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[[Category:New Reviews|Literary Fiction]]==Literary fiction==__NOTOC__{{newreviewFrontpage|author=George Makana ClarkEowyn Ivey|title=The Raw ManBlack Woods Blue Sky|rating=43.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The Prologue opens bang up to date: 2011. The language is poetic''Black Woods Blue Sky'' tells the story of Birdie, liltingthe young mother of toddler Emaleen, evocative but tinged with sadness and sets the tone who longs for a life beyond the rest Alaskan lodge where she works as a bar waitress, a setting which enables her bad habits and her accidental neglect of the bookEmaleen. Lots of unanswered questions hang Described as a ''wild card'', she feels stuck in her day-to-day life, and yearns to cross the air throughout. The location is South Africa Wolverine river and section headings such as 'The Earthworks live on the North Fork to fulfil her desires of the Universe' a simple life surrounded by nature. When she meets Arthur Nielson, a strange, taciturn and 'The Storysolitary man, who says he has a cabin over there, she feels called to go -Ghostand bring Emaleen with her. Without realising it, this calling will transform hers and Emaleen' give a flavour of its contentss lives forever.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0224090461</amazonuk>1472279042
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Delphine de ViganSally Rooney|title=Underground TimeIntermezzo
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=Mathilde Sally Rooney has studied the chessboard of life and is unhappy something of a grandmaster at workputting it into words. More than just unhappy actuallyHer dialogue is gripping and so brilliantly frustrating, because after expressing an opinion different to as her boss he has frozen her out of characters never quite say exactly what they feel. Among the many relationships woven into this story, the team and bullied her mentally and emotionally central one for months. Mathilde readers to unravel is a woman on the edge of breaking point, feeling increasingly brow-beaten by both the demands of city life fraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and her awful bossPeter Koubek. Meanwhile Thibault is an emergency on-call doctorIvan, racing from one district to another through the nightmares of Parisian traffica socially awkward chess prodigy, unhappy in contrasts sharply with his relationship and also strugglingolder brother Peter, mentallya successful lawyer living in Dublin. Following their father's passing after a long battle with cancer, to survivethe brothers' already strained relationship faces new trials. Will today be |isbn=0571365469}}{{Frontpage|author=Fyodor Dostoyevsky|title=White Nights|rating=5|genre=Short Stories|summary=As always in Dostoyevsky, the day that changes everything?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.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408811111</amazonuk>0241619785
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Siri HustvedtJames Baldwin|title=The Summer Without MenGiovanni's Room
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Sometime after Mia's husband of thirty years, Boris, suggests a marriage 'pause', Mia goes mad and finds herself in a psychiatric hospital. Although this Brief Psychotic Disorder does not last long, she remains fragile and retreats to the town in Minnesota where she was brought up and where her elderly mother still lives. While Boris cavorts with the Pause, she struggles through the summer, learning to live without him. She builds relationships with her motherGiovanni's friends, with her neighbours and with a group of teenage girls who form her creative writing class. Written in the first person, the book catalogues her progress using these friendships, her past, her reading and her shrink, Dr S.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444710524</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Edward Docx|title=The DevilRoom's Garden|rating=3.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Set on a research station in an unnamed Amazonian country (although by the indigenous tribes mentioned, this is probably Peru), this first person narrative story is told by Dr Forle, who has come to the area to study ants - specifically the strange phenomenon of a type of ant that appear to destroy their own environment. It's sort of ants on the deck in follows the junglenarrator David, if you like. However the scientific study is interrupted by the arrival of an army colonel and a judge, who at least on the surface of things is there to organize the registration of the local tribes. However when the doctor witnesses a clear act of violence by the soldiers accompanying the colonelAmerican man living in Paris, as he becomes more engaged navigates his torturous affair with the local goings on.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330463500</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mary Horlock|title=The Book of Lies|rating=3.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Catherine Rozier is fifteen years old and she has a secret. Secrets are a big thing on Guernsey, the small Channel Isle that is only three miles across at one point with a population a little over 65,000 i.e. somewhat more than Hereford, considerably less than Lincoln, or about half that of Norwich or Preston. Unlike any of those townsGiovanni, Guernsey is an island. It is self-contained. It isn't just that everyone knows everyone else; they're almost certainly, quite closely, related.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847678858</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Alexi Zentner|title=Touch|rating=3.