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May 6, 2021

In the Garden; Essays on Nature and Growing

Review by Hayley Anderton This is the first of the Daunt Books essay collections that I’ve read and I’m mostly impressed. The quality of…

Barcelona Tales Helen Constantine
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…

lisbon tales helen constantine
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…

Bring Various new irish short stories
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:…

Russian Émigré Short Stories from Bunin to Yanovsky edited Bryan Karetnyk
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;…

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