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[[Category:New Reviews|Literary Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Frances and BernardMatthew Tree|authortitle=Carlene BauerWe'll Never Know
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=There's something very special about an epistolary novel. The format might seem unnatural Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to readers in this day of abbreviated text messages and e-mailsbe different from his father, but the conceit of a written exchange allows for fully developed first-person voices drunk and a confessional tone. Provided the author can bypass the subtle difficulties chronic underachiever whose dreams of plot-building, letters are also a handy indicator being exceptional at any of the passage his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of timeself confidence. So Tim applied himself to his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and ably convey period vocabularyset himself high but achievable ambitions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099578603</amazonuk>B0CVFXPGP8
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adrian HarveyB0C47LV1PC|title=Being SomeoneFragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The relationship between Can you make a mahout and his elephant ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is close: some have said that the question should you make it's rather like a marriage. On ? Or is the surface question if you did, would it seems almost idyllic with an obvious affection between man and beast - "land? The catch is that their spirits were water of the same pool", but all is not quite as it seemsanswer for both could well be... Iravatha was the magnificent elephant who, year in, year out, led the Maharajah's parade only this year there was a dreadful accident and Annayya, his mahout, slipped beneath the elephant's foot - and was killed. They'd been together for more than half a century and beautiful, intelligent Iravatha knew what this meantno.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909273090</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=OrfeoMosby Woods|authortitle=Richard PowersA Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The West isn'No one thinks twice about t the quiet, older bohemian dominant force it once was. Nobody in the American Craftsman at 806 South Linden…people take up all kinds West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is the best course of hobbies in retirementaction.' Seventy-year-old Peter Els is an out-of-work composer in PennsylvaniaGovernments are flailing. He teaches music appreciation at A war here, a senior centre, but much of his spare time push for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is devoted to chemistry experiments. As a college student he agonised over the choice between chemistry and music, in fact, and these days he wonders if he got it wrongactual charge. His avant-garde compositionsImagine then, such as there was a three-hour opera based on medieval German history, were infrequent and never very well receivedman with precognition. Should he have gone into biochemistry after all? Thus, thanks to a few thousand dollars' worth of semi-professional equipment purchased off Imagine the Internet, Els is now engaged strategic advantage in this asset; a new kind man who can tell you what will happen given any set of composition – with bacterial DNA taking circumstances. That man would be valuable, right? Perhaps the place of musical notesmost valuable asset in history. Imagine then, that this man loses this ability.What would governments do to get it back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782391614</amazonuk>B0C9SNG8R1
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ron Butlin0571379559|title=Ghost MoonThe House of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Maggie sits in an elderly persons' care home tgryig to exist through 'The House of Broken Bricks'' is the ever tightening grip story of dementiafour people. Her sonTess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, Tombut instead, visits trying to jog her memory but she doesnlives in the house on the riverbank, built of broken bricks. Insubstantial as it might look, it't even recognise hims stood the passage of time, storms and floods. To MaggieHer husband, Richard, Tom is 'Michael' a name that means nothing struggles to a son getting more desperate grow his vegetables, to break through complete the delivery rounds - and to bring in sufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and Max, the rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother once again's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. However People don't believe that they're related, much less twins and there was once a Michael, in a life that bubbles 's an assumption when Max is out with secrets his mother that even Tom doesnshe't know; for once, long ago, Maggie was youngs his nanny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907773770</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 One I WasKay Chronister|authortitle=Eliza GrahamDesert Creatures|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Dystopian Fiction|summary=In 1939With a world that is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, post-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Whether it is a robotic takeover, before the outbreak a world devoid of the Second World Warwater or a nuclear holocaust, this genre is a boy arrived at Harwich docksway for humans to cathartically experience their most existential fears. He was ''Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is a Kindertransport refugee fleeing the antinew work of post-Semitism in Nazi Germany. Benjamin Goldman would change his name to Benny Gault when his idea apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the war wouldn't happen and he could go home to Germany came to nothing, but in the meantime he was adopted by Lord and Lady Dornerfears that exist for humanity today. Six boys were It is a shocking novel that still manages to live at their country home - Fairfleet - and be educated by a private tutor. On the face of it Benny's luck could not have worked out better, but he was hiding a secretfind hope. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910229016</amazonuk>1803364998
