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Month: October 2015

October 31, 2015

The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales, second edition, edited by Jack Zipes

Reviewed by Helen Parry I’ve always loved the Oxford Companions, ever since I first encountered the Companion to English Literature about twenty-five years ago. They’re very…

October 30, 2015

Us by David Nicholls

Paperback review by Laura Marriott Us is David Nicholls’ fourth novel and the follow up to 2009’s surprise hit One Day. Nicholls is an award winning…

October 30, 2015

The Crossing by Andrew Miller

Reviewed by Judith Wilson I’d been introduced to Andrew Miller’s writing via his richly evocative Costa Award-winning novel, Pure (2011), set in and around a cemetery…

October 29, 2015

Mythology – An illustrated journey into our imagined worlds by Christopher Dell

Reviewed by Annabel. As picture books for grown ups go, Mythology is the business. Now available in soft covers, this nine inches square book yields glorious pictorial…

October 29, 2015

The Dark Inside by Rod Reynolds

Reviewed by Gill Davies This is the first novel by Rod Reynolds, a British author who is working comfortably within the conventions and settings…

October 29, 2015

The Oxford Companion to Wine 4th Edition by Jancis Robinson and Julia Harding

Reviewed by Hayley Anderton It was reading Jancis Robinson’s Confessions of a Wine Lover which initially pushed me to learn more about wine, and the second…

October 28, 2015

My Katherine Mansfield Project by Kirsty Gunn

Reviewed by Simon The premise for My Katherine Mansfield Project is admittedly rather niche. If one is not already a fan of Kirsty Gunn, then one…

October 28, 2015

The Girl in the Spider’s Web by David Lagerkrantz

Reviewed by Harriet Reading continuations of series by celebrated dead authors is always going to be a bit of a gamble. I’ve had some…

October 27, 2015

Bloody Scotland Crime-writing Festival, Stirling, 11-13 September 2015

Report by Linda Boa After arriving somewhat later than planned in Stirling, all I wanted to do was find the lovely guesthouse I was…

October 27, 2015

Latest Readings by Clive James

Reviewed by Simon I have to confess that when I picked up Latest Readings, I knew very little about Clive James’ life and work. And,…

October 27, 2015

Rembrandt’s Mirror by Kim Devereux

Reviewed by Victoria The first thing – inescapable – that you notice about this book is what a beautiful object it is. With gilt-tipped…

Friendship by Emily Gould
October 26, 2015

Friendship by Emily Gould

Reviewed by Victoria This book broke a late-summer reading slump I was wallowing in, and I am as grateful to it as a reader…

October 23, 2015

Q&A with Laila Lalami

Questions by Helen Skinner 1. The Moor’s Account is narrated by the Moroccan slave, Mustafa al-Zamori, also known as Estebanico. What made you decide to write…

October 23, 2015

Shiny Book Club – Lila by Marilynne Robinson

Introduced by Harriet It’s time for the third round of The Shiny Book Club – we’re posting the questions now, and the discussion will…

October 23, 2015

Five Fascinating Facts about… Richmal Crompton

Written by Simon The author of the much loved William books, about a well-meaning but disastrous young boy, also wrote over thirty books for…

October 22, 2015

The Jump by Doug Johnstone

Reviewed by Harriet Doug Johnstone is an amazing writer. This is the third of his novels I’ve read, each of which is brilliant and…

October 22, 2015

Reading Israel

Written by Danielle Simpson When was the last time you read a book by an Israeli author? Yes, I thought so. If you had…

October 22, 2015

Fighters in the Shadows: A New History of the French Resistance by Robert Gildea

Reviewed by Falaise Back in the ancient mists of time – or, at least, 1986 – a youthful version of me (think a bad…

October 22, 2015

The Prank: The Best of Young Chekhov, by Anton Chekhov

Translated by Maria Bloshteyn Reviewed by Karen Langley The art of the short story is a difficult one, and many authors never attain the…

October 22, 2015

Five Fascinating Facts about … Margaret Atwood

By Shoshi Ish-Horowicz 1.  She had an unconventional childhood with her family, spending every spring and summer in the northern Canadian wilderness; Atwood didn’t…

October 22, 2015

Witches of Lychford by Paul Cornell

Reviewed by David Harris I’d been eagerly waiting for this book. Cornell has recently published two volumes in an urban fantasy series, The Shadow Police,…

October 22, 2015

The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood

Reviewed by Shoshi Ish-Horowicz To put this review into context, I’m a huge Margaret Atwood fan.  I haven’t read everything she’s written (fifteen novels,…

October 21, 2015

The House of Shattered Wings by Aliette de Bodard

Reviewed by Annabel Gaskell This may have been the first novel I’ve read by Franco-Vietnamese SF&F author Aliette de Bodard, but it certainly won’t…

October 21, 2015

The Killing Kind by Chris Holm

Reviewed by David Harris At first sight, this book was surprisingly different from the previous books of Holm’s that I had read: his Collector series was a…

October 21, 2015

Reading Liverpool

Compiled by Beth Townsend Novels set in places I recognise are a special kind of thing. There is nothing I enjoy more than reading…

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