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Book review website founded in 2014, run by @AnnaBookBel and Harriet.
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Today at Shiny,
@lyzzybee.bsky.social
reviewed Future Rural from
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Future Rural: Imaging Tomorrow’s Countryside, edited by Adrian Cooper
Reviewed by Liz Dexter The countryside belongs to everyone. (Michael Morpurgo, Foreword) This interesting volume by the renowned and doughty nature and countryside publisher Little Toller
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19 days ago
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Shiny Thursday: Harriet reviews The Artist by Lucy Steeds, new in paperback
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The Artist by Lucy Steeds
Reviewed by Harriet Just out in paperback, Lucy Steeds’ debut novel was greeted with much praise when published at the beginning of last year, and was selected by Waterstones as their Book o
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26 days ago
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Shiny Tuesday:
@annabookbel.bsky.social
reviews Wilderness of Mirrors by Olufemi Terry, from
@lesfugitivespress.bsky.social
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Wilderness of Mirrors by Olufemi Terry
Review by Annabel Les Fugitives is a small indie press that initially specialised in French translations, of both literary fiction and nonfiction (see here). Lately, they've widened their scope to
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28 days ago
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Today at Shiny:
@lyzzybee.bsky.social
reviews Lifeboat at the End of the World by Dominic Gregory
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Lifeboat at the End of the World: A Volunteer’s Story, by Dominic Gregory
Review by Liz Dexter Then there was Dungeness itself. True to its contrary nature, slack water came around the headland a couple of hours either side of the peak or trough of the tide. It was the
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29 days ago
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At Shiny today, an archive reading list of nature & ecology reviews as a belated happy 100th birthday to Sir David Attenborough.
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Shiny Archive Reading List #5 – Nature & Ecology
Compiled by Annabel We haven't done one of our archive reading lists for a couple of years, but what better occasion to celebrate belatedly than Sir David Attenborough reaching his 100th birthday
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about 1 month ago
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Shiny Translation Thursday -
@kaggsy59.bsky.social
reviews Herta Muller's new book, translated by Kate McNaughton
@grantabooks.bsky.social
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The Village on the Edge of the World: Writing and Surviving Ceaușescu’s Romania, by Herta Muller
Translated by Kate McNaughton Review by Karen Langley Nobel-prize winner Herta Muller is a Romanian-German novelist, poet and essayist who’s known for work which captures the experience o
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about 1 month ago
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Today at Shiny,
@peterreason.bsky.social
reviews The Given World by Melissa Harrison, Hutchinson Heinemann
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The Given World by Melissa Harrison
Review by Peter Reason Melissa Harrison combines duties as novelist and nature writer. Her nature writing often takes a narrative form, and her novels pay greater respect to the contribution o
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At Shiny today:
@spencro.bsky.social
reviews A Day Between Weathers by William J Tait in a new edition from
@mikewalmer.bsky.social
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A Day Between Weathers: Collected Poems, 1938-1978, by William J. Tait
Review by Rob Spence We don’t celebrate the linguistic diversity of these isles anything like enough. Just think of the rich heritage of Welsh, Gaelic, Irish, Manx, Scots, Cornish, Norn -- n
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2 months ago
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At Shiny today, Harriet reviews The Hyena's Daughter by Jupiter Jones @weatherglassbooks.bsky.social
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The Hyena’s Daughter by Jupiter Jones
Reviewed by Harriet ‘That woman is a hyena in petticoats’ I wonder how many people would have guessed from the title and the cover clip from a portrait who the hyena was. She was of c
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2 months ago
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Today at Shiny,
@peterreason.bsky.social
reviews Amitav Ghosh's collection of essays, Wild Fictions
@johnmurrays.bsky.social
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Wild Fictions: Essays by Amitav Ghosh
