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[[Category:New Reviews|Literary Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tarjei Vesaas, Torbjorn Stoverud and Michael Barnes (translators)Matthew Tree|title=The BirdsWe'll Never Know
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|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=We're somewhere in rural Scandinavia, on the shores of a large lake, but in a community relying on the farmland that is scattered in amongst the woods. Our chief concerns are brother and sister – Mattis and Hege. He, Mattis, is what the other villagers call 'simple' – sure, he knows a few things about life, and what makes a clever person and what makes a well-turned phrase, and how Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to talk to girls and when to not stare at them, but he is definitely not quite as the others would wish. Those others include be different from his sister, who is seeing her life waste away in listening to his chatter, knitting jumpers to make ends meetfather, a drunk and regretting in her own small way what has got her to middle-age in this situation. But from this galling introduction, you should take away the bigger picture – even if there is no way out, the life in this countryside is brilliantly conveyed, full chronic underachiever whose dreams of sun as well as shade, being exceptional at any of labour his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of idleness, and wit and charm as much as hardshipself confidence. I defy you So Tim applied himself to read this his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and think this corner of Scandinavia bleakset himself high but achievable ambitions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0914671200</amazonuk>B0CVFXPGP8
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicola BarkerB0C47LV1PC|title=The Cauliflower®Fragility|author=Mosby Woods
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|genre=Literary Fiction |summary=Nicola Barker teasingly refers to herself as this bookCan you make a ''s Yo birthing person'collagist'joke? And if you could, piecing together diverse documents to create a picture of Sri Ramakrishna (1836–1886)is the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, a largely illiterate guru who attracted followers to his intense worship of would it land? The catch is that the goddess Kalianswer for both could well be.... His life story no. ''Fragility'' is a sticky mass set as the city of contradictions:|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785150669</amazonuk>Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Toni Morrison Mosby Woods|title= God Help the ChildA Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating= 4|genre= Literary Fiction|summary=The West isn't the dominant force it once was. Nobody in the West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is the best course of action. Governments are flailing. A truly complex and emotionally raw portrayalwar here, a push for climate action there. A feeling that seeks to cover issues nobody is in actual charge. Imagine then, there was a man with precognition. Imagine the strategic advantage in this asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of racecircumstances. That man would be valuable, gender, and paedophiliaright? Perhaps the most valuable asset in history. A slim volume, yesImagine then, but one that is powerful in its punchthis man loses this ability.What would governments do to get it back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099555921</amazonuk>B0C9SNG8R1
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jesus Carrasco and Margaret Jull Costa (translator)0571379559|title=Out in the OpenThe House of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams|rating=35
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Meet ''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the boystory of four people. We never learn his name – Tess Hembry's roots are in fact we learn very little Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in this bookthe house on the riverbank, such built of broken bricks. Insubstantial as where or when we areit might look, it's stood the passage of time, storms and whyfloods. What we do know is that he has left home. We get the feeling Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his father is too handy with punishmentvegetables, but that can't be to complete the only reason for him first hiding out delivery rounds - and to bring in an olive grove overnightsufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and Max, then fleeing across the plains surrounding rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his familymother's villageJamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. Especially as hePeople don't believe that they're related, much less twins and there's chosen one of the most awkward, attritional times to cross said plains – the land an assumption when Max is in the middle of a horrendous droughtout with his mother that she's his nanny. When he tries to steal his first provisions from an aged goatherd, however, he finds some light and liquid, but is this substitute father figure ever going to be enough to help the boy flee what he needs to?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009958218X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Philip DentClaire North|title=Mutable Passions: Charlotte Bronte: A Disquieting AffairHouse of Odysseus|rating=35|genre=Historical Literary Fiction |summary=As ''What could matter more than love?'' The follow-up to the 200th anniversary of Charlotte Brontëexcellent ''Ithaca''s birth approaches, it is picks up a perfect time for reading about herfew months after where we left off. Philip Dent's second novel chooses a lesser known period In the palace of Odysseus, with delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without her life husband, who sailed to dramatizewar at Troy and then by divine intervention never returned home. All her siblings are now dead; during a hard winter when As ever she is unable to visit her best friend, Ellen Nussey, Charlotte spends her time finishing ''Villette'', her final novelremains surrounded by suitors vying for the throne of the Western Isles. The family servant, Tabby, ribs Charlotte about her romantic prospects Having survived – politically and physical – including Patrick Brontëthe chaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to Ithaca's curateshores, Arthur Bell NichollsQueen Penelope is on the brink of a fragile peace. Charlotte responds One that shatters however with indignation: 'I could no more kiss the lips return of Orestes, King of a man with a beard as big as rooks' nests than I could yoursMycenae, and his sister Elektra, Tabbyseeking refuge.'|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178589093X</amazonuk>0356516075
