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[[Category:New Reviews|Literary Fiction]]==Literary fiction==__NOTOC__{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jenn Ashworth295967572X|title=The Friday GospelsPale Pieces|author=G M Stevens
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=There are five in the Leeke family. Martin Our unnamed narrator is the father and he works in the mail sorting office. There's not about to begin a lot of ''pleasure'' in Martin's life, but if you were making a list you'd put Bovril at the top of it. She's a labrador and Martin's obsessed train journey with her traininghis companion Django. Well, heWhere they's partly obsessed with the training re going and what the training purpose of this journey is partly an excuse for his other obsession. Nina owns two labradors and Martin sees them (he and Nina, that is - not he and uncertain. Django found the labs) as having a future together. It would be easy to be critical, but Martintickets 's wife is in a wheelchair. Pauline's been unwell since on the birth of their youngest childfloor somewhere'' and has persuaded our narrator to accompany him. She's Why not quite doubly incontinent, ? Not much else is clear either - but accidents we are frequent probably in the past as the pair travel to the station by coach and embarrassing. She's also got the train is a penchant for spending on home improvements - despite the fact that there ''really'' isn't the money for themsteam locomotive.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444707728</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Katharina Hagena and Jamie Bulloch (Translator)Makenna Goodman|title=The Taste Helen of Apple SeedsNowhere|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= Iris Berger isn't It could be argued that the pervading theme of this book is malaise - a stranger hard-to loss-place feeling that something in your life is not quite right. Her cousin died at 15 and her grandmother has just passed away leaving Iris her house. It all echoes with memoriesThe protagonist, for instance a disgraced professor on the wardrobe full brink of her mother losing both his career and aunts' childhood dresseshis relationship, the beautiful garden and the apple tree that played such a large part in the family historyembodies this feeling. While wandering outsideHowever, Iris bumps into Carsten LexowGoodman counteracts his discomfort with a force which is seductive, family friend radical and unnerving: Helen. The connection between Helen and garden caretakerthe protagonist is indirect yet intimate. Over lunch As the former owner of the countryside house he tells her of a family secret. There's a reason whyconsidering, on Helen represents a certain June night a lifetime agovolta in his life, a certain apple tree bloomed twiceher past tied to his potential fresh start. Although significantThe realtor who shows the protagonist around the house shares stories about Helen, Iris discovers more secrets and describes her as ''an entity that is pure consciousness, beyond form''. Although she settles lives inan assisted living facility now, and Helen has powers beyond comprehension which the reader gets the sense are not only secrets concerning othersaltogether innocuous.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857890980</amazonuk>1804272205
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mary Francois RockcastleOlga Tokarczuk|title=In Caddis WoodHouse of Day, House of Night|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Middle-aged, married and (comparatively speaking) middle class Americans Hallie and Carl seem, at first glance, to be happy. Hallie (a poet) and Carl (an architect) have all ''What's the trappings good of success including two adult twin daughters and a holiday home world that keeps changing like that? How can one go on calmly living in the beautiful Caddis Wood. However, Carl becomes a little shaky on his feet and, while he's able to shrug it off for a while, he begins to realise that something?'s seriously wrong. As his health deteriorates other cracks materialise as he realises his marriage isn't as steady as he thought and so he and Hallie must come to terms with her past and, indeed, future.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1555975925</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kevin SmithThea Lenarduzzi|title=Jammy DodgerThe Tower
|rating=5
|genre=HumourLiterary Fiction|summary=It's 1980s Belfast and Artie McCann has it sorted. Having left uni with a literature degree, a love of poetry and no real urge for hard work, he and his mate Oliver discover 'How unctuous are the joy fats of Art Council grants. All they need to do is establish a literary magazine and bring out an issue (very) occasionally. This frees them up for reliving the best bits of their former student lifestyle and discussing the comparable merits of biscuit varieties. However things start to go awry; not all the magazineanother's would-be contributors are happy (or unarmed) and life begins to appear more unsettled. There is a way out but it will take some hard work, an actor and a remedy for that smell of rotting milkhow dizzying their sugars in our bloodstream''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908737085</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Padgett PowellJon Fosse and Damion Searls (translator) |title=EdistoVaim
