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Month: February 2018

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February 27, 2018

Owl Sense by Miriam Darlington

Review by Peter Reason Miriam Darlington’s first book, Otter Country, recounted her search and study of otters in Britain. I reviewed this book with…

February 27, 2018

The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar

Reviewed by Max Dunbar Command the Mermaid Speak Last year a monster emerged from London’s sewers. The ‘fatberg’ – as the city’s waste disposal…

February 22, 2018

From Here to Eternity: Travelling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty

Reviewed by Rebecca Foster If you’ve read thirtysomething California funeral director Caitlin Doughty’s previous book, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, you’ll remember her account…

February 22, 2018

Felix Culpa by Jeremy Gavron

Review by Rob Spence The German artist Kurt Schwitters developed a method , which he called “Merz” by which his canvases would be constructed…

Savages: The Wedding
February 20, 2018

Savages: The Wedding by Sabri Louatah

Translated by Gavin Bowd Reviewed by Annabel This debut novel is the first volume of Louatah’s planned Saint-Étienne quartet named after the French city…

February 20, 2018

Idaho by Emily Ruskovich

Reviewed by Susan Osborne Emily Ruskovich’s Idaho is an impressive debut, both in its writing and its treatment of a difficult subject: the murder…

Dawn of the New Everything Jaron Lanier
February 15, 2018

Dawn of the New Everything: A Journey Through Virtual Reality by Jaron Lanier

Review by Liz Dexter Jaron Lanier has been called the “Father of Virtual Reality” and he’s been involved with many of the main companies…

February 13, 2018

Rainsongs by Sue Hubbard

Reviewed by Jean Morris Rainsongs will take you to remote vistas in the west of Ireland. It’s a lovely, vividly transporting novel. “Apart from…

The World Broke in Two by Bill Goldstein
February 13, 2018

The World Broke in Two by Bill Goldstein

Reviewed by Harriet This enthralling multiple biography is subtitled ‘Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, D.H. Lawrence, E.M. Forster, and the year that changed literature’. The…

February 8, 2018

The Lion and the Unicorn by George Orwell

Review by Karen Langley Although George Orwell’s name resonates most strongly with us nowadays because of his great novels – in particular “Nineteen Eighty…

February 6, 2018

Force of Nature by Jane Harper

Reviewed by Gill Davies Following on from her highly-acclaimed first novel, The Dry, Jane Harper has written a second gripping story featuring the harsh…

The Last Ballad by Wiley Cash
February 6, 2018

The Last Ballad by Wiley Cash

Reviewed by Harriet I have certain reservations about novels in which the central character is someone who really existed. Sometimes it works really well,…

Edith and Oliver by Michelle Forbes
February 1, 2018

Edith and Oliver by Michèle Forbes

Reviewed by Annabel I managed to miss Forbes’s debut, Ghost Moth, which received rave reviews – something I should remedy having read her second novel….

February 1, 2018

Interview with Rosamund Bartlett about Dostoyevsky and “The Russian Soul”

Interview by Karen Langley Karen: Rosamund, thank you for agreeing to an interview with Shiny New Books! You have a distinguished career as a translator,…

February 1, 2018

The Russian Soul: Selections from A Writer’s Diary by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Introduced by Rosamund Bartlett Translated by Kenneth Lantz / Olga Shartse Reviewed by Karen Langley Notting Hill Editions will probably need no introduction to…

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