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[[Category:New Reviews|Literary Fiction]]==Literary fiction==__NOTOC__{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate Atkinson295967572X|title=Life After LifePale Pieces|author=G M Stevens
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Spanning the period from just before World War One Our unnamed narrator is about to the end of World War Two, Kate Atkinsonbegin a train journey with his companion Django. Where they's ''Life After Life'' tells re going and what the story purpose of Ursula Todd. Or more accuratelythis journey is, it tells the potential stories of Ursula Toddis uncertain. If you've seen Django found the movie tickets ''Sliding Doorson the floor somewhere'' then you will have some idea of the concept Atkinson explores; that of small changes in life leading and has persuaded our narrator to different outcomes, many of which lead to tragic endings accompany him. Why not? Not much else is clear either - but strangely we are probably in the book manages past as the pair travel to be a celebration of the spirit of Ursula and is often quite uplifting. It's a book that sounds like it is going to be much more confusing than it is though station by coach and the result train is a very special book indeed. It's that rare thing of a book that has a strong literary style but which is also very readablesteam locomotive.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385618670</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage|author=Makenna Goodman|title=Helen of Nowhere|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=It could be argued that the pervading theme of this book is malaise - a hard-to-place feeling that something in your life is not quite right. The protagonist, a disgraced professor on the brink of losing both his career and his relationship, embodies this feeling. However, Goodman counteracts his discomfort with a force which is seductive, radical and unnerving: Helen. The connection between Helen and the protagonist is indirect yet intimate. As the former owner of the countryside house he's considering, Helen represents a volta in his life, her past tied to his potential fresh start. The realtor who shows the protagonist around the house shares stories about Helen, and 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 reader gets the sense are not altogether innocuous.|isbn=1804272205}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Emily PerkinsOlga Tokarczuk|title=The ForrestsHouse of Day, House of Night
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= This is the chronicle of the Forrest family during the life of daughter Dorothy. They move ('they' being Dorothy, father Frank, mother Lee and siblings Michael, Evelyn and little Ruthie) from New York to New Zealand at What's the age good of seven years old. Frank hopes the migration will signal a change in his luck as well as a new life for his family. He's right world that keeps changing like that? How can one go on calmly living in that changes follow but there are as many to shake their stability as to still it and the past remains with each of them as well as the ''de'' '?'facto'' adoptee Daniel. Indeed, Dorothy grows to realise that the past is a garment that's worn in some form throughout an entire lifetime.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140883149X</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Therese Anne FowlerThea Lenarduzzi|title=Z: A Novel of Zelda FitzgeraldThe Tower
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=As Therese Anne Fowler points out in her acknowledgements, views on the relationship between F Scott Fitzgerald and his wife and muse, Zelda, tend to split into 'Team Scott' and 'Team Zelda'. The former believe that it was Zelda's instability and possessiveness that limited Scott's creative output while the latter argue that it was Scott's debauched behaviour that led to Zelda's mental problems. ''Z'' takes a more balanced view - the truth of the matter is that they needed each other but were tragically, mutually destructive. Getting the fact-based fiction tone right is always a challenge, and this is exacerbated when the author gives a writer the narrative voice, and Zelda was a talented writer in her own right as well as a dancer, artist and general social phenomenon. However Fowler pulls it off with aplomb in what is a sensitive and engrossing story of Zelda - 'the First Flapper'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444761404</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sheila Heti|title=How Should A Person Be?|rating=3|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Much has been made in the media about unctuous are the similarity in approach fats of Sheila Hetianother's fictionalised autobiographical ''How Should A Person Be?'' and Lena Dunham's HBO television series ''Girls''. They certainly share a similarly bleak and introspective view of life, both are apparently based on the writer's own experience, both have a somewhat knowingly shock factor particularly when it comes to sex and both leave me somewhat depressed and sad. And both have been critical successes how dizzying their sugars in the US. Indeed, ''How Should A Person Be?our bloodstream'' also features on the 2013 long list for the [[Women's Prize for Fiction 2013|Women's Prize for Fiction]], although it's not easy to assess where the fiction starts and the reality stops. In fact, the conceit is also somewhat similar to the scripted reality shows that dominate certain television channels. The effect is something that is interesting as a concept and exercise but less than enjoyable to read.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846557542</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nikolai Leskov, Richard Pevear (translator) Jon Fosse and Larissa Volokhonsky Damion Searls (translator)|title=The Enchanted Wanderer and Other StoriesVaim
