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|summary=After I'd read the blurb on the back cover I gave a bit of a shrug as if to say, well, I've read quite a number of books recently where undying love has been found in war-torn Europe, so was this book going Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be differentfrom his father, or better? Thomas Nesbitt, middle-aged, disillusioned with love a drunk and more than a tad world-weary is trying to move on in his life. His marriage chronic underachiever whose dreams of more than twenty years is dissolving before his very eyes. But rather than being upset, he's feeling as if a weight has been lifted from exceptional at any of his shoulders. He artistic passions all failed miserably and his wife were never really ''in love'' in the true sense who had endless crises of the phrase, despite having a daughter togetherself confidence. And there's a very good reason as So Tim applied himself to why Thomas is like this and the rest of the book tells us whyhis studies, warts cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and allset himself high but achievable ambitions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091795842</amazonuk>B0CVFXPGP8

''Fragility'' is set as the city of Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Aminatta FornaMosby Woods|title=The Memory of LoveA Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=54

|summary=The setting for West isn't the dominant force it once was. Nobody in the West is quite sure how to mend this story or even if mending it is the best course of action. Governments are flailing. A war here, a hospital push for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is in Freetownactual charge. Imagine then, Sierra Leonethere was a man with precognition. Imagine the strategic advantage in this asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. That man would be valuable, soon after right? Perhaps the government has declared an end to an 11 year civil warmost valuable asset in history. How can people come to terms with the terrible things Imagine then, that have happened? Actually, can they come this man loses this ability. What would governments do to terms with those thingsget it back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408809656</amazonuk>B0C9SNG8R1

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jenn Ashworth0571379559|title=Cold LightThe House of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams

|summary=''Cold LightThe House of Broken Bricks'' is the story of three teenage girls who become involved in a predatory adult worldfour people. As Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in the story opens we're looking back house on what happened from a decade later and we know that one of the girlsriverbank, Chloë, died in a Valentine's Day suicide pactbuilt of broken bricks. The town council has finally decided on a memorial to Chloë – Insubstantial as it might look, it's to be a summerhouse at stood the side passage of the pond where she drownedtime, storms and floods. Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, although it's difficult to understand quite why anyone would want complete the delivery rounds - and to sit therebring in sufficient money. The groundThey have twin boys -breaking ceremony is being televised when it becomes obvious that something has gone terribly wrongSonny and Max, the rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. But Lola, our narrator, knows People don't believe that they've found a body. She also knows who it re related, much less twins and there's an assumption when Max isout with his mother that she's his nanny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444721445</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=Alain MabanckouKay Chronister|title=Broken GlassDesert Creatures|rating=3.54|genre=Literary Dystopian Fiction|summary=In the Congolese bar of Credit Gone WestWith a world that is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, the owner Stubborn Snail wants a record of the lives of those who drink therepost-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. The man he chooses to write Whether it? Disgraced schoolteacher Broken Glassis a robotic takeover, who fills up a notebook with the stories world devoid of the bar’s patrons – water or at least a nuclear holocaust, this genre is a way for humans to cathartically experience their versions most existential fears. ''Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is a new work of those talespost-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the fears that exist for humanity today. It is a shocking novel that still manages to find hope.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184668675X</amazonuk>1803364998

 {{newreviewfrontpage|isbn=1803363002|author=David BezmozgisEric LaRocca|title=The Free WorldTrees Grew Because I Bled There|rating=3.5|genre=Literary FictionHorror|summary=Horror taps into something primeval within us. Itis used as a way to reflect our darkest emotions and how we as humans react and process them. Most horror fiction feature a ''Big Bad's the late 1970's , whether that is a home invader, a monster or a ghost, it usually something tangible and a family , by the end of Latvian Jews, the Krasnanskysstory, are emigrating from the Soviet Unionbeatable. TheyEric LaRocca's ''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There''re made to stay in Rome whilst they apply to live is not like that. It is a collection of short stories more interested in the States horrors of illness, grief and they find themselves trapped in a strange migratory limbo, belonging nowhere humiliation. Horrors that linger and tied are harder to no-one but each otherdefeat than any ''Big Bad''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670920053</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jennifer EganMadelaine Lucas|title=A Visit From the Goon SquadThirst for Salt

