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|isbnauthor=B004O37B6AMatthew Tree|title=The Prime Minister|author=Anthony TrollopeWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5

|summary=Plantagenet PalliserTimothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, the Duke a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of Omnium, is the prime minister being exceptional at any of a coalition government but he's privately enraged at the seemingly unstoppable rise his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of Ferdinand Lopezself confidence. Lopex is exotic - some describe him as Jewish, others as Portuguese but the truth is that no one knows and Lopez is not going So Tim applied himself to explain. The ladies of society, even Palliser's own wifehis studies, Lady Glencora, are supporters but after Lopez makes an advantageous marriage Palliser is placed in the position of having to support cultivated his wife's actions when Lopez loses a by-election. The Duke's payment of Lopez' election expenses in an attempt to stem gossip about abilities rather than his wife will come back to haunt himdaydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|isbn=B00474HVX4B0C47LV1PC|title=Phineas ReduxFragility|author=Anthony TrollopeMosby Woods|rating=4.5

|summary=ItCan you make a 's some time since we heard from [[Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope|Phineas Finn]]'Yo birthing person'' 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 that the answer for both could well be.... Having succeeded in parliament and achieved a paying position he fell out with those who provided his income and returned to Ireland where he married Mary, his childhood sweetheartno. He was fortunate to get a job in Cork (or Dublin - recollections may vary) and seemed settled into a life  ''Fragility'' is set as the city of domesticity. To bring Finn backPortland, Oregon, Trollope had cautiously begins to kill off poor Mary and Phineas emerges in London as a childless widower with a legacy emerge from an aunt who died at just the right time to allow restrictions imposed during the move to be possible.covid pandemic

|author=Jessie GreengrassMosby Woods|title=The High HouseA Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=4.5

|summary=Charles Darwin taught that all living matter evolved to pass on its genetic material with The West isn't the implied belief that your progeny will then pass on theirsdominant force it once was. However, that train of thought Nobody in the West is slowly seems quite sure how to have fallen out mend this or even if mending it is the best course of favouraction. Today's young generation Governments are discovering flailing. A war here, a push for climate action there. A feeling that their parents and their parents' parents did not seem to think that far aheadnobody is in actual charge. Or they did think that far ahead and thought "it's not my problem" or "Imagine then, there's nothing I can do"was a man with precognition. Raising a child and living Imagine the strategic advantage in this asset; a world on the precipice man who can tell you what will happen given any set of catastrophe is what drives ''The High House'' by Jessie Greengrasscircumstances. This is not a science-fiction novelThat man would be valuable, right? Perhaps the most valuable asset in history. This is our realityImagine then, that this man loses this ability. This is the life our children and their children will have What would governments do to live.get it back?|isbn=1800750072B0C9SNG8R1

|authorisbn=Charlie Carroll0571379559|title=The LipHouse of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams

|summary=''Melody Janie RoweThe House of Broken Bricks'' is the story of four people. even Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in the house on the name is evocative of…probably riverbank, built of whatever we want broken bricks. Insubstantial as it to bemight look, and maybe thatit's stood the pointpassage of time, storms and floods. To me Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the name sings of English folk musicdelivery rounds - and to bring in sufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and Max, but even in my use of the rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. People don't believe that word Englishthey're related, I know Imuch less twins and there'm putting s an emmet take on things. And Melody Janie Rowe assumption when Max is anti-emmetout with his mother that she's his nanny. |isbn=1529334179

|isbnauthor=B003UH99X4Claire North|title=The Eustace Diamonds|author=Anthony TrollopeHouse of Odysseus

