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|isbnauthor=B003UH99X4Matthew Tree|title=The Eustace Diamonds|author=Anthony TrollopeWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5

|summary=It was generally thought that Sir Florian Eustace had come Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to regret be different from his marriage but he didn't live long enough for this to become father, a problem. After drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his death, his wife, Lizzie - still only in her late teens - was in possession of a very valuable diamond necklace artistic passions all failed miserably and was determined that she would not hand it over to her husband's executors. She was adamant that Sir Florian who had given it to her absolutely, although the precise circumstances endless crises of the giving varied from telling to tellingself confidence. Lady Eustace was not a woman So Tim applied himself to whom truth meant a great deal. All that was important to her nowhis studies, she maintained, was her son. And, of course, her diamondscultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|isbn=B003L7TDMUB0C47LV1PC|title=Phineas FinnFragility|author=Anthony TrollopeMosby Woods|rating=4.5

|summary=Phineas Finn Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it? Or is the son of Dr Malachi Finnquestion if you did, a successful doctor in Killaloe in County Clare, who sent his son to London to train as a lawyer. Phineas's interest would it land? The catch is more in making influential friends than in becoming a lawyer and one of them, Barrington Erle, suggests that he runs for Parliament in the forthcoming election. His father is not entirely in favour of this as members are not remunerated and it would be up to him to provide financial support answer for his son as both could well as funding his electionbe.... no. One of the doctor ''Fragility''s patients is Lord Tulla who controls set as the borough city of Loughshane and by this stroke of luck Finn isPortland, eventuallyOregon, elected by a small margin.cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic

|isbnauthor=B003A6W0FOMosby Woods|title=Can You Forgive Her?|author=Anthony TrollopeA Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=4.5

|summary=On The West isn't the dominant force it once was. Nobody in the surface ''Can You Forgive Her?'' looks deceptively simple: West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it's is the story best course of one woman and two men who action. Governments are vying with each other flailing. A war here, a push for her loveclimate action there. Alice Vavasor was originally engaged to her cousin, George Vavasor but she broke off A feeling that engagement and later became engaged to John Greynobody is in actual charge. When we first meet Alice she's on an extended tour of the continent Imagine then, there was a man with George Vavasor and his sister Kateprecognition. It's obvious that there's still a great deal of chemistry between John and Alice - and Kate is all for encouraging Imagine the relationship as it would tie Alice to her. George wants Alice but it's strategic advantage in this asset; a matter of ''amour propre'' rather than love: he has little consideration for anyone other than himself and the original engagement had fallen through because man who can tell you what will happen given any set of his infidelity and deceitfulnesscircumstances. This thread is That man would be valuable, right? Perhaps the story of a very complicated love affair and a woman who lacks confidence most valuable asset in her own judgementhistory. You might not like Alice Imagine then, that this man loses this ability. What would governments do to start with but you will warm to her.get it back?|isbn=B0C9SNG8R1

|authorisbn=Lucy Holland0571379559|title=SistersongThe House of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams

|summary=Sistersong ''The House of Broken Bricks'' is part of a genre I particularly enjoy, the modern retelling story of folk and fairy talesfour people. These stories Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, for most of usshe lives in the house on the riverbank, are a cornerstone built of childhood and I relish seeing them retold with fresh eyes and a fresh perspectivebroken bricks. If handled well these retellings give new life and new meaning to stories that are now becoming increasingly narrow and outdated Insubstantial as it might look, fleshing out charactersit's stood the passage of time, examining relationships storms and re-evaluating the role of womenfloods. Sistersong is a perfect example of a modern retelling done well Her husband, the plot is handled with careRichard, keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing the characters struggles to come grow his vegetables, to life, complete the delivery rounds - and to feel real bring in sufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and humanMax, most importantly they feel relatable in a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the pre-Saxon age rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. People don't believe that they live in. This 're related, much less twins and there's an assumption when Max is a masterpiece of storytelling and I was captivated from beginning to endout with his mother that she's his nanny.|isbn=1529039037

