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[[Category:New Reviews|Literary Fiction]]==Literary fiction==__NOTOC__{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Colm ToibinMatthew Tree|title=The Empty FamilyWe'll Never Know
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=July's taleTimothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, The Long Song, opens with her mother Kitty's rape by Amity plantation's overseer, Tam Dewar. Nine months later, we find him striking the midwife a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and who can't keep Kitty quiet during labour. And Kitty doesn't keep hold had endless crises of her daughter for very longself confidence. Spotted by Caroline, the plantation owner's widowed sister on the side of the roadSo Tim applied himself to his studies, July is taken away from her mother to become a lady's maid. Deprived of both parent cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and name - Caroline renames her Marguerite - July learns how to avoid her mistress's needle stick punishments and finds a place among the other house servantsset himself high but achievable ambitions. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755359402</amazonuk>B0CVFXPGP8
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Howard JacobsonB0C47LV1PC|title=The Finkler QuestionFragility|author=Mosby Woods
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Julian Treslove is Can you make a middle aged former BBC radio producer now working as a professional look alike but quite who he looks like varies. Although never married''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, he has fathered two sons, neither of whom he sees regularly. Dismissed from is the question should you make it? Or is the BBC for being too morbid on his late night Radio 3 programmequestion if you did, he would it land? The catch is given to depressing levels of self-analysis in his small flat thatthe answer for both could well be.... no. ''Fragility''s not quite in Hampstead. What Treslove lacks is a sense set as the city of belonging and thisPortland, he notes his Jewish friends have in spades, particularly his old school friend and rivalOregon, cautiously begins to emerge from the best-selling philosopher and TV personality, Sam Finkler. Treslove, by contrast, always feels on restrictions imposed during the outside of life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408808870</amazonuk>covid pandemic
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alison WongMosby Woods|title=As the Earth Turns SilverA Whirly Man Loses His Turn
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=This lyrical novel The West isn't the dominant force it once was. Nobody in the West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is set in Wellingtonthe best course of action. Governments are flailing. A war here, New Zealand just over a hundred years agopush for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is in actual charge. In this country of Imagine then recent immigrants, there was a racial hierarchy, man with those precognition. Imagine the strategic advantage in this asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of British origin considering themselves superior to otherscircumstances. That man would be valuable, right? Perhaps the most valuable asset in history. Imagine then, and an active Anti-Chinese Leaguethat this man loses this ability.What would governments do to get it back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0330465155</amazonuk>B0C9SNG8R1
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Irene Nemirovsky0571379559|title=The Dogs and the WolvesHouse of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Ada was part ''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the Sinner familystory of four people. They lived Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in the sort house on the riverbank, built of Ukrainian city which was rigorously divided by wealth and statusbroken bricks. At Insubstantial as it might look, it's stood the bottom passage of time, storms and floods. Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the hill lived the people who scratched a living; at the top were the wealthy whose businesses provided most of the livings delivery rounds - and to bring in between were those who struggled for a better existencesufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and Max, the rainbow twins. AdaSonny's colouring reflects his mother died when she was a child and her 's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father did his best, but he was frequently hampered by having to take Ada with him as he worked. The arrival of AdaPeople don't believe that they's widowed aunt re related, much less twins and two young children in the household meant three more mouths to feed, but there was at least some care for the motherless child's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she's his nanny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099507781</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tom McCarthyClaire North|title=CHouse of Odysseus
