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Month: July 2020

July 30, 2020

Rolling Fields by David Trueba

Translated from Spanish by Rahul Bery Reviewed by Michael Eaude Too often, reviews are distorted because they are written by someone who knows and…

July 30, 2020

Grayson Perry by Jacky Klein & Grayson Perry

Reviewed by Liz Dexter This sumptuous book, that has a lot of content, in terms of both text and image, is a real treat…

July 28, 2020

Notes From An Apocalypse by Mark O’Connell

Review by Annabel O’Connell is an Irish journalist who won the Wellcome Book Prize for his previous title, To Be a Machine (which I…

July 28, 2020

Three Wainwright Prize Nominees: Books by Patrick Barkham, Patrick Laurie & Jini Reddy

Reviewed by Rebecca Foster The Wainwright Prize longlists for writing on UK nature and global conservation themes were announced in early June and will…

July 23, 2020

Jane Austen: Writing, Society, Politics by Tom Keymer

Reviewed by Harriet Today, Jane Austen is regarded as one of the most important writers in the English language, often spoken of in the…

All Adults Here Emma Straub
July 23, 2020

All Adults Here by Emma Straub

Reviewed by Ann For the second time in a matter of weeks I’ve read a book that I wouldn’t normally have picked up simply…

July 21, 2020

My Summer Reading: Gawain and The Green Knight – Michael Smith

Members of the Shiny reviewing team share previously published books from their shelves that they’re reading now… Review by Rob Spence Readers of Shiny…

July 21, 2020

Summer’s Lease by Thom Eagle

Review by Hayley Anderton I’ve heard universally good things about Thom Eagle’s first book, First, Catch and it has a clutch of awards to…

July 16, 2020

Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell

Reviewed by Harriet Grief fills the room up of my absent child,Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty…

July 14, 2020

Root Stem Leaf Flower by Gill Meller

Reviewed by Hayley Anderton Whilst writing this I’m still officially in full lockdown in Leicester. I don’t know what it’s like on the outside,…

July 14, 2020

The King of Elfland’s Daughter by Lord Dunsany

Review by Helen Parry I first read The King of Elfland’s Daughter five years ago, but this ‘fine, strange, almost forgotten novel’, as Neil…

Expectation anna hope
July 9, 2020

Expectation by Anna Hope

Review by Max Dunbar Looking back at her hard living past, singer Florence Welch writes in Vogue: I wonder if my young self would be…

July 9, 2020

Into the Tangled Bank by Lev Parikian

Review by Liz Dexter Lev Parikian is a conductor and, more recently, a birdwatcher, and you might have seen or read his book on…

July 7, 2020

The Coral Merchant: Essential Stories by Joseph Roth

Review by Eleanor Updegraff Translated by Ruth Martin Austrian author Joseph Roth is best known – if indeed he is known at all –…

DIARY OF A YOUNG NATURALIST
July 2, 2020

Diary of a Young Naturalist by Dara McAnulty

Reviewed by Rebecca Foster When the Wainwright Prize longlists (for writing on UK nature and global conservation themes) were announced in early June, Dara…

July 2, 2020

Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams

Paperback Review by Liz Dexter This Sunday Times bestseller, which was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award and Longlisted for the Women’s Prize…

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