Pushkin Press Poetry
Review by Karen Langley Pushkin Press is one of the UK’s best-loved and most successful indies. Founded in 1997, over the years they’ve issued a wide array of books; as…
Review by Karen Langley Pushkin Press is one of the UK’s best-loved and most successful indies. Founded in 1997, over the years they’ve issued a wide array of books; as…
Review by Annabel A crime novel set in Moscow, 1934 – a year in which the Moscow subway is being built under the city – sounded irresistible. Merridale is the…
Review by Rob Spence When I started reading this quirkily entertaining novel, I was reminded of a remarkable Turkish film I saw some years ago. The film, 10 to 11,…
Review by David Harris When I was a young woman, there were still witches . . . In The Bewitching, Silvia Moreno-Garcia deftly blends three timelines to produce a clever and suspenseful…
Translated by Clarissa Botsford Review by Rob Spence The publisher’s blurb for Giaime Alonge’s first novel describes it as “a masterful blend of fact and fiction”, and that’s certainly accurate…
Review by Annabel If you follow the news from the publishing world, even a little, over the past three months, you’ll probably have encountered Tom Cox and his woes as…
Reviewed by Harriet If you should care to do so, you could do a search on Shiny for reviews of novels by Robert Galbraith (aka J K Rowling). You’ll find four,…
Reviewed by Harriet ‘A Rebellious, Subversive and Untamed Jane’ promises the subtitle of this new book by Austen scholar Looser. I wonder how many people still think of Austen as…