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|summary=There is never any end Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to Paris. The sentence pops upbe different from his father, hypnotic, through most a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of the book. At times ironic, thoughtful or questioning, it is a quote from Hemingway’s novel, ''A Moveable Feast'', in which the American author looked back being exceptional at any of his days in Paris, where he was ‘very poor artistic passions all failed miserably and very happywho had endless crises of self confidence.’ The narrator of ''Never Any End So Tim applied himself to Paris'' tells us that when he lived in Parishis studies, he was ‘very poor cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and very unhappyset himself high but achievable ambitions.’|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846558042</amazonuk>B0CVFXPGP8

  {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Johanna LaneB0C47LV1PC|title=Black LakeFragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=4.5

|summary=JohnCan you make a ''Yo birthing person's family have owned Dulagh (Black Lake)' joke? And if you could, is the big mansion in question should you make it? Or is the Irish countrysidequestion if you did, would it land? The catch is that the answer for generationsboth could well be.. Unfortunately now no longer able to afford its upkeep, John, his wife Marianne and children Kate and Philip, move into a cottage on the estate instead. They still own the house but it'll be run by the government with revenue from opening it to the public. At the time it seems the perfect solution, but the future has plans other than perfectionno.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755396294</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|title=Frances and Bernard|author=Carlene Bauer|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=There's something very special about an epistolary novel. The format might seem unnatural to readers in this day 'Fragility'' is set as the city of abbreviated text messages and e-mailsPortland, Oregon, but cautiously begins to emerge from the conceit of a written exchange allows for fully developed first-person voices and a confessional tone. Provided restrictions imposed during the author can bypass the subtle difficulties of plot-building, letters are also a handy indicator of the passage of time, and ably convey period vocabulary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099578603</amazonuk>covid pandemic

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Adrian HarveyMosby Woods|title=Being SomeoneA Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=4.5

|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

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=TaraShea Nesbit0571379559|title=The Wives House of Los AlamosBroken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams

|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>

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

|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''

Seventy-Told from a retrospective view, a young woman unravels the year-old Peter Els is an out-of-work composer in Pennsylvanialong relationship that once defined her. He teaches music appreciation at Overlaid with later wisdom, the narrator relives the affair with a man twenty years her senior centre, but much of his spare time is devoted from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to chemistry experimentsits sorrowful end the summer after. As a college student he agonised over Set against the backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the choice between chemistry and music, in fact, and these days he wonders if he got it wrong. His avant24-garde compositions, such as a threeyear-hour opera based on medieval German historyold narrator's deepening relationship with her older lover, were infrequent and never very well received. Should he have gone into biochemistry after depicting its all? Thus, thanks to a few thousand dollars' worth of semi-professional equipment purchased off the Internetconsuming nature, Els is now engaged in a new kind of composition – with bacterial DNA taking the place of musical noteshow it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and how it altered her irrevocably.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782391614</amazonuk>0861546490

''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

|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''

{{newreview|title=The One I Was|author=Eliza Graham|rating=4Princess.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=In 1939, before the outbreak of the Second World War, a boy arrived at Harwich docksWarrior. He was a Kindertransport refugee fleeing the anti-Semitism in Nazi GermanyLover. Benjamin Goldman would change his name to Benny Gault when his idea that 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 DornerHero. Six boys were 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 secret. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910229016</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|title=Indecent Acts|author=Nick Brooks|rating=3.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Meet Grace. She's in her forties, living with Abandoned at birth for being born a hit-and-miss family in daughter rather than a Glasgow council flatson, and in Atalanta is raised under the middle protective eye of the goddess Athemis and fashioned into a whole host of issues. She has issues about her parentsformidable huntress, and their moving on or death; she has issues about her sister one who might or might not have had a much superior life pattern than Grace; she has issues about her children longs for adventure. When the opportunity comes – Francis who has left Grace with her own daughter to spend time with drink or drugs insteadjoin the Argonauts, and son Vincenta fierce band of warriors, who will like as not create an issue by joining descendent from the Gods themselves – Atalanta seizes the army chance to fight in Artemis' name and moving on himselfcarve out her own legendary place in history. Grace also has issues with the fact that she What follows is nearly as blind as a batwhirlwind of challenges and discovery and through it, and can neither read nor write. SheAtalanta must remember Artemis's started the novel where fatal warning: that if she shouldn't be – at home in Glasgowmarries, struggling, as she was due to fly to meet her sister at last, yet packed her glasses in the case that must it will be the other end, and completely missed her flightundoing.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908754451</amazonuk>1472292154

