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[[Category:New Reviews|Literary Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patricia ParkMatthew Tree|title=Re JaneWe'll Never Know|rating=34.5
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|summary= Growing up in Flushing, New York –Jane Re has long been hoping Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to escape her whole life. A half-Korean, half-American Orphanbe different from his father, Jane struggles to find her place as a spirited and intelligent young woman growing up in a strict drunk and mirthless family, observing the traditional Korean principle chronic underachiever whose dreams of “Nunchi” (a combination being exceptional at any of good manners, obligation his artistic passions all failed miserably and hierarchy)who had endless crises of self confidence. Desperate So Tim applied himself to escape, Jane is thrilled when she becomes the au pair for a rich couple – two Brooklyn based professors of English, who have adopted a young Chinese girl into their family. Jane soon falls for the man of the familyhis studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but their blossoming affair is soon curtailed by a family death, prompting Jane’s return to Koreaachievable ambitions. As she learns more about herself, her history and her culture, Jane must make huge decisions about her life, her future, and her man…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0525427406</amazonuk>B0CVFXPGP8
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Patricia DunckerB0C47LV1PC|title=Sophie and the Sibyl: A Victorian RomanceFragility|author=Mosby Woods
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Every Tuesday he goes into town. This particular Tuesday he sees an advert for Can you make a rescue dog that's been badly treated by its previous owner. Somewhere 'Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the ad strikes a resonance and he adopts question should you make it? Or is the dogquestion if you did, calling would it Oneeye (yes, one word, just like land? The catch is that)the answer for both could well be. Gradually over shared meals a friendship grows and develops over the seasons ... no. ''Fragility'' is set as the spill city of spring turns Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to summer's simmer, through emerge from the restrictions imposed during the falter of autumn and on to withering winter.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0992817064</amazonuk>covid pandemic
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael LaubMosby Woods|title=Diary of the FallA Whirly Man Loses His Turn
|rating=4
|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Diary of The West isn't the dominant force it once was. Nobody in the Fall West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is the best course of action. Governments are flailing. A war here, a story about regretpush for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is in actual charge. Imagine then, guilt and resentmentthere was a man with precognition. It's told from Imagine the point strategic advantage in this asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of view of an unnamed narratorcircumstances. That man would be valuable, who reflects on not just his own life but also right? Perhaps the lives of his father and grandfathermost valuable asset in history. Imagine then, that this man loses this ability.What would governments do to get it back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099581795</amazonuk>B0C9SNG8R1
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Antoine Laurain, Emily Boyce (translator) and Jane Aitken (translator)0571379559|title=The Red NotebookHouse of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Kabul 2007''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the story of four people. Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: Rahima and her sisters are followed home from school one day by a boy on his bike. He taunts them innocently enough as little boys dotemperamentally she might be happier there, but with no sibling brotherinstead, she lives in the girls are unchaperoned in this land that is ruled by house on the laws riverbank, built of menbroken bricks. And Insubstantial as daughters it might look, it's stood the passage of time, storms and floods. Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the delivery rounds - and to bring in a household without sonssufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and Max, in a country the rainbow 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 an assumption when Max is governed by fear, the consequences will weigh heavily for them allout with his mother that she's his nanny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0062244760</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Norah VincentClaire North|title=Adeline: A Novel House of Virginia WoolfOdysseus
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|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Back in 1999, when ''What could matter more than love?'' The Hoursfollow-up to the excellent '' won Ithaca'' picks up a few months after where we left off. In the Pulitzer Prizepalace of Odysseus, with delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without her husband, Michael Cunningham set a precedent for depicting Woolf's later life who sailed to war at Troy and suicidethen by divine intervention never returned home. Nicole Kidman won a Best Actress Oscar As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for her role as Woolf in the film version throne of the novel; she Western Isles. Having survived – politically and physical – the chaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to Ithaca's shores, Queen Penelope is best remembered for wearing on the brink of a prosthetic nosefragile peace. Fast forward 15 years. In 2014–2015 aloneOne that shatters however with the return of Orestes, three major novels about Virginia Woolf have been published. That confluenceKing of Mycenae, especially in a year that does not mark a significant anniversaryand his sister Elektra, speaks to a continuing interest in Woolf's life and writingsseeking refuge.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349005648</amazonuk>0356516075
