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|isbnauthor=0571362672Jeremy Cooper|title=Snow|author=John BanvilleDiscord|rating=3.5|genre=Crime (Historical)Literary Fiction|summary=''WellDiscord: a lack of agreement or harmony (as between persons, at least you're a Wexford man.''things, or ideas)

So said Colonel Osborne when he welcomed DI St John (pronounced 'Sinjun') Strafford to Ballyglass House just before Christmas 1957. Osborne was master The principal example of discord within the Keelmore Hounds and had done something memorable novel, as with the Inniskilling Dragoons at Dunkirkmost instances of discord, is easily located. The niceties had to be established even when there was a Catholic priest dead on two protagonists of the library floor with some precious bits of his anatomy missingnovel, Rebekah Rosen and Evie Bennet, are as different as they come. Strafford was from Roslea at Bunclody Rebekah is an uptight, traditional and thisno-nonsense composer close to retirement, along with his good-but-shabby suitwhile Evie is a force of nature, marked him out bounding onto the musical scene as of Osborne's class a precocious saxophonist, oozing with talent and obviously Protestantcharm. The dead priest was Father Tom Lawless from Scallanstowntwo, predictably, don't always see eye to eye, who - despite the their approaches different religions - was in the habit of spending time and Evie's progressive views at Ballyglass Houseodds with Rebekah's conservative leaning. His horse was stabled thereHowever, something connects them beyond just their musical project: a sort of fragile alliance formed within the clamour.|isbn=1804272264

|author= Tahi SaihatePolly Barton|title= Astral SeasonWhat Am I, Beastly SeasonA Deer?|rating= 3.54|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= We long Polly Barton's debut novel is an intellectually playful yet emotionally exposed work that uses translation as both subject and governing metaphor. The narrator, newly relocated from London to Berlin, works translating video games into Japanese through the process of localisation, rewriting language until it feels comfortably familiar to a new audience. Barton treats this as a paradoxical act: arguably, in striving for our past even though it universality, language is endlessly repackaged, its originality at risk of disappearing altogether. From this, the novel opens out into a place wider, resonant question: to which what extent do we can never return. Tahi Saihatetranslate ourselves in order to be understood, accepted, in or loved?|isbn=1804272175}}{{Frontpage|author=Maria Stepanova and Sasha Dugdale (Translator)|title=The Disappearing Act|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Despite her debut novel ''Astral Seasonanonymisation of place names and people, Beastly SeasonStepanova'' illustrates how these rose-tinted glasses often lies message in this short work of autofiction is unmistakable. Her novel A novelist named M travels from B (ostensibly Berlin) to the town of F for a literary festival she is to be a meditation on youth guest speaker at. Detoured by erratic train schedules and how nudged by forces beyond her control, her journey slowly bends toward a traveling circus. Swept up in this series of events, M eventually offers to step in for a circus performer who has unexpectedly left the things we do show. The train functions as a teenager can seem intensely important motif of transience and impermanence, while the circus embodies the reshaping of identity and often life-alteringa retreat into fantasy, an impulse that lies at the very heart of the novel form itself.|isbn= 19162771011804272329

|authorisbn=Laura Imai Messina295967572X|title=The Phone Box at the End of the WorldPale Pieces|author=G M Stevens

|summary= In Our unnamed narrator is about to begin a train journey with his companion Django. Where they're going and what the northeast purpose of Japanthis journey is, in Inwate Prefecture a man installed a telephone box in his gardenis uncertain. Django found the tickets ''Inside there is an old black, telephone, disconnected, that carries voices into on the wind.floor somewhere'' It is a real place, a necessary place, and I am pleased has persuaded our narrator to see accompany him. Why not? Not much else is clear either - but we are probably in the IMPORTANT NOTE that past as the author attaches pair travel to her story, that the place station by coach and the train is not a tourist destination, it is a sacred place, a place that must be left to those who really need itsteam locomotive.|isbn=178658039X

