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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.
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|isbnauthor=0989715337Polly Barton|title=Papa on the Moon|author=Marco NorthWhat Am I, A Deer?
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Polly Barton''Some frogs had gotten 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 wellprocess of localisation, rewriting language until it feels comfortably familiar to a new audience.'' ''Walter stood waist-deep Barton treats this as a paradoxical act: arguably, in the fragrant waterstriving for universality, naked except for his beaten leather hat. Long strands of their eggs wove around himlanguage is endlessly repackaged, sticky gray pearls with tadpoles inside them. Two of the dogs leaned over the opening and barked down its originality at the strange noise risk of the buckets as he filled themdisappearing altogether.'' How is that for an opening? The style of From this , the novel opens out into a wider, resonant question: to what extent do we translate ourselves in the form of interconnected short stories goes from succinct and laconic order to wistful and musing, turning on a sixpence. And author Marco Northbe understood, who has the most wonderful turn of phraseaccepted, starts as he means to go on.or loved?|isbn=1804272175
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|author=Daisy HildyardMaria Stepanova and Sasha Dugdale (Translator)|title=EmergencyThe 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=1804272329}}{{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.}}The {{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 doesnis malaise - 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't come close s considering, Helen represents a volta in his life, her past tied to explaining what 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 done with pure consciousness, beyond form''. Although she lives in an assisted living facility now, Helen has powers beyond comprehension which the reader gets the premisesense are not altogether innocuous.|isbn=19130978111804272205}} {{Frontpage|author=Olga Tokarczuk|title=House of Day, House of Night|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''What's the good of a world that keeps changing like that? How can one go on calmly living in it?''
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|author=Natalia Garcia FreireThea Lenarduzzi|title=This World Does Not Belong To UsThe Tower
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= Early comments on ''How unctuous are the fats of another's life, how dizzying their sugars in our bloodstream''. In this debut compelling novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendous, a delightThea Lenarduzzi assumes the identity of T, the protagonist of this tale. I will agree with Just as T's story is being told, the first – tremendous story of a second protagonist is no understatement – but 'unveiled: Annie, the daughter of a delight' is perhaps using wealthy family in the expression 19th century, who died of tuberculosis after being locked in a way Itower, captures T'm not familiar withs imagination. I have Annie's fate is, above all, an enticing story to confess my ignorance of the Spanish-language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation hereT. From the little I have read (It is a story which she consumes avariciously, both in a quest for truth and knowledge, and in translationservice of myth, I don't read Spanish) there does seem to be a tendency towards the fantastical – the mystical realismfable and fantasy. |isbn=08615419011804271799
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|author=Jennifer SaintJon Fosse and Damion Searls (translator) |title=ElektraVaim
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary='Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells All was strange''... This haunting phrase encapsulates the pervading sense of otherworldliness which permeates this story of three women who live set in the heavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. CassandraVaim, Clytemnestraa fictional fishing village in Norway which paradoxically could not feel more real for Jatgeir and Eline, and Elektra are all bit players in the story two of the Trojan War. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the silent women have the most compelling stories and the most extreme furiesprotagonists caught in its melancholic current.|isbn=14722739151804271829
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|isbnauthor=8409290103Claire-Louise Bennett|title=If OnlyBig Kiss, Bye-Bye |rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Everything in this book, however sweet or seemingly innocent, is steeped in anguish and distortion. Even a kiss, usually a symbol of intimacy and closeness, becomes evidence of love lost. When the narrator cries out internally, ''come over here and kiss me,'' it is less an invitation than a desperate attempt to confirm her emotional numbness. The imagined recipient of this plea is Xavier, her ex-partner, a ghost she conjures to test her detachment.|isbn=1804271934}}{{Frontpage|author=Matthew TreeHelene Bessette and Kate Briggs (translator)|title=Lili is Crying
