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[[Category:New Reviews|Literary Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Johanna LaneMatthew Tree|title=Black LakeWe'll Never Know
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=John's family have owned Dulagh (Black Lake), the big mansion in the Irish countryside, for generations. Unfortunately now no longer able Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to afford its upkeep, Johnbe different from his father, a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his wife Marianne artistic passions all failed miserably and children Kate and Philip, move into a cottage on the estate insteadwho had endless crises of self confidence. They still own the house but it'll be run by the government with revenue from opening it So Tim applied himself to the public. At the time it seems the perfect solutionhis studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but the future has plans other than perfectionachievable ambitions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755396294</amazonuk>B0CVFXPGP8
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=B0C47LV1PC
|title=Fragility
|author=Mosby Woods
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, would it land? The catch is that the answer for both could well be.... no.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Adrian HarveyMosby Woods|title=Being SomeoneA Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The relationship between a mahout and his elephant is close: some have said that itWest isn's rather like a marriage. On t the surface dominant force it seems almost idyllic with an obvious affection between man and beast - "that their spirits were water of once was. Nobody in the same pool", but all West is not quite as sure how to mend this or even if mending it seemsis the best course of action. Iravatha was the magnificent elephant whoGovernments are flailing. A war here, year a push for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is inactual charge. Imagine then, year out, led there was a man with precognition. Imagine the Maharajah's parade only strategic advantage in this year there was asset; a dreadful accident and Annayya, his mahoutman who can tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. That man would be valuable, slipped beneath right? Perhaps the elephant's foot - and was killedmost valuable asset in history. They'd been together for more than half a century and beautifulImagine then, intelligent Iravatha knew what that this man loses this meantability.What would governments do to get it back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1909273090</amazonuk>B0C9SNG8R1
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=TaraShea Nesbit0571379559|title=The Wives House of Los AlamosBroken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=1943''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the story of four people. Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: In temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in the US a group house on the riverbank, built of menbroken bricks. Insubstantial as it might look, women it's stood the passage of time, storms and children are uprooted from their homes with hardly any notice floods. Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the delivery rounds - and after being sworn to total secrecybring in sufficient money. Their destination is a hastily knocked upThey have twin boys - Sonny and Max, unfinished small town in the New Mexico desert; a place where muddy water drips from the taps and their lives are turned upside down for nearly 3 yearsrainbow twins. This isnSonny't mass abduction by a malevolent power but the US governments colouring reflects his mother's plan to end WWIIJamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. The men (People don't believe that they're related, much less twins and some of the women) are scientists, the place there's an assumption when Max is Los Alamos, the site of the project out with his mother that will result in Robert Oppenheimer stating she''Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." His story has been well documented in the past; now the voices belong to the Los Alamos Wivess his nanny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408845997</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|author= Kay Chronister|title=OrfeoDesert Creatures|rating= 4|genre= Dystopian Fiction|summary= With a world that is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, post-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Whether it is 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. ''Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is a new work of post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the fears that exist for humanity today. It is a shocking novel that still manages to find hope.|isbn=1803364998}}{{frontpage|isbn=1803363002|author=Richard PowersEric LaRocca|title= The Trees Grew Because I Bled There|rating=45|genre= Horror|summary= Horror taps into something primeval within us. It is used as a way to reflect our darkest emotions and how we as humans react and process them. Most horror fiction feature a ''Big Bad'', whether that is a home invader, a monster or a ghost, it usually something tangible and, by the end of the story, beatable. Eric LaRocca's ''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is not like that. It is a collection of short stories more interested in the horrors of illness, grief and humiliation. Horrors that linger and are harder to defeat than any ''Big Bad''.}}{{Frontpage|author=Madelaine Lucas|title=Thirst for Salt|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary='No one thinks twice about the quiet'Love, older bohemian in the American Craftsman at 806 South Linden…people take up all kinds of hobbies in retirement.I'd read, was supposed to be a light and weightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravity''
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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.''
