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[[Category:New Reviews|Literary Fiction]]==Literary fiction==__NOTOC__ {{newreviewFrontpage|author=David AlmondEowyn Ivey|title=The True Tale of the Monster Billy DeanBlack Woods Blue Sky|rating=43.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=''This tale is told by 1 that died at birth by 1 that came into the world in days of endles war & at the moment of disaster... I am not cleva, so forgiv my folts and my mistayks. I am Billy Dean. This is the truth. This is my tale.Black Woods Blue Sky'' The Monster Billy Dean tells the story of BillyBirdie, a boy born into the dystopia young mother of toddler Emaleen, who longs for a war-torn town and life beyond the product of an illicit liaison between Alaskan lodge where she works as a bar waitress, a young woman setting which enables her bad habits and her priestaccidental neglect of Emaleen. His birth coincided with an apocalyptic bombing Described as a ''wild card'', she feels stuck in her day-to-day life, and his parents have hidden him away from yearns to cross the ruins Wolverine river and live on the catastrophe in North Fork to fulfil her desires of a simple life surrounded by nature. When she meets Arthur Nielson, a strange, taciturn and solitary man, who says he has a single roomcabin over there, both out of shame she feels called to go - and in the belief that his coming into the world bring Emaleen with her. Without realising it, this calling will transform hers and surviving at such a violent moment signifies a sacred futureEmaleen's lives forever. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0670919055</amazonuk>1472279042
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andrew KaufmanSally Rooney|title=The Tiny WifeIntermezzo
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=It all begins with Sally Rooney has studied the chessboard of life and is something of a bank robberygrandmaster at putting it into words. Only Her dialogue is gripping and so brilliantly frustrating, as her characters never quite say exactly what they feel. Among the many relationships woven into this isn't your typical sort of bank robbery since story, the robber demands not money but instead each person in central one for readers to unravel is the bank must give him the item of most sentimental value that they have with themfraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and Peter Koubek. These range from photographs and Ivan, a key through to socially awkward chess prodigy, contrasts sharply with his older brother Peter, a calculatorsuccessful lawyer living in Dublin...and on taking these items he says he is also taking fifty percent of Following their soulsfather's passing after a long battle with cancer, and it is up to the victims to find the way to get their souls back, or to die tryingbrothers' already strained relationship faces new trials.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007429258</amazonuk>0571365469
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Yvvette EdwardsFyodor Dostoyevsky|title=A Cupboard Full of CoatsWhite Nights
|rating=5
|genre=Short Stories|summary=As always in Dostoyevsky, the character work is sublime. One is never left wondering what a character is thinking or feeling because Dostoyevsky lays bare their innermost dispositions and temperaments with remarkable clarity.|isbn=0241619785}}{{Frontpage|author=James Baldwin|title=Giovanni's Room|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''He just knockedGiovanni's Room'' follows the narrator David, that was allan American man living in Paris, knocked and the front door and waitedas he navigates his torturous affair with Giovanni, like the fourteen years since I'd killed my mother hadn't happenedan Italian bartender he meets in a gay bar...'' Jinx While David is cold and she knows it. She cleans obsessively - a largely pointless taskengaged to Hella, since there who is little mess to clean since her husband and young sontravelling in Spain, tired of her frigidity, moved out. She cooks beautifully balanced meals that look aesthetic on the plate. But her food offers sustenance, real tension in the novel arises not comfortfrom his infidelity but from the deeper conflict within himself. In fact, Jinx feels most at home amongst the dead people she works It is David's crippling shame and denial of his sexuality that ultimately dooms his relationship with as a funeral home cosmetologistGiovanni. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1851688382</amazonuk>0141186356
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Claudie GallayAlba de Cespedes |title=The BreakersForbidden Notebook
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The book is in This Italian work of feminist fiction holds an air of suspense and tension from the first personmoment our protagonist, told by a woman who is a relative newcomer to this tiny villageValeria Cossati, purchases her forbidden notebook, no more than a cluster of homes and a few basic amenities. The story opens learns about herself in the lead-up to a horrendous storm. The narrator has seen nothing like it before most intimate and is both afraid and excited. The locals take it all in their stride. They're a hardy bunch of disparate individuals and we get to know more them, one by one, as the story developsrevealing ways.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1906694710</amazonuk>1782278222}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Susan HillOttessa Moshfegh|title=The Woman in BlackMy Year of Rest and Relaxation|rating=53