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{{newreviewfrontpage|titleisbn=Indecent Acts1803363002|author=Nick BrooksEric LaRocca|title= The Trees Grew Because I Bled There|rating=3.5|genre=Literary FictionHorror|summary=Meet GraceHorror taps into something primeval within us. She's in her forties, living with It is used as a hit-way to reflect our darkest emotions and how we as humans react and-miss family in process them. Most horror fiction feature a Glasgow council flat''Big Bad'', and in the middle of whether that is a whole host of issues. She has issues about her parentshome invader, and their moving on or death; she has issues about her sister who might a monster or might not have had a much superior life pattern than Grace; she has issues about her children – Francis who has left Grace with her own daughter to spend time with drink or drugs insteadghost, it usually something tangible and son Vincent, who will like as not create an issue by joining the army and moving on himself. Grace also has issues with end of the fact that she is nearly as blind as a batstory, and can neither read nor writebeatable. SheEric LaRocca's started the novel where she shouldn't be – at home 'The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is not like that. It is a collection of short stories more interested in Glasgowthe horrors of illness, struggling, as she was due to fly to meet her sister at last, yet packed her glasses in the case grief and humiliation. Horrors that must be the other end, linger and completely missed her flightare harder to defeat than any ''Big Bad''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908754451</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=A Well-Tempered HeartMadelaine Lucas|authortitle=Jan-Philipp SendkerThirst for Salt
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Ten years on from the previous episode''Love, Julia WinI'd read, successful corporate lawyer specialising in intellectual property rights is exhausted, unhappy was supposed to be a light and alone. Somewhat distant in all senses of the wordweightless feeling, if not exactly estranged, from her mother and brother, she has recently left a relationship that should have worked but just didnI had always longed for gravity''t and her only real connection is with her artist friend Amy Lee.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184697285X</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=Prajwal ParajulyJennifer Saint|title=Land Where I FleeAtalanta
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Chitralekha Guraamaa is preparing for her 84th birthday celebrations - her Chaurasi - and her grandchildren (or rather grandadults ''I was as worthy as they are now) arrive from around the worldany one of them. They went away in search of a better life but better comes at a costI would get on board that ship, I vowed. Baghwati married beneath her casteI would take my place, Manasa is resentful not just in the name of an apparently helpless disabled father-in-law and Agastaya hides a man-sized secretthe goddess. All have one thing in common: It was for the dread sake of facing their manipulativemy name, powerful grandmother and their inability to get on with each othertoo. Worlds may collide but let the festivities commence!Atalanta''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780872984</amazonuk>}}Princess. Warrior. Lover. Hero.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Last Boat HomeAmanthi Harris|authortitle=Dea BrovigBeautiful Place|rating=45
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Then: On the farm above Padma, a remote Norwegian hamletyoung Sri Lankan, in 1976, schoolgirl Else is waiting for her mother has returned to return through the wind and Villa Hibiscus on the snowsouthern coast of her home country. She This is also clutching at the kitchen table as the contractions worsen. Now: fast forward to 2009a place she spent her formative years. Else now lives in the town the hamlet has grown It is not a place she was born into, on but the back one she thinks of oil moneyas home. Her daughter has a daughter of How she came to be at the Villa, how it became her ownhome, but still spends many a night not coming home. and the machinations that have flowed through her life ever since she first arrived there provide the ''She must have met someonescore'' the eleven-year-old granddaughter says matter-of-factlyfor this gentle and yet subtly violent novel. Else has made a life for herself, running a spa, looking after Padma's present fails to escape her daughter past and her granddaughter. A quiet lifemuch like the musical score of a film, but not such a bad onethat strand weaves its way through everything that happens at the Villa.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091954290</amazonuk>1784631930
