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[[Category:New Reviews|Literary Fiction]]==Literary fiction==__NOTOC__{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Matthew CondonTree|title=The Trout OperaWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5
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|summary=Judges Carrington Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a drunk and Thorpe recline in leather armchairs on the verandah chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of Buckley's Crossing hotel his artistic passions all failed miserably and watch in silence as a giant trout shuffles across the bridgewho had endless crises of self confidence. The JudgesSo Tim applied himself to his studies, despite their initial prominence cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and convincing back-story giving them a valid reason for being in Buckley's Crossing, will not really concern us. They are there to represent a type: a visitor to small town Australia, a fisherman from the city, a seeker after something in the Snowy that probably isn't fish. We shall, however, be concerned with the giant troutset himself high but achievable ambitions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>038561506X</amazonuk>B0CVFXPGP8
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Clare MorrallB0C47LV1PC|title=The Man Who DisappearedFragility|author=Mosby Woods
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|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=I was drawn to this book straight away. FirstlyCan you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the jacket cover question should you make it? Or is lovely. the question if you did, would it land? The subliminal message catch is read me, please read me. We are introduced to that the Kendall family; mother, father and three children. All leading unremarkable, rather ordinary lives. The father, Felix, works hard to provide answer for his family. He loves them all dearly. They all love him back. It is a secure family unitboth could well be. Until - completely out of the blue - he simply disappears. His family is distraught and mystified. We all know that a person cannot simply disappear. But Felix Kendall has taken himself off the radarno. Why?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340994274</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Angelica GarnettMosby Woods|title=The Unspoken TruthA Whirly Man Loses His Turn
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=I would not normally start a review with the biography of the author, but The Unspoken Truth is presented as autobiographical fiction by a child of West isn't the Bloomsbury Group – dominant force it once was. Nobody in fact the subtitle West is 'quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is the best course of action. Governments are flailing. A Quartet of Bloomsbury Stories'war here, a push for climate action there. The blurb on the inside cover even identifies which character A feeling that nobody is based on in actual charge. Imagine then, there was a man with precognition. Imagine the author strategic advantage in each this asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. That man would be valuable, right? Perhaps the four storiesmost valuable asset in history. Imagine then, just in case we are not surethat this man loses this ability.What would governments do to get it back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0701184353</amazonuk>B0C9SNG8R1
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Amos Oz0571379559|title=Rhyming Life and DeathThe House of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Rhyming Love and Death ''The House of Broken Bricks'' is a kind the story of philosophical love letter to literature, or perhaps more so to fictionfour people. It is a book about how to write Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, about the compulsion to writebut instead, and about she lives in the strange world that house on the writer riverbank, built of fiction must live inbroken bricks.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099521024</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Paul Murray|title=Skippy Dies|rating=3.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Life in Seabrook College is a mess Insubstantial as it might look, it's stood the passage of time, storms and floods. Some of Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the staff are young enough delivery rounds - and to remember their own school days there, but many are certainly too old for thatbring in sufficient money. A lot of the They have twin boys are victims of ragging - Sonny and bullying for being too chunkyMax, or too smart - but some are so chunky and smart therethe rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's a certain kudos to themJamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. The female of the species is a thing only spied from their own school next doorPeople don't believe that they're related, much less twins and only met by selling them ritalin as a weight-control pill, or meeting them at the very rare combined school discothere's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she's his nanny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241141826</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tom WolfeClaire North|title=The Bonfire House of the VanitiesOdysseus
