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[[Category:New Reviews|Literary Fiction]]{{adsense2}}__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Donal RyanJeremy Cooper|title=The Spinning HeartDiscord|rating=43.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary='My father still lives back the road past the weir in the cottage I was reared in. I go there every day to see is he dead and every day he lets me down. He hasn't yet missed Discord: a day lack of letting me down.'agreement or harmony (as between persons, things, or ideas)
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Natasha SolomonsPolly Barton|title=The Gallery of Vanished HusbandsWhat Am I, A Deer?|rating=54
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=On her thirtieth birthday Juliet Montague went out 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 buy a fridge for Berlin, works translating video games into Japanese through the princely sum process of twenty-one guineas. She'd saved hard for localisation, rewriting language until it - and her parents had given her the final few pounds - but then Juliet did something impulsivefeels comfortably familiar to a new audience. Instead of buying Barton treats this as a fridge she commissioned a portrait paradoxical act: arguably, in striving for universality, language is endlessly repackaged, its originality at risk of herself and so began her involvement in the post-war art scenedisappearing altogether. Juliet wasn't - by any stretch of From this, the imagination - an artistnovel opens out into a wider, but she had a startling ability resonant question: to what extent do we translate ourselves in order to spot a ''good'' picture. It was simply something which she ''knew''be understood, accepted, much as she had known for certain that her husband had left for good on the day he didn't return home as expected.or loved?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444736345</amazonuk>1804272175
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=IndiscretionMaria Stepanova and Sasha Dugdale (Translator)|authortitle=Charles DubowThe Disappearing Act|rating=3.54
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Charles DubowDespite her anonymisation of place names and people, Stepanova's debut novel promises 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 modern day Great Gatsbyguest speaker at. Detoured by erratic train schedules and nudged by forces beyond her control, her journey slowly bends toward a traveling circus. It too is set amongst Swept up in this series of events, M eventually offers to step in for a circus performer who has unexpectedly left the rich show. The train functions as a motif of transience and famous outside New Yorkimpermanence, it too is narrated by while the circus embodies the reshaping of identity and a character seemingly on retreat into fantasy, an impulse that lies at the very heart of the outside, Maddy's childhood friend Walternovel form itself.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007501307</amazonuk>1804272329
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{{newreview|title=Unfaithfully Yours|author=Nigel WilliamsFrontpage|ratingisbn=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=When Nigel Williams first really burst on to the best-seller list, a couple of decades ago, it was with a book set in Wimbledon that really quite tickled a younger me – and my mother. But then he produced two more in the same series, and we soon decided he was a bit of a one-trick pony, and could never be sure how much of the trilogy we'd read, or be too eager to read more. Flash forward, and Williams has certainly branched out – his setting this time is Putney. Wimbledon Common is now Putney Heath, and so on. But here he provides an epistolatory novel – and if there's one kind of novel to make me prick up my ears it is one built from letters. It is the blatant two-and-fro timing of the narrative, and the succinctness that characters are formed with, that strike me as obvious benefits of such a book – and Unfaithfully Yours has those and many more.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472106741</amazonuk>}} {{newreview295967572X|title=Russian StoriesPale Pieces|author=Francesc SeresG M Stevens
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=When confronted Our unnamed narrator is about to begin a train journey with his companion Django. Where they're going and what the topic purpose of parrotsthis journey is, most people would describe them as tamed tropical birds that are taught to repeat simple phrases, having no particular intelligence to engender an originality of their ownis uncertain. Filippo Bologna has not in fact written a book about birds, but about writers - in fact, three writers. Just as Django found the Neo-Pagans have a liking of tickets ''on the Triple Goddesses of The Maiden, The Mother floor somewhere'' and The Crone, has persuaded our three writers are similarly split into The Beginner, The Writer, and The Masternarrator to accompany him. All three of these novelists Why not? Not much else is clear either - but we are battling it out for The Prize, a prestigious award that would revitalise probably in the career of The Master, legitimize the efforts of The Beginner and assure The Writer a place in past as the annals of history. The setting of Rome is utilised to provide both a stunning backdrop and one that is sympathetic pair travel to the mood of our characters. The stories of our three protagonists are interwoven in a delightfully clear fashion; Bologna's prose is delicate station by coach and descriptive, but not at the sacrifice of pacing. The stage is set; the characters have learned their lines. There train is just one problem... out of the three writers, none of them deserves to win The Prizea steam locomotive.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908968192</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=In The Dutch MountainsMakenna Goodman|authortitle=Cees NooteboomHelen of Nowhere
