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This year, we’ve posted just over 100 reviews and articles, mostly written by our stalwart team of superb reviewers with whom we couldn’t do without. A huge Shiny thank you…

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A Shiny & Happy Christmas

Last autumn the Shiny Eds, decided to scale back the number of reviews posted each week at Shiny New Books to keep everything manageable! This year, we have still posted…

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A Shiny Merry Christmas

From Annabel and Harriet After a tumultuous 2020, what with lockdown, accidentally deleting Shiny New Books and having to rebuild it totally from scratch (read more about that disaster here!), Shiny…

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By Annabel and Harriet It’s been quite a year, hasn’t it? As if the pandemic lockdown wasn’t enough, in early April, Annabel managed to accidentally delete Shiny New Books –…

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The Book Lover’s Quiz Book: Novel Conundrums by Gary Wigglesworth

Reviewed by Annabel Gary Wigglesworth’s twitter feed was something of a godsend on Tuesday evenings during furlough earlier this summer. The former bookseller who now works in publishing had been…

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A Shiny Rebuild Update

By Annabel Just under a month ago, we experienced an absolute ‘dis-ah-ster’ (as Craig Revel Horwood would say) at Shiny – which just goes to prove how a little knowledge…

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Back when Shiny New Books was a quarterly, in early editions we had a competition to win ‘The Editors’ Picks’ – four books that caught the four editors’ attention that…

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