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|summary=What do you expect Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from Submission? It is after all from one of Europe's more blunt huge-sellers, one who is most forthright in his opinionsfather, narratives a drunk and characters' sexual lives. It has become indelibly linked with a new Europe, after its reception chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and contents led to publicity on the cover who had endless crises of ''Charlie Hebdo'', which resulted in something less savoury than literature, to say the leastself confidence. Do you expect it So Tim applied himself to be about a France of the near futurehis studies, where a Muslim political party provides the president? Well, don't go into this submissively following your expectationscultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785150243</amazonuk>B0CVFXPGP8

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Rachel ElliottB0C47LV1PC|title= Whispers Through A Megaphone|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Miriam doesn’t speak. Well, that’s not strictly true. She does speak, but nothing above a whisper which makes it hard to have a conversation with her. Particularly as she hasn’t left her house in three years. But today is the day. She’s going to open that door and walk outside. She really is. Ralph has finally twigged (and with no small amount of surprise) that his wife Sadie doesn’t actually love him. And now he’s not sure if she ever really did. Having spent so much time regurgitating his every moment onto Social Media, Ralph hasn’t really had a chance to think about it. But now he has, it is so shockingly awful that he has decided to run away. And of all the places he could run away to, he has chosen the same woods that Miriam has picked to be the first place she will visit out-of-doors. And Sadie? Well, she’s had enough of reading Tweets and living vicariously through the posts of others. Sadie is going to have an adventure of her own. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0992918227</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFragility|author=Benjamin Johncock|title=The Last PilotMosby Woods

|genre=Literary Fiction |summary=You'd be forgiven for assuming that debut novelist Benjamin Johncock is American: Can you make a ''The Last PilotYo birthing person'' has the literary weight of a Great American Noveljoke? And if you could, with a limitless desert setting plus is the prospect of soon dominating space, and question should you make it? Or is the spare yet profound writing style of Ernest Hemingway or Cormac McCarthy. Johncock is British, but question if you can tell he's taken inspiration from stories about the dawn of the astronaut agedid, including Tom Wolfe's ''would it land? The Right Stuffcatch is that the answer for both could well be.... no. '' and films like Fragility''Apollo 13''. His protagonistis set as the city of Portland, Jim HarrisonOregon, is a fictional Air Force test pilot who rubs shoulders with historical figures like Chuck Yeager and John Glenn in cautiously begins to emerge from the quest to break restrictions imposed during the sound barrier and conquer space.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908434848</amazonuk>covid pandemic

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tessa HadleyMosby Woods|title=The PastA Whirly Man Loses His Turn

|summary=Tessa Hadley writes beautifully subtle stories of English family lifeThe West isn't the dominant force it once was. Her understated style has a touch of Nobody in the 1950s West is quite sure how to mend this or 1960s about even if mending it, calling to mind Elizabeth Taylor or early Margaret Drabble, and she seems to adapt classic genres like is the novel best course of manners or the country house novelaction. Governments are flailing. Here she deliberately channels Elizabeth Bowen with A war here, a setup borrowed from ''The House push for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is in Paris'': the novel is divided into three partsactual charge. Imagine then, titled 'The Present', 'The Past', and 'The Present'there was a man with precognition. That structure allows for Imagine the strategic advantage in this asset; a deeper look at man who can tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. That man would be valuable, right? Perhaps the house and a neighbouring cottage have meant to the central familymost valuable asset in history. Imagine then, and paves the way for one final shocker of a secretthat this man loses this ability.What would governments do to get it back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0224101692</amazonuk>B0C9SNG8R1

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Andrew Miller0571379559|title= The CrossingHouse of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams|rating= 5

|summary= Tim and Maud seem''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, to everyone around themshe lives in the house on the riverbank, mismatchedbuilt of broken bricks. She Insubstantial as it might look, quite literally, falls into his lifeit's stood the passage of time, storms and they build a life – jobs, a housefloods. Her husband, a boatRichard, then a child. Tim needs Maudstruggles to grow his vegetables, needs her to complete him, wants desperately the delivery rounds - and to completer herbring in sufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and Max, to help herthe rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. But what if Maud is already complete? What if she doesn’t need help? When tragedy strikes, Maud will find herself miles away from anyone, on a journey People don't believe that will change everythingthey're related, much less twins and test her to the utmostthere's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she's his nanny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444753495</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Andrew Michael HurleyClaire North|title=House of Odysseus|rating=5|genre= Literary Fiction |summary= ''What could matter more than love?'' The follow-up to the excellent ''Ithaca'' picks up a few months after where we left off. In the palace of 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 throne of the Western Isles. Having survived – politically and physical – the chaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to Ithaca's shores, Queen Penelope is on the brink of a fragile peace. One that shatters however with the return of Orestes, King of Mycenae, and his sister Elektra, seeking refuge.|isbn=0356516075}}{{Frontpage|author= Kay Chronister|title= Desert Creatures|rating= 4|genre= Dystopian Fiction|summary= With a world that is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, post-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Whether it is a robotic takeover, a world devoid of water or a nuclear holocaust, this genre is a way for humans to cathartically experience their most existential fears. ''Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is a new work of post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the fears that exist for humanity today. It is a shocking novel that still manages to find hope.|isbn=1803364998}}{{frontpage|isbn=1803363002|author= Eric LaRocca|title= The LoneyTrees Grew Because I Bled There

