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[[Category:New Reviews|Literary Fiction]]==Literary fiction==__NOTOC__{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Philippe Claudel and Euan CameronMatthew Tree|title=Monsieur Linh and His ChildWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=From Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a war-ravaged country a bit like a Vietnam or a Cambodia an old man carries the fragile frame drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his granddaughter aboard a refugee's ship, staring at the receding horizon artistic passions all the weeks it takes to arrive at a city a bit like a Seattle or a New York. He failed miserably and she are given the basics who had endless crises of a new life together but it's up self confidence. So Tim applied himself to himhis studies, Monsieur Linh, to find friendship, which he does, accepting uncomprehendingly the chatty company of a fellow mourner called Barkcultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1906694990</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=Kathleen WinterMosby Woods|title=AnnabelA Whirly Man Loses His Turn
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The back cover blurb has praise for this debut novel from two of my favourite authors: [[:Category:Joseph OWest isn'Connor|Joseph O'Connor]] and [[:Category:A L Kennedy|A L Kennedy]] so things were definitely off to a good startt the dominant force it once was. The front cover Nobody in the West is rather unsettling (as it's meant quite sure how to be) - some may say disturbing: mend this or even if mending it's is the best course of an adolescentaction. Governments are flailing. A war here, but neither male nor female but rather a fusion of the two sexespush for climate action there. And the question A feeling that nobody is right up in actual charge. Imagine then, there before I've even opened the book - how would such an individual (and family members and society as was a whole) deal and interact man with such precognition. Imagine the strategic advantage in this asset; a personman who can tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. That man would be valuable, right? Perhaps the most valuable asset in history. It's not an easy question to answerImagine then, if I'm honestthat this man loses this ability.What would governments do to get it back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0224091271</amazonuk>B0C9SNG8R1
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karen Russell0571379559|title=Swamplandia!The House of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Ava Bigtree ''The House of Broken Bricks'' is a teenage alligator wrestlerthe story of four people. Her older sister Ossie is Tess Hembry's roots are in love with a ghost. They have grown up on a Florida island theme park with their parentsJamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, their grandfather and their big brother Kiwi. Now thoughbut instead, all they have known is threatened. Their mother Hilola was the star attraction, but she died a few months before, not lives in the jaws of an alligator but house on the riverbank, built of ovarian cancerbroken bricks. As well Insubstantial as being it might look, it's stood the glamorous figure on billboards who everyone came passage of time, storms and floods. Her husband, Richard, struggles to seegrow his vegetables, she ran to complete the show delivery rounds - and did all to bring in sufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and Max, the jobs rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. People don't believe that needed to be donethey're related, much less twins and the family there's an assumption when Max is lost without herout with his mother that she's his nanny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>070118602X</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=Tim PearsKay Chronister|title=Disputed LandDesert Creatures|rating=3.54|genre=Literary Dystopian Fiction|summary=In this engaging novelWith a world that is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, Tim Pears tackles many challenging themes: sibling rivalry, time and change in the countryside, facing terminal illness, reflections on the isolation of academic life and undertaking risky financial investmentpost-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. This Whether it is not a portrayal robotic takeover, a world devoid of water or a rural idyll although much of the most lyrical writing concerns the colours of the Shropshire countryside and nuclear holocaust, this genre is strengthened a way for humans to cathartically experience their most existential fears. ''Desert Creatures'' by reference to the layers Kay Chronister is a new work of post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the archaic past fears that underlies this disputed borderland territoryexist for humanity today. In attempting such It is a multi-layered narrative in a relatively short shocking novel, it is not surprising that for instance, the traumatic shocks in the epic tale are diminished by random, experimental shifts in the tone of the narrativestill manages to find hope.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0434020818</amazonuk>1803364998
