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[[Category:New Reviews|Literary Fiction]]==Literary fiction==__NOTOC__{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Javier MariasMatthew Tree|title=While the Women are SleepingWe'll Never Know
|rating=4.5
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|summary=At the heart of the very black comedy that is ''Catch 22'' is Captain Yossarian, a World War II American bombardier, who Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to survive the war. Flying repeated combat missions is undermining be different from his sanityfather, a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and surely a mad man should be grounded? But if he asks who had endless crises of self confidence. So Tim applied himself to be groundedhis studies, he demonstrates an absolutely sane concern for cultivated his own safety. If he is sane, he can't be grounded. This, abilities rather than his doctor tells him, is catch 22daydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099529114</amazonuk>B0CVFXPGP8
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Thomas E KennedyB0C47LV1PC|title=Falling SidewaysFragility|author=Mosby Woods
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Kennedy, although Can you make a New Yorker''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, has lived in Copenhagen for over twenty years so he'll have a good feel for is the European slant on question should you make it? Or is the novelquestion if you did, I would think. It it land? The catch is one of four called that the Copenhagen Quartetanswer for both could well be... The top brass, the movers and the shakers at the 'Tank' are introduced to the reader one by one and have a whole chapter devoted to their individual lives, both professional and private. So we get a very good idea indeed of their homes, their neighbourhoods, their families and perhaps more importantly, their thoughts on the Tank and of their colleaguesno.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408812398</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Irene NemirovskyMosby Woods|title=The Wine of SolitudeA Whirly Man Loses His Turn
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Helene adores her father but hates her mother, who neglects her and sees her as nothing more than an inconvenienceThe West isn't the dominant force it once was. She grows up with the realisation that Nobody in the only way that her mother can hurt her West is quite sure how to sack her French governess – mend this or even if mending it is the only person who has ever tried to give Helene a stable upbringingbest course of action. Governments are flailing. The winds of A war blow them all from here, a fictional Kievpush for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is in actual charge. Imagine then, to there was a harsh St Petersburg and on to man with precognition. Imagine the strategic advantage in this asset; a snowy Finland to end up – finally – in France at the end man who can tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. That man would be valuable, right? Perhaps the First World Warmost valuable asset in history. Helene's father has made a lot of money from mining in Siberia but whilst the family might have money – ridiculous amounts of Imagine then, that this man loses this ability. What would governments do to get it – they have nothing else.back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0701185570</amazonuk>B0C9SNG8R1
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Per Petterson0571379559|title=It's Fine By MeThe House of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams|rating=3.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=We see Audun start his new school ''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 Oslothe house on the riverbank, built of broken bricks. The buildingInsubstantial as it might look, it's stood the classroomspassage of time, storms and floods. Her husband, the teachersRichard, struggles to grow his vegetables, even to complete the other pupils all seem delivery rounds - and to scare himbring in sufficient money. He refuses to conform They have twin boys - Sonny and insists on wearing Max, the rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his sunglasses - indoorsfather. ItPeople don't believe that they're related, much less twins and there's not an affectation though, apparently he has some facial scarring around assumption when Max is out with his mother that she's his eyesnanny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846553695</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=John O'ConnellClaire North|title=The Baskerville Legacy: A Novel|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=1900, and a man on a ship coming back from the Boer War to edit the Daily Express meets one of his heroes in the form of Arthur Conan Doyle. With similar experiences and interests yet different enough to bounce off each other they take up the idea of collaborating on a plot. When they do fix on time to do so, it leads to literary prospects, which lead to a week's research together on Dartmoor, which leads to ''The Hound of the Baskervilles''. But perhaps in a way that only one House of them intended.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907595465</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kenzaburo Oe|title=The Silent CryOdysseus
