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[[Category:New Reviews|Literary Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ali SmithMatthew Tree|title=How to be BothWe'll Never Know

|summary=There's something which you need Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to know about this book: if you decide to read it, the book you read might not be the same as the one which I've read and am about to review. There aredifferent from his father, you see, two stories in each copy a drunk and half the books published will have the story chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of Francescho Del Cossa his artistic passions all failed miserably and who worked in and around Ferrara in the fifteenth century, followed by the story had endless crises of George - really Georgia - a teenager who lives with her father and younger brother in twentieth century Cambridgeself confidence. The other books will have the stories in reverse order. The stories are the sameSo Tim applied himself to his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but the experiences of the readers will be quite differentachievable ambitions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>024114521X</amazonuk>B0CVFXPGP8

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0C47LV1PC|title=WreakingFragility|author=James ScudamoreMosby Woods

|summary=A derelict mental hospitalCan you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, gloomy railway archesis the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, would it land? The catch is that the bleak countryside of the English coastanswer for both could well be.... It all comes at us in grey flashesno. If  ''WreakingFragility'' was a filmis set as the city of Portland, Oregon, it would saturated with cool tones. It’s an easy novel cautiously begins to visualise: Scudamore’s spare, elegant style creates an almost palpable atmosphere.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009952385X</amazonuk>emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=JMosby Woods|authortitle=Howard JacobsonA Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=3.54

|summary=The West isn''J'' marks an unusual turn for Howard Jacobsont the dominant force it once was. Though Nobody in the West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it seems at times like is the best course of action. Governments are flailing. A war here, a skewed folk talepush for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is in actual charge. Imagine then, it also bears there was a man with precognition. Imagine the subtle signs strategic advantage in this asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of a future dystopiacircumstances. It has some of Jacobson's trademark elements – odd namesThat man would be valuable, humorous metaphorsright? Perhaps the most valuable asset in history. Imagine then, and Semitic references – but felt that this man loses this ability. What would governments do to me like a strange departure after [[The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson|The Finkler Question]] and ''Zoo Time''.get it back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0224102052</amazonuk>B0C9SNG8R1

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Mitchell0571379559|title=The Bone ClocksHouse of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams

|summary=Holly Sykes ''The House of Broken Bricks'' is 15 and has found true love with an older man the story of four people. Tess Hembry's roots are in his twenties - until Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she finds him lives in bed with her best matethe house on the riverbank, built of broken bricks. Upset Insubstantial as it might look, it's stood the passage of time, storms and disorientated, she runs away from homefloods. This may enable her Her husband, Richard, struggles to escape from grow his vegetables, to complete the unfaithful Vinny delivery rounds - and her overbearing family but not to bring in sufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and Max, the weirdnessrainbow twins. SheSonny's colouring reflects his mother's not the only one though: Hugo the student, conman and lothario thought he was only doing someone a good turn when the weirdness started for himJamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. There is a point to it though: eventually battle lines will be drawn People don't believe that they're related, much less twins and itthere's anyonean assumption when Max is out with his mother that she's guess as to who will win, despite what the Anchorites may sayhis nanny. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340921609</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=Karen Joy FowlerKay Chronister|title=We Are All Completely Beside OurselvesDesert Creatures|rating=4|genre=Literary Dystopian Fiction|summary=Rosemary's childhood With a world that is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, post-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Whether it is blighted by the disappearance a robotic takeover, a world devoid of her sisterwater or a nuclear holocaust, Fern. Rosemary went this genre is a way for humans to stay with her grandparents and, on her return Fern was no longer therecathartically experience their most existential fears. Curiously enough, her mother and father don't speak 'Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is a new work of it. The knock on effect was the angry departure post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of Rosemary's older brother Lowell whom she also misses. As she grows to adulthood, Rosemary remembers trying to come to terms with this, the damage fears that being exist for humanity today. It is a daughter of a psychologist has wrought and the revealed secrets shocking novel that will finally make sense of it allstill manages to find hope.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184668966X</amazonuk>1803364998