|summary=Apparently there's a saying that 'time's a goon' - noLove, I'd never heard of it and read, was supposed to be faira light and weightless feeling, neither but I had the first character to whom it is said in Jennifer Eganalways longed for gravity's 'A Visit  Told from a retrospective view, a young woman unravels the Goon Squad'year-long relationship that once defined her. Overlaid with later wisdom, but together the narrator relives the affair with a pair of epigraphs man twenty years her senior from Proust, it's clear that time is very definitely what is being explored hereits inception – the summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the summer after. Egan's subject area is all loosely based around Set against the music world. Her central character, if one can be said to exist, is Bennie Salazar, a music mogul who we encounter both directly and tangentially at various stages backdrop of his up and down career. an isolated Australian coastal town ''Goon SquadThirst for Salt'' is also details the title of an Elvis Costello track24-year-old narrator's deepening relationship with her older lover, depicting its all-consuming nature, continuing the music theme as Egan uses the music industry as a lens to examine timehow it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and how it altered her irrevocably.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849010331</amazonuk>0861546490

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lauren LiebenbergMichael Grothaus|title=The West Rand Jive Cats Boxing ClubBeautiful Shining People

|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Best friends Tommy ''But fearing something and Chris having it come to pass are 12 years oldtwo different things. It is 1958 and they are growing up in a small mining town near JohannesburgAnd I'm willing to bet most of what we fear will never happen, South Africa. They are learning or we can take steps to box and to dance to rock and roll musicchange it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1844084892</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|author=James Frey|title=The Final Testament of the Holy Bible|rating=3.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=The Rabbis say that all the signs are there from ''Beautiful Shining People'' revolves around the birth question of Ben Zion Avrohom that he is the Messiah. That's a lot of anyone to cope with identity and, like Jesus, there's much of Ben's early life that is untold hereacceptance. When he is involved in an horrific accident on a building site that he miraculously survives, albeit with terrible scaring, the prophecies appear Of what it means to be truehuman. He develops a form of epilepsy during which he appears to speak to God. He Of what is real and what is fluent in ancient languages despite never learning themartificial, knows all and whether the Holy books by heart and yet distains all forms development of religion, instead spreading his message of love to all who meet him in modern day New Yorktechnology is exciting or frightening.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848543174</amazonuk>191458564X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mirza WaheedJennifer Saint|title=The CollaboratorAtalanta|rating=35

|summary=The Collaborator ''I was as worthy as any one of the title is our narratorthem. I would get on board that ship, a sensitive bookish young manI vowed. He is the son of the headman of a small village I would take my place, not just in a side valley of the Kashmir. The heritage name of the people is that of nomadsgoddess. The village has been settled It was for less than a generation. Everything they have has been built by the sheer hard graft sake of the people themselves… including the recently completed mosquemy name, too.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670918954</amazonuk>}}Atalanta''

{{newreview|author=Alan Warner|title=The Stars in the Bright Sky|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=In 1999, Alan Warner introduced us to a wonderful set of characters in 'The Sopranos' when a school choir from a backwater town in Scotland went on a trip to the big cityPrincess. Much debauchery ensuedWarrior. 'The Stars in the Bright Sky' once again reunites most of the original gang and there is no need to have read the first book to pick up on the diverse charactersLover. Now though, they've grown up (or at least got older!) and are gathered at Gatwick Airport to set off on a girls' holidayHero.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009946182X</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Elia Barcelo and David Frye (Translator)|title=The Goldsmith's Secret|rating=3.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary='The Goldsmith's Secret' has Abandoned at birth for being born a wonderfully romantic beginning; alone on daughter rather than a snowy night in New Yorkson, the craftsman Atalanta is puzzling over how to tell his story, and how to separate reality from raised under the overwhelming memories in his mind. The romance continues as protective eye of the story unfoldsgoddess Athemis and fashioned into a formidable huntress, with one who longs for adventure. When the goldsmith taking us back opportunity comes – to join the town and time Argonauts, a fierce band of his youthwarriors, and descendent from the Gods themselves – Atalanta seizes the chance meeting that led him to find the love of his lifefight in Artemis' name and carve out her own legendary place in history. Telling the tale What follows is a whirlwind of romance from many perspectiveschallenges and discovery and through it, we learn the town of Villasanta has labelled his loveAtalanta must remember Artemis' fatal warning: that if she marries, the mysterious Celia, as 'a marked woman' and the 'black widow'it will be her undoing. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857050052</amazonuk>1472292154

