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[[Category:New Reviews|Literary Fiction]]==Literary fiction==__NOTOC__{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Deborah Levy295967572X|title=Swimming HomePale Pieces|author=G M Stevens|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Joe, Our unnamed narrator is about to begin a poet and Isabel, train journey with his war-correspondent wife companion Django. Where they're going and their teenage daughter Nina rent a luxurious villa in what the South purpose of France and invite their friends Laura and Mitchell to join themthis journey is, is uncertain. On their first day there Nina finds what appears to be a naked body floating in Django found the tickets ''on the swimming pool, but itfloor somewhere''s Kitty Finchand has persuaded our narrator to accompany him. She pleads a mixWhy not? Not much else is clear either -up over booking dates and when told that all but we are probably in the local hotels are fully booked for some days Isabel offers her past as the use of pair travel to the spare bedroom at station by coach and the villa. There's no obvious reason for why she does this, but what does become clear train is that Kitty suffers from depression - and she's stopped taking her medicationa steam locomotive.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908276029</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Manu JosephMakenna Goodman|title=The Illicit Happiness Helen of Other PeopleNowhere|rating=34.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Meet what It could be argued that the first chapter calls ''the underdog family''pervading theme of this book is malaise - a hard-to-place feeling that something in your life is not quite right. Tamil immigrants to MadrasThe protagonist, they are below a disgraced professor on the breadline due to Ousep's constant drinkingbrink of losing both his career and his relationship, embodies this feeling. However, and by him being Goodman counteracts his discomfort with a failed writer force which is seductive, radical and mediocre journalistunnerving: Helen. His wife Mariamma has, shall we say, problems, their younger son The connection between Helen and the protagonist is fixated on indirect yet intimate. As the beautiful girl next door. But their other son Unni is a ''cartoonist hottie'' - a handsome prodigy former owner of the comic strip world - or countryside house he was until he took 's considering, Helen represents a nosedive off their roof three years ago, aged 17. Ousep is still tracking through volta in his son's friends and outputlife, trying her past tied to seek his potential fresh start. The realtor who shows the cause of this suicideprotagonist around the house shares stories about Helen, and what we have here describes her as ''an entity that is pure consciousness, beyond form''. Although she lives in an assisted living facility now, Helen has powers beyond comprehension which the journey of reader gets the family as he struggles towards the truthsense are not altogether innocuous.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848543093</amazonuk>1804272205
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Naomi AldermanOlga Tokarczuk|title=The Liars' GospelHouse of Day, House of Night
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=In ''The LiarsWhat' Gospel'', Naomi Alderman gives s the perspective good of four people a world that keeps changing like that? How can one go on the recent death calmly living in it?'' The title of a Jewish man named Yehoshuahthis spellbinding work, who is more commonly known these days by the anglicized name ''House of Jesus. These perspectives include Miryam (Mary)Day, the teacherHouse of Night''s mother, Iehuda of Qeriot (Judas Iscariot), a one time follower somewhat reflects this notion of shifting realities - the mansmall, Caiaphassubtle changes which govern our lives, like the High Priest of the great Temple in Jerusalem and finally Bar-Avoshift from day to night, however quotidian, Barabbascausing chaos. But, a rebel who is determined to bring down the occupying Roman presence. What makes this such a remarkable book constant in that image is the sheer visceral nature of house, stoic against the story telling. Each story ancient diurnal cycle which nonetheless controls how it is vividly told, and Alderman evokes the time and place to such a level that you half expect to have developed a sun tan while reading the bookperceived.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>067091990X</amazonuk>1804271918
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Pat BarkerThea Lenarduzzi|title=Toby's RoomThe Tower
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Elinor Brooke and her brother Toby had always been close but one day their relationship became more intimate than is acceptable. The trick then, as Toby said, was to get back to how their relationship was before. Toby concentrated on calling her 'sis', whilst Elinor was never quite certain how they could turn the clock back to a time when they were more innocent. But looking back, How unctuous are the summer fats of 1912 would seem idyllic: in 1917 Toby was reported another'Missings life, Believed Killed'. Elinor was determined to find out how Toby died and her one route to this knowledge was Kit Neville who was a fellow student of hers at the Slade School of Art and who was dizzying their sugars in the fox hole when Toby met his fateour bloodstream''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241144574</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tupelo HassmanJon Fosse and Damion Searls (translator) |title=GirlchildVaim|rating=54
