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[[Category:New Reviews|Literary Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=295967572X|title=JPale 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 - but we are probably in the past as the pair travel to the station by coach and the train is a steam locomotive.}}{{Frontpage|author=Howard JacobsonMakenna Goodman|title=Helen of Nowhere|rating=34.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=''J'' marks an unusual turn for Howard JacobsonIt 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. Though it seems at times like The protagonist, a skewed folk tale, it also bears disgraced professor on the subtle signs brink of losing both his career and his relationship, embodies this feeling. However, Goodman counteracts his discomfort with a future dystopiaforce which is seductive, radical and unnerving: Helen. The connection between Helen and the protagonist is indirect yet intimate. It has some As the former owner of Jacobsonthe countryside house he's trademark elements – odd namesconsidering, humorous metaphorsHelen represents a volta in his life, and Semitic references – but felt her past tied to me like a strange departure after [[his potential fresh start. The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson|The Finkler Question]] realtor who shows the protagonist around the house shares stories about Helen, and describes her as ''Zoo Timean 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.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0224102052</amazonuk>1804272205
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David MitchellOlga Tokarczuk|title=The Bone ClocksHouse of Day, House of Night
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Holly Sykes is 15 and has found true love with an older man ''What's the good of a world that keeps changing like that? How can one go on calmly living in his twenties it?'' The title of this spellbinding work, ''House of Day, House of Night'', somewhat reflects this notion of shifting realities - until she finds him in bed with her best mate. Upset and disorientatedthe small, subtle changes which govern our lives, she runs away like the shift from home. This may enable her day to escape from the unfaithful Vinny and her overbearing family but not the weirdnessnight, however quotidian, causing chaos. She's not But, the only one though: Hugo constant in that image is the studenthouse, conman and lothario thought he was only doing someone a good turn when stoic against the weirdness started for him. There ancient diurnal cycle which nonetheless controls how it is a point to it though: eventually battle lines will be drawn and it's anyone's guess as to who will win, despite what the Anchorites may sayperceived. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340921609</amazonuk>1804271918
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Karen Joy FowlerThea Lenarduzzi|title=We Are All Completely Beside OurselvesThe Tower|rating=45
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Rosemary's childhood is blighted by the disappearance of her sister, Fern. Rosemary went to stay with her grandparents and, on her return Fern was no longer there. Curiously enough, her mother and father don't speak of it. The knock on effect was How unctuous are the angry departure fats of Rosemaryanother's older brother Lowell whom she also misses. As she grows to adulthoodlife, Rosemary remembers trying to come to terms with this, the damage that being a daughter of a psychologist has wrought and the revealed secrets that will finally make sense of it allhow dizzying their sugars in our bloodstream''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184668966X</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alison MooreJon Fosse and Damion Searls (translator) |title=He WantsVaim|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Lewis Sullivan is close to retirement, but elderly beyond his years and widowed. Edie's death seems to have had practical implications - he's not getting the food he used to enjoy - but beyond that itAll was strange''s difficult to see quite what they had in common other than the library. He used it and she worked there - but they didn't even enjoy the same books. Lewis is an RE teacher at the same school where his father, Lawrence, used to teach - when they were both there at the same time it often confused the paperwork. Lewis is beginning to wonder if he chose This haunting phrase encapsulates the wrong careerpervading sense of otherworldliness which permeates this story set in Vaim, if he lives a fictional fishing village in the wrong place. He used to be able to see the house he grew up in from the bedroom window before it was demolished Norway which paradoxically could not feel more real for Jatgeir and replaced by a supermarket carparkEline, but he's always dreamed two of living by the sea. His adult daughter, Ruth visits him every day and brings him soup. He doesn't want soupprotagonists caught in its melancholic current.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907773819</amazonuk>1804271829
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Narrow Road to the Deep NorthClaire-Louise Bennett|authortitle=Richard FlanaganBig Kiss, Bye-Bye
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Everything in this book, however sweet or seemingly innocent, is steeped in anguish and distortion. Even a kiss, usually a symbol of intimacy and closeness, becomes evidence of love lost. When the narrator cries out internally, ''The Narrow Road to the Deep Northcome over here and kiss me,'' it is the title of both Flanagan's Booker Prize-longlisted sixth novel and less an invitation than a book by seventeenth-century Japanese poet Bashodesperate attempt to confirm her emotional numbness. Poetry irradiates The imagined recipient of this often bleak story of Australian POWs building the Burma Death Railway during the Second World Warplea is Xavier, her ex-partner, presenting beauty and love as counterpoints a ghost she conjures to gory descriptions of suffering and inhumanitytest her detachment.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0701189053</amazonuk>1804271934