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Often, when asked if what I’m reading It could be argued that the pervading theme of this book is malaise - a good book I hesitate before answeringhard-to-place feeling that something in your life is not quite right. The protagonist, trying to decide what a disgraced professor on the asker really meansbrink of losing both his career and his relationship, embodies this feeling. Do they mean However, Goodman counteracts his discomfort with a force which is it exciting? Funny? Full of interesting characters? Recentlyseductive, someone asked me that radical and when I hesitated they gave me this as a clarifierunnerving: “Are you better off for having read it?”Helen. In this instance, yesThe connection between Helen and the protagonist is indirect yet intimate. I think I am. HoweverAs the former owner of the countryside house he's considering, despite coming away from this book with Helen represents a strong positive feeling volta in his life, her past tied to his potential fresh start. The realtor who shows the protagonist around the house shares stories about itHelen, and describes her as ''an entity that is pure consciousness, beyond form''. Although she lives in an assisted living facility now, it’s also left me a little befuddledHelen has powers beyond comprehension which the reader gets the sense are not altogether innocuous.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782067191</amazonuk>1804272205
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{{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?''
The title of this spellbinding work, ''House of Day, House of Night'', somewhat reflects this notion of shifting realities - the small, subtle changes which govern our lives, like the shift from day to night, however quotidian, causing chaos. But, the constant in that image is the house, stoic against the ancient diurnal cycle which nonetheless controls how it is perceived.|isbn=1804271918}}{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Every PromiseThea Lenarduzzi|authortitle=Andrea BajaniThe Tower|rating=45
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Italian writer, Andrea Bajani's 'How unctuous are the fats of another'Every Promises life, how dizzying their sugars in our bloodstream'' is narrated by Pietro. His partner In this compelling novel, Thea Lenarduzzi assumes the identity of T, Sarathe protagonist of this tale. Just as T's story is being told, has left him due to their inability to have the story of a babysecond protagonist is unveiled: Annie, but soon she finds herself pregnant after the daughter of a one night stand and reliant on Pietro's mother for advice. Meanwhile Pietro meets Olmo, an elderly man who lives wealthy family in their old family apartmentthe 19th century, who reminds Pietro died of his own Grandfather, Mariotuberculosis after being locked in a tower, who, like Olmo, served in Mussolinicaptures T's ill-fated Russian campaignimagination. Olmo persuades Pietro to go to Russia to visit the scenes of some of the photographs he has Annie's fate is, above all, an enticing story to try to come to terms with the pastT. It's is a story about the pastwhich she consumes avariciously, the present both in a quest for truth and the future knowledge, and the struggle for one man to make sense of this. It's packed with surpassingly detailed imagery and Bajani is at times breathtakingly unflinching in exposing the vulnerability service of his narrator. Howevermyth, it is very much a slow burn of a book fable and it's not always an easy book to readfantasy. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857051466</amazonuk>1804271799
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andrew PorterJon Fosse and Damion Searls (translator) |title=In Between DaysVaim|rating=3.54
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=After Chloe Harding is forced to leave her East Coast college, for reasons she refuses to explain to her recently divorced parents or older brother Richard, her family's lives start to unravel'All was strange''. Will .. This haunting phrase encapsulates the rest pervading sense of them ever find out what caused her fall from graceotherworldliness which permeates this story set in Vaim, a fictional fishing village in Norway which paradoxically could not feel more real for Jatgeir and can they solve their own problems?Eline, two of the protagonists caught in its melancholic current.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0224089838</amazonuk>1804271829
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ivy PochodaClaire-Louise Bennett|title=Visitation StreetBig Kiss, Bye-Bye