|author=Amin MaaloufMakenna Goodman|title=The DisorientedHelen of Nowhere

|summary= Adam has lived It could be argued that the pervading theme of this book is malaise - a hard-to-place feeling that something in Paris for yearsyour life is not quite right. The protagonist, speaks French more easily than a disgraced professor on the brink of losing both his native Arabiccareer and his relationship, embodies this feeling. In fact he hasn't been back to However, Goodman counteracts his homeland for 25 yearsdiscomfort with a force which is seductive, radical and unnerving: Helen. An old friend The connection between Helen and the protagonist is dying…or as Adam prefers to think indirect yet intimate. As the former owner of him the countryside house he's considering, Helen represents a former-friendvolta in his life, perhaps not as harsh as an ex-friend, or maybeher past tied to his potential fresh start. The falling out was a long time agorealtor who shows the protagonist around the house shares stories about Helen, and Adamdescribes her as ''s partner has no idea what it was aboutan entity that is pure consciousness, even so she urges him to go knowing that hebeyond form''ll regret not doing so. Not knowing whether he's going because he needs or wants toAlthough she lives in an assisted living facility now, or simply because he was asked, he's on Helen has powers beyond comprehension which the reader gets the next planesense are not altogether innocuous. |isbn=B07ZQSK9CY1804272205

|author=Joanne M HarrisOlga Tokarczuk|title=A Pocketful House of CrowsDay, House of Night

|genre= Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary= I have always been ''What's the good of the mind a world that keeps changing like that once you? How can one go on calmly living in it?'' The title of this spellbinding work, ''House of Day, House of Night're above picture', somewhat reflects this notion of shifting realities -book level and before you get the small, subtle changes which govern our lives, like the shift from day to graphic sex & violencenight, however quotidian, causing chaos. But, the constant in that image is the house, there stoic against the ancient diurnal cycle which nonetheless controls how it is no difference between books for children and books for adultsperceived. There are good books and poor ones. And Joanne Harris does not produce poor ones. |isbn=1804271918}}{{Frontpage|author=Thea Lenarduzzi|title=The Tower|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= ''A Pocketful How unctuous are the fats of Crowsanother's life, how dizzying their sugars in our bloodstream'' is clearly aimed at . In this compelling novel, Thea Lenarduzzi assumes the identity of T, the younger readers protagonist of this tale. Just as witness T's story is being told, the use story of a second protagonist is unveiled: Annie, the middle initial daughter of a wealthy family in the author19th century, who died of tuberculosis after being locked in a tower, captures T's name to differentiate from her adult offersimagination. Ignore that if you have loved anything from Annie''Chocolat'' onwards you will know that Harris s fate is mistress of the modern fairy tale, above all, an enticing story to T. This It is no differenta story which she consumes avariciously, both in a quest for truth and knowledge, and in service of myth, fable and fantasy. It is an utter delight.|isbn=14732221841804271799

|author=Frederic Beigbeder Jon Fosse and Frank Wynne Damion Searls (translator)|title=A Life Without EndVaim

|summary=I looked at the calendar the other week, and disappointedly realised I have a birthday this year – I know, yet another one. It won't be one of the major numbers, but the time when I have the same number as Heinz varieties looms on the horizon'All was strange''. And then a few of the big 0-numbers, and if all goes well, I'll be an OBE. (Which of course stands for Over Bloody Eighty.) Now if that's This haunting phrase encapsulates the extent pervading sense of my mid-life crisisotherworldliness which permeates this story set in Vaim, I guess I have to be happy. Our author here doesn't use that exact phrase, but he might be said to be living one. Determined to find out how to prolong life a fictional fishing village in Norway which paradoxically could not feel more real for as long as he wants – he would like to see 400 – he hops right into bed with the assistant to the first geneticist he interviews, Jatgeir and they end up with a childEline, which is at least a way two of continuing the life of his genes, and a motive to keep on goingprotagonists caught in its melancholic current. But how can he get to not flick the 'final way out' switch, especially when foie gras tastes so nice?|isbn=16428606701804271829

