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[[Category:New Reviews|Literary Fiction]]==Literary fiction==__NOTOC__{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael OndaatjeMatthew Tree|title=The CatWe's Table|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=For the first half or so of this book, which sees an 11 year old boy called Michael (or Mynah to his friends) leave his home of Ceylon to travel to school in England, I wasn't really sure if it even had a plot. Focusing on his journey in the 1950's aboard the ship to England, although occasionally leaping forward to his later life where he gives us tantalising glimpses as to what happened to his fellow passengers after the voyage, this originally seems to be nothing more than a series of incredibly well-drawn character sketches. In fairness, I should say that ''nothing more'' is rather harsh in this case – the men, women and children Ondaatje creates, from a supposedly cursed rich man seeking a cure, to a friendly thief, to Michael's beautiful cousin Emily, are so beautifully conjured that I could have lived without a plot perfectly happily. However, we eventually realise there's a little more to this narrative, and that this skilful author has been foreshadowing the events at the novel's climax all along.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224093614</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Patrick McGuinness|title=The Last Hundred Daysll Never Know
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary='The Last Hundred Days' in question here are the final days of Ceausescu's Romania in late 1989. Narrated by an unnamed young British expat who has a job offer Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from the English department of Bucharest University, despite never having interviewed for the job, we get an insight into the life under communist rule as Eastern bloc countries all around start to open up after the fall of the Berlin Wall. We are told that McGuinness lived in Romania in the years leading up to the revolutionhis father, a drunk and this is no surprise as there is an authenticity here that could only have come from some level chronic underachiever whose dreams of inside knowledge.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1854115413</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jane Rogers|title=The Testament being exceptional at any of Jessie Lamb|rating=3.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=The subject matter of 'The Testament his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of Jessie Lamb' ensures that this is not a comfortable readself confidence. Set in the near futureSo Tim applied himself to his studies, Rogers has imagined a truly terrifying virus that affects pregnant women, known as Maternal Death Syndrome or MDS. Everyone carries this illness but the effects, a cross between AIDS cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and CJD, ensure that all pregnant mothers will die - without exception. Scientists have found a way to save some of the unborn children, set himself high but only by placing their mothers in a chemically induced coma from which they won't recover. Now though, the scientists have also discovered a way of immunising frozen, pre-MDS embryos which, if they can be placed in a willing volunteer, may ultimately allow the survival of the human race. However, the volunteers need to be under 16½ or the likely success rates are too low. Step forward one Jessie Lambachievable ambitions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1905207581</amazonuk>B0CVFXPGP8
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sebastian BarryB0C47LV1PC|title=On Canaan's Side|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Each chapter of 'On Cannan's Side' represents a day after the death of the narrator, Lilly Bere's, grandson, Bill. Initially the reader is bombarded by a stream of half thoughts but soon Lilly begins to outline her own life story from being the daughter of a police officer in Ireland at the end of the First World War, her subsequent flight to the USA, to ultimately living in retirement as a domestic cook to a wealthy American. It's a remarkable story, full of tragic events, but for all its hardships, Lilly is from a time when such things are to be endured rather than dwelt on.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571226531</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFragility|author=Chuck Palahniuk|title=DamnedMosby Woods
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Translated by Shaun Whiteside from ScarpaCan you make a 's 2008 Italian original, 'Stabat Mater' is set in a Venetian orphanage for girls run by nuns in what would have been around the 1700s. The girls at the Yo birthing person'Ospedale' are trained as musicians and singers who play from a hidden gallery in the adjoining church for the patrons of the Instituto della Pietà. Howeverjoke? And if you could, this is a highly stylised little book, bordering on the almost poetic, narrated from question should you make it? Or is the point of view of one of the orphansquestion if you did, a young violinist named Cecilia who goes on to tell of would it land? The catch is that the impact of the appointment of a new in-house composer, one Don Antonio, or Vivaldi as most of us know himanswer for both could well be.... no.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846687691</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patrick deWittMosby Woods|title=The Sisters BrothersA Whirly Man Loses His Turn
