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|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.
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|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
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|author=Frederic Beigbeder and Frank Wynne (translator)Mosby Woods|title=A Life Without EndWhirly Man Loses His Turn
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction, Science Fiction, General Fiction|summary=I looked at The West isn't the calendar dominant force it once was. Nobody in the West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is the other weekbest 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, and disappointedly realised I have there was a birthday man with precognition. Imagine the strategic advantage in this year – I knowasset; 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, yet another onethat 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|summary=''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the story of four people. It wonTess Hembry't s roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be one of the major numbershappier there, but instead, she lives in the time when I have the same number as Heinz varieties looms house on the horizon. And then a few of the big 0-numbersriverbank, and if all goes well, I'll be an OBE. (Which built of course stands for Over Bloody Eightybroken bricks.) Now if thatInsubstantial as it might look, it's stood the extent passage of my mid-life crisistime, I guess I have to be happystorms and floods. Our author here doesn't use that exact phraseHer husband, Richard, but he might be said struggles to be living one. Determined to find out how grow his vegetables, to prolong life for as long as he wants – he would like to see 400 – he hops right into bed with complete the assistant delivery rounds - and to the first geneticist he interviews, bring in sufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and they end up with a childMax, which is at least a way of continuing the life of rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his genes, and a motive to keep on goingfather. But how can he get to not flick the People don'final way outt believe that they' switchre related, especially much less twins and there's an assumption when foie gras tastes so nice?|isbn=1642860670Max is out with his mother that she's his nanny.
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|author= Maryse CondéClaire North|title= The Wondrous and Tragic Life House of Ivan and IvanaOdysseus|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= We live in a post- world: post-colonialism, post-modernism, post truth. The list goes on. There are numerous works that utilise the prefix post- in their categorisation, but perhaps none ''What could matter more so than Maryse Condé. In her new novel, love?'' The Wondrous and Tragic Life of Ivan and Ivanafollow-up to the excellent ''Ithaca''picks up a few months after where we left off. In the palace of Odysseus, Condé writes with fervour about the scars left by colonialism on the countries delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without her husband, who sailed to which it latched itself. Ivan war at Troy and Ivana are twins born in Guadeloupe, a French overseas departmentthen by divine intervention never returned home. They grow up with intense and passionate feelings As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for each otherthe throne of the Western Isles. As they grow up Having survived – politically and move overseasphysical – the chaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to Ithaca's shores, Queen Penelope is on the ravages brink of a post-colonial society drive them apart fragile peace. One that shatters however with tragic consequencesthe return of Orestes, King of Mycenae, and his sister Elektra, seeking refuge.|isbn=16428606970356516075
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|author= Ukamaka OlisakweKay Chronister|title= Ogadinma OrDesert Creatures|rating= 4|genre= Dystopian Fiction|summary= With a world that is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, post-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Whether it is a robotic takeover, a world devoid of water or a nuclear holocaust, Everything Will Be All Rightthis 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|title= The Trees Grew Because I Bled There
|rating= 5
