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[[Category:New Reviews|Literary Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David GrossmanMatthew Tree|title=Falling Out of Time|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Like the central characters in ''Falling Out of Time'We', Israeli author David Grossman lost his son, a soldier named Uri, during the Middle East conflict. In this multifaceted examination of bereavement, it seems that everyone has lost a child. The genre-bending mixture of poetry, absurdist dialogue, and an inverted fairy tale reflects the difficulty of ever capturing grief in language. Each story and each strategy is like a new way of approaching the unspeakable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099583720</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Samantha Ellis|title=How To Be A Heroine: Or, what I've learned from reading too much|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''How to be a Heroine'' is a pleasant and addictive read. Playwright Samantha Ellis looks back at her childhood as a voracious reader and remembers the characters that influenced her. These are as diverse as Sylvia Plath, ''Little Women'' and Scheherazade.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099575566</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Ian Walthew|title=The Complex Chemistry of Loss|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Deep in rural France James Kerr was admitted to a psychiatric clinic. His mental problems were deep and intractable. Superficially he seemed never to have got over the sudden death of his mother and sister when he was a child and after their death his relationship with his father had deteriorated because his father refused to speak of their loss. There were additional factors too: Kerr had spent some time in Afghanistan in a secret capacity. In fact much of his life since he went to university had involved putting up a front, but doing something else in the background.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00OLMHCW2</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Michael Christie|title=If I Fall, If I Diell Never Know

|summary=It probably tells you Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a lot about the atmosphere drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of this book that for the whole time I was reading it, I thought the title was ''If I Fall, I Die''. That missing second ''If'' is probably being exceptional at the crux any of the whole tale.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>043402306X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Virginia Burges|title=The Virtuoso|rating=3.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=The title character of ''The Virtuoso'' is Isabelle Bryant, a professional violinist his artistic passions all failed miserably and who has earned the affectionate nickname of 'Beethoven's Babe'. She was the youngest-ever winner of the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition and gave her first solo performance, had endless crises of Beethoven's violin concerto, at Royal Albert Hallself confidence. 'Her violin represented another limb So Tim applied himself to herhis studies, it was that precious. It felt so natural, like an extension of her body.' It would hardly be an exaggeration to say that the violin is Isabelle's lifecultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00R07U0B0</amazonuk>B0CVFXPGP8

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adam FouldsB0C47LV1PC|title=In The Wolf's MouthFragility|author=Mosby Woods

|summary=In SicilyCan you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, bandits steal is the sheep of a young shepherd. Distraughtquestion should you make it? Or is the question if you did, he seeks out his local Mafioso would it land? The catch is that the answer for helpboth could well be... Sixteen years later, two men are traveling to Sicily - one, a young English officer, and the other an American infantryman. They are all soon thrust into a war that is greater and more terrible than anything they could have dreamed, and they all must find different ways to survive its terrorsno.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009958686X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Eliza Robertson|title=Wallflowers|rating=4|genre=Short Stories|summary=Eliza Robertson won the Man Booker Scholarship and Curtis Brown Prize while completing her MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. ''WallflowersFragility'' is already a bestseller in Robertson's native Canada. There is quite some variety across set as the seventeen stories. Broadly speakingcity of Portland, thoughOregon, there are a few themes: moving on cautiously begins to emerge from loss, finding love in the midst of gentle madness, and interactions with the natural world, often on restrictions imposed during the edge of Canada's British Columbia wilderness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408856794</amazonuk>covid pandemic

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Edith PearlmanMosby Woods|title=HoneydewA Whirly Man Loses His Turn

|summary=The West isn''Brother of Sleep'' tells t the dominant force it once was. Nobody in the West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is the story best course of Elias Johannes Alderaction. Governments are flailing. A war here, a child born into a god forsaken village high push for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is in the Austrian Vorarlbergactual charge. He came into the world as a silent childImagine then, while his mother there was screaming and a man with precognition. Imagine the midwife wasn't really paying attention. It took strategic advantage in this asset; a couple of loud intonations man who can tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. That man would be valuable, right? Perhaps the Te Deum from the neglectful nurse before he finally uttered a soundmost valuable asset in history. Imagine then, that this man loses this ability. What would governments do to get it back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0715649205</amazonuk>B0C9SNG8R1

