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|author=Joanne M HarrisMatthew Tree|title=A Pocketful of CrowsWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre= Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary= I have always been of the mind that once you're above picture-book level and before you get Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to graphic sex & violencebe different from his father, there is no difference between books for children and books for adults. There are good books a drunk and poor ones. And Joanne Harris does not produce poor ones. ''A Pocketful chronic underachiever whose dreams of Crows'' is clearly aimed being exceptional at the younger readers as witness the use any of the middle initial in the author's name to differentiate from her adult offers. Ignore that if you have loved anything from ''Chocolat'' onwards you will know that Harris is mistress his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of the modern fairy taleself confidence. This is no different. It is an utter delightSo Tim applied himself to his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn=1473222184B0CVFXPGP8

|authorisbn=Frederic Beigbeder and Frank Wynne (translator)B0C47LV1PC|title=A Life Without EndFragility|author=Mosby Woods

|summary=I looked at the calendar the other week, and disappointedly realised I have Can you make a birthday this year – I know, yet another one. It won't be one of the major numbers'Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, but is the time when I have question should you make it? Or is the same number as Heinz varieties looms on question if you did, would it land? The catch is that the horizon. And then a few of the big 0-numbers, and if all goes answer for both could well, I'll be an OBE. (Which of course stands for Over Bloody Eighty.) Now if that.. no. ''Fragility''s is set as the extent city of my mid-life crisisPortland, I guess I have to be happy. Our author here doesn't use that exact phraseOregon, but he might be said to be living one. Determined to find out how cautiously begins to prolong life for as long as he wants – he would like to see 400 – he hops right into bed with emerge from the assistant to the first geneticist he interviews, and they end up with a child, which is at least a way of continuing the life of his genes, and a motive to keep on going. But how can he get to not flick restrictions imposed during the 'final way out' switch, especially when foie gras tastes so nice?|isbn=1642860670covid pandemic

|author= Maryse CondéMosby Woods|title= The Wondrous and Tragic Life of Ivan and IvanaA Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= We live in a post- world: post-colonialism, post-modernism, post truth. The list goes onWest isn't the dominant force it once was. There are numerous works that utilise the prefix post- Nobody in their categorisation, but perhaps none more so than Maryse Condé. In her new novel, ''The Wondrous and Tragic Life of Ivan and Ivana'', Condé writes with fervour about the scars left by colonialism on the countries West is quite sure how to which mend this or even if mending it latched itselfis the best course of action. Ivan and Ivana Governments are twins born flailing. A war here, a push for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is in Guadeloupeactual charge. Imagine then, there was a French overseas departmentman with precognition. They grow up with intense and passionate feelings for each otherImagine the strategic advantage in this asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. As they grow up and move overseasThat man would be valuable, right? Perhaps the ravages of a post-colonial society drive them apart with tragic consequencesmost valuable asset in history. Imagine then, that this man loses this ability.What would governments do to get it back?|isbn=1642860697B0C9SNG8R1

|authorisbn= Ukamaka Olisakwe0571379559|title= Ogadinma Or, Everything Will Be All RightThe House of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams|rating= 5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= ''The new novel by Ukamaka Olisakwe is a look at the trauma and heartache House of being a woman in 1980s Nigeria. The title is ''Ogadinma Or, Everything Will Be All RightBroken Bricks''. Ogadinma is the eponymous heroine story of the storyfour people.. We Tess Hembry's roots are with her in every scene and it is her narrative voice that leads the storyJamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, although Olisakwe writes she lives in third person. This provides a sense of detachment for the reader and highlights house on the isolation riverbank, built of Ogadinmabroken bricks. She is exiled from her father Insubstantial as it might look, it's home stood the passage of time, storms and sent floods. Her husband, Richard, struggles to Lagos where she is married grow his vegetables, to complete the delivery rounds - and to an older man named Tobebring in sufficient money. Their marriage descends into violence They have twin boys - Sonny and indignities 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 Ogadinma must utilise her resourcefulness to escapethere's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she's his nanny.|isbn=1911648160

