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[[Category:New Reviews|Literary Fiction]]==Literary fiction==__NOTOC__{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jennifer JohnstonJeremy Cooper|title=Truth or FictionDiscord|rating=43.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Caroline Wallace 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 not a happy womaneasily located. She has waited ten years for her lover to propose to herThe two protagonists of the novel, Rebekah Rosen and now just Evie Bennet, are as different as he finally doesthey come. Rebekah is an uptight, she has traditional and no-nonsense composer close to go to Dublin to interview faded literary star Desmond Fitzmauriceretirement, while Evie is a force of nature, bounding onto the musical scene as a precocious saxophonist, oozing with talent and charm. Desmond promises his tale will be brimful of The two, predictably, don'sex t always see eye to eye, their approaches different and violenceEvie's progressive views at odds with Rebekah's conservative leaning. However, but Caroline has no idea something connects them beyond just their musical project: a sort of fragile alliance formed within the mystery that lies at the heart of his storyclamour.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755330544</amazonuk>1804272264
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Julian BarnesPolly Barton|title=Staring at the SunWhat Am I, A Deer?
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=JeanPolly Barton's first Incident involved Uncle Leslie, hyacinths debut novel is an intellectually playful yet emotionally exposed work that uses translation as both subject and golf teesgoverning metaphor. It's perhaps best forgottenThe narrator, newly relocated from London to Berlin, but Jean doesn't forget. Uncle Leslie figures large in her life - mostly on works translating video games into Japanese through the golf course - process of localisation, rewriting language until the War comes and he runs away it feels comfortably familiar to Americaa new audience. He's replaced by Tommy ProsserBarton treats this as a paradoxical act: arguably, a grounded pilot who once saw the sun rise twice in one day and excites as many questions in Jean as he ever answers. Tommy striving for universality, language is replaced by Michael, a policemanendlessly repackaged, whom Jean eventually marries. He doesn't know why minks are excessively tenacious its originality at risk of life and he doesn't much caredisappearing altogether. But Jean does. She cares much less for From this, the Dutch cap that Michael sent her off novel opens out into a wider, resonant question: to obtain before the wedding and much less again for their rather disastrous adventures what extent do we translate ourselves in the bedroom. order to be understood, accepted, or loved?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099540096</amazonuk>1804272175
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Russell Celyn JonesMaria Stepanova and Sasha Dugdale (Translator)|title=The Ninth Wave (New Stories from the Mabinogion) Disappearing Act|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Pwyll rules a medieval-style fiefdom 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 post-climate change Wales. Life literary festival she is different in many ways - there's to be a new-but-old social order built on feudalism guest speaker at. Detoured by erratic train schedules and horsepower is the main means nudged by forces beyond her control, her journey slowly bends toward a traveling circus. Swept up in this series of transport. But events, M eventually offers to step in many ways it's much for a circus performer who has unexpectedly left the same - people still fight one anothershow. The train functions as a motif of transience and impermanence, towns still have sink estateswhile the circus embodies the reshaping of identity and a retreat into fantasy, rich boys still have too much time on their hands and precious little meaning in their livesan impulse that lies at the very heart of the novel form itself. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1854115146</amazonuk>1804272329
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Owen Sheers295967572X|title=White Ravens (New Stories from the Mabinogion)Pale Pieces|author=G M Stevens|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=In Our unnamed narrator is about to begin a train journey with his companion Django. Where they're going and what the old talepurpose of this journey is, Branwen is uncertain. Django found the sister of Bendigeidfran - tickets ''on the giant King of Britain. She marries the King of Ireland, who doesnfloor somewhere''t treat her well. She manages and has persuaded our narrator to send Bendigeidfran a message via a tamed starling and war and killings ensueaccompany him. In this new tale, a young girl has just walked away from her brothers who, Why not? Not much else is clear either - but we are probably in the wake of past as the pair travel to the devastating foot and mouth outbreak, are despoiling their heritage station by rustling coach and illegally slaughtering sheep. She meets an old man who tells her the train is a story involving the superstitions about the ravens in the Tower of London, propaganda work during World War II, and an equally doomed love affairsteam locomotive. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1854115030</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Shirley JacksonMakenna Goodman|title=We Have Always Lived In The CastleHelen of Nowhere