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Red HookEverything in this book, however sweet or seemingly innocent, is steeped in anguish and distortion. Even a kiss, Brooklyn usually a symbol of intimacy and it is blisteringly hotcloseness, becomes evidence of love lost. Two fifteen year old girls decide When the best narrator cries out internally, ''come over here and most exciting way to cool off kiss me,'' it is to take less an invitation than a small inflatable raft on desperate attempt to the riverconfirm her emotional numbness. The next morning one imagined recipient of the girls this plea is found unconscious and washed ashore with no memory of what happened in the river and the other girl is nowhere to be found. This becomes Xavier, her ex-partner, a big local story and the survivor, saviour and community have ghost she conjures to deal with the loss in their different waystest her detachment.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444778242</amazonuk>1804271934
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Marlen HaushoferHelene Bessette and Kate Briggs (translator)|title=Nowhere Ending SkyLili is Crying
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= Little Meta First published in 1953 in French, this novel is growing up in a childhood paradise with two parents who love her and a younger brother to tease and train to do all timeless text which wrenches the things that Meta wants him to. However the world outside Meta's paradise will soon change beyond all recognition hearts of its readers just as Bessette wrenches words and sentences from their proper position on the Austria page and Germany of the 1920s makes way for positions them elsewhere, disjointed, truncated. Like the Austria and Germany lives of the 1930sher characters, they are often left tragically incomplete.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0704373130</amazonuk>1804271675
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lea CarpenterJonathan Buckley|title=Eleven DaysOne Boat|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Sara raised Jason alone; even when she was with his father it felt as if she was a lone parent. Jason's father always seemed to be away doing something indefinable abroad; then he disappeared leaving her completely. Two years later Jason's father was dead. However Jason One Boat'' is a lad to be proud ofdeeply introspective novella that defies traditional narrative structure, never giving Sara drawing the reader into a moment's trouble contemplative realm of philosophical musings and fragmented memories flowing from our narrator and now protagonist, Teresa. Set against the evocative backdrop of a member 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 elite US Navy SEALS. Now he's missing in action… Now reason she has to hang 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 and hopeanalepsis for its propulsion.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444776231</amazonuk>1804271764
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|rating=3.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The small community ''Black Woods Blue Sky'' tells the story of Noitía is Birdie, the young mother of toddler Emaleen, who longs for a place life beyond the Alaskan lodge where everyone knows each other and each other’s businessshe works as a bar waitress, a setting which considering most enables her bad habits and her accidental neglect of the adults are involved in the one business, smuggling, is potentially dangerous knowledgeEmaleen. We follow Described as a small group of three young friends growing up ''wild card'', she feels stuck in her day-to-day life, and yearns to cross the area as they play Wolverine river and learn and even experience live on the North Fork to fulfil her desires of a little of the black market dealingssimple life surrounded by nature. They stumble across When she meets Arthur Nielson, a stash of smuggled whisky strange, taciturn and are caught by the charismatic king pin responsible for the traffickingsolitary man, who teaches them that silence is the most important lesson says he has a cabin over there, she feels called to learn when growing up in Noitíago - and bring Emaleen with her. Without realising it, this calling will transform hers and Emaleen's lives forever.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184655568X</amazonuk>1472279042
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ryu MurakamiSally Rooney|title=From The Fatherland, With LoveIntermezzo
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=From The FatherlandSally 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, With Love as her characters never quite say exactly what they feel. Among the many relationships woven into this story, the central one for readers to unravel is the fraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and Peter Koubek. Ivan, a 2005 Japanese novel set socially awkward chess prodigy, contrasts sharply with his older brother Peter, a successful lawyer living in Dublin. Following their father's passing after a long battle with cancer, the then-near future of 2011brothers' already strained relationship faces new trials. Fatherland (as I will abbreviate it) explores the social and political ramifications of one speculative scenario: what if North Korea invaded Japan?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908968451</amazonuk>0571365469
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Suzanne RindellFyodor Dostoyevsky|title=The Other TypistWhite Nights
|rating=5
