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|isbnauthor=B003A6W0FOMatthew Tree|title=Can You Forgive Her?|author=Anthony TrollopeWe'll Never Know

|summary=On the surface ''Can You Forgive Her?'' looks deceptively simple: it's the story of one woman and two men who are vying with each other for her love. Alice Vavasor was originally engaged Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to her cousinbe different from his father, George Vavasor but she broke off that engagement a drunk and later became engaged to John Grey. When we first meet Alice she's on an extended tour chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of the continent with George Vavasor and his sister Kate. It's obvious that there's still a great deal of chemistry between John and Alice - and Kate is artistic passions all for encouraging the relationship as it would tie Alice to her. George wants Alice but it's a matter of ''amour propre'' rather than love: he has little consideration for anyone other than himself failed miserably and the original engagement who had fallen through because of his infidelity and deceitfulness. This thread is the story endless crises of a very complicated love affair and a woman who lacks self confidence in her own judgement. You might not like Alice So Tim applied himself to start with his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but you will warm to herachievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|authorisbn=Lucy HollandB0C47LV1PC|title=SistersongFragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=54

|summary=Sistersong is part of Can you make a genre I particularly enjoy''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the modern retelling of folk and fairy tales. These storiesquestion should you make it? Or is the question if you did, would it land? The catch is that the answer for most of us, are a cornerstone of childhood and I relish seeing them retold with fresh eyes and a fresh perspectiveboth could well be.... If handled well these retellings give new life and new meaning to stories that are now becoming increasingly narrow and outdated, fleshing out characters, examining relationships and re-evaluating the role of womenno. Sistersong  ''Fragility'' is a perfect example set as the city of a modern retelling done wellPortland, the plot is handled with careOregon, keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing cautiously begins to emerge from the characters to come to life, to feel real and human, most importantly they feel relatable in a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for restrictions imposed during the pre-Saxon age they live in. This is a masterpiece of storytelling and I was captivated from beginning to end.|isbn=1529039037covid pandemic

|isbnauthor=B002SQCYWQMosby Woods|title=The Complete Barchester Chronicles|author=Anthony TrollopeA Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=54

|summary=When I told my daughter that I didnThe West isn't know what the dominant force it once was. Nobody in the West is quite sure how to listen to now 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 I'd finished [[The Complete Novels: Sense and Sensibilitynobody is in actual charge. Imagine then, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion by Jane Austen|The Complete Novels of Jane Austen]] for the second time on the trot she had there was a man with precognition. Imagine the perfect answer: The Barchester Chronicles and they were in my inbox strategic advantage in this asset; a matter man who can tell you what will happen given any set of minutescircumstances. They're not ''quite'' as well known as That man would be valuable, right? Perhaps the Austen books but they're an excellent follow onmost valuable asset in history. Imagine then, that this man loses this ability.What would governments do to get it back?|isbn=B0C9SNG8R1

|isbn=B077K6BQFD0571379559|title=The Complete Novels: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion House of Broken Bricks|author=Jane AustenFiona Williams

|summary=Yes - that''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the story of four people. Tess Hembry's over eighty-one hours roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in the house on the riverbank, built of listening for broken bricks. Insubstantial as it might look, it's stood the purchase passage of one audio booktime, storms and floods. Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the delivery rounds - and to bring in sufficient money. All six major novels are read by conmedienne Alison Larkin 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 presented in the order in which they were publishedrelated, much less twins and there's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she's his nanny.