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Rory Dawn Hendrix (RD for short) lives with her mother in ''All was strange''... This haunting phrase encapsulates the ironically named Calle de las Flores or Street pervading sense of Flowers; otherworldliness which permeates this story set in Vaim, a pretty name masking a less than idyllic setting. For Calle is a trailer park fictional fishing village in Norway which paradoxically could not feel more real for those living a life sentence of poverty, the inhabitants being as upwardly mobile as their static, seedy homes. RD has half brothers but they live with their father, leaving RD to live alone with her mother Jatgeir and nearby grandmotherEline, a father being a luxury that Rory Dawn has learnt to live without. Rory Dawn is also a Girl Scout and has a handbook to prove it but she's in a troop two of one, alone with the ideals of an organisation that she only glimpses through disadvantage and protagonists caught in the same way that she glimpses the materialistic world beyond her meansits melancholic current. However, her mother wants more for her than the teen pregnancies that seem to have become their family heirloom and there is hope as RD is highly intelligent; but can this be enough?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178087104X</amazonuk>1804271829
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anita DesaiClaire-Louise Bennett|title=The Artist of DisappearanceBig Kiss, Bye-Bye
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Anita Desai's ''The Artist of Disappearance'' Everything in this book, however sweet or seemingly innocent, is steeped in anguish and distortion. Even a kiss, usually a collection symbol of three novellas with several satisfying unifying features. All are set in modern day Indiaintimacy and closeness, all involve some looking back in time and all three involve some consideration becomes evidence of love lost. When the creative art - who it is fornarrator cries out internally, what happens to it once it leaves the artist's control 'come over here and who kiss me,'owns' itis less an invitation than a desperate attempt to confirm her emotional numbness. Most The imagined recipient of all, each one this plea is beautifully writtenXavier, with strong characters and evocative descriptions of personal loss. In terms of length each is relatively short her ex- around 50 pages long - but after each one you feel that you've been engrossed in the story just as much as if you had read partner, a novel of more conventional lengthghost she conjures to test her detachment.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099553953</amazonuk>1804271934
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=James KelmanHelene Bessette and Kate Briggs (translator)|title=Mo Said She Was QuirkyLili is Crying|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Mo may have said that Helen was quirky - neurotic might have been a more accurate assessment of his partner though. Although not a first person narrativeFirst published in 1953 in French, James Kelman's latest this novel is another dramatic monologue, although a timeless text which wrenches the first time he has placed a female hearts of its readers just as his main character. Helen is a single mother, working nights as a croupier in a London casino. Mo is her Asian boyfriend. In fairness to Helen, she has a lot to worry about - a damaged upbringing that has seen her older brother leave home without trace, a failed marriage, Bessette wrenches words and sentences from their proper position on the page and a life of constant struggle. As usual with Kelmanpositions them elsewhere, his approach is tenderdisjointed, yet gritty and often gently amusingtruncated. He's always sympathetic to his main Like the lives of her characters. However, if you they are new to Kelman, be warned that he is a writer that is heavy on a distinctive style more than plot per seoften left tragically incomplete.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0241144566</amazonuk>1804271675
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ivo StourtonJonathan Buckley|title=The Book Lover's TaleOne Boat
|rating=4
