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[[Category:New Reviews|Literary Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Andrew Michael HurleyMatthew Tree|title= The Loney|rating= 5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= ItWe's always a privilege when you're given an advance reading copy of something – and a real 'block' when you read the small print that says 'not for resale or quotation'. Fair comment on the resale bit, but when you get something as brilliant as ''The Loney'' being required not to quote is just plain unfair.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473619823</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Eli Horowitz, Matthew Derby and Kevin Moffett|title=The Silent Historyll Never Know

|genre=Science Literary Fiction|summary=Well, they kept this quiet – for reasons that will become obvious. A couple of years ago people in America were giving birth to problematic kids. They (the children) were soon found Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be unnaturally quiet – perhaps crying with hunger or pain, but never even trying to 'ooga-wooga' their way into their parents' hearts. They were later found to be completely unable to speak, they could not read and indeed they could not understand anything said to them, or shown them, as an instruction. They were physically unable to parse anything as languagedifferent from his father, a drunk and were in a silent world chronic underachiever whose dreams of their own. But right about now they and we are combining worlds – schools are being set up, and funds are being made available, exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and people are coming down on the who had endless divide as to whether they are just problematic, disabled – or even the blessed. In a couple crises of years, however, the problems the virus that is causing these people to be born with will be shown to be a major problem – and that is before the kids themselves changeself confidence. For they will be able So Tim applied himself to switch their mental his studies, cultivated his abilities much like a blind man can hear more rather than the average, his daydreams and will be able to comprehend body and facial language much more coherently than anyone elseset himself high but achievable ambitions. Throughout this timeline, however, people will be working hard to try and study the problem, and put it right – if indeed 'right' is the correct word…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>009959286X</amazonuk>B0CVFXPGP8

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Meike ZiervogelB0C47LV1PC|title=KautharFragility|author=Mosby Woods

|summary=Meet Lydia. She's Can you make a normal British girl, interested in following both her father, and Nadia Comaneci, into the world of gymnastics but not brave enough to pull off the larger set pieces, and with not much more to interrupt her days than wondering why boys always have to talk about their willies. Now meet Kauthar, a white British convert to Islam, devoted follower of the precepts of her religion, ardent wife and stalwartly self-fulfilling, no-nonsense and satisfied. But what is this – why is she talking of being alone in a desert, and why is she directly addressing her god regarding how she ''can't perform any movement. Because it is torn apartYo birthing person''joke? Has something gone wrongAnd if you could, is the question should you make it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784630292</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Philip K Dick|title= Humpty Dumpty in Oakland|rating= 3.5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= Dick Or is known primarily as a science fiction writerthe question if you did, most famously for the novel would it land? The catch is that spawned the film ''Blade Runner''answer for both could well be.... no.

I read that novel - [[Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K Dick|Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?]] - when I was about ten or eleven, a good ten years or so before ''Fragility'' is set as the film came out and – to be fair – a good five years or so before I was fully capable city of understanding the philosophical and ethical issues embedded in it. Not beforePortland, howeverOregon, I was capable of asking cautiously begins to emerge from the kind of questions that would get me restrictions imposed during the kind of answers that form my standpoint on those issues.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473209579</amazonuk>covid pandemic

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Stephanie Bishop Mosby Woods|title= The Other Side of the WorldA Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary Fiction |summary= This The West isn't the dominant force it once was. Nobody in the West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is the best course of action. Governments are flailing. A war here, a beautifully written book, located both in England and Australia, about adulthood, changing responsibilities, and the universal desire push for identity and belongingclimate action there. This theme A feeling that nobody is also reflected in actual charge. Imagine then, there was a man with precognition. Imagine the search for union and fulfilment strategic advantage in the marriage this asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of Henry and Charlottecircumstances. That man would be valuable, struggling with right? Perhaps the changes imposed on them by parenthood and family life across two continentsmost valuable asset in history. Imagine then, that this man loses this ability. What would governments do to get it back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472230612</amazonuk>B0C9SNG8R1