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Mary Katherine BlackwoodIt could be argued that the pervading theme of this book is malaise - a hard-to-place feeling that something in your life is not quite right. The protagonist, also known as Merricata 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 eighteenseductive, radical and unnerving: Helen. The connection between Helen and lives with her older sister Constance in the family home where 'Blackwoods had always lived'protagonist is indirect yet intimate. Merricat quickly draws As the reader into her world by a series former owner of matter of fact but bizarre statements – her likes include her sister and death cap mushroomsthe countryside house he's considering, and everyone else Helen represents a volta in his life, her family is deadpast tied to his potential fresh start. The wealthy Blackwood family has always kept realtor who shows the protagonist around the house shares stories about Helen, and describes her as 'steady against the world'an entity that is pure consciousness, shutting out other people, and they live near a village. Merricat believes that beyond form'The people of the village have always hated us'. Although she lives in an assisted living facility now, and tells us that she hates them tooHelen has powers beyond comprehension which the reader gets the sense are not altogether innocuous.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141191457</amazonuk>1804272205
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Deborah GregoryOlga Tokarczuk|title=Dancing With The DeadHouse of Day, House of Night|rating=35
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=I wanted to read ''Dancing with What's the Deadgood of a world that keeps changing like that? How can one go on calmly living in it?'', because I'm interested in family history. The blurb on the back of the book also mentioned Gill – our heroine of the piece – was moving from Bristol (my current home) to Lincolnshire (where I was born and brought up). I felt with all these links, the novel could not fail to interest me – but this was not the case.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904529305</amazonuk>}}
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|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Most people ''How unctuous are the fats of my age will have come across Janssonanother's work unwittingly, via the televised renditions of the Moomin tales. The readers amongst us would then have been entranced a few years ago to discover that at last Thomas Teal had set about the translation into Englishlife, first of The Summer Book and then of a collection of short stories which were published as how dizzying their sugars in our bloodstream'A Winter Book'. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0954899571</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Hilary DixonJon Fosse and Damion Searls (translator) |title=When Rooks Speak of LoveVaim
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Arthur Transcombe is a middle-aged, grey-haired, self-effacing poet''All was strange''... Unremarkable really - on This haunting phrase encapsulates the outside. He haspervading sense of otherworldliness which permeates this story set in Vaim, howevera fictional fishing village in Norway which paradoxically could not feel more real for Jatgeir and Eline, managed to achieve some success with his poems. (Being a guest speaker at two of the Cheltenham Literary Festival is no mean feat)protagonists caught in its melancholic current. He is also a babe magnet!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1904529429</amazonuk>1804271829
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David Malouf Claire-Louise Bennett|title=RansomBig Kiss, Bye-Bye |rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Taking his theme from Everything in this book, however sweet or seemingly innocent, is steeped in anguish and distortion. Even a small part kiss, usually a symbol of Homer's Iliadintimacy and closeness, Malouf tells the story becomes evidence of love lost. When the king of Troynarrator cries out internally, ''come over here and kiss me, Priam's grief-stricken voyage into the Greek camp ' it is less an invitation than a desperate attempt to ransom Troy's wealth for the body confirm her emotional numbness. The imagined recipient of his fallen sonthis plea is Xavier, Hector, killed by the equally griefher ex-stricken Achilles whose great friend Hector had killed in battle before Achilles took his cruel revenge. Malouf tells the story in sparsepartner, yet lyrical and poetic fashion suggesting the personal stories behind the epic themes that Homer related. It is an exquisitely written piece managing a ghost she conjures to be both deeply moving as well as a great piece of story tellingtest her detachment.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0701184159</amazonuk>1804271934
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David Vann Helene Bessette and Kate Briggs (translator)|title=Legend of a SuicideLili is Crying