|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Matt will admit ''One Boat'' is a deeply introspective novella that his writing career faileddefies traditional narrative structure, drawing the reader into a contemplative realm of philosophical musings and so he had to join his wife in interior designfragmented memories flowing from our narrator and protagonist, where he can use his love Teresa. Set against the evocative backdrop of books to arrange - at a cost - the contentssmall coastal Greek town, design and most importantly this work masterfully captures the colours, magic of upper class people's home libraries for themits setting and its power to provoke profound introspection. He'll concede that Teresa herself recognises these qualities as the reason she has visited it's a good way to get into after the housesdeath of both her parents. Prompted by her mourning, her narrative voice is meditative and bedsdeeply self-aware, inviting the reader into her labyrinthine cogitations. It is a book that not only requires but inspires depth of rich womenthought, such as his latest flame, Claudiasince its narrative structure is fragmentary and ironically relies on analepsis for its propulsion. But why is this, his confession, talking of murder?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552773875</amazonuk>1804271764
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=John BanvilleEowyn Ivey|title=Ancient LightBlack Woods Blue Sky|rating=43.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The narrator in John Banville's 'Black Woods Blue Sky'Ancient Light'' is Alex Cleavetells the story of Birdie, the young mother of toddler Emaleen, who longs for a stage actor in life beyond the curtain call Alaskan lodge where she works as a bar waitress, a setting which enables her bad habits and her accidental neglect of his careerEmaleen. For reasons that become clearer towards Described as a ''wild card'', she feels stuck in her day-to-day life, and yearns to cross the end Wolverine river and live on the North Fork to fulfil her desires of the booka simple life surrounded by nature. When she meets Arthur Nielson, he is recalling his first relationshipa strange, when as a teenager in 1950s Irelandtaciturn and solitary man, who says he had has a passionate affair cabin over there, she feels called to go - and bring Emaleen with the mother of his best friendher. HoweverWithout realising it, his past is also blighted by recollections of his own daughterthis calling will transform hers and Emaleen's suicide ten years previouslylives forever.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0670920614</amazonuk>1472279042
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David RainSally Rooney|title=The Heat of the SunIntermezzo|rating=4.5|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=David Rain Sally Rooney has studied the chessboard of life and is something of a grandmaster at putting it into words. Her dialogue is far too young gripping and so brilliantly frustrating, as her characters never quite say exactly what they feel. Among the many relationships woven into this story, the central one for readers to be writing this exquisitelyunravel is the fraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and Peter Koubek. Ivan, a socially awkward chess prodigy, contrasts sharply with his older brother Peter, a successful lawyer living in Dublin. ThatFollowing their father's all Ipassing after a long battle with cancer, the brothers'm going to sayalready strained relationship faces new trials. Oh, you need me to justify that comment? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857892037</amazonuk>0571365469
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jeremy ChambersFyodor Dostoyevsky|title=The Vintage and the GleaningWhite Nights
|rating=5
|genre=Literary FictionShort Stories|summary=Smithy, a retired sheep shearer, now works on a vineyard As always in the countryside of VictoriaDostoyevsky, Australia. Too poor to retire and too ill from the after effects of his former alcoholic lifestyle to return to the physically arduous world of shearing, he exists rather than lives amongst his mates and near his son and daughter-in-lawcharacter work is sublime. Meanwhile rumours abound about the deeds of local thug, Brett Clayton and, whether true One is never left wondering what a character is thinking or not, he's definitely someone to be avoided. However, when Brett's wife Charlotte leaves him and asks Smithy to take her in, he does so without a second thought. Sheltered under his roof feeling because Dostoyevsky lays bare their innermost dispositions and protection, Charlotte confides in Smithy, forcing him to remember his own past and dreamstemperaments with remarkable clarity. Meanwhile the unspoken question remains: Brett knows where Charlotte is so what's he going to do about it?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780871635</amazonuk>0241619785
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Timeri N MurariJames Baldwin|title=The Taliban Cricket ClubGiovanni's Room
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=We all know''Giovanni's Room'' follows the narrator David, or think we knowan American man living in Paris, how oppressive life was for Afghansas he navigates his torturous affair with Giovanni, an Italian bartender he meets in a gay bar. While David is engaged to Hella, particularly Afghan womenwho is travelling in Spain, under the Taliban regime, real tension in the novel arises not from his infidelity but when you read this novel, boy do you get a sense from the deeper conflict within himself. It is David's crippling shame and denial of how tough it really washis sexuality that ultimately dooms his relationship with Giovanni.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1742378846</amazonuk>0141186356
