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[[Category:New Reviews|Literary Fiction]]__NOTOC__{{adsense2Frontpage|author=Matthew Tree|title=We'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, 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 his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8}}__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0C47LV1PC|title=Heaven and HellFragility|author=Jon Kalman StefanssonMosby Woods
|rating=4
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|summary=IcelandCan you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, a hundred years ago. From a place that is the very definition of rural and remote, a small fishing boat leaves for four hours' hard row to a profitable bank. It carries six men on question should you make it? Or is the way outquestion if you did, and five on the way back. would it land? The deceased catch is that the best friend – or perhaps only friend – of the main character, who is still young enough to merely answer for both could well be known as ''boy''. When he returns to port he enters an almost Camus-like semi-existence, wondering just how much life is an answer, and for what, after the tragedy he has witnessed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849164061</amazonuk>}}.. no.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Donal RyanMosby Woods|title=The Spinning HeartA Whirly Man Loses His Turn
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The West isn'My father still lives back t the road past the weir dominant force it once was. Nobody in the cottage I was reared in. I go there every day West is quite sure how to see mend this or even if mending it is he dead and every day he lets me downthe best course of action. Governments are flailing. He hasn't yet missed A war here, a day of letting me downpush for climate action there.' This A feeling that nobody is how we meet Bobby - Bobby Mahon, as we'll learn - and he's brutally honest about his feelings for his father, who has deliberately drunk away the farm he inherited from ''his'' fatherin actual charge. But Frank Mahon isn't Bobby's onlyImagine then, or even main, problemthere was a man with precognition. He's been earning big money as Pokey Burke's foreman but Imagine the financial crash has hit and Pokey has done strategic advantage in this asset; a runnerman who can tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. An investment That man would be valuable, right? Perhaps the most valuable asset in a fake island off Dubai finished him and now he's disappearedhistory. On the estate of forty houses he was buildingImagine then, just two are occupied and the rutted roads are nothing more than a racetrack for the joyridersthat this man loses this ability.What would governments do to get it back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781620067</amazonuk>B0C9SNG8R1
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Natasha Solomons0571379559|title=The Gallery House of Vanished HusbandsBroken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=On her thirtieth birthday Juliet Montague went out to buy a fridge for ''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the princely sum story of twenty-one guineasfour people. SheTess Hembry'd saved hard for it - and her parents had given her s roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in the house on the final few pounds - but then Juliet did something impulsiveriverbank, built of broken bricks. Instead Insubstantial as it might look, it's stood the passage of buying a fridge she commissioned a portrait of herself time, storms and so began her involvement in floods. Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the postdelivery rounds -war art sceneand to bring in sufficient money. Juliet wasn't They have twin boys - by any stretch of Sonny and Max, the imagination - an artist, but she had a startling ability to spot a rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother'good'' pictures Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. It was simply something which she ''knewPeople don't believe that they're related, much as less twins and there's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she had known for certain that her husband had left for good on the day he didn't return home as expecteds his nanny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444736345</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|titleauthor=IndiscretionKay Chronister|authortitle=Charles DubowDesert Creatures|rating=3.54|genre=Literary Dystopian Fiction|summary=Charles Dubow's debut novel promises to be With a modern day Great Gatsbyworld that is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, post-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. It too Whether it is set amongst the rich and famous outside New Yorka robotic takeover, a world devoid of water or a nuclear holocaust, it too this genre is narrated a way for humans to cathartically experience their most existential fears. ''Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is a character seemingly on new work of post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the outside, Maddy's childhood friend Walterfears that exist for humanity today. It is a shocking novel that still manages to find hope.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007501307</amazonuk>1803364998
