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[[Category:New Reviews|Literary Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreview|title=The Atheist's PrayerFrontpage|author=Amy R Biddle|rating=3.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=I don’t shy away from a book with a little edge, in fact [[:Category:Chuck Palahniuk|Chuck Palahniuk]] is one of my favourite authors and his books can be so sharp you can shave with them. On the surface ''The Atheist’s Prayer'' would seem to be courting controversy; why else have such a provocative title? But, is it really that shocking? Nope. This is a story about how people deal with the modern world and what happens when dangerous ideals infect a vulnerable group.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780995822</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMatthew Tree|title=The Three Musketeers|author=Alexandre Dumas and Will Hobson (translator)|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Leaving his home to try and join the famous musketeers in Paris, young Gascon dWe'Artagnan encounters troubles on the way but quickly falls in with title characters Athos, Aramis and Porthos. Soon, the quartet are caught up in a diabolical plot of the wicked Cardinal Richelieu and his accomplice Milady de Winter - can they save the Queen's honour?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849907498</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Eric Lundgren|title=The Facadesll Never Know
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|summary=Sven Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a drunk and Molly Norberg live in the American mid-western town chronic underachiever whose dreams of Trudebeing exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of self confidence. At least Sven still does; Molly has gone missing. Night after night Sven leaves KyleSo Tim applied himself to his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his teenage son, home alone while he scours the streets, revisiting places that he daydreams and Molly wandered through together in order to find herset himself high but achievable ambitions. Meanwhile Trude has problems of its own and the librarians are armed and ready!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0715647679</amazonuk>B0CVFXPGP8
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Romy AshB0C47LV1PC|title=FlounderingFragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=54
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|summary=Loretta collects her boys Jordy and Tom from school as Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it's ? Or is the most normal thing in the worldquestion if you did, but would it's not; not land? The catch is that the answer for them anywayboth could well be.. Jordy and Tom have been living with their grandparents after being abandoned by this woman who refuses to be called 'Mum'. As they get further from their eastern Australian home it remains an adventure for Tom but Jordy's more sullen. Once they arrive at their ultimate destination - a ramshackle caravan park - Tom begins to understand why but not before both lads realise that their worries are just beginningno.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1921922087</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Pamela ErensMosby Woods|title=The VirginsA Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Set in 1979-80 in an elite boarding school on the east coast of the USA ''The VirginsWest isn'' tells t the story of two young peopledominant force it once was. The story Nobody in the West is mainly narrated by Bruce Bennett-Jones who would have liked quite sure how to have a close relationship with Aviva Rossner but her unlikely choice was Seung Jung. They're not shy about flaunting their relationship and mend this or even if mending it's is the talk best course of Auburn Academyaction. Governments are flailing. A war here, but whilst the watchers believe a push for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is in actual charge. Imagine then, there was a man with precognition. Imagine the relationship is one strategic advantage in this asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of unalloyed passioncircumstances. That man would be valuable, right? Perhaps the truth is rather different and the couple are set on a path most valuable asset in history. Imagine then, that this man loses this ability. What would governments do to an inevitable tragedy.get it back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848549873</amazonuk>B0C9SNG8R1
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0571379559|title=CrumbsThe House of Broken Bricks|author=Miha MazziniFiona Williams|rating=3.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=We are in a hell ''The House of manBroken Bricks''s own making – a town that is basically one huge foundry, whose men go from working there to a bar then to (someonethe story of four people. Tess Hembry's) bed roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in three eight hour shiftsthe house on the riverbank, or so it seemsbuilt of broken bricks. Egon isn't one of those menInsubstantial as it might look, or isnit't any more, for he works at other things than s stood the foundry – namely churning out trashy low-brow fictionpassage of time, storms and a lot of wheeling and a lot more dealingfloods. He still keeps Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his shift in at vegetables, to complete the bar delivery rounds - and to bring in people's beds, thoughsufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and Max, all the while looking out for number onerainbow twins. He has several friendships on the go, and several sexual partners at the same time, yet drinks so much itSonny's colouring reflects his mother's hard to say he exactly cherishes himself above all – if anything he doesnJamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. People don't care believe that they're related, much about anyone. He certainly cares for something however – less twins and there's an assumption when Max is out with his beloved stash of Cartier cologne has run out, and hemother that she'll as like as not do anything for more…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908754397</amazonuk>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?''