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|author=Charlie CarrollMatthew Tree|title=The LipWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5

|summary=''Melody Janie Rowe'' even the name is evocative of…probably of whatever we want it Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to bedifferent from his father, a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and maybe that's the pointwho had endless crises of self confidence. To me the name sings of English folk musicSo Tim applied himself to his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but even in my use of that word English, I know I'm putting an emmet take on things. And Melody Janie Rowe is anti-emmetachievable ambitions. |isbn=1529334179B0CVFXPGP8

|isbn=B003UH99X4B0C47LV1PC|title=The Eustace DiamondsFragility|author=Anthony TrollopeMosby Woods|rating=54

|summary=It was generally thought that Sir Florian Eustace had come to regret his marriage but he didnCan you make a ''Yo birthing person''t live long enough for this to become a problem. After his deathjoke? And if you could, his wifeis the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, Lizzie - still only in her late teens - was in possession of a very valuable diamond necklace and was determined that she would not hand it over to her husband's executors. She was adamant land? The catch is that Sir Florian had given it to her absolutely, although the precise circumstances of the giving varied from telling to tellinganswer for both could well be... Lady Eustace was not a woman to whom truth meant a great deal. All that was important to her now, she maintained, was her sonno. And ''Fragility'' is set as the city of Portland, of courseOregon, her diamonds.cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic

|isbnauthor=B003L7TDMUMosby Woods|title=Phineas Finn|author=Anthony TrollopeA Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=4.5

|summary=Phineas Finn 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 son best course of Dr Malachi Finnaction. Governments are flailing. A war here, a successful doctor push for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is in Killaloe in County Clareactual charge. Imagine then, who sent his son to London to train as there was a lawyerman with precognition. Phineas's interest is more Imagine the strategic advantage in making influential friends than in becoming this asset; a lawyer and one man who can tell you what will happen given any set of themcircumstances. That man would be valuable, Barrington Erleright? Perhaps the most valuable asset in history. Imagine then, suggests that he runs for Parliament in the forthcoming electionthis man loses this ability. His father is not entirely in favour of this as members are not remunerated and it What would be up governments do to him to provide financial support for his son as well as funding his election. One of the doctor's patients is Lord Tulla who controls the borough of Loughshane and by this stroke of luck Finn is, eventually, elected by a small margin.get it back?|isbn=B0C9SNG8R1

|isbn=B003A6W0FO0571379559|title=Can You Forgive Her?The House of Broken Bricks|author=Anthony TrollopeFiona Williams|rating=4.5

|summary=On the surface ''Can You Forgive Her?The House of Broken Bricks'' looks deceptively simple: it's is the story of one woman and two men who are vying with each other for her lovefour people. Alice Vavasor was originally engaged to her cousinTess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, George Vavasor but instead, she broke off that engagement and later became engaged to John Greylives in the house on the riverbank, built of broken bricks. When we first meet Alice sheInsubstantial as it might look, it's on an extended tour stood the passage of time, storms and floods. Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the continent with George Vavasor delivery rounds - and his sister Kateto bring in sufficient money. It's obvious that there's still a great deal of chemistry between John and Alice They have twin boys - Sonny and Kate is all for encouraging Max, the relationship as it would tie Alice to herrainbow twins. George wants Alice but itSonny's a matter of colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. People don'amour propret believe that they're related, much less twins and there' rather than love: he has little consideration for anyone other than himself and the original engagement had fallen through because of his infidelity and deceitfulness. This thread s an assumption when Max is the story of a very complicated love affair and a woman who lacks confidence in her own judgement. You might not like Alice to start out with but you will warm to herhis mother that she's his nanny.

|author=Lucy HollandClaire North|title=SistersongHouse of Odysseus

|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Sistersong is part of ''What could matter more than love?'' The follow-up to the excellent ''Ithaca'' picks up a genre I particularly enjoy, few months after where we left off. In the modern retelling palace of folk Odysseus, with delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without her husband, who sailed to war at Troy and fairy talesthen by divine intervention never returned home. These stories, As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for most the throne of usthe Western Isles. Having survived – politically and physical – the chaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to Ithaca's shores, are Queen Penelope is on the brink of a cornerstone fragile peace. One that shatters however with the return of childhood and I relish seeing them retold with fresh eyes Orestes, King of Mycenae, and his sister Elektra, seeking refuge.|isbn=0356516075}}{{Frontpage|author= Kay Chronister|title= Desert Creatures|rating= 4|genre= Dystopian Fiction|summary= With a fresh perspective. If handled well these retellings give new life and new meaning to stories world that are now is becoming increasingly narrow and outdated, fleshing out charactersinhospitable for humanity, examining relationships and repost-evaluating the role of womenapocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Sistersong Whether it is a perfect example robotic takeover, a world devoid of water or a modern retelling done wellnuclear 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 plot fears that exist for humanity today. It is handled with care, keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing the characters a shocking novel that still manages to come 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 lifereflect 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, to feel real a monster or a ghost, it usually something tangible and human, most importantly they feel relatable in a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for by the end of the pre-Saxon age they live instory, beatable. Eric LaRocca's ''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is not like that. This It is a masterpiece collection of short stories more interested in the horrors of storytelling illness, grief and humiliation. Horrors that linger and I was captivated from beginning are harder to enddefeat than any ''Big Bad''.|isbn=1529039037