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Arthur Kipps At best, this novel is a young solicitor working in a fog-bound London scathing critique of modern society and soon to be married. All looks rosy for Arthur until one day he is called into his boss' office where he is tasked with reveals the affairs fragility of human relationships; at worst, it is the deceased recluse Alice Drablow. Alice Drablow had lived in the melancholy village cynical, predictable and slightly trite tale of Crythin Gifford in an isolated house on the remote Eel Marshunlikeable protagonist. This unlikely heroine, a house only accessible by a strange causeway when slim, attractive and newly orphaned girl in her twenties is disillusioned with the tide is out. It is here Arthur must travel world, but resolves not to firstly represent his firm at lose sleep over it: in fact, her funeral and then to sift through Mrs Drablow's house to ensure all solution lies in her legal paperwork is in orderhibernation. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846685621</amazonuk>1784707422
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Julian BarnesMatthew Tree|title=The Sense of an EndingWe'll Never Know
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary='The Sense of an Ending' is almost Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more of a novella - it's a slim volume but exquisitely written, as you might expect than to be different from Julian Barnes. It starts off describing the relationships between four friends at schoolhis father, narrated by one a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of the friends, Tony Webster, but quickly it becomes clear that this is written many years later. Barnes has long been a terrific observer being exceptional at any of the English middle classes and his style invariably contains satire artistic passions all failed miserably and dry humourwho had endless crises of self confidence. And this being BarnesSo Tim applied himself to his studies, this school clique is intellectual in interest, as the narrator recalls English cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and History teachers and student philosophisingset himself high but achievable ambitions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0224094157</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=A L KennedyMosby Woods|title=The Blue BookA Whirly Man Loses His Turn
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Despite not being The West isn'quoits and gin slings and rubbers t the dominant force it once was. Nobody in the West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is the best course of bridge people' Elizabeth and Derek have embarked on action. Governments are flailing. A war here, a cruisepush for climate action there. Derek A feeling that nobody is probably hoping to proposein actual charge. Imagine then, but things do not go as plannedthere was a man with precognition. From Imagine the moment they encounter strategic advantage in this asset; a stranger as they board man who can tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. That man would be valuable, right? Perhaps the shipmost valuable asset in history. Imagine then, the cruise proves that this man loses this ability. What would governments do to be revelationary for all concerned.get it back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0224091409</amazonuk>B0C9SNG8R1
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Beard0571379559|title=Lazarus is DeadThe House of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=''The title certainly got my attention and when I read that Beard House of Broken Bricks'' is the Director story of four people. Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in the house on the National Academy riverbank, built of Writing, London I was expecting great things from himbroken bricks. IInsubstantial as it might look, it'm also thinking in s stood the very next breath how audacious passage of time, storms and floods. Her husband, Richard, struggles to write a fictional book about a towering biblical character but thengrow his vegetables, many to complete the delivery rounds - and to bring in sufficient money. They have done just twin boys - Sonny and Max, the rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. People don't believe that they're related, much less twins and there's an assumption when Max is out with his mother thatshe's his nanny. Will he pull it off though?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184655506X</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
|author=Claire North
|title=House of Odysseus
|rating=5
|genre= Literary Fiction
|summary= ''What could matter more than love?''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Amy WaldmanKay Chronister|title=The SubmissionDesert Creatures|rating=54|genre=Literary Dystopian Fiction|summary=The front cover of the book With a world that I received is becoming increasingly inhospitable for review is subtle (as befitting the sensitive contents) and I humanity, post-apocalyptic fiction can see the two twin towers (as was) depicted in grey in the title word submissionbecome an almost masochistic thrill. The back cover announces that Whether it is a robotic takeover, a world devoid of water or a nuclear holocaust, this novel will be genre is a way for humans to cathartically experience their most existential fears. ''Published in time for the 10th anniversary of 9/11.Desert Creatures'' No pressure thenby Kay Chronister is a new work of post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the fears that exist for humanity today. I open the book with It is a certain amount of trepidation, I have to admit and feel slightly as if I'm about shocking novel that still manages to tread on (literary) eggshellsfind hope. Heavens - what if I don't like the book?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0434019321</amazonuk>1803364998
