December 17, 2015 Silent Nights: Christmas Mysteries, ed. Martin Edwards Reviewed by Harriet Christmas is a mysterious, as well as magical, time of year. Strange things can happen, and this helps to explain the…
December 10, 2015 Beautiful and Impossible Things by Oscar Wilde Reviewed by Karen Langley There’s always the danger that when an author becomes more famous than his works, those works will become so eclipsed…
December 9, 2015 The Z Murders by J Jefferson Farjeon Reviewed by Harriet Golden Age crime has always been popular, and each of the so-called queens – Sayers, Christie, Allingham, March, Tey – has…
December 8, 2015 The Maiden Dinosaur by Janet McNeill Reviewed by Julie B “Barbara Pym…Elizabeth Taylor…” exalted company for any author’s novel, and when I noticed these names on the front of this…
December 8, 2015 Made to Kill by Adam Christopher Reviewed by David Harris Made to Kill is the first volume of a projected trilogy featuring a PI (ostensibly) who is also the last robot…
December 7, 2015 The Crystal Beads Murder by Annie Haynes Reviewed by Lyn Baines It struck me while I was reading this book that one of the differences between the Golden Age murder mystery…
December 4, 2015 Sylvia Townsend Warner: A Biography by Claire Harman Reviewed by Simon This marks the third biography I’ve reviewed in Shiny New Books that is about a major figure in my doctoral thesis…
December 3, 2015 Letters to the Sphinx by Oscar Wilde Reviewed by Simon This is the reason that small reprint publishers exist. Who else would print this attractive slim volume – only 63 pages…
December 3, 2015 After You by Jojo Moyes Reviewed by Laura Marriott “Don’t think of me too often … Just live well. Just live. Love, Will” After You is the sequel to the much…
December 3, 2015 Number 11 by Jonathan Coe Reviewed by Annabel I was lucky enough to have discovered Jonathan Coe fairly early on in his career, back when the paperback edition of…
December 2, 2015 Greengates by R.C. Sheriff Reviewed by Anna Barber There’s often a moment in the middle of reading a reprint when you wonder how a story like this could…
December 1, 2015 As Strangers Here by Janet McNeill Reviewed by Simon As Strangers Here (published in 1960) is set against the backdrop of 1950s Belfast and the terror of the warring factions of…
December 1, 2015 Afterworlds by Scott Westerfeld Reviewed by Bookgazing Scott Westerfeld is undeniably an imaginative author, even in the context of the SFF world where authors produce fun and wild…
December 1, 2015 A Lion Was Learning to Ski by Ranjit Bolt Reviewed by Annabel Ranjit Bolt is well known as a translator and playwright. He came to prominence when two of his translations of French…