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alix OhlinAlba de Cespedes |title=InsideForbidden Notebook|rating=54
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Grace, a therapist, stumbles upon a young man in the woods who has attempted to commit suicide, and her vocational interests are immediately engaged. The novel takes us through their complex relationship, both its surface routines This Italian work of feminist fiction holds an air of suspense and day to day moments but also Grace's eventually successful search for tension from the reasons behind Tug's desperation. Ohlin interlaces with this the story of Mitch, Grace's ex-husbandmoment our protagonist, and of AnnieValeria Cossati, one of purchases her clientsforbidden notebook, chronicling both their relationship with Grace, but also their network of families and friends, acquaintances learns about herself in the most intimate and colleaguesrevealing ways.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780871104</amazonuk>1782278222
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michel HouellebecqOttessa Moshfegh|title=The Map My Year of Rest and the TerritoryRelaxation|rating=53
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Jed MartinAt best, initially this novel is a photographer scathing critique of modern society and later painterreveals the fragility of human relationships; at worst, has a singular take on it is the world cynical, predictable and his craftslightly trite tale of an unlikeable protagonist. This novel takes him from obscurity as unlikely heroine, a reclusive student to fame as the doyenne of the contemporary art scene slim, attractive and newly orphaned girl in this journey we see exposed both the underlying values but in many ways the essential emptiness of her twenties is disillusioned with the art world. He is 'taken up', feted and courted by critics and patrons, by those who know nothing but monetary value, and Houellebecq doesn't let any opportunity for a sharp gibe at galleries, art critics and agents go past. The key resolves not to Jed's fame is ironically his complete anonymitylose sleep over it: in fact, and Houellebecq’s creation of the catarrh dribbling agent Marylin who manages Jed’s ‘outing’ is one of the classics of modern satireher solution lies in her hibernation. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099554577</amazonuk>1784707422
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jose SaramagoMatthew Tree|title=CainWe'll Never Know
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Death is only the beginning, or so some sayTimothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a drunk and the first death chronic underachiever whose dreams of one human being exceptional at the hands of another - Cain's slaying of Abel with what always seemed an unlikely murder weapon - is the start any of this excoriating drive through what Cain felt when set against the god that both snubbed his sacrifices artistic passions all failed miserably and allowed, despite alleged omnipotence, the murder in the first place. Riding a donkey, this Cain takes up life as personal guard and lover to Lilith, but also leaves the Land of Nod for diverse Old Testament locations, where he sees the stories of the golden calf, the tower who had endless crises of Babel, Sodom and Gomorrah and more at first handself confidence. All they ever do is make him realise the gulf between what god is supposed So Tim applied himself to benevolently embody, and how he acts.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099552248</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sarah Quigley|title=The Conductor|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Composer Dmitri Shostakovich can block anything out whilst he's writing music: his wife Nina's voicestudies, cultivated his children arguing, even the side effects of living in Stalinist Leningrad. However, life is about to become more abilities rather than an annoying distraction from music as Germany declares war on Russia and gradually initiates what history will come to know as the Siege of Leningrad. Shostakovich then realises, just as gradually, that his music may serve a purpose to sustain his compatriots in the absence of sufficient food daydreams and hope. His Seventh Symphony becomes a protest against oppression, set himself high but he needs an orchestra to play it and the top musicians have been evacuated to save the country's cultural heritage. He therefore turns to Karl Eliasberg, the aspiring but third rate conductor of a cobbled together orchestra. Music can create miracles but, for Eliasberg and his musicians, being able to play it will be the biggest miracle of all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190880002X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Umberto Eco|title=The Prague Cemetery|rating=3|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=If the popular press is to be believed, then those of us who write book reviews do so to show off our own (non-existent) talents as writers whilst trying to condemn the abilities of far greater worth. Well, not quite. I would not pretend to have a tiny iota-fragment of the talent that Umberto Eco has. Nor would I seek to decry his latest opus. On the other hand, I am an ordinary reader – one moreover that enjoyed The Name of the Rose immensely – and I really struggled with ''The Prague Cemetery''. I didn't struggle to get through it. It is actually quite an easy read, if you just read the surface of it. I did struggle to see the point of it. It may well just be me. I put my hands upachievable ambitions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099555972</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=Austin RatnerMosby Woods|title=The Jump ArtistA Whirly Man Loses His Turn
