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[[Category:New Reviews|Literary Fiction]]==Literary fiction==__NOTOC__{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Susan HillEowyn Ivey|title=In the Springtime of the YearBlack Woods Blue Sky|rating=3.5
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|summary=Ben and Ruth had been married ''Black Woods Blue Sky'' tells the story of Birdie, the young mother of toddler Emaleen, who longs for just a year when he was killed in life beyond the Alaskan lodge where she works as a bar waitress, a tragic accidentsetting which enables her bad habits and her accidental neglect of Emaleen. One of Described as a ''wild card'', she feels stuck in her day-to-day life, and yearns to cross the Wolverine river and live on the other foresters came North Fork to tell Ruth about what had happened, but in truth she had known before he arrivedfulfil her desires of a simple life surrounded by nature. From feeling deliriously happy When she had descended within moments into the depths of despair meets Arthur Nielson, a strange, taciturn and felt so ill that solitary man, who says he has a cabin over there, she could barely move. The confirmation was just that feels called to go - and Ruth was bereft. She couldn't share bring Emaleen with her feelings with Ben's family. ItWithout realising it, this calling will transform hers and Emaleen's politic to say that they were dealing with their grief in their own way but more truthful to admit that they had never liked her and were disinclined to extend more than the socially-required gestures now that Ben was deadlives forever.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099570483</amazonuk>1472279042
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Roopa FarookiSally Rooney|title=The Flying ManIntermezzo|rating=4.5|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=''The Flying Man'' opens with Sally Rooney has studied the now elderly Maqil Karam writing chessboard of life and is something of a letter in his budget hotel in the South of France grandmaster at putting it into words. Her dialogue is gripping and facing deathso brilliantly frustrating, as her characters never quite say exactly what they feel. His Among the many relationships woven into this story takes in many locations, from his native Punjab, the central one for readers to New York, Cairo, London, Paris unravel is the fraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and Hong KongPeter Koubek. In each locationIvan, Maqil adopts a different namesocially awkward chess prodigy, including Mike Cramcontrasts sharply with his older brother Peter, Mehmet Kahn, Miguel Caram and Mikhail Leea successful lawyer living in Dublin. Often he acquires Following their father's passing after a different wife as welllong battle with cancer, Carinethe brothers' already strained relationship faces new trials.|isbn=0571365469}}{{Frontpage|author=Fyodor Dostoyevsky|title=White Nights|rating=5|genre=Short Stories|summary=As always in Dostoyevsky, Samira the character work is sublime. One is never left wondering what a character is thinking or feeling because Dostoyevsky lays bare their innermost dispositions and Bernadettetemperaments with remarkable clarity.|isbn=0241619785}}{{Frontpage|author=James Baldwin|title=Giovanni's Room|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction |summary=''Giovanni's Room'' follows the narrator David, although an American man living in Paris, as he doesn't go to the bother of divorcing themnavigates his torturous affair with Giovanni, an Italian bartender he just simply walks awaymeets in a gay bar. He While David is a chancer and a gamblerengaged to Hella, avoiding attachmentwho is travelling in Spain, responsibility the real tension in the novel arises not from his infidelity but from the deeper conflict within himself. It is David's crippling shame and commitment throughout denial of his sexuality that ultimately dooms his liferelationship with Giovanni.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755383389</amazonuk>0141186356
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cynthia OzickAlba de Cespedes |title=Foreign BodiesForbidden Notebook
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Bea Nightingale's brother Marvin wants her - is haranguing her - to retrieve his errant son Julian from post-war Paris, to where he has decamped in an effort to escape parental control. Bea, a New York high school teacher, is This Italian work of feminist fiction holds an unlikely candidate for the role air of rescuer - she suspense and her brother have been estranged for tension from the best part of twenty years. But she capitulates to his demands and sets off on a journey in which her presence will affect not only Julianmoment our protagonist, but his sister who also runs off to ParisValeria Cossati, his girlfriendpurchases her forbidden notebook, a displaced Eastern European Jew, his mother (also escaping Marvin, but this time and learns about herself in a psychiatric facility) the most intimate and Bea's own ex-husband Leorevealing ways. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848877366</amazonuk>1782278222
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jane HarrisOttessa Moshfegh|title=Gillespie My Year of Rest and IRelaxation|rating=53
