March 29, 2018 The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton Reviewed by Harriet I forget everything between footsteps. ‘Anna!’ I finish shouting, snapping my mouth shut in surprise. My mind has gone blank. I…
March 27, 2018 Dance of the Jakaranda by Peter Kimani Review by Terence Jagger This is a tricky book to read, though I enjoyed much of it. It is funny and observant, but painful…
March 27, 2018 Almost Love by Louise O’Neill Reviewed by Annabel After the searing, taboo-breaking storyline of O’Neil’s second novel, Asking For It (reviewed here), a young adult story about consent, teenage…
March 22, 2018 Ghosts of the Tsunami Richard Lloyd Parry Review by Terence Jagger Japan suffers multitudes of earthquakes every year and is among the best prepared countries in the world. Tsunami, too, are…
March 22, 2018 The Earlie King & the Kid in Yellow by Danny Denton Reviewed by Basil Ransome-Davies At the close of James Joyce’s moving and magisterial story ‘The Dead’ the reader learns that ‘snow was general all…
March 20, 2018 Rise Up, Women! The Remarkable Lives of the Suffragettes by Diane Atkinson Review by Liz Dexter This is a huge book in many senses of the word. It’s physically impressive enough to have arrived in a…
March 20, 2018 Sunburn by Laura Lippman Reviewed by Harriet We’ve reviewed two of Laura Lippman’s novels in Shiny, here and here. One was a police procedural and the other a…
March 15, 2018 Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading by Lucy Mangan Review by Liz Dexter This is a truly delightful book which is a MUST if you’re a 35-55 year old British person and a…
March 13, 2018 The Good Mothers by Alex Perry Review by Max Dunbar Operation Shame Nowadays, when we think of the mafia, it’s with a sense of nostalgia. David Chase captured the feel…
March 13, 2018 The Extremist by Nadia Dalbuono Review by Marina Sofia You might be forgiven for expecting this book set in Italy to be translated from Italian, given the Italian sounding…
March 6, 2018 Daphne by Will Boast Reviewed by Annabel The vogue for using ancient myth to inspire contemporary novels continues unabated. Last year, Kamila Shamsie updated the story of Antigone…
March 1, 2018 Elisabeth’s Lists: A Family Story by Lulah Ellender Reviewed by Gill Davies Lulah Ellender’s book – subtitled “A Family Story” – is part biography, part family history, and it includes reflections on her own…
