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[[Category:New Reviews|Literary Fiction]]==Literary fiction==__NOTOC__{{newreview|author=Ali Shaw|title=The Man Who Rained|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Do you remember being a child who had only just learned how to read? Do you remember the very first time you read a fairy story that no-one had told you before? Can you recapture the joy of entering a truly magical land and (for a time) believing it was real? No? Then I recommend that you read Ali Shaw's second novel 'The Man Who Rained'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857890328</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Eric-Emmanuel SchmittMatthew Tree|title=NoahWe's Childll Never Know
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|summary=Joseph, a young Belgian Jew, is sent away by Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his parents when they grow nervous about the treatment of Jews during World War Two. He is taken in by a village priest, Father Ponsfather, and given a new identity drunk and a place in Father Pons' school along with an assortment chronic underachiever whose dreams of other children, some being exceptional at any of whom are genuine pupils his artistic passions all failed miserably and others who arehad endless crises of self confidence. So Tim applied himself to his studies, like Joseph, seeking sanctuarycultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848874189</amazonuk>B0CVFXPGP8
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Susan HillB0C47LV1PC|title=A Kind Man|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Meet Eve, and her husband, the title character, Tommy. She's at a bit of a sticky wicket in life, for however much they want a baby, her sister and his feckless husband churn out son after son after son, and go no lengths at all to love them. So when Eve and Tommy do at last have a child, it's a tragedy for it to die when only three years old. But in this plot, which you'll thank me for not going into further, there will be a lot more swings and roundabouts, of torment and ecstasy, doldrums and delights, hell and heaven, to come.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099555441</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFragility|author=Chris Womersley|title=BereftMosby Woods|rating=54
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|summary=Quinn Walker, Can you make a young Australian man fresh from fighting on the European front in World War One''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, returns to is the very town he was drummed out of ten years before, after being accused of raping and killing his own younger sister. Two things have beaten him to question should you make it? Or is the small settlement - one, the global flu pandemic; two a telegram saying he died bravely in action earlier in the war. And the less question if you know of what he meets and does back in Flint the betterdid, would it land? The catch is that the more to keep this fresh and brilliant book's many intrigues as secret as they were answer for meboth could well be.... no.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857386549</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mahmoud DowlatabadiMosby Woods|title=The ColonelA Whirly Man Loses His Turn
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The novel opens at dead of night West isn't the dominant force it once was. Nobody in a house in Rasht in Gilan province, Iran. It the West is pouring with rain and the colonel of the title quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is in the grip best course of extreme melancholiaaction. Two policemen Governments are knocking on the doorflailing. A war here, a push for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is in actual charge. They are bringing news of his youngest daughterImagine then, there was a man with precognition. This triggers Imagine the strategic advantage in this asset; a night man who can tell you what will happen given any set of misery circumstances. That man would be valuable, right? Perhaps the most valuable asset in which the colonel recalls his own pasthistory. Imagine then, and the tragic lives of his five childrenthat this man loses this ability.What would governments do to get it back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1906598894</amazonuk>B0C9SNG8R1
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tessa Hadley0571379559|title=Married Love|rating=4.5|genre=Short Stories|summary=Married Love is Tessa Hadley’s second collection, containing twelve short stories looking at (mostly) modern relationships and family dynamics – many are about parents and their grown up children and in-laws, others are about couples. Flicking through the book to choose some of the best and/or most interesting stories to mention, I have found a difficulty. Almost all of these incisive, witty stories reveal an interesting group The House of characters I would like to know more about after the end, sometimes from several different viewpoints, and it is hard to pick out just a few. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224096427</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewBroken Bricks|author=Louisa Young|title=My Dear I Wanted to Tell YouFiona Williams|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=It takes a while for the full power of Louisa Young's remarkable ''My Dear I Wanted To Tell You'' to become apparent, but when it does, it can hardly fail to move you. Set just before and during World War One, it's a story of love and human spirit against the odds. The impact of the book is in what happens to the characters, so I don't want to give too much away, but it's worth pointing out that it's not for the overly squeamish reader particularly in some of the descriptions of surgical procedures, which have clearly been meticulously researched by Young. The title itself it taken from the opening words of the standard letters that the wounded were given to send to loved ones back home. The wounded were required to fill in the blanks.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007361432</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jonathan Evison|title=West of Here|rating=3