|isbnauthor=B002SQCYWQClaire North|title=The Complete Barchester Chronicles|author=Anthony TrollopeHouse of Odysseus

|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=When I told my daughter that I didn't know what 'What could matter more than love?'' The follow-up to listen to now that Ithe excellent ''Ithaca''d finished [[The Complete Novels: Sense and Sensibilitypicks up a few months after where we left off. In the palace of Odysseus, Pride and Prejudicewith delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without her husband, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey who sailed to war at Troy and Persuasion then by divine intervention never returned home. As ever she remains surrounded by Jane Austen|The Complete Novels suitors vying for the throne of Jane Austen]] for the second time Western Isles. Having survived – politically and physical – the chaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to Ithaca's shores, Queen Penelope is on the trot she had the perfect answer: The Barchester Chronicles and they were in my inbox in brink of a matter of minutesfragile peace. They're not ''quite'' as well known as One that shatters however with the Austen books but they're an excellent follow onreturn of Orestes, King of Mycenae, and his sister Elektra, seeking refuge.|isbn=0356516075

|isbnauthor=B077K6BQFDKay Chronister|title=The Complete Novels: Sense and SensibilityDesert Creatures|rating= 4|genre= Dystopian Fiction|summary= With a world that is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, Pride and Prejudicepost-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Whether it is a robotic takeover, Mansfield Parka world devoid of water or a nuclear holocaust, Emma, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion 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=Jane AustenEric LaRocca|title= The Trees Grew Because I Bled There|rating=5|genre=Literary FictionHorror|summary=Yes - 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 thatis a home invader, a monster or a ghost, it usually something tangible and, by the end of the story, beatable. Eric LaRocca's over eighty-one hours ''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is not like that. It is a collection of listening for short stories more interested in the purchase horrors of one audio bookillness, grief and humiliation. All six major novels Horrors that linger and are read by conmedienne Alison Larkin and theyharder to defeat than any ''Big Bad''re presented in the order in which they were published.

|author=Andrea Bajani and Elizabeth Harris (translator)Madelaine Lucas|title=If You Kept a Record of SinsThirst for Salt|rating=4.5

|summary=This ''Love, I'd read, was an incredibly readable novellasupposed to be a light and weightless feeling, but one that left me I had always longed for gravity'' Told from a little conflicted. We start as our hero arrives at Bucharest airportretrospective view, and before we even know his gender or a young woman unravels the nature of the person he's addressing in his second person monologue of a narrationyear-long relationship that once defined her. Overlaid with later wisdom, we see him picked up by his mother's chauffeur, and carted off to do all the necessary introductions before said mother is buried narrator relives the following day. The mother was affair with a businesswoman, who clearly left northern Italy and settled in Romania with man twenty years her (night-time and business) partner, and feelings of abandonment are still strong. And so we flit senior from current (well, this came out in its inception – the original Italian in 2007, so moderately current) Bucharest, 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 lad24-year-old narrator's childhooddeepening relationship with her older lover, depicting its all-consuming nature, how it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and see just what he has to tell how it altered her as a private farewell addressirrevocably.|isbn=19398109650861546490

|author=Afonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)Michael Grothaus|title=Kokoschka's DollBeautiful Shining People|rating=2.54|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Well, this looked very much like a book I could love from the get-go, which is why I picked my review copy up ''But fearing something and flipped pages over several times before actually reading any of having itcome to pass are two different things. And I found things 'm willing to potentially delight me each time – a weird section in the middle on darker stock paperbet most of what we fear will never happen, a chapter whose number was in or we can take steps to change it.'' ''Beautiful Shining People'' revolves around the 20,000s, letters used as narrative form, question of identity and so onacceptance. It intrigued with the subterranean voice a man hears in wartorn Dresden that Of what little I knew of it mentioned, toomeans to be human. But you've seen the star rating that comes with this reviewOf what is real and what is artificial, and can tell that if love was on these pages, it was not actually caused by themwhether the development of technology is exciting or frightening. So what happened?|isbn=1529402697191458564X

|isbnauthor=0571362672Jennifer Saint|title=Snow|author=John BanvilleAtalanta

|genre=Crime (Historical)Literary Fiction|summary=''WellI was as worthy as any one of them. I would get on board that ship, I vowed. I would take my place, not just in the name of the goddess. It was for the sake of my name, at least you're a Wexford mantoo.Atalanta'' Princess. Warrior. Lover. Hero.