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{{newreviewfrontpage|titleisbn=Unfaithfully Yours1803363002|author=Nigel WilliamsEric LaRocca|title= The Trees Grew Because I Bled There|rating=45|genre=General FictionHorror|summary=When Nigel Williams first really burst on Horror taps into something primeval within us. It is used as a way to the best-seller list, reflect our darkest emotions and how we as humans react and process them. Most horror fiction feature a couple of decades ago''Big Bad'', it was with a book set in Wimbledon whether that really quite tickled is a younger me – and my mother. But then he produced two more in the same serieshome invader, and we soon decided he was a bit of monster or a one-trick ponyghost, it usually something tangible and could never be sure how much , by the end of the trilogy we'd read, or be too eager to read more. Flash forwardstory, and Williams has certainly branched out – his setting this time is Putneybeatable. Wimbledon Common is now Putney Heath, and so on. But here he provides an epistolatory novel – and if thereEric LaRocca's one kind of novel to make me prick up my ears it ''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is one built from lettersnot like that. It is a collection of short stories more interested in the blatant two-and-fro timing horrors of the narrativeillness, grief and the succinctness humiliation. Horrors that characters linger and are formed with, that strike me as obvious benefits of such a book – and Unfaithfully Yours has those and many moreharder to defeat than any ''Big Bad''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472106741</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Russian StoriesMadelaine Lucas|authortitle=Francesc SeresThirst for Salt
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=When confronted with the topic of parrots''Love, most people would describe them as tamed tropical birds that are taught to repeat simple phrasesI'd read, having no particular intelligence was supposed to engender an originality of their own. Filippo Bologna has not in fact written be a book about birdslight and weightless feeling, but about writers - in fact, three writers. Just as the Neo-Pagans have a liking of the Triple Goddesses of The Maiden, The Mother and The Crone, our three writers are similarly split into The Beginner, The Writer, and The Master. All three of these novelists are battling it out I had always longed for The Prize, a prestigious award that would revitalise the career of The Master, legitimize the efforts of The Beginner and assure The Writer a place in the annals of history. The setting of Rome is utilised to provide both a stunning backdrop and one that is sympathetic to the mood of our characters. The stories of our three protagonists are interwoven in a delightfully clear fashion; Bolognagravity''s prose is delicate and descriptive, but not at the sacrifice of pacing. The stage is set; the characters have learned their lines. There is just one problem... out of the three writers, none of them deserves to win The Prize.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908968192</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=Andrew PorterJennifer Saint|title=In Between DaysAtalanta|rating=3.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=After Chloe Harding is forced to leave her East Coast college''I was as worthy as any one of them. I would get on board that ship, for reasons she refuses to explain to her recently divorced parents or older brother RichardI vowed. I would take my place, her family's lives start to unravelnot just in the name of the goddess. Will It was for the rest sake of them ever find out what caused her fall from gracemy name, and can they solve their own problems?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224089838</amazonuk>}}too. Atalanta''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lea CarpenterAmanthi Harris|title=Eleven DaysBeautiful Place|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Sara raised Jason alone; even when she was with his father it felt as if she was Padma, a lone parent. Jason's father always seemed young Sri Lankan, has returned to be away doing something indefinable abroad; then he disappeared leaving the Villa Hibiscus on the southern coast of her completelyhome country. Two This is a place she spent her formative years later Jason's father was dead. However Jason It is not a lad place she was born into, but the one she thinks of as home. How she came to be proud ofat the Villa, how it became her home, never giving Sara a momentand the machinations that have flowed through her life ever since she first arrived there provide the ''score''s trouble for this gentle and now a member of the elite US Navy SEALSyet subtly violent novel. Now he Padma's missing in action… Now she has present fails to hang on escape her past and hopemuch like the musical score of a film, that strand weaves its way through everything that happens at the Villa.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444776231</amazonuk>1784631930
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lucy Cruickshanks178563335X|title=The Trader of SaigonSea Defences|author=Hilary Taylor
