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[[Category:New Reviews|Literary Fiction]]==Literary fiction==__NOTOC__{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Helen DunmoreMatthew Tree|title=The BetrayalWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Andrei is a perceptive and deeply conscientious doctorTimothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a young rheumatologist drunk and paediatrician working in a Leningrad hospital just after the terrible siege, during the last days chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of Stalin’s dictatorship. He is as quick to notice symptoms in his colleagues as in his young patients. When he is approached by Russov, a fellow physician, he registers his confrere’s pervading smell of fear. This is artistic passions all part failed miserably and who had endless crises of the pathology of the times; life as it is lived under a tyrannical dictatorshipself confidence. A dictatorship determined So Tim applied himself to pursue a purge – a vendetta directed against doctorshis studies, particularly Jewish doctors. The sweating Russov manages to inveigle Andrei Aleksayev into treating a very sick child, Gorya, the son of Volkhov, who is a tyrannical cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high ranking secret police officer. Therapeutic failure, in all probability, could result in vengeance, arrest and devastating effects on Andrei’s loving wife Anna and her young adolescent brother, Kolyabut achievable ambitions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1905490593</amazonuk>B0CVFXPGP8
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=B0C47LV1PC
|title=Fragility
|author=Mosby Woods
|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.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Philip SingtonMosby Woods|title=The Einstein GirlA Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The two central characters are (and weWest isn've come across t the dominant force it many times before) a psychiatrist (once was. Nobody in the West is quite sure how to mend this case Kirsch) and his patient (known as or even if mending it is the Einstein Girl) and hence the novel's titlebest course of action. Governments are flailing. The case of this girl is intriguingA war here, not least because both doctor and patient had accidentally met prior to her admission to hospital. Kirsch appears immediately smitten - which may be a problempush for climate action there. He's already spoken forA feeling that nobody is in actual charge. In Imagine then, there was a nutshell, man with precognition. Imagine the Einstein Girl has lost her memorystrategic advantage in this asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. Kirsch finds more and more of his professional time given over to her recoveryThat man would be valuable, back to mental well-beingright? Perhaps the most valuable asset in history. It becomes a long and complicated journeyImagine then, for both of themthat this man loses this ability.What would governments do to get it back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099535793</amazonuk>B0C9SNG8R1
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Mitchell0571379559|title=The Thousand Autumns House of Jacob de ZoetBroken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=''The belly craves foodHouse of Broken Bricks'' is the story of four people. Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in the tongue craves water, house on the heart craves loveriverbank, and the mind craves storiesbuilt of broken bricks. Insubstantial as it might look, it' This is s stood the book to satisfy that last cravingpassage of time, storms and floods. It is rich in stories from Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the graphic opening chapter delivery rounds - and to the poignant closing linesbring in sufficient money. Everyone has a tale to tell They have twin boys - Sonny and even minor characters are fleshed out with histories that amuseMax, horrify or enthralthe rainbow twins. Their stories made me think about how sometimes what at the time seems to be an insignificant choice can define the course of a lifeSonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. Here the characters’ choices unleash a cascade of consequencesPeople don't believe that they're related, much less twins and there's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she's his nanny. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340921560</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michelle LovricClaire North|title=The Book House of Human SkinOdysseus
|rating=5
|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=''Ye can't take the slither out ovva snake.'' So says Gianni, valet in a wealthy eighteenth century Venetian household. The master, a merchant, divides his time between Italy and Peru, where he deals in silver. But the merchant isn't the serpent - his son Minguillo is. On the night an earthquake ripped through Peru and deposited fanatical nun Sor Loreta at the convent in Arequipa, Minguillo was born - a serpent in his family's midst. His own mother couldn't bear to nurse him and his father went into denial, making more and What could matter more frequent trips to a South American home free of sociopathic progeny. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>140880588X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Elif Shafak|title=The Forty Rules of Love|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=This is a sixth novel from best-selling Turkish author, Elif Shafak. Set in twelfth century Anatolia, two famous characters from Islamic history meet in a gorgeously real world. A delicate contemporary US than love story is wrapped around the rich, meaty historical fiction. Don?''t be misled by the dodgy-sounding title!