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Miroslav PenkovKay Chronister|title=Stork Mountain|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=A young man, his grandfather and a stork with a broken wing are the ''company of rebels'' at the heart of this lively tale set in Bulgaria's Strandja Mountains. The storks that return to the mountains each spring are migrants, like so many of the people that have passed through the region over the centuries. The young narrator is also in transit, born in Bulgaria, but raised and educated in America. The story opens with his return to Bulgaria in search of his grandfather who has broken off contact with his family in America. But the young man's motives are not as clear cut as first appears.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473622182</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Elisa Albert|title= After BirthDesert Creatures
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|genre= Literary Dystopian Fiction|summary= This book With a world that is definitely not becoming increasingly inhospitable for anyone who has humanity, post-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Whether it is a rosy picture of new motherhood. In factrobotic takeover, I would probably avoid it if you are contemplating giving birth in the near future. For any woman who has ever struggled through the first few months a world devoid of motherhood, however, water or a partner of somebody who is going through itnuclear holocaust, it this genre is an astounding and revelatory reada way for humans to cathartically experience their most existential fears. Never before have I read ''Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is a more searing, honest and open discussion new work of post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the emotional upheaval fears that exist for humanity today. It is a woman often goes through after giving birthshocking novel that still manages to find hope.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>009959014X</amazonuk>1803364998
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{{newreviewfrontpage|isbn=1803363002|author= Ayelet Gundar-GoshenEric LaRocca|title= Waking LionsThe Trees Grew Because I Bled There
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|genre= Literary FictionHorror|summary= If the point of 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 ''literatureBig Bad'' - as opposed to the less exalted though just-as-worthwhile forms of writing - , whether that is to force you to think about the real worlda home invader, the political worlda monster or a ghost, the painful life-as-we-know-it worldusually something tangible and, whilst catching you up in a by the end of the story about something , beatable. Eric LaRocca's ''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is not like that never really happened. It is a collection of short stories more interested in the horrors of illness, but, you know, might well have done so…and if you think grief and humiliation. Horrors that matters, then you must read this booklinger and are harder to defeat than any ''Big Bad''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782271562</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Yan LiankeMadelaine Lucas|title=The Four BooksThirst for Salt
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|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=''The Four BooksLove, I'' is d read, was supposed to be a difficultlight and weightless feeling, challenging novel and not but I had always longed for the feint heartedgravity'' Told from a retrospective view, or for someone looking for a pageyoung woman unravels the year-turnerlong relationship that once defined her. It really challenges Overlaid with later wisdom, the reader's perceptions and opens up narrator relives the affair with a gateway man twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to an era that is difficult to imagine for anyone brought up in a western cultureits sorrowful end the summer after. Set in Maoist China it tells against the story backdrop 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 child. With an Orwellian feel, isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'The Four Books'details the 24-year-old narrator' will come to be regarded as an undoubted masterpieces deepening relationship with her older lover, depicting its all-consuming nature, how it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and how it altered her irrevocably.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099569493</amazonuk>0861546490
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Yann MartelMichael Grothaus|title=The High Mountains of PortugalBeautiful Shining People
|rating=4
|genre= Literary Fiction
|summary= ''But fearing something and having it come to pass are two different things. And I had heard much about this novel before I read it for review'm willing to bet most of what we fear will never happen, by which I mean I had heard or we can take steps to change it was profane, strange .'' ''Beautiful Shining People'' revolves around the question of identity and had a daring subject matter accompanied by elements of humouracceptance. I have Of what it means to say that whilst I agree it be human. Of what is certainly profane real and strange what is artificial, and incredibly innovative, I didn't find much humour in it at allwhether the development of technology is exciting or frightening.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908276665</amazonuk>191458564X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jon Kalman Stefansson and Philip Roughton (translator)Jennifer Saint|title=The Heart of ManAtalanta|rating=35
