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Month: April 2018

All the Beautiful Girls by Elizabeth J Church
April 26, 2018

All the Beautiful Girls by Elizabeth J Church

Reviewed by Rebecca Foster Elizabeth J. Church’s debut novel, The Atomic Weight of Love, was about an 87-year-old amateur ornithologist whose husband was one…

Rex V. Edith Thompson
April 26, 2018

Rex V. Edith Thompson: A Tale of Two Murders by Laura Thompson

Review by Karen Langley The Thompson-Bywaters murder case (also known as “The Ilford Murder”) is notorious, but I think most of my previous knowledge…

April 24, 2018

The Vintage Shetland Project by Susan Crawford

Reviewed by Hayley Anderton The Vintage Shetland Project has had quite a journey into print, one that I’ve followed with interest for the last…

Rosie by Rose Tremain
April 24, 2018

Rosie by Rose Tremain

Reviewed by Harriet I’m a huge admirer of Rose Tremain’s brilliant novels, and very fond of childhood memoirs as a genre, so this one…

The Unbeliever by Oggy Boytchev
April 19, 2018

The Unbeliever by Oggy Boytchev

Reviewed by Annabel Oggy (Ognian) Boytchev grew up behind the Iron Curtain in Bulgaria. He developed an interest in spies and spy novels as…

Dear mrs bird
April 19, 2018

Dear Mrs Bird by A J Pearce

Reviewed by Helen Skinner It’s 1941 and Britain is at war. Emmeline Lake has always wanted to be a journalist and is thrilled when…

A Chill in the air iris origo
April 17, 2018

A Chill in the Air by Iris Origo

Review by Terence Jagger This is a fascinating book, written during the year or so preceding Italy’s entry in to the 1939-45 war, when…

How Shostakovich Changed My Mind
April 17, 2018

How Shostakovich Changed My Mind by Stephen Johnson

Review by Karen Langley Readers of Shiny New Books will know of my love for Notting Hill Editions books; I’ve reviewed their “Beautiful and…

The Golovlevs
April 12, 2018

The Golovlevs by M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin

Translated by I.P. Foote Review by Karen Langley Back in SNB #13 I reviewed “The History of a Town” by Saltykov-Shchedrin, one of the…

April 12, 2018

To Be a Machine by Mark O’Connell

Review by Annabel I loved this book from the front cover to the back, starting with its title – that capital ‘B’ is crucial…

April 10, 2018

The Ropewalker and A People Without a Past by Jaan Kross

Translated by Merike Lepasaar Beecher Reviewed by Gill Davies Thanks to the wonderful Maclehose Press I have discovered another writer in translation who deserves…

What She Ate by Laura Shapiro
April 5, 2018

What She Ate by Laura Shapiro

Reviewed by Hayley Anderton What She Ate looks at ‘six remarkable women and the food that tells their stories’. It comes at a time…

April 5, 2018

Moonrise & Lost Mars, ed. Mike Ashley

Reviewed by Karen Langley There can’t be many readers of Shiny New Books who aren’t aware of the lovely British Library Crime Classics series:…

April 3, 2018

Diary of a Bipolar Explorer by Lucy Newlyn

Reviewed by Jean Morris This is both useful and beautiful. Lucy Newlyn, recently retired Oxford professor of English literature, author of a lovely book,…

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