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\"CoverI\u2019m kicking off April\u2019s paperback preview with two favourites from last year beginning with Sarah Leipciger\u2019s Moon Road<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, the story of a missing girl and her parents, now divorced, who receive news decades after she disappeared. Yannick persuades Kathleen to travel to Vancouver, where Una had been living, to talk to the police. Although we discover what happened to Una, Leipciger\u2019s novel is about her parents rather than her, portraying the upending of their lives by a loss that\u2019s never been resolved with touching compassion and tenderness. Her writing is as striking as I remembered from her previous novels, glorious descriptions of the natural world shining out from elegantly pared back prose reminding me of her debut, The Mountain Can Wait<\/em><\/a>.\"Cover<\/em><\/p>\n

Orla Mackey\u2019s debut, Mouthing<\/em><\/strong><\/a> tells the story of Ballygowan over several generations in a vivid vernacular, much of it threaded through with an enjoyably dark humour. Characters are not short of opinions about their fellow villagers, some sharp-tongued and judgemental, others more forgiving. I thoroughly enjoyed this cleverly constructed debut, written with a pleasingly acerbic wit and a sharp eye for human nature balanced with compassion, which reminded me of Robert Seethaler\u2019s The Field<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"CoverI loved Kevin Barry\u2019s short story collection, That Old Country Music<\/em><\/a>,<\/em> but have yet to read one of his novels. His latest, The Heart in Winter<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, is set in the 1890s American West, opening in the town of Butte, Montana whose inhabitants have grown rich on copper mining and are running rampant on the proceeds. When a debauched balladeer falls hard for the new bride of a devout mine boss and she for him, they head out west with a company of Cornish gunmen hot on their trail. Very much like the sound of that and Cathy\u2019s review <\/strong><\/a>has whetted my appetite further.\"Cover\"Cover<\/p>\n

I\u2019m in two minds about this one not being much of a comic novel fan but Richard Ayoade is so funny I can\u2019t resist it. T<\/em><\/strong>he Unfinished Harauld Hughes<\/em><\/strong> <\/a>sees Ayoade stumble upon a copy of Hughes\u2019s The Two-Hander Trilogy<\/em> in a second-hand bookshop, startled to find the author\u2019s photograph looks just like him and transfixed by the writing of this poet, playwright and scriptwriter. \u2018Ayoade embarked on a documentary, The Unfinished Harauld Hughes<\/em>, to understand the unfathomable collapse of Hughes\u2019s final film O Bedlam! O Bedlam!,<\/em> taking us deep inside the most furious British writer since the Boer War\u2019 says the blurb. Annabel loved this one, including it in her books of last year. Here\u2019s her review<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Cover\"CoverI also have my doubts about Kaliane Bradley\u2019s Women\u2019s Prize for Fiction longlisted The Ministry of Time<\/em><\/strong><\/a> which is quite some way outside my usual reading territory but a host of starry names from Max Porter to Elinor Catton seem to love it plus, perhaps more convincingly, several bloggers whose opinions I trust. A civil servant is recruited to take part in a project to test the limits of time-travel, gathering in several historical figures including Commander Graham Gore who\u2019s a wee bit surprised to be alive in the here and now having died as part of Sir John Franklin\u2019s Arctic expedition in 1847. A love affair ensues, apparently.\"Cover\"Cover<\/p>\n

April\u2019s first short fiction collection is Amor Towles\u2019s T<\/em><\/strong><\/a>able for Two<\/em><\/strong> <\/a>made up of six stories all set in New York around the year 2000 plus a novella set in Golden Age Hollywood. Described by the publisher as a \u2018noirish tale\u2019, Eve in Hollywood<\/strong> follows Evelyn Ross from Towles\u2019s novel Rules of Civility<\/em> as she sets out on a new life in Los Angeles. \u2018Written with his signature wit, humor, and sophistication,\u00a0Table for Two\u00a0<\/em>is another glittering addition to Towles\u2019s canon of stylish and transporting fiction\u2019 says the blurb promisingly. Keen to read this one \u2013 I loved Rules of Civility. <\/em>Annabel has reviewed it very positively here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s it for April\u2019s first batch of paperbacks. A click on a title will take you either to my review or to a more detailed synopsis should you want to know more, and if you\u2019d like to catch up with new fiction it\u2019s here <\/strong><\/a>and here<\/strong><\/a>. Part two soon\u2026<\/p>\n

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