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|isbnauthor=0008421714Matthew Tree|title=Mrs March|author=Virginia FeitoWe'll Never Know

|summary=The problem began just after the publication of George March's most successful novel to date. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the last page) seemed Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to either be reading it or different from his father, a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had already done soendless crises of self confidence. Every day Mrs March went to the local patisserie So Tim applied himself to buy olive bread but on that particular morninghis studies, Patricia asked, as she was wrapping the bread, ''cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but isn't this the first time he's based a character on you?'' She mentioned that Johanna, the principal character had 'her mannerisms''. Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for the fact that Johanna is the whore of Nantes - ''a weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretchachievable ambitions.''|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|isbn=B005FM76AAB0C47LV1PC|title=The Duke's ChildrenFragility|author=Anthony TrollopeMosby Woods|rating=4.5

|summary=The story opens to probably Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the worst news of all: Lady Glencora Palliser question should you make it? Or is dead. Her husband, Plantagenet Palliser, the Duke of Omniumquestion if you did, would it land? The catch is nearly paralysed by grief and struggling - at that the same time - to adjust to answer for both could well be.... no longer being prime minister, or even in office. He seeks to protect and guide his three adult children, which is easier said than done when none of them wishes to  ''beFragility'' guided. Silverbridge (his elder sonis set as the city of Portland, actually called PlantagenetOregon, but always known by his title) and Gerald are destined cautiously begins to be sent down emerge 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 restrictions imposed during 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 way.covid pandemic

|isbnauthor=B004O37B6AMosby Woods|title=The Prime Minister|author=Anthony TrollopeA Whirly Man Loses His Turn

|summary=Plantagenet Palliser, 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 Duke best course of Omniumaction. Governments are flailing. A war here, a push for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is in actual charge. Imagine then, there was a man with precognition. Imagine the prime minister of strategic advantage in this asset; a coalition government but he's privately enraged at the seemingly unstoppable rise man who can tell you what will happen given any set of Ferdinand Lopezcircumstances. Lopex is exotic - some describe him as JewishThat man would be valuable, others as Portuguese but right? Perhaps the truth is that no one knows and Lopez is not going to explainmost valuable asset in history. The ladies of societyImagine then, even Palliser's own wife, Lady Glencora, are supporters but after Lopez makes an advantageous marriage Palliser is placed in the position of having to support his wife's actions when Lopez that this man loses a by-electionthis ability. The Duke's payment of Lopez' election expenses in an attempt What would governments do to stem gossip about his wife will come get it back to haunt him.?|isbn=B0C9SNG8R1

|isbn=B00474HVX40571379559|title=Phineas ReduxThe House of Broken Bricks|author=Anthony TrollopeFiona Williams|rating=4.5

|summary=It''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the story of four people. Tess Hembry's some roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in the house on the riverbank, built of broken bricks. Insubstantial as it might look, it's stood the passage of time since we heard from [[Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope|Phineas Finn]], storms and floods. Having succeeded in parliament and achieved a paying position he fell out with those who provided Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his income vegetables, to complete the delivery rounds - and returned to Ireland where he married Mary, his childhood sweetheartbring in sufficient money. He was fortunate to get a job in Cork (or Dublin They have twin boys - recollections may vary) Sonny and seemed settled into a life of domesticityMax, the rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. To bring Finn backPeople don't believe that they're related, Trollope had to kill off poor Mary much less twins and Phineas emerges in London as a childless widower there's an assumption when Max is out with a legacy from an aunt who died at just the right time to allow the move to be possiblehis mother that she's his nanny.

|author=Jessie GreengrassClaire North|title=The High Houseof Odysseus|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Charles Darwin taught that all living ''What could matter evolved more than love?'' The follow-up to pass on its genetic material with the implied belief that your progeny will then pass on theirsexcellent ''Ithaca'' picks up a few months after where we left off. HoweverIn the palace of Odysseus, with delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without her husband, that train of thought is slowly seems who sailed to have fallen out war at Troy and then by divine intervention never returned home. As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for the throne of favourthe Western Isles. Today's young generation are discovering Having survived – politically and physical – the chaotic storm that their parents and their parents' parents did not seem Clytemnestra brought to think that far ahead. Or they did think that far ahead and thought "itIthaca's not my problem" or "there's nothing I can do". Raising a child and living in a world shores, Queen Penelope is on the precipice brink of catastrophe is what drives ''The High House'' by Jessie Greengrass. This is not a science-fiction novelfragile peace. This is our reality. This is One that shatters however with the life our children return of Orestes, King of Mycenae, and their children will have to livehis sister Elektra, seeking refuge.|isbn=18007500720356516075