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Peter SalmonAmanthi Harris|title=The Coffee StoryBeautiful Place

|summary=Teddy EverettPadma, head of Everett and Sons Coffee is dying, slowly and painfullya young Sri Lankan, has returned to the Villa Hibiscus on the southern coast of cancerher home country. The Coffee Story This is his story, told in his own (very descriptive) wordsa place she spent her formative years. It goes from (although is not necessarily in this order) his childhood in Englanda 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, his adolescence in Ethiopia and then his the machinations that have flowed through her life in ever since she first arrived there provide the USA ''score'' for this gentle and Cubayet subtly violent novel. It Padma's his time in Cuba which has put him where he is now – in prison. For his crimes he would normally have suffered present fails to escape her past and much like the death penaltymusical score of a film, but his sentence was commuted because of his illness and now the doctors try to save him. Or perhaps it's that they're trying to persuade Teddy strand weaves its way through everything that they're trying to save him – whether he wants to be saved or nothappens at the Villa.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444724703</amazonuk>1784631930

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrew Miller178563335X|title=PureSea Defences|author=Hilary Taylor|rating=45

|summary=I've read MillerWhen we first meet Rachel Bird she's ''Oxygen'' a trainee vicar, sitting in on a PCC meeting and wondering why they''The Optimists'' so I was looking forward re held when you need to reading this novel. The story opens in the opulence of pick the Palace of Versailleschildren up. We are given vivid descriptions of both the scale of the palace Her husband, Christopher, collects six-year-old Hannah and its grandeurher elder brother, Jamie, whilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioner. JeanThelma's daughter-in-Baptiste Barattelaw won't let her see her grandson. Holthorpe, on the young engineerNorfolk coast, is a lovely place, seems completely overbut Rachel is struggling to develop a real bond with the parish -awed by and she's in awe of the whole occasionvicar, Gail, but then she's been doing the job for more than thirty years. Even although he's not entirely sure Rachel and Christopher hoped that a walk on the beach would do them some good - it was stormy but it was probably what is expected of him in Paris, he acceptsthey needed. He needs to eat, after allAnd then Hannah went missing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444724258</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anne Enright1398515388|title=The Forgotten WaltzBoy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating=4.5|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=Anne Enright's 2007 Booker prize winning [[The Gathering by Anne Enright|The Gathering]] addressed First of all, it was the gloomy subjects of earthquake, deep in the three D's; deathocean floor, depression which created the tsunami and dysfunctional families. Her latest bookthis, ''The Forgotten Waltz'', set in Dublin in 2009turn, sees her turning her attentions to a love affaircaused the nuclear meltdown. A more uplifting subject you might think The result was complete and utter devastation. Well only up to a point The deaths were uncountable, and the loss of livelihoods was widespread. The affair in question you see is fact that of her narrator, Gina, who is already married to many pets were separated from their owners came far down the generally good, if undynamic, Connor, while on the other end, the subject list of priorities but - six months after the affair is tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. He wasn't a dog person but the older, Seán, also married and neighbour of Ginaconvenience store owner's sister. In case your moral compass isn't stretched quite enough by this, Seán comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and his wife Aileen, also have a young daughter who suffers from epilepsyTamon the dog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>022408903X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Leila Aboulela0989715337|title=Lyrics AlleyPapa on the Moon|author=Marco North

|summary=The front cover photograph is eye-catching and lovely and has the appeal of saying to potential readers - read me. The book's title is both poetic and enigmatic. I was keen to get reading but before I could, I'm faced with a page listing the ''Principal Characters'' and another page setting out Some frogs had gotten into the Abuzeid family tree. It did put me off slightly, I have to admit. I tend to think that with a modern, average-paged work of fiction a list of characters is well, a list too far. So, yes, for the first couple of chapters I was constantly flicking back and forth to remind myself who everyone was. Not so good for those lazy readers out there, I'm thinking.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0297860097</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Shehan Karunatilaka|title=Chinaman|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=After the 1996 World Cup, dying sports journalist WG Karunasena decides that the world needs 'a half decent documentary on Sri Lankan cricket'. He sets out to make the said documentary, focusing on the mysterious Pradeep Mathew, the 1980's spin bowler he considers to have been his country's greatest ever player. But Mathew disappeared some time ago and everywhere Karunasena turns he is faced with more complications as he tries to find out more on what happened to him…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>022409145X</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Tessa Hadley|title=The London Train|rating=3|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Part one focuses on Paul ''Walter stood waist- a rather self obsessed and aimless characterdeep in the fragrant water, who is less than honest with his family, using various friends to cover up naked except for his movementsbeaten leather hat. He has several daughters, and on learning that one is having problemsLong strands of their eggs wove around him, goes to visit her in London - and ends up staying sticky gray pearls with her, for several weeks, leaving both his (second) wife, tadpoles inside them. Two of the dogs leaned over the opening and barked down at the mother strange noise of this daughter (first wife), completely in the dark buckets as to what is happening. Initially we feel that he is acting in a protective manner towards his daughter, who is struggling to come to terms with her pregnancy - but in fact his motives are far less altruistic, thereby alienating the reader from his tale. The squalor in which her daughter is living, would appal most parents - yet he seems to take it all in his stride, and attempts to join the hippy-style commune - yet more irritation with this deeply flawed character therefore emergesfilled them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224090976</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|author=Emma Henderson|title=Grace Williams Says it Loud|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Grace, aged eleven, How is sent that for an opening? The style of this novel in the form of interconnected short stories goes from succinct and laconic to the Briar Mental Institute as her parents can no longer cope with her carewistful and musing, turning on a sixpence. She is befriended there by a young boy, DanielAnd author Marco North, who is epileptic and also has no arms after a terrible accident. Together we see the horrors most wonderful turn of life in the Briarphrase, and also their slowly growing love affair with each otherstarts as he means to go on.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144470401X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Roma TearneDaisy Hildyard|title=The SwimmerEmergency

