October 30, 2018 Spotlight on Publishers: Handheld Press Harriet talks to Kate Macdonald Harriet: Thanks for agreeing to do this for us Kate. Can you tell us a bit about the genesis…
October 30, 2018 Kingdoms of Elfin by Sylvia Townsend Warner Reviewed by Harriet Do you believe in fairies? Probably at a young age most people would say they did. And together with an idea…
October 25, 2018 The Lady and the Little Fox Fur by Violette Leduc Translated by Derek Coltman Review by Karen Langley There’s been a buzz recently about Penguin’s (re?) launch of their European Writers series, with the…
October 25, 2018 Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami Translated by Philip Gabriel and Ted Goossen Review by Rob Spence The strap line chosen by the publishers for the cover of this massive…
October 23, 2018 Transcription by Kate Atkinson Reviewed by Harriet ‘Don’t let your imagination run away with you, Miss Armstrong. You have an unfortunate tendency to do that. Iris isn’t real’….
October 23, 2018 Books do furnish a Painting by Jamie Camplin & Maria Ranauro Reviewed by Hayley Anderton Thames and Hudson have got form for publishing tempting books that combine art and literature – Eric Karpeles Paintings in…
October 18, 2018 The Second Rider by Alex Beer Translated by Tim Mohr Review by Gill Davies The Second Rider is the first novel in a projected new series by the Austrian writer,…
October 18, 2018 Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography by Eric Idle Reviewed by Annabel Eric Idle is perhaps the most elusive of the Pythons. He’s the one who wrote on his own, the one whose…
October 16, 2018 Hippie by Paulo Coelho Review by Anna Hollingsworth Hippie is the newest addition to Coelho’s bibliography, but to say that it is something new from Coelho would be…
October 16, 2018 Irreplaceable: A History of England in 100 Places edited by Philip Wilkinson Reviewed by Harriet This attractive and informative volume does exactly what the title promises. It’s divided into ten sections: Science and Discovery; Travel and…
October 11, 2018 Performing Hamlet by Jonathan Croall Reviewed by Harriet Back in 2015 I wrote a review for Shiny of Jonathan Croall’s Performing King Lear, a wonderfully well-researched survey of performances…
October 4, 2018 Death of the Vazir-Mukhtar by Yuri Tynianov Translated by Susan Causey, Translation editor Vera Tsareva-Brauner Review by Karen Langley Recent years have seen a large number of works by Russian authors…
October 2, 2018 Time’s Convert by Deborah Harkness Reviewed by Harriet Have you ever wondered how the children of a witch and a vampire might turn out? Well, wonder no longer as…
October 2, 2018 Viking Britain: A History by Thomas Williams Review by Liz Dexter Williams opens this wonderful, absorbing book with a big statement about how the Vikings are not afforded the same respect…