''Beautiful Shining People'' revolves around the question of identity and acceptance. Of what it means to be human. Of what is real and what is artificial, and whether the development of technology is exciting or frightening.|isbn=191458564X}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ron ButlinJennifer Saint|title=Ghost MoonAtalanta
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Maggie sits in an elderly persons' care home tgryig to exist through the ever tightening grip 'I was as worthy as any one of dementiathem. Her sonI would get on board that ship, Tom, visits trying to jog her memory but she doesn't even recognise himI vowed. To MaggieI would take my place, Tom is 'Michael' a not just in the name that means nothing to a son getting more desperate to break through to his mother once againof the goddess. However there It was once a Michael, in a life that bubbles with secrets that even Tom doesn't know; for once, long agothe sake of my name, Maggie was youngtoo.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907773770</amazonuk>}}Atalanta''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=A Well-Tempered HeartAmanthi Harris|authortitle=Jan-Philipp SendkerBeautiful Place
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Ten years Padma, a young Sri Lankan, has returned to the Villa Hibiscus on from the previous episode, Julia Win, successful corporate lawyer specialising in intellectual property rights is exhausted, unhappy and alonesouthern coast of her home country. Somewhat distant in all senses of the word, if not exactly estranged, from her mother and brother, This is a place she has recently left a relationship that should have worked but just didn't and spent her only real connection is with her artist friend Amy Lee.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184697285X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Something Like Happy|author=John Burnside|rating=4formative years.5|genre=Short Stories|summary=How do you pick a name for a short story collection? It seems to me the ''...and other stories'' add-on is like picking not a favourite childplace she was born into, a promotion of but the one portion she thinks of as home. How she came to be at the content above the rest. [[:Category:John Burnside|John Burnside]] has got a title story hereVilla, how it became her home, but such is the mood of and the book machinations that he seems to have nailed flowed through her life ever since she first arrived there provide the matter, and picked the most apposite name. ''Something Like Happyscore''for this gentle and yet subtly violent novel. Padma' could in s present fails to escape her past and much like the musical score of a film, that strand weaves its way be through everything that happens at the title for practically every piece hereVilla.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099575590</amazonuk>1784631930
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=Brief Loves That Live Forever178563335X|authortitle=Andrei Makine|rating=4.5|genre=Short Stories|summary=Our unnamed narrator is inspired to think back through his life on the girls and women he has been in love with, partly because of a time spent with an associate – a time marked by a seemingly most unremarkable encounter with a further woman – whom he deemed had never been loved. The associate, you see, had spent half his adult life in Soviet camps for political instruction – our narrator himself was an orphan in the 1960s' Soviet Union. This snappy volume takes us through episodes in several lives at different points during and since the second half of communist rule – and finally explains the import of that unremarkable encounter…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780870493</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewSea Defences|author=Prajwal Parajuly|title=Land Where I FleeHilary Taylor
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Chitralekha Guraamaa is preparing for her 84th birthday celebrations - her Chaurasi - When we first meet Rachel Bird she's a trainee vicar, sitting in on a PCC meeting and her grandchildren (or rather grandadults as wondering why they are now) arrive from around 're held when you need to pick the worldchildren up. They went away in search of a better life but better comes at Her husband, Christopher, collects six-year-old Hannah and her elder brother, Jamie, whilst Rachel holds a costsobbing parishioner. Baghwati married beneath her caste, Manasa is resentful of an apparently helpless disabled fatherThelma's daughter-in-law and Agastaya hides won't let her see her grandson. Holthorpe, on the Norfolk coast, is a lovely place, but Rachel is struggling to develop a manreal bond with the parish -sized secret. All have one thing and she's in common: awe of the dread of facing their manipulativevicar, Gail, powerful grandmother but then she's been doing the job for more than thirty years. Rachel and their inability to get Christopher hoped that a walk on with each otherthe beach would do them some good - it was stormy but it was probably what they needed. Worlds may collide but let the festivities commence!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780872984</amazonuk>And then Hannah went missing.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1398515388|title=The Collected Works of A J FikryBoy and the Dog|author=Gabrielle ZevinSeishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=A J Fikry is not having a good timeFirst of all, it was the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and this, in turn, caused the nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and utter devastation. He's lost his wife to a car crashThe deaths were uncountable, and he's not making that much moneythe loss of livelihoods was widespread. The book store he runs, stuck out on 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 limb on dog outside a quiet island community, is too remote to turn convenience store. He wasn't a profit year-round, and he has just dismissed dog person but the latest publisherconvenience store owner's rep comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to turn up at open his car door, partly because her previous counterpart, an inconsequential part of A J's life when all is said and done, had died and he didn't know about it. But his bad time is about to get a lot worse, as the one thing he owns worth Tamon the most – a rare book, more valuable than his house, his business, anything – is about to vanishdog jumped in. Which bizarrely will cause several major changes to his one-person household…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408704617</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0989715337|title=The Last Boat HomePapa on the Moon|author=Dea BrovigMarco North
