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|summary= Deep in the heart of Germany sits the village of Furstenfelde. It lies on a spit of land that, legend has itTimothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a giant created, between two lakes – the Great Lake, drunk and the Deep Lake. All around is forest. The village is enjoying summer, and we can see the inhabitants as they go about their lazy life on the last hot day and night before the seasons change, from the teenage lads fishing and crashing cars or preparing for a bell-ringing exam, to the girl who wants out, to the middle-aged man who made a pub out chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of a garage his artistic passions all failed miserably and some curtains, to the older man (a retired soldier) who is watching his last piece had endless crises of titillating TV before going out to either fetch cigarettes or shoot self confidence. So Tim applied himself, to the older still lady painting a portrait of the town ready to auction it off on the morrow. For the morrow is the annual fetehis studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and all those people are, one way or another, reacting to its imminent arrivalset himself high but achievable ambitions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782271295</amazonuk>B0CVFXPGP8

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andre AlexisB0C47LV1PC|title=Fifteen DogsFragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=4.5

|summary=Gods (and brothers) Hermes and Apollo were arguing in Can you make a bar about what would happen ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if animals had human intelligence and eventually a wager was agreed. Human intelligence would be granted to fifteen dogs staying overnight in a veterinary clinic and you could, is the question should you make it? Or is the wagerquestion if you did, suggested by Apollo, was would it land? The catch is that Hermes would the answer for both could well be his servant for a year if .... no. ''Fragility'' is set as the dogs were not more unhappy than they would have been originally. But - if even one city of Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to emerge from the dogs was happy at restrictions imposed during the end of its life Hermes would win.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178125558X</amazonuk>covid pandemic

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Marina WarnerMosby Woods|title=Fly Away HomeA Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=3|genre=Short Stories|summary=How would you subvert a fairy tale? You know enough of them and enough about them to do it, so think on it. Would you give a mermaid a smartphone? Would you pepper them with pop stars, and perhaps let them be witness to the Schadenfreude caused by a cave that's sacred to native Canadians? Would you, in the light of their characters usually being routine, interchangeable tropes, give them a closely-observed personality – as seen here in a teacher's interior thoughts when faced with a piece of East Anglian lore? Would you take the exoticism of the east, and Egypt in particular, and see it in the light of a musical teacher on a zero-hours contract who ends up muttering to himself, directing traffic in the middle of the road, or from the remove of an elderly man with ''swollen feet in orthopaedic sandals'' with a message from the past? Certainly these two are not the standard Arabian Nights-styled pieces…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784630381</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jeanette Winterson|title=The Gap of Time|rating=3.54

|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 inaugural volume best course of a new series of Shakespeare retellings from Hogarth Pressaction. Governments are flailing. Still to come: Margaret Atwood on ''The Tempest''A war here, Howard Jacobson on ''The Merchant of Venice'' and Anne Tyler on ''The Taming of the Shrew'', among othersa push for climate action there. How A feeling that nobody is this first book? It's pretty good as Winterson novels goin actual charge. Imagine then, incorporating Shakespearean themes of time, deception and adoption and turning bears and statues into metaphors while remaining loyal to there was a man with precognition. Imagine the essence strategic advantage in this asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of the plotcircumstances. Yet two crucial elements of That man would be valuable, right? Perhaps the play don't make sense most valuable asset in a modern settinghistory. Imagine then, and in the end I felt that this man loses this added nothing ability. What would governments do to my enjoyment of the original.get it back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781090297</amazonuk>B0C9SNG8R1

