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[[Category:New Reviews|Literary Fiction]]==Literary fiction==__NOTOC__ {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Delphine de Vigan295967572X|title=No and Me|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Lou is a clever, clever child with an IQ approaching 160. She's thirteen, but she's been moved up two years at school and she compares her flat chested, nervous self somewhat unfavourably with her fifteen-year-old peer group. Funnily enough, her only real friend at school is Lucas, who's seventeen and such a rebel that he's been moved down two years. Things at home aren't great for Lou. Her baby sister died a few years ago and her mother has been severely depressed ever since. She barely talks, seldom gets dressed. Her father is worn down to the bone with worry and Lou doesn't get a great deal of attention from him either, so distracted is he. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408807513</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewPale Pieces|author=Joshua Ferris |title=The UnnamedG M Stevens
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Tim Farnsworth seemed Our unnamed narrator is about to have it allbegin a train journey with his companion Django. He loved his wife Jane Where they're going and daughter Becka and his job as a partner in prestigious law firm was enjoyable, fulfilling and financially rewarding. The fly in what the ointment was that sometimes he was overtaken by a compulsion to walk. The time purpose of daythis journey is, is uncertain. Django found the weather or tickets ''on the occasion did not matter – when the compulsion came he had to walk until he was physically exhausted floor somewhere'' and fell asleep immediately after calling his wife has persuaded our narrator to come and collect accompany him. There seemed to be no medical explanation for what was happening – and Tim and Jane had tried every source they could find – Why not? Not much else is clear either - but Tim was still reluctant to accept that this was a mental rather than a physical illness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670917702</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Joe Treasure|title=Besotted|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=It is late August 1982, the day when O level results come out. Michael Cartwright already knows he has failed his exams and is dreading his parents finding out. He, his twin brother Kieran (who has done very well) and their younger sisters we are on probably in the family holiday, staying with their mother's parents in Kilross, County Cork. To escape boredom and his parents' anger, he wanders round past as the village, where he meets Fergal Noonan, training pair travel to be a priest, and lively Peggy O'Connor. He has his first kiss the station by coach and the train is a bit more with Peggy. The family soon goes home to Cheltenham, but their brief visit to Ireland will have far reaching significancesteam locomotive.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330511726</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Laila Lalami Makenna Goodman|title=Secret Son|rating=3.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=''Secret Son'' is the story Helen of Youssef El-Mekki, the slum-dwelling teenage son of single mother Rachida. Youssef has always been told that his father is dead, so when he finds out his mother has lied to conceal the fact that he was born out of wedlock, he plunges headlong into an identity crisis. He tracks down his real father, a wealthy businessman called Nabil Amrani who is surprisingly enthusiastic about his illegitimate son's arrival. Nabil has recently fallen out with his daughter and he seizes this opportunity to mould Youssef into the obedient son he has always wanted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670918296</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Aravind Adiga|title=The White TigerNowhere
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Balram HalwaiIt 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 protagonist, a Bangalore entrepreneur (disgraced professor on the brink of sorts) losing both his career and his relationship, embodies this feeling. However, Goodman counteracts his discomfort with a natural philosopherforce which is seductive, hears that there radical and unnerving: Helen. The connection between Helen and the protagonist is a planned visit from the Chinese leader to India to learn indirect yet intimate. As the source former owner of Indian entrepreneurial talent. Balram knows that the story countryside house he will be told by 's considering, Helen represents a volta in his life, her past tied to his potential fresh start. The realtor who shows the Indian leader will be a long way from protagonist around the true story of modern Indian lifehouse shares stories about Helen, and so resolvesdescribes her as ''an entity that is pure consciousness, over the course of seven nightsbeyond form''. Although she lives in an assisted living facility now, to write to the Chinese premier with Helen has powers beyond comprehension which the story of his life and his own journey from a poor son of a rickshaw driver to reader gets the head of his own businesssense are not altogether innocuous.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1843547228</amazonuk>1804272205
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Matthew CondonOlga Tokarczuk|title=The Trout OperaHouse of Day, House of Night|rating=45
