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[[Category:New Reviews|Literary Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= David FinkleMatthew Tree|title= The Man With The OvercoatWe'll Never Know|rating= 34.5|genre= General Literary Fiction|summary=''Why would anyone - he was soon Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to ask himself innumerable times - take a coat be different from his father, a complete stranger only because it had been offered?'' Skip Gerber steps off the elevator after a long day drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at work; the foyer any of his office building is busy artistic passions all failed miserably and buzzy and he does not notice the man holding the overcoat until the man hands it to Skip telling him to ''take very good care who had endless crises of it''self confidence. Skip unthinkingly grasps the coat and before he has the chance So Tim applied himself to realise what he is doing - his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and that he is now holding an overcoat of unknown providence - the man disappears out of the exit door to the buildingset himself high but achievable ambitions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0992618525</amazonuk>B0CVFXPGP8

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rebecca DinersteinB0C47LV1PC|title=The Sunlit NightFragility|author=Mosby Woods

|summary=Frances comes from Can you make a 'desperately artistic family'Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, her father a medical illustrator and her mother an interior designer. Along with her younger sister Sarah, she grew up in a tiny one-bedroom apartment in Manhattan: bunk beds for is the girls and a fold-out sofa bed for question should you make it? Or is the parents. The claustrophobic atmosphere has gotten to everyone and now, with Frances graduating from collegequestion if you did, would it looks like land? The catch is that the family might fall apartanswer for both could well be.. Her parents argue constantly and disapprove of Sarah's fiancé (not ''just'' because he isn't Jewish). Frances has her own romantic crisis: after a pregnancy scare, Robert breaks up with her. A high-flyer with a future in politics, he tells her that her art has no purpose; it isn. 't helping anyone. 'What does it matter if you do what you love, if what you love doesnFragility't matter?' she asks her father. Stillis set as the city of Portland, she has no other prospectsOregon, so agrees cautiously begins to take up a painting apprenticeship in emerge from the restrictions imposed during the furthest reaches of Norway; 'All I had was a direction, north.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408863049</amazonuk>covid pandemic

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Claire FullertonMosby Woods|title=Dancing to an Irish ReelA Whirly Man Loses His Turn

|summary=Hailey The West isn't the dominant force it once was on a sabbatical from her job . Nobody in the music business in Los Angeles and taking West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is the holiday best course of action. Governments are flailing. A war here, a lifetime to Irelandpush for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is in actual charge. Imagine then, when she walked into there was a man with precognition. Imagine the Galway Music Centre and found strategic advantage in this asset; a job which she simply couldnman who can tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. That man would be valuable, right? Perhaps the most valuable asset in history. Imagine then, that this man loses this ability. What would governments do to get it back?|isbn=B0C9SNG8R1}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0571379559|title=The House of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''The House of Broken Bricks''t turn downis the story of four people. She also found a home Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in a local villagethe house on the riverbank, built of broken bricks. Insubstantial as it might look, a liking for it's stood the rural life passage of time, storms and a man whom she could lovefloods. Liam Hennessy was a talented accordion player: music was Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his life vegetables, to complete the delivery rounds - and whilst he was more attracted to Hailey than he had ever been to another woman it wasnbring in sufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and Max, the rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. People don't entirely clear whether believe that they'lovere related, much less twins and there' could ever be on the cards for hims an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she's his nanny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0990304256</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jessie Greengrass Claire North|title=An Account House of the Decline of the Great Auk, According to One Who Saw It Odysseus|rating=35|genre=Short StoriesLiterary Fiction |summary=''What could matter more than love?'' The title story, which appears first, is exactly what it says on follow-up to the tin: one hunterexcellent ''Ithaca''s story picks up a few months after where we left off. In the palace of travelling Odysseus, with delicate care Queen Penelope continues to remote islands rule without her husband, who sailed to take part in massive culls of great auks, until they were simply gonewar at Troy and then by divine intervention never returned home. It's always hard to believe that species that once numbered in their millions, such as As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for the passenger pigeon, could go extinct so quickly, but when you read about throne of the brutal slaughter tactics here Western Isles. Having survived – swinging clubs politically and boiling birds alive physical – you can see how a flightless bird was a sitting target. The narrator makes no real attempt to defend himself: the birds were there for the taking; chaotic storm that was that. StillClytemnestra brought to Ithaca's shores, he regrets their extinction, because 'in any loss you can see Queen Penelope is on the brink of a shadow of the way fragile peace. One that you will be lost yourself.' (Those interested in shatters however with the great auk's extinction may also want to read the 2013 novel ''The Collector return of Orestes, King of Lost Things'' by Jeremy PageMycenae, and his sister Elektra, seeking refuge.)|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473610850</amazonuk>0356516075

