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{{Frontpage|author=Sally Rooney|title=Intermezzo|rating=[[The Execution 4.5|genre=General Fiction |summary=Sally 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, 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|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=''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}}{{Frontpage|author=Alba de Cespedes |title=Forbidden Notebook|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=This Italian work of feminist fiction holds an air of suspense and tension from the moment our protagonist, Valeria Cossati, purchases her forbidden notebook, and learns about herself in the most intimate and revealing ways.|isbn=1782278222}}{{Frontpage|author=Ottessa Moshfegh|title=My Year of Rest and Relaxation|rating=3|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=At best, this novel is a scathing critique of modern society and reveals the fragility of human relationships; at worst, it is the cynical, predictable and slightly trite tale of an unlikeable protagonist. This unlikely heroine, a slim, attractive and newly orphaned girl in her twenties is disillusioned with the world, but resolves not to lose sleep over it: in fact, her solution lies in her hibernation.|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 drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of Justice by Friedrich Durrenmatt self confidence. So Tim applied himself to his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and John E set himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0C47LV1PC|title=Fragility|author=Mosby Woods (translator)]]|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, would it land? The catch is that the answer for both could well be.... no.

[[image:2.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] It's 1957, and we're somewhere in Switzerland, and thereFragility's just one case on everyone's lips – the simple fact that a politician has gone into the crowded room of one of those 'the place to go' restaurants, and point blank shot a professor everyone there must have known, and ferried a British companion to the airport in his chauffeur-driven Rolls before handing himself in to face is set as the murder rap. Of course he's found guilty, even if the gun involved has managed to disappear. He's certainly city of much interestPortland, not only to our narratorOregon, a young lawyer called Spaet – even if he rarely gets cautiously begins to frequent such establishments with such people, he is eager to know more, especially once he is actually tasked by the man in hand to look into things a second time. But what's this, where he opens his testimony about emerge from the affair with restrictions imposed during the conclusion, that he himself will need to turn killer to redress the balance? [[The Execution of Justice by Friedrich Durrenmatt and John E Woods (translator)|Full Review]]covid pandemic<br>}}{{Frontpage<!-- Cercas -->|author=Mosby Woods*[[image:Cercas_Impostor.jpg|left|linktitle=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0857056506?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0857056506]]A Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating===[[The Impostor by Javier Cercas and Frank Wynne (translator)]]===4 [[image:5star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]] Enric Marco is without doubt an extraordinary man. A veteran of summary= The West isn't the Spanish Civil War, honoured for his bravery on the battlefield. A political prisoner of two fascist regimes. A survivor of the Nazi concentration campsdominant force it once was. A prominent figure Nobody in the clandestine resistance against Franco's tyranny. A tireless warrior for social justice and the defence of human rights. A national hero. But the most extraordinary thing about Enric Marco West is quite sure how to mend this: that he is really none of these things. He or even if mending it is an impostor. And Javier Cercas sets out to tell his story – the true story best course of Spain's most notorious liaraction. [[The Impostor by Javier Cercas and Frank Wynne (translator)|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Badoe -->*[[image:Badoe_Jigsaw.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.coGovernments are flailing.uk/gp/product/1786695480?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1786695480]] ===[[A Jigsaw of Fire and Stars by Yaba Badoe]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]], [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]war here, [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Sante was a baby when she was washed ashore in a sea-chest laden with treasure. It seems she is the sole survivor of the tragic sinking of a ship carrying migrants and refugees. Her people. Fourteen years on she's a member of Mama Rose's unique and dazzling circus. But, from their watery grave, the unquiet dead are calling Sante to avenge thempush for climate action there. A bamboo flute. A golden bangle. A ripening mango which must not fall... if Sante feeling that nobody is to tell their story and her own. [[A Jigsaw of Fire and Stars by Yaba Badoe|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Batalha -->*[[image:Batalha_Invisible.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.coin actual charge.uk/gp/product/178607298X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=178607298X]] ===[[The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao by Martha Batalha and Eric M B Becker (translator)]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]] On the surfaceImagine then, young housewife Euridice Gusmao has it all. A nice-enough, parent-pleasing husband with there was a steady banking job, two young children upon whom to dote, an immaculate home complete man with maidprecognition. That's all anyone could ever want, isn't it? Not Euridice. She has an inexplicable ache inside her for something more, like many of us. Yet each of her pet projects, from a desire to publish a recipe book to starting a cottage sewing industry Imagine the strategic advantage in her living room, are met with scorn from her stern husband Antenor. He wants this asset; a wife man who doesn't draw attention to herself, whose only domains are her house and her familycan tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. [[The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao by Martha Batalha and Eric M B Becker (translator)|Full Review]]<br> {{newreview|author=Sjon Hodgkinson and Ten Hodgkinson (editors)|title=The Dark-Blue Winter Overcoat and other stories from the North|rating=3|genre=Anthologies |summary=A compilation like this should That man would be nigh on brilliant. It's not one author's best short worksvaluable, it's that of a dozen. It's not from one snapshot in time, as some were written right? Perhaps the year of publication and some most valuable asset in the 1960shistory. It's not from one tiny patch of author's desk or one set of laptop keys, but from the entire Nordic worldImagine then, whether that be urban Scandinavia, the Faroes and other island groups, or Greenlandthis man loses this ability. That is a world that's changing – as the Greenland-born author now living in Brooklyn, and the Iraqi blood on these pages, testify. It's a world where new roads and new building works mean a family living on the edge of the forest at the beginning of the story are being surrounded by other life by the end, and with the influence of centuries of folklore featured, a lot more than that changes – sometimes What would governments do to get it seems to be even the characters' species…back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782273824</amazonuk>B0C9SNG8R1

