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|summary=It's not usual Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to open be different from his father, a review with the history drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of how the book came to be written but with ''Napoleon's Last Island'' the story sheds an intriguing light on the plot. In 2012 author Thomas Keneally was given tickets to an exhibition being exceptional at any of Napoleonic artefacts: uniforms, furniture, china, paintings, military decorations, snuff boxes his artistic passions all failed miserably and memorabilia as well as Napoleon's death maskwho had endless crises of self confidence. He was intrigued as So Tim applied himself to how the exhibits his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and particularly the mask came to be in Australia. Some pieces in the exhibition had been bought in later set himself high but most came from the descendants of the Balcombe family, who came to the colony in the first half of the nineteenth century, from St Helena via England. The result of Keneally's research into the story is ''Napoleon's Last Island''achievable ambitions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473625335</amazonuk>B0CVFXPGP8

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0C47LV1PC|title=The Natural Way of ThingsFragility|author=Charlotte WoodMosby Woods|rating=54

|summary=Yolanda and Verla wake up disorientated. They realise theyCan you make a ''Yo birthing person''ve been drugged. Yolanda thinks that perhaps they are in some kind of mental facility - She knew she was not mad, but all lunatics thought that. Verla just sits, still and frozen, waiting. joke? And soon enoughif you could, two men arrive to reveal their fate. Yolanda and Verlais the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, along with eight other girls, have been brought to a remote farmhouse surrounded by an electrified fencewould it land? The catch is that the answer for both could well be. Their heads are shaved. They are dressed in uncomfortable, scratchy, Amish-style clothes. They are tied together like a chain gang. And, like any chain gang, their days are marked with forced labourno. Two men, one more cruel than  ''Fragility'' is set as the othercity of Portland, and a so-called nurse are their jailersOregon, not their guardians.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1760291870</amazonuk>cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Emma GeenMosby Woods|title=The Many Selves of Katherine NorthA Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=3.54|genre=Science Literary Fiction|summary=As a Bristol-area The West isn'phenomenaut', nineteen-year-old Kit projects herself into 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 lab-grown bodies best course of all sorts of creaturesaction. Governments are flailing. She's recently spent A war here, a lot of time as push for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is in actual charge. Imagine then, there was a fox (appropriate given her nickname) and got particularly close man with a vixen named Tomokoprecognition. It's becoming much harder for her to leave Imagine the animal world behind at the end strategic advantage in this asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of her 'jumps'circumstances. Even after BuckleyThat man would be valuable, her neuroengineerright? Perhaps the most valuable asset in history. Imagine then, signals her that this man loses this ability. What would governments do to 'Come home' and she resumes her original body, she has trouble giving up animal tendencies like territorialism, toileting outdoors and raiding bins.get it back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408858436</amazonuk>B0C9SNG8R1

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sjon and Victoria Cribb (translator)0571379559|title=Moonstone: The Boy Who Never WasHouse of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams

|summary=Sixteen-year-old Mani Stein - Moonstone in translation - existed on ''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the fringes story of societyfour people. He lived Tess Hembry's roots are in Reykjavik and Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in 1918 the night sky (and house on the day for that matter) was lit by the eruptions riverbank, built of the Katla volcanobroken bricks. The Great War was ragingInsubstantial as it might look, or possibly grinding onit's stood the passage of time, but life in the capital carried on much as usualstorms and floods. There were shortagesHer husband, such as coalRichard, struggles to grow his vegetables, but there was to complete the new fashion delivery rounds - and it was for to bring in sufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and Max, the movies that Mani lived, seeing every production he could, sometimes several timesrainbow twins. He dreamed about the films, changing them to suit Sonny's colouring reflects his tastes, working mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his own life into the plotsfather. But People don't believe that they're related, much less twins and there was another reason why Mani was a misfit: Mani was gay and frequently made a living as a sex worker's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she's his nanny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473613132</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Conor O'CallaghanClaire North|title=Nothing on EarthHouse of Odysseus|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=On a sweltering night in what is a blisteringly hot summer a young girl hammers at a man's door and when let into 'What could matter more than love?'' The follow-up to the house tells him that her father has disappeared excellent ''tooIthaca''picks up a few months after where we left off. Gradually In the palace of Odysseus, with delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without her story emergeshusband, of a who sailed to war at Troy and then by divine intervention never returned home on one of those estates so common in Ireland after . As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for the collapse throne of the Celtic Tiger with only the occasional house occupied and others only part builtWestern Isles. It could be any one of hundreds of Irish towns at that time Having survived – politically and its main feature is physical – the lack of hope chaotic storm that it will never be any better. Our narrator tells her storyClytemnestra brought to Ithaca's shores, much, he says, as it was told to him and we hear Queen Penelope is on the brink of a life on fragile peace. One that shatters however with the edge return of Orestes, King of povertyMycenae, with strange noises in the nightand his sister Elektra, words written in the dust on the windows mirrored by those written in blue ink on her skinseeking refuge.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781620342</amazonuk>0356516075

