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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=1804272329}}{{Frontpage|isbn=178563335X295967572X|title=Sea DefencesPale Pieces|author=Hilary TaylorG M Stevens

|summary=When we first meet Rachel Bird she's Our unnamed narrator is about to begin a trainee vicar, sitting in on a PCC meeting and wondering why train journey with his companion Django. Where they're held when you need to pick going and what the children up. Her husbandpurpose of this journey is, Christopher, collects six-year-old Hannah and her elder brother, Jamie, whilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioneris uncertain. ThelmaDjango found the tickets 's daughter-in-law won't let her see her grandson. Holthorpe, on the Norfolk coast, floor somewhere'' and has persuaded our narrator to accompany him. Why not? Not much else is a lovely place, clear either - but Rachel is struggling we are probably in the past as the pair travel to develop a real bond with the parish - station by coach and she's in awe of the vicar, Gail, but then she's been doing the job for more than thirty years. Rachel and Christopher hoped that train is a walk on the beach would do them some good - it was stormy but it was probably what they needed. And then Hannah went missingsteam locomotive.

|isbnauthor=1398515388Makenna Goodman|title=The Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)Helen of Nowhere

|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=First It could be argued that the pervading theme of all, it was the earthquake, deep this book is malaise - a hard-to-place feeling that something in the ocean flooryour life is not quite right. The protagonist, which created a disgraced professor on the tsunami brink of losing both his career and his relationship, embodies thisfeeling. However, in turnGoodman counteracts his discomfort with a force which is seductive, caused the nuclear meltdown. The result was complete radical and utter devastationunnerving: Helen. The deaths were uncountable, connection between Helen and the loss of livelihoods was widespreadprotagonist is indirect yet intimate. The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down As the list former owner of priorities but - six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered countryside house he's considering, Helen represents a dog outside a convenience storevolta in his life, her past tied to his potential fresh start. He wasnThe realtor who shows the protagonist around the house shares stories about Helen, and describes her as 't a dog person but the convenience store owner's comment an entity that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and Tamon is pure consciousness, beyond form''. Although she lives in an assisted living facility now, Helen has powers beyond comprehension which the reader gets the dog jumped insense are not altogether innocuous.|isbn=1804272205

|isbnauthor=0989715337Thea Lenarduzzi|title=Papa on the Moon|author=Marco NorthThe Tower|rating=45

|summary=''Some frogs had gotten into How unctuous are the well.'' 'fats of another'Walter stood waist-deep in the fragrant waters life, naked except for his beaten leather hat. Long strands of how dizzying their eggs wove around him, 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.sugars in our bloodstream''.

How In this compelling novel, Thea Lenarduzzi assumes the identity of T, the protagonist of this tale. Just as T's story is that for an opening? The style being told, the story of a second protagonist is unveiled: Annie, the daughter of this novel a wealthy family in the form 19th century, who died of interconnected short stories goes from succinct and laconic tuberculosis after being locked in a tower, captures T's imagination. Annie's fate is, above all, an enticing story to wistful and musingT. It is a story which she consumes avariciously, turning on both in a sixpence. And author Marco Northquest for truth and knowledge, who has the most wonderful turn and in service of phrasemyth, starts as he means to go onfable and fantasy. |isbn=1804271799

|author=Daisy HildyardJon Fosse and Damion Searls (translator) |title=EmergencyVaim

|summary=The summary ''All was strange''... This haunting phrase encapsulates the pervading sense of otherworldliness which permeates this book doesn't come close to explaining what is done with story set in Vaim, a fictional fishing village in Norway which paradoxically could not feel more real for Jatgeir and Eline, two of the premiseprotagonists caught in its melancholic current.|isbn=19130978111804271829}}  {{Frontpage |author=Sally Oliver Claire-Louise Bennett|title=The Weight of Loss Big Kiss, Bye-Bye |rating=4 .5|genre=Literary Fiction |summary= Marianne Everything in this book, however sweet or seemingly innocent, is grievingsteeped in anguish and distortion. Traumatised after the death Even a kiss, usually a symbol of her sisterintimacy and closeness, she awakes to find strange, thick black hairs sprouting from the bones becomes evidence of her spine which steadily increase in size and volumelove lost. Her GP, diagnosing When the odd phenomenon as a physical reaction to her griefnarrator cries out internally, recommends she go to stay at Nede''come over here and kiss me, '' it is less an experimental new treatment centre in Wales. Yet something strange is happening to Marianne and the other patients at Nede: invitation than a metamorphosis of a kind. As Marianne's memories threaten desperate attempt to overwhelm confirm heremotional numbness. The imagined recipient of this plea is Xavier, Nede offers her release from this cycle of memory and pain—but only at ex-partner, a terrible price: that of identity itselfghost she conjures to test her detachment.|isbn= 086154112X 1804271934}}