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Invariably, the Booker Prize longlist contains one book that is more on the side of light reading than the more worthy and overtly literary fare that it is usually associated with. 'The Sisters BrothersWest isn' is t the 2011 choicedominant force it once was. Set Nobody in the US in 1851, West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it details is the adventures best course of two brothersaction. Governments are flailing. A war here, Eli and Charlie Sisters, who are hired hands a push for a mysterious boss known only as the Commodoreclimate action there. A feeling that nobody is in actual charge. Narrated by EliImagine then, who has slightly more of there was a conscience than his older brother, the story starts man with precognition. Imagine the Commodore ordering strategic advantage in this asset; a hitman who can tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. That man would be valuable, for reasons unknownright? Perhaps the most valuable asset in history. Imagine then, on a certain Hermann Kermit Warmthat this man loses this ability.What would governments do to get it back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847083188</amazonuk>B0C9SNG8R1
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alan Hollinghurst0571379559|title=The Stranger's ChildHouse of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Alan Hollinghurst's Booker-nominated and long-awaited 'The StrangerHouse of Broken Bricks's Child' is without doubt, as one might expect from this writer, beautifully written. Almost every page offers something to smile about either in terms of the comments story of his characters or, more often, the wry descriptions that the author offersfour people. The structure of the book is episodic Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, split into five parts covering pre-World War Onebut instead, she lives in the 1920s, house on the 1960sriverbank, the 1980s and finally the early 2000sbuilt of broken bricks. It offers a thoughtful and well observed picture of changes in society and culture over this period and in particular of attitudes to homosexual relationships Insubstantial as it might look, although admittedly Hollinghurstit's subjects tend to fall into a narrow band stood the passage of well educatedtime, artistic storms and often aristocratic members of societyfloods. Writers Her husband, Richard, poets and artists are the subject matter rather than the man on the street. His male characters are invariably homosexual while struggles to grow his females mostly either remain unmarried or have dysfunctional marriages.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330483242</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Lisa See|title=Dreams of Joy|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=It's the late 1950svegetables, and America's teenagers (the very idea a brand new concept) are beginning to live complete the alldelivery rounds -American dreamand to bring in sufficient money. For some of them however it isn't all 'Happy Days' diners They have twin boys - Sonny and rock'n'rollMax, the rainbow twins. For the second generation Chinese immigrants thereSonny's an alternative: back 'home' therecolouring reflects his mother's a brave new world being forged, a world where 'we'd work in the fields and sing songsJamaican heritage. We'd do exercises in the park. We'd help clean the neighbourhood and share mealsMax takes after his father. We wouldn't be poor and we wouldnPeople don't be rich. We'd all be equal.' |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408822296</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Christine Dwyer Hickey|title=The Cold Eye of Heaven|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=I reviewed Hickey's [[Last Train From Liguria by Christine Dwyer Hickey| Last Train From Liguria]] so was keen to see if I'd enjoy this book too. The front cover says believe that Farley they''unravels the warp re related, much less twins and weft of his lifethere'' which s an assumption when Max is a great phrase - wish I'd though of it. Hickey lives in Dublin so I'm kind of expecting good characterization (as the bookout with his mother that she's location is Dublin) and a nice line in put-me-down wit. But will I get it? Time to find out ..his nanny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857890301</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=David AlmondKay Chronister|title=The True Tale of the Monster Billy DeanDesert Creatures|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Dystopian Fiction|summary=''This tale With a world that is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, post-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Whether it is told by 1 that died at birth by 1 that came into the a robotic takeover, a world in days devoid of endles war & at the moment of disaster... I am not clevawater or a nuclear holocaust, so forgiv my folts and my mistayks. I am Billy Dean. This this genre is the truth. This is my talea way for humans to cathartically experience their most existential fears.'' The Monster Billy Dean tells the story of Billy, Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is a boy born into the dystopia new work of a warpost-torn town and the product of an illicit liaison between a young woman and her priest. His birth coincided with an apocalyptic bombing and his parents have hidden him away from the ruins and the catastrophe in a single room, both out fiction that aligns many of shame and in the belief fears that his coming into the world and surviving at such exist for humanity today. It is a violent moment signifies a sacred futureshocking novel that still manages to find hope. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0670919055</amazonuk>1803364998
