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[[Category:New Reviews|Literary Fiction]]{{adsense2}}__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=1Q84: The Complete TrilogyMatthew Tree|authortitle=Haruki MurakamiWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The ''1Q84'' trilogy is, without doubt, an impressive book. In many ways, the trilogy almost has Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be read in this way as the three component books make little sense on their own. The first book in the series in particular is almost completely baffling if taken in isolation. It doesdifferent from his father, though, demand a degree of dedication, drunk and if the prospect chronic underachiever whose dreams of a 1300 page novel in which not a huge amount happens in terms being exceptional at any of plot his artistic passions all failed miserably and in which there is a significant level of repetition leaves you cold, then this might not be the best entry point into the wonderful world who had endless crises of Haruki Murakamiself confidence. As often with Murakami though, it's possible So Tim applied himself to read this book at a number of levels. On the surface it's a love story set in a slightly fantastical setting with a little bit of crime thrown in. At a deeper levelhis studies, he explores the thin lines between imagination cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and reality, life and death and what you might call yin and yang. It's a novel where balance and vacuums play a big part. It seems counter-intuitive to call a book of this magnitude 'delicate', set himself high but that's just how the story appearsachievable ambitions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099578077</amazonuk>B0CVFXPGP8
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=B0C47LV1PC
|title=Fragility
|author=Mosby Woods
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, would it land? The catch is that the answer for both could well be.... no.
''Fragility'' is set as the city of Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic}}{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=A Kind of Eden Mosby Woods|authortitle=Amanda SmythA Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Martin Rawlinson has escaped from The West isn't the cold dreary English weather dominant force it once was. Nobody in the West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is the exotic heat and exotic women best course of Trinidadaction. Governments are flailing. He might have A war here, a wife and a daughter back homepush for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is in actual charge. Imagine then, but home is there was a long way away and here is man with precognition. Imagine the young and beautiful Safiya. She's strategic advantage in this asset; a journalist and could easily have just dismissed him as some sad old white guy, but somehow she didn'tman who can tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. Somehow they talked, and walkedThat man would be valuable, and she showed him right? Perhaps the real Trinidad and he fell most valuable asset in love with herhistory. Imagine then, and with her homethat this man loses this ability.What would governments do to get it back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846688132</amazonuk>B0C9SNG8R1
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alexander Maksik0571379559|title=A Marker to Measure DriftThe House of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams
|rating=5
|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=Jacqueline roams ''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the beaches story of four people. Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in the house on the Greek islands offering massages for money to ward off starvationriverbank, built of broken bricks. It helps but hunger is always with herInsubstantial as it might look, lurking alongside it's stood the memory passage of a former life time, storms and floods. Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the delivery rounds - and to bring in Liberia sufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and Max, the mindrainbow twins. Sonny's ear voice of her colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. Jacqueline People don't believe that they're related, much less twins and there's an assumption when Max is at least alive and existing, but at what cost?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848548052</amazonuk>out with his mother that she's his nanny.
