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[[Category:New Reviews|Literary Fiction]]==Literary fiction==__NOTOC__ {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Shirley JacksonEowyn Ivey|title=We Have Always Lived In The CastleBlack Woods Blue Sky|rating=43.5
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|summary=Mary Katherine Blackwood''Black Woods Blue Sky'' tells the story of Birdie, also known as Merricatthe young mother of toddler Emaleen, is eighteen, and lives with her older sister Constance in who longs for a life beyond the family home Alaskan lodge where 'Blackwoods had always lived'. Merricat quickly draws the reader into her world by she works as a bar waitress, a series of matter of fact but bizarre statements – her likes include setting which enables her sister and death cap mushrooms, bad habits and everyone else in her family is deadaccidental neglect of Emaleen. The wealthy Blackwood family has always kept the house Described as a ''wild card'steady against the world', shutting out other peopleshe feels stuck in her day-to-day life, and they yearns to cross the Wolverine river and live near on the North Fork to fulfil her desires of a villagesimple life surrounded by nature. Merricat believes that 'The people of the village have always hated us'When she meets Arthur Nielson, a strange, taciturn and tells us that solitary man, who says he has a cabin over there, she hates them toofeels called to go - and bring Emaleen with her. Without realising it, this calling will transform hers and Emaleen's lives forever.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141191457</amazonuk>1472279042
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Deborah GregorySally Rooney|title=Dancing With The DeadIntermezzo|rating=34.5|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=I wanted to read ''Dancing with the Dead'', because I'm interested in family history. The blurb on Sally Rooney has studied the back chessboard of the book also mentioned Gill – our heroine life and is something of the piece – was moving from Bristol (my current home) to Lincolnshire (where I was born and brought up). I felt with all these links, the novel could not fail to interest me – but this was not the case.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904529305</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Elizabeth Baines|title=Too Many Magpies|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Becoming a mother brings a whole new world of fear grandmaster at putting it into your life. Suddenly you see the danger in every situation, and fear and trepidation can be become your constant companionswords. In this novella, we meet a young mother who Her dialogue is married to a logical scientist. They attempt to control their children's futures on a scientific basis, growing their own fruit gripping and vegetables, giving their children nothing sugaryso brilliantly frustrating, eating no eggs for a whole year until any adverse affects from them were disproved. But after meeting with an enigmatic stranger our young mother begins to struggle as he introduces ideas of freedom into her worldcharacters never quite say exactly what they feel. She begins an affair with him, begins to let things slip at home and with Among the childrenmany relationships woven into this story, yet finds she is still continuously haunted by the sense of an ever-present danger.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1844717216</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Katherine May|title=Burning Out|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Violet has it all – a well-paid job, and a luxurious apartment all central one for readers to herself. Everything unravel is catered for; her meals, her clothes, the fraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and her health are all how she would like them to be. But the life she is leading is beginning to take its tollPeter Koubek. On the verge of snappingIvan, a drained and somewhat out-of-sorts Violetsocially awkward chess prodigy, withdraws back to her home town. There, she meets someone familiarcontrasts sharply with his older brother Peter, a ghost reminding her of how she used to be ten years earlier – a young carefree girl, full of lifesuccessful lawyer living in Dublin. Only this isnFollowing their father't s passing after a ghostlong battle with cancer, but a girl living the life Violet once lived – exactly the same. Haunted by the past Violet realizes history is repeating itself and is convinced events will happen again. Events that will in turn haunt the girlbrothers' already strained relationship faces new trials.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1906727392</amazonuk>0571365469
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tove JanssonFyodor Dostoyevsky|title=The True DeceiverWhite Nights
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|genre=Literary FictionShort Stories|summary=Most people of my age will have come across Jansson's work unwittinglyAs always in Dostoyevsky, via the televised renditions of the Moomin talescharacter work is sublime. The readers amongst us would then have been entranced One is never left wondering what a few years ago to discover that at last Thomas Teal had set about the translation into English, first of The Summer Book character is thinking or feeling because Dostoyevsky lays bare their innermost dispositions and then of a collection of short stories which were published as 'A Winter Book'temperaments with remarkable clarity. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0954899571</amazonuk>0241619785
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Daniel Kehlmann James Baldwin|title=Me and KaminskiGiovanni's Room
