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[[Category:New Reviews|Literary Fiction]]==Literary fiction==__NOTOC__{{newreviewFrontpage|author=George Makana ClarkMatthew Tree|title=The Raw Man|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=The Prologue opens bang up to date: 2011. The language is poetic, lilting, evocative but tinged with sadness and sets the tone for the rest of the book. Lots of unanswered questions hang in the air throughout. The location is South Africa and section headings such as 'The Earthworks of the Universe' and 'The Story-GhostWe' give a flavour of its contents.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224090461</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Delphine de Vigan|title=Underground Timell Never Know
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Mathilde is unhappy at work. More Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than just unhappy actuallyto be different from his father, because after expressing an opinion different to her boss he has frozen her out of the team a drunk and bullied her mentally and emotionally for months. Mathilde is a woman on the edge chronic underachiever whose dreams of breaking point, feeling increasingly brow-beaten by both the demands being exceptional at any of city life his artistic passions all failed miserably and her awful bosswho had endless crises of self confidence. Meanwhile Thibault is an emergency on-call doctor, racing from one district So Tim applied himself to another through the nightmares of Parisian traffichis studies, unhappy in cultivated his abilities rather than his relationship daydreams and also struggling, mentally, to surviveset himself high but achievable ambitions. Will today be the day that changes everything?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408811111</amazonuk>B0CVFXPGP8
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Siri HustvedtB0C47LV1PC|title=The Summer Without MenFragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Sometime after MiaCan you make a 's husband of thirty years, Boris, suggests a marriage 'pauseYo birthing person''joke? And if you could, Mia goes mad and finds herself in a psychiatric hospital. Although this Brief Psychotic Disorder does not last long, she remains fragile and retreats to is the town in Minnesota where she was brought up and where her elderly mother still lives. While Boris cavorts with question should you make it? Or is the Pausequestion if you did, she struggles through would it land? The catch is that the summer, learning to live without himanswer for both could well be... She builds relationships with her mother's friends, with her neighbours and with a group of teenage girls who form her creative writing class. Written in the first person, the book catalogues her progress using these friendships, her past, her reading and her shrink, Dr Sno.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444710524</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mary HorlockMosby Woods|title=The Book of LiesA Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=3.54
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Catherine Rozier The West isn't the dominant force it once was. Nobody in the West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is fifteen years old and she has a secretthe best course of action. Secrets Governments are flailing. A war here, a big thing on Guernsey, the small Channel Isle push for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is only three miles across at one point with a population a little over 65,000 i.ein actual charge. somewhat more than HerefordImagine then, considerably less than Lincoln, or about half that of Norwich or Prestonthere was a man with precognition. Unlike Imagine the strategic advantage in this asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of those townscircumstances. That man would be valuable, Guernsey is an islandright? Perhaps the most valuable asset in history. It is self-contained. It isn't just Imagine then, that everyone knows everyone else; they're almost certainly, quite closely, relatedthis man loses this ability.What would governments do to get it back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847678858</amazonuk>B0C9SNG8R1
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alexi Zentner0571379559|title=TouchThe House of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams|rating=3.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Stephen, an Anglican priest ''The House of Broken Bricks'' is writing a the story of three generations, a haunting tale of his childhood set in Sawgamet, an isolated clearing in the snowy forest expanse of North West Canadafour people. It is the evening before his mother Tess Hembry's funeral. One loss brings up earlier losses; relating this deeply poignant tale he relates the disastrous event of his father's attempts to rescue his sisterroots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, Mariebut instead, when on a skating expedition she falls through a dark hole lives in the thin ice at house on the turbulent confluence riverbank, built of two riversbroken bricks. His terrified sister looks towards her father who plunges into Insubstantial as it might look, it's stood the water passage of time, storms and both perish in a catastrophefloods. Consequently Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, Stephen is to struggle with for many years complete the delivery rounds - and to bring in some way to come to terms with this severe traumasufficient money. His grandfather They have twin boys - Sonny and Max, Jeannot, a resilient settler is a stalwart figure who keeps returning protectively into Stephenthe rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's