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|summary= This is the first novel of Helle Helle's, an award winning Danish author, Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be translated into English. It is easy to see different from this novel why she is gaining accolades in her Danish homeland. The rhythmichis father, natural flow a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of the narrative is mesmerising being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and appears who had endless crises of self confidence. So Tim applied himself to lull you through the book. It has some lovelyhis studies, spare sentences of description: ''There were run-down cottages with open doors cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and news on the radio. Gulls flocked around an early harvester in the late sun''. But mostly, it is written in a modernist, almost stream of consciousness style, which I found refreshingset himself high but achievable ambitions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099587475</amazonuk>B0CVFXPGP8

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alice ThompsonB0C47LV1PC|title=The Book CollectorFragility|author=Mosby Woods

|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Meet Violet. Swept off her feet by Can you make a disarming encounter with a landed gentleman and bookshop owner at a coffee shop''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, she immediately falls in love with him, and is quickly married, and almost as quickly with child. When the boy question should you make it? Or is bornthe question if you did, however, fairly understandable doubts creep inwould it land? The catch is that the answer for both could well be.... no. Is her husband hiding anything behind his assuredness – especially when she wakes in  ''Fragility'' is set as the middle city of the night alone? What ghost is left by the fact he lost his first wife and baby in childbirth? What should she understand from her own opinions about her new lifePortland, her new life's lifeOregon, and cautiously begins to emerge from the idea of a nanny looking after it? Just what is going on in her new country pile?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784630438</amazonuk>restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sasa Stanisic and Anthea Bell (translator)Mosby Woods|title=Before the FeastA Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=2.54

|summary= Deep The West isn't the dominant force it once was. Nobody in the heart of Germany sits West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is the village best course of Furstenfeldeaction. Governments are flailing. It lies on a spit of land that, legend has itA war here, a giant created, between two lakes – the Great Lake, and the Deep Lakepush for climate action there. All around A feeling that nobody is forestin actual charge. The village is enjoying summerImagine then, and we can see there was a man with precognition. Imagine 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 strategic advantage in this asset; a bell-ringing exam, to the girl who wants out, to the middle-aged man who made a pub out can tell you what will happen given any set of a garage and some curtains, to the older circumstances. That man (a retired soldier) who is watching his last piece of titillating TV before going out to either fetch cigarettes or shoot himselfwould be valuable, to right? Perhaps the older still lady painting a portrait of the town ready to auction it off on the morrowmost valuable asset in history. For the morrow is the annual feteImagine then, and all those people are, one way or another, reacting that this man loses this ability. What would governments do to its imminent arrival.get it back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782271295</amazonuk>B0C9SNG8R1

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andre Alexis0571379559|title=Fifteen DogsThe House of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams|rating=4.5

|summary=Gods (and brothers) Hermes and Apollo were arguing in a bar about what would happen if animals had human intelligence and eventually a wager was agreed''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the story of four people. Human intelligence would Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be granted to fifteen dogs staying overnight happier there, but instead, she lives in a veterinary clinic the house on the riverbank, built of broken bricks. Insubstantial as it might look, it's stood the passage of time, storms and the wagerfloods. Her husband, suggested by ApolloRichard, was that Hermes would be struggles to grow his servant for a year if vegetables, to complete the dogs were not more unhappy than they would delivery rounds - and to bring in sufficient money. They have been originally. But twin boys - if even one of Sonny and Max, the dogs was happy at the end of its life Hermes would winrainbow 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 there's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she's his nanny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178125558X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Marina WarnerClaire North|title=Fly Away HomeHouse of Odysseus|rating=35|genre=Short StoriesLiterary Fiction |summary=How would you subvert ''What could matter more than love?'' The follow-up to the excellent ''Ithaca'' picks up a fairy tale? You know enough few months after where we left off. In the palace of them and enough about them Odysseus, with delicate care Queen Penelope continues to do itrule without her husband, so think on itwho 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. Would you give a mermaid a smartphone? Would you pepper them with pop stars, Having survived – politically and perhaps let them be witness to physical – the Schadenfreude caused by a cave chaotic storm thatClytemnestra brought to Ithaca's sacred to native Canadians? Would youshores, in Queen Penelope is on the light brink 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 fragile peace. One that shatters however with a piece of East Anglian lore? Would you take the exoticism return of the eastOrestes, and Egypt in particularKing of Mycenae, and see it in the light of a musical teacher on a zero-hours contract who ends up muttering to himselfhis sister Elektra, 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…seeking refuge.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784630381</amazonuk>0356516075

