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|author=Yancey WilliamsMatthew Tree|title=Crosshairs of the DevilWe'll Never Know

|summary=Award-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski is getting on in years and, despite his strenuous objections and thanks Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his daughterfather, finds himself living - or imprisoned, from Eddie's point a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of view - in room 315 being exceptional at any of the Garden his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of Eden nursing home, with only a trusty nursing aide, Jenkins, for palatable companyself confidence. Nothing is going So Tim applied himself to keep Eddie from his stock-in-trade of writing though, so here, for his readersstudies, are cultivated his wanderings through abilities rather than his life's workdaydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn=0986031658B0CVFXPGP8}}

|isbn=0008421714B0C47LV1PC|title=Mrs MarchFragility|author=Virginia FeitoMosby Woods|rating=4.5

|summary=The problem began just after the publication of George MarchCan you make a 's most successful novel 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, 'Yo birthing person'but isn't this joke? And if you could, is the first time he's based a character on question should youmake it?'' She mentioned Or is the question if you did, would it land? The catch is that Johanna, the principal character had answer for both could well be.... no. ''her mannerismsFragility''. Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for the fact that Johanna is set as the whore city of Nantes - ''a weakPortland, plainOregon, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch.''cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic

|isbnauthor=B005FM76AAMosby Woods|title=The Duke's Children|author=Anthony TrollopeA Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=4.5

|summary=The story opens to probably West isn't the worst news of all: Lady Glencora Palliser is deaddominant force it once was. Her husband, Plantagenet Palliser, Nobody in the Duke of Omnium, West is nearly paralysed by grief and struggling - at the same time - quite sure how to adjust to no longer being prime minister, mend this or even in office. He seeks to protect and guide his three adult children, which if mending it is easier said than done when none the best course of them wishes to ''be'' guidedaction. Silverbridge (his elder son, actually called Plantagenet, but always known by his title) and Gerald Governments are destined to be sent down from Oxford and Cambridge respectively and to run up gambling debtsflailing. A war here, occasionally a push for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is in eye-watering sumsactual charge. Lady Helen has fallen in love Imagine then, there was a man with - and wishes to marry - Frank Tregear, precognition. Imagine the penniless son strategic advantage in this asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of a poor squirecircumstances. That man would be valuable, which right? Perhaps the Duke cannot countenancemost valuable asset in history. Imagine then, not least because he sees echos of what might have happened when he married Lady Glencorathat this man loses this ability. He's about What would governments do to learn that parents do not always get their way.it back?|isbn=B0C9SNG8R1

|isbn=B004O37B6A0571379559|title=The Prime MinisterHouse of Broken Bricks|author=Anthony TrollopeFiona Williams|rating=45

|summary=Plantagenet Palliser, ''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the Duke story of Omniumfour people. Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, is she lives in the house on the prime minister riverbank, built of a coalition government but hebroken bricks. Insubstantial as it might look, it's privately enraged at stood the seemingly unstoppable rise passage of Ferdinand Lopeztime, storms and floods. Lopex is exotic - some describe him as JewishHer husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, others as Portuguese but to complete the truth is that no one knows delivery rounds - and Lopez is not going to explainbring in sufficient money. The ladies of societyThey have twin boys - Sonny and Max, even Palliserthe rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's own wifeJamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. People don't believe that they're related, Lady Glencora, are supporters but after Lopez makes much less twins and there's an advantageous marriage Palliser assumption when Max is placed in the position out with his mother that she's his nanny.}}{{Frontpage|author=Claire North|title=House of having Odysseus|rating=5|genre= Literary Fiction |summary= ''What could matter more than love?'' The follow-up to support his wifethe excellent ''Ithaca''s actions when Lopez loses picks up a few months after where we left off. In the palace of Odysseus, with delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without her husband, who sailed to war at Troy and then by divine intervention never returned home. As ever she remains surrounded by-electionsuitors vying for the throne of the Western Isles. The DukeHaving survived – politically and physical – the chaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to Ithaca's payment shores, Queen Penelope is on the brink of a fragile peace. One that shatters however with the return of Orestes, King of Lopez' election expenses in an attempt to stem gossip about Mycenae, and his wife will come back to haunt himsister Elektra, seeking refuge.|isbn=0356516075