Review by Peter Reason I am a great fan of Amitav Ghosh both for his fiction and his non-fiction. I was introduced to his writing when The Hungry Tide was set as required reading for an
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2 months ago
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At Shiny today,
@lyzzybee.bsky.social
reviews Slow Trains Around Britain by Tom Chesshyre
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Tom Chesshyre, Slow Trains Around Britain: Notes from a 4,088-Mile Adventure on 143 Rides, by Tom Chesshyre
Review by Liz Dexter Having had the great fortune to have travelled on many exciting railways to many exiting places elsewhere in the world, from the wide-open plains of America to the tea pla
https://shinynewbooks.co.uk/tom-chesshyre-slow-trains-around-britain-notes-from-a-4088-mile-adventure-on-143-rides-by-tom-chesshyre
3 months ago
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Today at Shiny,
@annabookbel.bsky.social
reviews roman dur The Cat by Georges Simenon, in a new translation by @RosSchwartz for
@penguinukbooks.bsky.social
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The Cat by Georges Simenon
Translated by Ros Schwartz Review by Annabel Back in 2014, Penguin embarked on republishing all seventy of the Maigret novels in new translations over a period of a few years, all with a di
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3 months ago
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The sun may be struggling to come out, but this novel reviewed by
@hejparry.bsky.social
sounds anything but dull - The Apple and the Pearl y Rym Kechacha
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The Apple and the Pearl, by Rym Kechacha
Reviewed by Helen Parry Of all the arts, ballet casts perhaps the most magical spell. The classics of the repertoire are set in otherworldly realms, with entrancing music and fabulous costumes
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3 months ago
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At Shiny today.
@spencro.bsky.social
reviews The Beginning Comes After the End by Rebecca Solnit
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The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change by Rebecca Solnit
Review by Rob Spence The world of 2026 is a world in turmoil. The relentless 24-hour barrage of news brings daily accounts of war, massacres, invasions, extraordinary political manoeuvres, the
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3 months ago
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At Shiny today, Shiny ed Harriet reviews What's in a name? How historians know Shakespeare was Shakespeare by Susan Dwyer Amussen,
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What’s in a Name: How Historians Know Shakespeare was Shakespeare, by Susan Dwyer Amussen
Reviewed by Harriet Plenty of people will be thinking about Shakespeare at the moment, following the release of the wonderful film Hamnet. It’s taken from the novel of the same name, which I
https://shinynewbooks.co.uk/whats-in-a-name-how-historians-know-shakespeare-was-shakespeare-by-susan-dwyer-amusson
3 months ago
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At Shiny today:
@annabookbel.bsky.social
reviews Mrs Jekyll by Emma Glass, new in pbk from Cheerio books.
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Mrs Jekyll by Emma Glass
Review by Annabel Welsh author Emma Glass’s fourth novel, Mrs Jekyll, gained her a second longlisting for the Dylan Thomas Award in 2025. Her debut, Peach, was also longlisted, and although
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3 months ago
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Shiny Tuesday:
@peterreason.bsky.social
review a recent read he enjoyed - Everything the Light Touches by Janice Pariat.
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Everything the Light Touches by Janice Pariat – Reviewer’s choice
Review by Peter Reason Four people, their lives widely separated by time and geography, set out on journeys away from home, journeys that might well be seen as secular pilgrimages. Their four
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4 months ago
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New at Shiny this week, Harriet talks to Lars Mytting, author of the Sister Bells Trilogy and reviews the books
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Interview with Lars Mytting, author of The Sister Bells Trilogy
Interview by Harriet Lars Mytting is an award-winning Norwegian author. His surprise non-fiction bestseller Norwegian Wood has sold more than 700000 copies worldwide, and his novel The Sixteen Tre
https://shinynewbooks.co.uk/questions-for-lars-mytting-author-of-the-bell-trilogy
5 months ago
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It's been a wet Shiny Tuesday, cheer yourself up with
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reviewing Rachel Joyce's latest, now in paperback.
