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[[Category:New Reviews|Literary Fiction]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove --><!-- Rawi -->{{Frontpage|author=Eowyn Ivey|title=Black Woods Blue Sky*[[image:Rawi_Baghdad|rating=3.jpg5|leftgenre=Literary Fiction|linksummary=http://www''Black Woods Blue Sky'' tells the story of Birdie, the young mother of toddler Emaleen, who longs for a life beyond the Alaskan lodge where she works as a bar waitress, a setting which enables her bad habits and her accidental neglect of Emaleen. 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 North Fork to fulfil her desires of a simple life surrounded by nature.amazonWhen she meets Arthur Nielson, a strange, taciturn and solitary man, who says he has a cabin over there, she feels called to go - and bring Emaleen with her.coWithout realising it, this calling will transform hers and Emaleen's lives forever.uk/dp/1786073226/ref|isbn=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 1472279042}}

{{Frontpage|author=Sally Rooney|title=Intermezzo|rating=[[The Baghdad Clock by Shahad Al Rawi]]4.5|genre=General Fiction |summary=Sally Rooney has studied the chessboard of life and is something of a grandmaster at putting it into words. Her dialogue is gripping and so brilliantly frustrating, as her characters never quite say exactly what they feel. Among the many relationships woven into this story, the central one for readers to unravel is the fraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and Peter Koubek. Ivan, a socially awkward chess prodigy, contrasts sharply with his older brother Peter, a successful lawyer living in Dublin. Following their father's passing after a long battle with cancer, the 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, 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 temperaments 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, an American man living in Paris, as he navigates his torturous affair with Giovanni, an Italian bartender he meets in a gay bar. While David is engaged to Hella, who is travelling in Spain, 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 denial of his sexuality that ultimately dooms his relationship with Giovanni.|isbn=0141186356}}{{Frontpage|author=Alba de Cespedes |title=Forbidden Notebook|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=This Italian work of feminist fiction holds an air of suspense and tension from the moment our protagonist, Valeria Cossati, purchases her forbidden notebook, and learns about herself in the most intimate and revealing ways.|isbn=1782278222}}{{Frontpage|author=Ottessa Moshfegh|title=My Year of Rest and Relaxation|rating=3|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=At best, this novel is a scathing critique of modern society and reveals the fragility of human relationships; at worst, it is the cynical, predictable and slightly trite tale of an unlikeable protagonist. This unlikely heroine, a slim, attractive and newly orphaned girl in her twenties is disillusioned with the world, but resolves not to lose sleep over it: in fact, her solution lies in her hibernation.|isbn=1784707422}}{{Frontpage|author=Matthew Tree|title=We'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of self confidence. So Tim applied himself to his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8}}{{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.