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Judges Carrington and Thorpe recline in leather armchairs on the verandah of Buckley''What's Crossing hotel and watch in silence as a giant trout shuffles across the bridge. The Judges, despite their initial prominence and convincing back-story giving them good of a valid reason for being world that keeps changing like that? How can one go on calmly living in Buckleyit?'s Crossing, will not really concern us. They are there to represent a type: a visitor to small town Australia, a fisherman from the city, a seeker after something in the Snowy that probably isn't fish.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Clare MorrallThea Lenarduzzi|title=The Man Who DisappearedTower|rating=45
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=I was drawn to this book straight away. Firstly, the jacket cover is lovely. The subliminal message is read me, please read me. We ''How unctuous are introduced to the Kendall family; mother, father and three children. All leading unremarkable, rather ordinary lives. The father, Felixfats of another's life, works hard to provide for his family. He loves them all dearly. They all love him back. It is a secure family unit. Until - completely out of the blue - he simply disappears. His family is distraught and mystified. We all know that a person cannot simply disappear. But Felix Kendall has taken himself off the radarhow dizzying their sugars in our bloodstream''. Why?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340994274</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Angelica GarnettJon Fosse and Damion Searls (translator) |title=The Unspoken TruthVaim
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=I would not normally start a review with ''All was strange''... This haunting phrase encapsulates the biography pervading sense of the authorotherworldliness which permeates this story set in Vaim, but The Unspoken Truth is presented as autobiographical fiction by a child of the Bloomsbury Group – fictional fishing village in fact the subtitle is 'A Quartet of Bloomsbury Stories'. The blurb on the inside cover even identifies Norway which character is based on the author in each paradoxically could not feel more real for Jatgeir and Eline, two of the four stories, just protagonists caught in case we are not sureits melancholic current.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0701184353</amazonuk>1804271829
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Amos OzClaire-Louise Bennett|title=Rhyming Life and DeathBig Kiss, Bye-Bye |rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Rhyming Love Everything in this book, however sweet or seemingly innocent, is steeped in anguish and Death is distortion. Even a kiss, usually a kind symbol of intimacy and closeness, becomes evidence of philosophical love letter to literaturelost. When the narrator cries out internally, ''come over here and kiss me, or perhaps more so '' it is less an invitation than a desperate attempt to fictionconfirm her emotional numbness. It The imagined recipient of this plea is Xavier, her ex-partner, a book about how ghost she conjures to write, about the compulsion to write, and about the strange world that the writer of fiction must live intest her detachment.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099521024</amazonuk>1804271934
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Paul MurrayHelene Bessette and Kate Briggs (translator)|title=Skippy DiesLili is Crying|rating=34.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Life in Seabrook College is a mess. Some of the staff are young enough to remember their own school days there, but many are certainly too old for that. A lot of the boys are victims of ragging and bullying for being too chunky, or too smart - but some are so chunky and smart there's a certain kudos to them. The female of the species is a thing only spied from their own school next door, and only met by selling them ritalin as a weight-control pill, or meeting them at the very rare combined school disco.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241141826</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tom Wolfe|title=The Bonfire of the Vanities|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=In his own mindFirst published in 1953 in French, bond trader Sherman McCoy this novel is a 'Master timeless text which wrenches the hearts of the Universe'. He has a pleasant wife, a beautiful mistress, its readers just as Bessette wrenches words and a sweet six year old daughter. Henry Lamb is a black student sentences from their proper position on the projects. Under normal circumstancespage and positions them elsewhere, disjointed, it's clear that McCoy's world and Lamb's world would never overlaptruncated. But when McCoy and his mistress Maria Ruskin end up lost in Like the Bronx, and an accident leads to Lamb being hit by McCoy's Mercedeslives of her characters, a chain of events start which will lead to his downfallthey are often left tragically incomplete.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099548798</amazonuk>1804271675
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate Cole-AdamsJonathan Buckley|title=Walking to the MoonOne Boat
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=We meet ''One Boat'' is a deeply introspective novella that defies traditional narrative structure, drawing the main character Jessica, or Jess as she is usually calledreader into a contemplative realm of philosophical musings and fragmented memories flowing from our narrator and protagonist, deep in an emotional black holeTeresa. She can see no light at Set against the end evocative backdrop of a small coastal Greek town, this work masterfully captures the tunnelmagic of its setting and its power to provoke profound introspection. And right from Teresa herself recognises these qualities as the start, right from page one, we have a sense of reason she has visited it after the beautiful and poetic language death of Cole-Adamsboth her parents. 'Time Prompted by her mourning, her narrative voice is meditative and I have a new arrangementdeeply self-aware, inviting the reader into her labyrinthine cogitations. We leave each other alone.' And indeed time It is a book that not important in this novel. We have all the time in the world would probably be the motto only requires but inspires depth of the medical staff - if they had onethought, since its narrative structure is fragmentary and ironically relies on analepsis for its propulsion. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849161348</amazonuk>1804271764
