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Month: September 2018

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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…

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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…

Washington Black esi edugyan
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….

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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),…

Immeasurable world atkins
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…

The Hazards of Good Fortune by Seth Greenland
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…

Take Nothing With You Patrick Gale
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’….

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