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''C'' follows the life of Serge Carrefax. Set in the early part of the twentieth century, the reader encounters Serge at various key moments in his life and each of these is quite fascinating and engrossingly related. It's one of those books that is like Dr Who's Tardis - so much happens that when he recalls an earlier part of his life, I found myself thinking 'oh yes, that was in this book too, wasn't itWhat could matter more than love?' The book has been described as post-structuralist but don't let that literary labelling put you off. Yes, it's a complex book that can be read at many levels, (and one which I know I'll come back to), but it's completely readable and not at all 'difficult'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224090208</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=William GibsonKay Chronister|title=Zero HistoryDesert Creatures|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Dystopian Fiction|summary=It's almost obligatory when writing anything about William Gibson to recall With a world that in is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, post-apocalyptic fiction can become an earlier short story, he invented the term 'cyberspace'almost masochistic thrill. Gibson remains at the cutting edge of what Whether it is 'cool'. Like most a robotic takeover, a world devoid of his bookswater or a nuclear holocaust, Zero History this genre is a thriller, but at its core are issues surrounding technology, how we interact with it, branding and marketingway for humans to cathartically experience their most existential fears. It would be easy to criticise much of his content as being too shallow and concerned with 'nothing' Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is a new work of post- but then apocalyptic fiction that's part aligns many of his pointthe fears that exist for humanity today. It is a shocking novel that still manages to find hope.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0670919527</amazonuk>1803364998
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{{newreviewfrontpage|isbn=1803363002|author=John BuchanEric LaRocca|title=The Island of Sheep (John Hannay)Trees Grew Because I Bled There|rating=3.5|genre=General FictionHorror|summary=Richard Hannay Horror taps into something primeval within us. It is feeling old. He looks at himself used as a way to reflect our darkest emotions and his contemporaries how we as humans react and sees process them. Most horror fiction feature a ''Big Bad'', whether that is a home invader, a monster or a spread ghost, it usually something tangible and, by the end of complacencythe story, beatable. Luckily - or perhaps very unluckily - an old pledge will come to haunt himEric LaRocca's ''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is not like that. His earlier career in Africa saw Hannay and his friends swear to protect a man from others - and now It is a second generation collection of animosity is ripe for Hannay to step short stories more interested in the horrors of illness, grief and be a protective detectivehumiliation. Add in a supposed treasure hoard, Horrors that linger and who knows where his last journey might end up?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184697156X</amazonuk>are harder to defeat than any ''Big Bad''.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elizabeth JolleyMadelaine Lucas|title=The Vera Wright TrilogyThirst for Salt
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=''The Vera Wright Trilogy'' contains three novels – ''My Father's Moon''Love, I''Cabin Fever'' and ''The Georges' Wife'' - in one beautifully presented edition. First published about 20 years agod read, they are apparently partly autobiographical, telling the story of a woman's life from the 1940s onwards – work, children, parents, romantic and sexual relationships and friendships.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0892553529</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=David Grossman|title=To the End of the Land|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=This is was supposed to be a sweeping narrative about one Jewish family light and how the various members deal with the ongoing Arab-Israeli war. The mother, Ora, is the lynch-pin of the familyweightless feeling, but her resolve is tested to the limit when her younger son is about to be released from his stint in the army.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224089994</amazonuk>}}I had always longed for gravity''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Christos TsiolkasMichael Grothaus|title=The SlapBeautiful Shining People
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Slapping your own child is bad''But fearing something and having it come to pass are two different things. Slapping someone elseAnd I's child is worse. This is the event at the heart m willing to bet most of Christos Tsiolkas' Man Booker-nominated novelwhat we fear will never happen, set in Melbourne, Australia, when at a barbeque for friends and family, the hostor we can take steps to change it.'s cousin slaps the child of the best friend of the host's wife.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848873557</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Emma DonoghueJennifer Saint|title=RoomAtalanta
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=It's the morning of Jack's fifth birthday, but Jack is no ordinary boy. He and his Ma have been imprisoned by the character known only I was as worthy as 'Old Nick' in a single room for all Jack's lifeany one of them. True he has a television, but his mother has convinced him I would get on board that those people are not real. The room is all Jack has ever known - and in it he has developed his own attachment to things like Bedship, Rug, Table, Skylight and Wardrobe where he sleepsI vowed. The first victim of incarcerationI would take my place, it seems, is not just in the definite article.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330519018</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Andrey Kurkov and Andrew Bromfield|title=The Good Angel name of Death|rating=3the goddess.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Kolya cannot possibly expect what It was for the act sake of moving flatmy name, and finding a book among what the old folks who move out leave behind, might lead totoo. I can hint that it involves a trip of several hundreds of miles, involves a couple of pieces of anatomy the average man does not fancy leaving behind, a chameleon, Kolya being given as a husband-cum-present to a lovely young lady, and a lot more. The find involves UkraineAtalanta''s national author, Taras Shevchenko, and a hunt for something he might have left behind in a desert abutting the Caspian Sea.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099513498</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Harper LeeAmanthi Harris|title=To Kill A MockingbirdBeautiful Place