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ivan Repila and Sophie Hughes (translator)Kay Chronister|title=The Boy Who Stole Attila's HorseDesert Creatures|rating=4|genre=Literary Dystopian Fiction|summary=If you pick up With a copy of this book you realise how small world that is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, post-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Whether it is. You'll knowa robotic takeover, a world devoid of course, that pockets hardly exist that are normally big enough to hold what we used to call water or a pocket booknuclear holocaust, but here this genre is the exception a way for humans to prove the rulecathartically experience their most existential fears. It's wee. The story is on a hundred pages. The concision is partly down to it starting after the beginning, for we first meet Big and Small, two brothers, once they're stuck down a large well in the middle of a forest. Tasked with a family errand, theyDesert Creatures''re trapped at the bottom of a natural Erlenmeyer flask, and even by Kay Chronister is a desperate move cannot get either out. This is the story new work of the next three months in their existence, as they brave hunger, delirium, loss post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of language, and the brute and unstinting human selfishness needed fears that exist for existencehumanity today. It is a shocking novel that still manages to find hope.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782271015</amazonuk>1803364998
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{{newreviewfrontpage|isbn=1803363002|author=Jamie KornegayEric LaRocca|title=SoilThe Trees Grew Because I Bled There|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeHorror|summary=Jay Mize Horror taps into something primeval within us. It is used as a scientific man with a particular interest in soil way to reflect our darkest emotions and how we as humans react and agricultureprocess them. He decides he Most horror fiction feature a ''Big Bad'', whether that is the one to pioneer a revolution in farming techniques home invader, a monster or a ghost, it usually something tangible and uproots his wife and son to set up an experimental farm on a plot , by the end of land in the countrystory, beatable. Jay Eric LaRocca's ''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is also an obsessive man and his plans take over, becoming his only focus and causing his family to leave himnot like that. Then flooding ruins his crops and he It is left at a collection of short stories more interested in the end horrors of his tether; things only get worse when Jay finds a dead body on his land illness, grief and humiliation. Horrors that linger and his tenuous grip on his sanity is releasedare harder to defeat than any ''Big Bad''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473607035</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Karen CampbellMadelaine Lucas|title=RiseThirst for Salt|rating=45
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Justine is running ''Love, I'd read, was supposed to be a light and weightless feeling, but I had always longed for her life. Shegravity's had enough of being someone else's property Told from a retrospective view, of being subjected to a young woman unravels the kind of love year-long relationship that has seen once defined her. Overlaid with later wisdom, the narrator relives the affair with a man twenty years her tattooed and owned and beaten and rented out senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to others to earn her keepits sorrowful end the summer after. So sheSet against the backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt's taken what isn't hers, but then was never actually his either, and shedetails the 24-year-old narrator's packed a bagdeepening relationship with her older lover, waited until he is drunkdepicting its all-enough asleep not to hear consuming nature, how it changed her say goodbye to the dog, perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and has lefthow it altered her irrevocably.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408857928</amazonuk>0861546490
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dorthe NorsMichael Grothaus|title=Karate Chop, and Minna Needs Rehearsal Space|rating=3.5|genre=Short Stories|summary=The reviewer picks up the book.<br>The book is called ''Minna Needs Rehearsal Space''.<br>The book is entirely made out of one-sentence paragraphs.<br>The one-sentence paragraphs are very seldom poetic, but normally are grammatically correct sentences.<br>The one-sentence paragraphs on the whole have just one verb, unless regarding that from reported or unreported speech.<br>The book concerns a middle-aged musician and composer who does indeed need rehearsal space.<br>The book concerns a woman who suddenly gets more space than she wants when her boyfriend leaves her.<br>The boyfriend's departure causes a lot of people crowding around Minna, which causes a problem.<br>The problem might be resolved by a trip away from her city flat.<br>The title of the book might be ironic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782271198</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Chigozie Obioma|title=The FishermenBeautiful Shining People
|rating=4
