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[[Category:New Reviews|Literary Fiction]]==Literary fiction==__NOTOC__{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tom WolfeEowyn Ivey|title=The Bonfire of the VanitiesBlack Woods Blue Sky|rating=3.5
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|summary=In his own mind''Black Woods Blue Sky'' tells the story of Birdie, bond trader Sherman McCoy is the young mother of toddler Emaleen, who longs for a 'Master of life beyond the Universe'. He has Alaskan lodge where she works as a pleasant wifebar waitress, a beautiful mistress, setting which enables her bad habits and a sweet six year old daughterher accidental neglect of Emaleen. Henry Lamb is Described as a black student from the projects. Under normal circumstances, it's clear that McCoy's world and Lambwild card''s world would never overlap. But when McCoy , she feels stuck in her day-to-day life, and his mistress Maria Ruskin end up lost in yearns to cross the Bronx, Wolverine river and an accident leads live on the North Fork to Lamb being hit fulfil her desires of a simple life surrounded by McCoy's Mercedesnature. When she meets Arthur Nielson, a strange, taciturn and solitary man, who says he has a chain of events start which cabin over there, she feels called to go - and bring Emaleen with her. Without realising it, this calling will lead to his downfalltransform hers and Emaleen's lives forever.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099548798</amazonuk>1472279042
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate Cole-AdamsSally Rooney|title=Walking to the MoonIntermezzo|rating=4.5|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=We meet Sally Rooney has studied the main character Jessicachessboard of life and is something of a grandmaster at putting it into words. Her dialogue is gripping and so brilliantly frustrating, or Jess as she is usually calledher characters never quite say exactly what they feel. Among the many relationships woven into this story, deep in an emotional black hole. She can see no light at the end of central one for readers to unravel is the tunnelfraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and Peter Koubek. And right from the startIvan, a socially awkward chess prodigy, right from page onecontrasts sharply with his older brother Peter, we have a sense of the beautiful and poetic language of Cole-Adamssuccessful lawyer living in Dublin. Following their father'Time and I have s passing after a long battle with cancer, the brothers' already strained relationship faces 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 onetrials. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849161348</amazonuk>0571365469
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ru FreemanFyodor Dostoyevsky|title=A Disobedient GirlWhite Nights
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|genre=General FictionShort Stories|summary=''A Disobedient Girl'' follows two women struggling to retain control of their lives in the face of servitude. Latha is a servant girl to the affluent Vithanage family, whose daughter, Thara, is Latha's age. As children, the girls are the best of friends, but they are destined to be separated by class, which is made painfully obvious when boys come into the picture. Meanwhile, Biso serves a cruel and drunken husband who beats her and terrorises her children, one of whom is another man's love child. Biso's husband murdered her lover always in a hateful rage when he uncovered her affair and she realises that she must escape his house if she and her children are to live. Latha too seeks escapeDostoyevsky, but she finds it in the arms of Thara's boyfriend and this sets off a chain of events that will echo far into her future.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670917958</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Simon Robson|title=Catch|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Catharine's husband Tom character work is away on business in Birmingham, and so Catharine awakes alone for the first time in their little cottage at the end of their lane. They moved there a few months previously, and since then Catharine has spent her days quietly awaiting her husband's return from worksublime. She One is sure that she will figure out, some day, never left wondering what her purpose in life a character is. She thought it might be to have a baby, but they have been trying for some time and it hasn't happened as yet. Meanwhile she waits, and thinks, and waits. In the lounge stands her piano, a stark reminder of the life she didn't manage to realise thinking or feeling because although she studied music she found, quite quickly, that in spite of being passionate she lacked any kind of talent for it whatsoever. So, on this day, alone at home, Catharine finds herself tormented by the piano's presence Dostoyevsky lays bare their innermost dispositions and over-thinking every second of the day. She worries away at who she is, and what her life is, as her loneliness and the day itself unravel around hertemperaments with remarkable clarity.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0224090232</amazonuk>0241619785
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joe MenoJames Baldwin|title=The Great PerhapsGiovanni's Room
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|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Jonathan Casper faints when ''Giovanni's Room'' follows the narrator David, an American man living in Paris, as he navigates his torturous affair with Giovanni, an Italian bartender he sees cloudsmeets in a gay bar. His wife Madeline worries about everythingWhile David is engaged to Hella, who is travelling in Spain, the real tension in the novel arises not least from his infidelity but from the way the pigeons that she is studying are murdering each otherdeeper conflict within himself. Their seventeen year old daughter Amelia wants to overthrow the evil empire of capitalism and It is making her own bomb, while fourteen year old Thisbe is looking for God and praying to him. JonathanDavid's father, seventy six year old Henry, is planning his disappearance. Jonathan crippling shame and Madeline may be on the verge denial of splitting up, to the dismay of both daughtershis sexuality that ultimately dooms his relationship with Giovanni.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0330512471</amazonuk>0141186356
