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Month: August 2017

The End of the Web by George Sims
August 31, 2017

The End of the Web by George Sims

Reviewed by Harriet No, the title doesn’t refer to a predicted end of the internet. This is a 1976 novel, written before such things…

Separation by Sally Emerson
August 31, 2017

Separation by Sally Emerson

Reviewed by Harriet I have to admit I’d never heard of Sally Emerson before the publishers offered me a couple of their recent reprints….

Free Food for Millionaires
August 29, 2017

Free Food for Millionaires by Min Jin Lee

Review by Gill Davies I am going to review two novels by Min Jin Lee (the other one is Patchinko – see here). This…

August 29, 2017

Patchinko by Min Jin Lee

Review by Gill Davies Patchinko is a very different novel from Min Jin Lee’s earlier Free Food for Millionaires, which I reviewed here. It…

The Bestseller Code by Jodie Archer and Matthew L. Jocker
August 24, 2017

The Bestseller Code by Jodie Archer and Matthew L. Jocker

Reviewed by Annabel Imagine that you train a computer to read and analyse books, input a mix of hundreds and ask it to predict…

The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books
August 24, 2017

The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books by Martin Edwards

Reviewed by Harriet Here at Shiny we love our classic crime, and we have been delighted to review a number of excellent novels that…

August 22, 2017

Long Road from Jarrow: A Journey Through Britain Then and Now by Stuart Maconie

Review by Liz Dexter This entertaining and thought-provoking book is both a state-of-the-nation essay and an exercise in historical research and re-enactment and Maconie,…

sixteen trees somme lars mytting
August 22, 2017

The Sixteen Trees of the Somme by Lars Mytting

Translated by Paul Russell Garrett Reviewed by Harriet For me my mother was a scent, she was a warmth. A leg I clung to….

August 17, 2017

The Music Shop by Rachel Joyce

Review by Annabel This certainly is the year for novels about popular music, of the vinyl persuasion and the power of picking just the…

Lesley Nneka Arimah
August 17, 2017

What it Means When a Man Falls from the Sky by Lesley Nneka Arimah

Reviewed by Rebecca Foster Born in the UK, raised largely in Nigeria, and now resident in Minneapolis, USA – Africa and the West are…

rapture iliazd russian library
August 15, 2017

Rapture by Iliazd

Translated by Thomas J. Kitson Reviewed by Karen Langley The early 20th century was a time of great change and upheaval; it produced wars…

The Children of Jocasta by Natalie Haynes
August 15, 2017

The Children of Jocasta by Natalie Haynes

Reviewed by Annabel Natalie Haynes may be most familiar to you as a journalist and broadcaster, popping up on various shows and with her…

A Secret Sisterhood by Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney
August 10, 2017

A Secret Sisterhood by Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney

Reviewed by Harriet The subtitle of this book is ‘The hidden friendships of Austen, Brontë, Eliot and Woolf’, which sounds very promising. I’ll start…

Zoo Christopher Wilson
August 10, 2017

The Zoo by Christopher Wilson

Reviewed by Basil Ransome Davies Christopher Wilson’s new novel takes us back in time while signalling contemporary concerns. It recalls the Cold War epoch,…

Listening in jenny eclair
August 8, 2017

Listening In by Jenny Eclair

Review by Laura Marriott Listening In is a collection of 24 short stories from comedian and writer Jenny Eclair. Her last literary outing was the…

Can You Hear Me? by Elena Varvello
August 8, 2017

Can You Hear Me? by Elena Varvello

Translated by Alex Valente Review by Annabel Can you hear me? is no ordinary psychological thriller – to pigeonhole it into that sub-genre would…

August 3, 2017

Five Fascinating Facts about… Anthony Burgess

Compiled by Annabel Researching Burgess for this article, I found so many nuggets, I could easily have compiled a list of fifty facts –…

August 3, 2017

Anthony Burgess Centenary – a Reading List

By Rob Spence Anthony Burgess, whose centenary is celebrated this year, remarked ruefully on more than one occasion that he produced as many novels…

August 1, 2017

Questions for Louise Welsh about Plague Times Trilogy

Questions by Annabel Annabel: When you began writing these books, had you already planned a trilogy? Had you ever thought that A Lovely Way to Burn could…

August 1, 2017

No Dominion by Louise Welsh

Reviewed by Annabel No Dominion is the concluding part of Louise Welsh’s Plague Times Trilogy – a dystopian tale of a pandemic and its…

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