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[[Category:New Reviews|Literary Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Alice Hoffman295967572X|title= FaithfulPale Pieces|author=G M Stevens|rating= 4.5|genre= General Literary Fiction |summary= Growing up on Long Island, Shelby Richmond Our unnamed narrator is an ordinary girl until one night an extraordinary tragedy changes her fateabout to begin a train journey with his companion Django. Her best friendWhere they's future is destroyed in an accident, while Shelby walks away with re going and what the burden purpose of guilt. What happens when a life this journey is turned inside out? When love , is something so distant it may as well be a star in the sky? Moving from a life in her parents basement to a life in New York City, Shelby remains damaged by the loss of her best friend, stumbling through life blindly and fighting desperately to become connected to anything at alluncertain. But, as she grows, she discovers emotion, survival and happiness, bundled up with dogs, food, books and men she's probably best avoiding… Deep in New York City she find a circle of lost and Django found souls, and the angel whotickets 's been watching over her since that fateful night all those years ago…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471157717</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Miguel Bonnefoy and Emily Boyce (translator)|title=Octavio's Journey|rating=3.5|genre=Literary Fiction |summary=Meet Octavio. Heon the floor somewhere''s a large lunk, a gentle giant, living alone in a lowly Venezuelan town – a town which once, fleetingly, had fame, fashion and success through a minor miracle, but has none any longerpersuaded our narrator to accompany him. Octavio, it seems, has some unusual habits – here he Why not? Not much else is, marching off to the chemist's with a table across his back, for it was all the doctor had at the time to write a prescription on. Now we never learn exactly what the cause of the prescription was, clear either - but we soon find out what are probably in the cause of past as the table is – Octavio cannot read, and has learned nothing beyond cutting into his palm pair travel to allow the wound to let him escape station by coach and the need to write. Until, that train is, a woman seems to suggest a way for him to learn to read and write, and to love – but that experience also proves to Octavio that there is a whole host of other things he can put his mind to, both for good, and for bad…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910477311</amazonuk>steam locomotive.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tomoka Shibasaki and Polly Barton (translator)Makenna Goodman|title=Spring GardenHelen of Nowhere

|summary=It could be argued that the pervading theme of this book is malaise - a hard-to-place feeling that something in your life is not quite right. The rats made their massive colony inside protagonist, a disgraced professor on the ruins brink of an abandoned motion picture palacelosing both his career and his relationship, where for thirty long dark years, an aged blind leader ruled over themembodies this feeling. A beloved figure held in high regardHowever, he rules Goodman counteracts his discomfort with patiencea force which is seductive, understanding, justice radical and loveunnerving: Helen. When a young upstart challenges all he has built, ruling with harsh punishments The connection between Helen and rash decisions, the rats must decide how best to protect their colony in order to preserve all that they have built togetherprotagonist is indirect yet intimate. As the rats clash amongst themselvesformer owner of the countryside house he's considering, some fail Helen represents a volta in his life, her past tied to notice his potential fresh start. The realtor who shows the protagonist around the ever growing threats house shares stories about Helen, and dangers describes her as ''an entity that is pure consciousness, beyond form''. Although she lives in an assisted living facility now, Helen has powers beyond comprehension which the outside world provides - who will come out on top in this very literal rat race?reader gets the sense are not altogether innocuous.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>148344936X</amazonuk>1804272205

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sebastian BarryOlga Tokarczuk|title=Days Without EndHouse of Day, House of Night

|summary=It''What's the mid nineteenth century and Thomas McNulty has left his home good of a world that keeps changing like that? How can one go on calmly living in Sligoit?'' The title of this spellbinding work, ''House of Day, his family dead from famineHouse of Night'', to make a new life in a new nation. He teams up with prairie fairy - a dancer in drag somewhat reflects this notion of shifting realities - John Cole and together they sign up for the US Army. Their journey will take them through small, subtle changes which govern our lives, like the American Indian wars and eventually shift from day to the Civil Warnight, however quotidian, causing chaos. Along the wayBut, the two soldiers form a lasting bond with a young Sioux girl called Winona and their travels take them from Missouri to Wyoming and Tennessee. It's constant in that image is the story of perhaps house, stoic against the most violent birth of a nation in history but ancient diurnal cycle which nonetheless controls how it's also a convention-defying love storyis perceived.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571277004</amazonuk>1804271918