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|summary=What could be better than an existentialist book from rural Iceland, full ''I was as worthy as any one of gnomic comments about how close life and death are, them. I would get on board that has as its core a journey taken by, amongst others, a naïve and hormonal teenaged lad and a full coffin? Whyship, I hear you cryvowed. I would take my place, a trilogy concerning not just in the name of the samegoddess. YesIt was for the sake of my name, ittoo. Atalanta''s Princess. Warrior. Lover. Hero. Abandoned at birth for being born a daughter rather than a son, Atalanta is raised under the obvious answerprotective eye of the goddess Athemis and fashioned into a formidable huntress, really one who longs for adventure. When the opportunity comes – why else would we come to this third partjoin the Argonauts, where the survivors a fierce band of warriors, descendent from the expedition rest up, note Gods themselves – Atalanta seizes the women giving them help, chance to fight in Artemis' name and see how eminently close the circle of life carve out her own legendary place in history. What follows is to the figure a whirlwind of a snake swallowing its tail challenges and discovery and throughit, among other thingsAtalanta must remember Artemis' fatal warning: that if she marries, dogs rutting in a church below the coffin's bier?it will be her undoing.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184866236X</amazonuk>1472292154
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Joanna WalshAmanthi Harris|title= VertigoBeautiful Place|rating= 4|genre= Literary Fiction|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 and every day. The narrative voice appeared to me to be the same woman speaking throughout, playing different roles, though I'm not sure this was meant to be the case. The style of the stories is that of short vignettes, mostly written in a modernist, stream of consciousness style. Sometimes, the prose appears almost poetic. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908276800</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Kristopher Jansma|title=Why We Came to the City|rating=4.5
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|summary='We came Padma, a young Sri Lankan, has returned to the city because we wished to live haphazardly, to reach for only Villa Hibiscus on the least realistic southern coast of our desires, and to see if we could her home country. This is a place she spent her formative years. It is not learn what our failures had to teacha place she was born into, and not, when we but the one she thinks of as home. How she came to livebe at the Villa, discover how it became her home, and the machinations that we had never diedhave flowed through her life ever since she first arrived there provide the ''score'' for this gentle and yet subtly violent novel. We wanted Padma's present fails to dig deep escape her past and suck out all much like the marrow musical score of lifea film, to be overworked and reduced to our last witthat strand weaves its way through everything that happens at the Villa.'|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0525426604</amazonuk>1784631930
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ernst Haffner and Michael Hofmann (translator)178563335X|title=Blood BrothersSea Defences|author=Hilary Taylor|rating=45
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|summary=ItWhen we first meet Rachel Bird she's Berlina trainee vicar, sitting in on a PCC meeting and wondering why they're held when you need to pick the Nazis are on their way to power, even if they will never cross these pages themselveschildren up. The city – hugeHer husband, glamorousChristopher, bustlingcollects six-year-old Hannah and her elder brother, Jamie, vicious whilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioner. Thelma's daughter-in -law won't let her see her grandson. Holthorpe, on the way it can swallow people – Norfolk coast, is home to a countless hoard of teenagerslovely place, but we focus on just Rachel is struggling to develop a few, most real bond with the parish - and she's in awe of whom have been in some corrective institution or other before now. They call themselves the Blood Brothersvicar, even if all they share is the most unglamorous drudgery of going from one doss-house to anotherGail, balancing but then she's been doing the cost of a few cigarettes with job for more than thirty years. Rachel and Christopher hoped that of a warm room for a few hours or walk on the beach would do them some stale rolls to eatgood - it was stormy but it was probably what they needed. But en route to them is another 'Borstal' escapee, WilliAnd then Hannah went missing. Surely his fate is going to be nothing if not more of the same?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099594048</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sara Taylor1398515388|title=The Shore|rating=4.5|genre=Short Stories|summary=The first story we hear from the Shore, a group of isolated islands off the coast of Virginia, is from Chloe, who's telling her sister about what she overheard in the store. She'd been there buying chicken necks so that they could go crabbing. Normally they used bacon rinds, but they'd already eaten those. Cabel Bloxom had been murdered Boy and ''they done cut his thang clean off''. The girls are motherless and Chloe is fiercely protective of her little sister Renee. She's the first of the strong women we'll encounter in these stories, which interlink to give a greater picture.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009959188X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewDog|author=Adam Baron|title=BlackheathSeishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julian Barnes0989715337|title=The Noise of TimePapa on the Moon|author=Marco North|rating=3.54
|genre=Literary Fiction
|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>
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{{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
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|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
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|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