|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=This book is essentially a cautionary family tale of four brothers ''But fearing something and the way they react having it come to a prophecy about them by the local madmanpass are two different things. It is also, in a sense, a coming-And I'm willing to bet most of-age story where Benwhat we fear will never happen, or we can take steps to change it.'' ''Beautiful Shining People'' revolves around the young narrator, is plunged into premature adulthood under the most brutal question of circumstancesidentity and acceptance. And Of what it means to be human. Of what is about brotherly love. None of these descriptionsreal and what is artificial, however, convey and whether the fact that this book development of technology is written by an exciting new voice in African literary fictionor frightening.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0957548850</amazonuk>191458564X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jennifer ClementSaint|title=Prayers for the StolenAtalanta|rating=3.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Ladydi Garcia Martínez lives ''I was as worthy as any one of them. I would get on board that ship, I vowed. I would take my place, not just in rural Chilpancingothe name of the goddess. It was for the sake of my name, Mexicotoo. Atalanta'' Princess. Warrior. Lover. Hero. Abandoned at birth for being born a daughter rather than a son, with her mother, RitaAtalanta is raised under the protective eye of the goddess Athemis and fashioned into a formidable huntress, one who works as a cleaning lady longs for a rich familyadventure. Like many of When the men in their town who left opportunity comes – to find workjoin the Argonauts, Ladydi's father crossed a fierce band of warriors, descendent from the Gods themselves – Atalanta seizes the river into America, where he is rumoured chance to have another familyfight in Artemis' name and carve out her own legendary place in history. As What follows is a resultwhirlwind of challenges and discovery and through it, this is very much a matriarchal community. Rita describes the situation for LadydiAtalanta must remember Artemis's teacherfatal warning: 'You men don't get that if she marries, it, yet, do you? This is a land of women. Mexico belongs to womenwill be her undoing.'|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099587599</amazonuk>1472292154
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David GrossmanAmanthi Harris|title=Falling Out of TimeBeautiful Place|rating=45
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Like the central characters in ''Falling Out of Time'', Israeli author David Grossman lost his sonPadma, a soldier named Uriyoung Sri Lankan, during has returned to the Middle East conflictVilla Hibiscus on the southern coast of her home country. In this multifaceted examination of bereavement, it seems that everyone has lost This is a childplace she spent her formative years. The genre-bending mixture It is not a place she was born into, but the one she thinks of poetryas home. How she came to be at the Villa, absurdist dialoguehow it became her home, and an inverted fairy tale reflects the difficulty of machinations that have flowed through her life ever capturing grief in languagesince she first arrived there provide the ''score'' for this gentle and yet subtly violent novel. Each story Padma's present fails to escape her past and each strategy is much like the musical score of a new film, that strand weaves its way of approaching through everything that happens at the unspeakableVilla.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099583720</amazonuk>1784631930
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Samantha Ellis178563335X|title=How To Be A Heroine: Or, what I've learned from reading too muchSea Defences|author=Hilary Taylor|rating=45
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=When we first meet Rachel Bird she''How to be s a Heroine'' is trainee vicar, sitting in on a pleasant PCC meeting and addictive read. Playwright Samantha Ellis looks back at her childhood as a voracious reader and remembers wondering why they're held when you need to pick the characters that influenced herchildren up. These are as diverse as Sylvia PlathHer husband, ''Little Women'' Christopher, collects six-year-old Hannah 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 her elder brother, Jamie, whilst Rachel holds a psychiatric clinicsobbing parishioner. His mental problems were deep and intractableThelma's daughter-in-law won't let her see her grandson. Superficially he seemed never Holthorpe, on the Norfolk coast, is a lovely place, but Rachel is struggling to have got over develop a real bond with the sudden death of his mother parish - and sister when he was a child and after their death his relationship with his father had deteriorated because his father refused to speak she's in awe of their lossthe vicar, Gail, but then she's been doing the job for more than thirty years. There were additional factors too: Kerr had spent Rachel and Christopher hoped that a walk on the beach would do them some time in Afghanistan in a secret capacitygood - it was stormy but it was probably what they needed. In fact much of his life since he And then Hannah went to university had involved putting up a front, but doing something else in the backgroundmissing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00OLMHCW2</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Christie1398515388|title=If I Fall, If I DieThe Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=The title character First of ''The Virtuoso'' is Isabelle Bryantall, a professional violinist who has earned the affectionate nickname of 'Beethoven's Babe'. She it was the youngest-ever winner of earthquake, deep in the BBC Young Musician of ocean floor, which created the Year competition tsunami and gave her first solo performancethis, of Beethoven's violin concertoin turn, at Royal Albert Hallcaused the nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and utter devastation. 'Her violin represented another limb to her The deaths were uncountable, it and the loss of livelihoods was widespread. The fact that precious. It felt so natural, like an extension many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of her bodypriorities but - six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. He wasn' It t a dog person but the convenience store owner's comment that he would hardly be an exaggeration call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to say that open his car door and Tamon the violin is Isabelle's lifedog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00R07U0B0</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adam Foulds0989715337|title=In The Wolf's MouthPapa on the Moon|author=Marco North