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ru FreemanEowyn Ivey|title=A Disobedient GirlBlack Woods Blue Sky|rating=3.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=''A Disobedient Girl'' follows two women struggling to retain control of their lives in the face of servitude. Latha is a servant girl to the affluent Vithanage family, whose daughter, Thara, is Latha's age. As children, the girls are the best of friends, but they are destined to be separated by class, which is made painfully obvious when boys come into the picture. Meanwhile, Biso serves a cruel and drunken husband who beats her and terrorises her children, one of whom is another man's love child. Biso's husband murdered her lover in a hateful rage when he uncovered her affair and she realises that she must escape his house if she and her children are to live. Latha too seeks escape, but she finds it in the arms of Thara's boyfriend and this sets off a chain of events that will echo far into her future.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670917958</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Simon Robson|title=Catch|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Catharine's husband Tom is away on business in Birmingham'Black Woods Blue Sky'' tells the story of Birdie, the young mother of toddler Emaleen, and so Catharine awakes alone who longs for a life beyond the first time in their little cottage at the end of their lane. They moved there Alaskan lodge where she works as a few months previouslybar waitress, a setting which enables her bad habits and since then Catharine has spent her days quietly awaiting her husbandaccidental neglect of Emaleen. Described as a ''wild card''s return from work. She is sure that , she will figure out, some feels stuck in her day-to-day, what her purpose in life is. She thought it might be to have a baby, but they have been trying for some time and it hasn't happened as yet. Meanwhile she waits, yearns to cross the Wolverine river and thinks, and waits. In live on the lounge stands North Fork to fulfil her piano, desires of a stark reminder of the simple life surrounded by nature. When she didn't manage to realise because although she studied music she foundmeets Arthur Nielson, quite quicklya strange, that in spite of being passionate she lacked any kind of talent for it whatsoever. Sotaciturn and solitary man, on this daywho says he has a cabin over there, alone at home, Catharine finds herself tormented by the piano's presence and overshe feels called to go -thinking every second of the day. She worries away at who she is, and what bring Emaleen with her life is. Without realising it, as her loneliness this calling will transform hers and the day itself unravel around herEmaleen's lives forever.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0224090232</amazonuk>1472279042
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joe MenoSally Rooney|title=The Great PerhapsIntermezzo
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=Jonathan Casper faints when he sees clouds. His wife Madeline worries about everything, not least Sally Rooney has studied the way the pigeons that she chessboard of life and is studying are murdering each othersomething of a grandmaster at putting it into words. Their seventeen year old daughter Amelia wants to overthrow the evil empire of capitalism Her dialogue is gripping and is making so brilliantly frustrating, as her own bombcharacters never quite say exactly what they feel. Among the many relationships woven into this story, while fourteen year old Thisbe the central one for readers to unravel is looking for God the fraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and praying to himPeter Koubek. Jonathan's fatherIvan, seventy six year old Henrya socially awkward chess prodigy, is planning contrasts sharply with his disappearanceolder brother Peter, a successful lawyer living in Dublin. Jonathan and Madeline may be on the verge of splitting upFollowing their father's passing after a long battle with cancer, to the dismay of both daughtersbrothers' already strained relationship faces new trials.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0330512471</amazonuk>0571365469
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|genre=Literary FictionShort Stories|summary=Set As always in AfghanistanDostoyevsky, ''The Patience Stone'' the character work is sublime. One is never left wondering what a partly allegorical tale of a Muslim wife tending to her comatose soldier husband who has been shot in the neck. As she cares for him, for the first time ever she character is able to speak to him without fear of censorship thinking or feeling because Dostoyevsky lays bare their innermost dispositions and he becomes, for her, like the mythical Patience Stone to which you tell your troubles and when the stone finally bursts, you are free from your torments. But also this might mean the Apocalypsetemperaments with remarkable clarity.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0701184167</amazonuk>0241619785
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joyce Carol OatesJames Baldwin|title=A Fair MaidenGiovanni'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.
