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Month: August 2020

August 27, 2020

Antlers of Water: Writing on the Nature and Environment of Scotland, edited by Kathleen Jamie

Reviewed by Hayley Anderton Ever since I read Findings sometime around a decade ago I’ve viewed anything with Kathleen Jamie’s name attached to it…

August 27, 2020

The Changing Mind by Daniel Levitin

Reviewed by Terence Jagger This is a wonderful book, and the real title is the sub-title: A Neuroscientist’s Guide to Ageing Well.  It is…

August 25, 2020

A Room Made of Leaves by Kate Grenville

Reviewed by Gill Davies Kate Grenville’s latest novel is a wonderful continuation of her investigation of Australian history and the people who made it….

August 25, 2020

My Summer Reading: Broken Harbour by Tana French

Reviewed by Harriet I was very late in the day in discovering the novels of Tana French. I’d tried her first novel, In the Woods,…

August 20, 2020

My Summer Reading: The Manual of Darkness by Enrique de Hériz

Translated by Frank Wynne Reviewed by Annabel Members of the Shiny reviewing team share previously published books from their shelves that they’re reading this…

August 20, 2020

The Oxford Illustrated History of the Book, ed. James Raven

Reviewed by Liz Dexter As you would expect from an Oxford Illustrated History of … this is a sumptuous production, world-wide in scope and…

Summer Kitchens by Olia Hercules
August 18, 2020

Summer Kitchens by Olia Hercules

Reviewed by Hayley Anderton At the risk of speaking to soon lockdown finally seems to be lifting in Leicester just in time to catch…

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August 18, 2020

Laura Laura by Richard Francis

Reviewed by Harriet This funny, moving, absorbing, thought-provoking novel is about marriage, lust, friendship, ageing, memory, philosophy, and quantum mechanics. The film had been…

August 13, 2020

Tell Me How it Ends by V.B. Grey

Reviewed by Gill Davies London in 1963, despite some remaining scars of wartime, is busy re-inventing itself with skyscrapers rising over bomb sites, American…

August 13, 2020

The Day My Grandfather Was a Hero by Paulus Hochgatterer

Translated from the German by Jamie Bulloch Reviewed by Eleanor Updegraff By day, Paulus Hochgatterer is a child psychiatrist – something that absolutely shows…

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August 11, 2020

The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa

Translated by Stephen Snyder Paperback review by Annabel Yoko Ogawa’s latest novel has been shortlisted for the International Booker Prize: the winner to be…

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August 11, 2020

Cover by Peter Mendelsund

Reviewed by Harriet Ed’s Note: Six years after its publication in hardback, Mendelsund’s Cover gets a paperback release, so we are reposting Harriet’s original…

August 6, 2020

The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again by M. John Harrison

Review by Karen Langley M. John Harrison has been described as one of the UK’s best-kept secrets, a hidden jewel in the literary crown…

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August 6, 2020

Grave’s End by William Shaw

Review by Annabel William Shaw, former award-winning music journalist has, in recent years, become one of the UK’s must-read crime authors. Although he’d already…

August 4, 2020

Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir by Natasha Trethewey

Reviewed by Rebecca Foster Natasha Trethewey is an English professor and former U.S. Poet Laureate familiar to me from Native Guard (2006), her third…

August 4, 2020

My Summer Reading: Swamplandia by Karen Russell

Members of the Shiny reviewing team share previously published books from their shelves that they’re reading this summer… Review by Laura Tisdall Thirteen-year-old Ava…

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