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[[Category:New Reviews|Literary Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Antonio Moresco and Richard Dixon (translator)Matthew Tree|title=Distant LightWe'll Never Know

|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Our unnamed narrator might as well be the only person alive. He knows he's not – he still goes down Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to the nearest inhabited village to buy things to eat and other necessities, and he sees planes spreading their contrails over the remote area he lives in – but he might as well be. A lot of different from his thoughts are about lifefather, however, for he has little to do except notice the nature around him, from the smell a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of lilies burgeoning with nobody else to see them in this deserted village, to the swallows darting across the ravines being exceptional at any of the countryside. Life – his artistic passions all failed miserably and the nature who had endless crises of a light that he sees spring into activity every night at what he thought was a totally lifelessself confidence. So Tim applied himself to his studies, empty forest area on land separated from cultivated his lookout post in abilities rather than his back garden by a deep, wooded gorge…daydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0914671421</amazonuk>B0CVFXPGP8

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tania JamesB0C47LV1PC|title=The Tusk That Did the DamageFragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=3.54

|summary=Tania James was Can you make a Fulbright Fellow in New Delhi in 2011–12. For this, her second novel after ''Atlas of UnknownsYo birthing person'' (shortlisted for joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, would it land? The catch is that the DSC Prize answer for South Asian literature) and the story collection both could well be.... no. ''AerogrammesFragility''is set as the city of Portland, she clearly draws on her personal knowledge of India in all its contradictionsOregon, especially when it comes cautiously begins to environmental policy. The novel alternates between three perspectives: a third-person account of an elephant named emerge from the restrictions imposed during the Gravedigger and first-person narratives from a poacher and a documentary filmmaker.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784700584</amazonuk>covid pandemic

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Anakana SchofieldMosby Woods|title= Martin JohnA Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating= 4|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= I had heard much about The West isn't the dominant force it once was. Nobody in the West is quite sure how to mend this novel before I read or even if mending it is the best course of action. Governments are flailing. A war here, a push for reviewclimate action there. A feeling that nobody is in actual charge. Imagine then, by which I mean I had heard it there was profane, strange and had a daring subject matter accompanied by elements man with precognition. Imagine the strategic advantage in this asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of humourcircumstances. I have to say that whilst I agree it is certainly profane and strange and incredibly innovativeThat man would be valuable, I didn't find much humour right? Perhaps the most valuable asset in history. Imagine then, that this man loses this ability. What would governments do to get it at all.back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908276665</amazonuk>B0C9SNG8R1

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jon Kalman Stefansson and Philip Roughton (translator)0571379559|title=The Heart House of ManBroken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams|rating=35

|summary=What could ''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the story of four people. Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be better than an existentialist book from rural Icelandhappier there, but instead, she lives in the house on the riverbank, full built of gnomic comments about how close life and death are, that has broken bricks. Insubstantial as its core a journey taken byit might look, amongst othersit's stood the passage of time, a naïve storms and hormonal teenaged lad and a full coffin? floods. WhyHer husband, Richard, I hear you crystruggles to grow his vegetables, a trilogy concerning to complete the samedelivery rounds - and to bring in sufficient money. YesThey have twin boys - Sonny and Max, itthe rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's the obvious answerJamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. People don't believe that they're related, really – why else would we come much less twins and there's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she's his nanny.}}{{Frontpage|author=Claire North|title=House of Odysseus|rating=5|genre= Literary Fiction |summary= ''What could matter more than love?'' The follow-up to this third part, the excellent ''Ithaca'' picks up a few months after where we left off. In the survivors palace of the expedition rest upOdysseus, note the women giving them helpwith delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without her husband, who sailed to war at Troy and see how eminently close then by divine intervention never returned home. As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for the circle throne of life the Western Isles. Having survived – politically and physical – the chaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to Ithaca's shores, Queen Penelope is to on the figure brink of a snake swallowing its tail throughfragile peace. One that shatters however with the return of Orestes, King of Mycenae, among other thingsand his sister Elektra, dogs rutting in a church below the coffin's bier?seeking refuge.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184866236X</amazonuk>0356516075