|author=Natalia Garcia FreireHelene Bessette and Kate Briggs (translator)|title=This World Does Not Belong To UsLili is Crying|rating=4.5

|summary= Early comments on First published in 1953 in French, this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendous, a delight. I will agree with the first – tremendous is no understatement – but 'a delight' is perhaps using timeless text which wrenches the expression in a way I'm not familiar with. I have to confess my ignorance hearts of its readers just as Bessette wrenches words and sentences from their proper position on the Spanish-language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation herepage and positions them elsewhere, disjointed, truncated. From Like the little I have read (in translationlives of her characters, I don't read Spanish) there does seem to be a tendency towards the fantastical – the mystical realismthey are often left tragically incomplete. |isbn=08615419011804271675

|author=Jennifer SaintJonathan Buckley|title=ElektraOne Boat

|summary='Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells One Boat'' is a deeply introspective novella that defies traditional narrative structure, drawing the story reader into a contemplative realm of three women who live in philosophical musings and fragmented memories flowing from our narrator and protagonist, Teresa. Set against the heavily male dominated world evocative backdrop of Ancient Greece. Cassandra, Clytemnestraa small coastal Greek town, this work masterfully captures the magic of its setting and Elektra are all bit players in its power to provoke profound introspection. Teresa herself recognises these qualities as the story 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 Trojan Warreader into her labyrinthine cogitations. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us It is a book that often the silent women have the most compelling stories not only requires but inspires depth of thought, since its narrative structure is fragmentary and the most extreme furiesironically relies on analepsis for its propulsion.|isbn=14722739151804271764

|isbnauthor=8409290103Eowyn Ivey|title=If OnlyBlack Woods Blue Sky|rating=3.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''Black Woods Blue Sky'' tells the story of Birdie, the young mother of toddler Emaleen, who longs for a life beyond the Alaskan lodge where she works as a bar waitress, a setting which enables her bad habits and her accidental neglect of Emaleen. Described as a ''wild card'', she feels stuck in her day-to-day life, and yearns 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, a strange, taciturn and solitary man, who 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=1472279042}} {{Frontpage|author=Matthew TreeSally Rooney|title=Intermezzo

|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=Twenty-one-year-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by his fatherSally Rooney has studied the chessboard of life and is something of a grandmaster at putting it into words. Her dialogue is gripping and so brilliantly frustrating, cotton-broker AO Lowry: he asked his accountant, Mr Patrickas her characters never quite say exactly what they feel. Among the many relationships woven into this story, the central one for readers to ensure that unravel is the young man got on board the boat fraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and thereafter Patrick was to send him Peter Koubek. Ivan, a monthly allowance. Patrick sent the money regularly and socially awkward chess prodigy, contrasts sharply with his older brother Peter, a correspondence - of sorts - sprang up between the two although we hear more about what Lowry has to say than Patricksuccessful lawyer living in Dublin. It wasnFollowing their father't that Lowry senior didn't care for his sons passing after a long battle with cancer, it was that he didnthe brothers't care to have him already strained relationship faces new trials.|isbn=0571365469}}{{Frontpage|author=Fyodor Dostoyevsky|title=White Nights|rating=5|genre=Short Stories|summary=As always in this country where he might be Dostoyevsky, the character work is sublime. One is never left wondering what a danger to his wife character is thinking or feeling because Dostoyevsky lays bare their innermost dispositions and other children. The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to get the young man on his waytemperaments with remarkable clarity.|isbn=0241619785

|author=Antoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)James Baldwin|title=Red is My HeartGiovanni's Room|rating=34.5

|summary=[[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white and read ''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 my housea gay bar. And so was this one, although I could have spelled that more accurately – this one wasWhile David is engaged to Hella, and who istravelling in Spain, black and white and redthe real tension in the novel arises not from his infidelity but from the deeper conflict within himself. Yes, he has an artistic collaborator on this piece, and I think itIt is David's possible to say not one page lacks the influence crippling shame and denial of some striking visual ideashis sexuality that ultimately dooms his relationship with Giovanni.|isbn=19135471830141186356