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patricia ParkKay Chronister|title=Re JaneDesert Creatures|rating=3.54|genre=Literary Dystopian Fiction|summary= Growing up in FlushingWith a world that is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, New York –Jane Re has long been hoping to escape her whole lifepost-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. A half-Korean, half-American OrphanWhether it is a robotic takeover, Jane struggles to find her place as a spirited and intelligent young woman growing up in world devoid of water or a strict and mirthless familynuclear holocaust, observing the traditional Korean principle of “Nunchi” (this genre is a combination of good manners, obligation and hierarchy)way for humans to cathartically experience their most existential fears. Desperate to escape, Jane ''Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is thrilled when she becomes the au pair for a rich couple – two Brooklyn based professors new work of English, who have adopted a young Chinese girl into their family. Jane soon falls for the man post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the family, but their blossoming affair fears that exist for humanity today. It is soon curtailed by a family death, prompting Jane’s return shocking novel that still manages to Koreafind hope. 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>1803364998

{{newreviewfrontpage|isbn=1803363002|author=Patricia DunckerEric LaRocca|title=Sophie and the Sibyl: A Victorian RomanceThe Trees Grew Because I Bled There|rating=45|genre=Historical FictionHorror|summary=''Sophie 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 the Sibyl'', consciously modelled on John Fowles's 'process them. Most horror fiction feature a 'The French Lieutenant's WomanBig Bad'', whether that is a postmodern blending of historyhome invader, fictiona monster or a ghost, it usually something tangible and metafictional commentary. Brothers Max and Wolfgang Duncker really were George Eliot's German publishers, but by the accident end of their surname matching the authorstory, beatable. Eric LaRocca's makes them her clever stand-in''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is not like that. As the novel opens in 1872, the venerable English author It is exploring Homburg and Berlin a collection of short stories more interested in the company horrors of her 'husband' while ushering her latest novelillness, grief and humiliation. Horrors that linger and are harder to defeat than any ''MiddlemarchBig Bad'', into German translation. Max, a young cad fond of casinos and brothels, has two tasks: ensuring Eliot's loyalty to their publishing house, and securing Countess Sophie von Hahn's hand in marriage.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140886052X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sara BaumeMadelaine Lucas|title=Spill Simmer Falter WitherThirst for Salt

|summary=Every Tuesday he goes into town. This particular Tuesday he sees an advert for a rescue dog that's been badly treated by its previous owner. Somewhere the ad strikes 'Love, I'd read, was supposed to be a resonance light and he adopts the dogweightless feeling, calling it Oneeye (yesbut I had always longed for gravity'' Told from a retrospective view, one word, just like a young woman unravels the year-long relationship that)once defined her. Gradually over shared meals Overlaid with later wisdom, the narrator relives the affair with a friendship grows and develops over man twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the seasons as summer after. Set against the spill backdrop of spring turns to summeran isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the 24-year-old narrator's simmerdeepening relationship with her older lover, through the falter of autumn depicting its all-consuming nature, how it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and on to withering winterhow it altered her irrevocably.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0992817064</amazonuk>0861546490