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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=FamiliarKay Chronister|authortitle=J Robert LennonDesert Creatures|rating=4.5|genre=General Dystopian Fiction|summary=Is there With a greater change in the life of a middle-aged woman than the death of her teenage son? Elisa might have thought not, having been forced to bury fifteen year old Silasworld that is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, and try and move on with her husband Derek and the yearpost-older son, Samapocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. But Whether it is a greater change occurs on the way back from her annualrobotic takeover, solo pilgrimage to his grave – something very weird happens to the universe. She pops from one car to another, from under a cloudless sky to a slightly greyer one – and from her self as Elisa to world devoid of water or a world where people call her Lisanuclear holocaust, where she this genre is plumper, in a different job, stiil married way for humans to Derek in cathartically experience their most existential fears. ''Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is a new work of post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the same home – but fears that exist for humanity today. It is a shocking novel that still the mother of two young men…manages to find hope.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846689473</amazonuk>1803364998
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{{newreviewfrontpage|titleisbn=The Sorrow of Angels1803363002|author=Jon Kalman StefanssonEric LaRocca|title= The Trees Grew Because I Bled There|rating=3.5|genre=Literary FictionHorror|summary=Our decidedly unheroic main character has been at the café for three weeks now, so Horror taps into something primeval within us. It is used as a way to reflect our darkest emotions and how we are following on very closely from [[Heaven as humans react and Hell by Jon Kalman Stefansson|Heaven and Hell]]process them. After the tragedy and soul-searching of that first bookMost horror fiction feature a ''Big Bad'', he seems settled in the ridiculous family whether that has formed around him thereis a home invader, finding employmenta monster or a ghost, enjoying the literatureit usually something tangible and, yet being very intrigued by the female bodyend of the story, beatable. The man who is still young enough to be known only as Eric LaRocca's ''the boyThe Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' might have latched on to stability for once, and replaced the family and best friend he had lostis not like that. But everything It is restless a collection of short stories more interested in this environmentthe horrors of illness, grief and humiliation. Horrors that linger and once again he might just be tempted are harder to go on a journey, with another male companion, despite the harshness of the surroundsdefeat than any ''Big Bad''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857051652</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Heaven and HellMadelaine Lucas|authortitle=Jon Kalman StefanssonThirst for Salt|rating=45
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Iceland''Love, a hundred years ago. From a place that is the very definition of rural and remoteI'd read, a small fishing boat leaves for four hours' hard row was supposed to be a profitable bank. It carries six men on the way out, light and five on the way back. The deceased is the best friend – or perhaps only friend – of the main characterweightless feeling, who is still young enough to merely be known as 'but I had always longed for gravity'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>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Donal RyanMichael Grothaus|title=The Spinning HeartBeautiful Shining People
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction|summary='My father still lives back the road past the weir in the cottage I was reared in'But fearing something and having it come to pass are two different things. And I go there every day 'm willing to bet most of what we fear will never happen, or we can take steps to see is he dead and every day he lets me downchange it. He hasn't yet missed a day of letting me down.'
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Natasha SolomonsJennifer Saint|title=The Gallery of Vanished HusbandsAtalanta
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=On her thirtieth birthday Juliet Montague went out to buy a fridge for the princely sum ''I was as worthy as any one of twenty-one guineasthem. She'd saved hard for it - and her parents had given her the final few pounds - but then Juliet did something impulsiveI would get on board that ship, I vowed. Instead of buying a fridge she commissioned a portrait of herself and so began her involvement I would take my place, not just in the post-war art scene. Juliet wasn't - by any stretch name of the imagination - an artist, but she had a startling ability to spot a ''good'' picturegoddess. It was simply something which she ''knew'', much as she had known for certain that her husband had left for good on the day he didnsake of my name, too. Atalanta''t return home as expected.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444736345</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Russian StoriesAmanthi Harris|authortitle=Francesc SeresBeautiful Place
|rating=5
