Only ten days to go till the big day, and the Shiny editors are taking a Christmas break. We’ll return in the New Year; our next reviews will appear on 15 January. Meanwhile we’d like to wish a very happy Christmas to all our readers – we’re glad to know you’re there, and hopefully appreciating…
Dear Readers, The Booker Prize will be 50 years old this year. The longlist for this year’s Man Booker Prize will be announced on the 24th of July, the shortlist will follow in September with the prize being awarded in mid-October. To kick off the proceedings, the longlist announcement will be preceded by a weekend…
Dear Readers, It so happened that Shiny New Books turned four-years-old in April, on the 7th to be precise, and we were all so busy we didn’t notice. When we started Shiny in April 2014, our aim was to be a quarterly magazine, with up to one hundred pages of reviews and articles each issue.…
Dear Shiny Readers, We hope you’re liking the new look for Shiny. We feel it’s cleaner, and it is nice to have the most recent posts higher up the front page for longer. Whilst we’re in spring-cleaning mode, the Shiny Eds have been discussing how we share our content with you. Outside of the website…
Dear Shiny Readers Another year has gone whizzing by as Shiny comes to the end of its fourth year. This has been a year of some big changes for us editors, and for you our loyal readers. Two of our hard-working co-editors decided to step back – Victoria for health reasons, and Simon because…
Introduction by Harriet Jane Austen died two hundred years ago, on 18 July 1817, at the age of just 41. She had anonymously published four novels – Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), and Emma (1815). Northanger Abbey and Persuasion were published after her death, in 1818. They were all…
We’re back! We have a new site design and a new way of sharing our content with our readers. We’re changing from our former ‘magazine’ format, in which we published lots of new pages in big batches every couple of months (and giving you too much to read in one sitting), to continuous posting. Each…