|author= Maryse CondéClaire-Louise Bennett|title= The Wondrous and Tragic Life of Ivan and IvanaBig Kiss, Bye-Bye |rating= 4.5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= We live Everything in this book, however sweet or seemingly innocent, is steeped in anguish and distortion. Even a post- world: post-colonialismkiss, post-modernismusually a symbol of intimacy and closeness, post truth. The list goes onbecomes evidence of love lost. There are numerous works that utilise When the prefix post- in their categorisation, but perhaps none more so than Maryse Condé. In her new novelnarrator cries out internally, ''The Wondrous come over here and Tragic Life of Ivan and Ivanakiss me,'', Condé writes with fervour about the scars left by colonialism on the countries it is less an invitation than a desperate attempt to which it latched itselfconfirm her emotional numbness. Ivan and Ivana are twins born in GuadeloupeThe imagined recipient of this plea is Xavier, a French overseas department. They grow up with intense and passionate feelings for each other. As they grow up and move overseasher ex-partner, the ravages of a post-colonial society drive them apart with tragic consequencesghost she conjures to test her detachment.|isbn=16428606971804271934

|author= Ukamaka OlisakweHelene Bessette and Kate Briggs (translator)|title= Ogadinma Or, Everything Will Be All RightLili is Crying|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= The new First published in 1953 in French, this novel by Ukamaka Olisakwe is a look at timeless text which wrenches the trauma hearts of its readers just as Bessette wrenches words and heartache of being a woman in 1980s Nigeria. The title is ''Ogadinma Or, Everything Will Be All Right''. Ogadinma is sentences from their proper position on the eponymous heroine of the story.. We are with her in every scene page and it is her narrative voice that leads the storypositions them elsewhere, disjointed, although Olisakwe writes in third persontruncated. This provides a sense of detachment for the reader and highlights Like the isolation lives of Ogadinma. She is exiled from her father's home and sent to Lagos where she is married to an older man named Tobe. Their marriage descends into violence and indignities and Ogadinma must utilise her resourcefulness to escapecharacters, they are often left tragically incomplete.|isbn=19116481601804271675

|author=Elliot ReedJonathan Buckley|title=A Key to Treehouse LivingOne Boat

|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=This ''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 story evocative backdrop of a young boysmall coastal Greek town, William Tyce, who is being raised by his uncle this work masterfully captures the magic of its setting and its power to provoke profound introspection. Teresa herself recognises these qualities as the reason she has visited it after the death of his mother and his father's abandonmentboth her parents. HoweverPrompted by her mourning, it isn't told in the usual her narrative way. Insteadvoice is meditative and deeply self-aware, inviting the book reader into her labyrinthine cogitations. It is made up of glossary entries, written by William, as a way book that not only requires but inspires depth of describing certain eventsthought, situations since its narrative structure is fragmentary and emotions. It runs alphabetically, starting with ABSENCE, then moving to ALPHABETICAL ORDER. As I began to read I did find myself thinking 'what ironically relies on earth?!' but I soon grew used to the style, and was instead caught up in William's storyanalepsis for its propulsion.|isbn=19115454181804271764

|author= Karina Sainz Borgo and Elizabeth Bryer (translator)Eowyn Ivey|title= It Would Be Night in CaracasBlack Woods Blue Sky|rating= 43.5|genre= Literary Fiction |summary= ''It Would Be Night in CaracasBlack Woods Blue Sky'' illuminates tells the everyday horrors story of modern day Venezuela. It begins with Birdie, the young mother of toddler Emaleen, who longs for a life beyond the death Alaskan lodge where she works as a bar waitress, a setting which enables her bad habits and her accidental neglect of Adelaida FalconEmaleen. Described as a ''wild card's mother and chronicles Adelaida's coming , she feels stuck in her day-to terms with her new solitude in this world -day life, and her attempts yearns to escape it. Danger stalks cross the shadows Wolverine river andlive on the North Fork to fulfil her desires of a simple life surrounded by nature. When she meets Arthur Nielson, in a society where the establishment is crumblingstrange, taciturn and solitary man, who can you turn says he has a cabin over there, she feels called to? go - and bring Emaleen with her. Without realising it, this calling will transform hers and Emaleen's lives forever.|isbn=00629368671472279042}}  

|isbnauthor=1471186393Sally Rooney|title=Photographer of the Lost|author=Caroline ScottIntermezzo

|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=May 1921. Edie receives a photograph through Sally Rooney has studied the post. There chessboard of life and is no letter or note with something of a grandmaster at putting itinto words. There Her dialogue is nothing written on gripping and so brilliantly frustrating, as her characters never quite say exactly what they feel. Among the back of many relationships woven into this story, the central one for readers to unravel is the photographfraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and Peter Koubek. It is Ivan, a picture of her husbandsocially awkward chess prodigy, Francis. Francis has been missing for four years. Technicallycontrasts sharply with his older brother Peter, he has been "missing, believed killed" but that is not something that a young widow can believesuccessful lawyer living in Dublin. She hangs on the word 'missingFollowing their father's passing after a long battle with cancer, disbelieving the word killedbrothers' already strained relationship faces new trials.|isbn=0571365469