|genre=Short StoriesLiterary Fiction|summary=This brilliant and varied collection of short stories is Padma, a young Sri Lankan, has returned to the Villa Hibiscus on the product southern coast of a current academic interest in cross-cultural translationher home country. Francisco Guillen Serés This is a Catalan professor of Art History from Aragon. A Russophile, he has travelled widely to collect stories from those writing during the past hundred place she spent her formative years of Russian history. These have been translated into Catalan and then It is not a place she was born into English. These unusual and delightful stories, some twenty but the one she thinks of them written by five writers read fluently and engaginglyas home. They form an informative tapestry of Soviet and post-Soviet life, moving back in time with How she came to be at the olderVilla, earlier writers like Bergchenkohow it became her home, who died in and the siege of Stalingrad, at machinations that have flowed through her life ever since she first arrived there provide the end''score'' for this gentle and yet subtly violent novel. Ranging over mythic Padma's present fails to escape her past and symbolic tales to realistic portrayals much like the musical score of personal relationships; love trysts in St Petersburga film, ferocious bears in the deep heart of that strand weaves its way through everything that happens at the Taiga to the perils of becoming lost in continuous orbit in space. All aspects are impressively recountedVilla.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>085705158X</amazonuk>1784631930
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=178563335X|title=The ParrotsSea Defences|author=Filippo BolognaHilary Taylor|rating=45
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=When confronted with the topic of parrotswe first meet Rachel Bird she's a trainee vicar, most people would describe them as tamed tropical birds that are taught sitting in on a PCC meeting and wondering why they're held when you need to repeat simple phrasespick the children up. Her husband, having no particular intelligence to engender an originality of their own. Filippo Bologna has not in fact written a book about birdsChristopher, but about writers collects six- in fact, three writers. Just as the Neoyear-Pagans have a liking of the Triple Goddesses of The Maiden, The Mother old Hannah and The Croneher elder brother, our three writers are similarly split into The BeginnerJamie, The Writer, and The Masterwhilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioner. Thelma's daughter-in-law won't let her see her grandson. All three of these novelists are battling it out for The Prize Holthorpe, a prestigious award that would revitalise on the career of The MasterNorfolk coast, legitimize the efforts of The Beginner and assure The Writer is a lovely place in the annals of history. The setting of Rome , but Rachel is utilised struggling to provide both develop a stunning backdrop real bond with the parish - and one that is sympathetic to the mood of our characters. The stories of our three protagonists are interwoven in a delightfully clear fashion; Bolognashe's prose is delicate and descriptivein awe of the vicar, Gail, but not at then she's been doing the sacrifice of pacingjob for more than thirty years. The stage is set; Rachel and Christopher hoped that a walk on the characters have learned their lines. There is just one problem..beach would do them some good - it was stormy but it was probably what they needed. out of the three writers, none of them deserves to win The Prize And then Hannah went missing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908968192</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1398515388|title=In The Dutch MountainsBoy and the Dog|author=Cees NooteboomSeishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=OftenFirst of all, when asked if what I’m reading is a good book I hesitate before answeringit was the earthquake, trying to decide what deep in the asker really means. Do they mean is it exciting? Funny? Full of interesting characters? Recentlyocean floor, someone asked me that which created the tsunami and when I hesitated they gave me this as a clarifier: “Are you better off for having read it?”. In this instance, yesin turn, caused the nuclear meltdown. I think I am The result was complete and utter devastation. However The deaths were uncountable, despite coming away and the loss of livelihoods was widespread. The fact that many pets were separated from this book with their owners came far down the list of priorities but - six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a strong positive feeling about it, it’s also left me convenience store. He wasn't a little befuddleddog 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>1782067191</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0989715337|title=Every PromisePapa on the Moon|author=Andrea BajaniMarco North
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Italian writer, Andrea Bajani's 'Some frogs had gotten into the well.'Every Promise' ' is narrated by Pietro. His partner, Sara, has left him due to their inability to have a baby, but soon she finds herself pregnant after a one night stand and reliant on Pietro's mother for advice. Meanwhile Pietro meets Olmo, an elderly man who lives Walter stood waist-deep in their old family apartmentthe fragrant water, who reminds Pietro of naked except for his own Grandfather, Mario, who, like Olmo, served in Mussolini's ill-fated Russian campaignbeaten leather hat. Olmo persuades Pietro to go to Russia to visit the scenes Long strands of some of the photographs he has to try to come to terms their eggs wove around him, sticky gray pearls with the pasttadpoles inside them. It's a story about Two of the past, dogs leaned over the present opening and barked down at the future and strange noise of the struggle buckets as he filled them.'' How is that for one man to make sense an opening? The style of this. It's packed with surpassingly detailed imagery and Bajani is at times breathtakingly unflinching novel in exposing the vulnerability form of his narratorinterconnected short stories goes from succinct and laconic to wistful and musing, turning on a sixpence. HoweverAnd author Marco North, it is very much a slow burn who has the most wonderful turn of a book and it's not always an easy book phrase, starts as he means to readgo on.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857051466</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andrew PorterDaisy Hildyard|title=In Between DaysEmergency|rating=3.54