|genre= Literary FictionHorror|summary= The new novel by Ukamaka Olisakwe Horror taps into something primeval within us. It is used as a look at the trauma way to reflect our darkest emotions and how we as humans react and heartache of being process them. Most horror fiction feature a woman in 1980s Nigeria. The title is ''Ogadinma Or, Everything Will Be All RightBig Bad''. Ogadinma , whether that is a home invader, a monster or a ghost, it usually something tangible and, by the eponymous heroine end of the story, beatable.Eric LaRocca's ''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is not like that. We are with her It is a collection of short stories more interested in every scene the horrors of illness, grief and it is her narrative voice humiliation. Horrors that leads linger and are harder to defeat than any ''Big Bad''.}}{{Frontpage|author=Madelaine Lucas|title=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'' Told from a retrospective view, a young woman unravels the storyyear-long relationship that once defined her. Overlaid with later wisdom, although Olisakwe writes in third personthe narrator relives the affair with a man twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the summer after. This provides a sense Set against the backdrop of detachment an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the reader and highlights the isolation of Ogadinma. She is exiled from her father24-year-old narrator's home and sent to Lagos where she is married to an deepening relationship with her older man named Tobe. Their marriage descends into violence lover, depicting its all-consuming nature, how it changed her perspective on both romantic and indignities familial relationships and Ogadinma must utilise how it altered her resourcefulness to escapeirrevocably.|isbn=19116481600861546490
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|author=Elliot ReedMichael Grothaus|title=A Key to Treehouse LivingBeautiful Shining People
|rating=4
|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=This is the story of a young boy, William Tyce, who is being raised by his uncle after the death of his mother ''But fearing something and his fatherhaving it come to pass are two different things. And I's abandonment. Howeverm willing to bet most of what we fear will never happen, or we can take steps to change it isn.'' 't told in 'Beautiful Shining People'' revolves around the usual narrative way. Instead, the book is made up question of glossary entries, written by William, as a way of describing certain events, situations identity and emotionsacceptance. It runs alphabetically, starting with ABSENCE, then moving Of what it means to ALPHABETICAL ORDERbe human. As I began to read I did find myself thinking 'Of what is real and what on earth?!' but I soon grew used to the styleis artificial, and was instead caught up in William's storywhether the development of technology is exciting or frightening.|isbn=1911545418191458564X
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|author= Karina Sainz Borgo and Elizabeth Bryer (translator)Jennifer Saint|title= It Would Be Night in CaracasAtalanta|rating= 45|genre= Literary Fiction |summary= ''It Would Be Night 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 Caracas'' illuminates the everyday horrors name of modern day Venezuelathe goddess. It begins with was for the death sake of Adelaida Falconmy name, too. Atalanta's mother and chronicles Adelaida's coming to terms with her new solitude in this world and her attempts to escape it. Danger stalks the shadows and, in a society where the establishment is crumbling, who can you turn to? |isbn=0062936867}}
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Abandoned at birth for being born a daughter rather than a son, Atalanta is raised 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 history. What follows is a whirlwind of challenges and discovery and through it, Atalanta must remember Artemis' fatal warning: that if she marries, it will be her undoing.
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|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 place she spent her formative years. It is not a place she was born into, but the one she thinks of as home. How she came to be at the 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 much like the musical score of a film, that strand weaves its way through everything that happens at the Villa.
|isbn=1784631930
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|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, sitting in on a 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 sobbing parishioner. Thelma's daughter-in-law won't 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 Christopher hoped that a walk on the beach would do them some good - it was stormy but it was probably what they needed. And then Hannah went missing.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1398515388
|title=The Boy and the Dog
|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=First of all, it was the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and this, in turn, caused the nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and utter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, and the 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 car door and Tamon the dog jumped in.
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{{Frontpage| styleisbn="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"0989715337|title=Papa on the Moon|author=Marco North|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=[[Photographer of ''Some frogs had gotten into the Lost by Caroline Scott]]===well.''
