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  • By Annabel Gaskell, Harriet Devine
  • Based in United Kingdom
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Most recent posts

Shiny Prize Season – Falling Animals by Sheila Armstrong – The Ondaatje Prize shortlist
Review by Annabel 2024 marks the twentieth anniversary of the ‘Ondaatje Prize’, awarded by the Royal Society of Literature for a distinguished work of fiction, non-fiction or poetry, evoking the spirit of a place. The …
On , by Shiny New Books, 862 words
Rural Hours – The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Rosamond Lehmann by Harriet Baker
Reviewed by Gill Davies In the summer of 1917 Virginia Woolf was living at Asheham, a house near Lewes in Sussex. She was 35 and hadn’t written anything for two years, after a breakdown. In …
On , by Shiny New Books, 942 words
Anthony Burgess, The Devil Prefers Mozart: On Music and Musicians  1962 – 1993, edited by Paul Phillips
Review by Rob Spence Anthony Burgess was, of course, one of the most significant novelists of the second half of the twentieth century, publishing over thirty novels, (a centenary reading list can be found here), …
On , by Shiny New Books, 1,002 words