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[[Category:New Reviews|Literary Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Elisa AlbertMatthew Tree|title= After BirthWe'll Never Know|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= This book is definitely not for anyone who has Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a rosy picture drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of new motherhood. In fact, I would probably avoid it if you are contemplating giving birth in the near future. For being exceptional at any woman of his artistic passions all failed miserably and who has ever struggled through the first few months had endless crises of motherhood, however, or a partner of somebody who is going through it, it is an astounding and revelatory readself confidence. Never before have I read a more searingSo Tim applied himself to his studies, honest cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and open discussion of the emotional upheaval a woman often goes through after giving birthset himself high but achievable ambitions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>009959014X</amazonuk>B0CVFXPGP8

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Ayelet Gundar-GoshenB0C47LV1PC|title= Waking Lions|rating= 5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= If the point of ''literature'' - as opposed to the less exalted though just-as-worthwhile forms of writing - is to force you to think about the real world, the political world, the painful life-as-we-know-it world, whilst catching you up in a story about something that never really happened, but, you know, might well have done so…and if you think that matters, then you must read this book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782271562</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFragility|author=Yan Lianke|title=The Four BooksMosby Woods|rating=54

|summary=Can you make a ''The Four BooksYo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is a difficultthe question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, challenging novel and not for would it land? The catch is that the feint hearted, or answer for someone looking for a page-turnerboth could well be.. It really challenges the reader's perceptions and opens up a gateway to an era that is difficult to imagine for anyone brought up in a western culture. Set in Maoist China it tells the story of four protagonists and a memorable antagonist. The four, found guilty of anti-revolutionary crimes are undergoing re-education in a work camp governed by the childno. With an Orwellian feel,  ''The Four BooksFragility'' will come is set as the city of Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to be regarded as an undoubted masterpiece.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099569493</amazonuk>emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Yann MartelMosby Woods|title=The High Mountains of PortugalA Whirly Man Loses His Turn

|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Tomas is being thrust into the twentieth Century, and he doesnThe West isn't like the dominant force itonce was. He has given himself the job of seeking something out Nobody in the High Mountains of Portugal, based on an ancient religious diary he found working in an archive, and West is quite sure how to do so he needs mend this or even if mending it is the use best course of his uncle's brand new car to get him there and back in timeaction. Governments are flailing. His jaw drops when he learns he will have to do the driving himselfA war here, a push for he cannot make head nor tail of what anything on the infernal machine does and whyclimate action there. It A feeling that nobody is of course a certain kind of progressin actual charge. Imagine then, there was a looking forward, which has become quite anathema to him – for ever since he lost his beloved wife, beloved child and father, all man with precognition. Imagine the strategic advantage in the space this asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of a weekcircumstances. That man would be valuable, he has walked everywhere backwards – shielding himself from what really is ahead with a padded behindright? Perhaps the most valuable asset in history. Imagine then, and never letting sight of what he has lostthat this man loses this ability.What would governments do to get it back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782114696</amazonuk>B0C9SNG8R1

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Antonio Moresco and Richard Dixon (translator)0571379559|title=Distant LightThe House of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams|rating=4.5|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Our unnamed narrator ''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the story of four people. Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might as well be happier there, but instead, she lives in the house on the only person aliveriverbank, built of broken bricks. He knows heInsubstantial as it might look, it's not – he still goes down to stood the nearest inhabited village to buy things to eat and other necessitiespassage of time, storms and he sees planes spreading their contrails over the remote area he lives in – but he might as well befloods. A lot of his thoughts are about lifeHer husband, howeverRichard, for he has little struggles to do except notice the nature around himgrow his vegetables, from to complete the smell of lilies burgeoning with nobody else delivery rounds - and to see them bring in this deserted villagesufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and Max, to the swallows darting across the ravines of the countrysiderainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. Life – and the nature of a light People don't believe that he sees spring into activity every night at what he thought was a totally lifelessthey're related, empty forest area on land separated from much less twins and there's an assumption when Max is out with his lookout post in mother that she's his back garden by a deep, wooded gorge…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0914671421</amazonuk>nanny.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tania JamesClaire North|title=The Tusk That Did the DamageHouse of Odysseus|rating=3.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Tania James was a Fulbright Fellow in New Delhi in 2011–12. For this, her second novel after ''Atlas of UnknownsWhat could matter more than love?'' (shortlisted for  The follow-up to the DSC Prize for South Asian literature) and the story collection excellent ''AerogrammesIthaca''picks up a few months after where we left off. In the palace of Odysseus, she clearly draws on with delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without her personal knowledge of India in all its contradictionshusband, especially when it comes who sailed to environmental policywar at Troy and then by divine intervention never returned home. The novel alternates between three perspectives: a third-person account As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for the throne of an elephant named the Gravedigger Western Isles. Having survived – politically and first-person narratives from physical – the chaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to Ithaca's shores, Queen Penelope is on the brink of a poacher fragile peace. One that shatters however with the return of Orestes, King of Mycenae, and a documentary filmmakerhis sister Elektra, seeking refuge.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784700584</amazonuk>0356516075

