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[[Category:New Reviews|Literary Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Philip K DickMatthew Tree|title= Humpty Dumpty in OaklandWe'll Never Know|rating= 34.5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= Dick is known primarily as Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a science fiction writer, most famously for the novel that spawned the film ''Blade Runner''. I read that novel - [[Do Androids Dream drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of Electric Sheep? by Philip K Dick|Do Androids Dream being exceptional at any of Electric Sheep?]] - when I was about ten or eleven, a good ten years or so before the film came out his artistic passions all failed miserably and – to be fair – a good five years or so before I was fully capable who had endless crises of understanding the philosophical and ethical issues embedded in itself confidence. Not beforeSo Tim applied himself to his studies, however, I was capable of asking the kind of questions that would get me the kind of answers that form my standpoint on those issuescultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473209579</amazonuk>B0CVFXPGP8

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Stephanie Bishop B0C47LV1PC|title= The Other Side of the World|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary Fiction |summary= This is a beautifully written book, located both in England and Australia, about adulthood, changing responsibilities, and the universal desire for identity and belonging. This theme is also reflected in the search for union and fulfilment in the marriage of Henry and Charlotte, struggling with the changes imposed on them by parenthood and family life across two continents. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472230612</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFragility|author= Chang Ying-Tai and Darryl Sterk (translator)|title= The Bear Whispers To Me: The Story of a Bear and a BoyMosby Woods|rating= 4|genre= Literary Fiction |summary=Award winning Taiwanese writer Chang Ying-TaiCan you make a ''Yo birthing person''s emotivejoke? And if you could, elegiac fable is a meditation on the art of storytelling. Its immersive detail and enchanting musical cadences give question should you make it a magical? Or is the question if you did, dream like quality. It is a special work as would it land? The catch is one of that the few examples of Taiwanese fiction available in Englishanswer for both could well be.... no. The blind Paiwan poet Monaneng said of aboriginal Taiwanese culture:

"With tender care let us ''Fragility'' is set in motion our blood that is once again warm.<br>Let us recall our songs, our dances, our sacred rituals.<br> And as the tradition of unselfish mutual coexistence between us and the earth. This is exactly what "The Bear Whispers to Me" effortlessly does.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0993215408</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Fred Uhlman|title=Reunion|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Hans Schwarz was a jew and attended the Karl Alexander Gymnasium, the most famous grammar school in Wurttemberg. At sixteen he didn't really have a friend and was slightly apart from the other cliques in his class, until the arrival of Konradin von Hohenfels, the elegantly-dressed son city of the aristocracy. For some reason Hans and Konradin became the best of friendsPortland, spending a glorious summer walking in the Swabian hillsOregon, comparing their coin collections and talking about everything. Only slowly does it occur cautiously begins to Hans that whilst Konradin is made welcome in his home, Hans can only visit Konradin's home when his parents are absent. This was February 1932 and in the closing years of the Weimar Republic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1860463657</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Ivan Vladislavic|title=101 Detectives|rating=3.5|genre=Short Stories|summary=101 Detectives had me baffled. The book comprises of a collection of stories which explore multiple themes emerge from the perspective of one person. The stories are as varied as the characters presenting the tale to you. This exquisitely written book leaves you asking many questions and pondering many ideas. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908276568</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jan-Philipp Sendker|title= Whispering Shadows|rating= 5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= Paul Leibovitz was a journalist. That was before. Before he had a small child, who did not survive as long as he should have. Before the end of the marriage that did not survive the loss of a child. Now Leibovitz himself, merely survives. He lives in a kind of self-restrictions imposed exile on Lamma, third largest of the Hong Kong islands, a place of greenery and solitude.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973309</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jo Walton|title= The Just City|rating= 3.5|genre= Dystopian Fiction|summary=Urged on by her brother Apollo, goddess Pallas Athene founds the Just City of Atlantis – a city based on Plato’s republic. Filling it with an assortments of adults collected from throughout time, as well as ten thousand ten year olds, (one of whom is a disguised Apollo). Whilst the city flourishes, the arrival of Socrates may prove to be a fly in during the ointment…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472150767</amazonuk>covid pandemic

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= David FinkleMosby Woods|title= The A Whirly Man With The Overcoat|rating= 3.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=''Why would anyone - he was soon to ask himself innumerable times - take a coat from a complete stranger only because it had been offered?'' Skip Gerber steps off the elevator after a long day at work; the foyer of his office building is busy 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 of it''. Skip unthinkingly grasps the coat and before he has the chance to realise what he is doing - and that he is now holding an overcoat of unknown providence - the man disappears out of the exit door to the building.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0992618525</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Rebecca Dinerstein|title=The Sunlit NightLoses His Turn