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=178563335X|title=The Beggar and the HareSea Defences|author=Tuomas KyroHilary Taylor|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Our heroWhen we first meet Rachel Bird she's a trainee vicar, Vatanescu, is sitting in on a fish out of waterPCC meeting and wondering why they're held when you need to pick the children up. He's a father without his familyHer husband, Christopher, collects six-year-old Hannah and her elder brother, a man without a homeJamie, whilst Rachel holds a possibility without a chancesobbing parishioner. HeThelma's being transported across Europe by a criminal peopledaughter-in-smuggler, who is also packing Vatanesculaw won's sister off to the cosmetic surgeon then the prostitute tradet let her see her grandson. Our hero Holthorpe, on the Norfolk coast, is destined a lovely place, but Rachel is struggling to sit in discomfort, sleet develop a real bond with the parish - and she's in hateful gazes awe of others as a beggar on the streets of Helsinki. But at the same time impossibilities are amassing – one of which splits Vatanescu from his minder/mentorvicar, Gail, and leaves him on but then she's been doing the run with a fistful of useless currencyjob for more than thirty years. A further impossibility gifts him Rachel and Christopher hoped that a friendly, warm companion – a rabbit being chased by local youths jumps into walk on the sanctuary of his arms, and becomes a welcome source of focusbeach would do them some good - it was stormy but it was probably what they needed. From And then on many more jumps will be made from one impossibility to another, as the life of this illegal immigrant begins to resonate across his adopted homeland…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780721641</amazonuk>Hannah went missing.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1398515388|title=The Blazing WorldBoy and the Dog|author=Siri HustvedtSeishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary='All intellectual and artistic endeavours…fare better in the mind First of all, it was the crowd when earthquake, deep in the crowd knows that somewhere behind ocean floor, which created the great work or tsunami and this, in turn, caused the great spoof it can locate a cock nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and utter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, and a pair the loss of ballslivelihoods was widespread.' Thus we are introduced to The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the unforgettable Harriet Burden – largerlist of priorities but -than-life, sixmonths after the tsunami -foot-tall amazon artist – and to some of Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. He wasn't a dog person but the novelconvenience store owner's essential elements: musing on what makes intellectual products successful comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and Tamon the dog jumped in a postmodern marketplace, feminist resentment of the overvaluing of male achievement, and an unapologetic, playful boldness with language.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444779648</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0989715337|title=Clever GirlPapa on the Moon|author=Tessa HadleyMarco North
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Stella grows up with her single mother in Bristol ''Some frogs had gotten into the well.'' ''Walter stood waist-deep in the 1960s; her father left when she was a babyfragrant water, but her mother has cultivated the convenient myth that he diednaked except for his beaten leather hat. In the stand-alone first chapterLong strands of their eggs wove around him, Stella recounts a disturbing incident sticky gray pearls with tadpoles inside them. Two of domestic violence that affected her Aunt Andy. Sordid snippets from the ensuing court case stay with Stella dogs leaned over the years; opening and barked down at the strange noise of the buckets as he filled them.''Innocent-seeming fragments would get How is that for an opening? The style of this novel in past my defences…then stick the form of interconnected short stories goes from succinct and laconic to my imagination like tarwistful and musing, turning on a sixpence.' Even soAnd author Marco North, who has the novel that follows is about the way in which we engage with memory – facts that linger versus those wemost wonderful turn of phrase, deliberately or subconsciously, choose not starts as he means to tellgo on.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099570521</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=All That is Solid Melts into AirDaisy Hildyard|authortitle=Darragh McKeonEmergency
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Moscow, 1986, and a nine-year old piano prodigy is trapped in a subway station by bullies, who carefully break one of his little fingers. Rehearsal cancelled, the boy finds his favourite aunt, who takes him to treatment only to discover her ex-husband the doctor involved. Many miles away a slightly older young man is off on his first hunting trip with the men of the village, only to find diseased cows, and the grouse they seek sickly and weirdly uncoordinated. What has affected them, and will of course affect all the characters in the book, is the nuclear disaster in the plant at Chernobyl.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670922706</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Black Snow|author=Paul Lynch|rating=3.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Barnabas Kane returned of this book doesn't come close to his birthplace in Ireland with his family with the goal of setting up his own farm and raising his son in a better setting than New York. With his farm of a decent size and a good herd of cattle all seems well explaining what is done with Kane until out ploughing one day he and his farm hand Matthew Peoples spot smoke in the sky from the direction of his byre. The fire marks the start of a sometimes bleak downward spiral and Kane is forced to rely on the kindness of his neighbours who still see him as an outsiderpremise.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782062041</amazonuk>1913097811}}
