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[[Category:New Reviews|Literary Fiction]]==Literary fiction==__NOTOC__{{newreview|author=Lorrie Moore|title=A Gate At The Stairs|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Bass-playing, 20 year-old Tassie Keltjin is studying an eclectic range of subjects (Geology, British Literature, Sufism, Soundtracks to War Movies and Wine Tasting) in post 9/11 USA when she lands a job as a child minder for chef, Sarah Bink who is adopting an African-American baby. A Gate at the Stairs is at times a very funny and at others a sad reflection of growing up in modern America.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>057119530X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Eleanor Catton|title=The Rehearsal|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=If you are the type of person who wants their novels to start at the beginning, build character and plot before coming to a satisfying 'they all lived happily ever after' ending, then avoid this book at all costs. You will hate it. But I cannot remember when I last enjoyed a first time novel as much as this one. It is ambitious, daring and complex, and yet it works beautifully.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847081398</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Barbara KingsolverMatthew Tree|title=The Lacuna|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Ten years ago, Barbara KingsolverWe's [[The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver|Poisonwood Bible]] revealed the grim politics in the Congo. The Lacuna has a similarly political theme, this time turning her focus on Mexico and the USA in the 1940s and 1950s.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>057125263X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=David Eagleman|title=Sum: Tales from the Afterlivesll Never Know
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|summary=For some reason I find myself unable Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to start this review. So I'll mention this book starts with the endbe different from his father, a drunk and see where we go from there. Of course, that's the key – this book does just that – starts with the end chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of our human life here on Earth (or wherever you happen to be reading this) his artistic passions all failed miserably and posits forty possibilities who had endless crises of what happens thereafterself confidence. So Tim applied himself to his studies, in the hereafter. It's not so much 'Five People You Meet in Heaven' as 'Forty Heavens you Might Meet People In'cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847674283</amazonuk>B0CVFXPGP8
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=M J HylandB0C47LV1PC|title=This Is HowFragility|author=Mosby Woods
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Things werenCan you make a ''Yo birthing person't going too badly for Patrick Oxtoby. He's intelligent and joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did , would it land? The catch is that the answer for both could well at school. Then his Gran died. He started getting pains in his shoulder and things rapidly went downhill from therebe. He drops out of university to become a mechanic. By the time we meet him as a 23-year-old, he's become a loner who cannot communicate his feelings and who cannot seem to fit himself into society. Now his fiancee has left him (and you can see her point) and he finds himself in a seaside boarding house in an unnamed English town, hoping to start a new life. Then, one night he commits an act of violence (you can see it coming) and his life goes from bad to awfulno.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184767383X</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jim CraceMosby Woods|title=All That FollowsA Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Leonard Lessing is a sofa socialistThe West isn't the dominant force it once was. He avoids corporate brands both Nobody in food and in clothes. He abides by all the right-on boycotts. He signs petitions. He does free gigs at benefit concerts. He gives donations - you know West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is the kind best course of thingaction. OnceGovernments are flailing. A war here, eighteen long years ago in Texas in 2006, he came very close to some real direct a push for climate actionthere. But he bottled itA feeling that nobody is in actual charge. And nowImagine then, there was a man with precognition. Imagine the frozen-shouldered jazzman-on-sabbatical finds his less-than-glorious radical past catching up with him right there strategic advantage in his living roomthis asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. That man would be valuable, on right? Perhaps the TVmost valuable asset in history. Maxie LermonImagine then, he of Austin 2006 and no stranger that this man loses this ability. What would governments do to violent agitprop, is in the UK, just up the road from Leonard, and he's taken a family hostage as a protest against the upcoming Reconciliation Summit. get it back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0330445642</amazonuk>B0C9SNG8R1