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670918733</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lorrie MooreKay Chronister|title=A Gate At The StairsDesert Creatures|rating=4|genre=Literary Dystopian Fiction|summary=Bass-playingWith a world that is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, 20 yearpost-old Tassie Keltjin apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Whether it is studying an eclectic range a robotic takeover, a world devoid of subjects (Geologywater or a nuclear holocaust, British Literature, Sufism, Soundtracks to War Movies and Wine Tasting) in post 9/11 USA when she lands this genre is a job as a child minder way for chef, Sarah Bink who humans to cathartically experience their most existential fears. ''Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is adopting an Africana new work of post-American babyapocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the fears that exist for humanity today. A Gate at the Stairs It is at times a very funny and at others a sad reflection of growing up in modern Americashocking novel that still manages to find hope.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>057119530X</amazonuk>1803364998
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{{newreviewfrontpage|isbn=1803363002|author=Eleanor CattonEric LaRocca|title=The RehearsalTrees Grew Because I Bled There|rating=5|genre=Literary FictionHorror|summary=If you are the type of person who wants their novels Horror taps into something primeval within us. It is used as a way to start at the beginning, build character reflect our darkest emotions and how we as humans react and plot before coming to process them. Most horror fiction feature a satisfying 'they all lived happily ever after' endingBig Bad'', whether that is a home invader, a monster or a ghost, then avoid this book at all costs. You will hate itusually something tangible and, by the end of the story, beatable. But Eric LaRocca's ''The Trees Grew Because I cannot remember when I last enjoyed a first time novel as much as this oneBled There'' is not like that. It is ambitiousa collection of short stories more interested in the horrors of illness, daring grief and complex, humiliation. Horrors that linger and yet it works beautifullyare harder to defeat than any ''Big Bad''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847081398</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Barbara KingsolverMadelaine Lucas|title=The LacunaThirst for Salt
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Ten years ago''Love, Barbara KingsolverI's [[The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver|Poisonwood Bible]] revealed the grim politics in the Congo. The Lacuna has d read, was supposed to be a similarly political themelight and weightless feeling, this time turning her focus on Mexico and the USA in the 1940s and 1950s.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>057125263X</amazonuk>}}but I had always longed for gravity''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=M J HylandMichael Grothaus|title=This Is HowBeautiful Shining People
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Things weren't going too badly for Patrick Oxtoby. He's intelligent and did well at school. Then his Gran died. He started getting pains in his shoulder But fearing something and having it come to pass are two different things rapidly went downhill from there. He drops out And I'm willing to bet most of university to become a mechanic. By the time what we meet him as a 23-year-oldfear will never happen, he's become a loner who cannot communicate his feelings and who cannot seem to fit himself into society. Now his fiancee has left him (and you or we can see her point) and he finds himself in a seaside boarding house in an unnamed English town, hoping take steps to start a new life. Then, one night he commits an act of violence (you can see change it coming) and his life goes from bad to awful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184767383X</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jim CraceJennifer Saint|title=All That FollowsAtalanta|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Leonard Lessing is a sofa socialist''I was as worthy as any one of them. He avoids corporate brands both in food and in clothes. He abides by all the right-I would get on boycotts. He signs petitions. He does free gigs at benefit concerts. He gives donations - you know the kind of thing. Onceboard that ship, eighteen long years ago in Texas in 2006, he came very close to some real direct actionI vowed. But he bottled it. And nowI would take my place, the frozen-shouldered jazzman-on-sabbatical finds his less-than-glorious radical past catching up with him right there not just in his living room, on the TV. Maxie Lermon, he name of Austin 2006 and no stranger to violent agitprop, is in the UK, just up goddess. It was for the road from Leonardsake of my name, and hetoo. Atalanta''s taken a family hostage as a protest against the upcoming Reconciliation Summit. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330445642</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Roddy DoyleAmanthi Harris|title=The Dead RepublicBeautiful Place
