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[[Category:New Reviews|Literary Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Aldous HuxleyMatthew Tree|title= Time Must Have A StopWe'll Never Know|rating= 34.5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= Sometimes we start reading "authors" as opposed Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to specific booksbe different from his father, because we feel we ''should''a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of self confidence. So it was with me and Huxley. I seem Tim applied himself to remember reading his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and actually enjoying the classic ''Brave New World'' and so felt compelled to explore more of the oeuvreset himself high but achievable ambitions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178487034X</amazonuk>B0CVFXPGP8

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michel Houellebecq and Lorin Stein (translator)B0C47LV1PC|title=SubmissionFragility|author=Mosby Woods

|summary=What do Can you expect from Submissionmake a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it? It Or is after all from one of Europe's more blunt huge-sellersthe question if you did, one who would it land? The catch is most forthright in his opinions, narratives and characters' sexual livesthat the answer for both could well be.... no. It has become indelibly linked with a new Europe, after its reception and contents led to publicity on the cover of  ''Charlie HebdoFragility''is set as the city of Portland, which resulted in something less savoury than literatureOregon, cautiously begins to say emerge from the least. Do you expect it to be about a France of restrictions imposed during the near future, where a Muslim political party provides the president? Well, don't go into this submissively following your expectations.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785150243</amazonuk>covid pandemic

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Rachel ElliottMosby Woods|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>}}{{newreview|author=Benjamin Johncock|title=The Last PilotWhirly Man Loses His Turn

|genre=Literary Fiction |summary=YouThe West isn'd be forgiven for assuming that debut novelist Benjamin Johncock t the dominant force it once was. Nobody in the West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is American: ''The Last Pilot'' has the literary weight best course of a Great American Novelaction. Governments are flailing. A war here, with a limitless desert setting plus the prospect of soon dominating space, and the spare yet profound writing style of Ernest Hemingway or Cormac McCarthypush for climate action there. Johncock A feeling that nobody is Britishin actual charge. Imagine then, but you there was a man with precognition. Imagine the strategic advantage in this asset; a man who can tell he's taken inspiration from stories about the dawn you what will happen given any set of circumstances. That man would be valuable, right? Perhaps the astronaut agemost valuable asset in history. Imagine then, including Tom Wolfe's ''The Right Stuff'' and films like ''Apollo 13''that this man loses this ability. His protagonist, Jim Harrison, is a fictional Air Force test pilot who rubs shoulders with historical figures like Chuck Yeager and John Glenn in the quest What would governments do to break the sound barrier and conquer space.get it back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908434848</amazonuk>B0C9SNG8R1

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tessa Hadley0571379559|title=The PastHouse of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams|rating=45

|summary=Tessa Hadley writes beautifully subtle stories ''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the story of English family lifefour people. Her understated style has a touch of the 1950s or 1960s about it Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, calling to mind Elizabeth Taylor or early Margaret Drabblebut instead, and she seems to adapt classic genres like lives in the novel of manners or the country house novel. Here she deliberately channels Elizabeth Bowen with a setup borrowed from ''The House in Paris'': on the novel is divided into three partsriverbank, titled 'The Present'built of broken bricks. Insubstantial as it might look, it'The Past's stood the passage of time, storms and 'The Present'floods. That structure allows for a deeper look at what Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the house delivery rounds - and a neighbouring cottage to bring in sufficient money. They have meant to twin boys - Sonny and Max, the central familyrainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. People don't believe that they're related, much less twins and paves the way for one final shocker of a secretthere's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she's his nanny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224101692</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Andrew MillerClaire North|title= The CrossingHouse of Odysseus|rating= 5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Tim ''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 Maud seem, physical – the chaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to everyone around themIthaca's shores, mismatchedQueen Penelope is on the brink of a fragile peace. SheOne that shatters however with the return of Orestes, quite literallyKing of Mycenae, falls into and his lifesister Elektra, and they build seeking refuge.|isbn=0356516075}}{{Frontpage|author= Kay Chronister|title= Desert Creatures|rating= 4|genre= Dystopian Fiction|summary= With a life – jobsworld that is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, post-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Whether it is a houserobotic takeover, a boatworld devoid of water or a nuclear holocaust, then this genre is a childway for humans to cathartically experience their most existential fears. Tim needs Maud, needs her to complete him, wants desperately to completer her, to help her''Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is a new work of post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the fears that exist for humanity today. But what if Maud It is already complete? What if she doesn’t need help? When tragedy strikes, Maud will find herself miles away from anyone, on a journey shocking novel that will change everything, and test her still manages to the utmostfind hope.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444753495</amazonuk>1803364998