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rose TremainThea Lenarduzzi|title=The Gustav SonataTower

|summary=Gustav Perle grew up ''How unctuous are the fats of another's life, how dizzying their sugars in our bloodstream''. In this compelling novel, Thea Lenarduzzi assumes the identity of T, the protagonist of this tale. Just as T's story is being told, the story of a small town in neutral Switzerlandsecond protagonist is unveiled: Annie, the horrors daughter of a wealthy family in the Second World War seemed distant19th century, but neutrality was maintained partly at the expense who died of those who would seek refuge tuberculosis after being locked in the countrya tower, captures T's imagination. GustavAnnie's father died in mysterious circumstances and whilst Gustav adored his motherfate is, Emilieabove all, she was cold and indifferent an enticing story to himT. Until he met Anton Zwiebel he was It is a lonely child with just one toystory which she consumes avariciously, both in a tin trainquest for truth and knowledge, but he and Anton met at kindergarten where it fell to Gustav to look after the nervous boy. Anton is Jewish and he's a talented pianist, but he lacks the confidence to perform in public. Throughout much service of his life he relies on Gustav's supportmyth, but fails to appreciate just how important, how necessary it is to his wellbeingfable and fantasy. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784700207</amazonuk>1804271799

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tom TomaszewskiJon Fosse and Damion Searls (translator) |title=The Eleventh LetterVaim|rating=34

|summary=At the end of the working day, Christopher is looking over the ghosts of his occupancy of some rooms on Harley Street, before moving up the road to different chambers, and pastures new. He's half impelled and half reluctant to revisit a pair of audio cassettes, on which are interviews by him and someone else of a woman called Louise, who 'All was arrested in Italy in the 1980s for strange''... This haunting phrase encapsulates the double murder pervading sense of two close friends, Kate and John. Hardly aware he's being snowed otherworldliness which permeates this story set in by a London blizzard and the usual British response to any bad weatherVaim, he spontaneously provides shelter to a flame-haired beauty, Kay, who provokes him into playing the tapes. It's an occurrence fictional fishing village in Norway which changes him much paradoxically could not feel more profoundly than he does others at the therapist's couch. Indeedreal for Jatgeir and Eline, the closer he gets to Kay, the closer he gets to the voice two of the victim from decades agoprotagonists caught in its melancholic current. What on earth could be the connection?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>099357582X</amazonuk>1804271829

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Steinunn Sigurdardottir and Philip Roughton (translator)Claire-Louise Bennett|title=The Good LoverBig Kiss, Bye-Bye |rating=24.5

|summary=Karl Everything in this book, however sweet or seemingly innocent, is steeped in anguish and distortion. Even a kiss, usually a global example symbol of intimacy and closeness, becomes evidence of love lost. When the Icelandic speciesnarrator cries out internally, with more than one home abroad and an amanuensis-cum-assistant to do his scheduling and arrange housework while he's going 'come over here and there being a businessman. He has a string of lovers that has stretched into three figureskiss me, partly because with one exception three is the limit of liaisons he'll have with each. But he's also got it is less an invitation than a heart devoted desperate attempt to Una, his teenaged love whom he adores, despite confirm her splitting with him decades agoemotional numbness. On a whim he leaves a beach holiday to go back to one The imagined recipient of the icy limbs of Icelandthis plea is Xavier, witnesses the changes wrought by fifteen years on her – and then ends up staying the night with the woman next door. This is purely platonic, but what with his host knowing everything about the situation, an everex-present taxi driver, and an ex on the line in Americapartner, is there a way he can snatch his love from ghost she conjures to test her marriage and find happiness?detachment.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>9462380139</amazonuk>1804271934