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Henry left in 1922Padma, after a young Sri Lankan, has returned to the Irish Civil War. It is now 1951Villa Hibiscus on the southern coast of her home country. After his long exile, nothing This is as he expected. He revisits an old home to find no trace that a house ever stood thereplace she spent her formative years. The project that has brought him back It is not a place she was born into, but the one she thinks of as he expectedhome. The Quiet Man will How she came to be a hugely successful film for John Fordat the Villa, how it became her home, but and the machinations that have flowed through her life portrayed in it is not Henry Smartever since she first arrived there provide the ''score'' for this gentle and yet subtly violent novel. Padma's life, present fails to escape her past and much like the portrait musical score of Irish politics and everyday life in the a film is not one he recognises. In his late 40s, he feels he is an old man already, alone with his memories of that strand weaves its way through everything that happens at the wife and family he lostVilla.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0224090097</amazonuk>1784631930
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{{newreview|author=James Kelman|title=If it is Your Life|rating=3Frontpage|genreisbn=Short Stories178563335X|summary=''If This Is Your Life'' is not so much a collection of short stories as a collection of pieces of creative writing. Kelman doesn't really do 'stories'. In nineteen pieces of writing of varying length from just a single page to more lengthy pieces, such as the story that gives its title to this collection, Kelman writes (mostly) about people on the edge of society. He addresses issues such as class, politics, gender, age and ill health.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241142423</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewSea Defences|author=Yoko Ogawa|title=The Housekeeper and the Professor Hilary Taylor
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=I never really got When we first meet Rachel Bird she's a trainee vicar, sitting in on with maths at school. Or sport. So a book that seems to deal with both baseball PCC meeting and mathematics ought to fly wondering why they're held when you need to pick the bottom of my 'to read' pilechildren up. HoweverHer husband, this slim little Japanese novel slipped into my hands Christopher, collects six-year-old Hannah and into my heart as soon as I saw ither elder brother, Jamie, whilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioner. The premise is very simple Thelma's daughter- a young housekeeper is assigned to a job working for an elderly, brain damaged professor of mathematics. He has only eighty minutes of shortin-term memory, so he doesnlaw won't remember let her from one day to see her grandson. Holthorpe, on the nextNorfolk coast, is a lovely place, but his memory pre-1975 remains intact and somehow he continues Rachel is struggling to function, living through his obsession develop a real bond with numbers. Each morning he greets her at the door asking for her birth date parish - and her telephone number. He finds puzzles and equations she's in everythingawe of the vicar, including shoe sizes and baseballGail, and the housekeeper becomes fascinated as but then she and her son also begin to see 's been doing the beauty job for more than thirty years. Rachel and Christopher hoped that a walk on the poetry in numbersbeach would do them some good - it was stormy but it was probably what they needed. And then Hannah went missing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099521342</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Glen Duncan1398515388|title=A Day The Boy and a Night the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and a DayAlison Watts (translator)
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=Augustus Rose was brought up in New York, but not in a des res, in an altogether grittier part First of the city. ' ... his childhood in East Harlemall, darkness framing it was the blistered stoopearthquake, deep in the blinding asphaltocean floor, which created the smell of garbage cans tsunami and urine.' He's had an unfortunate start in life. Mother, whitethis, father (unknown) black so that makes the young Augustus an in-between, a not-sureturn, a neither-one-colour-nor-caused the-othernuclear meltdown. Today, in the 21st century, no one would raise an eyebrow, bat an eyelidThe result was complete and utter devastation. But this novel is set in The deaths were uncountable, and the 1960s where racial tensions aboundloss of livelihoods was widespread. Yes, even in cosmopolitan cities such as New York.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847394175</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Eleanor Thom|title=The Tinfact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of priorities but - six months after the tsunami -Kin|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Dawn is a single mother who has been avoiding Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a lot of things for dog outside a long timeconvenience store. When her aunt, who raised Dawn as He wasn't a daughter, dies, Dawn finds dog person but the key to a cupboard which she was forbidden to look into as a child. Inside she finds clues to her family history, links to a Traveller Community, unearthing a journey convenience store owner's comment that sees her finding her roots. We also witness her struggle he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to renew her complicated relationship with her family open his car door and her efforts to escape Tamon the ever-present memory of her abusive husbanddog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715639013</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Patricia Duncker0989715337|title=The Strange Case of Papa on the Composer and His JudgeMoon|author=Marco North
