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[[Category:New Reviews|Literary Fiction]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{Frontpage|author=Matthew Tree|title=We'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Timothy 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. So Tim applied himself to his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0C47LV1PC|title=Fragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, would it land? The catch is that the answer for both could well be.... no.

''Fragility'' is set as the city of Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic}}{{Frontpage|author=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 to mend this or even if mending it is the best course of action. Governments are flailing. A war here, a push for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is in actual charge. Imagine then, there was a man with precognition. Imagine the strategic advantage in this asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. That man would be valuable, right? Perhaps the most valuable asset in history. Imagine then, that this man loses this ability. What would governments do to get it back?|isbn=B0C9SNG8R1}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0571379559|title=The House of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|classsummary=''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the story of four people. Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in the house on the riverbank, built of broken bricks. Insubstantial as it might look, it's stood the passage of time, storms and floods. Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the delivery rounds -"wikitable" cellpaddingand to bring in sufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and Max, the rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. People don't believe that they're related, much less twins and there's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she's his nanny.}}{{Frontpage|author=Claire North|title=House of Odysseus|rating=5|genre= Literary Fiction |summary="15"''What could matter more than love?''

<!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}}{{Frontpage|author= Kay Chronister|title= Desert Creatures|rating= 4|genre= Dystopian Fiction|summary= With a world that is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, post- Mcneil apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Whether it is a robotic takeover, a world devoid of water or a nuclear holocaust, this genre is a way for humans to cathartically experience their most existential fears. ''Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is a new work of post-->apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the fears that exist for humanity today. It is a shocking novel that still manages to find hope.|isbn=1803364998}}{{frontpage|isbn=1803363002|-author= Eric LaRocca| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"The Trees Grew Because I Bled There|rating= 5[[image:Mcneil Fire.jpg|leftgenre= Horror|linksummary=http://wwwHorror taps into something primeval within us. It is used as a way to reflect our darkest emotions and how we as humans react and process them. Most horror fiction feature a ''Big Bad'', whether that is a home invader, a monster or a ghost, it usually something tangible and, by the end of the story, beatable. Eric LaRocca's ''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is not like that.amazonIt is a collection of short stories more interested in the horrors of illness, grief and humiliation.coHorrors that linger and are harder to defeat than any ''Big Bad''.uk/dp/1785078992/ref}}{{Frontpage|author=nosim?tagMadelaine Lucas|title=thebookbag-21]]Thirst for Salt|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= ''Love, I'd read, was supposed to be a light and weightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravity''

''Beautiful Shining People'' revolves around the question of identity and acceptance. Of what it means to be human. Of what is real and what is artificial, and whether the development of technology is exciting or frightening.|isbn=191458564X}}{{Frontpage| styleauthor="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Jennifer Saint|title=Atalanta|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=[[Fire ''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 Mountain by Jean McNeil]]===goddess. It was for the sake of my name, too. Atalanta''

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This Abandoned at birth for being born a daughter rather than a son, Atalanta is an unusual bookraised under the protective eye of the goddess Athemis and fashioned into a formidable huntress, one who longs for adventure. When the opportunity comes – to join the Argonauts, a fierce band of warriors, descendent from the Gods themselves – Atalanta seizes the chance to fight in Artemis' name and carve out her own legendary place in style history. What follows is a whirlwind of challenges and discovery and through it feels like , Atalanta must remember Artemis' fatal warning: that if she marries, it will be her undoing.|isbn=1472292154}}{{Frontpage|author=Amanthi Harris|title=Beautiful Place|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Padma, a young Sri Lankan, has returned to the Villa Hibiscus on the southern coast of her home country. This is a novel by E M Forster; with place she spent her formative years. It is not a deep study place she was born into, but the one she thinks of as home. How she came to be at the minutiae of Villa, how it became her home, and the machinations that have flowed through her life ever since she first arrived there provide the ''score'' for this gentle and yet subtly violent novel. Padma's present fails to escape her past and thoughtmuch like the musical score of a film, that strand weaves its way through everything that happens at the Villa.|isbn=1784631930}}{{Frontpage|isbn=178563335X|title=Sea Defences|author=Hilary Taylor|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=When we first meet Rachel Bird she's a trainee vicar, yet sitting in on a PCC meeting and wondering why they're held when you need to pick the plot children up. Her husband, Christopher, collects six-year-old Hannah and content is thoroughly modernher elder brother, Jamie, whilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioner. Thelma's daughter-in-law won't let her see her grandson. The bulk of Holthorpe, on the story Norfolk coast, is a lovely place, but Rachel is told through struggling to develop a real bond with the perspective parish - and she's in awe of Nickthe vicar, Gail, but then she's been doing the job for more than thirty years. Rachel and we see his point of view Christopher hoped that a walk on life around himthe beach would do them some good - it was stormy but it was probably what they needed. And then Hannah went missing. }}{{Frontpage|isbn=1398515388|title=The main characters Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=First of all, it was the bookearthquake, howeverdeep in the ocean floor, are Pieter which created the tsunami and this, in turn, caused the nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and Riaanutter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, as it is these characters who fascinate Nick and are the focus loss of livelihoods was widespread. The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of 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 contemplation car door and crisisTamon the dog jumped in. [[Fire on the Mountain by Jean McNeil|Full Review]]}}