life in order to resurrect Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his own lost love, Martine from the hereafterfather. This love between Jeannot and Stephen People don's grandmother, Martine, and also t believe that between Jeannotthey's brother and future wife blossom through magical events involving the metamorphosis of gold, trees and mountains which movere related, much less twins and malevolent there'qualuplillumitss an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she' ogres from a richly various panoply of magical realisms his nanny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701185465</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=Martin AmisKay Chronister|title=The Pregnant WidowDesert Creatures|rating=3.54|genre=Literary Dystopian Fiction|summary=The bulk of ''The Pregnant Widow'' With a world that is set in the summer of 1970 in a beautiful Italian castle where the almost 21 year old Keith Nearingbecoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, post-apocalyptic fiction can become an English Literature student, has come to spend the summer with his on/off girlfriend Lily and her more physically attractive best friend Scheherazadealmost masochistic thrill. Amongst the other attendees are Whether it is a gay couplerobotic takeover, a short Italian suitor to the ample chested Scheherezade who is waiting for the arrival world devoid of her boyfriend andwater or a nuclear holocaust, critically for the story the ample bottomed Gloria and eventually her rich boyfriend. If this all sounds like one of those enviously indulgent, middle class, sex filled summer of love stories, then partly it genre is, but this being Martin Amis, there's a lot more depth and sadness attached way for humans to the storycathartically experience their most existential fears. It's an investigation into 'Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is a new work of post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the changing roles of females and particularly their attitudes to sex, and fears that exist for Keith in particular, the long term implications of this idyllic vacation are not going to be happy and Amis provides humanity today. It is a 'what happened next' to bring each of his characters up shocking novel that still manages to present dayfind hope.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099488736</amazonuk>1803364998
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{{newreviewfrontpage|isbn=1803363002|author=Louise WelshEric LaRocca|title=Naming the BonesThe Trees Grew Because I Bled There|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionHorror|summary=Murray Watson Horror taps into something primeval within us. It is used as a Doctor of English Literature embarking on a year-long sabbatical way to pursue his long-held dream of writing the definitive biography of Archie Lunan reflect our darkest emotions and how we as humans react andprocess them. Most horror fiction feature a ''Big Bad'', whether that is a home invader, as a specifically intended monster or a ghost, it usually something tangible and, by-productthe end of the story, restore Lunanbeatable. Eric LaRocca's poetry to its rightful place ''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is not like that. It is a collection of short stories more interested in the high canon horrors of Scots creativityillness, grief and humiliation. Horrors that linger and are harder to defeat than any ''Big Bad''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847672566</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nicole KraussMadelaine Lucas|title=Great HouseThirst for Salt|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=''Great House'' is unashamedly literary in style and while undoubtedly not everyone's cup of teaLove, itI's hard not to admire the cleverness of Krauss. It also covers such broad issues that it's not the easiest of books to sum up in a few words. Certainlyd read, was supposed to enjoy this book you will need to have a tolerance for cerebral fiction. You will also need to appreciate the role of the book in commenting on aspects of the human condition rather than just telling a good story. This is most certainly not a plot driven book. You should also be prepared that the stories told are unremittingly dark, sad, and almost oppressively depressing. But while all of this sounds negative, the payoff is a book of exceptional cleverness light and shot through with lovely and often beautifully observed writing about the human condition and in particular about memory. It would be wrong to say that it's cerebral with no heart: there's plenty of emotional heart hereweightless feeling, but unless you buy into the cerebral game, then itI had always longed for gravity''s a book that will infuriate you before you reach it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670919322</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gail JonesMichael Grothaus|title=Five BellsBeautiful Shining People
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=It is a lovely sunny day in Circular Quay, a tourist hotspot in Sydney, Australia. This novel is about the thoughts ''But fearing something and memories of four people, three women and a man who visit the place that day. None having it come to pass are localstwo different things. Ellie and James were teenage lovers in Western Australia, and are meeting up again after not seeing each other for years. Catherine has recently come And I'm willing to the city from Ireland. Pei Xing is a Chinese immigrant, now settled in Sydney. The novel is full bet most of descriptive visual imagery from the first page onwardswhat we fear will never happen, and or we can take steps to change it is significant that three of the four characters are seeing Circular Quay for the first time.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846554020</amazonuk>}}''