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jeanette WintersonKay 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 Gap Trees Grew Because I Bled There|rating= 5|genre= Horror|summary= Horror taps into something primeval within us. It is used as a way to reflect our darkest emotions and how we as humans react and process them. Most horror fiction feature a ''Big Bad'', whether that is a home invader, a monster or a ghost, it usually something tangible and, by the end of Timethe story, beatable. Eric LaRocca's ''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' 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 defeat than any ''Big Bad''.}}{{Frontpage|author=Madelaine Lucas|title=Thirst for Salt|rating=3.5

|summary=This is the inaugural volume of a new series of Shakespeare retellings from Hogarth Press. Still to come: Margaret Atwood on ''The Tempest'Love, I'd read, was supposed to be a light and weightless feeling, Howard Jacobson on but I had always longed for gravity''The Merchant  Told from a retrospective view, a young woman unravels the year-long relationship that once defined her. Overlaid with later wisdom, the narrator relives the affair with a man twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the summer after. Set against the backdrop of Venicean isolated Australian coastal town '' and Anne Tyler on Thirst for Salt''The Taming of details the Shrew'', among others. How is this first book? It24-year-old narrator's pretty good as Winterson novels godeepening relationship with her older lover, incorporating Shakespearean themes of timedepicting its all-consuming nature, deception and adoption how it changed her perspective on both romantic and turning bears familial relationships and statues into metaphors while remaining loyal to the essence of the plot. Yet two crucial elements of the play don't make sense in a modern setting, and in the end I felt this added nothing to my enjoyment of the originalhow it altered her irrevocably.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781090297</amazonuk>0861546490

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Marlon JamesMichael Grothaus|title=A Brief History Beautiful Shining People|rating=4|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= ''But 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.'' ''Beautiful Shining People'' revolves around the question of identity and acceptance. Of what it means to be human. Of what is real and what is artificial, and whether the development of Seven Killingstechnology is exciting or frightening.|isbn=191458564X}}{{Frontpage|author=Jennifer Saint|title=Atalanta

|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=On December 3rd 1976 a group ''I was as worthy as any one of armed men go to Bob Marley's Jamaican home them. I would get on board that ship, I vowed. I would take my place, not just in Hope Road on a mission to kill the name of the goddess. It was for the sake of my name, too. Atalanta'The Singer' Princess. No one will be arrested Warrior. Lover. Hero. Abandoned at birth for it but that doesn't mean their lives afterwards will be normal. This being born a daughter rather than a son, Atalanta is a total fictionalisation raised under the protective eye of their story the goddess Athemis and therefore fashioned into a formidable huntress, one who longs for adventure. When the story of opportunity comes – to join the people Argonauts, a fierce band of warriors, descendent from the Jamaican ghettoes: Gods themselves – Atalanta seizes the politicschance to fight in Artemis' name and carve out her own legendary place in history. What follows is a whirlwind of challenges and discovery and through it, the unrestAtalanta must remember Artemis' fatal warning: that if she marries, the gang warfare and the deathit will be her undoing. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780746350</amazonuk>1472292154

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Hanya YanagiharaAmanthi Harris|title=A Little LifeBeautiful Place|rating=3.5

|summary=WillemPadma, JBa young Sri Lankan, Malcolm and Jude don't have has returned to the Villa Hibiscus on the southern coast of her home country. This is a lot in common apart from their friendshipplace she spent her formative years. They gravitated together It is not a place she was born into, but the one she thinks of as home. How she came to be at college the Villa, how it became her home, and remain close as they become successful in careers as different as the theatre machinations that have flowed through her life ever since she first arrived there provide the ''score'' for this gentle and architectureyet subtly violent novel. However even hopes for successful future canPadma't erase s present fails to escape her past and much like the blight musical score of the past for one of them. Jude is physically disabled from a cause film, that strand weaves its way through everything that isn't genetic or congenital. In fact happens at the cause isn't even something he's shared with the other three. The events around it stem back to his childhood and haunt each thought and action he takes as well as his ability to take themVilla.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447294815</amazonuk>1784631930