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Per Olov Enquist and Deborah Bragan-Turner (translator)Kay Chronister|title=The Parable BookDesert Creatures|rating=3.54|genre=Literary Dystopian Fiction|summary=It's not only springtime when With a man's fancies turn to thoughts of love – he can also do it in the autumn of his lifeworld that is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, as does the man involved here. But being a wellpost-known author, and being beholden to silence, apocalyptic fiction can he really put his thoughts on paper? It happened become an almost masochistic thrill. Whether it is a long time agorobotic takeover, and he only met the woman concerned a couple world devoid of timeswater or a nuclear holocaust, but with it being such this genre is a powerful event and such a slightly unusual circumstance, what should he do? It takes way for humans to cathartically experience their most existential fears. ''Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is a notebook new work of his father's love poems to his mother, post-apocalyptic fiction that he finds both incomplete and scorched, to give him aligns many of the green light – the voice from the past fears that says to him, 'go exist for it'humanity today. And what we read here It is a resultshocking novel that still manages to find hope.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857059912</amazonuk>1803364998

{{newreviewfrontpage|isbn=1803363002|author=Maggie O'FarrellEric LaRocca|title=This Must Be the PlaceThe Trees Grew Because I Bled There|rating=45|genre=Literary FictionHorror|summary=Maggie OHorror taps into something primeval within us. It is used as a way to reflect our darkest emotions and how we as humans react and process them. Most horror fiction feature a ''Big Bad'Farrell's globe-trotting seventh novel opens in 2010 with Daniel Sullivan, an American linguistics professor. He lives with his wife Claudettewhether that is a home invader, a French actress who retreated from the limelightmonster or a ghost, it usually something tangible and their two children in a remote home in Donegal. It was 10 years ago that he first came here and met Claudette , by chance when her van had a flat tire; he struck up a conversation with her son Ari and gave the boy tips for dealing with his stutterend of the story, beatable. Now, preparing to fly back to Brooklyn for his fatherEric LaRocca's ninetieth birthday party, he's caught 'The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is not like that. It is a collection of short by a long-lost voice he hears on stories more interested in the radiohorrors of illness, grief and humiliation. It belongs to Nicola Janks, a former lover he last saw 24 years ago; when he learns Horrors that she died soon after they were together, he determines linger and are harder to figure out whether he played a role, even if he doesndefeat than any ''Big Bad''t like what he finds.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755358805</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joanne HarrisMadelaine Lucas|title=Different ClassThirst for Salt

|summary= St Oswald's Grammar School For Boys is in crisis. A murdered schoolboy'Love, I'd read, was supposed to be a procession of new Head Masterslight and weightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravity'' Told from a(nother) new Head Masterretrospective view, a Crisis Intervention Team and a potential merger young woman unravels the year-long relationship that once defined her. Overlaid with St Oswald's all female counterpartlater wisdom, Mulberry House. Roy Straitley is not altogether dismayed at the prospect of delaying his retirement; St Oswald's has been his life, narrator relives the affair with a man and boy and a crisis is a crisis twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after all is said and done, isn't it? It's probably his duty finishing university – to stay and right its sorrowful end the shipsummer after. So when Set against the latest backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the new Head Masters and his duo of crisis managers walk into the staff room, Straitley can't quite believe his 24-year-old eyes. The new Head is an ex-pupil of St Oswaldnarrator's; a boy whodeepening relationship with her older lover, depicting its all-consuming nature, in his time at the esteemed old School caused such an uproarious scandal that one of the Masters ended up in prison! how it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and how it altered her irrevocably.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0385619235</amazonuk>0861546490