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Twenty-one-year-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by his fatherFirst published in 1953 in French, cotton-broker AO Lowry: he asked his accountant, Mr Patrick, to ensure that this novel is a timeless text which wrenches the young man got hearts of its readers just as Bessette wrenches words and sentences from their proper position on board the boat page and thereafter Patrick was to send him a monthly allowancepositions them elsewhere, disjointed, truncated. Patrick sent Like the money regularly and a correspondence - lives of sorts - sprang up between the two although we hear more about what Lowry has to say than Patrick. It wasn't that Lowry senior didn't care for his sonher characters, it was that he didn't care to have him in this country where he might be a danger to his wife and other children. The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to get the young man on his waythey are often left tragically incomplete.|isbn=1804271675
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|author=Antoine LaurainJonathan Buckley|title=One Boat|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= ''One Boat'' is a deeply introspective novella that defies traditional narrative structure, Le Sonneur drawing the reader into a contemplative realm of philosophical musings and Jane Aitken (translator)fragmented memories flowing from our narrator and protagonist, Teresa. Set against the evocative backdrop of a 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 death of both her parents. Prompted by her mourning, her narrative voice is meditative and deeply self-aware, inviting the reader into her labyrinthine cogitations. It is a book that not only requires but inspires depth of thought, since its narrative structure is fragmentary and ironically relies on analepsis for its propulsion.|isbn=1804271764}}{{Frontpage|author=Eowyn Ivey|title=Red is My HeartBlack Woods Blue Sky
|rating=3.5
|genre=Literary Fiction |summary=[[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black ''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 bar waitress, a setting which enables her bad habits and white and read in my househer accidental neglect of Emaleen. And so was this oneDescribed as a ''wild card'', although I could have spelled that more accurately – this one wasshe feels stuck in her day-to-day life, and isyearns to cross the Wolverine river and live on the North Fork to fulfil her desires of a simple life surrounded by nature. When she meets Arthur Nielson, black and white a strange, taciturn and red. Yessolitary man, who says he has an artistic collaborator on this piecea cabin over there, she feels called to go - and I think bring Emaleen with her. Without realising it, this calling will transform hers and Emaleen's possible to say not one page lacks the influence of some striking visual ideaslives forever.|isbn=19135471831472279042
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|isbnauthor=B098FFFBH9Sally Rooney|title=Snowcub|author=Graham FulbrightIntermezzo
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=Fourteen-year-old Rachel Sally Rooney has studied the chessboard of life and is something of a grandmaster at putting it into words. Her dialogue is her school's animal rights project leader and she gripping and so brilliantly frustrating, as her friend are producing a competition entry characters never quite say exactly what they feel. Among the many relationships woven into this story, the central one for readers to highlight unravel is the way in which human beings exploit the animal worldfraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and Peter Koubek. She gets a great deal of support from her family: father Pip HarrisonIvan, a lecturer at Imperial Collegesocially awkward chess prodigy, Londoncontrasts sharply with his older brother Peter, mother Kate and her twina successful lawyer living in Dublin. Following their father's passing after a long battle with cancer, Nickthe brothers' already strained relationship faces new trials. Kate runs |isbn=0571365469}}{{Frontpage|author=Fyodor Dostoyevsky|title=White Nights|rating=5|genre=Short Stories|summary=As always in Dostoyevsky, the family business, character work is sublime. One is never left wondering what a toy shop called Cornucopia in Putney, which character is where we'll meet Rachel's main (if unsuspected) source of information: five soft toysthinking or feeling because Dostoyevsky lays bare their innermost dispositions and temperaments with remarkable clarity.|isbn=0241619785
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|author=Yancey WilliamsJames Baldwin|title=Crosshairs of the DevilGiovanni'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=Award-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski is getting on in years This Italian work of feminist fiction holds an air of suspense and, despite his strenuous objections and thanks to his daughter, finds himself living - or imprisoned, tension from Eddie's point of view - in room 315 of the Garden of Eden nursing homemoment our protagonist, with only a trusty nursing aideValeria Cossati, Jenkinspurchases her forbidden notebook, for palatable company. Nothing is going to keep Eddie from his stock-and learns about herself in-trade of writing though, so here, for his readers, are his wanderings through his life's workthe most intimate and revealing ways.|isbn=09860316581782278222}}
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|isbnauthor=0008421714Ottessa Moshfegh|title=Mrs March|author=Virginia FeitoMy Year of Rest and Relaxation|rating=4.53
