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[[Category:New Reviews|Literary Fiction]]==Literary fiction==__NOTOC__{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lloyd JonesMatthew Tree|title=Hand Me Down World|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Ines – although it's a little while before we know her by that name – has quite a story to tell, but we don't hear it from her. We listen to the stories told by people who knew her. They might have worked with her at a hotel on the Arabian Sea or in Tunisia. They might have known her name, but nothing quite so personal as her birthday. She was a good worker, used to anticipating what the guests would need but otherwise being invisible. This might have gone on indefinitely, but she met Jermayne, black like Ines, who taught her to swim. He also gave her what she thought was love and a child, which he then abducted. Ines' story is her journey to Berlin to retrieve her son.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848544782</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Peter Carey|title=Parrot and Olivier in Americall Never Know
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|summary=Olivier de Garmont is a young, French aristocrat who is drugged by the enigmatic Marquis de TilbotTimothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a close friend drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of Olivier's monarchist mother, and dispatched to the safety being exceptional at any of the emerging United States to avoid the 1830 July Revolution, his artistic passions all failed miserably and the threat who had endless crises of the dreaded guillotine, in his native Franceself confidence. At least nominally So Tim applied himself to his task while there is to prepare a report on the American penal system on behalf of the French governmentstudies, a task for which he has little interest or indeed talent. Tilbot also dispatches cultivated his servant, an older British man, John Larrit, known to everyone as Parrot, to act as Oliver's secretary, servant, translator and to spy on Olivier for both abilities rather than his mother daydreams and Tilbot. They are an ill-matched pair, from opposite sides of the social spectrum set himself high but in democratic America, this relationship develops in ways that neither of them would expect. The story is told in alternating voices of these two main charactersachievable ambitions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571253296</amazonuk>B0CVFXPGP8
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emmanuel CarrereB0C47LV1PC|title=A Russian NovelFragility|author=Mosby Woods
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|summary=We meet Carrere as part of Can you make a small film crew. One minute they're in France'Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the next they're in question should you make it? Or is the midst of povertyquestion if you did, freezing temperatures and would it land? The catch is that the utter desolation of a Russian town, miles from anywhereanswer for both could well be. Carrere back-pedals for the sake of his readers, explaining that he has family connections with Russia. But, as an intelligent and educated man, he also wonders what the hell he's doing here. He's relinquished the comforts of his life in France for what - grey sheets and terrible food. He must be madno.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846680859</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Raymond CarverMosby Woods|title=BeginnersA Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=4.5|genre=Short StoriesLiterary Fiction|summary= One thing you soon surmise from reading Raymond Carver is that he The West isn't the dominant force it once was an alcoholic. Carver's characters tend Nobody in the West is quite sure how to drink excessively, and his stories often examine mend this or even if mending it is the negative impact best course of drinking on his central character's relationshipsaction. Governments are flailing. But nowadaysA war here, what we talk about when we talk about Carver a push for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is in actual charge. Imagine then, there was a man with precognition. Imagine the role strategic advantage in this asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of his editorcircumstances. That man would be valuable, Gordon Lishright? Perhaps the most valuable asset in history.Imagine then, that this man loses this ability. What would governments do to get it back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099540320</amazonuk>B0C9SNG8R1
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Carmine Abate0571379559|title=The Homecoming PartyHouse of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams
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|summary=Every year young Marco eagerly awaits his father''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the story of four people. Tess Hembry's returnroots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in the house on the riverbank, when he can for a few months spend precious time with him before he leaves againbuilt of broken bricks. Marco Insubstantial as it might look, it's father Tullio is a migrant worker forced through poverty stood the passage of time, storms and floods. Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the delivery rounds - and to work bring in Northern France doing hard manual worksufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and Max, the rainbow twins. In this way he manages to earn enough to help Sonny's colouring reflects his family have a decent livingmother's Jamaican heritage. The family, Max takes after his eldest daughter Elise now at collegefather. People don't believe that they're related, Marco his only son much less twins and a younger sister known only as there'la piccola' along s an assumption when Max is out with his wife and elderly mother live in Calabria, an economically depressed area of southern Italy. They belong to the minority Arberesh community, descended from Albanian immigrants settling small villages in the mountainous regions of La Sila. Just as the Calabrian people are looked down upon by other Italians the Arberesh people are even looked down upon by the Calabriansthat she's his nanny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1933372834</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=Padgett PowellKay Chronister|title=The Interrogative MoodDesert Creatures|rating=2.54|genre=General Dystopian Fiction|summary=SoWith a world that is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, what post-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Whether it is a novel? Does it need robotic takeover, a plot, climax and resolution? Characters who grow? A setting? Themes which explore the human condition? And must it entertain? Padgett Powell challenges our perceptions world devoid of fiction with water or a book that explores what it nuclear holocaust, this genre is a way for humans to be a novel, but without any preconditionscathartically experience their most existential fears. How far he succeeds ''Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is down to a new work of post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the individual readerfears that exist for humanity today. But I thought I'd give it It is a goshocking novel that still manages to find hope.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846683661</amazonuk>1803364998
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{{newreviewfrontpage|isbn=1803363002|author=Colm ToibinEric LaRocca|title=The Empty FamilyTrees Grew Because I Bled There|rating=4.5|genre=Short StoriesHorror|summary=In his first book since the pitch-perfect [[Brooklyn 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 ''Big Bad'', whether that is a home invader, a monster or a ghost, it usually something tangible and, by Colm Toibin|Brooklyn]], Colm Toibin once more examines the great Irish theme end of exile and homecoming in his new collection of short storiesthe story, beatable. Eric LaRocca's ''The Empty FamilyTrees Grew Because I Bled There'' is not like that. As It is a collection of short stories more interested in the title suggests, many horrors of the stories also revolve around family relationshipsillness, grief and their sweet humiliation. Horrors that linger and sour Natureare harder to defeat than any ''Big Bad''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670918172</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andrea LevyMadelaine Lucas|title=The Long SongThirst for Salt
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=July's tale'Love, The Long SongI'd read, opens with her mother Kittywas supposed to be a light and weightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravity's rape by Amity plantation's overseer Told from a retrospective view, Tam Dewara young woman unravels the year-long relationship that once defined her. Nine months Overlaid with laterwisdom, we find him striking the midwife who cannarrator relives the affair with a man twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the summer after. Set against the backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town 't keep Kitty quiet during labour. And Kitty doesn't keep hold of her daughter Thirst for very long. Spotted by Caroline, Salt'' details the plantation owner24-year-old narrator's widowed sister on the side of the roaddeepening relationship with her older lover, depicting its all-consuming nature, July is taken away from how it changed her mother to become a lady's maid. Deprived of perspective on both parent romantic and familial relationships and name - Caroline renames her Marguerite - July learns how to avoid it altered her mistress's needle stick punishments and finds a place among the other house servantsirrevocably. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755359402</amazonuk>0861546490
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Howard JacobsonMichael Grothaus|title=The Finkler QuestionBeautiful Shining People
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Julian Treslove is a middle aged former BBC radio producer now working as a professional look alike but quite who he looks like varies. Although never married, he has fathered ''But fearing something and having it come to pass are two sons, neither of whom he sees regularlydifferent things. Dismissed from the BBC for being too morbid on his late night Radio 3 programme, he is given And I'm willing to depressing levels bet most of self-analysis in his small flat that's not quite in Hampstead. What Treslove lacks is a sense of belonging and thiswhat we fear will never happen, he notes his Jewish friends have in spades, particularly his old school friend and rival, the best-selling philosopher and TV personality, Sam Finkleror we can take steps to change it. Treslove, by contrast, always feels on the outside of life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408808870</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Irene NemirovskyJennifer Saint|title=The Dogs and the WolvesAtalanta