|genre=Short Stories|summary=As always in Dostoyevsky, the character work is sublime. One is never left wondering what a character is thinking or feeling because Dostoyevsky lays bare their innermost dispositions and temperaments with remarkable clarity.|isbn=0241619785}}{{Frontpage|author=James Baldwin|title=Giovanni's Room|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=The Other Typist is set ''Giovanni's Room'' follows the narrator David, an American man living in 1920s New York CityParis, as he navigates his torturous affair with Prohibition at its height and Rose BakerGiovanni, an orphaned young woman, working as Italian bartender he meets in a police typistgay bar. While she has no real friendsDavid is engaged to Hella, who is travelling in Spain, she's good at her job and seems to have the respect of real tension in the Sergeant, whom she admires and novel arises not from his infidelity but from the Lieutenant Detective, whom shedeeper conflict within himself. It is David's less keen on. Then a perfect storm comes into their lives, in the shape crippling shame and denial of the enchanting Odalie, and nothing will be the same againhis sexuality that ultimately dooms his relationship with Giovanni.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0241002885</amazonuk>0141186356
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ioanna Bourazopoulou and Yannis Panas (Translator)Alba de Cespedes |title=What Lot's Wife SawForbidden Notebook
|rating=4
|genre=Science Literary Fiction|summary= It's been over 20 years since The Overflow came, flooding half This Italian work of feminist fiction holds an air of Europe. Around the same time Violet Salt, a new multi-functional mineral, appeared, its production now governed globally by suspense and tension from the mysteriousmoment our protagonist, all-powerful Consortium. Meanwhile back in Europe The ColonyValeria Cossati, a haven for those escaping floods and indeed justicepurchases her forbidden notebook, is ruled by Governor Bera and six officials, the 'Purple Stars'. All seems to be well learns about herself in a despotic, lawless way until the six wake up to the realisation that the Governor has died mysteriously in the night. The Consortium needs answers so choose the greatest crossword compiler of the age, Phileas Book, to investigate, whether he wants to or notmost intimate and revealing ways.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1845025474</amazonuk>1782278222
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gabriel WestonOttessa Moshfegh|title=Dirty WorkMy Year of Rest and Relaxation|rating=53
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=#There are two women in an operating theatre At best, this novel is a scathing critique of modern society and when one starts bleeding heavily - fatally - reveals the other freezesfragility of human relationships; at worst, unableit is the cynical, despite all her training predictable and undoubted skillsslightly trite tale of an unlikeable protagonist. This unlikely heroine, to do anything at all. Whatever the outcome it cannot pass unnoticeda slim, unreported attractive and surgeon Nancy Mullion newly orphaned girl in her twenties is called to appear before a tribunal appointed by disillusioned with the General Medical Council. Over a period of weeks she's forced world, but resolves not to confront the effect of being a doctor who has killed as well as cured. You're probably making assumptions now and nodding wisely. Don't - because you are almost certainly going to be wrong. This will not be the story which you are expecting and lose sleep over it was certainly not the story which Nancy's hospital wanted to hear: in fact, her solution lies in her hibernation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>022409128X</amazonuk>1784707422
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rachel KushnerMatthew Tree|title=The FlamethrowersWe'll Never Know
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Set mainly in New York's art district in the late 1970s, Rachel Kushner's ''The Flamethrowers'' tells the story of a young girl, known only Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to the reader as Renobe different from his father, after the city she comes from. She's a girl drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and who loves motorbikes and photography, but struggles had endless crises of self confidence. So Tim applied himself to find her place in the New York art scene. When she falls for the estranged son, Sandro, of the Italian motorbike manufacturer Valerohis studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself an artist in New York, Reno finds herself in situations she cannot controlhigh but achievable ambitions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846557917</amazonuk>B0CVFXPGP8
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Roland Watson-GrantB0C47LV1PC|title=SketcherFragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=54