[[image:4''Walter stood waist-deep in the fragrant water, naked except for his beaten leather hat. Long strands of their eggs wove around him, sticky gray pearls with tadpoles inside them.5starTwo of the dogs leaned over the opening and barked down at the strange noise of the buckets as he filled them.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]], [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]]''
May 1921. Edie receives a photograph through the post. There How is no letter or note with it. There is nothing written on the back that for an opening? The style of this novel in the photograph. It is a picture form of her husbandinterconnected short stories goes from succinct and laconic to wistful and musing, Francisturning on a sixpence. Francis And author Marco North, who has been missing for four years. Technicallythe most wonderful turn of phrase, starts as he has been "missing, believed killed" but that is not something that a young widow can believemeans to go on. She hangs on the word }}{{Frontpage|author=Daisy Hildyard|title=Emergency|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=The summary of this book doesn'missing', disbelieving t come close to explaining what is done with the word killedpremise. [[Photographer of the Lost by Caroline Scott|Full Review]]isbn=1913097811}}
<!-- Ann Patchett -->{{Frontpage |-| styleauthor="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Sally Oliver [[image:1526614960.jpg|linktitle=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1526614960/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] The Weight of Loss | stylerating="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|4 ===[[The Dutch House by Ann Patchett]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]] When we first meet Danny and his elder summary= Marianne is grieving. Traumatised after the death of her sister, Maeve Conroyshe awakes to find strange, they're both living at The Dutch House with their parents and under thick black hairs sprouting from the gaze bones of her spine which steadily increase in size and volume. Her GP, diagnosing the portraits of the former owners whose oil paintings still hang on the wallsodd phenomenon as a physical reaction to her grief, recommends she go to stay at Nede, an experimental new treatment centre in Wales. It's a Yet something strange family dynamic: Cyril Conroy is distant happening to Marianne and the closest Danny seems to come to him is when he goes out with him on other patients at Nede: a metamorphosis of a Saturday collecting rents from properties the family ownskind. Elna Conroy is lovingAs Marianne's memories threaten to overwhelm her, but absent increasingly often until the point comes when the children are told that she will not be returning. In other circumstances Nede offers her release from this might have affected Maeve cycle of memory and Danny deeply, but their primary relationship is with each other. It's pain—but only at a bond which only death will breakterrible price: that of identity itself. [[The Dutch House by Ann Patchett|Full Review]]isbn= 086154112X }} <!-- Tove Jansson -->{{Frontpage|-| styleauthor="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Natalia Garcia Freire[[image:0954899520.jpg|linktitle=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0954899520/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] This World Does Not Belong To Us| stylerating="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|5===[[A Winter Book by Tove Jansson]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], [[:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]] Tove Jansson's worldwide fame lasts summary= Early comments on the Moomin booksthis debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendous, written in a delight. I will agree with the 1940s and later becoming television characters of the simplicity, naivety and sheer first – tremendous is no understatement – but 'goodnessa delight' that would later produce flowerpot men or teletubbies. Simple drawings, simple stories, simple goodness. What is often forgotten outside of her native Finland is that she was perhaps using the expression in a serious writer…that she wrote for adults as well as children…and that she had a feeling for the natural world and the simple life that way I'm not only informed those child-like trolls but went far beyond any fantasy familiar with. I have to confess my ignorance of how the world might be. [[A Winter Book by Tove Jansson|Full Review]] <!Spanish-- Jansson -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0954221710language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation here.jpg|link=http://www From the little I have read (in translation, I don't read Spanish) there does seem to be a tendency towards the fantastical – the mystical realism.amazon.co.uk/dp/0954221710/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Summer Book by Tove Jansson]]==isbn=0861541901}}[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Literary Fiction]] Tove Jansson's short novel about Summer is several worlds away from the Moomintrolls she is most famous for outside her native Scandinavia. Book yourself an afternoon this Summer, and take yourself and The Summer Book somewhere quiet, preferably within sight and sound of the sea, settle back and prepare to be transported. [[The Summer Book by Tove Jansson|Full Review]] <!-- Sedgwick -->Frontpage|-| styleauthor="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Jennifer Saint[[image:1788542347.