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Eric Beck RubinHelene Bessette and Kate Briggs (translator)|title=School of VelocityLili is Crying

|summary=Jan's head is dropping him First published in 1953 in it. He's a trained concert pianistFrench, but this novel is having difficulty performing, with a horrendous problem, in that he can hear any discordant music, or timeless text which wrenches the hearts of its readers just in fact horrid noise, when in the wings waiting to perform, as Bessette wrenches words and never sentences from their proper position on the score he is due to follow. The devil's tinnitus, you might call it. With another failure behind him, but dignity somewhat intact, Jan decides he has to work back through his life to tell us the cause – page and we're likewise dropped into an extended flashback, to his formative years at art schoolpositions them elsewhere, with a pretentious drama studentdisjointed, Dirktruncated. The book is a fast-moving exploration Like the lives of what Jan finds of note (pun intended) through his lifeher characters, and all that might have caused his mental problemthey are often left tragically incomplete. But is cognisance of what might lie behind it going to help?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0993506275</amazonuk>1804271675

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gerard ReveJonathan Buckley|title=The Evenings: A WinterOne Boat|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= ''One Boat's Tale' is a deeply introspective novella that defies traditional narrative structure, drawing the reader into a contemplative realm of philosophical musings and fragmented memories flowing from our narrator and protagonist, Teresa. Set against the evocative backdrop of a small coastal Greek town, this work masterfully captures the magic of its setting and its power to provoke profound introspection. 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 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 is fragmentary and ironically relies on analepsis for its propulsion.|isbn=1804271764}}{{Frontpage|author=Eowyn Ivey|title=Black Woods Blue Sky

|summary=''The EveningsBlack Woods Blue Sky'' was voted tells the best Dutch novel story of all time by Birdie, the Society young mother of Dutch Literaturetoddler 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 its author, Gerard Reve (1923–2006), was the first openly gay writer in the Netherlandsher accidental neglect of Emaleen. It's Described as a historic book for its native country, but will it have the same impact in English translation? Contemporary Dutch novelist Herman Koch compares ''The Eveningswild card'' , she feels stuck in her day-to -day life, and yearns to cross the works Wolverine river and live on the North Fork to fulfil her desires of Kerouac a simple life surrounded by nature. When she meets Arthur Nielson, a strange, taciturn and Salingersolitary man, and I can see how it could have achieved cult status for who says he has a certain generationcabin over there, but plotshe feels called to go -wise I found and bring Emaleen with her. Without realising it more tedious than revelatory, this calling will transform hers and Emaleen's lives forever.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782271783</amazonuk>1472279042

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Henrietta Rose-InnesSally Rooney|title= NinevehIntermezzo|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Henritetta Rose-Inne's ''Nineveh'' instantly reassures you that you are in Sally Rooney has studied the presence chessboard of life and is something of a confident grandmaster at putting it into words. Her dialogue is gripping and talented writerso brilliantly frustrating, as her characters never quite say exactly what they feel. The Among the many relationships woven into this story of Katya Grubbs, a second generation pest exterminator who specialises in relocating the bugs central one for readers to unravel is the fraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and rodents that ruin middle-class garden partiesPeter Koubek. Ivan, Rose-Inne writes a socially awkward chess prodigy, contrasts sharply with his older brother Peter, a successful lawyer living in Dublin. Following their father's passing after a long battle with cancer, the enviable ability of describing both the intricacies of Katyabrothers's job and already strained relationship faces new trials.|isbn=0571365469}}{{Frontpage|author=Fyodor Dostoyevsky|title=White 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 of it simultaneouslybecause Dostoyevsky lays bare their innermost dispositions and temperaments with remarkable clarity. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910709166</amazonuk>0241619785

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sara Stridsberg and Deborah Bragan-Turner (translator)James Baldwin|title=The Gravity of LoveGiovanni's Room

|summary=Particularly literate cover… Setting This Italian work of a real-life mental hospital – in Sweden… Mature themes… Opening with feminist fiction holds an emotion- air of suspense and closure-laden death… Yestension from the moment our protagonist, Valeria Cossati, this book has more than its share of things to put the potential reader off. Whichpurchases her forbidden notebook, and learns about herself in this instance, is quite a large shame indeedthe most intimate and revealing ways.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857054767</amazonuk>1782278222