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|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=In his own mind, bond trader Sherman McCoy is a 'Master of the Universe'. He has a pleasant wife, a beautiful mistress, and a sweet six year old daughter. Henry Lamb is a black student from the projects. Under normal circumstances, itWhat could matter more than love?'s clear that McCoy's world and Lamb's world would never overlap. But when McCoy and his mistress Maria Ruskin end up lost in the Bronx, and an accident leads to Lamb being hit by McCoy's Mercedes, a chain of events start which will lead to his downfall.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099548798</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ru FreemanKay Chronister|title=A Disobedient GirlDesert Creatures|rating=54|genre=General Dystopian Fiction|summary=''A Disobedient Girl'' follows two women struggling to retain control of their lives in the face of servitudeWith a world that is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, post-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Latha Whether it is a servant girl to the affluent Vithanage familyrobotic takeover, whose daughter, Tharaa world devoid of water or a nuclear holocaust, this genre is Lathaa way for humans to cathartically experience their most existential fears. ''Desert Creatures''s age. As children, the girls are the best of friends, but they are destined to be separated by class, which Kay Chronister is made painfully obvious when boys come into a new work of post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the picturefears that exist for humanity today. Meanwhile, Biso serves a cruel and drunken husband who beats her and terrorises her children, one of whom It is another man's love child. Biso's husband murdered her lover in a hateful rage when he uncovered her affair and she realises shocking novel that she must escape his house if she and her children are still manages to live. Latha too seeks escape, but she finds it in the arms of Thara's boyfriend and this sets off a chain of events that will echo far into her futurefind hope.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0670917958</amazonuk>1803364998
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{{newreviewfrontpage|isbn=1803363002|author=Simon RobsonEric LaRocca|title=CatchThe Trees Grew Because I Bled There|rating=45|genre=Literary FictionHorror|summary=Catharine's husband Tom Horror taps into something primeval within us. It is away on business in Birmingham, used as a way to reflect our darkest emotions and how we as humans react and so Catharine awakes alone for the first time in their little cottage at the end of their laneprocess them. They moved there Most horror fiction feature a few months previously''Big Bad'', and since then Catharine has spent her days quietly awaiting her husband's return from work. She whether that is sure that she will figure outa home invader, some day, what her purpose in life is. She thought it might be to have a babymonster or a ghost, but they have been trying for some time and it hasn't happened as yet. Meanwhile she waits, usually something tangible and thinks, and waits. In by the lounge stands her piano, a stark reminder end of the life she didn't manage to realise because although she studied music she foundstory, quite quickly, that in spite of being passionate she lacked any kind of talent for it whatsoeverbeatable. So, on this day, alone at home, Catharine finds herself tormented by the pianoEric LaRocca's presence and over-thinking every second ''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is not like that. It is a collection of short stories more interested in the day. She worries away at who she ishorrors of illness, grief and what her life is, as her loneliness humiliation. Horrors that linger and the day itself unravel around herare harder to defeat than any ''Big Bad''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224090232</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joe MenoMadelaine Lucas|title=The Great Perhaps|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Jonathan Casper faints when he sees clouds. His wife Madeline worries about everything, not least the way the pigeons that she is studying are murdering each other. Their seventeen year old daughter Amelia wants to overthrow the evil empire of capitalism and is making her own bomb, while fourteen year old Thisbe is looking Thirst for God and praying to him. Jonathan's father, seventy six year old Henry, is planning his disappearance. Jonathan and Madeline may be on the verge of splitting up, to the dismay of both daughters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330512471</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Elizabeth Kostova|title=The Swan Thieves|rating=2|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=1999 – A renowned painter, Robert Oliver, goes mad, attacking a painting with a knife. He's arrested, and sent to a psychiatrist who is also an artist. The psychiatrist, Andrew Marlowe, can't get his patient to talk to him, but tries to investigate what drove him to this by talking to his wife and his girlfriend, and reading some letters Oliver seems obsessed with. 1879 – Beatrice de Clerval, aspiring artist, corresponds with her uncle-by-marriage Olivier Vignot, a more experienced painter. Their letters will be found by Robert Oliver, 120 years later, and will lead to his loss of sanity.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847442404</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Atiq Rahimi|title=The Patience StoneSalt
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Set in Afghanistan, ''The Patience Stone'' is a partly allegorical tale of a Muslim wife tending to her comatose soldier husband who has been shot in the neck. As she cares for him, for the first time ever she is able to speak to him without fear of censorship and he becomes, for herLove, like the mythical Patience Stone to which you tell your troubles and when the stone finally bursts, you are free from your torments. But also this might mean the Apocalypse.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701184167</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Joyce Carol Oates|title=A Fair Maiden|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=I've recently d read the terrific short story collection ''The Female Of The Species'' also by Oates and couldn't wait to start her latest book. I felt sure that I was in for a literary treat - and I was. Firstly, the book itself, a hardback with a beautifully nostalgic cover is a book lover's delight.