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[[Category:New Reviews|Literary Fiction]]==Literary fiction==__NOTOC__{{newreview|author=Amos Oz|title=My Michael|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=The Introduction to this book has a lovely sub-heading - 'Forty Years Later' where Oz admits freely that now, today, he wouldn't attempt or ... 'dare write an entire novel in a female voice.' But I found his open telling of why and how he came to write the book in the first place interesting and rather enchanting and whetted my appetite to get on and read the book. For example, Oz wrote most of the book in the cramped confines of a toilet, would you believe. But for me what caught my attention was the fact that he tells his readers that Hannah, the central character, was in his head and determined to he heard. 'Just shut up and write' she tells him. A Translator's Note follows before we get to the story proper.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009952905X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jacqueline YallopMatthew Tree|title=Obedience|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=The story opens with a much younger Sister Bernard - no more than a girl really. The daily lives of the nuns is regulated, with long hours for prayer, meditation and solitude. Everyone is housed, fed and watered adequately and that's as far as it goes. No little luxuries to speak of. Nothing to temper the harshness and the silence. Visits from family members are forbidden also. However, the young Sister Bernard appears to not only be coping very well with all of this but even embracing it. She doesnWe't grumble or complain about anything. However, even although she may appear saintly she is human, just like the rest of us and temptation does come along in the shape of a young man. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857891014</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Aatish Taseer|title=Noon|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary='Noon' sits somewhere between a collection of related short stories and a full blown novel in that it tells four different episodes in Rehan Tabassum's life, spread over a couple of decades. It explores some large issues though.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330540416</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Louis B Jones|title=Radiance|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Mark Perdue took his daughter, Carlotta – or Lotta, as she's known – on an indulgent fantasy weekend in Los Angeles. Lotta and some other teenagers were going to live the celebrity lifestyle for a few days, with gigs, recordings and stretch limos to ferry them around. Mark's got problems of his own. He ''was'' an eminent physicist but illness has taken its toll. His wife is still suffering the emotional effects of a late-term abortion – the family called the foetus 'Noddy' – and Lotta can't reconcile how she feels about the loss of her unborn sibling, even going as far as to say that she would have given up the next ten years of her life to look after the child. And Mark? Well, on the tarmac at LAX it dawns on him that a heart attack would be a convenient way out of everything.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>158243736X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Alice LaPlante|title=Turn of Mindll Never Know
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|summary=This is Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a beautifully-presented book with its eye-catching front cover drunk and poetic title. Jennifer has chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had a busy and fulfilling professional life as a well-respected medical surgeon. Until nowendless crises of self confidence. She's gradually losing bits of her mind So Tim applied himself to Alzheimer's. Her family is supportive and keep popping in on a regular basis plus there's now a live-in carer, Magdalenahis studies, so that daily life cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and daily chores are just about coveredset himself high but achievable ambitions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846554632</amazonuk>B0CVFXPGP8
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jose Saramago and Margaret Jull CostaB0C47LV1PC|title=The Elephant's Journey|rating=3.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=This novel is inspired by a real event – the marriage gift of an elephant from Dom João III of Portugal to his cousin Maximilian, the Hapsburg Archduke of Austria. When the gift was accepted, the elephant Solomon, his mahout Subhro and numerous soldiers, oxen and porters, walked from Lisbon to Vienna to deliver the present, arriving in 1552. This is the story of that journey.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099546884</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFragility|author=Ross Raisin|title=Waterline|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Raisin has an enviable portfolio for one so young, having been named ''Sunday Times Young Writer Of The Year 2009'' and his [[God's Own Country by Ross Raisin|previous novel]] receiving fulsome praise. No pressure then with this book. The story opens with all members of the Little family paying their respects to Cathy. Some have travelled further than others as they all squeeze into Mick's modest house, somewhere in Glasgow. A less-than-posh part. Mick is obviously numb with the shock of it all (even although his wife's death was not sudden - she had been ill for some time). It's clear that some of the family, distant members, feel uncomfortable and don't quite know how to act.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670917354</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jamil Ahmad|title=The Wandering FalconMosby Woods