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|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=After reviewing several long books, it''Giovanni's been refreshing to read such a fluent yet pared down story as Room'Kaminski and Me'. In itfollows the narrator David, Sebastian Zollneran American man living in Paris, the obnoxious main characteras he navigates his torturous affair with Giovanni, shoves himself forward an Italian bartender he meets in a desperate attempt gay bar. While David is engaged to research a best seller which will re-ignite his career as an art critic. KaminskiHella, who is travelling in Spain, the proposed subject, was a fashionable painter long ago, real tension in the novel arises not from his infidelity but now, ancient and chronically ill, has virtually slid into oblivionfrom the deeper conflict within himself. So the second-rate writer It is on a loser unless he can dig up some juicy details to hook the art world David's crippling shame and general publicdenial of his sexuality that ultimately dooms his relationship with Giovanni.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847249892</amazonuk>0141186356
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Hilary DixonAlba de Cespedes |title=When Rooks Speak of LoveForbidden Notebook
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Arthur Transcombe is a middle-agedThis Italian work of feminist fiction holds an air of suspense and tension from the moment our protagonist, grey-haired, self-effacing poet. Unremarkable really - on the outside. He hasValeria Cossati, howeverpurchases her forbidden notebook, managed to achieve some success with his poems. (Being a guest speaker at and learns about herself in the Cheltenham Literary Festival is no mean feat)most intimate and revealing ways. He is also a babe magnet!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1904529429</amazonuk>1782278222
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David Malouf Ottessa Moshfegh|title=RansomMy Year of Rest and Relaxation|rating=53
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|summary=Taking his theme from At best, this novel is a small part scathing critique of Homer's Iliad, Malouf tells modern society and reveals the story fragility of human relationships; at worst, it is the king of Troycynical, Priam's grief-stricken voyage into the Greek camp to ransom Troy's wealth for the body predictable and slightly trite tale of his fallen sonan unlikeable protagonist. This unlikely heroine, Hectora slim, killed by the equally grief-stricken Achilles whose great friend Hector had killed attractive and newly orphaned girl in battle before Achilles took his cruel revenge. Malouf tells her twenties is disillusioned with the story world, but resolves not to lose sleep over it: in sparsefact, yet lyrical and poetic fashion suggesting the personal stories behind the epic themes that Homer related. It is an exquisitely written piece managing to be both deeply moving as well as a great piece of story tellingher solution lies in her hibernation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0701184159</amazonuk>1784707422
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David Vann Matthew Tree|title=Legend of a SuicideWe'll Never Know
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Some books defy categorisation Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a drunk and that's the case with ''Legend chronic underachiever whose dreams of a Suicide''. Is it Literary Fiction? Is it a series being exceptional at any of short stories linked by a common theme, or a novella with supporting pieces? Is it fiction with a strong autobiographical thread running through it? The simple answer to all these questions is ''yes'' – for the book is his artistic passions all that failed miserably and morewho had endless crises of self confidence. It's also a compelling page-turner – I began reading at ten o'clock last night So Tim applied himself to his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and finished it at three thirty this morning, resenting every moment away from the bookset himself high but achievable ambitions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141043784</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=Andrew Miller Mosby Woods|title=One Morning Like A BirdWhirly Man Loses His Turn
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Tokyo The West isn't the dominant force it once was. Nobody in 1940 the West is a place that we British tend not quite sure how to give a great deal mend this or even if mending it is the best course of thought toaction. Governments are flailing. Japan entered the A warhere, we saya push for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is in actual charge. Imagine then, there was a man with precognition. Imagine the attack on Pearl Harbour strategic advantage in December 1941this asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. That man would be valuable, completely forgetting that Japan, like right? Perhaps the most of the rest of the worldvaluable asset in history. Imagine then, was already a country at war. She had been fighting in China since 1937 and was making in-roads into European colonial territory in the area as wellthat this man loses this ability.What would governments do to get it back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340825154</amazonuk>B0C9SNG8R1
