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Month: October 2020

October 29, 2020

The Harpy by Megan Hunter

Reviewed by Annabel Megan Hunter’s beautiful and poetic debut novella, The End We Started From (reviewed here for Shiny by Lucy Unwin), the story…

October 29, 2020

The Unbearable Bassington by Saki

Reviewed by Elaine Simpson-Long Francesca Bassington sat in the drawing room of her house in Blue Street regaling herself and her estimable brother Henry…

October 27, 2020

Happy Half-Hours: Selected Writings of A.A. Milne

Review by Simon Thomas You might be familiar with the beautiful little hardbacks from Notting Hill Editions, where they select essays and other writings…

October 27, 2020

The Little Library Christmas by Kate Young

Reviewed by Hayley Anderton I’m a proper fan of Kate Young and her Little Library books – they’re a delightful mix of recipes, reflection,…

October 22, 2020

The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante

Translated by Anne Goldstein Reviewed by Anna Hollingsworth Adolescence can be brutal, and in The Lying Life of Adults Elena Ferrante brings it out…

October 22, 2020

One Billion Years to the End of the World by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

Translated by Antonina W. Bouis Reviewed by Karen Langley Science fiction writing often gets a bad press; dismissed as lightweight genre writing, mocked for…

October 20, 2020

The Oxford Book of Theatrical Anecdotes, edited by Gyles Brandreth

Reviewed by Harriet This, obviously, is a book for those who like a good theatrical anecdote. I certainly do, and have been privy to…

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October 20, 2020

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Universe: And Our place within it by Andrew Newsam

Reviewed by Annabel I’ve always loved books about space and I still have my beloved Hamlyn guides on Astronomy and Exploring the Planets by…

October 15, 2020

Snow by John Banville

Reviewed by Harriet I’m rather ashamed to say that the only one of ‘multi-award-winning’ John Banville’s books I’ve read before is The Black-Eyed Blonde,…

October 15, 2020

Kitted Out: Style and Youth Culture in the Second World War by Caroline Young

Reviewed by Liz Dexter This extremely well-researched and authoritative book takes us through the Second World War, in the UK, the US, the Far…

October 13, 2020

Spoon-Fed by Tim Spector

Reviewed by Annabel Kings College Hospital-based Professor Tim Spector’s name is, I hope, becoming more widely known in the UK since the pandemic began….

October 13, 2020

Reviewer’s Choice: A Day to Remember to Forget by Rosalind Brackenbury

While Shiny New Books concentrates on the new, we enjoyed giving some of our reviewers room to share previously published – ie: ‘not Shiny…

October 8, 2020

Final Cut by S. J.Watson

 ‘They tried to hide the truth. But the camera never lies…’ Review by Basil Ransome-Davies So runs the publisher’s tagline on the front cover…

October 8, 2020

The Perfect World of Miwako Sumida by Clarissa Goenawan

Reviewed by Anna Hollingsworth In one of the marketing quotes on its cover, The Perfect World of Miwako Sumida is described as “an elegantly…

October 6, 2020

Daughters by Lucy Fricke

Translated from the German by Sinéad Crowe Reviewed by Eleanor Updegraff In the Translator’s Note at the end of Daughters, Sinéad Crowe writes of…

October 6, 2020

Knitting From Fair Isle by Mati Ventrillon

Reviewed by Hayley Anderton There are a few new knitting books, annuals, or journals in the offing that deal with Fair Isle or Shetland…

October 1, 2020

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

Review by Annabel Of all the books that were published a couple of weeks ago in this September’s post-lockdown publishing splurge, Susanna Clarke’s second…

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