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|summary=Entomologist Liz Crane has returned Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to her family's property on the Canadian shores of Lake Erie where she's studying the migratory patterns of the monarch butterfly, which flies south, reproduces, diesbe different from his father, repeats this and a further generation returns to Lake Erie drunk and the process begins again. As Liz works she reminisces about the family chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of which she's a part - almost incidentally - his artistic passions all failed miserably and how they have migratedwho had endless crises of self confidence. Foremost in her mind is her cousin, Amanda Butler, a gifted military strategist, who came home from Afghanistan is a flag-covered coffin, but moves on So Tim applied himself to her uncle who disappeared a decade or so beforehis studies, the Mexican workers who came each year for the harvest cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and those members of the Butler family who came Ireland - some to grow fruit and others to become lighthouse keepersset himself high but achievable ambitions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857051245</amazonuk>B0CVFXPGP8

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jon BauerB0C47LV1PC|title=Rocks in the BellyFragility|author=Mosby Woods

|summary=Jon Bauer's first novel, Can you make a ''Rocks in the BellyYo birthing person''joke? And if you could, is an emotional journey. The narrator is a man in his late 20s who has returned from Canada to visit his mother who has cancer of the brain. The narrator himself is emotionally damaged from the relationship that he had with his mother from childhood when she and her husband fostered children and, interspersed with the narrative, question should you make it? Or is the voice of narrator at eight years old and in particular telling the experience of one foster boy, Robert, who we know from early on in the book suffered a significant tragedy while in their care. What that event was will be revealed in due coursequestion if you did, but would it land? The catch is clear that the young boy suffered hugely from jealousy of his mother's love answer for these foster childrenboth could well be...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846688450</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Adam Johnson|title=The Orphan Master's Son|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''The Orphan Master's Son'' follows the adventures of Jun Do who has been born without any say in his future. For this is North Korea, where all is organised for the good of the state or at the whim of the Dear Leader, Kim Jong Ilno.

Jun Do starts his adult life as a member of a state-sanctioned kidnap squad before joining a fishing boat as a 'listener', basically a spy monitoring and translating foreign radio traffic. His troubles start when he discovers that being a good citizen isnFragility''t enough and sometimes a person needs something else to believe in and fight for. This is an incredibly hard book to sum upset as the city of Portland, but I also realise this will be an awfully short review if I don't tryOregon, so here goes... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857520555</amazonuk>cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gerbrand BakkerMosby Woods|title=The DetourA Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=3.54

|summary=Gerbrand Bakker's Dutch novel, ''The DetourWest isn'' translated by David Colmer, is a very odd story indeedt the dominant force it once was. Mostly set Nobody in Snowdonia, the book tells West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is the story best course of action. Governments are flailing. A war here, a Dutch womanpush for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is in actual charge. Imagine then, who gives her name as Emilie, who rents there was a remote farmman with precognition. She's clearly on Imagine the run from something, perhaps an affair with strategic advantage in this asset; a student at the university where she was researching the works man who can tell you what will happen given any set of Emily Dickinsoncircumstances. That man would be valuable, but it increasingly becomes clear that this is only part of right? Perhaps the story. Certainly her husband and parents back most valuable asset in the Netherlands have no clue where she has gone - or whyhistory. Once these details are establishedImagine then, the book takes a turn that this man loses this ability. What would governments do to the seriously odd which is more of a full blooded journey rather than a mere 'detour'.get it back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846556392</amazonuk>B0C9SNG8R1

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Angela Carter0571379559|title=Burning Your BoatsThe House of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams

|summary=Ada Wilson admits that his fascination with ''The House 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 period is what drove his work house on this novelthe riverbank, built of broken bricks. Insubstantial as it might look, and it is 's stood the wealth passage of detail time, storms and background that strikes one when reading floods. Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his account of Peter Urbachvegetables, to complete the undercover agent whose role was delivery rounds - and to act as an agent provocateur to the Red Brigadebring in sufficient money. Urbach is revealed from the outset as a plant They have twin boys - Sonny and Max, an undercover operative who needs to keep all events of the group rainbow twins. Sonny'noted and fileds colouring reflects his mother' for s Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his mastersfather. And throughout the first half of the novel we see Urbach recording the changes and developments People don't believe that they're related, the complex web of political ideology, naivety much less twins and the pure egocentricity of youth which created the happening of the Baader-Meinhof gangthere's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she's his nanny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1901927482</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Matthew Green|title=Memoirs The follow-up to the excellent ''Ithaca'' picks up a few months after where we left off. In the palace of an Imaginary Friend|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Max is 8 years old. He likes Lego Odysseus, with delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without her husband, who sailed to war at Troy and Star Wars and playing with toy soldiersthen by divine intervention never returned home. He can tell you 102 words that rhyme with treeAs ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for the throne of the Western Isles. He scarfs down grilled cheese sandwiches and chicken Having survived – politically and rice. He does not like physical contact– the chaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to Ithaca's shores, Queen Penelope is on the brink of a fragile peace. He lives One that shatters however with the return of Orestes, King of Mycenae, and his mum and dad who argue about what is best for him and why he’s not normal like other boys and girlssister Elektra, seeking refuge.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751547875</amazonuk>0356516075