|summary=Ria, solitary, middle-aged poet, was idly watching the river one night when she saw a swimmer. It wasn't just the time The summary of day which was unusual, but the river was hardly clean – and then she heard a noise downstairs. In this remote part of Suffolk it wasnbook doesn't unusual come close to leave doors unlocked and the following morning she realised that a loaf of bread had been stolen. It was strange that she didn't really feel fear, but when the visits and minor thefts continued she waited up to catch the swimmer, who stole small amounts of food – and played explaining what is done with the piano like an angelpremise.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007301596</amazonuk>1913097811}}

{{newreviewFrontpage |author=Tea ObrehtSally Oliver |title=The Tiger's WifeWeight of Loss |rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Téa Obreht's 'The Tiger's Wife' comes with a fair degree Marianne is grieving. Traumatised after the death of hype from the USher sister, and largely it lives up she awakes to itfind strange, thick black hairs sprouting from the bones of her spine which is no small achievement. The main story is set steadily increase in Yugoslavia size and explores a young doctorvolume. Her GP, Natalia, seeking for diagnosing the truth about odd phenomenon as a physical reaction to her grandfather's deathgrief, while on a mission to deliver much needed medical aid recommends she go to stay at Nede, an orphanage experimental new treatment centre in the war-ravaged BalkansWales. But what sets this book apart Yet something strange is the intricate weaving of reality with the myths happening to Marianne and stories of the region. In particular there are two myths that represent a good chunk of the page countother patients at Nede: the story of a tiger who has escaped from captivity after the World War two bombing metamorphosis of Belgrade and who has settled near a remote mountain village where Nataliakind. As Marianne's grandfather is growing upmemories threaten to overwhelm her, Nede offers her release from this cycle of memory and who develops pain—but only at a strange relationship with a deaf-mute girl who becomes known as 'the tiger's wife'; and a mysterious story terrible price: that of the 'Deathless Man' whom the grandfather encounters at various points in his life who appears to have the power to foresee others' death without being able to die himselfidentity itself.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0297859013</amazonuk>086154112X }} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Graham SwiftNatalia Garcia Freire|title=Wish You Were HereThis World Does Not Belong To Us

|summary=I cannot tell you exactly how long after I finished Early comments on this book that I satdebut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendous, holding it, in stunned silence for - but it was light when a delight. I finished it and dark when I put it down. Some books can do that to you. This is one of them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330535838</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=John Burnside|title=The Summer of Drowning|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=The story is narrated in will agree with the first person by the daughter – tremendous is no understatement – but 'a decade or so after delight' is perhaps using the tragedy. So, she has expression in a healthy dose of hindsight which shows itself time and time again way I'm not familiar with sentiments such as ... if only I'd have known back then ... and ...I thought it was a bit strange at to confess my ignorance of the time ... if you get Spanish-language literary tradition so forgive my driftgeneralisation here. Burnside takes his time to set From the scene little I have read (spartanin translation, I don't read Spanish) and his characters (there does seem to be a mere handful). His chosen location is tendency towards the arresting emptiness of somewhere deep in fantastical – the Arctic Circle so straight away he's caught my imagination - with hismystical realism.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>022406178X</amazonuk>0861541901