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|summary=''The town House of Port Bonita, located on Broken Bricks'' is the Pacific coast story of Washington Statefour people. Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, is she lives in the house on the setting – and almost a character itselfriverbank, such is its importance – built of Jonathan Evison’s newest novelbroken bricks. In a massively ambitious narrative Insubstantial as it might look, we start at it's stood the Elwha River Dam in 2006passage of time, before just two pages later being transported back into the 1880’sstorms and floods. Her husband, to see the town’s founding. A hundred pages or so laterRichard, we’re brought back struggles to the 21st centurygrow his vegetables, then returned to complete the 19th, and the cuts between scenes get faster delivery rounds - and more furious as we seem to flip forwards and backwards bring in time without giving us much time to catch our breathsufficient money. By 2006, the Dam is about to be destroyed, and we see the effect its construction has had on the local community and how the descendants of the original characters They have turned out.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780331967</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Janette Jenkins|title=Little Bones|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=While this might sound like the afterlife of a brilliant twin boys - Sonny and unlikely cabaret mimicMax, it's notthe rainbow twins. ItSonny's a rich, evocative and engaging novel set in the last years of Victoriacolouring reflects his mother's reign, in the depths of her darkest LondonJamaican heritage. Fate - and being abandoned by, in turn, her mother and older sister - leaves Jane Stretch living with and working for a doctor and Max takes after his lumpen, housebound wifefather. Jane is alternatively called an People don'unfortunatet believe that they' re related, much less twins and a there'cripple' for her disabilities and distorted frame, but she has enough bookish intelligence to pass herself off as s an assistant to the doctor, who only ever does one operation - abortions, for music hall artistes. The plot assumption when Max is evidently gearing up to reveal how dangerous such a criminal business might be, for the both of themout with his mother that she's his nanny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>070118194X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nick LakeClaire North|title=In DarknessHouse of Odysseus
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Fabrice HumbertKay Chronister|title=The Origin of ViolenceDesert Creatures|rating=4|genre=Literary Dystopian Fiction|summary=Fabrice Humbert's French Orange Prize winning 'The Origin of Violence' has With a young French teacher as a narrator whoworld that is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, while leading post-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Whether it is a school trip to Buchenwald concentration camprobotic takeover, sees a photograph world devoid of water or a Jewish prisoner taken in 1941 and nuclear holocaust, this genre is struck a way for humans to cathartically experience their most existential fears. ''Desert Creatures'' by the similarity in appearance Kay Chronister is a new work of post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the man to his own fatherfears that exist for humanity today. However, he discovers It is a shocking novel that not only does the man in the photo have a different name still manages to his, but the man died in 1942. Clearly there are dark family secrets afoot that he sets about discoveringfind hope.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846687500</amazonuk>1803364998
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{{newreviewfrontpage|isbn=1803363002|author=Helen GordonEric LaRocca|title=LandfallThe Trees Grew Because I Bled There|rating=45|genre=Women's FictionHorror|summary='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 people at one time or another of their lives get horror fiction feature a feeling ''Big Bad'', whether that they must kill themselves; as is a rule they get over it in home invader, a day monster or two' ('How Girls Can Build Up The Empire: a ghost, it usually something tangible and, by the end of the handbook for Girl Guidesstory, beatable. Eric LaRocca' 1912) Excerpts from the handbook precede each section of s ''LandfallThe Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' and it is hard to know what to make not like that. It is a collection of short stories more interested in the horrors of them – other than to take on board illness, grief and humiliation. Horrors that women linger and are not, by harder to defeat than any stretch, the weaker sex, just the more emotional one 'They can even…shoot tigers, if they can keep cool'Big Bad''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905490828</amazonuk>
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|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The life of Arthur Rimbaud must be one of the most outrageous in literary history, more scandalous than Wilde, more self-destructive than Malcolm Lowery, Rimbaud was the boy poet and iconoclast who took on the literary establishment at end of the nineteenth century and won. So Duffy's fictional account'Love, based closely around the actual facts of RimbaudI's lifed read, was bound supposed to be an exciting a light and furiousweightless feeling, and he doesnbut I had always longed for gravity''t disappoint. This is a difficult book to put down.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685273</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=German SadulaevMichael Grothaus|title=I Am A Chechen!Beautiful Shining People