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Edwidge Danticat0571379559|title=Claire The House of the Sea LightBroken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams|rating=4.5

|summary=Claire Limye Lamne (Claire ''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the Sea Light) is born story of four people. Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in the fishing village house on the riverbank, built of broken bricks. Insubstantial as it might look, it's stood the passage of Ville Rosetime, Haiti as her mother diesstorms and floods. Her father Noziashusband, a poor fishermanRichard, spends his life trying struggles to make a better life for grow his baby vegetables, to such an extent that he eventually encourages a local fabric seller complete the delivery rounds - and to take Clairebring in sufficient money. This happens on They have twin boys - Sonny and Max, the night of Clairerainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. People don't believe that they're related, much less twins and there's 7th birthday; the night an assumption when Max is out with his mother that little Claire goes missing before the fabric seller can take hershe's his nanny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782068511</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rebecca LeeClaire North|title=Bobcat and Other StoriesHouse of Odysseus|rating=3.5|genre=Short StoriesLiterary Fiction |summary=''What could matter more than love?'' The first story in follow-up to the excellent ''BobcatIthaca'' is picks up a few months after where we left off. In the title storypalace of Odysseus, and this alone is worth the price of admission. Plaster it with prizesdelicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without her husband, put it in anthologies; it deserves every accolade it can getwho sailed to war at Troy and then by divine intervention never returned home. However, As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for the last story echoes throne of the first, Western Isles. Having survived – politically and physical – the five tales in between are strangely repetitive, most with Midwestern North American narrators and 1980s university settings. Moreover, all seven are in the first-person; I would have appreciated more variety of perspective.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1922182311</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Mary Costello|title=Academy Street|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=It is 1944. Tess Lohanchaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to Ithaca's mother has just died at age 40shores, of tuberculosis. Seven-year-old Tess Queen Penelope is one on the brink of six children in a rural Irish familyfragile peace. They live at Easterfield, a centuries-old manor house. A teacher later tells Tess One that shatters however with the history return of her home: built in 1678Orestes, it was a famine hospital in the 1840s; there are numerous corpses buried on the land. He hints there may be many ghosts on the propertyKing of Mycenae, but the only one that haunts Tess is her dead mother. 'Memories and traces of her mother must linger all over the house – in rooms and halls and landings. The dent of her feet on a rug. On a cuphis sister Elektra, the mark of her handseeking refuge.'|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782114181</amazonuk>0356516075

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rob DoyleKay Chronister|title=Here Are the Young MenDesert Creatures|rating=4|genre=Literary 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. ''Here are the Young MenDesert Creatures'' surges forward, oozing edginess, from by Kay Chronister is a new work of post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the very first sentence. Is fears that a bad thing? Probably notexist for humanity today. It just means that readers may at times slip out of the story, feel themselves taking is a step back and admiring the spare coolness of the shocking novel before easing back into the narrativethat still manages to find hope.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408863731</amazonuk>1803364998

{{newreviewfrontpage|isbn=1803363002|author=Robert EdricEric LaRocca|title=SanctuaryThe Trees Grew Because I Bled There|rating=35|genre=Historical FictionHorror|summary=Everyone knows Charlotte, Emily 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 Anneprocess them. Not many know Most horror fiction feature a ''Big Bad'', whether that this famous trio of literary sisters also had is a brotherhome invader, Patrick Branwell Brontëa monster or a ghost, born the year after Charlotte it usually something tangible and a year before Emily. Like his sisters, he had literary ambitions: he wrote juvenile stories, poems and translations from by the Greek; he also trained as a painter (you have most likely seen his famous painting end of his sisters)the story, beatable. Again Eric LaRocca's ''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is not like his sistersthat. It is a collection of short stories more interested in the horrors of illness, however, he was destined grief and humiliation. Horrors that linger and are harder to die youngdefeat than any ''Big Bad''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857522876</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Takashi HiraideMadelaine Lucas|title=The Guest CatThirst for Salt|rating=4.5