[[image:2.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] ''The Baghdad ClockFragility'' is a tale set as the city of two friends growing up during the first and second Iraqi war. Shahad Al Rawi uses magic realism Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to illustrate emerge from the displacement felt by a young girl and her neighbourhood. The novel introduces us to restrictions imposed during the various characters surrounding the protagonist. They are full of life and yet never seem to add anything to the central narrative. Rawi, it would seem, has a problem with telling a story. [[The Baghdad Clock by Shahad Al Rawi|Full Review]]covid pandemic<br>}}{{Frontpage<!-- Clements -->|author=Mosby Woods*[[image:Clements_Coffin.jpg|left|linktitle=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1472204271/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]A Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating===[[The Coffin Path by Katherine Clements]]===4 [[image:4.5star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], [[:Category:Horror|Horror]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] Maybe yousummary= The West isn've heard about Scarcross Hall? Hidden on t the old coffin path that winds from the village to the moor top, the villagers only speak of dominant force it in hushed tones - of how it's a foreboding place filled with evilonce was. Mercy Booth has lived there since birth, and she's always loved the grand house and its isolation, but a recurrence of strange events begins to unsettle her. From objects disappearing through to a shadowy presence sensed Nobody in the house, mysteries come West is quite sure how to light that can only be solved by Mercy unearthing long-buried secrets. And will a dark stranger help Mercy protect everything she has come to love mend this or tear it from her grasp? [[The Coffin Path by Katherine Clements|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Durrenmatt -->*[[image:Durrenmatt_Justice.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1782273875?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1782273875]] ===[[The Execution of Justice by Friedrich Durrenmatt and John E Woods (translator)]]=== [[image:2.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] It's 1957, and we're somewhere in Switzerland, and there's just one case on everyone's lips – the simple fact that a politician has gone into the crowded room of one of those 'the place to go' restaurants, and point blank shot a professor everyone there must have known, and ferried a British companion to the airport in his chauffeur-driven Rolls before handing himself in to face the murder rap. Of course he's found guilty, even if the gun involved has managed to disappear. He's certainly of much interest, not only to our narrator, a young lawyer called Spaet – even if he rarely gets to frequent such establishments with such people, he is eager to know more, especially once he mending it is actually tasked by the man in hand to look into things a second time. But what's this, where he opens his testimony about the affair with the conclusion, that he himself will need to turn killer to redress the balance? [[The Execution best course of Justice by Friedrich Durrenmatt and John E Woods (translator)|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Cercas -->*[[image:Cercas_Impostoraction.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0857056506?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0857056506]] ===[[The Impostor by Javier Cercas and Frank Wynne (translator)]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]] Enric Marco is without doubt an extraordinary manGovernments are flailing. A veteran of the Spanish Civil Warwar here, honoured a push for his bravery on the battlefieldclimate action there. A political prisoner of two fascist regimes. A survivor of the Nazi concentration camps. A prominent figure in the clandestine resistance against Franco's tyranny. A tireless warrior for social justice and the defence of human rights. A national hero. But the most extraordinary thing about Enric Marco is this: feeling that he nobody is really none of these thingsin actual charge. He is an impostor. And Javier Cercas sets out to tell his story – the true story of Spain's most notorious liar. [[The Impostor by Javier Cercas and Frank Wynne (translator)|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Badoe -->*[[image:Badoe_Jigsaw.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1786695480?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1786695480]] ===[[A Jigsaw of Fire and Stars by Yaba Badoe]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]]Imagine then, [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Sante there was a baby when she was washed ashore in a sea-chest laden man with treasureprecognition. It seems she is Imagine the sole survivor of the tragic sinking of strategic advantage in this asset; a ship carrying migrants and refugees. Her people. Fourteen years on she's a member of Mama Rose's unique and dazzling circus. But, from their watery grave, the unquiet dead are calling Sante to avenge them. A bamboo flute. A golden bangle. A ripening mango which must not fall... if Sante is to man who can tell their story and her own. [[A Jigsaw of Fire and Stars by Yaba Badoe|Full Review]]<br> <br> <!-- Batalha -->*[[image:Batalha_Invisible.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/178607298X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=178607298X]] ===[[The Invisible Life you what will happen given any set of Euridice Gusmao by Martha Batalha and Eric M B Becker (translator)]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]] On the surface, young housewife Euridice Gusmao has it all. A nice-enough, parent-pleasing husband with a steady banking job, two young children upon whom to dote, an immaculate home complete with maidcircumstances. That's all anyone could ever wantman would be valuable, isn't itright? Not Euridice. She has an inexplicable ache inside her for something more, like many of us. Yet each of her pet projects, from a desire to publish a recipe book to starting a cottage sewing industry in her living room, are met with scorn from her stern husband Antenor. He wants a wife who doesn't draw attention to herself, whose only domains are her house and her family. [[The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao by Martha Batalha and Eric M B Becker (translator)|Full Review]]<br> {{newreview|author=Sjon Hodgkinson and Ten Hodgkinson (editors)|title=The Dark-Blue Winter Overcoat and other stories from Perhaps the North|rating=3|genre=Anthologies |summary=A compilation like this should be nigh on brilliant. It's not one author's best short works, it's that of a dozen. It's not from one snapshot in time, as some were written the year of publication and some most valuable asset in the 1960shistory. It's not from one tiny patch of author's desk or one set of laptop keysImagine then, but from the entire Nordic world, whether that be urban Scandinavia, the Faroes and other island groups, or Greenlandthis man loses this ability. That is a world that's changing – as the Greenland-born author now living in Brooklyn, and the Iraqi blood on these pages, testify. It's a world where new roads and new building works mean a family living on the edge of the forest at the beginning of the story are being surrounded by other life by the end, and with the influence of centuries of folklore featured, a lot more than that changes – sometimes What would governments do to get it seems to be even the characters' species…back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782273824</amazonuk>B0C9SNG8R1

