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[[Category:New Reviews|Literary Fiction]]==Literary fiction==__NOTOC__{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Simon ThirskMatthew Tree|title=Not Quite WhiteWe'll Never Know
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The story alternates between the two main characters: Welsh Gwalia (that's Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a she, by the way) drunk and English Jon Bull (and you get an idea chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of the fun Thirsk has with his names and also characters) as the two meet up for the first time. Lots of Welsh names such as Gwenfer and Gwenlais artistic passions all failed miserably and also lots who had endless crises of (mainly) unpronounceable place names including the glorious - wait for it - Llanchwaraetegdanygelynself confidence. Thirsk has also scattered Welsh vocabulary all over the place: but many of the words are easily understood (Anti for Auntie and Yncl for Uncle etc) so you don't really have So Tim applied himself to keep referring to the comprehensive Appendixhis studies, unless you want tocultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184851199X</amazonuk>B0CVFXPGP8
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=B0C47LV1PC
|title=Fragility
|author=Mosby Woods
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' 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 be.... no.
''Fragility'' is set as the city of Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nigel FarndaleMosby Woods|title=The BlasphemerA Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=3.54
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Daniel Kennedy The West isn't the dominant force it once was. Nobody in the West is a soon-quite sure how to-be professor mend this or even if mending it is the best course of zoology and a militant atheistaction. Governments are flailing. With A war here, a beautiful and successful dentist push for a partner, and an intelligent, precocious nine-year-old daughter, his life climate action there. A feeling that nobody is what you might call gildedin actual charge. Novels as they areImagine then, though, things soon begin to fall apartthere was a man with precognition. On their way to Imagine the strategic advantage in this asset; a holiday man who can tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. That man would be valuable, right? Perhaps the most valuable asset in the Galapagos Islandshistory. Imagine then, Daniel and Nancy's plane crashes into the seathat this man loses this ability. Daniel swims for miles What would governments do to get help and, just as all seems lost and he's on the point of drowning, a mysterious figure appears and guides him to the shore and rescue. it back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552776173</amazonuk>B0C9SNG8R1
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=F Scott Fitzgerald0571379559|title=The Great GatsbyHouse of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary='No — Gatsby turned out all right at 'The House of Broken Bricks'' is the end; it is what preyed on Gatsbystory of four people. Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, what foul dust floated she lives in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in house on the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations riverbank, built of menbroken bricks. Insubstantial as it might look, it'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0140620184</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Faiza Guene s stood the passage of time, storms and Sarah Ardizzone|title=Bar Balto|rating=4floods.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Joel Her husband, 'The Rink'Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, is to complete the owner of the local bar delivery rounds - and to bring in town sufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and has been found murderedMax, stabbed and naked in a pool of bloodthe rainbow twins. HeSonny's an opinionated, racist, lecherous busy-body, so therecolouring reflects his mother's no shortage of suspectsJamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. Faiza Guene creates an intriguingPeople don't believe that they're related, interesting murder-mystery as we hear from each suspect in their own voice much less twins and follow the story through to its conclusion to discover who really murdered there'The Rinks an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she's his nanny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701184221</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Salvatore ScibonaClaire North|title=The EndHouse of Odysseus
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Salvatore Scibona is one of a new breed of American authors who in his first book has decided to take on the great American literary novel. Has he succeeded''What could matter more than love?''