|author=Charlie CarrollKay Chronister|title=The LipDesert Creatures|rating=54|genre=Literary Dystopian Fiction|summary=With a world that is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, post-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Whether it is a robotic takeover, a world devoid of water or a nuclear holocaust, this genre is a way for humans to cathartically experience their most existential fears. ''Melody Janie RoweDesert Creatures'' even by Kay Chronister is a new work of post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the name fears that exist for humanity today. It is a shocking novel that 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 evocative of…probably of whatever used as a way to reflect our darkest emotions and how we want as humans react and process them. Most horror fiction feature a ''Big Bad'', whether that is a home invader, a monster or a ghost, it to beusually something tangible and, by the end of the story, and maybe thatbeatable. Eric LaRocca's the point''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is not like that. To me It is a collection of short stories more interested in the name sings horrors of English folk musicillness, but even in my use of grief and humiliation. Horrors that word English, I know Ilinger and are harder to defeat than any ''Big Bad''m putting an emmet take on things. And Melody Janie Rowe is anti-emmet. |isbn=1529334179

|isbnauthor=B003UH99X4Madelaine Lucas|title=The Eustace Diamonds|author=Anthony TrollopeThirst for Salt

|summary=It ''Love, I'd read, was generally thought that Sir Florian Eustace had come supposed to regret his marriage be a light and weightless feeling, but he didnI had always longed for gravity't live long enough for this to become ' Told from a problem. After his deathretrospective view, his wife, Lizzie a young woman unravels the year- still only in her late teens - was in possession of a very valuable diamond necklace and was determined long relationship that she would not hand it over to once defined her husband's executors. She was adamant that Sir Florian had given it to her absolutelyOverlaid with later wisdom, although the precise circumstances of narrator relives the giving varied affair with a man twenty years her senior from telling its inception – the summer after finishing university – to tellingits sorrowful end the summer after. Lady Eustace was not a woman to whom truth meant a great deal. All that was important to Set against the backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the 24-year-old narrator's deepening relationship with her nowolder lover, she maintaineddepicting its all-consuming nature, was how it changed her son. And, of course, perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and how it altered her diamondsirrevocably.|isbn=0861546490

|isbnauthor=B003L7TDMUMichael Grothaus|title=Phineas Finn|author=Anthony TrollopeBeautiful Shining People|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Phineas Finn is the son ''But fearing something and having it come to pass are two different things. And I'm willing to bet most of Dr Malachi Finnwhat we fear will never happen, a successful doctor in Killaloe in County Clare, who sent his son or we can take steps to London to train as a lawyerchange it. Phineas's interest is more in making influential friends than in becoming a lawyer and one of them, Barrington Erle, suggests that he runs for Parliament in ' ''Beautiful Shining People'' revolves around the forthcoming election. His father is not entirely in favour question of this as members are not remunerated identity and acceptance. Of what it would means to be up to him to provide financial support for his son as well as funding his electionhuman. One of the doctor's patients Of what is real and what is Lord Tulla who controls artificial, and whether the borough development of Loughshane and by this stroke of luck Finn technology is, eventually, elected by a small marginexciting or frightening.|isbn=191458564X

|isbnauthor=B003A6W0FOJennifer Saint|title=Can You Forgive Her?|author=Anthony TrollopeAtalanta|rating=4.5