|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=It was generally thought that Sir Florian Eustace had come ''What could matter more than love?'' The follow-up to regret his marriage but he didnthe excellent ''Ithaca''t live long enough for this to become picks up a problemfew months after where we left off. After his deathIn the palace of Odysseus, his wifewith delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without her husband, Lizzie - still only in her late teens - was in possession who sailed to war at Troy and then by divine intervention never returned home. As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for the throne of a very valuable diamond necklace the Western Isles. Having survived – politically and was determined physical – the chaotic storm that she would not hand it over Clytemnestra brought to her husbandIthaca's executorsshores, Queen Penelope is on the brink of a fragile peace. One that shatters however with the return of Orestes, King of Mycenae, and his sister Elektra, seeking refuge. She was adamant |isbn=0356516075}}{{Frontpage|author= Kay Chronister|title= Desert Creatures|rating= 4|genre= Dystopian Fiction|summary= With a world that Sir Florian had given 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 her absolutely, although the precise circumstances cathartically experience their most existential fears. ''Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is a new work of post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the giving varied from telling fears that exist for humanity today. It is a shocking novel that still manages to tellingfind hope. Lady Eustace was not |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 woman way to whom truth meant reflect our darkest emotions and how we as humans react and process them. Most horror fiction feature a great deal. All ''Big Bad'', whether that was important to her nowis a home invader, a monster or a ghost, it usually something tangible and, she maintainedby the end of the story, was her sonbeatable. Eric LaRocca's ''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is not like that. And, It is a collection of short stories more interested in the horrors of courseillness, her diamondsgrief and humiliation. Horrors that linger and are harder to defeat than any ''Big Bad''.

|isbnauthor=B003L7TDMUMadelaine Lucas|title=Phineas Finn|author=Anthony TrollopeThirst for Salt|rating=4.5

|summary=Phineas Finn is the son of Dr Malachi Finn''Love, a successful doctor in Killaloe in County ClareI'd read, who sent his son was supposed to London to train as be a lawyer. Phineaslight and weightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravity''s interest is more in making influential friends than in becoming  Told from a lawyer and one of themretrospective view, Barrington Erlea young woman unravels the year-long relationship that once defined her. Overlaid with later wisdom, suggests that he runs for Parliament in the forthcoming electionnarrator relives the affair with a man twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the summer after. His father is not entirely in favour Set against the backdrop of this as members are not remunerated and it would be up to him to provide financial support an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for his son as well as funding his election. One of Salt'' details the doctor24-year-old narrator's patients is Lord Tulla who controls the borough of Loughshane and by this stroke of luck Finn isdeepening relationship with her older lover, eventuallydepicting its all-consuming nature, elected by a small marginhow it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and how it altered her irrevocably.|isbn=0861546490

|isbnauthor=B003A6W0FOMichael Grothaus|title=Can You Forgive Her?|author=Anthony TrollopeBeautiful Shining People|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=On the surface ''Can You Forgive Her?'' looks deceptively simple: But fearing something and having it's the story of one woman and come to pass are two men who are vying with each other for her lovedifferent things. Alice Vavasor was originally engaged And I'm willing to her cousinbet most of what we fear will never happen, George Vavasor but she broke off that engagement and later became engaged or we can take steps to John Greychange it. When we first meet Alice she's on an extended tour 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 all for encouraging the relationship as it would tie Alice to her. George wants Alice but it's a matter of  ''amour propreBeautiful Shining People'' rather than love: he has little consideration for anyone other than himself and revolves around the original engagement had fallen through because question of his infidelity identity and deceitfulnessacceptance. This thread Of what it means to be human. Of what is real and what is artificial, and whether the story development of a very complicated love affair and a woman who lacks confidence in her own judgement. You might not like Alice to start with but you will warm to hertechnology is exciting or frightening.|isbn=191458564X

|author=Lucy HollandJennifer Saint|title=SistersongAtalanta

|summary=Sistersong is part ''I was as worthy as any one of a genre them. I would get on board that ship, I vowed. I particularly enjoywould take my place, not just in the modern retelling name of folk and fairy talesthe goddess. These stories, It was for most the sake of usmy name, are too. Atalanta'' Princess. Warrior. Lover. Hero. Abandoned at birth for being born a daughter rather than a cornerstone son, Atalanta is raised under the protective eye of childhood and I relish seeing them retold with fresh eyes the goddess Athemis and fashioned into a fresh perspectiveformidable huntress, one who longs for adventure. If handled well these retellings give new life and new meaning When the opportunity comes – to stories that are now becoming increasingly narrow and outdated, fleshing out charactersjoin the Argonauts, examining relationships and re-evaluating the role of women. Sistersong is a perfect example fierce band of a modern retelling done wellwarriors, descendent from the plot is handled with care, keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing Gods themselves – Atalanta seizes the characters chance to come to life, to feel real fight in Artemis' name and human, most importantly they feel relatable in a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the pre-Saxon age they live carve out her own legendary place inhistory. This What follows is a masterpiece whirlwind of storytelling challenges and I was captivated from beginning to enddiscovery and through it, Atalanta must remember Artemis' fatal warning: that if she marries, it will be her undoing.|isbn=15290390371472292154