|isbnauthor=1509896465Fyodor Dostoyevsky|title=The NightjarWhite Nights|rating=5|genre=Short Stories|summary=As always in Dostoyevsky, the character work 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.|isbn=0241619785}}{{Frontpage|author=Deborah HewittJames Baldwin|title=Giovanni's Room

|genre=FantasyLiterary Fiction |summary=''The NightjarGiovanni's Room' is ' follows the narrator David, an American man living in Paris, as he navigates his torturous affair with Giovanni, an unusual and exciting story. Alice Wyndham lives a normal life Italian bartender he meets in London until she finds a box on her doorstep one morning and her life begins gay bar. While David is engaged to unravelHella, who is travelling in Spain, fastthe real tension in the novel arises not from his infidelity but from the deeper conflict within himself. From It is David's crippling shame and denial of his sexuality that very ultimately dooms his relationship with Giovanni.|isbn=0141186356}}{{Frontpage|author=Alba de Cespedes |title=Forbidden Notebook|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=This Italian work of feminist fiction holds an air of suspense and tension from the momentour protagonist, Valeria Cossati, purchases her life is flooded with magicforbidden notebook, loss, expectation and particularly, betrayallearns about herself in the most intimate and revealing ways. As everything around her shifts, all that she knows, all that she thinks she knows, must change. Who can she trust? Who must she trust? Who will she trust? More importantly, can she even trust herself?|isbn=1782278222

|isbnauthor=0857058738Ottessa Moshfegh|title=Equator|author=Antonin Varenne My Year of Rest and Sam Taylor (translator)Relaxation|rating=3.5|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=It strikes me that nobody can speak well At best, this novel is a scathing critique of modern society and reveals the Wild West outside the walls fragility of a theme park. Our agent to see how bad human relationships; at worst, it was here is Pete Fergusonthe cynical, who bristles at the indignity predictable and slightly trite tale of the white man against Native 'Indian'an unlikeable protagonist. This unlikely heroine, who spends days being physically sick while indulging in a buffalo huntslim, attractive and who hates newly orphaned girl in her twenties is disillusioned with the way man – and womanworld, but resolves not to lose sleep over it: in fact, of course – can turn against fellow man at the bat of an eyelidher solution lies in her hibernation.|isbn=1784707422}}{{Frontpage|author=Matthew Tree|title=We'll Never Know|rating=4. But this book is about so much 5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than the 1870s USAto be different from his father, a drunk and the attendant problems with gold rushes, pioneer spirits chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and racial genocidewho had endless crises of self confidence. He finds So Tim applied himself trying to find this bookhis studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0C47LV1PC|title=Fragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Can you make a ''Yo birthing person''s version of Utopiajoke? And if you could, namely is the Equatorquestion should you make it? Or is the question if you did, where everything would it land? The catch is that the answer for both could well be.... no. ''Fragility'' is upside downset as the city of Portland, Oregon, people walk on their heads with rocks cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic}}{{Frontpage|author=Mosby Woods|title=A Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= The West isn't the dominant force it once was. Nobody in their pockets to keep them on the ground West is quite sure how to counter mend this or even if mending it is the anti-gravitybest course of action. Governments are flailing. A war here, and where, who knows, things might actually be bettera push for climate action there. But A feeling that equator nobody is in actual charge. Imagine then, there was a long way away – and there's man with precognition. Imagine the strategic advantage in this asset; a whole adventure full man who can tell you what will happen given any set of Mexico and Latin America between him and it… circumstances. That man would be valuable, right? Perhaps the most valuable asset in history. Imagine then, that this man loses this ability. What would governments do to get it back?|isbn=B0C9SNG8R1

|isbn=15266149600571379559|title=The Dutch Houseof Broken Bricks|author=Ann PatchettFiona Williams