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Bill BeverlyMichael Grothaus|title= DodgersBeautiful Shining People|rating= 54

|summary= Judging a book by its cover can mislead. It can especially mislead if you don't look closely at the cover 'But fearing something and having it come to pass are just grabbed by the two different things. And I'm willing to bet most of what we fear will never happen, or we can take steps to change it.'feel' ' or 'Beautiful Shining People'style'' of revolves around the design question of the thingidentity and acceptance. Of what it means to be human. Being misled Of what is real and what is not necessarily a bad thing. For reasons best left in the depths of my addled brainartificial, and whether the styling development of Dodgers had me thinking 'noir'. I was expecting late fifties, early sixties. If I'd looked closer, I'd have seen that it technology is much more contemporary than thatexciting or frightening. Then again…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1843448572</amazonuk>191458564X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alice AdamsJennifer Saint|title=Invincible SummerAtalanta|rating=3.5

|summary=As Alice Adams's debut novel opens '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 summer name of the goddess. It was for the sake of 1995my name, four university friends are lounging on Bristoltoo. Atalanta''s Brandon Hill Princess. Warrior. Lover. Hero. Abandoned at birth for being born a daughter rather than a son, drinking Atalanta is raised under the protective eye of the goddess Athemis and contemplating what fashioned into a formidable huntress, one who longs for adventure. When the opportunity comes – to join the Argonauts, a fierce band of warriors, descendent from the future holds. ThereGods themselves – Atalanta seizes the chance to fight in Artemis's Eva Andrews, raised name and carve out her own legendary place in Sussex by history. What follows is a single father; siblings Sylvie whirlwind of challenges and Lucien Marchant, neglected by their alcoholic mother; discovery and Benedict Waverleythrough it, a rich kid whose parents have a holiday home on Corfu. Eva has a crush on LucienAtalanta must remember Artemis' fatal warning: that if she marries, while Benedict is besotted with Evait will be her undoing.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509814701</amazonuk>1472292154

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Birgul OguzAmanthi Harris|title= HahBeautiful Place|rating= 35|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= I was interested to receive this book for review as I knew it was written in Padma, a modernyoung Sri Lankan, interesting style, being effectively a collection has returned to the Villa Hibiscus on the southern coast of short stories, but appearing more in her home country. This is a novel structureplace she spent her formative years. I It is not a place she wasborn into, however, rather disappointed with but the bookone she thinks of as home. Whilst it does have some very fine examples of prose writing within How she came to be at the storiesVilla, I felt disconnected from the narratorhow it became her home, who is and the daughter of a recently deceased man who was involved in a Turkish military coup in 1980. There is therefore a lot of examples of machinations that have flowed through her life ever since she first arrived there provide the narrator relating the conversations they had shared regarding ''revolutionscore'', for this gentle and the way this had affected the daughteryet subtly violent novel. Padma's upbringing present fails to escape her past and childhood. Another 'story' then delves into much like the musical score of a seemingly disconnected wander film, that strand weaves its way through everything that happens at the town, whereby we see the narrator working at gutting fish, and talking about a man she finds repulsive, but who appears to be in love with herVilla. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>9462380740</amazonuk>1784631930

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chuck Palahniuk178563335X|title=Make Something UpSea Defences|author=Hilary Taylor