{{newreviewfrontpage|isbn=1803363002|author= Andrew Michael HurleyEric 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>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael LaubAntoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)|title=Diary of the FallRed is My Heart|rating=43.5|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Diary of the Fall [[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white and read in my house. And so was this one, although I could have spelled that more accurately – this one was, and is a story about regret, guilt black and white and resentmentred. ItYes, he has an artistic collaborator on this piece, and I think it's told from the point of view of an unnamed narrator, who reflects on possible to say not just his own life but also one page lacks the lives influence of his father and grandfathersome striking visual ideas.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099581795</amazonuk>1913547183

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Antoine Laurain, Emily Boyce (translator) and Jane Aitken (translator)B098FFFBH9|title=The Red NotebookSnowcub|author=Graham Fulbright|rating=4.5|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Meet Laure. She's a widow in her 40s, who Fourteen-year-old Rachel is entering her Parisian apartment building one night when sheschool's mugged, animal rights project leader and she and her handbag stolen. Meet Laurent, friend are producing a middle-aged bookseller, who happens upon competition entry to highlight the handbag the following morning way in which human beings exploit the street, just before the binmen take it away, never to be seen againanimal world. More or less snubbed when trying to hand it to the police as lost property, he decides to take it upon himself to reunite the bag with its rightful owner. He has no idea their names are so intimately linked, and despite She gets a lot great deal of things being in the bag (including the titular notebook) there is no cashsupport from her family: father Pip Harrison, no phone and no ID documentation a lecturer at all. What's more – Imperial College, London, mother Kate 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 not spoken since the mysterious death of his fatherher twin, choosing instead to spend his days in the woods that surround his homeNick. A promise he made to his dying father means that he is responsible for Kate runs the wellbeing of his two sistersfamily business, and their withdrawn mother. Over the course of a weekendtoy shop called Cornucopia in Putney, ghosts which is where we'll meet Rachel's main (if unsuspected) source of the past cause buried secrets, lies and promises to come spilling out - culminating in a series of shocking eventsinformation: five soft toys. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781331065</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nadia HashimiYancey Williams|title=The Pearl a That Broke Its ShellCrosshairs of the Devil

|summary=Kabul 2007: Rahima Award-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski is getting on in years and, despite his strenuous objections and her sisters are followed home from school one day by a boy on thanks to his bike. He taunts them innocently enough as little boys dodaughter, but with no sibling brotherfinds himself living - or imprisoned, the girls are unchaperoned from Eddie's point of view - in this land that is ruled by room 315 of the laws Garden of menEden nursing home, with only a trusty nursing aide, Jenkins, for palatable company. And as daughters Nothing is going to keep Eddie from his stock-in a household without sons-trade of writing though, in a country that is governed by fearso here, the consequences will weigh heavily for them allhis readers, are his wanderings through his life's work.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0062244760</amazonuk>0986031658}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Norah Vincent0008421714|title=Adeline: A Novel of Mrs March|author=Virginia WoolfFeito|rating=4.5

|summary=Back in 1999, when ''The Hours'' won problem began just after the Pulitzer Prize, Michael Cunningham set a precedent for depicting Woolfpublication of George March's later life and suicidemost successful novel to date. Nicole Kidman won a Best Actress Oscar for Everyone but Mrs March (we know her role first name only on the last page) seemed to either be reading it or had already done so. Every day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, Patricia asked, as Woolf in she was wrapping the film version of bread, ''but isn't this the novel; she is best remembered for wearing first time he's based a prosthetic nosecharacter on you?'' She mentioned that Johanna, the principal character had 'her mannerisms''. Fast forward 15 years. In 2014–2015 alone, three major novels about Virginia Woolf Perhaps this would not have been published. That confluencemattered, especially in a year except for the fact that does not mark Johanna is the whore of Nantes - ''a significant anniversaryweak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, speaks to a continuing interest in Woolfunloveable wretch.''s life and writings.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349005648</amazonuk>