|summary=On the surface ''Can You Forgive Her?'' looks deceptively simple: it's the story I was as worthy as any one of one woman and two men who are vying with each other for her lovethem. Alice Vavasor was originally engaged to her cousinI would get on board that ship, George Vavasor but she broke off that engagement and later became engaged to John GreyI vowed. When we first meet Alice she's on an extended tour I would take my place, not just in the name of the continent with George Vavasor and his sister Kategoddess. It's obvious that there's still a great deal of chemistry between John and Alice - and Kate is all was for encouraging the relationship as it would tie Alice to hersake of my name, too. George wants Alice but itAtalanta''s  Princess. Warrior. Lover. Hero. Abandoned at birth for being born a matter of ''amour propre'' daughter rather than love: he has little consideration for anyone other than himself and a son, Atalanta is raised under the original engagement had fallen through because protective eye of his infidelity the goddess Athemis and deceitfulnessfashioned into a formidable huntress, one who longs for adventure. This thread is When the opportunity comes – to join the story Argonauts, a fierce band of a very complicated love affair warriors, descendent from the Gods themselves – Atalanta seizes the chance to fight in Artemis' name and a woman who lacks confidence in carve out her own judgementlegendary place in history. You might not like Alice to start with but you What follows is a whirlwind of challenges and discovery and through it, Atalanta must remember Artemis' fatal warning: that if she marries, it will warm to be herundoing.|isbn=1472292154

|author=Lucy HollandAmanthi Harris|title=SistersongBeautiful Place

|summary=Sistersong 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 part of not a genre I particularly enjoyplace she was born into, but the modern retelling one she thinks of folk and fairy talesas home. These stories How she came to be at the Villa, for most of ushow it became her home, are a cornerstone of childhood and I relish seeing them retold with fresh eyes the machinations that have flowed through her life ever since she first arrived there provide the ''score'' for this gentle and a fresh perspectiveyet subtly violent novel. If handled well these retellings give new life and new meaning Padma's present fails to stories that are now becoming increasingly narrow and outdated, fleshing out characters, examining relationships escape her past and re-evaluating much like the role of women. Sistersong is a perfect example musical score of a modern retelling done wellfilm, the plot is handled with care, keeping that strand weaves its archaic historical feel but allowing way through everything that happens at the characters to come to life, to feel real and human, most importantly they feel relatable in a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the pre-Saxon age they live in. This is a masterpiece of storytelling and I was captivated from beginning to endVilla.|isbn=15290390371784631930

|isbn=B002SQCYWQ178563335X|title=The Complete Barchester ChroniclesSea Defences|author=Anthony TrollopeHilary Taylor

|summary=When I told my daughter that I didnwe first meet Rachel Bird she's a trainee vicar, sitting in on a PCC meeting and wondering why they't know what re held when you need to listen to now that I'd finished [[The Complete Novels: Sense and Sensibilitypick the children up. Her husband, Christopher, Pride collects six-year-old Hannah and Prejudiceher elder brother, Mansfield ParkJamie, Emmawhilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioner. Thelma's daughter-in-law won't let her see her grandson. Holthorpe, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion by Jane Austen|The Complete Novels of Jane Austen]] for the second time on the trot she had Norfolk coast, is a lovely place, but Rachel is struggling to develop a real bond with the perfect answer: The Barchester Chronicles parish - and they were she's in my inbox in a matter awe of minutesthe vicar, Gail, but then she's been doing the job for more than thirty years. They're not ''quite'' as well known as Rachel and Christopher hoped that a walk on the Austen books beach would do them some good - it was stormy but it was probably what they're an excellent follow onneeded. And then Hannah went missing.

|isbn=B077K6BQFD1398515388|title=The Complete Novels: Sense Boy and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion the Dog|author=Jane AustenSeishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating=4.5|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=Yes - that's over eighty-one hours First of listening for all, it was the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and this, in turn, caused the nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and utter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, and the purchase loss of one audio booklivelihoods was widespread. All The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of priorities but - six major novels are read by conmedienne Alison Larkin months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. He wasn't a dog person but the convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and they're presented in Tamon the order dog jumped in which they were published.

