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[[Category:New Reviews|Literary Fiction]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove --><!-- Rawi -->{{Frontpage*[[image:Rawi_Baghdad|author=Matthew Tree|title=We'll Never Know|rating=4.jpg5|leftgenre=Literary Fiction|linksummary=http://wwwTimothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of self confidence.amazonSo Tim applied himself to his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions.co.uk/gp/product/1786073226/ref|isbn=as_li_tl?ieB0CVFXPGP8}}{{Frontpage|isbn=UTF8&campB0C47LV1PC|title=1634&creativeFragility|author=6738&creativeASINMosby Woods|rating=1786073226&linkCode4|genre=as2&tagLiterary Fiction|summary=thebookbag-21&linkId=6245c9160510471e2771ab88fd40a18d]]Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, would it land? The catch is that the answer for both could well be.... no.

===[[The Baghdad Clock by Shahad Al Rawi]]=== [[image:2.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] ''The Baghdad ClockFragility'' is a tale set as the city of two friends growing up during the first and second Iraqi war. Shahad Al Rawi uses magic realism Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to illustrate emerge from the displacement felt by a young girl and her neighbourhood. The novel introduces us to the various characters surrounding the protagonist. They are full of life and yet never seem to add anything to restrictions imposed during the central narrative. Rawi, it would seem, has a problem with telling a story. [[The Baghdad Clock by Shahad Al Rawi|Full Review]]covid pandemic<br>}}{{Frontpage<!-- Clements -->|author=Mosby Woods*[[image:Clements_Coffin.jpg|left|linktitle=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1472204271/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]A Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating===[[The Coffin Path by Katherine Clements]]===4 [[image:4.5star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], [[:Category:Horror|Horror]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] Maybe yousummary= The West isn've heard about Scarcross Hall? Hidden on the old coffin path that winds from the village to the moor top, t the villagers only speak of dominant force it in hushed tones - of how it's a foreboding place filled with evilonce was. Mercy Booth has lived there since birth, and she's always loved the grand house and its isolation, but a recurrence of strange events begins to unsettle her. From objects disappearing through to a shadowy presence sensed Nobody in the house, mysteries come West is quite sure how to light that can only be solved by Mercy unearthing long-buried secrets. And will a dark stranger help Mercy protect everything she has come to love mend this or tear it from her grasp? [[The Coffin Path by Katherine Clements|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Durrenmatt -->*[[image:Durrenmatt_Justice.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1782273875?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1782273875]] ===[[The Execution of Justice by Friedrich Durrenmatt and John E Woods (translator)]]=== [[image:2.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] It's 1957, and we're somewhere in Switzerland, and there's just one case on everyone's lips – the simple fact that a politician has gone into the crowded room of one of those 'the place to go' restaurants, and point blank shot a professor everyone there must have known, and ferried a British companion to the airport in his chauffeur-driven Rolls before handing himself in to face the murder rap. Of course he's found guilty, even if the gun involved has managed to disappear. He's certainly of much interest, not only to our narrator, a young lawyer called Spaet – even if he rarely gets to frequent such establishments with such people, he mending it is eager to know more, especially once he is actually tasked by the man in hand to look into things a second time. But what's this, where he opens his testimony about the affair with the conclusion, that he himself will need to turn killer to redress the balance? [[The Execution best course of Justice by Friedrich Durrenmatt and John E Woods (translator)|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Cercas -->*[[image:Cercas_Impostoraction.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0857056506?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0857056506]] ===[[The Impostor by Javier Cercas and Frank Wynne (translator)]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]] Enric Marco is without doubt an extraordinary manGovernments are flailing. A veteran of the Spanish Civil Warwar here, honoured a push for his bravery on the battlefield. A political prisoner of two fascist regimes. A survivor of the Nazi concentration camps. A prominent figure in the clandestine resistance against Franco's tyrannyclimate action there. A tireless warrior for social justice and the defence of human rights. A national hero. But the most extraordinary thing about Enric Marco is this: feeling that he nobody is really none of these things. He is an impostor. And Javier Cercas sets out to tell his story – the true story of Spain's most notorious liar. [[The Impostor by Javier Cercas and Frank Wynne (translator)|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Badoe -->*[[image:Badoe_Jigsaw.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.coin actual charge.uk/gp/product/1786695480?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1786695480]] ===[[A Jigsaw of Fire and Stars by Yaba Badoe]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]]Imagine then, [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Sante there was a baby when she was washed ashore in a sea-chest laden man with treasureprecognition. It seems she is Imagine the sole survivor of the tragic sinking of strategic advantage in this asset; a ship carrying migrants and refugees. Her people. Fourteen years on she's a member of Mama Rose's unique and dazzling circus. But, from their watery grave, the unquiet dead are calling Sante to avenge them. A bamboo flute. A golden bangle. A ripening mango which must not fall... if Sante is to man who can tell their story and her own. [[A Jigsaw you what will happen given any set of Fire and Stars by Yaba Badoe|Full Review]]<br> <br> <!-- Batalha -->*[[image:Batalha_Invisible.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/178607298X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=178607298X]] ===[[The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao by Martha Batalha and Eric M B Becker (translator)]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]] On the surface, young housewife Euridice Gusmao has it all. A nice-enough, parent-pleasing husband with a steady banking job, two young children upon whom to dote, an immaculate home complete with maidcircumstances. That's all anyone could ever wantman would be valuable, isn't itright? Not Euridice. She has an inexplicable ache inside her for something more, like many of us. Yet each of her pet projects, from a desire to publish a recipe book to starting a cottage sewing industry in her living room, are met with scorn from her stern husband Antenor. He wants a wife who doesn't draw attention to herself, whose only domains are her house and her family. [[The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao by Martha Batalha and Eric M B Becker (translator)|Full Review]]<br> {{newreview|author=Sjon Hodgkinson and Ten Hodgkinson (editors)|title=The Dark-Blue Winter Overcoat and other stories from Perhaps the North|rating=3|genre=Anthologies |summary=A compilation like this should be nigh on brilliant. It's not one author's best short works, it's that of a dozen. It's not from one snapshot most valuable asset in time, as some were written the year of publication and some in the 1960shistory. It's not from one tiny patch of author's desk or one set of laptop keys, but from the entire Nordic worldImagine then, whether that be urban Scandinavia, the Faroes and other island groups, or Greenlandthis man loses this ability. That is a world that's changing – as the Greenland-born author now living in Brooklyn, and the Iraqi blood on these pages, testify. It's a world where new roads and new building works mean a family living on the edge of the forest at the beginning of the story are being surrounded by other life by the end, and with the influence of centuries of folklore featured, a lot more than that changes – sometimes What would governments do to get it seems to be even the characters' species…back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782273824</amazonuk>B0C9SNG8R1