|summary=Frances comes from a The West isn'desperately artistic family', her father a medical illustrator and her mother an interior designert the dominant force it once was. Along with her younger sister Sarah, she grew up Nobody in a tiny one-bedroom apartment in Manhattan: bunk beds for the girls and a fold-out sofa bed for the parents. The claustrophobic atmosphere has gotten West is quite sure how to everyone and now, with Frances graduating from college, mend this or even if mending it looks like is the family might fall apartbest course of action. Her parents argue constantly and disapprove of Sarah's fiancé (not ''just'' because he isn't Jewish)Governments are flailing. Frances has her own romantic crisis: after A war here, a pregnancy scarepush for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is in actual charge. Imagine then, Robert breaks up there was a man with herprecognition. A high-flyer with a future Imagine the strategic advantage in politics, he tells her that her art has no purposethis asset; it isn't helping anyone. 'What does it matter if a man who can tell you do what you lovewill happen given any set of circumstances. That man would be valuable, if what you love doesn't matterright?' she asks her fatherPerhaps the most valuable asset in history. StillImagine then, she has no other prospects, so agrees that this man loses this ability. What would governments do to take up a painting apprenticeship in the furthest reaches of Norway; 'All I had was a direction, north.'get it back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408863049</amazonuk>B0C9SNG8R1

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Claire Fullerton0571379559|title=Dancing to an Irish ReelThe House of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams|rating=45

|summary=Hailey was ''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the story of four people. Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in the house on a sabbatical from her job in the music business in Los Angeles and taking riverbank, built of broken bricks. Insubstantial as it might look, it's stood the holiday passage of a lifetime time, storms and floods. Her husband, Richard, struggles to Irelandgrow his vegetables, when she walked into to complete the Galway Music Centre delivery rounds - and found a job which she simply couldn't turn downto bring in sufficient money. She also found a home in a local villageThey have twin boys - Sonny and Max, a liking for the rural life and a man whom she could loverainbow twins. Liam Hennessy was a talented accordion player: music was Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his life and whilst he was more attracted to Hailey than he had ever been to another woman it wasnfather. 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=SoilThe Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating=34.5|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Jay Mize is a scientific man with a particular interest First of all, it was the earthquake, deep in soil and agriculture. He decides he is the one to pioneer a revolution in farming techniques ocean floor, which created the tsunami and uproots his wife and son to set up an experimental farm on a plot of land this, in turn, caused the countrynuclear meltdown. Jay is also an obsessive man The result was complete and his plans take overutter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, becoming his only focus and causing his family to leave himthe loss of livelihoods was widespread. Then flooding ruins his crops and he is left at The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the end list of his tether; things only get worse when Jay finds priorities but - six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. He wasn't a dead body on dog person but the convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his land car door and his tenuous grip on his sanity is releasedTamon the dog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473607035</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karen Campbell0989715337|title=RisePapa on the Moon|author=Marco North

|summary=Justine is running ''Some frogs had gotten into the well.'' ''Walter stood waist-deep in the fragrant water, naked except for her lifehis beaten leather hat. She's had enough Long strands of being someone else's propertytheir eggs wove around him, sticky gray pearls with tadpoles inside them. Two of being subjected to the kind dogs leaned over the opening and barked down at the strange noise of love the buckets as he filled them.'' How is that has seen her tattooed for an opening? The style of this novel in the form of interconnected short stories goes from succinct and owned laconic to wistful and beaten and rented out to others to earn her keepmusing, turning on a sixpence. So she's taken what isn't hersAnd author Marco North, but then was never actually his either, and she's packed a bagwho has the most wonderful turn of phrase, waited until starts as he is drunk-enough asleep not to hear her say goodbye means to the dog, and has leftgo on.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408857928</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dorthe NorsDaisy Hildyard|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 FishermenEmergency

|summary=Ladydi Garcia Martínez lives in rural ChilpancingoThe 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, Mexicoshe awakes to find strange, with thick black hairs sprouting from the bones of her motherspine which steadily increase in size and volume. Her GP, Rita, who works diagnosing the odd phenomenon as a cleaning lady for a rich family. Like many of the men in their town who left physical reaction to find workher grief, Ladydi's father crossed the river into Americarecommends she go to stay at Nede, where he an experimental new treatment centre in Wales. Yet something strange is rumoured happening to have another family. As Marianne and the other patients at Nede: a result, this is very much metamorphosis of a matriarchal communitykind. Rita describes the situation for LadydiAs Marianne's teacher: 'You men don't get itmemories threaten to overwhelm her, yet, do you? This is Nede offers her release from this cycle of memory and pain—but only at a land terrible price: that of women. Mexico belongs to womenidentity itself.'|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099587599</amazonuk>086154112X }}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David GrossmanNatalia Garcia Freire|title=Falling Out of TimeThis World Does Not Belong To Us|rating=45

|summary=Like Early comments on this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendous, a delight. I will agree with the central characters in first – tremendous is no understatement – but 'a delight'Falling Out of Time'', Israeli author David Grossman lost his son, a soldier named Uri, during is perhaps using the Middle East conflict. In this multifaceted examination of bereavement, it seems that everyone has lost expression in a childway I'm not familiar with. The genre-bending mixture I have to confess my ignorance of poetry, absurdist dialogue, and an inverted fairy tale reflects the difficulty of ever capturing grief in Spanish-languageliterary tradition so forgive my generalisation here. Each story and each strategy is like From the little I have read (in translation, I don't read Spanish) there does seem to be a new way of approaching tendency towards the fantastical – the unspeakablemystical realism.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099583720</amazonuk>0861541901