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marlon James0571379559|title=A Brief History The House of Seven KillingsBroken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams

|summary=Willem''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the story of four people. Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, JBbut instead, Malcolm and Jude don't have a lot she lives in common apart from their friendshipthe house on the riverbank, built of broken bricks. They gravitated together at college and remain close as they become successful in careers as different Insubstantial as it might look, it's stood the theatre passage of time, storms and architecturefloods. However even hopes for successful future can't erase Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the blight of delivery rounds - and to bring in sufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and Max, the past for one of themrainbow twins. Jude is physically disabled from a cause that isnSonny's colouring reflects his mother't genetic or congenitals Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. In fact the cause isnPeople don't even something hebelieve that they're related, much less twins and there's shared an assumption when Max is out with the other three. The events around it stem back to his childhood and haunt each thought and action he takes as well as mother that she's his ability to take themnanny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447294815</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Julia Franck and Anthea Bell (translator)Claire North|title=WestHouse of Odysseus|rating=3.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Put yourself in ''What could matter more than love?'' The follow-up to the shoes excellent ''Ithaca'' picks up a few months after where we left off. In the palace of a young mother Odysseus, with delicate care Queen Penelope continues to two childrenrule without her husband, who declares her intention sailed to leave the Communist East Germany for West Berlin, war at Troy and thus loses her scientist jobthen by divine intervention never returned home. What would you expect on As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for the throne of the other side Western Isles. Having survived – shops full of attainable products, pleasant neighbourhoods, nice neighbours, an active politically and busy new life, where things might feel alien but at least you speak physical – the same language? Well, for Nelly Senffchaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to Ithaca's shores, this Queen Penelope is hardly on the casebrink of a fragile peace. Once past the depressing Eastern exit procedures she is confronted One that shatters however with more desultory interrogations from those 'welcoming' her to the West, beyond which she and her children (their father, whom she never married, is long assumed dead by the authoritiesreturn of Orestes, if nobody else) are practically left in a shared accommodation in a transit camp. The shops are full King of what is still unobtainableMycenae, the children hate their new school – and people still look down on them as being foreignhis sister Elektra, even if they have only moved across a cityseeking refuge.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099554321</amazonuk>0356516075

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Salman RushdieKay Chronister|title= Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights|rating= 3.5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= Tediously captivating may not sound like the most compelling recommendation for a book you've ever heard. Yet it's the nearest I can come to summing up the style of this novel, which features some of the most beautiful language and imagery I've ever read whilst telling a story which moves at a glacial pace.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>191070203X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Aldous Huxley|title= The Genius and the GoddessDesert Creatures

|genre= Literary Dystopian Fiction|summary= SoWith a world that is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, three books inpost-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Whether it is a robotic takeover, I've now got to grips with the idea that Huxley doesn't so much want to tell a story as expound his ideas. Once you know thatworld devoid of water or a nuclear holocaust, it makes it easier this genre is a way for humans to choose whether to read him or notcathartically experience their most existential fears. On balance, I have come down on the side of not – I won't be dashing out to 'Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is a new work my way through the rest of his output post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the way I want fears that exist for humanity today. It is a shocking novel that still manages to with, say, Nevil Shute, or George Orwellfind hope.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784870366</amazonuk>1803364998

{{newreviewfrontpage|isbn=1803363002|author=Dan RhodesEric LaRocca|title=When the Professor Got Stuck in the SnowThe Trees Grew Because I Bled There|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionHorror|summary= Two people are on Horror taps into something primeval within us. It is used as a train on their way toreflect our darkest emotions and how we as humans react and process them. Most horror fiction feature a ''Big Bad'', of all thingswhether that is a home invader, a WI meeting where monster or a ghost, it usually something tangible and, by the ladies end of All Bottoms will be lectured on the non-existence of Godstory, beatable. One of the two people is Professor Richard Dawkins, rampant atheist, hectoring scientist chappie, and all-round devotee of Eric LaRocca's 'Deal or No Deal''. The other is Smee, his mono-named assistant, amanuensis or Trees Grew Because I Bled There'male secretary'is not like that. Smee will come to the fore when the weather sets It is a collection of short stories more interested in and the train journey has to be abandoned some way short horrors of its ultimate destinationillness, Upper Bottomgrief and humiliation. Instead the pair fetch up at the isolated yet friendly community of Market Horton, Horrors that linger and the only option for accommodation is taken – yes, the died-in-the-wool non-believer has are harder to be housed by a retired vicar and his wifedefeat than any ''Big Bad''. This clash of titanic opinions, peppered with social faux pas aplenty will provide for a particularly English kind of farcical comedy, but one with the legs to go as far as any other Good Books have reached in the past…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910709018</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Aldous HuxleyMadelaine Lucas|title= Time Must Have A StopThirst for Salt|rating= 3|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= Sometimes we start reading "authors" as opposed to specific books, because we feel we ''should''. So it was with me and Huxley. I seem to remember reading and actually enjoying the classic ''Brave New World'' and so felt compelled to explore more of the oeuvre.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178487034X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Michel Houellebecq and Lorin Stein (translator)|title=Submission|rating=45

