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November 18, 2021

Peaces by Helen Oyeyemi

Review by Simon Thomas As a place to be trapped, a train has a good precedent. Whether Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express,…

October 27, 2020

Happy Half-Hours: Selected Writings of A.A. Milne

Review by Simon Thomas You might be familiar with the beautiful little hardbacks from Notting Hill Editions, where they select essays and other writings…

April 9, 2020

A Bite of the Apple by Lennie Goodings

Review by Simon There’s a certain variety of person who can always spot a bottle-green spine at a hundred paces, and has faced the…

February 18, 2020

My Caravaggio Style by Doris Langley Moore

Review by Simon It’s always exciting when Dean Street Press announce the next batch of novels in their Furrowed Middlebrow series, chosen by Scott…

confessions bookseller shaun bythell profile
October 1, 2019

Confessions of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell

Review by Simon As the cover of Confessions of a Bookseller tells us, Bythell is an international bestseller. A couple of years ago, The…

Remarkable Life of the skin monty lyman
September 5, 2019

The Remarkable Life of the Skin by Monty Lyman

Review by Simon. The number of science books I’ve read can be numbered on my fingers, and number of science books I’ve read that weren’t written…

March 7, 2019

Alice by Elizabeth Eliot

Reviewed by Simon Hurrah to Dean Street Press and their continued Furrowed Middlebrow series, bringing back underrated women writers that most of us haven’t…

Edward Carey Little
December 13, 2018

Little by Edward Carey

Reviewed by Simon The name Madame Tussaud is familiar to most of us – particularly to anybody who has been a tourist in London,…

Akeing Heart Judd
May 17, 2018

Review of The Akeing Heart by Peter Haring Judd

Review by Simon How you approach The Akeing Heart will depend largely on how familiar you are with the names Sylvia Townsend Warner, Valentine…

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October 6, 2017

The Diary of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell

Reviewed by Simon Thomas Many book lovers have fantasies about what it would be like to work in a bookshop – perhaps particularly a…

Tom Tiddler’s Ground by Ursula Orange
April 25, 2017

Tom Tiddler’s Ground by Ursula Orange

Reviewed by Simon One of the authors I’ve been on the look-out for, for years, is Ursula Orange – entirely the responsibility of Scott…

Evenfield Rachel Ferguson
December 13, 2016

Evenfield by Rachel Ferguson

Review by Simon The launch of the Furrowed Middlebrow series from Dean Street Press, under the editorial eye of blogger and middlebrow expert Scott…

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December 9, 2016

Terms and Conditions by Ysenda Maxtone Graham

Review by Simon Slightly Foxed are beloved for their reprints of memoirs from across the twentieth century, but they also have published a handful…

October 25, 2016

Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Reviewed by Simon It might seem strange to include a novel in the reprints section that is only 13 years old – but Chimamanda…

October 18, 2016

The Men’s Club by Leonard Michaels

Reviewed by Simon There have been quite a few reprints, in recent years, from the interwar period and thereabouts. We are familiar with Golden…

October 11, 2016

Night Flight by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Translated by David Carter Reviewed by Simon If the name Antoine de Saint-Exupéry means anything to you, it probably only means one thing: The…

October 11, 2016

Sword of Bone by Anthony Rhodes

Reviewed by Simon They’ve done it again! Slightly Foxed have brought out yet another fascinating, entertaining, and well-written memoir – and another one that…

August 30, 2016

Brensham Village by John Moore

Reviewed by Simon Brensham Village, the latest volume from the Slightly Foxed Editions series that I love so dearly, is a sort of sequel…

But What If We’re Wrong?
August 22, 2016

But What If We’re Wrong? by Chuck Klosterman

Reviewed by Simon How many non-fiction books do you come across which combine literature, music, television, sports, science, and aliens? Not that many, I’m…

August 18, 2016

Fell by Jenn Ashworth

Reviewed by Simon The title of Jenn Ashworth’s fourth novel could mean any number of things – or, indeed, all of them. The first…

August 10, 2016

Madonna in a Fur Coat by Sabahattin Ali

Translated by Maureen Freely and Alexander Dawe Reviewed by Simon Madonna in a Fur Coat, was first published in Turkish in 1943. This translation…

July 14, 2016

Five Fascinating Facts About… A.A. Milne

Written by Simon Thomas 1.) A.A. Milne had a famous schoolteacher. A.A. Milne’s father John ran a small boys’ school, Henley House, and one of…

June 28, 2016

Delta Wedding by Eudora Welty

Reviewed by Simon Delta Wedding might win the award for the most beautiful book I’ve read for this issue of Shiny New Books – as…

June 21, 2016

More Was Lost by Eleanor Perényi

Reviewed by Simon If you’re anything like me, you might be unfamiliar with the political dynamics of Hungary and Czechoslovakia in the years leading…

THE LOST EUROPEANS BY EMANUEL LITVINOFF
June 16, 2016

The Lost Europeans by Emanuel Litvinoff

Reviewed by Simon Have you ever had the experience of starting a novel and, before you’ve got to the end of the second page,…

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