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Welcome to ''All was strange''... This haunting phrase encapsulates the household pervading sense of the Duchess and our narrator, Simons (pronounced as with two Ms), a luxurious building otherworldliness which permeates this story set in the Carolinian coastal town of EdistoVaim, and a white household fictional fishing village in a friendly black neighbourhood. Our story starts when a man arrives, trying to serve a court order to the maid's daughter, an act Norway which drives the maid to flee, paradoxically could not feel more real for Jatgeir and which leads to the man replacing her in her shack. He doesn't exactly do the housework as she didEline, but he does help the household out, for two of the Duchess is quite Bohemian protagonists caught in attitude, and wants her twelve year old boy to be a dazzling authorial prodigy. He already has a stool with his name on at the local black bar, but the man – who Simons decides to call Taurus – is going to be a peculiar father figure, opening his world up into that of adulthoodits melancholic current.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846688124</amazonuk>1804271829
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jose SaramagoClaire-Louise Bennett|title=Raised from the GroundBig Kiss, Bye-Bye |rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Domingos is a feckless manEverything in this book, a man often neglecting his familyhowever sweet or seemingly innocent, is steeped in anguish and hitting his wife due to too much drinkingdistortion. Even a kiss, usually a man often leaving everyone behind as he chases work symbol of intimacy and flees his debts. He calls himself a shoemaker but really he's little different from those around himcloseness, who actually do have to move about, chasing what seasonal agricultural work is availablebecomes evidence of love lost. Certainly his children and their children in turn will mostly be bound to the land they sprang from - When the narrator cries out internally, 'latifundio' – come over here and the spirit of both all of themkiss me, and of '' it, throughout the Portuguese twentieth century, are the subjects is less an invitation than a desperate attempt to confirm her emotional numbness. The imagined recipient of this early [[:Category:Jose Saramago|Jose Saramago]] novelplea is Xavier, her ex-partner, in English for the first time after a thirty-year waitghost she conjures to test her detachment.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846557062</amazonuk>1804271934
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dag SolstadHelene Bessette and Kate Briggs (translator)|title=Professor Andersen's NightLili is Crying|rating=34.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=A Christmastime First published in Norway. Spending his Christmas Eve alone, yet celebrating the age-old occasion the traditional way just by and for himself, is Professor Andersen. While taking time to muse on the party-hosting neighbours lit up 1953 in their own apartments across the wayFrench, he sees a young woman get roughly manhandled by what he thinks this novel is a young man, after timeless text which wrenches the hearts of its readers just as Bessette wrenches words and sentences from their curtains are closed and suspicion is allowed to mount in proper position on the Professor's mind. He attends a dinner party – arriving far too early, to have the opportunity to talk the case over with his best friend – page and goes awaypositions them elsewhere, spending many hours with his colleaguedisjointed, yet carries on doing nothing about reporting what he is sure was a murdertruncated. He and Like the relationship to the criminal in his mind lives of her characters, they are the basis of this short noveloften left tragically incomplete.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099578425</amazonuk>1804271675
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kari Hotakainen and Owen F Witesman (translator)Jonathan Buckley|title=The Human PartOne Boat