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The problem began just after At best, this novel is a scathing critique of modern society and reveals the publication fragility 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 human relationships; at worst, it or had already done so. Every day Mrs March went to is the local patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morningcynical, Patricia askedpredictable and slightly trite tale of an unlikeable protagonist. This unlikely heroine, as she was wrapping the bread, ''but isn't this the first time he's based a character on you?'' She mentioned that Johannaslim, the principal character had 'attractive and newly orphaned girl in her mannerisms''. Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for the fact that Johanna twenties is disillusioned with the whore of Nantes - ''a weakworld, plainbut resolves not to lose sleep over it: in fact, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretchher solution lies in her hibernation.''|isbn=1784707422
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|isbnauthor=B005FM76AAMatthew Tree|title=The DukeWe's Children|author=Anthony Trollopell Never Know
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The story opens Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to probably the worst news be different from his father, a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all: Lady Glencora Palliser is dead. Her husband, Plantagenet Palliser, the Duke failed miserably and who had endless crises of Omnium, is nearly paralysed by grief and struggling - at the same time - to adjust to no longer being prime minister, or even in officeself confidence. He seeks So Tim applied himself to protect and guide his three adult childrenstudies, which is easier said cultivated his abilities rather than done when none of them wishes to ''be'' guided. Silverbridge (his elder son, actually called Plantagenet, daydreams and set himself high but always known by his title) and Gerald are destined to be sent down from Oxford and Cambridge respectively and to run up gambling debts, occasionally in eye-watering sums. Lady Helen has fallen in love with - and wishes to marry - Frank Tregear, the penniless son of a poor squire, 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 wayachievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8
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|isbn=B004O37B6AB0C47LV1PC|title=The Prime MinisterFragility|author=Anthony TrollopeMosby Woods
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Plantagenet PalliserCan you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the Duke of Omnium, question should you make it? Or is the prime minister of a coalition government but he's privately enraged at the seemingly unstoppable rise of Ferdinand Lopez. Lopex is exotic - some describe him as Jewishquestion if you did, others as Portuguese but the truth would it land? The catch is that the answer for both could well be.... no one knows and Lopez is not going to explain. The ladies of society, even Palliser ''Fragility''s own wife, Lady Glencora, are supporters but after Lopez makes an advantageous marriage Palliser is placed in set as the position city of having Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins 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 him.emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic
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|isbnauthor=B00474HVX4Mosby Woods|title=Phineas Redux|author=Anthony TrollopeA Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=ItThe West isn's some time since we heard from [[Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope|Phineas Finn]]t the dominant force it once was. Having succeeded Nobody in parliament and achieved a paying position he fell out with those who provided his income and returned the West is quite sure how to Ireland where he married Marymend this or even if mending it is the best course of action. Governments are flailing. A war here, his childhood sweethearta push for climate action there. He A feeling that nobody is in actual charge. Imagine then, there was fortunate to get a job man with precognition. Imagine the strategic advantage in Cork (or Dublin - recollections may vary) and seemed settled into this asset; a life man who can tell you what will happen given any set of domesticitycircumstances. To bring Finn backThat man would be valuable, Trollope had to kill off poor Mary and Phineas emerges in London as a childless widower with a legacy from an aunt who died at just the right time to allow ? Perhaps the move most valuable asset in history. Imagine then, that this man loses this ability. What would governments do to be possible.get it back?|isbn=B0C9SNG8R1
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|authorisbn=Jessie Greengrass0571379559|title=The High Houseof Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Charles Darwin taught that all living matter evolved to pass ''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the story of four people. Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in the house on its genetic material with the implied belief that your progeny will then pass on theirs. Howeverriverbank, that train of thought is slowly seems to have fallen out built of favourbroken bricks. Today Insubstantial as it might look, it's young generation are discovering that their parents stood the passage of time, storms and floods. Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the delivery rounds - and their parents' parents did not seem to think that far aheadbring in sufficient money. Or they did think that far ahead They have twin boys - Sonny and thought "itMax, the rainbow twins. Sonny's not my problem" or "therecolouring reflects his mother's nothing I can do"Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. Raising a child and living in a world on the precipice of catastrophe is what drives People don't believe that they'The High Housere related, much less twins and there's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she' 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 lives his nanny.|isbn=1800750072
