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[[Category:New Reviews|Literary Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!{{Frontpage|isbn=295967572X|title=Pale Pieces|author=G M Stevens|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Our unnamed narrator is about to begin a train journey with his companion Django. Where they're going and what the purpose of this journey is, is uncertain. Django found the tickets ''on the floor somewhere'' and has persuaded our narrator to accompany him. Why not? Not much else is clear either -- Remove -->but we are probably in the past as the pair travel to the station by coach and the train is a steam locomotive.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Pamela ErensMakenna Goodman|title=The VirginsHelen of Nowhere
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Set in 1979It could be argued that the pervading theme of this book is malaise - a hard-to-80 place feeling that something in an elite boarding school your life is not quite right. The protagonist, a disgraced professor on the east coast 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 USA ''The Virgins'' tells protagonist is indirect yet intimate. As the story former owner of two young peoplethe countryside house he's considering, Helen represents a volta in his life, her past tied to his potential fresh start. The story is mainly narrated by Bruce Bennett-Jones realtor who would have liked to have a close relationship with Aviva Rossner but shows the protagonist around the house shares stories about Helen, and describes her unlikely choice was Seung Jung. Theyas 're not shy about flaunting their relationship and it's the talk of Auburn Academy, but whilst the watchers believe an entity that the relationship is one of unalloyed passionpure consciousness, beyond form''. Although she lives in an assisted living facility now, Helen has powers beyond comprehension which the truth is rather different and reader gets the couple sense are set on a path to an inevitable tragedynot altogether innocuous.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848549873</amazonuk>1804272205
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{{Frontpage
|author=Olga Tokarczuk
|title=House of Day, House of Night
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=''What's the good of a world that keeps changing like that? How can one go on calmly living in it?''
The title of this spellbinding work, ''House of Day, House of Night'', somewhat reflects this notion of shifting realities - the small, subtle changes which govern our lives, like the shift from day to night, however quotidian, causing chaos. But, the constant in that image is the house, stoic against the ancient diurnal cycle which nonetheless controls how it is perceived.|isbn=1804271918}}{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=CrumbsThea Lenarduzzi|authortitle=Miha MazziniThe Tower|rating=3.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=We ''How unctuous are in a hell the fats of mananother's own making – a town that is basically one huge foundrylife, whose men go from working there to a bar then to (someonehow dizzying their sugars in our bloodstream''s) bed in three eight hour shifts. In this compelling novel, or so it seems. Egon isn't one Thea Lenarduzzi assumes the identity of those menT, or isnthe protagonist of this tale. Just as T't any mores story is being told, for he works at other things than the foundry – namely churning out trashy low-brow fictionstory of a second protagonist is unveiled: Annie, and a lot the daughter of wheeling and a lot more dealing. He still keeps his shift wealthy family in at the bar and 19th century, who died of tuberculosis after being locked in peoplea tower, captures T's beds, though, all the while looking out for number oneimagination. He has several friendships on the go, and several sexual partners at the same time, yet drinks so much itAnnie's hard to say he exactly cherishes himself fate is, above all – if anything he doesn't care that much about anyone, an enticing story to T. He certainly cares It is a story which she consumes avariciously, both in a quest for something however – his beloved stash truth and knowledge, and in service of Cartier cologne has run outmyth, fable and he'll as like as not do anything for more…fantasy. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908754397</amazonuk>1804271799
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Amy Grace LoydJon Fosse and Damion Searls (translator) |title=The Affairs of OthersVaim
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Five years ago Celia Cassill's husband died leaving her 'All was strange''... This haunting phrase encapsulates the owner pervading sense of the Brooklyn apartment block otherworldliness which permeates this story set in Vaim, a fictional fishing village in Norway which she lives. She's fastidious as to whom she lets paradoxically could not feel more real for Jatgeir and is understandably hesitant when George (one Eline, two of her longstanding tenants) wants to temporarily sub-let to a friend while he goes abroad. Celia eventually agrees and so the protagonists caught in moves Hope, a lady who has just left her husband and for whom life is as complicated as she makes Celia'sits melancholic current.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0297871188</amazonuk>1804271829
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Donal RyanClaire-Louise Bennett|title=The Thing About DecemberBig Kiss, Bye-Bye