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Joanna WalshKay Chronister|title= VertigoDesert Creatures

|genre= Literary Dystopian Fiction|summary= The short stories in Joanna Walsh's collection have the overall effect of disparate streams of consciousness 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 woman laying bear her very soulnuclear holocaust, whilst often going about seemingly mundane activities 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 ordinary and every dayfears 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 narrative voice appeared 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 me to be 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 the same woman speaking throughoutstory, playing different roles, though beatable. Eric LaRocca's ''The Trees Grew Because IBled There''m is not sure this was meant to be the caselike that. The style of the stories It is that a collection of short vignettes, mostly written stories more interested in a modernistthe horrors of illness, stream of consciousness stylegrief and humiliation. Sometimes, the prose appears almost poeticHorrors that linger and are harder to defeat than any ''Big Bad''. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908276800</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kristopher JansmaMadelaine Lucas|title=Why We Came to the CityThirst for Salt|rating=4.5

|summary='We came to the city because we wished to live haphazardly'Love, to reach for only the least realistic of our desiresI'd read, and was supposed to see if we could not learn what our failures had to teach, be a light and notweightless feeling, when we came to livebut I had always longed for gravity'' Told from a retrospective view, discover a young woman unravels the year-long relationship that we had never diedonce defined her. We wanted 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 dig deep and suck out all its sorrowful end the summer after. Set against the marrow backdrop of lifean isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the 24-year-old narrator's deepening relationship with her older lover, to be overworked depicting its all-consuming nature, how it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and reduced to our last withow it altered her irrevocably.'|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0525426604</amazonuk>0861546490

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ernst Haffner and Michael Hofmann (translator)Grothaus|title=Blood BrothersBeautiful Shining People

|summary=It's Berlin, and the Nazis are 'I was as worthy as any one of them. I would get on their way to powerboard that ship, even if they will never cross these pages themselvesI vowed. The city – hugeI would take my place, glamorous, bustling, vicious not just in the way it can swallow people – is home to a countless hoard name of the goddess. It was for the sake of teenagersmy name, but we focus on just too. Atalanta'' Princess. Warrior. Lover. Hero. Abandoned at birth for being born a daughter rather than a fewson, most Atalanta is raised under the protective eye of whom have been in some corrective institution or other before now. They call themselves the Blood Brothersgoddess Athemis and fashioned into a formidable huntress, even if all they share is one who longs for adventure. When the most unglamorous drudgery of going from one doss-house opportunity comes – to anotherjoin the Argonauts, balancing the cost of a few cigarettes with that fierce band of a warm room for a few hours or some stale rolls warriors, descendent from the Gods themselves – Atalanta seizes the chance to eatfight in Artemis' name and carve out her own legendary place in history. But en route to them What follows is another a whirlwind of challenges and discovery and through it, Atalanta must remember Artemis'Borstal' escapeefatal warning: that if she marries, Williit will be her undoing. Surely his fate is going to be nothing if not more of the same?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099594048</amazonuk>1472292154

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sara TaylorAmanthi Harris|title=The ShoreBeautiful Place|rating=4.5|genre=Short StoriesLiterary Fiction|summary=The first story we hear from the ShorePadma, a group of isolated islands off young Sri Lankan, has returned to the Villa Hibiscus on the southern coast of Virginia, is from Chloe, who's telling her sister about what she overheard in the storehome country. She'd been there buying chicken necks so that they could go crabbingThis is a place she spent her formative years. Normally they used bacon rindsIt is not a place she was born into, but they'd already eaten thosethe one she thinks of as home. Cabel Bloxom had been murdered How she came to be at the Villa, how it became her home, and the machinations that have flowed through her life ever since she first arrived there provide the ''they done cut his thang clean offscore''. The girls are motherless for this gentle and Chloe is fiercely protective of her little sister Reneeyet subtly violent novel. She Padma's present fails to escape her past and much like the first musical score of a film, that strand weaves its way through everything that happens at the strong women we'll encounter in these stories, which interlink to give a greater pictureVilla.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>009959188X</amazonuk>1784631930