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Austin Ratner's debut novel, ''The Jump ArtistWest isn'', first published t the dominant force it once was. Nobody in the US in 2009, West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is a fictionalised account of the extraordinary life best course of celebrated photographeraction. Governments are flailing. A war here, Philippe Halsmana push for climate action there. Born a Latvian JewA feeling that nobody is in actual charge. Imagine then, as there was a young man with precognition. Imagine the strategic advantage in 1928 he was walking in the Austrian mountains when he saw his father fall to his deaththis asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. This That man would be traumatic for anyonevaluable, but the issues were compounded when he was accused of murder by right? Perhaps the Austrian courts in what was probably anti-semitic and certainly xenophobic most valuable asset in explanationhistory. Philippe's second trialImagine then, the first failing potentially because his mother had engaged a Jewish lawyer, details the fundamental lack of evidence and shoddy police work behind the accusationthat this man loses this ability.What would governments do to get it back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0670921599</amazonuk>B0C9SNG8R1
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin Amis0571379559|title=Lionel AsboThe House of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams|rating=3.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Martin Amis can ''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the story of four people. Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be relied upon to create some pretty nastyhappier there, self-centred central characters. Usually they are upper class cads and bounders but instead, she lives in Lionel Asbo his central character is at the polar opposite in terms house on the riverbank, built of classbroken bricks. He Insubstantial as it might look, it's violentstood the passage of time, uncouth storms and ignorantfloods. He's a criminal whose usual sidekicks are a pair of vicious pit bulls. His 'manner' is a fictitious down trodden area of London called Diston Town where he lives in a tower block with Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his nephewvegetables, Des, who in fact is to complete the central character delivery rounds - and to bring in the booksufficient money. Des, in contrast is far more sympathetic They have twin boys - intelligent Sonny and kindMax, that is if you overlook the fact rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. People don't believe that as a 15 year old he had they're related, much less twins and there's an affair assumption when Max is out with his grandmother, Lionel's mother. Hey, no onethat she's perfecthis nanny. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224096206</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=L R FredericksKay Chronister|title=FarundellDesert Creatures|rating=3.54|genre=Historical Dystopian Fiction|summary=American Paul Asher With a world that is damaged by memories and dreams originating from World War Ibecoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, or at least he thinks that's where they're frompost-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Once the war Whether it is over anda robotic takeover, as he's estranged from his father in the USa world devoid of water or a nuclear holocaust, Paul decides this genre is a way for humans to remain in the UK to find workcathartically experience their most existential fears. Work comes to him as he's asked to assist Lord Percy Damory at Farundell, the Damory ancestral home. Paul's job Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is straightforward: Sir Percy needs someone to whom he can dictate memoirs a new work of a wellpost-travelled life among distant tribesapocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the fears that exist for humanity today. However Paul's life at Farundell will be anything but straightforward thanks It is a shocking novel that still manages to the Damorys' apparent eccentricities, an ancestor from the 18th century who refuses to be labelled as a ghost and, of course, there's Sylviefind hope.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184854328X</amazonuk>1803364998