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Edward St AubynJennifer Saint|title=At LastElektra

|summary=In 'Elektra'At Last'', Edward St Aubyn returns to by Jennifer Saint tells the Melrose family, story of three women who live in the subject heavily male dominated world of both ''Some Hope'' Ancient Greece. Cassandra, Clytemnestra, and Elektra are all bit players in the story of his Booker-shortlisted [[Mother's Milk by Edward St Aubyn|Mother's Milk]]the Trojan War. I confess Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that I often the silent women have still not got around to reading the first of the trilogy, but loved ''Mother's Milk'' most compelling stories and found that I wasn't greatly disadvantaged by not having read the previous book. ''At Last'' could also be read as a stand-alone book, but I wouldn't advise this approach. You will miss out on so much that if you are planning on reading it, you really should read at least ''Mother's Milk'' first. This isn't much of an inconvenience as it's a terrific bookmost extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0330435906</amazonuk>1472273915

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Deborah Kay Davies8409290103|title=True Things About MeIf Only|author=Matthew Tree

|summary=Take Twenty-one benefit office worker; bored-year-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by his father, cotton-broker AO Lowry: he asked his accountant, listlessMr Patrick, to ensure that the young man got on board the boat and thereafter Patrick was to send him a walking study in destructive human behaviourmonthly allowance. Add Patrick sent the money regularly and a recently releasedcorrespondence - of sorts - sprang up between the two although we hear more about what Lowry has to say than Patrick. It wasn't that Lowry senior didn't care for his son, jobless ex-con with it was that he didn't care to have him in this country where he might be a glint in danger to his eye wife and taste for masochismother children. Throw all caution The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to get the wind and collide these two ingredients by means of visceral, brutal and almost wordless sex in an underground car park and you have the opening chapters of Deborah Kay Davies's debut novelyoung man on his way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847678319</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Geraldine BrooksAntoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)|title=Caleb's CrossingRed is My Heart|rating=43.5|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=Let's start, as Geraldine Brooks has, with a fact[[:Category: Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white and read in 1665 the first Native American, Caleb Cheeshateaumauk, graduated from Harvard Collegemy house. Around And so was thisone, Brooks has created a wholly fictional story (the known facts are so few although I could have spelled that more accurately – this one was, and is largely unavoidable), black and white and red. The stroke of genius here is to put the story into the words of the entirely fictitious Bethia MayfieldYes, the daughter of he has an English minister artistic collaborator on what we now call Marthathis piece, and I think it's Vinyard, where Caleb lived in the Wampanoag tribe. At various points in her life, Bethia sets down events concerning her early secret friendship with Caleb on the island, possible to accompanying him and her brother to Harvard and say not one page lacks the subsequent eventsinfluence of some striking visual ideas.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007333536</amazonuk>1913547183

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David LodgeB098FFFBH9|title=Ginger, You're BarmySnowcub|author=Graham Fulbright

|summary=Jonathan Fourteen-year-old Rachel is her school's animal rights project leader and she and her friend are producing a few days away from completing his National Servicecompetition entry to highlight the way in which human beings exploit the animal world. Within the week he will dash off to Majorca with his girlfriendShe gets a great deal of support from her family: father Pip Harrison, a lecturer at Imperial College, London, mother Kate and who knowsher twin, he might even do more than chastely cup her breast under her clothingNick. But it's Kate runs the family business, a bittersweet week for Jonathan, as he looks back on the beginnings of his two years spent most reluctantly toy shop called Cornucopia in the armyPutney, and especially the time spent with his best companion, and his girlfriendwhich is where we'll meet Rachel's ex, Mikemain (if unsuspected) source of information: five soft toys.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099554135</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=David LodgeYancey Williams|title=A Man Crosshairs of Partsthe Devil

|summary=The man of parts in question here Award-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski is HG Wells getting on in this fictionalised biography. He was indeed a man of many talents years and, despite his strenuous objections and intereststhanks to his daughter, finds himself living - or imprisoned, although the parts that most exercise from Eddie's point of view - in room 315 of the interest Garden of David Lodge are the great author's private parts. You seeEden nursing home, not with only was HG a prolific writer of fiction that incorporated a staggering amount of visionary ideas (tankstrusty nursing aide, Jenkins, airborne warfare and atomic bombs) for palatable company. Nothing is going to keep Eddie from his stock- although admittedly some of his ideas have yet to come to pass such as time machines and Martian invasion in- but he was also something trade of a political philosopher and idealistwriting though, so here, being a central figure for a while in the Fabian movementhis readers, and an ardent practitioner of the concept of free loveare his wanderings through his life's work.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846554969</amazonuk>0986031658}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=George Makana Clark0008421714|title=The Raw Man|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=The Prologue opens bang up to date: 2011. The language is poetic, lilting, evocative but tinged with sadness and sets the tone for the rest of the book. Lots of unanswered questions hang in the air throughout. The location is South Africa and section headings such as 'The Earthworks of the Universe' and 'The Story-Ghost' give a flavour of its contents.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224090461</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMrs March|author=Delphine de Vigan|title=Underground TimeVirginia Feito