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Chang Ying-Tai and Darryl Sterk (translator)0571379559|title= The Bear Whispers To Me: The Story House of a Bear and a Boy|rating= 4|genre= Literary Fiction |summary=Award winning Taiwanese writer Chang Ying-Tai's emotive, elegiac fable is a meditation on the art of storytelling. Its immersive detail and enchanting musical cadences give it a magical, dream like quality. It is a special work as it is one of the few examples of Taiwanese fiction available in English. The blind Paiwan poet Monaneng said of aboriginal Taiwanese culture: "With tender care let us set in motion our blood that is once again warm.<br>Let us recall our songs, our dances, our sacred rituals.<br> And 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>}}{{newreviewBroken Bricks|author=Fred Uhlman|title=ReunionFiona Williams

|summary=Hans Schwarz was a jew and attended ''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the Karl Alexander Gymnasium, the most famous grammar school in Wurttembergstory of four people. At sixteen he didnTess Hembry't really have a friend and was slightly apart from the other cliques s roots are in his classJamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, until she lives in the arrival house on the riverbank, built of Konradin von Hohenfelsbroken bricks. Insubstantial as it might look, it's stood the elegantly-dressed son passage of time, storms and floods. Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the aristocracydelivery rounds - and to bring in sufficient money. For some reason Hans They have twin boys - Sonny and Konradin became the best of friendsMax, spending a glorious summer walking in the Swabian hills, comparing their coin collections and talking about everythingrainbow twins. Only slowly does it occur to Hans that whilst Konradin is made welcome in Sonny's colouring reflects his home, Hans can only visit Konradinmother's home when Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his parents are absentfather. This was February 1932 People don't believe that they're related, much less twins and in the closing years of the Weimar Republicthere's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she's his nanny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1860463657</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ivan VladislavicClaire North|title=101 DetectivesHouse of Odysseus|rating=3.5|genre=Short StoriesLiterary Fiction |summary=101 Detectives had me baffled. ''What could matter more than love?'' The book comprises of follow-up to the excellent ''Ithaca'' picks up a collection few months after where we left off. In the palace of stories which explore multiple themes from Odysseus, with delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without her husband, who sailed to war at Troy and then by divine intervention never returned home. As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for the perspective throne of one personthe Western Isles. The stories are as varied as Having survived – politically and physical – the characters presenting chaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to Ithaca's shores, Queen Penelope is on the tale to youbrink of a fragile peace. This exquisitely written book leaves you asking many questions One that shatters however with the return of Orestes, King of Mycenae, and pondering many ideashis sister Elektra, seeking refuge. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908276568</amazonuk>0356516075

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jan-Philipp SendkerKay Chronister|title= Whispering ShadowsDesert Creatures|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-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= 3.54

|summary=Urged on by her brother ApolloWith a world that is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, goddess Pallas Athene founds the Just City of Atlantis – a city based on Plato’s republicpost-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Filling Whether it with an assortments is a robotic takeover, a world devoid of adults collected from throughout timewater or a nuclear holocaust, as well as ten thousand ten year olds, (one of whom this genre is a disguised Apollo)way for humans to cathartically experience their most existential fears. Whilst ''Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is a new work of post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the city flourishes, the arrival of Socrates may prove fears that exist for humanity today. It is a shocking novel that still manages to be a fly in the ointment…find hope.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472150767</amazonuk>1803364998

{{newreviewfrontpage|isbn=1803363002|author= David FinkleEric LaRocca|title= The Man With The OvercoatTrees Grew Because I Bled There|rating= 3.5|genre= General FictionHorror|summary=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 process them. Most horror fiction feature a ''Big Bad''Why would anyone - he was soon to ask himself innumerable times - take , whether that is a home invader, a coat from monster or a complete stranger only because ghost, it had been offered?'' Skip Gerber steps off usually something tangible and, by the elevator after a long day at work; the foyer end 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 story, beatable. Eric LaRocca's ''take very good care of itThe Trees Grew Because I Bled There''. Skip unthinkingly grasps the coat and before he has the chance to realise what he is doing - and not like that he . It is now holding an overcoat a collection of unknown providence - short stories more interested in the man disappears out horrors of the exit door illness, grief and humiliation. Horrors that linger and are harder to the buildingdefeat than any ''Big Bad''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0992618525</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rebecca DinersteinMadelaine Lucas|title=The Sunlit NightThirst for Salt|rating=45

