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|author=Natalia Garcia FreireMatthew Tree|title=This World Does Not Belong To UsWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5

|summary= Early comments on this debut novel Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendoushis father, a delightdrunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of self confidence. I will agree with the first – tremendous is no understatement – but 'a delight' is perhaps using the expression in a way I'm not familiar with. I have So Tim applied himself to confess my ignorance of the Spanish-language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation here. From the little I have read (in translationhis studies, I don't read Spanish) there does seem to be a tendency towards the fantastical – the mystical realismcultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions. |isbn=0861541901B0CVFXPGP8

|authorisbn=Jennifer SaintB0C47LV1PC|title=ElektraFragility|author=Mosby Woods

|summary=Can you make a 'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the story of three women who live in question should you make it? Or is the heavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. Cassandraquestion if you did, Clytemnestra, and Elektra are all bit players in would it land? The catch is that the story of the Trojan Waranswer for both could well be.... no. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often  ''Fragility'' is set as the silent women have city of Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to emerge from the most compelling stories and restrictions imposed during the most extreme furies.|isbn=1913097854covid pandemic

|isbnauthor=8409290103Mosby Woods|title=If Only|author=Matthew TreeA Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=4.5

|summary=Twenty-one-year-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by his fatherThe 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 best course of action. Governments are flailing. A war here, cotton-broker AO Lowry: he asked his accountant, Mr Patricka push for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is in actual charge. Imagine then, to ensure that the young man got on board the boat and thereafter Patrick there was to send him a monthly allowanceman with precognition. Patrick sent Imagine the money regularly and strategic advantage in this asset; a correspondence - man who can tell you what will happen given any set of sorts - sprang up between circumstances. That man would be valuable, right? Perhaps the two although we hear more about what Lowry has to say than Patrickmost valuable asset in history. It wasn't that Lowry senior didn't care for his sonImagine then, it was that he didn't care to have him in this country where he might be a danger to his wife and other childrenman loses this ability. The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed What would governments do to get the young man on his way.it back?|isbn=B0C9SNG8R1

|authorisbn=Antoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)0571379559|title=Red is My HeartThe House of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams|rating=3.5|genre=Literary Fiction |summary=[[''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the story of four people. Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white and read temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in my the houseon the riverbank, built of broken bricks. And so was this one Insubstantial as it might look, although I could have spelled that more accurately – this one wasit's stood the passage of time, storms and isfloods. Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, black to complete the delivery rounds - and white to bring in sufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and redMax, the rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. Yes People don't believe that they're related, he has much less twins and there's an artistic collaborator on this piece, and I think itassumption when Max is out with his mother that she's possible to say not one page lacks the influence of some striking visual ideashis nanny.|isbn=1913547183

|isbnauthor=B098FFFBH9Claire North|title=Snowcub|author=Graham FulbrightHouse of Odysseus|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Fourteen''What could matter more than love?'' The follow-year-old Rachel is her schoolup to the excellent ''Ithaca''s animal rights project leader and she and her friend are producing picks up a competition entry to highlight the way in which human beings exploit few months after where we left off. In the animal world. She gets a great deal palace of support from Odysseus, with delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without her family: father Pip Harrisonhusband, a lecturer who sailed to war at Imperial College, London, mother Kate Troy and her twin, Nickthen by divine intervention never returned home. As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for the throne of the Western Isles. Kate runs Having survived – politically and physical – the family businesschaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to Ithaca's shores, Queen Penelope is on the brink of a toy shop called Cornucopia in Putneyfragile peace. One that shatters however with the return of Orestes, which is where we'll meet Rachel's main (if unsuspected) source King of information: five soft toysMycenae, and his sister Elektra, seeking refuge.|isbn=0356516075