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Salme Malmikunnas attends ''One Boat'' is a literary fair with her daughterdeeply introspective novella that defies traditional narrative structure, Helena but before going insidedrawing the reader into a contemplative realm of philosophical musings and fragmented memories flowing from our narrator and protagonist, Salme meets an author who offers her Teresa. Set against the evocative backdrop of a small fortune in exchange for her storycoastal Greek town, this work masterfully captures the magic of its setting and its power to provoke profound introspection. He seeks inspiration and feels that Salme's biography is Teresa herself recognises these qualities as the reason she has visited it. Salme agrees only after a fee increase and so their regular meetings beginthe death of both her parents. The author gets a story Prompted by her mourning, her narrative voice is meditative and Salme unloads deeply self-aware, inviting the reader into her past and present onto this strangerlabyrinthine cogitations. MeanwhileIt is a book that not only requires but inspires depth of thought, Salme's family continues speeding towards a devastating eventsince its narrative structure is fragmentary and ironically relies on analepsis for its propulsion.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857050656</amazonuk>1804271764
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Adolfo Garcia OrtegaEowyn Ivey|title=Desolation IslandBlack Woods Blue Sky|rating=43.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=In Madeira''Black Woods Blue Sky'' tells the story of Birdie, in the first months young mother of the new millenniumtoddler Emaleen, who longs for a man named Oliver Griffin collars life beyond the Alaskan lodge where she works as a total stranger to explain his lifetime’s obsession with bar waitress, a South American island called Desolationsetting which enables her bad habits and her accidental neglect of Emaleen. Griffin is Described as a narrator as gabby as Melville’s Ishmael but twice as rambling''wild card'', she feels stuck in her day-to-day life, and what he recounts is less a coherent story than a neverending cabinet of curiosities. This magical realist take yearns to cross the Wolverine river and live on the history North Fork to fulfil her desires of a place involves forbidden lovesimple life surrounded by nature. When she meets Arthur Nielson, sixteenth-century automatonsa strange, mysterious Balkan castlestaciturn and solitary man, war crimeswho says he has a cabin over there, death at sea, Jewish folklore, the personal lives of French authors she feels called to go - and the sexual conduct of famous Spanish explorersbring Emaleen with her. Without realising it, each bizarre strand twisted together by the novel’s own weird internal logic into one astonishing this calling will transform hers and delightful patternEmaleen's lives forever.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099516934</amazonuk>1472279042
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Emma BeckerSally Rooney|title=MonsieurIntermezzo|rating=34.5|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=She Sally Rooney has studied the chessboard of life and is something of a twenty-year old student, with an average cleavage and a big bumgrandmaster at putting it into words. He Her dialogue is 45, a married cosmetic surgeon, gripping and a friend of the familyso brilliantly frustrating, having worked with as her uncle for yearscharacters never quite say exactly what they feel. They might be an unlikely couple – at least outside Among the realms of erotic fiction they are – but as she puts itmany relationships woven into this story, she wants him the central one for readers to ''show me what unravel is the fraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and Peter Koubek. Ivan, a man was likesocially awkward chess prodigy, a real mancontrasts sharply with his older brother Peter, a man who could fill my body successful lawyer living in Dublin. Following their father's passing after a long battle with cancer, the brothers''and''' my mind''. The consequences are in this novelalready strained relationship faces new trials.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780334761</amazonuk>0571365469
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Thomas KeneallyFyodor Dostoyevsky|title=The Daughters of MarsWhite Nights
|rating=5
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=As always in Dostoyevsky, the character work is sublime. One is never left wondering what a character is thinking or feeling because Dostoyevsky lays bare their innermost dispositions and temperaments with remarkable clarity.
|isbn=0241619785
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{{Frontpage
|author=James Baldwin
|title=Giovanni's Room
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=''Giovanni's Room'' follows the narrator David, an American man living in Paris, as he navigates his torturous affair with Giovanni, an Italian bartender he meets in a gay bar. While David is engaged to Hella, who is travelling in Spain, the real tension in the novel arises not from his infidelity but from the deeper conflict within himself. It is David's crippling shame and denial of his sexuality that ultimately dooms his relationship with Giovanni.
