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[[Category:New Reviews|Literary Fiction]]==Literary fiction==__NOTOC__{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mohammed Hanif295967572X|title=Our Lady of Alice BhattiPale Pieces|author=G M Stevens|rating=45
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Alice Our unnamed narrator is nervousabout to begin a train journey with his companion Django. SheWhere they's being interviewed for a job at re going and what the local hospitalpurpose of this journey is, is uncertain. Even although her nursing skills are far from ideal, she believes sheDjango found the tickets ''on the floor somewhere''s in with a shout. She presents herself at her charming best and it seems has persuaded our narrator to workaccompany him. She's now employed and earning some Why not? Not muchelse is clear either -needed money. She knows she'll have but we are probably in the past as the pair travel to work really hard the station by coach and probably long hours too. The hospital in question the train is in downtown Karachi: a seething mass of patients many of whom have no choice but to lie in corridors etcsteam locomotive.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224082051</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Evelio RoseroMakenna Goodman|title=Good OfficesHelen of Nowhere|rating=34.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Here It could be argued that the pervading theme of this book is malaise - a church hard-to-place feeling that something in Bogota nobody seems to want to leaveyour life is not quite right. In part one it is The protagonist, a large group disgraced professor on the brink of the elderlylosing both his career and his relationship, embodies this feeling. However, given Goodman counteracts his discomfort with a weeklyforce which is seductive, tasteless meal from radical and unnerving: Helen. The connection between Helen and the charitable fundsprotagonist is indirect yet intimate. As the former owner of the countryside house he's considering, Helen represents a volta in his life, but bitterly refusing her past tied to quit the place, making our main character Tancredo fear for his passivitypotential fresh start. In part two it is The realtor who shows the protagonist around the congregationhouse shares stories about Helen, and describes her as a rare need for a stand-in priest seems to be a blessing''an entity that is pure consciousness, beyond form''. And Although she lives in part three it is that priest himselfan assisted living facility now, stuck among Helen has powers beyond comprehension which the household of Tancredo, reader gets the girl who loves him, and chorus of three weird old womensense are not altogether innocuous.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857050672</amazonuk>1804272205
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Barry UnsworthOlga Tokarczuk|title=The Quality House of Day, House of MercyNight|rating=45
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary='The Quality of Mercy' picks up the story of the authorWhat's Booker Prize-winning 'Sacred Hunger' although if you haven't read the first book, you won't be greatly disadvantaged as the relevant story lines are explained. What you might miss out on is some good of the feeling for a few of the main characters, most notably the Irish fiddler, Sullivan who, when this book picks up world that keeps changing like that? How can one go on calmly living in spring 1767, has just escaped from prison where the remaining shipmates of the slave ship, the it?'Liverpool Merchant' await their trial of piracy. Slavery and abolition thereof remains a central theme of this sequel, but the book draws some poignant similarities with those in bondage due to poverty, and particularly those working in the coal mines of County Durham.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091937124</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael OndaatjeThea Lenarduzzi|title=The Cat's TableTower
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=For ''How unctuous are the first half or so of this book, which sees an 11 year old boy called Michael (or Mynah to his friends) leave his home fats of Ceylon to travel to school in England, I wasn't really sure if it even had a plot. Focusing on his journey in the 1950another's aboard the ship to England, although occasionally leaping forward to his later life where he gives us tantalising glimpses as to what happened to his fellow passengers after the voyage, this originally seems to be nothing more than a series of incredibly well-drawn character sketches. In fairness, I should say that ''nothing more'' is rather harsh how dizzying their sugars in this case – the men, women and children Ondaatje creates, from a supposedly cursed rich man seeking a cure, to a friendly thief, to Michael's beautiful cousin Emily, are so beautifully conjured that I could have lived without a plot perfectly happily. However, we eventually realise thereour bloodstream's a little more to this narrative, and that this skilful author has been foreshadowing the events at the novel's climax all along.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224093614</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jane RogersJon Fosse and Damion Searls (translator) |title=The Testament of Jessie LambVaim|rating=3.54