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|summary="In the tangle of crumblingCan you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, weather-beaten and broken hills, where is the borders of Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan meet, question should you make it? Or is a military outpost…" Thus begins the tale of Tor Bazquestion if you did, would it land? The catch is that the Black Falconanswer for both could well be... To this desolate place come two wanderers, a man and a woman seeking refuge. no.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anthony BurgessMosby Woods|title=A Clockwork OrangeWhirly Man Loses His Turn
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|summary=A Clockwork Orange comes under 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 the heading best course of "books you feel you ought to have read by now"action. Mostly these Governments are books flailing. A war here, a push for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is in actual charge. Imagine then, there was a man with precognition. Imagine the strategic advantage in this asset; a man who can tell you don't necessarily want to read, but are considered such classics that an inability to pass what will happen given any kind set of comment upon them suggests a gaping hole circumstances. That man would be valuable, right? Perhaps the most valuable asset in your educationhistory.Imagine then, that this man loses this ability. What would governments do to get it back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0241951445</amazonuk>B0C9SNG8R1
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anna Gavalda0571379559|title=Breaking AwayThe House of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams|rating=45
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|summary=Garance ''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the story of four people. Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in the house on her way to a family weddingthe riverbank, built of broken bricks. In the car with her brother and his wife she thinks about all her siblingsInsubstantial as it might look, whatit's happened in their lives stood the passage of time, storms and who they have all becomefloods. Throughout Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the journey she finds herself bickering constantly with her sisterdelivery rounds -and to bring insufficient money. They have twin boys -law who always rubs her up the wrong waySonny and Max, and for the first time Garance senses some tension from her brother too who is usually calm and collected at all timesrainbow twins. Is everything okay in Sonny's colouring reflects his life or is mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his wife finally beginning to wear his patience thin? father. They take a detour en route to pick up another siblingPeople don't believe that they're related, much to Carine's annoyance, less twins and then on reaching the wedding there's a surprise in store for all of them as the four siblings find themselves on an unplanned escape, together once again, rediscovering their youthful selves in a fun, brief break from their real livesassumption when Max is out with his mother that she's his nanny. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906040400</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Haley TannerClaire North|title=Vaclav and LenaHouse of Odysseus
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|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Vaclav and Lena are both children of Russian immigrants, growing up in Brooklyn. Vaclav dreams of becoming a fantastic magician, with his friend Lena as his assistant, and as children they practise their routine together, making lists of the things they'll need, the costumes they will wear and the tricks they will perform. Vaclav is confident and happy, but Lena is quiet, withdrawn and struggles with speaking English. Yet Vaclav believes, always, that they are destined to be together. Even when Lena disappears one day and is gone from his life for many years still he hopes that, somehow, he will find her again.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434020443</amazonuk>}}'What could matter more than love?''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Helen HumphreysKay Chronister|title=The Reinvention of LoveDesert Creatures|rating=4|genre=Historical Dystopian Fiction|summary='The Reinvention of Love' is one of those stories With a world that is so bizarre and strange that it could only be based on factual eventsbecoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, post-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Essentially Whether it is a goodrobotic takeover, old-fashioned love triangle set mostly in Paris in the period from the 1830s to the 1860s; a world where fighting duels is devoid of water or a commonplace event. The triangle features the great French literary writer Victor Hugonuclear holocaust, his wife Adèle and the altogether strange critic Charles Saint-Beuve who narrates much of this story, with brief breaks genre is a way for Adèlehumans to cathartically experience their most existential fears. ''Desert Creatures''s side by Kay Chronister is a new work of post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of events and some letters written by the Hugo's youngest daughter, also called Adèle (but let's call her, as she was known to her family, Dédé fears that exist for humanity today. It is a shocking novel that still manages to avoid confusion)find hope.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846687985</amazonuk>1803364998
