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|author=Friedrich Durrenmatt and John E Woods (translator)
|summary=Our narrator is a screenwriter, tasked with coming up with a sequel to his hit movie ''Besties'' – a film which helped pay for a house, but which his actress wife keeps letting him know, isn't ''art''. To concentrate, the family – he, the wife, and their four year old daughter – have rented a large, modern house at the end of a horrid, hairpin bend-filled road, in a charming alpine landscape. But things aren't right. The couple are at loggerheads too much, things keep unsettling our narrator, and the sole shopkeeper for miles around is ready with the Hammer Horror styled warnings of strange events. Quickly we see the book's title in all its galling clarity – but it isn't too late to get out… is it? And out of what, exactly?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786484048</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author= Tove Jansson
|title= Letters From Klara
|rating= 5
|genre= Literary Fiction
|summary= Famed in the UK for her creation of the Moomin family, Jansson is rather belatedly beginning to gather the richly deserved esteem for her adult writings. For that I offer my heart-felt thanks to publishers ''Sort of books'' and Thomas Teal, who has been responsible for most of the translations. Receiving this one, two things strike: firstly I somehow seem to have missed one of the series, and secondly there'll come a time sooner rather than later when there'll be no more to be had. The former will be rectified, the latter is a sad thought.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908745614</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Tom Malmquist and Henning Koch (translator)
|title=In Every Moment We Are Still Alive
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Tom Malmquist is a poet from Sweden. Originally published in Swedish in 2015, this is his first work of prose. While it's being marketed as a novel, it reads more like a stylized memoir. Similar to Karl Ove Knausgaard's books, it features the author as the central character and narrator, and the story of grief it tells is a highly personal one.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473640008</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author= Michel Deon
|title= Your Father's Room
|rating= 4.5
|genre= Literary Fiction
|summary= I don't feel altogether qualified to review Michel Déon's 2004 fictionalised memoir ''Your Father's Room'', translated here into English for the first time. I hadn't heard of Déon before receiving my copy, let alone read any of his books, published over a 70 year period to much acclaim in his homeland. But it's part of the pleasure of book reviewing to read with no prior knowledge or prejudice, all the more so if you discover an absolute gem.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910477346</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author= Naomi Alderman
|title= The Power
|rating= 5
|genre= Literary Fiction
|summary=It started with the girls and spread. From younger woman to older woman, it was awoken and everything changed. Womankind now has the power of electricity in their fingertips and, slowly at first, the balance of power in the world starts shifting. We follow the stories of different people, in different walks of life, who see this from the very beginning and hurtle towards 'the event'. One thing in this startling new development is certain, patriarchal archetypes and chauvinist thinkers are in for the shock of their lives. Literally.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670919969</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Anna Pitoniak
|title=The Futures
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=When we first meet Evan Peck, he has just started at Yale College, where he plays ice hockey. Like lots of the other players, he is actually Canadian, from small-town British Columbia. One night after a party Evan meets Julia Edwards at their dorm and they go out for pizza. She technically has a boyfriend from her Boston boarding school days, but they soon break up and before long Julia and Evan have become inseparable, as they will remain for the rest of their college years.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718184564</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author= Stephan Collishaw
|title= The Song of the Stork
|rating= 4.5
|genre= Literary Fiction
|summary= Stephan Collishaw has achieved a rare feat – a novel set amidst the horrors of Nazi tyranny that does not shy away from human suffering, but does not drown in it either.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785079190</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author= Sabrina Mahfouz
|title= The Things I Would Tell You: British Muslim Women Write
|rating= 5
|genre= Anthologies
|summary= What does it mean to be British and Muslim? This is a question these writers tackle with stunning clarity. Modern day British society has a varied sense of cultural heritage; it is a society that is changing and moving forward as it adds more and more voices to the population, but is also one that has an undercurrent of anxiety and fear towards those that are minorities. So this collection displays how all that fear is received; it comes in the form of stereotypical labels and racial prejudice, which are themes eloquently reproduced here.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0863561462</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author= David Szalay
|title= All That Man Is
|rating= 5
|genre= Literary Fiction
|summary= Two teenage boys on an Inter Rail trip around Europe find themselves staying with a frustrated housewife on the outskirts of Prague, a driftless young Frenchman discovers sexual fulfilment on a package holiday in Cyprus, a lovestruck Hungarian minder is embroiled in a prostitution racket at an upmarket London hotel, a Belgian academic is forced to confront his egotism when his partner becomes pregnant, a Danish tabloid journalist exposes a high-ranking politician's love affair, a property developer inspects a new project in the French alps, a Scot living in Croatia fails in love and business, a Russian millionaire confronts divorce, an elderly English politician survives a road accident in Italy.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099593696</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author= Elizabeth Hay
|title= His Whole Life
|rating= 5
|genre= Literary Fiction
|summary= If you think that ''un-put-down-able'' is the greatest accolade for a book, think again. ''Put-down-able'' can be stronger praise: ''His Whole Life'' is put-down-able. It encourages you to put it down, to wrap yourself in the slow-moving story, the exquisite writing, the subtleties of the characters, and just walk around for a while with them slowly sinking in; it encourages you to come back to it again and again; mostly it encourages you to put it down, to read it slowly, because you don't want it to end.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857055445</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author= Phillip Lewis
|title= The Barrowfields
|rating= 4
|genre= Literary Fiction
|summary= Just before Henry Aster's birth, his father, a frustrated novelist and lawyer, reluctantly returns to the remote North Carolina mountains in which he was improbably raised and installs his young family in a gothic mansion - nicknamed 'the vulture house' - worthy of his hero Edgar Allan Poe. There, Henry grows up under the desk of this fierce and brilliant man. But when a death in the family tips his father toward a fearsome unravelling, what was once a young son's reverence is poisoned, and Henry flees, not to return until years later when he, too, must go home again.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473636825</amazonuk>
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