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847248586</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Dai Sijie |title=Once on a Moonless Night|rating=3.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=A French female scholar, studying in China, finds herself caught up in the search for a lost, sacred text that was inscribed on an ancient scroll. The scroll was torn in two by Emperor Puyi years ago, and was lost. After falling in love with supposed to be a young grocer called Tumchooq the young woman becomes caught up in tales within tales, as she finds that Tumchooq's father found and translated half of the missing scroll light and became obsessed with finding the other halfweightless feeling, and soon Tumchooq too becomes embroiled in the search.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099521326</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Thomas Trofimuk |title=Waiting but I had always longed for Columbus|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=I was hooked instantly by the title. Original, thought-provoking, quirky. The book revolves around a youngish man who has been admitted to an insane asylum (these two words alone make me want to shiver) in modern-day Spain. The staff have their work cut out. He doesngravity't remember his name or anything at all about his past. He's sporadically violent - and he says he is Christopher Columbus! As the Americans would say, go figure. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330518844</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Iain BanksMichael Grothaus|title=The Steep Approach to GarbadaleBeautiful Shining People
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=It took me a while ''But fearing something and having it come to realise that Iain Banks is, most of all, a teller of tales - pass are two different things. And I would call him a story-teller had this term not became a compliment-cum-invective usually reserved for the Jeffrey Archers and Dan Browns of the modern publishing world. This ability to tell stories - not to plot as much as to weave a yarn - combines with a penchant for creating appealing contexts for Banks' narratives m willing to unfold in (this gets magnificently realised in the world building bet most of his [[:Category:Iain M Banks|Iain M. Banks]] alter-ego) and populating them with memorablewhat we fear will never happen, larger than life but usually short of caricature, charactersor we can take steps to change it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349119287</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Janice GallowayJennifer Saint|title=Collected StoriesAtalanta
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Meet Windisch''I was as worthy as any one of them. A miller in a small villageI would get on board that ship, he trudges through there, and through his neighbours, and through his life, counting his days and hoursI vowed. I would take my place, for reasons that are not initially clearjust in the name of the goddess. But he does want something - he is waiting It was for a passport so he can leave for other climes. The perks of his job are the bags sake of flour he leaves by the mayor's house with regularity, as an open bribemy name, but there might be a bigger sacrifice to have to maketoo.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1852421398</amazonuk>}}Atalanta''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Russell Celyn JonesAmanthi Harris|title=The Ninth Wave (New Stories from the Mabinogion) Beautiful Place|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Pwyll rules Padma, a medieval-style fiefdom in young Sri Lankan, has returned to the Villa Hibiscus on the southern coast of her home country. This is a post-climate change Walesplace she spent her formative years. Life It is different in many ways - there's not a new-place she was born into, but-old social order built on feudalism and horsepower is the main means one she thinks of transportas home. But in many ways How she came to be at the Villa, how itbecame her home, and the 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 same - people still fight one anothermusical score of a film, towns still have sink estates, rich boys still have too much time on their hands and precious little meaning in their livesthat strand weaves its way through everything that happens at the Villa. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1854115146</amazonuk>1784631930
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Owen Sheers178563335X|title=White Ravens (New Stories from the Mabinogion)Sea Defences|author=Hilary Taylor|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=In 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 children up. Her husband, Christopher, collects six-year-old taleHannah and her elder brother, Jamie, Branwen is the sister of Bendigeidfran whilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioner. Thelma's daughter-in- the giant King of Britain. She marries the King of Ireland, who doesnlaw won't treat let her see her wellgrandson. She manages Holthorpe, on the Norfolk coast, is a lovely place, but Rachel is struggling to send Bendigeidfran develop a message via a tamed starling real bond with the parish - and war and killings ensue. In this new tale, a young girl has just walked away from her brothers who, she's in the wake awe of the devastating foot and mouth outbreakvicar, Gail, are despoiling their heritage by rustling but then she's been doing the job for more than thirty years. Rachel and illegally slaughtering sheep. She meets an old man who tells her Christopher hoped that a story involving walk on the superstitions about the ravens in the Tower of London, propaganda work during World War II, and an equally doomed love affairbeach would do them some good - it was stormy but it was probably what they needed. And then Hannah went missing. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1854115030</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Shirley Jackson1398515388|title=We Have Always Lived In The CastleBoy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=Mary Katherine BlackwoodFirst of all, also known as Merricatit was the earthquake, is eighteen, and lives with her older sister Constance deep in the family home where 'Blackwoods had always lived'. Merricat quickly draws ocean floor, which created the reader into her world by a series of matter of fact but bizarre statements – her likes include her sister tsunami and death cap mushroomsthis, and everyone else in her family is deadturn, caused the nuclear meltdown. The wealthy Blackwood family has always kept the house 'steady against the world', shutting out other people, result was complete and they live near a villageutter devastation. Merricat believes that ' The people of the village have always hated us'deaths were uncountable, and tells us that she hates them too.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141191457</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Deborah Gregory|title=Dancing With The Dead|rating=3|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=I wanted to read ''Dancing with the Dead'', because I'm interested in family historyloss of livelihoods was widespread. The blurb on fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the back list of priorities but - six months after the book also mentioned Gill – our heroine of tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. He wasn't a dog person but the piece – was moving from Bristol (my current home) convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to Lincolnshire (where I was born open his car door and brought up). I felt with all these links, Tamon the novel could not fail to interest me – but this was not the casedog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904529305</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elizabeth Baines0989715337|title=Too Many MagpiesPapa on the Moon|author=Marco North
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Becoming a mother brings a whole new world of fear ''Some frogs had gotten into your life. Suddenly you see the danger in every situation, and fear and trepidation can be become your constant companionswell. In this novella, we meet a young mother who is married to a logical scientist. They attempt to control their children's futures on a scientific basis, growing their own fruit and vegetables, giving their children nothing sugary, eating no eggs for a whole year until any adverse affects from them were disproved. But after meeting with an enigmatic stranger our young mother begins to struggle as he introduces ideas of freedom into her world. She begins an affair with him, begins to let things slip at home and with the children, yet finds she is still continuously haunted by the sense of an ever-present danger.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1844717216</amazonuk>}}'
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|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Arthur Transcombe The summary of this book doesn't come close to explaining what is a middle-aged, grey-haired, self-effacing poet. Unremarkable really - on the outside. He has, however, managed to achieve some success done with his poems. (Being a guest speaker at the Cheltenham Literary Festival is no mean feat)premise. He is also a babe magnet!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1904529429</amazonuk>1913097811}}
{{newreviewFrontpage |author=David Malouf Sally Oliver |title=RansomThe 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
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Taking his theme Early 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 small part of Homerdelight's Iliad, Malouf tells is perhaps using the story of the king of Troy, Priamexpression in a way I's grief-stricken voyage into the Greek camp m not familiar with. I have to ransom Troy's wealth for the body confess my ignorance of his fallen son, Hector, killed by the equally griefSpanish-stricken Achilles whose great friend Hector had killed in battle before Achilles took his cruel revengelanguage literary tradition so forgive my generalisation here. Malouf tells From the story little I have read (in sparsetranslation, yet lyrical and poetic fashion suggesting the personal stories behind the epic themes that Homer related. It is an exquisitely written piece managing I don't read Spanish) there does seem to be both deeply moving as well as a great piece of story tellingtendency towards the fantastical – the mystical realism.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0701184159</amazonuk>0861541901
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David Vann Jennifer Saint|title=Legend of a SuicideElektra|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Some books defy categorisation and that's Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the case with ''Legend story of three women who live in the heavily male dominated world of a Suicide''Ancient Greece. Is it Literary Fiction? Is it a series of short stories linked by a common themeCassandra, Clytemnestra, or a novella with supporting pieces? Is it fiction with a strong autobiographical thread running through it? The simple answer to and Elektra are all these questions is ''yes'' – for bit players in the story of the book is all Trojan War. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that and more. It's also a often the silent women have the most compelling page-turner – I began reading at ten o'clock last night stories and finished it at three thirty this morning, resenting every moment away from the bookmost extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141043784</amazonuk>1472273915
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Milan Kundera8409290103|title=The Book of Laughter and ForgettingIf Only|author=Matthew Tree