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Country of Ice Cream StarHelene Bessette and Kate Briggs (translator)|authortitle=Sandra NewmanLili is Crying
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary='My name be Ice Cream Fifteen Star and First published in 1953 in French, this be novel is a timeless text which wrenches the tale hearts of how I bring the cure to all the Nighted States, save every poory children, short for life. Is how a city die for selfish love, its readers just as Bessette wrenches words and rise sentences from this same smallness. Be how their proper position on the new America beginpage and positions them elsewhere, disjointed, in wars against all hope - a country with no power in a world that hate its lifetruncated. So been Like the faith I swornlives of her characters, and it ain't evils in no world nor cruelties in no red hell can change the vally heart of Ice Cream Starthey are often left tragically incomplete.'|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0701186429</amazonuk>1804271675
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Bilal TanweerJonathan Buckley|title=The Scatter Here is Too GreatOne Boat
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=When ''One Boat'' is a deeply introspective novella that defies traditional narrative structure, drawing the bomb exploded at the Karachi railway station causing intended death reader into a contemplative realm of philosophical musings and fragmented memories flowing from our narrator and mayhem, an aging reactionary poet, his middle-aged sonprotagonist, Teresa. Set against the evocative backdrop of a childsmall coastal Greek town, a writer this work masterfully captures the magic of its setting and a woman who relates more its power to stories than reality, are in provoke profound introspection. Teresa herself recognises these qualities as the reason she has visited it after the midst death of itboth her parents. Each experiences Prompted by her mourning, her narrative voice is meditative and deeply self-aware, inviting the blast as differently as their experiences reader into her labyrinthine cogitations. It is a book that not only requires but inspires depth of life are from each other but each ''will'' be affectedthought, since its narrative structure is fragmentary and ironically relies on analepsis for its propulsion.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0224099116</amazonuk>1804271764
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Emily MackieEowyn Ivey|title=In Search of SolaceBlack Woods Blue Sky
|rating=3.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Jacob Little is many things to many people ''Black Woods Blue Sky'' tells the story of Birdie, the young mother of toddler Emaleen, who longs for a life beyond the Alaskan lodge where she works as he goes through lifea bar waitress, reinventing his personae a setting which enables her bad habits and nameher accidental neglect of Emaleen. Who exactly is he? Perhaps heDescribed as a ''wild card's unsure but the thing he's certain of is his love for a young woman he lived with for 2 years. It took , she feels stuck in her leaving day-to-day life, and yearns to cross the next decade apart for him Wolverine river and live on the North Fork to realise he loves fulfil her but now desires of a simple life surrounded by nature. When she meets Arthur Nielson, a strange, taciturn and solitary man, who says he wants has a cabin over there, she feels called to make up for lost timego - and bring Emaleen with her. She said her name was Solace so now heWithout realising it, this calling will transform hers and Emaleen's (all together now) in search of Solacelives forever.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340992522</amazonuk>1472279042
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sally Rooney|title=The Sixteenth Intermezzo|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction |summary=Sally Rooney has studied the chessboard of life and is something of Junea grandmaster at putting it into words. Her dialogue is 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 unravel 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. Following their father's passing after a long battle with cancer, the brothers' already strained relationship faces new trials.|isbn=0571365469}}{{Frontpage|author=Maya LangFyodor Dostoyevsky|title=White Nights
|rating=5
|genre=Literary FictionShort Stories|summary=On June 16thAs always in Dostoyevsky, 1904, James Joyce had his first date with his future wife, Nora Barnacle – an occasion he commemorated by choosing it as the one-day setting for his ''magnum opus'', ''Ulysses''; main character Leopold Bloom gives his name to the annual Joyce celebration that takes place around the world on June 16thwork is sublime. One is never left wondering what a character is thinking or feeling because Dostoyevsky lays bare their innermost dispositions and temperaments with remarkable clarity.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1476745749</amazonuk>0241619785
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=After BeforeJames Baldwin|authortitle=Jemma WayneGiovanni's Room
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Emily ''easier for English people to pronounce than EmilienneGiovanni's Room''follows the narrator David, lives an American man living in a council tower blockParis, barely furnishedas he navigates his torturous affair with Giovanni, but still - for her - an Italian bartender he meets in a place of safetygay bar. While David is engaged to Hella, a place of anonymitywho is travelling in Spain, which is the best way for her to existreal tension in the novel arises not from his infidelity but from the deeper conflict within himself. She cleans commercial premises It is David's crippling shame and relishes the work. She makes her small earnings go as far as possible, shopping locally, living frugallydenial of his sexuality that ultimately dooms his relationship with Giovanni.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1909878847</amazonuk>0141186356
