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|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=B077K6BQFD1804272175}}{{Frontpage|author=Maria Stepanova and Sasha Dugdale (Translator)|title=The Complete Novels: Sense Disappearing Act|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Despite her anonymisation of place names and Sensibilitypeople, Pride 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 Prejudicenudged by forces beyond her control, Mansfield Parkher journey slowly bends toward a traveling circus. Swept up in this series of events, EmmaM 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, Northanger Abbey while the circus embodies the reshaping of identity and Persuasion a retreat into fantasy, an impulse that lies at the very heart of the novel form itself.|isbn=1804272329}}{{Frontpage|isbn=295967572X|title=Pale Pieces|author=Jane AustenG M Stevens

|summary=Yes - thatOur unnamed narrator is about to begin a train journey with his companion Django. Where they's over eighty-one hours re going and what the purpose of listening for this journey is, is uncertain. Django found the tickets ''on the purchase of one audio bookfloor somewhere'' and has persuaded our narrator to accompany him. All six major novels Why not? Not much else is clear either - but we are read probably in the past as the pair travel to the station by conmedienne Alison Larkin coach and they're presented in the order in which they were publishedtrain is a steam locomotive.

|author=Andrea Bajani and Elizabeth Harris (translator)Makenna Goodman|title=If You Kept a Record Helen of SinsNowhere

|summary=This was an incredibly readable novella, but one It could be argued that left me the pervading theme of this book is malaise - a little conflictedhard-to-place feeling that something in your life is not quite right. We start as our hero arrives at Bucharest airportThe protagonist, a disgraced professor on the brink of losing both his career and before we even know his gender or relationship, embodies this feeling. However, Goodman counteracts his discomfort with a force which is seductive, radical and unnerving: Helen. The connection between Helen and the nature protagonist is indirect yet intimate. As the former owner of the person countryside house he's addressing considering, Helen represents a volta in his second person monologue of a narrationlife, we see him picked up by her past tied to his mother's chauffeur, and carted off to do all potential fresh start. The realtor who shows the necessary introductions before said mother is buried protagonist around the following day. The mother was a businesswomanhouse shares stories about Helen, who clearly left northern Italy and settled in Romania with describes her (night-time and business) partneras ''an entity that is pure consciousness, and feelings of abandonment are still strongbeyond form''. And so we flit from current (wellAlthough she lives in an assisted living facility now, this came out in Helen has powers beyond comprehension which the original Italian in 2007, so moderately current) Bucharest, to reader gets the lad's childhood, and see just what he has to tell her as a private farewell addresssense are not altogether innocuous.|isbn=19398109651804272205

|author=Afonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)Olga Tokarczuk|title=Kokoschka's DollHouse of Day, House of Night|rating=2.5

|summary=Well''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 looked very much like a book I could love from notion of shifting realities - the get-gosmall, subtle changes which is why I picked my review copy up and flipped pages over several times before actually reading any of it. I found things to potentially delight me each time – a weird section in the middle on darker stock papergovern our lives, a chapter whose number was in like the 20shift from day to night,000showever quotidian, letters used as narrative formcausing chaos. But, and so on. It intrigued with the subterranean voice a man hears constant in wartorn Dresden that what little I knew of it mentionedimage is the house, too. But you've seen stoic against the star rating that comes with this review, and can tell that if love was on these pages, ancient diurnal cycle which nonetheless controls how it was not actually caused by themis perceived. So what happened?|isbn=15294026971804271918

|isbnauthor=0571362672Thea Lenarduzzi|title=Snow|author=John BanvilleThe Tower

|genre=Crime (Historical)Literary Fiction|summary=''WellHow unctuous are the fats of another's life, at least youhow dizzying their sugars in our bloodstream''re a Wexford man.''

