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[[Category:New Reviews|Literary Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kristopher JansmaMatthew Tree|title=Why We Came to the City'll Never Know
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|summary='We came Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to the city because we wished to live haphazardlybe different from his father, to reach for only the least realistic a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of our desires, his artistic passions all failed miserably and to see if we could not learn what our failures who had to teach, and not, when we came to live, discover that we had never diedendless crises of self confidence. We wanted So Tim applied himself to dig deep and suck out all the marrow of lifehis studies, to be overworked cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and reduced to our last witset himself high but achievable ambitions.'|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0525426604</amazonuk>B0CVFXPGP8
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ernst Haffner and Michael Hofmann (translator)B0C47LV1PC|title=Blood BrothersFragility|author=Mosby Woods
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|summary=ItCan you make a 's Berlin, and the Nazis are on their way to power, even 'Yo birthing person'' joke? And if they will never cross these pages themselves. The city – hugeyou could, glamorous, bustling, vicious in is the way question should you make it can swallow people – ? Or is home to a countless hoard of teenagers, but we focus on just a few, most of whom have been in some corrective institution or other before now. They call themselves the Blood Brothersquestion if you did, even if all they share would it land? The catch is that the most unglamorous drudgery of going from one doss-house to another, balancing the cost of a few cigarettes with that of a warm room answer for a few hours or some stale rolls to eatboth could well be.... no. But en route to them is another ''Fragility'Borstal' escapeeis set as the city of Portland, Oregon, Willi. Surely his fate is going cautiously begins to be nothing if not more of emerge from the restrictions imposed during the same?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099594048</amazonuk>covid pandemic
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sara TaylorMosby Woods|title=The ShoreA Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=4.5|genre=Short StoriesLiterary Fiction|summary=The first story we hear from West isn't the Shore, a group of isolated islands off dominant force it once was. Nobody in the coast of Virginia, West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is from Chloe, who's telling her sister about what she overheard in the storebest course of action. She'd been Governments are flailing. A war here, a push for climate action there buying chicken necks so . A feeling that they could go crabbingnobody is in actual charge. Normally they used bacon rindsImagine then, but they'd already eaten thosethere was a man with precognition. Cabel Bloxom had been murdered and ''they done cut his thang clean off''. The girls are motherless and Chloe is fiercely protective Imagine the strategic advantage in this asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of her little sister Reneecircumstances. She's That man would be valuable, right? Perhaps the first of the strong women we'll encounter most valuable asset in these storieshistory. Imagine then, which interlink that this man loses this ability. What would governments do to give a greater picture.get it back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>009959188X</amazonuk>B0C9SNG8R1
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adam Baron0571379559|title=BlackheathThe House of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams|rating=4.5|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Househusband James ''The House of Broken Bricks'' is happy in Blackheaththe story of four people. HeTess Hembry's started doing stand-up again so that he too has an achievement roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in his life to balance wife Alicethe house on the riverbank, built of broken bricks. Insubstantial as it might look, it's award winning poetry. Children Ida stood the passage of time, storms and Dominic are doing well so all is greatfloods. Elsewhere in the area Amelia is equally happy with her actor Her husband , Richard, her own career struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the delivery rounds - and children Niamh to bring in sufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and teenage MichaelMax, the rainbow twins. Sometimes happiness isnSonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. People don't enough though believe that they're related, much less twins and, as the worlds of the two families start to mingle, things start changing for each of themthere's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she's his nanny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908434902</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Julian BarnesClaire North|title=The Noise House of TimeOdysseus|rating=3.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Julian Barnes's first novel since he won '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 Booker Prize for [[The Sense palace of an Ending 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 Julian Barnes]] is a fictionalised biography suitors vying for the throne of Russian composer Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (1906–75)the Western Isles. Knowing BarnesHaving survived – politically and physical – the chaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to Ithaca's penchant for stylistic experimentationshores, though, this was never going to be Queen Penelope is on the brink of a straightforward, chronological life storyfragile peace. Instead, as Barnes so often does, he sets up a tripartite structure, focussing on three moments in Shostakovich's life when he has a reckoning One that shatters however with Power (always capitalised here). The title phrase helpfully spells out what the book is all about: 'Art is the whisper return of historyOrestes, heard above the noise King of timeMycenae, and his sister Elektra, seeking refuge.'|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910702609</amazonuk>0356516075