|author=Andrea Bajani and Elizabeth Harris (translator)Claire North|title=If You Kept a Record House of SinsOdysseus|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=This was an incredibly readable novella, but one that left me a little conflicted. We start as our hero arrives at Bucharest airport, and before we even know his gender or ''What could matter more than love?'' The follow-up to the nature of the person heexcellent ''Ithaca''s addressing in his second person monologue of picks up a narration, few months after where we see him picked up by his mother's chauffeur, and carted left off to do all . In the necessary introductions before said mother is buried the following day. The mother was a businesswomanpalace of Odysseus, who clearly left northern Italy and settled in Romania with delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without her (night-time and business) partnerhusband, who sailed to war at Troy and feelings then by divine intervention never returned home. As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for the throne of abandonment are still strongthe Western Isles. And so we flit from current (well, this came out in Having survived – politically and physical – the original Italian in 2007, so moderately current) Bucharest, chaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to the ladIthaca's childhoodshores, Queen Penelope is on the brink of a fragile peace. One that shatters however with the return of Orestes, King of Mycenae, and see just what he has to tell her as a private farewell addresshis sister Elektra, seeking refuge.|isbn=19398109650356516075

|author=Afonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)Kay Chronister|title=Kokoschka's DollDesert Creatures|rating=2.54|genre=Literary Dystopian Fiction|summary=WellWith 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 looked very much like genre is a way for humans to cathartically experience their most existential fears. ''Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is a book I could love from new work of post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the get-go, which fears that exist for humanity today. It is why a shocking novel that still manages to find hope.|isbn=1803364998}}{{frontpage|isbn=1803363002|author= Eric LaRocca|title= The Trees Grew Because I picked my review copy up 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 flipped pages over several times before actually reading any of itprocess them. I found things to potentially delight me each time – Most horror fiction feature a ''Big Bad'', whether that is a weird section in the middle on darker stock paperhome invader, a chapter whose number was in the 20monster or a ghost,000sit usually something tangible and, letters used as narrative formby the end of the story, and so onbeatable. Eric LaRocca's ''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is not like that. It intrigued with the subterranean voice is a man hears collection of short stories more interested in wartorn Dresden that what little I knew the horrors of it mentionedillness, toogrief and humiliation. But you've seen the star rating Horrors that comes with this review, linger and can tell that if love was on these pages, it was not actually caused by themare harder to defeat than any ''Big Bad''. So what happened?|isbn=1529402697

|isbnauthor=0571362672Madelaine Lucas|title=Snow|author=John BanvilleThirst for Salt

|genre=Crime (Historical)Literary Fiction|summary=''WellLove, at least youI're d read, was supposed to be a Wexford man.light and weightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravity''

So said Colonel Osborne when he welcomed DI St John (pronounced 'Sinjun') Strafford to Ballyglass House just before Christmas 1957Told from a retrospective view, a young woman unravels the year-long relationship that once defined her. Osborne was master of Overlaid with later wisdom, the narrator relives the Keelmore Hounds and had done something memorable affair with a man twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the Inniskilling Dragoons at Dunkirksummer after. The niceties had to be established even when there was a Catholic priest dead on Set against the library floor with some precious bits backdrop of his anatomy missing. Strafford was from Roslea at Bunclody and this, along with his goodan isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the 24-butyear-shabby suit, marked him out as of Osborneold narrator's class and obviously Protestant. The dead priest was Father Tom Lawless from Scallanstowndeepening relationship with her older lover, who depicting its all- despite the different religions - was in the habit of spending time at Ballyglass House. His horse was stabled thereconsuming nature, how it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and how it altered her irrevocably.|isbn=0861546490

|author= Tahi SaihateMichael Grothaus|title= Astral Season, Beastly SeasonBeautiful Shining People|rating= 3.54

|summary= We long for our past even though ''But fearing something and having it is a place come to pass are two different things. And I'm willing to which bet most of what we fear will never happen, or we can never returntake steps to change it. Tahi Saihate, in her debut novel ''Astral Season, Beastly Season ''Beautiful Shining People'' illustrates how these rose-tinted glasses often lierevolves around the question of identity and acceptance. Of what it means to be human. Her novel Of what is real and what is a meditation on youth artificial, and how whether the things we do as a teenager can seem intensely important and often life-alteringdevelopment of technology is exciting or frightening.|isbn= 1916277101191458564X

|author=Laura Imai MessinaJennifer Saint|title=The Phone Box at the End of the WorldAtalanta

