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[[Category:New Reviews|Literary Fiction]]{{adsense2}}__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andrew PorterMatthew Tree|title=In Between DaysWe'll Never Know|rating=34.5
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|summary=After Chloe Harding is forced Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to leave her East Coast collegebe different from his father, for reasons she refuses to explain a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of self confidence. So Tim applied himself to her recently divorced parents or older brother Richardhis studies, her family's lives start to unravelcultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions. Will the rest of them ever find out what caused her fall from grace, and can they solve their own problems?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0224089838</amazonuk>B0CVFXPGP8
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ivy PochodaB0C47LV1PC|title=Visitation StreetFragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Red HookCan you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, Brooklyn and it is blisteringly hot. Two fifteen year old girls decide the best and most exciting way to cool off question should you make it? Or is to take a small inflatable raft on to the river. question if you did, would it land? The next morning one of the girls catch is found unconscious and washed ashore with no memory of what happened in the river and that the other girl is nowhere to answer for both could well be found. This becomes a big local story and the survivor, saviour and community have to deal with the loss in their different ways.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444778242</amazonuk>}}.. no.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lea CarpenterMosby Woods|title=Eleven DaysA Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Sara raised Jason alone; even when she was with his father The West isn't the dominant force it felt as if she once was a lone parent. Jason's father always seemed Nobody in the West is quite sure how to be away doing something indefinable abroad; then he disappeared leaving her completelymend this or even if mending it is the best course of action. Governments are flailing. Two years later Jason's father was deadA war here, a push for climate action there. However Jason A feeling that nobody is a lad to be proud ofin actual charge. Imagine then, never giving Sara there was a moment's trouble and now man with precognition. Imagine the strategic advantage in this asset; a member man who can tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. That man would be valuable, right? Perhaps the elite US Navy SEALSmost valuable asset in history. Imagine then, that this man loses this ability. Now he's missing in action… Now she has What would governments do to hang on and hope.get it back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444776231</amazonuk>B0C9SNG8R1
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lucy Cruickshanks0571379559|title=The Trader House of SaigonBroken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=''The small community House of Noitía Broken Bricks'' is a place where everyone knows each other and each other’s business, which considering most the story of the adults four people. Tess Hembry's roots are involved in the one businessJamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, smugglingbut instead, is potentially dangerous knowledge. We follow a small group of three young friends growing up she lives in the area house on the riverbank, built of broken bricks. Insubstantial as they play it might look, it's stood the passage of time, storms and learn floods. Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the delivery rounds - and even experience a little of the black market dealingsto bring in sufficient money. They stumble across a stash of smuggled whisky have twin boys - Sonny and are caught by Max, the charismatic king pin responsible for the traffickingrainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. People don't believe that they're related, who teaches them much less twins and there's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that silence is the most important lesson to learn when growing up in Noitíashe's his nanny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184655568X</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=Suzanne RindellKay Chronister|title=The Other TypistDesert Creatures|rating=54|genre=Literary Dystopian Fiction|summary=The Other Typist With a world that is set in 1920s New York Citybecoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, with Prohibition at its height and Rose Bakerpost-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Whether it is a robotic takeover, an orphaned young womana world devoid of water or a nuclear holocaust, working as this genre is a police typistway for humans to cathartically experience their most existential fears. While she has no real friends, she's good at her job and seems to have the respect 'Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is a new work of post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the Sergeant, whom she admires and the Lieutenant Detective, whom she's less keen onfears that exist for humanity today. Then It is a perfect storm comes into their lives, in the shape of the enchanting Odalie, and nothing will be the same againshocking novel that still manages to find hope.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0241002885</amazonuk>1803364998