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Featuring rioting and looting of corporate supermarkets and anger against immigrants, this is a timely re-issue of Nobel Prize for Literature winner’s Kenzaburo Óe’s 1967 classic ''The Silent CryWhat could matter more than love?'' which was cited by the Nobel committee as his key work.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846688078</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Hector Tobar|title=The Barbarian Nurseries|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=The Torres-Thompsons seem to have it all. A beautiful home, two healthy boys and enough money not to have to worry about practical matters. The cherry on the cake is their employment of their maid Araceli. She works like a trouper and keeps the large house spick and span. She is lucky enough to have her own private quarters (if small and rather basic) in the back garden area. She knows within herself that she should be grateful, should really be jumping up and down with glee and thanking her lucky stars to have this job. She's managed to escape the poverty and violence of Mexico after all. But as she goes about her daily housekeeping duties she feels like some alien living on another plant. Planet America. Araceli is young, single and childless and at times she misses the hustle and bustle of her old life. And here Tobar gives an excellent account of the affluent part of LA where the Torres-Thompson's live - ' ... in this house on a hill high above the ocean, on a cul-de-sac absent of pedestrians or playing children, absent of traffic ...'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444726757</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=William GiraldiKay Chronister|title=Busy MonstersDesert Creatures|rating=4|genre=General Dystopian Fiction|summary=Charles Homar loves his GillianWith a world that is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, post-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. He's proved Whether it to usis a robotic takeover, if not to hera world devoid of water or a nuclear holocaust, by going after her possessive, jealous state trooper of an ex with the intent this genre is a way for humans to kill - if only ended up rescuing a cat insteadcathartically experience their most existential fears. But lo and behold, she's declared she's off to discover the real love Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is a new work of her life post- apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the giant squidfears that exist for humanity today. Failing to stop this, Charlie spends too long with a Nessie obsessive, then goes on It is a hunt of his own - for Bigfoot, all the while, chapter by chapter, sending his narrative of the same shocking novel that still manages to a magazine as essays for one of those autobiographical, frivolous columnsfind hope.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0393079627</amazonuk>1803364998
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{{newreviewfrontpage|isbn=1803363002|author=Colson WhiteheadEric LaRocca|title=Zone OneThe Trees Grew Because I Bled There|rating=45|genre=Horror|summary=To start, for once, with the book's style - this has probably the least dialogue of any book you'll read this yearHorror taps into something primeval within us. There are some comments from characters, but they're few It is used as a way to reflect our darkest emotions and far between - how we as are those characters that can actually speakhumans react and process them. For weMost horror fiction feature a ''Big Bad''re in , whether that is a devastated New Yorkhome invader, later this centurya monster or a ghost, it usually something tangible and our three main protagonists are cleaning up after a worldwide plague , by the end of zombiesthe story, beatable. Eric LaRocca's ''The active ones have mostly been gunned down by the military, but there are Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is not like that. It is a few still locked away in hidden corners - as well as inactive ones, called stragglers, who seem stuck collection of short stories more interested in one instant, whether finishing off their last office job for the millionth timehorrors of illness, or like a ghost haunting a place relevant grief and humiliation. Horrors that linger and are harder to themdefeat than any ''Big Bad''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846555981</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michela Murgia and Silvester Mazzarella (Translator)Madelaine Lucas|title=AccabadoraThirst for Salt
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=This beautiful, slim volume has won no less than six literary prizes. Murgia paints an early and evocative picture of the young central character''Love, Maria as she makes mud tarts. But this innocent activity is about to come to an abrupt halt. Her birth mother struggles to feed and clothe all her children (Maria is the fourth child and is really a nuisance) so when an opportunity arises which I'solves the problem of Maria' if you liked read, then she grabs it with both hands. Maria is quickly and rather unceremoniously adopted by an older woman who just happens was supposed to be a widow. She has no children of her own light and seems to lead a rather lonelyweightless feeling, insular life. She is old enough to be a grandmother, let alone a mother. Will she be able to cope with a noisy youngster under her roof? You wonder why shebut I had always longed for gravity''d want to take in a raggedy child, or any child for that matter, in the first place. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857050451</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jaimy GordonMichael Grothaus|title=Lord of MisruleBeautiful Shining People