The End is follow-up to the excellent ''Ithaca'' picks up a novel that while being a part few months after where we left off. In the palace of a modern burgeoning literary movement very much looks back Odysseus, with delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without her husband, who sailed to war at Troy and then by divine intervention never returned home. As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for the great American literature tradition throne of the last centuryWestern Isles. In ScibonaHaving survived – politically and physical – the chaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to Ithaca's beautifully crafted prose we see glimpses of Saul Bellowshores, Queen Penelope is on the vibrancy brink of Kerouac and a fragile peace. One that shatters however with the sensibilities return of UpdikeOrestes, a heady mix to be sureKing of Mycenae, and his sister Elektra, seeking refuge.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0224091492</amazonuk>0356516075
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Santiago Roncagliolo and Edith GrossmanKay Chronister|title=Red AprilDesert Creatures|rating=4|genre=Literary Dystopian Fiction|summary=The very first sentence concerns the sudden discovery of With a body. Judging by its dreadful stateworld that is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, not only some form of foul play but also some form of torture has been usedpost-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. No one locally knows anything at all. Looks like a tough investigation looms for local Prosecutor by the name of Chacaltana. He Whether it is the central character in the novel. He comes across as a bit of a plodderrobotic takeover, a bit world devoid of water or a dullardnuclear holocaust, someone who this genre is methodical a way for humans to cathartically experience their most existential fears. ''Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is a ridiculous level in his line of new work. His line of work is also lowpost-levelapocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the fears that exist for humanity today. But, even so, he It is a man who takes pride in what he does. So when he becomes involved in this macabre body incident, he gives it his full concentration. It becomes obvious he will leave no stone unturned shocking novel that still manages to try and solve this crimefind hope.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1843548313</amazonuk>1803364998
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{{newreviewfrontpage|isbn=1803363002|author=Charles DickensEric LaRocca|title=The Christmas BooksTrees Grew Because I Bled There|rating=5|genre=Literary FictionHorror|summary=IHorror 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''d just like to say at the outset , whether that after reviewing mainly contemporary authorsis a home invader, a monster or a ghost, it's a refreshing change to have usually something tangible and, by the chance to review one end of 'the classics'. (I hope I do the great man justice)story, beatable. Personally, I love the classics and IEric LaRocca've read a number of Dickenss ' - including 'Bleak House' and 'Hard Times' but The Trees Grew Because I havenBled There't actually read 'A Christmas Carolis not like that.' I couldn't help but smile when Michael Morpurgo (who writes the short introduction to this book) says 'It is very difficult a collection of short stories more interested in the horrors of illness, grief and humiliation. Horrors that linger and are harder to sit and read Dickensdefeat than any ' Christmas Books in a Devon garden on a sunny day ...' Well, would you believe my luck when I say that, as IBig Bad'm writing this review, it's snowing hard outside? Everything is, well, Christmassy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>095626686X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Waguih GhaliMadelaine Lucas|title=Beer in the Snooker HallThirst for Salt
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Waguih Ghali's only novel'Love, first published in 1964I'd read, is set in 1950s Egypt where the English have just left and the country is in great social and political change, and is under Army rule. Ram is an English educated, Copt Egyptian of aristocratic background, but his side of the family are penniless and dependent on the good will of manipulative, rich aunts. Ram and his best friend Font (who works in the eponymous snooker club) struggle was supposed to come to terms with this emerging Egypt. These are the facts of the plot, such as it is, but in reality this book is as ambiguous as the situation in which Ram finds himself. The book is like be a delicate soufflé; it appears light on the surface but is deeply measured and brings out a myriad of conflicting views.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184668756X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Chester Himes|title=If He Hollers Let Him Go|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=If He Hollers Let Him Go, first published in 1945, is written from the perspective of Robert Jones, an African-American working in the defence shipyards in California. The book is full of anger about racial inequalities and Himes pulls no punches in his depiction of the life of a young black man in a white world. It must have been shocking at the time of publicationweightless feeling, but how does it stand up in todayI had always longed for gravity''s more racially integrated world?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846687381</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elfriede JelinekMichael Grothaus|title=The Piano TeacherBeautiful Shining People
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Erika is a single woman in her thirties, who, despite the best efforts of her mother, did not succeed as a concert musician, but instead works as a teacher at the Vienna Conservatory''But fearing something and having it come to pass are two different things. And I say best efforts, I mean outright pressure. Erika and her mother make for an unusual relationship - the older relying on the glory, company and complete obedience of the younger, the daughter sharing a bed with her mother even at this stage 'm willing to bet most of her life. All this is until a young student at the school decides he what we fear will be a younger lover for Erikanever happen, and forces his will into the householdor we can take steps to change it. But who, should such a relationship actually form, is going to be the power-maker?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846687373</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Antonio TabucchiJennifer Saint|title=Pereira MaintainsAtalanta
