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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 -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=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 - Remove 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= Anakana SchofieldOlga Tokarczuk|title= Martin JohnHouse of Day, House of Night|rating= 45|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= I had heard much about ''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 novel before I read it for reviewnotion 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, by stoic against the ancient diurnal cycle which I mean I had heard nonetheless controls how it was profaneis perceived.|isbn=1804271918}}{{Frontpage|author=Thea Lenarduzzi|title=The Tower|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= ''How unctuous are the fats of another's life, strange and had how dizzying their sugars in our bloodstream''. In this compelling novel, Thea Lenarduzzi assumes the identity of T, the protagonist of this tale. Just as T's story is being told, the story of a second protagonist is unveiled: Annie, the daughter of a daring subject matter accompanied by elements wealthy family in the 19th century, who died of humourtuberculosis after being locked in a tower, captures T's imagination. I have Annie's fate is, above all, an enticing story to say that whilst I agree it T. It is certainly profane a story which she consumes avariciously, both in a quest for truth and strange knowledge, and incredibly innovativein service of myth, I didn't find much humour in it at allfable and fantasy. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908276665</amazonuk>1804271799

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jon Kalman Stefansson Fosse and Philip Roughton Damion Searls (translator)|title=The Heart of ManVaim|rating=34

|summary=What could be better than an existentialist book from rural Iceland, full ''All was strange''... This haunting phrase encapsulates the pervading sense of gnomic comments about how close life and death areotherworldliness which permeates this story set in Vaim, that has as its core a journey taken by, amongst others, a naïve and hormonal teenaged lad fictional fishing village in Norway which paradoxically could not feel more real for Jatgeir and a full coffin? Why, I hear you cryEline, a trilogy concerning the same. Yes, it's the obvious answer, really – why else would we come to this third part, where the survivors two of the expedition rest up, note the women giving them help, and see how eminently close the circle of life is to the figure of a snake swallowing protagonists caught in its tail through, among other things, dogs rutting in a church below the coffin's bier?melancholic current.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184866236X</amazonuk>1804271829

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Joanna WalshClaire-Louise Bennett|title= VertigoBig Kiss, Bye-Bye |rating= 4.5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= The short stories Everything in this book, however sweet or seemingly innocent, is steeped in Joanna Walsh's collection have the overall effect of disparate streams of consciousness of anguish and distortion. Even a woman laying bear her very soulkiss, whilst often going about seemingly mundane activities usually a symbol of the ordinary intimacy and every daycloseness, becomes evidence of love lost. The narrative voice appeared to me to be When the same woman speaking throughoutnarrator cries out internally, playing different roles''come over here and kiss me, though I'm not sure this was meant ' it is less an invitation than a desperate attempt to be the caseconfirm her emotional numbness. The style imagined recipient of the stories this plea is that of short vignettesXavier, her ex-partner, mostly written in a modernist, stream of consciousness style. Sometimes, the prose appears almost poeticghost she conjures to test her detachment. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908276800</amazonuk>1804271934

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kristopher JansmaHelene Bessette and Kate Briggs (translator)|title=Why We Came to the CityLili is Crying

|summary='We came to the city because we wished to live haphazardlyFirst published in 1953 in French, to reach for only this novel is a timeless text which wrenches the least realistic hearts of our desires, its readers just as Bessette wrenches words and to see if we could not learn what our failures had to teach, sentences from their proper position on the page and notpositions them elsewhere, when we came to livedisjointed, discover that we had never diedtruncated. We wanted to dig deep and suck out all Like the marrow lives of lifeher characters, to be overworked and reduced to our last witthey are often left tragically incomplete.'|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0525426604</amazonuk>1804271675

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ernst Haffner and Michael Hofmann (translator)Jonathan Buckley|title=Blood BrothersOne Boat