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Johnsey Cunliffe was always Everything in this book, however sweet or seemingly innocent, is steeped in anguish and distortion. Even a nice boykiss, but usually a little slow - symbol of intimacy and closeness, becomes evidence of love lost. When the one that the other kids picked on narrator cries out internally, ''come over here and itkiss me,'s much the same in adult life. If you were to ask Johnsey he'd say that he was it is less an invitation than a gomdesperate attempt to confirm her emotional numbness. Even if you've never met the word before you know what it means. It wasn't too bad whilst Daddy was there The imagined recipient of this plea is Xavier, her ex- he was partner, a man with a certain presence and even when it was just Johnsey and his mother he had some support. But after ghost she conjures to test her death Johnsey was dependant on small kindnesses from other people and at the mercy of those for whom he was an easy target. His life might have continued in this rather unsatisfactory way for some time but for the collision of two eventsdetachment.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781620091</amazonuk>1804271934
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|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= The Joy Luck Club was Jing Mei's mother's idea. After arriving First published in 1953 in French, this novel is a timeless text which wrenches the US hearts of its readers just as Bessette wrenches words and sentences from China in 1949 she invited three other Chinese immigrant ladies to join. The four would meet to play Mah Jong their proper position on the page and feast on morsels that none of positions them could really afford. Once played outelsewhere, disjointed, they shared stories of the land they'd lefttruncated. The evenings evolve over time; Like the food becomes affordable, men join the discussions but the core remains the same. Four Chinese mothers living a new life while sharing moments enjoyed and regretted, discussing their children and parents and telling stories lives of wisdomher characters, happiness and, sometimes, intense painthey are often left tragically incomplete.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B0031Y9DPU</amazonuk>1804271675
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sam ByersJonathan Buckley|title=IdiopathyOne Boat
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Katherine no longer seeks or expects to be happy. She's stuck in 'One Boat'' is a place deeply introspective novella that defies traditional narrative structure, drawing the reader into a contemplative realm of philosophical musings and a job she hates fragmented memories flowing from our narrator and her relationship with Daniel broke up over a year agoprotagonist, Teresa. Since then she's had sexual encounters with Set against the evocative backdrop of a few men but her motivations have been confusing small coastal Greek town, this work masterfully captures the magic of its setting and disturbing - not least its power to Katherineprovoke profound introspection. She Teresa herself recognises these qualities as the reason she has a vicious wit (actually, calling visited it ''wit'' is perhaps stretching after the point a littledeath of both her parents...) which repels the people she'd like to attract Prompted by her mourning, her narrative voice is meditative and attracts deeply self-aware, inviting the people she'd prefer to repelreader into her labyrinthine cogitations. Daniel It is with a new girlfriend (well, there was a ''slight'' overlap) but he's not certain book that he loves Angelica. He's in a difficult situation: not telling her that he loves her becomes tantamount to telling her that he doesn't love her only requires but inspires depth of thought, since its narrative structure is fragmentary and as a result he has to tell her that he loves her just to keep ironically relies on the levelanalepsis for its propulsion.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007412088</amazonuk>1804271764
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sathnam SangheraEowyn Ivey|title=Marriage MaterialBlack Woods Blue Sky|rating=3.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=On ''Black Woods Blue Sky'' tells the morning after his father's funeral Arjan Banga was surprised to see his story of Birdie, the young mother opening up of toddler Emaleen, who longs for a life beyond the family shop. She was in Alaskan lodge where she works as a bar waitress, a setting which enables her sixties, recovering from cancer bad habits and besides, Bains Stores wasn't exactly thrivingher accidental neglect of Emaleen. You could even be forgiven for wondering if it was Described as a ''openwild card'', with the advert for a bar of chocolate discontinued in 1994 having pride of place she feels stuck in her day-to-day life, and yearns to cross the window Wolverine river and live on the security shutter stuck at North Fork to fulfil her desires of a quarter opensimple life surrounded by nature. Much as he might wish otherwise Arjan has no choice but to stay in Wolverhampton to help his motherWhen she meets Arthur Nielson, leaving his job as a graphic designer strange, taciturn and his girlfriendsolitary man, Freyawho says he has a cabin over there, in limboshe feels called to go - and bring Emaleen with her. They were supposed to be getting married in DecemberWithout realising it, but that looked increasingly unlikelythis calling will transform hers and Emaleen's lives forever.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0434021903</amazonuk>1472279042