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The summer of 1938 ''I was particularly hot and oppressive in Lisbon and Dr Pereira was suffering. He was overweight to start with and the situation wasn't helped by the amount as worthy as any one of sugary lemonade which he drankthem. He was the cultural editor of an undistinguished newspaper and felt over-burdened by the amount of content he had to produce but this was better than the political side of the paper as he was sure I would get on board that he wanted nothing to do with European politicsship, I vowed. Something of a recluseI would take my place, his closest, indeed only, confidante was a picture not just in the name of his dead wifethe goddess. All that It was about to change when he met Francesco Monteiro Rossi - a strangely charismatic young man who would bring Pereira to for the point sake of committing an act of reckless rebellionmy name, too.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847675719</amazonuk>}}Atalanta''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David VannAmanthi Harris|title=Caribou IslandBeautiful Place|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Irene and Gary went to Alaska many years ago and somehow they stayed therePadma, probably through inertiaa young Sri Lankan, and they raised two childrenhas returned to the Villa Hibiscus on the southern coast of her home country. Rhoda loves animals and This is keen that her boyfriend, Jim the dentist, should marry a place she spent herformative years. She half knows that he's It is not that reliable a place she was born into, but it's what the one she's set onthinks of as home. Irene and Gary's son How she came to be at the Villa, Mark, lives with his girlfriendhow it became her home, Karen and it seems the machinations that have flowed through her life ever since she first arrived there provide the only thing they're serious about is not taking life too seriously. It's probably understandable when you look at Gary. Hescore''s self-involved, selfish for this gentle and dishonest with himselfyet subtly violent novel. Irene has her problems too. She Padma's never really got over going home when she was ten years old present fails to escape her past and finding her mother hanging from much like the musical score of a film, that strand weaves its way through everything that happens at the raftersVilla.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>067091844X</amazonuk>1784631930
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lloyd Jones178563335X|title=Hand Me Down WorldSea Defences|author=Hilary Taylor
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Ines – although itWhen we first meet Rachel Bird she's a little while before we know her by that name – has quite trainee vicar, sitting in on a story to tell, but we donPCC meeting and wondering why they't hear it from her. We listen re held when you need to pick the stories told by people who knew herchildren up. They might have worked with Her husband, Christopher, collects six-year-old Hannah and her at elder brother, Jamie, whilst Rachel holds a hotel on the Arabian Sea or in Tunisiasobbing parishioner. They might have known Thelma's daughter-in-law won't let her name, but nothing quite so personal as see her birthdaygrandson. She was Holthorpe, on the Norfolk coast, is a good workerlovely place, used but Rachel is struggling to anticipating what develop a real bond with the parish - and she's in awe of the guests would need but otherwise being invisible. This might have gone on indefinitelyvicar, Gail, but then she met Jermayne, black like Ines, who taught her to swim's been doing the job for more than thirty years. He also gave her what she thought was love Rachel and Christopher hoped that a child, which he then abductedwalk on the beach would do them some good - it was stormy but it was probably what they needed. Ines' story is her journey to Berlin to retrieve her sonAnd then Hannah went missing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848544782</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Carey1398515388|title=Parrot The Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Olivier in AmericaAlison Watts (translator)
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=Olivier de Garmont is a youngFirst of all, French aristocrat who is drugged by it was the enigmatic Marquis de Tilbotearthquake, a close friend of Olivier's monarchist motherdeep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and dispatched to this, in turn, caused the safety of the emerging United States to avoid the 1830 July Revolutionnuclear meltdown. The result was complete and utter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, and the threat loss of the dreaded guillotine, in his native Francelivelihoods was widespread. At least nominally his task while there is to prepare a report on The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the American penal system on behalf list of priorities but - six months after the French government, tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a task for which he has little interest or indeed talentconvenience store. Tilbot also dispatches his servant, an older British man, John Larrit, known to everyone as Parrot, to act as Oliver He wasn't a dog person but the convenience store owner's secretary, servant, translator and comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to spy on Olivier for both open his mother car door and Tilbot. They are an ill-matched pair, from opposite sides of Tamon the social spectrum but dog jumped 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 characters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571253296</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emmanuel Carrere0989715337|title=A Russian NovelPapa on the Moon|author=Marco North
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=We meet Carrere as part of a small film crew. One minute they're in France, the next they're in the midst of poverty, freezing temperatures and the utter desolation of a Russian town, miles from anywhere. Carrere back-pedals for Some frogs had gotten into the sake of his readers, explaining that he has family connections with Russiawell. 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 mad.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846680859</amazonuk>}}