|isbnauthor=B002SQCYWQMadelaine Lucas|title=The Complete Barchester Chronicles|author=Anthony TrollopeThirst for Salt

|summary=When I told my daughter that I didn't know what to listen to now that 'Love, I'd finished [[The Complete Novels: Sense and Sensibilityread, Pride was supposed to be a light and Prejudiceweightless feeling, Mansfield Parkbut I had always longed for gravity'' Told from a retrospective view, Emmaa young woman unravels the year-long relationship that once defined her. Overlaid with later wisdom, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion by Jane Austen|The Complete Novels of Jane Austen]] for the second time on narrator relives the affair with a man twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the trot she had summer after. Set against the perfect answer: The Barchester Chronicles and they were in my inbox in a matter backdrop of minutes. Theyan isolated Australian coastal town 're not ''quiteThirst for Salt'' as well known as details the Austen books but they24-year-old narrator're an excellent follow s deepening relationship with her older lover, depicting its all-consuming nature, how it changed her perspective onboth romantic and familial relationships and how it altered her irrevocably.|isbn=0861546490

|isbnauthor=B077K6BQFDMichael Grothaus|title=The Complete Novels: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion |author=Jane AustenBeautiful Shining People|rating=54|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Yes - that's over eighty-one hours 'But fearing something and having it come to pass are two different things. And I'm willing to bet most of listening for what we fear will never happen, or we can take steps to change it.'' ''Beautiful Shining People'' revolves around the purchase question of one audio bookidentity and acceptance. All six major novels are read by conmedienne Alison Larkin Of what it means to be human. Of what is real and what is artificial, and they're presented in whether the order in which they were publisheddevelopment of technology is exciting or frightening.|isbn=191458564X

|author=Andrea Bajani and Elizabeth Harris (translator)Jennifer Saint|title=If You Kept a Record of SinsAtalanta|rating=4.5

|summary=This ''I was an incredibly readable novella, but as worthy as any one of them. I would get on board that left me a little conflictedship, I vowed. We start as our hero arrives at Bucharest airportI would take my place, and before we even know his gender or not just in the nature name of the person he's addressing in his second person monologue goddess. It was for the sake of a narrationmy name, we see him picked up by his mothertoo. Atalanta's chauffeur' Princess. Warrior. Lover. Hero. Abandoned at birth for being born a daughter rather than a son, and carted off to do all Atalanta is raised under the necessary introductions before said mother is buried protective eye of the following day. The mother was goddess Athemis and fashioned into a businesswomanformidable huntress, one who clearly left northern Italy and settled in Romania with her (night-time and business) partnerlongs for adventure. When the opportunity comes – to join the Argonauts, and feelings a fierce band of abandonment are still strong. And so we flit warriors, descendent from current (well, this came the Gods themselves – Atalanta seizes the chance to fight in Artemis' name and carve out her own legendary place in the original Italian in 2007history. What follows is a whirlwind of challenges and discovery and through it, so moderately current) Bucharest, to the ladAtalanta must remember Artemis's childhoodfatal warning: that if she marries, and see just what he has to tell it will be her as a private farewell addressundoing.|isbn=19398109651472292154

|author=Afonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)Amanthi Harris|title=Kokoschka's DollBeautiful Place|rating=2.5

|summary=WellPadma, this looked very much like a book I could love from young Sri Lankan, has returned to the Villa Hibiscus on the get-go, which is why I picked my review copy up and flipped pages over several times before actually reading any southern coast of ither home country. I found things to potentially delight me each time – This is a weird section in the middle on darker stock paper, place she spent her formative years. It is not a chapter whose number place she was in born into, but the one she thinks of as home. How she came to be at the 20Villa,000s, letters used as narrative formhow it became her home, and so on. It intrigued with the subterranean voice a man hears in wartorn Dresden machinations that what little I knew of it mentioned, toohave flowed through her life ever since she first arrived there provide the ''score'' for this gentle and yet subtly violent novel. But you Padma've seen s present fails to escape her past and much like the star rating musical score of a film, that comes with this review, and can tell strand weaves its way through everything that if love was on these pages, it was not actually caused by themhappens at the Villa. So what happened?|isbn=15294026971784631930

