Literary Fiction Site
	M. E. Wood BellaOnline's Literary Fiction Editor

1949 A Novel of the Irish Free State Review
1949 is the third book in Morgan Llywelyn’s Historical Fiction series around Ireland’s struggle for independence. It is not necessary to read 1916

A Girl Like Che Guevara Review
In Havana, Cuba during 1982 high school students were required to put in time in the Tobacco fields as part of their learning and as service to the communist regime. A Girl Like Che Guevara follows the life of Lourdes Torres

A Girl's Guide to Modern European Philosophy
The book is divided into three philosophies the first Friedrich Nietzsche (Human, All Too Human), the second is Martin Heidegger (Being and Time) and it closes with Soren Kierkegaard, (Fear and Trembling). Susannah uses what she learns from each of these philosophers

Authors Aloud
Canadian authors from "recognized Canadian publishing houses" read excerpts from their latest work. At the moment of this writing over 80 audio recordings are available for your listening enjoyment.

Belly : a Novel Review
It's August 2001 in Saratoga Springs, Florida. It's hot and fifty-nine-year-old Belly O'Leary is being released from prison. He was sentenced six years for illegal gambling in his establishment, The War Bar; but got off early after four years for good behaviour.

Burnt Shadows Review
Kamila Shamsie's book is divided into four time periods: Nagasaki in 1945; New Dehli in 1947, Pakistan in 1982 and New York / Afghanistan in 2001. If I had to describe it in one word it would be 'tender'. The last line of each chapter spurred me on to the next.

Enough Frey
It´s time to let go of James Frey. Yes, he did a bad thing. "Bad Frey, Bad!" It will leave a mark on the literary scene for years to come (or will it?). I´m not going to rehash the facts of his untruths

Getting Over It Review
Cosmopolitan compared it to Bridget Jones but this book is really about loss. It isn't about the laughs and it isn't about finding someone to spend the rest of your

Girls In Trouble Review
Sixteen year old Sara comes from a middle class family. Her father, Jack, is a successful accountant and her mother, Abby, is a dental hygienist. Sara dreams of being a psychiatrist. She's a braniac at school and her proud parents are

I, Richard, Audio Book Review
Elizabeth George is best known for her psychological crime novels. She has 15 books published. This is her first short story collection. Three of the five stories were previously published elsewhere.

Matches Review
Alan Kaufman did time in the Israel Defence Forces, giving him the experience necessary to draw on for this glimpse into a soldier's life. The title, Matches, is a nickname the officers gave the soldiers, "one-strike flames that burned up and died."

On Beauty Review
What could be more beautiful than a family? Why, the debacles of two of course! Awarded the Orange Prize for Fiction, On Beauty follows the Belsey and the Kipps families through 443 pages of shenanigans only family can forgive.

Pomegranate Soup Review
Pomegranate Soup is the story of ´new beginnings´; of planting seeds, letting the roots take hold and rejoicing in what blooms. Sometimes it isn´t all that was expected and sometimes it´s even better.

Season of Betrayal Review
Narrated by Larissa "Lara" McCauley looking back twenty years earlier to 1983 where she focuses on the year she spent in Beirut with her husband Mac, an American journalist. According to Lara, Mac was everything she had; her parents having died when she and

Supporting Women Authors
When women first entered the profession of writing and publishing they did so under an alias because it was frowned upon to have women write, let alone be successful at it. Today if a woman chooses to use a pseudonym she does so for privacy or because she writes

The Adventures of Flash Jackson Review
Who is Flash Jackson? Flash is the alter ego of 16 year old Haley Bombauer, a tomboy in search of her authentic self. The self she learns was there all along. With Flash Jackson around she doesn't have to face her fears or come to terms

The Bell Review
Iris Murdoch´s The Bell is her fourth of twenty-six published novels. It was released in 1958 but takes place in England in the late forties. This is my second Murdoch novel and I found it flows and is much more vivid in detail than her

The Da Vinci Code Book Review
The Da Vinci Code opens in Paris at Louvre Museum where renowned curator Jacques Sauniere runs through his museum trying to get away from Silas, an albino monk with a mission. Jacque's escape is unsuccessful and he ends up

The Last Storyteller Review
Taite Abbot is pregnant. Her long time boyfriend, Sam Wellington, has accepted a medical fellowship at the Institute of Neurological Research in Boston. Taite embarrassed by her upbringing, dreadlocks, tattoos and piercings has decided she isn´t the appropriate

The Love Song of Monkey Review
The Love Song of Monkey was written by Michael S. A. Graziano, a professor of Psychology at Princeton University. This is a strange little book about a man dying from Aids who sneaks into a hospital with the help of his wife to have an experimental

The Mercy of Thin Air Review
Amy Richmond and Scott Duncan buy an antique bookcase for their home in Baton Rouge from the Washington´s; along with it comes a little book on "Family Limitations" and the ghost of Raziela Nolan or Razi as she was known to her

The Year the Gypsies Came Review
The Iris family lives in Johannesburg, Africa. Where you can "fall asleep with the faint roar of a lion or the laugh of a hyena coming across the lake." Their story takes place in the Spring of 1966 and is described through the eyes of the youngest member, twelve-year-old

Town House Review
Thirty-six year old Jack Madigan lives at 117 Battersea Road in Boston in the town house of his deceased rock star father. Jack was nine years old when his father died as a result of a wound he received during a concert when he bit into a turtle. Not just any turtle, a snapper

Under the Net Review
James Donaghue (Jake) is a struggling British writer and book translator living in London with a girl named Magdalen (Madge), a typist and model. She kicks him out in an attempt to get him to commit. In the mean time she hooks up with a

Water Wings Review
You often hear of the ties binding women. Water Wings, through the help of one family explores what separates them. Their unique differences and the secrets not shared. Water Wings reads like a slow swim on a calm Sunday morning.

White Oleander Review
Throughout this novel the words sing a poetic duet with the reader and, from her opening description, I was humming along.