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|author=Charlie CarrollClaire North|title=The LipHouse of Odysseus
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''Melody Janie RoweWhat could matter more than love?'' even The follow-up to the excellent ''Ithaca'' picks up a few months after where we left off. In the name is evocative of…probably palace of whatever we want it Odysseus, with delicate care Queen Penelope continues to berule without her husband, who sailed to war at Troy and maybe 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 shores, Queen Penelope is on the pointbrink of a fragile peace. To me One that shatters however with the name sings return of English folk musicOrestes, but even in my use 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 word Englishis becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, I know I'm putting post-apocalyptic fiction can become an emmet take on thingsalmost masochistic thrill. Whether it is a robotic takeover, a world devoid of water or a nuclear holocaust, this genre is a way for humans to cathartically experience their most existential fears. And Melody Janie Rowe ''Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is antia new work of post-emmetapocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the fears that exist for humanity today. It is a shocking novel that still manages to find hope. |isbn=15293341791803364998}}{{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 the story, beatable. Eric LaRocca's ''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is not like that. It is a collection of short stories more interested in the horrors of illness, grief and humiliation. Horrors that linger and are harder to defeat than any ''Big Bad''.
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|isbnauthor=B003UH99X4Madelaine Lucas|title=The Eustace Diamonds|author=Anthony TrollopeThirst for Salt
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=It ''Love, I'd read, was generally thought that Sir Florian Eustace had come supposed to regret his marriage be a light and weightless feeling, but he didnI had always longed for gravity't live long enough for this to become ' Told from a problem. After his deathretrospective view, his wife, Lizzie a young woman unravels the year- still only in her late teens - was in possession of a very valuable diamond necklace and was determined long relationship that she would not hand it over to once defined her husband's executors. She was adamant that Sir Florian had given it to her absolutelyOverlaid with later wisdom, although the precise circumstances of narrator relives the giving varied affair with a man twenty years her senior from telling its inception – the summer after finishing university – to tellingits sorrowful end the summer after. Lady Eustace was not a woman to whom truth meant a great deal. All that was important to Set against the backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the 24-year-old narrator's deepening relationship with her nowolder lover, she maintaineddepicting its all-consuming nature, was how it changed her son. And, of course, perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and how it altered her diamondsirrevocably.|isbn=0861546490
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|isbnauthor=B003L7TDMUMichael Grothaus|title=Phineas Finn|author=Anthony TrollopeBeautiful Shining People|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Phineas Finn is the son ''But fearing something and having it come to pass are two different things. And I'm willing to bet most of Dr Malachi Finnwhat we fear will never happen, a successful doctor in Killaloe in County Clare, who sent his son or we can take steps to London to train as a lawyerchange it. Phineas's interest is more in making influential friends than in becoming a lawyer and one of them, Barrington Erle, suggests that he runs for Parliament in ' ''Beautiful Shining People'' revolves around the forthcoming election. His father is not entirely in favour question of this as members are not remunerated identity and acceptance. Of what it would means to be up to him to provide financial support for his son as well as funding his electionhuman. One of the doctor's patients Of what is real and what is Lord Tulla who controls artificial, and whether the borough development of Loughshane and by this stroke of luck Finn technology is, eventually, elected by a small marginexciting or frightening.|isbn=191458564X