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|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=My name is Justin Alexander Torquhil Edward Peregrine Montague, but my father calls me 'you little bollocks', or ‘you bloody twit’ or when he is in a really good mood, 'old cock'. With this opening line, Mark Macauley clearly establishes his tone. Just entering his teens, Justin is the youngest of three children in a dysfunctional Anglo-Irish family. It is June 1963 and the US President, John F Kennedy, is visiting Ireland – his parents and their servants are very excited, although Justin is wrapped up in his own preoccupations, including a growing sexual awareness and his best friend Annie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843511673</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Padgett Powell|title=The Interrogative Mood|rating=2.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=So, what is a novel? Does it need 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 of fiction with a this book that explores doesn't come close to explaining what it is to be a novel, but without any preconditions. How far he succeeds is down to the individual reader. But I thought I'd give it a go.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846683661</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Colm Toibin|title=The Empty Family|rating=4.5|genre=Short Stories|summary=In his first book since the pitch-perfect [[Brooklyn by Colm Toibin|Brooklyn]], Colm Toibin once more examines the great Irish theme of exile and homecoming in his new collection of short stories, 'The Empty Family'. As the title suggests, many of done with the stories also revolve around family relationships, and their sweet and sour Naturepremise.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0670918172</amazonuk>1913097811}}
{{newreviewFrontpage |author=Andrea LevySally Oliver |title=The Long SongWeight 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=July's taleEarly comments on this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendous, The Long Song, opens a delight. I will agree with her mother Kitty's rape by Amity plantation's overseer, Tam Dewar. Nine months later, we find him striking the midwife who canfirst – tremendous is no understatement – but 't keep Kitty quiet during labour. And Kitty doesna delight't keep hold of her daughter for very long. Spotted by Caroline, is perhaps using the plantation owner's widowed sister on the side of the road, July is taken away from her mother to become expression in a ladyway I's maidm not familiar with. Deprived of both parent and name - Caroline renames her Marguerite - July learns how I have to avoid her mistress's needle stick punishments and finds a place among the other house servants. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755359402</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Howard Jacobson|title=The Finkler Question|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 two sons, neither confess my ignorance of whom he sees regularly. Dismissed from the BBC for being too morbid on his late night Radio 3 programme, he is given to depressing levels of selfSpanish-analysis in his small flat that's not quite in Hampsteadlanguage literary tradition so forgive my generalisation here. What Treslove lacks is a sense of belonging and this, he notes his Jewish friends From the little I have read (in spades, particularly his old school friend and rivaltranslation, I don't read Spanish) there does seem to be a tendency towards the best-selling philosopher and TV personality, Sam Finkler. Treslove, by contrast, always feels on fantastical – the outside of lifemystical realism.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408808870</amazonuk>0861541901
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alison WongJennifer Saint|title=As the Earth Turns SilverElektra
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=This lyrical novel is set in Wellington, New Zealand just over a hundred years ago. In this country of then recent immigrants, there was a racial hierarchy, with those of British origin considering themselves superior to others, and an active Anti-Chinese League.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330465155</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Irene Nemirovsky|title=The Dogs and the Wolves|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Ada was part of the Sinner family. They lived in the sort of Ukrainian city which was rigorously divided 'Elektra' by wealth and status. At Jennifer Saint tells the bottom story of the hill lived the people three women who scratched a living; at the top were live in the wealthy whose businesses provided most heavily male dominated world of the livings and in between were those who struggled for a better existenceAncient Greece. Ada's mother died when she was a child and her father did his bestCassandra, Clytemnestra, but he was frequently hampered by having to take Ada with him as he worked. The arrival of Ada's widowed aunt and two young children Elektra are all bit players in the household meant three more mouths to feed, but there was at least some care for story of the motherless childTrojan War.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099507781</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tom McCarthy|title=C|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''C'' follows the life of Serge Carrefax. Set in Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the early part of silent women have the twentieth century, most compelling stories 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 that when he recalls an earlier part of his life, I found myself thinking 'oh yes, that was in this book too, wasn't it?' 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'most extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0224090208</amazonuk>1472273915