|summary=It's Berlin'One Boat'' is a deeply introspective novella that defies traditional narrative structure, drawing the reader into a contemplative realm of philosophical musings and fragmented memories flowing from our narrator and protagonist, Teresa. Set against the Nazis are on their way evocative backdrop of a small coastal Greek town, this work masterfully captures the magic of its setting and its power to power, even if they will never cross provoke profound introspection. Teresa herself recognises these pages themselvesqualities as the reason she has visited it after the death of both her parents. The city – hugePrompted by her mourning, glamorousher narrative voice is meditative and deeply self-aware, bustling, vicious in inviting the way it can swallow people – reader into her labyrinthine cogitations. It is home to a countless hoard book that not only requires but inspires depth of teenagersthought, but we focus since its narrative structure is fragmentary and ironically relies on just analepsis for its propulsion.|isbn=1804271764}}{{Frontpage|author=Eowyn Ivey|title=Black Woods Blue Sky|rating=3.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''Black Woods Blue Sky'' tells the story of Birdie, the young mother of toddler Emaleen, who longs for a life beyond the Alaskan lodge where she works as a fewbar waitress, most a setting which enables her bad habits and her accidental neglect of whom have been in some corrective institution or other before nowEmaleen. They call themselves the Blood BrothersDescribed as a ''wild card'', even if all they share is the most unglamorous drudgery of going from one dossshe feels stuck in her day-house to another-day life, balancing and yearns to cross the cost Wolverine river and live on the North Fork to fulfil her desires of a few cigarettes with that of simple life surrounded by nature. When she meets Arthur Nielson, a warm room for strange, taciturn and solitary man, who says he has a few hours or some stale rolls cabin over there, she feels called to eatgo - and bring Emaleen with her. But en route to them is another Without realising it, this calling will transform hers and Emaleen'Borstal' escapee, Willis lives forever. Surely his fate is going to be nothing if not more of the same?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099594048</amazonuk>1472279042

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sara TaylorSally Rooney|title=The ShoreIntermezzo

|summary=The first story we hear from the ShoreAs always in Dostoyevsky, a group of isolated islands off the coast of Virginia, character work is from Chloe, who's telling her sister about what she overheard in the store. She'd been there buying chicken necks so that they could go crabbing. Normally they used bacon rinds, but they'd already eaten those. Cabel Bloxom had been murdered and ''they done cut his thang clean off''sublime. The girls are motherless and Chloe One is fiercely protective of her little sister Renee. She's the first of the strong women we'll encounter in these stories, which interlink to give never left wondering what a greater picturecharacter is thinking or feeling because Dostoyevsky lays bare their innermost dispositions and temperaments with remarkable clarity.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>009959188X</amazonuk>0241619785

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Adam BaronJames Baldwin|title=BlackheathGiovanni's Room

|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Househusband James is happy in Blackheath. He''Giovanni's started doing stand-up again so that Room'' follows the narrator David, an American man living in Paris, as he too has navigates his torturous affair with Giovanni, an achievement Italian bartender he meets in his life a gay bar. While David is engaged to balance wife Alice's award winning poetry. Children Ida and Dominic are doing well so all Hella, who is great. Elsewhere travelling in Spain, the real tension in the area Amelia novel arises not from his infidelity but from the deeper conflict within himself. It is equally happy with her actor husband Richard, her own career and children Niamh and teenage Michael. Sometimes happiness isnDavid't enough though s crippling shame and, as the worlds denial of the two families start to mingle, things start changing for each of themhis sexuality that ultimately dooms his relationship with Giovanni.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908434902</amazonuk>0141186356

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Julian BarnesAlba de Cespedes |title=The Noise of TimeForbidden Notebook|rating=3.54

|summary=Julian Barnes's first novel since he won the Booker Prize for [[The Sense This Italian work of feminist fiction holds an Ending by Julian Barnes]] is a fictionalised biography air of Russian composer Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (1906–75). Knowing Barnes's penchant for stylistic experimentationsuspense and tension from the moment our protagonist, thoughValeria Cossati, this was never going to be a straightforwardpurchases her forbidden notebook, chronological life story. Instead, as Barnes so often does, he sets up a tripartite structure, focussing on three moments and learns about herself in Shostakovich's life when he has a reckoning with Power (always capitalised here). The title phrase helpfully spells out what the book is all about: 'Art is the whisper of history, heard above the noise of timemost intimate and revealing ways.'|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910702609</amazonuk>1782278222

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Danielle McLaughlinOttessa Moshfegh|title=Dinosaurs on Other PlanetsMy Year of Rest and Relaxation|rating=4.53|genre=Short Stories Literary Fiction|summary=Seeing as At best, this book novel is clearly a talented author hitting the ground running, I will dispense with any major preamble. We start with a tale scathing critique of a daughter affected by the emotions of her parents as they separate – modern society and reveals the influence fragility of a certain school-teacher – from human relationships; at worst, it is the mother's point of view. An ancient input shows how aliencynical, predictable and the modern day domesticity how regular, the isolation slightly trite tale of a woman can feel, as events are peppered by minor acts of destructionan unlikeable protagonist. But men can be alienated too – especially oneThis unlikely heroine, a reluctant guest at a party for children hosted by someone he once had an affair slim, attractive and newly orphaned girl in her twenties is disillusioned with – he feels the new form of this influence in the light of another one he has had to try and abandon. 'All About Alice' – that's what the title character wants to say world, but has nobody resolves not to speak lose sleep over it to: in fact, but is it her – mid-40s and single, living with solution lies in her father – that is most removed from her dreams or her old friend and now child factory, Marian? And we complete a lap of the calendar with the wintry tale of a man unable to tell his work superiors of the problems he faces at home – a new home, recently built like so many one sees while driving round Irelandhibernation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473613701</amazonuk>1784707422