|genre= Literary FictionHorror|summary= Horror taps into something primeval within us. It's always is used as a privilege when you're given an advance reading copy of something – way to reflect our darkest emotions and how we as humans react and process them. Most horror fiction feature a real 'block' when you read the small print Big Bad'', whether that says 'not for resale is a home invader, a monster or quotation'. Fair comment on a ghost, it usually something tangible and, by the end of the resale bitstory, but when you get something as brilliant as beatable. Eric LaRocca's ''The LoneyTrees Grew Because I Bled There'' being required is not like that. It is a collection of short stories more interested in the horrors of illness, grief and humiliation. Horrors that linger and are harder to quote is just plain unfairdefeat than any ''Big Bad''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473619823</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Eli Horowitz, Matthew Derby and Kevin MoffettMadelaine Lucas|title=The Silent HistoryThirst for Salt|rating=4.5|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 to be unnaturally quiet – perhaps crying with hunger or pain, but never even trying to 'ooga-wooga' their way into their parentsLove, I' hearts. They were later found to be completely unable to speak, they could not d read and indeed they could not understand anything said to them, or shown them, as an instruction. They were physically unable was supposed to parse anything as language, and were in be a silent world of their own. But right about now they light and we are combining worlds – schools are being set upweightless feeling, and funds are being made availablebut I had always longed for gravity'' Told from a retrospective view, and people are coming down on a young woman unravels the endless divide as to whether they are just problematic, disabled – or even the blessedyear-long relationship that once defined her. In a couple of years, howeverOverlaid with later wisdom, the problems narrator relives the virus that is causing these people to be born affair with will be shown to be a major problem man twenty years her senior from its inception – and that is before the kids themselves change. For they will be able summer after finishing university – to switch their mental abilities much like a blind man can hear more than its sorrowful end the average, and will be able to comprehend body and facial language much more coherently than anyone elsesummer after. Throughout this timelineSet against the backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the 24-year-old narrator's deepening relationship with her older lover, howeverdepicting its all-consuming nature, people will be working hard to try how it changed her perspective on both romantic and study the problem, familial relationships and put how it right – if indeed 'right' is the correct word…altered her irrevocably.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>009959286X</amazonuk>0861546490

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Meike ZiervogelMichael Grothaus|title=KautharBeautiful Shining People

|summary= Dick is known primarily as a science fiction writer, most famously for the novel that spawned the film ''Blade RunnerBut fearing something and having it come to pass are two different things. And I'm willing to bet most of what we fear will never happen, or we can take steps to change it.''.

I read that novel - [[Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K Dick|Do Androids Dream ''Beautiful Shining People'' revolves around the question of Electric Sheep?]] - when I was about ten or eleven, a good ten years or so before the film came out identity and – acceptance. Of what it means to be fair – a good five years or so before I was fully capable of understanding the philosophical human. Of what is real and ethical issues embedded in it. Not beforewhat is artificial, however, I was capable of asking and whether the kind development of questions that would get me the kind of answers that form my standpoint on those issuestechnology is exciting or frightening.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473209579</amazonuk>191458564X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Stephanie Bishop Jennifer Saint|title= The Other Side of the WorldAtalanta|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary Fiction |summary= This is a beautifully written book''I was as worthy as any one of them. I would get on board that ship, located both in England and AustraliaI vowed. I would take my place, about adulthood, changing responsibilities, and the universal desire for identity and belonging. This theme is also reflected not just in the search for union and fulfilment in the marriage name of Henry and Charlotte, struggling with the changes imposed on them by parenthood and family life across two continentsgoddess. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472230612</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Chang Ying-Tai and Darryl Sterk (translator)|title= The Bear Whispers To Me: The Story 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 It was for the art sake of storytelling. Its immersive detail and enchanting musical cadences give it a magicalmy name, dream like qualitytoo. 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:Atalanta''

"With tender care let us set in motion our blood that is once again warmPrincess.<br>Let us recall our songs, our dances, our sacred ritualsWarrior.<br> And the tradition of unselfish mutual coexistence between us and the earthLover. Hero.