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Stephen, an Anglican priest is writing a story of three generations, Italian bartender he meets in a haunting tale of his childhood set in Sawgamet, an isolated clearing in the snowy forest expanse of North West Canadagay bar. It While David is the evening before his mother's funeral. One loss brings up earlier losses; relating this deeply poignant tale he relates the disastrous event of his father's attempts engaged to rescue his sister, MarieHella, when on a skating expedition she falls through a dark hole in the thin ice at the turbulent confluence of two rivers. His terrified sister looks towards her father who plunges into the water and both perish in a catastrophe. Consequently, Stephen is to struggle with for many years to travelling in some way to come to terms with this severe trauma. His grandfatherSpain, Jeannot, a resilient settler is a stalwart figure who keeps returning protectively into Stephen's life the real tension in order to resurrect the novel arises not from his own lost love, Martine infidelity but from the hereafterdeeper conflict within himself. This love between Jeannot and Stephen's grandmother, Martine, and also that between JeannotIt is David's brother crippling shame and future wife blossom through magical events involving the metamorphosis denial of gold, trees and mountains which move, and malevolent 'qualuplillumits' ogres from a richly various panoply of magical realismhis sexuality that ultimately dooms his relationship with Giovanni.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0701185465</amazonuk>0141186356
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Yoko OgawaAlba de Cespedes |title=Hotel IrisForbidden Notebook
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=When I read [[The Housekeeper This Italian work of feminist fiction holds an air of suspense and tension from the Professor by Yoko Ogawa|The Housekeeper and the Professor]] by Ogawa I fell completely in love with the book. It was gentlemoment our protagonist, Valeria Cossati, and beautifully written. ''Hotel Iris'' is verypurchases her forbidden notebook, very different and really ought to have a warning label on learns about herself in the cover for those who simply recognise the author's name most intimate and pick it up hoping for more! This is the story of a seventeen year old girl who is seduced by an old man in a sadistic, distressing mannerrevealing ways.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099548992</amazonuk>1782278222
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Martin AmisOttessa Moshfegh|title=The Pregnant WidowMy Year of Rest and Relaxation|rating=3.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The bulk of ''The Pregnant Widow'' is set in the summer of 1970 in a beautiful Italian castle where the almost 21 year old Keith Nearing, an English Literature student, has come to spend the summer with his on/off girlfriend Lily and her more physically attractive At best friend Scheherazade. Amongst the other attendees are a gay couple, this novel is a short Italian suitor to the ample chested Scheherezade who is waiting for the arrival scathing critique of her boyfriend modern society and, critically for reveals the story the ample bottomed Gloria and eventually her rich boyfriend. If this all sounds like one of those enviously indulgent, middle class, sex filled summer fragility of love storieshuman relationships; at worst, then partly it isthe cynical, but this being Martin Amispredictable and slightly trite tale of an unlikeable protagonist. This unlikely heroine, there's a lot more depth and sadness attached to the story. It's an investigation into the changing roles of females and particularly their attitudes to sexslim, attractive and for Keith newly orphaned girl in particularher twenties is disillusioned with the world, the long term implications of this idyllic vacation are but resolves not going to be happy and Amis provides a 'what happened next' to bring each of his characters up to present daylose sleep over it: in fact, her solution lies in her hibernation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099488736</amazonuk>1784707422
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Louise WelshMatthew Tree|title=Naming the BonesWe'll Never Know
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Murray Watson is a Doctor of English Literature embarking on a year-long sabbatical Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to pursue be different from his long-held dream father, a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of writing the definitive biography being exceptional at any of Archie Lunan his artistic passions all failed miserably andwho had endless crises of self confidence. So Tim applied himself to his studies, as a specifically intended by-product, restore Lunan's poetry to its rightful place in the cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high canon of Scots creativitybut achievable ambitions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847672566</amazonuk>B0CVFXPGP8