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{{newreviewfrontpage|isbn=1803363002|author=L R FredericksEric LaRocca|title=FateThe Trees Grew Because I Bled There|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionHorror|summary=Horror taps into something primeval within us. It's the 18th century and 11 year old Francis Damory is spoken used as a way to by great great grandfatherreflect our darkest emotions and how we as humans react and process them. Most horror fiction feature a ''Big Bad'', Tobias. Nothing odd except whether that Tobias is dead a home invader, a monster or a ghost, it usually something tangible and speaks via a portrait in Farundell, by the familyend of the story, beatable. Eric LaRocca's Oxfordshire home''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is not like that. Hence begins It is a collection of short stories more interested in the obsession horrors of illness, grief and humiliation. Horrors that will take the adult Sir Francis across the world linger and through a lifetime of adventures are harder to track Tobias down. The longer Francis looks, the more he realises that Great Great Grandfather isndefeat than any ''Big Bad't dead and that, therefore, Francis wants whatever he's on.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184854331X</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
|author=Madelaine Lucas
|title=Thirst for Salt
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= ''Love, I'd read, was supposed to be a light and weightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravity''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alissa Walser and Jamie Bulloch (translator)Michael Grothaus|title=MesmerizedBeautiful Shining People
|rating=4
|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=Celebrated scientist (at least in his own mind) Franz Anton Mesmer is called upon ''But fearing something and having it come to cure the blindness of 18 year old piano virtuoso and courtier's daughter Marie Theresia Paradispass are two different things. Despite the unease of her parents, Mesmer installs Marie into his 'magnetic hospitalAnd I' where, alongside his other patients, she settles in m willing to a regime bet most of treatmentwhat we fear will never happen, including free access or we can take steps to Mesmer's beloved pianochange it. Mesmer is the Paradis' last resort and so they're happy to pay for success but they come to realise that the final cost may not be entirely financial and he realises that the result may not be beneficial to all parties.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857051008</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lionel ShriverJennifer Saint|title=The New RepublicAtalanta|rating=35
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Lionel Shriver adds a beard-shaped appendage to Southern Portugal in The New Republic and immediately has it fighting for independence, taking a wry look at terrorism ''I was as well worthy as the ethics any one of the international press corpsthem. After a series of international terrorism actsI would get on board that ship, the Os Soldados Ousados De BarbaI vowed. I would take my place, or not just in the SOB for short, have gone quiet at name of the same time as charismatic journalist Barrington Sadler has vanished without a tracegoddess. Insecure former lawyer Edgar Kellogg steps into Barrington's post: Kellogg on It was for the hunt for serial killerssake of my name, as it weretoo. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007459807</amazonuk>}}Atalanta''
Abandoned at birth for being born a daughter rather than a son, Atalanta is raised under the protective eye of the goddess Athemis and fashioned into a formidable huntress, one who longs for adventure. When the opportunity comes – to join the Argonauts, a fierce band of warriors, descendent from the Gods themselves – Atalanta seizes the chance to fight in Artemis''Breathless'' name and carve out her own legendary place in history. What follows is one a whirlwind of those challenges and discovery and through it, Atalanta must remember Artemis' fatal warning: that I neither love nor hateif she marries, and yet am not totally uninspired by eitherit will be her undoing. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857051032</amazonuk>1472292154
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Hilary MantelAmanthi Harris|title=Bring up the BodiesBeautiful Place
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=There's Padma, a fair chance that if you pick up a South American novelyoung Sri Lankan, it's going has returned to score quite highly the Villa Hibiscus on the 'seriously odd' scale. Martín Kohan's School for Patriots, translated by Nick Caistor, doesn't disappoint in that regardsouthern coast of her home country. The main character, María Teresa, This is an innocent, shy teaching assistant at a Buenos Aires school that is run on military academy style disciplineplace she spent her formative years. The running of the school It is itself something of not a surprise place she was born into, but that's not what makes this strangethe one she thinks of as home. What ramps up How she came to be at the 'odd' factor here is Villa, how it became her home, and the machinations that have flowed through her life ever since she spends vast amounts of this short novel hiding in first arrived there provide the boys' loo, ostensibly to catch young boys smoking despite there being no evidence that any student has contravened 'score'' for this rule in this locationgentle and yet subtly violent novel. One might say she has nothing Padma's present fails to go on. Then againescape her past and much like the musical score of a film, best not in that strand weaves its way through everything that happens at the circumstancesVilla. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846687438</amazonuk>1784631930