|summary=Frances comes from ''Love, I'd read, was supposed to be a light and weightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravity'desperately artistic family' Told from a retrospective view, her father a medical illustrator and young woman unravels the year-long relationship that once defined her mother an interior designer. Along Overlaid with her younger sister Sarahlater wisdom, she grew up in a tiny one-bedroom apartment in Manhattan: bunk beds for the girls and narrator relives the affair with a fold-out sofa bed for man twenty years her senior from its inception – the parents. The claustrophobic atmosphere has gotten summer after finishing university – to everyone and now, with Frances graduating from college, it looks like its sorrowful end the family might fall apartsummer after. Her parents argue constantly and disapprove Set against the backdrop of Sarahan isolated Australian coastal town 's fiancé (not 'Thirst for Salt'just'details the 24-year-old narrator' because he isn't Jewish). Frances has s deepening relationship with her own romantic crisis: after a pregnancy scareolder lover, Robert breaks up with her. A highdepicting its all-flyer with a future in politicsconsuming nature, he tells how it changed her that her art has no purpose; it isn't helping anyone. 'What does perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and how it matter if you do what you love, if what you love doesn't matter?' she asks altered her father. Still, she has no other prospects, so agrees to take up a painting apprenticeship in the furthest reaches of Norway; 'All I had was a direction, northirrevocably.'|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408863049</amazonuk>0861546490

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Claire FullertonMichael Grothaus|title=Dancing to an Irish ReelBeautiful Shining People

|summary=Hailey ''I was as worthy as any one of them. I would get on a sabbatical from her job board that ship, I vowed. I would take my place, not just in the music business in Los Angeles and taking name of the goddess. It was for the holiday sake of my name, too. Atalanta'' Princess. Warrior. Lover. Hero. Abandoned at birth for being born a daughter rather than a lifetime to Irelandson, when she walked into Atalanta is raised under the protective eye of the Galway Music Centre goddess Athemis and found fashioned into a job which she simply couldn't turn downformidable huntress, one who longs for adventure. She also found When the opportunity comes – to join the Argonauts, a home in a local villagefierce band of warriors, a liking for descendent from the Gods themselves – Atalanta seizes the rural life chance to fight in Artemis' name and a man whom she could lovecarve out her own legendary place in history. Liam Hennessy was What follows is a talented accordion player: music was his life whirlwind of challenges and discovery and whilst he was more attracted to Hailey than he had ever been to another woman through it wasn, Atalanta must remember Artemis't entirely clear whether 'love' could ever fatal warning: that if she marries, it will be on the cards for himher undoing.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0990304256</amazonuk>1472292154

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jessie Greengrass Amanthi Harris|title=An Account of the Decline of the Great Auk, According to One Who Saw It Beautiful Place|rating=3|genre=Short Stories|summary=The title story, which appears first, is exactly what it says on the tin: one hunter's story of travelling to remote islands to take part in massive culls of great auks, until they were simply gone. It's always hard to believe that species that once numbered in their millions, such as the passenger pigeon, could go extinct so quickly, but when you read about the brutal slaughter tactics here – swinging clubs and boiling birds alive – 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; that was that. Still, he regrets their extinction, because 'in any loss you can see a shadow of the way that you will be lost yourself.' (Those interested in the great auk's extinction may also want to read the 2013 novel ''The Collector of Lost Things'' by Jeremy Page.)|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473610850</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Patricia Park|title=Re Jane|rating=3.5