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chuck PalahniukJennifer Saint|title=Beautiful YouElektra
|rating=4
|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Meet Penny Harrigan. And let's hope your introduction to her is more gentle than that we have on Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the first page story of this book, where she is being raped three women who live in front the heavily male dominated world of a full court houseAncient Greece. Cassandra, who – male to the bone – sit back and say nothingClytemnestra, if not whip out their camera phone. Once people take her out on a gurney and recognise her, we can start from Elektra are all bit players in the story of the beginning, where she is a lowly underling at a law firm, having failed too many exams to progress satisfactorilyTrojan War. The company is where Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the world's richest man is in legal negotiations having left silent women have the world's best and most beautiful actress, compelling stories and lo and behold he just happens to pick Penny to replace her with, even if she doesn't think of herself as the most beautiful girl aroundextreme furies. But what exactly is it she is wanted for, and can her apolitical style of feminism and aspirations be met?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>009958767X</amazonuk>1472273915
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Helle Helle and Martin Aitken (translator)8409290103|title=This Should be Written in the Present TenseIf Only|author=Matthew Tree|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= This is the first novel of Helle Helle'sTwenty-one-year-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by his father, cotton-broker AO Lowry: he asked his accountant, an award winning Danish authorMr Patrick, to be translated into English. It is easy ensure that the young man got on board the boat and thereafter Patrick was to see from this novel why she is gaining accolades in her Danish homelandsend him a monthly allowance. The rhythmic, natural flow of Patrick sent the narrative is mesmerising money regularly and appears to lull you through the book. It has some lovely, spare sentences a correspondence - of description: ''There were runsorts -down cottages with open doors and news on sprang up between the radiotwo although we hear more about what Lowry has to say than Patrick. Gulls flocked around an early harvester in the late sun It wasn't that Lowry senior didn'. But mostlyt care for his son, it is written was that he didn't care to have him in this country where he might be a modernist, almost stream of consciousness style, which I found refreshingdanger to his wife and other children. The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to get the young man on his way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099587475</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alice ThompsonAntoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)|title=The Book CollectorRed is My Heart|rating=43.5|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Meet Violet[[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white and read in my house. Swept off her feet by a disarming encounter with a landed gentleman and bookshop owner at a coffee shopAnd so was this one, she immediately falls in love with himalthough I could have spelled that more accurately – this one was, and is quickly married, black and almost as quickly with childwhite and red. When the boy is bornYes, howeverhe has an artistic collaborator on this piece, 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 lifeI think it's life, and possible to say not one page lacks the idea influence of a nanny looking after it? Just what is going on in her new country pile?some striking visual ideas.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784630438</amazonuk>1913547183
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sasa Stanisic and Anthea Bell (translator)B098FFFBH9|title=Before the FeastSnowcub|author=Graham Fulbright|rating=24.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= Deep 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 heart of Germany sits the village of Furstenfeldeanimal world. It lies on She gets a spit great deal of land that, legend has itsupport from her family: father Pip Harrison, a giant createdlecturer at Imperial College, between two lakes – the Great LakeLondon, mother Kate and the Deep Lakeher twin, Nick. 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 Kate runs the seasons changefamily business, from the teenage lads fishing and crashing cars or preparing for a bell-ringing examtoy shop called Cornucopia in Putney, 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 which is where we'll meet Rachel's main (a retired soldierif unsuspected) who is watching his last piece source 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 arrivalinformation: five soft toys.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782271295</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andre AlexisYancey Williams|title=Fifteen DogsCrosshairs 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=Gods The problem began just after the publication of George March's most successful novel to date. Everyone but Mrs March (and brotherswe know her first name only on the last page) Hermes and Apollo were arguing in a bar about what would happen if animals seemed to either be reading it or had human intelligence and eventually a wager was agreedalready done so. Human intelligence would be granted Every day Mrs March went to fifteen dogs staying overnight in a veterinary clinic and the wagerlocal patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, suggested by ApolloPatricia asked, as she was wrapping the bread, ''but isn't this the first time he's based a character on you?'' She mentioned that Hermes Johanna, the principal character had 'her mannerisms''. Perhaps this would be his servant for a year if the dogs were not more unhappy than they would have been originally. But - if even one of mattered, except for the dogs was happy at fact that Johanna is the end whore of its life Hermes would winNantes - ''a weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178125558X</amazonuk>''
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