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elizabeth KostovaAlba de Cespedes |title=The Swan ThievesForbidden Notebook|rating=24
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|summary=1999 – A renowned painter, Robert Oliver, goes mad, attacking a painting with a knife. He's arrested, and sent to a psychiatrist who is also This Italian work of feminist fiction holds an artist. The psychiatrist, Andrew Marlowe, can't get his patient to talk to him, but tries to investigate what drove him to this by talking to his wife and his girlfriend, air of suspense and reading some letters Oliver seems obsessed with. 1879 – Beatrice de Clervaltension from the moment our protagonist, aspiring artistValeria Cossati, corresponds with purchases her uncle-by-marriage Olivier Vignot, a more experienced painter. Their letters will be found by Robert Oliver, 120 years laterforbidden notebook, and will lead to his loss of sanitylearns about herself in the most intimate and revealing ways.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847442404</amazonuk>1782278222
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Atiq RahimiOttessa Moshfegh|title=The Patience StoneMy Year of Rest and Relaxation|rating=53
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Set in AfghanistanAt best, ''The Patience Stone'' this novel is a partly allegorical tale scathing critique of a Muslim wife tending to her comatose soldier husband who has been shot in modern society and reveals the neck. As she cares for himfragility of human relationships; at worst, for it is the first time ever she is able to speak to him without fear cynical, predictable and slightly trite tale of censorship an unlikeable protagonist. This unlikely heroine, a slim, attractive and he becomes, for newly orphaned girl in hertwenties is disillusioned with the world, like the mythical Patience Stone but resolves not to which you tell your troubles and when the stone finally burstslose sleep over it: in fact, you are free from your torments. But also this might mean the Apocalypseher solution lies in her hibernation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0701184167</amazonuk>1784707422
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joyce Carol OatesMatthew Tree|title=A Fair MaidenWe'll Never Know
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=I've recently read the terrific short story collection ''The Female Of The Species'' also by Oates and couldn't wait Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to start her latest book. I felt sure that I was in for be different from his father, a literary treat - drunk and I waschronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of self confidence. FirstlySo Tim applied himself to his studies, the book itself, a hardback with a beautifully nostalgic cover is a book lover's delightcultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847248586</amazonuk>B0CVFXPGP8
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dai Sijie B0C47LV1PC|title=Once on a Moonless NightFragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=3.54
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=A French female scholarCan you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, studying in Chinais the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, finds herself caught up in would it land? The catch is that the search answer for a lost, sacred text that was inscribed on an ancient scrollboth could well be... The scroll was torn in two by Emperor Puyi years ago, and was lost. After falling in love with a young grocer called Tumchooq the young woman becomes caught up in tales within tales, as she finds that Tumchooq's father found and translated half of the missing scroll and became obsessed with finding the other half, and soon Tumchooq too becomes embroiled in the searchno.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099521326</amazonuk>}}
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|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=It took me a while The West isn't the dominant force it once was. Nobody in the West is quite sure how to realise that Iain Banks mend this or even if mending it is, most the best course of allaction. Governments are flailing. A war here, a teller of tales - I would call him a story-teller had this term not became a compliment-cum-invective usually reserved push for the Jeffrey Archers and Dan Browns of the modern publishing worldclimate action there. A feeling that nobody is in actual charge. This ability to tell stories - not to plot as much as to weave Imagine then, there was a yarn - combines man with a penchant for creating appealing contexts for Banks' narratives to unfold precognition. Imagine the strategic advantage in (this gets magnificently realised in the world building asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of his [[:Category:Iain M Banks|Iain Mcircumstances. Banks]] alter-ego) and populating them with memorableThat man would be valuable, larger than life but usually short of caricatureright? Perhaps the most valuable asset in history. Imagine then, charactersthat this man loses this ability.What would governments do to get it back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349119287</amazonuk>B0C9SNG8R1