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anne EnrightMatthew Tree|title=The Green RoadWe'll Never Know

|summary=''The Green Road'' is the story of a family. If the author was anyone other Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than Anne Enright it would be stereotypically Irish, with all the appropriate characters in place: the boy who goes off to be a priestdifferent from his father, the daughter who likes the bottle far too much, the son who does good works and the woman who stays back where she was born and marries a local man, the dead husband who was perhaps just a little bit beneath the wife who plays the ''grande dame'' drunk and is perfect chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at being needy, whilst any of his artistic passions all the while maintaining that she needs nothingfailed miserably and who had endless crises of self confidence. ButSo Tim applied himself to his studies, of course, it ''is'' Anne Enrightcultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099539799</amazonuk>B0CVFXPGP8

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate AtkinsonB0C47LV1PC|title=A God in RuinsFragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=54

|summary=Teddy Todd never really expected to survive the war. As Can you make a bomber pilot it wasn't something which 'Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could rely on and he certainly knew , is the statistics. But - against all question should you make it? Or is the oddsquestion if you did, he came through would it, albeit with some time spent land? The catch is that the answer for both could well be.... no. ''Fragility'' is set as a prisoner the city of war. On balance he had a good warPortland, but time will see him married to NancyOregon, father cautiously begins to Viola and grandfather to Sunny and Bertie - and left with emerge from the restrictions imposed during the feeling that it's more difficult to have a good peace than a good war.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552776645</amazonuk>covid pandemic

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chuck PalahniukMosby Woods|title=Beautiful YouA Whirly Man Loses His Turn

|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Meet Penny HarriganThe West isn't the dominant force it once was. And let's hope your introduction Nobody in the West is quite sure how to her mend this or even if mending it is more gentle than that we have on the first page best course of this bookaction. Governments are flailing. A war here, where she a push for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is being raped in front of actual charge. Imagine then, there was a full court house, who – male to man with precognition. Imagine the bone – sit back and say nothing, if not whip out their camera phone. Once people take her out on strategic advantage in this asset; a gurney and recognise her, we man who can start from the beginning, where she is a lowly underling at a law firm, having failed too many exams to progress satisfactorilytell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. The company is where the world's richest That man is in legal negotiations having left would be valuable, right? Perhaps the world's best and most beautiful actressvaluable asset in history. Imagine then, and lo and behold he just happens that this man loses this ability. What would governments do to pick Penny to replace her with, even if she doesn't think of herself as the most beautiful girl around. But what exactly is get it she is wanted for, and can her apolitical style of feminism and aspirations be metback?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>009958767X</amazonuk>B0C9SNG8R1

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Helle Helle and Martin Aitken (translator)0571379559|title=This Should be Written in the Present TenseThe House of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams

|summary= This ''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the first novel story of Helle Hellefour people. Tess Hembry'sroots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, an award winning Danish authorbut instead, to be translated into English. It is easy to see from this novel why she is gaining accolades lives in her Danish homelandthe house on the riverbank, built of broken bricks. The rhythmicInsubstantial as it might look, natural flow it's stood the passage of time, storms and floods. Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the narrative is mesmerising delivery rounds - and appears to lull you through bring in sufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and Max, the bookrainbow twins. It has some lovelySonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. People don't believe that they're related, spare sentences much less twins and there's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she's his nanny.}}{{Frontpage|author=Claire North|title=House of description: Odysseus|rating=5|genre= Literary Fiction |summary= ''What could matter more than love?''There were run The follow-down cottages up to the excellent ''Ithaca'' picks up a few months after where we left off. In the palace of Odysseus, with open doors delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without her husband, who sailed to war at Troy and news on then by divine intervention never returned home. As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for the throne of the radioWestern Isles. Gulls flocked around an early harvester in Having survived – politically and physical – the late sunchaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to Ithaca''. But mostlys shores, it Queen Penelope is written in on the brink of a modernistfragile peace. One that shatters however with the return of Orestes, almost stream King of consciousness styleMycenae, and his sister Elektra, which I found refreshingseeking refuge.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099587475</amazonuk>0356516075