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=This is a collection of 17 Nikolai Leskov stories as mixed in subject matter as they are in length. From the very short ''Spirit of Madame de GenlisAll was strange'', warning of ... This haunting phrase encapsulates the dire consequences pervading sense of selecting literature for otherworldliness which permeates this story set in Vaim, a mollycoddled princess, to the novella-length ''The Enchanted Wanderer'' telling the tale of the apparently immortal monk who prayed fictional fishing village in Norway which paradoxically could not feel more real for suicide victims, Leskov (aided greatly by the talented translators Richard Pevear Jatgeir and Larissa Volokhonsky) unlocks the moresEline, traditions, religion and superstitions two of 19th century Russia for a modern readershipthe protagonists caught in its melancholic current.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099577356</amazonuk>1804271829
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Taiye SelasiClaire-Louise Bennett|title=Ghana Must GoBig Kiss, Bye-Bye
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Kweku SaiEverything in this book, fatherhowever sweet or seemingly innocent, husband is steeped in anguish and doctordistortion. Even a kiss, awakes early one morning usually a symbol of intimacy and wanders outside into his Ghanaian gardencloseness, becomes evidence of love lost. As he gazes back at his houseWhen the narrator cries out internally, he suffers a fatal heart attack ''come over here andkiss me, during his last moments reflects on his life and '' it is less an invitation than a family fragmenteddesperate attempt to confirm her emotional numbness. On hearing The imagined recipient of his deaththis plea is Xavier, his children and first wife Folasade look back on what they were before andher ex-partner, thanks in part a ghost she conjures to Folasade's and Kweku's actions, what they've becometest her detachment.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0670919861</amazonuk>1804271934
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michele RobertsHelene Bessette and Kate Briggs (translator)|title=IgnoranceLili is Crying|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Michèle Roberts's ''Ignorance'' is a beautifully written, lyrical story about life First published in wartime France. Narrated mainly by two characters, Jeanne and Marie-Angèle, it jumps back and forward 1953 in time and is an enthralling mixture of guiltFrench, faith, and survival. The two girls could not be more different. Marie-Angèle is the grocer's daughter while Jeanne this novel is the daughter of a Jewish mother who washes clothes for a living. The two girls together go to the village convent for their education but come from different ends of the social spectrum. When timeless text which wrenches the German occupation arrives, the two girls' experiences are very different but both are 'ignorant' hearts of each others plight its readers just as Bessette wrenches words and sentences from their judgements are repeatedly shown to be wide of proper position on the mark. In fact the book could just as well have been titled 'Judgement'page and positions them elsewhere, disjointed, truncated. Just when you think you know one through Like the eyes lives of the otherher characters, you get the opposite view of thingsthey are often left tragically incomplete. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408831155</amazonuk>1804271675
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Carrie TiffanyJonathan Buckley|title=Mateship with BirdsOne Boat|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=In the early nineteen fifties ''One Boat'' is a lonelydeeply introspective novella that defies traditional narrative structure, middle-aged farmer observed drawing the birds on his land reader into a contemplative realm of philosophical musings and fragmented memories flowing from our narrator and recorded what he saw in protagonist, Teresa. Set against the blank pages evocative backdrop of his milk ledger. His animals and the birds were his family and his land - difficult though it could be - a part of him. Whilst Harry watched and recordedsmall coastal Greek town, his neighbour, Betty, watched Harry and recorded this work masterfully captures the childhood illnesses magic of its setting and accidents of her two childrenits power to provoke profound introspection. By day Teresa herself recognises these qualities as the reason she worked in a nursing home where she was a lunchtime 'wife', sitting at has visited it after the bedside death of some of the old men in both her careparents. Her daughterPrompted by her mourning, Hazelher narrative voice is meditative and deeply self-aware, kept a nature notebook which was completely factual and accepting of birth and death in inviting the reader into her labyrinthine cogitations. It is a way book that can not only be achieved by those who live with livestock - requires but inspires depth of thought, since its narrative structure is fragmentary and deadstock - ironically relies on a daily basisanalepsis for its propulsion.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447219864</amazonuk>1804271764