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Donal RyanKay Chronister|title=The Thing About DecemberDesert Creatures|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Dystopian Fiction|summary=Johnsey Cunliffe was always With a nice boyworld that is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, but a little slow post- the one that the other kids picked on and apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Whether itis a robotic takeover, a world devoid of water or a nuclear holocaust, this genre is a way for humans to cathartically experience their most existential fears. 's much the same in adult life. If you were to ask Johnsey he'd say that he was a gom. Even if youDesert Creatures've never met the word before you know what it means. It wasn't too bad whilst Daddy was there by Kay Chronister is a new work of post- he was a man with a certain presence and even when it was just Johnsey and his mother he had some support. But after her death Johnsey was dependant on small kindnesses from other people and at apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the mercy of those fears that exist for whom he was an easy targethumanity today. His life might have continued in this rather unsatisfactory way for some time but for the collision of two eventsIt is a shocking novel that still manages to find hope.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781620091</amazonuk>1803364998
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{{newreviewfrontpage|isbn=1803363002|author=James McBrideEric LaRocca|title=The Good Lord BirdTrees Grew Because I Bled There|rating=45|genre=Historical FictionHorror|summary=Henry 'The Onion' Shackleford lives Horror taps into something primeval within us. It is used as Henrietta (or just plain Onion) until he's 17 due to a misunderstanding that may prove too dangerous for him way to correctreflect our darkest emotions and how we as humans react and process them. The reason is Most horror fiction feature a ''Big Bad'', whether that the person under this misapprehension is a home invader, a monster or a ghost, it usually something tangible and, by the fiercely well-meaning slavery abolitionist (with the emphasis on end of the story, beatable. Eric LaRocca's 'fiercely') John Brown. As Onion accompanies him on his quest to free every slave they encounter, he discovers that BrownThe Trees Grew Because I Bled There's philanthropy only stretches so far. Meanwhile it's is not like that time . It is a collection of short stories more interested in the 19th century when a shadow spreads over Americahorrors of illness, one grief and humiliation. Horrors that will cause a historic scar almost as great as that of slavery but Brown is oblivious linger and are harder to this. He doesndefeat than any ''Big Bad''t; want to start a civil war, just an armed slave revolt.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594486344</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ashley HayMadelaine Lucas|title=The Railwayman's WifeThirst for Salt
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Mackenzie and Anikka Lachlan have all they could possibly want. They live in Thirroul''Love, a close New South Wales coastal communityI'd read, are parents was supposed to be a lovely little girl light and now, in 1948weightless feeling, Mac has come through the war years unscathed due to his job at home on the railways. However in a single moment all their luck changes and Anikka becomes a widow, another grieving shadow. Alongside her neighbours (a war poet who canbut I had always longed for gravity'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 living.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1743318014</amazonuk>}}
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{{Frontpage
|author= Michael Grothaus
|title=Beautiful Shining People
|rating=4
|genre= Literary Fiction
|summary= ''But fearing something and having it come to pass are two different things. And I'm willing to bet most of what we fear will never happen, or we can take steps to change it.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sathnam SangheraJennifer Saint|title=Marriage MaterialAtalanta
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=On the morning after his father's funeral Arjan Banga 'I was surprised to see his mother opening up the family shopas worthy as any one of them. She was in her sixtiesI would get on board that ship, recovering from cancer and besides, Bains Stores wasn't exactly thrivingI vowed. You could even be forgiven for wondering if it was ''open''I would take my place, with not just in the advert for a bar name of chocolate discontinued in 1994 having pride of place in the window and goddess. It was for the security shutter stuck at a quarter open. Much as he might wish otherwise Arjan has no choice but to stay in Wolverhampton to help his mother, leaving his job as a graphic designer and his girlfriendsake of my name, Freya, in limbotoo. They were supposed to be getting married in December, but that looked increasingly unlikely.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434021903</amazonuk>}}Atalanta''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate ClanchyAmanthi Harris|title=Meeting the EnglishBeautiful Place|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Struan Robertson was just seventeenPadma, a young Sri Lankan, but set has returned to go to Aberdeen to study dentistry, when his English teacher passed him a short advertisementthe Villa Hibiscus on the southern coast of her home country. A literary giant needed This is a carerplace she spent her formative years. Why It is not take a gap year? Struan had never been place she was born into, but the one she thinks of as home. How she came to ‘’England’’ before and he would be living in Hampstead. On at the plus side he’d been working in a care Villa, how it became her home to earn money , and he could do the work. Soon - almost too soon - Struan was machinations that have flowed through her life ever since she first arrived there provide the main carer ''score'' for Phillip Prys, rendered dumb this gentle and paralysed by a massive strokeyet subtly violent novel. His family couldn’t take care Padma's present fails to escape her past and much like the musical score of him - a film, that strand weaves its way through everything that happens at the young (very young) third wife was too busy with her painting. His son, Jake, had other things - anything else - to do rather than be in his father’s presence. Juliet had never been her father’s favourite but she wasn’t ‘’exactly’’ stable when it came to helpingVilla.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0330535277</amazonuk>1784631930