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Danielle McLaughlinKay Chronister|title=Dinosaurs on Other PlanetsDesert Creatures|rating=4.5|genre=Short Stories Dystopian Fiction|summary=Seeing as this book With a world that is clearly a talented author hitting the ground runningbecoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, I will dispense with any major preamblepost-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. We start with Whether it is a tale of robotic takeover, a daughter affected by the emotions of her parents as they separate – and the influence world devoid of water or a certain school-teacher – from the mother's point of view. An ancient input shows how aliennuclear holocaust, and the modern day domesticity how regular, the isolation of this genre is a woman can feel, as events are peppered by minor acts of destruction. But men can be alienated too – especially one, a reluctant guest at a party way for children hosted by someone he once had an affair with – he feels the new form of this influence in the light of another one he has had humans to try and abandoncathartically experience their most existential fears. 'All About Alice' – thatDesert Creatures''s what the title character wants to say but has nobody to speak it to, but by Kay Chronister is it her – mida new work of post-40s and single, living with her father – apocalyptic fiction that is most removed from her dreams or her old friend and now child factory, Marian? And we complete a lap aligns many of the calendar with the wintry tale of fears that exist for humanity today. It is a man unable shocking novel that still manages to tell his work superiors of the problems he faces at home – a new home, recently built like so many one sees while driving round Irelandfind hope.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473613701</amazonuk>1803364998
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{{newreviewfrontpage|isbn=1803363002|author=Anne EnrightEric LaRocca|title=The Green RoadTrees Grew Because I Bled There|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionHorror|summary=Horror taps into something primeval within us. It is used as a way to reflect our darkest emotions and how we as humans react and process them. Most horror fiction feature a ''The Green RoadBig Bad'' , whether that is the story of a family. If the author was anyone other than Anne Enright it would be stereotypically Irishhome invader, with all the appropriate characters in place: the boy who goes off to be a priestmonster or a ghost, the daughter who likes the bottle far too muchit usually something tangible and, by the son who does good works and end of the woman who stays back where she was born and marries a local manstory, the dead husband who was perhaps just a little bit beneath the wife who plays the beatable. Eric LaRocca's ''grande dameThe Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' and is perfect at being needy, whilst all the while maintaining not like that she needs nothing. But, It is a collection of short stories more interested in the horrors of courseillness, it grief and humiliation. Horrors that linger and are harder to defeat than any ''isBig Bad'' Anne Enright.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099539799</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate AtkinsonMadelaine Lucas|title=A God in RuinsThirst for Salt
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Teddy Todd never really expected ''Love, I'd read, was supposed to survive be a light and weightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravity'' Told from a retrospective view, a young woman unravels the waryear-long relationship that once defined her. As Overlaid with later wisdom, the narrator relives the affair with a bomber pilot it wasn't something which you could rely on and he certainly knew man twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the statisticssummer after. But - Set against all the odds, he came through it, albeit backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the 24-year-old narrator's deepening relationship with some time spent as a prisoner of war. On balance he had a good warher older lover, but time will see him married to Nancydepicting its all-consuming nature, father to Viola how it changed her perspective on both romantic and grandfather to Sunny and Bertie - familial relationships and left with the feeling that how it's more difficult to have a good peace than a good waraltered her irrevocably.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552776645</amazonuk>0861546490
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chuck PalahniukMichael Grothaus|title=Beautiful YouShining People
|rating=4
|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Meet Penny Harrigan''But fearing something and having it come to pass are two different things. And letI's hope your introduction m willing to her is more gentle than that bet most of what we have on the first page of this book, where she is being raped in front of a full court house, who – male to the bone – sit back and say nothing, if not whip out their camera phone. Once people take her out on a gurney and recognise herfear will never happen, or we can start from the beginning, where she is a lowly underling at a law firm, having failed too many exams take steps to progress satisfactorilychange it. The company is where the world's richest man is in legal negotiations having left ' ''Beautiful Shining People'' revolves around the world's best question of identity and most beautiful actress, and lo and behold he just happens acceptance. Of what it means to pick Penny to replace her with, even if she doesn't think of herself as the most beautiful girl aroundbe human. But Of what exactly is it she real and what is wanted forartificial, and can her apolitical style whether the development of feminism and aspirations be met?technology is exciting or frightening.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>009958767X</amazonuk>191458564X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Helle Helle and Martin Aitken (translator)Jennifer Saint|title=This Should be Written in the Present TenseAtalanta