So said Colonel Osborne when he welcomed DI St John (pronounced 'Sinjun') Strafford to Ballyglass House just before Christmas 1957. Osborne was master In this compelling novel, Thea Lenarduzzi assumes the identity of T, the Keelmore Hounds and had done something memorable with protagonist of this tale. Just as T's story is being told, the Inniskilling Dragoons at Dunkirk. The niceties had to be established even when there was story of a Catholic priest dead on second protagonist is unveiled: Annie, the library floor with some precious bits daughter of his anatomy missing. Strafford was from Roslea at Bunclody and thisa wealthy family in the 19th century, along with his good-but-shabby suitwho died of tuberculosis after being locked in a tower, marked him out as of Osbornecaptures T's imagination. Annie's class fate is, above all, an enticing story to T. It is a story which she consumes avariciously, both in a quest for truth and obviously Protestant. The dead priest was Father Tom Lawless from Scallanstownknowledge, who - despite the different religions - was and in the habit service of spending time at Ballyglass Housemyth, fable and fantasy. His horse was stabled there.|isbn=1804271799

|author= Tahi SaihateJon Fosse and Damion Searls (translator) |title= Astral Season, Beastly SeasonVaim|rating= 3.54|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= We long for our past even though it is a place to which we can never return. Tahi Saihate, in her debut novel ''Astral Season, Beastly SeasonAll was strange'' illustrates how these rose-tinted glasses often lie. Her novel is .. This haunting phrase encapsulates the pervading sense of otherworldliness which permeates this story set in Vaim, a meditation on youth fictional fishing village in Norway which paradoxically could not feel more real for Jatgeir and how Eline, two of the things we do as a teenager can seem intensely important and often life-alteringprotagonists caught in its melancholic current.|isbn= 19162771011804271829

|author=Laura Imai MessinaClaire-Louise Bennett|title=The Phone Box at the End of the WorldBig Kiss, Bye-Bye |rating=4.5

|summary= In the northeast of JapanEverything in this book, however sweet or seemingly innocent, is steeped in Inwate Prefecture anguish and distortion. Even a man installed kiss, usually a telephone box in his gardensymbol of intimacy and closeness, becomes evidence of love lost. When the narrator cries out internally, ''Inside there is an old blackcome over here and kiss me, telephone, disconnected, that carries voices into the wind.'' It it is less an invitation than a real place, a necessary place, and I am pleased to see the IMPORTANT NOTE that the author attaches desperate attempt to confirm her story, that the place emotional numbness. The imagined recipient of this plea is not a tourist destinationXavier, it is a sacred placeher ex-partner, a place that must be left ghost she conjures to those who really need ittest her detachment.|isbn=178658039X1804271934

|author=Amin MaaloufHelene Bessette and Kate Briggs (translator)|title=The DisorientedLili is Crying

|summary= Adam has lived First published in 1953 in Paris for yearsFrench, this novel is a timeless text which wrenches the hearts of its readers just as Bessette wrenches words and sentences from their proper position on the page and positions them elsewhere, disjointed, truncated. Like the lives of her characters, speaks French more easily than his native Arabicthey are often left tragically incomplete. In fact he hasn|isbn=1804271675}}{{Frontpage|author=Jonathan Buckley|title=One Boat|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= ''One Boat''t been back is a deeply introspective novella that defies traditional narrative structure, drawing the reader into a contemplative realm of philosophical musings and fragmented memories flowing from our narrator and protagonist, Teresa. Set against the evocative backdrop of a small coastal Greek town, this work masterfully captures the magic of its setting and its power to his homeland for 25 yearsprovoke profound introspection. An old friend is dying…or Teresa herself recognises these qualities as Adam prefers to think the reason she has visited it after the death of him a formerboth her parents. Prompted by her mourning, her narrative voice is meditative and deeply self-friendaware, perhaps inviting the reader into her labyrinthine cogitations. It is a book that not only requires but inspires depth of thought, since its narrative structure is fragmentary and ironically relies on analepsis for its propulsion.|isbn=1804271764}}{{Frontpage|author=Eowyn Ivey|title=Black 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 harsh a bar waitress, a setting which enables her bad habits and her accidental neglect of Emaleen. Described as an exa ''wild card'', she feels stuck in her day-friendto-day life, or maybeand yearns to cross the Wolverine river and live on the North Fork to fulfil her desires of a simple life surrounded by nature. The falling out was When she meets Arthur Nielson, a long time agostrange, taciturn and Adam's partner solitary man, who says he has no idea what it was abouta cabin over there, even so she urges him feels called to go knowing that he'll regret not doing so- and bring Emaleen with her. Not knowing whether he's going because he needs or wants toWithout realising it, or simply because he was asked, hethis calling will transform hers and Emaleen's on the next planelives forever. |isbn=B07ZQSK9CY1472279042