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen (oh, how I love that title!) will almost certainly not be to everyone's taste, but I confess that I loved its originality, boldness, sassy style and 'Some frogs had gotten into the humour of itwell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241144612</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Margaret ForsterDaisy Hildyard|title=Isa and MayEmergency
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Isamay is a would-be academic and she's writing a thesis about grandmothers in history, inspired, one suspects, by her own grandmothers, Isa and May. Her efforts are constantly diverted by the present needs The summary of her grandmothers and the secrets about their pasts which rise to the surface when she least expects them. There's another complication too. Isamay is in her thirties and has never wanted a child, but reconsiders, despite the fact that her partner, Ian, is adamant that he this book doesn't want children. The more Isamay delves, come close to explaining what is done with the more she realises that there are secrets in Ian's past toopremise.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0701184663</amazonuk>1913097811}}
{{newreviewFrontpage |author=Kathryn StockettSally Oliver |title=The HelpWeight of Loss |rating=4 |genre=Literary Fiction |summary= Marianne is grieving. Traumatised after the death of her sister, she awakes to find strange, thick black hairs sprouting from the bones of her spine which steadily increase in size and volume. Her GP, diagnosing the odd phenomenon as a physical reaction to her grief, recommends she go to stay at Nede, an experimental new treatment centre in Wales. Yet something strange is happening to Marianne and the 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 of identity itself.|isbn= 086154112X }} {{Frontpage|author=Natalia Garcia Freire|title=This World Does Not Belong To Us
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Aatish Taseer is probably best known for his journalismEarly comments on this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendous, publishing regularly in a delight. I will agree with the Indian press, in Prospect, and first – tremendous is no understatement – but 'a delight' is perhaps most prolifically using the expression in Time magazinea way I'm not familiar with. He has won acclaim for his memoir: Stranger I have to History confess my ignorance of the Spanish-language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation here. From the little I have read (in which hetranslation, raised by his Indian Sikh mother, traces his absent Muslim father across I don't read Spanish) there does seem to be a tendency towards the border in Pakistan fantastical – and also for his translations of the short stories of Saadat Hasan Mantomystical realism.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0670918504</amazonuk>0861541901
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tom ConnollyJennifer Saint|title=The Spider TrucesElektra|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The title of this debut novel 'Elektra' by Tom Connolly is enigmatic, mysterious. It draws Jennifer Saint tells the reader story of three women who live in - just like a fly to a spider's webthe heavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. And in fairness 'The Spider Truces' does exactly what it say on the tin as the main characterCassandra, EllisClytemnestra, is obsessed and terrified Elektra are all bit players in equal measure, the story of spiders. ..the Trojan War. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the silent women have the most compelling stories and when you live in an old house, as the O'Rourke family does, there are plenty of spiders and other creepy crawlies aboutmost extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0956251528</amazonuk>1472273915
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mary Yukari Waters8409290103|title=The FavoritesIf Only|author=Matthew Tree
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=This story is set in Kyoto, Japan, starting in June 1978. Fourteen Twenty-one-year -old Sarah Rexford and her Japanese motherMalcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by his father, cotton-broker AO Lowry: he asked his accountant, YokoMr Patrick, have come back from to ensure that the young man got on board the US boat and thereafter Patrick was to stay with family for send him a few weeksmonthly allowance. Sarah was born Patrick sent the money regularly and brought a correspondence - of sorts - sprang up in Japan but between the two although we hear more about what Lowry has lived in the US with her mother and white American father for five yearsto say than Patrick. She is very conscious of the differences between life in Kyoto and in Fielder It wasn't that Lowry senior didn's Butte, California. Here in Kyoto, the women, including Sarah and her mum, go shopping every day t care for foodhis son, and the food is very different – it was that he didn't care to have him in an opening scene, Sarah is trying this country where he might be a danger to explain his wife and other children. The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to her grandfather what she normally has for breakfast in the US, and becoming aware of get the gulf between her life in Japan and in Californiayoung man on his way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847392334</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rose TremainAntoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)|title=TrespassRed is My Heart|rating=43.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Set in the hills of Southern France, Trespass is a novel about sibling love [[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and rivalry, disputed territory white and ultimately revengeread in my house. In the French corner are Aramon LunelAnd so was this one, resident of the Mas Lunelalthough I could have spelled that more accurately – this one was, and his sister Audrun who lives in a cottage in the grounds. In the English corner are Victoria Verey, a garden designeris, black and white and her partnerred. Yes, he has an untalented watercolouristartistic collaborator on this piece, Kitty. The catalyst that brings these together is the arrival in France of Anthony Verey, Victoriaand I think it's sister whose exclusive antiques business in London is failing and who decides possible to follow his sister in finding a new life in France. Aramon is tempted to sell his family Mas by say not one page lacks the lure influence of 'foreign' money even if that means that his sister's house has to be destroyed to secure the dealsome striking visual ideas.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0701177942</amazonuk>1913547183