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|isbnauthor=B003A6W0FOJennifer Saint|title=Can You Forgive Her?|author=Anthony TrollopeAtalanta|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=On the surface ''Can You Forgive Her?'' looks deceptively simple: it's the story I was as worthy as any one of one woman and two men who are vying with each other for her lovethem. Alice Vavasor was originally engaged to her cousinI would get on board that ship, George Vavasor but she broke off that engagement and later became engaged to John GreyI vowed. When we first meet Alice she's on an extended tour I would take my place, not just in the name of the continent with George Vavasor and his sister Kategoddess. It's obvious that there's still a great deal of chemistry between John and Alice - and Kate is all was for encouraging the relationship as it would tie Alice to hersake of my name, too. George wants Alice but itAtalanta''s Princess. Warrior. Lover. Hero. Abandoned at birth for being born a matter of ''amour propre'' daughter rather than love: he has little consideration for anyone other than himself and a son, Atalanta is raised under the original engagement had fallen through because protective eye of his infidelity the goddess Athemis and deceitfulnessfashioned into a formidable huntress, one who longs for adventure. This thread is When the opportunity comes – to join the story Argonauts, a fierce band of a very complicated love affair warriors, descendent from the Gods themselves – Atalanta seizes the chance to fight in Artemis' name and a woman who lacks confidence in carve out her own judgementlegendary place in history. You might not like Alice to start with but you What follows is a whirlwind of challenges and discovery and through it, Atalanta must remember Artemis' fatal warning: that if she marries, it will warm to be herundoing.|isbn=1472292154
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|author=Lucy HollandAmanthi Harris|title=SistersongBeautiful Place
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Sistersong 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 part of not a genre I particularly enjoyplace she was born into, but the modern retelling one she thinks of folk and fairy talesas home. These stories How she came to be at the Villa, for most of ushow it became her home, are a cornerstone of childhood and I relish seeing them retold with fresh eyes the machinations that have flowed through her life ever since she first arrived there provide the ''score'' for this gentle and a fresh perspectiveyet subtly violent novel. If handled well these retellings give new life and new meaning Padma's present fails to stories that are now becoming increasingly narrow and outdated, fleshing out characters, examining relationships escape her past and re-evaluating much like the role of women. Sistersong is a perfect example musical score of a modern retelling done wellfilm, the plot is handled with care, keeping that strand weaves its archaic historical feel but allowing way through everything that happens at 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 in. This is a masterpiece of storytelling and I was captivated from beginning to endVilla.|isbn=15290390371784631930
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|isbn=B002SQCYWQ178563335X|title=The Complete Barchester ChroniclesSea Defences|author=Anthony TrollopeHilary Taylor
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=When I told my daughter that I didnwe first meet Rachel Bird she's a trainee vicar, sitting in on a PCC meeting and wondering why they't know what re held when you need to listen to now that I'd finished [[The Complete Novels: Sense and Sensibilitypick the children up. Her husband, Christopher, Pride collects six-year-old Hannah and Prejudiceher elder brother, Mansfield ParkJamie, Emmawhilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioner. Thelma's daughter-in-law won't let her see her grandson. Holthorpe, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion by Jane Austen|The Complete Novels of Jane Austen]] for the second time on the trot she had Norfolk coast, is a lovely place, but Rachel is struggling to develop a real bond with the perfect answer: The Barchester Chronicles parish - and they were she's in my inbox in a matter awe of minutesthe vicar, Gail, but then she's been doing the job for more than thirty years. They're not ''quite'' as well known as Rachel and Christopher hoped that a walk on the Austen books beach would do them some good - it was stormy but it was probably what they're an excellent follow onneeded. And then Hannah went missing.
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|isbn=B077K6BQFD1398515388|title=The Complete Novels: Sense Boy and Sensibilitythe 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, Pride which created the tsunami and Prejudicethis, Mansfield Parkin turn, Emmacaused the nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and utter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion 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.}} {{Frontpage|isbn=0989715337|title=Papa on the Moon|author=Jane AustenMarco North|rating=54
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Yes - that's over eighty'Some frogs had gotten into the well.'' ''Walter stood waist-one hours deep in the fragrant water, naked except for his beaten leather hat. Long strands of their eggs wove around him, sticky gray pearls with tadpoles inside them. Two of listening for the purchase dogs leaned over the opening and barked down at the strange noise of one audiobookthe buckets as he filled them. All six major novels are read by comedienne Alison Larkin and they're presented ' How is that for an opening? The style of this novel in the order in which they were publishedform 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, starts as he means to go on.
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