|authorisbn=Andrea Bajani and Elizabeth Harris (translator)0989715337|title=If You Kept a Record of SinsPapa on the Moon|author=Marco North|rating=4.5

|summary=This was an incredibly readable novella''Some frogs had gotten into the well.'' ''Walter stood waist-deep in the fragrant water, but one that left me a little conflictednaked except for his beaten leather hat. We start as our hero arrives at Bucharest airportLong strands of their eggs wove around him, sticky gray pearls with tadpoles inside them. Two of the dogs leaned over the opening and before we even know his gender or barked down at the nature strange noise of the person buckets as hefilled them.'s addressing ' How is that for an opening? The style of this novel in his second person monologue the form of a narration, we see him picked up by his mother's chauffeur, interconnected short stories goes from succinct and carted off laconic to do all the necessary introductions before said mother is buried the following day. The mother was a businesswoman, who clearly left northern Italy and settled in Romania with her (night-time wistful and business) partnermusing, and feelings of abandonment are still strongturning on a sixpence. And so we flit from current (wellauthor Marco North, this came out in who has the original Italian in 2007most wonderful turn of phrase, so moderately current) Bucharest, to the lad's childhood, and see just what starts as he has means to tell her as a private farewell addressgo on.|isbn=1939810965

|author=Afonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)Daisy Hildyard|title=Kokoschka's DollEmergency|rating=2.54

|summary=Well, The summary of this looked very much like a book I could love 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 get-go, bones of her spine which is why I picked my review copy up steadily increase in size and flipped pages over several times before actually reading any of itvolume. I found things to potentially delight me each time – a weird section in Her GP, diagnosing the middle on darker stock paper, odd phenomenon as a chapter whose number was in the 20physical reaction to her grief,000s, letters used as narrative formrecommends she go to stay at Nede, an experimental new treatment centre in Wales. Yet something strange is happening to Marianne and so on. It intrigued with the subterranean voice other patients at Nede: a man hears in wartorn Dresden that what little I knew metamorphosis of it mentioned, tooa kind. But youAs Marianne've seen the star rating that comes with s memories threaten to overwhelm her, Nede offers her release from this review, cycle of memory and can tell pain—but only at a terrible price: that if love was on these pages, it was not actually caused by themof identity itself. So what happened?|isbn=1529402697086154112X }}

|isbnauthor=0571362672Natalia Garcia Freire|title=Snow|author=John BanvilleThis World Does Not Belong To Us

|genre=Crime (Historical)Literary Fiction|summary=''WellEarly comments on this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendous, at least you're a Wexford mandelight. I will agree with the first – tremendous is no understatement – but 'a delight' So said Colonel Osborne when he welcomed DI St John (pronounced is perhaps using the expression in a way I'Sinjun') Strafford to Ballyglass House just before Christmas 1957m not familiar with. Osborne was master I have to confess my ignorance of the Keelmore Hounds and had done something memorable with the Inniskilling Dragoons at DunkirkSpanish-language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation here. The niceties had From the little I have read (in translation, I don't read Spanish) there does seem to be established even when there was a Catholic priest dead on tendency towards the library floor with some precious bits of his anatomy missing. Strafford was from Roslea at Bunclody and this, along with his good-but-shabby suit, marked him out as of Osborne's class and obviously Protestant. The dead priest was Father Tom Lawless from Scallanstown, who - despite the different religions - was in fantastical – the habit of spending time at Ballyglass House. His horse was stabled theremystical realism.|isbn=0861541901

|author= Tahi SaihateJennifer Saint|title= Astral Season, Beastly SeasonElektra|rating= 3.54|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= We long for our past even though it is a place to which we can never return'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the story of three women who live in the heavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. Tahi SaihateCassandra, Clytemnestra, and Elektra are all bit players in her debut novel ''Astral Season, Beastly Season'' illustrates how these rose-tinted glasses the story of the Trojan War. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often lie. Her novel is a meditation on youth the silent women have the most compelling stories and how the things we do as a teenager can seem intensely important and often life-alteringmost extreme furies.|isbn= 19162771011472273915

|authorisbn=Laura Imai Messina8409290103|title=The Phone Box at the End of the WorldIf Only|author=Matthew Tree|rating=4.5