|summary=When we first meet Danny and his elder sister, Maeve Conroy, they're both living at 'The Dutch House with their parents and under the gaze of Broken Bricks'' is the portraits story of four people. Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in the former owners whose oil paintings still hang house on the wallsriverbank, built of broken bricks. ItInsubstantial as it might look, it's a strange family dynamic: Cyril Conroy is distant stood the passage of time, storms and the closest Danny seems floods. Her husband, Richard, struggles to come grow his vegetables, to him is when he goes out with him on a Saturday collecting rents from properties complete the family ownsdelivery rounds - and to bring in sufficient money. Elna Conroy is lovingThey have twin boys - Sonny and Max, but absent increasingly often until the point comes when the children are told that she will not be returningrainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. In other circumstancesPeople don't believe that they're related, this might have affected Maeve much less twins and Danny deeply, but their primary relationship there's an assumption when Max is out with each other. Ithis mother that she's a bond which only death will breakhis nanny.

|isbnauthor=0954899520Claire North|title=A Winter Book|author=Tove JanssonHouse of Odysseus

|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Tove Jansson's worldwide fame lasts on '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 Moomin bookspalace of Odysseus, with delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without her husband, written in 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 1940s Western Isles. Having survived – politically and later becoming television characters 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 simplicityreturn of Orestes, King of Mycenae, naivety and sheer 'goodness' his sister Elektra, seeking refuge.|isbn=0356516075}}{{Frontpage|author= Kay Chronister|title= Desert Creatures|rating= 4|genre= Dystopian Fiction|summary= With a world that would later produce flowerpot men or teletubbiesis becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, post-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Simple drawingsWhether it is a robotic takeover, simple storiesa world devoid of water or a nuclear holocaust, simple goodnessthis genre is a way for humans to cathartically experience their most existential fears. What ''Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is often forgotten outside a new work of post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of her native Finland the fears that exist for humanity today. It is a shocking novel that she was still manages to find hope.|isbn=1803364998}}{{frontpage|isbn=1803363002|author= Eric LaRocca|title= The Trees Grew Because I Bled There|rating= 5|genre= Horror|summary= Horror taps into something primeval within us. It is used as a serious writer…that she wrote for adults way to reflect our darkest emotions and how we as well as children…and humans react and process them. Most horror fiction feature a ''Big Bad'', whether that she had is a home invader, a monster or a feeling for ghost, it usually something tangible and, by the natural world and end of the simple life that story, beatable. Eric LaRocca's ''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is not only informed those child-like trolls but went far beyond any fantasy that. It is a collection of how short stories more interested in the world might behorrors of illness, grief and humiliation. Horrors that linger and are harder to defeat than any ''Big Bad''.

|isbnauthor=0954221710Madelaine Lucas|title=The Summer Book|author=Tove JanssonThirst for Salt

|summary=Tove Jansson's short novel about Summer is several worlds away 'Love, I'd read, was supposed to be a light and weightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravity'' Told from a retrospective view, a young woman unravels the year-long relationship that once defined her. Overlaid with later wisdom, the narrator relives the Moomintrolls she is most famous for outside affair with a man twenty years her native Scandinaviasenior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the summer after. Book yourself Set against the backdrop of an afternoon this Summerisolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details 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 take yourself familial relationships and The Summer Book somewhere quiet, preferably within sight how it altered her irrevocably.|isbn=0861546490}}{{Frontpage|author= Michael Grothaus|title=Beautiful Shining People|rating=4|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= ''But fearing something and sound 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.'' ''Beautiful Shining People'' revolves around the sea, settle back question of identity and prepare acceptance. Of what it means to be transportedhuman. Of what is real and what is artificial, and whether the development of technology is exciting or frightening.|isbn=191458564X

|isbnauthor=1788542347Jennifer Saint|title=Snowflake, AZ|author=Marcus SedgwickAtalanta|rating=3.5