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Some books defy categorisation and that's the case with ''Legend of a Suicide''. Is it Literary Fiction? Is it a series of short stories linked by a common themeFirst published in 1953 in French, or this novel is a novella with supporting pieces? Is it fiction with a strong autobiographical thread running through it? The simple answer to all these questions is ''yes'' – for timeless text which wrenches the book is all that hearts of its readers just as Bessette wrenches words and more. It's also a compelling sentences from their proper position on the page-turner – I began reading at ten o'clock last night and finished it at three thirty this morningpositions them elsewhere, disjointed, resenting every moment away from truncated. Like the booklives of her characters, they are often left tragically incomplete.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141043784</amazonuk>1804271675
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Milan KunderaJonathan Buckley|title=The Book of Laughter and ForgettingOne Boat|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=It's with 'One Boat'' is a somehow guilty feeling deeply introspective novella that I admit that I have never been particularly fond of Milan Kundera. He's certainly a very good writer and undoubtedly defies traditional narrative structure, drawing the reader into a very intelligent man capable contemplative realm of interesting philosophical insightsmusings and fragmented memories flowing from our narrator and protagonist, Teresa. All those qualities contributed to Set against the evocative backdrop of a cult status accorded to Kunderasmall coastal Greek town, compounded by this work masterfully captures the frisson magic of political subversion – never a harmful thing for a writer from what used its setting and its power to be known provoke profound introspection. Teresa herself recognises these qualities as Eastern Europe (but which returned to its status as Middle (or Central) Europe with the fall 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 Iron Curtain)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.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>057117437X</amazonuk>1804271764
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andrew Miller Eowyn Ivey|title=One Morning Like A BirdBlack Woods Blue Sky|rating=43.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Tokyo in 1940 is ''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 place that we British tend not to give bar waitress, a great deal setting which enables her bad habits and her accidental neglect of thought toEmaleen. Japan entered the warDescribed as a ''wild card'', we sayshe feels stuck in her day-to-day life, with and yearns to cross the attack Wolverine river and live on Pearl Harbour in December 1941the North Fork to fulfil her desires of a simple life surrounded by nature. When she meets Arthur Nielson, completely forgetting that Japana strange, like most of the rest of the worldtaciturn and solitary man, was already who says he has a country at warcabin over there, she feels called to go - and bring Emaleen with her. She had been fighting in China since 1937 Without realising it, this calling will transform hers and was making in-roads into European colonial territory in the area as wellEmaleen's lives forever.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340825154</amazonuk>1472279042
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sadie Jones Sally Rooney|title=Small WarsIntermezzo
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary General Fiction |summary=Even though our world Sally Rooney has studied the chessboard of life and is ostensibly something of a grandmaster at peace, hundreds of localized, unwinnable conflicts continue to grumble onputting it into words. Mostly, we only hear Her dialogue is gripping and care about the ones involving 'our boys'so brilliantly frustrating, as if war was some giant game of footballher characters never quite say exactly what they feel. But it isn't, and ''Small Wars'' reflects on Among the casualties of war in a many relationships woven into this story set in Cyprus in , the Two-Way Family Favourites era of central one for readers to unravel is the nineteen-fiftiesfraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and Peter Koubek. It may turn out to be an important book as the public mood turns against the 'war on terror' Ivan, a socially awkward chess prodigy, contrasts sharply with his older brother Peter, a successful lawyer living in AfghanistanDublin. ItFollowing their father's certainly passing after a prescient onelong battle with cancer, the brothers' already strained relationship faces new trials.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0701184558</amazonuk>0571365469
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Evelyn WaughFyodor Dostoyevsky|title=A Handful of DustWhite Nights
|rating=5
|genre=Literary FictionShort Stories|summary=A complex class society which evolved into a highly sophisticated culture As always in Dostoyevsky, the character work is invariably a fertile ground for development of social satire, and British literature would have been hugely depleted if all novels that can be regarded as such were suddenly to disappearsublime. Evelyn Waugh made the genre his own, and ''A Handful of Dust'' One is never left wondering what a sublime example of his mastery of itcharacter is thinking or feeling because Dostoyevsky lays bare their innermost dispositions and temperaments with remarkable clarity.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141183969</amazonuk>0241619785
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=William Trevor James Baldwin|title=Love and SummerGiovanni'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.