|isbnauthor=B002SQCYWQAmanthi Harris|title=The Complete Barchester Chronicles|author=Anthony TrollopeBeautiful Place

|summary=When I told my daughter that I didn't know what to listen to now that I'd finished [[The Complete Novels: Sense and SensibilityPadma, Pride and Prejudicea young Sri Lankan, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion by Jane Austen|The Complete Novels of Jane Austen]] for has returned to the second time Villa Hibiscus on the trot southern coast of her home country. This is a place she had spent her formative years. It is not a place she was born into, but the perfect answer: The Barchester Chronicles and they were in my inbox in a matter one she thinks of minutesas home. They How she came to be at the Villa, how it became her home, and the machinations that have flowed through her life ever since she first arrived there provide the 're not 'score'quite'for this gentle and yet subtly violent novel. Padma' as well known as s present fails to escape her past and much like the musical score of a film, that strand weaves its way through everything that happens at the Austen books but they're an excellent follow onVilla.|isbn=1784631930

|isbn=B077K6BQFD178563335X|title=The Complete Novels: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion Sea Defences|author=Jane AustenHilary Taylor

|summary=Yes - thatWhen we first meet Rachel Bird she's over eighty-one hours of listening for a trainee vicar, sitting in on a PCC meeting and wondering why they're held when you need to pick the purchase of one audio bookchildren up. All Her husband, Christopher, collects six major novels are read by conmedienne Alison Larkin -year-old Hannah and theyher elder brother, Jamie, whilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioner. Thelma're presented s daughter-in -law won't let her see her grandson. Holthorpe, on the Norfolk coast, is a lovely place, but Rachel is struggling to develop a real bond with the order parish - and she's in which awe of the vicar, Gail, but then she's been doing the job for more than thirty years. Rachel and Christopher hoped that a walk on the beach would do them some good - it was stormy but it was probably what they were publishedneeded. And then Hannah went missing.

|isbn=1398515388|title=The Boy and the Dog|author=Andrea Bajani Seishu Hase and Elizabeth Harris Alison Watts (translator)|title=If You Kept a Record of Sins

|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=This First of all, it was an incredibly readable novellathe earthquake, but one that left me a little conflicted. We start as our hero arrives at Bucharest airportdeep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and before we even know his gender or the nature of the person he's addressing this, in his second person monologue of a narration, we see him picked up by his mother's chauffeurturn, and carted off to do all caused the necessary introductions before said mother is buried the following daynuclear meltdown. The mother result was a businesswoman, who clearly left northern Italy complete and settled in Romania with her (night-time and business) partnerutter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, and feelings the loss of abandonment are still stronglivelihoods was widespread. And so we flit The fact that many pets were separated from current (well, this their owners came out in far down the list of priorities but - six months after the original Italian in 2007, so moderately current) Bucharest, to tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. He wasn't a dog person but the ladconvenience store owner's childhood, and see just what comment that he has would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to tell her as a private farewell addressopen his car door and Tamon the dog jumped in.|isbn=1939810965

|authorisbn=Afonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)0989715337|title=Kokoschka's DollPapa on the Moon|author=Marco North|rating=2.54

|summary=Well, this looked very much like a book I could love from ''Some frogs had gotten into the getwell.'' ''Walter stood waist-godeep in the fragrant water, which is why I picked my review copy up and flipped pages over several times before actually reading any naked except for his beaten leather hat. Long strands of ittheir eggs wove around him, sticky gray pearls with tadpoles inside them. I found things to potentially delight me each time – a weird section in Two of the middle on darker stock paper, a chapter whose number was in dogs leaned over the 20,000s, letters used as narrative form, opening and so on. It intrigued with barked down at the subterranean voice a man hears in wartorn Dresden that what little I knew strange noise of it mentioned, toothe buckets as he filled them. But you've seen the star rating ' How is that comes with for an opening? The style of this reviewnovel in the form of interconnected short stories goes from succinct and laconic to wistful and musing, and can tell that if love was turning on these pagesa sixpence. And author Marco North, it was not actually caused by themwho has the most wonderful turn of phrase, starts as he means to go on. So what happened?|isbn=1529402697

