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January 27, 2022

The Second Cut by Louise Welsh

Review by Gill Davies Louise Welsh has published eight novels. The only one I had read prior to this was The Cutting Room (2002),…

September 14, 2021

Bewilderment by Richard Powers

Reviewed by Gill Davies Although he has published twelve novels since 1985, I only discovered Richard Powers through his stunning 2018 novel The Overstory…

August 10, 2021

A Tomb With a View by Peter Ross

Reviewed by Gill Davies Just a few days ago my partner and fellow Shiny reviewer Basil Ransome Davies found a new walk to do…

May 20, 2021

Valentine Ackland: A Transgressive Life by Frances Bingham

Reviewed by Gill Davies This is a remarkable book about a remarkable woman. Valentine Ackland (1906-1969) was “transgressive” in so many ways. She was…

March 30, 2021

The Passenger by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz

Translated by Philip Boehm Reviewed by Gill Davies This is an important republication of a novel which first appeared eighty years ago under a…

March 2, 2021

The Ice by John Kåre Raake

Translated by Adam King Reviewed by Gill Davies John Kåre Rake is a successful Norwegian screen writer and this is his first novel. It’s…

December 1, 2020

The Lost and the Damned by Olivier Norek

Translated by Nick Caistor Reviewed by Gill Davies This is the first novel by Olivier Norek to be translated into English. It was first…

August 25, 2020

A Room Made of Leaves by Kate Grenville

Reviewed by Gill Davies Kate Grenville’s latest novel is a wonderful continuation of her investigation of Australian history and the people who made it….

August 13, 2020

Tell Me How it Ends by V.B. Grey

Reviewed by Gill Davies London in 1963, despite some remaining scars of wartime, is busy re-inventing itself with skyscrapers rising over bomb sites, American…

January 23, 2020

Why Women Read Fiction by Helen Taylor

Review by Gill Davies Women read a lot more fiction than men; they also buy more books, attend writers’ events, blog, exchange ideas, and…

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October 10, 2019

Heaven, My Home by Attica Locke

Review by Gill Davies This powerful and engrossing novel continues a series of crime novels in which Attica Locke uses plot and suspense to…

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June 4, 2019

Cold For the Bastards of Pizzofalcone by Maurizio de Giovanni

Translated by Antony Shugaar Reviewed by Gill Davies This is the third book in a series of police procedural novels by the successful Italian…

May 7, 2019

The Other Americans by Laila Lalami

Review by Gill Davies The cover illustration for the book is an aerial view of a suburban street. A pattern of identical houses with…

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March 19, 2019

The Sect Of Angels by Andrea Camilleri

Translated by Stephen Sartarelli Reviewed by Gill Davies In addition to the Inspector Montalbano novels, best known to English readers from the TV adaptations…

Murder by the Books Claire Harman
November 1, 2018

Murder By The Book by Claire Harman

Reviewed by Gill Davies Here is a real treat for readers interested in the sometimes hidden side of Victorian society and its relationship with…

Second Rider Alex Beer
October 18, 2018

The Second Rider by Alex Beer

Translated by Tim Mohr Review by Gill Davies The Second Rider is the first novel in a projected new series by the Austrian writer,…

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July 12, 2018

Retribution Road by Antonin Varenne

Translated by Sam Taylor Review by Gill Davies Having become rather jaded with the predictability of the crime fiction genre and wearied by the…

June 7, 2018

The Seventh Cross by Anna Seghers

Translated by Margaret Bettauer Dembo Reviewed by Gill Davies The novel is set in Nazi Germany in the 1930s and was first published in…

April 10, 2018

The Ropewalker and A People Without a Past by Jaan Kross

Translated by Merike Lepasaar Beecher Reviewed by Gill Davies Thanks to the wonderful Maclehose Press I have discovered another writer in translation who deserves…

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March 1, 2018

Elisabeth’s Lists: A Family Story by Lulah Ellender

Reviewed by Gill Davies Lulah Ellender’s book – subtitled “A Family Story” – is part biography, part family history, and it includes reflections on her own…

February 6, 2018

Force of Nature by Jane Harper

Reviewed by Gill Davies Following on from her highly-acclaimed first novel, The Dry, Jane Harper has written a second gripping story featuring the harsh…

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October 12, 2017

Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke

Reviewed by Gill Davies This is Attica Locke’s fourth novel and a stunning follow-up. Black Water Rising was set in 1981; Pleasantville in 1996 and both used the…

Free Food for Millionaires
August 29, 2017

Free Food for Millionaires by Min Jin Lee

Review by Gill Davies I am going to review two novels by Min Jin Lee (the other one is Patchinko – see here). This…

August 29, 2017

Patchinko by Min Jin Lee

Review by Gill Davies Patchinko is a very different novel from Min Jin Lee’s earlier Free Food for Millionaires, which I reviewed here. It…

A Wreath of Roses
July 6, 2017

A Wreath of Roses by Elizabeth Taylor

Reviewed by Gill Davies When you were a child did you ever hunt for a lost ball among ferns and leaves and parting them…

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