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=FireflyAlba de Cespedes |authortitle=Janette JenkinsForbidden Notebook
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=I read ''Firefly'' wanting to be charmed. Sat at homeThis Italian work of feminist fiction holds an air of suspense and tension from the moment our protagonist, Valeria Cossati, purchases her forbidden notebook, wishing I was and learns about herself in Jamaica, idly humming 'Mad Dogs the most intimate and Englishmen'revealing ways.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099575043</amazonuk>1782278222
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Hundred-Year HouseOttessa Moshfegh|authortitle=Rebecca MakkaiMy Year of Rest and Relaxation|rating=4.53
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The first thing you'll notice about At best, this novel is that, like a crazy housescathing critique of modern society and reveals the fragility of human relationships; at worst, it's upside-down. That is: it opens in 1999the cynical, that near-contemporary storyline taking up about half the text; follows it with sections set in 1955 predictable and 1929; slightly trite tale of an unlikeable protagonist. This unlikely heroine, a slim, attractive and finishes newly orphaned girl in her twenties is disillusioned with a 'prologue' set in 1900. The second thing the world, but resolves not to jump out is that this is a ghost story – or is lose sleep over it? The first line is both declaration and qualification: 'For a ghost storyin fact, the tale of Violet Saville Devohr was vague and underwhelmingher solution lies in her hibernation.'|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0434022977</amazonuk>1784707422
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Karin AltenbergMatthew Tree|title=Breaking LightWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Gabriel Askew retires Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to the village be different from his father, a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of Mortford, the place in which he grew up being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and from where childhood ghosts haunt him to this daywho had endless crises of self confidence. It’s a conscious decision: Gabe, ostracised as a child due So Tim applied himself to his hair lipstudies, returns to face these demons that have controlled cultivated his abilities rather than his life daydreams and forced him to do the unthinkable set himself high but now he wants peace… if it's not too lateachievable ambitions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780877153</amazonuk>B0CVFXPGP8
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0C47LV1PC|title=Lost LuggageFragility|author=Jordi PuntiMosby Woods
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=There are lots of things Can you wonder when make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you grow up with just one parentcould, but whether is the question should you also have a bunch of half-siblings, all with make it? Or is the same name as question if youdid, all dotted around the continent, would it land? The catch is not normally high on that the listanswer for both could well be. Gabriel Delacruz has 4 boys by 4 different women in 4 parts of Europe. None of them know of the others’ existence but when Gabriel disappears, his incredulous life is uncovered and Christof, Christophe, Christopher and Cristofol meet.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780722133</amazonuk>}}. no.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Beautiful FoolsMosby Woods|authortitle=R Clifton SpargoA Whirly Man Loses His Turn
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Famous writersThe West isn' wives have had something t the dominant force it once was. Nobody in the West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is the best course of action. Governments are flailing. A war here, a literary revival push for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is in recent yearsactual charge. Paula McLain's ''The Paris Wife'' and Naomi Wood's ''Mrs Hemingway'' imagine the lives of the various Hemingway womenImagine then, while the vogue for flappers and [[The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald|The Great Gatsby]] has led to there was a spate of books about Zelda Fitzgeraldman with precognition. Fans of Imagine the Roaring Twenties have been spoiled for choice, strategic advantage in this asset; a man who can tell you what with [[Z: A Novel will happen given any set of Zelda Fitzgerald by Therese Anne Fowler]]circumstances. That man would be valuable, ''Call Me Zelda'' by Erika Robuckright? Perhaps the most valuable asset in history. Imagine then, and ''Guests on Earth'' by Lee Smiththat this man loses this ability.What would governments do to get it back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1468308807</amazonuk>B0C9SNG8R1
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Roopa Farooki0571379559|title=The Good ChildrenHouse of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams
|rating=5
