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[[Category:New Reviews|Literary Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Amy Grace LoydMatthew Tree|title=The Affairs of Others|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Five years ago Celia Cassill's husband died leaving her the owner of the Brooklyn apartment block in which she lives. SheWe's fastidious as to whom she lets and is understandably hesitant when George (one of her longstanding tenants) wants to temporarily sub-let to a friend while he goes abroad. Celia eventually agrees and so in moves Hope, a lady who has just left her husband and for whom life is as complicated as she makes Celia's.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0297871188</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Donal Ryan|title=The Thing About Decemberll Never Know
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Johnsey Cunliffe was always a nice boyTimothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, but a little slow - the one that the other kids picked on drunk and it's much the same in adult life. If you were to ask Johnsey he'd say that he was a gom. Even if you've never met the word before you know what it means. It wasn't too bad whilst Daddy was there - he was a man with a certain presence and even when it was just Johnsey chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and his mother he who had some support. But after her death Johnsey was dependant on small kindnesses from other people and at the mercy endless crises of those for whom he was an easy targetself confidence. His life might have continued in this So Tim applied himself to his studies, cultivated his abilities rather unsatisfactory way for some time than his daydreams and set himself high but for the collision of two eventsachievable ambitions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781620091</amazonuk>B0CVFXPGP8
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=James McBrideB0C47LV1PC|title=The Good Lord BirdFragility|author=Mosby Woods
|rating=4
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=Henry 'The Onion' Shackleford lives as Henrietta (or just plain Onion) until he's 17 due to a misunderstanding that may prove too dangerous for him to correct. The reason is that the person under this misapprehension is the fiercely well-meaning slavery abolitionist (with the emphasis on the 'fiercely') John Brown. As Onion accompanies him on his quest to free every slave they encounter, he discovers that Brown's philanthropy only stretches so far. Meanwhile it's that time of the 19th century when a shadow spreads over America, one that will cause a historic scar almost as great as that of slavery but Brown is oblivious to this. He doesn't; want to start a civil war, just an armed slave revolt.
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{{newreview
|author=Ashley Hay
|title=The Railwayman's Wife
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Mackenzie and Anikka Lachlan have all they Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could possibly want. They live in Thirroul, a close New South Wales coastal community, are parents to a lovely little girl and now, in 1948is the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, Mac has come through would it land? The catch is that the war years unscathed due to his job at home on the railwaysanswer for both could well be... However in a single moment all their luck changes and Anikka becomes a widow, another grieving shadow. Alongside her neighbours (a war poet who can't write now he's home and the local GP who experienced hell while not being able to bring anyone back from its grasp) Anikka must learn the most difficult lesson: how to go on livingno.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1743318014</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|author=Amy Tan|title=The Joy Luck Club|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= The Joy Luck Club was Jing Mei's mother's idea. After arriving in Fragility'' is set as the US from China in 1949 she invited three other Chinese immigrant ladies to join. The four would meet to play Mah Jong and feast on morsels that none city of them could really afford. Once played outPortland, they shared stories of the land they'd left. The evenings evolve over time; the food becomes affordableOregon, men join the discussions but cautiously begins to emerge from the core remains restrictions imposed during the same. Four Chinese mothers living a new life while sharing moments enjoyed and regretted, discussing their children and parents and telling stories of wisdom, happiness and, sometimes, intense pain.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B0031Y9DPU</amazonuk>covid pandemic
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sam ByersMosby Woods|title=IdiopathyA Whirly Man Loses His Turn
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Katherine no longer seeks or expects to be happyThe West isn't the dominant force it once was. She's stuck Nobody in a place and a job she hates and her relationship with Daniel broke up over a year ago. Since then she's had sexual encounters with a few men but her motivations have been confusing and disturbing - not least the West is quite sure how to Katherine. She has a vicious wit (actually, calling mend this or even if mending it ''wit'' is perhaps stretching the point a littlebest course of action.Governments are flailing.A war here, a push for climate action there.) which repels the people she'd like to attract and attracts the people she'd prefer to repelA feeling that nobody is in actual charge. Daniel is with a new girlfriend (wellImagine then, there was a ''slight'' overlap) but he's not certain that he loves Angelicaman with precognition. He's Imagine the strategic advantage in this asset; a difficult situation: not telling her that he loves her becomes tantamount to telling her that he doesn't love her and as a result he has to man who can tell her you what will happen given any set of circumstances. That man would be valuable, right? Perhaps the most valuable asset in history. Imagine then, that he loves her just this man loses this ability. What would governments do to keep on the level.get it back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007412088</amazonuk>B0C9SNG8R1