|summary= In Twenty-one-year-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by his father, cotton-broker AO Lowry: he asked his accountant, Mr Patrick, to ensure that the northeast of Japan, in Inwate Prefecture a young man installed got on board the boat and thereafter Patrick was to send him a telephone box in his gardenmonthly allowance. Patrick sent the money regularly and a correspondence - of sorts - sprang up between the two although we hear more about what Lowry has to say than Patrick. It wasn't that Lowry senior didn'Inside there is an old black, telephone, disconnectedt care for his son, it was that carries voices into the wind.he didn'' It is t care to have him in this country where he might be a real place, a necessary place, danger to his wife and I am pleased other children. The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to see the IMPORTANT NOTE that get the young man on his way.}}{{Frontpage|author attaches to her story=Antoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)|title=Red is My Heart|rating=3.5|genre=Literary Fiction |summary=[[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white and read in my house. And so was this one, although I could have spelled that the place more accurately – this one was, and is not a tourist destination, black and white and red. Yes, he has an artistic collaborator on this piece, and I think it is a sacred place, a place that must be left 's possible to those who really need itsay not one page lacks the influence of some striking visual ideas.|isbn=178658039X1913547183

|authorisbn=Amin MaaloufB098FFFBH9|title=The DisorientedSnowcub|author=Graham Fulbright

|summary= Adam has lived in Paris for years, speaks French more easily than his native Arabic. In fact he hasnFourteen-year-old Rachel is her school't been back s animal rights project leader and she and her friend are producing a competition entry to his homeland for 25 yearshighlight the way in which human beings exploit the animal world. An old friend is dying…or as Adam prefers to think She gets a great deal of him support from her family: father Pip Harrison, a former-friendlecturer at Imperial College, London, perhaps not as harsh as an ex-friendmother Kate and her twin, or maybeNick. The falling out was Kate runs the family business, a long time agotoy shop called Cornucopia in Putney, and Adam's partner has no idea what it was about, even so she urges him to go knowing that hewhich is where we'll regret not doing so. Not knowing whether hemeet Rachel's going because he needs or wants to, or simply because he was asked, he's on the next planemain (if unsuspected) source of information: five soft toys. |isbn=B07ZQSK9CY

|author=Joanne M HarrisYancey Williams|title=A Pocketful Crosshairs of Crowsthe Devil|rating=4.5|genre= Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary= I have always been of the mind that once you're above pictureAward-book level winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski is getting on in years and, despite his strenuous objections and before you get thanks to graphic sex & violencehis daughter, there 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. finds himself living - or imprisoned, from Eddie''A Pocketful s point of view - in room 315 of Crows'' is clearly aimed at the younger readers as witness the use Garden of the middle initial Eden nursing home, with only a trusty nursing aide, Jenkins, for palatable company. Nothing is going to keep Eddie from his stock-in the author-trade of writing though, so here, for his readers, are his wanderings through his life's name to differentiate from her adult offers. Ignore that if you have loved anything from ''Chocolat'' onwards you will know that Harris is mistress of the modern fairy tale. This is no different. It is an utter delightwork.|isbn=14732221840986031658}}

|authorisbn=Frederic Beigbeder and Frank Wynne (translator)0008421714|title=A Life Without EndMrs March|author=Virginia Feito|rating=4.5

|summary=I looked at The problem began just after the calendar the other week, and disappointedly realised I have a birthday this year – I know, yet another one. It won't be one of the major numbers, but the time when I have the same number as Heinz varieties looms on the horizon. And then a few of the big 0-numbers, and if all goes well, I'll be an OBE. (Which publication of course stands for Over Bloody Eighty.) Now if thatGeorge March's the extent of my mid-life crisis, I guess I have most successful novel to be happydate. Our author here doesn't use that exact phrase, Everyone but he might be said Mrs March (we know her first name only on the last page) seemed to either be living onereading it or had already done so. Determined Every day Mrs March went to find out how the local patisserie to prolong life for as long buy olive bread but on that particular morning, Patricia asked, as he wants – he would like to see 400 – he hops right into bed with she was wrapping the assistant to bread, ''but isn't this the first geneticist time he interviews, and they end up with 's based a childcharacter on you?'' She mentioned that Johanna, which is at least a way of continuing the life of his genes, and a motive to keep on goingprincipal character had 'her mannerisms''. But how can he get to Perhaps this would not flick have mattered, except for the fact that Johanna is the whore of Nantes - 'final way out' switcha weak, plain, especially when foie gras tastes so nice?|isbn=1642860670detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch.''