|summary=What do you expect from Submission? It is after all from one of Europe's more blunt huge-sellers, one who is most forthright in his opinions, narratives and characters' sexual lives. It has become indelibly linked with a new EuropeLove, after its reception and contents led to publicity on the cover of ''Charlie Hebdo'I'd read, which resulted in something less savoury than literature, to say the least. Do you expect it was supposed to be about a France of the near futurelight and weightless feeling, where a Muslim political party provides the president? Well, donbut I had always longed for gravity''t go into this submissively following your expectations.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785150243</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Rachel Elliott|title= Whispers Through A Megaphone|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Miriam doesn’t speak. Well, that’s not strictly true. She does speakTold from a retrospective view, 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 young woman unravels the day. She’s going to open year-long relationship that door and walk outside. She really isonce defined her. Ralph has finally twigged (and Overlaid 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 Medialater wisdom, Ralph hasn’t really had the narrator relives the affair with a chance man twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to think about itits sorrowful end the summer after. But now he has, it is so shockingly awful that he has decided to run away. And Set against the backdrop of all an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the places he could run away to24-year-old narrator's deepening relationship with her older lover, he has chosen the same woods that Miriam has picked to be the first place she will visit outdepicting its all-of-doors. And Sadie? Wellconsuming nature, she’s had enough of reading Tweets how it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and living vicariously through the posts of others. Sadie is going to have an adventure of how it altered her ownirrevocably. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0992918227</amazonuk>0861546490

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Benjamin JohncockMichael Grothaus|title=The Last PilotBeautiful Shining People

|genre=Literary Fiction |summary=You'd be forgiven for assuming that debut novelist Benjamin Johncock is American: 'But fearing something and having it come to pass are two different things. And I'The Last Pilot'' has the literary weight m willing to bet most of a Great American Novelwhat we fear will never happen, with a limitless desert setting plus the prospect of soon dominating space, and the spare yet profound writing style of Ernest Hemingway or Cormac McCarthywe can take steps to change it. Johncock is British, but you can tell he's taken inspiration from stories about the dawn of the astronaut age, including Tom Wolfe's  ''The Right StuffBeautiful Shining People'' revolves around the question of identity and films like ''Apollo 13''acceptance. Of what it means to be human. His protagonist, Jim HarrisonOf what is real and what is artificial, is a fictional Air Force test pilot who rubs shoulders with historical figures like Chuck Yeager and John Glenn in whether the quest to break the sound barrier and conquer spacedevelopment of technology is exciting or frightening.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908434848</amazonuk>191458564X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tessa HadleyJennifer Saint|title=The PastAtalanta|rating=45

|summary=Tessa Hadley writes beautifully subtle stories ''I was as worthy as any one of English family lifethem. Her understated style has a touch of the 1950s or 1960s about itI would get on board that ship, calling to mind Elizabeth Taylor or early Margaret DrabbleI vowed. I would take my place, and she seems to adapt classic genres like not just in the novel name of manners or the country house novelgoddess. Here she deliberately channels Elizabeth Bowen with a setup borrowed from ''The House in Paris'': It was for the novel is divided into three partssake of my name, titled too. Atalanta'The Present', 'The Past', and 'The Present' Princess. Warrior. Lover. Hero. That structure allows  Abandoned at birth for being born a deeper look at what daughter rather than a son, Atalanta is raised under the protective eye of the house goddess Athemis and fashioned into a neighbouring cottage have meant formidable huntress, one who longs for adventure. When the opportunity comes – to join the central familyArgonauts, a fierce band of warriors, descendent from the Gods themselves – Atalanta seizes the chance to fight in Artemis' name and paves the way for one final shocker carve out her own legendary place in history. What follows is a whirlwind of a secretchallenges and discovery and through it, Atalanta must remember Artemis' fatal warning: that if she marries, it will be her undoing.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0224101692</amazonuk>1472292154