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{{newreviewfrontpage|isbn=1803363002|author=Wesley StaceEric LaRocca|title=Charles Jessold, Considered as a MurdererThe Trees Grew Because I Bled There|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeHorror|summary="Nothing in recent Horror taps into something primeval within us. It is used as a way to reflect our darkest emotions and how we as humans react and process them. Most horror fiction prepared me for the power feature a ''Big Bad'', whether that is a home invader, a monster or a ghost, it usually something tangible and , by the polish of this subtle tale end of English music in the makingstory, beatable. Eric LaRocca's ''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is not like that. It is a chiller wrapped collection of short stories more interested in an enigma [New Statesman]" "His handling of dry comic dialogue and cynical affectation is reminiscent the horrors of P G Wodehouse… an intelligentillness, fun grief and thoughtful piece of fiction [Independent on Sunday]" Just two of the previous reviews humiliation. Horrors that adorn the back cover of linger and are harder to defeat than any ''Big Bad'Charles Jessold…'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099546574</amazonuk>.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Roy Jacobsen, Don Bartlett (translator) and Don Shaw (translator)Madelaine Lucas|title=Child WonderThirst for Salt
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|summary=1961 was a year of change, a time, as Jacobsen puts it, ''when men became boys and housewives women'Love, I'. At the outset Finn and his mother are leading a quietd read, rather timorous life in was supposed to be a working class Oslo suburb. Then change overwhelms them, not through world eventslight and weightless feeling, but in the form of a mysterious child who is FinnI had always longed for gravity's half sister. Linda is not like other children and Finn's attempt to deal with her impact on his family is the central thread in this quintessential story of growing up.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857050184</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Manuel de Lope and John Cullen (Translator)Michael Grothaus|title=The Wrong BloodBeautiful Shining People
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|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Although de Lope has written over a dozen novels, this is the first to be translated into English. The cover is as pretty as a picture and screams 'Spanish.' So far, so goodBut fearing something and having it come to pass are two different things. But And I have 'm willing to admit that on the whole bet most of the European novels I've read over the last year what we fear will never happen, or so, have fallen short of the mark for mewe can take steps to change it. Will this one prove to be different?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099551853</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Christos TsiolkasJennifer Saint|title=LoadedAtalanta|rating=4.5
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|summary=Ari is just nineteen''I was as worthy as any one of them. I would get on board that ship, of Greek descent but living in Melbourne with his familyI vowed. He's gayI would take my place, unemployed and not just in education. He wants to get away from the traditional Greek life name of his parents and their friends but has no idea how to do itthe goddess. He falls back on It was for the only life that he knows: clubssake of my name, parties, anonymous sex, a cocktail of drugs and alcoholtoo. But will even this be enough to dull the pain? Told vividly in the first person and sexually explicit itAtalanta''s a short book – a novella – which grabs you and has no intention of letting you go until it spits you out at the other end.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099757710</amazonuk>}}
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|summary=Anders Eckman is dead. The news Padma, a young Sri Lankan, has been delivered in returned to the form an aerogram – remember those blue paper-cum-envelope things we used to use to write to foreign pen-pals when Villa Hibiscus on the notion southern coast of befriending a person you'd never met in a foreign her home country still seemed exotic? . This flimsy piece of paper was delivered to Eckman's employersis a place she spent her formative years. After all it It is not a place she was them that had sent him down to born into, but the Brazilian Amazon one she thinks of as home. How she came to find be at the enigmatic and evasive Dr Annik SwensonVilla, how it became her home, and more precisely find out exactly how she was getting on with developing the drug machinations that was costing have flowed through her life ever since she first arrived there provide the firm so ''score'' for this gentle and yet subtly violent novel. Padma's present fails to escape her past and much like the musical score of their research budgeta film, that strand weaves its way through everything that happens at the Villa.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408818590</amazonuk>1784631930
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jean Rhys178563335X|title=Wide Sargasso SeaDefences|author=Hilary Taylor
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|summary=In the late eighteen thirties the father of an English gentleman conspires to marry him off to When we first meet Rachel Bird she's a landed Jamaican Creole as trainee vicar, sitting in on a means of giving his second son an estate PCC meeting and stopping him being a burden on wondering why they're held when you need to pick the familychildren up. Written in the nineteen sixties Her husband, 'Wide Sargasso Sea' was inspired by Rochester's first wife in ''Jane Eyre''Christopher, collects six-year-old Hannah and is an impressionisticher elder brother, Jamie, hallucinatory account of that woman's alienation and subsequent descent into madness that can be read as whilst Rachel holds a prequel to the Bronte novelsobbing parishioner. The book covers Antoinette Thelma's childhood daughter-in Jamaica and -law won't let her see her honeymoon grandson. Holthorpe, on the Norfolk coast, is a small Caribbean island lovely place, but Rachel is struggling to develop a real bond with her new husband the parish - and their domestic servantsshe's in awe of the vicar, Gail, but then she's been doing the job for more than thirty years. Rachel and Christopher hoped that a walk on the point of view shifts between Antoinette and her husbandbeach would do them some good - it was stormy but it was probably what they needed. And then Hannah went missing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241951550</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Douglas Kennedy1398515388|title=The MomentBoy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)