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{{newreviewfrontpage|isbn=1803363002|author=Bernard BeckettEric LaRocca|title=AugustThe Trees Grew Because I Bled There|rating=45|genre=TeensHorror|summary=In an alternate worldHorror 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 ''Big Bad'', Tristan and Grace come from The Citywhether that is a home invader, a closed monster or a ghost, it usually something tangible and enclosed society in which religion dominates, by the end of the story, beatable. Tristan had been an acolyte at St AugustineEric LaRocca's''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is not like that. He spent It is a childhood being drilled collection of short stories more interested in philosophical discussion the horrors of free will by the Rector. A star pupilillness, a single event made him question everything he had been taughtgrief and humiliation. Grace had spent the first part of her childhood in the convent, but a single act of kindness led Horrors that linger and are harder to her excommunicationdefeat than any ''Big Bad''. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857387898</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Daisy WaughMadelaine Lucas|title=Last Dance with ValentinoThirst for Salt
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=When I read on the front cover that this book is described by the Sunday Times as ''A grippingLove, bittersweet love storyI'' it wasn't a particularly good statement for me to d read. As a rule I don't generally 'do' love stories. If I happen , was supposed to read one every once in be a while then that's fine by me light and weightless feeling, but I donhad always longed for gravity''t encourage them! But, both the lovely title and the front cover did their job and pulled me in - just a little.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000739120X</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Steven AmsterdamMichael Grothaus|title=Things We Didn't See ComingBeautiful Shining People
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=This book has gained praise from the likes of the Washington Post ''But fearing something and the Financial times so I was really looking forward to a good - even great read. But did I get having it? I think that opening on the eve of the millennium (the most recent one) is pretty special in itself and should be a good 'hook' come to draw the reader in. The narrator, young, male (not named as yet) and his family pass are packing the family car for the journey aheadtwo different things. The poor car is full to bursting. Dad is a sceptic and he's taking no chances with this millennium situation and heAnd I's instructed his family m willing to pack more than the usual festive presents this time. They've (well, dad has) made the decision to get as far away from London as they can - just in case. Just in case bet most of what exactly is we fear will never mentionedhappen, only impliedor we can take steps to change it. So it's New Year celebrations with the grandparents.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009954704X</amazonuk>}}'
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=S J WatsonJennifer Saint|title=Before I Go To SleepAtalanta
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Rather ironically, 'Before 'I Go To Sleep' is not a book that you will forget in a hurry. Imagine, if you will, waking up every morning with no memory was as worthy as any one of who you are, where you are, or who the person lying next to you in bed isthem. You can remember things during the day, but once you go to sleep, your mind is effectively wiped clean. This is the slightly unusual form of amnesia I would get on board that the narratorship, Christine suffers from in Watson's first novel that is a daring and gripping literary thriller.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857520172</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Amos Oz|title=My Michael|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=The Introduction to this book has a lovely sub-heading - 'Forty Years Later' where Oz admits freely that now, today, he wouldn't attempt or ... 'dare write an entire novel in a female voiceI vowed.' But I found his open telling of why and how he came to write the book in the first would take my place interesting and rather enchanting and whetted my appetite to get on and read the book. For example, Oz wrote most of the book not just in the cramped confines name of a toilet, would you believethe goddess. But It was for me what caught my attention was the fact that he tells his readers that Hannah, the central character, was in his head and determined to he heard. 'Just shut up and write' she tells him. A Translator's Note follows before we get to the story proper.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009952905X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jacqueline Yallop|title=Obedience|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=The story opens with a much younger Sister Bernard - no more than a girl really. The daily lives sake of the nuns is regulatedmy name, with long hours for prayer, meditation and solitudetoo. Everyone is housed, fed and watered adequately and thatAtalanta's as far as it goes. No little luxuries to speak of. Nothing to temper the harshness and the silence. Visits from family members are forbidden also. However, the young Sister Bernard appears to not only be coping very well with all of this but even embracing it. She doesn't grumble or complain about anything. However, even although she may appear saintly she is human, just like the rest of us and temptation does come along in the shape of a young man. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857891014</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alice LaPlanteAmanthi Harris|title=Turn of MindBeautiful Place|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Padma, a young Sri Lankan, has returned to the Villa Hibiscus on the southern coast of her home country. This is a beautifully-presented book with its eye-catching front cover and poetic titleplace she spent her formative years. Jennifer has had It is not a busy 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, and fulfilling professional the machinations that have flowed through her life as a well-respected medical surgeon. Until nowever since she first arrived there provide the ''score'' for this gentle and yet subtly violent novel. She Padma's gradually losing bits of present fails to escape her mind to Alzheimer's. Her family is supportive past and keep popping in on much like the musical score of a regular basis plus there's now a live-in carerfilm, Magdalena, so that daily life and daily chores are just about coveredstrand weaves its way through everything that happens at the Villa.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846554632</amazonuk>1784631930