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sathnam Sanghera0571379559|title=Marriage MaterialThe House of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=On the morning after his father's funeral Arjan Banga was surprised to see his mother opening up 'The House of Broken Bricks'' is the family shopstory of four people. She was Tess Hembry's roots are in her sixtiesJamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, recovering from cancer and besidesshe lives in the house on the riverbank, Bains Stores wasn't exactly thrivingbuilt of broken bricks. You could even be forgiven for wondering if Insubstantial as it might look, it was ''open'', with s stood the advert for a bar passage of chocolate discontinued in 1994 having pride of place in the window time, storms and the security shutter stuck at a quarter openfloods. Much as he might wish otherwise Arjan has no choice but to stay in Wolverhampton Her husband, Richard, struggles to help grow his mothervegetables, leaving his job as a graphic designer to complete the delivery rounds - and his girlfriend, Freya, to bring in limbosufficient money. They were supposed to be getting married in Decemberhave twin boys - Sonny and Max, the rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. People don't believe that they're related, but much less twins and there's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that looked increasingly unlikelyshe's his nanny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434021903</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?''
{{newreview|title=Kerrigan in Copenhagen|author=Thomas E Kennedy|rating=2.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Terrence Einhorn Kerrigan is an IrishThe follow-Danish American living in Copenhagen. He is up to the excellent ''a full-time writer and translatorIthaca', who 'thinks of himself as a failed poet, which is picks up a less complicated concept than a failed human being'few months after where we left off. His newest writing assignmentIn the palace of Odysseus, howeverwith delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without her husband, is who sailed to 'select a sampling of one hundred war at Troy and then by divine intervention never returned home. As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for the throne of the best, Western Isles. Having survived – politically and physical – the most historic, the most congenial of Copenhagenchaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to Ithaca's 1shores,525 serving houses and write them up for one Queen Penelope is on the brink of a one-hundred-volume travel guide: ''The Great Bars fragile peace. One that shatters however with the return of the Western World'''. KerriganOrestes, thoughKing of Mycenae, 'does not wish the book to be written. He wants only to research it. Forever' - and preferably in the company of his green-eyed Associatesister Elektra, Anneliseseeking refuge.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408841940</amazonuk>0356516075
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lois WaldenKay Chronister|title=AfterworldDesert Creatures|rating=4|genre=Literary Dystopian Fiction|summary=The Duvalier family owe their wealth to sugar cane although their gratitude With a world that is shown in varying degrees and various waysbecoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, post-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. From the patriarch William (who never recovered from being hit by Whether it is a manhole cover) through his wife and childrenrobotic takeover, down to Theodorea world devoid of water or a nuclear holocaust, the lad who gained comfort (and this genre is a certain amount of secrecy) from travel and on way for humans to cathartically experience their black servant Rheta B, each has had most existential fears. ''Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is a lifenew work of post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the fears that exist for humanity today. Each also has It is a story shocking novel that still manages to tell and, whether alive or in Afterworld, they're going to tell itfind hope.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908129859</amazonuk>1803364998
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 {{newreviewfrontpage|isbn=1803363002|author=Kate ClanchyEric LaRocca|title=Meeting the EnglishThe Trees Grew Because I Bled There|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionHorror|summary=Struan Robertson was just seventeen, but set to go to Aberdeen to study dentistry, when his English teacher passed him a short advertisementHorror taps into something primeval within us. A literary giant needed It is used as a carer. Why not take a gap year? Struan had never been way to ‘’England’’ before reflect our darkest emotions and how we as humans react and he would be living in Hampsteadprocess them. On the plus side he’d been working in Most horror fiction feature a ''Big Bad'', whether that is a care home to earn money invader, a monster or a ghost, it usually something tangible and he could do , by the work. Soon - almost too soon - Struan was end of the main carer for Phillip Prysstory, rendered dumb and paralysed by beatable. Eric LaRocca's ''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is not like that. It is a massive stroke. His family couldn’t take care collection of him - short stories more interested in the young (very young) third wife was too busy with her paintinghorrors of illness, grief and humiliation. His son, Jake, had other things - anything else - Horrors that linger and are harder to do rather defeat than be in his father’s presenceany ''Big Bad''. Juliet had never been her father’s favourite but she wasn’t ‘’exactly’’ stable when it came to helping.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330535277</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michele ForbesMadelaine Lucas|title=Ghost MothThirst for Salt
