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|isbnauthor=B005FM76AAMatthew Tree|title=The DukeWe's Children|author=Anthony Trollopell Never Know

|summary=The story opens Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to probably the worst news be different from his father, a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all: Lady Glencora Palliser is dead. Her husband, Plantagenet Palliser, the Duke failed miserably and who had endless crises of Omnium, is nearly paralysed by grief and struggling - at the same time - to adjust to no longer being prime minister, or even in officeself confidence. He seeks So Tim applied himself to protect and guide his three adult childrenstudies, which is easier said cultivated his abilities rather than done when none of them wishes to ''be'' guided. Silverbridge (his elder son, actually called Plantagenet, daydreams and set himself high but always known by his title) and Gerald are destined to be sent down from Oxford and Cambridge respectively and to run up gambling debts, occasionally in eye-watering sums. Lady Helen has fallen in love with - and wishes to marry - Frank Tregear, the penniless son of a poor squire, which the Duke cannot countenance, not least because he sees echos of what might have happened when he married Lady Glencora. He's about to learn that parents do not always get their wayachievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|isbn=B004O37B6AB0C47LV1PC|title=The Prime MinisterFragility|author=Anthony TrollopeMosby Woods

|summary=Plantagenet PalliserCan you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the Duke of Omnium, question should you make it? Or is the prime minister of a coalition government but he's privately enraged at the seemingly unstoppable rise of Ferdinand Lopez. Lopex is exotic - some describe him as Jewishquestion if you did, others as Portuguese but the truth would it land? The catch is that the answer for both could well be.... no one knows and Lopez is not going to explain. The ladies of society, even Palliser ''Fragility''s own wife, Lady Glencora, are supporters but after Lopez makes an advantageous marriage Palliser is placed in set as the position city of having Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to support 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 his wife will come back to haunt him.emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic

|isbnauthor=B00474HVX4Mosby Woods|title=Phineas Redux|author=Anthony TrollopeA Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=4.5

|summary=ItThe West isn's some time since we heard from [[Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope|Phineas Finn]]t the dominant force it once was. Having succeeded Nobody in parliament and achieved a paying position he fell out with those who provided his income and returned the West is quite sure how to Ireland where he married Marymend this or even if mending it is the best course of action. Governments are flailing. A war here, his childhood sweethearta push for climate action there. He A feeling that nobody is in actual charge. Imagine then, there was fortunate to get a job man with precognition. Imagine the strategic advantage in Cork (or Dublin - recollections may vary) and seemed settled into this asset; a life man who can tell you what will happen given any set of domesticitycircumstances. To bring Finn backThat man would be valuable, Trollope had to kill off poor Mary and Phineas emerges in London as a childless widower with a legacy from an aunt who died at just the right time to allow ? Perhaps the move most valuable asset in history. Imagine then, that this man loses this ability. What would governments do to be possible.get it back?|isbn=B0C9SNG8R1

|authorisbn=Jessie Greengrass0571379559|title=The High Houseof Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams|rating=4.5

|summary=Charles Darwin taught that all living matter evolved to pass ''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the story of four people. Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in the house on its genetic material with the implied belief that your progeny will then pass on theirs. Howeverriverbank, that train of thought is slowly seems to have fallen out built of favourbroken bricks. Today Insubstantial as it might look, it's young generation are discovering that their parents stood the passage of time, storms and floods. Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the delivery rounds - and their parents' parents did not seem to think that far aheadbring in sufficient money. Or they did think that far ahead They have twin boys - Sonny and thought "itMax, the rainbow twins. Sonny's not my problem" or "therecolouring reflects his mother's nothing I can do"Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. Raising a child and living in a world on the precipice of catastrophe is what drives People don't believe that they'The High Housere related, much less twins and there's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she' by Jessie Greengrass. This is not a science-fiction novel. This is our reality. This is the life our children and their children will have to lives his nanny.|isbn=1800750072

|author=Charlie CarrollClaire North|title=The LipHouse of Odysseus

|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''Melody Janie RoweWhat could matter more than love?'' even  The follow-up to the excellent ''Ithaca'' picks up a few months after where we left off. In the name is evocative of…probably palace of whatever we want it Odysseus, with delicate care Queen Penelope continues to berule without her husband, who sailed to war at Troy and then by divine intervention never returned home. As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for the throne of the Western Isles. Having survived – politically and maybe physical – the chaotic storm thatClytemnestra brought to Ithaca's shores, Queen Penelope is on the pointbrink of a fragile peace. To me One that shatters however with the name sings return of English folk musicOrestes, but even in my use King of that word EnglishMycenae, and his sister Elektra, I know I'm putting an emmet take on things. And Melody Janie Rowe is anti-emmetseeking refuge. |isbn=15293341790356516075

|isbnauthor=B003UH99X4Kay Chronister|title=The Eustace Diamonds|author=Anthony TrollopeDesert Creatures|rating=54|genre=Literary Dystopian Fiction|summary=It was generally thought With a world that Sir Florian Eustace had come to regret his marriage but he didn't live long enough is becoming increasingly inhospitable for this to humanity, post-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Whether it is a problem. After his deathrobotic takeover, his wifea world devoid of water or a nuclear holocaust, Lizzie 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- still only in her late teens - was in possession apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the fears that exist for humanity today. It is a very valuable diamond necklace and was determined shocking novel that she would not hand it over still manages to find hope.|isbn=1803364998}}{{frontpage|isbn=1803363002|author= Eric LaRocca|title= The Trees Grew Because I Bled There|rating= 5|genre= Horror|summary= Horror taps into something primeval within us. It is used as a way to her husbandreflect our darkest emotions and how we as humans react and process them. Most horror fiction feature a ''Big Bad''s executors. She was adamant , whether that Sir Florian had given is a home invader, a monster or a ghost, it to her absolutelyusually something tangible and, although by the precise circumstances end of the giving varied from telling to tellingstory, beatable. Lady Eustace was Eric LaRocca's ''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is not like that. It is a woman to whom truth meant a great dealcollection of short stories more interested in the horrors of illness, grief and humiliation. All Horrors that was important linger and are harder to her now, she maintained, was her son. And, of course, her diamondsdefeat 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 postyears and, despite his strenuous objections and thanks to his daughter, finds himself living - world: postor imprisoned, from Eddie's point of view -colonialismin room 315 of the Garden of Eden nursing home, post-modernismwith only a trusty nursing aide, Jenkins, post truthfor palatable company. The list goes on. There are numerous works that utilise the prefix postNothing is going to keep Eddie from his stock- in their categorisation-trade of writing though, but perhaps none more so than Maryse Condé. In her new novelhere, for his readers, are his wanderings through his life''s work.|isbn=0986031658}} {{Frontpage|isbn=0008421714|title=Mrs March|author=Virginia Feito|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=The Wondrous and Tragic Life problem began just after the publication of Ivan and IvanaGeorge March'', Condé writes with fervour about the scars left by colonialism s most successful novel to date. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the countries last page) seemed to which either be reading it latched itselfor had already done so. Ivan and Ivana are twins born in Guadeloupe 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 first time he's based a French overseas departmentcharacter on you?'' She mentioned that Johanna, the principal character had 'her mannerisms''. They grow up with intense and passionate feelings Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for each other. As they grow up and move overseas, the ravages fact that Johanna is the whore of Nantes - ''a post-colonial society drive them apart with tragic consequencesweak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch.|isbn=1642860697''