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Anakana SchofieldKay Chronister|title= Martin JohnDesert Creatures

|genre= Literary Dystopian Fiction|summary= I had heard much about this novel before I read it With a world that is becoming increasingly inhospitable for reviewhumanity, by which I mean I had heard post-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Whether it was profaneis a robotic takeover, strange and had a daring subject matter accompanied 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 elements Kay Chronister is a new work of post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of humourthe 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 Trees Grew Because I have Bled There|rating= 5|genre= Horror|summary= Horror taps into something primeval within us. It is used as a way to say reflect our darkest emotions and how we as humans react and process them. Most horror fiction feature a ''Big Bad'', whether that whilst I agree is a home invader, a monster or a ghost, it is certainly profane usually something tangible and strange and incredibly innovative, by the end of the story, beatable. Eric LaRocca's ''The Trees Grew Because I didnBled There''t find much humour is not like that. It is a collection of short stories more interested in it at allthe horrors of illness, grief and humiliation. Horrors that linger and are harder to defeat than any ''Big Bad''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908276665</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jon Kalman Stefansson and Philip Roughton (translator)Madelaine Lucas|title=The Heart of ManThirst for Salt|rating=35

|summary=What could be better than an existentialist book from rural Iceland''Love, full of gnomic comments about how close life and death are, that has as its core a journey taken by, amongst othersI'd read, was supposed to be a naïve and hormonal teenaged lad light and a full coffin? Whyweightless feeling, but I hear you cryhad always longed for gravity'' Told from a retrospective view, a trilogy concerning young woman unravels the sameyear-long relationship that once defined her. YesOverlaid with later wisdom, it's the obvious answer, really narrator relives the affair with a man twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – why else would we come to this third part, where its sorrowful end the summer after. Set against the survivors backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the expedition rest up24-year-old narrator's deepening relationship with her older lover, note the women giving them helpdepicting its all-consuming nature, how it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and see how eminently close the circle of life is to the figure of a snake swallowing its tail through, among other things, dogs rutting in a church below the coffin's bier?it altered her irrevocably.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184866236X</amazonuk>0861546490

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Joanna WalshMichael Grothaus|title= VertigoBeautiful Shining People|rating= 4

|summary= The short stories in Joanna Walsh's collection have the overall effect of disparate streams of consciousness of a woman laying bear her very soul, whilst often going about seemingly mundane activities of the ordinary 'But fearing something and every day. The narrative voice appeared having it come to me to be the same woman speaking throughout, playing pass are two different roles, though things. And I'm not sure this was meant willing to be the casebet most of what we fear will never happen, or we can take steps to change it. The style of '' ''Beautiful Shining People'' revolves around the stories is that question of short vignettes, mostly written in a modernist, stream of consciousness styleidentity and acceptance. Of what it means to be human. SometimesOf what is real and what is artificial, and whether the prose appears almost poeticdevelopment of technology is exciting or frightening. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908276800</amazonuk>191458564X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kristopher JansmaJennifer Saint|title=Why We Came to the CityAtalanta|rating=4.5

|summary='We came to 'I was as worthy as any one of them. I would get on board that ship, I vowed. I would take my place, not just in the name of the city because we wished to live haphazardly, to reach goddess. It was for only the least realistic sake of our desiresmy name, and to see if we could not learn what our failures had to teachtoo. Atalanta'' Princess. Warrior. Lover. Hero. Abandoned at birth for being born a daughter rather than a son, Atalanta is raised under the protective eye of the goddess Athemis and notfashioned into a formidable huntress, when we came one who longs for adventure. When the opportunity comes – to livejoin the Argonauts, a fierce band of warriors, discover that we had never died. We wanted descendent from the Gods themselves – Atalanta seizes the chance to dig deep fight in Artemis' name and suck carve out all the marrow her own legendary place in history. What follows is a whirlwind of lifechallenges and discovery and through it, Atalanta must remember Artemis' fatal warning: that if she marries, to it will be overworked and reduced to our last wither undoing.'|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0525426604</amazonuk>1472292154