|summary= Growing up in FlushingPadma, New York –Jane Re has long been hoping to escape her whole life. A half-Korean, half-American Orphan, Jane struggles to find her place as a spirited and intelligent young woman growing up in a strict and mirthless familySri Lankan, observing has returned to the Villa Hibiscus on the traditional Korean principle southern coast of “Nunchi” (her home country. This is a combination of good manners, obligation and hierarchy)place she spent her formative years. Desperate to escape, Jane It is thrilled when not a place she becomes the au pair for a rich couple – two Brooklyn based professors of Englishwas born into, who have adopted a young Chinese girl into their family. Jane soon falls for but the man one she thinks of the family, but their blossoming affair is soon curtailed by a family death, prompting Jane’s return to Koreaas home. As How she learns more about herselfcame to be at the Villa, how it became her history home, and her culture, Jane must make huge decisions about the machinations that have flowed through her life, her future, and her man…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0525427406</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Patricia Duncker|title=Sophie and ever since she first arrived there provide the Sibyl: A Victorian Romance|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=''Sophie and the Sibylscore'', consciously modelled on John Fowles's ''The French Lieutenant's Woman'', is a postmodern blending of history, fiction, for this gentle and metafictional commentaryyet subtly violent novel. Brothers Max and Wolfgang Duncker really were George Eliot Padma's German publishers, but the accident of their surname matching the author's makes them present fails to escape her clever stand-in. As the novel opens in 1872, the venerable English author is exploring Homburg past and Berlin in much like the company musical score of her 'husband' while ushering her latest novel, ''Middlemarch'', into German translation. Max, a young cad fond of casinos and brothelsfilm, has two tasks: ensuring Eliot's loyalty to their publishing house, and securing Countess Sophie von Hahn's hand in marriagethat strand weaves its way through everything that happens at the Villa.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140886052X</amazonuk>1784631930

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sara Baume178563335X|title=Spill Simmer Falter WitherSea Defences|author=Hilary Taylor

|summary=Every Tuesday he goes into townWhen 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. This particular Tuesday he sees an advert for Her husband, Christopher, collects six-year-old Hannah and her elder brother, Jamie, whilst Rachel holds a rescue dog thatsobbing parishioner. Thelma's been badly treated by its previous ownerdaughter-in-law won't let her see her grandson. Somewhere Holthorpe, on the ad strikes Norfolk coast, is a resonance lovely place, but Rachel is struggling to develop a real bond with the parish - and he adopts she's in awe of the dogvicar, calling it Oneeye (yesGail, one word, just like that). Gradually over shared meals a friendship grows and develops over the seasons as the spill of spring turns to summerbut then she's simmer, through been doing the falter of autumn job for more than thirty years. Rachel and Christopher hoped that a walk on to withering winterthe beach would do them some good - it was stormy but it was probably what they needed. And then Hannah went missing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0992817064</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Laub1398515388|title=Diary of The Boy and the FallDog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating=4.5

|summary=Diary First of all, it was the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and this, in turn, caused the Fall is a story about regretnuclear meltdown. The result was complete and utter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, guilt and resentmentthe loss of livelihoods was widespread. It's told The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the point list of view of an unnamed narrator, who reflects on not just his own life priorities but - six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. He wasn't a dog person but also the lives of convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his father car door and grandfatherTamon the dog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099581795</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Antoine Laurain, Emily Boyce (translator) and Jane Aitken (translator)0989715337|title=The Red NotebookPapa on the Moon|author=Marco North|rating=54|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Meet Laure''Some frogs had gotten into the well. She's a widow in her 40s, who is entering her Parisian apartment building one night when she's mugged, and her handbag stolen. Meet Laurent, a middle ''Walter stood waist-aged bookseller, who happens upon the handbag the following morning deep in the street, just before the binmen take it awayfragrant water, never to be seen againnaked except for his beaten leather hat. More or less snubbed when trying to hand it to the police as lost propertyLong strands of their eggs wove around him, he decides to take it upon himself to reunite the bag sticky gray pearls with its rightful ownertadpoles inside them. He has no idea their names are so intimately linked, and despite a lot Two of things being in the bag (including dogs leaned over the titular notebook) there is no cash, no phone opening and no ID documentation barked down at allthe strange noise of the buckets as he filled them. What's more – ' How is that for an opening? The style of this novel in the form of interconnected short stories goes from succinct and laconic to wistful and what looks like making musing, turning on a sixpence. And author Marco North, who has the idea even more fruitless – most wonderful turn of phrase, starts as he has no idea that Laure has fallen into a coma as a result of the mugging…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908313862</amazonuk>means to go on.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Edward Parnell Daisy Hildyard|title= The Listeners Emergency|rating= 4 |genre= Literary Fiction |summary=May 1940. William Abrehart has not spoken since the mysterious death of his father, choosing instead to spend his days in the woods that surround his home. A promise he made to his dying father means that he is responsible for the wellbeing of his two sisters, and their withdrawn mother. Over the course of a weekend, ghosts of the past cause buried secrets, lies and promises to come spilling out - culminating in a series of shocking events. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781331065</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Nadia Hashimi|title=The Pearl a That Broke Its Shell|rating=4.5