|isbn=0141186356
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{{Frontpage
|author=Alba de Cespedes
|title=Forbidden Notebook
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=''Love and Summer'' is set in the small town This Italian work of Rathmoye in a rural Ireland 'some years after the middle feminist fiction holds an air of suspense and tension from the last century'. The novel charts the doomed love affair between Elliemoment our protagonist, Valeria Cossati, a young farmer's wifepurchases her forbidden notebook, and Florian, the Irish-Italian son of two artists, but it as much learns about herself in the place most intimate and time in which it is setrevealing ways.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0670918245</amazonuk>1782278222
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Bryony Doran Ottessa Moshfegh|title=The China BirdMy Year of Rest and Relaxation|rating=43
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Edward At best, this novel is a sad and solitary figure. Late middle-aged, twisted-spined scathing critique of modern society and hump-backed, a loner who works in reveals the archive basement fragility of human relationships; at worst, it is the librarycynical, lodges with Mrs Ingrams who makes his tea predictable and ruins his laundry, and hoards letters from his motherslightly trite tale of an unlikeable protagonist. Like many an unmarried man with an agingThis unlikely heroine, widowed mothera slim, Edward finds his relationship with attractive and newly orphaned girl in her somewhat strained. Unlike many of those men, his relationship was always that way. She twenties is rude and demandingdisillusioned with the world, and he either doesn't have the strength or the inclination but resolves not to force the issue with lose sleep over it: in fact, her solution lies in her. Apart from an occasion half-hearted reprimand, he stands back, ignores, makes excuseshibernation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>095556302X</amazonuk>1784707422
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jude Morgan Matthew Tree|title=The Taste of SorrowWe'll Never Know
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The children were born in ThorntonTimothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a suburb drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of Bradford, his artistic passions all failed miserably and compared with where they were to go it was a soft livingwho had endless crises of self confidence. Howarth was high up on the Yorkshire Moors, industrialised and with weather which chilled So Tim applied himself to the bone. The parsonage was four-square but draughty and not exactly welcoming. They, of coursehis studies, were the Brontë family. The father was the impoverished curate and cultivated his six children had somehow to be cared for after abilities rather than his wife's death from cancerdaydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755338898</amazonuk>B0CVFXPGP8
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Agnes Owens B0C47LV1PC|title=The Complete NovellasFragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=54
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Who Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is Agnes Owensthe question should you make it? A Scottish author who portrays working class life from Or is the nineteen forties and fifties. Now an octogenarianquestion if you did, apparently Agnes Owens started writing at would it land? The catch is that the age of 58answer for both could well be... Here are five previously published stories collected into one new edition, a companion volume to her short stories, published in 2008. I don't think you'll be disappointedno.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846971373</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=James LeverMosby Woods|title=Me CheetaA Whirly Man Loses His Turn
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Straight out of The West isn't the dominant force it once was. Nobody in the golden age of Hollywood comes West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is the bitchiest, most revealing memoir from one best course of its starsaction. There Governments are scores to be settledflailing. A war here, stars to be insulted, secrets to be hinted at none too subtley, and lost opportunities to be longed a push forclimate action there. OhA feeling that nobody is in actual charge. Imagine then, and there was a man with precognition. Imagine the star telling all? Well, for those of you strategic advantage in this asset; a man who can't tell from the title (or even the picture on the front cover) it's Cheeta - chimpanzee star you what will happen given any set of circumstances. That man would be valuable, right? Perhaps the Tarzan filmsmost valuable asset in history. Imagine then, that this man loses this ability.What would governments do to get it back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007280165</amazonuk>B0C9SNG8R1
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Erick Setiawan 0571379559|title=Of Bees and MistThe House of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=''The first few chapters House of Broken Bricks'' is the story of this amazing workfour people. Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, had me scratching my headbut instead, she lives in the house on the riverbank, and ponderingbuilt of broken bricks. Insubstantial as it might look, it'what on earth is this abouts stood the passage of time, storms and where is it going?' It struck me as simply bizarrefloods. However Her husband, Richard, I was quickly reeled struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the delivery rounds - and to bring insufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and Max, and the initially disparate cast of characters, who seemed more like caricaturesrainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. People don't believe that they're related, soon had lives of their own - much less twins and fascinating ones at there's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755348532</amazonuk>she's his nanny.