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= Nine-year-old Skid Beaumont lives with his three brothers, father Alrick and mother Valerie in the swamps beyond the New Orleans city limits. Life is hard and home is Can you make a rundown shack with no running water but they're only there temporarily; a 'temporarilyYo birthing person'' that joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it? Or is rather long-term. Alrick moved them from their nice home in New Orleans because the question if you did, would it land was cheap and soon ? The catch is that the city would build out to envelop themanswer for both could well be... Years later they're still waiting for that to happen. Life isn’t exactly mundane though; there are rumours that when Skid's brother Frico draws left-handed, strange things seem to happenno.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846882427</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Philip SingtonMosby Woods|title=The Valley of UnknowingA Whirly Man Loses His Turn
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=In The West isn't the dominant force it once was. Nobody in the mid-West is quite sure how to-late eighties mend this or even if mending it is the German Democratic Republic looked like enduringbest course of action. Bolstered by Governments are flailing. A war here, a system of ''Mitarbeiter'' (''fellow workers'' push for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is in actual charge. Imagine then, there was a much more amenable term than ''informers'') man with precognition. Imagine the Stasi kept their populace strategic advantage in checkthis asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. Western media was easy to censor That man would be valuable, right? Perhaps the most valuable asset in those dayshistory. Border controls were brutalImagine then, that this man loses this ability. People were shot on a regular basis trying What would governments do to cross the no-man's-land into West Berlin and along the other inner German borders.get it back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099535823</amazonuk>B0C9SNG8R1
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Walser0571379559|title=The Walk and other storiesHouse of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=''The publication House of this collection Broken Bricks'' is the story of around forty short stories affords four people. Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in the English speaking public a unique opportunity; that house on the riverbank, built of reading Walserbroken bricks. Insubstantial as it might look, possibly it's stood the leading modernist writer passage of Swiss German time, storms and floods. Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the delivery rounds - and to bring in sufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and Max, the last centuryrainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. He has received high praise in Max takes after his father. People don'A Place in the Countryt believe that they're related, W G Sebaldmuch less twins and there's recently published posthumous collection and he an assumption when Max is well-known as being a significant influence on Franz Kafka. His work here dates from 1907 to 1929 and along out with his poetry won him recognition with Berlinmother that she's avant garde. He combines lyrical delicacy with detailed observation; reflective melancholy with criticism of brash commercialism. The fine writing in this volume strives to achieve a hard won integrity together with an experimental capacity for reflection. It challenges the reader and provokes him to new insightshis nanny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846689589</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
|author=Claire North
|title=House of Odysseus
|rating=5
|genre= Literary Fiction
|summary= ''What could matter more than love?''
The follow-up to the excellent ''Ithaca'' picks up a few months after where we left off. In the palace of Odysseus, with delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without her husband, who sailed to war at Troy and then by divine intervention never returned home. As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for the throne of the Western Isles. Having survived – politically and physical – the chaotic storm 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}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joydeep RoyKay Chronister|title= Desert Creatures|rating= 4|genre= Dystopian Fiction|summary= With a world that is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, post-Bhattacharyaapocalyptic 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 WatchTrees 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
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= Nizam pushes a barrow up ''Love, I'd read, was supposed to be a fortified US army base in Afghanistan. What is she doing there? How will the soldiers react? What do they believe: their experiencelight and weightless feeling, their trainingbut I had always longed for gravity'' Told from a retrospective view, their gut reaction or a young girl amputee in woman unravels the year-long relationship that once defined her. Overlaid with later wisdom, the narrator relives the affair with a man twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the summer after. Set against the middle backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the desert who may be the last thing they ever see?24-year-old narrator's deepening relationship with her older lover, depicting its all-consuming nature, how it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and how it altered her irrevocably.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099565773</amazonuk>0861546490
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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.''