|author= Kay Chronister|title= Desert Creatures|rating= 4|genre= 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. ''Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is a new work of post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the fears that exist for humanity today. It is a shocking novel that still manages to find hope.|isbn=B00474HVX41803364998}}{{frontpage|isbn=1803363002|author= Eric LaRocca|title=Phineas ReduxThe 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 reflect 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, a monster or a ghost, it usually something tangible and, by the end of the story, beatable. Eric LaRocca's ''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is not like that. It is a collection of short stories more interested in the horrors of illness, grief and humiliation. Horrors that linger and are harder to defeat than any ''Big Bad''.}}{{Frontpage|author=Anthony TrollopeMadelaine Lucas|title=Thirst for Salt|rating=4.5

|summary=It's some time since we heard from [[Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope|Phineas Finn]]. 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'Love, I'd read, his childhood sweetheart. He was fortunate supposed to get be a job in Cork (or Dublin - recollections may vary) light and seemed settled into weightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravity'' Told from a retrospective view, a life of domesticityyoung woman unravels the year-long relationship that once defined her. To bring Finn backOverlaid with later wisdom, Trollope had to kill off poor Mary and Phineas emerges in London as a childless widower the narrator relives the affair with a legacy man twenty years her senior from an aunt who died at just its inception – the right time summer after finishing university – to allow its sorrowful end the summer after. Set against the move to be possiblebackdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the 24-year-old narrator's deepening relationship with her older lover, depicting its all-consuming nature, how it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and how it altered her irrevocably.|isbn=0861546490

|author=Jessie GreengrassMichael Grothaus|title=The High HouseBeautiful Shining People|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Charles Darwin taught that all living matter evolved ''But fearing something and having it come to pass on its genetic material with the implied belief that your progeny will then pass on theirsare two different things. However, that train of thought is slowly seems And I'm willing to have fallen out bet most of favour. Today's young generation are discovering that their parents and their parents' parents did not seem what we fear will never happen, or we can take steps to think that far aheadchange it. Or they did think that far ahead and thought "it's not my problem" or "there's nothing I can do". Raising a child and living in a world on the precipice of catastrophe is what drives  ''The High HouseBeautiful Shining People'' by Jessie Greengrassrevolves around the question of identity and acceptance. This is not a science-fiction novelOf what it means to be human. This Of what is our reality. This real and what is artificial, and whether the life our children and their children will have to livedevelopment of technology is exciting or frightening.|isbn=1800750072191458564X

|author=Charlie CarrollJennifer Saint|title=The LipAtalanta

|summary=''Melody Janie Rowe'' even I was as worthy as any one of them. I would get on board that ship, I vowed. I would take my place, not just in the name is evocative of…probably of whatever we want it to bethe goddess. It was for the sake of my name, and maybe thattoo. Atalanta''s  Princess. Warrior. Lover. Hero. Abandoned at birth for being born a daughter rather than a son, Atalanta is raised under the pointprotective eye of the goddess Athemis and fashioned into a formidable huntress, one who longs for adventure. To me When the opportunity comes – to join the name sings Argonauts, a fierce band of English folk musicwarriors, but even descendent from the Gods themselves – Atalanta seizes the chance to fight in Artemis' name and carve out her own legendary place in my use history. What follows is a whirlwind of challenges and discovery and through it, Atalanta must remember Artemis' fatal warning: that word Englishif she marries, I know I'm putting an emmet take on things. And Melody Janie Rowe is anti-emmetit will be her undoing. |isbn=15293341791472292154

|isbnauthor=B003UH99X4Amanthi Harris|title=The Eustace Diamonds|author=Anthony TrollopeBeautiful Place

