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Month: July 2014

July 23, 2014

Death in Pont-Aven by Jean-Luc Bannalec

Translated by Sorcha McDonagh Reviewed by Harriet Devine Hooray for Hesperus, who sent me this book for review back in the early spring. I…

July 23, 2014

The Strange Stories of Robert Aickman

Reviewed by Annabel Gaskell 2014 marks the centenary of the birth of Robert Aickman, an author who once encountered demands that you read more…

July 23, 2014

The Eds discuss… the Man Booker longlist and literary prizes in general

By the Shiny New Books Editors The four SNB Editors had a round robin e-mail discussion about our reactions to the announcement of the…

July 23, 2014

The Disinherited by Robert Sackville-West

Reviewed by Victoria Best  When Jerry Seinfeld remarked that ‘There is no such thing as fun for all the family’, he could have had…

July 22, 2014

Fallout by Sadie Jones

Reviewed by Victoria Best I love novels about life on the stage, though they are a relatively rare genre. Noel Streatfeild’s Ballet Shoes was one of…

July 22, 2014

The Listener by Tove Jansson

Translated by Thomas Teal Reviewed by Simon Thomas It’s always interesting to see the genesis of a favourite writer. In Issue 1 of Shiny…

July 22, 2014

The Snow Queen by Michael Cunningham

Reviewed by Claire Boyle The Snow Queen by Michael Cunningham is like a snow scene uninterrupted by footprints, beautiful to look at and perfect in…

July 22, 2014

The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

Reviewed by Jodie Robson I was not happy as a child, although from time to time I was content. I lived in books more…

July 22, 2014

The Headmaster’s Wife by Thomas Christopher Greene

Reviewed by Victoria Best I do love a book with a really good jaw-dropping twist, and goodness me does The Headmaster’s Wife have one of those….

July 22, 2014

The Cemetery of Swallows by Mallock

Translated by Stephen Rendall Reviewed by Falaise The Cemetery of Swallows is a recent addition to Europa Editions’ excellent World Noir imprint, which, as you…

The Accidental Universe by Alan Lightman
July 22, 2014

The Accidental Universe by Alan Lightman

Reviewed by Annabel Gaskell My first encounter with Alan Lightman was through his 1992 novel Einstein’s Dreams, a fictional account of the scientist during the…

July 21, 2014

The Legs of Izolda Morgan by Bruno Jasieński

Translated by Soren A. Gauger and Guy Torr Reviewed by Karen Langley The boundaries and allegiances in Europe moved and blurred continually during the…

July 21, 2014

Shakespeare & Me, edited by Susannah Carson

Reviewed by Simon Thomas A few years ago, I very much enjoyed A Truth Universally Acknowledged, an anthology of writers and readers celebrating Jane Austen,…

July 18, 2014

The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman

Reviewed by Terence Jagger This is a famous and fascinating book, and I think anyone interested in the Great War, or the wider question…

July 18, 2014

The Unwitting by Ellen Feldman

Reviewed by Victoria Best It is November 1963 and Nell Benjamin is annoyed with her husband, Charlie. The previous evening, they had guests round,…

July 18, 2014

Q&A with Mike Ripley

Questions by Harriet Devine Harriet: I really enjoyed reading Mr Campion’s Farewell, and, as a lifetime fan of Allingham, I wasn’t sure if I would….

July 18, 2014

Mr Campion’s Farewell by Mike Ripley

Reviewed by Harriet Devine I think I was about eleven when my mother, responding to my cry that I had nothing to read, gave…

July 18, 2014

Over the Ocean by Erica Fischer

Translated by Andrew Brown Reviewed by Jean Morris The media were full of the D-Day commemorations as I read this book – stories of…

July 17, 2014

In the Light of What We Know by Zia Haider Rahman

Reviewed by Victoria Best Many years ago, when I was teaching literature at Cambridge University, my good friend Kathryn and I used to laugh…

July 17, 2014

The Path Through The Trees by Christopher Milne

Reviewed  by Claire When you are the inspiration for one of the most famous and best-loved children’s books of all time, how do you…

July 17, 2014

Expo 58 by Jonathan Coe

Reviewed by Annabel Gaskell The Festival of Britain back in 1951 and subsequent World Expos were before my time but I am finding that…

July 17, 2014

One Summer: America 1927 by Bill Bryson

Reviewed by Harriet Devine If I were to make a list of things I probably wouldn’t want to read a book about, aeroplanes, cars, baseball…

July 17, 2014

Pleasures and Landscapes by Sybille Bedford

Reviewed by Simon Thomas Are you ready to be transported back to postwar Europe? Although this collection of essays was first published as Pleasures and…

July 17, 2014

Jonathan Smith on his book Wilfred and Eileen

Written by Jonathan Smith Wilfred and Eileen was well received in the literary pages in 1976.  The novel was dramatized on Radio 4 in 1983…

July 17, 2014

Wilfred and Eileen by Jonathan Smith

Reviewed by Rachel Fenn Wilfred and Eileen, one of Persephone’s new books for the Spring, is also one of their most modern, having been…

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