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julia Franck and Anthea Bell (translator)178563335X|title=WestSea Defences|author=Hilary Taylor|rating=3.5

|summary=Put yourself When we first meet Rachel Bird she's a trainee vicar, sitting in the shoes of on a young mother PCC meeting and wondering why they're held when you need to two pick the childrenup. Her husband, Christopher, who declares collects six-year-old Hannah and her intention to leave the Communist East Germany for West Berlinelder brother, Jamie, and thus loses whilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioner. Thelma's daughter-in-law won't let her see her scientist jobgrandson. What would you expect Holthorpe, on the other side – shops full of attainable productsNorfolk coast, pleasant neighbourhoods, nice neighbours, an active and busy new lifeis a lovely place, where things might feel alien but at least you speak the same language? Well, for Nelly Senff, this Rachel is hardly struggling to develop a real bond with the case. Once past the depressing Eastern exit procedures parish - and she is confronted with more desultory interrogations from those 'welcoming' her to s in awe of the Westvicar, beyond which she and her children (their fatherGail, whom but then she never married, is long assumed dead by 's been doing the authorities, if nobody else) are practically left in a shared accommodation in a transit campjob for more than thirty years. The shops are full of what is still unobtainable, the children hate their new school – Rachel and people still look down Christopher hoped that a walk on the beach would do them as being foreign, even if some good - it was stormy but it was probably what they have only moved across a cityneeded. And then Hannah went missing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099554321</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Salman Rushdie1398515388|title= Two Years Eight Months The Boy 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>}}{{newreviewDog|author= Aldous Huxley|title= The Genius Seishu Hase and the Goddess|rating= 4|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= So, three books in, 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 that, it makes it easier to choose whether to read him or not. On balance, I have come down on the side of not – I won't be dashing out to work my way through the rest of his output the way I want to with, say, Nevil Shute, or George Orwell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784870366</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Dan Rhodes|title=When the Professor Got Stuck in the SnowAlison Watts (translator)

|summary= Two people are on a train on their way to, First of all things, a WI meeting where it was the ladies of All Bottoms will be lectured on earthquake, deep in the non-existence of God. One of ocean floor, which created the two people is Professor Richard Dawkinstsunami and this, rampant atheist, hectoring scientist chappiein turn, caused the nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and all-round devotee of ''Deal or No Deal''utter devastation. The other is Smee, his mono-named assistantdeaths were uncountable, amanuensis or 'male secretary'. Smee will come to the fore when the weather sets in and the train journey has to be abandoned some way short loss of its ultimate destination, Upper Bottomlivelihoods was widespread. Instead the pair fetch up at The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the isolated yet friendly community list of Market Horton, and the only option for accommodation is taken – yes, the died-inpriorities but -six months after thetsunami -wool non-believer has to be housed by Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a retired vicar and his wifeconvenience store. This clash of titanic opinions, peppered with social faux pas aplenty will provide for He wasn't a particularly English kind of farcical comedy, dog person but one with the legs convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to go as far as any other Good Books have reached open his car door and Tamon the dog jumped in the past…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910709018</amazonuk>.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Aldous Huxley0989715337|title= Time Must Have A Stop|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 Papa on the classic ''Brave New World'' and so felt compelled to explore more of the oeuvre.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178487034X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewMoon|author=Michel Houellebecq and Lorin Stein (translator)|title=SubmissionMarco North

|summary=What do you expect from Submission? It is after all from one of Europe's more blunt huge'Some frogs had gotten into the well.'' ''Walter stood waist-sellersdeep in the fragrant water, one who is most forthright in naked except for his opinionsbeaten leather hat. Long strands of their eggs wove around him, narratives and characters' sexual livessticky gray pearls with tadpoles inside them. It has become indelibly linked with a new Europe, after its reception Two of the dogs leaned over the opening and contents led to publicity on barked down at the cover strange noise of the buckets as he filled them.''Charlie Hebdo'', which resulted  How is that for an opening? The style of this novel in something less savoury than literature, to say the least. Do you expect it form of interconnected short stories goes from succinct and laconic to be about wistful and musing, turning on a France of the near futuresixpence. And author Marco North, where a Muslim political party provides who has the president? Wellmost wonderful turn of phrase, don't starts as he means to go into this submissively following your expectationson.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785150243</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Rachel ElliottDaisy Hildyard|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 PilotEmergency

