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Today at Shiny, @lyzzybee.bsky.social reviewed Future Rural from @littletollerbooks.bsky.social shinynewbooks.co.uk/future-rural...
Shiny Thursday: Harriet reviews The Artist by Lucy Steeds, new in paperback @johnmurrays.bsky.social shinynewbooks.co.uk/the-artist-b...
Today at Shiny: @lyzzybee.bsky.social reviews Lifeboat at the End of the World by Dominic Gregory shinynewbooks.co.uk/lifeboat-at-...
Today at Shiny, @peterreason.bsky.social reviews The Given World by Melissa Harrison, Hutchinson Heinemann shinynewbooks.co.uk/the-given-wo...
Shiny Translation Thursday - @kaggsy59.bsky.social reviews Herta Muller's new book, translated by Kate McNaughton @grantabooks.bsky.social shinynewbooks.co.uk/the-village-...
At Shiny today, an archive reading list of nature & ecology reviews as a belated happy 100th birthday to Sir David Attenborough. shinynewbooks.co.uk/shiny-archiv...
At Shiny today, Harriet reviews The Hyena's Daughter by Jupiter Jones @weatherglassbooks.bsky.social shinynewbooks.co.uk/the-hyenas-d...
Shiny Tuesday: @annabookbel.bsky.social
reviews Wilderness of Mirrors by Olufemi Terry, from @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social shinynewbooks.co.uk/wilderness-o...
At Shiny today: @spencro.bsky.social reviews A Day Between Weathers by William J Tait in a new edition from @mikewalmer.bsky.social shinynewbooks.co.uk/a-day-betwee...
Today at Shiny, @peterreason.bsky.social reviews Amitav Ghosh's collection of essays, Wild Fictions @johnmurrays.bsky.social shinynewbooks.co.uk/wild-fiction...
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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
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
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
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
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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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
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
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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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
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