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Shalom AuslanderKay Chronister|title=Hope: a TragedyDesert Creatures|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Dystopian Fiction|summary=Meet Solomon KugelWith a world that is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, who is post-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost universally known by his surnamemasochistic thrill. He Whether it is about to join the list a robotic takeover, a world devoid of kvetching Jewish heroes of comedy fictionwater or a nuclear holocaust, and at this genre is a very esteemed position in that listway for humans to cathartically experience their most existential fears. He's a man who worries that by having had a kid he's betraying the boyDesert Creatures''s soul by bringing it into Kay Chronister is a world such as this. He's forced to live with his mother, who continually expects a second Holocaust and complains about suffering from the first, although she was not born then. He's faced with the eternal dilemma new work of not finding glutenpost-free matzo bread apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the fears that exist for his observanceshumanity today. He's moved It is a shocking novel that still manages to a rural location, and found houses like his are on the hit-list of an arsonist, but his new home has an even more unusual secret..find hope.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447207653</amazonuk>1803364998

 {{newreviewfrontpage|isbn=1803363002|author=Grace McCleenEric LaRocca|title=The Land of DecorationTrees Grew Because I Bled There|rating=5|genre=Literary FictionHorror|summary=Grace McCleen's debut novel, Horror taps into something primeval within us. It is used as a way to reflect our darkest emotions and how we as humans react and process them. Most horror fiction feature a ''The Land of DecorationBig Bad'' paints an original, unsettlingwhether that is a home invader, a monster or a ghost, sometimes dark it usually something tangible and generally rather wonderful picture. Narrated by ten year old Judith, raised by her father who is a fundamental religious follower of the end of the world story, beatable. Eric LaRocca's ''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is nigh variety, it looks at bullying, both at school and not like that. It is a collection of short stories more interested in more general societythe horrors of illness, faith grief and the possible rejection thereof humiliation. Horrors that linger and the strength of childhood imaginationare harder to defeat than any ''Big Bad''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>070118681X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dasa Drndic and Ellen Elias-Bursac (translator)Madelaine Lucas|title=TriesteThirst for Salt

|summary=If you have never come across 'Drood' beforeLove, there are certain significant factors which make this a I'must d read'. It is Dickens' last work, and he died without completing it. Given that this is was supposed to be a detective story, one of the very first in that tradition, it is doubly intriguing, because although we are clearly being fed clues light and hints throughoutweightless feeling, at the point where the text ends we arenbut I had always longed for gravity''t even fully sure even if a crime has been committed. So as the basis for endless speculation about what really happens this novel could hardly be bettered. We certainly have potential villains and victims, but we also have a number of likely red herrings; complex threads of romantic interest, but again it is by no means clear exactly which way these will resolve; and a shadowy detective figure, whose speculations certainly have no sense of conclusion.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849904278</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Alexander MacLeod|title=Light Lifting|rating=4Told from a retrospective view, a young woman unravels the year-long relationship that once defined her.5|genre=Short Stories|summary=Short stories may not be everyone's cup of tea. SometimesOverlaid with later wisdom, particularly the narrator relives the affair with first time authors, there is an annoying tendency a man twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to be overly experimentalits sorrowful end the summer after. Not so with Alexander MacLeodSet against the backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''s stunningly assured debut. True he has genetic Thirst for Salt'form' in that he is details the son of novelist and short story writer [[:Category:Alistair MacLeod|Alistair MacLeod]]24-year-old narrator's deepening relationship with her older lover, but even sodepicting its all-consuming nature, the quality of this collection, is remarkable. The collection of seven stories is not overly themed, although certain issues how it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and concerns do reappear, but what binds the stories together is a very human approach to adversityhow it altered her irrevocably.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0224093940</amazonuk>0861546490