So said Colonel Osborne when he welcomed DI St John (pronounced 'Sinjun') Strafford to Ballyglass House just before Christmas 1957. Osborne was master Abandoned at birth for being born a daughter rather than a son, Atalanta is raised under the protective eye of the Keelmore Hounds goddess Athemis and had done something memorable with fashioned into a formidable huntress, one who longs for adventure. When the Inniskilling Dragoons at Dunkirk. The niceties had opportunity comes – to be established even when there was join the Argonauts, a Catholic priest dead on the library floor with some precious bits fierce band of his anatomy missing. Strafford was warriors, descendent from Roslea at Bunclody the Gods themselves – Atalanta seizes the chance to fight in Artemis' name and this, along with his good-but-shabby suit, marked him carve out as her own legendary place in history. What follows is a whirlwind of Osbornechallenges and discovery and through it, Atalanta must remember Artemis's class and obviously Protestant. The dead priest was Father Tom Lawless from Scallanstownfatal warning: that if she marries, who - despite the different religions - was in the habit of spending time at Ballyglass House. His horse was stabled thereit will be her undoing.|isbn=1472292154

|author= Tahi SaihateAmanthi Harris|title= Astral Season, Beastly SeasonBeautiful Place|rating= 3.5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= We long for our past even though it 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 which we can never return. Tahi Saihatebe at the Villa, how it became her home, in and the machinations that have flowed through her debut novel life ever since she first arrived there provide the ''Astral Season, Beastly Seasonscore'' illustrates how these rose-tinted glasses often liefor this gentle and yet subtly violent novel. Her novel is a meditation on youth Padma's present fails to escape her past and how much like the things we do as musical score of a teenager can seem intensely important and often life-alteringfilm, that strand weaves its way through everything that happens at the Villa.|isbn= 19162771011784631930

|authorisbn=Laura Imai Messina178563335X|title=The Phone Box at the End of the WorldSea Defences|author=Hilary Taylor

|summary= In the northeast of JapanWhen we first meet Rachel Bird she's a trainee vicar, sitting in Inwate Prefecture on a man installed a telephone box in his gardenPCC meeting and wondering why they're held when you need to pick the children up. ''Inside there is an Her husband, Christopher, collects six-year-old blackHannah and her elder brother, telephoneJamie, disconnected, that carries voices into the windwhilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioner. Thelma's daughter-in-law won' It t let her see her grandson. Holthorpe, on the Norfolk coast, is a real lovely place, but Rachel is struggling to develop a necessary place, real bond with the parish - and I am pleased to see she's in awe of the IMPORTANT NOTE that vicar, Gail, but then she's been doing the author attaches to her story, job for more than thirty years. Rachel and Christopher hoped that a walk on the place is not a tourist destination, beach would do them some good - it is a sacred place, a place that must be left to those who really need was stormy but itwas probably what they needed. And then Hannah went missing.|isbn=178658039X

|authorisbn=Amin Maalouf1398515388|title=The DisorientedBoy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)