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alice ThompsonKay Chronister|title=The Book CollectorDesert Creatures|rating=4|genre=General Dystopian Fiction|summary=Meet Violet. Swept off her feet by With a disarming encounter with a landed gentleman and bookshop owner at a coffee shop, she immediately falls in love with him, and world that is quickly marriedbecoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, and post-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost as quickly with childmasochistic thrill. When the boy Whether it is borna robotic takeover, howevera world devoid of water or a nuclear holocaust, fairly understandable doubts creep inthis genre is a way for humans to cathartically experience their most existential fears. Is her husband hiding anything behind his assuredness – especially when she wakes in the middle ''Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is a new work of post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the night alone? What ghost fears that exist for humanity today. It is left by the fact he lost his first wife and baby in childbirth? What should she understand from her own opinions about her new life, her new life's life, and the idea of a nanny looking after it? Just what is going on in her new country pile?shocking novel that still manages to find hope.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784630438</amazonuk>1803364998

{{newreviewfrontpage|isbn=1803363002|author=Sasa Stanisic and Anthea Bell (translator)Eric LaRocca|title=Before the FeastThe Trees Grew Because I Bled There|rating=2.5|genre=Literary FictionHorror|summary= Deep in the heart of Germany sits the village of FurstenfeldeHorror taps into something primeval within us. It lies on is used as a spit of land that, legend has it, a giant created, between two lakes – the Great Lake, and the Deep Lake. All around is forest. The village is enjoying summer, way to reflect our darkest emotions and how we can see the inhabitants as they go about their lazy life on the last hot day humans react and night before the seasons changeprocess them. Most horror fiction feature a ''Big Bad'', from the teenage lads fishing and crashing cars or preparing for whether that is a bell-ringing exam, to the girl who wants outhome invader, to the middle-aged man who made a pub out of monster or a garage ghost, it usually something tangible and some curtains, to by the older man (a retired soldier) who is watching his last piece end of titillating TV before going out to either fetch cigarettes or shoot himselfthe story, to the older still lady painting beatable. Eric LaRocca's ''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is not like that. It is a portrait collection of short stories more interested in the town ready to auction it off on the morrowhorrors of illness, grief and humiliation. For the morrow is the annual fete, Horrors that linger and all those people are, one way or another, reacting harder to its imminent arrivaldefeat than any ''Big Bad''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782271295</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andre AlexisMadelaine Lucas|title=Fifteen DogsThirst for Salt|rating=4.5

|summary=Gods (and brothers) Hermes and Apollo were arguing in a bar about what would happen if animals had human intelligence and eventually a wager ''Love, I'd read, was agreed. Human intelligence would supposed to be granted to fifteen dogs staying overnight in a veterinary clinic light and the wagerweightless feeling, suggested by Apollobut I had always longed for gravity'' Told from a retrospective view, was that Hermes would be his servant for a young woman unravels the year if -long relationship that once defined her. Overlaid with later wisdom, the dogs were not more unhappy than they would have been originally. But - if even one of narrator relives the dogs was happy at affair with a man twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the summer after. Set against the backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the 24-year-old narrator's deepening relationship with her older lover, depicting its life Hermes would winall-consuming nature, how it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and how it altered her irrevocably.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178125558X</amazonuk>0861546490

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Marina WarnerMichael Grothaus|title=Fly Away HomeBeautiful Shining People|rating=34|genre=Short StoriesLiterary Fiction|summary=How would you subvert a fairy tale? You know enough of them ''But fearing something and enough about them having it come to do it, so think on itpass are two different things. Would you give a mermaid a smartphone? Would you pepper them with pop stars, and perhaps let them be witness to the Schadenfreude caused by a cave thatAnd I's sacred m willing to native Canadians? Would you, in the light bet most of their characters usually being routinewhat we fear will never happen, interchangeable tropes, give them a closely-observed personality – as seen here in a teacheror we can take steps to change it.'' ''Beautiful Shining People''s interior thoughts when faced with a piece of East Anglian lore? Would you take revolves around the exoticism question of the east, identity and Egypt in particular, and see acceptance. Of what it in the light of a musical teacher on a zero-hours contract who ends up muttering means to himselfbe human. Of what is real and what is artificial, directing traffic in and whether the middle development of the road, technology is exciting or from the remove of an elderly man with ''swollen feet in orthopaedic sandals'' with a message from the past? Certainly these two are not the standard Arabian Nights-styled pieces…frightening.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784630381</amazonuk>191458564X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jeanette WintersonJennifer Saint|title=The Gap of TimeAtalanta|rating=3.5