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The Homemade God by Rachel Joyce
Review by Rebecca Foster If, like me, you’ve been following Rachel Joyce’s career ever since her 2012 debut, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, I have good news to impart: The Homemade
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5 months ago
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Wet Shiny Tuesday: Stay in and read
@spencro.bsky.social
's review of Love at Second Sight by Ada Leverson in a new reprint from
@mikewalmer.bsky.social
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Love at Second Sight by Ada Leverson
Review by Rob Spence Ada Leverson should really be better known than she is. Born in 1862, she is probably best remembered now as a devoted friend of Oscar Wilde. She was there to greet him wh
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5 months ago
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Shiny Thursday: Today
@peterreason.bsky.social
reviews Playground by Richard Powers
@penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social
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Playground by Richard Powers
Review by Peter Reason I am a fan of Richard Powers. I read The Overstory four times, appreciating how the writing draws together an animist worldview with ecological activism while also engag
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5 months ago
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Shiny Thursday:
@spencro.bsky.social
reviews Brick Dust by Craig Jordan-Baker
@epoquepress.bsky.social
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Brick Dust by Craig Jordan-Baker
Review by Rob Spence When I started reading this quirkily entertaining novel, I was reminded of a remarkable Turkish film I saw some years ago. The film, 10 to 11, written and directed by Peli
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8 months ago
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Shiny Ed Harriet reviews The Enigma of Muriel Spark by Frances Wilson
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Electric Spark: The Enigma of Muriel Spark by Frances Wilson
Reviewed by Harriet It has always been my intention to practice the arts of pretence and counterfeit on the reader. So wrote Muriel Spark in an unpublished Author’s Note to The Prime of
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10 months ago
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On a Sweltering Shiny Tuesday:
@maxdunbar1.bsky.social
reviews Kill Your Darlings by Peter Swanson
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Kill Your Darlings by Peter Swanson
Review by Max Dunbar A Wrong in Time At a literary festival in 1993 Thom Graves watches an author being interviewed. It's slow going: Toward the end of the hourlong interview the discus
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10 months ago
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It's a damp Shiny Tuesday - somewhat apposite for today's review by
@peterreason.bsky.social
of Thirst: In search of freshwater, ed Ellen Johl, foreword by @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social to go with the latest exhibition from the
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Thirst: In search of freshwater – Wellcome Collection 2025, ed. Ellen Johl
Review by Peter Reason This slender collection of writing around the theme of freshwater is published by the Wellcome Collection to accompany its current exhibition of the same name, which ‘
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11 months ago
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Shiny
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reviews two volumes from Penguin's new Maigret Capsule Collection
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The Penguin Maigret Capsule Collection – Maigret’s Holiday and Maigret’s Pickpocket – by Georges Simenon
Review by Annabel Starting back in 2013, Penguin began reissuing the novels of Georges Simenon in new or recent translations with distinctive photographic details on the covers. All 75 Maigrets ar
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11 months ago
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Shiny
#TranslationThursday
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@annabookbel.bsky.social
reviews Barbara isn't Dying by Alina Bronsky, trans.
@timmohr.bsky.social
from
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Barbara isn’t Dying by Alina Bronsky
Translated by Tim Mohr Review by Annabel The main theme of this novel is not new, but Bronsky has such a refreshing take on it that I couldn’t help but devour it from the first page. It o
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11 months ago
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Today at Shiny,
@annabookbel.bsky.social
reviews Universality by Natasha Brown
@faberbooks.bsky.social
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Universality by Natasha Brown
Review by Annabel It's been a four-year wait for this, Natasha Brown's second novel. Her first, Assembly, was stunning, winning many plaudits. It's a moving and beautifully written novella tol
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12 months ago
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Shiny Tuesday:
@peterreason.bsky.social
reviews Bird School by Adam Nicolson. 'Throughout, the writing is gorgeous – elegant yet unfussy, richly descriptive without over-doing it, '
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Bird School: A beginner in the wood by Adam Nicolson
Review by Peter Reason ‘The first time I met a bird close-up, it was dead. A raven.’ From this grab-your-attention first line and the evocative description of this encounter, I am ho
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about 1 year ago
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Is a River Alive? @peterreason reviews Robert Macfarlane pub Hamish Hamilton.