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Kerrigan in CopenhagenSally Rooney|authortitle=Thomas E KennedyIntermezzo|rating=24.5|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=Terrence Einhorn Kerrigan Sally Rooney has studied the chessboard of life and is an Irish-Danish American living in Copenhagensomething of a grandmaster at putting it into words. He Her dialogue is 'a full-time writer gripping and translator'so brilliantly frustrating, who 'thinks of himself as a failed poether characters never quite say exactly what they feel. Among the many relationships woven into this story, which the central one for readers to unravel is a less complicated concept than a failed human being'the fraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and Peter Koubek. His newest writing assignmentIvan, however, is to 'select a sampling of one hundred of the bestsocially awkward chess prodigy, the most historiccontrasts sharply with his older brother Peter, the most congenial of Copenhagena successful lawyer living in Dublin. Following their father's 1,525 serving houses and write them up for one of passing after a one-hundred-volume travel guide: ''The Great Bars of the Western World'''. Kerriganlong battle with cancer, though, 'does not wish the book to be written. He wants only to research it. Foreverbrothers' - and preferably in the company of his green-eyed Associate, Annelisealready strained relationship faces new trials.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408841940</amazonuk>0571365469
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lois WaldenFyodor Dostoyevsky|title=AfterworldWhite Nights|rating=45|genre=Literary FictionShort Stories|summary=The Duvalier family owe their wealth to sugar cane although their gratitude As always in Dostoyevsky, the character work is shown in varying degrees and various wayssublime. From the patriarch William (who One is never recovered from being hit by left wondering what a manhole cover) through his wife and children, down to Theodore, the lad who gained comfort (and a certain amount of secrecy) from travel and on to character is thinking or feeling because Dostoyevsky lays bare their black servant Rheta B, each has had a life. Each also has a story to tell innermost dispositions and, whether alive or in Afterworld, they're going to tell ittemperaments with remarkable clarity.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908129859</amazonuk>0241619785
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate ClanchyJames Baldwin|title=Meeting the EnglishGiovanni's Room
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Struan Robertson was just seventeen''Giovanni's Room'' follows the narrator David, but set to go to Aberdeen to study dentistryan American man living in Paris, when as he navigates his English teacher passed him torturous affair with Giovanni, an Italian bartender he meets in a short advertisementgay bar. A literary giant needed a carer. Why not take a gap year? Struan had never been While David is engaged to ‘’England’’ before and he would be living Hella, who is travelling in Hampstead. On Spain, the plus side he’d been working real tension in a care home to earn money and he could do the worknovel arises not from his infidelity but from the deeper conflict within himself. Soon - almost too soon - Struan was the main carer for Phillip Prys, rendered dumb It is David's crippling shame and paralysed by a massive stroke. His family couldn’t take care denial of him - the young (very young) third wife was too busy his sexuality that ultimately dooms his relationship with her painting. His son, Jake, had other things - anything else - to do rather than be in his father’s presence. Juliet had never been her father’s favourite but she wasn’t ‘’exactly’’ stable when it came to helpingGiovanni.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0330535277</amazonuk>0141186356
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michele ForbesAlba de Cespedes |title=Ghost MothForbidden Notebook|rating=54
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Belfast 1949: Katherine is about to become engaged to fireman George Bedford when she meets Tom McKinley. He's bright fun This Italian work of feminist fiction holds an air of suspense and makes tension from the moment our protagonist, Valeria Cossati, purchases her feel more alive than dependableforbidden notebook, boring George ever could. The weight of the decision Katherine eventually makes will haunt her for a lifetime. We fast forward to Belfast 1969 and as the troubles learns about herself in Northern Ireland exacerbate, as do the cracks in Katherine's marriage. In fact 20 years most intimate and four children later, they've become chasmsrevealing ways.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0297870440</amazonuk>1782278222
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jennifer JohnstonOttessa Moshfegh|title=A Sixpenny SongMy Year of Rest and Relaxation
|rating=3
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Annie's father At best, this novel is dead. She's not particularly upset as a scathing critique of modern society and reveals the fragility of human relationships; at worst, it's a decade or so since they've had any contact. Dada (he preferred to be called 'Father') had wanted her to go into is the family businesscynical, to make moneypredictable and slightly trite tale of an unlikeable protagonist. She'd wanted to go to Trinity College in Dublin to read English LiteratureThis unlikely heroine, but instead she'd packed a suitcase slim, attractive and left for London, where she still is - working newly orphaned girl in a bookshop. Her mother died when she was young - Dada had sent the child off to boarding school and did his best to ensure that her mother's name was never referred to again - and it wasn't too long before he remarried. His death brought Annie back to Ireland and she found that twenties is disillusioned with the money had been left to wife number two (as he was confident that she would know how world, but resolves not to look after lose sleep over it) but the house now belonged to Annie: in fact, her solution lies in her hibernation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472209222</amazonuk>1784707422