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christina Hesselholdt and Paul Russell Garrett (translator)0571379559|title=CompanionsThe House of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams|rating=35

|summary=''CompanionsThe House of Broken Bricks'' is written as a series the story of monologuesfour people. Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, where six middle-aged friends take but instead, she lives in the house on the riverbank, built of broken bricks. Insubstantial as it in turns to narrate scenes from their livesmight look, charting it's stood the intimate details passage of their holidaystime, dinner partiesstorms and floods. Her husband, familiesRichard, marriagesstruggles to grow his vegetables, affairs to complete the delivery rounds - and work lives to bring in a style that mixes honesty sufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and openness with fantasy and evasionMax, the rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. The charm of the novel lies in the way the friends People don' voices bicker with one another among the pages, as we discover t believe that there are always several sides to the same story. We learn most about the characters not through what they say about themselves but through what the others say about them. Along the way're related, much less twins and there 's an assumption when Max is heartbreak and grief, but this is always offset by an abundance of humour and a writing style out with his mother that never fails to be refreshingly light-heartedshe's his nanny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910695335</amazonuk>

The follow-up to the excellent ''Ithaca'' picks up a few months after where we left off. In the palace of Odysseus, with delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without her husband, who sailed to war at Troy and then by divine intervention never returned home. As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for the throne of the Western Isles. Having survived – politically and physical – the chaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to Ithaca's shores, Queen Penelope is on the brink of a fragile peace. One that shatters however with the return of Orestes, King of Mycenae, and his sister Elektra, seeking refuge.|isbn=0356516075}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author= David BergenKay Chronister|title= StrangerDesert Creatures

|genre= Literary Dystopian Fiction |summary=''Stranger'' tells the story of Íso, With a young Guatemalan womanworld that is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, and her affair with post-apocalyptic fiction can become an American doctoralmost masochistic thrill. When an accident forces him to return to the StatesWhether it is a robotic takeover, a world devoid of water or a nuclear holocaust, she this genre is left pregnant and lonelya way for humans to cathartically experience their most existential fears. Her anguish becomes even more profound when her daughter ''Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is abducted, and taken to live with the doctor and his wife. What followed - tales of the journey Íso embarked upon in the hope a new work of finding her baby post- was an amazing story apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the lengths fears that exist for humanity today. It is a mother will go shocking novel that still manages to in order to save her childfind hope.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0715652419</amazonuk>1803364998