This Abandoned at birth for being born a daughter rather than a son, Atalanta is exactly what "The Bear Whispers raised under the protective eye of the goddess Athemis and fashioned into a formidable huntress, one who longs for adventure. When the opportunity comes – to join the Argonauts, a fierce band of warriors, descendent from the Gods themselves – Atalanta seizes the chance to Me" effortlessly doesfight in Artemis' name and carve out her own legendary place in history. What follows is a whirlwind of challenges and discovery and through it, Atalanta must remember Artemis' fatal warning: that if she marries, it will be her undoing.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0993215408</amazonuk>1472292154

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Fred UhlmanAmanthi Harris|title=ReunionBeautiful Place

|summary=Hans Schwarz was Padma, a jew and attended young Sri Lankan, has returned to the Karl Alexander Gymnasium, Villa Hibiscus on the most famous grammar school in Wurttembergsouthern coast of her home country. At sixteen he didn't really have This is a friend place she spent her formative years. and It is not a place she was slightly apart from the other cliques in his classborn into, until but the arrival one she thinks of Konradin von Hohenfelsas home. How she came to be at the Villa, how it became her home, and the elegantly-dressed son of machinations that have flowed through her life ever since she first arrived there provide the aristocracy''score'' for this gentle and yet subtly violent novel. For some reason Hans Padma's present fails to escape her past and Konradin became much like the best musical score of friends, spending a glorious summer walking in the Swabian hillsfilm, comparing their coin collections and talking about that strand weaves its way through everything. Only slowly does it occur 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 happens at the Weimar RepublicVilla.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1860463657</amazonuk>1784631930

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ivan Vladislavic178563335X|title=101 DetectivesSea Defences|author=Hilary Taylor|rating=3.5|genre=Short StoriesLiterary Fiction|summary=101 Detectives had me baffledWhen 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. Her husband, Christopher, collects six-year-old Hannah and her elder brother, Jamie, whilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioner. Thelma's daughter-in-law won't let her see her grandson. The book comprises of Holthorpe, on the Norfolk coast, is a lovely place, but Rachel is struggling to develop a collection of stories which explore multiple themes from real bond with the perspective parish - and she's in awe of one person. The stories are as varied as the characters presenting vicar, Gail, but then she's been doing the tale to youjob for more than thirty years. This exquisitely written book leaves you asking many questions Rachel and pondering many ideasChristopher hoped that a walk on the beach would do them some good - it was stormy but it was probably what they needed. And then Hannah went missing. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908276568</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jan-Philipp Sendker1398515388|title= Whispering ShadowsThe Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary General Fiction|summary= Paul Leibovitz First of all, it was a journalistthe earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and this, in turn, caused the nuclear meltdown. That The result was beforecomplete and utter devastation. Before he had a small child The deaths were uncountable, who did not survive as long as he should haveand the loss of livelihoods was widespread. Before The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the end list of priorities but - six months after the marriage that did not survive the loss of tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a child. Now Leibovitz himself, merely survivesconvenience store. He lives in wasn't a kind of self-imposed exile on Lamma, third largest of dog person but the Hong Kong islands, a place of greenery convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and solitudeTamon the dog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973309</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jo Walton0989715337|title= The Just City|rating= 3.5|genre= Dystopian Fiction|summary=Urged Papa 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 the ointment…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472150767</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= David Finkle|title= The 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>}}{{newreviewMoon|author=Rebecca Dinerstein|title=The Sunlit NightMarco North

|summary=Frances comes from a 'desperately artistic family', her father a medical illustrator and her mother an interior designerSome frogs had gotten into the well. Along with her younger sister Sarah, she grew up in a tiny one'' ''Walter stood waist-bedroom apartment deep in Manhattan: bunk beds for the girls and a fold-out sofa bed fragrant water, naked except for the parentshis beaten leather hat. The claustrophobic atmosphere has gotten to everyone and nowLong strands of their eggs wove around him, sticky gray pearls with Frances graduating from college, it looks like tadpoles inside them. Two of the dogs leaned over the family might fall apart. Her parents argue constantly opening and disapprove barked down at the strange noise of Sarah's fiancé (not ''just'' because the buckets as he isn't Jewish)filled them. 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 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 musing, if what you love doesn't matter?' she asks her fatherturning on a sixpence. StillAnd author Marco North, she who has no other prospects, so agrees to take up a painting apprenticeship in the furthest reaches most wonderful turn of Norway; 'All I had was a directionphrase, northstarts as he means to go on.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408863049</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Claire FullertonDaisy Hildyard|title=Dancing to an Irish ReelEmergency