|summary= In the northeast ''I was as worthy as any one of Japanthem. I would get on board that ship, I vowed. I would take my place, not just in Inwate Prefecture a man installed a telephone box in his gardenthe name of the goddess. ''Inside there is an old black, telephoneIt was for the sake of my name, disconnected, that carries voices into the windtoo.Atalanta'' It  Princess. Warrior. Lover. Hero. 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 real placeformidable huntress, one who longs for adventure. When the opportunity comes – to join the Argonauts, a necessary placefierce band of warriors, and I am pleased to see descendent from the IMPORTANT NOTE that Gods themselves – Atalanta seizes the author attaches chance to fight in Artemis' name and carve out her story, that the own legendary place in history. What follows is not a tourist destination, whirlwind of challenges and discovery and through it is a sacred place, a place Atalanta must remember Artemis' fatal warning: that must if she marries, it will be left to those who really need ither undoing.|isbn=178658039X1472292154

|author=Amin MaaloufAmanthi Harris|title=The DisorientedBeautiful Place|rating=4.5

|summary= Adam Padma, a young Sri Lankan, has lived in Paris for years, speaks French more easily than his native Arabicreturned to the Villa Hibiscus on the southern coast of her home country. In fact he hasn't been back to his homeland for 25 This is a place she spent her formative years. An old friend It is dying…or as Adam prefers to think of him not a former-friendplace she was born into, perhaps not as harsh but the one she thinks of as an ex-friend, or maybehome. The falling out was a long time ago How she came to be at the Villa, and Adam's partner has no idea what how it was aboutbecame her home, even so and the machinations that have flowed through her life ever since she urges him to go knowing that hefirst arrived there provide the ''score''ll regret not doing sofor this gentle and yet subtly violent novel. Not knowing whether he Padma's going because he needs or wants present fails toescape her past and much like the musical score of a film, or simply because he was asked, he's on that strand weaves its way through everything that happens at the next planeVilla. |isbn=B07ZQSK9CY1784631930

|authorisbn=Joanne M Harris178563335X|title=A Pocketful of CrowsSea Defences|author=Hilary Taylor

|genre= Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary= I have always been of the mind that once youWhen we first meet Rachel Bird she's a trainee vicar, sitting in on a PCC meeting and wondering why they're above picture-book level and before held when you get need to graphic sex & violence, there is no difference between books for pick the children and books for adultsup. There are good books Her husband, Christopher, collects six-year-old Hannah and poor onesher elder brother, Jamie, whilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioner. And Joanne Harris does not produce poor ones. ''A Pocketful of CrowsThelma's daughter-in-law won' t let her see her grandson. Holthorpe, on the Norfolk coast, is a lovely place, but Rachel is clearly aimed at struggling to develop a real bond with the younger readers as witness the use parish - and she's in awe of the middle initial in the authorvicar, Gail, but then she's name to differentiate from her adult offersbeen doing the job for more than thirty years. Ignore that if you have loved anything from ''Chocolat'' onwards you will know Rachel and Christopher hoped that Harris is mistress of a walk on the modern fairy talebeach would do them some good - it was stormy but it was probably what they needed. This is no different. It is an utter delightAnd then Hannah went missing.|isbn=1473222184

|isbn=1398515388|title=The Boy and the Dog|author=Frederic Beigbeder Seishu Hase and Frank Wynne 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.}} {{Frontpage|isbn=0989715337|title=A Life Without EndPapa on the Moon|author=Marco North

|summary=I looked at ''Some frogs had gotten into the calendar well.'' ''Walter stood waist-deep in the other weekfragrant water, and disappointedly realised I have a birthday this year – I knownaked except for his beaten leather hat. Long strands of their eggs wove around him, yet another onesticky gray pearls with tadpoles inside them. It won't be one Two of the major numbers, but the time when I have dogs leaned over the same number as Heinz varieties looms on opening and barked down at the horizon. And then a few strange noise of the big 0-numbers, and if all goes well, I'll be an OBEbuckets as he filled them. (Which of course stands for Over Bloody Eighty.) Now if that's the extent of my mid-life crisis, I guess I have to be happy. Our author here doesn't use  How is that exact phrase, but he might be said to be living one. 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 with an opening? The style of this novel in the assistant form of interconnected short stories goes from succinct and laconic to the first geneticist he interviewswistful and musing, and they end up with turning on a childsixpence. And author Marco North, which is at least a way of continuing who has the life most wonderful turn of his genesphrase, and a motive starts as he means to keep go on going. But how can he get to not flick the 'final way out' switch, especially when foie gras tastes so nice?|isbn=1642860670