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=That exclamation mark in the title says a lot. It says that, in spite of everything, in spite of Sadulaev leaving his homeland, it still tugs at his heartstrings - and will probably do so throughout the rest of his life. The short author's note at the beginning ends with the arresting sentence - ''Sadulaev's work has unleashed heated debate in RussiaBut fearing something and having it come to pass are two different things.'' And I'm thinkingwilling to bet most of what we fear will never happen, brave author indeed and I also couldn't wait or we can take steps to find out what all the fuss was aboutchange it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099532352</amazonuk>}}''
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|summary=''I've often wondered how men and women of letters can pack it all in. People churn out a career of fiction, was as well worthy as reading all the classics, and offering pages and pages any one of diaries and letters on their deaththem. Padgett Powell can I would get to be a professor of bookson board that ship, and therefore I assume is duty-bound to read and write lotsvowed. I would take my place, but still find time to knock out novels, however shortnot just in the name of the goddess. It was only a few months ago I was reading ''The Interrogative Mood'' for a review elsewherethe sake of my name, and here is another new release from himtoo. SerpentAtalanta's Tail will cheat in 2012 by giving the British audience Powell's debut novel, almost two decades old.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846688167</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joseph HellerAmanthi Harris|title=Catch 22Beautiful Place
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=At the heart of the very black comedy that is ''Catch 22'' is Captain YossarianPadma, a World War II American bombardieryoung Sri Lankan, who wants has returned to survive the warVilla Hibiscus on the southern coast of her home country. Flying repeated combat missions This is undermining his sanity, and surely a mad man should be grounded? But if he asks to be grounded, he demonstrates an absolutely sane concern for his own safetyplace she spent her formative years. If he It is sane, he can't be grounded. This, his doctor tells him, is catch 22.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099529114</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Thomas E Kennedy|title=Falling Sideways|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Kennedy, although not a New Yorkerplace she was born into, has lived in Copenhagen for over twenty years so he'll have a good feel for the European slant on but the novel, I would think. It is one she thinks of four called the Copenhagen Quartetas home. The top brass, the movers and the shakers How she came to be at the 'Tank' are introduced to the reader one by one and have a whole chapter devoted to their individual livesVilla, both professional and private. So we get a very good idea indeed of their homes, their neighbourhoodshow it became her home, their families and perhaps more importantly, their thoughts on the Tank and of their colleagues.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408812398</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Hari Kunzru|title=Gods Without Men|rating=3.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Quite literally at machinations that have flowed through her life ever since she first arrived there provide the heart of Hari Kunzru's latest novel stands not a person, but strange geographical feature in the California desert - three large rocks known as 'The Pinnaclesscore'. If you've ever looked at a feature of the landscape for this gentle and wonder what it has meant to those who have gone before, then you will find a similar stance hereyet subtly violent novel. Kunzru Padma's episodic narrative takes in various points in time from 1775 present fails to 2009 all escape her past and much like the musical score of which centre around this rock structure which has had different meanings for different generations. There are echoes of the past in each new versiona film, but no more than thatstrand weaves its way through everything that happens at the Villa.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>024114311X</amazonuk>1784631930
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alice Hoffman178563335X|title=The DovekeepersSea Defences|author=Hilary Taylor
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Helene adores her father but hates her motherWhen we first meet Rachel Bird she's a trainee vicar, sitting in on a PCC meeting and wondering why they're held when you need to pick the children up. Her husband, Christopher, who neglects her collects six-year-old Hannah and sees her as nothing more than an inconvenienceelder brother, Jamie, whilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioner. She grows up with the realisation that the only way that her mother can hurt Thelma's daughter-in-law won't let her is to sack see her French governess – the only person who has ever tried to give Helene a stable upbringinggrandson. The winds of war blow them all from Holthorpe, on the Norfolk coast, is a fictional Kievlovely place, but Rachel is struggling to develop a harsh St Petersburg real bond with the parish - and on to a snowy Finland to end up – finally – she's in France at awe of the end of vicar, Gail, but then she's been doing the First World Warjob for more than thirty years. Helene's father has made Rachel and Christopher hoped that a lot of money from mining in Siberia walk on the beach would do them some good - it was stormy but whilst the family might have money – ridiculous amounts of it – was probably what they have