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{{newreviewfrontpage|isbn=1803363002|author=Andrew KaufmanEric LaRocca|title=The Tiny WifeTrees Grew Because I Bled There|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionHorror|summary=Horror taps into something primeval within us. It all begins with is used as a bank robberyway to reflect our darkest emotions and how we as humans react and process them. Only this isnMost horror fiction feature a 't your typical sort 'Big Bad'', whether that is a home invader, a monster or a ghost, it usually something tangible and, by the end of bank robbery since the robber demands story, beatable. Eric LaRocca's ''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is not money but instead each person like that. It is a collection of short stories more interested in the bank must give him the item horrors of most sentimental value that they have with them. These range from photographs illness, grief and a key through to a calculatorhumiliation...and on taking these items he says he is also taking fifty percent of their souls, Horrors that linger and it is up are harder to the victims to find the way to get their souls back, or to die tryingdefeat than any ''Big Bad''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007429258</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Yvvette EdwardsMadelaine Lucas|title=A Cupboard Full of CoatsThirst for Salt
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=''He just knockedLove, I'd read, that was all, knocked supposed to be a light and the front door and waitedweightless feeling, like the fourteen years since but I'd killed my mother hadn't happened...had always longed for gravity''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Claudie GallayMichael Grothaus|title=The BreakersBeautiful Shining People
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=The book is in the first person, told by a woman who is a relative newcomer to this tiny village, no more than a cluster of homes ''But fearing something and a few basic amenities. The story opens in the lead-up having it come to a horrendous storm. The narrator has seen nothing like it before and is both afraid and excitedpass are two different things. The locals take it all in their stride. TheyAnd I're a hardy bunch m willing to bet most of disparate individuals and what we fear will never happen, or we get can take steps to know more them, one by one, as the story developschange it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906694710</amazonuk>}} ''
''Beautiful Shining People'' revolves around the question of identity and acceptance. Of what it means to be human. Of what is real and what is artificial, and whether the development of technology is exciting or frightening.|isbn=191458564X}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Susan HillJennifer Saint|title=The Woman in BlackAtalanta
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Arthur Kipps is a young solicitor working ''I was as worthy as any one of them. I would get on board that ship, I vowed. I would take my place, not just in a fog-bound London and soon to be married. All looks rosy for Arthur until one day he is called into his boss' office where he is tasked with the affairs name of the deceased recluse Alice Drablowgoddess. Alice Drablow had lived in It was for the melancholy village sake of Crythin Gifford in an isolated house on the remote Eel Marshmy name, a house only accessible by a strange causeway when the tide is outtoo. It is here Arthur must travel to firstly represent his firm at her funeral and then to sift through Mrs DrablowAtalanta''s house to ensure all her legal paperwork is in order. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685621</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=A L KennedyAmanthi Harris|title=The Blue BookBeautiful Place|rating=45
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Despite not being 'quoits and gin slings and rubbers Padma, a young Sri Lankan, has returned to the Villa Hibiscus on the southern coast of bridge people' Elizabeth and Derek have embarked on her home country. This is a cruiseplace she spent her formative years. Derek It is probably hoping to proposenot a place she was born into, but things do not go the one she thinks of as plannedhome. How she came to be at the Villa, how it became her home, and the machinations that have flowed through her life ever since she first arrived there provide the ''score'' for this gentle and yet subtly violent novel. From Padma's present fails to escape her past and much like the moment they encounter musical score of a stranger as they board the shipfilm, that strand weaves its way through everything that happens at the cruise proves to be revelationary for all concernedVilla.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0224091409</amazonuk>1784631930
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Beard178563335X|title=Lazarus is DeadSea Defences|author=Hilary Taylor