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Belfast 1949: Katherine is about ''Love, I'd read, was supposed to become engaged to fireman George Bedford when she meets Tom McKinley. Hebe a light and weightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravity''s bright fun and makes  Told from a retrospective view, a young woman unravels the year-long relationship that once defined her feel more alive than dependable. Overlaid with later wisdom, boring George ever could. The weight of the decision Katherine eventually makes will haunt narrator relives the affair with a man twenty years her for a lifetimesenior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the summer after. We fast forward to Belfast 1969 and as Set against the troubles in Northern Ireland exacerbate, as do backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the cracks in Katherine24-year-old narrator's marriage. In fact 20 years deepening relationship with her older lover, depicting its all-consuming nature, how it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and four children later, they've become chasmshow it altered her irrevocably.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0297870440</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.''
{{newreview|author=Jennifer Johnston|title=A Sixpenny Song|rating=3|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Annie's father is dead. She's not particularly upset as itBeautiful Shining People's a decade or so since they've had any contactrevolves around the question of identity and acceptance. Dada (he preferred Of what it means to be called 'Father') had wanted her to go into the family business, to make moneyhuman. She'd wanted to go to Trinity College in Dublin to read English Literature, but instead she'd packed a suitcase Of what is real and left for Londonwhat is artificial, 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 his best to ensure that her mother's name was never referred to again - and it wasn't too long before he remarried. His death brought Annie back to Ireland and she found that whether the money had been left to wife number two (as he was confident that she would know how to look after it) but the house now belonged to Anniedevelopment of technology is exciting or frightening.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472209222</amazonuk>191458564X
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alex KovacsJennifer Saint|title=The Currency of PaperAtalanta|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Maximilian Sacheverell Hollingsworth ''I was - as the name might suggest - worthy as any one of aristocratic birththem. I would get on board that ship, I vowed. I would take my place, but had broken off all contact with his family and not just in consequence found himself labouring for forty hours a week in a printing works in Dagenham. He came upon the idea name 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 Bloomsburygoddess. He would first become a counterfeiter - on a massive scale - and then a sculptor, filmmaker, collector It was for the sake of artefactsmy name, 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 lifetoo.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1564788571</amazonuk>}}Atalanta''
{{newreview|author=Charlie Hill|title=Books|rating=4Princess.5|genre=Humour|summary=Neurology professor Lauren Furrows witnesses the sudden untimelydeath of two tourists in a bar while on holidayWarrior. Birmingham bookshop ownerRichard Anger happens to be in the same bar so together our single holidaymakers decide to team up as an investigatory force to be reckoned withLover.(Well, Lauren teams up for thatHero. Richard's reasons are more physical thanintellectual to begin with.) The murders seem to emanate from author GarySayles, a legend in his own mind and, apparently, fatal to read. Elsewherehippy exhibitionists (in an over-18 way) Zeke and Pippa, are planning theart installation to end all art installations and, are determined to makeGary the centrepiece, whether he realises it or not.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781251630</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|author=Alice McDermott|title=Someone|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Marie Abandoned at birth for being born a daughter rather than a son, Atalanta is growing up in 1920s Brooklyn raised under the protective eye of the goddess Athemis andfashioned into a formidable huntress, although not financially rich she's one who longs for adventure. When the opportunity comes – to join the secureArgonauts, cared for child a fierce band of Irish parents warriors, descendent from one of the many waves of immigration which Gods themselves – Atalanta seizes the US has promised chance to welcome. Mariefight in Artemis's friend Pegeen is from Irish/Syrian stock name and is dying for romantic love to come carve out her wayown legendary place in history. Marie's brother Gabe What follows is singled out for Catholic seminary a whirlwind of challenges and priesthood. Marie thinks the future is as safe as the loved ones around her but the future is an unknown country discovery and her journey towards through it hasn, Atalanta must remember Artemis't finished yetfatal warning: that if she marries, it will be her undoing.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408847248</amazonuk>1472292154