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael LaubGrothaus|title=Diary of the FallBeautiful Shining People

|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Diary ''But fearing something and having it come to pass are two different things. And I'm willing to bet most of the Fall is a story about regretwhat we fear will never happen, guilt and resentmentor we can take steps to change it. It's told from ' ''Beautiful Shining People'' revolves around the point question of view of an unnamed narratoridentity and acceptance. Of what it means to be human. Of what is real and what is artificial, who reflects on not just his own life but also and whether the lives development of his father and grandfathertechnology is exciting or frightening.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099581795</amazonuk>191458564X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Antoine Laurain, Emily Boyce (translator) and Jane Aitken (translator)Jennifer Saint|title=The Red NotebookAtalanta

|summary=Kabul 2007: Rahima and her sisters are followed home from school ''I was as worthy as any one day by a boy of them. I would get on his bikeboard that ship, I vowed. I would take my place, not just in the name of the goddess. He taunts them innocently enough as little boys doIt was for the sake of my name, but with no sibling brothertoo. Atalanta'' Princess. Warrior. Lover. Hero. Abandoned at birth for being born a daughter rather than a son, the girls are unchaperoned in this land that Atalanta is ruled by raised under the laws protective eye of menthe goddess Athemis and fashioned into a formidable huntress, one who longs for adventure. And as daughters in When the opportunity comes – to join the Argonauts, a household without sonsfierce band of warriors, 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 country whirlwind of challenges and discovery and through it, Atalanta must remember Artemis' fatal warning: that is governed by fearif she marries, the consequences it will weigh heavily for them allbe her undoing.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0062244760</amazonuk>1472292154

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Norah VincentAmanthi Harris|title=Adeline: A Novel of Virginia WoolfBeautiful Place

|summary=Back in 1999Padma, when ''The Hours'' won a young Sri Lankan, has returned to the Pulitzer Prize, Michael Cunningham set a precedent for depicting Woolf's later life and suicide. Nicole Kidman won a Best Actress Oscar for her role as Woolf in Villa Hibiscus on the film version southern coast of the novel; she her home country. This is best remembered for wearing a prosthetic nose. Fast forward 15 place she spent her formative years. In 2014–2015 alone It is not a place she was born into, three major novels about Virginia Woolf have been publishedbut the one she thinks of as home. That confluence How she came to be at the Villa, how it became her home, especially in a year and the machinations that does not mark a significant anniversary, speaks to a continuing interest in Woolfhave flowed through her life ever since she first arrived there provide the ''score'' for this gentle and yet subtly violent novel. Padma's life present fails to escape her past and writingsmuch like the musical score of a film, that strand weaves its way through everything that happens at the Villa.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349005648</amazonuk>1784631930

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ivan Repila and Sophie Hughes (translator)178563335X|title=The Boy Who Stole Attila's HorseSea Defences|author=Hilary Taylor|rating=45

|summary=If When we first meet Rachel Bird she's a trainee vicar, sitting in on a PCC meeting and wondering why they're held when you need to pick the children up a copy of this book you realise how small it is. You'll knowHer husband, Christopher, collects six-year-old Hannah and her elder brother, of courseJamie, that pockets hardly exist that are normally big enough to hold what we used to call whilst Rachel holds a pocket book, but here is the exception to prove the rulesobbing parishioner. ItThelma's weedaughter-in-law won't let her see her grandson. The story Holthorpe, on the Norfolk coast, is on a hundred pages. The concision lovely place, but Rachel is partly down struggling to it starting after develop a real bond with the beginning, for we first meet Big parish - and Smallshe's in awe of the vicar, two brothersGail, once theybut then she're stuck down a large well in s been doing the middle of a forestjob for more than thirty years. Tasked with a family errand, they're trapped at the bottom of a natural Erlenmeyer flask, Rachel and even Christopher hoped that a desperate move cannot get either out. This is walk on the story of the next three months in their existence, as beach would do them some good - it was stormy but it was probably what they brave hunger, delirium, loss of language, and the brute and unstinting human selfishness needed for existence.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782271015</amazonuk> And then Hannah went missing.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jamie Kornegay1398515388|title=Soil|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Jay Mize is a scientific man with a particular interest in soil The Boy and agriculture. He decides he is the one to pioneer a revolution in farming techniques and uproots his wife and son to set up an experimental farm on a plot of land in the country. Jay is also an obsessive man and his plans take over, becoming his only focus and causing his family to leave him. Then flooding ruins his crops and he is left at the end of his tether; things only get worse when Jay finds a dead body on his land and his tenuous grip on his sanity is released.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473607035</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewDog|author=Karen Campbell|title=RiseSeishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Justine is running for her life. She's had enough of being someone else's property, of being subjected to the kind of love that has seen her tattooed and owned and beaten and rented out to others to earn her keep. So she's taken what isn't hers, but then was never actually his either, and she's packed a bag, waited until he is drunk-enough asleep not to hear her say goodbye to the dog, and has left.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408857928</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Dorthe Nors|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 Fishermen|rating=4

