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Month: July 2014

July 31, 2014

Angelica’s Smile by Andrea Camilleri

Translated by Stephen Sartarelli Reviewed by Elaine Simpson-Long I discovered the Inspector Montalbano books by Camilleri some six or seven years ago and at…

July 31, 2014

When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed by Bradley Greenburg

Reviewed by Victoria Best One of the best experiences in reviewing books is when a book for which you have no particular expectations turns…

July 31, 2014

To Come Back Increased: Hild by Nicola Griffith

Written by Nicola Griffith For me a good novel is one that draws me in and puts me right there, right then, with the…

July 31, 2014

Nick Rennison talks about the Victorians…

By Nick Rennison What is it about us and the Victorians?  Here we are in 2014, in a world of smart phones, Twitter and…

Tigerman by Nick Harkaway
July 31, 2014

Tigerman by Nick Harkaway

Reviewed by Annabel Gaskell At the time of writing, I have the pleasure of telling you that Tigerman, with its stunning cover artwork, is the best…

July 31, 2014

Travels with Epicurus by Daniel Klein

Reviewed by Victoria Best Cultural theorist Giorgio Agamben has some very interesting things to say on the topic of old age – the subject…

July 31, 2014

The Day of the Dead by Maurizio de Giovanni

Translated by Antony Shugaar  Reviewed by Falaise On a miserable morning in 1930, a small, undernourished child is found dead at the foot of the…

July 30, 2014

Glow by Ned Beauman

Reviewed by Simon Thomas When you’ve established yourself as a (Booker longlisted) quirky historical novelist – if such a title can be given to…

July 30, 2014

Eyrie by Tim Winton

Reviewed by Kim Forrester If you’ve ever spoken your mind, or stood up for something you believe in when it might have been easier…

July 30, 2014

An Interview with Tim Winton

Tim Winton is arguably Australia’s greatest living writer. Born in Perth in 1960, he has written novels, short story collections, non-fiction, books for children,…

July 30, 2014

Q&A with Ned Beauman

Questions by Simon Thomas Simon: How did you get the idea for Glow? Ned: There were two subjects I had been wanting to write about…

July 30, 2014

The Trip to Echo Spring by Olivia Laing

By Max Dunbar A decade or so into his career as a bestselling novelist, horror writer Stephen King ran into problems. He was drinking…

July 30, 2014

The Death of the Poet by N. Quentin Woolf

Reviewed by Harriet Devine How can I best describe to you this wonderful, powerful book? If I tell you that it’s about a man…

July 29, 2014

The Way Inn by Will Wiles

Reviewed by Annabel Gaskell “You can check out any time you want, but you can never leave.” Never has a quotation been as appropriate…

July 29, 2014

The Skeleton Cupboard by Tanya Byron

Reviewed by Victoria Best When my son was still a child, he used to be transfixed by The House of Tiny Tearaways, a BBC programme…

July 29, 2014

Return to Mandalay by Rosanna Ley

Reviewed by Elaine Simpson-Long Round about this time of year publishers, publicists and bookshops turn their attention to Holiday Reading or Beach Reads.   Both…

July 28, 2014

The True & Splendid History of the Harristown Sisters by Michelle Lovric

Reviewed by Helen Parry We Swineys were the hairiest girls in Harristown, Kildare, and the hairiest you’d find anywhere in Ireland from Priesthaggard to…

July 28, 2014

Five Fascinating Facts About… Robert Aickman

Winkled out by Annabel Gaskell 1.  Although we’ve come to know Aickman as an author, he was a prominent conservationist. In 1946, he was…

July 28, 2014

The New Sylva, A Discourse of Forest and Orchard Trees for the Twenty-First Century, by Gabriel Hemery and Sarah Simblet

Reviewed by Hayley Anderton When Shiny New Books asked me if I’d like to review The New Sylva I thought it sounded interesting. When it arrived…

Sidney Chambers and the Problem of Evil by James Runcie
July 28, 2014

Sidney Chambers and the Problem of Evil by James Runcie

Reviewed by Victoria Best Readers of this delightful series are probably aware that the ITV adaptation will soon be on our screens, with James…

July 25, 2014

The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith

Reviewed by Harriet Devine Strike hated paddling on the periphery of a case, forced to watch as others dived for clues, leads and information….

July 24, 2014

‘The Night Watchman’ and the Dilemma of Living in Portugal by Richard Zimler

Imagine a country with the lowest salaries in Western Europe, where about 40 percent of young people are unemployed, and where 50,000 shops went…

July 24, 2014

To War With Whitaker by Hermione Ranfurly

Reviewed by Claire If I were knowingly heading into an active theatre of war, I like to think I would go armed with the…

July 24, 2014

The Night Watchman by Richard Zimler

Reviewed by T.V. LoCicero The Mysterious Worlds of Henrique Monroe  This is the ninth novel by Richard Zimler, an American-born writer who spent his…

July 24, 2014

The Most Dangerous Book; The Battle for James Joyce’s Ulysses by Kevin Birmingham

Reviewed by Max Dunbar This study of how James Joyce’s Ulysses came to be published and set in type is almost as essential as the book…

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