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|authorisbn=Amanthi Harris295967572X|title=Beautiful PlacePale Pieces|author=G M Stevens
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= Padma, Our unnamed narrator is about to begin a young Sri Lankantrain journey with his companion Django. Where they're going and what the purpose of this journey is, is uncertain. Django found the tickets ''on the floor somewhere'' and has returned persuaded our narrator to accompany him. Why not? Not much else is clear either - but we are probably in the past as the pair travel to the Villa Hibiscus on station by coach and the southern coast train is a steam locomotive.}}{{Frontpage|author=Makenna Goodman|title=Helen of her home countryNowhere|rating=4. This 5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=It could be argued that the pervading theme of this book is malaise - a hard-to-place she spent her formative years. It feeling that something in your life is not quite right. The protagonist, a place she was born into, but disgraced professor on the one she thinks brink of as homelosing both his career and his relationship, embodies this feeling. How she came to be at the VillaHowever, how it became her homeGoodman counteracts his discomfort with a force which is seductive, radical and unnerving: Helen. The connection between Helen and the machinations that have flowed through her life ever since she first arrived there provide the ''score'' for this gentle and protagonist is indirect yet subtly violent novelintimate. PadmaAs the former owner of the countryside house he's present fails to escape considering, Helen represents a volta in his life, her past and much like tied to his potential fresh start. The realtor who shows the protagonist around the musical score of a filmhouse shares stories about Helen, and describes her as ''an entity that strand weaves its way through everything that happens at is pure consciousness, beyond form''. Although she lives in an assisted living facility now, Helen has powers beyond comprehension which the reader gets the Villasense are not altogether innocuous.|isbn=17846319301804272205
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|isbnauthor=178563335XOlga Tokarczuk|title=Sea Defences|author=Hilary TaylorHouse of Day, House of Night
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=When we first meet Rachel Bird she''What's the good of a trainee vicar, sitting world that keeps changing like that? How can one go on calmly living in on a PCC meeting and wondering why theyit?''re held when you need to pick the children up. Her husband The title of this spellbinding work, Christopher''House of Day, collects six-year-old Hannah and her elder brother, Jamie, whilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioner. ThelmaHouse of Night's daughter-in-law won't let her see her grandson. Holthorpe, on somewhat reflects this notion of shifting realities - the Norfolk coastsmall, is a lovely placesubtle changes which govern our lives, but Rachel is struggling like the shift from day to develop a real bond with night, however quotidian, causing chaos. But, the parish - and she's constant in awe of that image is the vicar, Gailhouse, but then she's been doing stoic against the job for more than thirty years. Rachel and Christopher hoped that a walk on the beach would do them some good - ancient diurnal cycle which nonetheless controls how it was stormy but it was probably what they needed. And then Hannah went missingis perceived.|isbn=1804271918
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|isbnauthor=1398515388Thea Lenarduzzi|title=The Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)Tower|rating=4.5|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=First ''How unctuous are the fats of allanother's life, it was the earthquakehow dizzying their sugars in our bloodstream''. In this compelling novel, deep in Thea Lenarduzzi assumes the ocean flooridentity of T, which created the tsunami and protagonist of thistale. Just as T's story is being told, in turn, caused the nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and utter devastation. The deaths were uncountablestory of a second protagonist is unveiled: Annie, and the loss daughter of livelihoods was widespread. The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down a wealthy family in the list 19th century, who died of priorities but - six months tuberculosis after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered being locked in a dog outside a convenience storetower, captures T's imagination. He wasn't a dog person but the convenience store ownerAnnie's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa fate is, above all, an enticing story to open his car door T. It is a story which she consumes avariciously, both in a quest for truth and knowledge, and Tamon the dog jumped inservice of myth, fable and fantasy. |isbn=1804271799
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|isbnauthor=0989715337Jon Fosse and Damion Searls (translator) |title=Papa on the Moon|author=Marco NorthVaim
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=''Some frogs had gotten into the well.All was strange'' ''Walter stood waist-deep in the fragrant water, naked 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 barked down at the strange noise of . This haunting phrase encapsulates the buckets as he filled them.'' How is that for an opening? The style pervading sense of otherworldliness which permeates this novel story set in the form of interconnected short stories goes from succinct and laconic to wistful and musingVaim, turning on a sixpence. And author Marco Northfictional fishing village in Norway which paradoxically could not feel more real for Jatgeir and Eline, who has two of the most wonderful turn of phrase, starts as he means to go onprotagonists caught in its melancholic current.|isbn=1804271829