|author=Yancey WilliamsKay Chronister|title=Crosshairs of the DevilDesert Creatures|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Dystopian Fiction|summary=AwardWith a world that is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, post-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Whether it is getting on in years anda robotic takeover, despite his strenuous objections and thanks to his daughter, finds himself living - a world devoid of water or imprisoneda nuclear holocaust, from Eddiethis genre is a way for humans to cathartically experience their most existential fears. 's point 'Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is a new work of view post- in room 315 apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the Garden of Eden nursing home, with only a trusty nursing aide, Jenkins, fears that exist for palatable companyhumanity today. Nothing It is going a shocking novel that still manages to keep Eddie from his stock-in-trade of writing though, so here, for his readers, are his wanderings through his life's workfind hope.|isbn=09860316581803364998}} {{Frontpagefrontpage|isbn=00084217141803363002|titleauthor=Mrs MarchEric LaRocca|authortitle=Virginia FeitoThe Trees Grew Because I Bled There|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionHorror|summary=The problem began just after the publication of George March's most successful novel Horror taps into something primeval within us. It is used as a way to date. Everyone but Mrs March (reflect our darkest emotions and how we know her first name only on the last page) seemed to either be reading it or had already done soas humans react and process them. Every day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to buy olive bread but on Most horror fiction feature a ''Big Bad'', whether that particular morningis a home invader, a monster or a ghost, Patricia askedit usually something tangible and, as she was wrapping by the end of the breadstory, ''but isn't this the first time hebeatable. Eric LaRocca's based a character on you?'' She mentioned that Johanna, the principal character had The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'her mannerisms''. Perhaps this would is not have mattered, except for the fact like that Johanna . It is a collection of short stories more interested in the whore horrors of Nantes - illness, grief and humiliation. Horrors that linger and are harder to defeat than any ''a weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch.Big Bad''.

|isbnauthor=B005FM76AAMadelaine Lucas|title=The Duke's Children|author=Anthony TrollopeThirst for Salt|rating=4.5

|summary=The story opens to probably the worst news of all: Lady Glencora Palliser is dead. Her husband''Love, Plantagenet PalliserI'd read, the Duke of Omnium, is nearly paralysed by grief and struggling - at the same time - was supposed to adjust to no longer being prime minister, or even in office. He seeks to protect be a light and guide his three adult childrenweightless feeling, which is easier said than done when none of them wishes to but I had always longed for gravity''be'' guided. Silverbridge (his elder son, actually called Plantagenet, but always known by his title) and Gerald are destined to be sent down  Told from Oxford and Cambridge respectively and to run up gambling debtsa retrospective view, occasionally in eyea young woman unravels the year-watering sumslong relationship that once defined her. Lady Helen has fallen in love Overlaid with - and wishes to marry - Frank Tregearlater wisdom, the penniless son of narrator relives the affair with a poor squire, which man twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the summer after. Set against the Duke cannot countenance, not least because he sees echos backdrop of what might have happened when he married Lady Glencora. Hean isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the 24-year-old narrator's about to learn that parents do not always get their waydeepening 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

|isbnauthor=B004O37B6AMichael Grothaus|title=The Prime Minister|author=Anthony TrollopeBeautiful Shining People

|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Plantagenet Palliser, the Duke ''But fearing something and having it come to pass are two different things. And I'm willing to bet most of Omniumwhat we fear will never happen, is the prime minister of a coalition government but heor we can take steps to change it.'' ''Beautiful Shining People''s privately enraged at revolves around the seemingly unstoppable rise question of Ferdinand Lopezidentity and acceptance. Of what it means to be human. Lopex is exotic - some describe him as Jewish, others as Portuguese but the truth Of what is that no one knows real and Lopez what is not going to explain. The ladies of societyartificial, even Palliser's own wife, Lady Glencora, are supporters but after Lopez makes an advantageous marriage Palliser is placed in and whether the position development of having 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 himtechnology is exciting or frightening.|isbn=191458564X

|isbnauthor=B00474HVX4Jennifer Saint|title=Phineas Redux|author=Anthony TrollopeAtalanta|rating=4.5

|summary=It's some time since we heard from [[Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope|Phineas Finn]]'I was as worthy as any one of them. I would get on board that ship, I vowed. Having succeeded I would take my place, not just in parliament and achieved a paying position he fell out with those who provided his income and returned to Ireland where he married Marythe name of the goddess. It was for the sake of my name, his childhood sweethearttoo. Atalanta'' Princess. He was fortunate to get Warrior. Lover. Hero. Abandoned at birth for being born a daughter rather than a job in Cork (or Dublin - recollections may vary) son, Atalanta is raised under the protective eye of the goddess Athemis and seemed settled fashioned into a life of domesticityformidable huntress, one who longs for adventure. To bring Finn backWhen the opportunity comes – to join the Argonauts, Trollope had to kill off poor Mary and Phineas emerges in London as a childless widower with a legacy fierce band of warriors, descendent from an aunt who died at just the right time to allow Gods themselves – Atalanta seizes the move chance to fight in Artemis' name and carve out her own legendary place in history. What follows is a whirlwind of challenges and discovery and through it, Atalanta must remember Artemis' fatal warning: that if she marries, it will be possibleher undoing.|isbn=1472292154

