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[[Category:New Reviews|Literary Fiction]]{{adsense2}}__NOTOC__{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Suzanne RindellMatthew Tree|title=The Other TypistWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5
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|summary=The Other Typist is set in 1920s New York CityTimothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, with Prohibition at its height a drunk and Rose Baker, an orphaned young woman, working as a police typist. While she has no real friends, she's good chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at her job any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and seems to have the respect who had endless crises of the Sergeant, whom she admires and the Lieutenant Detective, whom she's less keen onself confidence. Then a perfect storm comes into their lives, in the shape of the enchanting OdalieSo Tim applied himself to his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and nothing will be the same againset himself high but achievable ambitions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0241002885</amazonuk>B0CVFXPGP8
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ioanna Bourazopoulou and Yannis Panas (Translator)B0C47LV1PC|title=What Lot's Wife SawFragility|author=Mosby Woods
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|genre=Science Literary Fiction|summary= ItCan you make a ''Yo birthing person''s been over 20 years since The Overflow camejoke? And if you could, flooding half of Europe. Around is the same time Violet Salt, a new multi-functional mineral, appeared, its production now governed globally by question should you make it? Or is the mysteriousquestion if you did, all-powerful Consortium. Meanwhile back in Europe would it land? The Colony, a haven for those escaping floods and indeed justice, catch is ruled by Governor Bera and six officials, that the 'Purple Stars'answer for both could well be... All seems to be well in a despotic, lawless way until the six wake up to the realisation that the Governor has died mysteriously in the night. The Consortium needs answers so choose the greatest crossword compiler of the age, Phileas Book, to investigate, whether he wants to or notno.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845025474</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rachel KushnerMosby Woods|title=The FlamethrowersA Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=4.5
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|summary=Set mainly in New YorkThe West isn's art district t the dominant force it once was. Nobody in the late 1970s, Rachel Kushner's ''The Flamethrowers'' tells West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is the story best course of action. Governments are flailing. A war here, a young girlpush for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is in actual charge. Imagine then, known only to there was a man with precognition. Imagine the reader as Reno, after the city she comes from. She's strategic advantage in this asset; a girl man who loves motorbikes and photography, but struggles to find her place in the New York art scenecan tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. When she falls for the estranged son, SandroThat man would be valuable, of right? Perhaps the Italian motorbike manufacturer Valero, himself an artist most valuable asset in New Yorkhistory. Imagine then, Reno finds herself in situations she cannot controlthat this man loses this ability.What would governments do to get it back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846557917</amazonuk>B0C9SNG8R1
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Roland Watson-Grant0571379559|title=SketcherThe House of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= Nine-year-old Skid Beaumont ''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 with his three brothers, father Alrick and mother Valerie in the swamps beyond house on the New Orleans city limitsriverbank, built of broken bricks. Life is hard Insubstantial as it might look, it's stood the passage of time, storms and home is a rundown shack with no running water but they're only there temporarily; a 'temporarily' that is rather longfloods. Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the delivery rounds -termand to bring in sufficient money. Alrick moved them from their nice home in New Orleans because the land was cheap They have twin boys - Sonny and soon Max, the city would build out to envelop themrainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. Years later People don't believe that they're still waiting for that to happen. Life isn’t exactly mundane though; related, much less twins and there are rumours 's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that when Skidshe's brother Frico draws left-handed, strange things seem to happenhis nanny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846882427</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?''