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=A Well-Tempered HeartAmanthi Harris|authortitle=Jan-Philipp SendkerBeautiful Place

|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 Leeformative years.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184697285X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Something Like Happy|author=John Burnside|rating=4.5|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'' could in a way be the title for practically every piece herethis gentle and yet subtly violent novel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099575590</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Brief Loves That Live Forever|author=Andrei Makine|rating=4.5|genre=Short Stories|summary=Our unnamed narrator is inspired Padma's present fails to think back through his life on escape her past and much like the girls and women he has been in love with, partly because musical score 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 associatefilm, 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 that strand weaves its way through episodes in several lives everything that happens at different points during and since the second half of communist rule – and finally explains the import of that unremarkable encounter…Villa.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780870493</amazonuk>1784631930

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Prajwal Parajuly178563335X|title=Land Where I FleeSea Defences|author=Hilary Taylor

|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.

 {{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

|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>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0989715337|title=The Last Boat HomePapa on the Moon|author=Dea BrovigMarco North

|summary=Then: On ''Some frogs had gotten into 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 worsenwell.''

Now: fast forward to 2009. Else now lives ''Walter stood waist-deep in the town the hamlet has grown intofragrant water, on the back of oil moneynaked except for his beaten leather hat. Her daughter has a daughter Long strands of her owntheir eggs wove around him, but still spends many a night not coming homesticky gray pearls with tadpoles inside them. ''She must have met someone'' Two of the dogs leaned over the opening and barked down at the eleven-year-old granddaughter says matter-strange noise of-factlythe buckets as he filled them. 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=How is that for an opening? The Beggar and the Hare|author=Tuomas Kyro|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Our hero, Vatanescu, is a fish out style 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 this novel in hateful gazes of others as a beggar on the streets of Helsinki. But at the same time impossibilities are amassing – one form of which splits Vatanescu interconnected short stories goes from his minder/mentorsuccinct and laconic to wistful and musing, and leaves him turning on the run with a fistful of useless currencysixpence. A further impossibility gifts him a friendlyAnd author Marco North, warm companion – a rabbit being chased by local youths jumps into who has the sanctuary most wonderful turn of his arms, and becomes a welcome source of focus. From then on many more jumps will be made from one impossibility to anotherphrase, starts as the life of this illegal immigrant begins he means to resonate across his adopted homeland…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780721641</amazonuk>go on.

 {{newreview|title=The Blazing WorldFrontpage|author=Siri Hustvedt|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary='All intellectual and artistic endeavours…fare better in the mind of the crowd when the crowd knows that somewhere behind the great work or the great spoof it can locate a cock and a pair of balls.' Thus we are introduced to the unforgettable Harriet Burden – larger-than-life, six-foot-tall amazon artist – and to some of the novel's essential elements: musing on what makes intellectual products successful in a postmodern marketplace, feminist resentment of the overvaluing of male achievement, and an unapologetic, playful boldness with language.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444779648</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewDaisy Hildyard|title=Clever Girl|author=Tessa HadleyEmergency

|summary=Stella grows up with her single mother in Bristol in the 1960s; her father left when she was a baby, but her mother has cultivated the convenient myth that he died. In the stand-alone first chapter, Stella recounts a disturbing incident of domestic violence that affected her Aunt Andy. Sordid snippets from the ensuing court case stay with Stella over the years; 'Innocent-seeming fragments would get in past my defences…then stick to my imagination like tar.' Even so, the novel that follows is about the way in which we engage with memory – facts that linger versus those we, deliberately or subconsciously, choose not to tell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099570521</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=All That is Solid Melts into Air|author=Darragh McKeon|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|The 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 this book doesn't come close to treatment only 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 Chernobyl.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670922706</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Black Snow|author=Paul Lynch|rating=3.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Barnabas Kane returned 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 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