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ernst Haffner and Michael Hofmann (translator)Amanthi Harris|title=Blood BrothersBeautiful Place|rating=45

|summary=It's BerlinPadma, a young Sri Lankan, and has returned to the Nazis are Villa Hibiscus on their way to power, even if they will never cross these pages themselvesthe southern coast of her home country. This is a place she spent her formative years. The city – huge, glamorous, bustling, vicious in the way it can swallow people – It is home to not a countless hoard of teenagersplace she was born into, but we focus on just a few, most the one she thinks of whom have been in some corrective institution or other before nowas home. They call themselves How she came to be at the Blood BrothersVilla, even if all they share is the most unglamorous drudgery of going from one doss-house to anotherhow it became her home, balancing and the cost of a few cigarettes with machinations that of a warm room have flowed through her life ever since she first arrived there provide the ''score'' for a few hours or some stale rolls to eatthis gentle and yet subtly violent novel. But en route to them is another Padma'Borstal' escapee, Willi. Surely his fate is going s present fails to be nothing if not more escape her past and much like the musical score of a film, that strand weaves its way through everything that happens at the same?Villa.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099594048</amazonuk>1784631930

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sara Taylor178563335X|title=The ShoreSea Defences|author=Hilary Taylor|rating=4.5|genre=Short StoriesLiterary Fiction|summary=The When we first story we hear from 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 Shorechildren up. Her husband, Christopher, collects six-year-old Hannah and her elder brother, Jamie, whilst Rachel holds a group of isolated islands off sobbing parishioner. Thelma's daughter-in-law won't let her see her grandson. Holthorpe, on the Norfolk coast of Virginia, is from Chloea lovely place, whobut Rachel is struggling to develop a real bond with the parish - and she's telling her sister about what she overheard in awe of the store. She'd been there buying chicken necks so that they could go crabbing. Normally they used bacon rindsvicar, Gail, but theythen she'd already eaten thoses been doing the job for more than thirty years. Cabel Bloxom had been murdered Rachel and ''Christopher hoped that a walk on the beach would do them some good - it was stormy but it was probably what they done cut his thang clean off''. The girls are motherless and Chloe is fiercely protective of her little sister Reneeneeded. She's the first of the strong women we'll encounter in these stories, which interlink to give a greater pictureAnd then Hannah went missing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009959188X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adam Baron1398515388|title=BlackheathThe Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)

|summary=Househusband James is happy First of all, it was the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and this, in Blackheathturn, caused the nuclear meltdown. He's started doing stand-up again so that he too has an achievement in his life to balance wife Alice's award winning poetryThe result was complete and utter devastation. Children Ida The deaths were uncountable, and Dominic are doing well so all is greatthe loss of livelihoods was widespread. Elsewhere in The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of priorities but - six months after the area Amelia is equally happy with her actor husband Richard, her own career and children Niamh and teenage Michaeltsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. Sometimes happiness isnHe wasn't enough though a dog person but the convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and, as Tamon the worlds of the two families start to mingle, things start changing for each of themdog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908434902</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julian Barnes0989715337|title=The Noise of TimePapa on the Moon|author=Marco North|rating=3.54

|summary=Julian Barnes's first novel since he won 'Some frogs had gotten into the well.'' ''Walter stood waist-deep in the Booker Prize fragrant water, naked except for [[The Sense his beaten leather hat. Long strands of their eggs wove around him, sticky gray pearls with tadpoles inside them. Two of an Ending by Julian Barnes]] is a fictionalised biography the dogs leaned over the opening and barked down at the strange noise of Russian composer Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (1906–75)the buckets as he filled them. Knowing Barnes's penchant ' How is that for stylistic experimentation, though, an opening? The style of this was never going novel in the form of interconnected short stories goes from succinct and laconic to be wistful and musing, turning on a straightforward, chronological life storysixpence. Instead, as Barnes so often doesAnd author Marco North, he sets up a tripartite structure, focussing on three moments in Shostakovich's life when he who has a reckoning with Power (always capitalised here). The title phrase helpfully spells out what the book is all about: 'Art is the whisper most wonderful turn of historyphrase, heard above the noise of timestarts as he means to go on.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910702609</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Danielle McLaughlinDaisy Hildyard|title=Dinosaurs on Other PlanetsEmergency|rating=4.5|genre=Short Stories |summary=Seeing as this book is clearly a talented author hitting the ground running, I will dispense with any major preamble. We start with a tale of a daughter affected by the emotions of her parents as they separate – and the influence of a certain school-teacher – from the mother's point of view. An ancient input shows how alien, and the modern day domesticity how regular, the isolation of 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 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 to try and abandon. 'All About Alice' – that'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 – 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 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 Ireland.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473613701</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Anne Enright|title=The Green Road|rating=4.5