|author=Joanne M HarrisSally Rooney|title=A Pocketful Intermezzo|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction |summary=Sally Rooney has studied the chessboard of Crowslife and is something of a grandmaster at putting it into words. Her dialogue is gripping and so brilliantly frustrating, as her characters never quite say exactly what they feel. Among the many relationships woven into this story, the central one for readers to unravel is the fraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and Peter Koubek. Ivan, a 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 brothers' already strained relationship faces new trials.|isbn=0571365469}}{{Frontpage|author=Fyodor Dostoyevsky|title=White Nights

|genre= Confident ReadersShort Stories|summary= I have As always been of the mind that once you're above picture-book level and before you get to graphic sex & violencein Dostoyevsky, there is no difference between books for children and books for adults. There are good books and poor ones. And Joanne Harris does not produce poor ones. ''A Pocketful of Crows'' is clearly aimed at the younger readers as witness the use of the middle initial in the author's name to differentiate from her adult offers. Ignore that if you have loved anything from ''Chocolat'' onwards you will know that Harris character work is mistress of the modern fairy talesublime. This One is no different. It never left wondering what a character is an utter delightthinking or feeling because Dostoyevsky lays bare their innermost dispositions and temperaments with remarkable clarity.|isbn=14732221840241619785

|author=Frederic Beigbeder James Baldwin|title=Giovanni's Room|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction |summary=''Giovanni's Room'' follows the narrator David, an American man living in Paris, as he navigates his torturous affair with Giovanni, an Italian bartender he meets in a gay bar. While David is engaged to Hella, who is travelling in Spain, the real tension in the novel arises not from his infidelity but from the deeper conflict within himself. It is David's crippling shame and Frank Wynne (translator)denial of his sexuality that ultimately dooms his relationship with Giovanni.|isbn=0141186356}}{{Frontpage|author=Alba de Cespedes |title=A Life Without EndForbidden Notebook

|summary=I looked at the calendar the other week, and disappointedly realised I have a birthday this year – I know, yet another one. It won't be one This Italian work of the major numbers, but the time when I have the same number as Heinz varieties looms on the horizon. And then a few feminist fiction holds an air of the big 0-numbers, suspense and if all goes well, I'll be an OBE. (Which of course stands for Over Bloody Eighty.) Now if that's tension from the extent of my mid-life crisismoment our protagonist, I guess I have to be happy. Our author here doesn't use that exact phraseValeria Cossati, but he might be said to be living one. Determined to find out how to prolong life for as long as he wants – he would like to see 400 – he hops right into bed with the assistant to the first geneticist he interviewspurchases her forbidden notebook, and they end up with a child, which is at least a way of continuing learns about herself in the life of his genes, most intimate and a motive to keep on goingrevealing ways. But how can he get to not flick the 'final way out' switch, especially when foie gras tastes so nice?|isbn=16428606701782278222