The follow-up to the excellent ''Ithaca'' picks up a few months after where we left off. In the palace of Odysseus, with delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without her husband, who sailed to war at Troy and then by divine intervention never returned home. As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for the throne of the Western Isles. Having survived – politically and physical – the chaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to Ithaca's shores, Queen Penelope is on the brink of a fragile peace. One that shatters however with the return of Orestes, King of Mycenae, and his sister Elektra, seeking refuge.|isbn=0356516075}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Francesco PacificoKay Chronister|title=The Story of My PurityDesert Creatures|rating=2.54|genre=Literary Dystopian Fiction|summary=In Francesco Pacifico's translated Italian novel 'The Story of My Purity'With a world that is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, Piero Rosini post-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Whether it is a 30 year oldrobotic takeover, ultraconservative Catholic working for a radical Catholic publishing house. His marriage is world devoid of physical contactwater or a nuclear holocaust, and he yearns for his virginal sister-in-law. Largely to escape these longings, he heads this genre is a way for Paris, never the first choice of one seeking humans to preserve cathartically experience their purity, where he most existential fears. ''Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is further tempted by a slightly unlikely group new work of post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of girls, and one in particular, which is further complicated for him by the fact fears that she exist for humanity today. It is Jewish. Almost living a separate life in his head, he cannot escape either the intellectual or physical constraints of his old life in Romeshocking novel that still manages to find hope.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0241145058</amazonuk>1803364998
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{{newreviewfrontpage|isbn=1803363002|author=Philip SingtonEric LaRocca|title=The Valley of UnknowingTrees Grew Because I Bled There|rating=45|genre=Literary FictionHorror|summary=In the mid-Horror taps into something primeval within us. It is used as a way to-late eighties the German Democratic Republic looked like enduringreflect our darkest emotions and how we as humans react and process them. Bolstered by Most horror fiction feature a system of ''MitarbeiterBig Bad'', whether that is a home invader, a monster or a ghost, it usually something tangible and, by the end of the story, beatable. Eric LaRocca' (s ''fellow workersThe Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is not like that. It is a much collection of short stories more amenable term interested in the horrors of illness, grief and humiliation. Horrors that linger and are harder to defeat than any ''informersBig Bad'') the Stasi kept their populace in check. Western media was easy to censor in those days. Border controls were brutal. People were shot on a regular basis trying to cross the no-man's-land into West Berlin and along the other inner German borders.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099535823</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robert WalserMadelaine Lucas|title=The Walk and other storiesThirst for Salt
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The publication of this collection of around forty short stories affords the English speaking public a unique opportunity; that of reading Walser, possibly the leading modernist writer of Swiss German in the last century. He has received high praise in 'A Place in the Country'Love, W G SebaldI's recently published posthumous collection and he is well-known as being d read, was supposed to be a significant influence on Franz Kafka. His work here dates from 1907 to 1929 light and along with his poetry won him recognition with Berlinweightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravity''s avant garde. He combines lyrical delicacy with detailed observation; reflective melancholy with criticism of brash commercialism. The fine writing in this volume strives to achieve a hard won integrity together with an experimental capacity for reflection. It challenges the reader and provokes him to new insights.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846689589</amazonuk>}}
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{{Frontpage
|author= Michael Grothaus
|title=Beautiful Shining People
|rating=4
|genre= Literary Fiction
|summary= ''But fearing something and having it come to pass are two different things. And I'm willing to bet most of what we fear will never happen, or we can take steps to change it.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jenni FaganJennifer Saint|title=The PanopticonAtalanta
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Imagine reading a book set in a Scottish children’s care home''I was as worthy as any one of them. It’s about a violent and a deeply disturbed fifteen year old drug addict whoI would get on board that ship, when she was elevenI vowed. I would take my place, found her prostitute foster mother murdered not just in the bathtubname of the goddess. That’s It was for the set-up sake of Jenni Fagan’s ''The Panopticonmy name, too. Atalanta'', and that’s what it’s about – but the funny thing is that whatever you’re picturing in your head right now, and what I was imagining before I sat down to read it, bears absolutely no resemblance to the book Fagan has actually written.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099558645</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Emily PerkinsAmanthi Harris|title=The ForrestsBeautiful Place