|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

 {{newreview|author=Patrick Ness|title=The Crane Wife|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''The Crane Wife'' ticks all my boxes. It's by Patrick Ness who is one of my favourite writers of Young Adult fiction. It has a basis in myth and legend and still better in an ancient story new to me. It doesn't go on and on and Ariston for half a billion pages. Best of all, the author includes a shout-out for 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 and here I am. I wasn't disappointed. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857868748</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jill DawsonJennifer Saint|title=The Tell-Tale HeartElektra|rating=4.5

|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

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=8409290103|title=The People in the PhotoIf Only|author=Helene GesternMatthew Tree

|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>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Atheist's PrayerAntoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)|authortitle=Amy R BiddleRed is My Heart

|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 it really that shocking? Nope. This is a story about how people deal with the modern world , black and what happens when dangerous ideals infect a vulnerable group.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780995822</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Three Musketeers|author=Alexandre Dumas white and Will Hobson (translator)|rating=4red.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Leaving his home to try and join the famous musketeers in ParisYes, young Gascon d'Artagnan encounters troubles he has an artistic collaborator on the way but quickly falls in with title characters Athosthis piece, Aramis and Porthos. Soon, I think it's possible to say not one page lacks the quartet are caught up in a diabolical plot influence of the wicked Cardinal Richelieu and his accomplice Milady de Winter - can they save the Queen's honour?some striking visual ideas.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849907498</amazonuk>1913547183

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eric LundgrenB098FFFBH9|title=The FacadesSnowcub|author=Graham Fulbright

|summary=Sven Fourteen-year-old Rachel is her school's animal rights project leader and Molly Norberg live she and her friend are producing a competition entry to highlight the way in which human beings exploit the American mid-western town of Trudeanimal world. At least Sven still does; Molly has gone missing. Night after night Sven leaves KyleShe gets a great deal of support from her family: father Pip Harrison, his teenage sona lecturer at Imperial College, home alone while he scours the streetsLondon, revisiting places that he mother Kate and Molly wandered through together in order to find hertwin, Nick. Meanwhile Trude has problems Kate runs the family business, a toy shop called Cornucopia in Putney, which is where we'll meet Rachel's main (if unsuspected) source of its own and the librarians are armed and ready!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715647679</amazonuk>information: five soft toys.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Romy AshYancey Williams|title=FlounderingCrosshairs of the Devil|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Loretta collects her boys Jordy and Tom from school as if it's the most normal thing in the world, but it's not; not for them anyway. 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 beginning4.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1921922087</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Audrey Magee|title=The Undertaking|rating=5

|summary=Peter Faber has decided Award-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski is getting on in years and, despite his strenuous objections and thanks to become part of the new Nazi initiative. He will marry Katharina Spinellhis daughter, finds himself living - or imprisoned, 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 widowEddie's pension should anything happen to himpoint of view - in room 315 of the Garden of Eden nursing home, hopefully providing the Reich with one or two more Aryan babies on the wayonly a trusty nursing aide, Jenkins, for palatable company. Peter may not be the sonNothing is going to keep Eddie from his stock-in-law Katharinatrade of writing though, so here, for his readers, are his wanderings through his life'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 himwork.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782391029</amazonuk>0986031658}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Pamela Erens0008421714|title=The VirginsMrs March|author=Virginia Feito

|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 s most successful novel to date. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the story of two young peoplelast page) seemed to either be reading it or had already done so. The story is mainly narrated by Bruce Bennett-Jones who would have liked Every day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to have a close relationship with Aviva Rossner buy olive bread but her unlikely choice on that particular morning, Patricia asked, as she was Seung Jung. Theywrapping the bread, 're not shy about flaunting their relationship and it's the talk of Auburn Academy, but whilst isn't this the watchers believe first time he's based a character on you?'' She mentioned that Johanna, the relationship is one of unalloyed passionprincipal character had 'her mannerisms''. Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for the truth fact that Johanna is rather different and the couple are set on whore of Nantes - ''a path to an inevitable tragedyweak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch.|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 foundry, 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 isn't any more, for he works at other things than the foundry – namely churning out trashy low-brow fiction, and a lot of wheeling and a lot more dealing. He still keeps his shift in at the bar and in people's beds, though, all the while looking out for number one. He has several friendships Move on the go, and several sexual partners at the same time, yet drinks so much it'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>}}[[Newest Paranormal Reviews]]