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Ada ''I was part as worthy as any one of the Sinner familythem. I would get on board that ship, I vowed. They lived I would take my place, not just in the sort name of Ukrainian city which the goddess. It was rigorously divided by wealth and statusfor the sake of my name, too. Atalanta'' Princess. Warrior. Lover. Hero. At Abandoned at birth for being born a daughter rather than a son, Atalanta is raised under the bottom protective eye of the hill lived the people goddess Athemis and fashioned into a formidable huntress, one who scratched a living; at longs for adventure. When the top were opportunity comes – to join the wealthy whose businesses provided most Argonauts, a fierce band of warriors, descendent from the Gods themselves – Atalanta seizes the livings chance to fight in Artemis' name and carve out her own legendary place in between were those who struggled for a better existencehistory. Ada's mother died when she was What follows is a child whirlwind of challenges and discovery and her father did his bestthrough it, but he was frequently hampered by having to take Ada with him as he worked. The arrival of AdaAtalanta must remember Artemis's widowed aunt and two young children in the household meant three more mouths to feedfatal warning: that if she marries, but there was at least some care for the motherless childit will be her undoing.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099507781</amazonuk>1472292154
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tom McCarthyAmanthi Harris|title=CBeautiful Place
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=''C'' follows Padma, a young Sri Lankan, has returned to the Villa Hibiscus on the life southern coast of Serge Carrefaxher home country. Set in This is a place she spent her formative years. It is not a place she was born into, but the early part one she thinks of as home. How she came to be at the twentieth centuryVilla, how it became her home, and 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 machinations that when he recalls an earlier part of his have flowed through her life, I found myself thinking ever since she first arrived there provide the 'oh yes, that was in this book too, wasn't it?score' The book has been described as post-structuralist but don't let that literary labelling put you offfor this gentle and yet subtly violent novel. Yes, it Padma's present fails to escape her past and much like the musical score of a complex book film, that can be read strand weaves its way through everything that happens at many levels, (and one which I know I'll come back to), but it's completely readable and not at all 'difficult'the Villa.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0224090208</amazonuk>1784631930
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lorcan Roche178563335X|title=The CompanionSea Defences|author=Hilary Taylor
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Closeted away 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 opulence of his parents' Madison Avenue apartmentchildren up. Her husband, EdChristopher, bound to a wheelcollects six-year-chair because muscular dystrophy has laid claim to his bodyold Hannah and her elder brother, Jamie, spends his days veiled from the outside worldwhilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioner. EdThelma's sadness manifests itself daughter-in curious ways-law won't let her see her grandson. Holthorpe, though largelyon the Norfolk coast, via spectacularis a lovely place, spoiledbut Rachel is struggling to develop a real bond with the parish -brattish outbursts designed to get and she's in awe of the parental attention he craves vicar, Gail, but then she's been doing the job for more than thirty years. Rachel and Christopher hoped that is palpably absent from his confined lifea walk on the beach would do them some good - it was stormy but it was probably what they needed. Then he meets TrevorAnd then Hannah went missing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1933372842</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=William Gibson1398515388|title=Zero HistoryThe Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Richard Hannay is feeling oldFirst of all, it was the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and this, in turn, caused the nuclear meltdown. He looks at himself The result was complete and his contemporaries utter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, and sees a spread the loss of complacencylivelihoods was widespread. Luckily The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of priorities but - or perhaps very unluckily six months after the tsunami - an old pledge will come to haunt himKazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. His earlier career in Africa saw Hannay and He wasn't a dog person but the convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his friends swear to protect a man from others - car door and now a second generation of animosity is ripe for Hannay to step Tamon the dog jumped in and be a protective detective. Add in a supposed treasure hoard, and who knows where his last journey might end up?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184697156X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elizabeth Jolley0989715337|title=The Vera Wright TrilogyPapa on the Moon|author=Marco North|rating=54
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=''The Vera Wright Trilogy'' contains three novels – Some frogs had gotten into the well.''My Father's Moon'', ''Cabin Fever'' and ''The Georges' Wife'' - in one beautifully presented edition. First published about 20 years ago, 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>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Christos TsiolkasDaisy Hildyard|title=The SlapEmergency