{{newreviewFrontpage |author=Truman CapoteSally Oliver |title=Breakfast The 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 TiffanyNede: 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=Holly GolightlyEarly comments on this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendous, a delight. Who doesn't know her? Whether in I will agree with the pages of ''Breakfast at Tiffany'sfirst – tremendous is no understatement – but 'a delight', is perhaps using the short novel by Truman Capote or capture on film by Audrey Hepburn, sheexpression in a way I's an American iconm not familiar with. A young country girl becomes a New York socialite, trading on amusement value I have to make a life paid for by rich men who are titillated by her outrageous opinions and anecdotesconfess my ignorance of the Spanish-language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation here. We ''want' From the little I have read (in translation, I don' t read Spanish) there does seem to know her. And be a tendency towards the fantastical – the narrator ''wants'' to know her as much, if not more, than we domystical realism. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00HX9UTSE</amazonuk>0861541901
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patrick NessJennifer Saint|title=The Crane WifeElektra|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary='Elektra'The Crane Wife'' ticks all my boxes. It's by Patrick Ness Jennifer Saint tells the story of three women who is one live in the heavily male dominated world of my favourite writers of Young Adult fictionAncient Greece. It has a basis in myth Cassandra, Clytemnestra, and legend and still better Elektra are all bit players in an ancient the story new to meof the Trojan War. It doesn't go on and on and Ariston for half a billion pages. Best of all, Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the author includes a shout-out for silent women have the brilliant Decemberists. I agree with Ness: this is a band you should look up. A heavy reading schedule meant I didn't get to it last year when it was first published but now it's out in paperback most compelling stories and here I am. I wasn't disappointedthe most extreme furies. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857868748</amazonuk>1472273915
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jill Dawson8409290103|title=The Tell-Tale HeartIf Only|author=Matthew Tree
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Being told that you have six months to live concentrates the mind most wonderfullyTwenty-one-year-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by his father, cotton-broker AO Lowry: fifty is no age to diehe asked his accountant, Mr Patrick, even if you have lived life to ensure that the full. Patrick's heart was giving up young man got on him and board the Professor of American Studies, philanderer boat and heavy drinker thereafter Patrick was at the head of the list for to send him a heart transplantmonthly allowance. His other problems Patrick sent the money regularly and a correspondence - entirely of his own making sorts - faded into insignificancesprang up between the two although we hear more about what Lowry has to say than Patrick. Sixteen-year-old Drew Beamish died It wasn't that Lowry senior didn't care for his son, it was that he didn't care to have him in a motorcycle accident in the village this country where he lived in rural Cambridgeshire and it will might be a danger to his (still beating) heart which is transplanted into Patrickwife and other children. The two, who had never met, would be permanently joinedalcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to get the young man on his way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444731068</amazonuk>
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{{newreview|title=The People in the PhotoFrontpage|author=Helene Gestern|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Hélène Hivert works at the Museum of the History of the Postcard. It is a job she loves, as she finds delving into other people's lives 'most exciting'. Luckily, she is 'regularly sent collections to catalogue', and each time the 'moment of discovery' gives her a thrill. It may be 'addictive', but 'There is something very moving about the thought that just two or three sources can be enough to build a picture of an entire life'. But what happens when the sources are a bit too close to home, when Hélène must play Holmes among the artefacts of her own family's past, pondering 'the silence of surfaces'? Well, the professional detachment goes straight out the windowAntoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and what had been a genuine pleasure, tinged by wonder, now becomes an uncomfortable obsession.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908313544</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewJane Aitken (translator)|title=The Atheist's Prayer|author=Amy R BiddleRed is My Heart
|rating=3.5
|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=I don’t shy away from a book with a little edge, in fact [[:Category:Chuck PalahniukAntoine Laurain|Chuck PalahniukAntoine Laurain]] is one of books have always been black and white and read in my favourite authors and his books can be house. And so sharp you can shave with them. On the surface ''The Atheist’s Prayer'' would seem to be courting controversy; why else was this one, although I could have such a provocative title? Butspelled that more accurately – this one was, and is , black and white and red. Yes, he has an artistic collaborator on this piece, and I think it really that shocking? Nope. This is a story about how people deal with 's possible to say not one page lacks the modern world and what happens when dangerous ideals infect a vulnerable groupinfluence of some striking visual ideas.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780995822</amazonuk>1913547183
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B098FFFBH9|title=The Three MusketeersSnowcub|author=Alexandre Dumas and Will Hobson (translator)Graham Fulbright
|rating=4.5