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Terri ArmstrongMichael Grothaus|title=Standing WaterBeautiful Shining People

|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Dom has made the long flight from London to Australia and he's shattered, physically and emotionally. He's been busy getting on with his shiny new life in cosmopolitan London and has barely spared a thought for the folks back home. He's not relishing meeting up again with his brother Neal. Neal took over the family farm and land when their father died. The two brothers are like chalk and cheese. They had nothing in common as young boys growing up and when Dom left for Europe, Neal was relieved. But there is still an unsolved issue between them fearing something and having it's a biggycome to pass are two different things. Now that theyAnd I're older and hopefully wiserm willing to bet most of what we fear will never happen, will they manage or we can take steps to talk about it and even resolve change it. Time will tell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908136006</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|author=Andrea Gillies|title=The White Lie|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=One scorching hot summer's afternoon Ursula Salter hurls herself into the drawing room of her parents' house and delivers the devastating news that sheBeautiful Shining People's killed her nephew, Michael, and that he's in revolves around the lochquestion of identity and acceptance. But is this Of what's happened? Ursula might be in her late twenties but she has the mind and understanding of a child and – crucially – there's no body it means to be foundhuman. There are contradictions Of what is real and inconsistencies in what Ursula says – is artificial, and evidence from someone else who might have this own agenda – all of which allows whether the Salters to close ranks and construct a version development of what happened designed to protect Ursula and allow themselves to avoid the truth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780720394</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Patrick Flanery|title=Absolution|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=If Patrick Flanery's South African-set debut novel ''Absolution'' technology is anything to go by, he could well be one of the next big names in literary fiction. It's complex and at times challenging, but ultimately an extremely rewarding reading experienceexciting or frightening.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857892002</amazonuk>191458564X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Angela CarterJennifer Saint|title=Wise ChildrenAtalanta

|summary=Dora and Nora Chance are the twin daughters ''I was as worthy as any one of Shakespearean actor Melchior Hazard and Pretty Kittythem. I would get on board that ship, the chambermaid at the theatrical boarding house where he was lodging in the First World WarI vowed. Kitty died I would take my place, not just in childbirth and the girls were brought up by name of the woman they knew as Grandmagoddess. As It was for Melchiorthe sake of my name, he preferred that it be thought that his twin brother Peregrine was responsible and Perry was not unhappy to bear the burdentoo. What Melchior didnAtalanta't know was that the twin daughters which his first wife produced were actually sired by Perry. If you're getting confused, then bear in mind that there are more sets of twins to appear and that this is comedy, not of the cheap canned laughter variety, but of the type written by the bard himself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099981106</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Nicky Harlow|title=Amelia and the Virgin|rating=5|genre=Humour|summary=Amelia is 13 years old and lives with her mother, brother and extended family in 1980s LiverpoolPrincess. Con, her great-uncle, is a psychiatrist with prestigious patients and a bit of a drink problem, Great-Aunt Edith is a devout Catholic with an inclination towards eccentricity and her brother, Julian, is a junkyWarrior. Amelia's mother tries to hold everyone together but becomes slightly distracted when she inherits a convent in Ireland, complete with nunsLover. Amelia has her own problems, thoughHero. She sees visions of the Goddess Irena and is pregnant with the next Messiah. (A girl this time as the original male Messiah didn't have much luck.)|amazonuk=<amazonuk>095600539X</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Helen Dunmore|title=The Greatcoat|rating=4|genre=Horror|summary=Set in 1952 in Yorkshire, Abandoned at birth for being born a young couple move into daughter rather than a rented flat. Philip son, Atalanta is raised under the protective eye of the newgoddess Athemis and fashioned into a formidable huntress, young doctor while his new wife Isabel struggles with one who longs for adventure. When the isolated life with no friends or family and Philip's frequent absence due opportunity comes – to join the demands Argonauts, a fierce band of his job. Things take a turn to the spooky whenwarriors, waking descendent from under the warmth of Gods themselves – Atalanta seizes the old greatcoat Isabel finds chance to fight in Artemis' name and carve out her own legendary place in the flat, she hears history. What follows is a tapping at the window whirlwind of challenges and discovery and finds there an RAF pilotthrough it, AlecAtalanta must remember Artemis' fatal warning: that if she marries, who appears to know Isabel intimatelyit will be her undoing.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099564939</amazonuk>1472292154