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Samantha EllisJennifer Saint|title=How To Be A Heroine: Or, what I've learned from reading too muchElektra

|summary='Elektra'How to be a Heroine'' is a pleasant and addictive readby Jennifer Saint tells the story of three women who live in the heavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. Playwright Samantha Ellis looks back at her childhood as a voracious reader Cassandra, Clytemnestra, and remembers Elektra are all bit players in the characters story of the Trojan War. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that influenced her. These are as diverse as Sylvia Plath, ''Little Women'' often the silent women have the most compelling stories and Scheherazadethe most extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099575566</amazonuk>1472273915

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Walthew8409290103|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>}}{{newreviewIf Only|author=Michael Christie|title=If I Fall, If I DieMatthew Tree

|summary=It probably tells you 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 young man got on board the boat and thereafter Patrick was to send him a lot about monthly allowance. Patrick sent the atmosphere money regularly and a correspondence - of this book 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 care for the whole time I was reading his son, it, I thought the title was that he didn''If I Fall, I Die''t care to have him in this country where he might be a danger to his wife and other children. That missing second ''If'' is probably at the crux of The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to get the whole taleyoung man on his way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>043402306X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Virginia BurgesAntoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)|title=The VirtuosoRed is My Heart

|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=The title character of ''The Virtuoso'' is Isabelle Bryant, a professional violinist who has earned the affectionate nickname of 'Beethoven's Babe'[[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white and read in my house. She And so was the youngest-ever winner of the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition and gave her first solo performancethis one, of Beethoven's violin concertoalthough I could have spelled that more accurately – this one was, at Royal Albert Hall. 'Her violin represented another limb to herand is, it was that preciousblack and white and red. It felt so naturalYes, like he has an extension of her body.artistic collaborator on this piece, and I think it' It would hardly be an exaggeration s possible to say that not one page lacks the violin is Isabelle's lifeinfluence of some striking visual ideas.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00R07U0B0</amazonuk>1913547183

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adam FouldsB098FFFBH9|title=In The Wolf's MouthSnowcub|author=Graham Fulbright|rating=4.5

|summary=In Sicily, bandits steal Fourteen-year-old Rachel is her school's animal rights project leader and she and her friend are producing a competition entry to highlight the way in which human beings exploit the sheep animal world. She gets a great deal of support from her family: father Pip Harrison, a young shepherd. Distraughtlecturer at Imperial College, London, mother Kate and her twin, he seeks out his local Mafioso for helpNick. Sixteen years later, two men are traveling to Sicily - one Kate runs the family business, a young English officertoy shop called Cornucopia in Putney, and the other an American infantryman. They are all soon thrust into a war that which is greater and more terrible than anything they could have dreamed, and they all must find different ways to survive its terrorswhere we'll meet Rachel's main (if unsuspected) source of information: five soft toys.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009958686X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Eliza RobertsonYancey Williams|title=WallflowersCrosshairs of the Devil|rating=4.5|genre=Short StoriesLiterary Fiction|summary=Eliza Robertson won the Man Booker Scholarship Award-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski is getting on in years and, despite his strenuous objections and Curtis Brown Prize while completing her MA thanks to his daughter, finds himself living - or imprisoned, from Eddie's point of view - in Creative Writing at room 315 of the University Garden of East Anglia. ''Wallflowers'' is already Eden nursing home, with only a bestseller in Robertson's native Canadatrusty nursing aide, Jenkins, for palatable company. There Nothing is quite some variety across the seventeen stories. Broadly speaking, though, there are a few themes: moving on going to keep Eddie from loss, finding love his stock-in the midst -trade of gentle madnesswriting though, so here, and interactions with the natural worldfor his readers, often on the edge of Canadaare his wanderings through his life's British Columbia wildernesswork.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408856794</amazonuk>0986031658}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Edith Pearlman0008421714|title=HoneydewMrs March|author=Virginia Feito|rating=4.5|genre=Short StoriesLiterary Fiction|summary=American short story writer [[:Category:Edith Pearlman|Edith Pearlman]] brings us a compilation The problem began just after the publication of stories that have George March's most successful novel to date. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only been seen separately in magazines over on the yearslast page) seemed to either be reading it or had already done so. This follows Every day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to buy olive bread but on from that particular morning, Patricia asked, as she was wrapping the bread, ''but isn't this the huge success of first time he's based a character on you?'' She mentioned that Johanna, the principal character had 'Binocular Visionher mannerisms'' (in 2013). Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for the short story collection fact that led to Ms Pearlman being presented with Johanna is the National Criticswhore of Nantes - '' Circle Awarda weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444797018</amazonuk>''