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anouk MarkovitsEowyn Ivey|title=I Am ForbiddenBlack Woods Blue Sky|rating=3.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The date is 1939 and the place is what we know as Romania and Hungary. Young Zalman Stern is stopped by soldiers and for a moment he feels this is his last moment on Earth. Meanwhile, not too far away, one moment 5 year old Josef Lichtenstein is playing with his baby sister, the next his childhood is deleted by the same bigotry and blood that deletes her. One day their paths will meet. This is ''Black Woods Blue Sky'' tells the story of ZalmanBirdie, Josef, their descendants; their struggles, their beliefs; the cost young mother of escape and toddler Emaleen, who longs for a life beyond the cost of remaining.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099571943</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jami Attenberg|title=The Middlesteins|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Edie Middlestein almost has the American dream within her grasp. She trained Alaskan lodge where she works as a lawyer, has a husbandbar waitress, a daughter who followed setting which enables her professional footsteps bad habits and her accidental neglect of Emaleen. Described as a son married ''wild card'', she feels stuck in her day-to an ambitious wife who provided him with two high-achieving children. There are just two flies in day life, and yearns to cross the ointment preventing Wolverine river and live on the dream's arrival: 1North Fork to fulfil her desires of a simple life surrounded by nature. Edie is so morbidly obese that When she meets Arthur Nielson, a strange, taciturn and solitary man, who says he has a cabin over there, she feels called to undergo surgery; go - and 2bring Emaleen with her. Without realising it, this is the moment her husband chooses to leave hercalling will transform hers and Emaleen's lives forever. Apart from that…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846689325</amazonuk>1472279042
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Mikhail Shishkin and Andrew Bromfield (translator)Sally Rooney|title=The Light and the DarkIntermezzo
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary= Two lovers write letters to each other about their loveSally Rooney has studied the chessboard of life and is something of a grandmaster at putting it into words. Her dialogue is gripping and so brilliantly frustrating, their dreams and their separate lives; lives that as her characters never quite say exactly what they hope will feel. Among the many relationships woven into this story, the central one day merge once again for readers to become one. For Sasha life unravel is the everyday grind with work fraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and demanding loved ones along Peter Koubek. Ivan, a socially awkward chess prodigy, contrasts sharply with the challenges they engender. For Volodenkahis older brother Peter, it's life a successful lawyer living in the Russian army and his eventual posting to ChinaDublin. However Following their love is more complicated than most as more than geography and circumstance stands between them: theyfather're also separated by s passing after a long battle with cancer, the decades… many, many decadesbrothers' already strained relationship faces new trials.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780871058</amazonuk>0571365469
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maggie O'FarrellFyodor Dostoyevsky|title=Instructions for a HeatwaveWhite Nights
|rating=5
|genre=Literary FictionShort Stories|summary=In London, As always in July 1976 it hadn't rained for months. Gardens - if you could call them that any longer - were thick with aphids and what water there wasDostoyevsky, which was to be consumed or used for washing, came from a standpipe. Robert Riordan told his wife, Gretta, that he was going round the corner to buy a newspapercharacter work is sublime. This was One is never left wondering what he did every morning, but this time he didn't come back. The police weren't interested as the closer they looked the more it was obvious that there was an intention to disappear. Gretta turned to her three adult children for helpa character is thinking or feeling because Dostoyevsky lays bare their innermost dispositions and temperaments with remarkable clarity. But how much help would they - could they - be?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755358783</amazonuk>0241619785
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jude CookJames Baldwin|title=Byron EasyGiovanni's Room
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Byron Easy is a 30-year-old poet and product of a failed marriage who''Giovanni's Room'' follows the narrator David, an American man living in turnParis, has a failed marriage of as he navigates his own. He works torturous affair with Giovanni, an Italian bartender he meets in a shop whilst waiting gay bar. While David is engaged to be discovered as a poet. How did his depression-tinted life reach this point? Once there was hopeHella, love and many good times andwho is travelling in Spain, as he sits on a train travelling to the real tension in the novel arises not from his motherinfidelity but from the deeper conflict within himself. It is David's for Christmas crippling shame and denial of his sexuality that ultimately dooms his relationship with a bag full of money, he reflects and ponders while trying to escape something more tangible and dangerous than the pastGiovanni.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0434021938</amazonuk>0141186356