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mary McCarthy 0571379559|title=The GroupHouse of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary='Given the attention paid to relations between the sexes, it would be tempting to call 'The Group a forerunner House of todayBroken Bricks''s chick litis the story of four people. It Tess Hembry's not.' So writes Candace Bushnellroots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in the writer behind the TV series Sex and house on the Cityriverbank, in the introduction to this new Virago Modern Classics edition built of The Group by Mary McCarthybroken bricks. First published in 1963 Insubstantial as it might look, this novel is about it's stood the lives of a group passage of young women after leaving college in 1933time, including careersstorms and floods. Her husband, relationshipsRichard, sexstruggles to grow his vegetables, babiesto complete the delivery rounds - and to bring in sufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and Max, parentsthe 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 moneythere's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she's his nanny. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1844085937</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=Herta MullerKay Chronister|title=The PassportDesert Creatures|rating=34|genre=Literary Dystopian Fiction|summary=Meet WindischWith a world that is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, post-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. A miller in Whether it is a small villagerobotic takeover, he trudges through there, and through his neighbours, and through his life, counting his days and hoursa world devoid of water or a nuclear holocaust, this genre is a way for reasons that are not initially clearhumans to cathartically experience their most existential fears. But he does want something - he ''Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is waiting for a passport so he can leave for other climes. The perks new work of his job are the bags post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of flour he leaves by the mayor's house with regularity, as an open bribe, but there might be fears that exist for humanity today. It is a bigger sacrifice to have shocking novel that still manages to makefind hope.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1852421398</amazonuk>1803364998
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{{newreviewfrontpage|isbn=1803363002|author=Jennifer JohnstonEric LaRocca|title=Truth or FictionThe Trees Grew Because I Bled There|rating=45|genre=Literary FictionHorror|summary=Caroline Wallace Horror taps into something primeval within us. It is not used as a happy woman. She has waited ten years for her lover to propose way to her, reflect our darkest emotions and now just how we as he finally does, she has to go to Dublin to interview faded literary star Desmond Fitzmauricehumans react and process them. Desmond promises his tale will be brimful of Most horror fiction feature a ''Big Bad''sex , whether that is a home invader, a monster or a ghost, it usually something tangible and violence', but Caroline has no idea by the end of the mystery story, beatable. Eric LaRocca's ''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is not like that lies at . It is a collection of short stories more interested in the heart horrors of his storyillness, grief and humiliation. Horrors that linger and are harder to defeat than any ''Big Bad''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755330544</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Julian BarnesMadelaine Lucas|title=Staring at the SunThirst for Salt|rating=45
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Jean's first Incident involved Uncle Leslie'Love, hyacinths and golf tees. ItI's perhaps best forgottend read, but Jean doesn't forget. Uncle Leslie figures large in her life - mostly on the golf course - until the War comes and he runs away was supposed to America. He's replaced by Tommy Prosser, be a grounded pilot who once saw the sun rise twice in one day light and excites as many questions in Jean as he ever answers. Tommy is replaced by Michaelweightless feeling, a policeman, whom Jean eventually marries. He doesnbut I had always longed for gravity't know why minks are excessively tenacious of life and he doesn't much care. But Jean does. She cares much less for the Dutch cap that Michael sent her off to obtain before the wedding and much less again for their rather disastrous adventures in the bedroom. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099540096</amazonuk>}}
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{{Frontpage
|author= Michael Grothaus
|title=Beautiful Shining People
|rating=4
|genre= Literary Fiction
|summary= ''But fearing something and having it come to pass are two different things. And I'm willing to bet most of what we fear will never happen, or we can take steps to change it.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Shirley JacksonJennifer Saint|title=We Have Always Lived In The CastleAtalanta|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Mary Katherine Blackwood, also known ''I was as worthy as Merricatany one of them. I would get on board that ship, is eighteenI vowed. I would take my place, and lives with her older sister Constance not just in the family home where 'Blackwoods had always lived'name of the goddess. Merricat quickly draws It was for the reader into her world by a series of matter sake of fact but bizarre statements – her likes include her sister and death cap mushroomsmy name, and everyone else in her family is deadtoo. The wealthy Blackwood family has always kept the house 'steady against the worldAtalanta', shutting out other people, and they live near a village. Merricat believes that 'The people of the village have always hated us', and tells us that she hates them too.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141191457</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Katherine MayAmanthi Harris|title=Burning OutBeautiful Place|rating=45