|isbnauthor=B098FFFBH9Alba de Cespedes |title=Snowcub|author=Graham FulbrightForbidden Notebook|rating=4.5

|summary=Fourteen-year-old Rachel is her school's animal rights project leader This Italian work of feminist fiction holds an air of suspense and she and her friend are producing a competition entry to highlight tension from the way in which human beings exploit the animal world. She gets a great deal of support from her family: father Pip Harrisonmoment our protagonist, a lecturer at Imperial CollegeValeria Cossati, Londonpurchases her forbidden notebook, mother Kate and her twin, Nick. Kate runs learns about herself in the family business, a toy shop called Cornucopia in Putney, which is where we'll meet Rachel's main (if unsuspected) source of information: five soft toysmost intimate and revealing ways.|isbn=1782278222

|author=Yancey WilliamsOttessa Moshfegh|title=Crosshairs My Year of the DevilRest and Relaxation|rating=4.53

|summary=Award-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski At best, this novel is getting on in years a scathing critique of modern society andreveals the fragility of human relationships; at worst, despite his strenuous objections it is the cynical, predictable and thanks to his daughterslightly trite tale of an unlikeable protagonist. This unlikely heroine, finds himself living - or imprisoneda slim, from Eddie's point of view - attractive and newly orphaned girl in room 315 of her twenties is disillusioned with the Garden of Eden nursing home, with only a trusty nursing aide, Jenkinsworld, for palatable company. Nothing is going but resolves not to keep Eddie from his stock-lose sleep over it: in-trade of writing thoughfact, so here, for his readers, are his wanderings through his life's workher solution lies in her hibernation.|isbn=09860316581784707422}}

|isbnauthor=0008421714Matthew Tree|title=Mrs March|author=Virginia FeitoWe'll Never Know

|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 Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to either be reading it or different from his father, a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had already done soendless crises of self confidence. Every day Mrs March went to the local patisserie So Tim applied himself to buy olive bread but on that particular morninghis studies, Patricia asked, as she was wrapping the bread, ''cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but isn't this the first time he's based a character on you?'' She mentioned that Johanna, the principal character had 'her mannerisms''. Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for the fact that Johanna is the whore of Nantes - ''a weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretchachievable ambitions.''|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|isbn=B005FM76AAB0C47LV1PC|title=The Duke's ChildrenFragility|author=Anthony TrollopeMosby Woods|rating=4.5

|summary=The story opens to probably Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the worst news of all: Lady Glencora Palliser question should you make it? Or is dead. Her husband, Plantagenet Palliser, the Duke of Omniumquestion if you did, would it land? The catch is nearly paralysed by grief and struggling - at that the same time - to adjust to answer for both could well be.... no longer being prime minister, or even in office. He seeks to protect and guide his three adult children, which is easier said than done when none of them wishes to  ''beFragility'' guided. Silverbridge (his elder sonis set as the city of Portland, actually called PlantagenetOregon, but always known by his title) and Gerald are destined cautiously begins to be sent down emerge 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 restrictions imposed during 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 way.covid pandemic

|isbnauthor=B004O37B6AMosby Woods|title=The Prime Minister|author=Anthony TrollopeA Whirly Man Loses His Turn

|summary=Plantagenet Palliser, 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 the Duke best course of Omniumaction. Governments are flailing. A war here, a push for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is in actual charge. Imagine then, there was a man with precognition. Imagine the prime minister of strategic advantage in this asset; a coalition government but he's privately enraged at the seemingly unstoppable rise man who can tell you what will happen given any set of Ferdinand Lopezcircumstances. Lopex is exotic - some describe him as JewishThat man would be valuable, others as Portuguese but right? Perhaps the truth is that no one knows and Lopez is not going to explainmost valuable asset in history. The ladies of societyImagine then, even Palliser's own wife, Lady Glencora, are supporters but after Lopez makes an advantageous marriage Palliser is placed in the position of having to support his wife's actions when Lopez that this man loses a by-electionthis ability. The Duke's payment of Lopez' election expenses in an attempt What would governments do to stem gossip about his wife will come get it back to haunt him.?|isbn=B0C9SNG8R1

|isbn=B00474HVX40571379559|title=Phineas ReduxThe House of Broken Bricks|author=Anthony TrollopeFiona Williams|rating=4.5

