Shiny New Books

What to Read Next and Why

  • About
  • Editorial & Review
  • Privacy
  • Fiction Review Index

Tag: Reviewer: Reason P

February 1, 2022

This Sacred Life: Humanity’s place in a wounded world by Norman Wirzba

Review by Peter Reason What does it mean to see the world, and life on Earth, as sacred? How might this change our approach…

January 20, 2022

The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis by Amitav Ghosh

Review by Peter Reason When I was a small child at primary school, we celebrated Empire Day. Children were invited—expected—to take a Union Flag…

November 2, 2021

The Dawn of Everything: A new history of humanity, by David Graeber and David Wengrow

Review by Peter Reason This book offers a revision of our understanding of human cultural history, and so opens possibilities for different, maybe more…

July 8, 2021

Smoke Hole: Looking to the wild in the time of the Spyglass by Martin Shaw

Review by Peter Reason Martin Shaw is a mythologist, storyteller, and wilderness rites-of-passage guide, a teacher of mythic imagination. Should you encounter him at…

June 8, 2021

On Time and Water by Andri Snær Magnason

Translated by Lytton Smith Review by Peter Reason This book focuses on two things that are changing beyond recognition in this era of rapid…

June 1, 2021

The Nightingale: Notes on a songbird, by Sam Lee

Review by Peter Reason Sam Lee is a renowned song collector, interpreter, and singer of folk songs from Britain and Ireland; he has an…

May 21, 2021

Under a White Sky by Elizabeth Kolbert

Review by Peter Reason Elizabeth Kolbert is a celebrated American journalist, staff writer for the New Yorker. Her work focuses unflinchingly on the ecological…

April 8, 2021

Heavy Light: A Journey through Madness, Mania and Healing by Horatio Clare

Reviewed by Peter Reason It was on a family skiing holiday that Horatio Clare finally went mad. This was the culmination of a period…

February 25, 2021

Thin Places by Kerri ní Dochartaigh

Review by Peter Reason I have been totally absorbed in Kerri ní Dochartaigh’s Thin Places since it arrived in the morning mail and I…

January 28, 2021

The Fresh and the Salt: The Story of the Solway by Ann Lingard

Reviewed by Peter Reason When I was a small boy—and this memory must reach back to around 1950—I played with a wooden puzzle made…

January 19, 2021

The Frozen River: Seeking Silence in the Himalaya by James Crowden

Reviewed by Peter Reason Opening this book, I am immediately drawn in: ‘Silence, snow and solitude have got hold of me and will not…

December 3, 2020

Strangers: Essays on the Human and Nonhuman by Rebecca Tamás

Review by Peter Reason. This elegant and engaging collection of seven essays by poet and critic Rebecca Tamás—her first prose collection—is beautifully produced as…

September 15, 2020

Riders on the Storm: The climate crisis and the survival of being by Alastair McIntosh

Review by Peter Reason Alastair McIntosh is a Scottish Quaker, peace, community and environmental writer and campaigner, maybe best described as a spiritual activist….

Entangled Life Merlin Sheldrake
September 3, 2020

Entangled Life: How fungi make our worlds, change our minds and shape our futures by Merlin Sheldrake

Review by Peter Reason Entangled Lives by Merlin Sheldrake has been greeted with much enthusiasm, not least by Robert Macfarlane in the New Yorker….

Minna Salami Sensuous Knowledge
June 18, 2020

Sensuous Knowledge: A black feminist approach for everyone by Minna Salami

Review by Peter Reason Minna Salami is a Nigerian and Finnish social critic, founder of the MsAfropolitan blog, who draws on Africa-centric and feminist…

Footprints David Farrier
May 26, 2020

Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils by David Farrier

Review by Peter Reason In 2013, a spring storm uncovered, on the shores of Norfolk, the oldest traces of humanity discovered outside Africa: fossil…

April 23, 2020

‘Not’ the Wellcome Prize Blog Tour 2020 #2 – Galileo’s Error by Philip Goff

The Wellcome Book Prize is on hiatus this year – we really hope it’ll return in 2021 as this unique prize, which celebrates literature…

April 14, 2020

The Birds They Sang: Birds and People in Life and Art by Stanisław Łubieński

Translated from Polish by Bill Johnston Review by Peter Reason Stanisław Łubieński first began observing birds in childhood through Soviet binoculars. Later, he took…

April 9, 2020

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Review by Peter Reason There has been a lot of interest recently in the idea of ‘rewilding’, expressed for example in Isabella Tree’s Wilding:…

