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[[Category:New Reviews|Literary Fiction]]==Literary fiction==__NOTOC__{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Deborah Kay DaviesMatthew Tree|title=True Things About MeWe'll Never Know
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Take one benefit office worker; bored, listlessTimothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a walking study in destructive human behaviour. Add a recently released, jobless ex-con with a glint in drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his eye artistic passions all failed miserably and taste for masochismwho had endless crises of self confidence. Throw all caution So Tim applied himself to the wind and collide these two ingredients by means of visceralhis studies, brutal cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and almost wordless sex in an underground car park and you have the opening chapters of Deborah Kay Davies's debut novelset himself high but achievable ambitions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847678319</amazonuk>B0CVFXPGP8
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Geraldine BrooksB0C47LV1PC|title=Caleb's Crossing|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Let's start, as Geraldine Brooks has, with a fact: in 1665 the first Native American, Caleb Cheeshateaumauk, graduated from Harvard College. Around this, Brooks has created a wholly fictional story (the known facts are so few that this is largely unavoidable). The stroke of genius here is to put the story into the words of the entirely fictitious Bethia Mayfield, the daughter of an English minister on what we now call Martha's Vinyard, where Caleb lived in the Wampanoag tribe. At various points in her life, Bethia sets down events concerning her early secret friendship with Caleb on the island, to accompanying him and her brother to Harvard and the subsequent events.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007333536</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFragility|author=David Lodge|title=Ginger, You're BarmyMosby Woods|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Jonathan is Can you make a few days away from completing his National Service. Within the week he will dash off to Majorca with his girlfriend, and who knows, he might even do more than chastely cup her breast under her clothing. But it's a bittersweet week for Jonathan'Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, as he looks back on is the beginnings of his two years spent most reluctantly in question should you make it? Or is the armyquestion if you did, and especially would it land? The catch is that the time spent with his best companion, and his girlfriend's ex, Mikeanswer for both could well be.... no.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099554135</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=George Makana ClarkMosby Woods|title=The Raw A Whirly ManLoses His Turn
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The Prologue opens bang up West isn't the dominant force it once was. Nobody in the West is quite sure how to date: 2011mend this or even if mending it is the best course of action. Governments are flailing. The language A war here, a push for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is poeticin actual charge. Imagine then, lilting, evocative but tinged there was a man with sadness and sets precognition. Imagine the tone for the rest strategic advantage in this asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. That man would be valuable, right? Perhaps the book. Lots of unanswered questions hang most valuable asset in the air throughouthistory. The location is South Africa and section headings such as 'The Earthworks of the Universe' and 'The Story-Ghost' give a flavour of its contentsImagine then, that this man loses this ability.What would governments do to get it back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0224090461</amazonuk>B0C9SNG8R1
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Delphine de Vigan0571379559|title=Underground TimeThe House of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Mathilde ''The House of Broken Bricks'' is unhappy at workthe story of four people. More than just unhappy actuallyTess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, because after expressing an opinion different to her boss he has frozen her out of she lives in the team and bullied her mentally and emotionally for months. Mathilde is a woman house on the edge riverbank, built of breaking pointbroken bricks. Insubstantial as it might look, feeling increasingly brow-beaten by both it's stood the demands passage of city life time, storms and her awful bossfloods. Meanwhile Thibault is an emergency on-call doctorHer husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, racing from one district to another through complete the nightmares of Parisian traffic, unhappy delivery rounds - and to bring in his relationship sufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and also strugglingMax, mentally, to survivethe rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. Will today be the day People don't believe that they're related, much less twins and there's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that changes everything?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408811111</amazonuk>she's his nanny.
