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BookBuzz Interview, Q&A

Q&A with Nicholas Royle, author of David Bowie, Enid Blyton and the sun machine

Questions by Annabel Hello Nicholas, it’s great to ask you some questions about your fascinating new book which I enjoyed reading so much. I fondly remember our previous encounter for…

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6 Sides of Lockdown Literature

By Anne Goodwin How has the Covid pandemic affected your reading? Have you lapped up lockdown literature or have you avoided it – cliché alert – like the plague? For…

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Shiny Archive Reading List #4 – The Kings & Queens of England

Compiled by Annabel It’s time for another one of our themed lists, and what better subject for the Coronation of King Charles III tomorrow than a look back through the…

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Q&A with Charlotte Vassell, on The Other Half

Questions by Harriet Harriet: Hi Charlotte. Thanks for agreeing to answer some questions. I have to tell you that The Other Half was one of the most enjoyable novels I’ve…

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Shiny Archive Reading List #3 – Snow and Ice!

Compiled by Annabel In its ninth year, Shiny New Books passed the 2000 mark in published posts. We thought it would be fun to go back through our archives to…

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Shiny Archive Reading List #2: Character Duos

Compiled by Annabel In its ninth year, Shiny New Books has passed the 2000 mark in published posts. We thought it would be good to go back through our archives…

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Shiny Archive Reading List #1: Birds in Fiction

Compiled by Annabel In its ninth year, Shiny New Books has passed the 2000 mark in published posts. We thought it would be good to go back through our archives…

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‘Sensational Books’ at the Bodleian

By Annabel On Tuesday I was privileged to be invited to join a press event for the Bodleian Libraries’ new (much-delayed by Covid) exhibition in Oxford which celebrates ‘Sensational Books‘….

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BookBuzz Fiction Guest Post

Guest Post: Sally Emerson on the themes and inspiration for her new book, ‘Perfect, Stories of the Impossible’.

Back in 2017, Shiny editor Harriet reviewed a reprint of one of Sally Emerson’s novels, Separation, first published in 1992 – describing it as ‘a novel of immense subtlety and…

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‘Passing’ by Nella Larsen, from Novella to Screen

Chicago born author Nella Larsen is the daughter of a Dutch mother and a father of mixed race Afro-Caribbean from Danish West Indies. With that multiplicity in racial background and…

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Adam O’Riordan answers questions on The Falling Thread

Interview by Harriet As an already successful poet and short-story writer, what made you turn to the novel? Was it a sudden decision or a long-term ambition? It was a…

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Five fascinating facts about fictional asylums

By Anne Goodwin In my professional life as a clinical psychologist, I visited around a dozen of the hundred or so long-stay psychiatric hospitals in England and Wales. Since then,…

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A Vertical Art – Oxford Lectures by Simon Armitage

Reviewed by Anna Hollingsworth According to a recent Ipsos MORI poll, 90 per cent of people said that they’d read a novel in the last six months. For poetry, however,…

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Nomadland: From Book to Screen

By Diana Cheng It first started with journalist Jessica Bruder camping in a tent then later in a van for three winters in the desert around Quartzsite, Arizona. Her plan…

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Dancing on Ropes: Translators and the Balance of History by Anna Aslanyan

Review by Karen Langley As bookish people, when we think about translation we’re probably thinking about it in literary terms. There’s a rich seam of literature from other languages available…

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Five Fascinating Facts About… Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

Compiled by Annabel The Royal Society of Literature is celebrating ‘Dalloway Day‘ today – a Wednesday in the middle of June – when Virginia Woolf’s novel in a day is…

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The Craft of Poetry by Lucy Newlyn

Reviewed by Rob Spence Lucy Newlyn is a intriguing literary figure. She had a career as an Oxford don, publishing well-regarded studies of Romantic poets as well as collections of…

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BookBuzz Spotlight on Publishing

Spotlight on Publishers: Renard Press

Questions by Karen Langley 2020 has in many ways been the year of independent publishers; print books have been fighting back against the march of the e-book, and recently any…

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BookBuzz Spotlight on Publishing

Bookshop.Org is OPEN in the UK

Please excuse the plug post, but now we’re going back into lockdown it is more important than ever to support our indie bookshops online. From today, there’s a new way…

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BookBuzz Guest Post

On the origins of ‘Pomeranski’, by Gerald Jacobs

Today we are delighted to be taking part in a short blog tour for the novel ‘Pomeranski’ by Gerald Jacobs, just published by Quartet Books. Gerald Jacobs is the literary…

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Puzzles, constraints and cryptograms: An Oulipo beginner’s primer

By Karen Langley Although you may never have heard the name of the literary group Oulipo, there’s a good chance you might actually have read one of the members’ books….

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Jane Badger
BookBuzz Spotlight on Publishing

Interview with Jane Badger about Pony Books

Interview by Liz Dexter Jane Badger started off as a dealer in horse and pony books, becoming known for her extremely extensive website on the subject: https://janebadgerbooks.co.uk/. She’s even written…

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Red Circle Minis
BookBuzz Spotlight on Publishing Translated

Red Circle Authors: An unusual and innovative venture

By Karen Langley Japanese literature has a long and rich heritage stretching from early works like The Pillow Book (990s) and The Tale of Genji (early 11th century) to modern…

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Q&A for Nicola Upson on Stanley & Elsie

Interview by Harriet Harriet: Thanks for agreeing to do this, Nicola. I have recently finished reading and reviewing Stanley and Elsie and enjoyed it tremendously. So my first question has…

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