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|summary=Violet has it all – a well-paid jobPadma, and a luxurious apartment all to herself. Everything is catered for; her mealsyoung Sri Lankan, her clothes, and her health are all how she would like them has returned to be. But the life she is leading is beginning to take its toll. On Villa Hibiscus on the verge southern coast of snapping, her home country. This is a drained and somewhat out-of-sorts Violet, withdraws back to place she spent her home townformative years. There It is not a place she was born into, but the one she meets someone familiar, a ghost reminding her thinks of how as home. How she used came to be ten years earlier – a young carefree girlat the Villa, full of life. Only this isn't a ghosthow it became her home, but a girl living and the machinations that have flowed through her life Violet once lived – exactly ever since she first arrived there provide the same''score'' for this gentle and yet subtly violent novel. Haunted by the Padma's present fails to escape her past Violet realizes history is repeating itself and is convinced events will happen again. Events much like the musical score of a film, that strand weaves its way through everything that will in turn haunt happens at the girlVilla.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1906727392</amazonuk>1784631930
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tove Jansson178563335X|title=The True DeceiverSea Defences|author=Hilary Taylor
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Most people of my age will have come across JanssonWhen we first meet Rachel Bird she's a trainee vicar, sitting in on a PCC meeting and wondering why they're held when you need to pick the children up. Her husband, Christopher, collects six-year-old Hannah and her elder brother, Jamie, whilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioner. Thelma's work unwittinglydaughter-in-law won't let her see her grandson. Holthorpe, via on the televised renditions Norfolk coast, is a lovely place, but Rachel is struggling to develop a real bond with the parish - and she's in awe of the Moomin tales. The readers amongst us would vicar, Gail, but then have she's been entranced a few doing the job for more than thirty years ago to discover . Rachel and Christopher hoped that at last Thomas Teal had set about a walk on the translation into English, first of The Summer Book and beach would do them some good - it was stormy but it was probably what they needed. And then of a collection of short stories which were published as 'A Winter Book'Hannah went missing. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0954899571</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Daniel Kehlmann 1398515388|title=Me The Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and KaminskiAlison Watts (translator)
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=After reviewing several long booksFirst of all, it's been refreshing to read such a fluent yet pared down story as 'Kaminski and Me'. In itwas the earthquake, Sebastian Zollnerdeep in the ocean floor, which created the obnoxious main charactertsunami and this, shoves himself forward in a desperate attempt to research a best seller which will re-ignite his career as an art critic. Kaminskiturn, caused the proposed subject, nuclear meltdown. The result was a fashionable painter long ago, but nowcomplete and utter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, ancient and chronically ill, has virtually slid into oblivionthe loss of livelihoods was widespread. So The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of priorities but - six months after the secondtsunami -rate writer is on Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a loser unless dog outside a convenience store. He wasn't a dog person but the convenience store owner's comment that he can dig up some juicy details would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to hook open his car door and Tamon the art world and general publicdog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847249892</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hilary Dixon0989715337|title=When Rooks Speak of LovePapa on the Moon|author=Marco North
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Arthur Transcombe is a middle-aged, grey-haired, self-effacing poet. Unremarkable really - on the outside. He has, however, managed to achieve some success with his poems. (Being a guest speaker at the Cheltenham Literary Festival is no mean feat). He is also a babe magnet!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904529429</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=David Malouf |title=Ransom|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Taking his theme from a small part of Homer's Iliad, Malouf tells the story of the king of Troy, Priam's grief-stricken voyage Some frogs had gotten into the Greek camp to ransom Troy's wealth for the body of his fallen son, Hector, killed by the equally grief-stricken Achilles whose great friend Hector had killed in battle before Achilles took his cruel revenge. Malouf tells the story in sparse, 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 telling.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701184159</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andrew Miller Daisy Hildyard|title=One Morning Like A BirdEmergency
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Tokyo in 1940 is a place that we British tend not to give a great deal The summary of thought this book doesn't come close to. Japan entered the war, we say, explaining what is done with the attack on Pearl Harbour in December 1941, completely forgetting that Japan, like most of the rest of the world, 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 wellpremise.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340825154</amazonuk>1913097811}}
