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August 20, 2020

My Summer Reading: The Manual of Darkness by Enrique de Hériz

Translated by Frank Wynne Reviewed by Annabel Members of the Shiny reviewing team share previously published books from their shelves that they’re reading this…

July 30, 2020

Rolling Fields by David Trueba

Translated from Spanish by Rahul Bery Reviewed by Michael Eaude Too often, reviews are distorted because they are written by someone who knows and…

February 11, 2020

It Would be Night in Caracas by Karina Sainz Borgo

Translated by Elizabeth Bryer Reviewed by Susan Osborne Venezuelan writer Karina Sainz Borgo’s It Would Be Night in Caracas is one of three novels…

Barcelona Tales Helen Constantine
June 25, 2019

Barcelona Tales, ed Helen Constantine

Translated by Peter Bush Review by Karen Langley If you’re an armchair traveller like I am, the “City Tales” collection of books from Oxford…

Berta Isla by Javier Marias
January 17, 2019

Berta Isla by Javier Marías

Translated by Margaret Jull Costa Review by Anna Hollingsworth I’m not one for classic spy stories: I don’t care if the martinis come shaken…

May 31, 2018

A Dead Rose by Aurora Cáceres

Translation, Foreword & Notes by Laura Kanost Reviewed by Karen Langley The female form is often idealised in art and media, from classical sculptures…

House of Beauty by Melba Escobar
May 29, 2018

House of Beauty by Melba Escobar

Translated by Elizabeth Bryer Reviewed by Basil Ransome Davies Each time I walk into town from my house I pass at least one nail/beauty…

Return to the Dark Valley by Santiago Gamboa
October 3, 2017

Return to the Dark Valley by Santiago Gamboa

Translated by Howard Curtis Reviewed by Basil Ransome-Davies I found a molten quality in this novel (if it is a novel). It burns off…

February 2, 2017

Death Going Down by María Angélica Bosco

Translated by Lucy Greaves Reviewed by Gill Davies Thanks to Shiny – and the publishers – I am discovering and enjoying new crime writers….

December 6, 2016

33 Revolutions by Canek Sánchez Guevara

Translated by Howard Curtis Reviewed by Annabel Canek Sánchez Guevara was Che Guevara’s grandson. Was, because he died in early 2015 from complications after…

June 30, 2016

Thus Bad Begins by Javier Marías

Translated by Margaret Jull Costa Reviewed by Harriet As a couple, they had spotted me like one of those distant shapes on the ocean…

June 20, 2016

Sudden Death by Álvaro Enrigue

Translated by Natasha Wimmer Reviewed by David Hebblethwaite There’s some remarkable literature from Mexico being published in English translation at the moment. Writers such as…

January 21, 2016

The Invisible Guardian by Dolores Redondo

Translated by Isabelle Kaufeler Reviewed by Marina Sofia The Baztan valley in the Pyrenees in the north-east of Spain is misty, rainy and remote….

December 9, 2015

The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende

Translated by Nick Caistor and Amanda Hopkinson Reviewed by Alice Farrant The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende is a tender love story, traversing from the…

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