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|author=Daisy HildyardClaire-Louise Bennett|title=EmergencyBig Kiss, Bye-Bye |rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The summary of Everything in this book doesn't come close to explaining what , however sweet or seemingly innocent, is done with the premisesteeped in anguish and distortion.|isbn=1913097811}} {{Frontpage |author=Sally Oliver |title=The Weight Even a kiss, usually a symbol of intimacy and closeness, becomes evidence of Loss |rating=4 |genre=Literary Fiction |summary= Marianne is grievinglove lost. Traumatised after When the death of her sisternarrator cries out internally, she awakes to find strange, thick black hairs sprouting from the bones of her spine which steadily increase in size ''come over here and volume. Her GPkiss me, diagnosing the odd phenomenon as '' it is less an invitation than a physical reaction desperate attempt to confirm her griefemotional numbness. The imagined recipient of this plea is Xavier, recommends she go to stay at Nedeher ex-partner, an experimental new treatment centre in Wales. Yet something strange is happening to Marianne and the other patients at Nede: a metamorphosis of a kind. As Marianne's memories threaten ghost she conjures to overwhelm her, Nede offers test her release from this cycle of memory and pain—but only at a terrible price: that of identity itselfdetachment.|isbn= 086154112X 1804271934}}
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|author=Natalia Garcia FreireHelene Bessette and Kate Briggs (translator)|title=This World Does Not Belong To UsLili is Crying|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= Early comments on First published in 1953 in French, this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendous, a delight. I will agree with the first – tremendous is no understatement – but 'a delight' is perhaps using timeless text which wrenches the expression in a way I'm not familiar with. I have to confess my ignorance hearts of its readers just as Bessette wrenches words and sentences from their proper position on the Spanish-language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation herepage and positions them elsewhere, disjointed, truncated. From Like the little I have read (in translationlives of her characters, I don't read Spanish) there does seem to be a tendency towards the fantastical – the mystical realismthey are often left tragically incomplete. |isbn=08615419011804271675
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|author=Jennifer SaintJonathan Buckley|title=ElektraOne Boat
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary='Elektra' One Boat'' 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 Jennifer Saint 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|rating=3.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''Black Woods Blue Sky'' tells the story of three women Birdie, the young mother of toddler Emaleen, who live in longs for a life beyond the heavily male dominated world Alaskan lodge where she works as a bar waitress, a setting which enables her bad habits and her accidental neglect of Ancient GreeceEmaleen. CassandraDescribed as a ''wild card'', Clytemnestrashe feels stuck in her day-to-day life, and Elektra are all bit players in yearns to cross the Wolverine river and live on the story North Fork to fulfil her desires of the Trojan Wara 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. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the silent women have the most compelling stories Without realising it, this calling will transform hers and the most extreme furiesEmaleen's lives forever.|isbn=14722739151472279042
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|isbnauthor=8409290103Sally Rooney|title=If Only|author=Matthew TreeIntermezzo
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=Twenty-one-year-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by his fatherSally Rooney has studied the chessboard of life and is something of a grandmaster at putting it into words. Her dialogue is gripping and so brilliantly frustrating, cotton-broker AO Lowry: he asked his accountant, Mr Patrickas her characters never quite say exactly what they feel. Among the many relationships woven into this story, the central one for readers to ensure that unravel is the young man got on board the boat fraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and thereafter Patrick was to send him Peter Koubek. Ivan, a monthly allowance. Patrick sent the money regularly and socially awkward chess prodigy, contrasts sharply with his older brother Peter, a correspondence - of sorts - sprang up between the two although we hear more about what Lowry has to say than Patricksuccessful lawyer living in Dublin. It wasnFollowing their father't that Lowry senior didn't care for his sons passing after a long battle with cancer, it was that he didnthe brothers't care to have him already strained relationship faces new trials.|isbn=0571365469}}{{Frontpage|author=Fyodor Dostoyevsky|title=White Nights|rating=5|genre=Short Stories|summary=As always in this country where he might be Dostoyevsky, the character work is sublime. One is never left wondering what a danger to his wife character is thinking or feeling because Dostoyevsky lays bare their innermost dispositions and other children. The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to get the young man on his waytemperaments with remarkable clarity.|isbn=0241619785