<!-- Morrall -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Morrall_Last.jpg|left|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/ISBN/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]{{Frontpage| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Last of the Greenwoods by Clare Morrall]]==isbn=0989715337 [[image:4star.jpg|linktitle=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]] Down in hidden railway carriages, deep behind foliage and further down Long Meadow Road than most care to go, live the Greenwood Brothers. They haven't spoken to each other in years, but one morning a letter arrives Papa on their doorstep - a letter from a sister long thought dead...As the brothers are forced to confront painful memories of a past that both tried to keep buried, the post-woman who delivered the letter struggles with secrets of her own... [[The Last of the Greenwoods by Clare Morrall|Full Review]] <!-- Rawi -->|-Moon| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Rawi_Baghdad.jpg|left|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1786073226/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Baghdad Clock by Shahad Al Rawi]]==author=Marco North [[image:2.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] ''The Baghdad Clock'' is a tale of two friends growing up during the first and second Iraqi war. Shahad Al Rawi uses magic realism to illustrate 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 the central narrative. Rawi, it would seem, has a problem with telling a story. [[The Baghdad Clock by Shahad Al Rawi|Full Review]] <!-- Clements -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Clements_Coffin.jpg|left|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1472204271/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[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 you've heard about Scarcross Hall? Hidden on the old coffin path that winds from the village to the moor top, the villagers only speak of it in hushed tones - of how it's a foreboding place filled with evil. 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 in the house, mysteries come 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 or tear it from her grasp? [[The Coffin Path by Katherine Clements|Full Review]] |} <!-- Durrenmatt -->*[[image:Durrenmatt_Justice.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1782273875?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creativesummary=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 Some frogs had gotten 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 is eager to know more, especially once he is actually tasked by the man in hand to look into things a second timewell. 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 of Justice by Friedrich Durrenmatt and John E Woods (translator)|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Cercas -->*[[image:Cercas_Impostor.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 man. A veteran of the Spanish Civil War, honoured 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 tyranny. 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: that he 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.co.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]], [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Sante was a baby when she was washed ashore in a sea-chest laden with treasure. It seems she is the sole survivor of the tragic sinking of 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 tell their story and her own. [[A Jigsaw 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''Walter stood waist-deep in the fragrant water, naked except for his beaten leather hat.5starLong strands of their eggs wove around him, sticky gray pearls with tadpoles inside them.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]]Two of the dogs leaned over the opening and barked down at the strange noise of the buckets as he filled them.''

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, How is that for an immaculate home complete with maid. That's all anyone could ever want, isn't itopening? Not Euridice. She has an inexplicable ache inside her for something more, like many The style of us. Yet each this novel in the form of her pet projects, interconnected short stories goes from a desire succinct and laconic to publish a recipe book to starting a cottage sewing industry in her living roomwistful and musing, are met with scorn from her stern husband Antenor. He wants turning on a wife who doesn't draw attention to herself, whose only domains are her house and her familysixpence. [[The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao by Martha Batalha and Eric M B Becker (translator)|Full Review]]<br> {{newreview|And author=Sjon Hodgkinson and Ten Hodgkinson (editors)|title=The Dark-Blue Winter Overcoat and other stories from the Marco 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 in time, as some were written who has the year most wonderful turn of publication and some in the 1960s. It's not from one tiny patch of author's desk or one set of laptop keys, but from the entire Nordic world, whether that be urban Scandinavia, the Faroes and other island groupsphrase, or Greenland. That is a world that's changing – starts as the Greenland-born author now living in Brooklyn, and the Iraqi blood he means to go 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 it seems to be even the characters' species…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782273824</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Christina Hesselholdt and Paul Russell Garrett (translator)Daisy Hildyard|title=CompanionsEmergency|rating=34

|summary=''Companions'' is written as a series of monologues, where six middle-aged friends take it in turns to narrate scenes from their lives, charting the intimate details of their holidays, dinner parties, families, marriages, affairs and work lives in a style that mixes honesty and openness with fantasy and evasion. The charm summary of the novel lies in the way the friendsthis book doesn' voices bicker with one another among the pages, as we discover that there are always several sides t come close to the same story. We learn most about the characters not through what they say about themselves but through explaining what is done with the others say about them. Along the way, there is heartbreak and grief, but this is always offset by an abundance of humour and a writing style that never fails to be refreshingly light-heartedpremise.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910695335</amazonuk>1913097811}}