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christina Hesselholdt and Paul Russell Garrett (translator)0571379559|title=CompanionsThe House of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams|rating=35

|summary=''CompanionsThe House of Broken Bricks'' is written as a series the story of monologuesfour people. Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, where six middle-aged friends take but instead, she lives in the house on the riverbank, built of broken bricks. Insubstantial as it in turns to narrate scenes from their livesmight look, charting it's stood the intimate details passage of their holidaystime, dinner partiesstorms and floods. Her husband, familiesRichard, marriagesstruggles to grow his vegetables, affairs to complete the delivery rounds - and work lives to bring in a style that mixes honesty sufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and openness with fantasy and evasionMax, the rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. The charm of the novel lies in the way the friends People don' voices bicker with one another among the pages, as we discover t believe that there are always several sides to the same story. We learn most about the characters not through what they say about themselves but through what the others say about them. Along the way're related, much less twins and there 's an assumption when Max is heartbreak and grief, but this is always offset by an abundance of humour and a writing style out with his mother that never fails to be refreshingly light-heartedshe's his nanny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910695335</amazonuk>

The follow-up to the excellent ''Ithaca'' picks up a few months after where we left off. In the palace of Odysseus, with delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without her husband, who sailed to war at Troy and then by divine intervention never returned home. As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for the throne of the Western Isles. Having survived – politically and physical – the chaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to Ithaca's shores, Queen Penelope is on the brink of a fragile peace. One that shatters however with the return of Orestes, King of Mycenae, and his sister Elektra, seeking refuge.|isbn=0356516075}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author= David BergenKay Chronister|title= StrangerDesert Creatures

|genre= Literary Dystopian Fiction |summary=''Stranger'' tells the story of Íso, With a young Guatemalan womanworld that is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, and her affair with post-apocalyptic fiction can become an American doctoralmost masochistic thrill. When an accident forces him to return to the StatesWhether it is a robotic takeover, a world devoid of water or a nuclear holocaust, she this genre is left pregnant and lonelya way for humans to cathartically experience their most existential fears. Her anguish becomes even more profound when her daughter ''Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is abducted, and taken to live with the doctor and his wife. What followed - tales of the journey Íso embarked upon in the hope a new work of finding her baby post- was an amazing story apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the lengths fears that exist for humanity today. It is a mother will go shocking novel that still manages to in order to save her childfind hope.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0715652419</amazonuk>1803364998

{{newreviewfrontpage|isbn=1803363002|author= Clar Ni ChonghaileEric LaRocca|title= Rain Falls On EveryoneThe Trees Grew Because I Bled There

|genre= Literary FictionHorror|summary= Horror taps into something primeval within us. It's is used as a cliché that the Irish have a picturesque turn of phrase, but clichés only exist because they're trueway to reflect our darkest emotions and how we as humans react and process them. Roddy Doyle put it differently in Most horror fiction feature a recent interview with ''WritingBig Bad'' magazine, when he said whether that ''With Irishis a home invader, a monster or a ghost, there's another language bubbling under the English''. However you express itusually something tangible and, that art by the end of expression is woven into every other line of Clárthe story, beatable. Eric LaRocca's prose. Pick a page at random and you'll find something like 'The Trees Grew Because I Bled There''the sickness is not like that had come to roost . It is a collection of short stories more interested in her home like a cursed owl'' or ''like he was Godthe horrors of illness, Jesus grief and humiliation. Horrors that linger and Justin Timberlake rolled into oneare harder to defeat than any '' or ''a low sobbing, slow and inevitable as rain on a SundayBig Bad'': expressions that catch your smile unawares, or tear at your heart in their mundane sadness. Or sometimes both.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785079018</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Hesene Mete Madelaine Lucas|title=Sinful WordsThirst for Salt|rating=45

