Woo
hoo! I am so excited because those nice people at Shiny New Books have used one
of my reviews in their summer edition. They’ve featured a shortened version of
the piece I wrote about The Moor:
Lives Landscape Literature, by William
Atkins. I was thrilled when Harriet, who edits the non-fiction
contributions, said they would like to use it to coincide with the paperback
being issued – and then I forgot all about it. So it was a wonderful surprise when
I got back from a somewhat fraught day at the Oxfam Bookshop and found the
latest SNB is out – and here is the link to my review. http://shinynewbooks.co.uk/
Finally, I
must say a big thank you to Harriet, Annabel, Victoria and Simon for inviting
me to join them for this issue. And I can’t resist using this picture from the
SNB header, because the cat looks like our old pet Smudge, who was a real
character, and liked to sit on whatever book I was trying read.
There
are, of course, lots of other fantastic reviews on a huge range of books, as
well as interviews with authors, articles about book prizes, and details of the
latest Shiny Book Club title, so do take a look.