|summary=''The Green Road'summary of this book doesn' t come close to explaining what is done with the story premise.|isbn=1913097811}}  {{Frontpage |author=Sally Oliver |title=The Weight of a familyLoss |rating=4 |genre=Literary Fiction |summary= Marianne is grieving. If Traumatised after the author was anyone other than Anne Enright it would be stereotypically Irishdeath of her sister, she awakes to find strange, with all thick black hairs sprouting from the appropriate characters bones of her spine which steadily increase in place: size and volume. Her GP, diagnosing the boy who goes off odd phenomenon as a physical reaction to be a priesther grief, the daughter who likes the bottle far too muchrecommends she go to stay at Nede, the son who does good works an experimental new treatment centre in Wales. Yet something strange is happening to Marianne and the woman who stays back where she was born and marries other patients at Nede: a local man, the dead husband who was perhaps just metamorphosis of a little bit beneath the wife who plays the ''grande dame'kind. As Marianne' s memories threaten to overwhelm her, Nede offers her release from this cycle of memory and is perfect pain—but only at being needy, whilst all the while maintaining a terrible price: that she needs nothing. But, of course, it ''is'' Anne Enrightidentity itself.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099539799</amazonuk>086154112X }}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate AtkinsonNatalia Garcia Freire|title=A God in RuinsThis World Does Not Belong To Us

|summary=Teddy Todd never really expected to survive Early comments on this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendous, a delight. I will agree with the war. As first – tremendous is no understatement – but 'a bomber pilot it wasndelight't something which you could rely on and he certainly knew is perhaps using the statisticsexpression in a way I'm not familiar with. But I have to confess my ignorance of the Spanish- against all the odds, he came through it, albeit with some time spent as a prisoner of warlanguage literary tradition so forgive my generalisation here. On balance he had a good warFrom the little I have read (in translation, but time will see him married to Nancy, father to Viola and grandfather to Sunny and Bertie - and left with the feeling that itI don's more difficult t read Spanish) there does seem to have be a good peace than a good wartendency towards the fantastical – the mystical realism.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552776645</amazonuk>0861541901

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chuck PalahniukJennifer Saint|title=Beautiful YouElektra

|summary= This is 'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the first novel story of Helle Helle's, an award winning Danish author, to be translated into English. It is easy to see from this novel why she is gaining accolades three women who live in her Danish homelandthe heavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. The rhythmicCassandra, Clytemnestra, natural flow of the narrative is mesmerising and appears to lull you through Elektra are all bit players in the book. It has some lovely, spare sentences story of description: ''There were run-down cottages with open doors and news on the radioTrojan War. Gulls flocked around an early harvester in Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the silent women have the most compelling stories and the late sun''. But mostly, it is written in a modernist, almost stream of consciousness style, which I found refreshingmost extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099587475</amazonuk>1472273915

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alice Thompson8409290103|title=The Book Collector|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Meet Violet. Swept off her feet by a disarming encounter with a landed gentleman and bookshop owner at a coffee shop, she immediately falls in love with him, and is quickly married, and almost as quickly with child. When the boy is born, however, fairly understandable doubts creep in. Is her husband hiding anything behind his assuredness – especially when she wakes in 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 her new life, her new life's life, and the idea of a nanny looking after it? Just what is going on in her new country pile?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784630438</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewIf Only|author=Sasa Stanisic and Anthea Bell (translator)|title=Before the Feast|rating=2.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Deep in the heart of Germany sits the village of Furstenfelde. It lies on a spit of land that, legend has it, a giant created, between two lakes – the Great Lake, and the Deep Lake. All around is forest. The village is enjoying summer, and we can see the inhabitants as they go about their lazy life on the last hot day and night before the seasons change, from the teenage lads fishing and crashing cars or preparing for a bell-ringing exam, to the girl who wants out, to the middle-aged man who made a pub out 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 of the town ready to auction it off on the morrow. For the morrow is the annual fete, and all those people are, one way or another, reacting to its imminent arrival.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782271295</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Andre Alexis|title=Fifteen DogsMatthew 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 Patrick sent the money regularly and a veterinary clinic and correspondence - of sorts - sprang up between the wager, suggested by Apollotwo although we hear more about what Lowry has to say than Patrick. It wasn't that Lowry senior didn't care for his son, it was that Hermes would he didn't care to have him in this country where he might be a danger to his servant for a year if the dogs were not more unhappy than they would have been originallywife and other children. But - if The alcohol problem was obvious even one of before Patrick managed to get the dogs was happy at the end of its life Hermes would winyoung man on his way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178125558X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Marina WarnerAntoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)|title=Fly Away HomeRed is My Heart|rating=3.5|genre=Short StoriesLiterary Fiction |summary=How would you subvert a fairy tale? You know enough of them [[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white and enough about them to do it, read in my house. And so think on it. Would you give a mermaid a smartphone? Would you pepper them with pop starswas this one, and perhaps let them be witness to the Schadenfreude caused by a cave although I could have spelled that's sacred to native Canadians? Would youmore accurately – this one was, in the light of their characters usually being routineand is, interchangeable tropesblack and white and red. Yes, give them a closely-observed personality – as seen here in a teacher's interior thoughts when faced with a he has an artistic collaborator on this piece of East Anglian lore? Would you take the exoticism of the east, and Egypt in particular, and see I think it in the light of a musical teacher on a zero-hours contract who ends up muttering 's possible to himself, directing traffic in say not one page lacks the middle influence 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…some striking visual ideas.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784630381</amazonuk>1913547183