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jose Saramago and Margaret Jull Costa178563335X|title=The Elephant's JourneySea Defences|author=Hilary Taylor|rating=3.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=This novel is inspired by When we first meet Rachel Bird she's a trainee vicar, sitting in on a real event – the marriage gift of an elephant from Dom João III of Portugal PCC meeting and wondering why they're held when you need to his cousin Maximilian, pick the Hapsburg Archduke of Austriachildren up. When the gift was acceptedHer husband, the elephant SolomonChristopher, his mahout Subhro collects six-year-old Hannah and numerous soldiersher elder brother, oxen and portersJamie, walked from Lisbon to Vienna to deliver the present, arriving whilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioner. Thelma's daughter-in 1552-law won't let her see her grandson. This Holthorpe, on the Norfolk coast, is a lovely place, but Rachel is struggling to develop a real bond with the story parish - and she's in awe of the vicar, Gail, but then she's been doing the job for more than thirty years. Rachel and Christopher hoped that journeya walk on the beach would do them some good - it was stormy but it was probably what they needed. And then Hannah went missing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099546884</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ross Raisin1398515388|title=WaterlineThe Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=Raisin has an enviable portfolio for one so youngFirst of all, it was the earthquake, having been named ''Sunday Times Young Writer Of The Year 2009'' deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and his [[God's Own Country by Ross Raisin|previous novel]] receiving fulsome praise. No pressure then with this book, in turn, caused the nuclear meltdown. The story opens with all members of the Little family paying their respects to Cathyresult was complete and utter devastation. Some have travelled further than others as they all squeeze into Mick's modest houseThe deaths were uncountable, somewhere in Glasgowand the loss of livelihoods was widespread. A lessThe fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of priorities but -thansix months after the tsunami -posh partKazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. Mick is obviously numb with He wasn't a dog person but the shock of it all (even although his wife's death was not sudden - she had been ill for some time). Itconvenience store owner's clear comment that some of he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and Tamon the family, distant members, feel uncomfortable and don't quite know how to actdog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670917354</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jamil Ahmad0989715337|title=The Wandering FalconPapa on the Moon|author=Marco North
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary="In ''Some frogs had gotten into the tangle of crumbling, weather-beaten and broken hills, where the borders of Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan meet, is a military outpost…" Thus begins the tale of Tor Baz, the Black Falcon. To this desolate place come two wanderers, a man and a woman seeking refugewell. ''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anna GavaldaDaisy Hildyard|title=Breaking AwayEmergency
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Garance is on her way The summary of this book doesn't come close to a family wedding. In the car with her brother and his wife she thinks about all her siblings, explaining what's happened in their lives and who they have all become. Throughout the journey she finds herself bickering constantly is done with her sister-in-law who always rubs her up the wrong way, and for the first time Garance senses some tension from her brother too who is usually calm and collected at all times. Is everything okay in his life or is his wife finally beginning to wear his patience thin? They take a detour en route to pick up another sibling, much to Carine's annoyance, and then on reaching the wedding there's a surprise in store for all of them as the four siblings find themselves on an unplanned escape, together once again, rediscovering their youthful selves in a fun, brief break from their real livespremise. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1906040400</amazonuk>1913097811}}
{{newreviewFrontpage |author=Haley TannerSally Oliver |title=Vaclav The Weight 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 Lenathe 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=Vaclav and Lena are both children of Russian immigrantsEarly comments on this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendous, growing up in Brooklyna delight. Vaclav dreams of becoming a fantastic magician, I will agree with his friend Lena as his assistant, and as children they practise their routine together, making lists of the things they'll need, the costumes they will wear and the tricks they will perform. Vaclav first – tremendous is confident and happy, no understatement – but Lena 'a delight' is quiet, withdrawn and struggles perhaps using the expression in a way I'm not familiar with speaking English. Yet Vaclav believes, always, that they are destined I have to be togetherconfess my ignorance of the Spanish-language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation here. Even when Lena disappears one day and is gone from his life for many years still he hopes thatFrom the little I have read (in translation, somehow, he will find her againI don't read Spanish) there does seem to be a tendency towards the fantastical – the mystical realism.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0434020443</amazonuk>0861541901