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= This is the first novel ''I was as worthy as any one of Helle Helle'sthem. I would get on board that ship, an award winning Danish authorI vowed. I would take my place, to be translated into Englishnot just in the name of the goddess. It is easy to see from this novel why she is gaining accolades in her Danish homelandwas for the sake of my name, too. Atalanta'' Princess. Warrior. Lover. Hero. The rhythmic Abandoned at birth for being born a daughter rather than a son, natural flow Atalanta is raised under the protective eye of the narrative is mesmerising goddess Athemis and appears fashioned into a formidable huntress, one who longs for adventure. When the opportunity comes – to lull you through join the book. It has some lovelyArgonauts, spare sentences a fierce band of description: warriors, descendent from the Gods themselves – Atalanta seizes the chance to fight in Artemis''There were run-down cottages with open doors name and news on the radio. Gulls flocked around an early harvester carve out her own legendary place in the late sun''history. But mostly, it What follows is written in a modernistwhirlwind of challenges and discovery and through it, almost stream of consciousness styleAtalanta must remember Artemis' fatal warning: that if she marries, which I found refreshingit will be her undoing.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099587475</amazonuk>1472292154
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alice ThompsonAmanthi Harris|title=The Book CollectorBeautiful Place|rating=45|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Meet VioletPadma, a young Sri Lankan, has returned to the Villa Hibiscus on the southern coast of her home country. Swept off her feet by This is a disarming encounter with a landed gentleman and bookshop owner at a coffee shop, place she immediately falls in love with him, and is quickly married, and almost as quickly with childspent her formative years. When the boy It is not a place she was borninto, however, fairly understandable doubts creep inbut the one she thinks of as home. Is her husband hiding anything behind his assuredness – especially when How she wakes in came to be at the middle 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 Villa, how it became her new lifehome, and the machinations that have flowed through her new lifeever since she first arrived there provide the ''score'' for this gentle and yet subtly violent novel. Padma's life, present fails to escape her past and much like the idea musical score of a nanny looking after it? Just what is going on in her new country pile?film, that strand weaves its way through everything that happens at the Villa.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784630438</amazonuk>1784631930
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sasa Stanisic and Anthea Bell (translator)178563335X|title=Before the FeastSea Defences|author=Hilary Taylor|rating=2.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= Deep When 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 heart of Germany sits the village of Furstenfeldechildren up. It lies on a spit of land thatHer husband, legend has itChristopher, a giant createdcollects six-year-old Hannah and her elder brother, between two lakes – the Great LakeJamie, and the Deep Lakewhilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioner. All around is forestThelma's daughter-in-law won't let her see her grandson. The village is enjoying summerHolthorpe, and we can see the inhabitants as they go about their lazy life on the last hot day and night before the seasons changeNorfolk coast, from the teenage lads fishing and crashing cars or preparing for is a bell-ringing exam, to the girl who wants outlovely place, but Rachel is struggling to develop a real bond with the middleparish -aged man who made a pub out and she's in awe of a garage and some curtainsthe vicar, to the older man (a retired soldier) who is watching his last piece of titillating TV before going out to either fetch cigarettes or shoot himselfGail, to but then she's been doing the older still lady painting job for more than thirty years. Rachel and Christopher hoped that a portrait of walk on the town ready to auction beach would do them some good - it was stormy but it off on the morrowwas probably what they needed. For the morrow is the annual fete, and all those people are, one way or another, reacting to its imminent arrivalAnd then Hannah went missing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782271295</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andre Alexis1398515388|title=Fifteen DogsThe Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=First of all, it was the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and this, in turn, caused the nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and utter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, and the loss of livelihoods was widespread. The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of priorities but - six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. He wasn't a dog person but the convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and Tamon the dog jumped in.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=0989715337
|title=Papa on the Moon
|author=Marco North