{{newreviewfrontpage|isbn=1803363002|author= Clar Ni ChonghaileEric LaRocca|title= Rain Falls On EveryoneThe Trees Grew Because I Bled There

|summary= It's a cliché that the Irish have a picturesque turn 'But fearing something and having it come to pass are two different things. And I'm willing to bet most of phrasewhat we fear will never happen, but clichés only exist because they're trueor we can take steps to change it. Roddy Doyle put it differently in a recent interview with ''Writing '' magazine, when he said that 'Beautiful Shining People'With Irish, there's another language bubbling under revolves around the English''question of identity and acceptance. However you express Of what itmeans to be human. Of what is real and what is artificial, that art and whether the development of expression technology is woven into every other line of Clár's proseexciting or frightening. Pick a page at random and you|isbn=191458564X}}{{Frontpage|author=Jennifer Saint|title=Atalanta|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary='ll find something like ''the sickness I was as worthy as any one of them. I would get on board that had come to roost ship, I vowed. I would take my place, not just in her home like a cursed owlthe name of the goddess. It was for the sake of my name, too. Atalanta'' or ''like he was God Princess. Warrior. Lover. Hero. Abandoned at birth for being born a daughter rather than a son, Jesus Atalanta is raised under the protective eye of the goddess Athemis and Justin Timberlake rolled fashioned into a formidable huntress, one'' or ''who longs for adventure. When the opportunity comes – to join the Argonauts, a low sobbingfierce band of warriors, slow descendent from the Gods themselves – Atalanta seizes the chance to fight in Artemis' name and inevitable as rain on carve out her own legendary place in history. What follows is a Sunday'whirlwind of challenges and discovery and through it, Atalanta must remember Artemis'fatal warning: expressions that catch your smile unawaresif she marries, or tear at your heart in their mundane sadness. Or sometimes bothit will be her undoing.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785079018</amazonuk>1472292154

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Hesene Mete Amanthi Harris|title=Sinful WordsBeautiful Place|rating=45

|summary=When we meet himPadma, Behram is a student at young Sri Lankan, has returned to the Villa Hibiscus on the school southern coast of theologyher home country. He loves God with This is a passion and has place she spent her formative years. It is not a determination place she was born into, but the one she thinks of as home. How she came to live a be at the Villa, how it became her home, and the machinations that have flowed through her life dedicated ever since she first arrived there provide the ''toscore'' God for this gentle and to live by His rulesyet subtly violent novel. He rents a property from Lulu Khan and his wife, Lady Geshtina and Khan invites Behram to his own home for a visit. It Padma's a delightful place present fails to escape her past and much like the wealth musical score of the couple is obvious as is their standing within the local community: Lady Geshtina's late father is buried in what amounts to a mausoleumfilm, but it's not all this which enchants Behram. The couple have twin children and Behram is taken, enthralled by that strand weaves its way through everything that happens at the daughter, NaginaVilla.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1524682527</amazonuk>1784631930