|author= Maryse CondéOttessa Moshfegh|title= The Wondrous and Tragic Life My Year of Ivan Rest and IvanaRelaxation|rating= 4.53|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= We live in At best, this novel is a post- world: post-colonialismscathing critique of modern society and reveals the fragility of human relationships; at worst, post-modernismit is the cynical, post truthpredictable and slightly trite tale of an unlikeable protagonist. The list goes on. There are numerous works that utilise the prefix post- in their categorisationThis unlikely heroine, but perhaps none more so than Maryse Condé. In her new novela slim, ''The Wondrous attractive and Tragic Life of Ivan and Ivana'', Condé writes newly orphaned girl in her twenties is disillusioned with fervour about the scars left by colonialism on the countries world, but resolves not to which lose sleep over it latched itself: in fact, her solution lies in her hibernation. Ivan and Ivana are twins born in Guadeloupe|isbn=1784707422}}{{Frontpage|author=Matthew Tree|title=We'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a French overseas department. They grow up with intense drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and passionate feelings for each otherwho had endless crises of self confidence. As they grow up So Tim applied himself to his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and move overseas, the ravages of a post-colonial society drive them apart with tragic consequencesset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn=1642860697B0CVFXPGP8

|authorisbn= Ukamaka OlisakweB0C47LV1PC|title= Ogadinma Or, Everything Will Be All RightFragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating= 54|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= The new novel by Ukamaka Olisakwe is a look at the trauma and heartache of being Can you make a woman in 1980s Nigeria. The title is ''Ogadinma Or, Everything Will Be All RightYo birthing person''. Ogadinma joke? And if you could, is the eponymous heroine of question should you make it? Or is the story.. We are with her in every scene and question if you did, would it land? The catch is her narrative voice that leads the story, although Olisakwe writes in third personanswer for both could well be.... This provides a sense of detachment for the reader and highlights the isolation of Ogadinmano. She is exiled from her father ''Fragility''s home and sent to Lagos where she is married set as the city of Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to an older man named Tobe. Their marriage descends into violence and indignities and Ogadinma must utilise her resourcefulness to escape.|isbn=1911648160emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic

|author=Elliot ReedMosby Woods|title=A Key to Treehouse LivingWhirly Man Loses His Turn

|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=This 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 story best course of action. 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 strategic advantage in this asset; a young boyman who can tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. That man would be valuable, William Tyceright? Perhaps the most valuable asset in history. Imagine then, who that this man loses this ability. What would governments do to get it back?|isbn=B0C9SNG8R1}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0571379559|title=The House of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''The House of Broken Bricks'' is being raised by his uncle after the death story of his mother and his fatherfour people. Tess Hembry's abandonmentroots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in the house on the riverbank, built of broken bricks. HoweverInsubstantial as it might look, it isn't told in s stood the usual narrative waypassage of time, storms and floods. InsteadHer husband, the book is made up of glossary entriesRichard, written by Williamstruggles to grow his vegetables, as a way of describing certain events, situations to complete the delivery rounds - and emotionsto bring in sufficient money. It runs alphabeticallyThey have twin boys - Sonny and Max, starting with ABSENCE, then moving to ALPHABETICAL ORDERthe rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. As I began to read I did find myself thinking People don'what on earth?!t believe that they' but I soon grew used to the stylere related, much less twins and was instead caught up in Williamthere's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she's storyhis nanny.|isbn=1911545418

|author= Karina Sainz Borgo and Elizabeth Bryer (translator)Claire North|title= It Would Be Night in CaracasHouse of Odysseus|rating= 45

|summary= ''It Would Be Night in CaracasWhat could matter more than love?'' illuminates  The follow-up to the everyday horrors of modern day Venezuelaexcellent ''Ithaca'' picks up a few months after where we left off. It begins with In the death palace of Adelaida Falcon's mother and chronicles Adelaida's coming Odysseus, with delicate care Queen Penelope continues to terms with rule without her new solitude in this world husband, who sailed to war at Troy and her attempts to escape itthen by divine intervention never returned home. Danger stalks As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for the throne of the shadows Western Isles. Having survived – politically andphysical – the chaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to Ithaca's shores, in Queen Penelope is on the brink of a society where fragile peace. One that shatters however with the establishment is crumblingreturn of Orestes, King of Mycenae, and his sister Elektra, who can you turn to? seeking refuge.|isbn=00629368670356516075}}

