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Month: October 2017

October 31, 2017

Heirloom Knitting by Sharon Miller

Review by Hayley Anderton  Sharon Miller’s ‘Heirloom Knitting: A Shetland Lace Pattern Book’ had become almost a book of legend before this reprint made…

A Forger’s Tale by Shaun Greenhalgh
October 31, 2017

A Forger’s Tale by Shaun Greenhalgh

Reviewed by Harriet The subtitle of this fascinating book is ‘Confessions of the Bolton Forger’. Does that ring any bells? If you were keeping…

October 26, 2017

Ornithology by Nicholas Royle

Reviewed by Annabel Earlier this year, I reviewed the novel An English Guide to Birdwatching by an author named Nicholas Royle, and I interviewed…

This is going to hurt adam kay
October 26, 2017

This is Going to Hurt by Adam Kay

Review by Annabel I love reading medical memoirs, we’ve featured neurosurgeon Henry Marsh’s two volumes here at Shiny (see my review of Do No…

The Cocktail Book
October 24, 2017

The Cocktail Book

Reviewed by Hayley Anderton My day job is selling wine, spirits, and beer, something I fell into when I became interested in learning more…

legacy of Spies John Le Carre
October 24, 2017

A Legacy of Spies by John le Carré

Review by Basil Ransome-Davies However deeply the irony may have entered his soul, John le Carré has no reputation as a jester. An element…

The Other Woman by Laura Wilson
October 19, 2017

Questions for Laura Wilson on The Other Woman

Interview by Harriet Harriet: Hi Laura – thanks for agreeing to answer some questions. I really loved The Other Woman and have some questions…

The Other Woman by Laura Wilson
October 19, 2017

The Other Woman by Laura Wilson

Reviewed by Harriet A couple of years ago on Shiny I reviewed Laura Wilson’s The Wrong Girl. That was a tense psychological thriller centring…

October 17, 2017

New People by Danzy Senna

Reviewed by Alice Farrant Maria and Khalil are the perfect couple, “King and Queen of the Racially Nebulous Prom”. Maria is a successful scholar,…

i am i am i am ofarrell
October 17, 2017

I Am I Am I Am by Maggie O’Farrell

Reviewed by Harriet I’ve always admired Maggie O’Farrell’s fiction, and greatly loved her most recent novel, This Must Be the Place, which I reviewed…

October 12, 2017

Pan Books at 70: The SF Edit

Reviewed by Annabel Pan, founded in 1944, published its first mass market paperback in 1947 – Ten Stories by Rudyard Kipling with the famous…

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October 12, 2017

Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke

Reviewed by Gill Davies This is Attica Locke’s fourth novel and a stunning follow-up. Black Water Rising was set in 1981; Pleasantville in 1996 and both used the…

October 10, 2017

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

Paperback review by Lucy Unwin There is no question, this book is stunning: in its scope, its ambition, in what it can teach us…

Diary bookseller shaun bythell profile
October 6, 2017

The Diary of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell

Reviewed by Simon Thomas Many book lovers have fantasies about what it would be like to work in a bookshop – perhaps particularly a…

sugar money jane harris
October 5, 2017

Sugar Money by Jane Harris

Reviewed by Harriet Jane Harris is not exactly a prolific novelist. Five years passed beween the publication of her debut novel The Observations (2006)…

Small Dark Quiet
October 3, 2017

Giving​ ​A​ ​Voice​ ​-​ ​an​ ​Interview​ ​with​ ​Miranda​ ​Gold

Interview by Victoria Miranda​ ​Gold​ ​is a writer based in London. Her first novel, Starlings, published by Karnac in December 2016, reaches back three generations…

Return to the Dark Valley by Santiago Gamboa
October 3, 2017

Return to the Dark Valley by Santiago Gamboa

Translated by Howard Curtis Reviewed by Basil Ransome-Davies I found a molten quality in this novel (if it is a novel). It burns off…

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