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[[Category:New Reviews|Literary Fiction]]==Literary fiction==__NOTOC__ {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Julian BarnesMatthew Tree|title=Staring at the Sun|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Jean's first Incident involved Uncle Leslie, hyacinths and golf tees. It's perhaps best forgotten, but Jean doesnWe't forget. Uncle Leslie figures large in her life - mostly on the golf course - until the War comes and he runs away to America. He's replaced by Tommy Prosser, a grounded pilot who once saw the sun rise twice in one day and excites as many questions in Jean as he ever answers. Tommy is replaced by Michael, a policeman, whom Jean eventually marries. He doesn't know why minks are excessively tenacious of life and he doesn't much care. But Jean does. She cares much less for the Dutch cap that Michael sent her off to obtain before the wedding and much less again for their rather disastrous adventures in the bedroom. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099540096</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Russell Celyn Jones|title=The Ninth Wave (New Stories from the Mabinogion) ll Never Know
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|summary=Pwyll rules a medieval-style fiefdom in a post-climate change Wales. Life is Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different in many ways - there's from his father, a new-but-old social order built on feudalism drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and horsepower is the main means who had endless crises of transportself confidence. But in many ways it's much the same - people still fight one anotherSo Tim applied himself to his studies, towns still have sink estates, rich boys still have too much time on their hands cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and precious little meaning in their livesset himself high but achievable ambitions. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1854115146</amazonuk>B0CVFXPGP8
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Owen SheersB0C47LV1PC|title=White Ravens (New Stories from the Mabinogion)Fragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=4.5
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|summary=In the old taleCan you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, Branwen is the sister of Bendigeidfran - question should you make it? Or is the giant King of Britain. She marries question if you did, would it land? The catch is that the King of Ireland, who doesn't treat her answer for both could wellbe.... She manages to send Bendigeidfran a message via a tamed starling and war and killings ensueno.
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|summary=Becoming a mother brings a whole new world 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 best course of fear into your lifeaction. Suddenly you see the danger in every situation, and fear and trepidation can be become your constant companionsGovernments are flailing. In this novellaA war here, we meet a young mother who push for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is married to in actual charge. Imagine then, there was a logical scientistman with precognition. They attempt to control their children's futures on Imagine the strategic advantage in this asset; a scientific basis, growing their own fruit and vegetables, giving their children nothing sugary, eating no eggs for a whole year until man who can tell you what will happen given any adverse affects from them were disproved. But after meeting with an enigmatic stranger our young mother begins to struggle as he introduces ideas set of freedom into her worldcircumstances. She begins an affair with himThat man would be valuable, begins to let things slip at home and with right? Perhaps the childrenmost valuable asset in history. Imagine then, yet finds she is still continuously haunted by the sense of an ever-present dangerthat this man loses this ability.What would governments do to get it back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1844717216</amazonuk>B0C9SNG8R1
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Katherine May0571379559|title=Burning Out|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Violet has it all – a well-paid job, and a luxurious apartment all to herself. Everything is catered for; her meals, her clothes, and her health are all how she would like them to be. But the life she is leading is beginning to take its toll. On the verge of snapping, a drained and somewhat out-of-sorts Violet, withdraws back to her home town. There, she meets someone familiar, a ghost reminding her of how she used to be ten years earlier – a young carefree girl, full The House of life. Only this isn't a ghost, but a girl living the life Violet once lived – exactly the same. Haunted by the past Violet realizes history is repeating itself and is convinced events will happen again. Events that will in turn haunt the girl.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906727392</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewBroken Bricks|author=Tove Jansson|title=The True DeceiverFiona Williams