|isbnauthor=0571362672Daisy Hildyard|title=Snow|author=John BanvilleEmergency|rating=54|genre=Crime (Historical)Literary Fiction|summary=The summary of this book doesn''Well, at least you're a Wexford mant come close to explaining what is done with the premise.''|isbn=1913097811}}

So said Colonel Osborne when he welcomed DI St John (pronounced 'Sinjun') Strafford to Ballyglass House just before Christmas 1957{{Frontpage |author=Sally Oliver |title=The Weight of Loss |rating=4 |genre=Literary Fiction |summary= Marianne is grieving. Osborne was master Traumatised after the death of her sister, she awakes to find strange, thick black hairs sprouting from the Keelmore Hounds bones of her spine which steadily increase in size and had done something memorable with volume. Her GP, diagnosing the Inniskilling Dragoons odd phenomenon as a physical reaction to her grief, recommends she go to stay at DunkirkNede, an experimental new treatment centre in Wales. The niceties had Yet something strange is happening to be established even when there was Marianne and the other patients at Nede: a Catholic priest dead on the library floor with some precious bits metamorphosis of his anatomy missinga kind. Strafford was As Marianne's memories threaten to overwhelm her, Nede offers her release from Roslea at Bunclody and this, along with his good-but-shabby suit, marked him out as cycle of Osborne's class memory and obviously Protestant. The dead priest was Father Tom Lawless from Scallanstown, who - despite the different religions - was in the habit pain—but only at a terrible price: that of spending time at Ballyglass House. His horse was stabled thereidentity itself.|isbn= 086154112X }}

|author= Tahi SaihateNatalia Garcia Freire|title= Astral Season, Beastly SeasonThis World Does Not Belong To Us|rating= 3.5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= We long for our past even though it Early comments on this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendous, a delight. I will agree with the first – tremendous is no understatement – but 'a place delight' is perhaps using the expression in a way I'm not familiar with. I have to which we can never returnconfess my ignorance of the Spanish-language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation here. Tahi Saihate, From the little I have read (in her debut novel ''Astral Seasontranslation, Beastly SeasonI don'' illustrates how these rose-tinted glasses often lie. Her novel is t read Spanish) there does seem to be a meditation on youth and how tendency towards the fantastical – the things we do as a teenager can seem intensely important and often life-alteringmystical realism.|isbn= 19162771010861541901

|author=Laura Imai MessinaJennifer Saint|title=The Phone Box at the End of the WorldElektra|rating=54

|summary= In 'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the northeast story of Japan, in Inwate Prefecture a man installed a telephone box three women who live in his garden. ''Inside there is an old black, telephone, disconnected, that carries voices into the windheavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece.'' It is a real placeCassandra, a necessary placeClytemnestra, and I am pleased to see Elektra are all bit players in the story of the IMPORTANT NOTE Trojan War. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the silent women have the author attaches to her story, that most compelling stories and the place is not a tourist destination, it is a sacred place, a place that must be left to those who really need itmost extreme furies.|isbn=178658039X1472273915

|authorisbn=Amin Maalouf8409290103|title=The DisorientedIf Only|author=Matthew Tree

|summary= Adam has lived in Paris for yearsTwenty-one-year-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by his father, speaks French more easily than cotton-broker AO Lowry: he asked his native Arabic. In fact he hasn't been back accountant, Mr Patrick, to his homeland for 25 years. An old friend is dying…or as Adam prefers ensure that the young man got on board the boat and thereafter Patrick was to think of send him a formermonthly allowance. Patrick sent the money regularly and a correspondence -friend, perhaps not as harsh as an exof sorts -friend, or maybesprang up between the two although we hear more about what Lowry has to say than Patrick. The falling out was a long time ago It wasn't that Lowry senior didn't care for his son, and Adam's partner has no idea what it was about, even so she urges him to go knowing that hedidn'll regret not doing sot care to have him in this country where he might be a danger to his wife and other children. Not knowing whether he's going because he needs or wants The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to, or simply because he was asked, he's get the young man on the next planehis way. |isbn=B07ZQSK9CY