|summary=This is a deep''I was as worthy as any one of them. I would get on board that ship, interesting read, unlike any book I've read in quite some timevowed. The novel's story follows a young man named Ash I would take my place, not just in the process name of joining a community of sick people in the curiously named town goddess. It was for the sake of Snowflakemy name, Arizonatoo. These people are sick, but itAtalanta's not a sickness you've heard of Princess. Warrior. Lover. Hero. Instead Abandoned at birth for being born a daughter rather than a son, they're environmentally ill – affected by household chemicals Atalanta is raised under the protective eye of the goddess Athemis and fabricsfashioned into a formidable huntress, pesticidesone who longs for adventure. When the opportunity comes – to join the Argonauts, static electricitya fierce band of warriors, and radiation descendent from the Gods themselves – and their only ''cure'' is Atalanta seizes the chance to stay fight in the town away from the real world. Though itArtemis's about a real name and carve out her own legendary place, the people in it are fictionalhistory. It really What follows is a place apartwhirlwind of challenges and discovery and through it, Atalanta must remember Artemis' fatal warning: that if she marries, quite literally cut off from the outside world – people are even required to decontaminate themselves thoroughly before becoming fully integratedit will be her undoing.|isbn=1472292154

|isbnauthor=1784742716Amanthi Harris|title=Train Man|author=Andrew MulliganBeautiful Place|rating=2.5

|summary=I came to this book thinking I knew just what Padma, a young Sri Lankan, has returned to expect, even though it is [[:Category:Andy Mulligan|the author's]] debut in Villa Hibiscus on the adult novel market (hence southern coast of her home country. This is a place she spent her formative years. It is not a place she was born into, but the more mature name – he used one she thinks of as home. How she came to be an Andy). I thought at the Villa, how it simple to sum upbecame her home, and the tale of a middle-aged man who knows too much about train travel having his machinations that have flowed through her life turned around in ever since she first arrived there provide the most pleasant way. I hadn't opened it when I'd shelved it alongside [[:Category:Chris Cleave|Chris Cleave]], score'' for this gentle and [[:Category:David Nicholls|David Nicholls]]yet subtly violent novel. I expected some whimsy Padma's present fails to escape her past and much like the musical score of a film, some warmth and some affirmative lovelinessthat strand weaves its way through everything that happens at the Villa. More fool me.|isbn=1784631930

|isbn=1784631647178563335X|title=A Perfect ExplanationSea Defences|author=Eleanor AnstrutherHilary Taylor

|summary=Enid Campbell was When we first meet Rachel Bird she's a woman whotrainee vicar, sitting in on a PCC meeting and wondering why they're held when you need to pick the face of itchildren up. Her husband, Christopher, collects six-year-old Hannah and her elder brother, Jamie, had everythingwhilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioner. Thelma's daughter-in-law won't let her see her grandson. Leading Holthorpe, on the life Norfolk coast, is a lovely place, but Rachel is struggling to develop a real bond with the parish - and she's in awe of an aristocrat – full of inherited wealth and splendourthe vicar, Gail, glamourous locales and high expectations. Only Enidbut then she's life has been plagued by mental illness – undiagnosed, untreated doing the job for more than thirty years. Rachel and Christopher hoped that a walk on the beach would do them some good - it was stormy but it was probably what they needed. And then Hannah went missing.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1398515388|title=The Boy and threatening both Enid the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and those close to herAlison Watts (translator)|rating=4. After losing custody 5|genre=General Fiction|summary=First of her childrenall, it was the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, Enid sells her son to her sister for £500 – but is which created the tsunami and this an act of greed, or an act in turn, caused the nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and utter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, and the loss of desperation? Exploring livelihoods was widespread. The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the true story list of her own grandmother, Eleanor Anstruther has found priorities but - six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. He wasn't a dog person but the perfect subject for an explosive, moving convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and beautifully well-written debutTamon the dog jumped in.

|isbn=191070962X0989715337|title=The ChokePapa on the Moon|author=Sofie LagunaMarco North|rating=24

|summary=There's a dull, dispiriting pang of disappointment that comes when you try something everyone else loves and find out that you're really not Some frogs had gotten into itthe well. Coffee'' ''Walter stood waist-deep in the fragrant water, naked except for his beaten leather hat. Ice skatingLong strands of their eggs wove around him, sticky gray pearls with tadpoles inside them. A new Netflix seriesTwo of the dogs leaned over the opening and barked down at the strange noise of the buckets as he filled them. Books are like '' How is thatfor an opening? The style of this novel in the form of interconnected short stories goes from succinct and laconic to wistful and musing, turning on a sixpence. And author Marco North, who has the most wonderful turn of phrase, but doubly sostarts as he means to go on.