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adam Baron178563335X|title=Blackheath|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Househusband James is happy in Blackheath. He's started doing stand-up again so that he too has an achievement in his life to balance wife Alice's award winning poetry. Children Ida and Dominic are doing well so all is great. Elsewhere in the area Amelia is equally happy with her actor husband Richard, her own career and children Niamh and teenage Michael. Sometimes happiness isn't enough though and, as the worlds of the two families start to mingle, things start changing for each of them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908434902</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewSea Defences|author=Julian Barnes|title=The Noise of TimeHilary Taylor|rating=3.5

|summary=Julian BarnesWhen we first meet Rachel Bird she's first novel since he won a trainee vicar, sitting in on a PCC meeting and wondering why they're held when you need to pick the Booker Prize for [[The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes]] is children up. Her husband, Christopher, collects six-year-old Hannah and her elder brother, Jamie, whilst Rachel holds a fictionalised biography of Russian composer Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (1906–75)sobbing parishioner. Knowing Barnes Thelma's penchant for stylistic experimentation, though, this was never going to be a straightforward, chronological life storydaughter-in-law won't let her see her grandson. Instead Holthorpe, as Barnes so often doeson the Norfolk coast, he sets up is a tripartite structurelovely place, focussing on three moments in Shostakovich's life when he has but Rachel is struggling to develop a reckoning real bond with Power (always capitalised here). The title phrase helpfully spells out what the book is all about: parish - and she'Art is s in awe of the whisper of historyvicar, Gail, heard above but then she's been doing the job for more than thirty years. Rachel and Christopher hoped that a walk on the noise of timebeach would do them some good - it was stormy but it was probably what they needed. And then Hannah went missing.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910702609</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Danielle McLaughlin1398515388|title=Dinosaurs on Other PlanetsThe Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)

|genre=Short Stories General Fiction|summary=Seeing as First of all, it was the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and this book is clearly a talented author hitting , in turn, caused the ground running, I will dispense with any major preamblenuclear meltdown. We start with a tale of a daughter affected by the emotions of her parents as they separate – The result was complete and the influence of a certain school-teacher – from the mother's point of viewutter devastation. An ancient input shows how alienThe deaths were uncountable, and the modern day domesticity how regular, the isolation of a woman can feel, as events are peppered by minor acts loss of destructionlivelihoods was widespread. But men can be alienated too – especially one, a reluctant guest at a party for children hosted by someone he once had an affair with – he feels The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the new form list of this influence in priorities but - six months after the light of another one he has had to try and abandontsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. He wasn'All About Alice' – thatt a dog person but the convenience store owner's what the title character wants to say but has nobody to speak it to, but is it her – mid-40s and single, living with her father – comment that is most removed from her dreams or her old friend and now child factory, Marian? And we complete a lap of the calendar with the wintry tale of a man unable he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to tell open his work superiors of car door and Tamon the problems he faces at home – a new home, recently built like so many one sees while driving round Irelanddog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473613701</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anne Enright0989715337|title=The Green RoadPapa on the Moon|author=Marco North|rating=4.5

|summary=''The Green RoadSome frogs had gotten into the well.'' '' is Walter stood waist-deep in the story fragrant water, naked except for his beaten leather hat. Long strands of a family. If the author was anyone other than Anne Enright it would be stereotypically Irishtheir eggs wove around him, sticky gray pearls with all tadpoles inside them. Two of the appropriate characters in place: dogs leaned over the boy who goes off to be a priest, opening and barked down at the daughter who likes strange noise of the bottle far too much, buckets as he filled them.'' How is that for an opening? The style of this novel in the son who does good works form of interconnected short stories goes from succinct and the woman who stays back where she was born laconic to wistful and marries musing, turning on a local mansixpence. And author Marco North, the dead husband who was perhaps just a little bit beneath has the wife who plays the ''grande dame'' and is perfect at being needy, whilst all the while maintaining that she needs nothing. But, most wonderful turn of coursephrase, it ''is'' Anne Enrightstarts as he means to go on.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099539799</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate AtkinsonDaisy Hildyard|title=A God in RuinsEmergency|rating=54