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|author=Antoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)James Baldwin|title=Red is My HeartGiovanni's Room|rating=34.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=[[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white and read ''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 my housea gay bar. And so was this one, although I could have spelled that more accurately – this one wasWhile David is engaged to Hella, and who istravelling in Spain, black and white and redthe real tension in the novel arises not from his infidelity but from the deeper conflict within himself. Yes, he has an artistic collaborator on this piece, and I think itIt is David's possible to say not one page lacks the influence crippling shame and denial of some striking visual ideashis sexuality that ultimately dooms his relationship with Giovanni.|isbn=19135471830141186356
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|isbnauthor=B098FFFBH9Alba de Cespedes |title=Snowcub|author=Graham FulbrightForbidden Notebook|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Fourteen-year-old Rachel is her school's animal rights project leader This Italian work of feminist fiction holds an air of suspense and she and her friend are producing a competition entry to highlight tension from the way in which human beings exploit the animal world. She gets a great deal of support from her family: father Pip Harrisonmoment our protagonist, a lecturer at Imperial CollegeValeria Cossati, Londonpurchases her forbidden notebook, mother Kate and her twin, Nick. Kate runs learns about herself in the family business, a toy shop called Cornucopia in Putney, which is where we'll meet Rachel's main (if unsuspected) source of information: five soft toysmost intimate and revealing ways.|isbn=1782278222
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|author=Yancey WilliamsOttessa Moshfegh|title=Crosshairs My Year of the DevilRest and Relaxation|rating=4.53
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Award-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski At best, this novel is getting on in years a scathing critique of modern society andreveals the fragility of human relationships; at worst, despite his strenuous objections it is the cynical, predictable and thanks to his daughterslightly trite tale of an unlikeable protagonist. This unlikely heroine, finds himself living - or imprisoneda slim, from Eddie's point of view - attractive and newly orphaned girl in room 315 of her twenties is disillusioned with the Garden of Eden nursing home, with only a trusty nursing aide, Jenkinsworld, for palatable company. Nothing is going but resolves not to keep Eddie from his stock-lose sleep over it: in-trade of writing thoughfact, so here, for his readers, are his wanderings through his life's workher solution lies in her hibernation.|isbn=09860316581784707422}}
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|isbnauthor=0008421714Matthew Tree|title=Mrs March|author=Virginia FeitoWe'll Never Know
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=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 Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to either be reading it or different from his father, a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had already done soendless crises of self confidence. Every day Mrs March went to the local patisserie So Tim applied himself to buy olive bread but on that particular morninghis studies, Patricia asked, as she was wrapping the bread, ''cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but isn't this the first time he's based a character on you?'' She mentioned that Johanna, the principal character had 'her mannerisms''. Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for the fact that Johanna is the whore of Nantes - ''a weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretchachievable ambitions.''|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8
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|isbn=B005FM76AAB0C47LV1PC|title=The Duke's ChildrenFragility|author=Anthony TrollopeMosby Woods|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The story opens to probably Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the worst news of all: Lady Glencora Palliser question should you make it? Or is dead. Her husband, Plantagenet Palliser, the Duke of Omniumquestion if you did, would it land? The catch is nearly paralysed by grief and struggling - at that the same time - to adjust to answer for both could well be.... no longer being prime minister, or even in office. He seeks to protect and guide his three adult children, which is easier said than done when none of them wishes to ''beFragility'' guided. Silverbridge (his elder sonis set as the city of Portland, actually called PlantagenetOregon, but always known by his title) and Gerald are destined cautiously begins to be sent down emerge from Oxford and Cambridge respectively and to run up gambling debts, occasionally in eye-watering sums. Lady Helen has fallen in love with - and wishes to marry - Frank Tregear, the penniless son of a poor squire, which restrictions imposed during the Duke cannot countenance, not least because he sees echos of what might have happened when he married Lady Glencora. He's about to learn that parents do not always get their way.covid pandemic
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|isbnauthor=B004O37B6AMosby Woods|title=The Prime Minister|author=Anthony TrollopeA Whirly Man Loses His Turn
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Plantagenet Palliser, 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 Duke best course of Omniumaction. 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 prime minister of strategic advantage in this asset; a coalition government but he's privately enraged at the seemingly unstoppable rise man who can tell you what will happen given any set of Ferdinand Lopezcircumstances. Lopex is exotic - some describe him as JewishThat man would be valuable, others as Portuguese but right? Perhaps the truth is that no one knows and Lopez is not going to explainmost valuable asset in history. The ladies of societyImagine then, even Palliser's own wife, Lady Glencora, are supporters but after Lopez makes an advantageous marriage Palliser is placed in the position of having to support his wife's actions when Lopez that this man loses a by-electionthis ability. The Duke's payment of Lopez' election expenses in an attempt What would governments do to stem gossip about his wife will come get it back to haunt him.?|isbn=B0C9SNG8R1