|summary=This is the inaugural volume of a new series ''I was as worthy as any one of Shakespeare retellings from Hogarth Pressthem. Still to come: Margaret Atwood I would get on ''The Tempest''board that ship, I vowed. I would take my place, Howard Jacobson on ''The Merchant not just in the name of Venice'' and Anne Tyler on ''The Taming the goddess. It was for the sake of the Shrewmy name, too. Atalanta'' Princess. Warrior. Lover. Hero. Abandoned at birth for being born a daughter rather than a son, among others. How Atalanta is this first book? It's pretty good as Winterson novels go, incorporating Shakespearean themes raised under the protective eye of time, deception and adoption and turning bears the goddess Athemis and statues fashioned into metaphors while remaining loyal a formidable huntress, one who longs for adventure. When the opportunity comes – to join the essence Argonauts, a fierce band of warriors, descendent from the plot. Yet two crucial elements of Gods themselves – Atalanta seizes the play donchance to fight in Artemis't make sense name and carve out her own legendary place in history. What follows is a modern settingwhirlwind of challenges and discovery and through it, Atalanta must remember Artemis' fatal warning: that if she marries, and in the end I felt this added nothing to my enjoyment of the originalit will be her undoing.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781090297</amazonuk>1472292154

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Marlon JamesAmanthi Harris|title=A Brief History of Seven KillingsBeautiful Place

|summary=WillemPadma, JBa young Sri Lankan, Malcolm and Jude don't have has returned to the Villa Hibiscus on the southern coast of her home country. This is a lot in common apart from their friendshipplace she spent her formative years. They gravitated together It is not a place she was born into, but the one she thinks of as home. How she came to be at college the Villa, how it became her home, and remain close as they become successful in careers as different as the theatre machinations that have flowed through her life ever since she first arrived there provide the ''score'' for this gentle and architectureyet subtly violent novel. However even hopes for successful future canPadma't erase s present fails to escape her past and much like the blight musical score of the past for one of them. Jude is physically disabled from a cause film, that strand weaves its way through everything that isn't genetic or congenital. In fact happens at the cause isn't even something he's shared with the other three. The events around it stem back to his childhood and haunt each thought and action he takes as well as his ability to take themVilla.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447294815</amazonuk>1784631930

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julia Franck and Anthea Bell (translator)178563335X|title=WestSea Defences|author=Hilary Taylor|rating=3.5

|summary=Put yourself When we first meet Rachel Bird she's a trainee vicar, sitting in the shoes of on a young mother PCC meeting and wondering why they're held when you need to two pick the children, who declares her intention to leave the Communist East Germany for West Berlin, and thus loses her scientist jobup. What would you expect on the other side – shops full of attainable productsHer husband, pleasant neighbourhoodsChristopher, nice neighbours, an active collects six-year-old Hannah and busy new life, where things might feel alien but at least you speak the same language? Wellher elder brother, for Nelly SenffJamie, this is hardly the casewhilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioner. Once past the depressing Eastern exit procedures she is confronted with more desultory interrogations from those Thelma'welcomings daughter-in-law won' t let her to the West, beyond which she and see her children (their fathergrandson. Holthorpe, whom she never marriedon the Norfolk coast, is long assumed dead by the authoritiesa lovely place, if nobody else) are practically left in but Rachel is struggling to develop a shared accommodation in a transit camp. The shops are full of what is still unobtainable, real bond with the children hate their new school – parish - and people still look down on them as being foreign, even if they have only moved across a city.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099554321</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Salman Rushdie|title= Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights|rating= 3.5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= Tediously captivating may not sound like the most compelling recommendation for a book you've ever heard. Yet itshe's the nearest I can come to summing up the style of this novel, which features some in awe of the most beautiful language and imagery I've ever read whilst telling a story which moves at a glacial pace.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>191070203X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Aldous Huxley|title= The Genius and the Goddess|rating= 4|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= Sovicar, three books inGail, Ibut then she've now got to grips with s been doing the idea that Huxley doesn't so much want to tell a story as expound his ideasjob for more than thirty years. Once you know Rachel and Christopher hoped that, a walk on the beach would do them some good - it makes was stormy but it easier to choose whether to read him or notwas probably what they needed. On balance, I have come down on the side of not – I won't be dashing out to work my way through the rest of his output the way I want to with, say, Nevil Shute, or George OrwellAnd then Hannah went missing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784870366</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dan Rhodes1398515388|title=When The Boy and the Professor Got Stuck in the SnowDog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)