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The title certainly got my attention When we first meet Rachel Bird she's a trainee vicar, sitting in on a PCC meeting and wondering why they're held when I read that Beard is you need to pick the Director of the National Academy of Writingchildren up. Her husband, Christopher, collects six-year-old Hannah and her elder brother, Jamie, London I was expecting great things from himwhilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioner. IThelma'm also thinking s daughter-in -law won't let her see her grandson. Holthorpe, on the very next breath how audacious Norfolk coast, is a lovely place, but Rachel is struggling to write develop a fictional book about a towering biblical character real bond with the parish - and she's in awe of the vicar, Gail, but then, many have done just she's been doing the job for more than thirty years. Rachel and Christopher hoped thata walk on the beach would do them some good - it was stormy but it was probably what they needed. Will he pull it off though?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184655506X</amazonuk>And then Hannah went missing.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Thierry Jonquet1398515388|title=Tarantula: The Skin I Live InBoy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=In a large French country house, an expert in facial reconstruction surgery keeps a beautiful woman locked up in her bedroom. He placates her with opium, but barks orders through hugely powerful speakers and an intercom. She tantalises him with her sexuality, which he tries to ignoreFirst of all, except for when he seems to abuse it in a sort of S/M way when he does let her into society, as he forces her to prostitute herself. Elsewherewas the earthquake, a young, inept bank robber holes himself up deep in a sunny house, waiting for the heat to die. And finallyocean floor, a young man is held chained up in a cellar at the hands of an unknown possessor.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846687942</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Amy Waldman|title=The Submission|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=The front cover of the book that I received for review is subtle (as befitting which created the sensitive contents) tsunami and I can see the two twin towers (as was) depicted in grey this, in turn, caused the title word submissionnuclear meltdown. The back cover announces that this novel will be ''Published in time for the 10th anniversary of 9/11.'' No pressure then. I open the book with a certain amount of trepidation, I have to admit result was complete and feel slightly as if I'm about to tread on (literary) eggshellsutter devastation. Heavens - what if I don't like the book?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434019321</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Bernard Beckett|title=August|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=In an alternate world, Tristan and Grace come from The Citydeaths were uncountable, a closed and enclosed society in which religion dominates. Tristan had been an acolyte at St Augustine's. He spent a childhood being drilled in philosophical discussion the loss of free will by the Rectorlivelihoods was widespread. A star pupil, a single event made him question everything he had been taught. Grace had spent The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the first part list of her childhood in priorities but - six months after the convent, but tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a single act of kindness led to her excommunication. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857387898</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Daisy Waugh|title=Last Dance with Valentino|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=When I read on the front cover that this book is described by the Sunday Times as ''A gripping, bittersweet love story'' it wasn't dog outside a particularly good statement for me to readconvenience store. As a rule I donHe wasn't generally 'do' love stories. If I happen to read one every once in a while then thatdog person but the convenience store owner's fine by me but I don't encourage them! But, both the lovely title comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and Tamon the front cover did their job and pulled me dog jumped in - just a little.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000739120X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Maile Chapman0989715337|title=Your Presence is Requested at SuvantoPapa on the Moon|author=Marco North
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=American nurse Sunny Taylor needed to get away from home and everything familiar. She takes a gamble ''Some frogs had gotten into the unknown and ends up in Finlandwell. The language barrier seems to be the least of her problems. As a healthy, relatively young female she sees on a daily basis ailments, minor and major, imagined and otherwise. ''Suvanto'' (which gives the novel its title) is the name of the well-known and well-regarded hospital. It operates on a tier system - those who can pay well for medical care and those who are less well-off. And the accommodation, level of nursing and medical care and even the food also operate on this tiered system.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099548674</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Judith HermannDaisy Hildyard|title=AliceEmergency
