==Literary fiction==
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{{newreview
|author=Kate Cole-Adams
|title=Walking to the Moon
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=We meet the main character Jessica, or Jess as she is usually called, deep in an emotional black hole. She can see no light at the end of the tunnel. And right from the start, right from page one, we have a sense of the beautiful and poetic language of Cole-Adams. 'Time and I have a new arrangement. We leave each other alone.' And indeed time is not important in this novel. We have all the time in the world would probably be the motto of the medical staff - if they had one.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849161348</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Ru Freeman
|summary=''Summertime'' is the third of a series of fictionalised autobiographies by J M Coetzee, following on from ''Boyhood'' and ''Youth''. There, that sounds straightforward enough, doesn't it? Except, in this 'autobiography' (or 'autrebiography' as one critic described the earlier volumes) the subject is dead. So, clearly, this story isn't 'true'. But then, how true is an ordinary autobiography? And to what extent is it a function of the novel to use fiction to reveal truth? So many questions, and I haven't even begun.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846553180</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=James Lever
|title=Me Cheeta
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Straight out of the golden age of Hollywood comes the bitchiest, most revealing memoir from one of its stars. There are scores to be settled, stars to be insulted, secrets to be hinted at none too subtley, and lost opportunities to be longed for. Oh, and the star telling all? Well, for those of you who can't tell from the title (or even the picture on the front cover) it's Cheeta - chimpanzee star of the Tarzan films.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007280165</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Erick Setiawan
|title=Of Bees and Mist
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The first few chapters of this amazing work, had me scratching my head, and pondering, 'what on earth is this about, and where is it going?' It struck me as simply bizarre. However, I was quickly reeled in, and the initially disparate cast of characters, who seemed more like caricatures, soon had lives of their own - and fascinating ones at that!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755348532</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Hilary Mantel
|title=Wolf Hall
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=A revisionist look at Henry VIII's minister, Thomas Cromwell. Rich, absorbing and intelligent, it's a beautiful, beautiful book.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007230184</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=A S Byatt
|title=The Children's Book
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Antonia Byatt's Booker-nominated ''The Children's Book'' (her first novel for seven years) is a staggering, complex and multi-layered book, set between the last years of Victoria's reign and the end of the First World War. Although this is undoubtedly an intelligent book, full of learning and ideas, ranging from class, early feminism, Fabianism and anarchism, it is highly readable and accessible. The author's stance is that this was a unique time for children in the UK, freed from the 'be seen and not heard' of the early Victorian age, but before the 'treat them like adults' of the post war loss of innocence. It was a time when children, at least rich children, were allowed to be free and adult authors like JM Barrie wrote both about and for children and was also widely read by adults.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701183896</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Colm Toibin
|title=Brooklyn
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Colm Tóibín's quietly powerful new novel, Brooklyn, opens in the author's own home town of Enniscorthy, County Wexford in the 1950s. We are sitting with his conscientiously introverted heroine, Eilis Lacey, as she watches through the upstairs living room window as her more glamorous older sister Rose walks briskly home from work. Rose is popular at the local golf club, with many male admirers. Meanwhile, Eilis' three brothers have all gone to England where there is work to be had. There are few opportunities in Enniscorthy, for employment or anything else. Eilis is lucky to be offered a Sunday job in Miss Kelly's grocery shop, a shop Eilis' widowed mother will not enter. Later, Eilis will entertain her mother and sister with imitations of Miss Kelly's voice. Showing everything only through Eilis' eyes, Tóibín brilliantly evokes life in the claustrophobically tight-knit town.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670918121</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Shandi Mitchell
|title=Under This Unbroken Sky
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=A photograph opens the story. A black and white picture of a family, husband, wife and their three children, smiling for the camera. Thin, underfed, in their summer clothes despite the four inches of snow, they smile. Partly they smile because they do not know what is to come.
A page and five years later we catch up with the Mykolayenkos. In the Spring of 1938 Ivan and his cousin are catching mice in the barn and taking bets on which of the farm cats will pounce on the individually released rodents first. The game is interrupted by a man with a loaded .22 rifle. It takes a while for it to sink in, that this is Ivan's father, Teodor, free after a prison sentence for stealing his own grain.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0297856588</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Roddy Doyle
|title=Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=I'm kind of a reverse literary snob, in that I tend to avoid books that win awards. I've found that such books are often very well written, but they're not always good reading. As shameful as it is to admit, I would much rather read for story as for fancy words. Clearly I'm not alone, as in 1993, the year Roddy Doyle's ''Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha'' won the Booker Prize, the bestseller lists contained [[:Category:John Grisham|John Grisham]], Sue Townsend and Jeffrey Archer.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099535084</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Sarah Waters
|title=The Little Stranger
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=When was the last time you couldn't put a Booker nominated novel down? Sarah Waters, author of acclaimed novels ''Fingersmith'' and ''The Night Watch'' has written a chilling psychological ghost story that kept me guessing until the very last page.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1844086011</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=James Kelman
|title=How Late It Was, How Late
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Sammy has just woken up outside in what looks likes a park after a heavy night of drinking. He can't remember much – how he got there, or why he is wearing some old trainers and not his new shoes. He doesn't know what's happened to his wallet or why people are staring at him. He does remember some things – one being a row of some sorts he'd had with Helen, his girlfriend. Now he has been arrested, beaten up by the police, and released back onto the street again. He needs to find a way to get home, the only problem is; he has just gone blind.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099546272</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Douglas Coupland
|title=Generation A
|rating=3.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=I think with Douglas Coupland you either love him or hate him. So I suppose I should probably say straight off that he's one of my favourite writers. I've read all his fiction, and I just about peed my pants with excitement at getting to review this latest offering, ''Generation A''. Those in the know will see that he is jumping off from his earlier novel, ''Generation X'', that dealt with three disillusioned twenty-somethings who seem to have opted out of life, working 'Mcjobs' in the Californian desert and telling each other stories to pass the time. Here, with this new generation, there's storytelling again, this time amongst five characters, all from different places in the world, and different ages, who are brought together through one singular event in each of their lives - they are each stung by a bee.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434019836</amazonuk>
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