|author=Elliot ReedClaire North|title=A Key to Treehouse LivingHouse of Odysseus|rating=45|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=This is ''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 story palace of a young boyOdysseus, William Tycewith delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without her husband, who is being raised sailed to war at Troy and then by divine intervention never returned home. As ever she remains surrounded by his uncle after suitors vying for the death throne of his mother the Western Isles. Having survived – politically and his fatherphysical – the chaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to Ithaca's abandonment. Howevershores, it isn't told in Queen Penelope is on the usual narrative waybrink of a fragile peace. Instead, One that shatters however with the book is made up return of glossary entriesOrestes, written by William, as a way King of describing certain eventsMycenae, situations and emotions. It runs alphabetically, starting with ABSENCE, then moving to ALPHABETICAL ORDER. As I began to read I did find myself thinking 'what on earth?!' but I soon grew used to the stylehis sister Elektra, and was instead caught up in William's storyseeking refuge.|isbn=19115454180356516075

|author= Karina Sainz Borgo and Elizabeth Bryer (translator)Kay Chronister|title= It Would Be Night in CaracasDesert Creatures

|genre= Literary 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, this genre is a way for humans to cathartically experience their most existential fears. ''It Would Be Night in CaracasDesert Creatures'' illuminates by Kay Chronister is a new work of post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the everyday horrors of modern day Venezuelafears 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= Horror|summary= Horror taps into something primeval within us. It begins with 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 death end of Adelaida Falconthe story, beatable. Eric LaRocca's mother and chronicles Adelaida's coming to terms with her new solitude 'The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is not like that. It is a collection of short stories more interested in this world the horrors of illness, grief and her attempts to escape ithumiliation. Danger stalks the shadows Horrors that linger and, in a society where the establishment is crumbling, who can you turn are harder to? defeat than any ''Big Bad''.}}{{Frontpage|author=Madelaine Lucas|title=Thirst for Salt|rating=5|isbngenre=0062936867Literary Fiction}} |summary= ''Love, I'd read, was supposed to be a light and weightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravity''

{|classTold from a retrospective view, a young woman unravels the year-"wikitable" cellpadding="15"<!long relationship that once defined her. Overlaid with later wisdom, the narrator relives the affair with a man twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the summer after. Set against the backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the 24-year- Caroline Scott old narrator's deepening relationship with her older lover, depicting its all-->consuming nature, how it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and how it altered her irrevocably.|isbn=0861546490}}{{Frontpage|author= Michael Grothaus|-title=Beautiful Shining People| stylerating="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"4|genre= Literary Fiction[[image:1471186393.jpg|linksummary=http://www''But fearing something and having it come to pass are two different things.amazonAnd I'm willing to bet most of what we fear will never happen, or we can take steps to change it.co.uk/dp/1471186393/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]''

[[imageAbandoned 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:4.5starthat if she marries, it will be her undoing.jpg|linkisbn=Category:{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 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}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical {{Frontpage|isbn=178563335X|title=Sea Defences|author=Hilary Taylor|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|Historical 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, [[:Category:Literary 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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1398515388|title=The Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|Literary 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.}}

May 1921. Edie receives a photograph through the post. There is no letter or note with it. There is nothing written {{Frontpage|isbn=0989715337|title=Papa on the back of Moon|author=Marco North|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''Some frogs had gotten into the photographwell. It is a picture of her husband, Francis. Francis has been missing for four years. Technically, he has been "missing, believed killed" but that is not something that a young widow can believe. She hangs on the word 'missing', disbelieving the word killed. [[Photographer of the Lost by Caroline Scott|Full Review]]

<!''Walter stood waist-- Ann Patchett -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1526614960.jpg|link=http://wwwdeep in the fragrant water, naked except for his beaten leather hat.amazonLong strands of their eggs wove around him, sticky gray pearls with tadpoles inside them.coTwo of the dogs leaned over the opening and barked down at the strange noise of the buckets as he filled them.uk/dp/1526614960/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]''