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|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=After I'd read the blurb on the back cover I gave a bit First of a shrug as if to sayall, wellit was the earthquake, I've read quite a number of books recently where undying love has been found deep in war-torn Europethe ocean floor, so was which created the tsunami and this book going to be different, or better? Thomas Nesbittin turn, middle-aged, disillusioned with love and more than a tad world-weary is trying to move on in his lifecaused the nuclear meltdown. His marriage of more than twenty years is dissolving before his very eyesThe result was complete and utter devastation. But rather than being upsetThe deaths were uncountable, he's feeling as if a weight has been lifted from his shouldersand the loss of livelihoods was widespread. He and his wife The fact that many pets were never really ''in love'' in separated from their owners came far down the true sense list of priorities but - six months after the phrase, despite having tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a daughter togetherconvenience store. And thereHe wasn't a dog person but the convenience store owner's a very good reason as comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to why Thomas is like this open his car door and Tamon the rest of the book tells us why, warts and alldog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091795842</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Aminatta Forna0989715337|title=The Memory of LovePapa on the Moon|author=Marco North|rating=54
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|summary=The setting for this story is a hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone, soon after ''Some frogs had gotten into the government has declared an end to an 11 year civil warwell. How can people come to terms with the terrible things that have happened? Actually, can they come to terms with those things?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408809656</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David BezmozgisDaisy Hildyard|title=The Free WorldEmergency|rating=3.54
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|summary=It's the late 1970's and a family The summary of Latvian Jews, the Krasnanskys, are emigrating from the Soviet Union. Theythis book doesn're made to stay in Rome whilst they apply t come close to live in explaining what is done with the States and they find themselves trapped in a strange migratory limbo, belonging nowhere and tied to no-one but each otherpremise.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0670920053</amazonuk>1913097811}}
{{newreviewFrontpage |author=Jennifer EganSally Oliver |title=A Visit From The Weight of Loss |rating=4 |genre=Literary Fiction |summary= Marianne is grieving. Traumatised after the death of her sister, she awakes to find strange, thick black hairs sprouting from the bones of her spine which steadily increase in size and volume. Her GP, diagnosing the Goon Squadodd 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
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|summary=Apparently there's Early comments on this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendous, a saying that 'time's a goon' - no, delight. I'd never heard of it and to be fair, neither had will agree with the first character to whom it – tremendous is said in Jennifer Eganno understatement – but 's a delight'A Visit from is perhaps using the Goon Squadexpression in a way I', but together m not familiar with a pair . I have to confess my ignorance of epigraphs from Proust, it's clear that time is very definitely what is being explored the Spanish-language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation here. Egan's subject area is all loosely based around From the music world. Her central characterlittle I have read (in translation, if one can I don't read Spanish) there does seem to be said to exist, is Bennie Salazar, a music mogul who we encounter both directly and tangentially at various stages of his up and down career. ''Goon Squad'' is also the title of an Elvis Costello track, continuing tendency towards the music theme as Egan uses fantastical – the music industry as a lens to examine timemystical realism.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849010331</amazonuk>0861541901
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lauren LiebenbergJennifer Saint|title=The West Rand Jive Cats Boxing ClubElektra
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|summary=Best friends Tommy and Chris are 12 years old'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the story of three women who live in the heavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. It is 1958 Cassandra, Clytemnestra, and they Elektra are growing up all bit players in a small mining town near Johannesburg, South Africathe story of the Trojan War. They are learning to box and to dance to rock Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the silent women have the most compelling stories and roll musicthe most extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1844084892</amazonuk>1472273915
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=James Frey8409290103|title=The Final Testament of the Holy BibleIf Only|author=Matthew Tree|rating=34.5