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=In Sicily, bandits steal ''Some frogs had gotten into the sheep of a young shepherdwell. Distraught'' ''Walter stood waist-deep in the fragrant water, he seeks out naked except for his local Mafioso for helpbeaten leather hat. Sixteen years laterLong strands of their eggs wove around him, two men are traveling sticky gray pearls with tadpoles inside them. Two of the dogs leaned over the opening and barked down at the strange noise of the buckets as he filled them.'' How is that for an opening? The style of this novel in the form of interconnected short stories goes from succinct and laconic to Sicily - onewistful and musing, turning on a young English officersixpence. And author Marco North, and who has the other an American infantryman. They are all soon thrust into a war that is greater and more terrible than anything they could have dreamedmost wonderful turn of phrase, and they all must find different ways starts as he means to survive its terrorsgo on.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009958686X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Eliza RobertsonDaisy Hildyard|title=WallflowersEmergency
|rating=4
|genre=Short StoriesLiterary Fiction|summary=Eliza Robertson won The 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 Man Booker Scholarship and Curtis Brown Prize while completing death of her MA in Creative Writing at sister, she awakes to find strange, thick black hairs sprouting from the University bones of East Angliaher spine which steadily increase in size and volume. ''Wallflowers'' is already Her GP, diagnosing the odd phenomenon as a bestseller physical reaction to her grief, recommends she go to stay at Nede, an experimental new treatment centre in Robertson's native CanadaWales. There Yet something strange is quite some variety across happening to Marianne and the seventeen storiesother patients at Nede: a metamorphosis of a kind. Broadly speakingAs Marianne's memories threaten to overwhelm her, though, there are Nede offers her release from this cycle of memory and pain—but only at a few themesterrible price: moving that of identity itself.|isbn= 086154112X }} {{Frontpage|author=Natalia Garcia Freire|title=This World Does Not Belong To Us|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Early comments on this debut novel from lossEcuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendous, finding love a delight. I will agree with the first – tremendous is no understatement – but 'a delight' is perhaps using the expression in a way I'm not familiar with. I have to confess my ignorance of the Spanish-language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation here. From the midst of gentle madnesslittle I have read (in translation, and interactions with I don't read Spanish) there does seem to be a tendency towards the natural world, often on fantastical – the edge of Canada's British Columbia wildernessmystical realism.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408856794</amazonuk>0861541901
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Edith PearlmanJennifer Saint|title=HoneydewElektra
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary='Elektra'Brother of Sleep'' by Jennifer Saint tells the story of Elias Johannes Alder, a child born into a god forsaken village high three women who live in the Austrian Vorarlbergheavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. He came into the world as a silent childCassandra, Clytemnestra, while his mother was screaming and Elektra are all bit players in the midwife wasn't really paying attentionstory of the Trojan War. It took a couple of loud intonations of Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the silent women have the Te Deum from most compelling stories and the neglectful nurse before he finally uttered a soundmost extreme furies. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0715649205</amazonuk>1472273915
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Edwidge Danticat8409290103|title=Claire of the Sea LightIf Only|author=Matthew Tree
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Claire Limye Lamne (Claire of 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 Sea Light) is born in young man got on board the fishing village of Ville Rose, Haiti as her mother diesboat and thereafter Patrick was to send him a monthly allowance. Her father Nozias, Patrick sent the money regularly and a poor fisherman, spends his life trying correspondence - of sorts - sprang up between the two although we hear more about what Lowry has to make a better life say than Patrick. It wasn't that Lowry senior didn't care for his baby son, it was that he didn't care to such an extent that have him in this country where he eventually encourages might be a local fabric seller danger to take Clairehis wife and other children. This happens on the night of Claire's 7th birthday; the night that little Claire goes missing The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to get the fabric seller can take heryoung man on his way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782068511</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rebecca LeeAntoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)|title=Bobcat and Other StoriesRed is My Heart
