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[[Category:New Reviews|Literary Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jennifer JohnstonMatthew Tree|title=A Sixpenny SongWe'll Never Know|rating=34.5
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|summary=Annie's father is dead. She's not particularly upset as it's a decade or so since they've had any contact. Dada (he preferred Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be called 'Father') had wanted her to go into the family businessdifferent from his father, to make money. She'd wanted to go to Trinity College in Dublin to read English Literature, but instead she'd packed a suitcase drunk and left for London, where she still is - working in a bookshop. Her mother died when she was young - Dada had sent the child off to boarding school and did chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his best to ensure that her mother's name was never referred to again - artistic passions all failed miserably and it wasn't too long before he remarriedwho had endless crises of self confidence. His death brought Annie back So Tim applied himself to Ireland his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and she found that the money had been left to wife number two (as he was confident that she would know how to look after it) set himself high but the house now belonged to Annieachievable ambitions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472209222</amazonuk>B0CVFXPGP8
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alex KovacsB0C47LV1PC|title=The Currency of PaperFragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Maximilian Sacheverell Hollingsworth was - as Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it? Or is the name might suggest - of aristocratic birthquestion if you did, but had broken off all contact with his family and in consequence found himself labouring would it land? The catch is that the answer for forty hours a week in a printing works in Dagenhamboth could well be.. He came upon the idea of planning out his entire life and this he did in the course of a single afternoon whilst enjoying a little illicit sick leave in a pub in Bloomsbury. He would first become a counterfeiter - on a massive scale - and then a sculptor, filmmaker, collector of artefacts, sound artist and mystic. Circumstances would also turn him into a recluse, except on certain well-ordered occasions, most of which would occur - somewhat to his initial surprise - later in his lifeno.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1564788571</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alice McDermottMosby Woods|title=SomeoneA Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= Marie is growing up The West isn't the dominant force it once was. Nobody in 1920s Brooklyn and, although not financially rich she's the secure, cared for child of Irish parents from one of West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is the many waves best course of immigration which the US has promised to welcomeaction. Governments are flailing. Marie's friend Pegeen is from Irish/Syrian stock and is dying A war here, a push for romantic love to come her wayclimate action there. Marie's brother Gabe A feeling that nobody is singled out for Catholic seminary and priesthoodin actual charge. Imagine then, there was a man with precognition. Marie thinks Imagine the future is as safe as strategic advantage in this asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. That man would be valuable, right? Perhaps the loved ones around her but the future is an unknown country and her journey towards most valuable asset in history. Imagine then, that this man loses this ability. What would governments do to get it hasn't finished yet.back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408847248</amazonuk>B0C9SNG8R1
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{{newreview|title=The Ice-Cold Heaven|author=Mirko BonneFrontpage|ratingisbn=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=They say that if you fall off a horse you should get back on one right away, but even so… I don't think many people who had only just left their first love – a shopgirl in their village – for their second – exploring the world on sailing cargo ships – would leap to a further voyage having been wrecked and stranded off the coast of South America for well over a week. But Merce here does – he wants to follow his best friend on to a ship called ''The Endurance'' and head with Shackleton to the Antarctic. But Merce is only seventeen, and is rejected – causing him to stow away onto one of the world's worst ever journeys.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715645846</amazonuk>}} {{newreview0571379559|title=The Year House of Miracle and GriefBroken Bricks|author=Leonid BorodinFiona Williams
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=From a space ''The House of 25 yearsBroken Bricks'' is the story of four people. Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, our narrator looks back but instead, she lives in the house on what happened when he was 12 years oldthe riverbank, built of broken bricks. Twenty five years that had to elapseInsubstantial as it might look, because that was it's stood the promise that he madepassage of time, storms and floods. He is now happy Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, happy to complete the delivery rounds - and to bring in sufficient money. They have kept twin boys - Sonny and Max, the secret as he promised Sarma he wouldrainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. People don't believe that they're related, much less twins and happier that he can now tell the story: he can tell us of everything there's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that happened in she's his childhood that year on the shores of the oldest lake in the world, Lake Baikalnanny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0704373246</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=The Rabbit Back Literature SocietyKay Chronister|authortitle=Pasi Ilmari JaaskelainenDesert Creatures|rating=3.54|genre=Literary Dystopian Fiction|summary=Ella Milana With a world that is a language and literature supply teacher currently teaching in her hometown of Rabbit Back and dealing with challenging revelations in her lifebecoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, post-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Ella Whether it is unexpectedly invited to join the hugely successful and influential Rabbit Back Literature Societya robotic takeover, a group world devoid of nine authors who were hand selected and mentored from childhood by Finland’s greatest author (Laura White) water or a nuclear holocaust, this genre is a way for humans to become literary icons in cathartically experience their own rightmost existential fears. There weere always intended to be ten members ''Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is a new work of post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the society but Laura White has not selected a new member fears that exist for decades and the appointment of Ella humanity today. It is a massive literary event. The ceremony in honour of Ella’s new membership shocking novel that still manages to the incredibly elite society is unfortunately overshadowed by Laura White’s disappearance at the ceremony itselffind hope.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908968982</amazonuk>1803364998
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{{newreviewfrontpage|isbn=1803363002|author=Angela YoungEric LaRocca|title=Speaking of LoveThe Trees Grew Because I Bled There|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionHorror|summary=For some people it's impossible Horror taps into something primeval within us. It is used as a way to tell another person that they love reflect our darkest emotions and how we as humans react and process them and both are damaged. Iris could not tell her daughter, VivieMost horror fiction feature a ''Big Bad'', whether that she loved her and Matthewis a home invader, Vivie's childhood frienda monster or a ghost, neighbour it usually something tangible and would-be lover could not tell her how he felt. For all three , by the result was years end of separation with Vivie feeling that she was fundamentally unloveable and the whole situation was further complicated by Irisstory, beatable. Eric LaRocca's mental disintegration and her treatment removing most ''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is not like that. It is a collection of her memories short stories more interested in the horrors of Vivie's childhoodillness, grief and humiliation. If Horrors that sounds depressing linger and soul-destroying then I am doing are harder to defeat than any ''Speaking of Love'Big Bad' an injustice because it's also a story of trust, reconciliation and learning to speak about your feelings.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00G4401G4</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Call of the UndertowMadelaine Lucas|authortitle=Linda CracknellThirst for Salt
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=If you ''Love, I'd read , was supposed to be a lot of bookslight and weightless feeling, then the fact of your life is that you are but I had always part-way through at least one of them. You read all of the time. Over breakfast, in the bath, waiting longed for trains, on trainsgravity'' Told from a retrospective view, between trains. You make a cup of tea in order to have an excuse to sityoung woman unravels the year-and-read for half an hourlong relationship that once defined her. But even soOverlaid with later wisdom, most of your reading is done in stolen moments – often in moments when the narrator relives the affair with a nagging voice man twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the summer after. Set against the gremlin-centre backdrop of your brain is reminding you that you an isolated Australian coastal town ''shouldThirst for Salt'' be doing something elsedetails the 24-year-old narrator's deepening relationship with her older lover, depicting its all-consuming nature, how it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and how it altered her irrevocably.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908754303</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|titleauthor=Close Your EyesJennifer Saint|authortitle=Ewan MorrisonAtalanta
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=1981: Emma remembers driving through a blizzard''I was as worthy as any one of them. I would get on board that ship, I vowed. That isI would take my place, her mother not just in the name of the goddess. It was drivingfor the sake of my name, she was just a childtoo. Atalanta'' Princess. Warrior. Lover. She remembers her mother singingHero. Throughout everything Abandoned at birth for being born a daughter rather than a son, what she remembersAtalanta is raised under the protective eye of the goddess Athemis and fashioned into a formidable huntress, what everyone remembers, is how her mother sangone who longs for adventure. ActuallyWhen the opportunity comes – to join the Argonauts, she remembers lots a fierce band of other things about warriors, descendent from the Gods themselves – Atalanta seizes the chance to fight in Artemis' name and carve out her motherown legendary place in history. Snippets mostly. Then she remembers losing her… being dropped in London at her Dad'sWhat follows is a whirlwind of challenges and discovery and through it, who didnAtalanta must remember Artemis't really seem like the dad fatal warning: that if she remembered… then ''the Social'' taking marries, it will be her awayundoing.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099565757</amazonuk>1472292154