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Then: On the farm above a remote Norwegian hamlet, in 1976, schoolgirl Else is waiting for her mother to return through the wind and the snow. She is also clutching at the kitchen table as the contractions worsen. Now: fast forward to 2009. Else now lives in the town the hamlet has grown into, on the back of oil money. Her daughter has a daughter of her own, but still spends many a night not coming home. ''She must have met someone'' the eleven-year-old granddaughter says matter-of-factly. Else has made a life for herself, running a spa, looking after her daughter and her granddaughter. A quiet life, but not such a bad one.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091954290</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Beggar and Some frogs had gotten into the Hare|author=Tuomas Kyro|rating=4well.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Our hero, Vatanescu, is a fish out of water. He's a father without his family, a man without a home, a possibility without a chance. He's being transported across Europe by a criminal people-smuggler, who is also packing Vatanescu's sister off to the cosmetic surgeon then the prostitute trade. Our hero is destined to sit in discomfort, sleet and in hateful gazes 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/mentor, and leaves him on the run with a fistful of useless currency. A further impossibility gifts him a friendly, warm companion – a rabbit being chased by local youths jumps into the sanctuary of his arms, and becomes a welcome source of focus. From 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>}}
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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 The summary of his little fingers. Rehearsal cancelled, the boy finds his favourite aunt, who takes him to treatment only this book doesn't come close to discover her ex-husband the doctor involved. Many miles away a slightly older young man explaining what is off on his first hunting trip done 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 Chernobylpremise.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0670922706</amazonuk>1913097811}}
{{newreviewFrontpage |titleauthor=The Black SnowSally Oliver |authortitle=Paul LynchThe Weight of Loss |rating=3.54 |genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Barnabas Kane returned Marianne is grieving. Traumatised after the death of her sister, she awakes to his birthplace in Ireland with his family with find strange, thick black hairs sprouting from the goal bones of setting up his own farm and raising his son her spine which steadily increase in a better setting than New York. With his farm of a decent size and volume. Her GP, diagnosing the odd phenomenon as a good herd of cattle all seems well with Kane until out ploughing one day he 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 his farm hand Matthew Peoples spot smoke in the sky from the direction other patients at Nede: a metamorphosis of his byrea kind. The fire marks the start As Marianne's memories threaten to overwhelm her, Nede offers her release from this cycle of memory and pain—but only at a sometimes bleak downward spiral and Kane is forced to rely on the kindness terrible price: that of his neighbours who still see him as an outsideridentity itself.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782062041</amazonuk>086154112X }} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Truman CapoteNatalia Garcia Freire|title=Breakfast at Tiffany's 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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|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Being told that you have six months to 'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the story of three women who live concentrates in the mind most wonderfully: fifty is no age to dieheavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. Cassandra, even if you have lived life to the full. Patrick's heart was giving up on him and the Professor of American StudiesClytemnestra, philanderer and heavy drinker was at Elektra are all bit players in the head story of the list for a heart transplantTrojan War. His other problems - entirely of his own making - faded into insignificance. Sixteen-year-old Drew Beamish died in a motorcycle accident in Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the silent women have the village where he lived in rural Cambridgeshire most compelling stories and it will be his (still beating) heart which is transplanted into Patrick. The two, who had never met, would be permanently joinedthe most extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444731068</amazonuk>1472273915
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=8409290103|title=The People in the PhotoIf Only|author=Helene GesternMatthew Tree
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Hélène Hivert works at Twenty-one-year-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by his father, cotton-broker AO Lowry: he asked his accountant, Mr Patrick, to ensure that the Museum of young man got on board the History of the Postcard. It is boat and thereafter Patrick was to send him a job she loves, as she finds delving into other people's lives 'most exciting'monthly allowance. Luckily, she is ' Patrick sent the money regularly sent collections to catalogue', and each time a correspondence - of sorts - sprang up between the 'moment of discovery' gives her a thrilltwo although we hear more about what Lowry has to say than Patrick. It may be wasn'addictivet that Lowry senior didn't care for his son, but it was that he didn'There is something very moving about the thought that just two or three sources can t care to have him in this country where he might be enough a danger to build a picture of an entire life'his wife and other children. But what happens when the sources are a bit too close The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to home, when Hélène must play Holmes among the artefacts of her own family's past, pondering 'get the silence of surfaces'? Well, the professional detachment goes straight out the window, and what had been a genuine pleasure, tinged by wonder, now becomes an uncomfortable obsessionyoung man on his way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908313544</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Atheist's PrayerAntoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)|authortitle=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 particular morning, Patricia asked, as she was wrapping the relationship is one of unalloyed passionbread, ''but isn't this 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 manfirst time he's own making – based a town character on you?'' She mentioned that is basically one huge foundryJohanna, whose men go from working there to a bar then to (someonethe principal character had 'her mannerisms''s) bed in three eight hour shifts, or so it seems. Egon isn't one of those men, or isn't any morePerhaps this would not have mattered, except for he works at other things than the foundry – namely churning out trashy lowfact that Johanna is the whore of Nantes -brow fiction''a weak, and a lot of wheeling and a lot more dealing. He still keeps his shift in at the bar and in people's bedsplain, thoughdetestable, all the while looking out for number one. He has several friendships on the gopathetic, and several sexual partners at the same timeunloved, yet drinks so much itunloveable wretch.'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 out, and he'll as like as not do anything for more…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908754397</amazonuk>
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