|summary=''The Guest CatLove, I'' had me at the cover. The reflective green material makes the cat's eyes glow and glint eerily in the d read, was supposed to be a light. There is something ethereal and otherworldly about this novella and that is before weightless feeling, but Ihad always longed for gravity've even read ' Told from a retrospective view, a single wordyoung woman unravels the year-long relationship that once defined her. This simple story about Overlaid with later wisdom, the narrator relives the affair with a Japanese couple and man twenty years her senior from its inception – the cat that decides summer after finishing university – to adopt them has become its sorrowful end the summer after. Set against the backdrop of an international bestisolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the 24-year-seller old narrator's deepening relationship with her older lover, depicting its all-consuming nature, how it changed her perspective on both romantic and I was keen to find out whyfamilial relationships and how it altered her irrevocably.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447279409</amazonuk>0861546490

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Susan HillMichael Grothaus|title=Black SheepBeautiful Shining People|rating=4.5|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Mount of Zeal is a mining village, ''But fearing something and no mistakehaving it come to pass are two different things. Three concentric semi-circular streets align across the side And I'm willing to bet most of a hillwhat we fear will never happen, like or we can take steps to change it.'' ''Beautiful Shining People'' revolves around the rows question of seats in an amphitheatre, with little thought at all allowed for the life above the crest of the hill, identity and a lot of effort and dreams focused on the coal mine at the village's coreacceptance. Of what it means to be human. The Howker family (Of what is real and how evocative that name what isartificial, so akin to the noise of hawking coal dust from one's lungs), and Ted and Rose, whether the youngest development of the clan, in particular, will face the destiny the environment they grow up in gives them – with only the merest glimmers of hope and the faintest of sparks to latch on to as regards a likeable futuretechnology is exciting or frightening. But if that is a faint spark, then how safe is it so close to the tinderbox of a coal mine?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>009953956X</amazonuk>191458564X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sue PeeblesJennifer Saint|title=Snake RoadAtalanta|rating=4.5

|summary=No ''I was as worthy as any one listened when Peggy Kirkpatrick began talking about a baby called Eleanor - wellof them. I would get on board that ship, no one except her granddaughter AgathaI vowed. You seeI would take my place, Peggy is elderly and she has dementianot just in the name of the goddess. No one has heard It was for the sake of my name, too. Atalanta'Eleanor' Princess. Warrior. Lover. Hero. Some days are better  Abandoned at birth for being born a daughter rather than othersa son, but none are particularly good. Peggy's unpredictable Atalanta is raised under the protective eye of the goddess Athemis and sometimes it is - quite literally - fashioned into a fight formidable huntress, one who longs for adventure. When the opportunity comes – to wash her and she'll either go outside in her nightdress or wear multiple skirts indoors. The burden is carried most of join the time by her daughterArgonauts, Marya fierce band of warriors, but it's Aggie who attends descendent from the Gods themselves – Atalanta seizes the dementia carerschance to fight in Artemis' group in name and carve out her own legendary place in history. What follows is a whirlwind of challenges and discovery and through it was probably this , Atalanta must remember Artemis' fatal warning: that provoked if she marries, it will be her into listening more carefully to what her Gran was saying and trying to learn more about her history in the hope of keeping Peggy in the presentundoing.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099575841</amazonuk>1472292154