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{{Frontpage
|author=Alba de Cespedes
|title=Forbidden Notebook
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=I've recently read This Italian work of feminist fiction holds an air of suspense and tension from the terrific short story collection ''The Female Of The Species'' also by Oates moment our protagonist, Valeria Cossati, purchases her forbidden notebook, and couldn't wait to start her latest book. I felt sure that I was learns about herself in for a literary treat - the most intimate and I was. Firstly, the book itself, a hardback with a beautifully nostalgic cover is a book lover's delightrevealing ways.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847248586</amazonuk>1782278222
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dai Sijie Ottessa Moshfegh|title=Once on a Moonless NightMy Year of Rest and Relaxation|rating=3.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=A French female scholarAt best, studying in Chinathis novel is a scathing critique of modern society and reveals the fragility of human relationships; at worst, finds herself caught up in it is the search for a lostcynical, sacred text that was inscribed on predictable and slightly trite tale of an ancient scrollunlikeable protagonist. The scroll was torn in two by Emperor Puyi years agoThis unlikely heroine, a slim, attractive and was lost. After falling newly orphaned girl in love her twenties is disillusioned with a young grocer called Tumchooq the young woman becomes caught up world, but resolves not to lose sleep over it: in tales within tales, as she finds that Tumchooq's father found and translated half of the missing scroll and became obsessed with finding the other halffact, and soon Tumchooq too becomes embroiled her solution lies in the searchher hibernation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099521326</amazonuk>1784707422
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Thomas Trofimuk Matthew Tree|title=Waiting for ColumbusWe'll Never Know
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=I was hooked instantly by the title. OriginalTimothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, thought-provoking, quirky. The book revolves around a youngish man drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and who has been admitted had endless crises of self confidence. So Tim applied himself to an insane asylum (these two words alone make me want to shiver) in modern-day Spain. The staff have their work cut out. He doesn't remember his name or anything at all about studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his past. He's sporadically violent - daydreams and he says he is Christopher Columbus! As the Americans would say, go figureset himself high but achievable ambitions. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0330518844</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=Iain BanksMosby Woods|title=The Steep Approach to GarbadaleA Whirly Man Loses His Turn
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=It took me a while The West isn't the dominant force it once was. Nobody in the West is quite sure how to realise that Iain Banks mend this or even if mending it is, most the best course of allaction. Governments are flailing. A war here, a teller of tales - I would call him a story-teller had this term not became a compliment-cum-invective usually reserved push for the Jeffrey Archers and Dan Browns of the modern publishing worldclimate action there. A feeling that nobody is in actual charge. This ability to tell stories - not to plot as much as to weave Imagine then, there was a yarn - combines man with a penchant for creating appealing contexts for Banks' narratives to unfold precognition. Imagine the strategic advantage in (this gets magnificently realised in the world building asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of his [[:Category:Iain M Banks|Iain Mcircumstances. Banks]] alter-ego) and populating them with memorableThat man would be valuable, larger than life but usually short of caricatureright? Perhaps the most valuable asset in history. Imagine then, charactersthat this man loses this ability.What would governments do to get it back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349119287</amazonuk>B0C9SNG8R1
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mary McCarthy 0571379559|title=The GroupHouse of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary='Given the attention paid to relations between the sexes, it would be tempting to call 'The Group a forerunner House of todayBroken Bricks''s chick litis the story of four people. It Tess Hembry's not.' So writes Candace Bushnellroots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in the writer behind the TV series Sex and house on the Cityriverbank, in the introduction to this new Virago Modern Classics edition built of The Group by Mary McCarthybroken bricks. First published in 1963 Insubstantial as it might look, this novel is about it's stood the lives of a group passage of young women after leaving college in 1933time, including careersstorms and floods. Her husband, relationshipsRichard, sexstruggles to grow his vegetables, babiesto complete the delivery rounds - and to bring in sufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and Max, parentsthe 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 moneythere's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she's his nanny. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1844085937</amazonuk>