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Fifty Padma, a young Sri Lankan, has returned to the Villa Hibiscus on the southern coast of her home country. This is a place she spent her formative years after its first release. It is not a place she was born into, readers are once again getting but the chance one she thinks of as home. How she came to acquaint themselves with Harper Lee's classic tale of growing up in be at the Villa, how it became her home, and the Deep South during machinations that have flowed through her life ever since she first arrived there provide the depression. After five decades, ''To Kill a Mockingbirdscore'' still hasnfor this gentle and yet subtly violent novel. Padma't lost s present fails to escape her past and much like the musical score of a film, that strand weaves its charm. Even new readers can expect a classic tale full of elements still relevant to this dayway through everything that happens at the Villa.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099549484</amazonuk>1784631930
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sebastian Faulks178563335X|title=A Week in DecemberSea Defences|author=Hilary Taylor
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=ItWhen we first meet Rachel Bird she's Sundaya trainee vicar, nine days before Christmas sitting in 2007 on a PCC meeting and we meet wondering why they're held when you need to pick the children up. Her husband, Christopher, collects six-year-old Hannah and her elder brother, Jamie, whilst Rachel holds a disparate group of people in London, who are doing what they normally dosobbing parishioner. ThereThelma's a hedge fund manager whodaughter-in-law won's trying to pull off the biggest trade of his careert let her see her grandson. A professional footballer from Poland has just arrived in Holthorpe, on the country and Norfolk coast, is disappointed with his small German cara lovely place, but it will have Rachel is struggling to do until his large German car arrives. A barrister has far too little work develop a real bond with the parish - and too much time on his hands. Thereshe's in awe of the student searching for something in which to believe whovicar, Gail, but then she's led astray by been doing the job for more extreme Islamic fundamentalists – and another student who's addicted to drugs and reality televisionthan thirty years. A devious book reviewer struggles to like anything written after the nineteenth century – Rachel and Christopher hoped that a chutney magnate from Haveringwalk on the beach would do them some good -atte-Bower wants to learn how to discuss books with the Queenit was stormy but it was probably what they needed. Looping all these people together is a Tube driver on the Circle Line And then Hannah went missing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099458284</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anne Tyler1398515388|title=Noah's CompassThe Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=It's always a red letter day to sit down to an unread Anne TylerFirst of all, it was the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and this, in turn, caused the nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and utter devastation. This is her eighteenth published novel The deaths were uncountable, and the loss of livelihoods was widespread. For any readers not already fans The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of her books, this American writer observes priorities but - six months after the ordinary in order to excel at tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. He wasn'making t a dog person but the familiar, strangeconvenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and Tamon the dog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099539586</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Simon Rich0989715337|title=Elliot AllagashPapa on the Moon|author=Marco North|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Meet thirteen year-old Seymor Herson, he's one of life's losers, Some frogs had gotten into the least popular boy at Glendale a second rate private school in New York. He has made a virtue of mediocrity and is happy to simply survive his time at Glendale rather than try and excel at anythingwell.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Damon GalgutDaisy Hildyard|title=In a Strange RoomEmergency
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The summary of this book doesn'In A Strange Room' follows t come close to explaining what is done with the actions of one man as he travels across three different countries, with three sets of companions, playing three separate roles. Never settled in one place, narrator Damon continually hops from one country to another collecting more stamps in his passport than he does friendspremise.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848873220</amazonuk>1913097811}}
{{newreviewFrontpage |author=Nicholson BakerSally Oliver |title=The AnthologistWeight 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=Readers who know of Nicholson Baker don't go to his work expecting convoluted plotEarly comments on this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendous, fast-paced action or non-stop dramaa delight. His novels at their best, dissect, in minute detail, I will agree with the most intimate thoughts and daily doings, usually of first – tremendous is no understatement – but 'a single character. They are revealing and surprising, and revel in language itself, like poetry. In other ways they are unlike poetry, which deals in suggestion and compression. And Bakerdelight's novels generally deal is perhaps using the expression in the opposite.