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Favel ParrettAmanthi Harris|title=When the Night ComesBeautiful Place

|summary=Little Isla Padma, a young Sri Lankan, has moved returned to Hobart, Tasmania from the Australian mainland with Villa Hibiscus on the southern coast of her mother and younger brotherhome country. Bo This is a chef on the Nella Dan, a Danish ship supplying the Antarctic expeditionsplace she spent her formative years. Their meeting It is just not a place she was born into, but the one she thinks of as home. How she came to be at the Villa, how it became her home, and the machinations that have flowed through her lifeever since she first arrived there provide the ''score'' for this gentle and yet subtly violent novel. Padma's little moments present fails to escape her past and much like the musical score of a film, that strand weaves its way through everything that carry a greater effect than anyone realises happens at the time, whether for the better or the worstVilla.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848548540</amazonuk>1784631930

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=178563335X|title=By Night The Mountain BurnsSea Defences|author=Juan Tomas Avila LaurelHilary Taylor

|summary=Sometimes When we first meet Rachel Bird she's a novel will startle because it tackles trainee vicar, sitting in on a topic totally unknown PCC meeting and wondering why they're held when you need to us or tells us of lives previously un-imagined. This is pick the case with By Night the Mountain Burnschildren up. However Her husband, Christopher, what is most remarkable about Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel’s novel is how easy it is to slip into the story of collects six-year-old Hannah and her elder brother, Jamie, whilst Rachel holds a child growing up on an isolated island in Equatorial Guineasobbing parishioner. We are not reading about mysterious Thelma'otherss daughter-in-law won't let her see her grandson. We’re reading about people like ourselves Holthorpe, who live in on the Norfolk coast, is a different lovely place which has its own constraints – namely poverty and isolation.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908276401</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Asunder|author=Chloe Aridjis|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Marie, the narrator of Chloe Aridjis's second novel, ''Asunder'', but Rachel is struggling to develop a guard at real bond with the National Gallery in London. It is a simple, subdued life parish - and she leads in this 'tiny kingdom', but it suits her: 'I had always sought quiet s in awe of the world and there were few movements quieter, I realisedvicar, than paint cracking over time.' Most would find her work tediousGail, but over her nine years at the museum then she has adjusted to 's been doing the routine; 'unlike some of job for more than thirty years. Rachel and Christopher hoped that a walk on the new guards, I beach would do not suffer from boredom or listlessnessthem some good - it was stormy but it was probably what they needed. And then Hannah went missing.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099572753</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Neel Mukherjee1398515388|title=The Lives of OthersBoy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)

|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary= '''SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014'''Many generations First of all, it was the Ghosh family live together earthquake, deep in a single house the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and this, in 1960's Calcuttaturn, albeit a very big single housecaused the nuclear meltdown. Life may be materially comfortable but not easyThe result was complete and utter devastation. Jealousy, in-fightingThe deaths were uncountable, the struggle to keep the family business going (and, for the younger family members, loss of livelihoods was widespread. The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the struggle to lead list of priorities but - six months after the life they'd like) causes more than the odd sleepless night. Son Supratik has succeeded in choosing tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a different path thoughconvenience store. Hewasn't a dog person but the convenience store owner's tired of the endless consumption and acquisition and leaves home comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to follow open his Marxist beliefs, exchanging family living for discomfort car door and dangerTamon the dog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701186291</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=Problems with People0989715337|authortitle=David Guterson|rating=4.5|genre=Short Stories|summary=''Problems with People'' is a meandering exploration of Papa on the relationships, big and small, that we form across a lifetime. Ranging from that of parent and child to that between landlord and tenant, Guterson’s observation of the complexities and nuances involved in how we navigate these personal links is extremely sharp and true to life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408859963</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Clara's DaughterMoon|author=Meike ZiervogelMarco North