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{{newreviewfrontpage|isbn=1803363002|author=Denis KehoeEric LaRocca|title=Walking on Dry LandThe Trees Grew Because I Bled There|rating=3.5|genre=Literary FictionHorror|summary=Ana has grown up mostly in PortugalHorror 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'', but now lives in Dublin where she teaches film studies and whether that is writing her PHD. Howevera home invader, she was born in Anglola (then a Portuguese colony)monster or a ghost, it usually something tangible and, by the result end of an extra-marital relationship of her fatherthe story, who then adopted her with his wifebeatable. Eric LaRocca's ''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is not like that. When her adopted mother, Helena, dies, she decides to trace her birth mother in Angola, where her brother now lives, but has nothing much to go on but It is a photocopy collection of a photograph short stories more interested in the horrors of two Angolan girls, one of which may, or may not, be her motherillness, grief and a name: Solange Mendeshumiliation. We follow Ana as she attempts Horrors that linger and are harder to trace her real mother while in alternating chapters exploring her parentsdefeat than any ''Big Bad'' developing relationship and ultimately how her unusual past evolved.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846687810</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Camilla GibbMadelaine Lucas|title=The Beauty of Humanity MovementThirst for Salt
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The novel opens with an elderly man as he scrapes a meagre living in Vietnam. He is really dirt-poor but ''Love, I could tell that he still had his pride. He's not afraid of hard work. In factd read, gruelling days of labour and very early risings have been the norm for him since he was a young boy. His passion is cooking. Nothing is too much trouble in order supposed to create his famous Vietnamese noodle soup. And there's a terrific line on the back cover which says 'They say that the history of Vietnam can be found in a bowl of pho light and Old Man Huweightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravity''ng makes Told from a retrospective view, a young woman unravels the best in all Hanoi'. We get some background on Hu'ng and discover year-long relationship that his life has been hard, very hardonce defined her. But he doesn't complainOverlaid with later wisdom, it's simply not in his nature. Such is the pull and narrator relives the draw of Gibb's lovely, lyrical writing that I was drawn right into the life of this enchanting elderly affair with a man right twenty years her senior from its inception – the start of summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the booksummer after. Gibb feeds us tiny morsels about Vietnam on a regular basis: Set against the culture, the people, the troubled history backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for example, but itSalt''s written in such effortless prose that itdetails the 24-year-old narrator's a joy to read. And deepening relationship with her descriptions are so aptolder lover, depicting its all-consuming nature, so poetic and so original (but without being in your face) that how it all shines changed her perspective on the page. I gobbled both romantic and familial relationships and how it all upaltered her irrevocably.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848877935</amazonuk>0861546490
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{{Frontpage
|author= Michael Grothaus
|title=Beautiful Shining People
|rating=4
|genre= Literary Fiction
|summary= ''But fearing something and having it come to pass are two different things. And I'm willing to bet most of what we fear will never happen, or we can take steps to change it.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Manuel RivasJennifer Saint|title=Books Burn BadlyAtalanta|rating=45
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=''I normally start with a brief summary was as worthy as any one of the novel I’m reviewing, but Rivas’ sprawling epic is close to impossible to do anything ‘brief’ withthem. While it starts in 1881I would get on board that ship, it’s the book burning witnessed by Hercules the boxer during the Spanish Civil War in 1936 which gives this novel its title and it floats through several other eras, eventually finishing more than a century after it startedI vowed. Along the wayI would take my place, we meet a young washerwoman who sees souls not just in the river, Olinda name of the matchgirl, Gabriel goddess. It was for the stammerer, and the Judge sake of Oklahomamy name, star of a series of Western novels Gabriel’s father readstoo.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099520338</amazonuk>}}Atalanta''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Linden MacIntyreAmanthi Harris|title=The Bishop's ManBeautiful Place
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Duncan MacAskill (he eschews Padma, a young Sri Lankan, has returned to the title ''Father'' whenever he can get away with it) Villa Hibiscus on the southern coast of her home country. This is ostensibly dean of a Catholic university in Nova Scotiaplace she spent her formative years. It's is not a job he enjoysplace she was born into, but the one she thinks of as home. Approaching fifty years of age How she came to be at the Villa, he ishow it became her home, in general, happy with his and the machinations that have flowed through her life.But ever since she first arrived there provide the Catholic Church is strong on history ''score'' for this gentle and MacAskill cannot yet subtly violent novel. Padma's present fails to escape his own. The son her past and much like the musical score of a bastard father and a foreign motherfilm, he was lucky even to be able to follow his vocation and enter that strand weaves its way through everything that happens at the church at all. For most of his career he has been "The Bishop's Man"Villa. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0224089722</amazonuk>1784631930