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alex KovacsMatthew Tree|title=The Currency of PaperWe'll Never Know
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Maximilian Sacheverell Hollingsworth was - as the name might suggest - of aristocratic birthTimothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, but had broken off all contact with his family a drunk and in consequence found himself labouring for forty hours a week in a printing works in Dagenham. He came upon the idea chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of planning out his entire life artistic passions all failed miserably and this he did in the course who had endless crises of a single afternoon whilst enjoying a little illicit sick leave in a pub in Bloomsburyself confidence. He would first become a counterfeiter - on a massive scale - and then a sculptorSo Tim applied himself to his studies, filmmaker, collector of artefacts, sound artist and mystic. Circumstances would also turn him into a recluse, except on certain well-ordered occasions, most of which would occur - somewhat to cultivated his initial surprise - later in abilities rather than his lifedaydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1564788571</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=Alice McDermottMosby Woods|title=SomeoneA Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= Marie is growing up The West isn't the dominant force it once was. Nobody in 1920s Brooklyn and, although not financially rich she's the secure, cared for child of Irish parents from one of West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is the many waves best course of immigration which the US has promised to welcomeaction. Marie's friend Pegeen is from Irish/Syrian stock and is dying for romantic love to come her wayGovernments are flailing. Marie's brother Gabe is singled out A war here, a push for Catholic seminary and priesthoodclimate action there. Marie thinks the future A feeling that nobody is as safe as the loved ones around her but the future is an unknown country and her journey towards it hasn't finished yetin actual charge.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408847248</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Ice-Cold Heaven|author=Mirko Bonne|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=They say that if you fall off a horse you should get back on one right awayImagine then, but even so… I don't think many people who had only just left their first love – there was a shopgirl man with precognition. Imagine the strategic advantage in their village – for their second – exploring the world on sailing cargo ships – would leap to this asset; a further voyage having been wrecked and stranded off the coast man who can tell you what will happen given any set of South America for well over a weekcircumstances. But Merce here does – he wants to follow his best friend on to a ship called ''The Endurance'' and head with Shackleton to That man would be valuable, right? Perhaps the Antarcticmost valuable asset in history. But Merce is only seventeenImagine then, and is rejected – causing him that this man loses this ability. What would governments do to stow away onto one of the world's worst ever journeys.get it back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0715645846</amazonuk>B0C9SNG8R1
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0571379559|title=The Year House of Miracle and GriefBroken Bricks|author=Leonid BorodinFiona Williams
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=From a space ''The House of 25 yearsBroken Bricks'' is the story of four people. Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, our narrator looks back but instead, she lives in the house on what happened when he was 12 years oldthe riverbank, built of broken bricks. Twenty five years that had to elapseInsubstantial as it might look, because that was it's stood the promise that he madepassage of time, storms and floods. He is now happy Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, happy to complete the delivery rounds - and to bring in sufficient money. They have kept twin boys - Sonny and Max, the secret as he promised Sarma he wouldrainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. People don't believe that they're related, much less twins and happier that he can now tell the story: he can tell us of everything there's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that happened in she's his childhood that year on the shores of the oldest lake in the world, Lake Baikalnanny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0704373246</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|titleauthor=The Rabbit Back Literature SocietyKay Chronister|authortitle=Pasi Ilmari JaaskelainenDesert Creatures|rating=3.54|genre=Literary Dystopian Fiction|summary=Ella Milana With a world that is a language and literature supply teacher currently teaching in her hometown of Rabbit Back and dealing with challenging revelations in her lifebecoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, post-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Ella Whether it is unexpectedly invited to join the hugely successful and influential Rabbit Back Literature Societya robotic takeover, a group world devoid of nine authors who were hand selected and mentored from childhood by Finland’s greatest author (Laura White) water or a nuclear holocaust, this genre is a way for humans to become literary icons in cathartically experience their own rightmost existential fears. There weere always intended to be ten members ''Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is a new work of post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the society but Laura White has not selected a new member fears that exist for decades and the appointment of Ella humanity today. It is a massive literary event. The ceremony in honour of Ella’s new membership shocking novel that still manages to the incredibly elite society is unfortunately overshadowed by Laura White’s disappearance at the ceremony itselffind hope.