|summary=It''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the story of four people. Tess Hembry's some roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in the house on the riverbank, built of broken bricks. Insubstantial as it might look, it's stood the passage of time since we heard from [[Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope|Phineas Finn]], storms and floods. Having succeeded in parliament and achieved a paying position he fell out with those who provided Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his income vegetables, to complete the delivery rounds - and returned to Ireland where he married Mary, his childhood sweetheartbring in sufficient money. He was fortunate to get a job in Cork (or Dublin They have twin boys - recollections may vary) Sonny and seemed settled into a life of domesticityMax, the rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. To bring Finn backPeople don't believe that they're related, Trollope had to kill off poor Mary much less twins and Phineas emerges in London as a childless widower there's an assumption when Max is out with a legacy from an aunt who died at just the right time to allow the move to be possiblehis mother that she's his nanny.

|author=Jessie GreengrassClaire North|title=House of Odysseus|rating=5|genre= Literary Fiction |summary= ''What could matter more than love?'' The High Housefollow-up to the excellent ''Ithaca'' picks up a few months after where we left off. In the palace of Odysseus, with delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without her husband, who sailed to war at Troy and then by divine intervention never returned home. As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for the throne of the Western Isles. Having survived – politically and physical – the chaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to Ithaca's shores, Queen Penelope is on the brink of a fragile peace. One that shatters however with the return of Orestes, King of Mycenae, and his sister Elektra, seeking refuge.|isbn=0356516075}}{{Frontpage|author= Kay Chronister|title= Desert Creatures|rating=4|genre= Dystopian Fiction|summary= With a world that is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, post-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost 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. ''Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is a new work of post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the 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 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''.}}{{Frontpage|author=Madelaine Lucas|title=Thirst for Salt|rating=5

|summary=Charles Darwin taught that all living matter evolved ''Love, I'd read, was supposed to pass on its genetic material with be a light and weightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravity'' Told from a retrospective view, a young woman unravels the implied belief year-long relationship that your progeny will then pass on theirsonce defined her. HoweverOverlaid with later wisdom, that train of thought is slowly seems the narrator relives the affair with a man twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to have fallen out its sorrowful end the summer after. Set against the backdrop of favour. Todayan isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the 24-year-old narrator's young generation are discovering that their parents deepening relationship with her older lover, depicting its all-consuming nature, how it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and their parentshow it altered her irrevocably.|isbn=0861546490}}{{Frontpage|author= Michael Grothaus|title=Beautiful Shining People|rating=4|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= '' parents did not seem But fearing something and having it come to think that far aheadpass are two different things. Or they did think that far ahead and thought "itAnd I's not my problem" m willing to bet most of what we fear will never happen, or "there's nothing I we can do"take steps to change it. Raising a child and living in a world on the precipice of catastrophe is what drives ''The High House ''Beautiful Shining People'' by Jessie Greengrassrevolves around the question of identity and acceptance. This is not a science-fiction novelOf what it means to be human. This Of what is our reality. This real and what is artificial, and whether the life our children and their children will have to livedevelopment of technology is exciting or frightening.|isbn=1800750072191458564X

|author=Charlie CarrollJennifer Saint|title=The LipAtalanta

|summary=''Melody Janie Rowe'' even I 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 is evocative of…probably of whatever we want it to bethe goddess. It was for the sake of my name, and maybe thattoo. Atalanta''s  Princess. Warrior. Lover. Hero. Abandoned at birth for being born a daughter rather than a son, Atalanta is raised under the pointprotective eye of the goddess Athemis and fashioned into a formidable huntress, one who longs for adventure. To me When the opportunity comes – to join the name sings Argonauts, a fierce band of English folk musicwarriors, but even descendent from the Gods themselves – Atalanta seizes the chance to fight in Artemis' name and carve out her own legendary place in my use history. What follows is a whirlwind of challenges and discovery and through it, Atalanta must remember Artemis' fatal warning: that word Englishif she marries, I know I'm putting an emmet take on things. And Melody Janie Rowe is anti-emmetit will be her undoing. |isbn=15293341791472292154

|isbnauthor=B003UH99X4Amanthi Harris|title=The Eustace Diamonds|author=Anthony TrollopeBeautiful Place