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Aamer Hussein178563335X|title=The Cloud MessengerSea Defences|author=Hilary Taylor|rating=3.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=MehranWhen we first meet Rachel Bird she's a trainee vicar, growing sitting in on a PCC meeting and wondering why they're held when you need to pick the children up in Karachi. Her husband, Christopher, hears his father collects six-year-old Hannah and sister speaking about London all the timeher elder brother, Jamie, as if it were an exotic locationwhilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioner. Thelma's daughter-in-law won't let her see her grandson. He ends up living there as an adultHolthorpe, but in on the rainyNorfolk coast, is a lovely place, dreary climate he turns back but Rachel is struggling to develop a real bond with the poetry parish - and she's in awe of his homelandthe vicar, Gail, dreaming of other placesbut then she's been doing the job for more than thirty years. As he travels between Italy, India, Pakistan Rachel and London we watch his relationships grow and die and wonder if he will ever truly find Christopher hoped that a place where he'll feel that he belongswalk on the beach would do them some good - it was stormy but it was probably what they needed. And then Hannah went missing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846590892</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=P G Wodehouse1398515388|title=The Crime Wave at BlandingsBoy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=There's a crime wave at Blandings Castle First of all, it was the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and bumbling Lord Emsworth is right at its centre. This is somewhat surprising as Emsworth (or 'Clarence!' to his sister Constance) is really only happy when he's reading his favourite bookthis, in turn, Whiffle's 'The Care of caused the Pig'nuclear meltdown. It frequently soothes where other restoratives failThe result was complete and utter devastation. The problem began with an air rifle deaths were uncountable, and an unwanted tutor, but before the afternoon loss of livelihoods was out most widespread. The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of priorities but - six months after the inhabitants of Blandings Castle seemed to have shot, been shot at or lefttsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. If it hadnHe wasn't been written by P G Wodehouse it a dog person but the convenience store owner's comment that he would all be most confusingcall Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and Tamon the dog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141196289</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian McEwan0989715337|title=SolarPapa on the Moon|author=Marco North
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Ian McEwan's Michael Beard is possibly 'Some frogs had gotten into the most ignoble Nobel prize winner there has ever been. He's gloriously obnoxious and hateful in almost every way. Since winning his Nobel prize he has rested on his Nobel laurels and has traded on his reputation rather than his achievements in his specialist area of physics. When this book starts, he's on his fifth wife having managed to wreck all previous marriages by his compulsive infidelity. He's short, balding, ageing, obese, bigoted, and something of an opportunist, particularly if it means he can be lazy and get away with somethingwell. In short, which he is, he's morally vacant. But what makes Beard an effective creation, and what carries us along with him despite his obnoxiousness, is that he knows all these things about himself. He's rather like Shakespeare's Richard III - he's honest with the reader and himself about what he is doing. Sure he would like to change, but talking about it isn't doing it, is it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099549026</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nathacha AppanahDaisy Hildyard|title=The Last BrotherEmergency|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Raj and his two beloved brothers live on a Mauritian sugar plantation. World War II rages far away and The summary of this book doesn't come close too, but Raj to explaining what is blissfully unaware of anything beyond his immediate surroundings. Life is poor and hard and Raj's father takes out done with the privations of his life on his sons and his wife - drunken beatings are a regular occurrence. But his mother is loving and kind, and skilled at healing, and his brothers are constant playmatespremise. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849164010</amazonuk>1913097811}}
{{newreviewFrontpage |author=Bernhard Schlink and Carol Brown JanewaySally Oliver |title=The ReaderWeight of Loss |rating=4.5|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=It's West Germany, 1958Marianne is grieving. A 15-year-old schoolboyTraumatised after the death of her sister, Michael Bergshe awakes to find strange, is suffering a long bout thick black hairs sprouting from the bones of hepatitisher spine which steadily increase in size and volume. When he recovers he returns to Her GP, diagnosing the flat of odd phenomenon as a tram conductorphysical reaction to her grief, 36-year-old Hanna Schmitzrecommends she go to stay at Nede, an experimental new treatment centre in Wales. Yet something strange is happening to thank her for taking care of him Marianne and the day he fell sick. The two other patients at Nede: a metamorphosis of them begin a secret affair that becomes a routine for months: after school and work, Michael would read kind. As Marianne's memories threaten to overwhelm her, Nede offers her release from this cycle of memory and then they would make love and bathe each other. Both pain—but only at a terrible price: that of them fall in loveidentity itself.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0753804700</amazonuk>086154112X }} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anthony QuinnNatalia Garcia Freire|title=Half of the Human RaceThis World Does Not Belong To Us
