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Month: March 2022

March 31, 2022

Brittle With Relics: A History of Wales 1962-1997 by Richard King

Review by Liz Dexter In this extraordinary book, Richard King takes the voices of a hundred Welsh people who were active in various forms…

March 31, 2022

French Braid by Anne Tyler

Reviewed by Harriet ‘That’s how families work. You think you’re free of them, but you’re never really free; the ripples are crimped in forever’….

March 29, 2022

Whatever Gets You Through the Night by Charlie Higson

Review by Annabel Back in the 1990s, Higson wrote four thrillers for adults, they were dark, nasty and funny. But after them he got…

March 24, 2022

Latchkey Ladies by Marjorie Grant

Reviewed by Harriet These girls, buffeting with the world as they did war-work, or any work that would support them, were apt to have…

March 22, 2022

Mother Mother by Annie Macmanus

Review by Annabel You may know Annie Macmanus as ‘Annie Mac’, the fomer Radio 1 DJ. She left the station last year to pursue…

March 17, 2022

The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann by Ananyo Bhattacharya

Review by Terence Jagger This is a lively and compelling biography of one of the intellectual giants of the twentieth century, who has somehow…

March 17, 2022

Nine Lives by Peter Swanson

Reviewed by Harriet Peter Swanson is a prolific author, averaging one book a year since his debut, The Girl with a Clock for a…

March 15, 2022

The Former Boy Wonder by Robert Graham

Review by Rob Spence Pete Duffy is having a mid-life crisis. His fiftieth birthday is on the horizon, and his career as a freelance…

March 10, 2022

The Twyford Code by Janice Hallett

Review by Terence Hallett This is an intriguing but also frustrating book.  I did wonder if the Shiny editors would allow me to write…

March 10, 2022

After Agatha: Women Write Crime by Sally Cline

Review by Karen Langley We readers have never been able to get enough of crime fiction, it seems, and in the 21st century the…

March 3, 2022

The Science of Life and Death in Frankenstein by Sharon Ruston

Review by Annabel Gaskell Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, her novel conceived during that momentous trip to Geneva in 1816 during ‘the year without a summer’,…

March 3, 2022

Two short, watery novels: Tides by Sara Freeman & The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka

By Rebecca Foster Short novels can convey much truth in a low page count, ramping up the psychological intensity through pared-back scenes and a…

March 1, 2022

No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy: Memoirs of a Working-Class Reader by Mark Hodkinson

Review by Liz Dexter While he’s now a publisher and editor with his own imprint, Hodkinson grew up in a terrace house in Rochdale…

March 1, 2022

Into Egypt by Rosalind Brackenbury

Review by Rob Spence This novel, first published nearly half a century ago, deals with matters which still, sadly, resonate today. Our protagonist is…

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