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Slapping your own child is bad. Slapping someone else's child is worse. This is the event at the heart of Christos Tsiolkas' Man Booker-nominated novel, set in Melbourne, Australia, when at a barbeque for friends and family, the host's cousin slaps the child of the best friend of the host's wife.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848873557</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jacqueline Yallop|title=Kissing Alice|rating=3|genre=Literary Fiction|The summary=Arthur Claythorne, a decorator by trade finds himself out of work and back home in Plymouth as the First World War begins, along with a stolen copy of William Blakethis book doesn's ''Songs of Innocence and Experience'', a book full of powerful imagery. After being injured in the war Arthur returns home to his wife Queenie May and two daughters, Florrie and Alice, a changed man, deeply affected by his experiences in the trenches and desperate t come close to find religion. Despite Florrie's interest in following her father into Catholicism, it explaining what is Alice who suddenly finds herself done with the object of her father's unusual and inappropriate attentionpremise.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848870345</amazonuk>1913097811}}
{{newreviewFrontpage |author=Emma DonoghueSally Oliver |title=RoomThe 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=It's Early comments on this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendous, a delight. I will agree with the morning of Jack's fifth birthday, but Jack first – tremendous is no ordinary boy. He and his Ma have been imprisoned by the character known only as understatement – but 'Old Nicka delight' is perhaps using the expression in a single room for all Jackway I's life. True he has a television, but his mother has convinced him that those people are m not realfamiliar with. The room is all Jack has ever known I have to confess my ignorance of the Spanish- and language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation here. From the little I have read (in it he has developed his own attachment translation, I don't read Spanish) there does seem to things like Bed, Rug, Table, Skylight and Wardrobe where he sleeps. The first victim of incarceration, it seems, is be a tendency towards the fantastical – the definite articlemystical realism.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0330519018</amazonuk>0861541901
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|summary=Meet Jeff. He's a journalist living in London, with a fine line Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the story of three women who live in delaying his work effort and a keen eye for detail. He can see how the heavily male dominated world is made better by a smile from a random shopkeeper - yet seems too grumpy to try it himselfof Ancient Greece. Instead he suspects his habit of walking roundCassandra, mouthing or speaking out his own inner thoughts is making him seem a scary old man. He can partly address thisClytemnestra, by dying his hair. And he can stop walking round London when he gets commissions to report back from the modern arts Biennale and Elektra are all bit players in Venice. Soon, however, the only work story of art he's at all worried about goes by the name of Laura.Trojan War.Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the silent women have the most compelling stories and the most extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184767271X</amazonuk>1472273915
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elia Barcelo and David Frye8409290103|title=Heart of TangoIf Only|author=Matthew Tree
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Although less than 200 pages in lengthTwenty-one-year-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by his father, this short novel encompasses a great dealcotton-broker AO Lowry: he asked his accountant, both in the storylineMr Patrick, and to ensure that the development of young man got on board the characters. The plot itself is simple. Young Natalia has been betrothed boat and thereafter Patrick was to the much older Berstein, send him a German sailor known for some time to Natalia’s father. He appears as a kindly character, and clearly in love/enamoured of Nataliamonthly allowance. But Patrick sent the marriage is no love match, but one done instead for expediency, and although prepared to go through with it, Natalia is like any other young girl, money regularly and wishes she was marrying the love of her life. Her mother died when she was a baby so she has had a lonely childhood, yearning for female company and guidance correspondence - but the reality of sorts - sprang up between the situation two although we hear more about what Lowry has meant to say than Patrick. It wasn't that other than an elderlyLowry senior didn't care for his son, kindly neighbour who has tried it was that he didn't care to have him in this country where he might be a danger to help support his wife and advise her, she is irrevocably alone - seeming other children. The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to have very few friends even of her own ageget the young man on his way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906694605</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Harper LeeAntoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)|title=To Kill A MockingbirdRed is My Heart|rating=3.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Fifty years after its first release[[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white and read in my house. And so was this one, readers are once again getting the chance to acquaint themselves with Harper Leealthough I could have spelled that more accurately – this one was, and is, black and white and red. Yes, he has an artistic collaborator on this piece, and I think it's classic tale of growing up in the Deep South during possible to say not one page lacks the depression. After five decades, ''To Kill a Mockingbird'' still hasn't lost its charm. Even new readers can expect a classic tale full influence of elements still relevant to this daysome striking visual ideas.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099549484</amazonuk>1913547183