|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=''The Saddeq family House of Broken Bricks'' is the story of four people. Tess Hembry's roots are an example in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in the house on the riverbank, built of broken bricks. Insubstantial as it might look, it's stood the passage of success for their friends time, storms and neighbours in Lahorefloods. Mr Saddeq is a doctor with Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his own practicevegetables, sons Sully to complete the delivery rounds - and Jakie are studying medicine to bring in sufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and Max, the US and UK respectively and daughters Mae and Lana have made good marriage matchesrainbow twins. However the four Sonny'goods colouring reflects his mother' children would view their success differentlys Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. Each reacts differently to the futures People don't believe that their caring father and calculating mother have mapped out for them and plough their own furrows as far as they're permitted but the gravitational pull of home remains a constant through their lives related, much less twins and also, to some extent, for the generation there's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that followsshe's his nanny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755383427</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=Dinaw Mengestu Kay Chronister|title=All Our DaysDesert Creatures|rating=4.5|genre=General Dystopian Fiction|summary=Isaac With a world that is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, post-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Whether it is a refugee from Ethiopia who finds robotic takeover, a home in Uganda. At the university he's taken under the wing world devoid of water or a political activist also called Isaac. The 1970s nuclear holocaust, this genre is a dangerous time way for humans to be in Uganda as cathartically experience their world most existential fears. ''Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is about to explode. Years later Isaac the Ethiopian finds himself in America and lives under the care a new work of social worker Helen. Slowly they form a less than professional relationship and Helen realises post-apocalyptic fiction that what little she knows aligns many of him may not be the truthfears that exist for humanity today. Gradually his past It is revealed as the guilt he carries comes a shocking novel that still manages to the surfacefind hope.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444793772</amazonuk>1803364998
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{{newreviewfrontpage|titleisbn=Never Any End to Paris1803363002|author=Enrique Vila-MatasEric LaRocca|title= The Trees Grew Because I Bled There|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionHorror|summary=There Horror taps into something primeval within us. It is never any end used as a way to Parisreflect our darkest emotions and how we as humans react and process them. The sentence pops upMost horror fiction feature a ''Big Bad'', hypnoticwhether that is a home invader, through most of the book. At times ironic, thoughtful a monster or questioninga ghost, it is a quote from Hemingway’s novelusually something tangible and, by the end of the story, beatable. Eric LaRocca's ''A Moveable FeastThe Trees Grew Because I Bled There'', is not like that. It is a collection of short stories more interested in which the American author looked back at his days in Parishorrors of illness, where he was ‘very poor grief and very happyhumiliation.’ The narrator of Horrors that linger and are harder to defeat than any ''Never Any End to ParisBig Bad'' tells us that when he lived in Paris, he was ‘very poor and very unhappy.’|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846558042</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Johanna LaneMadelaine Lucas|title=Black LakeThirst for Salt|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=John's family have owned Dulagh (Black Lake)'Love, the big mansion in the Irish countrysideI'd read, for generations. Unfortunately now no longer able was supposed to afford its upkeep, John, his wife Marianne be a light and children Kate and Philipweightless feeling, move into a cottage on the estate instead. They still own the house but itI had always longed for gravity''ll be run by the government with revenue from opening it to the public. At the time it seems the perfect solution, but the future has plans other than perfection.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755396294</amazonuk>}}
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{{Frontpage
|author= Michael Grothaus
|title=Beautiful Shining People
|rating=4
|genre= Literary Fiction
|summary= ''But fearing something and having it come to pass are two different things. And I'm willing to bet most of what we fear will never happen, or we can take steps to change it.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=TaraShea NesbitJennifer Saint|title=The Wives of Los AlamosAtalanta
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=1943: In the US a group ''I was as worthy as any one of menthem. I would get on board that ship, women and children are uprooted from their homes with hardly any notice and after being sworn to total secrecyI vowed. Their destination is a hastily knocked upI would take my place, unfinished small town not just in the New Mexico desert; a place where muddy water drips from name of the taps and their lives are turned upside down goddess. It was for nearly 3 yearsthe sake of my name, too. This isnAtalanta't mass abduction by ' Princess. Warrior. Lover. Hero. Abandoned at birth for being born a malevolent power but daughter rather than a son, Atalanta is raised under the US government's plan to end WWII. The men (and some protective eye of the women) are scientistsgoddess Athemis and fashioned into a formidable huntress, one who longs for adventure. When the place is Los Alamosopportunity comes – to join the Argonauts, a fierce band of warriors, descendent from the site of Gods themselves – Atalanta seizes the project that will result chance to fight in Robert Oppenheimer stating Artemis'name and carve out her own legendary place in history. What follows is a whirlwind of challenges and discovery and through it, Atalanta must remember Artemis'Nowfatal warning: that if she marries, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." His story has been well documented in the past; now the voices belong to the Los Alamos Wivesit will be her undoing.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408845997</amazonuk>1472292154
