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|author=Jeremy Cooper|title=Discord|rating= 3.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Discord: a lack of agreement or harmony (as between persons, things, or ideas) The principal example of discord within the novel, as with most instances of discord, is easily located. The two protagonists of the novel, Rebekah Rosen and Evie Bennet, are as different as they come. Rebekah is an uptight, traditional and no-nonsense composer close to retirement, while Evie is a force of nature, bounding onto the musical scene as a precocious saxophonist, oozing with talent and charm. The two, predictably, don't always see eye to eye, their approaches different and Evie's progressive views at odds with Rebekah's conservative leaning. However, something connects them beyond just their musical project: a sort of fragile alliance formed within the clamour.|isbn=1804272264}}{{Frontpage|author=Polly Barton|title=What Am I, A Deer?|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=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 universality, language is endlessly repackaged, its originality at risk of disappearing altogether. From this, the novel opens out into a wider, resonant question: to what extent do we translate ourselves in order to be understood, accepted, or loved?|isbn=1804272175}}{{Frontpage|author=Maria Stepanova and Sasha Dugdale (Translator)|title=The Disappearing Act|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Despite her anonymisation of place names and people, Stepanova's message in this short work of autofiction is unmistakable. A novelist named M travels from B (ostensibly Berlin) to the town of F for a literary festival she is to be a guest speaker at. Detoured by erratic train schedules and 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 show. The train functions as a motif of transience and impermanence, while the circus embodies the reshaping of identity and a retreat into fantasy, an impulse that lies at the very heart of the novel form itself.|isbn=B098FFFBH91804272329}}{{Frontpage|isbn=295967572X|title=SnowcubPale 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=Graham FulbrightMakenna Goodman|title=Helen of Nowhere
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|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=FourteenIt could be argued that the pervading theme of this book is malaise -yeara hard-old Rachel to-place feeling that something in your life is her school's animal rights project leader not quite right. The protagonist, a disgraced professor on the brink of losing both his career and she and her friend are producing his relationship, embodies this feeling. However, Goodman counteracts his discomfort with a competition entry to highlight the way in force which human beings exploit is seductive, radical and unnerving: Helen. The connection between Helen and the animal worldprotagonist is indirect yet intimate. She gets a great deal As the former owner of support from her family: father Pip Harrisonthe countryside house he's considering, Helen represents a lecturer at Imperial Collegevolta in his life, Londonher past tied to his potential fresh start. The realtor who shows the protagonist around the house shares stories about Helen, mother Kate and describes her twinas ''an entity that is pure consciousness, Nickbeyond form''. Kate runs the family business, a toy shop called Cornucopia Although she lives in Putneyan assisted living facility now, Helen has powers beyond comprehension which is where we'll meet Rachel's main (if unsuspected) source of information: five soft toysthe reader gets the sense are not altogether innocuous.|isbn=1804272205
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|author=Yancey WilliamsOlga Tokarczuk|title=Crosshairs House of Day, House of Night|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''What's the good of a world that keeps changing like that? How can one go on calmly living in it?'' The title of this spellbinding work, ''House of Day, House of Night'', somewhat reflects this notion of shifting realities - the small, subtle changes which govern our lives, like the shift from day to night, however quotidian, causing chaos. But, the constant in that image is the house, stoic against the ancient diurnal cycle which nonetheless controls how it is perceived.|isbn=1804271918}}{{Frontpage|author=Thea Lenarduzzi|title=The Tower|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= ''How unctuous are the fats of another's life, 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 wealthy family in the Devil19th century, who died of tuberculosis after being locked in a tower, captures T's imagination. Annie's fate is, above all, an enticing story to T. It is a story which she consumes avariciously, both in a quest for truth and knowledge, and in service of myth, fable and fantasy. |isbn=1804271799}}{{Frontpage|author=Jon Fosse and Damion Searls (translator) |title=Vaim|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Award-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski is getting on in years and, despite his strenuous objections and thanks to his daughter, finds himself living - or imprisoned, from Eddie's point 'All was strange''... This haunting phrase encapsulates the pervading sense of view - otherworldliness which permeates this story set in room 315 of the Garden of Eden nursing homeVaim, with only a trusty nursing aide, Jenkins, for palatable company. Nothing is going to keep Eddie from his stock-fictional fishing village in-trade of writing though, so here, Norway which paradoxically could not feel more real for his readersJatgeir and Eline, are his wanderings through his life's worktwo of the protagonists caught in its melancholic current.|isbn=09860316581804271829}}
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|isbnauthor=0008421714Claire-Louise Bennett|title=Mrs March|author=Virginia FeitoBig Kiss, Bye-Bye
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The problem began just after the publication of George March's most successful novel to date. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the last page) seemed to either be reading it Everything in this book, however sweet or had already done soseemingly innocent, is steeped in anguish and distortion. Every day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morningEven a kiss, Patricia askedusually a symbol of intimacy and closeness, as she was wrapping becomes evidence of love lost. When the breadnarrator cries out internally, ''but isncome over here and kiss me,'t this the first time he's based it is less an invitation than a character on you?'' She mentioned that Johanna, the principal character had 'desperate attempt to confirm her mannerisms''emotional numbness. Perhaps The imagined recipient of this would not have matteredplea is Xavier, except for the fact that Johanna is the whore of Nantes her ex- ''partner, a weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretchghost she conjures to test her detachment.''|isbn=1804271934