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sebastian FaulksB098FFFBH9|title=A Week in DecemberSnowcub|author=Graham Fulbright|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=ItFourteen-year-old Rachel is her school's Sunday, nine days before Christmas in 2007 animal rights project leader and she and we meet her friend are producing a disparate group of people competition entry to highlight the way in London, who are doing what they normally dowhich human beings exploit the animal world. There's She gets a hedge fund manager who's trying to pull off the biggest trade great deal of his career. A professional footballer support from Poland has just arrived in the country her family: father Pip Harrison, a lecturer at Imperial College, London, mother Kate and is disappointed with his small German carher twin, but it will have to do until his large German car arrivesNick. A barrister has far too little work and too much time on his hands. There's Kate runs the student searching for something family business, a toy shop called Cornucopia in Putney, which to believe whois where we's led astray by the more extreme Islamic fundamentalists – and another student wholl meet Rachel's addicted to drugs and reality television. A devious book reviewer struggles to like anything written after the nineteenth century – and a chutney magnate from Havering-atte-Bower wants to learn how to discuss books with the Queen. Looping all these people together is a Tube driver on the Circle Linemain (if unsuspected) source of information: five soft toys.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099458284</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anne TylerYancey Williams|title=Noah's CompassCrosshairs of the Devil
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|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=ItAward-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski is getting on in years and, despite his strenuous objections and thanks to his daughter, finds himself living - or imprisoned, from Eddie's always point of view - in room 315 of the Garden of Eden nursing home, with only a red letter day to sit down to an unread Anne Tylertrusty nursing aide, Jenkins, for palatable company. This Nothing is her eighteenth published novel. For any readers not already fans going to keep Eddie from his stock-in-trade of her bookswriting though, this American writer observes the ordinary in order to excel at 'making the familiarso here, for his readers, strangeare his wanderings through his life's work.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099539586</amazonuk>0986031658}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Simon Rich0008421714|title=Elliot AllagashMrs March|author=Virginia Feito
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|summary=Meet thirteen year-old Seymor Herson, he's one The problem began just after the publication of lifeGeorge March's losers, most successful novel to date. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the least popular boy at Glendale a second rate private school in New York. He has made a virtue of mediocrity and is happy last page) seemed to simply survive his time at Glendale rather than try and excel at anythingeither be reading it or had already done so. Meet thirteen year-old Elliot Allagash heir Every day Mrs March went to one of the largest fortunes in America. Elliot who makes a habit of being thrown out of exclusive private schools has finally ended up at Glendale whose reliance local patisserie to buy olive bread but on his family's funding means that he cannot be expelled despite his various misdemeanours. Expulsion not being an option Elliot embarks on an equally difficult projectparticular morning, Patricia asked, to make Seymor into as she was wrapping the most popular boy in school and beyond that to turn him into a young prodigybread, ''but isn't this the talk of the New York elite. Can first time he achieve this's based a character on you? And at what cost?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846687543</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=James Robertson|title=And The Land Lay Still|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=The novel starts ... at the end. '' We see She mentioned that Johanna, the fictional principal character, photographer Mike Pendreich collating many, many photographs which his late father took with his trusty camerahad 'her mannerisms''. His father is generally acknowledged as the better of the two at the craft; he simply had Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for the knack. And what his son is now in charge of are black and white photographs charting a social history at that time. And we all know fact that a picture Johanna is worth a thousand words.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>024114356X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Damon Galgut|title=In a Strange Room|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary='In A Strange Room' follows the actions whore 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 friends.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848873220</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Nicholson Baker|title=The Anthologist|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Readers who know of Nicholson Baker donNantes - ''t go to his work expecting convoluted plota weak, fast-paced action or non-stop drama. His novels at their best, dissect, in minute detail, the most intimate thoughts and daily doingsplain, usually of a single character. They are revealing and surprisingdetestable, and revel in language itselfpathetic, like poetry. In other ways they are unlike poetryunloved, which deals in suggestion and compressionunloveable wretch. And Baker's novels generally deal in the opposite.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847397824</amazonuk>'
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