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=OrfeoAmanthi Harris|authortitle=Richard PowersBeautiful Place|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary='No one thinks twice about Padma, a young Sri Lankan, has returned to the quiet, older bohemian in Villa Hibiscus on the American Craftsman at 806 South Linden…people take up all kinds southern coast of hobbies in retirementher home country.' Seventy-year-old Peter Els This is an out-of-work composer in Pennsylvaniaa place she spent her formative years. He teaches music appreciation at It is not a senior centreplace she was born into, but much the one she thinks of his spare time is devoted as home. How she came to chemistry experiments. As a college student he agonised over be at the choice between chemistry and musicVilla, in facthow it became her home, and these days he wonders if he got it wrong. His avant-garde compositions, such as a three-hour opera based on medieval German history, were infrequent the machinations that have flowed through her life ever since she first arrived there provide the ''score'' for this gentle and never very well receivedyet subtly violent novel. Should he have gone into biochemistry after all? Thus, thanks Padma's present fails to escape her past and much like the musical score of a few thousand dollars' worth of semi-professional equipment purchased off the Internetfilm, Els is now engaged in a new kind of composition – with bacterial DNA taking that strand weaves its way through everything that happens at the place of musical notesVilla.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782391614</amazonuk>1784631930
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ron Butlin178563335X|title=Ghost MoonSea Defences|author=Hilary Taylor
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Maggie sits When we first meet Rachel Bird she's a trainee vicar, sitting in an elderly personson a PCC meeting and wondering why they' care home tgryig re held when you need to exist through pick the ever tightening grip of dementiachildren up. Her sonhusband, TomChristopher, visits trying to jog collects six-year-old Hannah and her memory but she doesnelder brother, Jamie, whilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioner. Thelma's daughter-in-law won't even recognise himlet her see her grandson. To MaggieHolthorpe, on the Norfolk coast, Tom is 'Michael' a name that means nothing lovely place, but Rachel is struggling to develop a son getting real bond with the parish - and she's in awe of the vicar, Gail, but then she's been doing the job for more desperate to break through to his mother once againthan thirty years. However there Rachel and Christopher hoped that a walk on the beach would do them some good - it was once a Michael, in a life that bubbles with secrets that even Tom doesn't know; for once, long ago, Maggie stormy but it was youngprobably what they needed. And then Hannah went missing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907773770</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1398515388|title=The One I WasBoy and the Dog|author=Eliza GrahamSeishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=In 1939, before the outbreak First of the Second World Warall, a boy arrived at Harwich docks. He it was a Kindertransport refugee fleeing the anti-Semitism earthquake, deep in Nazi Germany. Benjamin Goldman would change his name to Benny Gault when his idea that the war wouldn't happen ocean floor, which created the tsunami and he could go home to Germany came to nothingthis, but in turn, caused the meantime he nuclear meltdown. The result was adopted by Lord complete and Lady Dornerutter devastation. Six boys The deaths were to live at uncountable, and the loss of livelihoods was widespread. The fact that many pets were separated from their country home owners came far down the list of priorities but - Fairfleet six months after the tsunami - and be educated by Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a private tutorconvenience store. On He wasn't a dog person but the face of it Bennyconvenience store owner's luck could not have worked out better, but comment that he was hiding a secretwould call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and Tamon the dog jumped in. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910229016</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0989715337|title=Indecent ActsPapa on the Moon|author=Nick BrooksMarco North|rating=3.54
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Meet Grace. She's in her forties, living with a hit-and-miss family in a Glasgow council flat, and in the middle of a whole host of issues. She has issues about her parents, and their moving on or death; she has issues about her sister who might or might not have 'Some frogs had a much superior life pattern than Grace; she has issues about her children – Francis who has left Grace with her own daughter to spend time with drink or drugs instead, and son Vincent, who will like as not create an issue by joining the army and moving on himself. Grace also has issues with gotten into the fact that she is nearly as blind as a bat, and can neither read nor writewell. She's started the novel where she shouldn't be – at home in Glasgow, struggling, as she was due to fly to meet her sister at last, yet packed her glasses in the case that must be the other end, and completely missed her flight.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908754451</amazonuk>}}
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