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christina Hesselholdt and Paul Russell Garrett (translator)0571379559|title=CompanionsThe House of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams|rating=35

|summary=''CompanionsThe House of Broken Bricks'' is written as a series the story of monologuesfour people. Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, where six middle-aged friends take but instead, she lives in the house on the riverbank, built of broken bricks. Insubstantial as it in turns to narrate scenes from their livesmight look, charting it's stood the intimate details passage of their holidaystime, dinner partiesstorms and floods. Her husband, familiesRichard, marriagesstruggles to grow his vegetables, affairs to complete the delivery rounds - and work lives to bring in a style that mixes honesty sufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and openness with fantasy and evasionMax, the rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. The charm of the novel lies in the way the friends People don' voices bicker with one another among the pages, as we discover t believe that there are always several sides to the same story. We learn most about the characters not through what they say about themselves but through what the others say about them. Along the way're related, much less twins and there 's an assumption when Max is heartbreak and grief, but this is always offset by an abundance of humour and a writing style out with his mother that never fails to be refreshingly light-heartedshe's his nanny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910695335</amazonuk>

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= David BergenKay Chronister|title= StrangerDesert Creatures

|genre= Literary Dystopian Fiction |summary=''Stranger'' tells the story of Íso, With a young Guatemalan womanworld that is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, and her affair with post-apocalyptic fiction can become an American doctoralmost masochistic thrill. When an accident forces him to return to the StatesWhether it is a robotic takeover, a world devoid of water or a nuclear holocaust, she this genre is left pregnant and lonelya way for humans to cathartically experience their most existential fears. Her anguish becomes even more profound when her daughter ''Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is abducted, and taken to live with the doctor and his wife. What followed - tales of the journey Íso embarked upon in the hope a new work of finding her baby post- was an amazing story apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the lengths fears that exist for humanity today. It is a mother will go shocking novel that still manages to in order to save her childfind hope.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0715652419</amazonuk>1803364998

{{newreviewfrontpage|isbn=1803363002|author= Clar Ni ChonghaileEric LaRocca|title= Rain Falls On EveryoneThe Trees Grew Because I Bled There

|genre= Literary FictionHorror|summary= Horror taps into something primeval within us. It's is used as a cliché that the Irish have a picturesque turn of phrase, but clichés only exist because they're trueway to reflect our darkest emotions and how we as humans react and process them. Roddy Doyle put it differently in Most horror fiction feature a recent interview with ''WritingBig Bad'' magazine, when he said whether that ''With Irishis a home invader, a monster or a ghost, there's another language bubbling under the English''. However you express itusually something tangible and, that art by the end of expression is woven into every other line of Clárthe story, beatable. Eric LaRocca's prose. Pick a page at random and you'll find something like 'The Trees Grew Because I Bled There''the sickness is not like that had come to roost . It is a collection of short stories more interested in her home like a cursed owl'' or ''like he was Godthe horrors of illness, Jesus grief and humiliation. Horrors that linger and Justin Timberlake rolled into oneare harder to defeat than any '' or ''a low sobbing, slow and inevitable as rain on a SundayBig Bad'': expressions that catch your smile unawares, or tear at your heart in their mundane sadness. Or sometimes both.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785079018</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Hesene Mete Madelaine Lucas|title=Sinful WordsThirst for Salt|rating=45