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andrea EamesAlba de Cespedes |title=The White ShadowForbidden Notebook|rating=54
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=As a general principle I am a little tired This Italian work of feminist fiction holds an air of books that start at suspense and tension from the end. I want to argue for a return to good old fashioned narrative where stories start at the beginningmoment our protagonist, Valeria Cossati, purchases her forbidden notebook, go on until and learns about herself in the end, most intimate and then stoprevealing ways. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099565420</amazonuk>1782278222
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=I J KayOttessa Moshfegh|title=Mountains My Year of the MoonRest and Relaxation|rating=53
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The story starts harshlyAt best, with this novel is a release from prisonscathing critique of modern society and reveals the fragility of human relationships; at worst, a bail hostelit is the cynical, a refuge for people with mental health problems as a better-than-nothing-lied-to-be-obtained kind predictable and slightly trite tale of a sanctuary and a slow easing back into societyan unlikeable protagonist. If you can call This unlikely heroine, a housing association flatslim, attractive and newly orphaned girl in her twenties is disillusioned with a decorating voucher and no furniturethe world, but resolves not to lose sleep over it: in fact, only occasional power and annoying neighbours ''society''her solution lies in her hibernation. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099554739</amazonuk>1784707422
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jennie RooneyMatthew Tree|title=Red JoanWe'll Never Know
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=It is very obvious where Jennie Rooney has taken the idea for her novel ''Red Joan'' from. As she acknowledges fully, it has its origin in the 1999 story of Melita Norwood whose espionage for the Russians wasn't discovered until she was in her late 80s, but while Norwood was a dyed in the wool communist, Rooney offers a Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more complex back story than to her character, Joan. The result is a very be different type of spy novel than normal. Joanfrom his father, a widowed grandmother, is going about her day to day life when MI5 come knocking on her door to ask about her past. The narrative switches between their questions to her drunk and her recollections chronic underachiever whose dreams of her time being exceptional at Cambridge in the late 1930s where communist feelings were, by some, given a more sympathetic earany of his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of self confidence. When Joan falls for LeoSo Tim applied himself to his studies, the cousin of her Russian born friend Sonya, she gets dragged into a world that is dangerous cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and morally complexset himself high but achievable ambitions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0701187573</amazonuk>B0CVFXPGP8
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jason HinojosaB0C47LV1PC|title=The Conception of Zachary MuseFragility|author=Mosby Woods
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Evangeline Muse gives birth to Zachary alone in her special lagoon… but thatCan you make a ''Yo birthing person''s starting at joke? And if you could, is the end. In question should you make it? Or is the beginningquestion if you did, Thomas Greene would it land? The catch is a tutor and Will Archer a talented wood carver who both accept employment from Michael Muse. What they don't realise at that moment is, once they meet his beautiful daughter, Evangeline, nothing will ever be the same again answer for any of themboth could well be.... no.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>9380905440</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Meike ZiervogelMosby Woods|title=MagdaA Whirly Man Loses His Turn
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Meet a woman who, despite praying to remain virginal, had seven childrenThe West isn't the dominant force it once was. Meet a woman whose mother thought her ''hoity-toity'', and spoilt, and who thought she should go to work Nobody in a factory at school age the West is quite sure how to know her place bettermend this or even if mending it is the best course of action. Meet Governments are flailing. A war here, a woman of whom her oldest daughter would write 'I don't care what Mother sayspush for climate action there. Mother isn't always rightA feeling that nobody is in actual charge. NoImagine then, she definitely isn'tthere was a man with precognition.' All three women are, Imagine the strategic advantage in this asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of coursecircumstances. That man would be valuable, one and right? Perhaps the samemost valuable asset in history. Imagine then, and they're Magda Goebbels, the woman who epitomised more than anyone the Nazi wifethat this man loses this ability.What would governments do to get it back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907773401</amazonuk>B0C9SNG8R1
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Shani Boianjiu0571379559|title=The People House of Forever are not AfraidBroken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams|rating=45