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 {{newreview|title=The Ice-Cold HeavenFrontpage|author=Mirko Bonne|rating=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>}} {{newreviewAmanthi Harris|title=The Year of Miracle and Grief|author=Leonid BorodinBeautiful Place
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=From Padma, a space of 25 yearsyoung Sri Lankan, our narrator looks back has returned to the Villa Hibiscus on what happened when he was 12 the southern coast of her home country. This is a place she spent her formative years old. Twenty five years that had to elapseIt is not a place she was born into, because that was but the promise that he madeone she thinks of as home. He is now happy, happy How she came to have kept be at the secret as he promised Sarma he wouldVilla, how it became her home, and happier the machinations that he can now tell have flowed through her life ever since she first arrived there provide the ''score'' for this gentle and yet subtly violent novel. Padma's present fails to escape her past and much like the story: he can tell us musical score of a film, that strand weaves its way through everything that happened in his childhood that year on happens at the shores of the oldest lake in the world, Lake BaikalVilla.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0704373246</amazonuk>1784631930
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=178563335X|title=The Rabbit Back Literature SocietySea Defences|author=Pasi Ilmari JaaskelainenHilary Taylor|rating=3.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Ella Milana is When we first meet Rachel Bird she's a trainee vicar, sitting in on a language PCC meeting and literature supply teacher currently teaching wondering why they're held when you need to pick the children up. Her husband, Christopher, collects six-year-old Hannah and her elder brother, Jamie, whilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioner. Thelma's daughter-in -law won't let her hometown of Rabbit Back and dealing with challenging revelations in see her lifegrandson. Ella Holthorpe, on the Norfolk coast, is a lovely place, but Rachel is unexpectedly invited struggling to join develop a real bond with the hugely successful parish - and influential Rabbit Back Literature Society, a group of nine authors who were hand selected and mentored from childhood by Finland’s greatest author (Laura White) to become literary icons she's in their own right. There weere always intended to be ten members awe of the society vicar, Gail, but Laura White has not selected a new member then she's been doing the job for decades more than thirty years. Rachel and Christopher hoped that a walk on the appointment of Ella is a massive literary eventbeach would do them some good - it was stormy but it was probably what they needed. The ceremony in honour of Ella’s new membership to the incredibly elite society is unfortunately overshadowed by Laura White’s disappearance at the ceremony itself And then Hannah went missing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908968982</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Angela Young1398515388|title=Speaking of LoveThe Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=For some people First of all, it's impossible to tell another person that they love them and both are damaged. Iris could not tell her daughterwas the earthquake, Viviedeep in the ocean floor, that she loved her which created the tsunami and Matthewthis, Vivie's childhood friendin turn, neighbour and would-be lover could not tell her how he feltcaused the nuclear meltdown. For all three the The result was years of separation with Vivie feeling that she was fundamentally unloveable complete and utter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, and the whole situation loss of livelihoods was further complicated by Iris's mental disintegration and her treatment removing most of her memories of Vivie's childhoodwidespread. If The fact that sounds depressing and soulmany pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of priorities but - six months after the tsunami -destroying then I am doing Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. He wasn''Speaking of Love'' an injustice because itt a dog person but the convenience store owner's also a story of trust, reconciliation comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and learning to speak about your feelingsTamon the dog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00G4401G4</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0989715337|title=Call of Papa on the UndertowMoon|author=Linda CracknellMarco North|rating=54