|summary=When we meet him, Behram is a student at the school of theology. He loves God with a passion and has a determination to live a life dedicated ''toLove, I'' God and d read, was supposed to live by His rules. He rents be a property from Lulu Khan light and his wifeweightless feeling, Lady Geshtina and Khan invites Behram to his own home but I had always longed for gravity'' Told from a retrospective view, a visityoung woman unravels the year-long relationship that once defined her. It's Overlaid with later wisdom, the narrator relives the affair with a delightful place and man twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the summer after. Set against the wealth backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the couple is obvious as is their standing within the local community: Lady Geshtina24-year-old narrator's late father is buried in what amounts to a mausoleumdeepening relationship with her older lover, depicting its all-consuming nature, but how it's not all this which enchants Behram. The couple have twin children changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and Behram is taken, enthralled by the daughter, Naginahow it altered her irrevocably.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1524682527</amazonuk>0861546490

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Juan-Tomas Avila LaurelMichael Grothaus|title= The Gurugu PledgeBeautiful Shining People|rating= 54

|summary= Juan Tomas Avila Laurel''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, one or we can take steps to change it.'' ''Beautiful Shining People'' revolves around the question of Equatorial Guinea's best-known dissident writers, is an author who deserves identity and acceptance. Of what it means to be read the world overhuman. With The Gurugu PledgeOf what is real and what is artificial, he's captured a an angry and incredibly urgent slice of whether the migrant experience – a snapshot development of the dangers faced by those crossing the African continent in search of the barbed wire fences at Melilla- the Spanish enclave on the North Eastern tip of Moroccotechnology is exciting or frightening.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908276940</amazonuk>191458564X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Matthew SmithJennifer Saint|title= The WakingAtalanta|rating= 5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary=Isabel Sykes''I was as worthy as any one of them. I would get on board that ship, 23I vowed. I would take my place, recounts the recent attempt she made to come to terms with not just in the loss name of her mother, the acclaimed but psychologically disturbed novelist Marianne Sykesgoddess. Marianne died in an unexplained house fire when Isabel It was ten. Inspired by for the appearance sake of Imogen Taylormy name, an enchanting young woman who wants to write too. Atalanta'' Princess. Warrior. Lover. Hero. Abandoned at birth for being born a daughter rather than a PhD on her mother's workson, Isabel plunges into Atalanta is raised under the depths protective eye of her past the goddess Athemis and an intense new friendshipfashioned into a formidable huntress, one who longs for adventure. After discovering that Imogen is not who she seems When the opportunity comes – to bejoin the Argonauts, a fierce band of warriors, Isabel must face descendent from the Gods themselves – Atalanta seizes the darkest moments from chance to fight in Artemis' name and carve out her childhood own legendary place in order to protect her family from more tragedyhistory. She receives unexpected help from beyond the graveWhat follows is a whirlwind of challenges and discovery and through it, Atalanta must remember Artemis' fatal warning: in the strangethat if she marries, glittering fragments of it will be her mother's last, unfinished work, 'Midnightsong'undoing.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0995654158</amazonuk>1472292154

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Ali SmithAmanthi Harris|title= AutumnBeautiful Place|rating= 5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= The first part in Ali Smith's four part 'Seasonal' seriesPadma, a young Sri Lankan, Autumn is has returned to the Villa Hibiscus on the story southern coast of Daniel Gluck and Elisabeth Demand, unexpected friends who used to be neighbours when Elisabeth was her home country. This is a little girlplace she spent her formative years. In It is not a series place she was born into, but the one she thinks of memories and dreamsas home. How she came to be at the Villa, we discover their friendship from Daniel babysitting Elisabeth through to how it became her visits with him now that he is in a home , and drawing towards the end of his extremely long machinations that have flowed through her life ever since she first arrived there provide the ''score'' for this gentle and fascinating lifeyet subtly violent novel. Along Padma's present fails to escape her past and much like the way, we get musical score of a wonderfully written insight into timefilm, memories, and that strand weaves its way through everything that happens at the fleeting nature of life itselfVilla. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0241973317</amazonuk>1784631930