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Caroline BrothersAmanthi Harris|title=HinterlandBeautiful Place

|summary=Aryan (14) and his brother Kabir (aged 8) are refugeesPadma, a young Sri Lankan, fleeing has returned to the horrors Villa Hibiscus on the southern coast of their homeland, Afghanistanher home country. This is a place she spent her formative years. Equipped only with some money sewn It is not a place she was born into a belt , but the one she thinks of as home. How she came to be at the Villa, how it became her home, and the machinations that have flowed through her life ever since she first arrived there provide the ''score'' for this gentle and yet subtly violent novel. Padma's present fails to escape her past and stories much like the musical score of a promised land called Englandfilm, they learn about desperation, misplaced trust and other lessons normally kept from childrenthat strand weaves its way through everything that happens at the Villa.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408817756</amazonuk>1784631930

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jon McGregor178563335X|title=This Isn't the Sort of Thing That Happens to Someone Like YouSea Defences|author=Hilary Taylor|rating=4.5

|summary=The clue is When we first meet Rachel Bird she's a trainee vicar, sitting in on a PCC meeting and wondering why they're held when you need to pick the Christopher Brookmyre-styled titlechildren up. If the eventsHer husband, Christopher, characters collects six-year-old Hannah and circumstances in these stories are known to youher elder brother, Jamie, then you have my sympathieswhilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioner. A man causes an embarrassment trying to watch his Thelma's daughter-in-law won's first school nativity playt let her see her grandson. Another has Holthorpe, on the Norfolk coast, is a phobia of eggs containing an avian foetus when he puts knife and fork lovely place, but Rachel is struggling to them. There's develop a car crash here real bond with the parish - and thereshe's in awe of the vicar, a drowningGail, some arson, some theft..but then she's been doing the job for more than thirty years. Rachel and Christopher hoped that a lot of clues that point to walk on the beach would do them some national disastergood - it was stormy but it was probably what they needed. Take all those clues as one and you eventually see this is more than just a collection of disparate short stories, but a very fractured, obfuscated novelAnd then Hannah went missing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408809265</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Wendy Jones1398515388|title=The Thoughts Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Happenings of Wilfred Price, Purveyor of Superior FuneralsAlison Watts (translator)|rating=4.5

|summary=It's Spring 1924 First of all, it was the earthquake, deep in South Walesthe ocean floor, which created the tsunami and young undertaker Wilfred is going to learn the hard way how serious this, in turn, caused the trivial can benuclear meltdown. Fascinated by a girl's dress - worn very seductively by Grace, who he has met but twice as an adult - he blurts out a marriage proposalThe result was complete and utter devastation. As much as wants to take it backThe deaths were uncountable, she won't let himand the loss of livelihoods was widespread. He tries to move on, leaving her disappointed, especially when he falls for The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the daughter list of priorities but - six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a man he buries, but..convenience store. There are things dangerously spoken, dangerously left unsaid, and He wasn't a complex web of divided loyalties dog person but the convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and enforced connections, Tamon the dog jumped in this brilliant debut novel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780330561</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fadi Azzam and Adam Talib (Translator)0989715337|title=SarmadaPapa on the Moon|author=Marco North|rating=54

|summary='Sarmada' is small and remote village in Some frogs had gotten into the Northern hills of Syria, close to the Turkish borderwell. And for much of Azzam's novel it seems a forgotten village, lost in the rituals and mysticism of ancient Druze belief and folk tales that inform the collective consciousness of the place. For the novel weaves the tales of three Syrian women and their relationships with each other, the men of their lives and the fabric of a life almost caught in the timeless past of the Middle East.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906697345</amazonuk>}}'

{{newreview|author=Ali Shaw|title=The Man Who Rained|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Do you remember being a child who had only just learned how to read? Do you remember the very first time you read a fairy story that no''Walter stood waist-one had told you before? Can you recapture deep in the joy fragrant water, naked except for his beaten leather hat. Long strands of entering a truly magical land their eggs wove around him, sticky gray pearls with tadpoles inside them. Two of the dogs leaned over the opening and (for a time) believing it was real?barked down at the strange noise of the buckets as he filled them.''