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The subject matter of 'The Testament of Jessie Lamb' ensures that this is not a comfortable readAll was strange''.. Set in the near future, Rogers has imagined a truly terrifying virus that affects pregnant women, known as Maternal Death Syndrome or MDS. Everyone carries this illness but This haunting phrase encapsulates the effects, a cross between AIDS and CJD, ensure that all pregnant mothers will die - without exception. Scientists have found a way to save some pervading sense of the unborn children, but only by placing their mothers otherworldliness which permeates this story set in a chemically induced coma from which they won't recover. Now thoughVaim, the scientists have also discovered a way of immunising frozen, pre-MDS embryos fictional fishing village in Norway whichparadoxically could not feel more real for Jatgeir and Eline, if they can be placed in a willing volunteer, may ultimately allow the survival two of the human race. However, the volunteers need to be under 16½ or the likely success rates are too low. Step forward one Jessie Lambprotagonists caught in its melancholic current.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1905207581</amazonuk>1804271829
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sebastian BarryClaire-Louise Bennett|title=On Canaan's Side|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Each chapter of 'On Cannan's Side' represents a day after the death of the narrator, Lilly Bere's, grandson, Bill. Initially the reader is bombarded by a stream of half thoughts but soon Lilly begins to outline her own life story from being the daughter of a police officer in Ireland at the end of the First World War, her subsequent flight to the USA, to ultimately living in retirement as a domestic cook to a wealthy American. It's a remarkable story, full of tragic events, but for all its hardshipsBig Kiss, Lilly is from a time when such things are to be endured rather than dwelt on.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571226531</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Chuck Palahniuk|title=Damned|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary='Are you there, Satan? It's me, Madison'. I'm a spunky, lively tweenage girl, except I'm a dead one, and I'm in Hell, to my surprise. While I'm here I'll find out just where it is all those coldBye-calling telegraphers ring you from just while you're settling down to your evening meal, and where the world's wasted sperm and discarded toenail clippings fetch up. I'll have very hairy encounters with demons of Satan's and mankind's making, and with some superlative plotting and flashbacks I'll find a clearer approach to why I was put here in the first place.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224091158</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Alison Pick|title=Far to GoBye
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=At the risk Everything in this book, however sweet or seemingly innocent, is steeped in anguish and distortion. Even a kiss, usually a symbol of sounding triteintimacy and closeness, a story set in 1938 Czechoslovakia on becomes evidence of love lost. When the eve of Nazi occupationnarrator cries out internally, ''come over here and kiss me, centred on a Jewish family '' it is always going to put the reader through less an emotional journey. Add in invitation than a young child and it's almost certain that you are going desperate attempt to be reaching for the Kleenex at some pointconfirm her emotional numbness. But Alison Pick makes some interesting creative choices that add more layers to The imagined recipient of this story. Some will surprise the reader but the overall impact plea is Xavier, her ex-partner, a wonderfully moving story with wholly believable charactersghost she conjures to test her detachment.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755379411</amazonuk>1804271934
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Madeline MillerHelene Bessette and Kate Briggs (translator)|title=The Song of AchillesLili is Crying
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Before I started First published in 1953 in French, this novel is a timeless text which wrenches the book, I looked out my copy hearts of Homer's ''The Iliad'' its readers just as Bessette wrenches words and skim-read its one sentences from their proper position on the page introduction (yesand positions them elsewhere, yet another book in my 'must-read' pile but it's been on it for about ahemdisjointed, ten years)truncated. Having said thatLike the lives of her characters, it is rather dry and scholarly which didn't really inspire me to get on with this book as I wasn't really looking for a 'heavy' read, especially on a nice summer's day. Onwards ..they are often left tragically incomplete.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408816032</amazonuk>1804271675
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tiziano ScarpaJonathan Buckley|title=Stabat MaterOne Boat|rating=34