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Andrew MillerAmanthi Harris|title= The CrossingBeautiful Place|rating= 5

|summary= Tim and Maud seemPadma, a young Sri Lankan, has returned to everyone around them, mismatchedthe Villa Hibiscus on the southern coast of her home country. She, quite literally, falls into his life, and they build This is a life – jobs, place she spent her formative years. It is not a houseplace she was born into, a boat, then a childbut the one she thinks of as home. Tim needs Maud How she came to be at the Villa, needs how it became her to complete himhome, wants desperately to completer and the machinations that have flowed through her, life ever since she first arrived there provide the ''score'' for this gentle and yet subtly violent novel. Padma's present fails to help escape her. But what if Maud is already complete? What if she doesn’t need help? When tragedy strikes, Maud will find herself miles away from anyonepast and much like the musical score of a film, on a journey that will change strand weaves its way through everything, and test her to that happens at the utmostVilla.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444753495</amazonuk>1784631930

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Andrew Michael Hurley178563335X|title= The LoneySea Defences|author=Hilary Taylor|rating= 5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= ItWhen we first meet Rachel Bird she's always a privilege when youtrainee vicar, sitting in on a PCC meeting and wondering why they're given an advance reading copy of something – and a real 'block' held when you read need to pick the small print that says children up. Her husband, Christopher, collects six-year-old Hannah and her elder brother, Jamie, whilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioner. Thelma'not for resale or quotations daughter-in-law won't let her see her grandson. Fair comment Holthorpe, on the resale bitNorfolk coast, is a lovely place, but when you get something as brilliant as Rachel is struggling to develop a real bond with the parish - and she's in awe of the vicar, Gail, but then she'The Loney'' being required not to quote is just plain unfairs been doing the job for more than thirty years. Rachel and Christopher 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>1473619823</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eli Horowitz, Matthew Derby and Kevin Moffett1398515388|title=The Silent HistoryBoy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)

|genre=Science General Fiction|summary=WellFirst of all, it was the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, they kept which created the tsunami and this quiet – for reasons that will become obvious. A couple of years ago people , in America were giving birth to problematic kids. They (turn, caused 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 parents' heartsnuclear meltdown. They were later found to be completely unable to speak, they could not read The result was complete and indeed they could not understand anything said to them, or shown them, as an instructionutter devastation. They The deaths were physically unable to parse anything as languageuncountable, and were in a silent world the loss of their ownlivelihoods was widespread. But right about now they and we are combining worlds – schools are being set up, and funds are being made available, and people are coming The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down on the endless divide as to whether they are just problematic, disabled – or even list of priorities but - six months after the blessedtsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. In He wasn't a couple of years, however, dog person but the problems the virus convenience store owner's comment that is causing these people to be born with will be shown he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to be a major problem – open his car door and that is before Tamon the kids themselves change. For they will be able to switch their mental abilities much like a blind man can hear more than the average, and will be able to comprehend body and facial language much more coherently than anyone elsedog jumped in. 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…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009959286X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Meike Ziervogel0989715337|title=KautharPapa on the Moon|author=Marco North

|summary=Meet Lydia''Some frogs had gotten into the well. She's a normal British girl, interested ' ''Walter stood waist-deep in following both her fatherthe fragrant water, and Nadia Comaneci, into the world naked except for his beaten leather hat. Long strands of gymnastics but not brave enough to pull off the larger set piecestheir eggs wove around him, and sticky gray pearls with not much more to interrupt her days than wondering why boys always have to talk about their williestadpoles inside them. Now meet Kauthar, a white British convert to Islam, devoted follower Two of the precepts of her religion, ardent wife dogs leaned over the opening and stalwartly self-fulfilling, no-nonsense and satisfied. But what is this – why is she talking barked down at the strange noise 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 apart''? Has something gone wrong?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784630292</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Philip K Dick|title= Humpty Dumpty in Oakland|rating= 3the buckets as he filled them.5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= Dick is known primarily as a science fiction writer, most famously for the novel that spawned the film ''Blade Runner''.