|author=Jessie GreengrassAmanthi Harris|title=The High HouseBeautiful Place|rating=4.5

|summary=Charles Darwin taught that all living matter evolved Padma, a young Sri Lankan, has returned to pass the Villa Hibiscus on its genetic material with the implied belief that your progeny will then pass on theirssouthern coast of her home country. This is a place she spent her formative years. However It is not a place she was born into, that train but the one she thinks of thought is slowly seems as home. How she came to be at the Villa, how it became her home, and the machinations that have fallen out of favour. Todayflowed through her life ever since she first arrived there provide the ''score''s young generation are discovering that their parents for this gentle and their parents' parents did not seem to think that far aheadyet subtly violent novel. Or they did think that far ahead and thought "it Padma's not my problem" or "there's nothing I can do". Raising a child present fails to escape her past and living in a world on much like the precipice musical score of catastrophe is what drives ''The High House'' by Jessie Greengrass. This is not a science-fiction novel. This is our reality. This is film, that strand weaves its way through everything that happens at the life our children and their children will have to liveVilla.|isbn=18007500721784631930

|authorisbn=Charlie Carroll178563335X|title=The LipSea Defences|author=Hilary Taylor

|summary=When we first meet Rachel Bird she's a trainee vicar, sitting in on a PCC meeting and wondering why they'Melody Janie Rowe'' re held when you need to pick the children up. even the name is evocative of…probably of whatever we want it to beHer husband, Christopher, collects six-year-old Hannah and maybe thather elder brother, Jamie, whilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioner. Thelma's the pointdaughter-in-law won't let her see her grandson. To me Holthorpe, on the name sings of English folk musicNorfolk coast, is a lovely place, but even Rachel is struggling to develop a real bond with the parish - and she's in my use awe of that word Englishthe vicar, Gail, I know Ibut then she'm putting an emmet take s been doing the job for more than thirty years. Rachel and Christopher hoped that a walk on thingsthe beach would do them some good - it was stormy but it was probably what they needed. And Melody Janie Rowe is anti-emmetthen Hannah went missing. |isbn=1529334179

|isbn=B003UH99X41398515388|title=The Eustace DiamondsBoy and the Dog|author=Anthony TrollopeSeishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating=4.5|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=It First of all, it was generally thought that Sir Florian Eustace had come to regret his marriage but he didn't live long enough for the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and this to become a problem, in turn, caused the nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and utter devastation. After his deathThe deaths were uncountable, his wife, Lizzie - still only in her late teens - was in possession and the loss of a very valuable diamond necklace and livelihoods was determined that she would not hand it over to her husband's executorswidespread. She was adamant The fact that Sir Florian had given it to her absolutely, although many pets were separated from their owners came far down the precise circumstances list of priorities but - six months after the giving varied from telling to telling. Lady Eustace was not tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a woman to whom truth meant dog outside a great dealconvenience store. All He wasn't a dog person but the convenience store owner's comment that was important he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to her now, she maintained, was her son. And, of course, her diamondsopen his car door and Tamon the dog jumped in.

|isbn=B003L7TDMU0989715337|title=Phineas FinnPapa on the Moon|author=Anthony TrollopeMarco North|rating=4.5

|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, finds himself living - or imprisoned, from Eddie's point of view - in room 315 of the Garden of Eden nursing home, this looked very much like with only a book I could love trusty nursing aide, Jenkins, for palatable company. Nothing is going to keep Eddie from the gethis stock-in-gotrade of writing though, which is why I picked my review copy up and flipped pages over several times before actually so here, 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 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 to either be reading any of itor had already done so. I found things Every day Mrs March went to potentially delight me each time – a weird section in the middle local patisserie to buy olive bread but on darker stock paperthat particular morning, Patricia asked, a chapter whose number as she was in wrapping the 20bread,000s, letters used as narrative form, and so ''but isn't this the first time he's based a character on. you?'' It intrigued with the subterranean voice a man hears in wartorn Dresden She mentioned that what little I knew of it mentionedJohanna, toothe principal character had 'her mannerisms''. But you've seen Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for the star rating fact that comes with this reviewJohanna is the whore of Nantes - ''a weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, and can tell that if love was on these pagesunloved, it was not actually caused by themunloveable wretch. So what happened?|isbn=1529402697''