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{{Frontpage
|author=Claire North
|title=House of Odysseus
|rating=5
|genre= Literary Fiction
|summary= ''What could matter more than love?''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=A S ByattKay Chronister|title=The Children's BookDesert Creatures|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Dystopian Fiction|summary=Antonia Byatt's Booker-nominated ''The Children's Book'' (her first novel With a world that is becoming increasingly inhospitable for seven years) is a staggeringhumanity, complex and multipost-layered book, set between the last years of Victoria's reign and the end of the First World Warapocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Although this Whether it is undoubtedly an intelligent booka robotic takeover, full a world devoid of learning and ideaswater or a nuclear holocaust, ranging from class, early feminism, Fabianism and anarchism, it this genre is highly readable and accessible. The author's stance is that this was a unique time way for children in the UK, freed from the humans to cathartically experience their most existential fears. 'be seen and not heard' of the early Victorian age, but before the Desert Creatures'treat them like adults' by Kay Chronister is a new work of the post war loss -apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of innocencethe fears that exist for humanity today. It was is a time when children, at least rich children, were allowed shocking novel that still manages to be free and adult authors like JM Barrie wrote both about and for children and was also widely read by adultsfind hope.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0701183896</amazonuk>1803364998
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{{newreviewfrontpage|isbn=1803363002|author=Colm Toibin Eric LaRocca|title=BrooklynThe Trees Grew Because I Bled There|rating=5|genre=Literary FictionHorror|summary=Colm TóibínHorror 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''s quietly powerful new novel, Brooklyn, opens in the author's own whether that is a home town of Enniscorthyinvader, County Wexford in the 1950s. We are sitting with his conscientiously introverted heroinea monster or a ghost, Eilis Laceyit usually something tangible and, as she watches through by the upstairs living room window as her more glamorous older sister Rose walks briskly home from work. Rose is popular at end of the local golf clubstory, with many male admirersbeatable. Meanwhile, EilisEric LaRocca's ''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' three brothers have all gone to England where there is work to be hadnot like that. There are few opportunities It is a collection of short stories more interested in Enniscorthythe horrors of illness, for employment or anything elsegrief and humiliation. Eilis is lucky Horrors that linger and are harder to be offered a Sunday job in Miss Kellydefeat than any 's grocery shop, a shop Eilis' widowed mother will not enter. Later, Eilis will entertain her mother and sister with imitations of Miss KellyBig Bad's voice. Showing everything only through Eilis' eyes, Tóibín brilliantly evokes life in the claustrophobically tight-knit town.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670918121</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Shandi Mitchell Madelaine Lucas|title=Under This Unbroken SkyThirst for Salt
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=A photograph opens the story. A black and white picture of a family''Love, husbandI'd read, wife was supposed to be a light and their three childrenweightless feeling, smiling but I had always longed for the camera. Thin, underfed, in their summer clothes despite the four inches of snow, they smile. Partly they smile because they do not know what is to come. gravity''
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{{Frontpage
|author= Michael Grothaus
|title=Beautiful Shining People
|rating=4
|genre= Literary Fiction
|summary= ''But fearing something and having it come to pass are two different things. And I'm willing to bet most of what we fear will never happen, or we can take steps to change it.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah Waters Jennifer Saint|title=The Little StrangerAtalanta
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=When ''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 of the goddess. It was for the last time you couldn't put a Booker nominated novel down? Sarah Waterssake of my name, author of acclaimed novels too. Atalanta''Fingersmith'' and ''The Night Watch'' has written a chilling psychological ghost story that kept me guessing until the very last page.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1844086011</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Emily Bronte Amanthi Harris|title=Wuthering HeightsBeautiful Place
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=In 1801 LockwoodPadma, one of our narratorsa young Sri Lankan, arrived at Wuthering Heights has returned to the Villa Hibiscus on the Yorkshire moorssouthern coast of her home country. He This is a place she spent her formative years. It is not a place she was renting nearby Thrushcross Grange from the rude and surly Heathcliffborn into, but when the one she thinks of Heathcliff's dogs attacked him and the weather turned against him he was forced as home. How she came to stay overnight. In his room he found a diary written by a young girl by be at the name of Catherine EarnshawVilla, how it became her home, who was close to Heathcliff as a child and it was this which caused Lockwood to the machinations that have a terrifying dream in which Catherine's ghost fought to get into the room flowed through her life ever since she first arrived there provide the window''score'' for this gentle and yet subtly violent novel. His screams of fear brought Heathcliff Padma's present fails to the room escape her past and when Lockwood told him what he had seen Heathcliff asked him to leave much like the room and then sobbed as be begged Cathy to come in. Lockwood persuades the housekeepermusical score of a film, Nelly Dean (our other narrator), to tell him that strand weaves its way through everything that happens at the story behind what has happenedVilla.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>009953052X</amazonuk>1784631930
