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April 26, 2022

Strange Journey by Maud Cairnes

Reviewed by Harriet This is a body-swap novel – one of the first ever to be published. It’s very entertaining but also quite thought…

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 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…

February 10, 2022

Jane’s Country Year by Malcolm Saville

Reviewed by Harriet Jane woke slowly. For a long minute she lay drowsing with her eyes shut, wondering why the bed felt so different….

January 27, 2022

The Village of Eight Graves by Seishi Yokomizo

Translated by Bryan Karetnyk Reviewed by Harriet Seishi Yozomizo (1902-1991), whose works are hugely celebrated in Japan, has been described as ‘the Japanese Agatha…

January 18, 2022

The Invisible Host by Gwen Bristow & Bruce Manning

Review by Elaine Simpson-Long When this book arrived and I saw the names of the two authors, Gwen Bristow and Bruce Manning, my first…

December 14, 2021

Sally on the Rocks by Winifred Boggs

Reviewed by Harriet This delightful novel is part of the latest batch of the British Library Women Writers series. I’ve reviewed a few of…

November 11, 2021

Which Way by Theodora Benson (Blog Tour)

Reviewed by Harriet Published in 1931 and newly reissued in the British Library Women Writers Series, this is a fascinating book in a number…

October 12, 2021

Stalin: the Court of the Red Tsar, by Simon Sebag Montefiore

Review by Basil Ransome Davies In Young Stalin the author studied his subject’s early career under the microscope. In this epic volume he expands…

September 28, 2021

The Lifeline by Hugo Charteris

By Rob Spence If you are, as I am, a child of the fifties, then one of your first televisual memories will be of…

September 21, 2021

The Black Moth by Georgette Heyer

Review by Hayley Anderton I’ve been reading The Black Moth along with the Georgette Heyer Readalong on Twitter, where we have very mixed feelings…

September 9, 2021

The Goddess Chronicle by Natsuo Kirino

Translated by Rebecca Copeland Review by Annabel Japanese author Natsuo Kirino is primarily known for her crime novels, of which Out is the most…

September 7, 2021

Young Stalin, by Simon Sebag Montefiore

Review by Basil Ransome-Davies No one expects an approving biography of Joseph Stalin any more than they do the Spanish Inquisition. He is a…

August 26, 2021

Three Summers by Margarita Liberaki

Translated by Karen Van Dyck  Review by Karen Langley Coming of age stories are a perennial favourite in both classic and modern literature; and…

August 24, 2021

Five Modern Noh Plays by Yukio Mishima

Translated by Donald Keene Review by Terence Jagger This is a slightly misleading title for a new book, as the “modern” Noh plays were…

August 12, 2021

An Evening with Claire by Gaito Gazdanov

Translated by Bryan Karetnyk  Review by Karen Langley Recent years have seen an upturn of interest in Russian émigré authors from the 20th century;…

July 8, 2021

Broken Lights, by Basil Ramsay Anderson

Reviewed by Rob Spence Years ago, I was teaching an undergraduate class on the topic of the poetry of the bard of Orkney, George…

July 2, 2021

Eustace and Hilda by L P Hartley

Reviewed by Harriet Leslie Poles Hartley was forty-nine when he published his first novel, The Shrimp and the Anemone (1944). It was followed by…

June 22, 2021

The Feast by Margaret Kennedy

Reviewed by Harriet Margaret Kennedy has appeared a few times before on Shiny: two of her novels in 2014 [here] and [here] and more…

June 17, 2021

Miss Browne’s Friend by F M Mayor

Reviewed by Harriet Born in 1872, Flora Macdonald Mayor was the daughter of an Anglican clergyman and classics professor. Perhaps surprisingly, given her background,…

May 27, 2021

Summertime, All the Cats are Bored by Philippe Georget

Translated by Steven Rendall Review by Terence Jagger He moved cautiously forward through the tall grass, following a trail of broken stems. And it…

May 27, 2021

Mamma by Diana Tutton

Reviewed by Harriet Published in 1956, Mamma was the first novel Tutton wrote, though her second and now better known Guard Your Daughters was…

May 21, 2021

Mr Fortune’s Maggot by Sylvia Townsend Warner

Reviewed by Harriet It can only be good news that Penguin have been reissuing Sylvia Townsend Warner’s admirable novels. I only discovered her writing…

April 27, 2021

A Rage in Harlem and The Real Cool Killers by Chester Himes

Reviewed by Annabel I first discovered the mad world of Chester Himes’s Harlem in an old Allison & Busby paperback of The Crazy Kill,…

April 22, 2021

A Virtual Image by Rosalind Brackenbury

Reviewed by Helen Parry Until Michael Walmer reissued her first novel, A Day to Remember to Forget, I had never heard of Rosalind Brackenbury….

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