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Juan-Tomas Avila Laurel178563335X|title= The Gurugu PledgeSea Defences|author=Hilary Taylor|rating= 5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= Juan Tomas Avila Laurel, one of Equatorial GuineaWhen we first meet Rachel Bird she's best-known dissident writersa trainee vicar, is an author who deserves sitting in on a PCC meeting and wondering why they're held when you need to be read pick the world overchildren up. With The Gurugu Pledge Her husband, Christopher, collects six-year-old Hannah and her elder brother, Jamie, hewhilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioner. Thelma's captured daughter-in-law won't let her see her grandson. Holthorpe, on the Norfolk coast, is a an angry and incredibly urgent slice of the migrant experience – lovely place, but Rachel is struggling to develop a snapshot of real bond with the dangers faced by those crossing the African continent parish - and she's in search awe of the barbed wire fences at Melilla- vicar, Gail, but then she's been doing the Spanish enclave job for more than thirty years. Rachel and Christopher hoped that a walk on the North Eastern tip of Moroccobeach would do them some good - it was stormy but it was probably what they needed. And then Hannah went missing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908276940</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Matthew Smith1398515388|title= The WakingBoy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary General Fiction|summary=Isabel SykesFirst of all, 23it was the earthquake, recounts deep in the recent attempt she made to come to terms with ocean floor, which created the loss of her mothertsunami and this, in turn, caused the acclaimed but psychologically disturbed novelist Marianne Sykesnuclear meltdown. Marianne died in an unexplained house fire when Isabel The result was tencomplete and utter devastation. Inspired by the appearance of Imogen Taylor The deaths were uncountable, an enchanting young woman who wants to write a PhD on her mother's work, Isabel plunges into and the depths loss of her past and an intense new friendshiplivelihoods was widespread. After discovering The fact that Imogen is not who she seems to be, Isabel must face many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of priorities but - six months after the darkest moments from her childhood in order to protect her family from more tragedytsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. She receives unexpected help from beyond He wasn't a dog person but the grave: in the strange, glittering fragments of her motherconvenience store owner's last, unfinished work, 'Midnightsong'comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and Tamon the dog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0995654158</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Ali Smith0989715337|title= AutumnPapa on the Moon|author=Marco North|rating= 54|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= The first part in Ali Smith's four part 'SeasonalSome frogs had gotten into the well.'' '' seriesWalter stood waist-deep in the fragrant water, Autumn is the story naked except for his beaten leather hat. Long strands of Daniel Gluck and Elisabeth Demandtheir eggs wove around him, unexpected friends who used to be neighbours when Elisabeth was a little girlsticky gray pearls with tadpoles inside them. In a series Two of memories the dogs leaned over the opening and dreams, we discover their friendship from Daniel babysitting Elisabeth through to her visits with him now that barked down at the strange noise of the buckets as he filled them.'' How is that for an opening? The style of this novel in a home and drawing towards the end form of his extremely long interconnected short stories goes from succinct and laconic to wistful and fascinating life. Along the waymusing, we get turning on a wonderfully written insight into timesixpence. And author Marco North, memories, and who has the fleeting nature most wonderful turn of life itselfphrase, starts as he means to go on. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241973317</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nicola Pugliese and Shaun Whiteside (translator)Daisy Hildyard|title=MalacquaEmergency|rating=34

|summary=WeThe summary of this book doesn're in Naplest come close to explaining what is done with the premise.|isbn=1913097811}}  {{Frontpage |author=Sally Oliver |title=The Weight of Loss |rating=4 |genre=Literary Fiction |summary= Marianne is grieving. Traumatised after the death of her sister, she awakes to find strange, thick black hairs sprouting from the bones of her spine which steadily increase in recent history, size and it's rainingvolume. It will Her GP, diagnosing the odd phenomenon as a physical reaction to her grief, recommends she go to stay at Nede, an experimental new treatment centre in fact rain for four days solid – Wales. Yet something strange is happening to Marianne and seeing as itthe other patients at Nede: a metamorphosis of a kind. As Marianne's October everyone's dressed for all seasons memories threaten to overwhelm her, Nede offers her release from this cycle of memory and expecting pain—but only at a bit terrible price: that of greyidentity itself.|isbn= 086154112X }} {{Frontpage|author=Natalia Garcia Freire|title=This World Does Not Belong To Us|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Early comments on this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendous, but this is taking the proverbiala delight. It's also making I will agree with the city rather dangerous first – when people report tremendous is no understatement – but 'a huge sink-hole appearing delight' is perhaps using the expression in one street ita way I's soon found that a pair of cars went into it, and two people have died, and more passed on m not familiar with a whole building collapsing. What's more, some strange noises are coming from an abandoned civic palaceI have to confess my ignorance of the Spanish-language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation here. Is From the city being told something by these strange eventslittle I have read (in translation, or can I don't read Spanish) there does seem to be a journalist find a logic behind tendency towards the fantastical – the circumstances?mystical realism. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1911508067</amazonuk>0861541901

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Iosi HavilioJennifer Saint|title= Petite FleurElektra|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= Every now 'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the story of three women who live in the heavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. Cassandra, Clytemnestra, and then you read a book Elektra are all bit players in the story of the Trojan War. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that leaves you thinking “well I often the silent women have no idea what just happened but I know I enjoyed it”. This is how I felt after reading Petite Fleur, the fifth novel (perhaps 'long paragraph' would be more appropriate) from cult Argentinian writer Iosi Haviliomost compelling stories and the most extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1911508040</amazonuk>1472273915