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Is a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane
Review by Peter Reason It is very unlikely that many readers of Shiny New Books have missed Robert Macfarlane’s new book. It has been reviewed in most of the major periodicals; chosen as ‘
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about 1 year ago
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New post:
@lyzzybee.bsky.social
reviews Becoming a Good Relative by Hilary Giovale
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Becoming a Good Relative: Calling White Settlers Toward Truth, Healing, and Repair, by Hilary Giovale
Review by Liz Dexter I was immersed in a white settler myth that had always allowed me to perceive them [her ancestors] as innocent bystanders rather than oppressors. I’ve been interest
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about 1 year ago
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Shiny Tuesday:
@kaggsy59.bsky.social
reviews Emile Zola: Writing Modern Life by Rachel Bowlby pub
@oupacademic.bsky.social
in their 'My Reading' series
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Emile Zola: Writing Modern Life by Rachel Bowlby
Reviewed by Karen Langley The My Reading series from Oxford University Press takes as its premise that the best book recommendations come from someone who cares for the work in question; books
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about 1 year ago
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Shiny
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@spencro.bsky.social
reviews The Brittle Age by Donatella Di Pietrantonio, translated by Ann Goldstein pub
@europaeditions.bsky.social
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The Brittle Age, by Donatella Di Pietrantonio
Translated by Ann Goldstein Review by Rob Spence In the mountainous rural region of Abruzzo, a local community is blighted by an event of brutal savagery. Thirty years later, its effects ar
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about 1 year ago
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Shiny Tuesday:
@hejparry.bsky.social
reviews When William Came by Saki in a new reprint from
@mikewalmer.bsky.social
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When William Came, by Saki
Review by Helen Parry Suppose Germany and Britain went to war and Britain lost and was absorbed into the German empire? What would British people do? What would you do? This is the basis of Sa
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about 1 year ago
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about 1 year ago
On my blog today - my review of another great spec fiction medical thriller from
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@orendabooks.bsky.social
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The Cure by Eve Smith – blog tour
My first encounter with Eve Smith was with her second novel, Off Target, in which genetic engineering of children is normal. I very much enjoyed it – spec fiction being my favourite type of g…
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Shiny Thursday: Max Dunbar reviews The Bureau by Eoin McNamee
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This Is The Border by Eoin McNamee
Review by Max Dunbar There's lots of historical fiction around but generally it doesn't work for me. I feel like the author is bludgeoning you with their research, having worked so hard on it,
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about 1 year ago
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The Golden Road by William Dalrymple
Reviewed by Harriet India has always had a great attraction for me. I didn’t manage to go there until I was in my thirties, but I’ve visited countless times since then and hope I’ll do s
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about 1 year ago
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At Shiny today:
@kaggsy59.bsky.social
reviews Nothing Grows by Moonlight by Torborg Nedreaas, translated by Bibbi Lee, pub Penguin Classics
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Nothing Grows by Moonlight by Torborg Nedreaas
Translated by Bibbi Lee Review by Karen Langley Recent years have seen a spate of newly translated fictions being made available by Penguin Classics in their ‘Demy’ series; these works
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about 1 year ago
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Shiny Wednesday: Harriet reviews The Dancer and the Dance by Janet Burroway in a new edition from
@mikewalmer.bsky.social
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The Dancer and the Dance by Janet Burroway
Reviewed by Harriet I had never heard of Janet Burroway until Mike Walmer recently republished her 1965 novel, The Dancer and the Dance. It was the second of her eight novels. Considering that
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about 1 year ago
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It's a Shiny
#TranslationThursday
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@spencro.bsky.social
reviews Goodnight Tokyo by Atsuhiro Yoshida pub
@europaeditions.bsky.social
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Goodnight Tokyo by Atsuhiro Yoshida
Translated by Hayden Trowell Review by Rob Spence Quirky Japanese literature seems to be all the rage these days. Every British bookshop seems well-stocked with Tokyo-based stories about ca
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over 1 year ago
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In a new edition from
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books, @spencro reviews The Last of the Aldinis by George Sand.