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The CommitmentsAmanthi Harris|authortitle=Roddy DoyleBeautiful Place
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=It's the mid to late 1980sPadma, and Outspan, Derek and Ray have just formed a band. The trio is three days oldyoung Sri Lankan, with 'Ray has returned to the Villa Hibiscus on the Casio and his little sister's glockenspiel, Outspan on his brother's acoustic guitar, [and] Derek on nothing', as he can't afford southern coast of her home country. This is a bassplace she spent her formative years. They already feel directionless. They don't mind Depeche Mode It is not a place she was born into, but Derek and Outspan draw the line at The Human League, which is one she thinks of Ray's favourite groupsas home. Such musical differences are already darkening How she came to be at the Villa, how it became her home, and the band's conception. There is also a problem with their name: And And And. Ray believes they should machinations that have an explanation mark after flowed through her life ever since she first arrived there provide the second And, as it would 'look deadly on the posters'score'' for this gentle and yet subtly violent novel. Outspan, however, thinks Ray Padma's an idiot, present fails to escape her past and tells him where to stick his second exclamation mark. But Outspan has much like the musical score of a plan. They need to find Jimmy Rabbittefilm, for when it comes to music, Jimmy knowsthat strand weaves its way through everything that happens at the Villa.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>009958753X</amazonuk>1784631930
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=178563335X|title=The Madonna on the MoonSea Defences|author=Rolf BauerdickHilary Taylor|rating=35
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Things are certainly strange When we first meet Rachel Bird she's a trainee vicar, sitting in on a PCC meeting and wondering why they're held when you need to pick the small rural town of Baia Luna; all the stereotypes one would suspect in a newly-Communist mountain village are turned on their headchildren up. People vocally feel free to dismiss the Soviet changes Her husband, Christopher, collects six-year-old Hannah and technologyher elder brother, but secretly at the dead of night enter the fields to try and hear the sounds of Sputnik blipping its orbit overheadJamie, whilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioner. Gypsy men willingly get baptised into the ways and religions of their Thelma's daughter-in-law won'gajo'' neighbourst let her see her grandson. The most forceful character Holthorpe, on the Norfolk coast, is a teenager called Fritzlovely place, best friend but Rachel is struggling to develop a real bond with the parish - and she's in awe of narrator Pavelthe vicar, and son to an ethnic German photographer. Part of FritzGail, but then she's power seems to rest on him knowing a lot been doing the job for more than others about thirty years. Rachel and Christopher hoped that a walk on the village schoolteacher – enough, perhaps, for her to disappear overnight?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848875045</amazonuk>beach would do them some good - it was stormy but it was probably what they needed. And then Hannah went missing.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Aimee Bender1398515388|title=The Color MasterBoy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)
|rating=4.5
|genre=Short StoriesGeneral Fiction|summary=Another parade First of fascinatingall, it was the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and this, in turn, caused the nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and utter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, unusual personalities and oddevents from the author loss of [[Willful Creatures by Aimee Bender|WillfulCreatures]]livelihoods was widespread. This time out [[:Category:Aimee Bender|Aimee]]introduces us to people like Hans The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the fake Nazi, young William to whomall people look list of priorities but - six months after the same and Janet who decides to spice up herlovetsunami -life with detrimental resultsKazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. Among other things we alsowitness He wasn't a less-than-altruistic anti-war demonstration dog person but the convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and an oddoccurrence Tamon the dog jumped in an orchard showing how odd an apple-only diet could makeus.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091953898</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Vann0989715337|title=Goat MountainPapa on the Moon|author=Marco North