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=West Virginia, 1970. We're at a rundown race track, of the dusty kind rundown horses 'But fearing something and their rundown owner/trainers fetch up living in, with the occasional race having it come to interrupt the boredom. Into pass are two different things comes a young upstart hoping to surprise all with his four unknown quantities and make a packet before fleeing. His girlfriend is here too And I'm willing to help outbet most of what we fear will never happen, and naively eager for success and knowledge, but old hands like Medicine Ed have seen or we can take steps to change it all before. Also in the background are some small-time gangsters who are not too keen at for once not knowing who is doing what and how races are going to be run and won.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857386697</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Charles FrazierJennifer Saint|title=NightwoodsAtalanta|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=If you have read Charles Frazier's 'Cold Mountain'I was as worthy as any one of them. I would get on board that ship, or indeed seen the film, then you'll have a fair idea what to expect from his latest offering - 'Nightwoods'I vowed. As with 'Cold Mountain'I would take my place, not just in the landscape name of the Appalachians is the dominant character, this time set in the 1950sgoddess. He even manages to get his requisite bear into It was for the story although thankfully it fares rather better than the unfortunate beast in his first book. The darksake of my name, oppressing majesty and beauty of the mountains and woods pervades the whole storytoo.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444731246</amazonuk>}}Atalanta''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=A PortsmouthAmanthi Harris|title=The Beautiful Torment of a DreamPlace|rating=35
|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 enigmatic front cover and equally enigmatic titleplace she spent her formative years. After reading It is not a place she was born into, but the blurb on one she thinks of as home. How she came to be at the back cover I was left with a feeling of wishy-washiness howeverVilla, how it became her home, as regards and the machinations that have flowed through her life ever since she first arrived there provide the storyline''score'' for this gentle and yet subtly violent novel. Unfortunately Padma's present fails to escape her past and much like the musical score of a film, that strand weaves its way through everything that happens at the contents confirmed this for meVilla.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0956493602</amazonuk>1784631930
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kevin Wilson178563335X|title=The Family Fang|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Annie Fang and her brother Buster are back living at home with their parents - where they never thought they'd ever be again. But it has come to this - her film actress career is on the rocks with the kind of self-destruction so much enjoyed by tabloid writers, and he - well, he's here because of a jumbo spud gun. Neither want life back at home, as throughout their childhood they were used by their parents - without much planning, without any consideration of feelings, or consent - in a whole career of performance art pieces, designed to enact a point of life or just cause havoc.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447202384</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewSea Defences|author=Philip Roth|title=Nemesis|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=1944, Newark, New Jersey. Summer. Hot. Bucky Cantor, a young Jewish man, is gym teacher and playground attendant-cum-sports instructor for the district, helping all those interested become fit young men, able to do what his eyesight prevents him from doing - serving in the forces. Things would be fine if his girlfriend were closer at hand, if it were cooler, and if there were no polio epidemic happening. But there is, and nobody knows what is causing it. Is it flies? Is it a gang of taunting Italian kids spreading it from neighbourhood to neighbourhood? Is it blacks, germs on money - is it in fact Cantor himself, draining all the youthful vigour from his charges under a blistering sun?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099542269</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tom Wolfe|title=A Man in FullHilary Taylor
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=IWhen we first meet Rachel Bird she'll hold my hands up right now s a trainee vicar, sitting in on a PCC meeting and say that no, I havenwondering why they't read Wolfe's much-acclaimed [[The Bonfire of re held when you need to pick the Vanities by Tom Wolfe|The Bonfire of the Vanities]]children up. I've heard a lot about itHer husband, Christopher, over the yearscollects six-year-old Hannah and her elder brother, in newspapers etc that I almost feel that I ''have'' read itJamie, mind youwhilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioner. So IThelma'm really pleased to have the chance to read this muchs daughter-in-awaited novellaw won't let her see her grandson. At Holthorpe, on the Norfolk coast, is a stonking 700+ pages most of which are packed tight lovely place, but Rachel is struggling to develop a real bond with Wolfethe parish - and she's particular style in awe of prosethe vicar, ItGail, but then she's been doing the job for more than thirty years. Rachel and Christopher hoped that a veritable feast for readerswalk 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>0099554771</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=J M Coetzee1398515388|title=Scenes From Provincial LifeThe Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary='Scenes from Provincial Life' is a compilation First of JM Coetzee's three fictionalised memoirs: 'Boyhood' first published all, it was the earthquake, deep in 1997the ocean floor, 'Youth' published in 2002 which created the tsunami and [[Summertime by J M Coetzee|Summertime]] published this, in 2009turn, caused the nuclear meltdown. In one sense they clearly belong together in this single edition The result was complete and yet they utter devastation. The deaths were initially published separatelyuncountable, and the loss of livelihoods was widespread. What strikes The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the reader list of this compilation is priorities but - six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. He wasn't a dog person but the change in style convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and focus of Tamon the third book dog jumped in the series.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846554853</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Henning Mankell0989715337|title=DanielPapa on the Moon|author=Marco North