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alonso Cueto and Frank Wynne (translator)178563335X|title=The Blue HourSea Defences|author=Hilary Taylor
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Adrian OrmacheWhen we first meet Rachel Bird she's a trainee vicar, middle class Peruvian lawyer, has sitting in on a beautiful wife, two daughters of PCC meeting and wondering why they're held when you need to pick the sort to make any parent proud and a comfortable lifestylechildren up. His parents divorced when he was small soHer husband, Christopher, collects six-year-old Hannah and her elder brother, as he lived with his motherJamie, he has fragmented memories of whilst Rachel holds a gruff, distant dadsobbing parishioner. Despite his fatherThelma's aloofdaughter-in-law won't let her see her grandson. Holthorpe, on the Norfolk coast, dictatorial manneris a lovely place, Adrian has always comforted himself but Rachel is struggling to develop a real bond with the fact he played a useful role as a landparish -bound naval officerand she's in awe of the vicar, Gail, fighting Senderista terrorists but then she's been doing the job for the good of Perumore than thirty years. After Rachel and Christopher hoped that a walk on the death of his mother everything changesbeach would do them some good - it was stormy but it was probably what they needed. Adrian finds documents that lead him away from his beliefs, towards a truth that will shatter more than his father's imageAnd then Hannah went missing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434019410</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fannie Flagg1398515388|title=I Still Dream About YouThe Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating=4.5|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=At the age First of 60all, Maggie Fortenbury's glory days seem to have passed her by. An ex-Miss Alabamait was the earthquake, she headed for deep in the fame she dreamt of in 'ocean floor, which created the Big Apple' tsunami and endedthis, insteadin turn, making disastrous life choices that took her along a different routecaused the nuclear meltdown. However she had made one good decision: to work for the diminutive Hazel Whisenkott, midget The result was complete and founder of Red Mountain Realtyutter devastation. Now, as Hazel is deadThe deaths were uncountable, and despite her friendship with her colleagues (obese, optimistic Brenda and moaning Ethel), suicide seems the next logical steploss of livelihoods was widespread. It has to be done correctly as Maggie comes The fact that many pets were separated from an era when you wouldntheir 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 want a dog person but the convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to let anyone down or any commitment unfulfilled. Therefore picking her final day becomes increasingly difficult when other things get open his car door and Tamon the dog jumped in the way, including a troupe of Whirling Dervishes. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099555484</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fiona McGregor0989715337|title=Indelible InkPapa on the Moon|author=Marco North
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|summary=Once wealthy, middle class Australian suburbanite Marie King never thought she'd be starting a new life at 59 but here she is, divorced and having to sell the marital home. Unfortunately, attached to the marital home is the marital garden into which Marie didn't only give life but also pour her own life. However, Marie tries to be positive and decides that if she's going to be a new person, she may as well go the whole way. This means tattoos (much to her offsprings' horror) and an unlikely friendship with tattooist Rhys. With that comes the realisation that the privileged suburb of Mossman isn't all there is to Sydney. There's much more to the city, and indeed herself, than she first thought.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857894129</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jude Morgan|title=The Secret Life of William Shakespeare|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Books about Shakespeare vary hugely both in terms of approach and quality. Some focus on historical fact, while others play rather more loosely with frogs had gotten into the romance of his life. Fortunately for readers, Jude Morgan's books are rather more reliably excellent. What's more, he has a track record of fiction that concerns great writers, having previously tackled the Brontës (''The Taste of Sorrow'') and the romantic poets (''Passion'')well. So my expectations were already quite high coming into his ''The Secret Life of William Shakespeare'' - expectations that he has again surpassed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755358228</amazonuk>}}
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