September 27, 2018 I Am Heathcliff – Stories Inspired by Wuthering Heights, curated by Kate Mosse Review by Julie Barham It is never easy to review a collection of short stories, especially one by such a diverse selection of authors…
September 27, 2018 By the Pricking of Her Thumb by Adam Roberts Reviewed by David Harris Roberts seems to have been very busy lately so I’m glad he managed to include a return to the world of The Real-Town…
September 25, 2018 Banned Books Week – The Russians By Karen Langley “The important task of literature is to free man, not to censor him.” (Anais Nin) The banning of books is an…
September 25, 2018 Washington Black by Esi Edugyan Reviewed by Annabel Having been Man Booker shortlisted in 2011 for her debut novel, Half Blood Blues, set in Berlin during WWII and fifty…
September 20, 2018 Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss Review by Laura Tisdall Having read every novel that Sarah Moss has written (plus most of her non-fiction) I was eagerly anticipating Ghost Wall….
September 20, 2018 Mrs Gaskell & Me: Two Women, Two Love Stories, Two Centuries Apart By Nell Stevens Reviewed by Rebecca Foster It started with a misreading of some nineteenth-century handwriting. In 2013 Nell Stevens began a PhD at King’s College, London….
September 18, 2018 Liquid by Mark Miodownik Reviewed by Annabel In his 2013 book Stuff Matters which I reviewed for Shiny here, materials science professor Miodownik took us on a tour…
September 18, 2018 On Rape by Germaine Greer Review by Anna Hollingsworth To say that the statistics are grim is a blatant understatement. One woman in five will experience sexual violence, but…
September 13, 2018 Apprenticeship by Peter Gill Reviewed by Harriet Born in Cardiff in 1939, Peter Gill is a distinguished theatre director and playwright. But he started his career as an…
September 13, 2018 The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker Reviewed by Alice Farrant The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker is the retelling of The Iliad from the perspective of Briseis (Brih-SAY-iss),…
September 11, 2018 The Immeasurable World: Journeys in Desert Places by William Atkins Reviewed by Rebecca Foster When I saw him introduce The Immeasurable World as part of the Faber Spring Party, William Atkins characterised it as…
September 11, 2018 The Hazards of Good Fortune by Seth Greenland Review by Basil Ransome-Davies The title of Seth Greenland’s book harks back to William Dean Howells’ 1889 New York novel of business and politics…
September 6, 2018 My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh Reviewed by Alice Farrant There are books you enjoy and then there are the books that consume you. Authors whose work brands you, generating…
September 6, 2018 Take Nothing With You by Patrick Gale Review by Annabel Given that I hadn’t looked at where this novel was set, it was a perfect, if somewhat ironic, fit to take…
September 4, 2018 I Only Killed Him Once by Adam Christopher Reviewed by David Harris Ray was first introduced – as detective – in Made to Kill (reviewed here), where, apart from cracking the case, he discovered his…
September 4, 2018 Spotlight on Publishers: Myriad Editions Annabel asked Myriad Editions’ Publishing Director Candida Lacey some questions… Annabel: Your company website has an intriguing strapline, ‘Publishers of fiction, graphic books and atlases’….