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Translated by Shaun Whiteside from Scarpa's 2008 Italian original, 'Stabat MaterOne Boat'' is set in a Venetian orphanage for girls run by nuns in what would have been around deeply introspective novella that defies traditional narrative structure, drawing the 1700s. The girls at the 'Ospedale' are trained as musicians reader into a contemplative realm of philosophical musings and singers who play fragmented memories flowing from a hidden gallery in the adjoining church for our narrator and protagonist, Teresa. Set against the patrons evocative backdrop of the Instituto della Pietà. Howevera small coastal Greek town, this is a highly stylised little book, bordering on the almost poetic, narrated from work masterfully captures the point magic of view of one of the orphans, a young violinist named Cecilia who goes on its setting and its power to tell of provoke profound introspection. Teresa herself recognises these qualities as the impact of reason she has visited it after the appointment death of a new inboth her parents. Prompted by her mourning, her narrative voice is meditative and deeply self-house composeraware, one Don Antonioinviting the reader into her labyrinthine cogitations. It is a book that not only requires but inspires depth of thought, or Vivaldi as most of us know himsince its narrative structure is fragmentary and ironically relies on analepsis for its propulsion.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846687691</amazonuk>1804271764
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Christien GholsonEowyn Ivey|title=A Fish Trapped Inside the WindBlack Woods Blue Sky|rating=3.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The front cover is lovely with its blue ''Black Woods Blue Sky'' tells the story of Birdie, the young mother of toddler Emaleen, who longs for a life beyond the Alaskan lodge where she works as a bar waitress, a setting which enables her bad habits and turquoise suggesting languid watersher accidental neglect of Emaleen. The author of Described as a 'The Jane Austen Book Club' (which Iwild card've read incidentally) 'fell , she feels stuck in love with this novel.' High praise indeed. I'm hoping her day-to-day life, and yearns to do cross the same. Everything about this book stinks (Wolverine river and I use live on the word explicitly)North Fork to fulfil her desires of a simple life surrounded by nature. All of the chapters have the word 'fish' somewhere or other When she meets Arthur Nielson, a strange, taciturn and solitary man, who says he has a cabin over there's a quote right at the beginning which gives the book its quirky , she feels called to go - and unusual titlebring Emaleen with her. (As IWithout realising it, this calling will transform hers and Emaleen'm a fishy Piscean does that bode well for a good or sympathetic review, I wonder)s lives forever.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1906998906</amazonuk>1472279042
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patrick deWittSally Rooney|title=The Sisters BrothersIntermezzo|rating=4.5|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=Invariably, Sally Rooney has studied the Booker Prize longlist contains one book that chessboard of life and is more on the side something of light reading than the more worthy and overtly literary fare that a grandmaster at putting it is usually associated withinto words. 'The Sisters Brothers' Her dialogue is the 2011 choicegripping and so brilliantly frustrating, as her characters never quite say exactly what they feel. Set in Among the US in 1851many relationships woven into this story, it details the adventures of two brothers, Eli and Charlie Sisters, who are hired hands central one for a mysterious boss known only as readers to unravel is the Commodorefraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and Peter Koubek. Narrated by EliIvan, who has slightly more of a conscience than socially awkward chess prodigy, contrasts sharply with his older brotherPeter, the story starts a successful lawyer living in Dublin. Following their father's passing after a long battle with cancer, the Commodore ordering a hit, for reasons unknown, on a certain Hermann Kermit Warmbrothers' already strained relationship faces new trials.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847083188</amazonuk>0571365469
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alan HollinghurstFyodor Dostoyevsky|title=The Stranger's ChildWhite Nights|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionShort Stories|summary=Alan Hollinghurst's Booker-nominated and long-awaited 'The Stranger's Child' is without doubt, as one might expect from this writer, beautifully written. Almost every page offers something to smile about either As always in terms of the comments of his characters or, more oftenDostoyevsky, the wry descriptions that the author offerscharacter work is sublime. The structure of the book One is episodic, split into five parts covering pre-World War One, the 1920s, the 1960s, the 1980s and finally the early 2000s. It offers never left wondering what a thoughtful and well observed picture of changes in society and culture over this period and in particular of attitudes to homosexual relationships, although admittedly Hollinghurst's subjects tend to fall into a narrow band of well educated, artistic character is thinking or feeling because Dostoyevsky lays bare their innermost dispositions and often aristocratic members of society. Writers, poets and artists are the subject matter rather than the man on the street. His male characters are invariably homosexual while his females mostly either remain unmarried or have dysfunctional marriagestemperaments with remarkable clarity.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0330483242</amazonuk>0241619785
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lisa SeeJames Baldwin|title=Dreams of JoyGiovanni's Room
|rating=4.5