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The 'I' in the title of Jane Harris's ''Gillespie and I'' is Harriet Baxter. Now elderly and residing in London in 1933At best, she this novel is finally telling her events a scathing critique of what happened in the early 1880s in Glasgow modern society and her relationship with reveals the Gillespie family. At the time, a spinster fragility of independent meanshuman relationships; at worst, she arrived in Glasgow to visit it is the International Exhibition cynical, predictable and became a champion slightly trite tale of and friend to an unlikeable protagonist. This unlikely heroine, a young Scottish painterslim, Ned Gillespie attractive and his young family. We know from early on that tragedy struck newly orphaned girl in her twenties is disillusioned with the Gillespie family leading to Ned destroying his careerworld, but Harriet wants to set the record straight with regard resolves not to lose sleep over it: in fact, her involvement solution lies in events. You may or may not believe her storyhibernation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571238300</amazonuk>1784707422
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anna StothardMatthew Tree|title=The Pink HotelWe'll Never Know
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The phone call came when she was 17. Her mother had died; the mother who had just been a flimsy memory of a touchTimothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, an impression and a faded photograph. Not satisfied with her father drunk and grandma's biased recollections chronic underachiever whose dreams of 'the slut', she steals her step-mother's credit card and catches a flight to the funeral in Los Angeles. Unfortunately she arrives too late for the funeral, but finding the pink hotel her mother owned, she walks in on the wake. Rooms full of drunken, drug-sodden eyes stare being exceptional at her whilst she makes her way through the building to what must have been her mother's bedroom. It's then she decides, as her step-father lies, semi-consciousness, on the bed. She takes some any of her mother's clothes, shoes his artistic passions all failed miserably and letters. Once she has a chance to read them, she realises they're cards and love letters from men who may be able to build her a picture of the woman who gave her life but not a lot else.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846881757</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Karin Altenberg|title=Island had endless crises of Wings|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Rev Neil MacKenzie has been assigned to the Hebridian island of St Kildaself confidence. His mission is to bring the locals back So Tim applied himself to the Victorian idea of God and propriety. He and his pregnant wife Lizzie not only have to fight the elements but also centuries of superstition that have trickled into the islanders' Christian faith. Life is made harder for Neil by a secret guilt emanating from the death of a friend years ago. Howeverstudies, the going becomes harder still for Lizzie, isolated by an inability to speak the local language and the burgeoning fear engendered by Neil's behaviour and attitudes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857382322</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Georgina Harding|title=Painter of Silence|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=A young, anonymous, vagrant collapses on the steps of a hospital in Romania. He doesn't speak and remains a mystery to the staff that tries to treat cultivated his abilities rather than his obvious symptoms but can't seem to reach the silent person beneath. However, Safta, a nurse, suggests that he may be deaf daydreams and produces drawing materials. Coincidentally, the man is able to draw beautifully, but this is no coincidence to Safta. There are reasons why she can't disclose it, set himself high but she knows this man. They grew up together in pre-war Romania, a whole world away when the country had a king, beautiful cities untouched by bombing and being able to read a foreign language wasn't punishable by imprisonment in work camps... or worseachievable ambitions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408821125</amazonuk>B0CVFXPGP8
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elanor DymottB0C47LV1PC|title=Every Contact Leaves a TraceFragility|author=Mosby Woods
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=We learn from Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the prologue that question should you make it? Or is the narratorquestion if you did, Oxford educated lawyer, Alex's wife has been murdered. We also know would it land? The catch is that Alex knew little of his wife, Rachel's past, particularly of the time that they spent together at Worcester Collegeanswer for both could well be.. This is critical in understanding who may have killed her, and why. What follows is Alex learning about this hidden past. ''Every Contact Leaves a Trace'' is partly a thriller and partly a whodunnit although the structure adopted by Elanor Dymott is somewhat unusualno.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224094033</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sadie JonesMosby Woods|title=The Uninvited GuestsA Whirly Man Loses His Turn