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ed Hillyer0571379559|title=The Clay DreamingHouse of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Hillyer has taken several historical facts and seamlessly blended in a big dollop ''The House of fiction to create a complex and riveting Broken Bricks'' is the storyof four people. The title is suitably enigmaticTess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in the house on the riverbank, built of broken bricks. Insubstantial as is King Cole (or Brippoki)it might look, it's stood the passage of time, storms and floods. He and Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his fellow cricketers (who also have been given rather unkind nicknames) have sailed from the bottom of the worldvegetables, to complete the bustling metropolis of Londondelivery rounds - and to bring in sufficient money. Talk about extremesThey have twin boys - Sonny and Max, the rainbow twins. And although they have all been diligently Sonny'schooleds colouring reflects his mother' in all things English, nevertheless, they are the talk of the towns Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. The novel has barely started People don't believe that they're related, much less twins and already the mind bogglesthere's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she's his nanny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956251501</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
|author=Claire North
|title=House of Odysseus
|rating=5
|genre= Literary Fiction
|summary= ''What could matter more than love?''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Roddy DoyleKay Chronister|title=The Dead RepublicDesert Creatures|rating=54|genre=Literary Dystopian Fiction|summary=Henry left in 1922, after the Irish Civil War. It is now 1951. After his long exile, nothing is as he expected. He revisits an old home to find no trace that With a house ever stood there. The project world that has brought him back is not as he expected. The Quiet Man will be a hugely successful film becoming increasingly inhospitable for John Fordhumanity, but the life portrayed in post-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Whether it is not Henry Smart's lifea robotic takeover, and the portrait a world devoid of Irish politics and everyday life in the film water or a nuclear holocaust, this genre is not one he recognisesa way for humans to cathartically experience their most existential fears. In his late 40s, he feels he ''Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is an old man already, alone with his memories a new work of post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the wife and family he lostfears that exist for humanity today. It is a shocking novel that still manages to find hope.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0224090097</amazonuk>1803364998
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{{newreviewfrontpage|isbn=1803363002|author=James KelmanEric LaRocca|title=If it is Your LifeThe Trees Grew Because I Bled There|rating=35|genre=Short StoriesHorror|summary=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 ''If This Is Your LifeBig Bad'' , whether that is not so much a collection of short stories as home invader, a monster or a collection ghost, it usually something tangible and, by the end of pieces of creative writingthe story, beatable. Kelman doesnEric LaRocca's ''t really do The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'stories'is not like that. In nineteen pieces It is a collection of writing of varying length from just a single page to short stories more lengthy pieces, such as interested in the story that gives its title to this collectionhorrors of illness, Kelman writes (mostly) about people on the edge of societygrief and humiliation. He addresses issues such as class, politics, gender, age Horrors that linger and ill healthare harder to defeat than any ''Big Bad''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241142423</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Yoko OgawaMadelaine Lucas|title=The Housekeeper and the Professor Thirst for Salt
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=''Love, I never really got on with maths at school. Or sport. So a book that seems to deal with both baseball and mathematics ought to fly to the bottom of my 'to d read' pile. However, this slim little Japanese novel slipped into my hands and into my heart as soon as I saw it. The premise is very simple - a young housekeeper is assigned was supposed to be a job working for an elderly, brain damaged professor of mathematics. He has only eighty minutes of short-term memory, so he doesn't remember her from one day to the nextlight and weightless feeling, but his memory pre-1975 remains intact and somehow he continues to function, living through his obsession with numbers. Each morning he greets her at the door asking I had always longed for her birth date and her telephone number. He finds puzzles and equations in everything, including shoe sizes and baseball, and the housekeeper becomes fascinated as she and her son also begin to see the beauty and the poetry in numbers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099521342</amazonuk>}}gravity''
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{{Frontpage
|author= Michael Grothaus
|title=Beautiful Shining People
|rating=4
|genre= Literary Fiction
|summary= ''But fearing something and having it come to pass are two different things. And I'm willing to bet most of what we fear will never happen, or we can take steps to change it.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Marilyn ChinJennifer Saint|title=Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen: A Manifesto in 41 Tales Atalanta
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Revenge ''I was as worthy as any one of the Mooncake Vixen (oh, how them. I love would get on board that title!) will almost certainly not be to everyone's tasteship, but I confess that vowed. I loved its originalitywould take my place, boldness, sassy style and not just in the name of the goddess. It was for the humour sake of itmy name, too.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241144612</amazonuk>}}Atalanta''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Margaret ForsterAmanthi Harris|title=Isa and MayBeautiful Place|rating=45