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The small community of Noitía is When we first meet Rachel Bird she's a trainee vicar, sitting in on a place where everyone knows each other PCC meeting and wondering why they're held when you need to pick the children up. Her husband, Christopher, collects six-year-old Hannah and each other’s businessher elder brother, Jamie, which considering most of the adults are involved whilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioner. Thelma's daughter-in -law won't let her see her grandson. Holthorpe, on the one businessNorfolk coast, smugglingis a lovely place, but Rachel is potentially dangerous knowledge. We follow struggling to develop a small group of three young friends growing up in real bond with the area as they play parish - and learn and even experience a little she's in awe of the black market dealingsvicar, Gail, but then she's been doing the job for more than thirty years. They stumble across Rachel and Christopher hoped that a stash of smuggled whisky and are caught by the charismatic king pin responsible for walk on the trafficking, who teaches beach would do them that silence is the most important lesson to learn when growing up in Noitíasome good - it was stormy but it was probably what they needed. And then Hannah went missing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184655568X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ryu Murakami1398515388|title=From The Fatherland, With LoveBoy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=From First of all, it was the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and this, in turn, caused the nuclear meltdown. The Fatherlandresult was complete and utter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, With Love is a 2005 Japanese novel set in and the loss of livelihoods was widespread. The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of priorities but - six months after the thentsunami -near future of 2011Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. Fatherland (as I will abbreviate it) explores He wasn't a dog person but the social convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and political ramifications of one speculative scenario: what if North Korea invaded Japan?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908968451</amazonuk>Tamon the dog jumped in.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Suzanne Rindell0989715337|title=The Other TypistPapa on the Moon|author=Marco North|rating=54
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The Other Typist is set in 1920s New York City, with Prohibition at its height and Rose Baker, an orphaned young woman, working as a police typist. While she has no real friends, she's good at her job and seems to have the respect of the Sergeant, whom she admires and the Lieutenant Detective, whom she's less keen on. Then a perfect storm comes Some frogs had gotten into their lives, in the shape of the enchanting Odalie, and nothing will be the same againwell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241002885</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rachel KushnerDaisy Hildyard|title=The FlamethrowersEmergency|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Set mainly in New York's art district in the late 1970s, Rachel Kushner's ''The Flamethrowers'' tells the story summary of a young girl, known only to the reader as Reno, after the city she comes from. Shethis book doesn's a girl who loves motorbikes and photography, but struggles t come close to find her place in the New York art scene. When she falls for the estranged son, Sandro, of explaining what is done with the Italian motorbike manufacturer Valero, himself an artist in New York, Reno finds herself in situations she cannot controlpremise.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846557917</amazonuk>1913097811}}
{{newreviewFrontpage |author=Roland Watson-GrantSally Oliver |title=SketcherThe 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= Nine-year-old Skid Beaumont lives Early comments on this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendous, a delight. I will agree with his three brothers, father Alrick and mother Valerie in the swamps beyond the New Orleans city limits. Life first – tremendous is hard and home is a rundown shack with no running water understatement – but they're only there temporarily; a delight'temporarilyis perhaps using the expression in a way I' that is rather long-termm not familiar with. Alrick moved them from their nice home in New Orleans because I have to confess my ignorance of the land was cheap and soon the city would build out to envelop themSpanish-language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation here. Years later theyFrom the little I have read (in translation, I don're still waiting for that to happen. Life isn’t exactly mundane though; t read Spanish) there are rumours that when Skid's brother Frico draws left-handed, strange things does seem to happenbe a tendency towards the fantastical – the mystical realism.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846882427</amazonuk>0861541901
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Francesco PacificoJennifer Saint|title=The Story of My PurityElektra|rating=2.54
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=In Francesco Pacifico's translated Italian novel Elektra'The Story of My Purity', Piero Rosini is a 30 year old, ultraconservative Catholic working for a radical Catholic publishing house. His marriage is devoid by Jennifer Saint tells the story of physical contact, and he yearns for his virginal sister-three women who live in-law. Largely to escape these longings, he heads for Paris, never the first choice heavily male dominated world of one seeking to preserve their purityAncient Greece. Cassandra, where he is further tempted by a slightly unlikely group of girlsClytemnestra, and one Elektra are all bit players in particular, which is further complicated for him by the fact story of the Trojan War. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that she is Jewish. Almost living a separate life in his head, he cannot escape either often the silent women have the most compelling stories and the intellectual or physical constraints of his old life in Romemost extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0241145058</amazonuk>1472273915