March 5, 2020

Red Sixty Seven, curated by Kit Jewitt

Review by Peter Reason When I was a small boy, back in the 1950s, I remember going on Sunday School trips to the seaside….

timefulness Marcia Bjornerud
January 21, 2020

Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World by Marcia Bjornerud

Review by Peter Reason I have on my desk three pieces of rock, collected during my ecological pilgrimage on in the west coast of…

November 7, 2019

Galileo’s Error: A New Science of Consciousness by Philip Goff

Review by Peter Reason This is a book about the philosophical perspective of panpsychism, written by a leading academic advocate. Panpsychism is an awkward…

Summer Isles Philip Marsden Granta
October 17, 2019

The Summer Isles by Philip Marsden

Reviewed by Peter Reason The Summer Isles is an account of a single-handed voyage from the south coast of England round the west of…

October 10, 2019

Surfacing by Kathleen Jamie

Review by Peter Reason Kathleen Jamie is primarily known as a poet, but her prose writing is eagerly anticipated and widely acclaimed. Surfacing is…

July 18, 2019

The Frayed Atlantic Edge by David Gange

Reviewed by Peter Reason David Gange is historian at the University of Birmingham and a passion for mountains and wild water. Well before The…

Posts navigation

1 2 Next

Categories

Subscribe to receive posts via email

Loading

Top Posts & Pages

  • The Sound of Being Human: How Music Shapes our Lives by Jude Rogers
  • Mother Mother by Annie Macmanus
  • The Palace Papers by Tina Brown
  • Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
  • Guilty Thing: A Life of Thomas De Quincey by Frances Wilson
  • Elektra by Jennifer Saint
  • Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
  • Tell Me an Ending by Jo Harkin
  • To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara
  • All the Names Given by Raymond Antrobus

Our Affiliate LInk to Blackwell’s – When you click through and purchase, it earns us a small commission to help pay for this site’s upkeep. Thank you.

www.blackwells.co.uk
My Tweets

Recent Comments

  • Icewineanne on Guilty Thing: A Life of Thomas De Quincey by Frances Wilson
  • Elektra by Jennifer Saint – Shiny New Books on Ariadne by Jennifer Saint
  • The Girl with a Clock for a Heart by Peter Swanson – Shiny New Books on The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson
  • The Palace Papers by Tina Brown – Shiny New Books on Queen of Our Times: The Life of Elizabeth II, by Robert Hardman
  • Icewineanne on The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor by Cameron McCabe

Recent Posts

  • The Sound of Being Human: How Music Shapes our Lives by Jude Rogers
  • Elektra by Jennifer Saint
  • Tell Me an Ending by Jo Harkin
  • The Palace Papers by Tina Brown
  • Dear Little Corpses by Nicola Upson
Privacy & Cookies: This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use.
To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here: Cookie Policy

Shiny on Facebook

Shiny on Facebook

Blog Stats

  • 598,575 hits

Meta

  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.org

© 2014-2021, Shiny New Books and its Contributors

Archives

  • May 2022
  • April 2022
  • March 2022
  • February 2022
  • January 2022
  • December 2021
  • November 2021
  • October 2021
  • September 2021
  • August 2021
  • July 2021
  • June 2021
  • May 2021
  • April 2021
  • March 2021
  • February 2021
  • January 2021
  • December 2020
  • November 2020
  • October 2020
  • September 2020
  • August 2020
  • July 2020
  • June 2020
  • May 2020
  • April 2020
  • March 2020
  • February 2020
  • January 2020
  • December 2019
  • November 2019
  • October 2019
  • September 2019
  • August 2019
  • July 2019
  • June 2019
  • May 2019
  • April 2019
  • March 2019
  • February 2019
  • January 2019
  • December 2018
  • November 2018
  • October 2018
  • September 2018
  • August 2018
  • July 2018
  • June 2018
  • May 2018
  • April 2018
  • March 2018
  • February 2018
  • January 2018
  • December 2017
  • November 2017
  • October 2017
  • September 2017
  • August 2017
  • July 2017
  • June 2017
  • May 2017
  • April 2017
  • March 2017
  • February 2017
  • December 2016
  • November 2016
  • October 2016
  • September 2016
  • August 2016
  • July 2016
  • June 2016
  • May 2016
  • April 2016
  • January 2016
  • December 2015
  • October 2015
  • August 2015
  • July 2015
  • June 2015
  • April 2015
  • January 2015
  • December 2014
  • October 2014
  • September 2014
  • July 2014
  • April 2014
Copyright Shiny New Books. All rights reserved. | Theme by SuperbThemes