|author=Joanne M HarrisAntoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)|title=A Pocketful of CrowsRed is My Heart|rating=3.5|genre= Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction |summary= I [[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been of the mind black and white and read in my house. And so was this one, although I could have spelled that once you're above picture-book level more accurately – this one was, and before you get to graphic sex & violenceis, there is no difference between books for children black and white and books for adultsred. There are good books Yes, he has an artistic collaborator on this piece, and poor ones. And Joanne Harris does not produce poor ones. ''A Pocketful of Crows'' is clearly aimed at the younger readers as witness the use of the middle initial in the authorI think it's name possible to differentiate from her adult offers. Ignore that if you have loved anything from ''Chocolat'' onwards you will know that Harris is mistress say not one page lacks the influence of the modern fairy tale. This is no different. It is an utter delightsome striking visual ideas.|isbn=14732221841913547183

|authorisbn=Frederic Beigbeder and Frank Wynne (translator)B098FFFBH9|title=A Life Without EndSnowcub|author=Graham Fulbright|rating=4.5

|summary=I looked at the calendar the other week, Fourteen-year-old Rachel is her school's animal rights project leader and she and disappointedly realised I have her friend are producing a birthday this year – I know, yet another one. It won't be one of competition entry to highlight the major numbers, but way in which human beings exploit the time when I have the same number as Heinz varieties looms on the horizonanimal world. And then She gets a few great deal of the big 0-numberssupport from her family: father Pip Harrison, and if all goes wella lecturer at Imperial College, I'll be an OBE. (Which of course stands for Over Bloody Eighty.) Now if that's the extent of my mid-life crisisLondon, I guess I have to be happy. Our author here doesn't use that exact phrasemother Kate and her twin, but he might be said to be living oneNick. 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 Kate runs the first geneticist he interviewsfamily business, and they end up with a childtoy shop called Cornucopia in Putney, which is at least a way where we'll meet Rachel's main (if unsuspected) source of continuing the life of his genes, and a motive to keep on goinginformation: five soft toys. But how can he get to not flick the 'final way out' switch, especially when foie gras tastes so nice?|isbn=1642860670

|author= Maryse CondéYancey Williams|title= The Wondrous and Tragic Life Crosshairs of Ivan and Ivanathe Devil|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= We live Award-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski is getting on in a post- world: post-colonialismyears and, despite his strenuous objections and thanks to his daughter, postfinds himself living -modernismor imprisoned, post truth. The list goes on. There are numerous works that utilise the prefix postfrom Eddie's point of view - in their categorisationroom 315 of the Garden of Eden nursing home, but perhaps none more so than Maryse Condé. In her new novelwith only a trusty nursing aide, ''The Wondrous and Tragic Life of Ivan and Ivana''Jenkins, Condé writes with fervour about the scars left by colonialism on the countries for palatable company. Nothing is going to which it latched itself. Ivan and Ivana are twins born keep Eddie from his stock-in Guadeloupe-trade of writing though, so here, a French overseas department. They grow up with intense and passionate feelings for each other. As they grow up and move overseashis readers, the ravages of a post-colonial society drive them apart with tragic consequencesare his wanderings through his life's work.|isbn=16428606970986031658}}

|authorisbn= Ukamaka Olisakwe0008421714|title= Ogadinma Or, Everything Will Be All RightMrs March|author=Virginia Feito|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= The new problem began just after the publication of George March's most successful novel by Ukamaka Olisakwe is a look at 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't this the trauma and heartache of being first time he's based a woman in 1980s Nigeria. The title is character on you?''Ogadinma Or She mentioned that Johanna, Everything Will Be All Rightthe principal character had 'her mannerisms''. 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 Perhaps this would not have mattered, although Olisakwe writes in third person. This provides a sense of detachment except for the reader and highlights fact that Johanna is the isolation whore of OgadinmaNantes - ''a weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch. 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 escape.|isbn=1911648160'