 {{newreviewfrontpage|titleisbn=The City Son1803363002|author=Samrat UpadhyayEric LaRocca|title= The Trees Grew Because I Bled There|rating=3.5|genre=Literary FictionHorror|summary=Didi lives in Horror taps into something primeval within us. It is used as a remote Nepali villageway to reflect our darkest emotions and how we as humans react and process them. Her husbandMost horror fiction feature a ''Big Bad'', always referred to by what whether that is presumably a title rather than home invader, a monster or a name ghost, it usually something tangible and, by the end of the story, beatable. Eric LaRocca's ''the MasterjiThe Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' teaches is not like that. It is a collection of short stories more interested in the cityhorrors of illness, grief and humiliation. He rarely comes home Horrors that linger and are harder to see his wife and sonsdefeat than any ''Big Bad''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1616953810</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alison MooreMadelaine Lucas|title=He WantsThirst for Salt|rating=4.5

|summary=Lewis Sullivan is close to retirement, but elderly beyond his years and widowed. Edie's death seems to have had practical implications - he's not getting the food he used to enjoy - but beyond that itLove, I's difficult to see quite what they had in common other than the library. He used it and she worked there - but they didn't even enjoy the same books. Lewis is an RE teacher at the same school where his fatherd read, Lawrence, used to teach - when they were both there at the same time it often confused the paperwork. Lewis is beginning to wonder if he chose the wrong career, if he lives in the wrong place. He used was supposed to be able to see the house he grew up in from the bedroom window before it was demolished a light and replaced by a supermarket carparkweightless feeling, but heI had always longed for gravity''s always dreamed of living by the sea. His adult daughter, Ruth visits him every day and brings him soup.

He doesnTold from a retrospective view, a young woman unravels the year-long relationship that once defined her. Overlaid with later wisdom, the narrator relives the affair with a man twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the summer after. Set against the backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the 24-year-old narrator't want soups deepening relationship with her older lover, depicting its all-consuming nature, how it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and how it altered her irrevocably.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907773819</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|titleauthor=The Narrow Road to the Deep NorthJennifer Saint|authortitle=Richard FlanaganAtalanta|rating=4.5

|summary=''The Narrow Road to the Deep North'' is the title I was as worthy as any one of both Flanagan's Booker Prize-longlisted sixth novel and a book by seventeenth-century Japanese poet Bashothem. I would get on board that ship, I vowed. Poetry irradiates this often bleak story I would take my place, not just in the name of Australian POWs building the Burma Death Railway during goddess. It was for the Second World Warsake of my name, presenting beauty and love as counterpoints to gory descriptions of suffering and inhumanitytoo.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701189053</amazonuk>}}Atalanta''

{{newreview|title=The Country of Ice Cream Star|author=Sandra Newman|rating=4Princess.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary='My name be Ice Cream Fifteen Star and this be the tale of how I bring the cure to all the Nighted States, save every poory children, short for lifeWarrior. Is how a city die for selfish love, and rise from this same smallnessLover. Be how the new America begin, in wars against all hope - a country with no power in a world that hate its lifeHero. So been the faith I sworn, and it ain't evils in no world nor cruelties in no red hell can change the vally heart of Ice Cream Star.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701186429</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Bilal Tanweer|title=The Scatter Here Abandoned at birth for being born a daughter rather than a son, Atalanta is Too Great|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=When raised under the bomb exploded at protective eye of the Karachi railway station causing intended death goddess Athemis and mayhemfashioned into a formidable huntress, an aging reactionary poet, his middle-aged sonone who longs for adventure. When the opportunity comes – to join the Argonauts, a childfierce band of warriors, a writer descendent from the Gods themselves – Atalanta seizes the chance to fight in Artemis' name and carve out her own legendary place in history. What follows is a woman who relates more to stories than reality, are in the midst whirlwind of challenges and discovery and through it. Each experiences the blast as differently as their experiences of life are from each other but each ', Atalanta must remember Artemis'fatal warning: that if she marries, it will'' be affectedher undoing.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0224099116</amazonuk>1472292154