|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=It's the late 1950s, and America'Giovanni's teenagers (the very idea a brand new concept) are beginning to live the all-American dream. For some of them however it isnRoom't all 'Happy Days' diners and rock'n'roll. For follows the second generation Chinese immigrants there's narrator David, an American man living in Paris, as he navigates his torturous affair with Giovanni, an alternative: back 'home' there's Italian bartender he meets in a brave new world being forgedgay bar. While David is engaged to Hella, a world where 'we'd work who is travelling in Spain, the fields and sing songs. We'd do exercises real tension in the park. We'd help clean novel arises not from his infidelity but from the neighbourhood and share mealsdeeper conflict within himself. We wouldnIt is David't be poor s crippling shame and we wouldn't be rich. We'd all be equaldenial of his sexuality that ultimately dooms his relationship with Giovanni.' |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408822296</amazonuk>0141186356
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Christine Dwyer HickeyAlba de Cespedes |title=The Cold Eye of HeavenForbidden Notebook|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=I reviewed Hickey's [[Last Train From Liguria by Christine Dwyer Hickey| Last Train From Liguria]] so was keen to see if I'd enjoy this book too. The front cover says that Farley ''unravels This Italian work of feminist fiction holds an air of suspense and tension from the warp moment our protagonist, Valeria Cossati, purchases her forbidden notebook, and weft of his life'' which is a great phrase - wish I'd though of it. Hickey lives learns about herself in Dublin so I'm kind of expecting good characterization (as the book's location is Dublin) most intimate and a nice line in put-me-down wit. But will I get it? Time to find out ..revealing ways.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857890301</amazonuk>1782278222
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Leon JennerOttessa Moshfegh|title=BricksMy Year of Rest and Relaxation
|rating=3
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Let me start on a positive: At best, this slim volume novel is exquisitely presented a scathing critique of modern society and has a lovely 'traditional' feel about reveals the fragility of human relationships; at worst, it. Very covetable for book lovers. The front cover is also a bit the cynical, predictable and slightly trite tale of an unlikeable protagonist. This unlikely heroine, a paradox - what slim, attractive and newly orphaned girl in her twenties is disillusioned with the workmanlike one-word title ''Bricks'' and the almost mystical/biblical-esque graphics. Will this all help world, but resolves not to draw the reader lose sleep over it: infact, well, I'm not too sureher solution lies in her hibernation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444706284</amazonuk>1784707422
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David AlmondMatthew Tree|title=The True Tale of the Monster Billy DeanWe'll Never Know
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=''This tale is told by 1 that died at birth by 1 that came into the world in days of endles war & at the moment of disaster... I am not clevaTimothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, so forgiv my folts a drunk and my mistayks. I am Billy Dean. This is the truth. This is my tale.'' The Monster Billy Dean tells the story chronic underachiever whose dreams of Billy, a boy born into the dystopia being exceptional at any of a war-torn town his artistic passions all failed miserably and the product who had endless crises of an illicit liaison between a young woman and her priestself confidence. His birth coincided with an apocalyptic bombing and So Tim applied himself to his parents have hidden him away from the ruins and the catastrophe in a single roomstudies, both out of shame and in the belief that cultivated his abilities rather than his coming into the world daydreams and surviving at such a violent moment signifies a sacred futureset himself high but achievable ambitions. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0670919055</amazonuk>B0CVFXPGP8
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrew KaufmanB0C47LV1PC|title=The Tiny WifeFragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=It all begins with Can you make a bank robbery. Only this isn't your typical sort of bank robbery since the robber demands not money but instead each 'Yo birthing person in '' joke? And if you could, is the bank must give him question should you make it? Or is the item of most sentimental value question if you did, would it land? The catch is that they have with themthe answer for both could well be. These range from photographs and a key through to a calculator...and on taking these items he says he is also taking fifty percent of their souls, and it is up to the victims to find the way to get their souls back, or to die tryingno.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007429258</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Claudie GallayMosby Woods|title=The BreakersA Whirly Man Loses His Turn