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|summary=Most people ''The House of my age will have come across JanssonBroken Bricks''s work unwittingly, via is the televised renditions story of the Moomin talesfour people. The readers amongst us would then have been entranced a few years ago to discover that at last Thomas Teal had set about Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in the house on the translation into Englishriverbank, first built of The Summer Book and then of a collection of short stories which were published broken bricks. Insubstantial as 'A Winter Book'. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0954899571</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Daniel Kehlmann |title=Me and Kaminski|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=After reviewing several long booksit might look, it's been refreshing to read such a fluent yet pared down story as 'Kaminski stood the passage of time, storms and Me'floods. In it Her husband, Sebastian ZollnerRichard, the obnoxious main character, shoves himself forward in a desperate attempt struggles to research a best seller which will re-ignite grow his career as an art critic. Kaminskivegetables, to complete the proposed subject, was a fashionable painter long ago, but now, ancient delivery rounds - and chronically ill, has virtually slid into oblivionto bring in sufficient money. So the secondThey have twin boys -rate writer is on a loser unless he can dig up some juicy details to hook the art world Sonny and general public.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847249892</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Hilary Dixon|title=When Rooks Speak of Love|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Arthur Transcombe is a middle-agedMax, grey-haired, self-effacing poetthe rainbow twins. Unremarkable really - on the outsideSonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. He hasPeople don't believe that they're related, however, managed to achieve some success much less twins and there's an assumption when Max is out with his poemsmother that she's his nanny. (Being a guest speaker at the Cheltenham Literary Festival is no mean feat). He is also a babe magnet!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904529429</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David Malouf Claire North|title=RansomHouse of Odysseus
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|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Taking his theme from a small part of Homer's Iliad, Malouf tells the story of the king of Troy, Priam's grief-stricken voyage into the Greek camp to ransom TroyWhat could matter more than love?''s wealth for the body of his fallen son, Hector, killed by the equally grief-stricken Achilles whose great friend Hector had killed in battle before Achilles took his cruel revenge. Malouf tells the story in sparse, yet lyrical and poetic fashion suggesting the personal stories behind the epic themes that Homer related. It is an exquisitely written piece managing to be both deeply moving as well as a great piece of story telling.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701184159</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Milan KunderaKay Chronister|title=The Book of Laughter and ForgettingDesert Creatures|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Dystopian Fiction|summary=It's with With a somehow guilty feeling world that I admit that I have never been particularly fond of Milan Kunderais becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, post-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. He's certainly Whether it is a very good writer and undoubtedly robotic takeover, a very intelligent man capable world devoid of interesting philosophical insights. All those qualities contributed to water or a nuclear holocaust, this genre is a cult status accorded way for humans to Kundera, compounded cathartically experience their most existential fears. ''Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is a new work of post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the frisson of political subversion – never a harmful thing fears that exist for humanity today. It is a writer from what used shocking novel that still manages to be known as Eastern Europe (but which returned to its status as Middle (or Central) Europe with the fall of the Iron Curtain)find hope.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>057117437X</amazonuk>1803364998
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{{newreviewfrontpage|isbn=1803363002|author=Andrew Miller Eric LaRocca|title=One Morning Like A BirdThe Trees Grew Because I Bled There|rating=45|genre=Literary FictionHorror|summary=Tokyo in 1940 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 place ''Big Bad'', whether that we British tend not to give is a home invader, a monster or a great deal of thought to. Japan entered the warghost, we sayit usually something tangible and, with by the end of the attack on Pearl Harbour in December 1941story, completely forgetting beatable. Eric LaRocca's ''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is not like that Japan, like most . It is a collection of short stories more interested in the rest horrors of the worldillness, was already a country at wargrief and humiliation. She had been fighting in China since 1937 Horrors that linger and was making in-roads into European colonial territory in the area as wellare harder to defeat than any ''Big Bad''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340825154</amazonuk>
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|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=A complex class society which evolved into a highly sophisticated culture is invariably ''Love, I'd read, was supposed to be a fertile ground for development of social satire, light and British literature would have been hugely depleted if all novels that can be regarded as such were suddenly to disappear. Evelyn Waugh made the genre his ownweightless feeling, and ''A Handful of Dustbut I had always longed for gravity'' is a sublime example of his mastery of it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141183969</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Bryony Doran Michael Grothaus|title=The China BirdBeautiful Shining People
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|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Edward is a sad ''But fearing something and solitary figurehaving it come to pass are two different things. Late middle-aged, twisted-spined and hump-backed, a loner who works in the archive basement of the library, lodges with Mrs Ingrams who makes his tea and ruins his laundry, and hoards letters from his mother. Like many an unmarried man with an aging, widowed mother, Edward finds his relationship with her somewhat strained. Unlike many And I'm willing to bet most of those menwhat we fear will never happen, his relationship was always that way. She is rude and demanding, and he either doesn't have the strength or the inclination we can take steps to force the issue with herchange it. Apart from an occasion half-hearted reprimand, he stands back, ignores, makes excuses.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>095556302X</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Agnes Owens Jennifer Saint|title=The Complete NovellasAtalanta