|summary=When we meet him, Behram is a student at the school of theology. He loves God with a passion and has a determination to live a life dedicated ''toLove, I'' God and d read, was supposed to live by His rules. He rents be a property from Lulu Khan light and his wifeweightless feeling, Lady Geshtina and Khan invites Behram to his own home but I had always longed for gravity'' Told from a retrospective view, a visityoung woman unravels the year-long relationship that once defined her. It's Overlaid with later wisdom, the narrator relives the affair with a delightful place and man twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the summer after. Set against the wealth backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the couple is obvious as is their standing within the local community: Lady Geshtina24-year-old narrator's late father is buried in what amounts to a mausoleumdeepening relationship with her older lover, depicting its all-consuming nature, but how it's not all this which enchants Behram. The couple have twin children changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and Behram is taken, enthralled by the daughter, Naginahow it altered her irrevocably.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1524682527</amazonuk>0861546490

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Juan-Tomas Avila LaurelMichael Grothaus|title= The Gurugu PledgeBeautiful Shining People|rating= 54

|summary= Juan Tomas Avila Laurel''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, one or we can take steps to change it.'' ''Beautiful Shining People'' revolves around the question of Equatorial Guinea's best-known dissident writers, is an author who deserves identity and acceptance. Of what it means to be read the world overhuman. With The Gurugu PledgeOf what is real and what is artificial, he's captured a an angry and incredibly urgent slice of whether the migrant experience – a snapshot development of the dangers faced by those crossing the African continent in search of the barbed wire fences at Melilla- the Spanish enclave on the North Eastern tip of Moroccotechnology is exciting or frightening.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908276940</amazonuk>191458564X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Matthew SmithJennifer Saint|title= The WakingAtalanta|rating= 5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary=Isabel Sykes''I was as worthy as any one of them. I would get on board that ship, 23I vowed. I would take my place, recounts the recent attempt she made to come to terms with not just in the loss name of her mother, the acclaimed but psychologically disturbed novelist Marianne Sykesgoddess. Marianne died in an unexplained house fire when Isabel It was ten. Inspired by for the appearance sake of Imogen Taylormy name, an enchanting young woman who wants to write too. Atalanta'' Princess. Warrior. Lover. Hero. Abandoned at birth for being born a daughter rather than a PhD on her mother's workson, Isabel plunges into Atalanta is raised under the depths protective eye of her past the goddess Athemis and an intense new friendshipfashioned into a formidable huntress, one who longs for adventure. After discovering that Imogen is not who she seems When the opportunity comes – to bejoin the Argonauts, a fierce band of warriors, Isabel must face descendent from the Gods themselves – Atalanta seizes the darkest moments from chance to fight in Artemis' name and carve out her childhood own legendary place in order to protect her family from more tragedyhistory. She receives unexpected help from beyond the graveWhat follows is a whirlwind of challenges and discovery and through it, Atalanta must remember Artemis' fatal warning: in the strangethat if she marries, glittering fragments of it will be her mother's last, unfinished work, 'Midnightsong'undoing.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0995654158</amazonuk>1472292154

