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April 7, 2022

The Trouble with Happiness and Other Stories by Tove Ditlevsen

Translated by Michael Favala Goldman Review by Karen Langley The last few years have seen Danish author Tove Ditlevsen’s star in the ascendant following…

March 10, 2022

After Agatha: Women Write Crime by Sally Cline

Review by Karen Langley We readers have never been able to get enough of crime fiction, it seems, and in the 21st century the…

December 9, 2021

The Sinner and the Saint: Dostoevsky, A Crime and Its Punishment by Kevin Birmingham

Review by Karen Langley The bicentenary of the birth of Fyodor Dostoevsky has seen a flurry of books about the man and his work….

October 7, 2021

The Inseparables by Simone de Beauvoir

Translated by Lauren Elkin  Review by Karen Langley Simone de Beauvoir is probably best recognised nowadays for her ground-breaking feminist work The Second Sex,…

August 26, 2021

Three Summers by Margarita Liberaki

Translated by Karen Van Dyck  Review by Karen Langley Coming of age stories are a perennial favourite in both classic and modern literature; and…

August 12, 2021

An Evening with Claire by Gaito Gazdanov

Translated by Bryan Karetnyk  Review by Karen Langley Recent years have seen an upturn of interest in Russian émigré authors from the 20th century;…

July 16, 2021

On Love and Tyranny: The Life and Politics of Hannah Arendt by Ann Heberlein

Translated by Alice Menzies Review by Karen Langley The concept of  “the banality of evil”, coined by philosopher Hannah Arendt, has become famous (some…

July 9, 2021

Dancing on Ropes: Translators and the Balance of History by Anna Aslanyan

Review by Karen Langley As bookish people, when we think about translation we’re probably thinking about it in literary terms. There’s a rich seam…

July 2, 2021

Three Martini Afternoons at the Ritz: The Rebellion of Sylvia Plath & Anne Sexton by Gail Crowther

Review by Karen Langley Despite their groundbreaking achievements as poets, Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton are still too often remembered for their dramatic lives…

June 7, 2021

Dostoevsky in Love: An Intimate Life by Alex Christofi

Review by Karen Langley It could be argued that much fiction is in a sense autobiographical, and one man who certainly poured his life…

June 4, 2021

Monica Jones, Philip Larkin and Me by John Sutherland

Review by Karen Langley Monica Jones, the subject of a new biography by John Sutherland, is a fascinating figure who, up until now, has…

May 27, 2021

Reviewer’s Choice: Twentieth Century Paris (1900-1950) – A Literary Guide for Travellers by Marie-José Gransard

While Shiny New Books concentrates on the new, occasionally, we give our reviewers room to share previously published – ie: ‘not Shiny New Books’…

April 15, 2021

Circles and Squares: The Lives and Loves of the Hampstead Modernists by Caroline Maclean

Review by Karen Langley The early part of the 20th century was a period when modern art was flourishing. New ways of living were…

December 17, 2020

Spotlight on Publishers: Renard Press

Questions by Karen Langley 2020 has in many ways been the year of independent publishers; print books have been fighting back against the march…

December 10, 2020

Revolutionary Women from Gallic Books

Reviewed by Karen Langley French literature doesn’t lack a wide range of great women writers; the names which spring most readily to mind are…

November 19, 2020

A Sound Mind by Paul Morley

Reviewed by Karen Langley Paul Morley made his name as a music critic for the New Musical Express back in the halcyon punk days…

October 22, 2020

One Billion Years to the End of the World by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

Translated by Antonina W. Bouis Reviewed by Karen Langley Science fiction writing often gets a bad press; dismissed as lightweight genre writing, mocked for…

September 10, 2020

Non-Combatants and Others by Rose Macaulay

Reviewed by Karen Langley Rose Macaulay is mainly known for her 1956 novel The Towers of Trebizond; yet she was an astonishingly prolific writer,…

August 6, 2020

The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again by M. John Harrison

Review by Karen Langley M. John Harrison has been described as one of the UK’s best-kept secrets, a hidden jewel in the literary crown…

June 30, 2020

Chitambo by Hagar Olsson

Translated by Sarah Death Reviewed by Karen Langley When we think of Nordic fiction nowadays, we’re probably inevitably aware of the preponderance of Scandi-crime;…

June 30, 2020

Crisis by Karin Boye

Translated by Amanda Doxtater Reviewed by Karen Langley When we think of Nordic fiction nowadays, we’re probably inevitably aware of the preponderance of Scandi-crime;…

June 23, 2020

I Remember by Georges Perec

Introduced, Translated, Annotated, Edited and Indexed by Philip Terry and David Bellos Reviewed by Karen Langley Regular readers of Shiny New Books may recall…

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April 30, 2020

Puzzles, constraints and cryptograms: An Oulipo beginner’s primer

By Karen Langley Although you may never have heard the name of the literary group Oulipo, there’s a good chance you might actually have…

March 24, 2020

Fandango and Other Stories by Alexander Grin

Translated by Bryan Karetnyk Reviewed by Karen Langley Recent years have seen a wave of wonderful new translations of ‘lost’ Russian authors of the…

February 27, 2020

Square Haunting by Francesca Wade

Review by Karen Langley “Square Haunting” was published to much fanfare and acclaim recently; a book which looks at the lives of five notable…

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