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=On a spring evening in 1912 preparations were being made for a supper party to celebrate The West isn't the twentieth birthday of Emerald Torringtondominant force it once was. It was taking place at Sterne, Nobody in the much-loved home of the family, although finances were uncertain and no one was West is quite sure how much longer they would be able to stay in mend this or even if mending it is the housebest course of action. Emerald's mother had hopes that she would be able to marry Emerald off to John BuchananGovernments are flailing. A war here, a local entrepreneur, but Emerald was far from convincedpush for climate action there. Her step-father was A feeling that nobody is in Manchester trying to raise the funds to keep the house going but Emerald and her brother Clovisactual charge. Imagine then, Patience Sutton and her brother Ernest along there was a man with Buchanan and precognition. Imagine the household staff prepared for strategic advantage in this asset; a man who can tell you what they hoped will happen given any set of circumstances. That man would be a delightful evening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701186712</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Etgar Keret|title=Suddenlyvaluable, a Knock on right? Perhaps the Door |rating=4|genre=Short Stories|summary=In the opening, titular story, Keret is forced by several people to create, and alter, a short short storymost valuable asset in history. It's a plain metaphor for the history of IsraelImagine then, but it proves that this modern Scheherazade is not too far removed geographically from the originalman loses this ability. And what follows are probably the sort of short, tantalising, open-ended, rough-round-the-edges and surreal results of being compelled What would governments do to carry on telling tall tales on a nightly basis.get it back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0701186674</amazonuk>B0C9SNG8R1
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rachel Joyce0571379559|title=The Unlikely Pilgrimage House of Harold FryBroken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Harold and Maureen Fry were unremarkable''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the story of four people. Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: one long marriagetemperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, one adult offspring and a long retirement stretching out she lives in front the house on the riverbank, built of them like a prison sentencebroken bricks. One morning everything changed. The catalyst was a letter from QueenieInsubstantial as it might look, an ex-colleague of Haroldit'sstood the passage of time, storms and floods. He knew he needed Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to respond complete the delivery rounds - and thought that posting a letter would sufficeto bring in sufficient money. HoweverThey have twin boys - Sonny and Max, a chat with a girl at the local petrol station made him realise that a letter couldnrainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother't be enoughs Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. He had to provide Queenie People don't believe that they're related, much less twins and there's an assumption when Max is out with hope... he had to walkhis mother that she's his nanny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857520644</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=John LanchesterClaire North|title=CapitalHouse of Odysseus
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=With a gentle nod to the great commentator of London life of the past, John Lanchester sets his wonderfully entertaining state of the nation book around Pepys Road. With a huge cast of characters, he looks as a cross section of London life and while in some ways not quite perfect, it comes pretty darn close.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571234607</amazonuk>}}''What could matter more than love?''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anne TylerKay Chronister|title=The Beginner's GoodbyeDesert Creatures|rating=4.5|genre=General Dystopian Fiction|summary=Aaron's wifeWith a world that is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, Dorothy, was killed in post-apocalyptic fiction can become an accidentalmost masochistic thrill. An oak tree fell on their homeWhether it is a robotic takeover, demolishing the sun porch where Dorothy happened to be at the time. He worried that if he had done things differently (a matter world devoid of some biscuits and water or a nuclear holocaust, this genre is a television set) Dorothy might not have been where she was and might still be alive and way for a while he camped out in the wrecked house until further damage forced him humans to move in with his sistercathartically experience their most existential fears. It was then that he realised that Dorothy wasn't really dead 'Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is a new work of post- well, not dead as we understand it - as she materialised in odd places, wearing apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the clothes she used to wear and eventually staying with Aaron fears that exist for longer periods of timehumanity today. And gradually they began It is a shocking novel that still manages to bicker, just like a long-married couple..find hope.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0701187190</amazonuk>1803364998