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Carys Bray and othersOttessa Moshfegh|title=How Much the Heart Can Hold: Seven Stories on LoveMy Year of Rest and Relaxation|rating=3.5|genre=Short StoriesLiterary Fiction|summary=At best, this novel is a scathing critique of modern society and reveals the fragility of human relationships; at worst, it is the cynical, predictable and slightly trite tale of an unlikeable protagonist. This Sceptre collection does unlikely heroine, a slim, attractive and newly orphaned girl in her twenties is disillusioned with the world, but resolves not have as simple a remit as to lose sleep over it might appear; these are no straightforward love stories: in fact, her solution lies in her hibernation.|isbn=1784707422}}{{Frontpage|author=Matthew Tree|title=We'll Never Know|rating=4. Instead5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, they each take one aspect a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of love – often one being exceptional at any of the ancient Greek classifications – his artistic passions all failed miserably and provide a whole new way who had endless crises of thinking about itself confidence. After allSo Tim applied himself to his studies, the heart holds a lot of metaphorical weightcultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473649420</amazonuk>B0CVFXPGP8

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Salley VickersB0C47LV1PC|title= CousinsFragility|author=Mosby Woods

|genre= Literary Fiction|summary=Can you make a ''We donYo birthing person't know our own limits so how can we judge the limits of others' joke? And what if you could, is the question should you make it ? Or is easy to forget the question if you did, would it land? The catch is that they were so youngthe answer for both could well be.. Too young to bear all those horribly complicated family strains.''. no.

Salley Vickers' intense family odyssey revolves around one devastating accident in 1994. Reminiscent of the past, Will Tye's accident has a powerful effect on three generations of the Tye family, revealing long forgotten truths and close kept secrets. 'Fragility'Cousins'' pieces together is set as the events leading up to the event from three different close relatives perspectives, in an attempt to understand what exactly happened and why it happened that dark night. His sistercity of Portland, grandmother and aunt all recount Will's childhood and growth into an adultOregon, highlighting both his successes and mistakes whilst reflecting on their own pasts. From the outbreak of the Second World War right up until the present day, the family's mysteries are laid out for all cautiously begins to see. Family loyalties are tested and emerge from the lengths you will go to for those you love are questioned. At its heart, ''Cousins'' is a love story between two cousins, Will and Cece, littered with complications, potential and realism as well as restrictions imposed during the struggle to determine your worth when you're young. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241187710</amazonuk>covid pandemic

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Paul BeattyMosby Woods|title=A 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 war here, a push for climate action there. A feeling that 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 circumstances. That man would be valuable, right? Perhaps the most valuable asset in history. Imagine then, that this man loses this ability. What would governments do to get it back?|isbn=B0C9SNG8R1}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0571379559|title=The SelloutHouse of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams

|summary=''This may The House of Broken Bricks'' is the story of four people. Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be hard happier there, but instead, she 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 believegrow his vegetables, coming from a black manto complete the delivery rounds - and to bring in sufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and Max, but Ithe rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother've never stolen anythings 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's his nanny.}}Isn{{Frontpage|author=Claire North|title=House of Odysseus|rating=5|genre= Literary Fiction |summary= 't that one of the great opening lines of literature'What could matter more than love?''

Our black hero and narrator, surname Me, first name unknown, was born in The follow-up to the southern Los Angeles suburb of Dickens and subjected to an isolated upbringing dominated by his fatherexcellent ''Ithaca''s extreme views on race, supposedly picks up a few months after where we left off. In the subject palace of a psychological memoir which will solve their financial problemsOdysseus, with delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without her husband, but cruel who sailed to war at Troy and unnatural to anyone with an ounce then by divine intervention never returned home. As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for the throne of humanitythe Western Isles. To add insult Having survived – politically and physical – the chaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to injury Me discovered after his fatherIthaca's death (a racially provoked shooting) that there was no memoir. A drive-by shooting produces nothing more substantial than a bill for a drive-through funeralshores, but it starts Me Queen Penelope is on the path which will end in the Supreme Court, the subject brink of a race trial: ''Me v fragile peace. One that shatters however with the United States return of America''Orestes, King of Mycenae, and his sister Elektra, seeking refuge.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786070154</amazonuk>0356516075