|isbn=0141186356
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{{Frontpage
|author=Alba de Cespedes
|title=Forbidden Notebook
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Expectations ahead This Italian work of Thomas Keneally's 'The Daughters feminist fiction holds an air of Mars' are understandably high. He regularly features on the Booker shortlist suspense and has won tension from the prize in the past with ''Shindler's Ark''. While his subject mattermoment our protagonist, World War IValeria Cossati, is hardly the most original, his slant on the story ispurchases her forbidden notebook, and this is a book that deserves to sit with learns about herself in the very best of the many books on that subject, including ''All Quiet on the Western Front'' and ''Birdsong''. It's that good most intimate and that powerfulrevealing ways.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340951877</amazonuk>1782278222
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joseph O'ConnorOttessa Moshfegh|title=Where Have You Been?My Year of Rest and Relaxation|rating=53
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Irish novelist Joseph O'Connor has had quite At best, this novel is a 2012. Earlier in scathing critique of modern society and reveals the year he joined fragility of human relationships; at worst, it is the ranks of such authors as Edna O'Briencynical, [[:Category:Roddy Doyle|Roddy Doyle]] predictable and Seamus Heaney when he became a recipient slightly trite tale of the PEN award for his outstanding contribution to Irish literaturean unlikeable protagonist. What could possibly top that for This unlikely heroine, a sense of achievement? Well thisslim, his first book of short stories attractive and newly orphaned girl in 20 yearsher twenties is disillusioned with the world, must come pretty close but resolves not to at least equalling lose sleep over it: in fact, amply illustrating the reasons for the panel's decisionher solution lies in her hibernation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846556899</amazonuk>1784707422
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Thomas H CookMatthew Tree|title=The Crime of Julian WellsWe'll Never Know
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=American travel writer Julian Wells walks out of the house he shares with Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his sisterfather, wanders down to the garden lake, rows himself out to the centre a drunk and slits his wrists. He dies alone as he silently watches his life drip into the water. Devastated, chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his friend artistic passions all failed miserably and frequent travel companion Philip Anders, tries to come to terms with the loss the only way he can: by attempting to understand. Julian dedicated a book to Philip, mentioning a 'crime' that Philip who had witnessedendless crises of self confidence. Philip had always thought it to be a flip reference So Tim applied himself to his comment from years before that it would be a crime for Julian to waste time writing a certain piecestudies, but, in the light of tragic events, is this actually the case? Is there a crime in the author's past? As Philip retraces the essence of Julian through cultivated his abilities rather than his words, the places they visited daydreams and people they encountered he slowly uncovers secrets and a dangerous obsessionset himself high but achievable ambitions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908800143</amazonuk>B0CVFXPGP8
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=B0C47LV1PC
|title=Fragility
|author=Mosby Woods
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, would it land? The catch is that the answer for both could well be.... no.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Helene Gremillon and Alison Anderson (translator)Mosby Woods|title=The ConfidantA Whirly Man Loses His Turn
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=ItThe West isn's 1975 and Camille, having lost her father a while ago, t the dominant force it once was. Nobody in the West is now coming quite sure how to terms with mend this or even if mending it is the recent death best course of her motheraction. Governments are flailing. After plucking up courage and strengthA war here, she goes through the condolence cards but a push for climate action there's one item . A feeling that nobody is in the correspondence pile that's out of placeactual charge. It's addressed to her but from Louis (whom she doesn't know) about Annie (of whom she's never heard). As Louis pours out his storyImagine then, reminiscing about his youth in wartime France, Camille is convinced it's there was a mistake; she shouldn't have received itman with precognition. However Imagine the envelope is definitely addressed to her and, strategic advantage in this asset; a man who can tell you what's morewill happen given any set of circumstances. That man would be valuable, this won't be right? Perhaps the last instalment of Louis' sad memoir most valuable asset in history. Imagine then, that comes through the postthis man loses this ability.What would governments do to get it back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908313293</amazonuk>B0C9SNG8R1