|genre=Short Stories Literary Fiction|summary=What are When we to make of that subtitle-seeming writing first meet Rachel Bird she's a trainee vicar, sitting in on the front cover – a PCC meeting and wondering why they''stories re held when you can't unread''? Does that not apply to all good fiction? Clearly it is here due to the reputation of the author, and the baggage his name brings need to pick the pagechildren up. We'd expect a dramatic approach from anything Palahniuk writesHer husband, Christopher, collects six-year-old Hannah and an added frissonher elder brother, an extra layerJamie, from which we might be forced to shrink backwhilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioner. But a lot of the contents donThelma's daughter-in-law won't quite go that farlet her see her grandson. YesHolthorpe, things are dramatic, when society starts attaching defibrillators to itself, to create on the perfectNorfolk coast, simple, care- (''The Price is Right''-a lovely place, and Kardashian-) free happiness. A man buys a horse for his daughter – but boy Rachel is it the wrong horse to buy. A man falls in love – yes, sometimes the plot summaries of these stories really are better off for being short (speaking of which, don't turn struggling to develop a real bond with the threeparish -page entrant here as a taster, itand she'll put you off by dint s in awe of beingthe vicar, almost uniquely hereGail, a nothing story). A call centre worker can't convince people hebut then she's on been doing the level and even in their country – until someone starts riffing back to himjob for more than thirty years. A housing estate report conveys bad regulation violations, but not as bad as Rachel and Christopher hoped that a walk on the happenings at a 'Burning Man'beach would do them some good -styled festival, in a very clever couple of talesit was stormy but it was probably what they needed. But many too are the instances where that extra step has been taken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099587688</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Aliya Whiteley|title= The Arrival of Missives|rating= 4And then Hannah went missing.5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary=In the aftermath of the Great War, Shirley Fearn dreams of challenging the conventions of rural England, where life is as unchanging as the seasons. The scarred veteran Mr Tiller, left disfigured by an impossible accident on the battlefields of France, brings with him a message: part prophecy, part warning. As Shirley's village prepares for the annual May Day celebrations, where a new queen will be crowned and the future reborn, she must choose between change and renewal – will the missives Mr Tiller brings prevent her mastering her identity?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907389377</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= P K Lynch1398515388|title= Armadillos|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= Aggie is one of Texas' downtrodden. Dirt poor The Boy and abused. ''a 'sub' from a 'sub' family'' … ''Her father and brother enact that 'sub'-ness on her, week in, week out.'' ''She has only the vaguest notion that there is something wrong with the abuse she endures..''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178507959X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewDog|author=Tarjei Vesaas, Torbjorn Stoverud Seishu Hase and Michael Barnes Alison Watts (translatorstranslator)|title=The Birds

|summary=We're somewhere in rural ScandinaviaFirst of all, on it was the shores of a large lakeearthquake, but deep in a community relying on the farmland that is scattered ocean floor, which created the tsunami and this, in amongst turn, caused the woodsnuclear meltdown. Our chief concerns are brother The result was complete and sister – Mattis utter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, and Hegethe loss of livelihoods was widespread. The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of priorities but - six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. He, Mattis, is what the other villagers call wasn'simple' – sure, he knows a few things about life, and what makes t a clever dog person and what makes a well-turned phrase, and how to talk to girls and when to not stare at them, but the convenience store owner's comment that he is definitely not quite as the others would wish. Those others include his sister, who is seeing her life waste away in listening call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his chatter, knitting jumpers to make ends meet, car door 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, Tamon the life dog jumped in this countryside is brilliantly conveyed, full of sun as well as shade, of labour and of idleness, and wit and charm as much as hardship. I defy you to read this and think this corner of Scandinavia bleak.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0914671200</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicola Barker0989715337|title=The Cauliflower®Papa on the Moon|author=Marco North