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Philip Sington8409290103|title=The Valley of UnknowingIf Only|author=Matthew Tree|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=In the midTwenty-one-year-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by his father, cotton-broker AO Lowry: he asked his accountant, Mr Patrick, to-late eighties ensure that the young man got on board the German Democratic Republic looked like enduringboat and thereafter Patrick was to send him a monthly allowance. Bolstered by Patrick sent the money regularly and a system correspondence - of ''Mitarbeiter'' (''fellow workers'' is a much sorts - sprang up between the two although we hear more amenable term about what Lowry has to say than Patrick. It wasn't that Lowry senior didn'informerst care for his son, it was that he didn'') the Stasi kept their populace t care to have him in checkthis country where he might be a danger to his wife and other children. Western media The alcohol problem was easy obvious even before Patrick managed to censor get the young man on his way.}}{{Frontpage|author=Antoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)|title=Red is My Heart|rating=3.5|genre=Literary Fiction |summary=[[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white and read in those daysmy house. Border controls were brutalAnd so was this one, although I could have spelled that more accurately – this one was, and is, black and white and red. People were shot Yes, he has an artistic collaborator on a regular basis trying to cross the no-manthis piece, and I think it's-land into West Berlin and along possible to say not one page lacks the other inner German bordersinfluence of some striking visual ideas.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099535823</amazonuk>1913547183
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert WalserB098FFFBH9|title=The Walk and other storiesSnowcub|author=Graham Fulbright|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The publication of this collection of around forty short stories affords Fourteen-year-old Rachel is her school's animal rights project leader and she and her friend are producing a competition entry to highlight the way in which human beings exploit the English speaking public animal world. She gets a unique opportunity; that great deal of reading Walsersupport from her family: father Pip Harrison, a lecturer at Imperial College, London, mother Kate and her twin, possibly Nick. Kate runs the leading modernist writer of Swiss German in the last century. He has received high praise in 'A Place family business, a toy shop called Cornucopia in the Country'Putney, W G Sebaldwhich is where we's recently published posthumous collection and he is well-known as being a significant influence on Franz Kafka. His work here dates from 1907 to 1929 and along with his poetry won him recognition with Berlinll meet Rachel's avant garde. He combines lyrical delicacy with detailed observation; reflective melancholy with criticism main (if unsuspected) source 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 insightsinformation: five soft toys.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846689589</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joydeep Roy-BhattacharyaYancey Williams|title=The WatchCrosshairs of the Devil|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= Nizam pushes a barrow up Award-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski is getting on in years and, despite his strenuous objections and thanks to a fortified US army base his daughter, finds himself living - or imprisoned, from Eddie's point of view - in Afghanistan. What is she doing there? How will room 315 of the soldiers react? What do they believe: their experienceGarden of Eden nursing home, with only a trusty nursing aide, their trainingJenkins, their gut reaction or a young girl amputee for palatable company. Nothing is going to keep Eddie from his stock-in the middle -trade of the desert who may be the last thing they ever see?writing though, so here, for his readers, are his wanderings through his life's work.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099565773</amazonuk>0986031658}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anthony Cartwright0008421714|title=How I Killed Margaret ThatcherMrs March|author=Virginia Feito|rating=34.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=What motivates someone The problem began just after the publication of George March's most successful novel to become a killer? When date. 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 local patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, Patricia asked, as she was wrapping the bread, ''but isn't this the reader first meets Sean Bull, time he is nine years old, living 's based a seemingly carefree and happy existence surrounded by his family and friends in a close-knit community in Dudleycharacter on you?'' She mentioned that Johanna, West Midlandsthe principal character had 'her mannerisms''. He loves Star Wars and playing football with his school friends and adores his teenage uncle Johnny Perhaps this would not have mattered, who tells him stories and creates except for the fact that Johanna is the most wonderful pieces whore of artNantes - ''a weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781251576</amazonuk>''
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