|summary=''Clara’s DaughterSome frogs had gotten into the well.'' '', Walter stood waist-deep in the short space fragrant water, naked except for his beaten leather hat. Long strands of 144 pagestheir eggs wove around him, paints sticky gray pearls with tadpoles inside them. Two of the dogs leaned over the portrait opening and barked down at the strange noise of the relationships threatening to destroy a family unit. The intensity is conveyed with sharp stabs from Ziervogel’s spare sentencesbuckets as he filled them.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907773797</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Ali Smith|title=How to be Both|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=There's something which you need to know about is that for an opening? The style of this book: if you decide to read it, novel in the book you read might not be the same as the one which I've read form of interconnected short stories goes from succinct and am about laconic to review. There are, you see, two stories in each copy wistful and half the books published will have the story of Francescho Del Cossa who worked in and around Ferrara in the fifteenth centurymusing, followed by the story of George - really Georgia - turning on a teenager who lives with her father and younger brother in twentieth century Cambridgesixpence. The other books will have the stories in reverse order. The stories are the sameAnd author Marco North, but who has the experiences most wonderful turn of the readers will be quite differentphrase, starts as he means to go on.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>024114521X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=WreakingDaisy Hildyard|authortitle=James ScudamoreEmergency

|summary=A derelict mental hospitalThe summary of this book doesn't come close to explaining what is done with the premise.|isbn=1913097811}}  {{Frontpage |author=Sally Oliver |title=The Weight of Loss |rating=4 |genre=Literary Fiction |summary= Marianne is grieving. Traumatised after the death of her sister, gloomy railway archesshe awakes to find strange, thick black hairs sprouting from the bleak countryside bones of her spine which steadily increase in size and volume. Her GP, diagnosing the English coast. It all comes odd phenomenon as a physical reaction to her grief, recommends she go to stay at us Nede, an experimental new treatment centre in grey flashesWales. If ''Wreaking'' was Yet something strange is happening to Marianne and the other patients at Nede: a metamorphosis of a film, it would saturated with cool toneskind. It’s an easy novel As Marianne's memories threaten to visualiseoverwhelm her, Nede offers her release from this cycle of memory and pain—but only at a terrible price: Scudamore’s spare, elegant style creates an almost palpable atmospherethat of identity itself.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>009952385X</amazonuk>086154112X }}{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=JNatalia Garcia Freire|authortitle=Howard JacobsonThis World Does Not Belong To Us|rating=3.5

|summary=''J'' marks an unusual turn for Howard Jacobson. Though it seems at times like a skewed folk taleEarly comments on this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendous, it also bears the subtle signs of a future dystopiadelight. It has some of Jacobson's trademark elements I will agree with the first – odd names, humorous metaphors, and Semitic references tremendous is no understatement – but felt to me like 'a strange departure after [[The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson|The Finkler Question]] and delight'is perhaps using the expression in a way I'Zoo Time'm not familiar with. I have to confess my ignorance of the Spanish-language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation here. From the little I have read (in translation, I don't read Spanish) there does seem to be a tendency towards the fantastical – the mystical realism.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0224102052</amazonuk>0861541901

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David MitchellJennifer Saint|title=The Bone ClocksElektra|rating=54

|summary=Holly Sykes is 15 and has found true love with an older man 'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the story of three women who live in his twenties - until she finds him in bed with her best matethe heavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. Upset Cassandra, Clytemnestra, and disorientated, she runs away from home. This may enable her to escape from Elektra are all bit players in the unfaithful Vinny and her overbearing family but not story of the weirdnessTrojan War. She's not Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the only one though: Hugo silent women have the student, conman most compelling stories and lothario thought he was only doing someone a good turn when the weirdness started for him. There is a point to it though: eventually battle lines will be drawn and it's anyone's guess as to who will win, despite what the Anchorites may saymost extreme furies. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340921609</amazonuk>1472273915

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karen Joy Fowler8409290103|title=We Are All Completely Beside OurselvesIf Only|author=Matthew Tree|rating=4.5