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{{newreviewfrontpage|isbn=1803363002|author=Christopher BurnsEric LaRocca|title=A Division of the LightThe Trees Grew Because I Bled There|rating=3.5|genre=Literary FictionHorror|summary=Gregory Pharoah Horror taps into something primeval within us. It is used as a professional photographer whose genre is sometimes photojournalism, but more commonly portraiture or nudesway to reflect our darkest emotions and how we as humans react and process them. Like his jobMost horror fiction feature a ''Big Bad'', his nature whether that is towards the superficial. One daya home invader, returning from photographing a bishop (for claritymonster or a ghost, this is a portrait assignment it usually something tangible and not a nude!) he is , by the only witness to a street robbery where Alice Fell is end of the victimstory, beatable. Alice Eric LaRocca's ''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is a fatalist who believes in some kind of divine plan not like that means there is a reason for everything. She's enigmatic, by nature and by design as this It is a quality that she enjoys cultivating. Thus these two different characters become part collection of short stories more interested in the same story horrors of illness, grief and what happens in the following six months is ultimately surprising humiliation. Horrors that linger and even shockingare harder to defeat than any ''Big Bad''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857386352</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chochana BoukhobzaMadelaine Lucas|title=The Third DayThirst for Salt|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Set in Jerusalem in the late 1980s''Love, an elderlyI'd read, Jewish, celebrated cellist Elisheva is visiting Israel with her protégé, Rachel, ostensibly was supposed to give be a concert performance. It quickly becomes apparent that Elisheva survived the Nazi camps by playing her music for the feared camp commander, known as the Butcher of Majdanek, light and while on the surface she survived this ordeal wellweightless feeling, it is clear that she has a darker intent with her three day visit. Through an underground network of Nazi hunters, she has managed to lure the Butcher from his home in Venezuela to visit Israel. Will they meet and what will happen when they do? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857050966</amazonuk>}}but I had always longed for gravity''
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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=Adam JohnsonJennifer Saint|title=The Orphan Master's SonAtalanta
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=''The Orphan Master's Son'' follows the adventures I was as worthy as any one of Jun Do who has been born without any say in his futurethem. I would get on board that ship, I vowed. For this is North KoreaI would take my place, where all is organised for not just in the good name of the state or at goddess. It was for the whim sake of the Dear Leadermy name, Kim Jong Iltoo. Atalanta''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gerbrand BakkerAmanthi Harris|title=The DetourBeautiful Place|rating=3.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Gerbrand Bakker's Dutch novel, ''The Detour'' translated by David ColmerPadma, is a very odd story indeed. Mostly set in Snowdoniayoung Sri Lankan, has returned to the book tells Villa Hibiscus on the story southern coast of her home country. This is a Dutch woman, who gives place she spent her name as Emilie, who rents a remote farmformative years. She's clearly on the run from something, perhaps an affair with It is not a student at the university where place she was researching born into, but the works one she thinks of Emily Dickinsonas home. How she came to be at the Villa, but how it increasingly becomes clear that this is only part of the story. Certainly became her husband home, and parents back in the Netherlands machinations that have no clue where flowed through her life ever since she has gone - or whyfirst arrived there provide the ''score'' for this gentle and yet subtly violent novel. Once these details are established, the book takes a turn Padma's present fails to escape her past and much like the seriously odd which is more musical score of a full blooded journey rather than a mere 'detour'film, that strand weaves its way through everything that happens at the Villa.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846556392</amazonuk>1784631930
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Angela Carter178563335X|title=Burning Your BoatsSea Defences|author=Hilary Taylor