|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=Leaving his home Fourteen-year-old Rachel is her school's animal rights project leader and she and her friend are producing a competition entry to try and join highlight the famous musketeers way in Pariswhich human beings exploit the animal world. She gets a great deal of support from her family: father Pip Harrison, young Gascon d'Artagnan encounters troubles on the way but quickly falls in with title characters Athosa lecturer at Imperial College, London, Aramis mother Kate and Porthosher twin, Nick. Soon Kate runs the family business, the quartet are caught up a toy shop called Cornucopia in a diabolical plot of the wicked Cardinal Richelieu and his accomplice Milady de Winter - can they save the QueenPutney, which is where we'll meet Rachel's honour?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849907498</amazonuk>main (if unsuspected) source of information: five soft toys.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Eric LundgrenYancey Williams|title=The FacadesCrosshairs of the Devil
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Sven Award-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski is getting on in years and Molly Norberg live in the American mid-western town of Trude. At least Sven still does; Molly has gone missing. Night after night Sven leaves Kyle, despite his teenage sonstrenuous objections and thanks to his daughter, home alone while he scours the streetsfinds himself living - or imprisoned, revisiting places that he and Molly wandered through together in order to find her. Meanwhile Trude has problems of its own and the librarians are armed and ready!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715647679</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Romy Ash|title=Floundering|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Loretta collects her boys Jordy and Tom from school as if itEddie's the most normal thing point of view - in room 315 of the worldGarden of Eden nursing home, with only a trusty nursing aide, Jenkins, but it's not; not for them anywaypalatable company. Jordy and Tom have been living with their grandparents after being abandoned by this woman who refuses Nothing is going to be called 'Mum'. As they get further keep Eddie from their eastern Australian home it remains an adventure his stock-in-trade of writing though, so here, for Tom but Jordyhis readers, are his wanderings through his life'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 beginningwork.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1921922087</amazonuk>0986031658}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Audrey Magee0008421714|title=The Undertaking|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Peter Faber has decided to become part of the new Nazi initiative. He will marry Katharina Spinell, a woman he won't even meet till their honeymoon. In return he'll receive honeymoon leave from the Russian front while she will secure a widow's pension should anything happen to him, hopefully providing the Reich with one or two more Aryan babies on the way. Peter may not be the son-in-law Katharina's parents envisaged but their disappointment is blunted by their luxurious lifestyle under the patronage of the sinister Dr Weinart. However, this is still wartime and Peter must eventually return to Russia and whatever fate awaits him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782391029</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMrs March|author=Pamela Erens|title=The VirginsVirginia Feito
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Set in 1979-80 in an elite boarding school on The problem began just after the east coast publication of the USA George March''The Virgins'' tells the story of two young peoples most successful novel to date. The story is mainly narrated by Bruce Bennett-Jones who would have liked to have a close relationship with Aviva Rossner Everyone but Mrs March (we know her unlikely choice was Seung Jungfirst name only on the last page) seemed to either be reading it or had already done so. They're not shy about flaunting their relationship and it's Every day Mrs March went to the talk of Auburn Academy, local patisserie to buy olive bread but whilst the watchers believe on that the relationship is one of unalloyed passionparticular morning, Patricia asked, as she was wrapping the truth is rather different and the couple are set on a path to an inevitable tragedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848549873</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Crumbs|author=Miha Mazzini|rating=3.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=We are in a hell of man's own making – a town that is basically one huge foundrybread, whose men go from working there to a bar then to (someone's) bed in three eight hour shifts, or so it seems. Egon isn't one of those men, or but isn't any more, for this the first time he works at other things than the foundry – namely churning out trashy low-brow fiction, and 's based a lot of wheeling and a lot more dealing. He still keeps his shift in at the bar and in peoplecharacter on you?''s beds, though, all the while looking out for number one. He has several friendships on the goShe mentioned that Johanna, and several sexual partners at the same time, yet drinks so much itprincipal character had 'her mannerisms's hard to say he exactly cherishes himself above all – if anything he doesn't care that much about anyone. He certainly cares for something however – his beloved stash of Cartier cologne has run outPerhaps this would not have mattered, and he'll as like as not do anything except for more…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908754397</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Amy Grace Loyd|title=The Affairs of Others|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Five years ago Celia Cassill's husband died leaving her the owner of fact that Johanna is the Brooklyn apartment block in which she lives. She's fastidious as to whom she lets and is understandably hesitant when George (one whore of her longstanding tenants) wants to temporarily subNantes -let to ''a friend while he goes abroadweak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch. 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>'
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