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847397824</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=A L Kennedy|title=What Becomes|rating=4|genre=Short Stories|summary=Youa way I're three stories into this collection and two people have cut their hands open preparing food - a man m not familiar with love drooping away from his marriage, making soup, and another, a greengrocer, preparing stock and thinking about his own relationship. But there is no pattern I have to that. Four stories in and there have been two bursts confess my ignorance of nonthe Spanish-sequitur comedylanguage literary tradition so forgive my generalisation here. Why your fruit might be ruined by stray fingers, and From the thoughts of a woman little I have read (in a flotation tanktranslation, remembering Doctor Who, locked parental doors - and the urban myths of gerbils. But I don't read Spanish) there's still no pattern - and that's the point of these combined stories. Life and all of its emotions does not live seem to rulebe a tendency towards the fantastical – the mystical realism.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>009949406X</amazonuk>0861541901
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Adam ThirlwellJennifer Saint|title=The EscapeElektra
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=When we first meet seventy-eight year-old Raphael Haffner, he is hiding in a spa hotel closet watching a twenty-something year-old yoga instructor (who knows he's there) having sex with her boyfriend (who doesnElektra't). Haffner is a British, Jewish former banker who is staying at the spa in Central Europe while on a mission to reclaim his dead wife's villa that was confiscated by Jennifer Saint tells the Nazis story of three women who live in the warheavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. Thirlwell's narratorCassandra, Clytemnestra, some fifty years younger than Haffner (ie and Elektra are all bit players in the age story of the author), describes Trojan War. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the silent women have the most compelling stories and the aging libertine Haffner as ''lustful, selfish, vain - an entirely commonplace man''. Charmingmost extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099539837</amazonuk>1472273915
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Louise Dean8409290103|title=The Old RomanticIf Only|author=Matthew Tree
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Ken is nearly eighty and Twenty-one-year-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by his father, cotton-broker AO Lowry: he's obsessed with asked his death and planning his own funeral. He's even helping out on a volunteer basis in the local undertaker'saccountant, Mr Patrick, but what he'd really like is to be back with his family. The trouble is ensure that they've rather moved the young man got on. His sister – who seems to have been board the perfect woman in his life – is dead. He boat and his first wife are divorced and he's contemplating the same end thereafter Patrick was to his second marriagesend him a monthly allowance. His elder son left home some twenty years ago as Gary Patrick sent the money regularly and rea correspondence -invented himself as Nickof sorts - sprang up between the two although we hear more about what Lowry has to say than Patrick. At forty he It wasn't that Lowry senior didn's a solicitort care for his son, living with his girlfriend and her twelve-year old daughter and it was that he's happy. He really doesndidn't want Ken care to spoil things, but there are some things which you just cannot avoid. Ken is one of them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905490194</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=David Szalay|title=The Innocent|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=This is have him in this country where he might be a slim volume but it is tense, taut danger to his wife and has biteother children. The story see-saws between the 1970s and the late 1940s where much political activity occurs, (there's an understatement) but especially in Russia as far as this novel is concerned. And as we dip into the alcohol problem was obvious even earlier period of the 1930s, we before Patrick managed to get a glimpse of the main character, Aleksandr, as a young man brimming over with political ideology. Along with on his fellow students he fervently believed that 'The making of Communism was something sacred to usway.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099515881</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sofi Oksanen|title=Purge|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Estonia 1992. A year after her country has regained independence from the Soviet Union, Aliide Truu is in her remote cottage in the woods, canning tomatoes from a bumper harvest, swatting at ever-present flies, and trying not to think about the neighbourhood boys who persecute her remorselessly, throwing rocks at her windowsAntoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and even poisoning her dog. Looking out of the window, she sees a bedraggled girl lying outside. Zara is a sex-trafficked girl from Russia, on the run from her pimps. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848872119</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Evie WyldJane Aitken (translator)|title=After the Fire, A Still Small Voice|rating=1|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Frank has moved to his grandparents’ shack by the sea after a tough end to a difficult relationship, and is trying to settle down, get a job, and get to know his new neighbours. He seems to be doing well, until two girls disappear, with suspicion falling on him. Decades earlier, Leon is left to run his family’s cake shop as his father is sent to fight in Korea, before he in turn Red is conscripted to serve in Vietnam. Things happen to him, although very few of them are of any interest whatsoever. Is there a connection between Frank and Leon? Will either or both of them manage to find happiness? Can author Evie Wyld give us any reason to care?