NoHow is that for an opening? Then I recommend that you read Ali Shaw's second The style of this novel 'The Man Who Rained'in the form of interconnected short stories goes from succinct and laconic to wistful and musing, turning on a sixpence. And author Marco North, who has the most wonderful turn of phrase, starts as he means to go on.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857890328</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Eric-Emmanuel SchmittDaisy Hildyard|title=Noah's ChildEmergency|rating=4.5

|summary=Joseph, a young Belgian Jew, is sent away by his parents when they grow nervous about the treatment The summary of Jews during World War Two. He this book doesn't come close to explaining what is taken in by a village priest, Father Pons, and given a new identity and a place in Father Pons' school along done with an assortment of other children, some of whom are genuine pupils and others who are, like Joseph, seeking sanctuarythe premise.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848874189</amazonuk>1913097811}}

{{newreviewFrontpage |author=Susan HillSally Oliver |title=A Kind ManThe Weight of Loss |rating=4.5|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Meet EveMarianne is grieving. Traumatised after the death of her sister, and her husbandshe awakes to find strange, thick black hairs sprouting from the title character, Tommy. She's at a bit bones of a sticky wicket her spine which steadily increase in lifesize and volume. Her GP, for however much they want diagnosing the odd phenomenon as a baby, physical reaction to her sister and his feckless husband churn out son after son after songrief, and recommends she go no lengths to stay at all Nede, an experimental new treatment centre in Wales. Yet something strange is happening to love them. So when Eve Marianne and Tommy do the other patients at last have Nede: a child, itmetamorphosis of a kind. As Marianne's a tragedy for it memories threaten to die when overwhelm her, Nede offers her release from this cycle of memory and pain—but only three years old. But in this plot, which you'll thank me for not going into further, there will be at a lot more swings and roundabouts, terrible price: that of torment and ecstasy, doldrums and delights, hell and heaven, to comeidentity itself.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099555441</amazonuk>086154112X }} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris WomersleyNatalia Garcia Freire|title=BereftThis World Does Not Belong To Us

|summary=Quinn WalkerEarly comments on this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendous, a young Australian man fresh from fighting on delight. I will agree with the first – tremendous is no understatement – but 'a delight' is perhaps using the European front expression in World War One, returns to the very town he was drummed out of ten years before, after being accused of raping and killing his own younger sistera way I'm not familiar with. Two things I have beaten him to confess my ignorance of the small settlement Spanish- one, the global flu pandemic; two a telegram saying he died bravely in action earlier in the warlanguage literary tradition so forgive my generalisation here. And From the less you know of what he meets and does back little I have read (in Flint the bettertranslation, the more to keep this fresh and brilliant bookI don's many intrigues as secret as they were for me.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857386549</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Eric Orsenna|title=The Indies Enterprise|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=As soon as you pick up a novel about Columbus's discovery of the Americas, certain expectations come to mind. Orsenna however is much more than your average writer and he manages t read Spanish) there does seem to subvert almost all of these by delivering a quiet, scholarly account of what seems at first be a diversion, tendency towards the art of map making. But this book is not about Columbus himself, but rather his brother Bartholomew, and how he is swept into fantastical – the excitement and ambition of his older siblingmystical realism.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1906598932</amazonuk>0861541901

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mahmoud DowlatabadiJennifer Saint|title=The ColonelElektra

|summary=The novel opens at dead of night in a house in Rasht in Gilan province, Iran. It is pouring with rain and 'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the colonel story of the title is three women who live in the grip heavily male dominated world of extreme melancholiaAncient Greece. Two policemen Cassandra, Clytemnestra, and Elektra are knocking on all bit players in the door. They are bringing news story of his youngest daughterthe Trojan War. This triggers a night of misery in which Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the silent women have the colonel recalls his own past, most compelling stories and the tragic lives of his five childrenmost extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1906598894</amazonuk>1472273915

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tessa Hadley8409290103|title=Married LoveIf Only|author=Matthew Tree

|genre=Short StoriesLiterary Fiction|summary=Married Love is Tessa Hadley’s second collectionTwenty-one-year-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by his father, cotton-broker AO Lowry: he asked his accountant, Mr Patrick, containing twelve short stories looking at (mostly) modern relationships to ensure that the young man got on board the boat and family dynamics – many are about parents thereafter Patrick was to send him a monthly allowance. Patrick sent the money regularly and their grown a correspondence - of sorts - sprang up children and in-laws, others are between the two although we hear more about coupleswhat Lowry has to say than Patrick. Flicking through the book It wasn't that Lowry senior didn't care for his son, it was that he didn't care to have him in this country where he might be a danger to choose some of the best his wife and/or most interesting stories other children. The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to mentionget the young man on his way.}}{{Frontpage|author=Antoine Laurain, I Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)|title=Red is My Heart|rating=3.5|genre=Literary Fiction |summary=[[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have found a difficultyalways been black and white and read in my house. Almost all of these incisiveAnd so was this one, witty stories reveal an interesting group of characters although I would like to know could have spelled that more about after the endaccurately – this one was, and is, black and white and red. Yes, sometimes from several different viewpointshe has an artistic collaborator on this piece, and I think it is hard 's possible to pick out just a fewsay not one page lacks the influence of some striking visual ideas. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0224096427</amazonuk>1913547183