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Ali SmithAmanthi Harris|title= AutumnBeautiful Place|rating= 5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= The first part in Ali Smith's four part 'Seasonal' seriesPadma, a young Sri Lankan, Autumn is has returned to the Villa Hibiscus on the story southern coast of Daniel Gluck and Elisabeth Demand, unexpected friends who used to be neighbours when Elisabeth was her home country. This is a little girlplace she spent her formative years. In It is not a series place she was born into, but the one she thinks of memories and dreamsas home. How she came to be at the Villa, we discover their friendship from Daniel babysitting Elisabeth through to how it became her visits with him now that he is in a home , and drawing towards the end of his extremely long machinations that have flowed through her life ever since she first arrived there provide the ''score'' for this gentle and fascinating lifeyet subtly violent novel. Along Padma's present fails to escape her past and much like the way, we get musical score of a wonderfully written insight into timefilm, memories, and that strand weaves its way through everything that happens at the fleeting nature of life itselfVilla. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0241973317</amazonuk>1784631930

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicola Pugliese and Shaun Whiteside (translator)178563335X|title=MalacquaSea Defences|author=Hilary Taylor|rating=35

|summary=WeWhen we first meet Rachel Bird she're in Napless a trainee vicar, sitting in recent history, on a PCC meeting and itwondering why they's rainingre held when you need to pick the children up. It will in fact rain for four days solid – Her husband, Christopher, collects six-year-old Hannah and seeing as ither elder brother, Jamie, whilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioner. Thelma's October everyonedaughter-in-law won's dressed for all seasons and expecting t let her see her grandson. Holthorpe, on the Norfolk coast, is a bit of greylovely place, but this Rachel is taking struggling to develop a real bond with the proverbial. Itparish - and she's also making the city rather dangerous – when people report a huge sink-hole appearing in one street it's soon found that a pair awe of cars went into itthe vicar, and two people have diedGail, and more passed on with a whole building collapsing. Whatbut then she's been doing the job for more, some strange noises are coming from an abandoned civic palacethan thirty years. Is the city being told something by these strange events, or can Rachel and Christopher hoped that a journalist find a logic behind walk on the circumstances?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911508067</amazonuk>beach would do them some good - it was stormy but it was probably what they needed. And then Hannah went missing.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Iosi Havilio1398515388|title= Petite FleurThe Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary General Fiction|summary= Every now First of all, it was the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and then you read a book this, in turn, caused the nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and utter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, and the loss of livelihoods was widespread. The fact that leaves you thinking “well I have no idea what just happened many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of priorities but I know I enjoyed it”. This is how I felt - six months after reading Petite Fleur, the fifth novel (perhaps tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. He wasn'long paragrapht a dog person but the convenience store owner' s comment that he would be more appropriate) from cult Argentinian writer Iosi Haviliocall Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and Tamon the dog jumped in.}} {{Frontpage|isbn=0989715337|title=Papa on the Moon|author=Marco North|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|amazonuksummary=<amazonuk>1911508040</amazonuk>''Some frogs had gotten into the well.'' ''Walter stood waist-deep in the fragrant water, naked except for his beaten leather hat. Long strands of their eggs wove around him, sticky gray pearls with tadpoles inside them. Two of the dogs leaned over the opening and barked down at the strange noise of the buckets as he filled them.'' How is that for an opening? The style of this novel in the form of interconnected short stories goes from succinct and laconic to wistful and musing, turning on a sixpence. And author Marco North, who has the most wonderful turn of phrase, starts as he means to go on.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tania HershmanDaisy Hildyard|title=Some of Us Glow More Than OthersEmergency|rating=4.5|genre=Short Stories Literary Fiction|summary=I wonThe summary of this book doesn't be alone in stating that reading short story collections can be slightly awkwardcome close to explaining what is done with the premise.|isbn=1913097811}}  {{Frontpage |author=Sally Oliver |title=The Weight of Loss |rating=4 |genre=Literary Fiction |summary= Marianne is grieving. Going through Traumatised after the death of her sister, she awakes to find strange, thick black hairs sprouting from A-Z, witnessing a bounty the bones of ideas her spine which steadily increase in size and characters in short order can be too muchvolume. Her GP, but do you have diagnosing the right odd phenomenon as a physical reaction to pick and choose according to what appealsher grief, and what time you have recommends she go to fill? The sequence has carefully been consideredstay at Nede, surelyan experimental new treatment centre in Wales. Such would appear Yet something strange is happening to be Marianne and the case hereother patients at Nede: a metamorphosis of a kind. The last time I read one of this authorAs Marianne's collectionsmemories threaten to overwhelm her, with [[The White Road by Tania HershmanNede 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|The White Road]]summary= Early comments on this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendous, a delight. I will agree with the only real difficulty was holding back and rationing them, first – tremendous is no understatement – but here you 'a delight' is perhaps using the expression in a way I'm not only get a whopping forty pieces familiar with. I have to confess my ignorance of writingthe Spanish-language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation here. From the little I have read (in translation, they are also spread into sectionsI don't read Spanish) there does seem to be a tendency towards the fantastical – the mystical realism.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910061484</amazonuk>0861541901