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Who is Agnes Owens? A Scottish author who portrays working class life from the nineteen forties and fifties''I was as worthy as any one of them. I would get on board that ship, I vowed. Now an octogenarianI would take my place, apparently Agnes Owens started writing at not just in the age name of 58the goddess. Here are five previously published stories collected into one new editionIt was for the sake of my name, a companion volume to her short stories, published in 2008too. I donAtalanta't think you'll be disappointed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846971373</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Erick Setiawan Amanthi Harris|title=Of Bees and MistBeautiful Place
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The first few chapters of this amazing workPadma, had me scratching my heada young Sri Lankan, and pondering, 'what has returned to the Villa Hibiscus on earth the southern coast of her home country. This is this abouta place she spent her formative years. It is not a place she was born into, and where is it going?' It struck me but the one she thinks of as simply bizarrehome. However How she came to be at the Villa, I was quickly reeled inhow it became her home, and the initially disparate cast machinations that have 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 musical score of charactersa film, who seemed more like caricatures, soon had lives of their own - and fascinating ones that strand weaves its way through everything that happens at that!the Villa.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755348532</amazonuk>1784631930
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hilary Mantel178563335X|title=Wolf HallSea Defences|author=Hilary Taylor
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=A revisionist look at Henry VIIIWhen we first meet Rachel Bird she's ministera trainee vicar, Thomas Cromwellsitting in on a PCC meeting and wondering why they're held when you need to pick the children up. Rich Her husband, absorbing Christopher, collects six-year-old Hannah and intelligenther elder brother, itJamie, whilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioner. Thelma's daughter-in-law won't let her see her grandson. Holthorpe, on the Norfolk coast, is a beautifullovely place, beautiful bookbut Rachel is struggling to develop a real 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. Rachel and Christopher hoped that a walk on the beach would do them some good - it was stormy but it was probably what they needed. And then Hannah went missing. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007230184</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=A S Byatt1398515388|title=The Children's BookBoy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=Antonia Byatt's Booker-nominated ''The Children's Book'' (her first novel for seven years) is a staggeringFirst of all, it was the earthquake, complex and multi-layered bookdeep in the ocean floor, set between which created the last years of Victoria's reign tsunami and the end of the First World War. Although this is undoubtedly an intelligent book, full of learning and ideasin turn, ranging from class, early feminism, Fabianism caused the nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and anarchismutter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, it is highly readable and accessiblethe loss of livelihoods was widespread. The author's stance is fact that this was a unique time for children in the UK, freed many pets were separated from their owners came far down the 'be seen and not heard' list of priorities but - six months after the early Victorian age, tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. He wasn't a dog person but before the convenience store owner'treat them like adults' of the post war loss of innocence. It was a time when children, at least rich children, were allowed s comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to be free open his car door and adult authors like JM Barrie wrote both about and for children and was also widely read by adultsTamon the dog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701183896</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Colm Toibin 0989715337|title=BrooklynPapa on the Moon|author=Marco North|rating=54
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Colm Tóibín's quietly powerful new novel, Brooklyn, opens in the author's own home town of Enniscorthy, County Wexford in the 1950s. We are sitting with his conscientiously introverted heroine, Eilis Lacey, as she watches through the upstairs living room window as her more glamorous older sister Rose walks briskly home from work. Rose is popular at Some frogs had gotten into the local golf club, with many male admirers. Meanwhile, Eilis' three brothers have all gone to England where there is work to be had. There are few opportunities in Enniscorthy, for employment or anything else. Eilis is lucky to be offered a Sunday job in Miss Kelly's grocery shop, a shop Eilis' widowed mother will not enterwell. Later, Eilis will entertain her mother and sister with imitations of Miss Kelly's voice. Showing everything only through Eilis' eyes, Tóibín brilliantly evokes life in the claustrophobically tight-knit town.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670918121</amazonuk>}}
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{{Frontpage
|author=Daisy Hildyard
|title=Emergency
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
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The summary of this book doesn't come close to explaining what is done with the premise.