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicole KraussB0C47LV1PC|title=Great HouseFragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Can you make a ''Great HouseYo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is unashamedly literary in style and while undoubtedly not everyone's cup of teathe question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, would it's hard not to admire the cleverness of Krauss. It also covers such broad issues land? The catch is that it's not the easiest of books to sum up in a few words. Certainly, to enjoy this book you will need to have a tolerance answer for cerebral fiction. You will also need to appreciate the role of the book in commenting on aspects of the human condition rather than just telling a good storyboth could well be. This is most certainly not a plot driven book. You should also be prepared that the stories told are unremittingly dark, sad, and almost oppressively depressing. But while all of this sounds negative, the payoff is a book of exceptional cleverness and shot through with lovely and often beautifully observed writing about the human condition and in particular about memory. It would be wrong to say that it's cerebral with no heart: there's plenty of emotional heart here, but unless you buy into the cerebral game, then it's a book that will infuriate you before you reach it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670919322</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gail JonesMosby Woods|title=Five BellsA Whirly Man Loses His Turn
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=It The West isn't the dominant force it once was. Nobody in the West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is the best course of action. Governments are flailing. A war here, a lovely sunny day push for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is in Circular Quayactual charge. Imagine then, there was a tourist hotspot in Sydney, Australiaman with precognition. This novel is about Imagine the thoughts and memories of four people, three women and strategic advantage in this asset; a man who visit the place that daycan tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. None are locals. Ellie and James were teenage lovers in Western AustraliaThat man would be valuable, and are meeting up again after not seeing each other for years. Catherine has recently come to right? Perhaps the city from Ireland. Pei Xing is a Chinese immigrant, now settled most valuable asset in Sydneyhistory. The novel is full of descriptive visual imagery from the first page onwardsImagine then, and it is significant that three of the four characters are seeing Circular Quay for the first timethis man loses this ability.What would governments do to get it back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846554020</amazonuk>B0C9SNG8R1
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Philippe Claudel and Euan Cameron0571379559|title=Monsieur Linh and His ChildThe House of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=''The back cover blurb has praise for this debut novel from two House of my favourite authors: [[:Category:Joseph OBroken Bricks'Connor|Joseph O'Connor]] and [[:Category:A L Kennedy|A L Kennedy]] so things were definitely off to a good startis the story of four people. The front cover is rather unsettling (as itTess Hembry's meant to roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be) - some may say disturbing: happier there, but instead, she lives in the house on the riverbank, built of broken bricks. Insubstantial as it might look, it's stood the passage of an adolescenttime, but neither male nor female but rather a fusion of the two sexesstorms and floods. And Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the question is right up there before I've even opened the book delivery rounds - how would such an individual (and family members to bring in sufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and society as a whole) deal and interact with such a personMax, the rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. ItPeople don't believe that they're related, much less twins and there's not an easy question to answer, if Iassumption when Max is out with his mother that she'm honests his nanny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224091271</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Karen RussellClaire North|title=Swamplandia!House of Odysseus
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Ava Bigtree is a teenage alligator wrestler. Her older sister Ossie is in ''What could matter more than love with a ghost. They have grown up on a Florida island theme park with their parents, their grandfather and their big brother Kiwi. Now though, all they have known is threatened. Their mother Hilola was the star attraction, but she died a few months before, not in the jaws of an alligator but of ovarian cancer. As well as being the glamorous figure on billboards who everyone came to see, she ran the show and did all the jobs that needed to be done, and the family is lost without her.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>070118602X</amazonuk>}}?''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tim PearsKay Chronister|title=Disputed LandDesert Creatures|rating=3.54|genre=Literary Dystopian Fiction|summary=In this engaging novelWith a world that is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, Tim Pears tackles many challenging themes: sibling rivalry, time and change in the countryside, facing terminal illness, reflections on the isolation of academic life and undertaking risky financial investmentpost-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. This Whether it is not a portrayal robotic takeover, a world devoid of water or a rural idyll although much of the most lyrical writing concerns the colours of the Shropshire countryside and nuclear holocaust, this genre is strengthened a way for humans to cathartically experience their most existential fears. ''Desert Creatures'' by reference to the layers Kay Chronister is a new work of post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the archaic past fears that underlies this disputed borderland territoryexist for humanity today. In attempting such It is a multi-layered narrative in a relatively short shocking novel, it is not surprising that for instance, the traumatic shocks in the epic tale are diminished by random, experimental shifts in the tone of the narrativestill manages to find hope.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0434020818</amazonuk>1803364998