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=After Chloe Harding is forced to leave her East Coast college, for reasons she refuses to explain to her recently divorced parents or older brother Richard, her familyThe summary of this book doesn's lives start t come close to unravelexplaining what is done with the premise. 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>1913097811}}
{{newreviewFrontpage |author=Ivy PochodaSally Oliver |title=Visitation StreetThe 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=Red HookEarly comments on this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendous, Brooklyn and it is blisteringly hota delight. Two fifteen year old girls decide I will agree with the best and most exciting way to cool off first – tremendous is no understatement – but 'a delight' is to take perhaps using the expression in a small inflatable raft on way I'm not familiar with. I have to confess my ignorance of the riverSpanish-language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation here. The next morning one of From the girls is found unconscious and washed ashore with no memory of what happened little I have read (in the river and the other girl is nowhere translation, I don't read Spanish) there does seem to be found. This becomes a big local story and tendency towards the survivor, saviour and community have to deal with fantastical – the loss in their different waysmystical realism.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444778242</amazonuk>0861541901
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Marlen HaushoferJennifer Saint|title=Nowhere Ending SkyElektra|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= Little Meta is growing up 'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the story of three women who live in a childhood paradise with two parents who love her and a younger brother to tease and train to do all the things that Meta wants him toheavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. However the world outside Meta's paradise will soon change beyond Cassandra, Clytemnestra, and Elektra are all recognition as bit players in the Austria and Germany story of the 1920s makes way for Trojan War. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the Austria silent women have the most compelling stories and Germany of the 1930smost extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0704373130</amazonuk>1472273915
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lea Carpenter8409290103|title=Eleven DaysIf Only|author=Matthew Tree
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Sara raised Jason alone; even when she was with Twenty-one-year-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by his father it felt as if she , cotton-broker AO Lowry: he asked his accountant, Mr Patrick, to ensure that the young man got on board the boat and thereafter Patrick was to send him a lone parentmonthly allowance. Jason's father always seemed Patrick sent the money regularly and a correspondence - of sorts - sprang up between the two although we hear more about what Lowry has to be away doing something indefinable abroad; then he disappeared leaving her completelysay than Patrick. Two years later Jason It wasn't that Lowry senior didn's father t care for his son, it was dead. However Jason is a lad that he didn't care to have him in this country where he might be proud of, never giving Sara a moment's trouble danger to his wife and now a member of the elite US Navy SEALSother children. Now he's missing in action… Now she has The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to hang get the young man on and hopehis way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444776231</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lucy Cruickshanks|title=The Trader of Saigon|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=In the Saigon of the 1980s the Vietnam War is over but the traces remain. Alexander has deserted from the US army and makes a comfortable living selling girls to local business men. Phuc used to be a business manAntoine Laurain, complete with mansion and the means to keep his wife Le Sonneur and three children in affluence. Now his family live in a shanty hut, afraid of the ruling government that spies through the eyes of children. At last he finds a way out, his luck just needs to hold. Hanh also lives in poverty, desperately trying to help her sick mother with the pittance she earns from cleaning one of the city's many open latrines. Then one day she meets someone who offers so much more. His name is Alexander.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782063218</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Manuel RivasJane Aitken (translator)|title=All Is SilenceRed is My Heart
|rating=3.5