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Isamay Padma, a young Sri Lankan, has returned to the Villa Hibiscus on the southern coast of her home country. This is a would-be academic and place she's writing spent her formative years. It is not a thesis about grandmothers in history, inspiredplace she was born into, but the one suspectsshe thinks of as home. How she came to be at the Villa, by how it became her own grandmothershome, Isa and May. Her efforts are constantly diverted by the present needs of machinations that have flowed through her grandmothers life ever since she first arrived there provide the ''score'' for this gentle and the secrets about their pasts which rise to the surface when she least expects themyet subtly violent novel. There Padma's another complication too. Isamay is in present fails to escape her thirties past and has never wanted much like the musical score of a childfilm, but reconsiders, despite the fact that her partner, Ian, is adamant strand weaves its way through everything that he doesn't want children. The more Isamay delves, happens at the more she realises that there are secrets in Ian's past tooVilla.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0701184663</amazonuk>1784631930
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kathryn Stockett178563335X|title=The HelpSea Defences|author=Hilary Taylor
|rating=5
|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Jackson, Mississippi: 1960. The talk at the bridge club and the tennis club is of what Jackie Kennedy is wearing. TheyWhen we first meet Rachel Bird she're white womens a trainee vicar, of course sitting in on a PCC meeting and wondering why they're free held when you need to play because a coloured woman will be looking after pick the childrenup. Her husband, doing the shopping Christopher, collects six-year-old Hannah and cleaning the househer elder brother, Jamie, whilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioner. TheyThelma're trusted to bring s daughter-in-law won't let her see her grandson. Holthorpe, on the children upNorfolk coast, is a lovely place, but they're not trusted Rachel is struggling to be honest about develop a real bond with the silver. Aibileen is raising her seventeenth white child but something hardened parish - and she's in her heart when her son died whilst awe of the white bosses looked vicar, Gail, but then she's been doing the other wayjob for more than thirty years. They took his body to Rachel and Christopher hoped that a walk on the coloureds' hospital and rolled beach would do them some good - it was stormy but it off the back of the truck and leftwas probably what they needed. And then Hannah went missing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141039280</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Olga Grushin1398515388|title=The Concert TicketBoy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=''The Concert Ticket'' follows First of all, it was the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the lives of a family tsunami and this, in Soviet Russia who have grown desperately distant from one anotherturn, caused the nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and utter devastation. Sergei The deaths were uncountable, and the father, is a frustrated musician who longs to play loss of livelihoods was widespread. The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the pre-revolutionary masterpieces list of composers like Igor Selinsky priorities but is forced to play - six months after the kind of patriotic ditties he despisestsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. His schoolteacher wife, Anna, longs for his love, He wasn't a dog person but is never quite able the convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to get open his attention with her shy gestures. Their shiftless son, Alexander, has quietly given up going to school car door and spends his days hanging around Tamon the park, consorting with undesirables. Also living dog jumped in their house is Anna's silent, elderly mother.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670918482</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Aatish Taseer0989715337|title=The Temple-GoersPapa on the Moon|author=Marco North|rating=34
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Aatish Taseer is probably best known for his journalism, publishing regularly in ''Some frogs had gotten into the Indian press, in Prospect, and perhaps most prolifically in Time magazinewell. He has won acclaim for his memoir: Stranger to History in which he, raised by his Indian Sikh mother, traces his absent Muslim father across the border in Pakistan – and also for his translations of the short stories of Saadat Hasan Manto.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670918504</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rose TremainDaisy Hildyard|title=TrespassEmergency
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Set in the hills of Southern France, Trespass is a novel about sibling love and rivalry, disputed territory and ultimately revenge. In the French corner are Aramon Lunel, resident of the Mas Lunel, and his sister Audrun who lives in a cottage in the grounds. In the English corner are Victoria Verey, a garden designer, and her partner, an untalented watercolourist, Kitty. The catalyst that brings these together is the arrival in France summary of Anthony Verey, Victoriathis book doesn's sister whose exclusive antiques business in London is failing and who decides t come close to follow his sister in finding a new life in France. Aramon explaining what is tempted to sell his family Mas by the lure of 'foreign' money even if that means that his sister's house has to be destroyed to secure done with the dealpremise.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0701177942</amazonuk>1913097811}}