|summary=Meet ''Some frogs had gotten into the boywell. We never learn his name – '' ''Walter stood waist-deep in fact we learn very little in this bookthe fragrant water, such as where or when we arenaked except for his beaten leather hat. Long strands of their eggs wove around him, sticky gray pearls with tadpoles inside them. Two of the dogs leaned over the opening and why. What we do know is that barked down at the strange noise of the buckets as he has left homefilled them. We get the feeling his father '' How is too handy with punishment, but that can't be the only reason for him first hiding out in an olive grove overnight, then fleeing across the plains surrounding his family's village. Especially as he's chosen one opening? The style of the most awkward, attritional times to cross said plains – the land is this novel in the middle form of interconnected short stories goes from succinct and laconic to wistful and musing, turning on a horrendous droughtsixpence. When he tries to steal his first provisions from an aged goatherdAnd author Marco North, howeverwho has the most wonderful turn of phrase, starts as he finds some light and liquid, but is this substitute father figure ever going means to be enough to help the boy flee what he needs to?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009958218X</amazonuk>go on.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Philip DentDaisy Hildyard|title=Mutable Passions: Charlotte Bronte: A Disquieting Affair|rating=3|genre=Historical Fiction |summary=As the 200th anniversary of Charlotte Brontë's birth approaches, it is a perfect time for reading about her. Philip Dent's second novel chooses a lesser known period of her life to dramatize. All her siblings are now dead; during a hard winter when she is unable to visit her best friend, Ellen Nussey, Charlotte spends her time finishing ''Villette'', her final novel. The family servant, Tabby, ribs Charlotte about her romantic prospects – including Patrick Brontë's curate, Arthur Bell Nicholls. Charlotte responds with indignation: 'I could no more kiss the lips of a man with a beard as big as rooks' nests than I could yours, Tabby.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178589093X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Miroslav Penkov|title=Stork MountainEmergency

|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=A young man, his grandfather and a stork with a broken wing are the ''company of rebels'' at the heart The summary of this lively tale set in Bulgariabook doesn's Strandja Mountains. The storks that return t come close 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 explaining what 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 done with his family in America. But the young man's motives are not as clear cut as first appearspremise.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473622182</amazonuk>1913097811}} {{newreviewFrontpage |author= Elisa AlbertSally Oliver |title= After BirthThe Weight of Loss |rating= 4|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= This book Marianne is definitely not for anyone who has a rosy picture of new motherhoodgrieving. In fact, I would probably avoid it if you are contemplating giving birth in Traumatised after the near future. For any woman who has ever struggled through the first few months death of motherhoodher sister, howevershe awakes to find strange, or a partner thick black hairs sprouting from the bones of somebody who is going through it, it is an astounding her spine which steadily increase in size and revelatory readvolume. Never before have I read Her GP, diagnosing the odd phenomenon as a more searingphysical reaction to her grief, recommends she go to stay at Nede, honest an experimental new treatment centre in Wales. Yet something strange is happening to Marianne and open discussion the other patients at Nede: a metamorphosis of the emotional upheaval a woman often goes through after giving birthkind.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009959014X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Ayelet Gundar-Goshen|title= Waking Lions|rating= 5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= If the point of As Marianne''literature'' - as opposed s memories threaten to the less exalted though just-as-worthwhile forms overwhelm her, Nede offers her release from this cycle 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 memory and pain—but only at a story about something terrible price: that never really happened, but, you know, might well have done so…and if you think that matters, then you must read this bookof identity itself.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782271562</amazonuk>086154112X }}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Yan LiankeNatalia Garcia Freire|title=The Four BooksThis World Does Not Belong To Us

|summary=''The Four Books'' is a difficult, challenging Early comments on this debut novel and not for the feint heartedfrom Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendous, or for someone looking for a page-turnerdelight. It really challenges I will agree with the readerfirst – tremendous is no understatement – but 's perceptions and opens up a gateway to an era that delight' is difficult to imagine for anyone brought up perhaps using the expression in a western cultureway I'm not familiar with. Set in Maoist China it tells I have to confess my ignorance of the story of four protagonists and a memorable antagonistSpanish-language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation here. The four, found guilty of anti-revolutionary crimes are undergoing re-education From the little I have read (in a work camp governed by the child. With an Orwellian feeltranslation, I don''The Four Books'' will come t read Spanish) there does seem to be regarded as an undoubted masterpiecea tendency towards the fantastical – the mystical realism.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099569493</amazonuk>0861541901

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Yann MartelJennifer Saint|title=The High Mountains of PortugalElektra

|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Tomas is being thrust into the twentieth Century, and he doesn't like it. He has given himself Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the job story of seeking something out three women who live in the High Mountains heavily male dominated world of PortugalAncient Greece. Cassandra, based on an ancient religious diary he found working in an archiveClytemnestra, and to do so he needs Elektra are all bit players in the use story of his uncle's brand new car to get him there and back in timethe Trojan War. His jaw drops when he learns he will Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the silent women have to do the driving himself, for he cannot make head nor tail of what anything on the infernal machine does and why. It is of course a certain kind of progress, a looking forward, which has become quite anathema to him – for ever since he lost his beloved wife, beloved child most compelling stories and father, all in the space of a week, he has walked everywhere backwards – shielding himself from what really is ahead with a padded behind, and never letting sight of what he has lostmost extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782114696</amazonuk>1472273915