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|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Ava Bigtree is a teenage alligator wrestler. Her older sister Ossie is in love with a ghost''I was as worthy as any one of them. They have grown up I would get on a Florida island theme park with their parents, their grandfather and their big brother Kiwi. Now thoughboard that ship, all they have known is threatenedI vowed. Their mother Hilola was the star attraction, but she died a few months beforeI would take my place, not just in the jaws name of an alligator but of ovarian cancerthe goddess. As well as being It was for the glamorous figure on billboards who everyone came to seesake of my name, she ran the show and did all the jobs that needed to be done, and the family is lost without hertoo.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>070118602X</amazonuk>}}Atalanta''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Denis KehoeAmanthi Harris|title=Walking on Dry LandBeautiful Place|rating=3.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Ana Padma, a young Sri Lankan, has grown up mostly in Portugal, but now lives in Dublin where returned to the Villa Hibiscus on the southern coast of her home country. This is a place she teaches film studies and is writing spent her PHDformative years. However, It is not a place she was born in Anglola (then a Portuguese colony)into, but the result one she thinks of an extra-marital relationship of her father, who then adopted her with his wifeas home. When her adopted mother, Helena, dies, How she decides came to trace her birth mother in Angolabe at the Villa, where how it became her brother now liveshome, but has nothing much to go on but a photocopy of a photograph of two Angolan girls, one of which may, or may not, be and the machinations that have flowed through her mother, life ever since she first arrived there provide the ''score'' for this gentle and a name: Solange Mendesyet subtly violent novel. We follow Ana as she attempts Padma's present fails to trace escape her real mother while in alternating chapters exploring her parents' developing relationship past and ultimately how her unusual past evolvedmuch like the musical score of a film, that strand weaves its way through everything that happens at the Villa.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846687810</amazonuk>1784631930
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Camilla Gibb178563335X|title=The Beauty of Humanity MovementSea Defences|author=Hilary Taylor
|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 I could tell that he still had his pride. HeWhen we first meet Rachel Bird she's not afraid of hard work. In facta trainee vicar, 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 sitting in order 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 PCC meeting and Old Man Huwondering why they'ng makes re held when you need to pick the best in all Hanoi'children up. We get some background on Hu'ng Her husband, Christopher, collects six-year-old Hannah and discover that his life has been hardher elder brother, Jamie, very hardwhilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioner. But he doesn't complain, itThelma's simply not daughter-in his nature-law won't let her see her grandson. Such Holthorpe, on the Norfolk coast, is a lovely place, but Rachel is struggling to develop a real bond with the pull parish - and the draw of Gibbshe's lovely, lyrical writing that I was drawn right into the life of this enchanting elderly man right from the start in awe of the book. Gibb feeds us tiny morsels about Vietnam on a regular basis: the culture, the peoplevicar, the troubled history for exampleGail, but itthen she's written in such effortless prose that it's a joy to readbeen doing the job for more than thirty years. And her descriptions are so apt, so poetic Rachel and so original (but without being in your face) Christopher hoped that it all shines a walk on the pagebeach would do them some good - it was stormy but it was probably what they needed. I gobbled it all upAnd then Hannah went missing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848877935</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Szalay1398515388|title=SpringThe Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=Narrated from a variety First of points of viewall, it was the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, ''Spring'' relates which created the relationship of James tsunami and Katherine. He is an often failed entrepreneurial character who falls for the charms of Katherinethis, currently working in a London luxury hotel as an interim jobturn, caused the nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and utter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, and separated from her photographer-husbandthe loss of livelihoods was widespread. The problem for James is fact that Katherine is only interested in many pets were separated from their owners came far down the pursuit list of that perfect happiness scenario and so analyses her feelings constantly priorities but - much to six months after the distress of James. But this is tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a lot more than dog outside a 'males donconvenience store. He wasn't understand femalesa dog person but the convenience store owner' tales comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and Tamon the dog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224091263</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Manuel Rivas0989715337|title=Books Burn BadlyPapa on the Moon|author=Marco North
