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March 17, 2022

The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann by Ananyo Bhattacharya

Review by Terence Jagger This is a lively and compelling biography of one of the intellectual giants of the twentieth century, who has somehow…

March 10, 2022

The Twyford Code by Janice Hallett

Review by Terence Hallett This is an intriguing but also frustrating book.  I did wonder if the Shiny editors would allow me to write…

January 25, 2022

A Fatal Crossing by Tom Hindle

Review by Terence Jagger This is a modern murder mystery, but is set in 1924 and is explicitly in the grand manner of the…

August 24, 2021

Five Modern Noh Plays by Yukio Mishima

Translated by Donald Keene Review by Terence Jagger This is a slightly misleading title for a new book, as the “modern” Noh plays were…

June 24, 2021

Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness, by Mark Solms

Review by Terence Jagger This is a fascinating book, one I bought after hearing the author give an inspiring presentation to the Royal Institution….

May 27, 2021

Summertime, All the Cats are Bored by Philippe Georget

Translated by Steven Rendall Review by Terence Jagger He moved cautiously forward through the tall grass, following a trail of broken stems. And it…

March 30, 2021

The Decagon House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji

Translated by Ho-Ling Wong Reviewed by Terence Jagger This is a very unusual book, and I initially disliked its artificiality – extreme, even by…

March 16, 2021

Cathedral by Ben Hopkins

Reviewed by Terence Jagger The cathedral, and the difficulties building it, both physical, financial, and aesthetic, dominate the early parts of the book, and…

February 2, 2021

Reviewer’s Choice: A New Sublime – Ten Timeless Lessons on the Classics by Piero Boitani

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

January 26, 2021

The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking) by Katie Mack

Reviewed by Terence Jagger Katie Mack is an American astrophysicist, but her writing is very informal and almost journalistic or chatty – which is…

January 21, 2021

The Passenger: Japan

Reviewed by Terence Jagger Early last year, Europa launched a new imprint “for explorers of the world”: The Passenger.  Now, the list includes Berlin,…

August 27, 2020

The Changing Mind by Daniel Levitin

Reviewed by Terence Jagger This is a wonderful book, and the real title is the sub-title: A Neuroscientist’s Guide to Ageing Well.  It is…

June 18, 2020

The Inugami Curse by Seishi Yokomizo

Translated by Yumiko Yamazaki Review by Terence Jagger This Japanese detective thriller is set in the 1940s and so is relatively ‘modern’, but only…

June 11, 2020

Wayfinding by Michael Bond

Review by Terence Jagger I found this book absolutely fascinating. I have always been fairly confident in my abilities as a navigator (though with…

November 21, 2019

The Measure of a Man by Marco Malvaldi

Review by Terence Jagger I was intrigued to see this novel on my doormat: Malvaldi is better known (to me at least) as a…

November 19, 2019

Your Duck is My Duck by Deborah Eisenberg

Review by Terence Jagger This, in spite of its slightly silly sounding title, is an interesting and slightly mysterious collection of six short stories….

A Chill in the air iris origo
April 17, 2018

A Chill in the Air by Iris Origo

Review by Terence Jagger This is a fascinating book, written during the year or so preceding Italy’s entry in to the 1939-45 war, when…

Dance of the jacaranda
March 27, 2018

Dance of the Jakaranda by Peter Kimani

Review by Terence Jagger This is a tricky book to read, though I enjoyed much of it.  It is funny and observant, but painful…

Ghosts of the Tsunami Richard Lloyd Parry
March 22, 2018

Ghosts of the Tsunami Richard Lloyd Parry

Review by Terence Jagger Japan suffers multitudes of earthquakes every year and is among the best prepared countries in the world.  Tsunami, too, are…

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January 18, 2018

In Search of Lost Books: The forgotten stories of eight mythical volumes by Giorgio van Straten

Reviewed by Terence Jagger This is an engaging book about other books, but it makes no judgements on them, and nor can we express,…

Zen and the Art of Murder by Oliver Bottini
January 16, 2018

Zen and the Art of Murder by Oliver Bottini

Translated by Jamie Bulloch Reviewed by Terence Jagger We are not in Japan, but Germany; set in the snowy Black Forest, not far from…

Johan Norberg Progress
December 6, 2017

Progress – Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future Johan Norberg

Reviewed by Terence Jagger As Carly Simon sang in 1971, ‘These are the good old days’. This is a fascinating book, and one you…

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December 5, 2017

Between the Wars 1919-1939 by Philip Ziegler

Review by Terence Jagger So here I am, in the middle way, having had twenty years –Twenty years largely wasted, the years of l’entre…

Shadows and Sun by Dominique Sylvain
November 16, 2017

Shadows and Sun by Dominique Sylvain

Translated by Neil Caistor Reviewed by Terence Jagger I enjoyed this book, set amongst the French police in Paris and in Abidjan, but that’s…

Checkpoint Rufin
June 6, 2017

Checkpoint by Jean-Christophe Rufin

Translated by Alison Anderson Review by Terence Jagger The first character we meet is Maud, a young and naive Frenchwoman who is apparently badly…

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