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Emily MackieAmanthi Harris|title=In Search of SolaceBeautiful Place|rating=3.5

|summary=Jacob Little is many things Padma, a young Sri Lankan, has returned to many people as he goes through life, reinventing his personae and namethe Villa Hibiscus on the southern coast of her home country. Who exactly This is he? a place she spent her formative years. Perhaps he's unsure It is not a place she was born into, but the thing he's certain one she thinks of is his love for a young woman he lived with for 2 yearsas home. It took How she came to be at the Villa, how it became her leaving home, and the next decade apart for him to realise he loves machinations that have flowed through her but now he wants to make up life ever since she first arrived there provide the ''score'' for lost timethis gentle and yet subtly violent novel. She said her name was Solace so now he Padma's (all together now) in search present fails to escape her past and much like the musical score of Solacea film, that strand weaves its way through everything that happens at the Villa.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340992522</amazonuk>1784631930

  {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=178563335X|title=The Sixteenth of JuneSea Defences|author=Maya LangHilary Taylor

|summary=On June 16thWhen we first meet Rachel Bird she's a trainee vicar, 1904sitting in on a PCC meeting and wondering why they're held when you need to pick the children up. Her husband, James Joyce had his first date with his future wifeChristopher, Nora Barnacle – an occasion he commemorated by choosing it as the onecollects six-year-day setting for his old Hannah and her elder brother, Jamie, whilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioner. Thelma's daughter-in-law won'magnum opus't let her see her grandson. Holthorpe, on the Norfolk coast, is a lovely place, but Rachel is struggling to develop a real bond with the parish - and she's in awe of the vicar, Gail, but then she''Ulysses''; main character Leopold Bloom gives his name to s been doing the annual Joyce celebration job for more than thirty years. Rachel and Christopher hoped that takes place around a walk on the world on June 16thbeach would do them some good - it was stormy but it was probably what they needed. And then Hannah went missing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1476745749</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1398515388|title=After BeforeThe Boy and the Dog|author=Jemma WayneSeishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)

|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=Emily ''easier for English people to pronounce than Emilienne''First of all, it was the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and this, lives in a council tower blockturn, barely furnishedcaused the nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and utter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, and the loss of livelihoods was widespread. The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of priorities but still - for her six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a place of safety, dog outside a convenience store. He wasn't a place of anonymity, which is dog person but the best way for her convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to exist. She cleans commercial premises open his car door and relishes Tamon the workdog jumped in. She makes her small earnings go as far as possible, shopping locally, living frugally.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909878847</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0989715337|title=FireflyPapa on the Moon|author=Janette JenkinsMarco North

|summary=I read ''Firefly'' wanting to be charmedSome frogs had gotten into the well. Sat at home, wishing I was in Jamaica, idly humming 'Mad Dogs and Englishmen'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099575043</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|title=The Hundred-Year House|author=Rebecca Makkai|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=The first thing you'll notice about this novel is that, like a crazy house, it's upsideWalter stood waist-downdeep in the fragrant water, naked except for his beaten leather hat. That is: it opens in 1999Long strands of their eggs wove around him, that near-contemporary storyline taking up about half the text; follows it with sections set in 1955 and 1929; and finishes sticky gray pearls with a 'prologue' set in 1900tadpoles inside them. The second thing to jump out is that this is a ghost story – or is it? The first line is both declaration Two of the dogs leaned over the opening and qualification: 'For a ghost story, barked down at the tale strange noise of Violet Saville Devohr was vague and underwhelmingthe buckets as he filled them.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434022977</amazonuk>}}'