{{newreviewFrontpage |author=Castle FreemanSally Oliver |title=All That I HaveThe 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=Castle Freeman may sound like two thirds of Early comments on this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendous, a firm of provincial solicitors delight. I will agree with the first – tremendous is no understatement – but thankfully this Castle Freeman 'a delight' is perhaps using the expression in a man very skilled in writing about way I'm not familiar with. I have to confess my ignorance of the law rather than practicing it. In his latest novel Freeman tells an intriguing tale involving local Sheriff Lucian Wing and his practical yet lowSpanish-key approach to maintaining order in rural Vermontlanguage literary tradition so forgive my generalisation here. Not for Wing From the gung ho approach to fighting crime. He doesnlittle I have read (in translation, I don't wear read Spanish) there does seem to be a uniform, he drives a battered old car rather than the standard issue sheriff's wagon and his gun, so ubiquitous in US law enforcement, is safely tucked away in his bottom drawer. Everyone in tendency towards the area knows fantastical – the sheriff and by and large they respect him and his slightly unorthodox way of doing businessmystical realism.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0715639021</amazonuk>0861541901
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dan RhodesJennifer Saint|title=Little Hands ClappingElektra|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=The first character to mention in this book is a moth. It's a human moth, drawn to the flame that is a museum of suicide - a supposedly cautionary, life-affirming, memento mori, somewhere in Germany. Its curator is an old hand at lonely, unloved museums, fresh from an art gallery in an airport - it didn't take off - who notices the noise of the latest suicide to happen in the museum, and goes right back to sleep. A spider crawls into his mouth and gets eaten.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847675298</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Delphine de Vigan|title=No and Me|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Lou is a clever, clever child with an IQ approaching 160. She's thirteen, but she's been moved up two years at school and she compares her flat chested, nervous self somewhat unfavourably with her fifteen-year-old peer group. Funnily enough, her only real friend at school is Lucas, who's seventeen and such a rebel that he's been moved down two years. Things at home aren't great for Lou. Her baby sister died a few years ago and her mother has been severely depressed ever since. She barely talks, seldom gets dressed. Her father is worn down to the bone with worry and Lou doesn't get a great deal of attention from him either, so distracted is he. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408807513</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Joshua Ferris |title=The Unnamed|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Tim Farnsworth seemed to have it all'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the story of three women who live in the heavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. He loved his wife Jane and daughter Becka and his job as a partner in prestigious law firm was enjoyableCassandra, Clytemnestra, fulfilling and financially rewarding. The fly Elektra are all bit players in the ointment was that sometimes he was overtaken by a compulsion to walk. The time story of day, the weather or Trojan War. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the occasion did not matter – when silent women have the compulsion came he had to walk until he was physically exhausted most compelling stories and fell asleep immediately after calling his wife to come and collect him. There seemed to be no medical explanation for what was happening – and Tim and Jane had tried every source they could find – but Tim was still reluctant to accept that this was a mental rather than a physical illnessthe most extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0670917702</amazonuk>1472273915
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joe Treasure8409290103|title=BesottedIf Only|author=Matthew Tree|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=It is late August 1982Twenty-one-year-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by his father, the day when O level results come out. Michael Cartwright already knows cotton-broker AO Lowry: he has failed asked his exams accountant, Mr Patrick, to ensure that the young man got on board the boat and is dreading his parents finding outthereafter Patrick was to send him a monthly allowance. He, his twin brother Kieran (who has done very well) Patrick sent the money regularly and their younger sisters are on a correspondence - of sorts - sprang up between the family holiday, staying with their mothertwo although we hear more about what Lowry has to say than Patrick. It wasn't that Lowry senior didn's parents in Kilross, County Cork. To escape boredom and t care for his parents' angerson, it was that he wanders round the village, didn't care to have him in this country where he meets Fergal Noonan, training to might be a priest, and lively Peggy O'Connor. He has danger to his first kiss wife and a bit more with Peggyother children. The family soon goes home alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to Cheltenham, but their brief visit to Ireland will have far reaching significanceget the young man on his way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330511726</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Laila Lalami Antoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)|title=Secret SonRed is My Heart
