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|summary=Twenty-one-year-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, cotton-broker AO Lowry: he asked a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his accountant, Mr Patrick, to ensure that the young man got on board the boat artistic passions all failed miserably and thereafter Patrick was to send him a monthly allowancewho had endless crises of self confidence. Patrick sent the money regularly and a correspondence - of sorts - sprang up between the two although we hear more about what Lowry has So Tim applied himself to say than Patrick. It wasn't that Lowry senior didn't care for his sonstudies, it was that he didn't care to have him in this country where he might be a danger to cultivated his abilities rather than his wife daydreams and other children. The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to get the young man on his wayset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|authorisbn=Antoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)B0C47LV1PC|title=Red is My HeartFragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=3.54|genre=Literary Fiction |summary=[[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white and read in my house. Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And so was this one, although I if you could have spelled that more accurately – this one was, and isthe question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, black and white and redwould it land? The catch is that the answer for both could well be.... no. Yes ''Fragility'' is set as the city of Portland, he has an artistic collaborator on this pieceOregon, and I think it's possible cautiously begins to say not one page lacks emerge from the restrictions imposed during the influence of some striking visual ideas.|isbn=1913547183covid pandemic

|isbnauthor=B098FFFBH9Mosby Woods|title=Snowcub|author=Graham FulbrightA Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=4.5

|summary=Fourteen-year-old Rachel is her schoolThe West isn's animal rights project leader and she and her friend are producing a competition entry to highlight t the way dominant force it once was. Nobody in which human beings exploit the animal worldWest is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is the best course of action. She gets Governments are flailing. A war here, a great deal of support from her family: father Pip Harrisonpush for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is in actual charge. Imagine then, there was a lecturer at Imperial College, London, mother Kate and her twin, Nickman with precognition. Kate runs Imagine the family businessstrategic advantage in this asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. That man would be valuable, a toy shop called Cornucopia right? Perhaps the most valuable asset in Putneyhistory. Imagine then, which is where we'll meet Rachel's main (if unsuspected) source of information: five soft toysthat this man loses this ability.What would governments do to get it back?|isbn=B0C9SNG8R1

|authorisbn=Yancey Williams0571379559|title=Crosshairs The House of the DevilBroken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams|rating=4.5

|summary=Award-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski ''The House of Broken Bricks'' is getting on the story of four people. Tess Hembry's roots are in years andJamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, despite his strenuous objections and thanks to his daughtershe lives in the house on the riverbank, finds himself living - or imprisonedbuilt of broken bricks. Insubstantial as it might look, from Eddieit's point of view - in room 315 of stood the Garden passage of Eden nursing hometime, with only a trusty nursing aidestorms and floods. Her husband, JenkinsRichard, for palatable company. Nothing is going struggles to keep Eddie from grow his stockvegetables, to complete the delivery rounds -and to bring insufficient money. They have twin boys -trade of writing thoughSonny and Max, so here, for the rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his readersfather. People don't believe that they're related, are much less twins and there's an assumption when Max is out with his wanderings through his lifemother that she's workhis nanny.|isbn=0986031658}}

|isbnauthor=0008421714Claire North|title=Mrs March|author=Virginia FeitoHouse of Odysseus|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''What could matter more than love?'' The problem began just follow-up to the excellent ''Ithaca'' picks up a few months after where we left off. In the publication palace of George March's most successful novel Odysseus, with delicate care Queen Penelope continues to date. Everyone but Mrs March (we know rule without her first name only on the last page) seemed husband, who sailed to either be reading it or had already done sowar at Troy and then by divine intervention never returned home. Every day Mrs March went to As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for the local patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, Patricia asked, as she was wrapping throne of the bread, ''but isn't this Western Isles. Having survived – politically and physical – the first time hechaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to Ithaca's based a character shores, Queen Penelope is on you?'' She mentioned that Johanna, the principal character had 'her mannerisms''brink of a fragile peace. Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for the fact One that Johanna is shatters however with the whore return of Nantes - ''a weakOrestes, plainKing of Mycenae, detestableand his sister Elektra, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretchseeking refuge.''|isbn=0356516075