|summary= Adam has lived ''Some frogs had gotten into the well.'' ''Walter stood waist-deep in Paris the fragrant water, naked except for years, speaks French more easily than his native Arabic. In fact he hasn't been back to his homeland for 25 yearsbeaten leather hat. An old friend is dying…or as Adam prefers to think Long strands of their eggs wove around him a former-friend, perhaps not as harsh sticky gray pearls with tadpoles inside them. Two of the dogs leaned over the opening and barked down at the strange noise of the buckets as he filled them.'' How is that for an ex-friendopening? The style of this novel in the form of interconnected short stories goes from succinct and laconic to wistful and musing, or maybeturning on a sixpence. The falling out was a long time agoAnd author Marco North, and Adam's partner who has no idea what it was aboutthe most wonderful turn of phrase, even so she urges him starts as he means to go knowing that he'll regret not doing so. Not knowing whether he's going because he needs or wants to, or simply because he was asked, he's on the next plane. |isbn=B07ZQSK9CY

|author=Joanne M HarrisDaisy Hildyard|title=A Pocketful 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 Weight of Loss |rating=4 |genre=Literary Fiction |summary= Marianne is grieving. Traumatised after the death of her sister, she awakes to find strange, thick black hairs sprouting from the bones of her spine which steadily increase in size and volume. Her GP, diagnosing the odd phenomenon as a physical reaction to her grief, recommends she go to stay at Nede, an experimental new treatment centre in Wales. Yet something strange is happening to Marianne and the other patients at Nede: a metamorphosis of Crowsa kind. As Marianne's memories threaten to overwhelm her, Nede offers her release from this cycle of memory and pain—but only at a terrible price: that of identity itself.|isbn= 086154112X }} {{Frontpage|author=Natalia Garcia Freire|title=This World Does Not Belong To Us

|genre= Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary= Early comments on this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendous, a delight. I have always been of will agree with the mind that once you're above picture-book level and before you get to graphic sex & violence, there first – tremendous 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. ''A Pocketful of Crowsunderstatement – but 'a delight' is clearly aimed at the younger readers as witness the use of perhaps using the middle initial expression in the authora way I's name to differentiate from her adult offersm not familiar with. Ignore that if you I have loved anything from ''Chocolat'' onwards you will know that Harris is mistress to confess my ignorance of the modern fairy taleSpanish-language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation here. This is no different. It is an utter delightFrom 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.|isbn=14732221840861541901

|author=Frederic Beigbeder and Frank Wynne (translator)Jennifer Saint|title=A Life Without EndElektra

|summary=I looked at 'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the calendar story of three women who live in the other week, and disappointedly realised I have a birthday this year – I know, yet another oneheavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. It won't be one of the major numbersCassandra, but the time when I have the same number as Heinz varieties looms on the horizon. And then a few of the big 0-numbersClytemnestra, and if Elektra are all goes well, I'll be an OBE. (Which bit players in the story of course stands for Over Bloody Eightythe Trojan War.) Now if Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that's often the extent of my mid-life crisis, I guess I silent women have to be happy. Our author here doesn't use 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 the assistant to the first geneticist he interviews, most compelling stories 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 goingmost extreme furies. But how can he get to not flick the 'final way out' switch, especially when foie gras tastes so nice?|isbn=16428606701472273915

|authorisbn= Maryse Condé8409290103|title= The Wondrous and Tragic Life of Ivan and IvanaIf Only|author=Matthew Tree|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= We live in a postTwenty-one- world: postyear-colonialismold Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by his father, postcotton-modernismbroker AO Lowry: he asked his accountant, Mr Patrick, post truth. The list goes to ensure that the young man got onboard the boat and thereafter Patrick was to send him a monthly allowance. There are numerous works that utilise Patrick sent the prefix postmoney regularly and a correspondence - in their categorisation, but perhaps none of sorts - sprang up between the two although we hear more so about what Lowry has to say than Maryse CondéPatrick. In her new novel, It wasn't that Lowry senior didn'The Wondrous and Tragic Life of Ivan and Ivanat care for his son, it was that he didn'', Condé writes with fervour about the scars left by colonialism on the countries t care to which it latched itself. Ivan and Ivana are twins born have him in Guadeloupe, this country where he might be a French overseas department. They grow up with intense danger to his wife and passionate feelings for each otherchildren. As they grow up and move overseas, The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to get the ravages of a post-colonial society drive them apart with tragic consequencesyoung man on his way.|isbn=1642860697