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The eleven-year-old boy, his father, grandfather and Tom, a family friend, were on their annual hunting trip to ''Some frogs had gotten into the familywell.'' 's 640'Walter stood waist-acre ranch deep in northern California. Strictly the boy wasn't old enough to hunt but family lore said that this time he would be allowed to kill fragrant water, naked except for his first buckbeaten leather hat. On Long strands of their eggs wove around him, sticky gray pearls with tadpoles inside them. Two of the way to their camp they spotted a poacher and dogs leaned over the boy's father set up his rifle opening and loaded it - hoping that shooting barked down at the bolt would tell strange noise of the poacher that buckets as hefilled them.'d been spotted. ' How is that for an opening? The boy - we never know his name - was allowed style of this novel in the form of interconnected short stories goes from succinct and laconic to look through the rifle sitewistful and musing, but he pulled the triggerturning on a sixpence. Nothing would ever be And author Marco North, who has the same again. For any most wonderful turn of themphrase, starts as he means to go on.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434021989</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Over My Dead BodyDaisy Hildyard|authortitle=Hazel McHaffieEmergency
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The mother summary of a patient in dire need of a heart, and a pair of lungs, ceases to pray for the survival of her son for the following uncomfortable reason: this book doesn'Feels like you're asking for somebody else t come close to die.' Though merely an extra in explaining what is done with the main plot of McHaffie's ''Over My Dead Body'', the situation of this mother quite successfully conveys just how complex the ethics of organ donation arepremise.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0992623103</amazonuk>1913097811}}
{{newreviewFrontpage |author=Peter Stjernstrom and Rod Bradbury (translator)Sally Oliver |title=The Best Book 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 WorldDoes Not Belong To Us
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Titus Jensen may not have written many great novels for Early comments on this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendous, a while (if ever) delight. I will agree with the first – tremendous is no understatement – but his festival readings of others' works are renowned. Why, his rendition of a delight''The Diseases of is perhaps using the Swedish Monarchs from Gustavas Vasa to Gustav V'' has been compared favourably to his offerings from ''Handbook for Volvo 245'expression in a way I'm not familiar with. However, one drunken night he and romantic poet Eddie X agree that their fame on the festival circuit would be insignificant by comparison if they could write the best book in the world; a combination I have to confess my ignorance of all genres, appealing to all tastes and making all the best seller categoriesSpanish-language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation here. They start work on it From the next day butlittle I have read (in translation, rather than collaborate, each wants the lone glory. The race (or should that be battle?I don't read Spanish) there does seem to be a tendency towards the publishing date is on!fantastical – the mystical realism. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1843914808</amazonuk>0861541901
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Adriaan van DisJennifer Saint|title=BetrayalElektra|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= Dutchman Mulder renews his acquaintance with his old friend Donald as he returns to South Africa, a land he knew well 'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the story of three women who live in the days heavily male dominated world of apartheidAncient Greece. Life may have moved on Cassandra, Clytemnestra, and apartheid ceased but some things have worsenedElektra are all bit players in the story of the Trojan War. Have Mulder and Donald made any difference at all? As they recall their shadier youth, they Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the silent women have one more chance to struggle for someone's freedom against all odds the most compelling stories and a violent societythe most extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857051849</amazonuk>1472273915
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=8409290103|title=Her Privates WeIf Only|author=Frederic ManningMatthew Tree
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Ernest Hemingway called Frederic Manning's ''Her Privates We'' 'The finest and noblest book of men in war' he Twenty-one-year-old Malcolm Lowry had ever read. But Hemingway wasn't a very trustworthy manbeen sent abroad by his father, so we tend to defer judgement. He iscotton-broker AO Lowry: he asked his accountant, howeverMr Patrick, useful for contrast. Hemingway's tales of war (such as ''A Farewell to Arms'' and ''For Whom the Bell Tolls'') usually involve macho misfits and trite love stories, feats of derring-do and filmic dialogue; all the things, in fact, ensure that have no place in Manning's First World War novel. Why is this? Well, by the time Hemingway started driving a Red Cross ambulance young man got on board the Italian front (1918), Manning's service boat and thereafter Patrick was already overto send him a monthly allowance. Nevertheless, unlike Patrick sent the illustrious (money regularly and selfa correspondence -mythologising) Hemingway, Manning spent his war deep in the trenches of sorts - sprang up between the Somme, mixing it with the proletarian soldierytwo although we hear more about what Lowry has to say than Patrick. As such, It wasn't that Lowry senior didn'Her Privates We'' is a brutal novel concerning the 'subterraneant care for his son, furtive, twilight lifeit was that he didn' of the average Tommy, t care to have him in this country where he might be a work of startling power, danger to his wife and one that completely eclipses other children. The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to get the war novels of the romantic Hemingwayyoung man on his way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184668787X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ruth OzekiAntoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)|title=A Tale for the Time BeingRed is My Heart|rating=43.