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elizabeth Hay0571379559|title=Alone In The ClassroomHouse of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary='Other children were out picking that morning'The House of Broken Bricks'' is the story of four people. Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she passed them by lives in the house on the riverbank, built of broken bricks. Insubstantial as it might look, it's stood the passage of time, storms and floods. Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the delivery rounds - and to bring in her lightsufficient money. They have twin boys -blue dress Sonny and sandalsMax, the rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage.Max takes after his father. People don't believe that they're related, much less twins and there's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she had an empty kettle in each hand and was alone, despite having three sisters's his nanny.}}{{Frontpage|author=Claire North|title=House of Odysseus|rating=5|genre= Literary Fiction |summary= ''What could matter more than love?''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Peter TerrinKay Chronister|title=The GuardDesert Creatures|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Dystopian Fiction|summary=Harry and Michel are very good at their job, even if we might think their job With a world that is not that great. They and they alone are responsible becoming increasingly inhospitable for protecting the building they live in. Designed as an impregnable fortress containing many immensehumanity, palatial apartments inhabited by the ultrapost-rich, the only way in apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Whether it is through the basement carparka robotic takeover, where they reside in their own small patch of territory. They are certainly diligent – inspecting their stash a world devoid of munitions twice water or a daynuclear holocaust, even if nothing could possibly interfere with this genre is a way for humans to cathartically experience their supply most existential fears. ''Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is a new work of bullets, and navigating around the large expanse of space where each post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the forty floors above them has space fears that exist for three supercarshumanity today. But while one seems to be dreaming of things he might not get to witness – promotion to guarding villas in Elysian fields with becoming owner's wives, the other seems to be hearing things It is a shocking novel that might not actually be there still manages to be heard…find hope.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857050877</amazonuk>1803364998
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{{newreviewfrontpage|isbn=1803363002|author=Richard FordEric LaRocca|title=CanadaThe Trees Grew Because I Bled There|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionHorror|summary=Richard FordHorror 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 's 'Big Bad'Canada'' opens with one , whether that is a home invader, a monster or a ghost, it usually something tangible and, by the end of the best opening lines that Istory, beatable. Eric LaRocca's 've read in a long time: 'First, The Trees Grew Because IBled There''ll tell about the robbery our parents committedis not like that. Then about It is a collection of short stories more interested in the murdershorrors of illness, which happened latergrief and humiliation. The robbery is the most important partHorrors that linger and are harder to defeat than any ''Big Bad''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747598606</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kevin PowersMadelaine Lucas|title=The Yellow BirdsThirst for Salt
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Daniel Murphy ('Murph') is 18Love, in the American army and about I'd read, was supposed to embark on his first tour of duty in Iraq. By his side is John Bartle, three years older be a light and more experienced in the army. However neither of them has any notion of the sort of life or job they will face when they get there. The fighting is dirtyweightless feeling, unpredictable and not set out in any text book. Their commanding officer, Sergeant Sterling, is sadistic and without any apparent humanity. But everything will be alright: Bartle has made a promise to Murphbut I had always longed for gravity''s mother, a promise that will ricochet from the US to Iraq and back again.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444756125</amazonuk>}}
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{{Frontpage
|author= Michael Grothaus
|title=Beautiful Shining People
|rating=4
|genre= Literary Fiction
|summary= ''But fearing something and having it come to pass are 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.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Zadie SmithJennifer Saint|title=NWAtalanta|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Fans of Zadie Smith have had a seven year wait since her last book ''On Beauty''I was as worthy as any one of them. In ''NW''I would get on board that ship, Smith returns to more of the issues addressed in her brilliant debut novel [[White Teeth by Zadie Smith|White Teeth]]I vowed. Set I would take my place, not just in parts of London that should be obvious from the title, the book takes the lives name of four people who grew up on a rough estate and looks at how they have moved on - or not. All four still live nearby the estate where they grew upgoddess. There's multi-cultural tension and It was for the have and have nots of power and money and Smith looks at how much individuals are in control sake of their destiny and ability to rise out of their upbringingmy name, and how chance encounters can bring you back to your past with a bumptoo.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241144140</amazonuk>}}Atalanta''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jake ArnottAmanthi Harris|title=The House of RumourBeautiful Place|rating=45