|summary=Hailey was on a sabbatical from her job in the music business in Los Angeles and taking the holiday The summary of a lifetime to Ireland, when she walked into the Galway Music Centre and found a job which she simply couldnthis book doesn't turn down. She also found a home in a local village, a liking for the rural life and a man whom she could love. Liam Hennessy was a talented accordion player: music was his life and whilst he was more attracted come close to Hailey than he had ever been to another woman it wasn't entirely clear whether 'love' could ever be on explaining what is done with the cards for himpremise.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0990304256</amazonuk>1913097811}} {{newreviewFrontpage |author=Jessie Greengrass Sally Oliver |title=An Account of the Decline The Weight of the Great Auk, According to One Who Saw It Loss |rating=34 |genre=Short StoriesLiterary Fiction |summary=The title storyMarianne is grieving. Traumatised after the death of her sister, which appears firstshe awakes to find strange, is exactly what it says on thick black hairs sprouting from the tin: one hunter's story bones of travelling to remote islands to take part her spine which steadily increase in massive culls of great auks, until they were simply gonesize and volume. It's always hard to believe that species that once numbered in their millionsHer GP, such diagnosing the odd phenomenon as the passenger pigeona physical reaction to her grief, could recommends she go extinct so quicklyto stay at Nede, 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 targetan experimental new treatment centre in Wales. The narrator makes no real attempt Yet something strange is happening to defend himselfMarianne and the other patients at Nede: the birds were there for the taking; that was that. Still, he regrets their extinction, because 'in any loss you can see a shadow metamorphosis of the way that you will be lost yourselfa kind.' (Those interested in the great aukAs Marianne's extinction may also want memories threaten to read the 2013 novel ''The Collector overwhelm her, Nede offers her release from this cycle of memory and pain—but only at a terrible price: that of Lost Things'' by Jeremy Pageidentity itself.)|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473610850</amazonuk>086154112X }}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patricia ParkNatalia Garcia Freire|title=Re JaneThis World Does Not Belong To Us|rating=3.5

|summary= Growing up in FlushingEarly comments on this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendous, New York –Jane Re has long been hoping to escape her whole lifea delight. A half-Korean, half-American Orphan, Jane struggles to find her place as I will agree with the first – tremendous is no understatement – but 'a spirited and intelligent young woman growing up delight' is perhaps using the expression in a strict and mirthless family, observing way I'm not familiar with. I have to confess my ignorance of the Spanish-language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation here. From the traditional Korean principle of “Nunchi” little I have read (a combination of good mannersin translation, obligation and hierarchyI don't read Spanish). Desperate there does seem to escape, Jane is thrilled when she becomes be a tendency towards the au pair for a rich couple fantastical – two Brooklyn based professors of English, who have adopted a young Chinese girl into their family. Jane soon falls for the man of the family, but their blossoming affair is soon curtailed by a family death, prompting Jane’s return to Koreamystical realism. 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>0861541901

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patricia DunckerJennifer Saint|title=Sophie and the Sibyl: A Victorian RomanceElektra

|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary='Elektra'Sophie and by Jennifer Saint tells the story of three women who live in the Sibyl'', consciously modelled on John Fowles's ''The French Lieutenant's Woman'', is a postmodern blending heavily male dominated world of historyAncient Greece. Cassandra, fictionClytemnestra, and metafictional commentary. Brothers Max and Wolfgang Duncker really were George Eliot's German publishers, but Elektra are all bit players in the accident story of their surname matching the author's makes them her clever stand-inTrojan War. As Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the novel opens in 1872, silent women have the venerable English author is exploring Homburg most compelling stories and Berlin in the company of her 'husband' while ushering her latest novel, ''Middlemarch'', 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 marriagemost extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140886052X</amazonuk>1472273915

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sara Baume8409290103|title=Spill Simmer Falter WitherIf Only|author=Matthew Tree|rating=4.5

