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Month: May 2020

The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix
May 28, 2020

The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix

Review by Annabel If you enjoy a contemporary horror novel laced with style and humour, you need look no further than the work of…

May 28, 2020

Tracks: Walking the Ancient Landscapes of Britain by Philip Hughes

Softback review by Liz Dexter This quietly stunning book will appeal to anyone interested in art, landscape, walking, geology, geography, maps and ancient monuments….

Footprints David Farrier
May 26, 2020

Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils by David Farrier

Review by Peter Reason In 2013, a spring storm uncovered, on the shores of Norfolk, the oldest traces of humanity discovered outside Africa: fossil…

Chatterton Square
May 26, 2020

Chatterton Square by E H Young

Reviewed by Harriet When the British Library announced the first three titles in their new Women Writers series, I was delighted see that one…

Well-kept Secrets: The Story of William Wordsworth by Andrew Wordsworth
May 21, 2020

Well-kept Secrets: The Story of William Wordsworth by Andrew Wordsworth

Reviewed by Harriet As I’m sure you’ve noticed, this year marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of Wordsworth, one of England’s most celebrated…

May 21, 2020

Rendang by Will Harris

Review by Anna Hollingsworth Will Harris has been described as one of the most important young poets in the UK, and his debut collection…

May 19, 2020

Diary Of A Foreigner In Paris, by Curzio Malaparte

Translated by Stephen Twilley Reviewed by Basil Ransome-Davies An adjective frequently applied to Curzio Malaparte is ‘colourful’. To the Cambridge dictionary it means ‘vivid,…

May 16, 2020

A Shiny Rebuild Update

By Annabel Just under a month ago, we experienced an absolute ‘dis-ah-ster’ (as Craig Revel Horwood would say) at Shiny – which just goes…

May 14, 2020

The Bass Rock by Evie Wyld

Reviewed by Rebecca Foster Evie Wyld’s third novel has the most stunning opening I’ve encountered in a long time. In under a page and…

How it Was Janet Ellis
May 14, 2020

How It Was by Janet Ellis

Paperback review by Annabel I had been reading and loving the late Clive James’ last book, an anthology of his writing on Philip Larkin…

May 12, 2020

On the origins of ‘Pomeranski’, by Gerald Jacobs

Today we are delighted to be taking part in a short blog tour for the novel ‘Pomeranski’ by Gerald Jacobs, just published by Quartet…

May 12, 2020

Oats in the North Wheat from the South by Regula Ysewijn

Review by Hayley Anderton I know it’s not the easiest time to get baking supplies, or books, or enough exercise to work off the…

Anne Tyler Redhead by the Side of the road
May 7, 2020

Redhead by the Side of the Road by Anne Tyler

Review by Ann Maybe as much as twenty years ago I remember a librarian colleague at the University where I was then working saying…

Bell in the Lake Lars Mytting
May 7, 2020

The Bell in the Lake by Lars Mytting

Translated by Deborah Dawkin Review by Harriet Lars Mytting, a Norwegian author, has had great acclaim for his two previous books – the non-fiction…

Lost Future of Pepperharrow natasha pulley
May 5, 2020

The Lost Future of Pepperharrow by Natasha Pulley

Review by Annabel Natasha Pulley’s 2015 debut novel, The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, which I reviewed for Shiny here, is still one of the…

Camilla Bruce You Let Me In
May 5, 2020

You Let Me In by Camilla Bruce

Review by Hayley Anderton You Let Me In is Camilla Bruce’s debut novel, and it marks her out as an author to watch. It…

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