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908968982</amazonuk>1803364998
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{{newreviewfrontpage|isbn=1803363002|author=Angela YoungEric LaRocca|title=Speaking of LoveThe Trees Grew Because I Bled There|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionHorror|summary=For some people it's impossible Horror taps into something primeval within us. It is used as a way to tell another person that they love reflect our darkest emotions and how we as humans react and process them and both are damaged. Iris could not tell her daughter, VivieMost horror fiction feature a ''Big Bad'', whether that she loved her and Matthewis a home invader, Vivie's childhood frienda monster or a ghost, neighbour it usually something tangible and would-be lover could not tell her how he felt. For all three , by the result was years end of separation with Vivie feeling that she was fundamentally unloveable and the whole situation was further complicated by Irisstory, beatable. Eric LaRocca's mental disintegration and her treatment removing most ''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is not like that. It is a collection of her memories short stories more interested in the horrors of Vivie's childhoodillness, grief and humiliation. If Horrors that sounds depressing linger and soul-destroying then I am doing are harder to defeat than any ''Speaking of Love'Big Bad' an injustice because it's also a story of trust, reconciliation and learning to speak about your feelings.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00G4401G4</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Call of the UndertowMadelaine Lucas|authortitle=Linda CracknellThirst for Salt
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=If you ''Love, I'd read , was supposed to be a lot of bookslight and weightless feeling, then the fact of your life is that you are but I had always part-way through at least one of them. You read all of the time. Over breakfast, in the bath, waiting longed for trains, on trainsgravity'' Told from a retrospective view, between trains. You make a cup of tea in order to have an excuse to sityoung woman unravels the year-and-read for half an hourlong relationship that once defined her. But even soOverlaid with later wisdom, most of your reading is done in stolen moments – often in moments when the narrator relives the affair with a nagging voice man twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the summer after. Set against the gremlin-centre backdrop of your brain is reminding you that you an isolated Australian coastal town ''shouldThirst for Salt'' be doing something elsedetails the 24-year-old narrator's deepening relationship with her older lover, depicting its all-consuming nature, how it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and how it altered her irrevocably.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908754303</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|titleauthor=Close Your EyesJennifer Saint|authortitle=Ewan MorrisonAtalanta
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=1981: Emma remembers driving through a blizzard''I was as worthy as any one of them. I would get on board that ship, I vowed. That isI would take my place, her mother not just in the name of the goddess. It was drivingfor the sake of my name, she was just a childtoo. Atalanta'' Princess. Warrior. Lover. She remembers her mother singingHero. Throughout everything Abandoned at birth for being born a daughter rather than a son, what she remembersAtalanta is raised under the protective eye of the goddess Athemis and fashioned into a formidable huntress, what everyone remembers, is how her mother sangone who longs for adventure. ActuallyWhen the opportunity comes – to join the Argonauts, she remembers lots a fierce band of other things about warriors, descendent from the Gods themselves – Atalanta seizes the chance to fight in Artemis' name and carve out her motherown legendary place in history. Snippets mostly. Then she remembers losing her… being dropped in London at her Dad'sWhat follows is a whirlwind of challenges and discovery and through it, who didnAtalanta must remember Artemis't really seem like the dad fatal warning: that if she remembered… then ''the Social'' taking marries, it will be her awayundoing.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099565757</amazonuk>1472292154
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The CommitmentsAmanthi Harris|authortitle=Roddy DoyleBeautiful Place