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=I normally start with a brief summary of ''Some frogs had gotten into the novel I’m reviewing, but Rivas’ sprawling epic is close to impossible to do anything ‘brief’ withwell. While it starts '' ''Walter stood waist-deep in 1881, 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 erasfragrant water, eventually finishing more than a century after it startednaked except for his beaten leather hat. Along the wayLong strands of their eggs wove around him, we meet a young washerwoman who sees souls in sticky gray pearls with tadpoles inside them. Two of the river, Olinda dogs leaned over the matchgirl, Gabriel the stammerer, opening and barked down at the Judge strange noise of Oklahoma, star of a series of Western novels Gabriel’s father readsthe buckets as he filled them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099520338</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stephen KelmanDaisy Hildyard|title=Pigeon EnglishEmergency
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Eleven-year-old Harri is the fastest boy in Year 7. ItThe summary of this book doesn's true. He won the race and everything. Harri is quite new to London. He, his mother and his big sister Lydia have t come from Ghana close to make a new life and live on the ninth floor of a tower block on a sink estate. Harri's father and little sister Agnes are still in Ghana, saving up explaining what is done with the air fare, which is taking quite a long time. Agnes is beginning to talk alreadypremise. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408810638</amazonuk>1913097811}}
{{newreviewFrontpage |author=Linden MacIntyreSally Oliver |title=The BishopWeight 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 Manmemories 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=Duncan MacAskill (he eschews Early comments on this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendous, a delight. I will agree with the title first – tremendous is no understatement – but 'a delight'Father'is perhaps using the expression in a way I' whenever he can get away m not familiar with it) is ostensibly dean of a Catholic university in Nova Scotia. It's a job he enjoys. Approaching fifty years I have to confess my ignorance of age, he is, in general, happy with his life.But the Catholic Church is strong on history and MacAskill cannot escape his ownSpanish-language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation here. The son of a bastard father and a foreign motherFrom the little I have read (in translation, he was lucky even I don't read Spanish) there does seem to be able to follow his vocation and enter a tendency towards the fantastical – the church at all. For most of his career he has been "The Bishop's Man"mystical realism. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0224089722</amazonuk>0861541901
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|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Ian McEwan's Michael Beard is possibly Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the most ignoble Nobel prize winner there has ever been. He's gloriously obnoxious and hateful story of three women who live 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 the heavily male dominated world of physicsAncient Greece. When this book startsCassandra, he's on his fifth wife having managed to wreck all previous marriages by his compulsive infidelity. He's short, balding, ageing, obese, bigotedClytemnestra, and something Elektra are all bit players in the story of an opportunist, particularly if it means he can be lazy and get away with somethingthe Trojan War. In short, which he is, he's morally vacant. But what makes Beard an effective creation, and what carries Yet Jennifer Saint shows 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 often the silent women have the reader most compelling stories and himself about what he is doingthe most extreme furies. Sure he would like to change, but talking about it isn't doing it, is it?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099549026</amazonuk>1472273915
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lisa Moore8409290103|title=FebruaryIf Only|author=Matthew Tree
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=When Twenty-one-year-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by his father, cotton-broker AO Lowry: he asked his accountant, Mr Patrick, to ensure that the phone rings in young man got on board the middle of boat and thereafter Patrick was to send him a monthly allowance. Patrick sent the night, Helen thinks it must be bad news again. Nearly 27 years ago her oil rig worker husband died at sea on 14 February 1982 (Valentine's Day), leaving her with three children money regularly and a fourth on correspondence - of sorts - sprang up between the waytwo although we hear more about what Lowry has to say than Patrick. This time It wasn't that Lowry senior didn't care for his son, no one has died – her son John is travelling round the world but a woman it was that he didn't care to have him in this country where he had might be a brief fling with is pregnant with danger to his babywife and other children. He The alcohol problem was phoning from Singaporeobvious even before Patrick managed to get the young man on his way. What should he do?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099546280</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sebastian FaulksAntoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)|title=Faulks on FictionRed is My Heart
|rating=3.5