{{newreview|author=Karin Altenberg|title=Breaking Light|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Gabriel Askew retires to How is that for an opening? The style of this novel in the village form of Mortford, the place in which he grew up interconnected short stories goes from succinct and from where childhood ghosts haunt him laconic to this day. It’s a conscious decision: Gabewistful and musing, ostracised as turning on a child due to his hair lipsixpence. And author Marco North, returns to face these demons that have controlled his life and forced him to do who has the unthinkable but now most wonderful turn of phrase, starts as he wants peace… if it's not too latemeans to go on.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780877153</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Lost LuggageDaisy Hildyard|authortitle=Jordi PuntiEmergency

|summary=There are lots The summary of things you wonder when you grow up with just one parent, but whether you also have a bunch of half-siblings, all this book doesn't come close to explaining what is done with the same name as you, all dotted around the continent, is not normally high on the list. Gabriel Delacruz has 4 boys by 4 different women in 4 parts of Europe. None of them know of the others’ existence but when Gabriel disappears, his incredulous life is uncovered and Christof, Christophe, Christopher and Cristofol meetpremise.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780722133</amazonuk>1913097811}}

{{newreviewFrontpage |author=Sally Oliver |title=Wild WoodThe Weight of Loss |rating=4 |genre=Literary Fiction |summary= Marianne is grieving. Traumatised after the death of her sister, she awakes to find strange, thick black hairs sprouting from the bones of her spine which steadily increase in size and volume. Her GP, diagnosing the odd phenomenon as a physical reaction to her grief, recommends she go to stay at Nede, an experimental new treatment centre in Wales. Yet something strange is happening to Marianne and the other patients at Nede: a metamorphosis of a kind. As Marianne's memories threaten to overwhelm her, Nede offers her release from this cycle of memory and pain—but only at a terrible price: that of identity itself.|isbn= 086154112X }} {{Frontpage|author=Jan Needle and Willie RushtonNatalia Garcia Freire|title=This World Does Not Belong To Us|rating=4.5

|summary=Bank clerk Kenneth Grahame’s 1908 classic ''Wind in the Willows'', populated with lovable anthropomorphic charactersEarly comments on this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendous, started life as a bed time story for his son Alistairdelight. He fused these adventurous tales I will agree with later descriptive epistles for the first – tremendous is no understatement – but 'a holidaying Alistair to create a tale which was, as Grahame described delight' is perhaps using the expression in a letter way I'm not familiar with. I have to Teddy Roosevelt, ''an expression confess my ignorance of the very simplest joys of life as lived by the simplest beings''Spanish-language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation here. Indeed the four iconic protagonists - From the outrageous, irrepressible toad, the loyal and humble mole, the brave and paternalistic badger and the resourceful and determined rat little I have a fond place read (in many childhood memories but are they as valiant as they translation, I don't read Spanish) there does seem? What if they were suddenly recast as to be a tendency towards the villains of fantastical – the piece?mystical realism. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1899262210</amazonuk>0861541901

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Beautiful FoolsJennifer Saint|authortitle=R Clifton SpargoElektra

|summary=Famous writers' wives have had something Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the story of a literary revival three women who live in recent yearsthe heavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. Paula McLain's ''The Paris Wife'' Cassandra, Clytemnestra, and Naomi Wood's ''Mrs Hemingway'' imagine Elektra are all bit players in the lives story of the various Hemingway Trojan War. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the silent women, while have the vogue for flappers most compelling stories and [[The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald|The Great Gatsby]] has led to a spate of books about Zelda Fitzgerald. Fans of the Roaring Twenties have been spoiled for choice, what with [[Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald by Therese Anne Fowler]], ''Call Me Zelda'' by Erika Robuck, and ''Guests on Earth'' by Lee Smithmost extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1468308807</amazonuk>1472273915