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicola Pugliese and Shaun Whiteside (translator)178563335X|title=MalacquaSea Defences|author=Hilary Taylor|rating=35

|summary=WeWhen we first meet Rachel Bird she're in Napless a trainee vicar, sitting in recent history, on a PCC meeting and itwondering why they's rainingre held when you need to pick the children up. It will in fact rain for four days solid – Her husband, Christopher, collects six-year-old Hannah and seeing as ither elder brother, Jamie, whilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioner. Thelma's October everyonedaughter-in-law won's dressed for all seasons and expecting t let her see her grandson. Holthorpe, on the Norfolk coast, is a bit of greylovely place, but this Rachel is taking struggling to develop a real bond with the proverbial. Itparish - and she's also making the city rather dangerous – when people report a huge sink-hole appearing in one street it's soon found that a pair awe of cars went into itthe vicar, and two people have diedGail, and more passed on with a whole building collapsing. Whatbut then she's been doing the job for more, some strange noises are coming from an abandoned civic palacethan thirty years. Is the city being told something by these strange events, or can Rachel and Christopher hoped that a journalist find a logic behind walk on the circumstances?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911508067</amazonuk>beach would do them some good - it was stormy but it was probably what they needed. And then Hannah went missing.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Iosi Havilio1398515388|title= Petite FleurThe Boy and the Dog|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary Fiction|summaryauthor= Every now Seishu Hase and then you read a book that leaves you thinking “well I have no idea what just happened but I know I enjoyed it”. This is how I felt after reading Petite Fleur, the fifth novel Alison Watts (perhaps 'long paragraph' would be more appropriatetranslator) from cult Argentinian writer Iosi Havilio.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911508040</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Tania Hershman|title=Some of Us Glow More Than Others

|genre=Short Stories General Fiction|summary=I won't be alone First of all, it was the earthquake, deep in stating that reading short story collections can be slightly awkward. Going through from A-Zthe ocean floor, witnessing a bounty of ideas which created the tsunami and characters this, in short order can be too muchturn, but do you have caused the right to pick nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and choose according to what appeals, and what time you have to fill? utter devastation. The sequence has carefully been considereddeaths were uncountable, surelyand the loss of livelihoods was widespread. Such would appear to be The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of priorities but - six months after the case heretsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. The last time I read one of this authorHe wasn't a dog person but the convenience store owner's collections, with [[The White Road by Tania Hershman|The White Road]], comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and Tamon the only real difficulty was holding back and rationing them, but here you not only get a whopping forty pieces of writing, they are also spread into sectionsdog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910061484</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=James Kelman0989715337|title=That Was a Shiver, and Other StoriesPapa on the Moon|author=Marco North|rating=3.54|genre=Short Stories Literary Fiction|summary=This is ''Some frogs had gotten into the well.'' ''Walter stood waist-deep in the ninth book fragrant water, naked except for his beaten leather hat. Long strands of short stories by this authortheir eggs wove around him, which means he's presented just as many collections sticky gray pearls with tadpoles inside them. Two of the dogs leaned over the opening and barked down at the strange noise of the short form buckets as he has novelsfilled them. You will find it hard to think of another author '' How is that has been so noted for longer works (what with [[How Late It Was, How Late by James Kelman|How Late It Was, How Late]] winning the Booker) but who is so generous an opening? The style of this novel in presenting shorter pieces for the time-poorform of interconnected short stories goes from succinct and laconic to wistful and musing, or those like me who see the variety in turning on a writer's short or less typical works to be the more interesting places to turnsixpence. Opening these pagesAnd author Marco North, from who has the pen most wonderful turn of such an esteemed prophrase, came with no small sense of anticipationstarts as he means to go on.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786890909</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Kate MildenhallDaisy Hildyard|title= SkylarkingEmergency|rating= 4|genre= General Literary Fiction |summary= Kate and Harriet are best friends growing up together on an isolated Australian capeThe summary of this book doesn't come close to explaining what is done with the premise.|isbn=1913097811}}  {{Frontpage |author=Sally Oliver |title=The Weight of Loss |rating=4 |genre=Literary Fiction |summary= Marianne is grieving. As Traumatised after the daughters death of her sister, she awakes to find strange, thick black hairs sprouting from the lighthouse keepersbones of her spine which steadily increase in size and volume. Her GP, diagnosing the two girls share everything, until odd phenomenon as a fishermanphysical reaction to her grief, McPhailrecommends she go to stay at Nede, arrives an experimental new treatment centre in their small communityWales. When Kate witnesses Yet something strange is happening to Marianne and the desire other patients at Nede: a metamorphosis of a kind. As Marianne's memories threaten to overwhelm her, Nede offers her release from this cycle of memory and pain—but only at a terrible price: that flares between him and Harrietof identity itself.|isbn= 086154112X }} {{Frontpage|author=Natalia Garcia Freire|title=This World Does Not Belong To Us|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Early comments on this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendous, she a delight. I will agree with the first – tremendous is no understatement – but 'a delight' is torn by her feelings perhaps using the expression in a way I'm not familiar with. I have to confess my ignorance of envy and longingthe Spanish-language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation here. An innocent moment From the little I have read (in McPhailtranslation, I don's hut then occurs that threatens t read Spanish) there does seem to tear their peaceful community apartbe a tendency towards the fantastical – the mystical realism. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785079239</amazonuk>0861541901

