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Month: July 2019

This Really Isn't About You Jean Hannah Edelstein
July 30, 2019

This Really Isn’t About You by Jean Hannah Edelstein

Review by Max Dunbar There’s a common British anecdote that goes: ‘We had some American friends here on holiday, and on the third day…

A Girl Returned by Donatella Di Pietrantonio Europa
July 30, 2019

A Girl Returned by Donatella Di Pietrantonio

Translated by Ann Goldstein Review by Gill Davies It is 1975, somewhere in the south of Italy. A thirteen year old girl drags a…

Big Sky Kate Atkinson
July 25, 2019

Big Sky by Kate Atkinson

Reviewed by Harriet He wished that he could just once hear his sister play a solo again. Or help his sister pin up the…

Dinosaurs Rediscovered benton
July 23, 2019

The Dinosaurs Rediscovered: How a Scientific Revolution is Rewriting History by Michael J Benton

Reviewed by Liz Dexter Michael J. Benton is Professor of Vertebrate Palaeontology and head of the Palaeontology Research Group at the University of Bristol,…

July 18, 2019

The Frayed Atlantic Edge by David Gange

Reviewed by Peter Reason David Gange is historian at the University of Birmingham and a passion for mountains and wild water. Well before The…

City of girls elizabeth gilbert
July 16, 2019

City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert

Reviewed by Rebecca Foster It’s been six years since Elizabeth Gilbert’s last work of fiction, The Signature of All Things, (reviewed here), a warm,…

extinction rebellion this is not a drill
July 11, 2019

This Is Not a Drill: An Extinction Rebellion Handbook

Edited by: Farrell, Clare, Alison Green, Sam Knights, and William Skeaping Review by Peter Reason There cannot be many followers of Shiny New Books…

Stranger in my grave margaret millar
July 11, 2019

A Stranger in my Grave by Margaret Millar

Reviewed by Harriet Margaret Millar, born in Canada in 1915, lived for most of her life in California with her husband Ken, who wrote…

Red Circle Minis
July 9, 2019

Red Circle Authors: An unusual and innovative venture

By Karen Langley Japanese literature has a long and rich heritage stretching from early works like The Pillow Book (990s) and The Tale of…

Red Circle Minis
July 9, 2019

Tragedy, Farce and the Future: the Red Circle Minis

Review by Karen Langley As I’ve explained in my Bookbuzz feature, the Red Circle Minis are three slim volumes of original writing published by…

July 4, 2019

Vintage 1954 by Antoine Laurain

Translated by Jane Aitken and Emily Boyce Reviewed by Annabel Since I discovered the feelgood novels by French author Antoine Laurain, brought to us…

chaos tom o'neill charles manson cia
July 4, 2019

CHAOS:Charles Manson, the CIA and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O’Neill

Review by Basil Ransome-Davies In Stephen Dobyns’ murder mystery Saratoga Swimmer Charlie Bradshaw, unlicensed private eye and true-crime addict, recounts the story of New…

selfies sylvie weil les fugitives
July 2, 2019

Selfies by Sylvie Weil

Translated by Ros Schwartz Review by Karen Langley The selfie might seem to be a very modern phenomenon; the sight of people constantly stretching…

Najib Mahfuz The quarter roger allen
July 2, 2019

The Quarter by Najib Mahfouz

Translated by Roger Allen Review by Anna Hollingsworth On the rare occasions that someone uncovers unpublished work by a deceased writer, publishing takes an…

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