 {{newreview|author=Roopa Farooki|title=The Good Children|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=The Saddeq family are an example of success for their friends and neighbours in Lahore. Mr Saddeq is a doctor with his own practice, sons Sully and Jakie are studying medicine in the US and UK respectively and daughters Mae and Lana have made good marriage matches. However the four 'good' children would view their success differently. Each reacts differently to the futures that their caring father and calculating mother have mapped out for them and plough their own furrows as far as they're permitted but the gravitational pull of home remains a constant through their lives and also, to some extent, for the generation that follows.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755383427</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Dinaw Mengestu |title=All Our Days|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Isaac is a refugee from Ethiopia who finds a home in Uganda. At the university he's taken under the wing of a political activist also called Isaac. The 1970s is a dangerous time to be in Uganda as their world is about to explode. Years later Isaac the Ethiopian finds himself in America and lives under the care of social worker Helen. Slowly they form a less than professional relationship and Helen realises that what little she knows of him may not be the truth. Gradually his past is revealed as the guilt he carries comes to the surface.Frontpage|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444793772</amazonuk>}} {{newreview8409290103|title=Never Any End to ParisIf Only|author=Enrique Vila-MatasMatthew Tree

|summary=There is never any end Twenty-one-year-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by his father, cotton-broker AO Lowry: he asked his accountant, Mr Patrick, to Parisensure that the young man got on board the boat and thereafter Patrick was to send him a monthly allowance. The sentence pops Patrick sent the money regularly and a correspondence - of sorts - sprang up, hypnotic, through most of between the booktwo although we hear more about what Lowry has to say than Patrick. At times ironic, thoughtful or questioning It wasn't that Lowry senior didn't care for his son, it is a quote from Hemingway’s novel, was that he didn''A Moveable Feast'', t care to have him in which the American author looked back at his days in Paris, this country where he was ‘very poor might be a danger to his wife and very happyother children.’ The narrator of ''Never Any End alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to Paris'' tells us that when he lived in Paris, he was ‘very poor and very unhappyget the young man on his way.’|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846558042</amazonuk>

  {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Johanna LaneAntoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)|title=Black LakeRed is My Heart|rating=43.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=John's family [[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have owned Dulagh (Black Lake), the big mansion always been black and white and read in the Irish countrysidemy house. And so was this one, for generations. Unfortunately now no longer able to afford its upkeepalthough I could have spelled that more accurately – this one was, Johnand is, his wife Marianne black and children Kate white and Philipred. Yes, move into a cottage he has an artistic collaborator on the estate instead. They still own the house but this piece, and I think it'll be run by the government with revenue from opening it s possible to say not one page lacks the public. At the time it seems the perfect solution, but the future has plans other than perfectioninfluence of some striking visual ideas.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755396294</amazonuk>1913547183

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B098FFFBH9|title=Frances and BernardSnowcub|author=Carlene BauerGraham Fulbright

|summary=ThereFourteen-year-old Rachel is her school's something very special about an epistolary novel. The format might seem unnatural animal rights project leader and she and her friend are producing a competition entry to readers highlight the way in this day which human beings exploit the animal world. She gets a great deal of abbreviated text messages and e-mailssupport from her family: father Pip Harrison, but the conceit of a written exchange allows for fully developed first-person voices lecturer at Imperial College, London, mother Kate and a confessional toneher twin, Nick. Provided the author can bypass Kate runs the subtle difficulties of plot-buildingfamily business, letters are also a handy indicator of the passage toy shop called Cornucopia in Putney, which is where we'll meet Rachel's main (if unsuspected) source of time, and ably convey period vocabularyinformation: five soft toys.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099578603</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Adrian HarveyYancey Williams|title=Being SomeoneCrosshairs of the Devil