{{newreviewFrontpage |author= David BergenSally Oliver |title= StrangerThe Weight of Loss |rating= 4|genre= Literary Fiction |summary=''Stranger'' tells Marianne is grieving. Traumatised after the story death of Ísoher sister, a young Guatemalan womanshe awakes to find strange, thick black hairs sprouting from the bones of her spine which steadily increase in size and her affair with an American doctorvolume. When an accident forces him Her GP, diagnosing the odd phenomenon as a physical reaction to return her grief, recommends she go to the Statesstay at Nede, she an experimental new treatment centre in Wales. Yet something strange is left pregnant happening to Marianne and lonelythe other patients at Nede: a metamorphosis of a kind. Her anguish becomes even more profound when As Marianne's memories threaten to overwhelm her daughter is abducted, Nede offers her release from this cycle of memory and taken to live pain—but only at a terrible price: that of identity 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, a delight. I will agree with the doctor and his wifefirst – tremendous is no understatement – but 'a delight' is perhaps using the expression in a way I'm not familiar with. What followed - tales I have to confess my ignorance of the journey Íso embarked upon in the hope of finding her baby Spanish- was an amazing story of language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation here. From the lengths a mother will go to little I have read (in order translation, I don't read Spanish) there does seem to save her childbe a tendency towards the fantastical – the mystical realism.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0715652419</amazonuk>0861541901

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Clar Ni ChonghaileJennifer Saint|title= Rain Falls On Everyone|rating= 5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= It's a cliché that the Irish have a picturesque turn of phrase, but clichés only exist because they're true. Roddy Doyle put it differently in a recent interview with ''Writing'' magazine, when he said that ''With Irish, there's another language bubbling under the English''. However you express it, that art of expression is woven into every other line of Clár's prose. Pick a page at random and you'll find something like ''the sickness that had come to roost in her home like a cursed owl'' or ''like he was God, Jesus and Justin Timberlake rolled into one'' or ''a low sobbing, slow and inevitable as rain on a Sunday'': expressions that catch your smile unawares, or tear at your heart in their mundane sadness. Or sometimes both.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785079018</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Hesene Mete |title=Sinful WordsElektra

|summary=When we meet him, Behram is a student at 'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the school story of theology. He loves God with a passion and has a determination to three women who live a life dedicated ''to'' God and to live by His rulesin the heavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. He rents a property from Lulu Khan and his wifeCassandra, Clytemnestra, Lady Geshtina and Khan invites Behram to his own home for a visit. It's a delightful place and Elektra are all bit players in the wealth story of the couple is obvious as is their standing within Trojan War. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the local community: Lady Geshtina's late father is buried in what amounts to a mausoleum, but it's not all this which enchants Behram. The couple silent women have twin children the most compelling stories and Behram is taken, enthralled by the daughter, Naginamost extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1524682527</amazonuk>1472273915

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Juan-Tomas Avila Laurel8409290103|title= The Gurugu PledgeIf Only|author=Matthew Tree|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= Juan Tomas Avila Laurel, Twenty-one of Equatorial Guinea's best-known dissident writersyear-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by his father, is an author who deserves cotton-broker AO Lowry: he asked his accountant, Mr Patrick, to ensure that the young man got on board the boat and thereafter Patrick was to be read send him a monthly allowance. Patrick sent the money regularly and a correspondence - of sorts - sprang up between the world overtwo although we hear more about what Lowry has to say than Patrick. With The Gurugu Pledge It wasn't that Lowry senior didn't care for his son, it was that hedidn's captured t care to have him in this country where he might be a an angry danger to his wife and incredibly urgent slice of the migrant experience – a snapshot of the dangers faced by those crossing the African continent in search of other children. The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to get the barbed wire fences at Melilla- the Spanish enclave young man on the North Eastern tip of Moroccohis way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908276940</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Matthew SmithAntoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)|title= The WakingRed is My Heart|rating= 3.5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary=Isabel Sykes[[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white and read in my house. And so was this one, 23although I could have spelled that more accurately – this one was, recounts the recent attempt she made to come to terms with the loss of her motherand is, the acclaimed but psychologically disturbed novelist Marianne Sykes. Marianne died in an unexplained house fire when Isabel was tenblack and white and red. Inspired by the appearance of Imogen TaylorYes, he has an enchanting young woman who wants to write a PhD artistic collaborator on her motherthis piece, and I think it's work, Isabel plunges into the depths of her past and an intense new friendship. After discovering that Imogen is possible to say not who she seems to be, Isabel must face one page lacks the darkest moments from her childhood in order to protect her family from more tragedy. She receives unexpected help from beyond the grave: in the strange, glittering fragments influence of her mother's last, unfinished work, 'Midnightsong'some striking visual ideas.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0995654158</amazonuk>1913547183