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The summary of this book doesn''Alice'' t come close to explaining what is a collection of five short stories, linked thematically since they all deal done with the subject of death, but they are also linked because the central character, Alice, is the same in each story. So rather than feeling like short stories the book has a hint of the novel to it, yet the stories are never completed or fully told so it's a novel where you're not always sure what's going onpremise.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184668529X</amazonuk>1913097811}}
{{newreviewFrontpage |author=S J WatsonSally Oliver |title=Before I Go 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 odd phenomenon as a physical reaction to her grief, recommends she go to stay at Nede, an experimental new treatment centre in Wales. Yet something strange is happening to Marianne and the other patients at Nede: a metamorphosis of a kind. As Marianne's memories threaten to overwhelm her, Nede offers her release from this cycle of memory and pain—but only at a terrible price: that of identity itself.|isbn= 086154112X }} {{Frontpage|author=Natalia Garcia Freire|title=This World Does Not Belong To SleepUs
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Rather ironicallyEarly 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 'Before I Go To Sleepa delight' is not a book that you will forget perhaps using the expression in a hurryway I'm not familiar with. Imagine, if you will, waking up every morning with no memory I have to confess my ignorance of who you are, where you are, or who the person lying next to you in bed isSpanish-language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation here. You can remember things during From the daylittle I have read (in translation, but once you go I don't read Spanish) there does seem to sleep, your mind is effectively wiped clean. This is be a tendency towards the slightly unusual form of amnesia that fantastical – the narrator, Christine suffers from in Watson's first novel that is a daring and gripping literary thrillermystical realism.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857520172</amazonuk>0861541901
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Amos OzJennifer Saint|title=My MichaelElektra
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The Introduction to this book has a lovely sub-heading - 'Forty Years LaterElektra' 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 by Jennifer Saint tells the story of why and how he came to write the book three women who live in the first place interesting and rather enchanting and whetted my appetite to get on and read the bookheavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. For exampleCassandra, Oz wrote most of the book Clytemnestra, and Elektra are all bit players in the cramped confines story of a toilet, would you believethe Trojan War. But for me what caught my attention was Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the fact that he tells his readers that Hannah, silent women have the central character, was in his head and determined to he heard. 'Just shut up most compelling stories and write' she tells him. A Translator's Note follows before we get to the story propermost extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>009952905X</amazonuk>1472273915
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jacqueline Yallop8409290103|title=ObedienceIf Only|author=Matthew Tree|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The story opens with a much younger Sister Bernard Twenty-one-year- no more than a girl really. The daily lives of the nuns is regulatedold Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by his father, with long hours for prayercotton-broker AO Lowry: he asked his accountant, meditation and solitude. Everyone is housedMr Patrick, fed to ensure that the young man got on board the boat and watered adequately and that's as far as it goes. No little luxuries thereafter Patrick was to speak ofsend him a monthly allowance. Nothing to temper Patrick sent the harshness money regularly and a correspondence - of sorts - sprang up between the silencetwo although we hear more about what Lowry has to say than Patrick. Visits from family members are forbidden also. However It wasn't that Lowry senior didn't care for his son, the young Sister Bernard appears it was that he didn't care to not only have him in this country where he might be coping very well with all of this but even embracing ita danger to his wife and other children. She doesn't grumble or complain about anything. However, The alcohol problem was obvious even although she may appear saintly she is human, just like the rest of us and temptation does come along in before Patrick managed to get the shape of a young manon his way. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857891014</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Aatish TaseerAntoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)|title=NoonRed is My Heart|rating=43.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary='Noon' sits somewhere between a collection of related short stories [[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white and a full blown novel read in my house. And so was this one, although I could have spelled that more accurately – this one was, and is, black and white and red. Yes, he has an artistic collaborator on this piece, and I think it tells four different episodes in Rehan Tabassum's life, spread over a couple possible to say not one page lacks the influence of decades. It explores some large issues thoughstriking visual ideas.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0330540416</amazonuk>1913547183