|author= Maryse CondéDaisy Hildyard|title=Emergency|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=The summary of this book doesn't come close to explaining what is done with the premise.|isbn=1913097811}}  {{Frontpage |author=Sally Oliver |title= The Wondrous and Tragic Life Weight of Ivan and IvanaLoss |rating= 4.5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= We live in a post- world: post-colonialism, post-modernism, post truth. The list goes onMarianne is grieving. There are numerous works that utilise Traumatised after the prefix post- in their categorisationdeath of her sister, but perhaps none more so than Maryse Condé. In her new novelshe awakes to find strange, ''The Wondrous and Tragic Life thick black hairs sprouting from the bones of Ivan her spine which steadily increase in size and Ivana''volume. Her GP, Condé writes with fervour about diagnosing the scars left by colonialism on the countries odd phenomenon as a physical reaction to her grief, recommends she go to which it latched itself. Ivan and Ivana are twins born stay at Nede, an experimental new treatment centre in Guadeloupe, a French overseas departmentWales. They grow up with intense Yet something strange is happening to Marianne and passionate feelings for each the otherpatients at Nede: a metamorphosis of a kind. As they grow up and move overseasMarianne's memories threaten to overwhelm her, the ravages Nede offers her release from this cycle of memory and pain—but only at a post-colonial society drive them apart with tragic consequencesterrible price: that of identity itself.|isbn=1642860697086154112X }}

|author= Ukamaka OlisakweNatalia Garcia Freire|title= Ogadinma Or, Everything Will Be All RightThis World Does Not Belong To Us|rating= 5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= The new Early comments on this debut novel by Ukamaka Olisakwe is from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendous, a look at delight. I will agree with the trauma and heartache of being a woman in 1980s Nigeria. The title first – tremendous is no understatement – but 'a delight'Ogadinma Or, Everything Will Be All Right'is perhaps using the expression in a way I'm not familiar with. Ogadinma is the eponymous heroine I have to confess my ignorance of the storySpanish-language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation here.. We are with her From the little I have read (in every scene and it is her narrative voice that leads the storytranslation, although Olisakwe writes in third person. This provides I don't read Spanish) there does seem to be a sense of detachment for tendency towards the reader and highlights fantastical – the isolation of Ogadinma. She is exiled from her father's home and sent to Lagos where she is married to an older man named Tobe. Their marriage descends into violence and indignities and Ogadinma must utilise her resourcefulness to escapemystical realism.|isbn=19116481600861541901

|author=Elliot ReedJennifer Saint|title=A Key to Treehouse LivingElektra

|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=This is 'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the story of a young boy, William Tyce, three women who is being raised by his uncle after live in the death heavily male dominated world of his mother and his father's abandonmentAncient Greece. HoweverCassandra, it isn't told Clytemnestra, and Elektra are all bit players in the usual narrative waystory of the Trojan War. Instead, Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the silent women have the book is made up of glossary entries, written by William, as a way of describing certain events, situations most compelling stories 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 style, and was instead caught up in William's storymost extreme furies.|isbn=19115454181472273915

|authorisbn= Karina Sainz Borgo and Elizabeth Bryer (translator)8409290103|title= It Would Be Night in CaracasIf Only|author=Matthew Tree|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary Fiction |summary= Twenty-one-year-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by his father, 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 send him a monthly allowance. ''It Would Be Night in Caracas'' illuminates Patrick sent the everyday horrors money regularly and a correspondence - of modern day Venezuelasorts - sprang up between the two although we hear more about what Lowry has to say than Patrick. It begins with the death of Adelaida Falconwasn't that Lowry senior didn's mother and chronicles Adelaidat care for his son, it was that he didn's coming t care to terms with her new solitude have him in this world country where he might be a danger to his wife and her attempts other children. The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to escape itget the young man on his way. Danger stalks the shadows and, in a society where the establishment is crumbling, who can you turn to? |isbn=0062936867}}