|isbnauthor=B005FM76AAKay Chronister|title=The Duke's Children|author=Anthony TrollopeDesert Creatures|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Dystopian Fiction|summary=The story opens to probably the worst news of all: Lady Glencora Palliser With a world that is deadbecoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, post-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Her husbandWhether it is a robotic takeover, Plantagenet Palliser, the Duke a world devoid of Omniumwater or a nuclear holocaust, this genre is nearly paralysed a way for humans to cathartically experience their most existential fears. ''Desert Creatures'' by grief and struggling Kay Chronister is a new work of post- at apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the same time - fears that exist for humanity today. It is a shocking novel that still manages to adjust to no longer being prime minister, or even in officefind 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. He seeks It is used as a way to protect reflect our darkest emotions and guide his three adult children, which is easier said than done when none of how we as humans react and process them wishes to . Most horror fiction feature a ''beBig Bad'' guided. Silverbridge (his elder son, actually called Plantagenetwhether that is a home invader, but always known by his title) and Gerald are destined to be sent down from Oxford and Cambridge respectively and to run up gambling debtsa monster or a ghost, occasionally in eye-watering sums. Lady Helen has fallen in love with - it usually something tangible and wishes to marry - Frank Tregear, by the penniless son end of a poor squire, which the Duke cannot countenancestory, beatable. Eric LaRocca's ''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is not least because he sees echos like that. It is a collection of what might have happened when he married Lady Glencorashort stories more interested in the horrors of illness, grief and humiliation. HeHorrors that linger and are harder to defeat than any ''Big Bad''s about to learn that parents do not always get their way.

|isbnauthor=B004O37B6AMadelaine Lucas|title=The Prime Minister|author=Anthony TrollopeThirst for Salt|rating=45

|summary=Plantagenet Palliser''Love, the Duke of OmniumI'd read, is the prime minister of was supposed to be a coalition government light and weightless feeling, but heI had always longed for gravity''s privately enraged at  Told from a retrospective view, a young woman unravels the seemingly unstoppable rise of Ferdinand Lopezyear-long relationship that once defined her. Lopex is exotic - some describe him as JewishOverlaid with later wisdom, others as Portuguese but the truth is that no one knows and Lopez is not going narrator relives the affair with a man twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to explainits sorrowful end the summer after. The ladies Set against the backdrop of society, even Palliseran isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt''s own wife, Lady Glencora, are supporters but after Lopez makes an advantageous marriage Palliser is placed in details the position of having to support his wife24-year-old narrator's actions when Lopez loses a bydeepening relationship with her older lover, depicting its all-election. The Duke's payment of Lopez' election expenses in an attempt to stem gossip about his wife will come back to haunt himconsuming nature, how it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and how it altered her irrevocably.|isbn=0861546490

|isbnauthor=B00474HVX4Michael Grothaus|title=Phineas Redux|author=Anthony TrollopeBeautiful Shining People|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=It's some time since we heard from [[Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope|Phineas Finn]]. Having succeeded in parliament 'But fearing something and achieved a paying position he fell out with those who provided his income and returned having it come to Ireland where he married Mary, his childhood sweetheartpass are two different things. He was fortunate And I'm willing to get a job in Cork (bet most of what we fear will never happen, or Dublin - recollections may vary) we can take steps to change it.'' ''Beautiful Shining People'' revolves around the question of identity and seemed settled into a life of domesticityacceptance. Of what it means to be human. To bring Finn backOf what is real and what is artificial, 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 whether the right time to allow the move to be possibledevelopment of technology is exciting or frightening.|isbn=191458564X

