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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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)…
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…
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…