{{Frontpage | styleauthor="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Sally Oliver |title===[[The Dutch House by Ann Patchett]]==Weight of Loss |rating=4  [[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| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[A Winter Book by Tove Jansson]]==rating=5 [[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.amazon.co 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.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]]Frontpage 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 -->|-| styleauthor="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Jennifer Saint[[image:1788542347.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1788542347/ref=nosim?tagtitle=thebookbag-21]] Elektra| stylerating="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|4===[[Snowflake, AZ by Marcus Sedgwick]]=== [[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 heavily male dominated world of Snowflake, ArizonaAncient Greece. These people are sickCassandra, but it's not a sickness you've heard of. InsteadClytemnestra, they're environmentally ill – affected by household chemicals and fabrics, pesticides, static electricity, 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| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|=rating==[[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; text-align: center;''|[[image:1784742716.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1784742716/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbagone-21]]  | style=''verticalyear-align: top; textold Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by his father, cotton-alignbroker AO Lowry: 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| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|Literary Fiction ===[[A Perfect Explanation by Eleanor Anstruther]]=== [[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/ref=nosim?tagauthor=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="widthsource of information: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1911115847five soft toys.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1911115847/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]}}{{Frontpage| styleauthor="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Yancey Williams|==title=[[Nights Crosshairs of the Creaking Bed by Toni Kan]]==Devil|rating=4.5 [[image:4star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category: Literary Fiction| Literary Fiction]]summary=Award-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, [[:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]] from Eddie''Nights s point of the Creaking Bed'' is a collection of short stories by Toni Kan. The series of stories tell view - in room 315 of the lives and lusts Garden of an assortment of characters living in and around LagosEden nursing home, Nigeria. Nigeriawith only a trusty nursing aide, in this collectionJenkins, is imbued with its very own heart of darkness. Danger stalks the shadows and people are killed for nothing more than a wrong lookpalatable company. Kan writes with a vitality and passion that allows these cynical stories Nothing is going to achieve a glimmer keep Eddie from his stock-in-trade of hopewriting though, so here, for his readers, are his wanderings through his life's work. [[Nights of the Creaking Bed by Toni Kan|Full Review]]isbn=0986031658}} <!-- Yancey Williams -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=0008421714| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Mrs March[[image:0986031690.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0986031690/refauthor=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Virginia Feito| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|rating===[[The Resurrection of Jesus by Yancey Williams]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg5|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]] In summary=The problem began just after the publication of George March 1990 two police officers entered Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museummost successful novel to date. They left with thirteen famous paintings by Rembrandt, Degas and VermeerEveryone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the last page) seemed to either be reading it or had already done so. The frames remain empty Every day Mrs March went to this day: whilst there might have been rumours about the whereabouts of the paintingslocal patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, Patricia asked, even promises that the case as she was about to be solved, wrapping the paintings are still missing. Yancey Williams has a theorybread, which he delaborates on in his novel ''The Resurrection of Jesusbut isn'', and whilst his suspects might seem unlikely, who's to say that t this the first time he's wrongbased a character on you? '' Forget the assertions She mentioned that it was down to Johanna, the Mafia and meet Jésus Ángel Escobar and Hiram Johnny Walker Quicksilver. [[The Resurrection of Jesus by Yancey Williams|Full Review]] <!-- 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 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 1930principal character had 'her mannerisms''s Berlin, three people obsessed with art find themselves swept up into a scandal. Emmeline Perhaps this would not have mattered, a wayward young student, Julius, an anxious middle-aged art expert, and Rachmann, a mysterious art dealer, live in except for the politically turbulent Weimar Berlin, and soon find themselves whipped up into excitement over fact that Johanna is the surprise discovery whore of thirtyNantes -two previously unknown paintings by Vincent Van Gogh. Based on ''a true story and unfolding through the subsequent rise of Hitler and the Nazis, the discovery of the art allows these characters to explore authenticity, vanity and self-delusion. [[In The Full Light of the Sun by Clare Clark|Full Review]] <!-- Kazan -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0749024801.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0749022132/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Phoenix of Florence by Philip Kazan]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] Deep in the Tuscan countryside of fifteenth century Italyweak, Onoria survives a massacre that destroys her family and home. Alone in the forestplain, she meets a band of soldiers whodetestable, believing her to be a boy train and develop her – and the determined Onoria becomes a mercenary – desperate to avoid any situation in which she may feel vulnerable again. Along the waypathetic, she meets ex-soldier Celaviniunloved, whose journey to Florence sees him investigating two brutal murdersunloveable wretch. As he digs further and uncovers links to his own family history, Celavini must revisit the past he shares with Onoria, in the hope that they can lay the ghosts of their shared history to rest, before it's too late... [[The Phoenix of Florence by Philip Kazan|Full Review]]'}}