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Louisa YoungB098FFFBH9|title=My Dear I Wanted to Tell YouSnowcub|author=Graham Fulbright

|summary=It takes Fourteen-year-old Rachel is her school's animal rights project leader and she and her friend are producing a while for competition entry to highlight the way in which human beings exploit the full power animal world. She gets a great deal of Louisa Young's remarkable ''My Dear I Wanted To Tell You'' to become apparentsupport from her family: father Pip Harrison, a lecturer at Imperial College, but when it doesLondon, it can hardly fail to move you. Set just before mother Kate and during World War Oneher twin, it's a story of love and human spirit against the oddsNick. The impact of Kate runs the book is family business, a toy shop called Cornucopia in what happens to the charactersPutney, so I donwhich is where we't want to give too much away, but it's worth pointing out that itll meet Rachel's not for the overly squeamish reader particularly in some of the descriptions of surgical procedures, which have clearly been meticulously researched by Young. The title itself it taken from the opening words main (if unsuspected) source of the standard letters that the wounded were given to send to loved ones back home. The wounded were required to fill in the blanksinformation: five soft toys.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007361432</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jonathan EvisonYancey Williams|title=West Crosshairs of Herethe Devil|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Award-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski is getting on in years and, despite his strenuous objections and thanks to his daughter, finds himself living - or imprisoned, from Eddie's point of view - in room 315 of the Garden of Eden nursing home, with only a trusty nursing aide, Jenkins, for palatable company. Nothing is going to keep Eddie from his stock-in-trade of writing though, so here, for his readers, are his wanderings through his life's work.|isbn=0986031658}} {{Frontpage|isbn=0008421714|title=Mrs March|author=Virginia Feito|rating=34.5

|summary=The town of Port Bonita, located on the Pacific coast of Washington State, is problem began just after the setting – and almost a character itself, such is its importance – publication of Jonathan Evison’s newest George March's most successful novelto date. In a massively ambitious narrative, Everyone but Mrs March (we start at know her first name only on the Elwha River Dam in 2006, before just two pages later being transported back into the 1880’s, last page) seemed to see the town’s founding. A hundred pages either be reading it or had already done so later, we’re brought back . Every day Mrs March went to the 21st centurylocal patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, then returned to Patricia asked, as she was wrapping the 19thbread, and ''but isn't this the cuts between scenes get faster and more furious as we seem to flip forwards and backwards in first time without giving us much time to catch our breathhe's based a character on you?'' She mentioned that Johanna, the principal character had 'her mannerisms''. By 2006 Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for the Dam fact that Johanna is about to be destroyed, and we see the effect its construction has had on the local community and how the descendants whore of the original characters have turned outNantes - ''a weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780331967</amazonuk>''

{{newreview|author=Janette Jenkins|title=Little Bones|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=While this might sound like the afterlife of a brilliant and unlikely cabaret mimic, it's not. It's a rich, evocative and engaging novel set in the last years of Victoria's reign, in the depths of her darkest London. Fate - and being abandoned by, in turn, her mother and older sister - leaves Jane Stretch living with and working for a doctor and his lumpen, housebound wife. Jane is alternatively called an 'unfortunate' and a 'cripple' for her disabilities and distorted frame, but she has enough bookish intelligence Move on to pass herself off as an assistant to the doctor, who only ever does one operation - abortions, for music hall artistes. The plot is evidently gearing up to reveal how dangerous such a criminal business might be, for the both of them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>070118194X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Nick Lake|title=In Darkness|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Shorty is lying in the rubble of the great Haitian earthquake of 2010. If he's not rescued soon, he will die. Shorty is from Site Soley, the sprawling slum of Port-au-Prince. After the murder of his father and abduction of his twin sister, Shorty has allowed himself to fall further and further into the slum's gang culture. But Route 9 isn't all about drug-dealing and gun-running - it's also about feeding the poor and educating the children. And Shorty has a great deal to teach his readers, as he recounts his life while waiting to die. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408824183</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Paranormal Reviews]]