''Beautiful Shining People'' revolves around the question of identity and acceptance. Of what it means to be human. Of what is real and what is artificial, and whether the development of technology is exciting or frightening.|isbn=191458564X}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anthony CartwrightJennifer Saint|title=How I Killed Margaret ThatcherAtalanta|rating=3.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=What motivates someone to become a killer?''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 sake of my name, too. Atalanta''
Princess. Warrior. Lover. Hero. Abandoned at birth for being born a daughter rather than a son, Atalanta is raised under the protective eye of the goddess Athemis and fashioned into a formidable huntress, one who longs for adventure. When the reader first meets Sean Bullopportunity comes – to join the Argonauts, he is nine years olda fierce band of warriors, living a seemingly carefree descendent from the Gods themselves – Atalanta seizes the chance to fight in Artemis' name and happy existence surrounded by his family and friends carve out her own legendary place in history. What follows is a close-knit community in Dudley, West Midlands. He loves Star Wars whirlwind of challenges and playing football with his school friends discovery and adores his teenage uncle Johnnythrough it, who tells him stories and creates the most wonderful pieces of artAtalanta must remember Artemis' fatal warning: that if she marries, it will be her undoing.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781251576</amazonuk>1472292154
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{{Frontpage|author=Amanthi Harris|title=Beautiful Place|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Padma, a young Sri Lankan, has returned to the Villa Hibiscus on the southern coast of her home country. This is a place she spent her formative years. It is not a place she was born into, but the one she thinks of as home. How she came to be at the Villa, how it became her home, and the machinations that have flowed through her life ever since she first arrived there provide the ''score'' for this gentle and yet subtly violent novel. Padma's present fails to escape her past and much like the musical score of a film, that strand weaves its way through everything that happens at the Villa.|isbn=1784631930}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jenni Fagan178563335X|title=The PanopticonSea Defences|author=Hilary Taylor
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Imagine reading When we first meet Rachel Bird she's a book set trainee vicar, sitting in on a Scottish children’s care homePCC meeting and wondering why they're held when you need to pick the children up. It’s about a violent and a deeply disturbed fifteen Her husband, Christopher, collects six-year -old drug addict whoHannah and her elder brother, when she was elevenJamie, found whilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioner. Thelma's daughter-in-law won't let her prostitute foster mother murdered in see her grandson. Holthorpe, on the bathtub. That’s Norfolk coast, is a lovely place, but Rachel is struggling to develop a real bond with the setparish -up and she's in awe of Jenni Fagan’s ''The Panopticon''the vicar, Gail, and that’s what it’s about – but then she's been doing the funny thing is job for more than thirty years. Rachel and Christopher hoped that whatever you’re picturing in your head right now, and what I a walk on the beach would do them some good - it was imagining before I sat down to read stormy but it, bears absolutely no resemblance to the book Fagan has actually writtenwas probably what they needed. And then Hannah went missing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099558645</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jess Richards1398515388|title=Cooking with BonesThe Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary= Sisters Amber and Maya run away from homeFirst of all, it was the city of Paradonearthquake, and arrive deep in a small village. Finding an old cottagethe ocean floor, which created the girls settle tsunami and this, in comfortablyturn, hidden from caused the locals' sight while joining in with their customs as Amber backs honey cakes each night from the ingredients left daily outside the cottage nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and utter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, and the instructions loss of the former occupant's cookery bookslivelihoods was widespread. Now they've moved away The fact that many pets were separated from their old life Amber tries to encourage Maya to stand on her own two feet which isn't easyowners came far down the list of priorities but - six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. For Maya is a formwanderer, engineered to reflect otherHe wasn's wants; t a role in which itdog person but the convenience store owner's difficult to exist normally, let alone while trying comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to adjust to change… open his car door and, indeed, unexpected deathTamon the dog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444738038</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate Atkinson0989715337|title=Life After LifePapa on the Moon|author=Marco North|rating=54
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Spanning ''Some frogs had gotten into the period from just before World War One to the end of World War Two, Kate Atkinsonwell.'s ' 'Life After Life'' tells Walter stood waist-deep in the story fragrant water, naked except for his beaten leather hat. Long strands of Ursula Toddtheir eggs wove around him, sticky gray pearls with tadpoles inside them. Or more accurately, it tells Two of the dogs leaned over the opening and barked down at the potential stories strange noise of Ursula Toddthe buckets as he filled them. If you've seen the movie ''Sliding Doors'' then you will have some idea of the concept Atkinson explores; How is that for an opening? The style of small changes this novel in life leading to different outcomes, many of which lead to tragic endings but strangely the book manages to be a celebration form of the spirit of Ursula interconnected short stories goes from succinct and is often quite uplifting. It's a book that sounds like it is going laconic to be much more confusing than it is though wistful and the result is musing, turning on a very special book indeedsixpence. It's that rare thing And author Marco North, who has the most wonderful turn of a book that has a strong literary style but which is also very readablephrase, starts as he means to go on.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385618670</amazonuk>
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