nothing elseneeded. And then Hannah went missing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701185570</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Per Petterson1398515388|title=It's Fine By MeThe Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating=34.5|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=We see Audun start his new school First of all, it was the earthquake, deep in Oslo. The buildingthe ocean floor, which created the classroomstsunami and this, in turn, caused the teachersnuclear meltdown. The result was complete and utter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, even and the other pupils all seem to scare himloss of livelihoods was widespread. He refuses to conform and insists on wearing his sunglasses The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of priorities but - six months after the tsunami - indoorsKazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. ItHe wasn't a dog person but the convenience store owner's not an affectation though, apparently comment that he has some facial scarring around would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his eyescar door and Tamon the dog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846553695</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John O'Connell0989715337|title=The Baskerville Legacy: A NovelPapa on the Moon|author=Marco North
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Featuring rioting and looting of corporate supermarkets and anger against immigrants, this is a timely re-issue of Nobel Prize for Literature winner’s Kenzaburo Óe’s 1967 classic ''The Silent CrySome frogs had gotten into the well.'' which was cited by the Nobel committee as his key work.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846688078</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=William GiraldiDaisy Hildyard|title=Busy MonstersEmergency
|rating=4
|genre=General Literary Fiction
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{{newreviewFrontpage |author=Michela Murgia Sally Oliver |title=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 Silvester Mazzarella (Translator)pain—but only at a terrible price: that of identity itself.|isbn= 086154112X }} {{Frontpage|author=Natalia Garcia Freire|title=AccabadoraThis World Does Not Belong To Us
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=This beautiful, slim volume has won no less than six literary prizes. Murgia paints an early and evocative picture of the young central character, Maria as she makes mud tarts. But Early comments on this innocent activity is about to come to an abrupt halt. Her birth mother struggles to feed and clothe all her children (Maria is the fourth child and is really a nuisance) so when an opportunity arises which 'solves the problem of Maria' if you likedebut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendous, then she grabs it with both hands. Maria is quickly and rather unceremoniously adopted by an older woman who just happens to be a widowdelight. She has no children of her own and seems to lead a rather lonely, insular life. She is old enough to be a grandmother, let alone a mother. Will she be able to cope I will agree with a noisy youngster under her roof? You wonder why she'd want to take in a raggedy child, or any child for that matter, in the first place. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857050451</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Khaled Hosseini|title=The Kite Runner (Graphic Novel)|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=A confession. If there– tremendous is no understatement – but 's one book I'm not likely to read, ita delight's that which everyone else is reading. If it turns into a hugely popular film for all perhaps using the left-wing chattering classes to rave over, then that's just more grist to my mill – I'll always have expression in a chance to catch up on it later on, even if I never take that opportunity. way I'm not alone in acting like this – see a friend and colleague's similar admission when reviewing [[White Teeth by Zadie Smith]]familiar with. But at least, through the medium of the graphic novel, the book reviewing gods I have conspired to let me see just what I'm missing, with this adaptation, by Italian artists, confess my ignorance of a hugely successful – and therefore delayable – novel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408815257</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jaimy Gordon|title=Lord of Misrule|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=West Virginia, 1970the Spanish-language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation here. We're at a rundown race track, of From the dusty kind rundown horses and their rundown owner/trainers fetch up living little I have read (intranslation, with the occasional race I don't read Spanish) there does seem to interrupt be a tendency towards the boredom. Into things comes a young upstart hoping to surprise all with his four unknown quantities and make a packet before fleeing. His girlfriend is here too to help out, and naively eager for success and knowledge, but old hands like Medicine Ed have seen it all before. Also in fantastical – the background are some small-time gangsters who are not too keen at for once not knowing who is doing what and how races are going to be run and wonmystical realism.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857386697</amazonuk>0861541901
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joan LeegantJennifer Saint|title=Wherever You GoElektra