|summary=It was generally thought that Sir Florian Eustace had come Padma, a young Sri Lankan, has returned to regret his marriage but he didn't live long enough for this to become a problemthe Villa Hibiscus on the southern coast of her home country. After his death, his wife, Lizzie - still only in her late teens - was in possession of This is a very valuable diamond necklace and was determined that place she would not hand it over to spent her husband's executorsformative years. She It is not a place she was adamant that Sir Florian had given it to her absolutelyborn into, although but the precise circumstances one she thinks of the giving varied from telling to tellingas home. Lady Eustace was not a woman How she came to whom truth meant a great deal. All be at the Villa, how it became her home, and the machinations that was important to have flowed through her now, life ever since she maintained, was first arrived there provide the ''score'' for this gentle and yet subtly violent novel. Padma's present fails to escape her son. And, past and much like the musical score of coursea film, her diamondsthat strand weaves its way through everything that happens at the Villa.|isbn=1784631930

|isbn=B003L7TDMU178563335X|title=Phineas FinnSea Defences|author=Anthony TrollopeHilary Taylor|rating=4.5

|summary=Phineas Finn is When we first meet Rachel Bird she's a trainee vicar, sitting in on a PCC meeting and wondering why they're held when you need to pick the son of Dr Malachi Finnchildren up. Her husband, Christopher, collects six-year-old Hannah and her elder brother, a successful doctor in Killaloe in County ClareJamie, who sent his son to London to train as whilst Rachel holds a lawyersobbing parishioner. PhineasThelma's interest daughter-in-law won't let her see her grandson. Holthorpe, on the Norfolk coast, is more in making influential friends than in becoming a lawyer lovely place, but Rachel is struggling to develop a real bond with the parish - and one she's in awe of themthe vicar, Barrington ErleGail, suggests that he runs but then she's been doing the job for Parliament in the forthcoming electionmore than thirty years. His father is not entirely in favour of this as members are not remunerated Rachel and Christopher hoped that a walk on the beach would do them some good - it would be up to him to provide financial support for his son as well as funding his electionwas stormy but it was probably what they needed. One of the doctor's patients is Lord Tulla who controls the borough of Loughshane and by this stroke of luck Finn is, eventually, elected by a small marginAnd then Hannah went missing.

|isbn=B003A6W0FO1398515388|title=Can You Forgive Her?The Boy and the Dog|author=Anthony TrollopeSeishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)

|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=On First of all, it was the surface ''Can You Forgive Her?'' looks deceptively simple: it's earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the story of one woman tsunami and two men who are vying with each other for her lovethis, in turn, caused the nuclear meltdown. Alice Vavasor The result was originally engaged to her cousin, George Vavasor but she broke off that engagement complete and later became engaged to John Greyutter devastation. When we first meet Alice she's on an extended tour The deaths were uncountable, and the loss of the continent with George Vavasor and his sister Katelivelihoods was widespread. It's obvious The fact that there's still a great deal many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of chemistry between John and Alice priorities but - and Kate is all for encouraging six months after the relationship as it would tie Alice to hertsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. George wants Alice He wasn't a dog person but itthe convenience store owner's a matter of ''amour propre'' rather than love: comment that he has little consideration for anyone other than himself and the original engagement had fallen through because of would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his infidelity car door and deceitfulness. This thread is Tamon the story of a very complicated love affair and a woman who lacks confidence dog jumped in her own judgement. You might not like Alice to start with but you will warm to her.

|authorisbn=Lucy Holland0989715337|title=SistersongPapa on the Moon|author=Marco North|rating=54

|summary=Sistersong is part of a genre I particularly enjoy, ''Some frogs had gotten into the modern retelling of folk and fairy taleswell. These stories'' ''Walter stood waist-deep in the fragrant water, naked except for most his beaten leather hat. Long strands of ustheir eggs wove around him, are a cornerstone of childhood and I relish seeing sticky gray pearls with tadpoles inside them retold with fresh eyes and a fresh perspective. If handled well these retellings give new life and new meaning to stories that are now becoming increasingly narrow Two of the dogs leaned over the opening and outdated, fleshing out characters, examining relationships and re-evaluating barked down at the role strange noise of womenthe buckets as he filled them. Sistersong '' How is a perfect example that for an opening? The style of a modern retelling done well, this novel in the plot is handled with care, keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing the characters form of interconnected short stories goes from succinct and laconic to come to life, to feel real wistful and humanmusing, most importantly they feel relatable in turning on a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for sixpence. And author Marco North, who has the pre-Saxon age they live in. This is a masterpiece most wonderful turn of storytelling and I was captivated from beginning phrase, starts as he means to endgo on.|isbn=1529039037