|author= Ukamaka OlisakweAntoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)|title= Ogadinma Or, Everything Will Be All RightRed is My Heart|rating= 3.5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= The new novel by Ukamaka Olisakwe is a look at the trauma [[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white and heartache of being a woman read in 1980s Nigeriamy house. The title is ''Ogadinma OrAnd so was this one, although I could have spelled that more accurately – this one was, Everything Will Be All Right''. Ogadinma is the eponymous heroine of the story.. We are with her in every scene and it is her narrative voice that leads the story, although Olisakwe writes in third personblack and white and red. This provides a sense of detachment for the reader Yes, he has an artistic collaborator on this piece, and highlights the isolation of Ogadinma. She is exiled from her fatherI think it's home and sent possible 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 escapesay not one page lacks the influence of some striking visual ideas.|isbn=19116481601913547183

|authorisbn=Elliot ReedB098FFFBH9|title=A Key to Treehouse LivingSnowcub|author=Graham Fulbright|rating=4.5|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=This Fourteen-year-old Rachel is the story of her school's animal rights project leader and she and her friend are producing a young boy, William Tyce, who is being raised by his uncle after competition entry to highlight the death of his mother and his father's abandonment. However, it isn't told way in which human beings exploit the usual narrative wayanimal world. Instead, the book is made up She gets a great deal of glossary entriessupport from her family: father Pip Harrison, written by Williama lecturer at Imperial College, as a way of describing certain eventsLondon, situations mother Kate and emotionsher twin, Nick. It Kate runs alphabeticallythe family business, starting with ABSENCEa toy shop called Cornucopia in Putney, then moving to ALPHABETICAL ORDER. As I began to read I did find myself thinking which is where we'what on earth?!' but I soon grew used to the style, and was instead caught up in Williamll meet Rachel's storymain (if unsuspected) source of information: five soft toys.|isbn=1911545418

|author= Karina Sainz Borgo and Elizabeth Bryer (translator)Yancey Williams|title= It Would Be Night in CaracasCrosshairs of the Devil|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary Fiction |summary= ''It Would Be Night Award-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski is getting on in Caracas'' illuminates the everyday horrors of modern day Venezuela. It begins with the death of Adelaida Falcon's mother years and, despite his strenuous objections and chronicles Adelaidathanks to his daughter, finds himself living - or imprisoned, from Eddie's coming to terms with her new solitude point of view - in this world and her attempts to escape it. Danger stalks room 315 of the shadows andGarden of Eden nursing home, in with only a society where the establishment trusty nursing aide, Jenkins, for palatable company. Nothing is crumblinggoing to keep Eddie from his stock-in-trade of writing though, who can you turn to? so here, for his readers, are his wanderings through his life's work.|isbn=00629368670986031658

|isbn=14711863930008421714|title=Photographer of the LostMrs March|author=Caroline ScottVirginia Feito

|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=May 1921The problem began just after the publication of George March's most successful novel to date. Edie receives a photograph through Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the post. There is no letter last page) seemed to either be reading it or note with ithad already done so. There is nothing written Every day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to buy olive bread but on the back of the photograph. It is a picture of her husbandthat particular morning, Francis. Francis has been missing for four years. TechnicallyPatricia asked, he has been "missingas she was wrapping the bread, believed killed" ''but that is not something that isn't this the first time he's based a young widow can believe. She hangs character on the word you?'missing' She mentioned that Johanna, disbelieving the word killed.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1509896465|title=The Nightjar|author=Deborah Hewitt|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=principal character had ''The Nightjarher mannerisms'' 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 Perhaps this would not have mattered, fast. From except for the fact that very moment, her life Johanna is flooded with magicthe whore of Nantes - ''a weak, lossplain, expectation and particularlydetestable, betrayal. As everything around her shifts, all that she knowspathetic, all that she thinks she knowsunloved, must changeunloveable wretch. Who can she trust? Who must she trust? Who will she trust? More importantly, can she even trust herself?''