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Ada Wilson admits that his fascination with the period is what drove his work When we first meet Rachel Bird she's a trainee vicar, sitting in on this novel, a PCC meeting and it is wondering why they're held when you need to pick the wealth of detail children up. Her husband, Christopher, collects six-year-old Hannah and background that strikes one when reading his account of Peter Urbachher elder brother, Jamie, whilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioner. Thelma's daughter-in-law won't let her see her grandson. Holthorpe, on the undercover agent whose role was to act as an agent provocateur to the Red Brigade. Urbach Norfolk coast, is revealed from the outset as a plantlovely place, an undercover operative who needs but Rachel is struggling to keep all events of develop a real bond with the group 'noted parish - and filedshe' for his masters. And throughout the first half s in awe of the novel we see Urbach recording the changes and developmentsvicar, Gail, but then she's been doing the complex web of political ideology, naivety job for more than thirty years. Rachel and Christopher hoped that a walk on the pure egocentricity of youth which created the happening of the Baaderbeach would do them some good -Meinhof gangit was stormy but it was probably what they needed. And then Hannah went missing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1901927482</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matthew Green1398515388|title=Memoirs of an Imaginary FriendThe Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Max is 8 years oldFirst of all, it was the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and this, in turn, caused the nuclear meltdown. He likes Lego The result was complete and Star Wars utter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, and playing with toy soldiersthe loss of livelihoods was widespread. He can tell you 102 words The fact that rhyme with tree. He scarfs many pets were separated from their owners came far down grilled cheese sandwiches and chicken and ricethe list of priorities but - six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. He does not like physical contact. He lives with wasn't a dog person but the convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his mum and dad who argue about what is best for him and why he’s not normal like other boys car door and girlsTamon the dog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751547875</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Shalom Auslander0989715337|title=Hope: a TragedyPapa on the Moon|author=Marco North|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Meet Solomon Kugel, who is almost universally known by his surname. He is about to join the list of kvetching Jewish heroes of comedy fiction, and at a very esteemed position in that list. He's a man who worries that by having 'Some frogs had a kid he's betraying the boy's soul by bringing it gotten into a world such as this. He's forced to live with his mother, who continually expects a second Holocaust and complains about suffering from the first, although she was not born thenwell. He's faced with the eternal dilemma of not finding gluten-free matzo bread for his observances. He's moved to a rural location, and found houses like his are on the hit-list of an arsonist, but his new home has an even more unusual secret...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447207653</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Charles DickensDaisy Hildyard|title=The Mystery of Edwin DroodEmergency|rating=4.5
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{{newreviewFrontpage |author=Alexander MacLeodSally Oliver |title=Light LiftingThe Weight of Loss |rating=4.5|genre=Short StoriesLiterary Fiction |summary=Short stories may not be everyone's cup Marianne is grieving. Traumatised after the death of her sister, she awakes to find strange, thick black hairs sprouting from the bones of teaher spine which steadily increase in size and volume. SometimesHer GP, diagnosing the odd phenomenon as a physical reaction to her grief, particularly with first time authorsrecommends she go to stay at Nede, there an experimental new treatment centre in Wales. Yet something strange is an annoying tendency happening to be overly experimentalMarianne and the other patients at Nede: a metamorphosis of a kind. Not so with Alexander MacLeodAs Marianne's stunningly assured debut. True he has genetic 'form' in that he is the son memories threaten to overwhelm her, Nede offers her release from this cycle of novelist memory and short story writer [[pain—but only at a terrible price:Category:Alistair MacLeodthat of identity itself.|isbn= 086154112X }} {{Frontpage|author=Natalia Garcia Freire|title=This World Does Not Belong To Us|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|Alistair MacLeod]], but even so, the quality of summary= Early comments on this collectiondebut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendous, is remarkablea delight. The collection of seven stories I will agree with the first – tremendous is not overly themed, although certain issues and concerns do reappear, no understatement – but what binds 'a delight' is perhaps using the stories together is expression in a very human approach way I'm not familiar with. I have to confess my ignorance of the Spanish-language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation here. From the little I have read (in translation, I don't read Spanish) there does seem to adversitybe a tendency towards the fantastical – the mystical realism.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0224093940</amazonuk>0861541901