|summary=The relationship between a mahout and his elephant is close: some have said that it's rather like a marriage. On the surface it seems almost idyllic with an obvious affection between man and beast Award- "that their spirits were water of the same pool", but all winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski is not quite as it seems. Iravatha was the magnificent elephant who, year getting on inyears and, year out, led the Maharajah's parade only this year there was a dreadful accident despite his strenuous objections and Annayya, thanks to his mahoutdaughter, slipped beneath the elephant's foot finds himself living - and was killed. They'd been together for more than half a century and beautiful, intelligent Iravatha knew what this meant.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909273090</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=TaraShea Nesbit|title=The Wives of Los Alamos|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=1943: In the US a group of menor imprisoned, women and children are uprooted from their homes with hardly any notice and after being sworn to total secrecy. Their destination is a hastily knocked up, 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 years. This isn't mass abduction by a malevolent power but the US governmentEddie's plan to end WWII. The men (and some point of the women) are scientists, the place is Los Alamos, the site of the project that will result view - in Robert Oppenheimer stating ''Now, I am become Death, the destroyer room 315 of worlds." His story has been well documented in the past; now the voices belong to the Los Alamos Wives.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408845997</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Orfeo|author=Richard Powers|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary='No one thinks twice about the quiet, older bohemian in the American Craftsman at 806 South Linden…people take up all kinds Garden of hobbies in retirement.' Seventy-year-old Peter Els is an out-of-work composer in Pennsylvania. He teaches music appreciation at a senior centreEden nursing home, but much of his spare time is devoted to chemistry experiments. As with only a college student he agonised over the choice between chemistry and musictrusty nursing aide, in factJenkins, and these days he wonders if he got it wrongfor palatable company. His avant-garde compositions, such as a three-hour opera based on medieval German history, were infrequent and never very well received. Should he have gone into biochemistry after all? Thus, thanks Nothing is going to a few thousand dollars' worth of semikeep Eddie from his stock-professional equipment purchased off the Internet, Els is now engaged in a new kind of composition – with bacterial DNA taking the place -trade of musical notes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782391614</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ron Butlin|title=Ghost Moon|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Maggie sits in an elderly persons' care home tgryig to exist through the ever tightening grip of dementia. Her sonwriting though, Tomso here, visits trying to jog her memory but she doesn't even recognise him. To Maggiefor his readers, Tom is 'Michael' a name that means nothing to a son getting more desperate to break are his wanderings through to his mother once again. However there was once a Michael, in a life that bubbles with secrets that even Tom doesn't know; for once, long ago, Maggie was youngs work.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907773770</amazonuk>0986031658}} {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008421714|title=The One I WasMrs March|author=Eliza GrahamVirginia Feito

|summary=In 1939, before The problem began just after the outbreak publication of George March's most successful novel to date. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the Second World War, a boy arrived at Harwich dockslast page) seemed to either be reading it or had already done so. He was a Kindertransport refugee fleeing Every day Mrs March went to the anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany. Benjamin Goldman would change his name local patisserie to Benny Gault when his idea buy olive bread but on that particular morning, Patricia asked, as she was wrapping the war wouldnbread, ''but isn't happen and he could go home to Germany came to nothing, but in this the meantime first time he was adopted by Lord and Lady Dorner. 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 based a secret. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910229016</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Indecent Acts|author=Nick Brooks|rating=3.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Meet Grace. character on you?'' Shementioned that Johanna, the principal character had 's in her forties, living with a hit-and-miss family in a Glasgow council flat, and in the middle of a whole host of issuesmannerisms''. She has issues about her parents, and their moving on or death; she has issues about her sister who might or might Perhaps this would 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 insteadmattered, and son Vincent, who will like as not create an issue by joining the army and moving on himself. Grace also has issues with except for the fact that she Johanna is nearly as blind as the whore of Nantes - ''a batweak, and can neither read nor write. She's started the novel where she shouldn't be – at home in Glasgowplain, strugglingdetestable, as she was due to fly to meet her sister at lastpathetic, yet packed her glasses in the case that must be the other endunloved, and completely missed her flightunloveable wretch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908754451</amazonuk>''

{{newreview|title=A Well-Tempered Heart|author=Jan-Philipp Sendker|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Ten years Move on from the previous episode, Julia Win, successful corporate lawyer specialising in intellectual property rights is exhausted, unhappy and alone. Somewhat distant in all senses of the word, if not exactly estranged, from her mother and brother, she has recently left a relationship that should have worked but just didn't and her only real connection is with her artist friend Amy Lee.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184697285X</amazonuk>}}to [[Newest Paranormal Reviews]]