|isbnauthor=1471186393Antoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)|title=Photographer of the Lost|author=Caroline ScottRed is My Heart|rating=43.5|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=May 1921[[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white and read in my house. Edie receives a photograph through the post. There is no letter or note with it. There is nothing written on the back of the photograph. It And so was this one, although I could have spelled that more accurately – this one was, and is a picture of her husband, Francis. Francis has been missing for four yearsblack and white and red. TechnicallyYes, he has been "missingan artistic collaborator on this piece, believed killed" but that is and I think it's possible to say not something that a young widow can believe. She hangs on one page lacks the word 'missing', disbelieving the word killedinfluence of some striking visual ideas.|isbn=1913547183

|isbn=1509896465B098FFFBH9|title=The NightjarSnowcub|author=Deborah HewittGraham Fulbright

|genre=FantasyLiterary Fiction|summary=Fourteen-year-old Rachel is her school''The Nightjar'' is an unusual s animal rights project leader 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 friend are producing a competition entry to unravel, fasthighlight the way in which human beings exploit the animal world. From that very moment She gets a great deal of support from her family: father Pip Harrison, her life is flooded with magica lecturer at Imperial College, lossLondon, expectation mother Kate and particularlyher twin, betrayalNick. As everything around her shifts Kate runs the family business, all that she knowsa toy shop called Cornucopia in Putney, all that she thinks she knows, must changewhich is where we'll meet Rachel's main (if unsuspected) source of information: five soft toys. Who can she trust? Who must she trust? Who will she trust? More importantly, can she even trust herself?

|isbnauthor=0857058738Yancey Williams|title=Equator|author=Antonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)Crosshairs of the Devil|rating=34.5|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=It strikes me that nobody can speak well of the Wild West outside the walls of a theme park. Our agent to see how bad it was here Award-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski is Pete Ferguson, who bristles at the indignity of the white man against Native 'Indian', who spends days being physically sick while indulging getting on in a buffalo hunt, years 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 USA, despite his strenuous objections and the attendant problems with gold rushesthanks to his daughter, pioneer spirits and racial genocide. He finds himself trying to find this bookliving - or imprisoned, from Eddie's version point of Utopiaview - in room 315 of the Garden of Eden nursing home, namely the Equatorwith only a trusty nursing aide, Jenkins, where everything for palatable company. Nothing is upside down, people walk on their heads with rocks in their pockets going to keep them on the ground to counter the antiEddie from his stock-in-gravitytrade of writing though, and whereso here, who knowsfor his readers, things might actually be better. But that equator is a long way away – and thereare his wanderings through his life's a whole adventure full of Mexico and Latin America between him and it… work.|isbn=0986031658}}

|isbn=15266149600008421714|title=The Dutch HouseMrs March|author=Ann PatchettVirginia Feito|rating=4.5

|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 problem began just after the gaze publication of the portraits of the former owners whose oil paintings still hang George March's most successful novel to date. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the wallslast page) seemed to either be reading it or had already done so. It's a strange family dynamic: Cyril Conroy is distant and Every day Mrs March went to the closest Danny seems local patisserie to come to him is when he goes out with him buy olive bread but on a Saturday collecting rents from properties that particular morning, Patricia asked, as she was wrapping the family owns. Elna Conroy is lovingbread, ''but absent increasingly often until isn't this the point comes when first time he's based a character on you?'' She mentioned that Johanna, the children are told that she will not be returningprincipal character had 'her mannerisms''. In other circumstances, Perhaps this might would not have affected Maeve and Danny deeplymattered, but their primary relationship except for the fact that Johanna is with each other. Itthe whore of Nantes - ''s a bond which only death will breakweak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch.''