|summary=It was generally thought that Sir Florian Eustace had come Padma, a young Sri Lankan, has returned to regret his marriage but he didn't live long enough for this to become a problemthe Villa Hibiscus on the southern coast of her home country. After his death, his wife, Lizzie - still only in her late teens - was in possession of This is a very valuable diamond necklace and was determined that place she would not hand it over to spent her husband's executorsformative years. She It is not a place she was adamant that Sir Florian had given it to her absolutelyborn into, although but the precise circumstances one she thinks of the giving varied from telling to tellingas home. Lady Eustace was not a woman How she came to whom truth meant a great deal. All be at the Villa, how it became her home, and the machinations that was important to have flowed through her now, life ever since she maintained, was first arrived there provide the ''score'' for this gentle and yet subtly violent novel. Padma's present fails to escape her son. And, past and much like the musical score of coursea film, her diamondsthat strand weaves its way through everything that happens at the Villa.|isbn=1784631930

|isbn=B003L7TDMU178563335X|title=Phineas FinnSea Defences|author=Anthony TrollopeHilary Taylor|rating=4.5

|summary=Phineas Finn is When we first meet Rachel Bird she's a trainee vicar, sitting in on a PCC meeting and wondering why they're held when you need to pick the son of Dr Malachi Finnchildren up. Her husband, Christopher, collects six-year-old Hannah and her elder brother, a successful doctor in Killaloe in County ClareJamie, who sent his son to London to train as whilst Rachel holds a lawyersobbing parishioner. PhineasThelma's interest daughter-in-law won't let her see her grandson. Holthorpe, on the Norfolk coast, is more in making influential friends than in becoming a lawyer lovely place, but Rachel is struggling to develop a real bond with the parish - and one she's in awe of themthe vicar, Barrington ErleGail, suggests that he runs but then she's been doing the job for Parliament in the forthcoming electionmore than thirty years. His father is not entirely in favour of this as members are not remunerated Rachel and Christopher hoped that a walk on the beach would do them some good - it would be up to him to provide financial support for his son as well as funding his electionwas stormy but it was probably what they needed. 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 marginAnd then Hannah went missing.

|isbn=B003A6W0FO1398515388|title=Can You Forgive Her?The Boy and the Dog|author=Anthony TrollopeSeishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)

|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=On First of all, it was the surface ''Can You Forgive Her?'' looks deceptively simple: it's earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the story of one woman tsunami and two men who are vying with each other for her lovethis, in turn, caused the nuclear meltdown. Alice Vavasor The result was originally engaged to her cousin, George Vavasor but she broke off that engagement complete and later became engaged to John Greyutter devastation. When we first meet Alice she's on an extended tour The deaths were uncountable, and the loss of the continent with George Vavasor and his sister Katelivelihoods was widespread. It's obvious The fact that there's still a great deal many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of chemistry between John and Alice priorities but - and Kate is all for encouraging six months after the relationship as it would tie Alice to hertsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. George wants Alice He wasn't a dog person but itthe convenience store owner's a matter of ''amour propre'' rather than love: comment that he has little consideration for anyone other than himself and the original engagement had fallen through because of would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his infidelity car door and deceitfulness. This thread is Tamon the story of a very complicated love affair and a woman who lacks confidence dog jumped in her own judgement. You might not like Alice to start with but you will warm to her.

|authorisbn=Lucy Holland0989715337|title=SistersongPapa on the Moon|author=Marco North|rating=54

|summary=Sistersong is part of a genre I particularly enjoy, ''Some frogs had gotten into the modern retelling of folk and fairy taleswell. These stories'' ''Walter stood waist-deep in the fragrant water, naked except for most his beaten leather hat. Long strands of ustheir eggs wove around him, are a cornerstone of childhood and I relish seeing sticky gray pearls with tadpoles inside them retold with fresh eyes and a fresh perspective. If handled well these retellings give new life and new meaning to stories that are now becoming increasingly narrow Two of the dogs leaned over the opening and outdated, fleshing out characters, examining relationships and re-evaluating barked down at the role strange noise of womenthe buckets as he filled them. Sistersong '' How is a perfect example that for an opening? The style of a modern retelling done well, this novel in the plot is handled with care, keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing the characters form of interconnected short stories goes from succinct and laconic to come to life, to feel real wistful and humanmusing, most importantly they feel relatable in turning on a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for sixpence. And author Marco North, who has the pre-Saxon age they live in. This is a masterpiece most wonderful turn of storytelling and I was captivated from beginning phrase, starts as he means to endgo on.|isbn=1529039037