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1788542347/reftitle=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Elektra| stylerating="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Snowflake, AZ by Marcus Sedgwick]]===4[[image:3.5star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]] This is a deep, interesting read unlike any book Isummary='ve read in quite some time. The novelElektra's by Jennifer Saint tells the story follows a young man named Ash in the process of joining a community of sick people three women who live in the curiously named town of Snowflake, Arizona. These people are sick, but it's not a sickness you've heard heavily male dominated world ofAncient Greece. Instead, they're environmentally ill – affected by household chemicals and fabrics, pesticidesCassandra, static electricityClytemnestra, and radiation – and their only ''cure'' is to stay Elektra are all bit players in the town away from story of the real worldTrojan War. Though it's about a real place, Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the silent women have the people in it are fictional. It really is a place apart, quite literally cut off from most compelling stories and the outside world – people are even required to decontaminate themselves thoroughly before becoming fully integratedmost extreme furies. [[Snowflake, AZ by Marcus Sedgwick|Full Review]]isbn=1472273915}}<!-- Hewitt -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=8409290103| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|If Only[[image:1509896465.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1509896465/ref=nosim?tagauthor=thebookbag-21]] Matthew Tree| stylerating="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Nightjar by Deborah Hewitt]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg5|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]], [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]] ''The Nightjar'' is an unusual and exciting story. Alice Wyndham lives a normal life in London until she finds a box on her doorstep one morning and her life begins to unravel, fast. From that very moment, her life is flooded with magic, loss, expectation and particularly, betrayal. As everything around her shifts, all that she knows, all that she thinks she knows, must change. Who can she trust? Who must she trust? Who will she trust? More importantly, can she even trust herself? [[The Nightjar by Deborah Hewitt|Full Review]] <!-- Mulligan -->|-| stylesummary=''width: 10%; verticalTwenty-align: top; textone-align: center;''|[[image:1784742716.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1784742716/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbagyear-21]] | style=''verticalold Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by his father, cotton-alignbroker AO Lowry: top; text-align: left;''|===[[Train Man by Andrew Mulligan]]=== [[image:2.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]he asked his accountant, Mr Patrick, [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]] I came to this book thinking I knew just what to expect, even though it is [[:Category:Andy Mulligan|ensure that the author's]] debut in young man got on board the adult novel market (hence the more mature name – he used boat and thereafter Patrick was to be an Andy)send him a monthly allowance. I thought it simple to sum up, Patrick sent the tale money regularly and a correspondence - of a middlesorts -aged man who knows too much sprang up between the two although we hear more about train travel having his life turned around in the most pleasant waywhat Lowry has to say than Patrick. I hadn It wasn't that Lowry senior didn't opened care for his son, it when Iwas that he didn'd shelved it alongside [[:Category:Chris Cleave|Chris Cleave]], t care to have him in this country where he might be a danger to his wife and [[:Category:David Nicholls|David Nicholls]]other children. I expected some whimsy, some warmth and some affirmative lovelinessThe alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to get the young man on his way.}}More fool me. [[Train Man by Andrew Mulligan|Full Review]] <!-- Anstruther -->{{Frontpage|-author=Antoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Red is My Heart[[image:1784631647.jpg|linkrating=http://www3.amazon.co.uk/dp/1784631647/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 5| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[A Perfect Explanation by Eleanor Anstruther]]==genre=Literary Fiction [[image:5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary FictionAntoine Laurain|Literary FictionAntoine Laurain]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] Enid Campbell books have always been black and white and read in my house. And so was a woman whothis one, on the face of it, had everything. Leading the life of an aristocrat although I could have spelled that more accurately – full of inherited wealth and splendourthis one was, glamourous locales and high expectations. Only Enid's life has been plagued by mental illness – undiagnosedis, untreated black and threatening both Enid white and those close to herred. After losing custody of her childrenYes, Enid sells her son to her sister for £500 – but is he has an artistic collaborator on this an act of greedpiece, or an act of desperation? Exploring and I think it's possible to say not one page lacks the true story influence of her own grandmother, Eleanor Anstruther has found the perfect subject for an explosive, moving and beautifully well written debutsome striking visual ideas. [[A Perfect Explanation by Eleanor Anstruther|Full Review]]isbn=1913547183}}<!-- Laguna -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=B098FFFBH9| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Snowcub[[image:191070962X.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/191070962X/refauthor=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Graham Fulbright| stylerating="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|4.5===[[The Choke by Sofie Laguna]]=== [[image:2star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]] There's a dull, dispiriting pang of disappointment that comes when you try something everyone else loves and find out that you're really not into it. Coffee. Ice skating. A new Netflix series. Books are like that, but doubly so. [[The Choke by Sofie Laguna|Full Review]] <!-- Varenne -->|-| stylesummary="width: 10%; verticalFourteen-align: top; textyear-align: center;"|[[image:0857058738.