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lorcan Roche8409290103|title=The Companion|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Closeted away in the opulence of his parents' Madison Avenue apartment, Ed, bound to a wheel-chair because muscular dystrophy has laid claim to his body, spends his days veiled from the outside world. Ed's sadness manifests itself in curious ways, though largely, via spectacular, spoiled-brattish outbursts designed to get the parental attention he craves but that is palpably absent from his confined life. Then he meets Trevor.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1933372842</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewIf Only|author=William Gibson|title=Zero HistoryMatthew Tree
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=It's almost obligatory when writing anything about William Gibson Twenty-one-year-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by his father, cotton-broker AO Lowry: he asked his accountant, Mr Patrick, to recall ensure that in an earlier short story, he invented the term 'cyberspace'young man got on board the boat and thereafter Patrick was to send him a monthly allowance. Gibson remains at Patrick sent the cutting edge money regularly and a correspondence - of sorts - sprang up between the two although we hear more about what is Lowry has to say than Patrick. It wasn'coolt that Lowry senior didn'. Like most of t care for his books, Zero History is a thrillerson, but at its core are issues surrounding technology, how we interact with it, branding and marketing. It would was that he didn't care to have him in this country where he might be easy a danger to criticise much of his content as being too shallow wife and concerned with 'nothing' - but then that's part of other children. The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to get the young man on his pointway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670919527</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=John BuchanAntoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)|title=The Island of Sheep (John Hannay)Red is My Heart
|rating=3.5
|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Richard Hannay [[: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 feeling old. He looks at himself , black and his contemporaries white and sees a spread of complacencyred. Luckily - or perhaps very unluckily - Yes, he has an old pledge will come to haunt him. His earlier career in Africa saw Hannay artistic collaborator on this piece, and his friends swear I think it's possible to protect a man from others - and now a second generation say not one page lacks the influence of animosity is ripe for Hannay to step in and be a protective detectivesome striking visual ideas. Add in a supposed treasure hoard, and who knows where his last journey might end up?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184697156X</amazonuk>1913547183
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elizabeth JolleyB098FFFBH9|title=The Vera Wright TrilogySnowcub|author=Graham Fulbright|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=''The Vera Wright Trilogy'' contains three novels – ''My FatherFourteen-year-old Rachel is her school's Moon'', ''Cabin Fever'' animal rights project leader and she and ''The Georges' Wife'' - her friend are producing a competition entry to highlight the way in one beautifully presented editionwhich human beings exploit the animal world. First published about 20 years ago She gets a great deal of support from her family: father Pip Harrison, a lecturer at Imperial College, they are apparently partly autobiographicalLondon, mother Kate and her twin, telling Nick. Kate runs the story of family business, a womantoy shop called Cornucopia in Putney, which is where we'll meet Rachel's life from the 1940s onwards – work, children, parents, romantic and sexual relationships and friendshipsmain (if unsuspected) source of information: five soft toys.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0892553529</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David GrossmanYancey Williams|title=To the End Crosshairs of the LandDevil
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=This Award-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski is a sweeping narrative about one Jewish family getting on in years and, despite his strenuous objections and how the various members deal with the ongoing Arabthanks to his daughter, finds himself living -Israeli war. The motheror imprisoned, Ora, is the lynchfrom Eddie's point of view -pin in room 315 of the familyGarden of Eden nursing home, but her resolve is tested to the limit when her younger son with only a trusty nursing aide, Jenkins, for palatable company. Nothing is about going to be released keep Eddie from his stint stock-in the army-trade of writing though, so here, for his readers, are his wanderings through his life's work.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0224089994</amazonuk>0986031658}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jon Kalman Stefansson0008421714|title=Heaven and HellMrs March|author=Virginia Feito|rating=34.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Iceland, somewhen about a century agoThe problem began just after the publication of George March's most successful novel to date. Five men and a young lad set out in their tiny oar- and sail-powered fishing boat, for codEveryone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the last page) seemed to either be reading it or had already done so. On board are people with Every day Mrs March went to the strength to take part in a solid twelve-hour shift - rowing four hours local patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, Patricia asked, as she was wrapping the fishing banksbread, staying there stably for ''but isn't this the lines, then hauling them in and rowing home. first time he's based a character on you?'' And She mentioned thatJohanna, the principal character had 'her mannerisms''s not to factor in any temperament of the weather. Unfortunately it's Perhaps this would not only knowledge of fishing these people have taken on boardmattered, except for Icelandic men still like to dream the fact that Johanna is the whore of loveNantes - ''a weak, gaze nightly at the moon at the same time as their bellesplain, detestable, pathetic, and read stories of godsunloved, romance and legendunloveable wretch. It's a pity then these distractions will be fatal for one of the boy's five companions...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906694532</amazonuk>
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