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{{newreviewFrontpage |author=Roddy DoyleSally Oliver |title=Paddy Clarke Ha Ha HaThe 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 bones of her spine which steadily increase in size and volume. Her GP, diagnosing the odd phenomenon as a physical reaction to her grief, recommends she go to stay at Nede, an experimental new treatment centre in Wales. Yet something strange is happening to Marianne and the other patients at Nede: a metamorphosis of a kind. As Marianne's 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 }} {{Frontpage|author=Natalia Garcia Freire|title=This World Does Not Belong To Us
|rating=5
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|summary=Early comments on this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendous, a delight. Iwill agree with the first – tremendous is no understatement – but 'm kind of a reverse literary snob, delight' is perhaps using the expression in that I tend to avoid books that win awards. a way I've found that such books are often very well written, but they're m not always good readingfamiliar with. As shameful as it is I have to admit, I would much rather read for story as for fancy wordsconfess my ignorance of the Spanish-language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation here. Clearly From the little I'm not alone, as have read (in 1993translation, the year Roddy DoyleI don's ''Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha'' won t read Spanish) there does seem to be a tendency towards the Booker Prize, fantastical – the bestseller lists contained [[:Category:John Grisham|John Grisham]], Sue Townsend and Jeffrey Archermystical realism.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099535084</amazonuk>0861541901
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah Waters Jennifer Saint|title=The Little StrangerElektra|rating=54
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=When was 'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the last time you couldn't put a Booker nominated novel down? Sarah Watersstory of three women who live in the heavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. Cassandra, Clytemnestra, author of acclaimed novels ''Fingersmith'' and ''The Night Watch'' has written a chilling psychological ghost Elektra are all bit players in the story of the Trojan War. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that kept me guessing until often the silent women have the most compelling stories and the very last pagemost extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1844086011</amazonuk>1472273915
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=James Kelman 8409290103|title=How Late It Was, How LateIf Only|author=Matthew Tree
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Sammy has just woken up outside in what looks likes a park after a heavy night of drinking. He can't remember much – how 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 young man got there, or why he is wearing some old trainers on board the boat and not his new shoes. He doesn't know what's happened thereafter Patrick was to his wallet or why people are staring at send hima monthly allowance. He does remember some things – one being Patrick sent the money regularly and a row correspondence - of some sorts he'd had with Helen, his girlfriend. Now he has been arrested, beaten - sprang up by between the police, and released back onto the street again. He needs two although we hear more about what Lowry has to find a way to get home, the only problem is; he has just gone blindsay than Patrick.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099546272</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Douglas Coupland|title=Generation A|rating=3.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=I think with Douglas Coupland you either love him or hate him. So I suppose I should probably say straight off It wasn't that heLowry senior didn's one of my favourite writers. I've read all t care for his fiction, and I just about peed my pants with excitement at getting to review this latest offeringson, ''Generation A''. Those in the know will see it was that he is jumping off from his earlier novel, didn''Generation X'', that dealt with three disillusioned twenty-somethings who seem t care to have opted out of life, working 'Mcjobs' him in the Californian desert this country where he might be a danger to his wife and telling each other stories to pass the timechildren. Here, with this new generation, there's storytelling again, this time amongst five characters, all from different places in The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to get the world, and different ages, who are brought together through one singular event in each of their lives - they are each stung by a beeyoung man on his way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434019836</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sam SavageAntoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)|title=The Cry of the SlothRed is My Heart
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|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Meet Andrew Whittaker[[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white and read in my house. In some untold time of recent American historyAnd so was this one, although I could have spelled that more accurately – this one was, he and is forced through a failed marriage , black and white and red. Yes, he has an artistic temperament at odds with so many other people, to let properties to tenants he does not likecollaborator on this piece, for $120 a month. The lodgers might not like the state of the buildings - ceilings falling through and so on - but thatI think it's another matter. He would much prefer possible to be left alone in front say not one page lacks the influence of his little Olivetti typewriter and create art. He runs a literary journal, of a kind, called "Soap", which no-one likes, no-one reads (and often, with dodgy, cheap printing, no-one could physically read it anyway), and which makes him poorer in time, money and spiritsome striking visual ideas.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0297856499</amazonuk>1913547183