|isbnauthor=B002SQCYWQDaisy Hildyard|title=The Complete Barchester Chronicles|author=Anthony TrollopeEmergency|rating=54

|summary=When I told my daughter that I didnThe summary of this book doesn't know 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 listen to now that I'd finished [[The Complete Novels: Sense and Sensibilityfind strange, Pride thick black hairs sprouting from the bones of her spine which steadily increase in size and Prejudicevolume. Her GP, Mansfield Parkdiagnosing the odd phenomenon as a physical reaction to her grief, Emmarecommends she go to stay at Nede, Northanger Abbey an experimental new treatment centre in Wales. Yet something strange is happening to Marianne and Persuasion by Jane Austen|The Complete Novels of Jane Austen]] for the second time on the trot she had the perfect answerother patients at Nede: The Barchester Chronicles and they were in my inbox in a matter metamorphosis of minutesa kind. TheyAs Marianne're not ''quite'' as well known as the Austen books but they're an excellent follow ons memories threaten to overwhelm her, Nede offers her release from this cycle of memory and pain—but only at a terrible price: that of identity itself.|isbn= 086154112X }}

|isbnauthor=B077K6BQFDNatalia Garcia Freire|title=The Complete Novels: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion |author=Jane AustenThis World Does Not Belong To Us

|summary=Yes - thatEarly 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 delight' is perhaps using the expression in a way I's over eighty-one hours m not familiar with. I have to confess my ignorance of listening for the purchase of one audio bookSpanish-language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation here. All six major novels are From the little I have read by conmedienne Alison Larkin and they(in translation, I don're presented in t read Spanish) there does seem to be a tendency towards the fantastical – the order in which they were publishedmystical realism.|isbn=0861541901

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

|summary=This was an incredibly readable novella, but one that left me a little conflicted. We start as our hero arrives at Bucharest airport, and before we even know his gender or 'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the nature story of three women who live in the person he's addressing in his second person monologue heavily male dominated world of a narrationAncient Greece. Cassandra, we see him picked up by his mother's chauffeurClytemnestra, and carted off to do Elektra are all bit players in the necessary introductions before said mother is buried story of the following dayTrojan War. The mother was a businesswoman, who clearly left northern Italy and settled in Romania with her (night-time and business) partner, and feelings of abandonment are still strong. And so we flit from current (well, this came out in Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the original Italian in 2007, so moderately current) Bucharest, to silent women have the lad's childhood, most compelling stories and see just what he has to tell her as a private farewell addressthe most extreme furies.|isbn=19398109651472273915

|authorisbn=Afonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)8409290103|title=Kokoschka's DollIf Only|author=Matthew Tree|rating=24.5

|summary=WellTwenty-one-year-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by his father, this looked very much like a book I could love from the getcotton-gobroker AO Lowry: he asked his accountant, Mr Patrick, which is why I picked my review copy up and flipped pages over several times before actually reading any of it. I found things to potentially delight me each time – a weird section in ensure that the middle young man got on darker stock paper, a chapter whose number was in board the 20,000s, letters used as narrative form, boat and so onthereafter Patrick was to send him a monthly allowance. It intrigued with Patrick sent the subterranean voice money regularly and a man hears in wartorn Dresden that correspondence - of sorts - sprang up between the two although we hear more about what little I knew of it mentioned, tooLowry has to say than Patrick. But you It wasn't that Lowry senior didn've seen the star rating t care for his son, it was that comes with he didn't care to have him in this review, country where he might be a danger to his wife and can tell that if love other children. The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to get the young man on these pages, it was not actually caused by themhis way. So what happened?|isbn=1529402697