|summary=Mathilde is unhappy at work. More than The problem began just unhappy actually, because after expressing an opinion different the publication of George March's most successful novel to date. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her boss he has frozen her out of first name only on the team and bullied her mentally and emotionally for monthslast page) seemed to either be reading it or had already done so. Mathilde is Every day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, Patricia asked, as she was wrapping the bread, ''but isn't this the first time he's based a woman character on the edge of breaking pointyou?'' She mentioned that Johanna, feeling increasingly brow-beaten by both the demands of city life and principal character had 'her awful bossmannerisms''. Meanwhile Thibault Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for the fact that Johanna is an emergency onthe whore of Nantes -call doctor''a weak, plain, racing from one district to another through the nightmares of Parisian trafficdetestable, unhappy in his relationship and also strugglingpathetic, mentallyunloved, to surviveunloveable wretch. Will today be the day that changes everything?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408811111</amazonuk>''

{{newreview|author=Siri Hustvedt|title=The Summer Without Men|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Sometime after Mia's husband of thirty years, Boris, suggests a marriage 'pause', Mia goes mad and finds herself in a psychiatric hospital. Although this Brief Psychotic Disorder does not last long, she remains fragile and retreats to the town in Minnesota where she was brought up and where her elderly mother still lives. While Boris cavorts with the Pause, she struggles through the summer, learning to live without him. She builds relationships with her mother's friends, with her neighbours and with a group of teenage girls who form her creative writing class. Written in the first person, the book catalogues her progress using these friendships, her past, her reading and her shrink, Dr S.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444710524</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Edward Docx|title=The Devil's Garden|rating=3.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Set on a research station in an unnamed Amazonian country (although by the indigenous tribes mentioned, this is probably Peru), this first person narrative story is told by Dr Forle, who has come to the area to study ants - specifically the strange phenomenon of a type of ant that appear to destroy their own environment. It's sort of ants on the deck in the jungle, if you like. However the scientific study is interrupted by the arrival of an army colonel and a judge, who at least on the surface of things is there to organize the registration of the local tribes. However when the doctor witnesses a clear act of violence by the soldiers accompanying the colonel, he becomes more engaged with the local goings on.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330463500</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mary Horlock|title=The Book of Lies|rating=3.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Catherine Rozier is fifteen years old and she has a secret.  Secrets are a big thing on Guernsey, the small Channel Isle that is only three miles across at one point with a population a little over 65,000 i.e. somewhat more than Hereford, considerably less than Lincoln, or about half that of Norwich or Preston. Unlike any of those towns, Guernsey is an island. It is self-contained. It isn't just that everyone knows everyone else; they're almost certainly, quite closely, related.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847678858</amazonuk>}}  {{newreview|author=Alexi Zentner|title=Touch|rating=3.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Stephen, an Anglican priest is writing a story of three generations, a haunting tale of his childhood set in Sawgamet, an isolated clearing in the snowy forest expanse of North West Canada. It is the evening before his mother's funeral. One loss brings up earlier losses; relating this deeply poignant tale he relates the disastrous event of his father's attempts to rescue his sister, Marie, when Move on a skating expedition she falls through a dark hole in the thin ice at the turbulent confluence of two rivers. His terrified sister looks towards her father who plunges into the water and both perish in a catastrophe. Consequently, Stephen is to struggle with for many years to in some way to come to terms with this severe trauma. His grandfather, Jeannot, a resilient settler is a stalwart figure who keeps returning protectively into Stephen's life in order to resurrect his own lost love, Martine from the hereafter. This love between Jeannot and Stephen's grandmother, Martine, and also that between Jeannot's brother and future wife blossom through magical events involving the metamorphosis of gold, trees and mountains which move, and malevolent 'qualuplillumits' ogres from a richly various panoply of magical realism.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701185465</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Paranormal Reviews]]