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=A young Hans Bengler has decided to leave his homeland of Sweden and make an expedition across the inhospitable Kalahari Desert. Brave - or extremely foolish. I'm sticking with 'Some frogs had gotten into the latter. My reasons are that Bengler is portrayed by Mankell as a rather dull, insular and unimaginative young man. He doesn't really get along with his family (such as they are) nor does he seem to have many friendswell. It's also plain that he's desperate to leave his cold Sweden for warmer climes. But at what cost?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009948143X</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Barry UnsworthDaisy Hildyard|title=The Quality of MercyEmergency
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary='The Quality summary of Mercy' picks up the story of the author's Booker Prize-winning 'Sacred Hunger' although if you haven't read the first this book, you wondoesn't be greatly disadvantaged as the relevant story lines are explained. What you might miss out on come close to explaining what is some of the feeling for a few of the main characters, most notably the Irish fiddler, Sullivan who, when this book picks up in spring 1767, has just escaped from prison where the remaining shipmates of the slave ship, the 'Liverpool Merchant' await their trial of piracy. Slavery and abolition thereof remains a central theme of this sequel, but the book draws some poignant similarities done with those in bondage due to poverty, and particularly those working in the coal mines of County Durhampremise.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091937124</amazonuk>1913097811}}
{{newreviewFrontpage |author=Zadie SmithSally Oliver |title=White TeethThe 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 the 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=Some books sneak up Early comments on youthis debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendous, a delight. Others are thrown at you from every corner of I will agree with the media to first – tremendous is no understatement – but 'a delight' is perhaps using the extent that you almost make expression in a conscious decision NOT to read them, or at least, way I'm not yetfamiliar with. Let I have to confess my ignorance of the furore die downSpanish-language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation here. If they're still around From the little I have read (in a few yearstranslation, your subconscious whispers, maybe weI don'll go see what all t read Spanish) there does seem to be a tendency towards the fantastical – the fuss was aboutmystical realism. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0241954576</amazonuk>0861541901
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael OndaatjeJennifer Saint|title=The Cat's TableElektra|rating=54
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=For 'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the story of three women who live in the first half or so heavily male dominated world of this bookAncient Greece. Cassandra, which sees an 11 year old boy called Michael (or Mynah to his friends) leave his home of Ceylon to travel to school in EnglandClytemnestra, I wasn't really sure if it even had a plot. Focusing on his journey and Elektra are all bit players in the 1950's aboard story of the ship to England, although occasionally leaping forward to his later life where he gives Trojan War. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us tantalising glimpses as to what happened to his fellow passengers after the voyage, this originally seems to be nothing more than a series of incredibly well-drawn character sketches. In fairness, I should say that ''nothing more'' is rather harsh in this case – often the men, silent women and children Ondaatje creates, from a supposedly cursed rich man seeking a cure, to a friendly thief, to Michael's beautiful cousin Emily, are so beautifully conjured that I could have lived without a plot perfectly happily. However, we eventually realise there's a little more to this narrative, the most compelling stories and that this skilful author has been foreshadowing the events at the novel's climax all alongmost extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0224093614</amazonuk>1472273915
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Patrick McGuinness8409290103|title=The Last Hundred DaysIf Only|author=Matthew Tree
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary='The Last Hundred Days' in question here are Twenty-one-year-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by his father, cotton-broker AO Lowry: he asked his accountant, Mr Patrick, to ensure that the final days of Ceausescu's Romania in late 1989. Narrated by an unnamed young British expat who has man got on board the boat and thereafter Patrick was to send him a job offer from monthly allowance. Patrick sent the English department money regularly and a correspondence - of Bucharest University, despite never having interviewed for sorts - sprang up between the job, two although we get an insight into the life under communist rule as Eastern bloc countries all around start hear more about what Lowry has to open up after the fall of the Berlin Wallsay than Patrick. We are told It wasn't that McGuinness lived Lowry senior didn't care for his son, it was that he didn't care to have him in Romania in the years leading up this country where he might be a danger to his wife and other children. The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to get the revolution, and this is no surprise as there is an authenticity here that could only have come from some level of inside knowledgeyoung man on his way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1854115413</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Antoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane RogersAitken (translator)|title=The Testament of Jessie LambRed is My Heart