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{{newreviewfrontpage|isbn=1803363002|author=Ioanna Bourazopoulou and Yannis Panas (Translator)Eric LaRocca|title=What Lot's Wife SawThe Trees Grew Because I Bled There|rating=45|genre=Science FictionHorror|summary= Horror taps into something primeval within us. Itis used as a way to reflect our darkest emotions and how we as humans react and process them. Most horror fiction feature a ''Big Bad''s been over 20 years since The Overflow came, flooding half of Europe. Around the same time Violet Saltwhether that is a home invader, a new multi-functional mineralmonster or a ghost, appearedit usually something tangible and, its production now governed globally by the mysteriousend of the story, all-powerful Consortiumbeatable. Meanwhile back in Europe Eric LaRocca's ''The Colony, a haven for those escaping floods and indeed justice, is ruled by Governor Bera and six officials, the Trees Grew Because I Bled There'Purple Stars'is not like that. All seems to be well in It is a despotic, lawless way until the six wake up to the realisation that the Governor has died mysteriously collection of short stories more interested in the night. The Consortium needs answers so choose the greatest crossword compiler horrors of the age, Phileas Bookillness, grief and humiliation. Horrors that linger and are harder to investigate, whether he wants to or notdefeat than any ''Big Bad''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845025474</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gabriel WestonMadelaine Lucas|title=Dirty WorkThirst for Salt
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=#There are two women in an operating theatre and when one starts bleeding heavily - fatally - the other freezes''Love, unableI'd read, despite all her training was supposed to be a light and undoubted skillsweightless feeling, to do anything at all. Whatever the outcome it cannot pass unnoticedbut I had always longed for gravity'' Told from a retrospective view, unreported and surgeon Nancy Mullion is called to appear before a tribunal appointed by young woman unravels the General Medical Councilyear-long relationship that once defined her. Over Overlaid with later wisdom, the narrator relives the affair with a period of weeks she's forced man twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to confront its sorrowful end the effect summer after. Set against the backdrop of being a doctor who has killed as well as cured. Youan isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt''re probably making assumptions now and nodding wisely. Dondetails the 24-year-old narrator't s deepening relationship with her older lover, depicting its all- because you are almost certainly going to be wrong. This will not be the story which you are expecting consuming nature, how it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and how it was certainly not the story which Nancy's hospital wanted to hearaltered her irrevocably.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>022409128X</amazonuk>0861546490
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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=Roland Watson-GrantJennifer Saint|title=SketcherAtalanta
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= Nine-year-old Skid Beaumont lives with his three brothers, father Alrick and mother Valerie in the swamps beyond the New Orleans city limits. Life is hard and home is a rundown shack with no running water but they're only there temporarily; a 'temporarily' I was as worthy as any one of them. I would get on board that is rather long-termship, I vowed. Alrick moved them from their nice home I would take my place, not just in New Orleans because the land name of the goddess. It was cheap and soon for the city would build out to envelop themsake of my name, too. Years later theyAtalanta're still waiting for that to happen. Life isn’t exactly mundane though; there are rumours that when Skid's brother Frico draws left-handed, strange things seem to happen.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846882427</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robert WalserAmanthi Harris|title=The Walk and other storiesBeautiful Place
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The publication Padma, a young Sri Lankan, has returned to the Villa Hibiscus on the southern coast of this collection her home country. This is a place she spent her formative years. It is not a place she was born into, but the one she thinks of around forty short stories affords as home. How she came to be at the English speaking public a unique opportunity; that of reading WalserVilla, how it became her home, possibly and the leading modernist writer of Swiss German in machinations that have flowed through her life ever since she first arrived there provide the last century. He has received high praise in 'A Place in the Country', W G Sebaldscore''s recently published posthumous collection for this gentle and he is well-known as being a significant influence on Franz Kafkayet subtly violent novel. His work here dates from 1907 Padma's present fails to 1929 escape her past and along with his poetry won him recognition with Berlin's avant garde. He combines lyrical delicacy with detailed observation; reflective melancholy with criticism much like the musical score 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 film, that strand weaves its way through everything that happens at the reader and provokes him to new insightsVilla.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846689589</amazonuk>1784631930
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya178563335X|title=The WatchSea Defences|author=Hilary Taylor
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= Nizam pushes When we first meet Rachel Bird she's a trainee vicar, sitting in on a barrow PCC meeting and wondering why they're held when you need to pick the children up to . Her husband, Christopher, collects six-year-old Hannah and her elder brother, Jamie, whilst Rachel holds a fortified US army base sobbing parishioner. Thelma's daughter-in Afghanistan-law won't let her see her grandson. What Holthorpe, on the Norfolk coast, is a lovely place, but Rachel is struggling to develop a real bond with the parish - and she's in awe of the vicar, Gail, but then she 's been doing there? the job for more than thirty years. How will Rachel and Christopher hoped that a walk on the soldiers react? What beach would do them some good - it was stormy but it was probably what they believe: their experienceneeded. And then Hannah went missing.