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Castle FreemanB098FFFBH9|title=All That I HaveSnowcub|author=Graham Fulbright
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Castle Freeman may sound like two thirds of a firm of provincial solicitors but thankfully this Castle Freeman Fourteen-year-old Rachel is her school's animal rights project leader and she and her friend are producing a man very skilled in writing about competition entry to highlight the law rather than practicing it. In his latest novel Freeman tells an intriguing tale involving local Sheriff Lucian Wing and his practical yet low-key approach to maintaining order way in rural Vermont. Not for Wing which human beings exploit the gung ho approach to fighting crimeanimal world. He doesn't wear She gets a uniformgreat deal of support from her family: father Pip Harrison, he drives a battered old car rather than lecturer at Imperial College, London, mother Kate and her twin, Nick. Kate runs the standard issue sheriff's wagon and his gunfamily business, so ubiquitous a toy shop called Cornucopia in US law enforcementPutney, which is safely tucked away in his bottom drawer. Everyone in the area knows the sheriff and by and large they respect him and his slightly unorthodox way where we'll meet Rachel's main (if unsuspected) source of doing businessinformation: five soft toys.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715639021</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dan RhodesYancey Williams|title=Little Hands ClappingCrosshairs of the Devil
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=It Award-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski is late August 1982getting on in years and, the day when O level results come out. Michael Cartwright already knows he has failed despite his exams strenuous objections and is dreading thanks to his parents finding out. Hedaughter, his twin brother Kieran (who has done very well) and their younger sisters are on the family holidayfinds himself living - or imprisoned, staying with their motherfrom Eddie's parents point of view - in Kilross, County Cork. To escape boredom and his parents' anger, he wanders round room 315 of the villageGarden of Eden nursing home, where he meets Fergal Noonan, training to be with only a priesttrusty nursing aide, and lively Peggy O'Connor. He has his first kiss and a bit more with Peggy. The family soon goes home to CheltenhamJenkins, but their brief visit to Ireland will have far reaching significance.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330511726</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Laila Lalami |title=Secret Son|rating=3for palatable company.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=''Secret Son'' Nothing is the story of Youssef Elgoing to keep Eddie from his stock-Mekki, the slumin-dwelling teenage son trade of single mother Rachida. Youssef has always been told that his father is deadwriting though, so when he finds out here, for his mother has lied to conceal the fact that he was born out of wedlockreaders, he plunges headlong into an identity crisis. He tracks down are his real father, a wealthy businessman called Nabil Amrani who is surprisingly enthusiastic about wanderings through his illegitimate sonlife's arrival. Nabil has recently fallen out with his daughter and he seizes this opportunity to mould Youssef into the obedient son he has always wantedwork.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0670918296</amazonuk>0986031658}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Aravind Adiga0008421714|title=The White TigerMrs March|author=Virginia Feito
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Balram Halwai, a Bangalore entrepreneur The problem began just after the publication of George March's most successful novel to date. Everyone but Mrs March (of sortswe know her first name only on the last page) and a natural philosopher, hears that there is a planned visit from the Chinese leader seemed to India either be reading it or had already done so. Every day Mrs March went to learn the source of Indian entrepreneurial talent. Balram knows local patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, Patricia asked, as she was wrapping the bread, ''but isn't this the story first time he will be told by the Indian leader will be 's based a long way from the true story of modern Indian life, and so resolvescharacter on you?'' She mentioned that Johanna, over the course of seven nightsprincipal character had 'her mannerisms''. Perhaps this would not have mattered, to write to except for the Chinese premier with fact that Johanna is the story whore of his life and his own journey from Nantes - ''a poor son of a rickshaw driver to the head of his own businessweak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843547228</amazonuk>''
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