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The Last of the Aldinis by George Sand
Translated by George Burnham Ives Review by Rob Spence Version 1.0.0 Opposite the title page of this new edition of George Sand’s novel is a list of her works of fiction. It contains 76 no
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over 1 year ago
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This week at Shiny, Helen Parry reviewed Otherland: Nine Tales of Wonder and Romance from Medieval Ireland, by Lisa M. Bitel pub OUP.
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Otherworld: Nine Tales of Wonder and Romance from Medieval Ireland, by Lisa M. Bitel
Review by Helen Parry A king’s son pines for a beautiful woman who only he can see. A god’s jealous wife turns a princess into a puddle of water, which grows into a worm, then a scarlet fly, and is…
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over 1 year ago
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This week at Shiny: Victoria Best reviewed Colette, My Literary Mother by Michele Roberts pub. OUP
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Colette, My Literary Mother by Michèle Roberts
Reviewed by Victoria Best, 13 Feb 2025 Colette is, I think, a very special writer. She writes with such beguiling charm, such seductive cleverness that she gets under your skin. To read her is to e…
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over 1 year ago
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over 1 year ago
Just changed my header pic to show off my Paul Auster collection as
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Also this week, Shiny Ed Harriet reviewed Shakespeare's Borrowed Feathers by
@freeburian.bsky.social
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Shakespeare’s Borrowed Feathers by Darren Freebury-Jones
Reviewed by Harriet, 7 Jan 2025 When I was young, I spent several summers in Stratford-upon-Avon. My parents were working at the theatre there, so I was fortunate to be allowed to sit quietly at th…
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over 1 year ago
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We're back after our Christmas break. This week,
@spencro.bsky.social
reviews Pictures on the Wall by Hugo Charteris in a new reprint from Michael Walmer Books
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Pictures on the Wall by Hugo Charteris
Review by Rob Spence, 9 Jan 2025 This book, by the strangely neglected author of a number of novels in the fifties and sixties, is another welcome publication from the UK’s northernmost publisher, …
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over 1 year ago
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Shiny Monday this week:
@annabookbel.bsky.social
reviews The Future of Energy by Richard Black pub Melville House UK.
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The Future of Energy by Richard Black
Review by Annabel Back in March, Shiny took part in the blogtour for Melville House’s initial books in its ‘Futures’ series. The first books in the series of small format paperbac…
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almost 2 years ago
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@kaggsy59.bsky.social
reviews Completely Kafka by Nicolas Mahler
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Completely Kafka by Nicolas Mahler
Translated by Alexander Booth Review by Karen Langley 2024 is the centenary of the death of author Franz Kafka and the year has seen a flurry of interest focusing on this. Many publications and tri…
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reviews Thunderclap by Laura Cumming, new in Vintage paperback.
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Thunderclap: A memoir of art and life & sudden death, by Laura Cumming
I am a very critical reader; there are not many books that I unreservedly admire. So it is notable that when I finished reading Thunderclap, I closed the covers, turned to my wife, and said, “This …
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Today at Shiny, Harriet reviews Barbara Comyns: A Savage Innocence by Avril Horner pub Manchester UP. "I enjoyed this book more than I can say."
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Barbara Comyns: A Savage Innocence, by Avril Horner
Reviewed by Harriet In the back of my mind I was always sure that wonderful things were waiting for me, but I’d got to get through a lot of horrors first. This quotation is from Barbara Comyn’s 194…
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