|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''Faulks on Fiction'' is effectively the book of the TV show of the book[[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white and read in my house. Even more confusingly, it's a book of reviews of works of British fiction And so was this is really a review of a book of reviews. The TV show hasone, at the time of writingalthough I could have spelled that more accurately – this one was, yet to air, but the concept and is to talk, not so much about the books themselves, but of the characters within them, separated into four distinct character types; heros, lovers, snobs black and white and villainsred. Even ignoring the fact that characters often don't fit wholly into these descriptions and that the concept might prove a use for those strange Venn diagrams you learnt about at school and have never found a use forYes, he has an artistic collaborator on this piece, and the inevitable quibbles about which books and characters could also have been included that is the problem with lists, the result is strangely uneven. I was left wondering if this might indeed work better as a TV series, but as a stand alone book, think it is more 's possible to say not one to be dipped into than read cover to coverpage lacks the influence of some striking visual ideas.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846079594</amazonuk>1913547183
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nathacha AppanahB098FFFBH9|title=The Last BrotherSnowcub|author=Graham Fulbright
|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 close too, but Raj Fourteen-year-old Rachel is blissfully unaware of anything beyond his immediate surroundings. Life is poor and hard and Rajher school's father takes out the privations of his life on his sons animal rights project leader and she and his wife - drunken beatings her friend are producing a regular occurrencecompetition entry to highlight the way in which human beings exploit the animal world. But his mother is loving and kind She gets a great deal of support from her family: father Pip Harrison, and skilled a lecturer at healingImperial College, London, mother Kate and his brothers are constant playmatesher twin, Nick. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849164010</amazonuk>Kate runs the family business, a toy shop called Cornucopia in Putney, which is where we'll meet Rachel's main (if unsuspected) source of information: five soft toys.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Bernhard Schlink and Carol Brown JanewayYancey Williams|title=The ReaderCrosshairs of the Devil
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=At heart, 'Half of the Human Race' Award-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski is a 'will they, won't they' love story featuring an upper class, emerging county cricketer, Will Maitlandgetting on in years and, despite his strenuous objections and a middle class strongthanks to his daughter, educatedfinds himself living - or imprisoned, cricketfrom Eddie's point of view -loving woman, Constance Callaway. But this is so much more than a question in room 315 of will the cricketer bowl Garden of Eden nursing home, with only a maiden over? It's a novel about friendshiptrusty nursing aide, loveJenkins, fighting for what you believe in and, also, surprisingly, about celebritypalatable company.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224087290</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=William Styron|title=The Suicide Run|rating=4|genre=Short Stories|summary=A WW2 naval soldier, guarding a prison island for those found guilty at courtmartials, Nothing is forced going to wonder if he is winning keep Eddie from his own battles against those arriving and leaving. A soldier remembers calming memoriesstock-in-trade of writing though, and those causing tensionso here, as he rests up before action. And for a highly-charged young manhis readers, there may be too much risk to be found in are his wanderings through his high-octane downtimelife's work.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099532220</amazonuk>0986031658}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alon Hilu0008421714|title=The House of RajaniMrs March|author=Virginia Feito|rating=34.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=''The House problem began just after the publication of RajaniGeorge March'' is set in Jaffa, Palestine in 1895-96s most successful novel to date. The narrative alternates between Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the two main characters, both telling their stories in the first personlast page) seemed to either be reading it or had already done so. Luminsky and his wife travel from Europe Every day Mrs March went to Jaffa the local patisserie to start a new life there. Luminsky has studied agronomy in preparation for his new lifebuy olive bread but on that particular morning, Patricia asked, and he and his wife have both been involved in the Zionist movement promoting an ideal of as she was wrapping the Jewish people returning to their homeland. He is looking forward to putting his studies to good usebread, ''but is soon disappointed when isn't this the first time he arrives by both 's based a character on you?'' She mentioned that Johanna, the quality of principal character had 'her mannerisms''. Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for the land occupied by Jewish colonists and their work ethic. Far from fact that Johanna is the ideal whore of selfNantes -sufficiency''a weak, plain, they are buying fruitdetestable, grain and vegetables from the Palestinianspathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch. He is also frustrated by his wife’s lack of interest in having sex with him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099535998</amazonuk>''
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