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{{newreviewfrontpage|isbn=1803363002|author=Denis KehoeEric LaRocca|title=Walking on Dry LandThe Trees Grew Because I Bled There|rating=3.5|genre=Literary FictionHorror|summary=Ana has grown up mostly in PortugalHorror taps into something primeval within us. It is used as a way to reflect our darkest emotions and how we as humans react and process them. Most horror fiction feature a ''Big Bad'', but now lives in Dublin where she teaches film studies and whether that is writing her PHD. Howevera home invader, she was born in Anglola (then a Portuguese colony)monster or a ghost, it usually something tangible and, by the result end of an extra-marital relationship of her fatherthe story, who then adopted her with his wifebeatable. Eric LaRocca's ''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is not like that. When her adopted mother, Helena, dies, she decides to trace her birth mother in Angola, where her brother now lives, but has nothing much to go on but It is a photocopy collection of a photograph short stories more interested in the horrors of two Angolan girls, one of which may, or may not, be her motherillness, grief and a name: Solange Mendeshumiliation. We follow Ana as she attempts Horrors that linger and are harder to trace her real mother while in alternating chapters exploring her parentsdefeat than any ''Big Bad'' developing relationship and ultimately how her unusual past evolved.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846687810</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Camilla GibbMadelaine Lucas|title=The Beauty of Humanity MovementThirst for Salt
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The novel opens with an elderly man as he scrapes a meagre living in Vietnam. He is really dirt-poor but ''Love, I could tell that he still had his pride. He's not afraid of hard work. In factd read, gruelling days of labour and very early risings have been the norm for him since he was a young boy. His passion is cooking. Nothing is too much trouble in order supposed to create his famous Vietnamese noodle soup. And there's a terrific line on the back cover which says 'They say that the history of Vietnam can be found in a bowl of pho light and Old Man Huweightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravity''ng makes Told from a retrospective view, a young woman unravels the best in all Hanoi'. We get some background on Hu'ng and discover year-long relationship that his life has been hard, very hardonce defined her. But he doesn't complainOverlaid with later wisdom, it's simply not in his nature. Such is the pull and narrator relives the draw of Gibb's lovely, lyrical writing that I was drawn right into the life of this enchanting elderly affair with a man right twenty years her senior from its inception – the start of summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the booksummer after. Gibb feeds us tiny morsels about Vietnam on a regular basis: Set against the culture, the people, the troubled history backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for example, but itSalt''s written in such effortless prose that itdetails the 24-year-old narrator's a joy to read. And deepening relationship with her descriptions are so aptolder lover, depicting its all-consuming nature, so poetic and so original (but without being in your face) that how it all shines changed her perspective on the page. I gobbled both romantic and familial relationships and how it all upaltered her irrevocably.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848877935</amazonuk>0861546490
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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=Manuel RivasJennifer Saint|title=Books Burn BadlyAtalanta|rating=45
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=''I normally start with a brief summary was as worthy as any one of the novel I’m reviewing, but Rivas’ sprawling epic is close to impossible to do anything ‘brief’ withthem. While it starts in 1881I would get on board that ship, it’s the book burning witnessed by Hercules the boxer during the Spanish Civil War in 1936 which gives this novel its title and it floats through several other eras, eventually finishing more than a century after it startedI vowed. Along the wayI would take my place, we meet a young washerwoman who sees souls not just in the river, Olinda name of the matchgirl, Gabriel goddess. It was for the stammerer, and the Judge sake of Oklahomamy name, star of a series of Western novels Gabriel’s father readstoo.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099520338</amazonuk>}}Atalanta''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Linden MacIntyreAmanthi Harris|title=The Bishop's ManBeautiful Place
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Duncan MacAskill (he eschews Padma, a young Sri Lankan, has returned to the title ''Father'' whenever he can get away with it) Villa Hibiscus on the southern coast of her home country. This is ostensibly dean of a Catholic university in Nova Scotiaplace she spent her formative years. It's is not a job he enjoysplace she was born into, but the one she thinks of as home. Approaching fifty years of age How she came to be at the Villa, he ishow it became her home, in general, happy with his and the machinations that have flowed through her life.But ever since she first arrived there provide the Catholic Church is strong on history ''score'' for this gentle and MacAskill cannot yet subtly violent novel. Padma's present fails to escape his own. The son her past and much like the musical score of a bastard father and a foreign motherfilm, he was lucky even to be able to follow his vocation and enter that strand weaves its way through everything that happens at the church at all. For most of his career he has been "The Bishop's Man"Villa. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0224089722</amazonuk>1784631930
