December 16, 2021 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…
December 18, 2020 A Shiny Merry Christmas 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…
October 27, 2020 The Little Library Christmas by Kate Young Reviewed by Hayley Anderton I’m a proper fan of Kate Young and her Little Library books – they’re a delightful mix of recipes, reflection,…
December 17, 2015 Silent Nights: Christmas Mysteries, ed. Martin Edwards Reviewed by Harriet Christmas is a mysterious, as well as magical, time of year. Strange things can happen, and this helps to explain the…
December 4, 2014 The Night Before Christmas by Nikolai Gogol Translated by Anna Summers Reviewed by Karen Langley Russian author Nikolai Gogol, best known for satirical works like The Nose and Dead Souls, is not a name…
December 1, 2014 Translator’s Perspective: An ‘Ordinary’ Christmas By Emily Boyce During the festive season, Versailles sparkled with inevitability While translating Pascal Garnier’s novel The Islanders, set over several days in December in…