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|isbnauthor=B005FM76AAHelene Bessette and Kate Briggs (translator)|title=The Duke's Children|author=Anthony TrollopeLili is Crying
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The story opens to probably the worst news of all: Lady Glencora Palliser First published in 1953 in French, this novel is dead. Her husband, Plantagenet Palliser, a timeless text which wrenches the Duke hearts of Omnium, is nearly paralysed by grief its readers just as Bessette wrenches words and struggling - at sentences from their proper position on the same time - to adjust to no longer being prime minister, or even in office. He seeks to protect page and guide his three adult children, which is easier said than done when none of positions them wishes to ''be'' guided. Silverbridge (his elder sonelsewhere, actually called Plantagenet, but always known by his title) and Gerald are destined to be sent down from Oxford and Cambridge respectively and to run up gambling debtsdisjointed, occasionally in eye-watering sumstruncated. Lady Helen has fallen in love with - and wishes to marry - Frank Tregear, Like the penniless son lives of a poor squireher characters, which the Duke cannot countenance, not least because he sees echos of what might have happened when he married Lady Glencora. He's about to learn that parents do not always get their waythey are often left tragically incomplete.|isbn=1804271675
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|isbnauthor=B004O37B6AJonathan Buckley|title=The Prime Minister|author=Anthony TrollopeOne Boat
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Plantagenet Palliser''One Boat'' is a deeply introspective novella that defies traditional narrative structure, drawing the Duke reader into a contemplative realm of Omniumphilosophical musings and fragmented memories flowing from our narrator and protagonist, is Teresa. Set against the prime minister evocative backdrop of a coalition government but he's privately enraged at small coastal Greek town, 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 seemingly unstoppable rise death of Ferdinand Lopezboth her parents. Lopex Prompted by her mourning, her narrative voice is exotic meditative and deeply self- some describe him as Jewishaware, others as Portuguese but inviting the truth reader into her labyrinthine cogitations. It is a book that no one knows and Lopez is not going to explain. The ladies only requires but inspires depth of society, even Palliser's own wifethought, Lady Glencora, are supporters but after Lopez makes an advantageous marriage Palliser since its narrative structure is placed in the position of having to support his wife's actions when Lopez loses a by-election. The Duke's payment of Lopez' election expenses in an attempt to stem gossip about his wife will come back to haunt himfragmentary and ironically relies on analepsis for its propulsion.|isbn=1804271764
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|isbnauthor=B00474HVX4Eowyn Ivey|title=Phineas Redux|author=Anthony TrollopeBlack Woods Blue Sky|rating=43.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=It's some time since we heard from [[Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope|Phineas Finn]]. Having succeeded in parliament and achieved 'Black Woods Blue Sky'' tells the story of Birdie, the young mother of toddler Emaleen, who longs for a paying position he fell out with those who provided his income and returned to Ireland life beyond the Alaskan lodge where he married Maryshe works as a bar waitress, his childhood sweethearta setting which enables her bad habits and her accidental neglect of Emaleen. He was fortunate to get Described as a job ''wild card'', she feels stuck in Cork (or Dublin her day-to- recollections may vary) day life, and yearns to cross the Wolverine river and seemed settled into live on the North Fork to fulfil her desires of a simple life of domesticitysurrounded by nature. To bring Finn backWhen she meets Arthur Nielson, a strange, taciturn and solitary man, who says he has a cabin over there, Trollope had she feels called to kill off poor Mary go - and Phineas emerges in London as a childless widower bring Emaleen with a legacy from an aunt who died at just the right time to allow the move to be possibleher. Without realising it, this calling will transform hers and Emaleen's lives forever.|isbn=1472279042
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|author=Jessie GreengrassSally Rooney|title=The High HouseIntermezzo
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=Charles Darwin taught that all living matter evolved to pass on its genetic material with Sally Rooney has studied the implied belief that your progeny will then pass on theirs. However, that train chessboard of thought life and is slowly seems to have fallen out something of favoura grandmaster at putting it into words. Today's young generation are discovering that their parents Her dialogue is gripping and their parents' parents did not seem 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 think that far ahead. Or they did think that far ahead unravel is the fraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and thought "it's not my problem" or "there's nothing I can do"Peter Koubek. Raising Ivan, a socially awkward chess prodigy, contrasts sharply with his older brother Peter, a child and successful lawyer living in Dublin. Following their father's passing after a world on long battle with cancer, the precipice of catastrophe is what drives brothers''The High House'' by Jessie Greengrass. This is not a science-fiction novel. This is our reality. This is the life our children and their children will have to livealready strained relationship faces new trials.|isbn=18007500720571365469
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|author=Charlie CarrollFyodor Dostoyevsky|title=The LipWhite 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.