|summary=You'd be forgiven for assuming that debut novelist Benjamin Johncock Marianne is American: ''The Last Pilot'' has grieving. Traumatised after the literary weight death of a Great American Novelher sister, she awakes to find strange, with a limitless desert setting plus thick black hairs sprouting from the prospect bones of soon dominating spaceher spine which steadily increase in size and volume. Her GP, diagnosing the odd phenomenon as a physical reaction to her grief, recommends she go to stay at Nede, an experimental new treatment centre in Wales. Yet something strange is happening to Marianne and the spare yet profound writing style other patients at Nede: a metamorphosis of Ernest Hemingway or Cormac McCarthya kind. Johncock is British, but you can tell heAs Marianne's taken inspiration memories threaten to overwhelm her, Nede offers her release from stories about the dawn this cycle of memory and pain—but only at a terrible price: that of identity itself.|isbn= 086154112X }} {{Frontpage|author=Natalia Garcia Freire|title=This World Does Not Belong To Us|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Early comments on this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendous, a delight. I will agree with the astronaut age, including Tom Wolfefirst – tremendous is no understatement – but 's ''The Right Stuff'' and films like ''Apollo 13a delight'is perhaps using the expression in a way I'm not familiar with. I have to confess my ignorance of the Spanish-language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation here. His protagonist From the little I have read (in translation, Jim Harrison, is I don't read Spanish) there does seem to be a fictional Air Force test pilot who rubs shoulders with historical figures like Chuck Yeager and John Glenn in tendency towards the quest to break fantastical – the sound barrier and conquer spacemystical realism.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908434848</amazonuk>0861541901

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tessa HadleyJennifer Saint|title=The PastElektra

|summary=Tessa Hadley writes beautifully subtle stories 'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the story of three women who live in the heavily male dominated world of English family lifeAncient Greece. Her understated style has a touch of the 1950s or 1960s about itCassandra, calling to mind Elizabeth Taylor or early Margaret DrabbleClytemnestra, and she seems to adapt classic genres like Elektra are all bit players in the novel story of manners or the country house novelTrojan War. Here she deliberately channels Elizabeth Bowen with a setup borrowed from ''The House in Paris'': Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the novel is divided into three parts, titled 'The Present', 'The Past', and 'The Present'. That structure allows for a deeper look at what the house and a neighbouring cottage silent women have meant to the central family, most compelling stories and paves the way for one final shocker of a secretmost extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0224101692</amazonuk>1472273915

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Andrew Miller8409290103|title= The CrossingIf Only|author=Matthew Tree|rating= 4.5

|summary= Tim and Maud seemTwenty-one-year-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by his father, to everyone around themcotton-broker AO Lowry: he asked his accountant, mismatched. She, quite literally, falls into his lifeMr Patrick, to ensure that the young man got on board the boat and they build thereafter Patrick was to send him a life – jobs, monthly allowance. Patrick sent the money regularly and a house, a boat, then a childcorrespondence - of sorts - sprang up between the two although we hear more about what Lowry has to say than Patrick. Tim needs Maud It wasn't that Lowry senior didn't care for his son, needs her it was that he didn't care to complete have him, wants desperately in this country where he might be a danger to completer her, to help herhis wife and other children. 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 that will change everything, and test her The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to get the utmostyoung man on his way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444753495</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Andrew Michael HurleyAntoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)|title= The LoneyRed is My Heart|rating= 3.5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= It's [[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always a privilege when you're given an advance reading copy of something – been black and white and a real 'block' when you read the small print in my house. And so was this one, although I could have spelled that says 'not for resale or quotation'more accurately – this one was, and is, black and white and red. Fair comment Yes, he has an artistic collaborator on the resale bitthis piece, but when you get something as brilliant as and I think it''The Loney'' being required s possible to say not to quote is just plain unfairone page lacks the influence of some striking visual ideas.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473619823</amazonuk>1913547183