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nir BaramKay Chronister|title=Good PeopleDesert Creatures|rating=4|genre=Literary Dystopian Fiction|summary=Thomas Heiselberg's selfWith a world that is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, post-focus pays off when he attracts the best clientele to the American advertising firm he helps establish across Europe from his German homeapocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Meanwhile in Russia Sasha Weissberg Whether it is struggling with being in a literaryrobotic takeover, free-thinking family that doesn't go down too well with Stalin's regime. As World War II arrivesa world devoid of water or a nuclear holocaust, both of their worlds are shaken. As this genre is a result both decide way for humans to become collaborators rather than resistance fighters for different reasons and with far reaching effectscathartically experience their most existential fears.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911231006</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Ian McEwan|title=Nutshell|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction |summary=Meet Trudy. Successfully living in a large and valuable London home, she ''Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is heavily pregnant, and in between two men – she has swapped the homeowner, poet and publisher John, for someone completely different, namely Claude, a nasty, brutish and short type. Some people cannot new work out why on earth she has made of post-apocalyptic fiction that decision, including our narrator. Oh, and he himself, our narrator, is aligns many of the child she's pregnant withfears that exist for humanity today. He It is a very alert young thing, with nothing else shocking novel that still manages to do but kick here and there, and practice what you might well call mindfulness, and listen in on Claude and Trudy, as they calmly talk their way to plotting and carrying out murder…find hope.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1911214330</amazonuk>1803364998

{{newreviewfrontpage|isbn=1803363002|author= Matt WilvenEric LaRocca|title=The Blackbird SingularityTrees Grew Because I Bled There

|genre= Literary FictionHorror|summary=Thirty-Horror taps into something writer Vince Watergate sees his partner's pregnancy primeval within us. It is used as a fresh start. He stops taking his lithium way to reflect our darkest emotions and how we as humans react and the new clarity of mind lets him start writing his best work in agesprocess them. He befriends Most horror fiction feature a blackbird in the garden with the help of ''Big Bad'', whether that is a home invader, a monster or a bag of sultanasghost, it usually something tangible and begins preparing , by the babyend of the story, beatable. Eric LaRocca's room''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is not like that. For It is a collection of short whilestories more interested in the horrors of illness, everything seems full of peace grief and hopehumiliation. But Vince Horrors that linger and Lydare harder to defeat than any ''s first child, despite having died a couple of years earlier, might not have completely left them and the blackbird might not be as friendly as Vince first thought. Lithium withdrawal, stress, and the pressure of appearing Big Bad'normal' push Vince into a frightening, irrational place. Can he fight his way through it and return to his family?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785079689</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Carolyn ParkhurstMadelaine Lucas|title=HarmonyThirst for Salt

|summary=Josh and Alexandra Hammond have two daughters. Iris is eleven years old ''Love, I'd read, was supposed to be a light and neurotypical: her brain works in the same way as most people'sweightless feeling, but her elder sisterI had always longed for gravity'' Told from a retrospective view, Tilly, is thirteen and on a young woman unravels the autistic spectrumyear-long relationship that once defined her. Her parents are finding it difficultOverlaid with later wisdom, if not impossible, to cope the narrator relives the affair with a man twenty years hersenior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the summer after. Even her special and rather expensive school has indicated that they canSet against the backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt't continue. She's subject to mood swings and unpredictable and inappropriate behaviour. Josh is lucky details the 24- he goes to work year- but Alexandra is stuck old narrator's deepening relationship with the problemher older lover, which is why Scott Beandepicting its all-consuming nature, educator and expert in parenting, appeals to how it changed her. The name came to her attention perspective on a couple of occasions: she subscribed to his newsletter, heard him speak both romantic and familial relationships and what he had to say rang a bell. Before long he was coming to the house for private consultationshow it altered her irrevocably.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340978171</amazonuk>0861546490