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michele Forbes178563335X|title=Ghost MothSea Defences|author=Hilary Taylor
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Belfast 1949: Katherine is about 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 become engaged to fireman George Bedford when she meets Tom McKinleypick the children up. Her husband, Christopher, collects six-year-old Hannah and her elder brother, Jamie, whilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioner. HeThelma's bright fun and makes daughter-in-law won't let her see her feel more alive than dependable, boring George ever couldgrandson. The weight Holthorpe, on the Norfolk coast, is a lovely place, but Rachel is struggling to develop a real bond with the parish - and she's in awe of the decision Katherine eventually makes will haunt her vicar, Gail, but then she's been doing the job for more than thirty years. Rachel and Christopher hoped that a lifetimewalk on the beach would do them some good - it was stormy but it was probably what they needed. We fast forward to Belfast 1969 And then Hannah went missing.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1398515388|title=The Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and as Alison Watts (translator)|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=First of all, it was the troubles earthquake, deep in Northern Ireland exacerbatethe ocean floor, as do which created the cracks tsunami and this, in Katherine's marriageturn, caused the nuclear meltdown. In fact 20 years The result was complete and four children laterutter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, theyand the loss of livelihoods was widespread. The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of priorities but - six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. He wasn't a dog person but the convenience store owner've become chasmss comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and Tamon the dog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0297870440</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jennifer Johnston0989715337|title=A Sixpenny SongPapa on the Moon|author=Marco North|rating=34
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Annie's father is dead. She's not particularly upset as it's a decade or so since they've Some frogs had any contact. Dada (he preferred to be called 'Father') had wanted her to go gotten into the family business, to make moneywell. She'd wanted to go to Trinity College in Dublin to read English Literature, but instead she'd packed a suitcase 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 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 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 Annie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472209222</amazonuk>}}
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{{Frontpage
|author=Daisy Hildyard
|title=Emergency
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=
The summary of this book doesn't come close to explaining what is done with the premise.
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{{newreviewFrontpage |author=Alice McDermottSally Oliver |title=SomeoneThe 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= Marie Early comments on this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendous, a delight. I will agree with the first – tremendous is growing up in 1920s Brooklyn and, although not financially rich sheno understatement – but 's the secure, cared for child of Irish parents from one of the many waves of immigration which the US has promised to welcome. Mariea delight's friend Pegeen is from Irish/Syrian stock and is dying for romantic love to come her perhaps using the expression in a wayI'm not familiar with. Marie's brother Gabe is singled out for Catholic seminary and priesthoodI have to confess my ignorance of the Spanish-language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation here. Marie thinks From the future is as safe as little I have read (in translation, I don't read Spanish) there does seem to be a tendency towards the loved ones around her but fantastical – the future is an unknown country and her journey towards it hasn't finished yetmystical realism.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408847248</amazonuk>0861541901
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Ice-Cold HeavenJennifer Saint|authortitle=Mirko BonneElektra
|rating=4
|genre=Historical Literary 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 Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the story of three women who had only just left their first love – a shopgirl live in their village – for their second – exploring the heavily male dominated world on sailing cargo ships – would leap to a further voyage having been wrecked of Ancient Greece. Cassandra, Clytemnestra, and stranded off Elektra are all bit players in the coast story of South America for well over a weekthe Trojan War. But Merce here does – he wants to follow his best friend on to a ship called ''The Endurance'' and head with Shackleton to Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the silent women have the Antarctic. But Merce is only seventeen, most compelling stories and is rejected – causing him to stow away onto one of the world's worst ever journeysmost extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0715645846</amazonuk>1472273915