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=At heartEarly comments on this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendous, a delight. I will agree with the first – tremendous is no understatement – but 'Half of the Human Racea delight' is perhaps using the expression in a way I'will theym not familiar with. I have to confess my ignorance of the Spanish-language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation here. From the little I have read (in translation, wonI don't they' love story featuring an upper class, emerging county cricketer, Will Maitland, and read Spanish) there does seem to be a middle class strong, educated, cricket-loving woman, Constance Callaway. But this is so much more than a question of will tendency towards the fantastical – the cricketer bowl a maiden over? It's a novel about friendship, love, fighting for what you believe in and, also, surprisingly, about celebritymystical realism.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0224087290</amazonuk>0861541901
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=William StyronJennifer Saint|title=The Suicide RunElektra
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=I loved Jon McGregor's previous two novels, Elektra'If Nobody Speaks by Jennifer Saint tells the story of three women who live in the heavily male dominated world of Remarkable Things' and 'So Many Ways to Begin'Ancient Greece. They're both lyricalCassandra, poetically observed works so I was really looking forward to reading his latest book. It isClytemnestra, unfortunately, quite a different sort and Elektra are all bit players in the story of story.the Trojan War.Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the silent women have the most compelling stories and the most extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408809478</amazonuk>1472273915
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Simon Thirsk8409290103|title=Not Quite WhiteIf Only|author=Matthew Tree
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The story alternates between the two main charactersTwenty-one-year-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by his father, cotton-broker AO Lowry: Welsh Gwalia (he asked his accountant, Mr Patrick, to ensure that's a she, by the way) and English Jon Bull (and you get an idea of young man got on board the fun Thirsk has with his names boat and also characters) as the two meet up for the first timethereafter Patrick was to send him a monthly allowance. Lots of Welsh names such as Gwenfer Patrick sent the money regularly and Gwenlais and also lots a correspondence - of (mainly) unpronounceable place names including sorts - sprang up between the glorious - wait two although we hear more about what Lowry has to say than Patrick. It wasn't that Lowry senior didn't care for his son, it - Llanchwaraetegdanygelyn. 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 donwas that he didn't really care to have him in this country where he might be a danger to keep referring his wife and other children. The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to get the comprehensive Appendix, unless you want toyoung man on his way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184851199X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nigel FarndaleAntoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)|title=The BlasphemerRed is My Heart
|rating=3.5
|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Daniel Kennedy is a soon-to-be professor of zoology [[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white and a militant atheistread in my house. With a beautiful and successful dentist for a partnerAnd so was this one, although I could have spelled that more accurately – this one was, and an intelligent, precocious nine-year-old daughter, his life is what you might call gilded. Novels as they are, though, things soon begin to fall apart. On their way to a holiday in the Galapagos Islands, Daniel black and white and Nancy's plane crashes into the seared. Daniel swims for miles to get help andYes, just as all seems lost and he's has an artistic collaborator on the point of drowningthis piece, a mysterious figure appears and guides him I think it's possible to say not one page lacks the shore and rescueinfluence of some striking visual ideas. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552776173</amazonuk>1913547183
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=F Scott FitzgeraldB098FFFBH9|title=The Great Gatsby|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary='No — Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0140620184</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewSnowcub|author=Faiza Guene and Sarah Ardizzone|title=Bar BaltoGraham Fulbright
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Joel, 'The Rink', is the owner of the local bar in town and has been found murdered, stabbed and naked in a pool of blood. He's an opinionated, racist, lecherous busyFourteen-body, so there's no shortage of suspects. Faiza Guene creates an intriguing, interesting murderyear-mystery as we hear from each suspect in their own voice and follow the story through to its conclusion to discover who really murdered 'The Rink'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701184221</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Salvatore Scibona|title=The End|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? The End old Rachel is a novel that while being a part of a modern burgeoning literary movement very much looks back at the great American literature tradition of the last century. In Scibonaher school's beautifully crafted prose we see glimpses of Saul Bellow, the vibrancy of Kerouac animal rights project leader and she and the sensibilities of Updike, her friend are producing a heady mix competition entry to be sure.