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[[Category:New Reviews|Literary Fiction]]==Literary fiction==__NOTOC__{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joe TreasureMatthew Tree|title=Besotted|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=It is late August 1982, the day when O level results come out. Michael Cartwright already knows he has failed his exams and is dreading his parents finding out. He, his twin brother Kieran (who has done very well) and their younger sisters are on the family holiday, staying with their mother's parents in Kilross, County Cork. To escape boredom and his parents' anger, he wanders round the village, where he meets Fergal Noonan, training to be a priest, and lively Peggy OWe'Connor. He has his first kiss and a bit more with Peggy. The family soon goes home to Cheltenham, but their brief visit to Ireland will have far reaching significance.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330511726</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Laila Lalami |title=Secret Son|rating=3.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=''Secret Son'' is the story of Youssef El-Mekki, the slum-dwelling teenage son of single mother Rachida. Youssef has always been told that his father is dead, so when he finds out his mother has lied to conceal the fact that he was born out of wedlock, he plunges headlong into an identity crisis. He tracks down his real father, a wealthy businessman called Nabil Amrani who is surprisingly enthusiastic about his illegitimate son's arrival. Nabil has recently fallen out with his daughter and he seizes this opportunity to mould Youssef into the obedient son he has always wanted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670918296</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Aravind Adiga|title=The White Tigerll Never Know
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|summary=Balram Halwai, a Bangalore entrepreneur (of sorts) and a natural philosopher, hears that there is a planned visit from the Chinese leader Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to India to learn the source of Indian entrepreneurial talent. Balram knows that the story he will be told by the Indian leader will be a long way different from the true story of modern Indian lifehis father, a drunk and so resolves, over the course chronic underachiever whose dreams of seven nights, to write to the Chinese premier with the story being exceptional at any of his life artistic passions all failed miserably and his own journey from a poor son who had endless crises of a rickshaw driver self confidence. So Tim applied himself to the head of his own businessstudies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1843547228</amazonuk>B0CVFXPGP8
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matthew CondonB0C47LV1PC|title=The Trout OperaFragility|author=Mosby Woods
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|summary=Judges Carrington and Thorpe recline in leather armchairs on Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it? Or is the verandah of Buckley's Crossing hotel and watch in silence as a giant trout shuffles across question if you did, would it land? The catch is that the bridgeanswer for both could well be.... no.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Christopher IsherwoodMosby Woods|title=A Single Whirly ManLoses His Turn
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|summary=If youThe West isn've ever wanted t the dominant force it once was. Nobody in the West is quite sure how to know what goes on inside someone's mind you'll love mend this short novelor even if mending it is the best course of action. Governments are flailing. A war here, first published back a push for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is in 1964actual charge. Imagine then, there was a man with precognition. We join George Falconer just at Imagine the moment he awakes from sleep and witness his innermost thoughts as he goes about strategic advantage in this asset; a typical day. It all sounds pretty dull and monotonous but man who can tell you what makes this exciting is that George isn't just will happen given any old professor living set of circumstances. That man would be valuable, right? Perhaps the American Dreammost valuable asset in history. Imagine then, oh no, he's so detached from the banal normality of the world that he's almost outside of his own body at timesthis man loses this ability.What would governments do to get it back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099548828</amazonuk>B0C9SNG8R1
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Angelica Garnett0571379559|title=The Unspoken Truth|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=I would not normally start a review with the biography House of the author, but The Unspoken Truth is presented as autobiographical fiction by a child of the Bloomsbury Group – in fact the subtitle is 'A Quartet of Bloomsbury Stories'. The blurb on the inside cover even identifies which character is based on the author in each of the four stories, just in case we are not sure.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701184353</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewBroken Bricks|author=Amos Oz|title=Rhyming Life and Death|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Rhyming Love and Death is a kind of philosophical love letter to literature, or perhaps more so to fiction. It is a book about how to write, about the compulsion to write, and about the strange world that the writer of fiction must live in.|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. Some of the staff are young enough to remember their own school days there, but many are certainly too old for that. A lot of the boys are victims of ragging and bullying for being too chunky, or too smart - but some are so chunky and smart there's a certain kudos to them. The female of the species is a thing only spied from their own school next door, and only met by selling them ritalin as a weight-control pill, or meeting them at the very rare combined school disco.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241141826</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tom Wolfe|title=The Bonfire of the VanitiesFiona Williams
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|summary=In his own mind, bond trader Sherman McCoy is a 'Master 'The House of the UniverseBroken Bricks''. He has a pleasant wife, a beautiful mistress, and a sweet six year old daughter. Henry Lamb is a black student from the projectsstory of four people. Under normal circumstances, it Tess Hembry's clear that McCoy's world and Lamb's world would never overlap. But when McCoy and his mistress Maria Ruskin end up lost roots are in the BronxJamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, and an accident leads to Lamb being hit by McCoy's Mercedesbut instead, a chain of events start which will lead to his downfall.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099548798</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kate Cole-Adams|title=Walking to she lives in the Moon|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=We meet house on the main character Jessicariverbank, or Jess built of broken bricks. Insubstantial as she is usually calledit might look, deep in an emotional black hole. She can see no light at it's stood the end passage of the tunneltime, storms and floods. And right from the startHer husband, right from page oneRichard, we have a sense of struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the beautiful delivery rounds - and poetic language of Cole-Adamsto bring in sufficient money. 'Time They have twin boys - Sonny and I have a new arrangementMax, the rainbow twins. We leave each other aloneSonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage.' And indeed time is not important in this novelMax takes after his father. We have all the time in the world would probably be the motto of the medical staff - if People don't believe that they had one're related, much less twins and there's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she's his nanny. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849161348</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ru FreemanClaire North|title=A Disobedient GirlHouse of Odysseus