|summary=Teddy Todd never really expected to survive the war. As a bomber pilot it wasnThe summary of this book doesn't something which you could rely on and he certainly knew the statistics. But - against all the odds, he came through it, albeit with some time spent as a prisoner of war. On balance he had a good war, but time will see him married come close to Nancy, father to Viola and grandfather to Sunny and Bertie - and left explaining what is done with the feeling that it's more difficult to have a good peace than a good warpremise.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552776645</amazonuk>1913097811}} {{newreviewFrontpage |author=Chuck PalahniukSally Oliver |title=Beautiful YouThe Weight of Loss |rating=4|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Meet Penny HarriganMarianne is grieving. And let's hope your introduction to her is more gentle than that we have on Traumatised after the first page death of this bookher sister, where she is being raped in front of a full court houseawakes to find strange, who – male to thick black hairs sprouting from the bone – sit back bones of her spine which steadily increase in size and say nothingvolume. Her GP, if not whip out their camera phone. Once people take her out on diagnosing the odd phenomenon as a gurney and recognise physical reaction to hergrief, we can start from the beginning, where recommends she is a lowly underling go to stay at a law firmNede, having failed too many exams to progress satisfactorilyan experimental new treatment centre in Wales. The company Yet something strange is where happening to Marianne and the worldother patients at Nede: a metamorphosis of a kind. As Marianne's richest man is in legal negotiations having left the world's best and most beautiful actress, and lo and behold he just happens to pick Penny memories threaten to replace overwhelm her with, even if she doesn't think Nede offers her release from this cycle of herself as the most beautiful girl around. But what exactly is it she is wanted for, memory and can her apolitical style pain—but only at a terrible price: that of feminism and aspirations be met?identity itself.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>009958767X</amazonuk>086154112X }}{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Helle Helle and Martin Aitken (translator)Natalia Garcia Freire|title=This Should be Written in the Present TenseWorld Does Not Belong To Us

|summary= This is the first Early comments on this debut novel of Helle Helle'sfrom Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendous, an award winning Danish author, to be translated into Englisha delight. It I will agree with the first – tremendous is easy to see from this novel why she no understatement – but 'a delight' is gaining accolades perhaps using the expression in her Danish homelanda way I'm not familiar with. The rhythmic, natural flow I have to confess my ignorance of the narrative is mesmerising and appears to lull you through the book. It has some lovely, spare sentences of description: ''There were runSpanish-down cottages with open doors and news on the radiolanguage literary tradition so forgive my generalisation here. Gulls flocked around an early harvester in From the late sun''. But mostly, it is written little I have read (in a modernisttranslation, almost stream of consciousness style, which I found refreshingdon't read Spanish) there does seem to be a tendency towards the fantastical – the mystical realism.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099587475</amazonuk>0861541901

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alice ThompsonJennifer Saint|title=The Book CollectorElektra

|summary= Deep in 'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the heart story of Germany sits three women who live in the village heavily male dominated world of FurstenfeldeAncient Greece. It lies on a spit of land thatCassandra, legend has it, a giant created, between two lakes – the Great LakeClytemnestra, and Elektra are all bit players in 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 of a garage and some curtains, 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 himself, to the older still lady painting a portrait story of the town ready to auction it off on the morrowTrojan War. For Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the morrow is silent women have the annual fete, most compelling stories and all those people are, one way or another, reacting to its imminent arrivalthe most extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782271295</amazonuk>1472273915

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andre Alexis8409290103|title=Fifteen DogsIf Only|author=Matthew Tree

|summary=Gods (and brothers) Hermes and Apollo were arguing in a bar about what would happen if animals Twenty-one-year-old Malcolm Lowry had human intelligence been sent abroad by his father, cotton-broker AO Lowry: he asked his accountant, Mr Patrick, to ensure that the young man got on board the boat and eventually thereafter Patrick was to send him a wager was agreedmonthly allowance. Human intelligence would be granted to fifteen dogs staying overnight in a veterinary clinic Patrick sent the money regularly and the wager, suggested by Apollo, was that Hermes would be his servant for a year if the dogs were not more unhappy than they would have been originally. But correspondence - if even one of sorts - sprang up between the dogs was happy at the end of its life Hermes would win.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178125558X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Marina Warner|title=Fly Away Home|rating=3|genre=Short Stories|summary=How would you subvert a fairy tale? You know enough of them and enough two although we hear more about them what Lowry has to do itsay than Patrick. It wasn't that Lowry senior didn't care for his son, 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 was thathe didn's sacred t care to native Canadians? Would you, have him in the light of their characters usually being routine, interchangeable tropes, give them this country where he might be a closely-observed personality – as seen here in a teacher's interior thoughts when faced with a piece of East Anglian lore? danger to his wife and other children. 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 The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to himself, directing traffic in the middle of get the road, or from the remove of an elderly young 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>on his way.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jeanette WintersonAntoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)|title=The Gap of TimeRed is My Heart