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=James KelmanJennifer Saint|title=That Was a Shiver, and Other StoriesElektra|rating=3.54|genre=Short Stories Literary Fiction|summary=This is 'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the ninth book story of short stories by this author, which means he's presented just as many collections three women who live in the heavily male dominated world of the short form as he has novelsAncient Greece. You will find it hard to think of another author that has been so noted for longer works (what with [[How Late It WasCassandra, How Late by James Kelman|How Late It WasClytemnestra, How Late]] winning and Elektra are all bit players in the Booker) but who is so generous in presenting shorter pieces for story of the time-poor, or those like me who see Trojan War. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the variety in a writer's short or less typical works to be silent women have the more interesting places to turn. Opening these pages, from most compelling stories and the pen of such an esteemed pro, came with no small sense of anticipationmost extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786890909</amazonuk>1472273915

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Kate Mildenhall8409290103|title= SkylarkingIf Only|author=Matthew Tree|rating= 4.5|genre= General Literary Fiction |summary= Kate 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 Harriet are best friends growing up together on an isolated Australian capethereafter Patrick was to send him a monthly allowance. As Patrick sent the daughters money regularly and a correspondence - of the lighthouse keepers, sorts - sprang up between the two girls share everythingalthough we hear more about what Lowry has to say than Patrick. It wasn't that Lowry senior didn't care for his son, until a fisherman, McPhail, arrives in their small community. When Kate witnesses the desire it was that flares between he didn't care to have him in this country where he might be a danger to his wife and Harriet, she is torn by her feelings of envy and longingother children. An innocent moment in McPhail's hut then occurs that threatens The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to tear their peaceful community apartget the young man on his way. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785079239</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joanna WalshB098FFFBH9|title=Worlds from the Word's EndSnowcub|author=Graham Fulbright|rating=34.5|genre=Short StoriesLiterary Fiction|summary=We here at The Bookbag liked this authorFourteen-year-old Rachel is her school's fairly recent collection of short stories, [[Vertigo by Joanna Walsh|Vertigo]]. I myself missed out, but that seemed to be vignettes from one character's narration – here we get homosexual male narrators animal rights project leader and she and her friend are producing a host more, as well as much less of competition entry to highlight the way in which human beings exploit the sadness prevalent beforeanimal world. Having had She gets a brief encounter with this author courtesy great deal of support from her entry into the [[Bookshelf (Object Lessons) by Lydia Pyne|Object Lessons]] seriesfamily: father Pip Harrison, a lecturer at Imperial College, London, I was intrigued by mother Kate and her name being stamped on a selection of shortstwin, Nick. Was it Kate runs the ideal calling card? Let's face itfamily business, the very short story itself can be a postcard – lettoy shop called Cornucopia in Putney, which is where we'll meet Rachel's say, from a specific hotel or two, as we see heremain (if unsuspected) source of information: five soft toys. Perhaps I should have geared myself up, however, for such intricate writing on said postcards – and for the exotic locations from which they came…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911508105</amazonuk>