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|author= Tahi SaihateMatthew Tree|title= Astral Season, Beastly SeasonWe'll Never Know|rating= 34.5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= We long for our past even though it is Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a place 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 which we can never returnhis studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions. Tahi Saihate, in her debut novel |isbn= B0CVFXPGP8}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0C47LV1PC|title=Fragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Can you make a ''Astral Season, Beastly SeasonYo birthing person'' illustrates how these rose-tinted glasses often lie. Her novel 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 a meditation on youth and how that the things we do as a teenager can seem intensely important and often life-alteringanswer for both could well be.... no.|isbn= 1916277101''Fragility'' is set as the city of Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic

|author=Laura Imai MessinaMosby Woods|title=The Phone Box at the End of the WorldA Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=54

|summary= In 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 northeast best course of Japanaction. Governments are flailing. A war here, in Inwate Prefecture a man installed a telephone box in his gardenpush for climate action there. ''Inside there A feeling that nobody is an old black, telephone, disconnected, that carries voices into the windin actual charge.'' It is a real placeImagine then, there was a necessary place, and I am pleased to see man with precognition. Imagine the IMPORTANT NOTE that the author attaches to her storystrategic advantage in this asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. That man would be valuable, that right? Perhaps the place is not a tourist destinationmost valuable asset in history. Imagine then, it is a sacred place, a place that must be left this man loses this ability. What would governments do to those who really need get it.back?|isbn=178658039XB0C9SNG8R1

|authorisbn=Amin Maalouf0571379559|title=The DisorientedHouse of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams|rating=4.5

|summary= Adam has lived ''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the story of four people. Tess Hembry's roots are in Paris for yearsJamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, speaks French more easily than his native Arabicshe lives in the house on the riverbank, built of broken bricks. In fact he hasn Insubstantial as it might look, it't been back s stood the passage of time, storms and floods. Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his homeland for 25 years. An old friend is dying…or as Adam prefers vegetables, to think of him a formercomplete the delivery rounds -friend, perhaps not as harsh as an exand to bring in sufficient money. They have twin boys -friendSonny and Max, or maybethe rainbow twins. The falling out was a long time ago, and AdamSonny's partner has no idea what it was about, even so she urges him to go knowing that hecolouring reflects his mother'll regret not doing sos Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. Not knowing whether hePeople don't believe that they're related, much less twins and there's going because he needs or wants to, or simply because he was asked, hean assumption when Max is out with his mother that she's on the next planehis nanny. |isbn=B07ZQSK9CY

|author=Joanne M HarrisClaire North|title=A Pocketful House of CrowsOdysseus

|genre= Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction |summary= I have always been of the mind that once you're above picture'What could matter more than love?'' The follow-book level and before you get up to graphic sex & violence, there is no difference between books for children and books for adults. There are good books and poor ones. And Joanne Harris does not produce poor ones. the excellent ''A Pocketful of CrowsIthaca'' is clearly aimed 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 younger readers as witness the use throne of the middle initial in Western Isles. Having survived – politically and physical – the authorchaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to Ithaca's name to differentiate from her adult offersshores, Queen Penelope is on the brink of a fragile peace. Ignore One that if you have loved anything from ''Chocolat'' onwards you will know that Harris is mistress shatters however with the return of Orestes, King of the modern fairy tale. This is no different. It is an utter delightMycenae, and his sister Elektra, seeking refuge.|isbn=14732221840356516075

|author=Frederic Beigbeder Kay Chronister|title= Desert 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, 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|title= The Trees Grew Because I Bled There|rating= 5|genre= Horror|summary= Horror 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. It is a collection of short stories more interested in the horrors of illness, grief and humiliation. Horrors that linger and Frank Wynne (translator)are harder to defeat than any ''Big Bad''.}}{{Frontpage|author=Madelaine Lucas|title=A Life Without EndThirst for Salt|rating=45