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emily Bronte B098FFFBH9|title=Wuthering HeightsSnowcub|author=Graham Fulbright|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=In 1801 Lockwood, one of our narrators, arrived at Wuthering Heights on the Yorkshire moors. He was renting nearby Thrushcross Grange from the rude and surly Heathcliff, but when one of HeathcliffFourteen-year-old Rachel is her school's dogs attacked him animal rights project leader and she and her friend are producing a competition entry to highlight the weather turned against him he was forced to stay overnightway in which human beings exploit the animal world. In his room he found She gets a diary written by a young girl by the name great deal of Catherine Earnshawsupport from her family: father Pip Harrison, who was close to Heathcliff as a child lecturer at Imperial College, London, mother Kate and it was this which caused Lockwood to have her twin, Nick. Kate runs the family business, a terrifying dream toy shop called Cornucopia in Putney, which Catherineis where we'll meet Rachel's ghost fought to get into the room through the window. His screams of fear brought Heathcliff to the room and when Lockwood told him what he had seen Heathcliff asked him to leave the room and then sobbed as be begged Cathy to come in. Lockwood persuades the housekeeper, Nelly Dean main (our other narratorif unsuspected), to tell him the story behind what has happenedsource of information: five soft toys.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009953052X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Roberto Bolano Yancey Williams|title=AmuletCrosshairs of the Devil|rating=4.5
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|summary=The novel Award-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski is set in the late 1960s, a time of political unrest and tension in Mexico. The narrator and protagonist seek refuge when the army invades the university. Ensconced getting on in a fourth floor w.c., she commences to recollect her earlier life years and experiences amongst the literati of Mexico, despite his strenuous objections and the world of academia. She frequently refers thanks to herself as ''the mother of Mexican poetry''his daughter, and this is indeed an apt, if somewhat generous, description, as she does emerge as a maternal figure. She is an engaging character, tolerated, rather than liked by her acquaintancesfinds himself living - or imprisoned, and itfrom Eddie's her very lack point of sophistication which makes her such a real and believable narrator. Poetry is her main love view - in life - she lives and breathes it, and all else fades into insignificance for her.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330511831</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jonathan Tulloch |title=A Winding Road|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''A Winding Road'' is an unusual novel comprised room 315 of three separate (though structurally interspersed) narratives. The main one, which is set in the present and binds the other two together, follows the sordid escapades Garden of one Piers GuestEden nursing home, art dealer, or, as he preferswith only a trusty nursing aide, art advisor. Piers swans about London meeting clientsJenkins, having affairs and generally doing just whatever he pleases with little thought for the consequencespalatable company. The second narrative Nothing is (mostly) set going to keep Eddie from his stock-in Nazi Germany and its main concern is a folklorist-trade of writing though, Ernst Mannso here, and how he is viewed by for his family after he joins the SS. His actions and motivations readers, are questioned and obsessed about. The third narrative, set in Auvers-Sur-Oise in 1890, is a fictional account of the last days of Van Goghhis wanderings through his life's life, when he painted some of his most famous work. It features Dr. Gachet who famously treated the artist plus some of Dr. Gachet's other patients of Tulloch's own invention. Piers is alerted to the existence of a lost painting by Van Gogh which has been discovered in the archives of Ernst Mann.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0224071149</amazonuk>0986031658}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Colum McCann 0008421714|title=Let The Great World Spin|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=This was one of those books where, after I closed it, I sat very quietly, just breathing out and breathing in, holding onto the last moments of a good story. Although it was a little slow to start, I found myself more and more caught up in the characters' lives, how they were all so cleverly interlinked, woven together. The core of the story takes place on the 7th of August, 1974, the day that Philippe Petit walked on a high wire between the twin towers of the World Trade Centre in New York, and we begin with his high wire walk. Petit is never directly named, and although there are flashes back to his training for the event, and his feelings and experience at the time, his is not the focus of the story, but merely the hook upon which all the other characters hang together.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747597227</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMrs March|author=A S Byatt|title=PossessionVirginia Feito
|rating=4.5
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|summary=A S Byatt won The problem began just after the Booker Prize for Possession in 1990 and this new edition publication of George March's most successful novel to date. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the novel is part of a celebration of Booker winners produced by Vintage Bookslast page) seemed to either be reading it or had already done so. Presumably in an attempt Every day Mrs March went to make these literary prize-winners more accessiblethe local patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, Patricia asked, as she was wrapping the bread, ''but isn't this the first time he's based a character on you?'' She mentioned that Johanna, Vintage has published the series in mass market formatprincipal character had 'her mannerisms''. This edition Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for the fact that Johanna is the whore of Possession is therefore similar in size and appearance to an airport lounge blockbuster. More on that laterNantes - ''a weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099535157</amazonuk>''
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