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|summary=The Rabbis say 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 all the signs are there from young man got on board the birth of Ben Zion Avrohom that he is boat and thereafter Patrick was to send him a monthly allowance. Patrick sent the Messiah. That's money regularly and a lot correspondence - of anyone sorts - sprang up between the two although we hear more about what Lowry has to cope with and, like Jesus, theresay than Patrick. It wasn's much of Bent that Lowry senior didn's early life t care for his son, it was that is untold here. When he is involved didn't care to have him in an horrific accident on a building site that this country where he miraculously survives, albeit with terrible scaring, the prophecies appear to might be true. He develops a form of epilepsy during which he appears danger to speak his wife and other children. The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to God. He is fluent in ancient languages despite never learning them, knows all get the Holy books by heart and yet distains all forms of religion, instead spreading young man on his message of love to all who meet him in modern day New Yorkway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848543174</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mirza WaheedAntoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)|title=The CollaboratorRed is My Heart|rating=3.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=The Collaborator of the title is our narrator, a sensitive bookish young man. He is the son of the headman of a small village [[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white and read in a side valley of the Kashmirmy house. The heritage of the people And so was this one, although I could have spelled that more accurately – this one was, and is that of nomads, black and white and red. The village Yes, he has been settled for less than a generation. Everything they have has been built by an artistic collaborator on this piece, and I think it's possible to say not one page lacks the sheer hard graft influence of the people themselves… including the recently completed mosquesome striking visual ideas.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0670918954</amazonuk>1913547183
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alan WarnerB098FFFBH9|title=The Stars in the Bright SkySnowcub|author=Graham Fulbright|rating=4.5
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|summary=In 1999, Alan Warner introduced us to a wonderful set of characters in Fourteen-year-old Rachel is her school'The Sopranos' when s animal rights project leader and she and her friend are producing a school choir from a backwater town in Scotland went on a trip competition entry to highlight the big city. Much debauchery ensued. 'The Stars way in which human beings exploit the Bright Sky' once again reunites most animal world. She gets a great deal of the original gang support from her family: father Pip Harrison, a lecturer at Imperial College, London, mother Kate and there is no need to have read her twin, Nick. Kate runs the first book to pick up on the diverse characters. Now thoughfamily business, a toy shop called Cornucopia in Putney, theywhich is where we'll meet Rachel've grown up s main (or at least got older!if unsuspected) and are gathered at Gatwick Airport to set off on a girls' holidaysource of information: five soft toys.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009946182X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elia Barcelo and David Frye (Translator)Yancey Williams|title=The Goldsmith's SecretCrosshairs of the Devil|rating=34.5
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|summary='The Goldsmith's Secret' has a wonderfully romantic beginning; alone Award-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski is getting on a snowy night in New Yorkyears and, the craftsman is puzzling over how despite his strenuous objections and thanks to tell his storydaughter, finds himself living - or imprisoned, and how to separate reality from the overwhelming memories Eddie's point of view - in his mind. The romance continues as room 315 of the story unfoldsGarden of Eden nursing home, with the goldsmith taking us back to the town and time of his youthonly a trusty nursing aide, Jenkins, and the chance meeting that led him for palatable company. Nothing is going to find the love of keep Eddie from his life. Telling the tale stock-in-trade of romance from many perspectiveswriting though, so here, we learn the town of Villasanta has labelled for his lovereaders, the mysterious Celia, as 'a marked woman' and the 'black widoware his wanderings through his life's work. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857050052</amazonuk>0986031658}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Salmon0008421714|title=The Coffee StoryMrs March|author=Virginia Feito|rating=4.5
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|summary=Teddy Everett, head The problem began just after the publication of Everett and Sons Coffee is dying, slowly and painfully, of cancerGeorge March's most successful novel to date. The Coffee Story is his story, told in his own Everyone but Mrs March (very descriptivewe know her first name only on the last page) wordsseemed to either be reading it or had already done so. It goes from (although not necessarily in this order) his childhood in EnglandEvery day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, Patricia asked, his adolescence in Ethiopia and then his life in as she was wrapping the USA and Cuba. Itbread, ''but isn's his t this the first time in Cuba which has put him where he is now – in prison's based a character on you?'' She mentioned that Johanna, the principal character had 'her mannerisms''. For his crimes he Perhaps this would normally not have suffered the death penaltymattered, but his sentence was commuted because of his illness and now except for the doctors try to save him. Or perhaps it's fact that theyJohanna is the whore of Nantes - 're trying to persuade Teddy that they're trying to save him – whether he wants to be saved or nota weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444724703</amazonuk>''
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