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eli Horowitz, Matthew Derby and Kevin MoffettB098FFFBH9|title=The Silent HistorySnowcub|author=Graham Fulbright

|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 'oogaFourteen-year-wooga' their way into their parentsold Rachel is her school' hearts. They were later found to be completely unable to speak, they could not read s animal rights project leader and indeed they could not understand anything said to them, or shown them, as an instruction. They were physically unable to parse anything as language, she and were in her friend are producing a silent world of their own. 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 down on competition entry to highlight the endless divide as to whether they are just problematic, disabled – or even way in which human beings exploit the blessedanimal world. In She gets a couple great deal of yearssupport from her family: father Pip Harrison, a lecturer at Imperial College, howeverLondon, the problems the virus that is causing these people to be born with will be shown to be a major problem – mother Kate and that is before the kids themselves changeher twin, Nick. For they will be able to switch their mental abilities much like a blind man can hear more than Kate runs the averagefamily business, and will be able to comprehend body and facial language much more coherently than anyone else. Throughout this timelinea toy shop called Cornucopia in Putney, however, people will be working hard to try and study the problem, and put it right – if indeed which is where we'rightll meet Rachel' is the correct word…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009959286X</amazonuk>s main (if unsuspected) source of information: five soft toys.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Meike ZiervogelYancey Williams|title=KautharCrosshairs 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=Meet LydiaThe problem began just after the publication of George March's most successful novel to date. She's a normal British girl, interested in following both Everyone but Mrs March (we know her fatherfirst 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, and Nadia ComaneciPatricia asked, into as she was wrapping the world of gymnastics bread, ''but not brave enough to pull off isn't this the larger set pieces, and with not much more to interrupt her days than wondering why boys always have to talk about their willies. first time he's based a character on you?'' Now meet Kauthar, a white British convert to IslamShe mentioned that Johanna, devoted follower of the precepts of principal character had 'her religion, ardent wife and stalwartly self-fulfilling, no-nonsense and satisfiedmannerisms''. But what is Perhaps this – why would not have mattered, except for the fact that Johanna is she talking the whore of being alone in Nantes - ''a desertweak, plain, and why is she directly addressing her god regarding how she ''can't perform any movementdetestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch. Because it is torn apart''? Has something gone wrong?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784630292</amazonuk>

I read that novel - Move on to [[Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K Dick|Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?Newest Paranormal Reviews]] - when I was about ten or eleven, a good ten years or so before the film came out and – to be fair – a good five years or so before I was fully capable of understanding the philosophical and ethical issues embedded in it. Not before, however, I was capable of asking the kind of questions that would get me the kind of answers that form my standpoint on those issues.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473209579</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Stephanie Bishop |title= The Other Side of the World|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary Fiction |summary= This is a beautifully written book, located both in England and Australia, about adulthood, changing responsibilities, and the universal desire for identity and belonging. This theme is also reflected in the search for union and fulfilment in the marriage of Henry and Charlotte, struggling with the changes imposed on them by parenthood and family life across two continents. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472230612</amazonuk>}}{{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 is once again warm.<br>Let us recall our songs, our dances, our sacred rituals.<br> And the tradition of unselfish mutual coexistence between us and the earth. This is exactly what "The Bear Whispers to Me" effortlessly does.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0993215408</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Fred Uhlman|title=Reunion|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Hans Schwarz was a jew and attended the Karl Alexander Gymnasium, the most famous grammar school in Wurttemberg. At sixteen he didn't really have a friend and was slightly apart from the other cliques in his class, until the arrival of Konradin von Hohenfels, the elegantly-dressed son of the aristocracy. For some reason Hans and Konradin became the best of friends, spending a glorious summer walking in the Swabian hills, comparing their coin collections and talking about 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 the Weimar Republic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1860463657</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Ivan Vladislavic|title=101 Detectives|rating=3.5|genre=Short Stories|summary=101 Detectives had me baffled. The book comprises of a collection of stories which explore multiple themes from the perspective of one person. The stories are as varied as the characters presenting the tale to you. This exquisitely written book leaves you asking many questions and pondering many ideas. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908276568</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jan-Philipp Sendker|title= Whispering Shadows|rating= 5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= Paul Leibovitz was a journalist. That was before. Before he had a small child, who did not survive as long as he should have. Before the end of the marriage that did not survive the loss of a child. Now Leibovitz himself, merely survives. He lives in a kind of self-imposed exile on Lamma, third largest of the Hong Kong islands, a place of greenery and solitude.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973309</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jo Walton|title= The Just City|rating= 3.5|genre= Dystopian Fiction|summary=Urged on by her brother Apollo, goddess Pallas Athene founds the Just City of Atlantis – a city based on Plato’s republic. Filling it with an assortments of adults collected from throughout time, as well as ten thousand ten year olds, (one of whom is a disguised Apollo). Whilst the city flourishes, the arrival of Socrates may prove to be a fly in the ointment…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472150767</amazonuk>}}