|summary=This book is essentially a cautionary family tale First of four brothers and the way they react to a prophecy about them by all, it was the local madman. It is alsoearthquake, deep in a sensethe ocean floor, a coming-of-age story where Benwhich created the tsunami and this, the young narratorin turn, is plunged into premature adulthood under caused the most brutal of circumstancesnuclear meltdown. And it is about brotherly loveThe result was complete and utter devastation. None of these descriptions The deaths were uncountable, however, convey and the loss of livelihoods was widespread. The fact that this book is written by an exciting new voice in African literary fiction.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0957548850</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jennifer Clement|title=Prayers for many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of priorities but - six months after the Stolen|rating=3.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Ladydi Garcia Martínez lives in rural Chilpancingo, Mexico, with her mother, Rita, who works as tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a cleaning lady for dog outside a rich familyconvenience store. Like many of He wasn't a dog person but the men in their town who left to find work, Ladydiconvenience store owner's father crossed the river into America, where comment that he is rumoured would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to have another family. As a result, this is very much a matriarchal community. Rita describes open his car door and Tamon the situation for Ladydi's teacher: 'You men don't get it, yet, do you? This is a land of womendog jumped in. Mexico belongs to women.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099587599</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Grossman0989715337|title=Falling Out of TimePapa on the Moon|author=Marco North

|summary=Like ''Some frogs had gotten into the central characters in well.''Falling Out of Time ''Walter stood waist-deep in the fragrant water, Israeli author David Grossman lost naked except for his son, a soldier named Uri, during the Middle East conflictbeaten leather hat. In this multifaceted examination Long strands of bereavementtheir eggs wove around him, it seems that everyone has lost a childsticky gray pearls with tadpoles inside them. The genre-bending mixture Two of poetry, absurdist dialogue, 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 inverted fairy tale reflects opening? The style of this novel in the difficulty form of ever capturing grief in language. Each story interconnected short stories goes from succinct and laconic to wistful and each strategy is like musing, turning on a new way sixpence. And author Marco North, who has the most wonderful turn of approaching the unspeakablephrase, starts as he means to go on.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099583720</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Samantha EllisDaisy Hildyard|title=How To Be A Heroine: Or, what I've learned from reading too muchEmergency

|summary=The summary of this book doesn''How t come close to be a Heroine'' 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 a pleasant 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 addictive readvolume. Playwright Samantha Ellis looks back at her childhood Her GP, diagnosing the odd phenomenon as a voracious reader 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 remembers the characters that influenced other patients at Nede: a metamorphosis of a kind. As Marianne's memories threaten to overwhelm her. These are as diverse as Sylvia Plath, ''Little Women'' Nede offers her release from this cycle of memory and Scheherazadepain—but only at a terrible price: that of identity itself.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099575566</amazonuk>086154112X }}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ian WalthewNatalia Garcia Freire|title=The Complex Chemistry of LossThis World Does Not Belong To Us