|author=Jessie GreengrassJennifer Saint|title=The High HouseAtalanta|rating=4.5

|summary=Charles Darwin taught that all living matter evolved to pass ''I was as worthy as any one of them. I would get on its genetic material with the implied belief board that your progeny will then pass on theirsship, I vowed. HoweverI would take my place, that train not just in the name of thought is slowly seems to have fallen out the goddess. It was for the sake of favourmy name, too. TodayAtalanta's young generation are discovering that their parents and their parents' parents did not seem to think that far ahead Princess. Warrior. Lover. Or they did think that far ahead and thought "it's not my problem" or "there's nothing I can do"Hero. Raising  Abandoned at birth for being born a daughter rather than a child son, Atalanta is raised under the protective eye of the goddess Athemis and living in fashioned into a world on formidable huntress, one who longs for adventure. When the opportunity comes – to join the precipice Argonauts, a fierce band of catastrophe is what drives warriors, descendent from the Gods themselves – Atalanta seizes the chance to fight in Artemis''The High House'' by Jessie Greengrassname and carve out her own legendary place in history. This What follows is not a science-fiction novel. This is our reality. This is the life our children whirlwind of challenges and discovery and their children through it, Atalanta must remember Artemis' fatal warning: that if she marries, it will have to livebe her undoing.|isbn=18007500721472292154

|author=Charlie CarrollAmanthi Harris|title=The LipBeautiful Place

|summary=''Melody Janie Rowe'' 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. even It is not a place she was born into, but the name is evocative of…probably one she thinks of whatever we want it as home. How she came to beat the Villa, how it became her home, and maybe the machinations thathave flowed through her life ever since she first arrived there provide the ''score'' for this gentle and yet subtly violent novel. Padma's present fails to escape her past and much like the point. To me the name sings musical score of English folk musica film, but even in my use of that word English, I know I'm putting an emmet take on things. And Melody Janie Rowe is anti-emmetstrand weaves its way through everything that happens at the Villa. |isbn=15293341791784631930

|isbn=B003UH99X4178563335X|title=The Eustace DiamondsSea Defences|author=Anthony TrollopeHilary Taylor

|summary=It was generally thought that Sir Florian Eustace had come to regret his marriage but he didnWhen we first meet Rachel Bird she's a trainee vicar, sitting in on a PCC meeting and wondering why they't live long enough for this re held when you need to become a problempick the children up. After his deathHer husband, his wifeChristopher, Lizzie collects six- still only in her late teens year- was in possession of a very valuable diamond necklace old Hannah and was determined that she would not hand it over to her husbandelder brother, Jamie, whilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioner. Thelma's executorsdaughter-in-law won't let her see her grandson. She was adamant that Sir Florian had given it to her absolutelyHolthorpe, although on the precise circumstances of the giving varied from telling to telling. Lady Eustace was not Norfolk coast, is a woman lovely place, but Rachel is struggling to whom truth meant develop a great dealreal bond with the parish - and she's in awe of the vicar, Gail, but then she's been doing the job for more than thirty years. All Rachel and Christopher hoped that a walk on the beach would do them some good - it was important to her now, she maintained, stormy but it was her sonprobably what they needed. And, of course, her diamondsthen Hannah went missing.

|isbn=B003L7TDMU1398515388|title=Phineas FinnThe Boy and the Dog|author=Anthony TrollopeSeishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)

|summary=Phineas Finn is ''Some frogs had gotten into the son of Dr Malachi Finn, a successful doctor well.'' ''Walter stood waist-deep in Killaloe in County Clarethe fragrant water, who sent naked except for his son to London to train beaten leather hat. Long strands of their eggs wove around him, sticky gray pearls with tadpoles inside them. Two of the dogs leaned over the opening and barked down at the strange noise of the buckets as a lawyerhe filled them. Phineas's interest ' How is more in making influential friends than in becoming a lawyer and one of them, Barrington Erle, suggests that he runs for Parliament an opening? The style of this novel in the forthcoming election. His father is not entirely in favour form of this as members are not remunerated interconnected short stories goes from succinct and it would be up laconic to him to provide financial support for his son as well as funding his electionwistful and musing, turning on a sixpence. One of the doctor's patients is Lord Tulla And author Marco North, who controls has the borough most wonderful turn of Loughshane and by this stroke of luck Finn isphrase, eventually, elected by a small marginstarts as he means to go on.