|isbnauthor=1471186393Kay Chronister|title=Photographer 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 Lostfears that exist for humanity today. It is a shocking novel that still manages to find hope.|isbn=1803364998}}{{frontpage|isbn=1803363002|author=Caroline ScottEric LaRocca|title= The Trees Grew Because I Bled There|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionHorror|summary=May 1921Horror taps into something primeval within us. Edie receives It is used as a photograph through the postway to reflect our darkest emotions and how we as humans react and process them. There Most horror fiction feature a ''Big Bad'', whether that is no letter a home invader, a monster or note with a ghost, itusually something tangible and, by the end of the story, beatable. Eric LaRocca's ''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There '' is nothing written on the back of the photographnot like that. It is a picture collection of short stories more interested in the horrors of her husbandillness, Francisgrief and humiliation. Francis has been missing for four years. Technically, he has been "missing, believed killed" but Horrors that is not something that a young widow can believe. She hangs on the word linger and are harder to defeat than any ''Big Bad'missing', disbelieving the word killed.

|isbnauthor=1509896465Madelaine Lucas|title=The Nightjar|author=Deborah HewittThirst for Salt|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyLiterary Fiction|summary=''The NightjarLove, I'd read, was supposed to be a light and weightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravity' is an unusual and exciting story. Alice Wyndham lives ' Told from a normal life in London until she finds retrospective view, a box on young woman unravels the year-long relationship that once defined her doorstep one morning and . Overlaid with later wisdom, the narrator relives the affair with a man twenty years her life begins senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to unravel, fastits sorrowful end the summer after. From that very moment, Set against the backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the 24-year-old narrator's deepening relationship with her life is flooded with magicolder lover, lossdepicting its all-consuming nature, expectation how it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and particularly, betrayal. As everything around how it altered her shifts, all that she knows, all that she thinks she knows, must changeirrevocably. Who can she trust? Who must she trust? Who will she trust? More importantly, can she even trust herself?|isbn=0861546490

|isbnauthor=0857058738Michael Grothaus|title=Equator|author=Antonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)Beautiful Shining People|rating=3.54|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=It strikes me that nobody can speak well of the Wild West outside the walls of a theme park. Our agent to see how bad it was here is Pete Ferguson, who bristles at the indignity of the white man against Native 'Indian', who spends days being physically sick while indulging in a buffalo hunt, and who hates the way man – and woman, of course – can turn against fellow man at the bat of an eyelid. But this book is about so much more than the 1870s USA, fearing something and the attendant problems with gold rushes, pioneer spirits and racial genocidehaving it come to pass are two different things. He finds himself trying And I'm willing to find this book's version bet most of Utopiawhat we fear will never happen, namely the Equator, where everything is upside down, people walk on their heads with rocks in their pockets or we can take steps to keep them on change it.'' ''Beautiful Shining People'' revolves around the ground question of identity and acceptance. Of what it means to counter the anti-gravity, and where, who knows, things might actually be betterhuman. But that equator Of what is real and what is a long way away – artificial, and there's a whole adventure full whether the development of Mexico and Latin America between him and it… technology is exciting or frightening.|isbn=191458564X

|isbnauthor=1526614960Jennifer Saint|title=The Dutch House|author=Ann PatchettAtalanta

|summary=When we first meet Danny and his elder sister''I was as worthy as any one of them. I would get on board that ship, Maeve ConroyI vowed. I would take my place, they're both living at The Dutch House with their parents and under not just in the gaze name of the portraits goddess. It was for the sake of the former owners whose oil paintings still hang on the wallsmy name, too. ItAtalanta''s  Princess. Warrior. Lover. Hero. Abandoned at birth for being born a daughter rather than a strange family dynamic: Cyril Conroy son, Atalanta is distant raised under the protective eye of the goddess Athemis and fashioned into a formidable huntress, one who longs for adventure. When the closest Danny seems opportunity comes – to come to him is when he goes out with him on join the Argonauts, a Saturday collecting rents fierce band of warriors, descendent from properties the family ownsGods themselves – Atalanta seizes the chance to fight in Artemis' name and carve out her own legendary place in history. Elna Conroy What follows is lovinga whirlwind of challenges and discovery and through it, but absent increasingly often until the point comes when the children are told Atalanta must remember Artemis' fatal warning: that if she marries, it will not be returning. In other circumstances, this might have affected Maeve and Danny deeply, but their primary relationship is with each other. It's a bond which only death will breakher undoing.|isbn=1472292154