|rating=3.5
|genre=Short StoriesLiterary Fiction |summary=The first story in ''Bobcat'' is the title story, [[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white and this alone is worth the price of admission. Plaster it with prizes, put it read in anthologies; it deserves every accolade it can getmy house. HoweverAnd so was this one, the last story echoes the firstalthough I could have spelled that more accurately – this one was, and the five tales in between are strangely repetitiveis, most with Midwestern North American narrators black and 1980s university settingswhite and red. MoreoverYes, all seven are in he has an artistic collaborator on this piece, and I think it's possible to say not one page lacks the first-person; I would have appreciated more variety influence of perspectivesome striking visual ideas.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1922182311</amazonuk>1913547183
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mary CostelloB098FFFBH9|title=Academy StreetSnowcub|author=Graham Fulbright
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=It is 1944. Tess Lohan's mother has just died at age 40, of tuberculosis. SevenFourteen-year-old Tess is one of six children in a rural Irish family. They live at Easterfield, a centuries-old manor house. A teacher later tells Tess the history of her home: built in 1678, 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 property, but the only one that haunts Tess Rachel is her dead mother. school'Memories s animal rights project leader and she and traces of her mother must linger all over friend are producing a competition entry to highlight the house – way in rooms and halls and landings. The dent of her feet on a rugwhich human beings exploit the animal world. On She gets a cup, the mark great deal of support from her hand.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782114181</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Rob Doyle|title=Here Are the Young Men|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''Here are the Young Men'' surges forwardfamily: father Pip Harrison, oozing edginess, from the very first sentence. Is that a bad thing? Probably not. It just means that readers may lecturer at times slip out of the storyImperial College, London, feel themselves taking a step back mother Kate and admiring the spare coolness of the novel before easing back into the narrative.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408863731</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Robert Edric|title=Sanctuary|rating=3|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Everyone knows Charlotteher twin, Emily and AnneNick. Not many know that this famous trio of literary sisters also had a brother Kate runs the family business, Patrick Branwell Brontë, born the year after Charlotte and a year before Emily. Like his sisterstoy shop called Cornucopia in Putney, he had literary ambitions: he wrote juvenile stories, poems and translations from the Greek; he also trained as a painter which is where we'll meet Rachel's main (you have most likely seen his famous painting if unsuspected) source of his sisters). Again like his sisters, however, he was destined to die younginformation: five soft toys.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857522876</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Takashi HiraideYancey Williams|title=The Guest CatCrosshairs of the Devil
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=''The Guest Cat'' had me at the cover. The reflective green material makes the catAward-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski is getting on in years and, despite his strenuous objections and thanks to his daughter, finds himself living - or imprisoned, from Eddie's eyes glow and glint eerily point of view - in room 315 of the lightGarden of Eden nursing home, with only a trusty nursing aide, Jenkins, for palatable company. There Nothing is something ethereal and otherworldly about this novella and that is before I've even read a single word. This simple story about a Japanese couple and the cat that decides going to adopt them has become an international bestkeep Eddie from his stock-in-seller and I was keen to find out whytrade of writing though, so here, for his readers, are his wanderings through his life's work.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447279409</amazonuk>0986031658}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Susan Hill0008421714|title=Black SheepMrs March|author=Virginia Feito
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Sometimes a The problem began just after the publication of George March's most successful novel will startle because to date. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the last page) seemed to either be reading it tackles a topic totally unknown to us or tells us of lives previously un-imaginedhad already done so. This is Every day Mrs March went to the case with By Night local patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, Patricia asked, as she was wrapping the Mountain Burns. Howeverbread, what is most remarkable about Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel’s novel is how easy it is to slip into ''but isn't this the story of first time he's based a child growing up character on an isolated island in Equatorial Guineayou?'' She mentioned that Johanna, the principal character had 'her mannerisms''. We are Perhaps this would not reading about mysterious have mattered, except for the fact that Johanna is the whore of Nantes - 'others'. We’re reading about people like ourselvesa weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, who live in a different place which has its own constraints – namely poverty and isolationunloveable wretch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908276401</amazonuk>''
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