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=William RyanMichael Grothaus|title=The Constant Soldier|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Paul Brandt returns home to his village without the arm he left at the Russian Front in defence of Germany. The village looks pretty much the same as he left it, with the exception of the lack of young men and a new building. His home now boasts an SS rest hut, providing officers with entertainment and respite breaks from the fighting. As Paul passes the hut for the first time, he sees something… or rather someone… that will make him return to work for those he despises. The subject of his decision? A girl he once got into trouble with under different circumstances – before she wore the stripes of a concentration camp prisoner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447255011</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Pamela Johnson|title=Taking in WaterBeautiful Shining People

|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Pamela Johnson's third novel is set in 2002 but has its roots in a real-life tragedy from nearly 50 years earlier: in 1953 a storm surge hit the Norfolk coast, destroying Lydia Hutton's grandmother's home But fearing something and sweeping her whole family out having it come to seapass are two different things. Seven-year-old Lydia was the only one And I'm willing to survivebet most of what we fear will never happen, clinging or we can take steps to the wreckage and singing hymns to herself to survivechange it. It's a dark part of her past she's never told anyone except Luc, the half-French lover whose iconic performance art piece,  ''Taking in WaterBeautiful Shining People'', she participated in during a spell in New York City in revolves around the 1960squestion of identity and acceptance. Of what it means to be human. Of what is real and what is artificial, when she was known as 'Layla' and hung around with whether the likes development of Andy Warholtechnology is exciting or frightening.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1534627243</amazonuk>191458564X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=A N WilsonJennifer Saint|title=ResolutionAtalanta|rating=45

|summary=In 1772 Reinhold Forster and his son George were hired as ship's naturalists for the ''Resolution'', the vessel Captain James Cook piloted to New Zealand and back on a three-year voyage of discovery. Once a Lutheran pastor near Danzig, Reinhold seemed unable to settle to I was as worthy as any one line of work and had a higher opinion of himself than was prudentthem. In Wilson's vision of life I would get on the ''Resolution''board that ship, Reinhold seems fussy, argumentative and rather heartless, as when he offers George's dog up as fresh meat when the captain is desperately illI vowed. GeorgeI would take my place, not just 18 when he joins in the name of the expedition, is a self-taught illustrator and botanist with a keen ear goddess. It was for languages. Though precociously intelligentthe sake of my name, he is emotionally immature and cannot keep a handle on his masturbation habit or deal with their servant Nally's crush on himtoo.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782398279</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Michael Hughes|title= The Countenance Divine|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary=In 1999, a programmer is trying to fix the millennium bug, but canAtalanta't shake the sense he's been chosen for something. In 1888, five women are brutally murdered in the East End by a troubled young man in thrall to a mysterious master. In 1777, an apprentice engraver called William Blake has a defining spiritual experience; thirteen years later this vision returns.

And in 1666, poet and revolutionary John Milton completes the epic for which he will be remembered centuries laterPrincess. Warrior. Lover. Hero.

But where does Abandoned at birth for being born a daughter rather than a son, Atalanta is raised under the protective eye of the goddess Athemis and fashioned into a formidable huntress, one who longs for adventure. When the opportunity comes – to join the feeling come Argonauts, a fierce band of warriors, descendent from that the world Gods themselves – Atalanta seizes the chance to fight in Artemis' name and carve out her own legendary place in history. What follows is about to end?a whirlwind of challenges and discovery and through it, Atalanta must remember Artemis' fatal warning: that if she marries, it will be her undoing.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473636507</amazonuk>1472292154

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Emily BittoAmanthi Harris|title= The StraysBeautiful Place|rating= 5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= Lily comes from an ordinary suburban familyPadma, but a young Sri Lankan, has returned to the Villa Hibiscus on the southern coast of her home country. This is a place she spent her first day at formative years. It is not a new school place she meets Eva: was born into, but the super-confident middle daughter one she thinks of artist Evan Trenthamas home. The girls fast become firm friends How she came to be at the Villa, how it became her home, and the machinations that have flowed through her life ever since she first arrived there provide the ''score'' for this gentle and yet subtly violent novel. Padma's present fails to escape her past and much like the exclusion musical score of all those ar ound them and it isn't long before Lily is spending more time a film, that strand weaves its way through everything that happens at the TrenthamVilla.|isbn=1784631930}}{{Frontpage|isbn=178563335X|title=Sea Defences|author=Hilary Taylor|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=When we first meet Rachel Bird she's than she does at homea trainee vicar, sitting in on a 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 sobbing parishioner. Why wouldnThelma's daughter-in-law won't let her see her grandson. Holthorpe, on the Norfolk coast, is a lovely place, but Rachel is struggling to develop a real bond with the parish - and she? Their life is everything her family's isnin awe of the vicar, Gail, but then she'ts been doing the job for more than thirty years. Rachel and Christopher hoped that a walk on the beach would do them some good - it was stormy but it was probably what they needed. And then Hannah went missing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785079514</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eowyn Ivey1398515388|title=To The Boy and the Bright Edge of the WorldDog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating=4.5