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1398515388|title=The Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=First of all, it was the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and this, in turn, their trainingcaused the nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and utter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, and the loss of livelihoods was widespread. The fact that many pets were separated from their gut reaction or a young girl amputee in owners came far down the middle list of priorities but - six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. He wasn't a dog person but the desert who may be convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and Tamon the last thing they ever see?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099565773</amazonuk>dog jumped in.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anthony Cartwright0989715337|title=How I Killed Margaret ThatcherPapa on the Moon|author=Marco North|rating=3.54
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=What motivates someone to become a killer?''Some frogs had gotten into the well.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jess RichardsDaisy Hildyard|title=Cooking with BonesEmergency|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= Sisters Amber and Maya run away from home, the city The summary of Paradon, and arrive in a small village. Finding an old cottage, the girls settle in comfortably, hidden from the localsthis book doesn' sight while joining in t come close to explaining what is done with their customs as Amber backs honey cakes each night from the ingredients left daily outside the cottage and the instructions of the former occupant's cookery books. Now they've moved away from their old life Amber tries to encourage Maya to stand on her own two feet which isn't easy. For Maya is a formwanderer, engineered to reflect other's wants; a role in which it's difficult to exist normally, let alone while trying to adjust to change… and, indeed, unexpected deathpremise.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444738038</amazonuk>1913097811}}
{{newreviewFrontpage |author=Kate AtkinsonSally Oliver |title=Life After LifeThe 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=Spanning the period Early comments on this debut novel from just before World War One to Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendous, a delight. I will agree with the end of World War Two, Kate Atkinsonfirst – tremendous is no understatement – but 's a delight'is perhaps using the expression in a way I'Life After Life'' tells the story m not familiar with. I have to confess my ignorance of Ursula Todd. Or more accurately, it tells the potential stories of Ursula ToddSpanish-language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation here. If you've seen From the movie ''Sliding Doors'' then you will little I have some idea of the concept Atkinson explores; that of small changes read (in life leading to different outcomestranslation, many of which lead to tragic endings but strangely the book manages I don't read Spanish) there does seem to be a celebration of tendency towards the spirit of Ursula and is often quite uplifting. It's a book that sounds like it is going to be much more confusing than it is though and fantastical – the result is a very special book indeed. It's that rare thing of a book that has a strong literary style but which is also very readablemystical realism.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0385618670</amazonuk>0861541901
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Emily PerkinsJennifer Saint|title=The ForrestsElektra|rating=54
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= This is 'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the chronicle story of three women who live in the Forrest family during the life heavily male dominated world of daughter DorothyAncient Greece. They move ('they' being DorothyCassandra, father FrankClytemnestra, mother Lee and siblings Michael, Evelyn and little Ruthie) from New York to New Zealand at Elektra are all bit players in the age story of seven years old. Frank hopes the migration will signal a change in his luck as well as a new life for his familyTrojan War. He's right in Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that changes follow but there are as many to shake their stability as to still it and often the past remains with each of them as well as silent women have the ''de'' ''facto'' adoptee Daniel. Indeed, Dorothy grows to realise that most compelling stories and the past is a garment that's worn in some form throughout an entire lifetimemost extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140883149X</amazonuk>1472273915
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elif Shafak8409290103|title=Honour|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Jamila and Pembe are twins who, growing up among the Kurdish in Turkey, 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 that will make her the hub of her community. Pembe's destiny lies over the sea as she migrates to England with her husband Adem in search of a better life. However, the destiny they travel towards is oh so different from the destiny of which they dream.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670921165</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewIf Only|author=Therese Anne Fowler|title=Z: A Novel of Zelda FitzgeraldMatthew Tree|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=As Therese Anne Fowler points out in her acknowledgementsTwenty-one-year-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by his father, views on the relationship between F Scott Fitzgerald and cotton-broker AO Lowry: he asked his wife and museaccountant, ZeldaMr Patrick, tend to split into 'Team Scott' and 'Team Zelda'. The former believe ensure that it was Zelda's instability the young man got on board the boat and possessiveness that limited Scott's creative output while the latter argue that it thereafter Patrick was Scott's debauched behaviour that led to Zelda's mental problemssend him a monthly allowance. ''Z'' takes Patrick sent the money regularly and