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{{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=Herta MullerKay Chronister|title=The PassportDesert Creatures|rating=34|genre=Literary Dystopian Fiction|summary=Meet WindischWith a world that is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, post-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. A miller in Whether it is a small villagerobotic takeover, he trudges through there, and through his neighbours, and through his life, counting his days and hoursa world devoid of water or a nuclear holocaust, this genre is a way for reasons that are not initially clearhumans to cathartically experience their most existential fears. But he does want something - he ''Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is waiting for a passport so he can leave for other climes. The perks new work of his job are the bags post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of flour he leaves by the mayor's house with regularity, as an open bribe, but there might be fears that exist for humanity today. It is a bigger sacrifice to have shocking novel that still manages to makefind hope.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1852421398</amazonuk>1803364998
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{{newreviewfrontpage|isbn=1803363002|author=Jennifer JohnstonEric LaRocca|title=Truth or FictionThe Trees Grew Because I Bled There|rating=45|genre=Literary FictionHorror|summary=Caroline Wallace Horror taps into something primeval within us. It is not used as a happy woman. She has waited ten years for her lover to propose way to her, reflect our darkest emotions and now just how we as he finally does, she has to go to Dublin to interview faded literary star Desmond Fitzmauricehumans react and process them. Desmond promises his tale will be brimful of Most horror fiction feature a ''Big Bad''sex , whether that is a home invader, a monster or a ghost, it usually something tangible and violence', but Caroline has no idea by the end of the mystery story, beatable. Eric LaRocca's ''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is not like that lies at . It is a collection of short stories more interested in the heart horrors of his storyillness, grief and humiliation. Horrors that linger and are harder to defeat than any ''Big Bad''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755330544</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Julian BarnesMadelaine Lucas|title=Staring at the SunThirst for Salt|rating=45
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Jean's first Incident involved Uncle Leslie'Love, hyacinths and golf tees. ItI's perhaps best forgottend read, but Jean doesn't forget. Uncle Leslie figures large in her life - mostly on the golf course - until the War comes and he runs away was supposed to America. He's replaced by Tommy Prosser, be a grounded pilot who once saw the sun rise twice in one day light and excites as many questions in Jean as he ever answers. Tommy is replaced by Michaelweightless feeling, a policeman, whom Jean eventually marries. He doesnbut I had always longed for gravity't know why minks are excessively tenacious of life and he doesn't much care. But Jean does. She cares much less for the Dutch cap that Michael sent her off to obtain before the wedding and much less again for their rather disastrous adventures in the bedroom. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099540096</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=Shirley JacksonJennifer Saint|title=We Have Always Lived In The CastleAtalanta|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Mary Katherine Blackwood, also known ''I was as worthy as Merricatany one of them. I would get on board that ship, is eighteenI vowed. I would take my place, and lives with her older sister Constance not just in the family home where 'Blackwoods had always lived'name of the goddess. Merricat quickly draws It was for the reader into her world by a series of matter sake of fact but bizarre statements – her likes include her sister and death cap mushroomsmy name, and everyone else in her family is deadtoo. The wealthy Blackwood family has always kept the house 'steady against the worldAtalanta', shutting out other people, and they live near a village. Merricat believes that 'The people of the village have always hated us', and tells us that she hates them too.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141191457</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Katherine MayAmanthi Harris|title=Burning OutBeautiful Place|rating=45