|summary=I looked at the calendar the other week''Love, and disappointedly realised I have a birthday this year – I know'd read, yet another one. It won't was supposed to be one of the major numbers, but the time when I have the same number as Heinz varieties looms on the horizon. And then a few of the big 0-numbers, light and if all goes wellweightless feeling, but Ihad always longed for gravity'll be an OBE. (Which of course stands for Over Bloody Eighty.) Now if that's  Told from a retrospective view, a young woman unravels the extent of my midyear-life crisis, I guess I have to be happy. Our author here doesn't use long relationship that exact phrase, but he might be said to be living oneonce defined her. Determined to find out how to prolong life for as long as he wants – he would like to see 400 – he hops right into bed Overlaid with later wisdom, the assistant to narrator relives the first geneticist he interviews, and they end up affair with a child, which is at least a way of continuing man twenty years her senior from its inception – the life of his genes, and a motive summer after finishing university – to keep on goingits sorrowful end the summer after. But how can he get to not flick Set against the backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town 'final way out' switchThirst for Salt'' details the 24-year-old narrator's deepening relationship with her older lover, especially when foie gras tastes so nice?depicting its all-consuming nature, how it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and how it altered her irrevocably.|isbn=16428606700861546490

|author= Maryse CondéMichael Grothaus|title= The Wondrous and Tragic Life of Ivan and IvanaBeautiful Shining People|rating= 4.5

|summary= We live in a post- world: post-colonialism, post-modernism, post truth''But fearing something and having it come to pass are two different things. The list goes on. There are numerous works that utilise the prefix post- in their categorisationAnd I'm willing to bet most of what we fear will never happen, but perhaps none more so than Maryse Condéor we can take steps to change it. In her new novel, ''The Wondrous and Tragic Life of Ivan and Ivana ''Beautiful Shining People'', Condé writes with fervour about revolves around the scars left by colonialism on the countries question of identity and acceptance. Of what it means to which it latched itselfbe human. Ivan Of what is real and Ivana are twins born in Guadeloupewhat is artificial, a French overseas department. They grow up with intense and passionate feelings for each other. As they grow up and move overseas, whether the ravages development of a post-colonial society drive them apart with tragic consequencestechnology is exciting or frightening.|isbn=1642860697191458564X

|author= Ukamaka OlisakweJennifer Saint|title= Ogadinma Or, Everything Will Be All RightAtalanta|rating= 5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= The new novel by Ukamaka Olisakwe is a look at ''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 trauma and heartache name of being a woman in 1980s Nigeriathe goddess. The title is ''Ogadinma OrIt was for the sake of my name, Everything Will Be All Righttoo. Atalanta'' Princess. Ogadinma Warrior. Lover. Hero. Abandoned at birth for being born a daughter rather than a son, Atalanta is raised under the eponymous heroine protective eye of the storygoddess Athemis and fashioned into a formidable huntress, one who longs for adventure.. We are with her in every scene and it is her narrative voice that leads When the opportunity comes – to join the storyArgonauts, although Olisakwe writes in third person. This provides a sense fierce band of detachment for warriors, descendent from the reader and highlights Gods themselves – Atalanta seizes the isolation of Ogadinma. She is exiled from her fatherchance to fight in Artemis's home name and sent to Lagos where she carve out her own legendary place in history. What follows is married to an older man named Tobe. Their marriage descends into violence a whirlwind of challenges and indignities discovery and Ogadinma through it, Atalanta must utilise remember Artemis' fatal warning: that if she marries, it will be her resourcefulness to escapeundoing.|isbn=19116481601472292154