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|author=James Baldwin
|title=Giovanni's Room
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=''Giovanni's Room'' follows the narrator David, an American man living in Paris, as he navigates his torturous affair with Giovanni, an Italian bartender he meets in a gay bar. While David is engaged to Hella, who is travelling in Spain, the real tension in the novel arises not from his infidelity but from the deeper conflict within himself. It is David's crippling shame and denial of his sexuality that ultimately dooms his relationship with Giovanni.
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|author=Alba de Cespedes
|title=Forbidden Notebook
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=''Melody Janie Rowe'' even the name is evocative of…probably This Italian work of feminist fiction holds an air of whatever we want it to be, suspense and maybe that's tension from the point. To me the name sings of English folk musicmoment our protagonist, Valeria Cossati, purchases her forbidden notebook, but even and learns about herself in my use of that word English, I know I'm putting an emmet take on things. And Melody Janie Rowe is anti-emmetthe most intimate and revealing ways. |isbn=15293341791782278222
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|isbnauthor=B003UH99X4Ottessa Moshfegh|title=The Eustace Diamonds|author=Anthony TrollopeMy Year of Rest and Relaxation|rating=53
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=It was generally thought that Sir Florian Eustace had come to regret his marriage but he didn't live long enough for At best, this to become novel is a problem. After his deathscathing critique of modern society and reveals the fragility of human relationships; at worst, his wifeit is the cynical, Lizzie - still only in her late teens - was in possession predictable and slightly trite tale of an unlikeable protagonist. This unlikely heroine, a very valuable diamond necklace slim, attractive and was determined that she would not hand it over to newly orphaned girl in her husband's executors. She was adamant that Sir Florian had given it to her absolutelytwenties is disillusioned with the world, although the precise circumstances of the giving varied from telling to telling. Lady Eustace was but resolves not a woman to whom truth meant a great deal. All that was important to her now, she maintainedlose sleep over it: in fact, was her son. And, of course, solution lies in her diamondshibernation.|isbn=1784707422
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|isbnauthor=B003L7TDMUMatthew Tree|title=Phineas Finn|author=Anthony TrollopeWe'll Never Know
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Phineas Finn is the son of Dr Malachi Finn, a successful doctor in Killaloe in County Clare, who sent his son to London to train as a lawyer. Phineas's interest is Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more in making influential friends than in becoming to be different from his father, a lawyer drunk and one chronic underachiever whose dreams of them, Barrington Erle, suggests that he runs for Parliament in the forthcoming election. His father is not entirely in favour being exceptional at any of this as members are not remunerated his artistic passions all failed miserably and it would be up who had endless crises of self confidence. So Tim applied himself to him to provide financial support for his son as well as funding studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his election. One of the doctor's patients is Lord Tulla who controls the borough of Loughshane daydreams and by this stroke of luck Finn is, eventually, elected by a small marginset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8
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|isbn=B003A6W0FOB0C47LV1PC|title=Can You Forgive Her?Fragility|author=Anthony TrollopeMosby Woods|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=On the surface Can you make a ''Can You Forgive Her?Yo birthing person'' looks deceptively simple: joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, would it's land? The catch is that the story of one woman and two men who are vying with each other answer for her loveboth could well be.. Alice Vavasor was originally engaged to her cousin, George Vavasor but she broke off that engagement and later became engaged to John Grey. When we first meet Alice she's on an extended tour of the continent with George Vavasor and his sister Kate. It's obvious that there's still a great deal of chemistry between John and Alice - and Kate is all for encouraging the relationship as it would tie Alice to herno. George wants Alice but it's a matter of ''amour propreFragility'' rather than love: he has little consideration for anyone other than himself and the original engagement had fallen through because of his infidelity and deceitfulness. This thread is set as the story city of a very complicated love affair and a woman who lacks confidence in her own judgement. You might not like Alice Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to start with but you will warm to her.emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic
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|author=Lucy HollandMosby Woods|title=SistersongA Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=54
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Sistersong The West isn't the dominant force it once was. Nobody in the West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is part of a genre I particularly enjoy, the modern retelling best course of folk and fairy talesaction. Governments are flailing. These storiesA war here, a push for most of usclimate action there. A feeling that nobody is in actual charge. Imagine then, are there was a cornerstone of childhood and I relish seeing them retold man with fresh eyes and a fresh perspectiveprecognition. If handled well these retellings give new life and new meaning to stories that are now becoming increasingly narrow and outdated, fleshing out characters, examining relationships and re-evaluating Imagine the role strategic advantage in this asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of womencircumstances. Sistersong is a perfect example of a modern retelling done wellThat man would be valuable, right? Perhaps the plot is handled with care, keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing the characters to come to life, to feel real and human, most importantly they feel relatable in a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the pre-Saxon age they live valuable asset inhistory. Imagine then, that this man loses this ability. This is a masterpiece of storytelling and I was captivated from beginning What would governments do to end.get it back?|isbn=1529039037B0C9SNG8R1
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|isbn=B002SQCYWQ0571379559|title=The Complete Barchester ChroniclesHouse of Broken Bricks|author=Anthony TrollopeFiona Williams
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=When I told my daughter that I didn't know what to listen to now that I'd finished [[The Complete NovelsHouse of Broken Bricks'' is the story of four people. Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: Sense and Sensibilitytemperamentally she might be happier there, Pride and Prejudicebut instead, Mansfield Parkshe lives in the house on the riverbank, Emmabuilt of broken bricks. Insubstantial as it might look, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion by Jane Austen|The Complete Novels it's stood the passage of Jane Austen]] for the second time on the trot she had , storms and floods. Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the perfect answer: The Barchester Chronicles delivery rounds - and they were to bring in my inbox in a matter of minutessufficient money. Theyhave twin boys - Sonny and Max, the rainbow twins. Sonny're not s colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. People don'quite'' as well known as the Austen books but t believe that they're related, much less twins and there's an excellent follow onassumption when Max is out with his mother that she's his nanny.
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|isbnauthor=B077K6BQFDClaire North|title=The Complete Novels: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion |author=Jane AustenHouse of Odysseus
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Yes ''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 thatClytemnestra brought to Ithaca's over eightyshores, 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}}{{Frontpage|author= Kay Chronister|title= Desert Creatures|rating= 4|genre= Dystopian Fiction|summary= With a world that is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, post-one hours apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Whether it is a robotic takeover, a world devoid of listening water or a nuclear holocaust, this genre is a way for humans to cathartically experience their most existential fears. ''Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is a new work of post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the purchase fears that exist for humanity today. It is a shocking novel that still manages to find hope.|isbn=1803364998}}{{frontpage|isbn=1803363002|author= Eric LaRocca|title= The Trees Grew Because I Bled There|rating= 5|genre= Horror|summary= Horror taps into something primeval within us. It is used as a way to reflect our darkest emotions and how we as humans react and process them. Most horror fiction feature a ''Big Bad'', whether that is a home invader, a monster or a ghost, it usually something tangible and, by the end of one audio bookthe story, beatable. All six major novels are read by conmedienne Alison Larkin and theyEric LaRocca's ''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There''re presented is not like that. It is a collection of short stories more interested in the order in which they were publishedhorrors of illness, grief and humiliation. Horrors that linger and are harder to defeat than any ''Big Bad''.