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sadie Jones 0571379559|title=Small Wars|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction |summary=Even though our world is ostensibly at peace, hundreds The House of localized, unwinnable conflicts continue to grumble on. Mostly, we only hear and care about the ones involving 'our boys', as if war was some giant game of football. But it isn't, and ''Small Wars'' reflects on the casualties of war in a story set in Cyprus in the Two-Way Family Favourites era of the nineteen-fifties. It may turn out to be an important book as the public mood turns against the 'war on terror' in Afghanistan. It's certainly a prescient one.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701184558</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewBroken Bricks|author=Evelyn Waugh|title=A Handful of DustFiona Williams
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=A complex class society which evolved into a highly sophisticated culture ''The House of Broken Bricks'' is invariably a fertile ground for development the 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 riverbank, built of broken bricks. Insubstantial as it might look, it's stood the passage of social satiretime, storms and floods. Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the delivery rounds - and British literature would have been hugely depleted if all novels that can be regarded as such were suddenly to disappearbring in sufficient money. Evelyn Waugh made They have twin boys - Sonny and Max, the genre rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his own, and mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. People don'A Handful of Dustt believe that they're related, much less twins and there' s an assumption when Max is a sublime example of out with his mother that she's his mastery of itnanny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141183969</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=Bryony Doran Kay Chronister|title=The China BirdDesert Creatures|rating=4|genre=Literary Dystopian Fiction|summary=Edward With a world that is a sad and solitary figure. Late middle-agedbecoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, twistedpost-spined and hump-backedapocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Whether it is a robotic takeover, a loner who works in the archive basement world devoid of the librarywater or a nuclear holocaust, lodges with Mrs Ingrams who makes his tea and ruins his laundry, and hoards letters from his motherthis genre is a way for humans to cathartically experience their most existential fears. Like many an unmarried man with an aging, widowed mother, Edward finds his relationship with her somewhat strained. Unlike ''Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is a new work of post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of those men, his relationship was always the fears that wayexist for humanity today. She It is rude and demanding, and he either doesn't have the strength or the inclination a shocking novel that still manages to force the issue with her. Apart from an occasion half-hearted reprimand, he stands back, ignores, makes excusesfind hope.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>095556302X</amazonuk>1803364998
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{{newreviewfrontpage|isbn=1803363002|author=Jude Morgan Eric LaRocca|title=The Taste of SorrowTrees Grew Because I Bled There|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionHorror|summary=The children were born in ThorntonHorror 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'', whether that is a suburb of Bradfordhome invader, and compared with where they were to go it was a soft living. Howarth was high up on the Yorkshire Moorsmonster or a ghost, industrialised it usually something tangible and with weather which chilled to , by the end of the bonestory, beatable. Eric LaRocca's ''The parsonage was four-square but draughty and Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is not exactly welcominglike that. They, It is a collection of short stories more interested in the horrors of courseillness, were the Brontë familygrief and humiliation. The father was the impoverished curate Horrors that linger and his six children had somehow are harder to be cared for after his wifedefeat than any ''Big Bad''s death from cancer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755338898</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Agnes Owens Madelaine Lucas|title=The Complete NovellasThirst for Salt
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Who is Agnes Owens? A Scottish author who portrays working class life from the nineteen forties and fifties. Now an octogenarian''Love, apparently Agnes Owens started writing at the age of 58. Here are five previously published stories collected into one new editionI'd read, was supposed to be a companion volume to her short storieslight and weightless feeling, published in 2008. but I donhad always longed for gravity't think you'll be disappointed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846971373</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=James LeverMichael Grothaus|title=Me CheetaBeautiful Shining People
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Straight out of the golden age of Hollywood comes the bitchiest, ''But fearing something and having it come to pass are two different things. And I'm willing to bet most revealing memoir from one of its stars. There are scores to be settledwhat we fear will never happen, stars or we can take steps to be insulted, secrets to be hinted at none too subtley, and lost opportunities to be longed forchange it. 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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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Hilary MantelJennifer Saint|title=Wolf HallAtalanta