|isbnauthor=0954899520Amanthi Harris|title=A Winter Book|author=Tove JanssonBeautiful Place

|summary=Tove Jansson's worldwide fame lasts Padma, a young Sri Lankan, has returned to the Villa Hibiscus on the Moomin books, written in the 1940s and later becoming television characters southern coast of the simplicity, naivety and sheer 'goodness' that would later produce flowerpot men or teletubbies. Simple drawings, simple stories, simple goodnessher home country. What This is often forgotten outside of a place she spent her native Finland formative years. It is that not a place she was a serious writer…that born into, but the one she wrote for adults thinks of as well as children…and that home. How she had a feeling for came to be at the natural world Villa, how it became her home, and the simple machinations that have flowed through her life that not only informed those child-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 trolls but went far beyond any fantasy the musical score of how a film, that strand weaves its way through everything that happens at the world might beVilla.|isbn=1784631930

|isbn=0954221710178563335X|title=The Summer BookSea Defences|author=Tove JanssonHilary Taylor

|summary=Tove JanssonWhen we first meet Rachel Bird she's short novel about Summer is several worlds away from a trainee vicar, sitting in on a PCC meeting and wondering why they're held when you need to pick the Moomintrolls she is most famous for outside children up. Her husband, Christopher, collects six-year-old Hannah and her elder brother, Jamie, whilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioner. Thelma's daughter-in-law won't let her see her native Scandinaviagrandson. Book yourself an afternoon this Summer Holthorpe, on the Norfolk coast, and take yourself and The Summer Book somewhere quietis a lovely place, preferably within sight but Rachel is struggling to develop a real bond with the parish - and sound she's in awe of the seavicar, settle back Gail, but then she's been doing the job for more than thirty years. Rachel and prepare to be transportedChristopher hoped that a walk on the beach would do them some good - it was stormy but it was probably what they needed. And then Hannah went missing.

|isbn=17885423471398515388|title=Snowflake, AZThe Boy and the Dog|author=Marcus SedgwickSeishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating=34.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=First of all, it was the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and this, in turn, caused the nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and utter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, and the loss of livelihoods was widespread. The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of priorities but - six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. He wasn't a dog person but the convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and Tamon the dog jumped in.}} {{Frontpage|isbn=0989715337|title=Papa on the Moon|author=Marco North|rating=4

|summary=This is a deep, interesting read, unlike any book I've read in quite some time'Some frogs had gotten into the well. The novel's story follows a young man named Ash ' ''Walter stood waist-deep in the process fragrant water, naked except for his beaten leather hat. Long strands of joining a community their eggs wove around him, sticky gray pearls with tadpoles inside them. Two of sick people in the curiously named town dogs leaned over the opening and barked down at the strange noise of Snowflake, Arizonathe buckets as he filled them. These people are sick, but it's not a sickness you've heard  How is that for an opening? The style of. Instead, they're environmentally ill – affected by household chemicals and fabrics, pesticides, static electricity, and radiation – and their only ''cure'' is to stay this novel in the town away form of interconnected short stories goes from the real worldsuccinct and laconic to wistful and musing, turning on a sixpence. Though it's about a real placeAnd author Marco North, who has the people in it are fictional. It really is a place apartmost wonderful turn of phrase, quite literally cut off from the outside world – people are even required starts as he means to decontaminate themselves thoroughly before becoming fully integratedgo on.