|author=Elliot ReedAmanthi Harris|title=A Key to Treehouse LivingBeautiful Place|rating=45|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=This is the story of Padma, a young boySri Lankan, William Tyce, who is being raised by his uncle after has returned to the Villa Hibiscus on the death southern coast of his mother and his father's abandonmenther home country. However, it isn't told in the usual narrative wayThis is a place she spent her formative years. InsteadIt is not a place she was born into, but the book is made up one she thinks of glossary entries, written by William, as a way of describing certain events, situations and emotionshome. It runs alphabetically How she came to be at the Villa, starting with ABSENCEhow it became her home, then moving to ALPHABETICAL ORDERand 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. As I began to read I did find myself thinking Padma'what on earth?!' but I soon grew used s present fails to escape her past and much like the stylemusical score of a film, and was instead caught up in William's storythat strand weaves its way through everything that happens at the Villa.|isbn=19115454181784631930

|authorisbn= Karina Sainz Borgo and Elizabeth Bryer (translator)178563335X|title= It Would Be Night in CaracasSea Defences|author=Hilary Taylor|rating= 45|genre= Literary Fiction |summary= When we first meet Rachel Bird she''It Would Be Night s a trainee vicar, sitting in Caracason a PCC meeting and wondering why they'' illuminates re held when you need to pick the everyday horrors of modern day Venezuelachildren up. Her husband, Christopher, collects six-year-old Hannah and her elder brother, Jamie, whilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioner. It begins with the death of Adelaida Falcon Thelma's mother and chronicles Adelaidadaughter-in-law won's coming to terms with t let her new solitude in this world and see her attempts to escape itgrandson. Danger stalks Holthorpe, on the shadows andNorfolk coast, in is a society where the establishment lovely place, but Rachel is crumbling, who can you turn struggling to? |isbn=0062936867}} {{Frontpage|isbn=1471186393|title=Photographer of the Lost|author=Caroline Scott|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=May 1921. Edie receives develop a photograph through the post. There is no letter or note real bond with it. There is nothing written on the back parish - and she's in awe of the photograph. It is a picture of her husbandvicar, Gail, Francis. Francis has but then she's been missing doing the job for four more than thirty years. Technically, he has been "missing, believed killed" but that is not something Rachel and Christopher hoped that a young widow can believewalk on the beach would do them some good - it was stormy but it was probably what they needed. She hangs on the word 'And then Hannah went missing', disbelieving the word killed.

|isbn=15098964651398515388|title=The NightjarBoy and the Dog|author=Deborah HewittSeishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)

|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary=''The Nightjar'' is an unusual First of all, it was the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and exciting storythis, in turn, caused the nuclear meltdown. Alice Wyndham lives a normal life in London until she finds a box on her doorstep one morning The result was complete and her life begins to unravel, fastutter devastation. From that very moment, her life is flooded with magic The deaths were uncountable, and the loss, expectation and particularly, betrayalof livelihoods was widespread. As everything around her shifts, all The fact that she knows, all 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 she thinks she knows, must changehe would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and Tamon the dog jumped in. Who can she trust? Who must she trust? Who will she trust? More importantly, can she even trust herself?

|isbn=08570587380989715337|title=EquatorPapa on the Moon|author=Antonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)Marco North|rating=3.54|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=It strikes me that nobody can speak ''Some frogs had gotten into the well of .'' ''Walter stood waist-deep in the Wild West outside the walls fragrant water, naked except for his beaten leather hat. Long strands of a theme parktheir eggs wove around him, sticky gray pearls with tadpoles inside them. Our agent to see how bad it was here is Pete Ferguson, who bristles at the indignity Two of the white man against Native 'Indian', who spends days being physically sick while indulging in a buffalo hunt, and who hates dogs leaned over the way man – opening and woman, of course – can turn against fellow man barked down at the bat strange noise of the buckets as he filled them.'' How is that for an eyelid. But opening? The style of this book is about so much more than novel in the 1870s USA, form of interconnected short stories goes from succinct and laconic to wistful and the attendant problems with gold rushesmusing, pioneer spirits and racial genocideturning on a sixpence. He finds himself trying to find this book's version of UtopiaAnd author Marco North, namely who has the Equator, where everything is upside downmost wonderful turn of phrase, people walk on their heads with rocks in their pockets starts as he means to keep them go on the ground to counter the anti-gravity, and where, who knows, things might actually be better. But that equator is a long way away – and there's a whole adventure full of Mexico and Latin America between him and it…