|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=The small community of Noitía is a place where everyone knows each other [[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white and each other’s business, which considering most of the adults are involved read in the my house. And so was this one business, smugglingalthough I could have spelled that more accurately – this one was, and is potentially dangerous knowledge. We follow a small group of three young friends growing up in the area as they play , black and learn white and even experience a little of the black market dealingsred. They stumble across a stash of smuggled whisky Yes, he has an artistic collaborator on this piece, and are caught by I think it's possible to say not one page lacks the charismatic king pin responsible for the trafficking, who teaches them that silence is the most important lesson to learn when growing up in Noitíainfluence of some striking visual ideas.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184655568X</amazonuk>1913547183
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ryu MurakamiB098FFFBH9|title=From The Fatherland, With LoveSnowcub|author=Graham Fulbright
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=From The Fatherland, With Love Fourteen-year-old Rachel is her school's animal rights project leader and she and her friend are producing a 2005 Japanese novel set competition entry to highlight the way in which human beings exploit the then-near future animal world. She gets a great deal of 2011support from her family: father Pip Harrison, a lecturer at Imperial College, London, mother Kate and her twin, Nick. Fatherland Kate runs the family business, a toy shop called Cornucopia in Putney, which is where we'll meet Rachel's main (as I will abbreviate itif unsuspected) explores the social and political ramifications source of one speculative scenarioinformation: what if North Korea invaded Japan?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908968451</amazonuk>five soft toys.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Suzanne RindellYancey Williams|title=The Other TypistCrosshairs of the Devil|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The Other Typist Award-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski is set getting on in 1920s New York City, with Prohibition at its height years and Rose Baker, an orphaned young woman, working as a police typist. While she has no real friends, she's good at her job despite his strenuous objections and seems thanks to have the respect of the Sergeanthis daughter, whom she admires and the Lieutenant Detectivefinds himself living - or imprisoned, whom shefrom Eddie's less keen on. Then a perfect storm comes into their lives, point of view - in the shape room 315 of the enchanting Odalie, and nothing will be the same again.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241002885</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ioanna Bourazopoulou and Yannis Panas (Translator)|title=What Lot's Wife Saw|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|summary= It's been over 20 years since The Overflow came, flooding half Garden of Europe. Around the same time Violet SaltEden nursing home, with only a new multi-functional mineraltrusty nursing aide, appearedJenkins, its production now governed globally by the mysterious, all-powerful Consortiumfor palatable company. Meanwhile back in Europe The Colony, a haven for those escaping floods and indeed justice, Nothing is ruled by Governor Bera and six officials, the 'Purple Stars'. All seems going to be well keep Eddie from his stock-in a despotic-trade of writing though, 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 agehere, Phileas Bookfor his readers, to investigate, whether he wants to or notare his wanderings through his life's work.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1845025474</amazonuk>0986031658}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gabriel Weston0008421714|title=Dirty Work|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=#There are two women in an operating theatre and when one starts bleeding heavily - fatally - the other freezes, unable, despite all her training and undoubted skills, to do anything at all. Whatever the outcome it cannot pass unnoticed, unreported and surgeon Nancy Mullion is called to appear before a tribunal appointed by the General Medical Council. Over a period of weeks she's forced to confront the effect of being a doctor who has killed as well as cured. You're probably making assumptions now and nodding wisely. Don't - because you are almost certainly going to be wrong. This will not be the story which you are expecting and it was certainly not the story which Nancy's hospital wanted to hear.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>022409128X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMrs March|author=Rachel Kushner|title=The FlamethrowersVirginia Feito
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Set mainly in New York's art district in The problem began just after the late 1970s, Rachel Kushnerpublication of George March's ''The Flamethrowers'' tells most successful novel to date. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the story of a young girl, known only last page) seemed to either be reading it or had already done so. Every day Mrs March went to the reader local patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, Patricia asked, as Renoshe was wrapping the bread, after ''but isn't this the city she comes from. Shefirst time he's based a girl who loves motorbikes and photographycharacter on you?'' She mentioned that Johanna, but struggles to find the principal character had 'her place in the New York art scenemannerisms''. When she falls Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for the estranged sonfact that Johanna is the whore of Nantes - ''a weak, plain, Sandrodetestable, of the Italian motorbike manufacturer Valeropathetic, himself an artist in New Yorkunloved, Reno finds herself in situations she cannot controlunloveable wretch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846557917</amazonuk>''
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