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joanna WalshJennifer Saint|title=Worlds from the Word's EndElektra|rating=3.54|genre=Short StoriesLiterary Fiction|summary=We here at The Bookbag liked this author's fairly recent collection of short stories, [[Vertigo Elektra' by Joanna Walsh|Vertigo]]. I myself missed out, but that seemed to be vignettes from one character's narration – here we get homosexual male narrators and a host more, as well as much less of Jennifer Saint tells the sadness prevalent before. Having had a brief encounter with this author courtesy story of her entry into three women who live in the [[Bookshelf (Object Lessons) by Lydia Pyne|Object Lessons]] series, I was intrigued by her name being stamped on a selection heavily male dominated world of shortsAncient Greece. Was it the ideal calling card? Let's face itCassandra, Clytemnestra, and Elektra are all bit players in the very short story itself can be a postcard – let's say, from a specific hotel or two, as we see hereof the Trojan War. Perhaps I should Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the silent women have geared myself up, however, for such intricate writing on said postcards – the most compelling stories and for the exotic locations from which they came…most extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1911508105</amazonuk>1472273915

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Raja Alem, Katharine Halls (translator) and Adam Talib (translator)8409290103|title= The Dove's NecklaceIf Only|author=Matthew Tree|rating= 34.5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= I always hated LitTwenty-one-Crit at schoolyear-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by his father, so it came as something as cotton-broker AO Lowry: he asked his accountant, Mr Patrick, to ensure that the young man got on board the boat and thereafter Patrick was to send him a surprise that I ended up reviewing books, for funmonthly allowance. Now I understand. Finally, I see why literary critics get so upPatrick sent the money regularly and a correspondence -inof sorts -arms sprang up between the two although we hear more about lowly book reviewers. There is a differencewhat Lowry has to say than Patrick. This book explains it all. The author is It wasn't that Lowry senior didn'the first woman to win the International Prize t care for Arabic fictionhis son, it was that he didn'' for t care to have him in this bookcountry where he might be a danger to his wife and other children. The book also alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to get the LiBerator prize for ''the best book translated into German'' in 2014young man on his way. I suspect it's not done yet. ''The Times'' tells us that it ''exemplifies everything that is currently shaking the foundations of Arab society.'' I am sure that not only will more plaudits fall upon the author and the book, but also that it will become a classic, spoken of in the same breath as the international classics: Proust, Márquez, Joyce, Rushdie, Nabokov…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715651757</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Daniel Kehlmann and Ross Benjamin (translator)B098FFFBH9|title=You Should Have LeftSnowcub|author=Graham Fulbright

|genre=General Literary Fiction |summary=Our narrator Fourteen-year-old Rachel is her school's animal rights project leader and she and her friend are producing a screenwriter, tasked with coming up with a sequel competition entry to his hit movie ''Besties'' – a film highlight the way in which helped pay for a house, but which his actress wife keeps letting him know, isn't ''art''human beings exploit the animal world. To concentrate, the She gets a great deal of support from her family – he: father Pip Harrison, the wife, and their four year old daughter – have rented a largelecturer at Imperial College, modern house at the end of a horridLondon, hairpin bend-filled roadmother Kate and her twin, in a charming alpine landscapeNick. But things aren't right. The couple are at loggerheads too muchKate runs the family business, things keep unsettling our narratora toy shop called Cornucopia in Putney, and the sole shopkeeper for miles around which is ready with the Hammer Horror styled warnings of strange events. Quickly where we see the book'll meet Rachel's title in all its galling clarity – but it isn't too late to get out… is it? And out main (if unsuspected) source of what, exactly?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786484048</amazonuk>information: five soft toys.