I read How is that novel - [[Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheepfor an opening? by Philip K Dick|Do Androids Dream The style of Electric Sheep?]] - when I was about ten or eleven, a good ten years or so before this novel in the film came out form of interconnected short stories goes from succinct and – laconic to be fair – wistful and musing, turning on a good five years or so before I was fully capable of understanding the philosophical and ethical issues embedded in itsixpence. Not before, howeverAnd author Marco North, I was capable of asking who has the kind most wonderful turn of questions that would get me the kind of answers that form my standpoint phrase, starts as he means to go on those issues.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473209579</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Stephanie Bishop Daisy Hildyard|title= The Other Side of the WorldEmergency|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary Fiction |summary= This is a beautifully written The summary of this book, located both in England and Australia, about adulthood, changing responsibilities, and the universal desire for identity and belonging. This theme doesn't come close to explaining what is also reflected in the search for union and fulfilment in the marriage of Henry and Charlotte, struggling done with the changes imposed on them by parenthood and family life across two continentspremise. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472230612</amazonuk>1913097811}}{{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 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 {{Frontpage |author=Sally Oliver |title=The Weight of Loss |rating=4 |genre=Literary Fiction |summary= Marianne is once again warmgrieving.<br>Let us recall our songsTraumatised after the death of her sister, our dancesshe awakes to find strange, our sacred rituals.<br> And thick black hairs sprouting from the tradition bones of unselfish mutual coexistence between us her spine which steadily increase in size and volume. Her GP, diagnosing the earthodd phenomenon as a physical reaction to her grief, recommends she go to stay at Nede, an experimental new treatment centre in Wales. This Yet something strange is exactly what "The Bear Whispers happening to Me" effortlessly doesMarianne and the other patients at Nede: a metamorphosis of a kind. As Marianne's memories threaten to overwhelm her, Nede offers her release from this cycle of memory and pain—but only at a terrible price: that of identity itself.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0993215408</amazonuk>086154112X }}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Fred UhlmanNatalia Garcia Freire|title=ReunionThis World Does Not Belong To Us

|summary=Hans Schwarz was Early comments on this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendous, a jew and attended delight. I will agree with the Karl Alexander Gymnasium, first – tremendous is no understatement – but 'a delight' is perhaps using the most famous grammar school expression in Wurttemberga way I'm not familiar with. At sixteen he didn't really I have a friend and was slightly apart from the other cliques in his class, until the arrival to confess my ignorance of Konradin von Hohenfels, the elegantlySpanish-dressed son of the aristocracylanguage literary tradition so forgive my generalisation here. For some reason Hans and Konradin became From the best of friends, spending a glorious summer walking little I have read (in the Swabian hillstranslation, comparing their coin collections and talking about everything. Only slowly I don't read Spanish) there does it occur seem 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 be a tendency towards the closing years of fantastical – the Weimar Republicmystical realism.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1860463657</amazonuk>0861541901

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ivan VladislavicJennifer Saint|title=101 DetectivesElektra|rating=3.54|genre=Short StoriesLiterary Fiction|summary=101 Detectives had me baffled. The book comprises of a collection 'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the story of stories which explore multiple themes from three women who live in the perspective heavily male dominated world of one personAncient Greece. The stories Cassandra, Clytemnestra, and Elektra are as varied as all bit players in the characters presenting story of the tale to youTrojan War. This exquisitely written book leaves you asking many questions Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the silent women have the most compelling stories and pondering many ideasthe most extreme furies. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908276568</amazonuk>1472273915