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The book is West isn't the dominant force it once was. Nobody in the first person, told by a woman who West is a relative newcomer quite sure how to mend this tiny villageor even if mending it is the best course of action. Governments are flailing. A war here, no more than a cluster of homes and a few basic amenitiespush for climate action there. The story opens A feeling that nobody is in the lead-up to actual charge. Imagine then, there was a horrendous stormman with precognition. The narrator has seen nothing like it before and is both afraid and excited. The locals take it all Imagine the strategic advantage in their stride. They're this asset; a hardy bunch man who can tell you what will happen given any set of disparate individuals and we get to know more themcircumstances. That man would be valuable, one by oneright? Perhaps the most valuable asset in history. Imagine then, as the story developsthat this man loses this ability.What would governments do to get it back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1906694710</amazonuk>B0C9SNG8R1}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Susan Hill0571379559|title=The Woman in BlackHouse of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Arthur Kipps is a young solicitor working in a fog-bound London and soon to be married. All looks rosy for Arthur until one day he is called into his boss' office where he 'The House of Broken Bricks'' is tasked with the affairs story of the deceased recluse Alice Drablowfour people. Alice Drablow had lived Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in the melancholy village of Crythin Gifford in an isolated house on the remote Eel Marshriverbank, a house only accessible by a strange causeway when built of broken bricks. Insubstantial as it might look, it's stood the tide is outpassage of time, storms and floods. It is here Arthur must travel Her husband, Richard, struggles to firstly represent grow his firm at her funeral vegetables, to complete the delivery rounds - and then to sift through Mrs Drablowbring in sufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and Max, the rainbow twins. Sonny's house to ensure all her legal paperwork 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 in orderout with his mother that she's his nanny. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685621</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=Adam LevinKay Chronister|title=The InstructionsDesert Creatures|rating=2.54|genre=Literary Dystopian Fiction|summary=Now, I know With a world that size isn't everythingis becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, but the first thing that strikes you about 'The Instructions' is that post-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Whether it is a brick robotic takeover, a world devoid of water or a book. It comes in at nuclear holocaust, this genre is a wrist-challenging 1030 pages that almost encourages me way for humans to invest in an e-readercathartically experience their most existential fears. It's also hugely ambitious for 'Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is a first time writer not least new work of post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the book's action takes place over just a few days and the narrator fears that exist for humanity today. It is a ten year old child. While it starts encouragingly, it too rapidly becomes repetitive and dull and I found it a slog shocking novel that still manages to get through. There are some great passages but these get too easily lost in this huge tomefind hope.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857861360</amazonuk>1803364998
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{{newreviewfrontpage|isbn=1803363002|author=A L KennedyEric LaRocca|title=The Blue BookTrees Grew Because I Bled There|rating=45|genre=Literary FictionHorror|summary=Despite not being 'quoits Horror taps into something primeval within us. It is used as a way to reflect our darkest emotions and gin slings how we as humans react and rubbers of bridge peopleprocess them. Most horror fiction feature a ''Big Bad'' Elizabeth , whether that is a home invader, a monster or a ghost, it usually something tangible and Derek have embarked on a cruise, by the end of the story, beatable. Derek Eric LaRocca's ''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is probably hoping to propose, but things do not go as plannedlike that. From the moment they encounter It is a stranger as they board collection of short stories more interested in the shiphorrors of illness, the cruise proves grief and humiliation. Horrors that linger and are harder to be revelationary for all concerneddefeat than any ''Big Bad''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224091409</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Richard BeardMadelaine Lucas|title=Lazarus is DeadThirst for Salt
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The title certainly got my attention ''Love, I'd read, was supposed to be a light and when weightless feeling, but I read had always longed for gravity'' Told from a retrospective view, a young woman unravels the year-long relationship that Beard is once defined her. Overlaid with later wisdom, the Director of narrator relives the National Academy of Writing, London I was expecting great things affair with a man twenty years her senior from himits inception – the summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the summer after. ISet against the backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt''m also thinking in details the very next breath 24-year-old narrator's deepening relationship with her older lover, depicting its all-consuming nature, how audacious to write a fictional book about a towering biblical character but then, many have done just thatit changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and how it altered her irrevocably. Will he pull it off though?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184655506X</amazonuk>0861546490
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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=Amy WaldmanJennifer Saint|title=The SubmissionAtalanta