|summary=Kabul 2007: Rahima and 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 death of her sisters are followed home sister, she awakes to find strange, thick black hairs sprouting from school one day by a boy on his bikethe bones of her spine which steadily increase in size and volume. He taunts them innocently enough Her GP, diagnosing the odd phenomenon as little boys doa physical reaction to her grief, but with no sibling brotherrecommends she go to stay at Nede, the girls are unchaperoned an experimental new treatment centre in this land that Wales. Yet something strange is ruled by happening to Marianne and the laws other patients at Nede: a metamorphosis of mena kind. And as daughters in a household without sonsAs Marianne's memories threaten to overwhelm her, in Nede offers her release from this cycle of memory and pain—but only at a country terrible price: that is governed by fear, the consequences will weigh heavily for them allof identity itself.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0062244760</amazonuk>086154112X }}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Norah VincentNatalia Garcia Freire|title=Adeline: A Novel of Virginia WoolfThis World Does Not Belong To Us

|summary=Back in 1999Early comments on this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendous, when a delight. I will agree with the first – tremendous is no understatement – but 'a delight'The Hours'' won is perhaps using the Pulitzer Prize, Michael Cunningham set expression in a precedent for depicting Woolfway I's later life and suicidem not familiar with. Nicole Kidman won a Best Actress Oscar for her role as Woolf in the film version I have to confess my ignorance of the novel; she is best remembered for wearing a prosthetic noseSpanish-language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation here. Fast forward 15 years. In 2014–2015 alone, three major novels about Virginia Woolf From the little I have been published. That confluenceread (in translation, especially in a year that I don't read Spanish) there does not mark a significant anniversary, speaks seem to be a continuing interest in Woolf's life and writingstendency towards the fantastical – the mystical realism.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349005648</amazonuk>0861541901

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ivan Repila and Sophie Hughes (translator)Jennifer Saint|title=The Boy Who Stole Attila's HorseElektra

|summary=If you pick up a copy of this book you realise how small it is. You'll know, of course, that pockets hardly exist that are normally big enough to hold what we used to call a pocket book, but here is Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the exception to prove the rule. 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 of three women who live in the middle heavily male dominated world of a forestAncient Greece. Tasked with a family errandCassandra, they're trapped at the bottom of a natural Erlenmeyer flaskClytemnestra, and even a desperate move cannot get either out. This is Elektra are all bit players in the story of the next three months in their existence, as they brave hunger, delirium, loss of language, Trojan War. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the silent women have the most compelling stories and the brute and unstinting human selfishness needed for existencemost extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782271015</amazonuk>1472273915

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jamie Kornegay8409290103|title=Soil|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Jay Mize is a scientific man with a particular interest in soil 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>}}{{newreviewIf Only|author=Karen Campbell|title=RiseMatthew Tree|rating=4.5

|summary=Justine is running for her life. She's Twenty-one-year-old Malcolm Lowry had enough of being someone else's propertybeen sent abroad by his father, cotton-broker AO Lowry: he asked his accountant, Mr Patrick, of being subjected to ensure that the young man got on board the boat and thereafter Patrick was to send him a monthly allowance. Patrick sent the kind money regularly and a correspondence - of love that sorts - sprang up between the two although we hear more about what Lowry has seen her tattooed and owned and beaten and rented out to others to earn her keepsay than Patrick. So she It wasn's taken what isnt that Lowry senior didn't herscare for his son, but then it was never actually his either, and shethat he didn's packed t care to have him in this country where he might be a bag, waited until he is drunk-enough asleep not danger to hear her say goodbye his wife and other children. The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to get the dog, and has leftyoung man on his way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408857928</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dorthe NorsAntoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)|title=Karate Chop, and Minna Needs Rehearsal SpaceRed is My Heart