|summary=If you're going to go pioneering across unexplored landsFirst of all, it was the earthquake, at least be prepared to accept what you seek – namelydeep in the ocean floor, what you've never seen before. That lesson seems quite obviouswhich created the tsunami and this, but back in turn, caused the time of 1885 Allen Forrester is a little too naïve to heed itnuclear meltdown. The result was complete and utter devastation. A career soldierThe deaths were uncountable, he is tasked with scouring and the potential loss of the Wolverine River livelihoods was widespread. The fact that threads south to many pets were separated from their owners came far down the shores list of Alaska, even though priorities but - six months after the Russians (who of course used to own the Territory) have had all manner of lethal encounters with those already living there, and even though tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a major stretch of the river has to be traversed in winter when entirely frozen over, as the cliffs either side are too impenetrableconvenience store. Allen leaves He wasn't a much younger, new bride behind – and right from dog person but the get-go convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his journals force him to pen words about strange happenings, strange encounters car door and things of legend coming to lifeTamon the dog jumped in. Like I say, what he's never seen before…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472208609</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Talulah Riley0989715337|title= Acts of Love|rating= 4.5|genre= Women's Fiction |summary= Bernadette St John presents herself as the very face of contemporary feminine independence. She is strong, career-driven, beautiful…and definitely holds the attention of the public. For Bernadette is the ''Man Whisperer'', winning herself fame with her ability to coax secrets from Papa on the richest and most powerful men of the world, exposing them with controversial distaste in her articles. Hidden behind such a conniving and judgemental persona, however, is a deep insecurity, and a desperate longing to be loved by the perfect man. She has already decided that the newly engaged Tim Bazier is the only candidate for such a position in her heart, and will stop at nothing to win him back from his all-too-lovely fiancé. Yet what is perfect is a subject for discussion, and charismatic entrepreneur Radley Blake's unwavering attention has also fallen upon the feisty journalist. It is a weaving tale of ''will-they-wont-they'' that Riley spins here, one that I found myself unable to put down.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473637902</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewMoon|author=Jesse Ball|title=How to Set a Fire and WhyMarco North

|summary=Lucia Stanton is a sarcastic 14''Some frogs had gotten into the well.'' ''Walter stood waist-year-old misfit who lives with her elderly Aunt Lucy deep in a garage they rent from an evil landlord at the bottom of fragrant water, naked except for his large gardenbeaten leather hat. She never comes right out and explains why she's thereLong strands of their eggs wove around him, but if you read between sticky gray pearls with tadpoles inside them. Two of the lines you work out that her father is dead dogs leaned over the opening and her mother is in a mental hospital – presumably for his murderbarked down at the strange noise of the buckets as he filled them. Aunt Lucy is dignified and principled – ''Don't do things you aren't proud  How is that for an opening? The style of'' is her motto – even though they are undeniably poor: Lucia only has one set this novel in the form of clothes interconnected short stories goes from succinct and mostly lives off of liquorice laconic to wistful and Aunt Lucy's terrible homemade bread.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1925355470</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jenn Ashworth|title=Fell|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Now her parents have diedmusing, Annette returns to sell her old childhood home but there's work to do turning on the decrepit building firsta sixpence. As she wanders around and tries to make some order of the overgrown shamblesAnd author Marco North, she's watched by who has the ghost most wonderful turn of her motherphrase, Netty; a spirit with regrets. Netty reminisces about Annette's childhood and the turning point their lives reached when the mysterious healer Timothy Richardson came starts as he means to staygo on. It was a time that promised so much but one for which Netty now needs to make amends, even if she is beyond the grave.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473630606</amazonuk>