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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=Edward DocxKay Chronister|title=The Devil's GardenDesert Creatures|rating=3.54|genre=Literary Dystopian Fiction|summary=Set on With a research station in world that is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, post-apocalyptic fiction can become an unnamed Amazonian country (although by the indigenous tribes mentionedalmost masochistic thrill. Whether it is a robotic takeover, this is probably Peru)a world devoid of water or a nuclear holocaust, this first person narrative story genre is told by Dr Forle, who has come to the area to study ants - specifically the strange phenomenon of a type of ant that appear way for humans to destroy cathartically experience their own environmentmost existential fears. It's sort of ants on the deck in the jungle, if you like. However the scientific study 'Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is interrupted by the arrival of an army colonel and a judge, who at least on the surface new work of things is there to organize the registration post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the local tribesfears that exist for humanity today. However when the doctor witnesses It is a clear act of violence by the soldiers accompanying the colonel, he becomes more engaged with the local goings onshocking novel that still manages to find hope.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0330463500</amazonuk>1803364998
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{{newreviewfrontpage|isbn=1803363002|author=Mary HorlockEric LaRocca|title=The Book of LiesTrees Grew Because I Bled There|rating=3.5|genre=Literary FictionHorror|summary=Catherine Rozier Horror taps into something primeval within us. It is fifteen years old used as a way to reflect our darkest emotions and she has a secrethow we as humans react and process them. Secrets are Most horror fiction feature a big thing on Guernsey''Big Bad'', the small Channel Isle whether that is only three miles across at one point with a population home invader, a monster or a little over 65ghost,000 i.e. somewhat more than Herefordit usually something tangible and, considerably less than Lincolnby the end of the story, or about half that of Norwich or Prestonbeatable. Unlike any of those towns, Guernsey Eric LaRocca's ''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is an islandnot like that. It is self-containeda collection of short stories more interested in the horrors of illness, grief and humiliation. It isnHorrors that linger and are harder to defeat than any ''Big Bad't just that everyone knows everyone else; they're almost certainly, quite closely, related.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847678858</amazonuk>
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|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Murray Watson is a Doctor of English Literature embarking on ''Love, I'd read, was supposed to be a year-long sabbatical to pursue his long-held dream of writing the definitive biography of Archie Lunan light andweightless feeling, as a specifically intended by-product, restore Lunanbut I had always longed for gravity''s poetry to its rightful place in the high canon of Scots creativity.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847672566</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ruta SepetysMichael Grothaus|title=Between Shades of GrayBeautiful Shining People
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=The central character, a teenage girl called Lina: her younger brother ''But fearing something and mother are being forced from their home. All is confusion, suspicion and fear but they obey orders anyway. To disobey would be having it come to lose their lives. Torture or murder - or both. Unthinkable. The small family unit of three mix with many other families caught up in this situation. They collect in the streets and pass are rounded up - like sheeptwo different things. It will be some time before any of them feel remotely like human beings. Their names are on some sort of And I'list'. Even a young mother who has just given birth, is manhandled on m willing to the waiting transport.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141335882</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Gail Jones|title=Five Bells|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 and memories bet most of four peoplewhat we fear will never happen, three women and a man who visit the place that day. None are locals. 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 or we can take steps to the city from Ireland. Pei Xing is a Chinese immigrant, now settled in Sydney. The novel is full of descriptive visual imagery from the first page onwards, and change it is significant that three of the four characters are seeing Circular Quay for the first time.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846554020</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Philippe Claudel and Euan Cameron|title=Monsieur Linh and His Child|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=From a war-ravaged country a bit like a Vietnam or a Cambodia an old man carries the fragile frame of his granddaughter aboard a refugee's ship, staring at the receding horizon all the weeks it takes to arrive at a city a bit like a Seattle or a New York. He and she are given the basics of a new life together but it's up to him, Monsieur Linh, to find friendship, which he does, accepting uncomprehendingly the chatty company of a fellow mourner called Bark.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906694990</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Karen RussellJennifer Saint|title=Swamplandia!Atalanta
|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 the title ''Father'' whenever he can get away with it) is ostensibly dean of Early comments on this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendous, a Catholic university in Nova Scotiadelight. It's a job he enjoys. Approaching fifty years of age, he is, in general, happy I will agree with his life.But the Catholic Church first – tremendous is strong on history and MacAskill cannot escape his own. The son of no understatement – but 'a bastard father and a foreign mother, he was lucky even to be able to follow his vocation and enter the church at all. For most of his career he has been "The Bishopdelight's Man". |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224089722</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Aamer Hussein|title=The Cloud Messenger|rating=3.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Mehran, growing up in Karachi, hears his father and sister speaking about London all is perhaps using the time, as if it were an exotic location. He ends up living there as an adult, but expression in the rainy, dreary climate he turns back to the poetry of his homeland, dreaming of other places. As he travels between Italy, India, Pakistan and London we watch his relationships grow and die and wonder if he will ever truly find a place where heway I'll feel that he belongs.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846590892</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=P G Wodehouse|title=The Crime Wave at Blandings|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=There's a crime wave at Blandings Castle and bumbling Lord Emsworth is right at its centrem not familiar with. This is somewhat surprising as Emsworth (or 'Clarence!' I have to his sister Constance) is really only happy when he's reading his favourite book, Whiffle's 'The Care confess my ignorance of the Pig'. It frequently soothes where other restoratives failSpanish-language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation here. The problem began with an air rifle and an unwanted tutor, but before From the afternoon was out most of the inhabitants of Blandings Castle seemed to little I have shotread (in translation, been shot at or left. If it hadnI don't been written by P G Wodehouse it would all read Spanish) there does seem to be most confusinga tendency towards the fantastical – the mystical realism.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141196289</amazonuk>0861541901
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ian McEwanJennifer Saint|title=SolarElektra
|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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