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=A revisionist look at Henry VIII's minister'I was as worthy as any one of them. I would get on board that ship, Thomas CromwellI vowed. RichI would take my place, absorbing and intelligentnot just in the name of the goddess. It was for the sake of my name, ittoo. Atalanta''s a beautiful, beautiful book. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007230184</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Shandi Mitchell Amanthi Harris|title=Under This Unbroken SkyBeautiful Place
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=A photograph opens the story. A black and white picture of Padma, a familyyoung Sri Lankan, husband, wife and their three children, smiling for has returned to the camera. Thin, underfed, in their summer clothes despite Villa Hibiscus on the four inches southern coast of snow, they smileher home country. Partly they smile because they do not know what This is to come. A page and five a place she spent her formative years later we catch up with the Mykolayenkos. In It is not a place she was born into, but the Spring one she thinks of 1938 Ivan and his cousin are catching mice in as home. How she came to be at the barn Villa, how it became her home, and taking bets on which of the farm cats will pounce on machinations that have flowed through her life ever since she first arrived there provide the individually released rodents first''score'' for this gentle and yet subtly violent novel. The game is interrupted by a man with a loaded .22 rifle. It takes Padma's present fails to escape her past and much like the musical score of a while for it to sink infilm, that this is Ivan's father, Teodor, free after a prison sentence for stealing his own grainstrand weaves its way through everything that happens at the Villa.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0297856588</amazonuk>1784631930
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Roddy Doyle178563335X|title=Paddy Clarke Ha Ha HaSea Defences|author=Hilary Taylor
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=IWhen we first meet Rachel Bird she'm kind of s a reverse literary snobtrainee vicar, sitting in that I tend to avoid books that win awards. I've found that such books are often very well written, but on a PCC meeting and wondering why they're not always good readingheld when you need to pick the children up. As shameful as it is to admitHer husband, Christopher, collects six-year-old Hannah and her elder brother, Jamie, I would much rather read for story as for fancy wordswhilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioner. Clearly IThelma'm not alones daughter-in-law won't let her see her grandson. Holthorpe, on the Norfolk coast, as in 1993is a lovely place, but Rachel is struggling to develop a real bond with the year Roddy Doyleparish - and she's ''Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha'' won in awe of the Booker Prizevicar, Gail, but then she's been doing the bestseller lists contained [[:Category:John Grisham|John Grisham]], Sue Townsend job for more than thirty years. Rachel and Jeffrey ArcherChristopher hoped that a 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>0099535084</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah Waters 1398515388|title=The Little StrangerBoy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating=4.5|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=When First of all, it was the last time you couldn't put a Booker nominated novel down? earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and this, in turn, caused the nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and utter devastation. Sarah WatersThe deaths were uncountable, author and the loss of acclaimed novels ''Fingersmith'' and ''livelihoods was widespread. The Night Watchfact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of priorities but - six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. He wasn't a dog person but the convenience store owner' has written a chilling psychological ghost story s comment that kept me guessing until he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and Tamon the very last pagedog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1844086011</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=James Kelman 0989715337|title=How Late It Was, How LatePapa on the Moon|author=Marco North|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 Some frogs had with Helen, his girlfriend. Now he has been arrested, beaten up by gotten into the police, and released back onto the street againwell. 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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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Emily Bronte Daisy Hildyard|title=Wuthering HeightsEmergency|rating=54
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|summary=In 1801 Lockwood, one The summary of our narrators, arrived at Wuthering Heights on the Yorkshire moors. He was renting nearby Thrushcross Grange from the rude and surly Heathcliff, but when one of Heathcliffthis book doesn's dogs attacked him and the weather turned against him he was forced to stay overnight. In his room he found a diary written by a young girl by the name of Catherine Earnshaw, who was t come close to Heathcliff as a child and it was this which caused Lockwood to have a terrifying dream in which Catherine's ghost fought to get into the room through the window. His screams of fear brought Heathcliff to the room and when Lockwood told him explaining what he had seen Heathcliff asked him to leave is done with the room and then sobbed as be begged Cathy to come in. Lockwood persuades the housekeeper, Nelly Dean (our other narrator), to tell him the story behind what has happenedpremise.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>009953052X</amazonuk>1913097811}}