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Yael''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the story of four people. Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, Lea and Avishag go through their final years at high school she lives in a little Israeli town on the Lebanese border and then house on to the inevitable: riverbank, built of broken bricks. Insubstantial as it might look, it's stood the Israeli Defense Force (IDF)passage of time, storms and floods. Gender is immaterialHer husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, all Israeli citizens must serve at least two years to complete the delivery rounds - and for these girls the moment arrives after graduationto bring in sufficient money. Yael's posting seems futile as she guards a training base against marauding ladsThey have twin boys - Sonny and Max, sneaking across the border to pinch perfume from pockets rather than pose any real security threatrainbow twins. LeaSonny's colouring reflects his mother's assignment on a border checkpoint searching the daily line of immigrant workers is riddled with routineJamaican heritage. Avishag joins up with her own demons, her brother Dan having died Max takes after his national servicefather. She knows how it happened but continues to struggle People don't believe that they're related, much less twins and there's an assumption when Max is out with why; something his mother that she must handle alone's his nanny. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781090092</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?''
The follow-up to the excellent ''Ithaca'' picks up a few months after where we left off. In the palace of Odysseus, with delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without her husband, who sailed to war at Troy and then by divine intervention never returned home. As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for the throne of the Western Isles. Having survived – politically and physical – the chaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to Ithaca's shores, Queen Penelope is on the brink of a fragile peace. One that shatters however with the return of Orestes, King of Mycenae, and his sister Elektra, seeking refuge.|isbn=0356516075}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Barbara PymKay Chronister|title=A Glass Desert Creatures|rating= 4|genre= Dystopian Fiction|summary= With a world that is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, post-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Whether it is a robotic takeover, a world devoid of Blessingswater or a nuclear holocaust, this genre is a way for humans to cathartically experience their most existential fears. ''Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is a new work of post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the fears that exist for humanity today. It is a shocking novel that still manages to find hope.|isbn=1803364998}}{{frontpage|isbn=1803363002|author= Eric LaRocca|title= The Trees Grew Because I Bled There|rating=45|genre= Horror|summary= Horror taps into something primeval within us. It is used as a way to reflect our darkest emotions and how we as humans react and process them. Most horror fiction feature a ''Big Bad'', whether that is a home invader, a monster or a ghost, it usually something tangible and, by the end of the story, beatable. Eric LaRocca's ''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is not like that. It is a collection of short stories more interested in the horrors of illness, grief and humiliation. Horrors that linger and are harder to defeat than any ''Big Bad''.}}{{Frontpage|author=Madelaine Lucas|title=Thirst for Salt|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Wilmet Forsyth is ''Love, I'd read, was supposed to be a light and weightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravity'' Told from a married womanretrospective view, childless and living a life of leisureyoung woman unravels the year-long relationship that once defined her. She and her friend Rowena met their husbands - both Majors - in ItalyOverlaid with later wisdom, where they served as Wrens during the war. Rowena now has three children and narrator relives the affair with a man twenty years her husband David might just be developing a wandering eyesenior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the summer after. Wilmet's husband, Rodney, is still Set against the backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''NoddyThirst for Salt'' to his mother with whom they live. Unburdened by children or domestic responsibility Wilmet lunches or shops and becomes involved in details the social life of the local church, St Luke24-year-old narrator's. But it's her deepening relationship with Piersher older lover, Rowena's somewhat wayward brotherdepicting its all-consuming nature, which might pose the biggest threat to how it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and how it altered her comfortable, if rather boring existenceirrevocably.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1844085805</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=Sarah ButlerJennifer Saint|title=Ten Things I've Learnt About LoveAtalanta
|rating=5
|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Alice returns home to spend time with her dying father''I was as worthy as any one of them. She's been travelling in Mongolia, finding temporary escape from the issues I would get on board that had haunted her life in London but nowship, on her returnI vowed. I would take my place, events bring not just in the pain she thought name of the goddess. It was behind her into sharp focus. Meanwhile Daniel is an elderly vagrant who calls for the streets sake of London homemy name, too. He seeks his lost child, leaving a trail of random items across the city in the hope of reunion like someone occupying a verse of ''Eleanor RigbyAtalanta''. Disparate lives, seeking love and acceptance in a world that seems to exclude it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447222490</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=George Bernard ShawAmanthi Harris|title=Cashel Byron's ProfessionBeautiful Place|rating=35