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0857058738/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Equator by Antonin Varenne old Rachel is her school's animal rights project leader and she and Sam Taylor (translator)]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]], [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] It strikes me that nobody can speak well of her friend are producing a competition entry to highlight the Wild West outside way in which human beings exploit the walls of a theme parkanimal world. Our agent to see how bad it was here is Pete Ferguson, who bristles at the indignity She gets a great deal of white man against Native 'Indian'support from her family: father Pip Harrison, who spends days being physically sick while indulging in a buffalo huntlecturer at Imperial College, and who hates the way man – and woman, of course – can turn against fellow man at the bat of an eyelid. But this book is about so much more than the 1870s USALondon, mother Kate and the attendant problems with gold rushesher twin, pioneer spirits and racial genocideNick. He finds himself trying to find this book's version of Utopia, namely Kate runs the Equatorfamily business, where everything is upside down, people walk on their heads with rocks a toy shop called Cornucopia in their pockets to keep them on the ground to counter the anti-gravityPutney, and which is where, who knows, things might actually be better. But that equator is a long way away – and therewe'll meet Rachel's a whole adventure full of Mexico and Latin America between him and it… [[Equator by Antonin Varenne and Sam Taylor main (translatorif unsuspected)|Full Review]] <!-- Kan -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1911115847.jpg|link=httpsource of information://wwwfive soft toys.amazon.co.uk/dp/1911115847/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]}} | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Nights of the Creaking Bed by Toni Kan]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category: Literary Fiction| Literary Fiction]], [[:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]]Frontpage ''Nights of the Creaking Bed'' is a collection of short stories by Toni Kan. The series of stories tell of the lives and lusts of an assortment of characters living in and around Lagos, Nigeria. Nigeria, in this collection, is imbued with its very own heart of darkness. Danger stalks the shadows and people are killed for nothing more than a wrong look. Kan writes with a vitality and passion that allows these cynical stories to achieve a glimmer of hope. [[Nights of the Creaking Bed by Toni Kan|Full Review]] <!-- author=Yancey Williams -->|-| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Crosshairs of the Devil[[image:0986031690.jpg|linkrating=http://www.amazon4.co.uk/dp/0986031690/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 5| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Resurrection of Jesus by Yancey Williams]]==genre=Literary Fiction [[image:4.5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]] In March 1990 two police officers entered Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. They left with thirteen famous paintings by RembrandtAward-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski is getting on in years and, Degas despite his strenuous objections and Vermeer. The frames remain empty to this day: whilst there might have been rumours about the whereabouts of the paintings, even promises that the case was about thanks to be solved, the paintings are still missing. Yancey Williams has a theory, which he delaborates on in his novel ''The Resurrection of Jesus''daughter, and whilst his suspects might seem unlikelyfinds himself living - or imprisoned, whofrom Eddie's to say that he's wrong? Forget the assertions that it was down to the Mafia and meet Jésus Ángel Escobar and Hiram Johnny Walker Quicksilver. [[The Resurrection point of Jesus by Yancey Williams|Full Review]] <!view -- Clark -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:034901082X.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/034901082X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[In The Full Light in room 315 of the Sun by Clare Clark]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] In 1930's BerlinGarden of Eden nursing home, three people obsessed with art find themselves swept up into only a scandal. Emmelinetrusty nursing aide, a wayward young studentJenkins, Julius, an anxious middlefor palatable company. Nothing is going to keep Eddie from his stock-aged art expert, and Rachmann, a mysterious art dealer, live in the politically turbulent Weimar Berlin, and soon find themselves whipped up into excitement over the surprise discovery of thirty-two previously unknown paintings by Vincent Van Gogh. Based on a true story and unfolding through the subsequent rise trade of Hitler and the Naziswriting though, so here, the discovery of the art allows these characters to explore authenticityfor his readers, vanity and self-delusionare his wanderings through his life's work. [[In The Full Light of the Sun by Clare Clark|Full Review]]isbn=0986031658}} <!-- Kazan -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=0008421714| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Mrs March[[image:0749024801.jpg|linkauthor=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0749022132/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Virginia Feito| stylerating="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|4.5===[[The Phoenix of Florence by Philip Kazan]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] Deep in summary=The problem began just after the Tuscan countryside publication of fifteenth century Italy, Onoria survives a massacre that destroys George March's most successful novel to date. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her family and home. 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