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Roberto Bolano 178563335X|title=AmuletSea Defences|author=Hilary Taylor
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The novel is set When we first meet Rachel Bird she's a trainee vicar, sitting in the late 1960s, on a time of political unrest PCC meeting and tension in Mexico. The narrator and protagonist seek refuge wondering why they're held when you need to pick the army invades the university. Ensconced in a fourth floor w.cchildren up. Her husband, Christopher, she commences to recollect collects six-year-old Hannah and her earlier life and experiences amongst the literati of Mexicoelder brother, Jamie, and the world of academiawhilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioner. She frequently refers to herself as Thelma's daughter-in-law won't let her see her grandson. Holthorpe, on the mother of Mexican poetry''Norfolk coast, and this is indeed an apta lovely place, if somewhat generousbut Rachel is struggling to develop a real bond with the parish - and she's in awe of the vicar, descriptionGail, as but then she does emerge as a maternal figure's been doing the job for more than thirty years. She is an engaging character, tolerated, rather than liked by her acquaintances, Rachel and it's her very lack of sophistication which makes her such Christopher hoped that a real and believable narrator. Poetry is her main love in life walk on the beach would do them some good - she lives and breathes it, and all else fades into insignificance for herwas stormy but it was probably what they needed. And then Hannah went missing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330511831</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Tulloch 1398515388|title=A Winding RoadThe Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating=4.5|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=''A Winding Road'' is an unusual novel comprised First of three separate (though structurally interspersed) narratives. The main oneall, which is set in it was the present and binds the other two togetherearthquake, follows deep in the sordid escapades of one Piers Guestocean floor, art dealer, or, as he prefers, art advisor. Piers swans about London meeting clients, having affairs and generally doing just whatever he pleases with little thought for which created the consequences. The second narrative is (mostly) set in Nazi Germany tsunami and its main concern is a folkloristthis, Ernst Mannin turn, and how he is viewed by his family after he joins caused the SSnuclear meltdown. His actions The result was complete and motivations are questioned and obsessed aboututter devastation. The third narrativedeaths were uncountable, set in Auvers-Sur-Oise in 1890, is a fictional account of and the last days of Van Gogh's life, when he painted some loss of his most famous worklivelihoods was widespread. It features Dr. Gachet who famously treated The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the artist plus some list of Drpriorities but - six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. Gachet He wasn's other patients of Tullocht a dog person but the convenience store owner's own invention. Piers is alerted comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and Tamon the existence of a lost painting by Van Gogh which has been discovered dog jumped in the archives of Ernst Mann.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224071149</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Colum McCann 0989715337|title=Let The Great World SpinPapa on the Moon|author=Marco North
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=This was one of those books where, after I closed it, I sat very quietly, just breathing out and breathing in, holding onto ''Some frogs had gotten into the last moments of a good storywell. Although it was a little slow to start, I found myself more and more caught up in the characters' lives, how they were all so cleverly interlinked, woven together. The core of the story takes place on the 7th of August, 1974, the day that Philippe Petit walked on a high wire between the twin towers of the World Trade Centre in New York, and we begin with his high wire walk. Petit is never directly named, and although there are flashes back to his training for the event, and his feelings and experience at the time, his is not the focus of the story, but merely the hook upon which all the other characters hang together.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747597227</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=A S Byatt|title=Possession|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=A S Byatt won the Booker Prize for Possession in 1990 and this new edition of the novel is part of a celebration of Booker winners produced by Vintage Books. Presumably in an attempt to make these literary prize-winners more accessible, Vintage has published the series in mass market format. This edition of Possession is therefore similar in size and appearance to an airport lounge blockbuster. More on that later.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099535157</amazonuk>}}'
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