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|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=''A Disobedient Girl'' follows two women struggling to retain control of their lives in the face of servitude. Latha is a servant girl to the affluent Vithanage family, whose daughter, Thara, is Latha's age. As children, the girls are the best of friends, but they are destined to be separated by class, which is made painfully obvious when boys come into the picture. Meanwhile, Biso serves a cruel and drunken husband who beats her and terrorises her children, one of whom is another man's What could matter more than love child. Biso?'s husband murdered her lover in a hateful rage when he uncovered her affair and she realises that she must escape his house if she and her children are 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 future.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670917958</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joe MenoKay Chronister|title=The Great PerhapsDesert Creatures|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Dystopian Fiction|summary=Jonathan Casper faints when he sees clouds. His wife Madeline worries about everything, not least the way the pigeons With a world that she is studying are murdering each otherbecoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, post-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Their seventeen year old daughter Amelia wants to overthrow the evil empire Whether it is a robotic takeover, a world devoid of capitalism and is making her own bombwater or a nuclear holocaust, while fourteen year old Thisbe this genre is looking a way for God and praying humans to himcathartically experience their most existential fears. Jonathan's father, seventy six year old Henry, 'Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is planning his disappearancea new work of post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the fears that exist for humanity today. Jonathan and Madeline may be on the verge of splitting up, It is a shocking novel that still manages to the dismay of both daughtersfind hope.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0330512471</amazonuk>1803364998
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{{newreviewfrontpage|isbn=1803363002|author=Elizabeth KostovaEric LaRocca|title=The Swan ThievesTrees Grew Because I Bled There|rating=25|genre=Literary FictionHorror|summary=1999 – A renowned painter, Robert Oliver, goes mad, attacking Horror taps into something primeval within us. It is used as a painting with way to reflect our darkest emotions and how we as humans react and process them. Most horror fiction feature a knife. He's arrested'Big Bad'', and sent to whether that is a psychiatrist who is also an artist. The psychiatristhome invader, Andrew Marlowea monster or a ghost, can't get his patient to talk to himit usually something tangible and, but tries to investigate what drove him to this by talking to his wife and his girlfriendthe end of the story, and reading some letters Oliver seems obsessed withbeatable. Eric LaRocca's ''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is not like that. 1879 – Beatrice de Clerval, aspiring artist, corresponds with her uncle-by-marriage Olivier Vignot, It is a collection of short stories more experienced painterinterested in the horrors of illness, grief and humiliation. Their letters will be found by Robert Oliver, 120 years later, Horrors that linger and will lead are harder to his loss of sanitydefeat than any ''Big Bad''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847442404</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Atiq RahimiMadelaine Lucas|title=The Patience StoneThirst for Salt
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|summary=Set in Afghanistan, ''The Patience Stone'Love, I' 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 himd read, for the first time ever she is able was supposed to speak to him without fear of censorship be a light and he becomesweightless feeling, but I had always longed for her, 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>}}gravity''
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|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, characters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349119287</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mary McCarthy |title=The Group|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary='Given the attention paid or we can take steps to relations between the sexes, change it would be tempting to call The Group a forerunner of today's chick lit. It's not.'
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Janice GallowayJennifer Saint|title=Collected StoriesAtalanta
|rating=5
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|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
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|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 the back of fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the book also mentioned Gill – our heroine list of the piece – was moving from Bristol (my current home) to Lincolnshire (where I was born and brought up). I felt with all these links, the novel could not fail to interest me – priorities but this was not - six months after the case.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904529305</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Elizabeth Baines|title=Too Many Magpies|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Becoming tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a mother brings dog outside a whole new world of fear into your lifeconvenience store. Suddenly you see He wasn't a dog person but the danger in every situation, and fear and trepidation can be become your constant companions. In this novella, we meet a young mother who is married to a logical scientist. They attempt to control their childrenconvenience store owner'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 comment that he introduces ideas of freedom into her world. She begins an affair with him, begins would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to let things slip at home open his car door and with Tamon the children, yet finds she is still continuously haunted by the sense of an ever-present dangerdog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1844717216</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Katherine May0989715337|title=Burning OutPapa on the Moon|author=Marco North
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Violet has it all – a ''Some frogs had gotten into the 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 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>}}'
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Hilary DixonDaisy Hildyard|title=When Rooks Speak of LoveEmergency
|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
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|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
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|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
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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
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|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 was four-square Every day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to buy olive bread but draughty and not exactly welcoming. Theyon that particular morning, of coursePatricia asked, were as she was wrapping the Brontë family. The father was bread, ''but isn't this the impoverished curate and his six children had somehow to be cared for after his wifefirst time he's death from cancer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755338898</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Agnes Owens |title=The Complete Novellas|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Who is Agnes Owensbased a character on you? '' A Scottish author who portrays working class life from She mentioned that Johanna, the nineteen forties and fiftiesprincipal character had 'her mannerisms''. Now an octogenarianPerhaps this would not have mattered, apparently Agnes Owens started writing at except for the fact that Johanna is the age whore of 58. Here are five previously published stories collected into one new editionNantes - ''a weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, a companion volume to her short storiesunloved, published in 2008unloveable wretch. I don't think you'll be disappointed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846971373</amazonuk>
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