|rating=3.5
|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=''Secret Son'' is the story of Youssef El-Mekki, the slum-dwelling teenage son of single mother Rachida. Youssef has [[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been told black and white and read in my house. And so was this one, although I could have spelled that his father more accurately – this one was, and is dead, so when black and white and red. Yes, 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 fatherartistic collaborator on this piece, a wealthy businessman called Nabil Amrani who is surprisingly enthusiastic about his illegitimate sonand I think it's arrival. Nabil has recently fallen out with his daughter and he seizes this opportunity possible to mould Youssef into say not one page lacks the obedient son he has always wantedinfluence of some striking visual ideas.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0670918296</amazonuk>1913547183
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Aravind AdigaB098FFFBH9|title=The White TigerSnowcub|author=Graham Fulbright
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Balram Halwai, a Bangalore entrepreneur (of sorts) Fourteen-year-old Rachel is her school's animal rights project leader and she and her friend are producing a natural philosopher, hears that there is a planned visit from competition entry to highlight the Chinese leader to India to learn way in which human beings exploit the source of Indian entrepreneurial talentanimal world. Balram knows that the story he will be told by the Indian leader will be She gets a long way great deal of support from the true story of modern Indian lifeher family: father Pip Harrison, a lecturer at Imperial College, London, mother Kate and so resolvesher twin, over Nick. Kate runs the course of seven nightsfamily business, to write to the Chinese premier with the story of his life and his own journey from a poor son of a rickshaw driver to the head toy shop called Cornucopia in Putney, which is where we'll meet Rachel's main (if unsuspected) source of his own businessinformation: five soft toys.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843547228</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Matthew CondonYancey Williams|title=The Trout OperaCrosshairs of the Devil|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Judges Carrington and Thorpe recline Award-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski is getting on in leather armchairs on the verandah of Buckley's Crossing hotel years and watch in silence as a giant trout shuffles across the bridge. The Judges, despite their initial prominence his strenuous objections and convincing backthanks to his daughter, finds himself living -story giving them a valid reason for being in Buckleyor imprisoned, from Eddie's Crossing, will not really concern us. They are there to represent a type: a visitor to small town Australia, a fisherman from point of view - in room 315 of the cityGarden of Eden nursing home, with only a seeker after something in the Snowy that probably isn't fish. We shalltrusty nursing aide, howeverJenkins, be concerned with the giant trout.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>038561506X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Clare Morrall|title=The Man Who Disappeared|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=I was drawn to this book straight awayfor palatable company. Firstly, the jacket cover Nothing is lovely. The subliminal message is read me, please read me. We are introduced going to the Kendall family; motherkeep Eddie from his stock-in-trade of writing though, father and three children. All leading unremarkableso here, rather ordinary lives. The fatherfor his readers, Felix, works hard to provide for are his wanderings through his familylife's work. He loves them all dearly. They all love him back. It is a secure family unit. 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 radar. Why?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340994274</amazonuk>0986031658}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christopher Isherwood0008421714|title=A Single ManMrs March|author=Virginia Feito|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=If you've ever wanted to know what goes on inside someoneThe problem began just after the publication of George March's mind you'll love this short most successful novel, first published back in 1964to date. We join George Falconer just at Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the moment he awakes from sleep and witness his innermost thoughts as he goes about a typical daylast page) seemed to either be reading it or had already done so. It all sounds pretty dull and monotonous Every day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to buy olive bread but what makes this exciting is on that George particular morning, Patricia asked, as she was wrapping the bread, ''but isn't just any old professor living this the American Dream, oh no, first time he's so detached from based a character on you?'' She mentioned that Johanna, the banal normality of principal character had 'her mannerisms''. Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for the world fact that heJohanna is the whore of Nantes - ''s almost outside of his own body at timesa weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099548828</amazonuk>''
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