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Month: March 2020

March 31, 2020

Grown Ups by Marian Keyes

Reviewed by Laura Marriott We start at a dinner party. If you groan inwardly at the very thought of a family dinner party then…

March 31, 2020

Rules for Perfect Murders by Peter Swanson

Reviewed by Harriet I’ve reviewed two of Peter Swanson’s excellent psychological thrillers on Shiny before. There have been a couple of others since then,…

March 31, 2020

A Little History of Poetry by John Carey

Review by Rob Spence In 1935, the doyen of art critics, Ernst Gombrich, was a young, unemployed former student with a PhD in art…

March 24, 2020

Fandango and Other Stories by Alexander Grin

Translated by Bryan Karetnyk Reviewed by Karen Langley Recent years have seen a wave of wonderful new translations of ‘lost’ Russian authors of the…

Mat Osman The Ruins Repeater Books
March 19, 2020

The Ruins by Mat Osman

Reviewed by Annabel I am an absolute sucker for any novel with a bit of rock’n’roll in it, and two of my favourite reads…

March 17, 2020

James Joyce by Edna O’Brien

Review by Rob Spence Edna O’Brien’s position as one of the most significant modern Irish writers is undisputed, and here, in this reissue of…

March 12, 2020

Winter in Sokcho by Elisa Shua Dusapin

Translated by Aneesa Abbas Higgins Review by David Hebblethwaite Winter in Sokcho is a first in several senses: the debut novel by French-Korean writer…

March 10, 2020

The Author’s Effects by Nicola J. Watson

Reviewed by Harriet This splendid and fascinating book – subtitled ‘On Writer’s House Museums’ – has been a long time in the making, and…

March 5, 2020

Red Sixty Seven, curated by Kit Jewitt

Review by Peter Reason When I was a small boy, back in the 1950s, I remember going on Sunday School trips to the seaside….

March 3, 2020

Miss Austen by Gill Hornby

Reviewed by Anna Hollingsworth There’s a point in Miss Austen where I felt that my sins had been found out. Cassandra, Jane Austen’s now…

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