The Future of Fraud by Becky Holmes
Review by Annabel I’ve reviewed three of Melville House’s ‘Futures’ series previously for Shiny, (Gardens, Energy and Trust). They are punchy little flapped paperbacks of under 200 pages, each written…
A Day Between Weathers: Collected Poems, 1938-1978, by William J. Tait
Review by Rob Spence We don’t celebrate the linguistic diversity of these isles anything like enough. Just think of the rich heritage of Welsh, Gaelic, Irish, Manx, Scots, Cornish, Norn…
The Hyena’s Daughter by Jupiter Jones
Reviewed by Harriet ‘That woman is a hyena in petticoats’ I wonder how many people would have guessed from the title and the cover clip from a portrait who the…
Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Review by Annabel This is only the second book by TJR that I’ve read, Daisy Jones & the Six being the first. While Daisy is unique in style, being written as documentary…
Wild Fictions: Essays by Amitav Ghosh
Review by Peter Reason I am a great fan of Amitav Ghosh both for his fiction and his non-fiction. I was introduced to his writing when The Hungry Tide was…
Tom Chesshyre, Slow Trains Around Britain: Notes from a 4,088-Mile Adventure on 143 Rides, by Tom Chesshyre
Review by Liz Dexter Having had the great fortune to have travelled on many exciting railways to many exiting places elsewhere in the world, from the wide-open plains of America…
The Cat by Georges Simenon
Translated by Ros Schwartz Review by Annabel Back in 2014, Penguin embarked on republishing all seventy of the Maigret novels in new translations over a period of a few years,…