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Antonio Moresco and Richard Dixon (translator)8409290103|title=Distant LightIf Only|author=Matthew Tree

|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Our unnamed narrator might as well be Twenty-one-year-old Malcolm Lowry had 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 only person aliveboat and thereafter Patrick was to send him a monthly allowance. He knows he's not – he still goes down to Patrick sent the nearest inhabited village to buy things to eat money regularly and other necessities, and he sees planes spreading their contrails over a correspondence - of sorts - sprang up between the remote area he lives in – but he might as well betwo although we hear more about what Lowry has to say than Patrick. A lot of It wasn't that Lowry senior didn't care for his thoughts are about lifeson, however, for it was that he has little didn't care to do except notice the nature around have him, from the smell of lilies burgeoning with nobody else to see them in this deserted village, country where he might be a danger to the swallows darting across the ravines of the countrysidehis wife and other children. Life – and The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to get the nature of a light that he sees spring into activity every night at what he thought was a totally lifeless, empty forest area young man on land separated from his lookout post in his back garden by a deep, wooded gorge…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0914671421</amazonuk>way.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tania JamesAntoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)|title=The Tusk That Did the DamageRed is My Heart

|summary=Tania James was a Fulbright Fellow in New Delhi in 2011–12. For this, Fourteen-year-old Rachel is her second novel after school''Atlas of Unknowns'' (shortlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian literature) s animal rights project leader and the story collection ''Aerogrammes'', she clearly draws on and her personal knowledge of India friend are producing a competition entry to highlight the way in all its contradictions, especially when it comes to environmental policywhich human beings exploit the animal world. The novel alternates between three perspectives: She gets a third-person account great deal of an elephant named the Gravedigger and first-person narratives support from her family: father Pip Harrison, a poacher lecturer at Imperial College, London, mother Kate and her twin, Nick. Kate runs the family business, a documentary filmmakertoy shop called Cornucopia in Putney, which is where we'll meet Rachel's main (if unsuspected) source of information: five soft toys.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784700584</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Anakana SchofieldYancey Williams|title= Martin JohnCrosshairs of the Devil|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= I had heard much about this novel before I read it for reviewAward-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, by which I mean I had heard it was profanefrom Eddie's point of view - in room 315 of the Garden of Eden nursing home, strange and had with only a daring subject matter accompanied by elements of humourtrusty nursing aide, Jenkins, for palatable company. I have Nothing is going to say that whilst I agree it is certainly profane and strange and incredibly innovativekeep Eddie from his stock-in-trade of writing though, so here, for his readers, I didnare his wanderings through his life't find much humour in it at alls work.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908276665</amazonuk>0986031658}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jon Kalman Stefansson and Philip Roughton (translator)0008421714|title=The Heart of ManMrs March|author=Virginia Feito|rating=34.5

|summary=What could The problem began just after the publication of George March's most successful novel to date. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the last page) seemed to either be better than an existentialist book from rural Icelandreading it or had already done so. Every day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, full of gnomic comments about how close life and death arePatricia asked, that has as its core a journey taken by, amongst othersshe was wrapping the bread, ''but isn't this the first time he's based a naïve and hormonal teenaged lad and a full coffincharacter on you? '' Why, I hear you cryShe mentioned that Johanna, a trilogy concerning the sameprincipal character had 'her mannerisms''. Yes, it's the obvious answer, really – why else Perhaps this would we come to this third partnot have mattered, where except for the survivors of the expedition rest up, note the women giving them help, and see how eminently close the circle of life fact that Johanna is to the figure whore of Nantes - ''a snake swallowing its tail throughweak, among other thingsplain, dogs rutting in a church below the coffindetestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch.''s bier?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184866236X</amazonuk>