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Religion kicks off this book, even before 'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the first page. The title is from a passage from story of three women who live in the Book heavily male dominated world of RuthAncient Greece. The only female central characterCassandra, Yona is travelling from her home Clytemnestra, and Elektra are all bit players in America to visit her sister and large familythe story of the Trojan War. She's not really looking forward to it. She's nervous. The two sisters live very different lives Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the silent women have the most compelling stories and haven't seen each other for a decade. Leegant tells us all about the massive rift in their relationshipmost extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0393339890</amazonuk>1472273915
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Charles Frazier8409290103|title=NightwoodsIf Only|author=Matthew Tree
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=If you have read Charles Frazier's 'Cold Mountain'Twenty-one-year-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by his father, cotton-broker AO Lowry: he asked his accountant, Mr Patrick, or indeed seen to ensure that the young man got on board the film, then you'll have boat and thereafter Patrick was to send him a monthly allowance. Patrick sent the money regularly and a fair idea correspondence - of sorts - sprang up between the two although we hear more about what Lowry has to expect from his latest offering - 'Nightwoods'say than Patrick. As with It wasn'Cold Mountaint that Lowry senior didn't care for his son, the landscape of the Appalachians is the dominant character, it was that he didn't care to have him in this time set in the 1950scountry where he might be a danger to his wife and other children. He The alcohol problem was obvious even manages before Patrick managed to get his requisite bear into the story although thankfully it fares rather better than the unfortunate beast in young man on his first book. The dark, oppressing majesty and beauty of the mountains and woods pervades the whole storyway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444731246</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Shuichi YoshidaAntoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)|title=VillainRed is My Heart
|rating=3.5
|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction |summary=Well[[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white and read in my house. And so was this one, although I suppose I'd better begin with the bad which could have spelled that more accurately – this one was there were moments at the start of this novel when I thought I couldn't possibly read it right to the end. It's written in such a stilted, factual style with details about the road networks of the local area and exactly how much anyone pays for anything they eat or buy or rent! Facedis, for example, with the paragraph ''cars setting out from Nagasaki that take the pass road to save money take the Nagasaki Expressway from Nagasaki to Omura, then to Higashi-Sonogi black and Takeo, white and get off at the Saga Yamato interchangered. Intersecting Yes, he has an artistic collaborator on this east-west Nagasaki Expressway at the interchange is Route 263'' I thought piece, and Ithink it'd never manage s possible to read more than a couple say not one page lacks the influence of lines before falling asleep! Still, I persisted and actually, I'm glad I didsome striking visual ideas.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099526654</amazonuk>1913547183
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mike FrenchB098FFFBH9|title=The Ascent of Isaac StewardSnowcub|author=Graham Fulbright|rating=34.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Isaac Fourteen-year-old Rachel is married her school's animal rights project leader and she and her friend are producing a competition entry to Rebekahhighlight the way in which human beings exploit the animal world. They have sons She gets a great deal of support from her family: father Pip Harrison, a lecturer at Imperial College, London, Esau mother Kate and Jacobher twin, naturallyNick. There Kate runs the family business, a toy shop called Cornucopia in Putney, which is a half-brother Ishmael and a back-story of marital betrayal and the out-casting where we'll meet Rachel's main (if unsuspected) source of sonsinformation: five soft toys.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956881017</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=A PortsmouthYancey Williams|title=The Beautiful Torment Crosshairs of the Devil|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Award-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski is getting on in years and, despite his strenuous objections and thanks to his daughter, finds himself living - or imprisoned, from Eddie's point of view - in room 315 of the Garden of Eden nursing home, with only a Dreamtrusty nursing aide, Jenkins, for palatable company. Nothing is going to keep Eddie from his stock-in-trade of writing though, so here, for his readers, are his wanderings through his life's work.|isbn=0986031658}} {{Frontpage|isbn=0008421714|title=Mrs March|author=Virginia Feito|rating=34.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=This is a beautifully presented book with its enigmatic front cover and equally enigmatic titleThe problem began just after the publication of George March's most successful novel to date. After Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the last page) seemed to either be reading it or had already done so. Every day Mrs March went to the blurb local patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, Patricia asked, as she was wrapping the back cover I was left with bread, ''but isn't this the first time he's based a feeling of wishy-washiness howevercharacter on you?'' She mentioned that Johanna, as regards the storylineprincipal character had 'her mannerisms''. UnfortunatelyPerhaps this would not have mattered, except for the contents confirmed this for mefact that Johanna is the whore of Nantes - ''a weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956493602</amazonuk>''
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