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The front cover of the book that ''I received for review is subtle (was as befitting the sensitive contents) and I can see the two twin towers (worthy as was) depicted in grey in the title word submissionany one of them. The back cover announces I would get on board that this novel will be ''Published ship, I vowed. I would take my place, not just in time for the 10th anniversary name of 9/11the goddess.'' No pressure then. I open It was for the book with a certain amount sake of trepidationmy name, I have to admit and feel slightly as if Itoo. Atalanta'm about to tread on (literary) eggshells. Heavens - what if I don't like the book?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434019321</amazonuk>}}Princess. Warrior. Lover. Hero.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Daisy WaughAmanthi Harris|title=Last Dance with ValentinoBeautiful Place
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=When I read Padma, a young Sri Lankan, has returned to the Villa Hibiscus on the front cover that this book southern coast of her home country. This is a place she spent her formative years. It is described by not a place she was born into, but the Sunday Times one she thinks of as ''A grippinghome. How she came to be at the Villa, bittersweet love story'' how it wasnbecame her home, and the machinations that have flowed through her life ever since she first arrived there provide the 't a particularly good statement for me to read. As a rule I don't generally score'do' love storiesfor this gentle and yet subtly violent novel. If I happen to read one every once in a while then that Padma's fine by me but I don't encourage them! But, both the lovely title present fails to escape her past and much like the front cover did their job and pulled me in - just musical score of a littlefilm, that strand weaves its way through everything that happens at the Villa.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>000739120X</amazonuk>1784631930
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Maile Chapman178563335X|title=Your Presence is Requested at SuvantoSea Defences|author=Hilary Taylor|rating=45
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=American nurse Sunny Taylor needed 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 get away from home and everything familiarpick the children up. She takes Her husband, Christopher, collects six-year-old Hannah and her elder brother, Jamie, whilst Rachel holds a gamble into the unknown and ends up in Finlandsobbing parishioner. The language barrier seems to be the least of Thelma's daughter-in-law won't let her see her problemsgrandson. As a healthyHolthorpe, relatively young female she sees on the Norfolk coast, is a daily basis ailmentslovely place, minor but Rachel is struggling to develop a real bond with the parish - and majorshe's in awe of the vicar, imagined Gail, but then she's been doing the job for more than thirty years. Rachel and otherwiseChristopher hoped that a walk on the beach would do them some good - it was stormy but it was probably what they needed. ''Suvanto'' And then Hannah went missing.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1398515388|title=The Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu 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 gives created the novel its title) is tsunami and this, in turn, caused the nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and utter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, and the name loss of livelihoods was widespread. The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the welllist of priorities but -known and wellsix months after the tsunami -regarded hospitalKazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. It operates on He wasn't a tier system - those who can pay well for medical care and those who are less well-off. And dog person but the accommodation, level of nursing convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and medical care and even Tamon the food also operate on this tiered systemdog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099548674</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steven Amsterdam0989715337|title=Things We Didn't See ComingPapa on the Moon|author=Marco North
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=This book has gained praise from ''Some frogs had gotten into the likes of the Washington Post and the Financial times so I was really looking forward to a good - even great readwell. But did I get it? I think that opening on the eve of the millennium (the most recent one) is pretty special in itself and should be a good 'hook' to draw ''Walter stood waist-deep in the reader infragrant water, naked except for his beaten leather hat. The narratorLong strands of their eggs wove around him, young, male (not named as yet) and his family are packing sticky gray pearls with tadpoles inside them. Two of the family car for dogs leaned over the journey ahead. The poor car is full to bursting. Dad is a sceptic and he's taking no chances with this millennium situation opening and he's instructed his family to pack more than barked down at the usual festive presents this time. They've (well, dad has) made strange noise of the decision to get buckets as far away from London as they can - just in casehe filled them. Just in case of what exactly is never mentioned, only implied. So it's New Year celebrations with the grandparents.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009954704X</amazonuk>}}'
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