|isbnauthor=B003A6W0FODaisy Hildyard|title=Can You Forgive Her?|author=Anthony TrollopeEmergency|rating=4.5

|summary=On the surface The summary of this book doesn''Can You Forgive Her?'' looks deceptively simple: it's t come close to explaining what is done with the story premise.|isbn=1913097811}}  {{Frontpage |author=Sally Oliver |title=The Weight of one woman and two men who are vying with each other for her loveLoss |rating=4 |genre=Literary Fiction |summary= Marianne is grieving. Alice Vavasor was originally engaged to Traumatised after the death of her cousinsister, George Vavasor but she broke off that engagement and later became engaged awakes to John Grey. When we first meet Alice she's on an extended tour find strange, thick black hairs sprouting from the bones of the continent with George Vavasor her spine which steadily increase in size and his sister Katevolume. It's obvious that there's still a great deal of chemistry between John and Alice - and Kate is all for encouraging Her GP, diagnosing the relationship odd phenomenon as it would tie Alice a physical reaction to hergrief, recommends she go to stay at Nede, an experimental new treatment centre in Wales. George wants Alice but it's a matter of ''amour propre'' rather than love: he has little consideration for anyone other than himself Yet something strange is happening to Marianne and the original engagement had fallen through because other patients at Nede: a metamorphosis of his infidelity and deceitfulnessa kind. This thread is the story As Marianne's memories threaten to overwhelm her, Nede offers her release from this cycle of a very complicated love affair memory and pain—but only at a woman who lacks confidence in her own judgement. You might not like Alice to start with but you will warm to herterrible price: that of identity itself.|isbn= 086154112X }}

|author=Lucy HollandNatalia Garcia Freire|title=SistersongThis World Does Not Belong To Us

|summary=Sistersong is part of Early comments on this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendous, a genre I particularly enjoy, the modern retelling of folk and fairy talesdelight. These stories, for most of us, are a cornerstone of childhood and I relish seeing them retold will agree 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 and outdated, fleshing out characters, examining relationships and re-evaluating the role of women. Sistersong first – tremendous is no understatement – but 'a perfect example of a modern retelling done well, the plot delight' is handled with care, keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing perhaps using the characters to come to life, to feel real and human, most importantly they feel relatable expression in a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for way I'm not familiar with. I have to confess my ignorance of the preSpanish-Saxon age they live language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation here. From the little I have read (in. This is a masterpiece of storytelling and translation, I was captivated from beginning don't read Spanish) there does seem to endbe a tendency towards the fantastical – the mystical realism.|isbn=15290390370861541901

|isbnauthor=B002SQCYWQJennifer Saint|title=The Complete Barchester Chronicles|author=Anthony TrollopeElektra|rating=54

|summary=When I told my daughter that I didn't know what to listen to now that IElektra'd finished [[The Complete Novels: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudiceby Jennifer Saint tells the story of three women who live in the heavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. Cassandra, Mansfield ParkClytemnestra, Emma, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion by Jane Austen|The Complete Novels Elektra are all bit players in the story of Jane Austen]] for the second time on Trojan War. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the trot she had silent women have the perfect answer: The Barchester Chronicles most compelling stories and they were in my inbox in a matter of minutes. They're not ''quite'' as well known as the Austen books but they're an excellent follow onmost extreme furies.|isbn=1472273915

|isbn=B077K6BQFD8409290103|title=The Complete Novels: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion If Only|author=Jane AustenMatthew Tree|rating=4.5

|summary=Yes 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's over eightythe young man got on board the boat and thereafter Patrick was to send him a monthly allowance. Patrick sent the money regularly and a correspondence -one hours of listening for sorts - sprang up between the purchase of one audio booktwo although we hear more about what Lowry has to say than Patrick. All six major novels are read by conmedienne Alison Larkin and they It wasn't that Lowry senior didn't care for his son, it was that he didn're presented t care to have him in this country where he might be a danger to his wife and other children. The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to get the order in which they were publishedyoung man on his way.