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Gods (and brothers) Hermes and Apollo were arguing in a bar about what would happen if animals ''Some frogs had human intelligence and eventually a wager was agreedgotten into the well. Human intelligence would be granted to fifteen dogs staying overnight '' ''Walter stood waist-deep in a veterinary clinic and the wagerfragrant water, suggested by Apollonaked except for his beaten leather hat. Long strands of their eggs wove around him, was that Hermes would be his servant for a year if the dogs were not more unhappy than they would have been originallysticky gray pearls with tadpoles inside them. But - if even one Two of the dogs was happy leaned over the opening and barked down at the end strange noise of its life Hermes would winthe buckets as he filled them.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178125558X</amazonuk>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, turning on a sixpence. And author Marco North, who has the most wonderful turn of phrase, starts as he means to go on.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Marina WarnerDaisy Hildyard|title=Fly Away HomeEmergency|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
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=This The summary of this book doesn't come close to explaining what is done with the inaugural volume premise.|isbn=1913097811}} {{Frontpage |author=Sally Oliver |title=The Weight of a new series Loss |rating=4 |genre=Literary Fiction |summary= Marianne is grieving. Traumatised after the death of Shakespeare retellings from Hogarth Press. Still her sister, she awakes to come: Margaret Atwood on ''The Tempest''find strange, Howard Jacobson on ''The Merchant thick black hairs sprouting from the bones of Venice'' her spine which steadily increase in size and Anne Tyler on ''The Taming of volume. Her GP, diagnosing the Shrew''odd phenomenon as a physical reaction to her grief, recommends she go to stay at Nede, among othersan experimental new treatment centre in Wales. How Yet something strange is this first book? It's pretty good as Winterson novels go, incorporating Shakespearean themes of time, deception and adoption and turning bears happening to Marianne and statues into metaphors while remaining loyal to the essence other patients at Nede: a metamorphosis of the plota kind. Yet two crucial elements of the play donAs Marianne't make sense in a modern settings memories threaten to overwhelm her, Nede offers her release from this cycle of memory and in the end I felt this added nothing to my enjoyment pain—but only at a terrible price: that of the originalidentity itself.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781090297</amazonuk>086154112X }}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Marlon JamesNatalia Garcia Freire|title=A Brief History of Seven KillingsThis World Does Not Belong To Us
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=WillemEarly comments on this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendous, JB, Malcolm and Jude don't have a lot in common apart from their friendship. They gravitated together at college and remain close as they become successful in careers as different as the theatre and architecturedelight. However even hopes for successful future can't erase the blight of I will agree with the past for one of them. Jude first – tremendous is physically disabled from no understatement – but 'a cause that isndelight't genetic or congenital. In fact is perhaps using the cause isn't even something heexpression in a way I's shared m not familiar with . I have to confess my ignorance of the other threeSpanish-language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation here. The events around it stem back From the little I have read (in translation, I don't read Spanish) there does seem to his childhood and haunt each thought and action he takes as well as his ability to take thembe a tendency towards the fantastical – the mystical realism.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447294815</amazonuk>0861541901
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Julia Franck and Anthea Bell (translator)Jennifer Saint|title=WestElektra|rating=3.54
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Put yourself in 'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the shoes story of a young mother to two children, three women who declares her intention to leave live in the Communist East Germany for West Berlin, and thus loses her scientist jobheavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. What would you expect on the other side – shops full of attainable products, pleasant neighbourhoodsCassandra, nice neighboursClytemnestra, an active and busy new life, where things might feel alien but at least you speak the same language? Well, for Nelly Senff, this is hardly the case. Once past the depressing Eastern exit procedures she is confronted 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 authorities, if nobody else) Elektra are practically left all bit players in a shared accommodation in a transit camp. The shops are full the story of what is still unobtainable, the children hate their new school – and people still look down on them as being foreign, even if they have only moved across a city.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099554321</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Salman Rushdie|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 heardTrojan War. Yet it's Jennifer Saint shows us that often the nearest I can come to summing up the style of this novel, which features some of silent women have 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 compelling stories 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 Orwellmost extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784870366</amazonuk>1472273915
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dan Rhodes8409290103|title=When the Professor Got Stuck in the SnowIf Only|author=Matthew Tree