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099535831</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Nicola Barker|title=Burley Cross Postbox Theft|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=When a bag of twenty seven undelivered letters was recovered from behind a hairdresser's in Skipton it fell to two local policemen to investigate what would become known as Burley Cross Post Box Theft, for it was in the village of Burley Cross, just before Christmas, that the Post Box was forced open and the mail stolen. P C Roger Topping, of the Ilkley force, took over the case from his old school friend Sargeant Laurence Everill without any great hope of success, but the village was in turmoil and something had to be done.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007355009</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Per Petterson|title=I Curse the River of TimeMy Heart
|rating=3.5
|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=This novel [[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white and read in my house. And so was this one, although I could have spelled that more accurately – this one was, and is told in the first person by the main character, thirtysomething Arvid Jansenblack and white and red. He's at a painful part of his life when we meet him; Yes, he's separated from his wife has an artistic collaborator on this piece, and heI think it's possible to say not coping at all well. As if that wasn't enough personal stress to contend with, he's discovered that his mother is seriously illone page lacks the influence of some striking visual ideas. How long has she got to live? How will she cope? And how will Arvid cope?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846553008</amazonuk>1913547183
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adam HaslettB098FFFBH9|title=Union AtlanticSnowcub|author=Graham Fulbright|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Doug Fanning appears to be a young man in a hurry. He feels heFourteen-year-old Rachel is her school's done his bit for his country in seeing action in the Gulf War animal rights project leader and it's now 'Doug' time. Almost overnight, he's found his vocation she and become a banker - her friend are producing a very successful banker. Everything he touches turns competition entry to goldhighlight the way in which human beings exploit the animal world. And now he wants to show everyone how well he's done in life and requests that She gets a ''casino great deal of support from her family: father Pip Harrison, a house'' is built to his luxuriouslecturer at Imperial College, over-the-top specifications. Nothing wrong with that you may say. The man's earned itLondon, good mother Kate and properher twin, Nick. Or has he? HeKate runs the family business, a toy shop called Cornucopia in Putney, which is where we's chosen to have his executive house built in an area of mature woodland and traditional homes. Itll meet Rachel's bound to stand out like the proverbial sore thumb. The property market is also extremely buoyant and main (if Doug chooses to sell he'll make a packetunsuspected) source of information: five soft toys. Win, win situation all round. Or is it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848874979</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tove JanssonYancey Williams|title=Travelling LightCrosshairs of the Devil|rating=4.5
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|summary=In her home country of Finland – Award-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski is getting on in years and, despite his strenuous objections and no doubt throughout much of the rest of Europe which is not quite so sniffy about foreign literature as Britain tends thanks to be – Jansson is generally recognised as an author of talenthis daughter, skillfinds himself living - or imprisoned, verve and wit that extended far beyond the Moomin Troll stories for which she is best known in this country. Those childrenfrom Eddie's books were first published point of view - in England sixty years ago and have remained in print ever since (as well as being adapted for just about every other medium going)room 315 of the Garden of Eden nursing home, and with only a joy they are tootrusty nursing aide, Jenkins, but it for palatable company. Nothing is only recently that we have been granted the pleasures going to keep Eddie from his stock-in-trade of reading her fiction writing though, so here, for adultshis readers, are his wanderings through his life's work.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>095489958X</amazonuk>0986031658}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Matthiessen0008421714|title=Shadow CountryMrs March|author=Virginia Feito|rating=4.5
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|summary=This is a big book by anyoneThe problem began just after the publication of George March's standardsmost successful novel to date. Think of your average blockbuster in terms of pages - then double Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the last page) seemed to either be reading itor had already done so. Due Every day Mrs March went to its sheer breadth of narrative I think it best if I break it down into manageable book-sized chunks (the novel itself is sub-divided into a trilogy generally known local patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, Patricia asked, as The Watson Trilogy). First offshe was wrapping the bread, there''but isn't this the first time he's an explanatory authorbased a character on you?''s note at She mentioned that Johanna, the beginning to ease the reader in gently, perhapsprincipal character had 'her mannerisms''. I took Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for the fact that Johanna is the whore of Nantes - ''a deep breath and dived in weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085705015X</amazonuk>''
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