|isbn=0571362672178563335X|title=SnowSea Defences|author=John BanvilleHilary Taylor

|genre=Crime (Historical)Literary Fiction|summary=When we first meet Rachel Bird she''Wells a trainee vicar, at least yousitting 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 Wexford mansobbing parishioner. Thelma's daughter-in-law won' So said Colonel Osborne when he welcomed DI St John (pronounced 'Sinjun') Strafford to Ballyglass House just before Christmas 1957t let her see her grandson. Osborne was master 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 Keelmore Hounds and had done something memorable with vicar, Gail, but then she's been doing the Inniskilling Dragoons at Dunkirkjob for more than thirty years. The niceties had to be established even when there was Rachel and Christopher hoped that a Catholic priest dead walk on the library floor with beach would do them some precious bits of his anatomy missing. Strafford was from Roslea at Bunclody and this, along with his good-it was stormy but-shabby suit, marked him out as of Osborne's class and obviously Protestant. The dead priest it was Father Tom Lawless from Scallanstown, who - despite the different religions - was in the habit of spending time at Ballyglass Houseprobably what they needed. His horse was stabled thereAnd then Hannah went missing.

|authorisbn= Tahi Saihate1398515388|title= Astral Season, Beastly SeasonThe Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating= 34.5|genre= Literary General Fiction|summary= We long for our past even though First of all, it is a place to was the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which we can never return. Tahi Saihatecreated the tsunami and this, in her debut novel ''Astral Seasonturn, caused the nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and utter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, Beastly Season'' illustrates how these roseand 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 -tinted glasses often lieKazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. Her novel is He wasn't a meditation on youth dog person but the convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and how Tamon the things we do as a teenager can seem intensely important and often life-alteringdog jumped in.|isbn= 1916277101

|authorisbn=Laura Imai Messina0989715337|title=The Phone Box at Papa on the End of the WorldMoon|author=Marco North|rating=54

|summary= In ''Some frogs had gotten into the northeast of Japan, in Inwate Prefecture a man installed a telephone box in his gardenwell. ''Inside there is an old black ''Walter stood waist-deep in the fragrant water, telephonenaked except for his beaten leather hat. Long strands of their eggs wove around him, disconnected, that carries voices into sticky gray pearls with tadpoles inside them. Two of the dogs leaned over the opening and barked down at the strange noise of the windbuckets as he filled them.'' It  How is a real place, a necessary place, and I am pleased to see the IMPORTANT NOTE that for an opening? The style of this novel in the author attaches form of interconnected short stories goes from succinct and laconic to her storywistful and musing, that the place is not turning on a tourist destinationsixpence. And author Marco North, it is a sacred placewho has the most wonderful turn of phrase, a place that must be left starts as he means to those who really need itgo on.|isbn=178658039X

|author=Amin MaaloufDaisy Hildyard|title=The DisorientedEmergency|rating=4.5

|summary= Adam has lived in Paris for years, speaks French more easily than his native Arabic. In fact he hasnThe summary of this book doesn't been back come close to his homeland for 25 yearsexplaining what is done with the premise. An old friend |isbn=1913097811}}  {{Frontpage |author=Sally Oliver |title=The Weight of Loss |rating=4 |genre=Literary Fiction |summary= Marianne is dying…or as Adam prefers grieving. Traumatised after the death of her sister, she awakes to think find strange, thick black hairs sprouting from the bones of him a former-friendher spine which steadily increase in size and volume. Her GP, perhaps not as harsh diagnosing the odd phenomenon as an ex-friend, or maybe. The falling out was a long time agophysical reaction to her grief, and Adam's partner has no idea what it was aboutrecommends she go to stay at Nede, even so she urges him an experimental new treatment centre in Wales. Yet something strange is happening to go knowing that he'll regret not doing soMarianne and the other patients at Nede: a metamorphosis of a kind. Not knowing whether heAs Marianne's going because he needs or wants memories threaten tooverwhelm her, or simply because he was asked, he's on the next planeNede offers her release from this cycle of memory and pain—but only at a terrible price: that of identity itself. |isbn=B07ZQSK9CY086154112X }}

|author=Joanne M HarrisNatalia Garcia Freire|title=A Pocketful of CrowsThis 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 that particular morning, Patricia asked, as she was wrapping the back of bread, ''but isn't this the photograph. first time he's based a character on you?'' It is a picture of She mentioned that Johanna, the principal character had 'her husband, Francismannerisms''. Francis has been missing Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for four years. Technically, he has been "missing, believed killed" but the fact that Johanna is not something that a young widow can believe. She hangs on the word whore of Nantes - 'missing'a weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, disbelieving the word killedunloveable wretch.''