|rating=3.5
|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=The subject matter of 'The Testament of Jessie Lamb' ensures that this is not a comfortable [[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white and readin my house. Set in the near futureAnd so was this one, Rogers has imagined a truly terrifying virus although I could have spelled that affects pregnant women, known as Maternal Death Syndrome or MDS. Everyone carries more accurately – this illness but the effectsone was, a cross between AIDS and CJDis, ensure that all pregnant mothers will die - without exceptionblack and white and red. Scientists have found a way to save some of the unborn childrenYes, he has an artistic collaborator on this piece, but only by placing their mothers in a chemically induced coma from which they wonand I think it't recover. Now though, s possible to say not one page lacks the scientists have also discovered a way influence of immunising frozen, pre-MDS embryos which, if they can be placed in a willing volunteer, may ultimately allow the survival of the human race. However, the volunteers need to be under 16½ or the likely success rates are too low. Step forward one Jessie Lambsome striking visual ideas.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1905207581</amazonuk>1913547183
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sebastian BarryB098FFFBH9|title=On Canaan's SideSnowcub|author=Graham Fulbright|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Each chapter of 'On CannanFourteen-year-old Rachel is her school's Side' represents animal rights project leader and she and her friend are producing a day after competition entry to highlight the death of way in which human beings exploit the narrator, Lilly Bere's, grandson, Billanimal world. Initially the reader is bombarded by She gets a stream great deal of half thoughts but soon Lilly begins to outline support from her own life story from being the daughter of family: father Pip Harrison, a police officer in Ireland lecturer at the end of the First World WarImperial College, London, mother Kate and her subsequent flight to twin, Nick. Kate runs the USAfamily business, to ultimately living a toy shop called Cornucopia in retirement as a domestic cook to a wealthy American. ItPutney, which is where we'll meet Rachel's a remarkable story, full main (if unsuspected) source of tragic events, but for all its hardships, Lilly is from a time when such things are to be endured rather than dwelt oninformation: five soft toys.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571226531</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chuck PalahniukYancey Williams|title=Damned|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary='Are you there, Satan? It's me, Madison'. I'm a spunky, lively tweenage girl, except I'm a dead one, and I'm in Hell, to my surprise. While I'm here I'll find out just where it is all those cold-calling telegraphers ring you from just while you're settling down to your evening meal, and where the world's wasted sperm and discarded toenail clippings fetch up. I'll have very hairy encounters with demons Crosshairs of Satan's and mankind's making, and with some superlative plotting and flashbacks I'll find a clearer approach to why I was put here in the first place.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224091158</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Alison Pick|title=Far to GoDevil
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=At the risk 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 sounding trite, a story set view - in 1938 Czechoslovakia on room 315 of the eve Garden of Nazi occupationEden nursing home, centred on with only a Jewish family trusty nursing aide, Jenkins, for palatable company. Nothing is always going to put the reader keep Eddie from his stock-in-trade of writing though, so here, for his readers, are his wanderings through an emotional journey. Add in a young child and ithis life's almost certain that you are going to be reaching for the Kleenex at some point. But Alison Pick makes some interesting creative choices that add more layers to this story. Some will surprise the reader but the overall impact is a wonderfully moving story with wholly believable characterswork.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755379411</amazonuk>0986031658}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Madeline Miller0008421714|title=The Song of AchillesMrs March|author=Virginia Feito
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Before I started The problem began just after the book, I looked out my copy publication of HomerGeorge March's ''The Iliad'' and skim-read its one page introduction most successful novel to date. Everyone but Mrs March (yes, yet another book in my 'must-read' pile but it's been we know her first name only on the last page) seemed to either be reading it for about ahem, ten years)or had already done so. Having said Every day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to buy olive bread but on thatparticular morning, Patricia asked, as she was wrapping the bread, it is rather dry and scholarly which didn''but isn't really inspire me to get on with this book as I wasnthe first time he't really looking for s based a character on you?'heavy' read She mentioned that Johanna, especially on a nice summerthe principal character had 'her mannerisms''s day. Onwards Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for the fact that Johanna is the whore of Nantes - ''a weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408816032</amazonuk>''
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