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Ruth finds a 'Hello Kitty' bag washed up on the shore of Whaletown[[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white and read in my house. And so was this one, the small Canadian island although I could have spelled that she more accurately – this one was, and her husband Oliver call homeis, black and white and red. As Ruth opens it and begins reading the diary safely protected insideYes, she learns about Naohe has an artistic collaborator on this piece, a teenager in Japan. Through her writing Nao becomes real and I think it's possible to say not one page lacks the tales influence of her varied life, struggles at school and fascinating relatives compels Ruth to search for her, or at least to discover her fatesome striking visual ideas.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857867970</amazonuk>1913547183
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sebastian FaulksB098FFFBH9|title=A Possible LifeSnowcub|author=Graham Fulbright
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Geoffrey swaps a career as a public Fourteen-year-old Rachel is her school master for an existence as an English officer behind German lines during WWII, an experience that will take 's animal rights project leader and she and her friend are producing a lifetime competition entry to expungehighlight the way in which human beings exploit the animal world. Billy is She gets a child sent to the workhouse to give his great deal of support from her family : father Pip Harrison, a chance of survival. Elena has to come to terms with an adopted brotherlecturer at Imperial College, London, Jeanne the French nursemaid lives in the shadow of a one-off encounter mother Kate and Jack? her twin, Nick. He bears Kate runs the indelible heart print of a girl who travels with a guitar. Five livesfamily business, five stories, one human, emotional thread.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099549220</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tash Aw|title=Five Star Billionaire|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=China is a booming economy for people toy shop called Cornucopia in a position to take advantage; people like Gary the pop star who once won a talent showPutney, Yinghui the lingerie magnate or her childhood friend and property developer Justin who feels the weight of his familywhich is where we's expectations. Then therell meet Rachel's Phoebe, moving to Shanghai from the country on a promise and a belief that to attract success one must act as main (if one already has it. Life will bring them into each other's orbit but it won't leave any unsuspected) source of them the same as when they startedinformation: five soft toys.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007494157</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jhumpa LahiriYancey Williams|title=The LowlandCrosshairs of the Devil
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Subhash Award-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski is getting on in years and Udayan Mitra are brothers growing up in an India growing into its post, despite his strenuous objections and thanks to his daughter, finds himself living -independence status. Subhash goes along with Udayan's ideas but it's Udayan whoor imprisoned, from Eddie's point of view - in room 315 of the radicalGarden of Eden nursing home, with only a trusty nursing aide, fighting against the injustices of an elitism that remains once the British have left India. Eventually they go their separate waysJenkins, one studying abroad to avoid conflict and the other becoming more deeply embroiledfor palatable company. Life can't go on like this forever and it doesn't but the reverberations seem Nothing is going tokeep Eddie from his stock-in-trade of writing though, so here, affecting generation after generation as Subhash realises that the search for peace isnhis readers, are his wanderings through his life't always an external things work.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408828111</amazonuk>0986031658}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Colum McCann0008421714|title=TransAtlanticMrs March|author=Virginia Feito
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Eleanor Catton's ''The Luminaries'' is set in problem began just after the New Zealand gold rush publication of George March's most successful novel to date. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the late 1860slast page) seemed to either be reading it or had already done so. It's a story about greed Every day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, powerPatricia asked, gold, dreams, opium, secrets, betrayal and identityas she was wrapping the bread, ''but most of all, itisn't this the first time he's based a celebration of character on you?'' She mentioned that Johanna, the art of story telling, both in terms of Cattonprincipal character had 's book and the stories her characters mannerisms''. Perhaps this would not have to tell. It's mattered, except for the kind of book fact that Johanna is perfect escapism and which wraps you up in its world. If you like bigthe whore of Nantes - ''a weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, chunky books that you can get lost in for hoursunloved, then this is one for youunloveable wretch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847084311</amazonuk>''
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