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=''Cashel Byron’s Profession'' is Padma, a young Sri Lankan, has returned to the Villa Hibiscus on the fourth southern coast of five 'Novels of My Nonage'her home country. This is a place she spent her formative years. It is not a place she was born into,written by George Bernard Shaw in 1882. In but the preface one she thinks of as home. How she came to be at the bookVilla, Shaw heavily criticises these early workshow it became her home, which were rejected by and the publishing houses of machinations that have flowed through her life ever since she first arrived there provide the time, blaming his immaturity ''score'' for this gentle and lack of experience in lifeyet subtly violent novel. He was clearly unhappy about Padma's present fails to escape her past and much like the way he had written some musical score of his charactersa film, stating that: '...he has not in his nonage the satisfaction of knowing strand weaves its way through everything that his guesses happens at life are truethe Villa.'|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848547471</amazonuk>1784631930
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris Womersley178563335X|title=The Low RoadSea Defences|author=Hilary Taylor|rating=45
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Wild is When we first meet Rachel Bird she's a man trainee vicar, sitting in on a PCC meeting and wondering why they're held when you need to pick the runchildren up. In a slowHer husband, Christopher, underhand collects six-year-old Hannah and underwhelming way he is leaving behind dangerher elder brother, mistakes and unhappiness in his pastJamie, and has fetched up whilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioner. Thelma's daughter-in a nondescript motel-law won't let her see her grandson. However this Holthorpe, on the Norfolk coast, is only the beginninga lovely place, for he but Rachel is quickly ordered struggling to put his medical training to good use develop a real bond with the parish - and she's in awe of the case of Leevicar, Gail, when but then she's been doing the latter is dumped into his care with a gunshot woundjob for more than thirty years. Lee, too, is Rachel and Christopher hoped that a man walk on the run beach would do them some good - from danger, mistakes and unhappiness in his futureit was stormy but it was probably what they needed. But this pairing are not the only people running in this pitch black thrillerAnd then Hannah went missing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780870574</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Claudie Gallay1398515388|title=In The Boy and the Gold of TimeDog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=A young father (I'm not sure we ever know his name) leaves his Montreuil apartment First of all, it was the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and takes his wife this, in turn, caused the nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and their seven-year-old twin daughters on the annual holiday to the coastutter devastation. They have a houseThe deaths were uncountable, La Téméraire, overlooking and the sea a few kilometres south loss of Dieppelivelihoods was widespread. They'd bought The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the house just list of priorities but - six months after the girls were born and go there every summer, and maybe for tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a weekend or two in the Springconvenience store. Never He wasn't a dog person but the convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and Tamon the dog jumped in winter.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857051261</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Philippe Claudel0989715337|title=The InvestigationPapa on the Moon|author=Marco North
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=And you think you ''Some frogs had it badgotten into the well. Our hero gets off a train at the right station, but doesn't get collected by those he's working on behalf of, can ''t have his order at Walter stood waist-deep in the bar fulfilledfragrant water, cannot get to the place naked except for his beaten leather hat. Long strands of work on timetheir eggs wove around him, then cannot find sticky gray pearls with tadpoles inside them. Two of the hotel almost opposite without a major trek through a snowy, unsavoury but completely empty city. And when he gets to dogs leaned over the hotel - well that opening and barked down at the strange noise of the other people buckets as he meets there are a whole new category filled them.'' How is that for an opening? The style of odd. Is this how things are supposed novel in the form of interconnected short stories goes from succinct and laconic to be - is this limbowistful and musing, turning on a nightmare or just a novel our hero is trapped in?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857051547</amazonuk>sixpence. And author Marco North, who has the most wonderful turn of phrase, starts as he means to go on.
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