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|isbn=B00474HVX40571379559|title=Phineas ReduxThe House of Broken Bricks|author=Anthony TrollopeFiona Williams|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=It''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 lives in the house on the riverbank, built of broken bricks. Insubstantial as it might look, it's some stood the passage of time since we heard from [[Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope|Phineas Finn]], storms and floods. Having succeeded Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the delivery rounds - and to bring in parliament sufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and achieved Max, 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's his nanny.}}{{Frontpage|author=Claire North|title=House of Odysseus|rating=5|genre= Literary Fiction |summary= ''What could matter more than love?'' The follow-up to the excellent ''Ithaca'' picks up a paying position he fell out few months after where we left off. In the palace of Odysseus, with those delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without her husband, who provided his income sailed to war at Troy and then by divine intervention never returned home. As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for the throne of the Western Isles. Having survived – politically and physical – the chaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to Ireland where he married MaryIthaca's shores, Queen Penelope is on the brink of a fragile peace. One that shatters however with the return of Orestes, King of Mycenae, and his childhood sweetheartsister Elektra, seeking refuge. He was fortunate |isbn=0356516075}}{{Frontpage|author= Kay Chronister|title= Desert Creatures|rating= 4|genre= Dystopian Fiction|summary= With a world that is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, post-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Whether it is a robotic takeover, a world devoid of water or a nuclear holocaust, this genre is a way for humans to get cathartically experience their most existential fears. ''Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is a job in Cork (or Dublin new work of post- recollections may vary) and seemed settled apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the fears that exist for humanity today. It is a shocking novel that still manages to find hope.|isbn=1803364998}}{{frontpage|isbn=1803363002|author= Eric LaRocca|title= The Trees Grew Because I Bled There|rating= 5|genre= Horror|summary= Horror taps into something primeval within us. It is used as a life of domesticity. To bring Finn back, Trollope had way to kill off poor Mary reflect our darkest emotions and Phineas emerges in London how we as humans react and process them. Most horror fiction feature a childless widower with ''Big Bad'', whether that is a home invader, a monster or a legacy from an aunt who died at just ghost, it usually something tangible and, by the end of the right time to allow story, beatable. Eric LaRocca's ''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is not like that. It is a collection of short stories more interested in the move horrors of illness, grief and humiliation. Horrors that linger and are harder to be possibledefeat than any ''Big Bad''.
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|author=Jessie GreengrassMadelaine Lucas|title=The High HouseThirst for Salt|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Charles Darwin taught that all living matter evolved to pass on its genetic material with the implied belief that your progeny will then pass on theirs. However''Love, that train of thought is slowly seems to have fallen out of favour. TodayI's young generation are discovering that their parents and their parents' parents did not seem d read, was supposed to think that far ahead. Or they did think that far ahead be a light and thought "itweightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravity's not my problem" or "there's nothing I can do" Told from a retrospective view, a young woman unravels the year-long relationship that once defined her. Raising Overlaid with later wisdom, the narrator relives the affair with a child and living in a world on man twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the summer after. Set against the precipice backdrop of catastrophe is what drives an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'The High House'details the 24-year-old narrator' by Jessie Greengrass. This is not a sciences deepening relationship with her older lover, depicting its all-fiction novel. This is our reality. This is the life our children consuming nature, how it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and their children will have to livehow it altered her irrevocably.|isbn=18007500720861546490
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|author=Charlie CarrollMichael Grothaus|title=The LipBeautiful 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.'' ''Beautiful Shining People'' revolves around the question of identity and acceptance. Of what it means to be human. Of what is real and what is artificial, and whether the development of technology is exciting or frightening.|isbn=191458564X}}{{Frontpage|author=Jennifer Saint|title=Atalanta