|author=Andrea Bajani Antoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Elizabeth Harris Jane Aitken (translator)|title=If You Kept a Record 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 more accurately – this one was, and is, black and white and red. Yes, he has an artistic collaborator on this piece, and I think it's possible to say not one page lacks the influence of Sinssome striking visual ideas.|isbn=1913547183}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B098FFFBH9|title=Snowcub|author=Graham Fulbright

|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 the nature of the person heFourteen-year-old Rachel is her school's addressing in his second person monologue of animal rights project leader and she and her friend are producing a narration, we see him picked up by his mother's chauffeur, and carted off competition entry to do all highlight the necessary introductions before said mother is buried way in which human beings exploit the following dayanimal world. The mother was She gets a businesswomangreat deal of support from her family: father Pip Harrison, who clearly left northern Italy a lecturer at Imperial College, London, mother Kate and settled in Romania with her (night-time and business) partnertwin, and feelings of abandonment are still strongNick. And so we flit from current (well Kate runs the family business, this came out a toy shop called Cornucopia in the original Italian in 2007Putney, so moderately current) Bucharest, to the ladwhich is where we'll meet Rachel's childhood, and see just what he has to tell her as a private farewell addressmain (if unsuspected) source of information: five soft toys.|isbn=1939810965

|author=Afonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)Yancey Williams|title=Kokoschka's DollCrosshairs of the Devil|rating=24.5

|summary=WellAward-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski is getting on in years and, despite his strenuous objections and thanks to his daughter, this looked very much like a book I could love from the getfinds himself living -goor imprisoned, which is why I picked my review copy up and flipped pages over several times before actually reading any from Eddie's point of it. I found things to potentially delight me each time – a weird section view - in room 315 of the middle on darker stock paperGarden of Eden nursing home, with only a chapter whose number was in the 20,000strusty nursing aide, letters used as narrative formJenkins, and so onfor palatable company. It intrigued with the subterranean voice a man hears Nothing is going to keep Eddie from his stock-in wartorn Dresden that what little I knew -trade of it mentionedwriting though, too. But you've seen the star rating that comes with this reviewso here, and can tell that if love was on these pagesfor his readers, it was not actually caused by themare his wanderings through his life's work. So what happened?|isbn=15294026970986031658}}

|isbn=05713626720008421714|title=SnowMrs March|author=John BanvilleVirginia Feito|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)Literary Fiction|summary=The problem began just after the publication of George March''Well, at least you're a Wexford mans most successful novel to date.'' So said Colonel Osborne when he welcomed DI St John Everyone but Mrs March (pronounced 'Sinjun'we know her first name only on the last page) Strafford seemed to Ballyglass House just before Christmas 1957. Osborne was master of the Keelmore Hounds and either be reading it or had already done something memorable with the Inniskilling Dragoons at Dunkirkso. The niceties had Every day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to be established even when there 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 Catholic priest dead character on you?'' She mentioned that Johanna, the library floor with some precious bits of his anatomy missingprincipal character had 'her mannerisms''. Strafford was from Roslea at Bunclody and Perhaps thiswould not have mattered, along with his goodexcept for the fact that Johanna is the whore of Nantes -but-shabby suit''a weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, marked him out as of Osborne's class and obviously Protestant. The dead priest was Father Tom Lawless from Scallanstownunloved, who - despite the different religions - was in the habit of spending time at Ballyglass House. His horse was stabled thereunloveable wretch.''