a more balanced view correspondence - the truth of sorts - sprang up between the matter is two although we hear more about what Lowry has to say than Patrick. It wasn't that they needed each other but were tragicallyLowry senior didn't care for his son, mutually destructive. Getting the fact-based fiction tone right is always a challenge, and this is exacerbated when the author gives a writer the narrative voice, and Zelda it was a talented writer that he didn't care to have him in her own right as well as this country where he might be a dancer, artist danger to his wife and general social phenomenonother children. However Fowler pulls it off with aplomb in what is a sensitive and engrossing story of Zelda - ' The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to get the First Flapper'young man on his way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444761404</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sheila HetiAntoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)|title=How Should A Person Be?Red is My Heart|rating=3.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Much has [[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been made in the media about the similarity black and white and read in approach of Sheila Heti's fictionalised autobiographical ''How Should A Person Be?'' and Lena Dunham's HBO television series ''Girls''my house. They certainly share a similarly bleak And so was this one, although I could have spelled that more accurately – this one was, and introspective view of lifeis, both are apparently based on the writer's own experience, both have a somewhat knowingly shock factor particularly when it comes to sex black and both leave me somewhat depressed white and sad. And both have been critical successes in the USred. IndeedYes, ''How Should A Person Be?'' also features he has an artistic collaborator on the 2013 long list for the [[Women's Prize for Fiction 2013|Women's Prize for Fiction]]this piece, although and I think it's possible to say not easy to assess where one page lacks 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 readinfluence of some striking visual ideas.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846557542</amazonuk>1913547183
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Barbara KingsolverB098FFFBH9|title=Flight BehaviourSnowcub|author=Graham Fulbright
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Set in rural Tennessee, Dellarobia Turnbow Fourteen-year-old Rachel is a young mother, trapped in the result of a shotgun wedding in a largely loveless marriage on her husbandschool's failing family farm dominated by animal rights project leader and she and her friend are producing a competition entry to highlight the disapproval of her God-fearing mother way in lawwhich human beings exploit the animal world. She dreams gets a great deal of escape with equally unsuitable younger men until one day on support from her way to acting on this impulse for the first timefamily: father Pip Harrison, a lecturer at Imperial College, London, she encounters an act of nature that will change mother Kate and her life for goodtwin, Nick. Barbara Kingsolver perfectly captures Kate runs the family business, a toy shop called Cornucopia in the opening paragraphs the sense of entrapment and dissatisfaction Putney, which is where we'll meet Rachel's main (if unsuspected) source of Dellarobia and doesn't let up for a momentinformation: five soft toys.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571290779</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nikolai Leskov, Richard Pevear (translator) and Larissa Volokhonsky (translator)Yancey Williams|title=The Enchanted Wanderer and Other StoriesCrosshairs of the Devil|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=This Award-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski is a collection of 17 Nikolai Leskov stories as mixed getting on in subject matter as they are in length. From the very short 'years and, despite his strenuous objections and thanks to his daughter, finds himself living - or imprisoned, from Eddie'Spirit s point of Madame de Genlis'', warning view - in room 315 of the dire consequences Garden of selecting literature for Eden nursing home, with only a mollycoddled princesstrusty nursing aide, Jenkins, for palatable company. Nothing is going to the novellakeep Eddie from his stock-in-length ''The Enchanted Wanderer'' telling the tale trade of the apparently immortal monk who prayed for suicide victims, Leskov (aided greatly by the talented translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky) unlocks the moreswriting though, traditionsso here, religion and superstitions of 19th century Russia for a modern readershiphis readers, are his wanderings through his life's work.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099577356</amazonuk>0986031658}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Taiye Selasi0008421714|title=Ghana Must GoMrs March|author=Virginia Feito
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Kweku Sai, father, husband and doctor, awakes early one morning and wanders outside into his Ghanaian gardenThe problem began just after the publication of George March's most successful novel to date. As he gazes back at his house, he suffers a fatal heart attack and, during his Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the last moments reflects on his life and a family fragmentedpage) seemed to either be reading it or had already done so. On hearing of his deathEvery day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, Patricia asked, as she was wrapping the bread, his children and ''but isn't this the first wife Folasade look back time he's based a character on what they were before andyou?'' She mentioned that Johanna, thanks in part to Folasadethe principal character had 'her mannerisms's and Kweku's actions. Perhaps this would not have mattered, what theyexcept for the fact that Johanna is the whore of Nantes - ''ve becomea weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670919861</amazonuk>''
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