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jan-Philipp Sendker8409290103|title= Whispering ShadowsIf Only|author=Matthew Tree|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= Paul Leibovitz was a journalist. That was before. Before he Twenty-one-year-old Malcolm Lowry had a small childbeen sent abroad by his father, who did not survive as long as cotton-broker AO Lowry: he should have. Before asked his accountant, Mr Patrick, to ensure that the end of young man got on board the marriage that did not survive the loss of boat and thereafter Patrick was to send him a childmonthly allowance. Now Leibovitz himself, merely survives. He lives in Patrick sent the money regularly and a kind correspondence - of selfsorts -imposed exile on Lamma, third largest of sprang up between the Hong Kong islandstwo although we hear more about what Lowry has to say than Patrick. It wasn't that Lowry senior didn't care for his son, it was that he didn't care to have him in this country where he might be a place of greenery danger to his wife and solitudeother children. The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to get the young man on his way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973309</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jo WaltonAntoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)|title= The Just CityRed is My Heart|rating= 3.5|genre= Dystopian Literary Fiction|summary=Urged on by her brother Apollo[[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white and read in my house. And so was this one, goddess Pallas Athene founds the Just City of Atlantis although I could have spelled that more accurately – a city based on Plato’s republicthis one was, and is, black and white and red. Filling it with Yes, he has an assortments of adults collected from throughout timeartistic collaborator on this piece, as well as ten thousand ten year olds, (and I think it's possible to say not one page lacks the influence of whom is a disguised Apollo)some striking visual ideas. Whilst the city flourishes, the arrival of Socrates may prove to be a fly in the ointment…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472150767</amazonuk>1913547183

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= David FinkleB098FFFBH9|title= The Man With The OvercoatSnowcub|author=Graham Fulbright|rating= 34.5|genre= General Literary Fiction|summary=''Why would anyone Fourteen- he was soon to ask himself innumerable times year- take a coat from a complete stranger only because it had been offered?old Rachel is her school'' Skip Gerber steps off the elevator after a long day at work; the foyer of his office building is busy s animal rights project leader and buzzy she and he does not notice her friend are producing a competition entry to highlight the man holding way in which human beings exploit the overcoat until the man hands it to Skip telling him to ''take very good care animal world. She gets a great deal of it''support from her family: father Pip Harrison, a lecturer at Imperial College, London, mother Kate and her twin, Nick. Skip unthinkingly grasps Kate runs the coat and before he has the chance to realise what he family business, a toy shop called Cornucopia in Putney, which is doing - and that he is now holding an overcoat where we'll meet Rachel's main (if unsuspected) source of unknown providence - the man disappears out of the exit door to the buildinginformation: five soft toys.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0992618525</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rebecca DinersteinYancey Williams|title=The Sunlit NightCrosshairs of the Devil|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Award-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski is getting on in years and, despite his strenuous objections and thanks to his daughter, finds himself living - or imprisoned, from Eddie's point of view - in room 315 of the Garden of Eden nursing home, with only a trusty nursing aide, Jenkins, for palatable company. Nothing is going to keep Eddie from his stock-in-trade of writing though, so here, for his readers, are his wanderings through his life's work.|isbn=0986031658}} {{Frontpage|isbn=0008421714|title=Mrs March|author=Virginia Feito|rating=4.5

|summary=Frances comes from a The problem began just after the publication of George March'desperately artistic family', her father a medical illustrator and her mother an interior designers most successful novel to date. Along with Everyone but Mrs March (we know her younger sister Sarah, she grew up in a tiny one-bedroom apartment in Manhattan: bunk beds for first name only on the girls and a fold-out sofa bed for last page) seemed to either be reading it or had already done so. Every day Mrs March went to the parents. The claustrophobic atmosphere has gotten local patisserie to everyone and nowbuy olive bread but on that particular morning, with Frances graduating from collegePatricia asked, it looks like as she was wrapping the family might fall apart. Her parents argue constantly and disapprove of Sarahbread, 's fiancé (not 'but isn'just'' because t this the first time he isn't Jewish). Frances has her own romantic crisis: after s based 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 isncharacter on you?'t helping anyone. 'What does it matter if you do what you love She mentioned that Johanna, if what you love doesnthe principal character had 'her mannerisms't matter?' she asks her father. Still Perhaps this would not have mattered, she has no other prospects, so agrees to take up a painting apprenticeship in except for the fact that Johanna is the furthest reaches whore of Norway; Nantes - ''All I had was a directionweak, plain, detestable, pathetic, northunloved, unloveable wretch.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408863049</amazonuk>'