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tania Hershman8409290103|title=Some of Us Glow More Than OthersIf Only|author=Matthew Tree

|genre=Short Stories Literary Fiction|summary=I won't be alone in stating that reading short story collections can be slightly awkward. Going through from ATwenty-one-year-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by his father, cotton-Zbroker AO Lowry: he asked his accountant, witnessing a bounty of ideas and characters in short order can be too muchMr Patrick, but do you have to ensure that the young man got on board the right to pick boat and choose according thereafter Patrick was to what appeals, send him a monthly allowance. Patrick sent the money regularly and a correspondence - of sorts - sprang up between the two although we hear more about what time you have Lowry has to fill? The sequence has carefully been consideredsay than Patrick. It wasn't that Lowry senior didn't care for his son, surely. Such would appear it was that he didn't care to have him in this country where he might be the case herea danger to his wife and other children. The last time I read one of this author's collections, with [[The White Road by Tania Hershman|The White Road]], the only real difficulty alcohol problem was holding back and rationing them, but here you not only obvious even before Patrick managed to get a whopping forty pieces of writing, they are also spread into sectionsthe young man on his way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910061484</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=James KelmanAntoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)|title=That Was a Shiver, and Other StoriesRed is My Heart

|genre=Short Stories Literary Fiction |summary=This is the ninth book of short stories by this author, which means he's presented just as many collections of the short form as he has novels. You will find it hard to think of another author that has been so noted for longer works (what with [[How Late It Was, How Late by James Kelman:Category:Antoine Laurain|How Late It Was, How LateAntoine Laurain]] winning the Booker) but who is books have always been black and white and read in my house. And so generous in presenting shorter pieces for the time-poorwas this one, or those like me who see the variety in a writer's short or less typical works to be the although I could have spelled that more interesting places to turnaccurately – this one was, and is, black and white and red. Opening these pagesYes, from the pen of such he has an esteemed proartistic collaborator on this piece, came with no small sense and I think it's possible to say not one page lacks the influence of anticipationsome striking visual ideas.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786890909</amazonuk>1913547183

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Kate MildenhallB098FFFBH9|title= SkylarkingSnowcub|author=Graham Fulbright|rating= 4.5|genre= General Literary Fiction |summary= Kate Fourteen-year-old Rachel is her school's animal rights project leader and she and Harriet her friend are best friends growing up together on an isolated Australian capeproducing a competition entry to highlight the way in which human beings exploit the animal world. As the daughters She gets a great deal of the lighthouse keeperssupport from her family: father Pip Harrison, the two girls share everythinga lecturer at Imperial College, until a fishermanLondon, McPhailmother Kate and her twin, arrives in their small communityNick. When Kate witnesses runs the desire that flares between him and Harrietfamily business, a toy shop called Cornucopia in Putney, she which is torn by her feelings of envy and longing. An innocent moment in McPhailwhere we'll meet Rachel's hut then occurs that threatens to tear their peaceful community apartmain (if unsuspected) source of information: five soft toys. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785079239</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joanna WalshYancey Williams|title=Worlds from Crosshairs of the Word's EndDevil|rating=34.5|genre=Short StoriesLiterary Fiction|summary=We here at The Bookbag liked this authorAward-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski is getting on in years and, despite his strenuous objections and thanks to his daughter, finds himself living - or imprisoned, from Eddie's fairly recent collection point of short storiesview - in room 315 of the Garden of Eden nursing home, with only a trusty nursing aide, [[Vertigo by Joanna Walsh|Vertigo]]Jenkins, for palatable company. I myself missed out, but that seemed Nothing is going to be vignettes keep Eddie from one characterhis stock-in-trade of writing though, so here, for his readers, are his wanderings through his life's narration – here we get homosexual male narrators and a host more, as well as much less work.|isbn=0986031658}} {{Frontpage|isbn=0008421714|title=Mrs March|author=Virginia Feito|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=The problem began just after the publication of the sadness prevalent beforeGeorge March's most successful novel to date. Having had a brief encounter with this author courtesy of her entry into the [[Bookshelf Everyone but Mrs March (Object Lessons) by Lydia Pyne|Object Lessons]] series, I was intrigued by we know her first name being stamped only on a selection of shortsthe last page) seemed to either be reading it or had already done so. Was it 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 ideal calling card? Letbread, ''but isn's face it, t this the very short story itself can be a postcard – letfirst time he's say, from based a specific hotel or twocharacter on you?'' She mentioned that Johanna, as we see herethe principal character had 'her mannerisms''. Perhaps I should this would not have geared myself up, howevermattered, except for such intricate writing on said postcards – and for the exotic locations from which they came…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911508105</amazonuk>fact that Johanna is the whore of Nantes - ''a weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch.''