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=''Melody Janie Rowe'' even 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 name is evocative of…probably of whatever we want it to bethe goddess. It was for the sake of my name, and maybe thattoo. Atalanta''s Princess. Warrior. Lover. Hero. Abandoned at birth for being born a daughter rather than a son, Atalanta is raised under the pointprotective eye of the goddess Athemis and fashioned into a formidable huntress, one who longs for adventure. To me When the opportunity comes – to join the name sings Argonauts, a fierce band of English folk musicwarriors, but even descendent from the Gods themselves – Atalanta seizes the chance to fight in Artemis' name and carve out her own legendary place in my use history. What follows is a whirlwind of challenges and discovery and through it, Atalanta must remember Artemis' fatal warning: that word Englishif she marries, I know I'm putting an emmet take on things. And Melody Janie Rowe is anti-emmetit will be her undoing. |isbn=15293341791472292154
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|isbnauthor=B003UH99X4Amanthi Harris|title=The Eustace Diamonds|author=Anthony TrollopeBeautiful Place
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=It was generally thought that Sir Florian Eustace had come Padma, a young Sri Lankan, has returned to regret his marriage but he didn't live long enough for this to become a problemthe Villa Hibiscus on the southern coast of her home country. After his death, his wife, Lizzie - still only in her late teens - was in possession of This is a very valuable diamond necklace and was determined that place she would not hand it over to spent her husband's executorsformative years. She It is not a place she was adamant that Sir Florian had given it to her absolutelyborn into, although but the precise circumstances one she thinks of the giving varied from telling to tellingas home. Lady Eustace was not a woman How she came to whom truth meant a great deal. All be at the Villa, how it became her home, and the machinations that was important to have flowed through her now, life ever since she maintained, was first arrived there provide the ''score'' for this gentle and yet subtly violent novel. Padma's present fails to escape her son. And, past and much like the musical score of coursea film, her diamondsthat strand weaves its way through everything that happens at the Villa.|isbn=1784631930
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|isbn=B003L7TDMU178563335X|title=Phineas FinnSea Defences|author=Anthony TrollopeHilary Taylor|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Phineas Finn is When we first meet Rachel Bird she's a trainee vicar, sitting in on a PCC meeting and wondering why they're held when you need to pick the son of Dr Malachi Finnchildren up. Her husband, Christopher, collects six-year-old Hannah and her elder brother, a successful doctor in Killaloe in County ClareJamie, who sent his son to London to train as whilst Rachel holds a lawyersobbing parishioner. PhineasThelma's interest daughter-in-law won't let her see her grandson. Holthorpe, on the Norfolk coast, is more in making influential friends than in becoming a lawyer lovely place, but Rachel is struggling to develop a real bond with the parish - and one she's in awe of themthe vicar, Barrington ErleGail, suggests that he runs but then she's been doing the job for Parliament in the forthcoming electionmore than thirty years. His father is not entirely in favour of this as members are not remunerated Rachel and Christopher hoped that a walk on the beach would do them some good - it would be up to him to provide financial support for his son as well as funding his electionwas stormy but it was probably what they needed. One of the doctor's patients is Lord Tulla who controls the borough of Loughshane and by this stroke of luck Finn is, eventually, elected by a small marginAnd then Hannah went missing.
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|isbn=B003A6W0FO1398515388|title=Can You Forgive Her?The Boy and the Dog|author=Anthony TrollopeSeishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=First of all, it was the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and this, in turn, caused the nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and utter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, and the 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 wasn't a dog person but the convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and Tamon the dog jumped in.
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|isbn=0989715337
|title=Papa on the Moon
|author=Marco North
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=On ''Some frogs had gotten into the surface 'well.'Can You Forgive Her?' ' looks deceptively simple: it's Walter stood waist-deep in the story of one woman and two men who are vying with each other fragrant water, naked except for her lovehis beaten leather hat. Alice Vavasor was originally engaged to her cousinLong strands of their eggs wove around him, George Vavasor but she broke off that engagement and later became engaged to John Greysticky gray pearls with tadpoles inside them. When we first meet Alice she's on an extended tour Two of the continent with George Vavasor dogs leaned over the opening and his sister Kate. It's obvious that there's still a great deal barked down at the strange noise of chemistry between John and Alice - and Kate is all for encouraging the relationship buckets as it would tie Alice to herhe filled them. George wants Alice but it's a matter of ''amour propre'' rather than love: he has little consideration How is that for anyone other than himself and an opening? The style of this novel in the original engagement had fallen through because form of his infidelity interconnected short stories goes from succinct and laconic to wistful and deceitfulnessmusing, turning on a sixpence. This thread is And author Marco North, who has the story most wonderful turn of a very complicated love affair and a woman who lacks confidence in her own judgement. You might not like Alice phrase, starts as he means to start with but you will warm to hergo on.
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