|isbnauthor=1526614960Daisy Hildyard|title=The Dutch House|author=Ann PatchettEmergency|rating=54

|summary=When we first meet Danny and his elder sister, Maeve Conroy, they're both living at The Dutch House with their parents and under the gaze summary of the portraits of the former owners whose oil paintings still hang on the walls. Itthis book doesn's a strange family dynamic: Cyril Conroy is distant and the closest Danny seems to t come close to him explaining what is when he goes out done with him on a Saturday collecting rents from properties the family ownspremise. Elna Conroy |isbn=1913097811}}  {{Frontpage |author=Sally Oliver |title=The Weight of Loss |rating=4 |genre=Literary Fiction |summary= Marianne is lovinggrieving. Traumatised after the death of her sister, but absent increasingly often until she awakes to find strange, thick black hairs sprouting from the point comes when bones of her spine which steadily increase in size and volume. Her GP, diagnosing the children are told that odd phenomenon as a physical reaction to her grief, recommends she will not be returninggo to stay at Nede, an experimental new treatment centre in Wales. In other circumstances, this might have affected Maeve Yet something strange is happening to Marianne and Danny deeply, but their primary relationship is with each the otherpatients at Nede: a metamorphosis of a kind. ItAs Marianne's memories threaten to overwhelm her, Nede offers her release from this cycle of memory and pain—but only at a bond which only death will breakterrible price: that of identity itself.|isbn= 086154112X }}

|isbnauthor=0954899520Natalia Garcia Freire|title=A Winter Book|author=Tove JanssonThis World Does Not Belong To Us

|summary=Tove Jansson's worldwide fame lasts 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 first – tremendous is no understatement – but 'a delight' is perhaps using the simplicity, naivety and sheer expression in a way I'goodness' that would later produce flowerpot men or teletubbiesm not familiar with. Simple drawings, simple stories, simple goodness. What is often forgotten outside I have to confess my ignorance of her native Finland is that she was 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 not only informed those childSpanish-like trolls but went far beyond any fantasy of how language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation here. From the world might little I have read (in translation, I don't read Spanish) there does seem to bea tendency towards the fantastical – the mystical realism.|isbn=0861541901

|isbnauthor=0954221710Jennifer Saint|title=The Summer Book|author=Tove JanssonElektra|rating=54

|summary=Tove Jansson's short novel about Summer is several worlds away from Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the story of three women who live in the Moomintrolls she is most famous for outside her native Scandinaviaheavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. Book yourself an afternoon this SummerCassandra, and take yourself and The Summer Book somewhere quietClytemnestra, preferably within sight and sound Elektra are all bit players in the story of the sea, settle back Trojan War. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the silent women have the most compelling stories and prepare to be transportedthe most extreme furies.|isbn=1472273915

|isbn=17885423478409290103|title=Snowflake, AZIf Only|author=Marcus SedgwickMatthew Tree|rating=34.5

|summary=This is a deepTwenty-one-year-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by his father, cotton-broker AO Lowry: he asked his accountant, interesting readMr Patrick, unlike any book I've read in quite some time. The novel's story follows a to ensure that the young man named Ash in got on board the boat and thereafter Patrick was to send him a monthly allowance. Patrick sent the process of joining money regularly and a community correspondence - of sick people in sorts - sprang up between the curiously named town of Snowflake, Arizonatwo although we hear more about what Lowry has to say than Patrick. These people are sick, but it It wasn's not a sickness yout that Lowry senior didn've heard of. Insteadt care for his son, they're environmentally ill – affected by household chemicals and fabrics, pesticides, static electricity, and radiation – and their only ''cure'it was that he didn' is t care to stay have him in the town away from the real world. Though it's about this country where he might be a real place, the people in it are fictionaldanger to his wife and other children. It really is a place apart, quite literally cut off from the outside world – people are The alcohol problem was obvious even required before Patrick managed to decontaminate themselves thoroughly before becoming fully integratedget the young man on his way.