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=8409290103|title=The Year of Miracle and GriefIf Only|author=Leonid BorodinMatthew Tree|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=From a space of 25 yearsTwenty-one-year-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by his father, cotton-broker AO Lowry: he asked his accountant, Mr Patrick, our narrator looks back to ensure that the young man got on what happened when he board the boat and thereafter Patrick was 12 years oldto send him a monthly allowance. Twenty five years Patrick sent the money regularly and a correspondence - of sorts - sprang up between the two although we hear more about what Lowry has to say than Patrick. It wasn't that had to elapseLowry senior didn't care for his son, because that it was the promise that he made. He is now happy, happy didn't care to have kept the secret as him in this country where he promised Sarma he would, might be a danger to his wife and happier that he can now tell other children. The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to get the story: he can tell us of everything that happened in young man on his childhood that year on the shores of the oldest lake in the world, Lake Baikalway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0704373246</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Rabbit Back Literature SocietyAntoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)|authortitle=Pasi Ilmari JaaskelainenRed is My Heart
|rating=3.5
|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Ella Milana is a language [[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and literature supply teacher currently teaching in her hometown of Rabbit Back white and dealing with challenging revelations read in her lifemy house. Ella And so was this one, although I could have spelled that more accurately – this one was, and is unexpectedly invited to join the hugely successful , black and white and influential Rabbit Back Literature Societyred. Yes, he has an artistic collaborator on this piece, a group of nine authors who were hand selected and mentored from childhood by Finland’s greatest author (Laura White) to become literary icons in their own right. There weere always intended I think it's possible to be ten members of the society but Laura White has say not selected a new member for decades and one page lacks the appointment of Ella is a massive literary event. The ceremony in honour influence of Ella’s new membership to the incredibly elite society is unfortunately overshadowed by Laura White’s disappearance at the ceremony itselfsome striking visual ideas.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908968982</amazonuk>1913547183
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Angela YoungB098FFFBH9|title=Speaking of LoveSnowcub|author=Graham Fulbright
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=For some people itFourteen-year-old Rachel is her school's impossible to tell another person that they love them animal rights project leader and she and both her friend are damagedproducing a competition entry to highlight the way in which human beings exploit the animal world. Iris could not tell She gets a great deal of support from her daughterfamily: father Pip Harrison, Viviea lecturer at Imperial College, that she loved her and MatthewLondon, Vivie's childhood friend, neighbour mother Kate and would-be lover could not tell her how he felttwin, Nick. For all three Kate runs the result was years of separation with Vivie feeling that she was fundamentally unloveable and the whole situation was further complicated by Iris's mental disintegration and her treatment removing most of her memories of Vivie's childhood. If that sounds depressing and soul-destroying then I am doing family business, a toy shop called Cornucopia in Putney, which is where we''Speaking of Love'' an injustice because itll meet Rachel's also a story main (if unsuspected) source of trust, reconciliation and learning to speak about your feelingsinformation: five soft toys.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00G4401G4</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Yancey Williams|title=Call Crosshairs of the Undertow|author=Linda CracknellDevil|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=If you read a lot of booksAward-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski is getting on in years and, despite his strenuous objections and thanks to his daughter, finds himself living - or imprisoned, then the fact from Eddie's point of your life is that you are always partview -way through at least one in room 315 of them. You read all the Garden of the time. Over breakfastEden nursing home, with only a trusty nursing aide, in the bathJenkins, waiting for trains, on trains, between trainspalatable company. You make a cup of tea in order Nothing is going to have an excuse to sitkeep Eddie from his stock-andin-read trade of writing though, so here, for half an hour. But even sohis readers, most 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 ''should'are his wanderings through his life' be doing something elses work.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908754303</amazonuk>0986031658}} {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008421714|title=Crow BlueMrs March|author=Adriana LisboaVirginia Feito|rating=34.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Having lost her mother at The problem began just after the age publication of thirteen, Evangelina embarks George March's most successful novel to date. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on a quest the last page) seemed to not only find her biological father, but either be reading it or had already done so. Every day Mrs March went to delve into the past and discover things about her mother she never knew. Set predominantly in North America and Brazil, this novel explores Vanja's journeyslocal patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, both physical and emotionalPatricia asked, as well as her relationships with key charactersshe was wrapping the bread, in particular, that of her Mother''but isn't this the first time he's ex husband, Fernando. Uprooting herself when barely based a teenager, Vanja leaves her home country of Brazil to live with Fernando in Coloradocharacter on you?'' She mentioned that Johanna, the only connection she has at principal character had 'her disposal to enable her to trace her roots and biological familymannerisms''. Narrated beautifully in the first person Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for the reader fact that Johanna is propelled into the thoughts and feelings whore of the young but courageousNantes - ''a weak, plain, determined anddetestable, at timespathetic, very wiseunloved, adolescent girlunloveable wretch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408838303</amazonuk>''
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