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June 16, 2021

Five Fascinating Facts About… Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

Compiled by Annabel The Royal Society of Literature is celebrating ‘Dalloway Day‘ today – a Wednesday in the middle of June – when Virginia…

June 15, 2021

Rabbits by Terry Miles

Review by Annabel As I sat down to start reading this book, a tweet pinged on my phone and I glanced over – someone…

June 8, 2021

Painting Time by Maylis de Kerangal

Translated by Jessica Moore Reviewed by Annabel Maylis de Kerangal is a novelist whose primary focus is not the characters that people her books,…

June 1, 2021

The Muse by Nell Dunn

Review by Annabel There is a particular sub-genre of memoir that almost goes into biography but fundamentally remains a memoir. I’m talking about memoirs…

May 20, 2021

The Assistant by Kjell Ola Dahl

Translated by Don Bartlett Reviewed by Annabel Kjell Ola Dahl is one of Norway’s foremost crime writers, especially known for his ‘Oslo detectives’ series,…

May 4, 2021

Sistersong by Lucy Holland

Reviewed by Annabel Lucy Holland’s impeccably researched novel combines the story of a 19th Century murder ballad, ‘The Two Sisters’ with Dark Ages post-Arthurian…

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 20, 2021

Diary of a Film by Niven Govinden

Reviewed by Annabel Diary of a Film follows a few days in the life of an auteur film director who is in Italy with…

March 25, 2021

The Galaxy, and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers

Reviewed by Annabel With The Galaxy, and the Ground Within, Becky Chambers brings her Wayfarers series to a close. The quartet began in 2015…

March 11, 2021

The Disciple by Michael Mallon

Reviewed by Annabel A novel about the increasingly toxic relationship between an old art historian and his young acolyte set in Florence was always…

March 5, 2021

Hotel Cartagena by Simone Buchholz

Translated by Rachel Ward Reviewed by Annabel I’ve come late to German ‘Queen of Krimi’ Simone Buchholz’s novels. Hotel Cartagena is the ninth of…

February 23, 2021

A Long Way From Douala by Max Lobe

Translated by Ros Schwartz Reviewed by Annabel I have a personal goal to increase diversity in my reading and am glad to have discovered…

February 18, 2021

House With No Doors by Jeff Noon

Reviewed by Annabel Having been a fan of Jeff Noon’s cult spec fiction novels set in an alternate Manchester, I was surprised and delighted…

February 11, 2021

Astral Travel by Elizabeth Baines

Reviewed by Annabel …a lot of what I remember is not the same as what the others remember, which was partly what caused the…

February 9, 2021

Mr Cadmus by Peter Ackroyd

Reviewed by Annabel Owning most of Ackroyd’s fiction output and a good chunk of his non-fiction (even if I haven’t quite read it all),…

February 4, 2021

The Death of Francis Bacon by Max Porter

Reviewed by Annabel Max Porter emerged on the British literary scene in the mid-2010s as an author to be watched. His debut 2015 novella…

January 21, 2021

The Searcher by Tana French

Reviewed by Annabel A new novel from Tana French, Irish author of the acclaimed Dublin Murders series is always worth waiting for. Her latest,…

December 17, 2020

Mr Wilder & Me by Jonathan Coe

Reviewed by Annabel Jonathan Coe’s latest novel couldn’t be further from his Costa-winning Middle England (which I reviewed for Shiny here), which examined 21st…

December 9, 2020

Numbers Don’t Lie: 71 Things You Need to Know About the World, by Vaclac Smil

Reviewed by Annabel If you, or a potential recipient of this book for Christmas, are a fan of Tim Harford on BBC Radio 4’s…

December 3, 2020

It’s the End of the World by Adam Roberts

Reviewed by Annabel I learned a new word this year. ‘Eschatology’ is defined as ‘the part of theology concerned with death, judgement, and the…

November 26, 2020

What Are You Going Through by Sigrid Nunez

Review by Annabel My first exposure to Nunez was through her breakthrough novel The Friend, finally gaining her prizewinner status (the US National Book…

November 17, 2020

The Book Lover’s Quiz Book: Novel Conundrums by Gary Wigglesworth

Reviewed by Annabel Gary Wigglesworth’s twitter feed was something of a godsend on Tuesday evenings during furlough earlier this summer. The former bookseller who…

October 29, 2020

The Harpy by Megan Hunter

Reviewed by Annabel Megan Hunter’s beautiful and poetic debut novella, The End We Started From (reviewed here for Shiny by Lucy Unwin), the story…

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October 20, 2020

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Universe: And Our place within it by Andrew Newsam

Reviewed by Annabel I’ve always loved books about space and I still have my beloved Hamlyn guides on Astronomy and Exploring the Planets by…

October 13, 2020

Spoon-Fed by Tim Spector

Reviewed by Annabel Kings College Hospital-based Professor Tim Spector’s name is, I hope, becoming more widely known in the UK since the pandemic began….

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