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Month: December 2016

December 16, 2016

Simple by Diana Henry and Gather by Gill Meller

Reviewed by Hayley Anderton A tale of two cookbooks: Simple and Gather The nights are now longer than the days, the quinces on the…

A Different Sea – Claudio Magris
December 15, 2016

A Different Sea – Claudio Magris

Translated from the Italian by M. S. Spurr Reviewed by Hayley Anderton This is a book that really needs an introduction, or even an…

December 15, 2016

Crimson Snow: Winter Mysteries, ed. Martin Edwards

Reviewed by Harriet The British Library Crime Classics editions started a successful trend in 2014 with their publication of J. Jefferson Farjeon’s Mystery in…

December 13, 2016

The Eds Discuss… Three Years of Shiny

What’s been the main takeaway for you from these three years? Victoria: Two main things, the first has been the friendships I’ve made with the…

Bewildering Cares by Winifred Peck
December 13, 2016

Bewildering Cares by Winifred Peck

Reviewed by Julie Barham This is an actual book! Thank you to the nice people at Furrowed Middlebrow/ Dean Street Press who listened to…

Evenfield Rachel Ferguson
December 13, 2016

Evenfield by Rachel Ferguson

Review by Simon The launch of the Furrowed Middlebrow series from Dean Street Press, under the editorial eye of blogger and middlebrow expert Scott…

December 12, 2016

William and Dorothy Wordsworth: All in Each Other by Lucy Newlyn

Reviewed by Harriet She who dwells with me, with whom I’ve livedWith such communion, that no place on earthCan ever seem a solitude to…

under a pole star
December 12, 2016

Q&A with Stef Penney

Questions by Annabel Annabel: This has been a vintage year for me reading books about the frozen white stuff – I’ve read so many,…

under a pole star
December 12, 2016

Under a Pole Star by Stef Penney

Review by Annabel This year is becoming a vintage one for historical novels set in Arctic or icy northern climes: To the Bright Edge…

December 12, 2016

Human Acts by Han Kang

Translated by Deborah Smith Paperback review by David Hebblethwaite When you shake off the hundred-plus books of a year’s reading and find that the…

Ysenda Maxtone Graham
December 9, 2016

Terms and Conditions by Ysenda Maxtone Graham

Review by Simon Slightly Foxed are beloved for their reprints of memoirs from across the twentieth century, but they also have published a handful…

December 8, 2016

Real Tigers by Mick Herron

Review by Annabel Herron is one of my favourite author discoveries of recent years. Real Tigers is the third of Mick Herron’s ‘Jackson Lamb’…

The Temptation of Elizabeth Tudor by Elizabeth Norton
December 8, 2016

The Temptation of Elizabeth Tudor by Elizabeth Norton

 Reviewed by Laura Marriott The Temptation of Elizabeth Tudor concerns itself with the potential marriage between the teenage Elizabeth Tudor and Thomas Seymour. The book…

December 8, 2016

The Pigeon Tunnel by John le Carré

Reviewed by Rob Spence The very name seems mysterious: perhaps a whiff of the matinée idol about it, speaking of a glamorous and wealthy…

December 8, 2016

Fairy tales: A Reading List

Selected by Helen Parry Christmas is traditionally a time of magic. Even if you’re no longer quite certain that Father C pops down the…

The History of a Town by M. E. Saltykov-Shchedrin
December 8, 2016

The History of a Town by M. E. Saltykov-Shchedrin

Translated by I.P. Foote Reviewed by Karen Langley Russian literature has long had a tradition of satire stretching all the way back to Gogol,…

Footprints in Spain by Simon Courtauld
December 7, 2016

Footprints in Spain by Simon Courtauld

Reviewed by Liz Dexter Written by someone who is obviously an expert on and traveller in Spain, this interesting book takes a look at…

December 6, 2016

Learning from Baby P by Sharon Shoesmith

Reviewed by Anne Goodwin A civilised society must put structures in place to protect the vulnerable. When the vulnerable are children at risk from…

December 6, 2016

Spotlight on Publishers: Europa Editions

Questions for Daniela at Europa Editions 1. Tell us about the genesis of Europa Editions. How did the publishing house come into being? Europa…

December 6, 2016

33 Revolutions by Canek Sánchez Guevara

Translated by Howard Curtis Reviewed by Annabel Canek Sánchez Guevara was Che Guevara’s grandson. Was, because he died in early 2015 from complications after…

December 6, 2016

A Novel Calling – Books That Were Written Just For Me

By Alice Farrant Realistically, I know searching for signs in the everyday is silly. Stepping over three drains in a row doesn’t cause bad…

December 6, 2016

Ada’s Algorithm by James Essinger

Review by Peter Hobson One of the most accomplished women of the nineteenth century and little known until recently outside mathematical and computer science…

December 6, 2016

Ghost Stories by E.F.Benson

Reviewed by Julie Barham An historical entertainment? When I was first asked to read E.F.Benson’s Ghost Stories, I was a little concerned as I have…

December 5, 2016

The Tobacconist by Robert Seethaler

Translated by Charlotte Collins Reviewed by Susan Osborne It’s a both a joy and a worry when a second novel appears on the horizon…

December 5, 2016

The Wrong Case by James Crumley

Reviewed by Basil Ransome Davies First published in 1975 – the year the NLF took Saigon and expelled the US from Vietnam – The Wrong…

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