|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=This is the inaugural volume of a new series of Shakespeare retellings from Hogarth Press. Still to come[[:Category: Margaret Atwood on ''The Tempest'', Howard Jacobson on ''The Merchant of Venice'' Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white and Anne Tyler on ''The Taming of the Shrew'', among othersread in my house. How is And so was this first book? It's pretty good as Winterson novels goone, incorporating Shakespearean themes of timealthough I could have spelled that more accurately – this one was, deception and adoption is, black and turning bears white and statues into metaphors while remaining loyal to the essence of the plotred. Yet two crucial elements of the play don't make sense in a modern settingYes, he has an artistic collaborator on this piece, and in the end I felt this added nothing think it's possible to my enjoyment say not one page lacks the influence of the originalsome striking visual ideas.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781090297</amazonuk>1913547183

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marlon JamesB098FFFBH9|title=A Brief History of Seven Killings|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=On December 3rd 1976 a group of armed men go to Bob Marley's Jamaican home in Hope Road on a mission to kill 'The Singer'. No one will be arrested for it but that doesn't mean their lives afterwards will be normal. This is a total fictionalisation of their story and therefore the story of the people of the Jamaican ghettoes: the politics, the unrest, the gang warfare and the death. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780746350</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewSnowcub|author= Hanya Yanagihara|title=A Little LifeGraham Fulbright|rating=34.5

|summary=Willem, JB, Malcolm and Jude donFourteen-year-old Rachel is her school't have a lot in common apart from their friendship. They gravitated together at college s animal rights project leader and remain close as they become successful in careers as different as the theatre she and architecture. However even hopes for successful future can't erase her friend are producing a competition entry to highlight the blight of way in which human beings exploit the past for one of themanimal world. Jude is physically disabled She gets a great deal of support from her family: father Pip Harrison, a cause that isn't genetic or congenitallecturer at Imperial College, London, mother Kate and her twin, Nick. In fact Kate runs the cause isnfamily business, a toy shop called Cornucopia in Putney, which is where we't even something hell meet Rachel'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 themmain (if unsuspected) source of information: five soft toys.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447294815</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Julia Franck and Anthea Bell (translator)Yancey Williams|title=WestCrosshairs of the Devil|rating=34.5

|summary=Put yourself Award-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski is getting on in the shoes of a young mother years and, despite his strenuous objections and thanks to two childrenhis daughter, who declares her intention to leave the Communist East Germany for West Berlinfinds himself living - or imprisoned, and thus loses her scientist job. What would you expect on from Eddie's point of view - in room 315 of the other side – shops full Garden of attainable productsEden nursing home, pleasant neighbourhoods, nice neighbours, an active and busy new lifewith only a trusty nursing aide, where things might feel alien but at least you speak the same language? WellJenkins, for Nelly Senff, this is hardly the casepalatable company. Once past the depressing Eastern exit procedures she Nothing is confronted with more desultory interrogations going to keep Eddie 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) are practically left his stock-in a shared accommodation in a transit camp. The shops are full -trade of what is still unobtainablewriting though, the children hate their new school – and people still look down on them as being foreignso here, 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 heard. Yet ithis readers, are his wanderings through his life'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 pacework.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>191070203X</amazonuk>0986031658}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Aldous Huxley0008421714|title= The Genius 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>}}{{newreviewMrs March|author=Dan Rhodes|title=When the Professor Got Stuck in the SnowVirginia Feito

|summary=What do you expect from Submission? It is The problem began just after all from one the publication of EuropeGeorge March's more blunt huge-sellers, one who is most forthright in his opinions, narratives and characters' sexual livessuccessful novel to date. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the last page) seemed to either be reading it or had already done so. It has become indelibly linked with a new Europe, after its reception and contents led Every day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to publicity buy olive bread but on that particular morning, Patricia asked, as she was wrapping the cover of bread, ''but isn't this the first time he'Charlie Hebdos based a character on you?'' She mentioned that Johanna, which resulted in something less savoury than literature, to say the leastprincipal character had 'her mannerisms''. Do you expect it to be about Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for the fact that Johanna is the whore of Nantes - ''a France of the near futureweak, plain, detestable, pathetic, where a Muslim political party provides the president? Wellunloved, donunloveable wretch.''t go into this submissively following your expectations.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785150243</amazonuk>