|isbnauthor=1784742716Antoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)|title=Train Man|author=Andrew MulliganRed is My Heart|rating=23.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=I came to this book thinking I knew just what to expect, even though it is [[:Category:Andy MulliganAntoine Laurain|the author'sAntoine Laurain]] debut books have always been black and white and read in the adult novel market (hence the my house. And so was this one, although I could have spelled that more mature name accurately – this one was, and is, black and white and red. Yes, he used to be has an Andy). artistic collaborator on this piece, and I thought think it simple 's possible to sum up, say not one page lacks the tale influence of a middle-aged man who knows too much about train travel having his life turned around in the most pleasant way. I hadn't opened it when I'd shelved it alongside [[:Category:Chris Cleave|Chris Cleave]], and [[:Category:David Nicholls|David Nicholls]]. I expected some whimsy, some warmth and some affirmative lovelinessstriking visual ideas. More fool me.|isbn=1913547183

|isbn=1784631647B098FFFBH9|title=A Perfect ExplanationSnowcub|author=Eleanor AnstrutherGraham Fulbright|rating=4.5

|summary=Enid Campbell was a woman who, on the face of it, had everything. Leading the life of an aristocrat – full of inherited wealth and splendour, glamourous locales and high expectations. Only EnidFourteen-year-old Rachel is her school's life has been plagued by mental illness – undiagnosed, untreated animal rights project leader and threatening both Enid she and those close her friend are producing a competition entry to herhighlight the way in which human beings exploit the animal world. After losing custody She gets a great deal of support from her childrenfamily: father Pip Harrison, a lecturer at Imperial College, London, Enid sells mother Kate and her son to her sister for £500 – but is this an act of greedtwin, or an act of desperation? Exploring Nick. Kate runs the true story of her own grandmotherfamily business, Eleanor Anstruther has found the perfect subject for an explosivea toy shop called Cornucopia in Putney, moving and beautifully well-written debutwhich is where we'll meet Rachel's main (if unsuspected) source of information: five soft toys.

|isbnauthor=191070962XYancey Williams|title=The Choke|author=Sofie LagunaCrosshairs of the Devil|rating=24.5

|summary=ThereAward-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski is getting on in years and, despite his strenuous objections and thanks to his daughter, finds himself living - or imprisoned, from Eddie's point of view - in room 315 of the Garden of Eden nursing home, with only a dulltrusty nursing aide, Jenkins, dispiriting pang for palatable company. Nothing is going to keep Eddie from his stock-in-trade 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 thatwriting though, but doubly sohere, for his readers, are his wanderings through his life's work.|isbn=0986031658}}

|isbn=19111158470008421714|title=Nights of the Creaking BedMrs March|author=Toni KanVirginia Feito|rating=4.5

|summary=The problem began just after the publication of George March's most successful novel to date. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the last page) seemed to either be reading it or had already done so. Every day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, Patricia asked, as she was wrapping the bread, ''but isn'Nights of t this the Creaking Bedfirst time he's based a character on you?'' is a collection of short stories by Toni Kan. The series of stories tell of She mentioned that Johanna, the lives and lusts of an assortment of characters living in and around Lagos, Nigeriaprincipal character had 'her mannerisms''. Nigeria, in Perhaps this collectionwould not have mattered, except for the fact that Johanna is imbued with its very own heart the whore of darkness. Danger stalks the shadows and people are killed for nothing more than Nantes - ''a wrong look. Kan writes with a vitality and passion that allows these cynical stories to achieve a glimmer of hopeweak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch.''