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|author=Eowyn IveyMakenna Goodman|title=Black Woods Blue Sky|rating=3.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''Black Woods Blue Sky'' tells the story of Birdie, the young mother of toddler Emaleen, who longs for a life beyond the Alaskan lodge where she works as a bar waitress, a setting which enables her bad habits and her accidental neglect of Emaleen. Described as a ''wild card'', she feels stuck in her day-to-day life, and yearns to cross the Wolverine river and live on the North Fork to fulfil her desires Helen of a simple life surrounded by nature. When she meets Arthur Nielson, a strange, taciturn and solitary man, who says he has a cabin over there, she feels called to go - and bring Emaleen with her. Without realising it, this calling will transform hers and Emaleen's lives forever.|isbn=1472279042}}'''27 FEBRUARY'''__NOTOC__{{Frontpage|author=Jacqueline Rose|title=Women in Dark TimesNowhere|rating=4|genre=Biography|summary=''The world of the unconscious is not the antagonist of political life, but its steadfast companion, the hidden place or backdrop where any true revolution must begin…'' Women in Dark Times is Jacqueline Rose's homage to courageous women throughout history, particularly women of the 21st, 20th and 19th centuries. Her historical and political backdrop is, thus, expansive, yet she navigates it with intelligence and an acknowledgment that feminism's lengthy mission is a testament to its successes, and not its failures: ''the ongoing force of feminism''.|isbn=1804271713}}'''13 MARCH'''{{Frontpage|author=Jonathan Buckley|title=One Boat|rating=45

|summary= ''One Boat'' It could be argued that the pervading theme of this book is malaise - a deeply introspective novella hard-to-place feeling that defies traditional narrative structuresomething in your life is not quite right. The protagonist, drawing a disgraced professor on the reader into a contemplative realm brink of philosophical musings and fragmented memories flowing from our narrator losing both his career and protagonisthis relationship, Teresaembodies this feeling. Set against the evocative backdrop of However, Goodman counteracts his discomfort with a small coastal Greek townforce which is seductive, this work masterfully captures the magic of its setting radical and its power to provoke profound introspectionunnerving: Helen. Teresa herself recognises these qualities as the reason she has visited it after the death of both her parents. Prompted by her mourning, her narrative voice is meditative The connection between Helen and deeply self-aware, inviting the reader into her labyrinthine cogitations. It is a book that not only requires but inspires depth of thought, since its narrative structure protagonist is fragmentary and ironically relies on analepsis for its propulsionindirect yet intimate.|isbn=1804271764}}{{Frontpage|author=Mary McCarthy|title=Memories of a Catholic Girlhood|rating=4|genre=Autobiography|summary=Mary McCarthy describes herself as an ''amateur architect'', obsessively digging into As the past to piece together the broken mosaic former owner of her life. She attributes her ''burning interest in the pastcountryside house he'' to her orphanhoods considering, as she lacked any second-hand memories from her parents, who died Helen represents a volta in the 1918 flu epidemic. This memoir chronicles her early yearshis life, beginning with her orphanhood in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she lived under the harsh guardianship of her late father's Irish Catholic parents and her abusive Uncle Myers and Aunt Margaret. Later, she moved to Seattle past tied to live with her maternal grandparents—her grandmother being Jewish and her grandfather Presbyterian—who provided her with a different kind of upbringinghis potential fresh start.|isbn=1804271659}} '''10 APRIL'''{{Frontpage|author=Guadalupe Nettel and Rosalind Harvey (Translator)|title=The Accidentals|rating=4.5|genre=Short Stories|summary=This collection was truly enchanting in all senses of realtor who shows the protagonist around the word: spellbinding with its fantasticalhouse shares stories about Helen, magical elements and charming in its gentle portrayal of nature and human relationships. Guadalupe Nettel writes intelligently and precisely, describes her stories structured by a wisdom that appears to want to teach us something about the world.|isbn=1804271470}}as '''22 MAY'''{{Frontpage|author=Annie Ernaux and Anna Moschovakis (translator)|title=The Possession|rating=5|genre=Autobiography|summary=Ernaux opens with a disclaimer, warning readers an entity that what follows is more or less a confession: ''I have always wanted to write as if I would be gone when the book was publishedpure consciousness, beyond form''. Towards the end of the book, Although she claims that the title (somewhat enigmatic at first) bares witness to a brief period of time lives in her lifean assisted living facility now, labelled and documented here as ''The Possession'', in Helen has powers beyond comprehension which she felt herself in the throes of an all-encompassing and seductive jealousy targeted at reader gets the new partner of W, a man she has since separated from after a six-year long affairsense are not altogether innocuous. |isbn=18042714971804272205