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= This is the chronicle of the Forrest family during the life of daughter Dorothy. They move ('they' being DorothyPadma, father Frank, mother Lee and siblings Michaela young Sri Lankan, Evelyn and little Ruthie) from New York has returned to New Zealand at the age Villa Hibiscus on the southern coast of seven years oldher home country. Frank hopes the migration will signal This is a change in his luck as well as a new life for his familyplace she spent her formative years. He's right in that changes follow It is not a place she was born into, but there are as many to shake their stability as to still it and the past remains with each one she thinks of them as well as the ''de'' ''facto'' adoptee Danielhome. Indeed, Dorothy grows How she came to realise that be at the past is a garment that's worn in some form throughout an entire lifetime.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140883149X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Elif Shafak|title=Honour|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Jamila and Pembe are twins whoVilla, growing up among the Kurdish in Turkeyhow it became her home, are as wrapped in the customs of their Muslim faith and heritage as they are in the love of their family. Jamila develops a talent machinations that will make have flowed through her life ever since she first arrived there provide the hub of her community''score'' for this gentle and yet subtly violent novel. Pembe Padma's destiny lies over the sea as she migrates present fails to England with escape her husband Adem in search past and much like the musical score of a better life. Howeverfilm, that strand weaves its way through everything that happens at the destiny they travel towards is oh so different from the destiny of which they dreamVilla.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0670921165</amazonuk>1784631930
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Therese Anne Fowler178563335X|title=Z: A Novel of Zelda FitzgeraldSea Defences|author=Hilary Taylor
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=As Therese Anne Fowler points out When we first meet Rachel Bird she's a trainee vicar, sitting in her acknowledgements, views on a PCC meeting and wondering why they're held when you need to pick the relationship between F Scott Fitzgerald children up. Her husband, Christopher, collects six-year-old Hannah and his wife and museher elder brother, ZeldaJamie, tend to split into 'Team Scott' and 'Team Zelda'whilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioner. The former believe that it was Zelda Thelma's instability and possessiveness that limited Scottdaughter-in-law won's creative output while the latter argue that it was Scott's debauched behaviour that led to Zelda's mental problemst let her see her grandson. ''Z'' takes a more balanced view - the truth of Holthorpe, on the matter is that they needed each other but were tragicallyNorfolk coast, mutually destructive. Getting the fact-based fiction tone right is always a challengelovely place, and this but Rachel is exacerbated when the author gives struggling to develop a writer real bond with the narrative voice, parish - and Zelda was a talented writer she's in her own right as well as a dancerawe of the vicar, Gail, artist but then she's been doing the job for more than thirty years. Rachel and general social phenomenon. However Fowler pulls Christopher hoped that a walk on the beach would do them some good - it was stormy but it off with aplomb in was probably what is a sensitive and engrossing story of Zelda - 'the First Flapper'they needed. And then Hannah went missing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444761404</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sheila Heti1398515388|title=How Should A Person Be?|rating=3|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Much has been made in the media about the similarity in approach of Sheila Heti's fictionalised autobiographical ''How Should A Person Be?'' and Lena Dunham's HBO television series ''Girls''. They certainly share a similarly bleak and introspective view of life, both are apparently based on the writer's own experience, both have a somewhat knowingly shock factor particularly when it comes to sex The Boy and both leave me somewhat depressed and sad. And both have been critical successes in the US. Indeed, ''How Should A Person Be?'' also features on the 2013 long list for the [[Women's Prize for Fiction 2013|Women's Prize for Fiction]], although it's not easy to assess where the fiction starts and the reality stops. In fact, the conceit is also somewhat similar to the scripted reality shows that dominate certain television channels. The effect is something that is interesting as a concept and exercise but less than enjoyable to read.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846557542</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewDog|author=Barbara Kingsolver|title=Flight BehaviourSeishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=Set First of all, it was the earthquake, deep in rural Tennesseethe ocean floor, Dellarobia Turnbow is a young motherwhich created the tsunami and this, trapped in turn, caused the nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and utter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, and the loss of a shotgun wedding in a largely loveless marriage on her husband's failing family farm dominated by livelihoods was widespread. The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the disapproval list of her Godpriorities but -fearing mother in law. She dreams of escape with equally unsuitable younger men until one day on her way to acting on this impulse for six months after the first time, she encounters an act of nature that will change her life for goodtsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. Barbara Kingsolver perfectly captures in the opening paragraphs the sense of entrapment and dissatisfaction of Dellarobia and doesn He wasn't let up for a momentdog person but the convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and Tamon the dog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571290779</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nikolai Leskov, Richard Pevear (translator) and Larissa Volokhonsky (translator)0989715337|title=The Enchanted Wanderer and Other StoriesPapa on the Moon|author=Marco North