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224091492</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Santiago Roncagliolo and Edith Grossman|title=Red April|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=The very first sentence concerns highlight the sudden discovery of a body. Judging by its dreadful state, not only some form of foul play but also some form of torture has been used. No one locally knows anything at all. Looks like a tough investigation looms for local Prosecutor by the name of Chacaltana. He is the central character way in which human beings exploit the novelanimal world. He comes across as She gets a bit great deal of a ploddersupport from her family: father Pip Harrison, a bit of a dullard, someone who is methodical to a ridiculous level in his line of work. His line of work is also low-level. Butlecturer at Imperial College, even soLondon, he 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 to try mother Kate and solve this crime.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843548313</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Charles Dickens|title=The Christmas Books|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=I'd just like to say at the outset that after reviewing mainly contemporary authorsher twin, it's a refreshing change to have the chance to review one of 'the classics'Nick. (I hope I do Kate runs the great man justice). Personallyfamily business, I love the classics and I've read a number of Dickens' - including 'Bleak House' and 'Hard Times' but I haven't actually read 'A Christmas Carol.' I couldn't help but smile when Michael Morpurgo (who writes the short introduction to this book) says 'It is very difficult to sit and read Dickens' Christmas Books toy shop called Cornucopia in a Devon garden on a sunny day ...' WellPutney, would you believe my luck when I say that, as I'm writing this review, itwhich is where we's snowing hard outside? Everything is, well, Christmassy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>095626686X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Waguih Ghali|title=Beer in the Snooker Hall|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Waguih Ghalill meet Rachel's only novel, first published in 1964, 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 main (who works in the eponymous snooker clubif unsuspected) struggle 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 a delicate soufflé; it appears light on the surface but is deeply measured and brings out a myriad source of conflicting viewsinformation: five soft toys.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184668756X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chester HimesYancey Williams|title=If He Hollers Let Him GoCrosshairs of the Devil
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=If He Hollers Let Him GoAward-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski is getting on in years and, first published in 1945despite his strenuous objections and thanks to his daughter, finds himself living - or imprisoned, is written from the perspective Eddie's point of Robert Jones, an Africanview -American working in room 315 of the defence shipyards in CaliforniaGarden of Eden nursing home, with only a trusty nursing aide, Jenkins, for palatable company. The book Nothing is full of anger about racial inequalities and Himes pulls no punches in going to keep Eddie from his depiction of the life of a young black man stock-in a white world. It must have been shocking at the time -trade of publicationwriting though, but how does it stand up in todayso here, for his readers, are his wanderings through his life's more racially integrated world?work.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846687381</amazonuk>0986031658}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Charles Ellingworth0008421714|title=Silent NightMrs March|author=Virginia Feito
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The front cover describes this book as 'astonishing' and has problem began just after the publication of George March's most successful novel to date. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the mark of a classiclast page) seemed to either be reading it or had already done so.' We're introduced Every day Mrs March went to one of the two female characterslocal patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, Mimi: a youngPatricia asked, as she was wrapping the bread, German woman. It''but isn't this the first time he's 1944 in Eastern Germany and if I say based a character on you?'' She mentioned that things are grimJohanna, Ithe principal character had 'her mannerisms'm sure you'll appreciate that it is an understatement. Mimi is obviously an intelligent and curious individual and she's certainly Perhaps this would not happy to be living in the back-of-beyond. But then againhave mattered, things could be ten times worse except for her. She could be living in Berlin picking through the rubble. Out fact that Johanna is the whore of the blue, she encounters a man Nantes - ''a French nationalweak, as it happens and things change dramatically. We learn that along with his fellow countrymenplain, Mimi's husband is absent, not at home. So when she acknowledges her attraction for another man - and someone who is not German at thatdetestable, she seems exhilaratedpathetic, shocked and perhaps just a little repelledunloved, all at the same timeunloveable wretch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0704372126</amazonuk>''
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