{{newreviewFrontpage |author=Roberto Bolano Sally Oliver |title=AmuletThe 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=The Early comments on this debut novel is set in the late 1960sfrom Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendous, a time of political unrest and tension in Mexicodelight. The narrator and protagonist seek refuge when I will agree with the army invades first – tremendous is no understatement – but 'a delight' is perhaps using the university. Ensconced expression in a fourth floor wway I'm not familiar with.c., she commences I have to recollect her earlier life and experiences amongst the literati confess my ignorance of Mexico, and the world of academiaSpanish-language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation here. She frequently refers to herself as '' From the mother of Mexican poetrylittle I have read (in translation, I don'', and this is indeed an apt, if somewhat generous, description, as she t read Spanish) there does emerge as seem to be a maternal figure. She is an engaging character, tolerated, rather than liked by her acquaintances, and it's her very lack of sophistication which makes her such a real and believable narrator. Poetry is her main love in life - she lives and breathes it, and all else fades into insignificance for hertendency towards the fantastical – the mystical realism.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0330511831</amazonuk>0861541901
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jonathan Tulloch Jennifer Saint|title=A Winding RoadElektra
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary='Elektra'A Winding Road'' is an unusual novel comprised by Jennifer Saint tells the story of three separate (though structurally interspersed) narratives. The main one, which is set women who live in the present and binds the other two together, follows the sordid escapades heavily male dominated world of one Piers Guest, art dealer, or, as he prefers, art advisorAncient Greece. Piers swans about London meeting clientsCassandra, having affairs and generally doing just whatever he pleases with little thought for the consequences. The second narrative is (mostly) set in Nazi Germany and its main concern is a folkloristClytemnestra, Ernst Mann, and how he is viewed by his family after he joins the SS. His actions and motivations Elektra are questioned and obsessed about. The third narrative, set all bit players in Auvers-Sur-Oise in 1890, is a fictional account the story of the last days of Van Gogh's life, when he painted some of his most famous work. It features DrTrojan War. Gachet who famously treated Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the artist plus some of Dr. Gachet's other patients of Tulloch's own invention. Piers is alerted to silent women have the existence of a lost painting by Van Gogh which has been discovered in most compelling stories and the archives of Ernst Mannmost extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0224071149</amazonuk>1472273915
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Colum McCann 8409290103|title=Let The Great World SpinIf Only|author=Matthew Tree|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=This was Twenty-one of those books where-year-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by his father, after I closed itcotton-broker AO Lowry: he asked his accountant, I sat very quietlyMr Patrick, just breathing out to ensure that the young man got on board the boat and breathing in, holding onto the last moments of thereafter Patrick was to send him a good storymonthly allowance. Although it was Patrick sent the money regularly and a little slow to start, I found myself more and more caught correspondence - of sorts - sprang up in between the characterstwo although we hear more about what Lowry has to say than Patrick. It wasn't that Lowry senior didn' livest care for his son, how they were all so cleverly interlinked, woven together. The core of the story takes place on the 7th of August, 1974, the day it was that Philippe Petit walked on he didn't care to have him in this country where he might be a high wire between the twin towers of the World Trade Centre in New York, danger to his wife and we begin with his high wire walkother children. Petit is never directly named, and although there are flashes back The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to his training for get the event, and his feelings and experience at the time, young man on his is not the focus of the story, but merely the hook upon which all the other characters hang togetherway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747597227</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=A S ByattB098FFFBH9|title=PossessionSnowcub|author=Graham Fulbright
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=A S Byatt won Fourteen-year-old Rachel is her school's animal rights project leader and she and her friend are producing a competition entry to highlight the Booker Prize for Possession way in 1990 and this new edition of which human beings exploit the novel is part animal world. She gets a great deal of support from her family: father Pip Harrison, a celebration of Booker winners produced by Vintage Bookslecturer at Imperial College, London, mother Kate and her twin, Nick. Presumably Kate runs the family business, a toy shop called Cornucopia in an attempt to make these literary prize-winners more accessiblePutney, Vintage has published the series in mass market format. This edition which is where we'll meet Rachel's main (if unsuspected) source of Possession is therefore similar in size and appearance to an airport lounge blockbuster. More on that laterinformation: five soft toys.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099535157</amazonuk>
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