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=This is a collection of 17 Nikolai Leskov stories as mixed in subject matter as they are in length''Some frogs had gotten into the well. From the very short ''Spirit of Madame de Genlis ''Walter stood waist-deep in the fragrant water, warning naked except for his beaten leather hat. Long strands of the dire consequences of selecting literature for a mollycoddled princesstheir eggs wove around him, to the novella-length ''The Enchanted Wanderer'' telling the tale sticky gray pearls with tadpoles inside them. Two of the apparently immortal monk who prayed for suicide victims, Leskov (aided greatly by dogs leaned over the talented translators Richard Pevear opening and Larissa Volokhonsky) unlocks barked down at the mores, traditions, religion and superstitions strange noise of 19th century Russia for a modern readershipthe buckets as he filled them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099577356</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michele RobertsDaisy Hildyard|title=IgnoranceEmergency|rating=54
|genre=Literary Fiction
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{{newreviewFrontpage |author=Carrie TiffanySally Oliver |title=Mateship with BirdsThe 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 Us|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=In Early comments on this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendous, a delight. I will agree with the early nineteen fifties first – tremendous is no understatement – but 'a lonely, middle-aged farmer observed delight' is perhaps using the birds on his land and recorded what he saw expression in the blank pages of his milk ledgera way I'm not familiar with. His animals and I have to confess my ignorance of the birds were his family and his land Spanish- difficult though it could be - a part of him. Whilst Harry watched and recorded, his neighbour, Betty, watched Harry and recorded the childhood illnesses and accidents of her two childrenlanguage literary tradition so forgive my generalisation here. By day she worked in a nursing home where she was a lunchtime 'wife', sitting at the bedside of some of From the old men little I have read (in her care. Her daughtertranslation, Hazel, kept a nature notebook which was completely factual and accepting of birth and death in a way that can only I don't read Spanish) there does seem to be achieved by those who live with livestock - and deadstock - on a daily basistendency towards the fantastical – the mystical realism.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447219864</amazonuk>0861541901
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anouk MarkovitsJennifer Saint|title=I Am ForbiddenElektra|rating=54
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The date is 1939 and the place is what we know as Romania and Hungary. Young Zalman Stern is stopped 'Elektra' by soldiers and for a moment he feels this is his last moment on Earth. Meanwhile, not too far away, one moment 5 year old Josef Lichtenstein is playing with his baby sister, the next his childhood is deleted by the same bigotry and blood that deletes her. One day their paths will meet. This is Jennifer Saint tells the story of Zalman, Josef, their descendants; their struggles, their beliefs; the cost of escape and three women who live in the cost heavily male dominated world of remaining.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099571943</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jami Attenberg|title=The Middlesteins|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Edie Middlestein almost has the American dream within her graspAncient Greece. She trained as a lawyerCassandra, has a husbandClytemnestra, a daughter who followed her professional footsteps and a son married to an ambitious wife who provided him with two high-achieving children. There Elektra are just two flies all bit players in the ointment preventing story of the dream's arrival: 1Trojan War. Edie is so morbidly obese Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that she has to undergo surgery; often the silent women have the most compelling stories and 2. this is the moment her husband chooses to leave hermost extreme furies. Apart from that…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846689325</amazonuk>1472273915
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Mikhail Shishkin and Andrew Bromfield (translator)8409290103|title=The Light and the DarkIf Only|author=Matthew Tree
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= Two lovers write letters Twenty-one-year-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by his father, cotton-broker AO Lowry: he asked his accountant, Mr Patrick, to each other about their love, their dreams ensure that the young man got on board the boat and their separate lives; lives that they hope will one day merge once again thereafter Patrick was to become onesend him a monthly allowance. For Sasha life is Patrick sent the everyday grind with work money regularly and demanding loved ones along with a correspondence - of sorts - sprang up between the challenges they engendertwo although we hear more about what Lowry has to say than Patrick. For Volodenka It wasn't that Lowry senior didn't care for his son, itwas that he didn's life t care to have him in the Russian army this country where he might be a danger to his wife and his eventual posting to Chinaother children. However their love is more complicated than most as more than geography and circumstance stands between them: they're also separated by The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to get the decades… many, many decadesyoung man on his way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780871058</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maggie O'FarrellAntoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)|title=Instructions for a HeatwaveRed is My Heart|rating=3.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=In London, [[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white and read in July 1976 it hadn't rained for monthsmy house. Gardens - if you And so was this one, although I could call them have spelled that any longer - were thick with aphids and what water there more accurately – this one was, which was to be consumed or used for washingand is, came from a standpipeblack and white and red. Robert Riordan told his wife, GrettaYes, that he was going round the corner to buy a newspaper. This was what he did every morninghas an artistic collaborator on this piece, but this time he didnand I think it't come back. The police weren't interested as s possible to say not one page lacks the closer they looked the more it was obvious that there was an intention to disappear. Gretta turned to her three adult children for helpinfluence of some striking visual ideas. But how much help would they - could they - be?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755358783</amazonuk>1913547183
