June 25, 2019 Barcelona Tales, ed Helen Constantine Translated by Peter Bush Review by Karen Langley If you’re an armchair traveller like I am, the “City Tales” collection of books from Oxford…
June 25, 2019 Lisbon Tales, ed. Helen Constantine Translated by Amanda Hopkinson Review by Karen Langley If you’re an armchair traveller like I am, the “City Tales” collection of books from Oxford…
June 6, 2019 Being Various: New Irish Short Stories, ed. Lucy Caldwell Review by Laura Marriott Ireland is going through a golden age of writing: that has never been more apparent. I wanted to capture something…
May 24, 2018 Blood on the Tracks: Railway Mysteries, ed. Martin Edwards Reviewed by Karen Langley Golden Age crime, which has had such a revival recently, is renowned for particular tropes and settings; the country house…
April 5, 2018 Moonrise & Lost Mars, ed. Mike Ashley Reviewed by Karen Langley There can’t be many readers of Shiny New Books who aren’t aware of the lovely British Library Crime Classics series:…
September 19, 2017 Russian Émigré Short Stories from Bunin to Yanovsky, edited by Bryan Karetnyk Reviewed by Karen Langley In the anniversary year of the 1917 Russian Revolution a number of books have been issued which look at that…
August 17, 2016 The Sinking Admiral by Members of the Detection Club, ed. Simon Brett Reviewed by Elaine Simpson-Long In 1932 Agatha Christie and Dorothy L Sayers collaborated with other writers, including G K Chesterton and Ronald Knox, Freeman…
August 16, 2016 Penguin Modern Poets – Books 1 and 2 Reviewed by Karen Langley As you might well have gathered from my piece in the Bookbuzz section, Penguin has relaunched their iconic Modern Poets series;…