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Terri ArmstrongJennifer Saint|title=Standing WaterElektra
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Dom has made the long flight from London to Australia and he's shattered, physically and emotionally. HeElektra's been busy getting on with his shiny new life by Jennifer Saint tells the story of three women who live in cosmopolitan London and has barely spared a thought for the folks back homeheavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. He's not relishing meeting up again with his brother Neal. Neal took over the family farm Cassandra, Clytemnestra, and land when their father died. The two brothers Elektra are like chalk and cheese. They had nothing all bit players in common as young boys growing up and when Dom left for Europe, Neal was relieved. But there is still an unsolved issue between them and it's a biggythe story of the Trojan War. Now Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that they're older often the silent women have the most compelling stories and hopefully wiser, will they manage to talk about it and even resolve it. Time will tellthe most extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908136006</amazonuk>1472273915
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrea Gillies8409290103|title=The White LieIf Only|author=Matthew Tree
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=One scorching hot summer's afternoon Ursula Salter hurls herself into 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 young man got on board the boat and thereafter Patrick was to send him a monthly allowance. Patrick sent the drawing room money regularly and a correspondence - of her parentssorts - sprang up between the two although we hear more about what Lowry has to say than Patrick. It wasn' house and delivers the devastating news t that sheLowry senior didn's killed her nephewt care for his son, Michael, and it was that hedidn's t care to have him in the loch. But is this what's happened? Ursula country where he might be in her late twenties but she has the mind and understanding of a child danger to his wife and – crucially – there's no body to be foundother children. There are contradictions and inconsistencies in what Ursula says – and evidence from someone else who might have this own agenda – all of which allows the Salters to close ranks and construct a version of what happened designed to protect Ursula and allow themselves The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to avoid get the truthyoung man on his way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780720394</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Patrick FlaneryB098FFFBH9|title=AbsolutionSnowcub|author=Graham Fulbright
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=If Patrick Flanery's South AfricanFourteen-year-set debut novel ''Absolution'' old Rachel is anything to go by, he could well be one of the next big names in literary fiction. Ither school's complex animal rights project leader and at times challenging, but ultimately an extremely rewarding reading experience.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857892002</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Angela Carter|title=Wise Children|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Dora she and Nora Chance her friend are producing a competition entry to highlight the twin daughters of Shakespearean actor Melchior Hazard and Pretty Kitty, the chambermaid at the theatrical boarding house where he was lodging way in which human beings exploit the First World Waranimal world. Kitty died in childbirth and the girls were brought up by the woman they knew as Grandma. As for Melchior, he preferred that it be thought that his twin brother Peregrine was responsible and Perry was not unhappy to bear the burden. What Melchior didn't know was that the twin daughters which his first wife produced were actually sired by Perry. If you're getting confused, then bear in mind that there are more sets of twins to appear and that this is comedy, not of the cheap canned laughter variety, but She gets a great deal of the type written by the bard himself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099981106</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Nicky Harlow|title=Amelia and the Virgin|rating=5|genre=Humour|summary=Amelia is 13 years old and lives with support from her mother, brother and extended family in 1980s Liverpool. Con: father Pip Harrison, her great-unclea lecturer at Imperial College, is a psychiatrist with prestigious patients and a bit of a drink problemLondon, Great-Aunt Edith is a devout Catholic with an inclination towards eccentricity mother Kate and her brother, Juliantwin, is a junkyNick. Amelia's mother tries to hold everyone together but becomes slightly distracted when she inherits Kate runs the family business, a convent toy shop called Cornucopia in IrelandPutney, complete with nuns. Amelia has her own problems, though. She sees visions of the Goddess Irena and which is pregnant with the next Messiah. where we'll meet Rachel's main (A girl this time as the original male Messiah didn't have much luckif unsuspected) source of information: five soft toys.)|amazonuk=<amazonuk>095600539X</amazonuk>
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