|genre=Short StoriesLiterary Fiction |summary=The reviewer picks up the book[[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white and read in my house.<br>The book is called ''Minna Needs Rehearsal Space''.<br>The book is entirely made out of And so was this one-sentence paragraphs.<br>The , although I could have spelled that more accurately – this one-sentence paragraphs are very seldom poeticwas, and is, but normally are grammatically correct sentencesblack and white and red.<br>The one-sentence paragraphs Yes, he has an artistic collaborator on the whole have just one verbthis piece, 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 boyfriendI think it'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 possible to say not one page lacks the influence of the book might be ironicsome striking visual ideas.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782271198</amazonuk>1913547183

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chigozie ObiomaB098FFFBH9|title=The Fishermen|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=This book is essentially a cautionary family tale of four brothers and the way they react to a prophecy about them by the local madman. It is also, in a sense, a coming-of-age story where Ben, the young narrator, is plunged into premature adulthood under the most brutal of circumstances. And it is about brotherly love. None of these descriptions, however, convey the fact that this book is written by an exciting new voice in African literary fiction.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0957548850</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewSnowcub|author=Jennifer Clement|title=Prayers for the StolenGraham Fulbright|rating=34.5

|summary=Ladydi Garcia Martínez lives in rural Chilpancingo, Mexico, with Fourteen-year-old Rachel is her school's animal rights project leader and she and her mother, Rita, who works as friend are producing a cleaning lady for a rich family. Like many of competition entry to highlight the men way in their town who left to find work, Ladydi's father crossed which human beings exploit the river into America, where he is rumoured to have another familyanimal world. As She gets a resultgreat deal of support from her family: father Pip Harrison, this is very much a matriarchal communitylecturer at Imperial College, London, mother Kate and her twin, Nick. Rita describes Kate runs the situation for Ladydi's teacher: 'You men don't get itfamily business, yeta toy shop called Cornucopia in Putney, do you? This which is a land where we'll meet Rachel's main (if unsuspected) source of women. Mexico belongs to womeninformation: five soft toys.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099587599</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David GrossmanYancey Williams|title=Falling Out Crosshairs of Timethe Devil|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Like the central characters in ''Falling Out of Time'', Israeli author David Grossman lost his son, a soldier named Uri, during the Middle East conflict. In this multifaceted examination of bereavement, it seems that everyone has lost a child. The genre-bending mixture of poetry, absurdist dialogue, and an inverted fairy tale reflects the difficulty of ever capturing grief in language. Each story and each strategy is like a new way of approaching the unspeakable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099583720</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Samantha Ellis|title=How To Be A Heroine: Or, what I've learned from reading too much|rating=45

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|summary=It probably tells you a lot about The problem began just after the atmosphere publication of this book that for George March's most successful novel to date. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the whole time I was last page) seemed to either be reading itor had already done so. Every day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, I thought Patricia asked, as she was wrapping the title was ''If I Fallbread, I Die''. That missing second but isn't this the first time he'Ifs based a character on you?'' is probably at the crux of She mentioned that Johanna, the whole tale.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>043402306X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Virginia Burges|title=The Virtuoso|rating=3.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=The title principal character of had ''The Virtuosoher mannerisms'' . Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for the fact that Johanna is Isabelle Bryant, a professional violinist who has earned the affectionate nickname whore of Nantes - 'Beethoven's Babe'. She was the youngest-ever winner of the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition and gave her first solo performancea weak, plain, of Beethoven's violin concertodetestable, at Royal Albert Hall. 'Her violin represented another limb to herpathetic, it was that precious. It felt so naturalunloved, like an extension of her bodyunloveable wretch.' It would hardly be an exaggeration to say that the violin is Isabelle's life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00R07U0B0</amazonuk>