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Neil JordanJennifer Saint|title=MistakenElektra
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The front cover photograph and the blurb on 'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the back cover give this book a misty, floaty, ethereal feel. The story starts at of three women who live in the end, if you get my driftheavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. The adult Kevin attends a local funeral but he's careful to remain low-keyCassandra, hidden almost. Why is that? And whose funeral is it anyway? As early as page 6Clytemnestra, Jordan's poetic and atmospheric style is apparent Elektra are all bit players in lines such as ' the story of the Trojan War... close to Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the line of yew trees, were silent women have the massed umbrellas of most compelling stories and the mourners, retreating, like so many mushrooms come alive in a fairy-tale forestmost extreme furies.'|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848544197</amazonuk>1472273915
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen Humphreys8409290103|title=The Reinvention of Love|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary='The Reinvention of Love' is one of those stories that is so bizarre and strange that it could only be based on factual events. Essentially it is a good, old-fashioned love triangle set mostly in Paris in the period from the 1830s to the 1860s; a world where fighting duels is a commonplace event. The triangle features the great French literary writer Victor Hugo, his wife Adèle and the altogether strange critic Charles Saint-Beuve who narrates much of this story, with brief breaks for Adèle's side of events and some letters written by the Hugo's youngest daughter, also called Adèle (but let's call her, as she was known to her family, Dédé to avoid confusion).|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846687985</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewIf Only|author=Wesley Stace|title=Charles Jessold, Considered as a MurdererMatthew Tree|rating=34.5|genre=Crime|summary="Nothing in recent fiction prepared me for the power and the polish of this subtle tale of English music in the making, a chiller wrapped in an enigma [New Statesman]" "His handling of dry comic dialogue and cynical affectation is reminiscent of P G Wodehouse… an intelligent, fun and thoughtful piece of fiction [Independent on Sunday]" Just two of the previous reviews that adorn the back cover of 'Charles Jessold…'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099546574</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Roy Jacobsen, Don Bartlett (translator) and Don Shaw (translator)|title=Child Wonder|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=1961 was a Twenty-one-year of change-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by his father, a timecotton-broker AO Lowry: he asked his accountant, as Jacobsen puts itMr Patrick, ''when men became boys to ensure that the young man got on board the boat and housewives women''thereafter Patrick was to send him a monthly allowance. At Patrick sent the outset Finn money regularly and his mother are leading a quiet, rather timorous life in a working class Oslo suburbcorrespondence - of sorts - sprang up between the two although we hear more about what Lowry has to say than Patrick. Then change overwhelms them It wasn't that Lowry senior didn't care for his son, not through world events, but it was that he didn't care to have him in the form of this country where he might be a mysterious child who is Finn's half sisterdanger to his wife and other children. Linda is not like other children and Finn's attempt The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to deal with her impact get the young man on his family is the central thread in this quintessential story of growing upway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857050184</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Salman RushdieB098FFFBH9|title=Luka and the Fire of Life|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Back in 1990, Salman Rushdie followed up his controversial 'Satanic Verses' with a book dedicated to his then nine year old son, Zafar, called 'Haroun and the Sea of Stories'. Now, his second son, Milan, finally gets a book of his own, although he had to wait until he was 13 for his father to get around to it. 'Luka and the Fire of Life' is very much a follow up to 'Haroun' and it is certainly helpful, although not necessary, if you have read that book as many of the events in the first book are referred to here.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099555328</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewSnowcub|author=Manuel de Lope and John Cullen (Translator)|title=The Wrong BloodGraham Fulbright|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Although de Lope has written over Fourteen-year-old Rachel is her school's animal rights project leader and she and her friend are producing a dozen novels, this is competition entry to highlight the way in which human beings exploit the first to be translated into Englishanimal world. The cover is as pretty as She gets a great deal of support from her family: father Pip Harrison, a picture lecturer at Imperial College, London, mother Kate and screams 'Spanish.' So farher twin, so goodNick. But I have to admit that on Kate runs the whole most of the European novels Ifamily business, a toy shop called Cornucopia in Putney, which is where we'll meet Rachel've read over the last year or so, have fallen short s main (if unsuspected) source of the mark for meinformation: five soft toys. Will this one prove to be different?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099551853</amazonuk>
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