{{newreviewFrontpage |author=Sadie Jones Sally Oliver |title=Small WarsThe Weight of Loss |rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Even though our world Marianne is ostensibly at peace, hundreds grieving. Traumatised after the death of localizedher sister, unwinnable conflicts continue she awakes to grumble on. Mostlyfind strange, we only hear and care about thick black hairs sprouting from the ones involving 'our boys', as if war was some giant game bones of footballher spine which steadily increase in size and volume. But it isn'tHer GP, and ''Small Wars'' reflects on diagnosing the casualties of war in odd phenomenon as a story set in Cyprus physical reaction to her grief, recommends she go to stay at Nede, an experimental new treatment centre in the Two-Way Family Favourites era of the nineteen-fiftiesWales. It may turn out Yet something strange is happening to be an important book as Marianne and the public mood turns against the 'war on terror' in Afghanistanother patients at Nede: a metamorphosis of a kind. ItAs Marianne's certainly memories threaten to overwhelm her, Nede offers her release from this cycle of memory and pain—but only at a prescient oneterrible price: that of identity itself.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0701184558</amazonuk>086154112X }} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Evelyn WaughNatalia Garcia Freire|title=A Handful of DustThis World Does Not Belong To Us
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=A complex class society which evolved into Early comments on this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendous, a highly sophisticated culture delight. I will agree with the first – tremendous is no understatement – but 'a delight' is invariably perhaps using the expression in a fertile ground for development of social satire, and British literature would way I'm not familiar with. I have been hugely depleted if all novels that can be regarded as such were suddenly to disappearconfess my ignorance of the Spanish-language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation here. Evelyn Waugh made From the genre his ownlittle I have read (in translation, and I don''A Handful of Dust'' is t read Spanish) there does seem to be a sublime example of his mastery of ittendency towards the fantastical – the mystical realism.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141183969</amazonuk>0861541901
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=William Trevor Jennifer Saint|title=Love and SummerElektra|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary='Elektra'Love and Summer'' is set in by Jennifer Saint tells the small town story of Rathmoye three women who live in a rural Ireland 'some years after the middle heavily male dominated world of the last century'Ancient Greece. The novel charts the doomed love affair between EllieCassandra, a young farmer's wifeClytemnestra, and Florian, Elektra are all bit players in the Irish-Italian son story of two artists, but it as much about the place Trojan War. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the silent women have the most compelling stories and time in which it is setthe most extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0670918245</amazonuk>1472273915
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bryony Doran 8409290103|title=The China BirdIf Only|author=Matthew Tree|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Edward is a sad and solitary figure. Late middleTwenty-aged, twistedone-spined and humpyear-backed, a loner who works in the archive basement of the library, lodges with Mrs Ingrams who makes old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by his tea and ruins his laundryfather, and hoards letters from cotton-broker AO Lowry: he asked his mother. Like many an unmarried man with an agingaccountant, widowed motherMr Patrick, Edward finds his relationship with her somewhat strainedto ensure that the young man got on board the boat and thereafter Patrick was to send him a monthly allowance. Unlike many Patrick sent the money regularly and a correspondence - of those mensorts - sprang up between the two although we hear more about what Lowry has to say than Patrick. It wasn't that Lowry senior didn't care for his son, his relationship it was always that way. She is rude and demanding, and he either doesndidn't care to have the strength or the inclination him in this country where he might be a danger to force the issue with herhis wife and other children. Apart from an occasion half-hearted reprimand, he stands back, ignores, makes excusesThe alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to get the young man on his way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>095556302X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jude Morgan B098FFFBH9|title=The Taste of SorrowSnowcub|author=Graham Fulbright
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The children were born in Thornton, Fourteen-year-old Rachel is her school's animal rights project leader and she and her friend are producing a suburb of Bradford, and compared with where they were competition entry to go it was a soft living. Howarth was high up on highlight the Yorkshire Moors, industrialised and with weather way in which chilled to human beings exploit the boneanimal world. The parsonage was four-square but draughty She gets a great deal of support from her family: father Pip Harrison, a lecturer at Imperial College, London, mother Kate and not exactly welcomingher twin, Nick. TheyKate runs the family business, of coursea toy shop called Cornucopia in Putney, were the Brontë family. The father was the impoverished curate and his six children had somehow to be cared for after his wifewhich is where we'll meet Rachel's death from cancermain (if unsuspected) source of information: five soft toys.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755338898</amazonuk>
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