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=It's with 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 on board the boat and thereafter Patrick was to send him a somehow guilty feeling that I admit that I have never been particularly fond of Milan Kunderamonthly allowance. He's certainly a very good writer Patrick sent the money regularly and undoubtedly a very intelligent man capable correspondence - of interesting philosophical insightssorts - sprang up between the two although we hear more about what Lowry has to say than Patrick. All those qualities contributed It wasn't that Lowry senior didn't care for his son, it was that he didn't care to have him in this country where he might be a cult status accorded danger to Kundera, compounded by the frisson of political subversion – never a harmful thing for a writer from what used to be known as Eastern Europe (but which returned his wife and other children. The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to its status as Middle (or Central) Europe with get the fall of the Iron Curtain)young man on his way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>057117437X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andrew Miller Antoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)|title=One Morning Like A BirdRed is My Heart|rating=43.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Tokyo [[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white and read in 1940 is a place that we British tend not to give a great deal of thought tomy house. Japan entered the warAnd so was this one, we sayalthough I could have spelled that more accurately – this one was, with the attack on Pearl Harbour in December 1941and is, completely forgetting that Japanblack and white and red. Yes, like most of the rest of the worldhe has an artistic collaborator on this piece, was already a country at war. She had been fighting in China since 1937 and was making in-roads into European colonial territory in I think it's possible to say not one page lacks the area as wellinfluence of some striking visual ideas.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340825154</amazonuk>1913547183
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sadie Jones B098FFFBH9|title=Small WarsSnowcub|author=Graham Fulbright
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=A complex class society Fourteen-year-old Rachel is her school's animal rights project leader and she and her friend are producing a competition entry to highlight the way in which evolved into human beings exploit the animal world. She gets a highly sophisticated culture is invariably great deal of support from her family: father Pip Harrison, a fertile ground for development of social satirelecturer at Imperial College, London, mother Kate and British literature would have been hugely depleted if all novels that can be regarded as such were suddenly to disappearher twin, Nick. Evelyn Waugh made Kate runs the genre his ownfamily business, a toy shop called Cornucopia in Putney, and which is where we'll meet Rachel'A Handful of Dust'' is a sublime example of his mastery s main (if unsuspected) source of itinformation: five soft toys.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141183969</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=William Trevor Yancey Williams|title=Love and SummerCrosshairs of the Devil
|rating=4.5
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|summary=''Love and Summer'' Award-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski is set in the small town of Rathmoye getting on in a rural Ireland 'some years after the middle of the last century'. The novel charts the doomed love affair between Ellie, a young farmer's wifeand, despite his strenuous objections and Florianthanks to his daughter, the Irishfinds himself living -Italian son or imprisoned, from Eddie's point of two artists, but it as much about the place and time in which it is set.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670918245</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Bryony Doran |title=The China Bird|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Edward is a sad and solitary figure. Late middle-aged, twisted-spined and humpview -backed, a loner who works in room 315 of the archive basement Garden of the libraryEden nursing home, 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 agingonly a trusty nursing aide, widowed motherJenkins, Edward finds his relationship with her somewhat strainedfor palatable company. Unlike many of those men, his relationship was always that way. She Nothing is rude and demanding, and he either doesn't have the strength or the inclination going to force the issue with her. Apart keep Eddie from an occasion halfhis stock-hearted reprimandin-trade of writing though, he stands backso here, ignoresfor his readers, makes excusesare his wanderings through his life's work.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>095556302X</amazonuk>0986031658}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jude Morgan 0008421714|title=The Taste of SorrowMrs March|author=Virginia Feito
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The children were born in Thornton, a suburb problem began just after the publication of Bradford, and compared with where they were George March's most successful novel to go it was a soft livingdate. Howarth was high up Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the Yorkshire Moors, industrialised and with weather which chilled last page) seemed to the boneeither be reading it or had already done so. The parsonage Every day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, Patricia asked, as she was four-square wrapping the bread, ''but draughty and not exactly welcoming. isn't this the first time he's based a character on you?'' TheyShe mentioned that Johanna, of course, were the Brontë familyprincipal character had 'her mannerisms''. The father was Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for the fact that Johanna is the impoverished curate and his six children had somehow to be cared for after his wifewhore of Nantes - ''s death from cancera weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755338898</amazonuk>''
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