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=It's the mid to late 1980sPadma, and Outspan, Derek and Ray have just formed a band. The trio is three days oldyoung Sri Lankan, with 'Ray has returned to the Villa Hibiscus on the Casio and his little sister's glockenspiel, Outspan on his brother's acoustic guitar, [and] Derek on nothing', as he can't afford southern coast of her home country. This is a bassplace she spent her formative years. They already feel directionless. They don't mind Depeche Mode It is not a place she was born into, but Derek and Outspan draw the line at The Human League, which is one she thinks of Ray's favourite groupsas home. Such musical differences are already darkening How she came to be at the Villa, how it became her home, and the band's conception. There is also a problem with their name: And And And. Ray believes they should machinations that have an explanation mark after flowed through her life ever since she first arrived there provide the second And, as it would 'look deadly on the posters'score'' for this gentle and yet subtly violent novel. Outspan, however, thinks Ray Padma's an idiot, present fails to escape her past and tells him where to stick his second exclamation mark. But Outspan has much like the musical score of a plan. They need to find Jimmy Rabbittefilm, for when it comes to music, Jimmy knowsthat strand weaves its way through everything that happens at the Villa.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>009958753X</amazonuk>1784631930
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=178563335X|title=The Madonna on the MoonSea Defences|author=Rolf BauerdickHilary Taylor|rating=35
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Things are certainly strange When we first meet Rachel Bird she's a trainee vicar, sitting in on a PCC meeting and wondering why they're held when you need to pick the small rural town of Baia Luna; all the stereotypes one would suspect in a newly-Communist mountain village are turned on their headchildren up. People vocally feel free to dismiss the Soviet changes Her husband, Christopher, collects six-year-old Hannah and technologyher elder brother, but secretly at the dead of night enter the fields to try and hear the sounds of Sputnik blipping its orbit overheadJamie, whilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioner. Gypsy men willingly get baptised into the ways and religions of their Thelma's daughter-in-law won'gajo'' neighbourst let her see her grandson. The most forceful character Holthorpe, on the Norfolk coast, is a teenager called Fritzlovely place, best friend but Rachel is struggling to develop a real bond with the parish - and she's in awe of narrator Pavelthe vicar, and son to an ethnic German photographer. Part of FritzGail, but then she's power seems to rest on him knowing a lot been doing the job for more than others about thirty years. Rachel and Christopher hoped that a walk on the village schoolteacher – enough, perhaps, for her to disappear overnight?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848875045</amazonuk>beach would do them some good - it was stormy but it was probably what they needed. And then Hannah went missing.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Aimee Bender1398515388|title=The Color MasterBoy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)
|rating=4.5
|genre=Short StoriesGeneral Fiction|summary=Another parade First of fascinatingall, it was the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and this, in turn, caused the nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and utter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, unusual personalities and oddevents from the author loss of [[Willful Creatures by Aimee Bender|WillfulCreatures]]livelihoods was widespread. This time out [[:Category:Aimee Bender|Aimee]]introduces us to people like Hans The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the fake Nazi, young William to whomall people look list of priorities but - six months after the same and Janet who decides to spice up herlovetsunami -life with detrimental resultsKazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. Among other things we alsowitness He wasn't a less-than-altruistic anti-war demonstration dog person but the convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and an oddoccurrence Tamon the dog jumped in an orchard showing how odd an apple-only diet could makeus.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091953898</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Vann0989715337|title=Goat MountainPapa on the Moon|author=Marco North
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The eleven-year-old boy, his father, grandfather and Tom, a family friend, were on their annual hunting trip to ''Some frogs had gotten into the familywell.'' 's 640'Walter stood waist-acre ranch deep in northern California. Strictly the boy wasn't old enough to hunt but family lore said that this time he would be allowed to kill fragrant water, naked except for his first buckbeaten leather hat. On Long strands of their eggs wove around him, sticky gray pearls with tadpoles inside them. Two of the way to their camp they spotted a poacher and dogs leaned over the boy's father set up his rifle opening and loaded it - hoping that shooting barked down at the bolt would tell strange noise of the poacher that buckets as hefilled them.'d been spotted. ' How is that for an opening? The boy - we never know his name - was allowed style of this novel in the form of interconnected short stories goes from succinct and laconic to look through the rifle sitewistful and musing, but he pulled the triggerturning on a sixpence. Nothing would ever be And author Marco North, who has the same again. For any most wonderful turn of themphrase, starts as he means to go on.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434021989</amazonuk>
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