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=If you read a lot of books, then ''Some frogs had gotten into the fact of your life is that you are always partwell.'' ''Walter stood waist-way through at least one of them. You read all of the time. Over breakfast, deep in the bathfragrant water, waiting naked except for trainshis beaten leather hat. Long strands of their eggs wove around him, on trains, between trainssticky gray pearls with tadpoles inside them. You make a cup Two of tea in order to have an excuse to sit-the dogs leaned over the opening and-read for half an hour. But even so, most barked down at the strange noise of your reading is done in stolen moments – often in moments when a nagging voice from the gremlin-centre of your brain is reminding you that you buckets as he filled them.''should'' be doing something else.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908754303</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|title=Crow Blue|author=Adriana Lisboa|rating=3.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Having lost her mother at How is that for an opening? The style of this novel in the age form of thirteeninterconnected short stories goes from succinct and laconic to wistful and musing, Evangelina embarks turning on a quest to not only find her biological father, but to delve into the past and discover things about her mother she never knewsixpence. Set predominantly in And author Marco North America and Brazil, this novel explores Vanja's journeys, both physical and emotional, as well as her relationships with key characters, in particular, that of her Mother's ex husband, Fernando. Uprooting herself when barely a teenager, Vanja leaves her home country of Brazil to live with Fernando in Colorado, the only connection she who has at her disposal to enable her to trace her roots and biological family. Narrated beautifully in the first person, the reader is propelled into the thoughts and feelings most wonderful turn of the young but courageousphrase, determined and, at times, very wise, adolescent girlstarts as he means to go on.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408838303</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Close Your EyesDaisy Hildyard|authortitle=Ewan MorrisonEmergency|rating=54
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=1981: Emma remembers driving through a blizzard. That is, her mother was driving, she was just a child. She remembers her mother singing. Throughout everything, what she remembers, what everyone remembers, is how her mother sang. Actually, she remembers lots The summary of other things about her mother. Snippets mostly. Then she remembers losing her… being dropped in London at her Dad's, who didnthis book doesn't really seem like come close to explaining what is done with the dad she remembered… then ''the Social'' taking her awaypremise.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099565757</amazonuk>1913097811}}
{{newreviewFrontpage |author=Sally Oliver |title=The CommitmentsWeight 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=Roddy DoyleNatalia Garcia Freire|title=This World Does Not Belong To Us
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=It's the mid to late 1980s, and OutspanEarly comments on this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendous, Derek and Ray have just formed a banddelight. The trio is three days old, I will agree with 'Ray on the Casio and his little sister's glockenspiel, Outspan on his brother's acoustic guitar, [and] Derek on nothing', as he canfirst – tremendous is no understatement – but 't afford a bass. They already feel directionless. They dondelight't mind Depeche Mode, but Derek and Outspan draw the line at The Human League, which is one of Ray's favourite groups. Such musical differences are already darkening perhaps using the bandexpression in a way I's conception. There is also a problem m not familiar with their name: And And And. Ray believes they should I have an explanation mark after to confess my ignorance of the second And, as it would 'look deadly on Spanish-language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation here. From the posters'. Outspanlittle I have read (in translation, however, thinks RayI don's an idiot, and tells him where t read Spanish) there does seem to stick his second exclamation mark. But Outspan has be a plan. They need to find Jimmy Rabbitte, for when it comes to music, Jimmy knowstendency towards the fantastical – the mystical realism.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>009958753X</amazonuk>0861541901
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Madonna on the MoonJennifer Saint|authortitle=Rolf BauerdickElektra|rating=34
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Things are certainly strange 'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the story of three women who live in the small rural town heavily male dominated world of Baia Luna; Ancient Greece. Cassandra, Clytemnestra, and Elektra are all the stereotypes one would suspect bit players in a newly-Communist mountain village are turned on their head. People vocally feel free to dismiss the Soviet changes and technology, but secretly at the dead story of night enter the fields to try and hear Trojan War. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the sounds of Sputnik blipping its orbit overhead. Gypsy men willingly get baptised into silent women have the ways most compelling stories and religions of their ''gajo'' neighbours. The the most forceful character is a teenager called Fritz, best friend of narrator Pavel, and son to an ethnic German photographerextreme furies. Part of Fritz's power seems to rest on him knowing a lot more than others about the village schoolteacher – enough, perhaps, for her to disappear overnight?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848875045</amazonuk>1472273915
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Aimee Bender8409290103|title=The Color MasterIf Only|author=Matthew Tree
|rating=4.5