|summary= Two people are on a train on their way to, First of all things, a WI meeting where it was the ladies of All Bottoms will be lectured on earthquake, deep in the non-existence of God. One of ocean floor, which created the two people is Professor Richard Dawkinstsunami and this, rampant atheist, hectoring scientist chappiein turn, caused the nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and all-round devotee of ''Deal or No Deal''utter devastation. The other is Smee, his mono-named assistantdeaths were uncountable, amanuensis or 'male secretary'. Smee will come to the fore when the weather sets in and the train journey has to be abandoned some way short loss of its ultimate destination, Upper Bottomlivelihoods was widespread. Instead The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the pair fetch up at the isolated yet friendly community list of Market Horton, and the only option for accommodation is taken – yes, the died-inpriorities but -six months after thetsunami -wool non-believer has to be housed by Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a retired vicar and his wifeconvenience store. This clash of titanic opinions, peppered with social faux pas aplenty will provide for He wasn't a particularly English kind of farcical comedy, dog person but one with the legs to go as far as any other Good Books have reached in the past…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910709018</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Aldous Huxley|title= Time Must Have A Stop|rating= 3|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= Sometimes we start reading "authors" as opposed to specific books, because we feel we ''should'convenience store owner'. So it was with me and Huxley. I seem s comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to remember reading open his car door and actually enjoying Tamon the classic ''Brave New World'' and so felt compelled to explore more of the oeuvredog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178487034X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michel Houellebecq and Lorin Stein (translator)0989715337|title=SubmissionPapa on the Moon|author=Marco North

|summary=What do you expect from Submission? It is after all from one of Europe's more blunt huge-sellers, one who is most forthright in his opinions, narratives and characters' sexual livesSome frogs had gotten into the well. It has become indelibly linked with a new Europe, after its reception and contents led to publicity on the cover of ''Charlie Hebdo '', which resulted Walter stood waist-deep in something less savoury than literature, to say the least. Do you expect it to be about a France of the near futurefragrant water, where a Muslim political party provides the president? Well, don't go into this submissively following your expectations.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785150243</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Rachel Elliott|title= Whispers Through A Megaphone|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Miriam doesn’t speak. Well, that’s not strictly true. She does speak, but nothing above a whisper which makes it hard to have a conversation with her. Particularly as she hasn’t left her house in three years. But today is the day. She’s going to open that door and walk outside. She really isnaked except for his beaten leather hat. Ralph has finally twigged (and with no small amount Long strands of surprise) that his wife Sadie doesn’t actually love their eggs wove around him. And now he’s not sure if she ever really did. Having spent so much time regurgitating his every moment onto Social Media, Ralph hasn’t really had a chance to think about itsticky gray pearls with tadpoles inside them. But now he has, it is so shockingly awful that he has decided to run away. And Two of all the places he could run away to, he has chosen dogs leaned over the same woods that Miriam has picked to be opening and barked down at the first place she will visit out-of-doors. And Sadie? Well, she’s had enough strange noise of reading Tweets and living vicariously through the posts of others. Sadie is going to have an adventure of her ownbuckets as he filled them. ''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0992918227</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Benjamin Johncock|title=The Last Pilot|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction |summary=You'd be forgiven How is that for assuming that debut novelist Benjamin Johncock is American: ''an opening? The Last Pilot'' has style of this novel in the literary weight form of a Great American Novelinterconnected short stories goes from succinct and laconic to wistful and musing, with turning on a limitless desert setting plus the prospect of soon dominating spacesixpence. And author Marco North, and who has the spare yet profound writing style most wonderful turn of Ernest Hemingway or Cormac McCarthy. Johncock is Britishphrase, but you can tell starts as he's taken inspiration from stories about the dawn of the astronaut age, including Tom Wolfe's ''The Right Stuff'' and films like ''Apollo 13''. His protagonist, Jim Harrison, is a fictional Air Force test pilot who rubs shoulders with historical figures like Chuck Yeager and John Glenn in the quest means to break the sound barrier and conquer spacego on.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908434848</amazonuk>