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Aamer Hussein178563335X|title=The Cloud MessengerSea Defences|author=Hilary Taylor|rating=3.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=MehranWhen we first meet Rachel Bird she's a trainee vicar, growing sitting in on a PCC meeting and wondering why they're held when you need to pick the children up in Karachi. Her husband, Christopher, hears his father collects six-year-old Hannah and sister speaking about London all the timeher elder brother, Jamie, as if it were an exotic locationwhilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioner. Thelma's daughter-in-law won't let her see her grandson. He ends up living there as an adultHolthorpe, but in on the rainyNorfolk coast, is a lovely place, dreary climate he turns back but Rachel is struggling to develop a real bond with the poetry parish - and she's in awe of his homelandthe vicar, Gail, dreaming of other placesbut then she's been doing the job for more than thirty years. As he travels between Italy, India, Pakistan Rachel and London we watch his relationships grow and die and wonder if he will ever truly find Christopher hoped that a place where he'll feel that he belongswalk on the beach would do them some good - it was stormy but it was probably what they needed. And then Hannah went missing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846590892</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=P G Wodehouse1398515388|title=The Crime Wave at BlandingsBoy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=There's a crime wave at Blandings Castle First of all, it was the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and bumbling Lord Emsworth is right at its centre. This is somewhat surprising as Emsworth (or 'Clarence!' to his sister Constance) is really only happy when he's reading his favourite bookthis, in turn, Whiffle's 'The Care of caused the Pig'nuclear meltdown. It frequently soothes where other restoratives failThe result was complete and utter devastation. The problem began with an air rifle deaths were uncountable, and an unwanted tutor, but before the afternoon loss of livelihoods was out most widespread. The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of priorities but - six months after the inhabitants of Blandings Castle seemed to have shot, been shot at or lefttsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. If it hadnHe wasn't been written by P G Wodehouse it a dog person but the convenience store owner's comment that he would all be most confusingcall Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and Tamon the dog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141196289</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian McEwan0989715337|title=SolarPapa on the Moon|author=Marco North
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Ian McEwan's Michael Beard is possibly 'Some frogs had gotten into the most ignoble Nobel prize winner there has ever been. He's gloriously obnoxious and hateful in almost every way. Since winning his Nobel prize he has rested on his Nobel laurels and has traded on his reputation rather than his achievements in his specialist area of physics. When this book starts, he's on his fifth wife having managed to wreck all previous marriages by his compulsive infidelity. He's short, balding, ageing, obese, bigoted, and something of an opportunist, particularly if it means he can be lazy and get away with somethingwell. In short, which he is, he's morally vacant. But what makes Beard an effective creation, and what carries us along with him despite his obnoxiousness, is that he knows all these things about himself. He's rather like Shakespeare's Richard III - he's honest with the reader and himself about what he is doing. Sure he would like to change, but talking about it isn't doing it, is it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099549026</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nathacha AppanahDaisy Hildyard|title=The Last BrotherEmergency|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Raj and his two beloved brothers live on a Mauritian sugar plantation. World War II rages far away and The summary of this book doesn't come close too, but Raj to explaining what is blissfully unaware of anything beyond his immediate surroundings. Life is poor and hard and Raj's father takes out done with the privations of his life on his sons and his wife - drunken beatings are a regular occurrence. But his mother is loving and kind, and skilled at healing, and his brothers are constant playmatespremise. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849164010</amazonuk>1913097811}}
