February 2, 2021 Reviewer’s Choice: A New Sublime – Ten Timeless Lessons on the Classics by Piero Boitani While Shiny New Books concentrates on the new, occasionally, we give our reviewers room to share previously published – ie: ‘not Shiny New Books’…
September 13, 2018 The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker Reviewed by Alice Farrant The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker is the retelling of The Iliad from the perspective of Briseis (Brih-SAY-iss),…
October 16, 2014 Fire from Heaven and The Persian Boy by Mary Renault Reviewed by Jenny. Mary Renault has a genius for the past. It’s in all her historical books: the stony, fated world of the Greeks,…