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|author=Andrea Bajani and Elizabeth Harris (translator)Madelaine Lucas|title=If You Kept a Record of SinsThirst for Salt|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=This ''Love, I'd read, was an incredibly readable novellasupposed to be a light and weightless feeling, but one that left me I had always longed for gravity'' Told from a little conflicted. We start as our hero arrives at Bucharest airportretrospective view, and before we even know his gender or a young woman unravels the nature of the person he's addressing in his second person monologue of a narrationyear-long relationship that once defined her. Overlaid with later wisdom, we see him picked up by his mother's chauffeur, and carted off to do all the necessary introductions before said mother is buried narrator relives the following day. The mother was affair with a businesswoman, who clearly left northern Italy and settled in Romania with man twenty years her (night-time and business) partner, and feelings of abandonment are still strong. And so we flit senior from current (well, this came out in its inception – the original Italian in 2007, so moderately current) Bucharest, 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 lad24-year-old narrator's childhooddeepening relationship with her older lover, depicting its all-consuming nature, how it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and see just what he has to tell how it altered her as a private farewell addressirrevocably.|isbn=19398109650861546490
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|author=Afonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)Michael Grothaus|title=Kokoschka's DollBeautiful Shining People|rating=2.54|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Well, this looked very much like a book I could love from the get-go, which is why I picked my review copy up ''But fearing something and flipped pages over several times before actually reading any of having itcome to pass are two different things. And I found things 'm willing to potentially delight me each time – a weird section in the middle on darker stock paperbet most of what we fear will never happen, a chapter whose number was in or we can take steps to change it.'' ''Beautiful Shining People'' revolves around the 20,000s, letters used as narrative form, question of identity and so onacceptance. It intrigued with the subterranean voice a man hears in wartorn Dresden that Of what little I knew of it mentioned, toomeans to be human. But you've seen the star rating that comes with this reviewOf what is real and what is artificial, and can tell that if love was on these pages, it was not actually caused by themwhether the development of technology is exciting or frightening. So what happened?|isbn=1529402697191458564X
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|isbnauthor=0571362672Jennifer Saint|title=Snow|author=John BanvilleAtalanta
|rating=5
|genre=Crime (Historical)Literary Fiction|summary=''WellI was as worthy as any one of them. I would get on board that ship, I vowed. I would take my place, not just in the name of the goddess. It was for the sake of my name, at least you're a Wexford mantoo.Atalanta'' Princess. Warrior. Lover. Hero.
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|author= Tahi SaihateAmanthi Harris|title= Astral Season, Beastly SeasonBeautiful Place|rating= 3.5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= We long for our past even though it Padma, a young Sri Lankan, has returned to the Villa Hibiscus on the 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 one she thinks of as home. How she came to which we can never return. Tahi Saihatebe at the Villa, how it became her home, in and the machinations that have flowed through her debut novel life ever since she first arrived there provide the ''Astral Season, Beastly Seasonscore'' illustrates how these rose-tinted glasses often liefor this gentle and yet subtly violent novel. Her novel is a meditation on youth Padma's present fails to escape her past and how much like the things we do as musical score of a teenager can seem intensely important and often life-alteringfilm, that strand weaves its way through everything that happens at the Villa.|isbn= 19162771011784631930
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|authorisbn=Laura Imai Messina178563335X|title=The Phone Box at the End of the WorldSea Defences|author=Hilary Taylor
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= In the northeast of JapanWhen we first meet Rachel Bird she's a trainee vicar, sitting in Inwate Prefecture on a man installed a telephone box in his gardenPCC meeting and wondering why they're held when you need to pick the children up. ''Inside there is an Her husband, Christopher, collects six-year-old blackHannah and her elder brother, telephoneJamie, disconnected, that carries voices into the windwhilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioner. Thelma's daughter-in-law won' It t let her see her grandson. Holthorpe, on the Norfolk coast, is a real lovely place, but Rachel is struggling to develop a necessary place, real bond with the parish - and I am pleased to see she's in awe of the IMPORTANT NOTE that vicar, Gail, but then she's been doing the author attaches to her story, job for more than thirty years. Rachel and Christopher hoped that a walk on the place is not a tourist destination, beach would do them some good - it is a sacred place, a place that must be left to those who really need was stormy but itwas probably what they needed. And then Hannah went missing.|isbn=178658039X
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|authorisbn=Amin Maalouf1398515388|title=The DisorientedBoy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=First of all, it was the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and this, in turn, caused the nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and utter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, and the loss of livelihoods was widespread. The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of priorities but - six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. He wasn't a dog person but the convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and Tamon the dog jumped in.
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|isbn=0989715337
|title=Papa on the Moon
|author=Marco North
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= Adam has lived ''Some frogs had gotten into the well.'' ''Walter stood waist-deep in Paris the fragrant water, naked except for years, speaks French more easily than his native Arabic. In fact he hasn't been back to his homeland for 25 yearsbeaten leather hat. An old friend is dying…or as Adam prefers to think Long strands of their eggs wove around him a former-friend, perhaps not as harsh sticky gray pearls with tadpoles inside them. Two of the dogs leaned over the opening and barked down at the strange noise of the buckets as he filled them.'' How is that for an ex-friendopening? The style of this novel in the form of interconnected short stories goes from succinct and laconic to wistful and musing, or maybeturning on a sixpence. The falling out was a long time agoAnd author Marco North, and Adam's partner who has no idea what it was aboutthe most wonderful turn of phrase, even so she urges him starts as he means to go knowing that he'll regret not doing so. Not knowing whether he's going because he needs or wants to, or simply because he was asked, he's on the next plane. |isbn=B07ZQSK9CY
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