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeanette WintersonB098FFFBH9|title=The Gap of TimeSnowcub|author=Graham Fulbright|rating=34.5

|summary=This Fourteen-year-old Rachel is her school's animal rights project leader and she and her friend are producing a competition entry to highlight the way in which human beings exploit the inaugural volume of animal world. She gets a new series great deal of Shakespeare retellings support from Hogarth Press. Still to comeher family: Margaret Atwood on ''The Tempest''father Pip Harrison, Howard Jacobson on ''The Merchant of Venice'' and Anne Tyler on ''The Taming of the Shrew''a lecturer at Imperial College, among others. How is this first book? It's pretty good as Winterson novels goLondon, incorporating Shakespearean themes of timemother Kate and her twin, deception and adoption and turning bears and statues into metaphors while remaining loyal to the essence of the plotNick. Yet two crucial elements of Kate runs the play don't make sense family business, a toy shop called Cornucopia in a modern settingPutney, and in the end I felt this added nothing to my enjoyment which is where we'll meet Rachel's main (if unsuspected) source of the originalinformation: five soft toys.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781090297</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Marlon JamesYancey Williams|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 Crosshairs of the Jamaican ghettoes: the politics, the unrest, the gang warfare and the death. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780746350</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Hanya Yanagihara|title=A Little LifeDevil|rating=34.5

|summary=WillemAward-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski is getting on in years and, despite his strenuous objections and thanks to his daughter, JBfinds himself living - or imprisoned, Malcolm and Jude donfrom Eddie't have a lot s point of view - 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 architecture. However even hopes for successful future can't erase room 315 of the blight Garden of the past Eden nursing home, with only a trusty nursing aide, Jenkins, for one of thempalatable company. Jude Nothing is physically disabled going to keep Eddie from a cause that isn't genetic or congenital. In fact the cause isn't even something hehis stock-in-trade of writing though, so here, for his readers, are his wanderings through his life'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 themwork.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447294815</amazonuk>0986031658}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julia Franck and Anthea Bell (translator)0008421714|title=WestMrs March|author=Virginia Feito|rating=34.5

|summary=Put yourself in The problem began just after the shoes publication of a young mother George March's most successful novel to two children, who declares date. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her intention first name only on the last page) seemed to leave the Communist East Germany for West Berlin, and thus loses her scientist jobeither be reading it or had already done so. What would you expect Every day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to buy olive bread but on the other side – shops full of attainable productsthat particular morning, pleasant neighbourhoodsPatricia asked, nice neighboursas she was wrapping the bread, an active and busy new life, where things might feel alien ''but at least isn't this the first time he's based a character on you speak the same language? '' Well, for Nelly SenffShe mentioned that Johanna, this is hardly the caseprincipal character had 'her mannerisms''. Once past Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for the depressing Eastern exit procedures she fact that Johanna is confronted with more desultory interrogations from those the whore of Nantes - 'welcoming' her to the West, beyond which she and her children (their fathera weak, whom she never marriedplain, is long assumed dead by the authoritiesdetestable, if nobody else) are practically left in a shared accommodation in a transit camp. The shops are full of what is still unobtainablepathetic, the children hate their new school – and people still look down on them as being foreignunloved, 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 heardunloveable wretch. 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>