|isbnauthor=0571362672Antoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)|title=Snow|author=John BanvilleRed is My Heart|rating=3.5|genre=Crime (Historical)Literary Fiction |summary=''Well[[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white and read in my house. And so was this one, at least you're a Wexford man.'' So said Colonel Osborne when he welcomed DI St John (pronounced 'Sinjun') Strafford to Ballyglass House just before Christmas 1957. Osborne although I could have spelled that more accurately – this one was master of the Keelmore Hounds , and is, black and white and had done something memorable with the Inniskilling Dragoons at Dunkirkred. The niceties had to be established even when there was a Catholic priest dead Yes, he has an artistic collaborator on the library floor with some precious bits of his anatomy missing. Strafford was from Roslea at Bunclody and thispiece, along with his good-but-shabby suit, marked him out as of Osborneand I think it's class and obviously Protestant. The dead priest was Father Tom Lawless from Scallanstown, who - despite possible to say not one page lacks the different religions - was in the habit influence of spending time at Ballyglass House. His horse was stabled theresome striking visual ideas.|isbn=1913547183

|authorisbn= Tahi SaihateB098FFFBH9|title= Astral Season, Beastly SeasonSnowcub|author=Graham Fulbright|rating= 34.5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= We long for our past even though it Fourteen-year-old Rachel is her school's animal rights project leader and she and her friend are producing a place competition entry to highlight the way in which we can never returnhuman beings exploit the animal world. Tahi Saihate She gets a great deal of support from her family: father Pip Harrison, a lecturer at Imperial College, in London, mother Kate and her debut novel ''Astral Seasontwin, Beastly Season'' illustrates how these rose-tinted glasses often lieNick. Her novel Kate runs the family business, a toy shop called Cornucopia in Putney, which is a meditation on youth and how the things where we do as a teenager can seem intensely important and often life-altering'll meet Rachel's main (if unsuspected) source of information: five soft toys.|isbn= 1916277101

|author=Laura Imai MessinaYancey Williams|title=The Phone Box at the End Crosshairs of the WorldDevil|rating=4.5

|summary= In Award-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski is getting on in years and, despite his strenuous objections and thanks to his daughter, finds himself living - or imprisoned, from Eddie's point of view - in room 315 of the northeast Garden of JapanEden nursing home, in Inwate Prefecture a man installed with only a telephone box in his garden. ''Inside there is an old blacktrusty nursing aide, telephoneJenkins, disconnected, that carries voices into the windfor palatable company.'' It Nothing is a real place, a necessary place, and I am pleased going to see the IMPORTANT NOTE that the author attaches to her storykeep Eddie from his stock-in-trade of writing though, that the place is not a tourist destinationso here, it is a sacred placefor his readers, a place that must be left to those who really need itare his wanderings through his life's work.|isbn=178658039X0986031658}}

|authorisbn=Amin Maalouf0008421714|title=The DisorientedMrs March|author=Virginia Feito

|summary= Adam has lived in Paris for years, speaks French more easily than his native Arabic. In fact he hasnThe problem began just after the publication of George March't been back s most successful novel to his homeland for 25 yearsdate. An old friend is dying…or as Adam prefers Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the last page) seemed to think of him a former-friend, perhaps not as harsh as an ex-friend, either be reading it or maybehad already done so. The falling out Every day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, Patricia asked, as she was a long time agowrapping the bread, and Adam's partner has no idea what it was about, even so she urges him to go knowing that he'll regret not doing so. Not knowing whether hebut isn's going because he needs or wants to, or simply because he was asked, t this the first time he's based a character on the next plane. |isbn=B07ZQSK9CY}}{{Frontpage|author=Joanne M Harris|title=A Pocketful of Crows|rating=5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= I have always been of the mind that once you?''re above picture-book level and before you get to graphic sex & violence She mentioned that Johanna, there is no difference between books for children and books for adultsthe principal character had 'her mannerisms''. There are good books and poor ones. And Joanne Harris does Perhaps this would not produce poor ones. ''A Pocketful of Crows'' have mattered, except for the fact that Johanna is clearly aimed at the younger readers as witness the use whore of the middle initial in the authorNantes - ''s name to differentiate from her adult offersa weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch. 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 delight.|isbn=1473222184