|summary=In SicilyEarly comments on this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendous, bandits steal the sheep of a young shepherddelight. Distraught, he seeks out his local Mafioso for help. Sixteen years later, two men are traveling to Sicily - one, a young English officer, and I will agree with the other an American infantryman. They are all soon thrust into first – tremendous is no understatement – but 'a war that delight' is greater and more terrible than anything they could have dreamed, and they all must find different ways to survive its terrors.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009958686X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Eliza Robertson|title=Wallflowers|rating=4|genre=Short Stories|summary=Eliza Robertson won perhaps using the Man Booker Scholarship and Curtis Brown Prize while completing her MA expression in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. ''Wallflowers'' is already a bestseller in Robertsonway I's native Canadam not familiar with. There is quite some variety across I have to confess my ignorance of the seventeen storiesSpanish-language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation here. Broadly speaking, though From the little I have read (in translation, I don't read Spanish) there are does seem to be a few themes: moving on from loss, finding love in tendency towards the midst of gentle madness, and interactions with fantastical – the natural world, often on the edge of Canada's British Columbia wildernessmystical realism.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408856794</amazonuk>0861541901

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Edith PearlmanJennifer Saint|title=HoneydewElektra

|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

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Edwidge Danticat8409290103|title=Claire of the Sea LightIf Only|author=Matthew Tree

|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>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rebecca LeeAntoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)|title=Bobcat and Other StoriesRed is My Heart

|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

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mary CostelloB098FFFBH9|title=Academy StreetSnowcub|author=Graham Fulbright

|summary=It is 1944. Tess Lohan's mother has just died at age 40, of tuberculosis. SevenFourteen-year-old Tess Rachel is one of six children her school's animal rights project leader and she and her friend are producing a competition entry to highlight the way in a rural Irish familywhich human beings exploit the animal world. They live at Easterfield, She gets a centuries-old manor house. A teacher later tells Tess the history great deal of support from her homefamily: built in 1678father Pip Harrison, 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 propertylecturer at Imperial College, London, but the only one that haunts Tess is her dead mother. 'Memories Kate and traces of her mother must linger all over twin, Nick. Kate runs the house – family business, a toy shop called Cornucopia in rooms and halls and landings. The dent of her feet on a rug. On a cupPutney, the mark which is where we'll meet Rachel's main (if unsuspected) source of her handinformation: five soft toys.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782114181</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rob DoyleYancey Williams|title=Here Are Crosshairs of the Young MenDevil|rating=4.5

|summary=''Here are the Young Men'' surges forwardAward-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski is getting on in years and, despite his strenuous objections and thanks to his daughter, oozing edginessfinds himself living - or imprisoned, from the very first sentence. Is that a bad thing? Probably not. It just means that readers may at times slip out Eddie's point of view - in room 315 of the story, feel themselves taking a step back and admiring the spare coolness Garden 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 CharlotteEden nursing home, Emily and Anne. Not many know that this famous trio of literary sisters also had with only a brothertrusty nursing aide, Patrick Branwell BrontëJenkins, born the year after Charlotte and a year before Emilyfor palatable company. Like Nothing is going to keep Eddie from his sistersstock-in-trade of writing though, he had literary ambitions: he wrote juvenile storiesso here, poems and translations from the Greek; he also trained as a painter (you have most likely seen for his famous painting of readers, are his sisters). Again like wanderings through his sisters, however, he was destined to die younglife's work.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857522876</amazonuk>0986031658}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Takashi Hiraide0008421714|title=The Guest CatMrs March|author=Virginia Feito

|summary=The problem began just after the publication of George March's most successful novel to date. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the last page) seemed to either be reading it or had already done so. Every day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, Patricia asked, as she was wrapping the bread, 'The Guest Cat'but isn' had me at t this the cover. The reflective green material makes the catfirst time he's eyes glow and glint eerily in based a character on you?'' She mentioned that Johanna, the lightprincipal character had 'her mannerisms''. There is something ethereal and otherworldly about Perhaps this novella and would not have mattered, except for the fact that Johanna is before Ithe whore of Nantes - ''ve even read a single wordweak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch. This simple story about a Japanese couple and the cat that decides to adopt them has become an international best-seller and I was keen to find out why.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447279409</amazonuk>''