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Louis B JonesB098FFFBH9|title=RadianceSnowcub|author=Graham Fulbright|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Mark Perdue took his daughter, Carlotta – or Lotta, as sheFourteen-year-old Rachel is her school's known – on an indulgent fantasy weekend animal rights project leader and she and her friend are producing a competition entry to highlight the way in Los Angeleswhich human beings exploit the animal world. Lotta and some other teenagers were going to live the celebrity lifestyle for She gets a great deal of support from her family: father Pip Harrison, a few dayslecturer at Imperial College, with gigsLondon, recordings mother Kate and stretch limos to ferry them around. Mark's got problems of his own. He ''was'' an eminent physicist but illness has taken its tollher twin, Nick. His wife is still suffering Kate runs the emotional effects of family business, a late-term abortion – the family toy shop called the foetus Cornucopia in Putney, which is where we'Noddyll meet Rachel' – 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 s main (if unsuspected) source of everythinginformation: five soft toys.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>158243736X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alice LaPlanteYancey Williams|title=Turn Crosshairs of Mindthe Devil
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=This Award-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski is a beautifully-presented book with its eye-catching front cover getting on in years and poetic title. Jennifer has had a busy , despite his strenuous objections and fulfilling professional life as a wellthanks to his daughter, finds himself living -respected medical surgeon. Until now. Sheor imprisoned, from Eddie's gradually losing bits point of her mind to Alzheimer's. Her family is supportive and keep popping view - in on room 315 of the Garden of Eden nursing home, with only a regular basis plus there's now a live-in carertrusty nursing aide, MagdalenaJenkins, so that daily life and daily chores are just about covered.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846554632</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jose Saramago and Margaret Jull Costa|title=The Elephant's Journey|rating=3for palatable company.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=This novel Nothing is inspired by a real event – the marriage gift of an elephant going to keep Eddie from Dom João III of Portugal to his cousin Maximilian, the Hapsburg Archduke stock-in-trade of Austria. When the gift was acceptedwriting though, the elephant Solomonso here, for his mahout Subhro and numerous soldiersreaders, oxen and porters, walked from Lisbon to Vienna to deliver the present, arriving in 1552. This is the story of that journeyare his wanderings through his life's work.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099546884</amazonuk>0986031658}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ross Raisin0008421714|title=WaterlineMrs March|author=Virginia Feito
|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 [[Godproblem began just after the publication of George March's Own Country by Ross Raisin|previous most successful novel]] receiving fulsome praiseto date. No pressure then with this bookEveryone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the last page) seemed to either be reading it or had already done so. The story opens with all members of Every day Mrs March went to the Little family paying their respects local patisserie to Cathy. Some have travelled further than others buy olive bread but on that particular morning, Patricia asked, as they all squeeze into Mickshe was wrapping the bread, ''but isn's modest house, somewhere in Glasgow. A less-than-posh part. Mick is obviously numb with t this the shock of it all (even although his wifefirst time he's death was not sudden - she had been ill for some time). based a character on you?'' It's clear She mentioned that some of Johanna, the family, distant members, feel uncomfortable and donprincipal character had 'her mannerisms''t quite know how to act.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670917354</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jamil Ahmad|title=The Wandering Falcon|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary="In the tangle of crumbling Perhaps this would not have mattered, weather-beaten and broken hills, where except for the borders of Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan meet, fact that Johanna is a military outpost…" Thus begins the tale whore of Tor BazNantes - ''a weak, the Black Falcon. To this desolate place come two wanderersplain, a man and a woman seeking refuge. Refuge is denied themdetestable, since it places duties that the fort commander cannot acceptpathetic, but instead he offers them shelter from the wind of a hundred and twenty days. For as long as they want it. Shelterunloved, and foodunloveable wretch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241145155</amazonuk>''
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