat danger to his wife and a hopeother children. London's woes are immediately left hanging as we're transported back thirty years The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to an island still called Ceylon, where a get the young half-Tamil, half-Singhalese girl called Alice is learning to ride a bicycleman on his way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007301545</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=James PalumboAntoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)|title=TomasRed is My Heart
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|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Tomas has had enough of the unthinking excess [[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white and greed of modern societyread in my house. He despises the men declaring themselves film producers to impress women wheeling around their breasts on trolleysAnd so was this one, although I could have spelled that more accurately – this one was, and is, black and white and red. So Yes, he kills them. The chief has an artistic collaborator on this piece, and I think it's possible to say not one page lacks the influence of police doesn't pay much attention until he makes his favourite hotel disappear, obviouslysome striking visual ideas.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0704371588</amazonuk>1913547183
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter FerryB098FFFBH9|title=None of This Ever Really HappenedSnowcub|author=Graham Fulbright|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Peter Ferry Fourteen-year-old Rachel is driving home one evening when he sees a woman driving erratically. He follows her cautiously, captivated by her beauty school's animal rights project leader and she and concerned for her safety, and then at friend are producing a stop light is torn as competition entry to whether to get out and try to stop her driving any furtherhighlight the way in which human beings exploit the animal world. Before he can do anythingShe gets a great deal of support from her family: father Pip Harrison, howevera lecturer at Imperial College, London, mother Kate and her car has lurched forward and crashes into a treetwin, killing herNick. This is Kate runs the story that Peterfamily business, an English teacher, tells his pupils. Yet is it a storytoy shop called Cornucopia in Putney, or did it really happen? Or did some of it happen and some of it he made up? And which is the Peter Ferry where we'll meet Rachel's main (if unsuspected) source of the story, a teacher and travel writer, the same as Peter Ferry, the author of the book who is also, funnily enough, a teacher and travel writer? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099516489</amazonuk>information: five soft toys.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Aleksandar Hemon Yancey Williams|title=Love and ObstaclesCrosshairs of the Devil|rating=4|genre=Short Stories|summary=We start with the young narrator away from home, and in Africa, due to his diplomat father. He's left behind home, a potential girlfriend, and more, but finds company with an older, chancer character and his junkie girlfriend, and their pot, drinks and 70s rock. Closer to his roots, but still a young man abroad, the second story sees him travelling across his homeland on an errand - to deliver payment for the biggest chest freezer his father could find. But poems, losing his virginity, keeping his money, and various other fantasies might just put a cooler on that unusual task...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330464434</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Anne Berry |title=The Hungry Ghosts|rating=45
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=''All children have nightmares. The fisherman's daughter I used to be was no exception.'' Lin Shui, the hungry ghost of the title, knows what she Award-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski is talking about. When she latches getting on to her 'host' Alice Safford, the disturbed 12 year old daughter of an important government official in Hong Kong, she brings her nothing but trouble. For poor Alice, Lin Shui is just the beginningyears and, despite his strenuous objections and she struggles through the tragedies of her life acquiring ghosts as she goes until she too wonders whether this life is worth living.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007303408</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Shahriar Mandanipour |title=Censoring an Iranian Love Story|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=This is no ordinary love story. How could it bethanks to his daughter, with the protagonists Sara and Dara finds himself living in contemporary Iran where two unmarried- or imprisoned, unrelated members from Eddie's point of the opposite sex meeting one another without a chaperon is considered a deadly sin by society, the family and the law? Dara falls view - in love with Sara from afar, and conducts his initial courtship room 315 of her through books – he writes to her by placing dots under letters in The Blind Owl, a book he has overheard her requesting at the library. Such ingenuity continues when they actually meet and speakGarden of Eden nursing home, with only a crime punishable by imprisonment by the patrols of the Campaign Against Social Corruption. So Dara takes the unusual step of suggesting the A & E Department of the hospital as their meeting placetrusty nursing aide, somewhere no-one would question their conversation. This plan backfiresJenkins, but that does not denigrate its cunningfor palatable company. That their story exists at all Nothing is a testament going to the strength and endurance of love to overcome obstacles, and it is a charming and at times moving story.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140870160X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Irène Némirovsky |title=All Our Worldly Goods|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Pierre Hardelot and Agnes Florent were keep Eddie from his stock-in love and had been since they were children, but there were problems - not the least of which was that Pierre was engaged to marry Simone Renaudin. Simone was an appropriate match for the grandson trade of a mill owner and member of the bourgeoisiewriting though, but Agnes was descended from brewers and lower middle class. In northern Franceso here, just before the outbreak of the First World Warfor his readers, such distinctions mattered. But Pierre and Agnes meet alone and rather than ruin her reputation Pierre proposes. In doing so he alienates are his wanderings through his grandfather and the wealthy Renaudins. Pierre and Agneslife' marriage and its consequences would reverberate for decadess work.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099520443</amazonuk>0986031658}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Glen David Gold 0008421714|title=SunnysideMrs March|author=Virginia Feito|rating=34.5
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|summary=On November 12th 1916 Charlie Chaplin died – seen by lighthouse keeper Leland Wheeler as his dinghy sinks beneath The problem began just after the publication of George March's most successful novel to date. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the waters off Northern Californialast page) seemed to either be reading it or had already done so. Wheeler can't quite believe his eyes, Every day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to buy olive bread but he's sure on that it particular morning, Patricia asked, as she was wrapping the Little Tramp in full costumebread, ''but all thatisn't this the first time he's left is based a character on you?'' She mentioned that Johanna, the battered black derbyprincipal character had 'her mannerisms''. On the same day the townspeople of BeaumontPerhaps this would not have mattered, Texas are waiting except for the arrival fact that Johanna is the whore of Nantes - ''a train which will bring Charlie Chaplin to the townweak, plain, detestable, pathetic, but when it arrives there's no Charlie – only Hugo Blackunloved, an unprepossessing railway engineerunloveable wretch. The disappointed townsfolk respond by setting fire to the train and leaving Black unconscious.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340995637</amazonuk>''
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