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=What do you expect from Submission? It is after all from Twenty-one of Europe's more blunt huge-sellersyear-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by his father, one who is most forthright in cotton-broker AO Lowry: he asked his opinionsaccountant, narratives Mr Patrick, to ensure that the young man got on board the boat and characters' sexual livesthereafter Patrick was to send him a monthly allowance. It Patrick sent the money regularly and a correspondence - of sorts - sprang up between the two although we hear more about what Lowry has become indelibly linked with a new Europe, after its reception and contents led to publicity on the cover of say than Patrick. It wasn't that Lowry senior didn'Charlie Hebdot care for his son, it was that he didn'', which resulted t care to have him in something less savoury than literature, this country where he might be a danger to say the leasthis wife and other children. Do you expect it The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to be about a France of get the near future, where a Muslim political party provides the president? Well, don't go into this submissively following your expectationsyoung man on his way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785150243</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Rachel Elliott|title= Whispers Through A Megaphone|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Miriam doesn’t speak. WellAntoine Laurain, 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 Le Sonneur and walk outside. She really is. Ralph has finally twigged Jane Aitken (and with no small amount of surprisetranslator) 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 PilotRed is My Heart|rating=43.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=You'd be forgiven for assuming that debut novelist Benjamin Johncock is American[[:Category: ''The Last Pilot'' has the literary weight of a Great American NovelAntoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white and read in my house. And so was this one, with a limitless desert setting plus the prospect of soon dominating spacealthough I could have spelled that more accurately – this one was, and the spare yet profound writing style of Ernest Hemingway or Cormac McCarthy. 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 Stuff'' black and white and films like ''Apollo 13''red. His protagonistYes, Jim Harrisonhe has an artistic collaborator on this piece, is a fictional Air Force test pilot who rubs shoulders with historical figures like Chuck Yeager and John Glenn in the quest I think it's possible to break say not one page lacks the sound barrier and conquer spaceinfluence of some striking visual ideas.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908434848</amazonuk>1913547183
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tessa HadleyB098FFFBH9|title=The PastSnowcub|author=Graham Fulbright|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Tessa Hadley writes beautifully subtle stories of English family life. Her understated style has a touch of the 1950s or 1960s about it, calling to mind Elizabeth Taylor or early Margaret Drabble, Fourteen-year-old Rachel is her school's animal rights project leader and she seems and her friend are producing a competition entry to adapt classic genres like highlight the novel of manners or way in which human beings exploit the country house novelanimal world. Here she deliberately channels Elizabeth Bowen with She gets a setup borrowed great deal of support from ''The House in Paris''her family: the novel is divided into three partsfather Pip Harrison, titled 'The Present'a lecturer at Imperial College, 'The Past'London, mother Kate and 'The Present'her twin, Nick. That structure allows for a deeper look at what Kate runs the house and family business, a neighbouring cottage have meant to the central familytoy shop called Cornucopia in Putney, and paves the way for one final shocker which is where we'll meet Rachel's main (if unsuspected) source of a secretinformation: five soft toys.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224101692</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Andrew MillerYancey Williams|title= The CrossingCrosshairs 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
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= Tim and Maud seem, The problem began just after the publication of George March's most successful novel to everyone around them, mismatcheddate. She, quite literally, falls into his life, and they build a life – jobs, a house, a boat, then a child. Tim needs Maud, needs Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the last page) seemed to complete him, wants desperately either be reading it or had already done so. Every day Mrs March went to completer her, the local patisserie to help her. But what if Maud is already complete? What if she doesn’t need help? When tragedy strikesbuy olive bread but on that particular morning, Maud will find herself miles away from anyonePatricia asked, on a journey that will change everythingas she was wrapping the bread, and test her to ''but isn't this the utmost.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444753495</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Andrew Michael Hurley|title= The Loney|rating= 5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= Itfirst time he's always based a privilege when character on you?'re given an advance reading copy of something – and a real 'block She mentioned that Johanna, the principal character had ' when you read the small print that says her mannerisms'not for resale or quotation'. Fair comment on Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for the fact that Johanna is the resale bit, but when you get something as brilliant as whore of Nantes - ''The Loneya weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch.'' being required not to quote is just plain unfair.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473619823</amazonuk>
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