|summary=Rosemary's childhood is blighted Twenty-one-year-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by the disappearance of her sisterhis father, cotton-broker AO Lowry: he asked his accountant, Mr Patrick, Fern. Rosemary went to stay with her grandparents ensure that the young man got on board the boat and, on her return Fern thereafter Patrick was no longer thereto send him a monthly allowance. Curiously enough, her mother Patrick sent the money regularly and father dona correspondence - of sorts - sprang up between the two although we hear more about what Lowry has to say than Patrick. It wasn't that Lowry senior didn't speak of care for his son, it. The knock on effect was the angry departure of Rosemarythat he didn's older brother Lowell whom she also misses. As she grows to adulthood, Rosemary remembers trying t care to come to terms with have him in this, the damage that being country where he might be a daughter of a psychologist has wrought danger to his wife and other children. The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to get the revealed secrets that will finally make sense of it allyoung man on his way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184668966X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The City SonAntoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)|authortitle=Samrat UpadhyayRed is My Heart

|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Didi lives [[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white and read in a remote Nepali villagemy house. Her husbandAnd so was this one, always referred to by what although I could have spelled that more accurately – this one was, and is presumably a title rather than a name , black and white and red. Yes, he has an artistic collaborator on this piece, and I think it''the Masterji'' teaches in s possible to say not one page lacks the city. He rarely comes home to see his wife and sonsinfluence of some striking visual ideas.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1616953810</amazonuk>1913547183

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alison MooreB098FFFBH9|title=He WantsSnowcub|author=Graham Fulbright

|summary=Lewis Sullivan Fourteen-year-old Rachel is close to retirement, but elderly beyond his years and widowed. Edieher school's death seems animal rights project leader and she and her friend are producing a competition entry to have had practical implications - he's not getting highlight the food he used to enjoy - but beyond that it's difficult to see quite what they had way in common other than which human beings exploit the libraryanimal world. He used it and she worked there - but they didn't even enjoy the same books. Lewis is an RE teacher She gets a great deal of support from her family: father Pip Harrison, a lecturer at the same school where his fatherImperial College, London, Lawrencemother Kate and her twin, used to teach - when they were both there at the same time it often confused the paperworkNick. Lewis is beginning to wonder if he chose Kate runs the wrong careerfamily business, if he lives in the wrong place. He used to be able to see the house he grew up a toy shop called Cornucopia in from the bedroom window before it was demolished and replaced by a supermarket carparkPutney, but hewhich is where we'll meet Rachel's always dreamed main (if unsuspected) source of living by the sea. His adult daughter, Ruth visits him every day and brings him soup. He doesn't want soupinformation: five soft toys.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907773819</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Narrow Road to the Deep NorthYancey Williams|authortitle=Richard FlanaganCrosshairs of the Devil

|summary=''The Narrow Road Award-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski is getting on in years and, despite his strenuous objections and thanks to the Deep Northhis daughter, finds himself living - or imprisoned, from Eddie'' is the title s point of both Flanagan's Booker Prize-longlisted sixth novel and a book by seventeenthview -century Japanese poet Basho. Poetry irradiates this often bleak story in room 315 of Australian POWs building the Burma Death Railway during the Second World WarGarden of Eden nursing home, with only a trusty nursing aide, Jenkins, presenting beauty and love as counterpoints for palatable company. Nothing is going to gory descriptions keep Eddie from his stock-in-trade of suffering and inhumanitywriting though, so here, for his readers, are his wanderings through his life's work.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0701189053</amazonuk>0986031658}}{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008421714|title=The Country of Ice Cream StarMrs March|author=Sandra NewmanVirginia Feito

|summary=The problem began just after the publication of George March'My s most successful novel to date. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the last page) seemed to either be Ice Cream Fifteen Star and this be reading it or had already done so. Every day Mrs March went to the tale of how I bring the cure local patisserie to all the Nighted Statesbuy olive bread but on that particular morning, save every poory childrenPatricia asked, short for life. Is how a city die for selfish loveas she was wrapping the bread, and rise from ''but isn't this same smallness. Be how the new America begin, in wars against all hope - first time he's based a country with no power in a world character on you?'' She mentioned that hate its lifeJohanna, the principal character had 'her mannerisms''. So been Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for the faith I sworn, and it ain't evils in no world nor cruelties in no red hell can change fact that Johanna is the vally heart whore of Ice Cream StarNantes - ''a weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701186429</amazonuk>'