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Ali SmithB098FFFBH9|title= AutumnSnowcub|author=Graham Fulbright|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= The first part in Ali SmithFourteen-year-old Rachel is her school's four part 'Seasonal' series, Autumn is the story of Daniel Gluck animal rights project leader and she and Elisabeth Demand, unexpected friends who used her friend are producing a competition entry to be neighbours when Elisabeth was a little girlhighlight the way in which human beings exploit the animal world. In She gets a series great deal of memories and dreams, we discover their friendship support from Daniel babysitting Elisabeth through to her visits with him now that he is in family: father Pip Harrison, a home lecturer at Imperial College, London, mother Kate and drawing towards the end of his extremely long and fascinating lifeher twin, Nick. Along Kate runs the wayfamily business, we get a wonderfully written insight into timetoy shop called Cornucopia in Putney, memories, and the fleeting nature which is where we'll meet Rachel's main (if unsuspected) source of life itselfinformation: five soft toys. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241973317</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nicola Pugliese and Shaun Whiteside (translator)Yancey Williams|title=MalacquaCrosshairs of the Devil|rating=34.5

|summary=We're Award-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski is getting on in Naplesyears and, in recent historydespite his strenuous objections and thanks to his daughter, finds himself living - or imprisoned, and itfrom Eddie's raining. It will point of view - in fact rain for four days solid – and seeing as it's October everyone's dressed for all seasons and expecting room 315 of the Garden of Eden nursing home, with only a bit of greytrusty nursing aide, Jenkins, but this for palatable company. Nothing is taking the proverbial. It's also making the city rather dangerous – when people report a huge sinkgoing to keep Eddie from his stock-hole appearing in one street it's soon found that a pair -trade of cars went into itwriting though, and two people have diedso here, for his readers, and more passed on with a whole building collapsing. Whatare his wanderings through his life's more, some strange noises are coming from an abandoned civic palacework. Is the city being told something by these strange events, or can a journalist find a logic behind the circumstances?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1911508067</amazonuk>0986031658}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Iosi Havilio0008421714|title= Petite Fleur|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= Every now and then you read a book that leaves you thinking “well I 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 Havilio.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911508040</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewMrs March|author=Tania Hershman|title=Some of Us Glow More Than OthersVirginia Feito

|genre=Short Stories Literary Fiction|summary=I wonThe problem began just after the publication of George March't be alone in stating that reading short story collections can be slightly awkwards most successful novel to date. Going through from A-Z, witnessing a bounty of ideas and characters in short order can be too much, Everyone but do you have Mrs March (we know her first name only on the right last page) seemed to pick and choose according to what appeals, and what time you have to fill? The sequence has carefully been considered, surelyeither be reading it or had already done so. Such would appear Every day Mrs March went to be the case here. The last time I read one of this author's collectionslocal patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, with [[The White Road by Tania Hershman|The White Road]]Patricia asked, as she was wrapping the only real difficulty was holding back and rationing thembread, ''but here you not only get a whopping forty pieces of writing, they are also spread into sections.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910061484</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=James Kelman|title=That Was a Shiver, and Other Stories|rating=3.5|genre=Short Stories |summary=This is isn't this the ninth book of short stories by this author, which means first time he's presented just as many collections of based a character on you?'' She mentioned that Johanna, the short form as he has novelsprincipal character had 'her mannerisms''. You will find it hard to think of another author that has been so noted Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for longer works (what with [[How Late It Was, How Late by James Kelman|How Late It Was, How Late]] winning the Booker) but who fact that Johanna is so generous in presenting shorter pieces for the timewhore of Nantes -poor''a weak, plain, detestable, or those like me who see the variety in a writer's short or less typical works to be the more interesting places to turn. Opening these pagespathetic, from the pen of such an esteemed prounloved, came with no small sense of anticipationunloveable wretch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786890909</amazonuk>''