|genre=Short StoriesLiterary Fiction|summary=Another parade of fascinatingTwenty-one-year-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by his father, unusual personalities and oddevents from the author of [[Willful Creatures by Aimee Bender|WillfulCreatures]]. This time out [[cotton-broker AO Lowry:Category:Aimee Bender|Aimee]]introduces us he asked his accountant, Mr Patrick, to people like Hans ensure that the fake Nazi, young William to whomall people look man got on board the same boat and Janet who decides thereafter Patrick was to spice up herlove-life with detrimental resultssend him a monthly allowance. Among other things we alsowitness Patrick sent the money regularly and a lesscorrespondence - of sorts -sprang up between the two although we hear more about what Lowry has to say than-altruistic anti-war demonstration Patrick. It wasn't that Lowry senior didn't care for his son, it was that he didn't care to have him in this country where he might be a danger to his wife and an oddoccurrence in an orchard showing how odd an apple-only diet could makeusother children. The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to get the young man on his way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091953898</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=David VannAntoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)|title=Goat MountainRed is My Heart|rating=43.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=The eleven-year-old boy[[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white and read in my house. And so was this one, his fatheralthough I could have spelled that more accurately – this one was, grandfather and Tomis, a family friendblack and white and red. Yes, were he has an artistic collaborator on their annual hunting trip to the family's 640-acre ranch 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 his first buck. On the way to their camp they spotted a poacher piece, and the boyI think it's father set up his rifle and loaded it - hoping that shooting the bolt would tell the poacher that he'd been spotted. The boy - we never know his name - was allowed possible to look through say not one page lacks the rifle site, but he pulled the trigger. Nothing would ever be the same again. For any influence of themsome striking visual ideas.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0434021989</amazonuk>1913547183
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B098FFFBH9|title=Over My Dead BodySnowcub|author=Hazel McHaffieGraham Fulbright|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The mother of Fourteen-year-old Rachel is her school's animal rights project leader and she and her friend are producing a patient competition entry to highlight the way in dire need which human beings exploit the animal world. She gets a great deal of support from her family: father Pip Harrison, a heartlecturer at Imperial College, London, mother Kate and her twin, Nick. Kate runs the family business, a pair of lungstoy shop called Cornucopia in Putney, ceases to pray for the survival of her son for the following uncomfortable reason: which is where we'Feels like youll meet Rachel're asking for somebody else to die.' Though merely an extra in the s main plot (if unsuspected) source of McHaffie's ''Over My Dead Body'', the situation of this mother quite successfully conveys just how complex the ethics of organ donation areinformation: five soft toys.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0992623103</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Peter Stjernstrom and Rod Bradbury (translator)Yancey Williams|title=The Best Book in Crosshairs of the WorldDevil|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Titus Jensen may not have written many great novels for a while (if ever) but his festival readings of others' works are renowned. WhyAward-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski is getting on in years and, despite his rendition of ''The Diseases of the Swedish Monarchs from Gustavas Vasa to Gustav V'' has been compared favourably strenuous objections and thanks to his offerings daughter, finds himself living - or imprisoned, from Eddie''Handbook s point of view - in room 315 of the Garden of Eden nursing home, with only a trusty nursing aide, Jenkins, for Volvo 245''palatable company. However, one drunken night he and romantic poet Nothing is going to keep Eddie X agree that their fame on the festival circuit would be insignificant by comparison if they could write the best book from his stock-in the world; a combination -trade of all genreswriting though, appealing to all tastes and making all the best seller categories. They start work on it the next day butso here, rather than collaboratefor his readers, each wants the lone gloryare his wanderings through his life's work. The race (or should that be battle?) to the publishing date is on!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1843914808</amazonuk>0986031658}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adriaan van Dis0008421714|title=BetrayalMrs March|author=Virginia Feito
|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 in The problem began just after the days publication of apartheidGeorge March's most successful novel to date. Life may have moved Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on and apartheid ceased but some things have worsenedthe last page) seemed to either be reading it or had already done so. Have Mulder and Donald made any difference at allEvery 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 first time he's based a character on you? '' As they recall their shadier youthShe mentioned that Johanna, they the principal character had 'her mannerisms''. Perhaps this would not have one more chance to struggle mattered, except for someonethe fact that Johanna is the whore of Nantes - ''s freedom against all odds and a violent societyweak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857051849</amazonuk>''
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