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Jake Arnott sees to be one of those authors - like [[:Category:Will Self|Will Self]] whom you'll love or loathe. OccasionallyPadma, a young Sri Lankan, you'll swing from one extreme has returned to the other and I'll confess to being a little nervous when I opened Villa Hibiscus on the booksouthern coast of her home country. We really weren't ''that'' keen when we read [[The Devil's Paintbrush by Jake Arnott|The Devil's Paintbrush]]This is a place she spent her formative years. Using It is not a place she was born into, but the deck one she thinks of Tarot cards as home. How she came to be at the structure of Villa, how it became her home, and the book we look at the twentieth century machinations that have flowed through the her life of Larry Zagorski. Imagine history being gently folded together like a cake mixture with episodes sliding against each other, flavouring that which they touch. Imagine ever since she first arrived there provide the real - Aleister Crowley (reprising his appearance in ''The Devilscore's Paintbrush'for this gentle and yet subtly violent novel. Padma'), Rudolf Hess, Ian Fleming, Cyril Connolly, Jim Jones s present fails to escape her past and L Ron Hubbard blended with much like the musical score of a transexual prostitutefilm, a British pop singer and Larry, who writes pulp science fictionthat strand weaves its way through everything that happens at the Villa.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340922729</amazonuk>1784631930
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alison Moore178563335X|title=The LighthouseSea Defences|author=Hilary Taylor
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=When we first meet Futh heRachel Bird she's a trainee vicar, sitting in on a North Sea ferry on his way PCC meeting and wondering why they're held when you need to pick the children up. Her husband, Christopher, collects six-year-old Hannah and her elder brother, Jamie, whilst Rachel holds a walking holiday in Germanysobbing parishioner. ThereThelma's no sense of enthusiasm or anticipation: Futhdaughter-in-law won's middle aged and recently separatedt let her see her grandson. Holthorpe, on the Norfolk coast, seemingly without friends or family. He always wanted is a doglovely place, but keeps stick insects. The holiday seems Rachel is struggling to be something whichdevelop a real bond with the parish - and she's in awe of the vicar, when it is overGail, he will have done it and will but then return to his new flatshe's been doing the job for more than thirty years. It begins Rachel and will end at Hellhaus, Christopher hoped that a guesthouse run by Bernard and his wife Ester. He gets walk on well enough with Ester the beach would do them some good - it was stormy but is at a loss to understand a rather hostile encounter with Bernardit was probably what they needed. He sets out the following morning for a week of walking, thinking and remembering. Meanwhile Ester - untouched by her meeting with Futh - continues her lonely life punctuated by the occasional casual sexual encounter which she barely hides from BernardAnd then Hannah went missing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907773177</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicola Barker1398515388|title=The YipsBoy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Gordon and Georgina Kingdom spent years being like many other couples. They had jobsFirst of all, friendsit was the earthquake, holidaysdeep in the ocean floor, a springer spaniel named Kipling which created the tsunami and a life togetherthis, in turn, caused the nuclear meltdown. Then Georgina became ill The result was complete and Gordon took early retirement to nurse her betterutter devastation. He treats retirement with the same methodical efficiency he employed at work. He records Georgina's careThe deaths were uncountable, her progress and shares her waking moments, feeding her and sitting with herthe loss of livelihoods was widespread. However, as she spends a lot The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of time asleep, Gordon is left to entertain himself and so, priorities but - six months after the same man who led the local Neighbourhood Watch, watches his neighbours, noting points of interest and visible activities in alphabetically filed dossierstsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. TheyHe wasn're all there: Don across t a dog person but the road who borrows garden tools on a more permanent basis than Gordon convenience store owner's comment that he would like, art award winner young Benny who paints with call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his eyes shut, the lady next car door who throws footballs over the fence and Tamon the new woman across the road, Angelica. Except, when Angelica moves into the street, Gordon's interest becomes more focused than usualdog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190877598X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Will Self0989715337|title=UmbrellaPapa on the Moon|author=Marco North|rating=2.54
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Will Self's 'Some frogs had gotten into the well.''Umbrella '' spans a century taking three interwoven Walter stood waist-deep in the fragrant water, naked except for his beaten leather hat. Long strands. One features Audrey Dearthof their eggs wove around him, who in 1918 is a munitions worker who falls ill sticky gray pearls with encephalitis lethargica, a brain disease that spread tadpoles inside them. Two of the dogs leaned over Europe after the Great War rendering many opening and barked down at the strange noise of its victims speechless and motionlessthe buckets as he filled them. She '' How is incarcerated in Friern hospital where, that for an opening? The style of this novel in the early 1970s a psychiatristform of interconnected short stories goes from succinct and laconic to wistful and musing, Zach Busner wakes her from her stupor using turning on a new drugsixpence. In the final threadAnd author Marco North, in 2010 the asylum who has closed and the now retired Busner travels across north London seeking the truth about his encounter with his former patient. While that sounds like a fascinating story in its own rightmost wonderful turn of phrase, be warned. Self's approach is ambitiously modernistic making this a very heavy going tome even by Self's standardsstarts as he means to go on.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408820145</amazonuk>
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