{{newreviewFrontpage |author=Bernhard Schlink and Carol Brown JanewaySally Oliver |title=The ReaderWeight of Loss |rating=4.5|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=It's West Germany, 1958Marianne is grieving. A 15-year-old schoolboyTraumatised after the death of her sister, Michael Bergshe awakes to find strange, is suffering a long bout thick black hairs sprouting from the bones of hepatitisher spine which steadily increase in size and volume. When he recovers he returns to Her GP, diagnosing the flat of odd phenomenon as a tram conductorphysical reaction to her grief, 36-year-old Hanna Schmitzrecommends she go to stay at Nede, an experimental new treatment centre in Wales. Yet something strange is happening to thank her for taking care of him Marianne and the day he fell sick. The two other patients at Nede: a metamorphosis of them begin a secret affair that becomes a routine for months: after school and work, Michael would read kind. As Marianne's memories threaten to overwhelm her, Nede offers her release from this cycle of memory and then they would make love and bathe each other. Both pain—but only at a terrible price: that of them fall in loveidentity itself.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0753804700</amazonuk>086154112X }} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anthony QuinnNatalia Garcia Freire|title=Half of the Human RaceThis World Does Not Belong To Us
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=At heartEarly comments on this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendous, a delight. I will agree with the first – tremendous is no understatement – but 'Half of the Human Racea delight' is perhaps using the expression in a way I'will theym 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, wonI don't they' love story featuring an upper class, emerging county cricketer, Will Maitland, and read Spanish) there does seem to be a middle class strong, educated, cricket-loving woman, Constance Callaway. But this is so much more than a question of will tendency towards the fantastical – the cricketer bowl a maiden over? It's a novel about friendship, love, fighting for what you believe in and, also, surprisingly, about celebritymystical realism.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0224087290</amazonuk>0861541901
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=William StyronJennifer Saint|title=The Suicide RunElektra
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary='Elektra'The House by Jennifer Saint tells the story of Rajani'' is set three women who live in Jaffa, Palestine in 1895-96the heavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. The narrative alternates between the two main charactersCassandra, both telling their stories in the first person. Luminsky and his wife travel from Europe to Jaffa to start a new life there. Luminsky has studied agronomy in preparation for his new lifeClytemnestra, and he and his wife have both been involved Elektra are all bit players in the Zionist movement promoting an ideal story of the Jewish people returning to their homelandTrojan War. He is looking forward to putting his studies to good use, but is soon disappointed when he arrives by both Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the quality of silent women have the land occupied by Jewish colonists and their work ethic. Far from the ideal of self-sufficiency, they are buying fruit, grain most compelling stories and vegetables from the Palestinians. He is also frustrated by his wife’s lack of interest in having sex with himmost extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099535998</amazonuk>1472273915
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jon McGregor8409290103|title=Even the DogsIf Only|author=Matthew Tree|rating=34.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=I loved Jon McGregor's previous two novelsTwenty-one-year-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by his father, cotton-broker AO Lowry: he asked his accountant, Mr Patrick, 'If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things' to ensure that the young man got on board the boat and 'So Many Ways thereafter Patrick was to Begin'send him a monthly allowance. TheyPatrick sent the money regularly and a correspondence - of sorts - sprang up between the two although we hear more about what Lowry has to say than Patrick. It wasn're both lyricalt that Lowry senior didn't care for his son, poetically observed works so I it was really looking forward that he didn't care to have him in this country where he might be a danger to reading his latest bookwife and other children. It is, unfortunately, quite a different sort of story..The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to get the young man on his way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408809478</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Simon ThirskB098FFFBH9|title=Not Quite WhiteSnowcub|author=Graham Fulbright
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The story alternates between the two main characters: Welsh Gwalia (thatFourteen-year-old Rachel is her school's animal rights project leader and she and her friend are producing a she, by competition entry to highlight the way) and English Jon Bull (and you get an idea of the fun Thirsk has with his names and also characters) as in which human beings exploit the two meet up for the first timeanimal world. Lots She gets a great deal of Welsh names such as Gwenfer support from her family: father Pip Harrison, a lecturer at Imperial College, London, mother Kate and Gwenlais and also lots of (mainly) unpronounceable place names including the glorious - wait for it - Llanchwaraetegdanygelynher twin, Nick. Thirsk has also scattered Welsh vocabulary all over Kate runs the place: but many of the words are easily understood family business, a toy shop called Cornucopia in Putney, which is where we'll meet Rachel's main (Anti for Auntie and Yncl for Uncle etcif unsuspected) so you don't really have to keep referring to the comprehensive Appendix, unless you want tosource of information: five soft toys.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184851199X</amazonuk>
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