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jude CookB098FFFBH9|title=Byron EasySnowcub|author=Graham Fulbright
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Byron Easy is a 30Fourteen-year-old poet Rachel is her school's animal rights project leader and she and product of her friend are producing a failed marriage who, competition entry to highlight the way in turn, has a failed marriage of his ownwhich human beings exploit the animal world. He works in She gets a shop whilst waiting to be discovered as great deal of support from her family: father Pip Harrison, a poet. How did his depression-tinted life reach this point? Once there was hopelecturer at Imperial College, love and many good times andLondon, as he sits on a train travelling to his mother's for Christmas with a bag full of moneyKate and her twin, he reflects and ponders while trying to escape something more tangible and dangerous than the pastNick.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434021938</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Andrea Eames|title=The White Shadow|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=As a general principle I am a little tired of books that start at Kate runs the end. I want to argue for family business, a return to good old fashioned narrative toy shop called Cornucopia in Putney, which is where stories start at the beginning, go on until the end, and then stopwe'll meet Rachel's main (if unsuspected) source of information: five soft toys. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099565420</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=I J KayYancey Williams|title=Mountains Crosshairs of the Moon|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=The story starts harshly, with a release from prison, a bail hostel, a refuge for people with mental health problems as a better-than-nothing-lied-to-be-obtained kind of a sanctuary and a slow easing back into society. If you can call a housing association flat, with a decorating voucher and no furniture, only occasional power and annoying neighbours ''society''. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099554739</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jennie Rooney|title=Red JoanDevil
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=It Award-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski is very obvious where Jennie Rooney has taken the idea for her novel getting on in years and, despite his strenuous objections and thanks to his daughter, finds himself living - or imprisoned, from Eddie''Red Joan'' from. As she acknowledges fully, it has its origin s point of view - in room 315 of the 1999 story Garden of Melita Norwood whose espionage for the Russians wasn't discovered until she was in her late 80sEden nursing home, but while Norwood was with only a dyed in the wool communisttrusty nursing aide, Rooney offers a more complex back story to her characterJenkins, Joanfor palatable company. The result is a very different type of spy novel than normal. Joan, a widowed grandmother, Nothing is going about her day to day life when MI5 come knocking on her door to ask about her past. The narrative switches between their questions to her and her recollections keep Eddie from his stock-in-trade of her time at Cambridge in the late 1930s where communist feelings werewriting though, by someso here, given a more sympathetic ear. When Joan falls for Leohis readers, the cousin of her Russian born friend Sonya, she gets dragged into a world that is dangerous and morally complexare his wanderings through his life's work.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0701187573</amazonuk>0986031658}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jason Hinojosa0008421714|title=The Conception of Zachary Muse|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Evangeline Muse gives birth to Zachary alone in her special lagoon… but that's starting at the end. In the beginning, Thomas Greene is a tutor and Will Archer a talented wood carver who both accept employment from Michael Muse. What they don't realise at that moment is, once they meet his beautiful daughter, Evangeline, nothing will ever be the same again for any of them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>9380905440</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMrs March|author=Andrew Cowan|title=Worthless MenVirginia Feito
|rating=4.5
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|summary=If you read a lot The problem began just after the publication of fiction about World War One, itGeorge March's tempting most successful novel to imagine pre-war England as an idyl of peace and innocencedate. Andrew Cowan's ''Worthless Men'' depicts a much more gritty and earthy England 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. Set in 1916 in an industrial and market town, it weaves together several narratives that combine Every day Mrs March went to depict a hard life even before the outbreak of war. In fact, its easier local patisserie to imagine the lure of adventure buy olive bread but on that the war initially offered particular morning, Patricia asked, as a change from she was wrapping the harsh realities of life at homebread, although by ''but isn't this the first time Cowanhe's novel beginsbased a character on you?'' She mentioned that Johanna, the principal character had 'her mannerisms''. Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for the grim reality of what fact that Johanna is involved has dampened much the whore of this enthusiasmNantes - ''a weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144475940X</amazonuk>''
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