|summary=Every Tuesday Twenty-one-year-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by his father, cotton-broker AO Lowry: he goes into town. This particular Tuesday he sees an advert for asked his accountant, Mr Patrick, to ensure that the young man got on board the boat and thereafter Patrick was to send him a rescue dog that's been badly treated by its previous ownermonthly allowance. Somewhere Patrick sent the ad strikes money regularly and a resonance and he adopts correspondence - of sorts - sprang up between the dogtwo although we hear more about what Lowry has to say than Patrick. It wasn't that Lowry senior didn't care for his son, calling it Oneeye (yes, one word, just like was that)he didn't care to have him in this country where he might be a danger to his wife and other children. Gradually over shared meals a friendship grows and develops over the seasons as the spill of spring turns The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to summer's simmer, through get the falter of autumn and young man on to withering winterhis way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0992817064</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Michael Laub|title=Diary of the Fall|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Diary of the Fall is a story about regret, guilt and resentment. It's told from the point of view of an unnamed narrator, who reflects on not just his own life but also the lives of his father and grandfather.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099581795</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Antoine Laurain, Emily Boyce (translator) Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)|title=The Red Notebookis My Heart|rating=3.5|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Meet Laure[[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white and read in my house. She's a widow in her 40sAnd so was this one, who is entering her Parisian apartment building although I could have spelled that more accurately – this one night when she's muggedwas, and her handbag stolen. Meet Laurentis, a middle-aged bookseller, who happens upon the handbag the following morning in the street, just before the binmen take it away, never to be seen againblack and white and red. More or less snubbed when trying to hand it to the police as lost propertyYes, he decides to take it upon himself to reunite the bag with its rightful owner. He has no idea their names are so intimately linkedan artistic collaborator on this piece, and despite a lot of things being in the bag (including the titular notebook) there is no cash, no phone and no ID documentation at all. WhatI think it's more – and what looks like making the idea even more fruitless – he has no idea that Laure has fallen into a coma as a result of the mugging…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908313862</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Edward Parnell |title= The Listeners |rating= 4 |genre= Literary Fiction |summary=May 1940. William Abrehart has possible to say not spoken since one page lacks 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 influence of shocking eventssome striking visual ideas. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781331065</amazonuk>1913547183

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nadia HashimiB098FFFBH9|title=The Pearl a That Broke Its ShellSnowcub|author=Graham Fulbright

|summary=Kabul 2007: Rahima Fourteen-year-old Rachel is her school's animal rights project leader and she and her sisters friend are followed home from school one day by producing a boy on his bike. He taunts them innocently enough as little boys do, but with no sibling brother, competition entry to highlight the girls are unchaperoned way in this land that is ruled by which human beings exploit the laws of menanimal world. And as daughters in She gets a household without sonsgreat deal of support from her family: father Pip Harrison, in a country that is governed by fearlecturer at Imperial College, London, mother Kate and her twin, Nick. Kate runs the consequences will weigh heavily for them allfamily business, a toy shop called Cornucopia in Putney, which is where we'll meet Rachel's main (if unsuspected) source of information: five soft toys.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0062244760</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Norah VincentYancey Williams|title=Adeline: A Novel Crosshairs of Virginia Woolfthe Devil|rating=4.5

|summary=Back Award-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski is getting on in 1999years and, despite his strenuous objections and thanks to his daughter, finds himself living - or imprisoned, when from Eddie''The Hours'' won s point of view - in room 315 of the Pulitzer PrizeGarden of Eden nursing home, Michael Cunningham set with only a precedent trusty nursing aide, Jenkins, for depicting Woolf's later life and suicidepalatable company. Nicole Kidman won a Best Actress Oscar for her role as Woolf Nothing is going to keep Eddie from his stock-in the film version -trade of the novel; she is best remembered for wearing a prosthetic nose. Fast forward 15 years. In 2014–2015 alonewriting though, three major novels about Virginia Woolf have been published. That confluenceso here, especially in a year that does not mark a significant anniversaryfor his readers, speaks to a continuing interest in Woolfare his wanderings through his life's life and writingswork.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349005648</amazonuk>0986031658}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ivan Repila and Sophie Hughes (translator)0008421714|title=The Boy Who Stole Attila's HorseMrs March|author=Virginia Feito|rating=4.5

|summary=If you pick up a copy The problem began just after the publication of this book you realise how small it isGeorge March's most successful novel to date. You'll Everyone but Mrs March (we 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 her first name only on the exception last page) seemed to prove the rule. It's wee. The story is on a hundred pageseither be reading it or had already done so. The concision is partly down Every day Mrs March went to it starting after the beginninglocal patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, for we first meet Big and SmallPatricia asked, two brothersas she was wrapping the bread, once they're stuck down a large well in 'but isn't this the middle of first time he's based a forest. character on you?'' Tasked with a family errandShe mentioned that Johanna, theythe principal character had 'her mannerisms''re trapped at the bottom of a natural Erlenmeyer flask, and even a desperate move cannot get either out. This Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for the fact that Johanna is the story whore of the next three months in their existenceNantes - ''a weak, plain, as they brave hungerdetestable, deliriumpathetic, loss of languageunloved, and the brute and unstinting human selfishness needed for existenceunloveable wretch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782271015</amazonuk>''