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Violet has it all – a well-paid jobPadma, and a luxurious apartment all to herself. Everything is catered for; her mealsyoung Sri Lankan, her clothes, and her health are all how she would like them has returned to be. But the life she is leading is beginning to take its toll. On Villa Hibiscus on the verge southern coast of snapping, her home country. This is a drained and somewhat out-of-sorts Violet, withdraws back to place she spent her home townformative years. There It is not a place she was born into, but the one she meets someone familiar, a ghost reminding her thinks of how as home. How she used came to be ten years earlier – a young carefree girlat the Villa, full of life. Only this isn't a ghosthow it became her home, but a girl living and the machinations that have flowed through her life Violet once lived – exactly ever since she first arrived there provide the same''score'' for this gentle and yet subtly violent novel. Haunted by the Padma's present fails to escape her past Violet realizes history is repeating itself and is convinced events will happen again. Events much like the musical score of a film, that strand weaves its way through everything that will in turn haunt happens at the girlVilla.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1906727392</amazonuk>1784631930
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tove Jansson178563335X|title=The True DeceiverSea Defences|author=Hilary Taylor
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Most people of my age will have come across JanssonWhen 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 children up. Her husband, Christopher, collects six-year-old Hannah and her elder brother, Jamie, whilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioner. Thelma's work unwittinglydaughter-in-law won't let her see her grandson. Holthorpe, via on the televised renditions Norfolk coast, is a lovely place, but Rachel is struggling to develop a real bond with the parish - and she's in awe of the Moomin tales. The readers amongst us would vicar, Gail, but then have she's been entranced a few doing the job for more than thirty years ago to discover . Rachel and Christopher hoped that at last Thomas Teal had set about a walk on the translation into English, first of The Summer Book and beach would do them some good - it was stormy but it was probably what they needed. And then of a collection of short stories which were published as 'A Winter Book'Hannah went missing. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0954899571</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Daniel Kehlmann 1398515388|title=Me The Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and KaminskiAlison Watts (translator)
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=After reviewing several long booksFirst of all, it's been refreshing to read such a fluent yet pared down story as 'Kaminski and Me'. In itwas the earthquake, Sebastian Zollnerdeep in the ocean floor, which created the obnoxious main charactertsunami and this, shoves himself forward in a desperate attempt to research a best seller which will re-ignite his career as an art critic. Kaminskiturn, caused the proposed subject, nuclear meltdown. The result was a fashionable painter long ago, but nowcomplete and utter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, ancient and chronically ill, has virtually slid into oblivionthe loss of livelihoods was widespread. So The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of priorities but - six months after the secondtsunami -rate writer is on Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a loser unless dog outside a convenience store. He wasn't a dog person but the convenience store owner's comment that he can dig up some juicy details would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to hook open his car door and Tamon the art world and general publicdog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847249892</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hilary Dixon0989715337|title=When Rooks Speak of LovePapa on the Moon|author=Marco North
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Arthur Transcombe is a middle-aged, grey-haired, self-effacing poet''Some frogs had gotten into the well. Unremarkable really '' ''Walter stood waist- on deep in the outsidefragrant water, naked except for his beaten leather hat. He has, howeverLong strands of their eggs wove around him, managed to achieve some success sticky gray pearls with his poemstadpoles inside them. (Being a guest speaker Two of the dogs leaned over the opening and barked down at the Cheltenham Literary Festival is no mean feat)strange noise of the buckets as he filled them. He is also a babe magnet!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904529429</amazonuk>}}''
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