I do so love a reprint! Why that should be I can't really say, but it's a fact. So, though Simon is the Shiny reprints editor, I always manage to worm my way in there with reviews by, or commissioned by, me.
Kolymsky Heights was one such -- a thriller set in the frozen wastes of Siberia. As I say in my review, this was rather outside my comfort zone, but that's a good thing, right? Here's the link: http://shinynewbooks.co.uk/reprints-issue-5/kolymsky-heights-by-lionel-davidson/
Not an issue goes by without at least one of the British Library's wonderful Crime Classics, and in issue 5 we have two reviews, one by Simon and one by me. Here are the links:
http://shinynewbooks.co.uk/reprints-issue-5/capital-crimes-london-mysteries-edited-by-martin-edwards/
http://shinynewbooks.co.uk/reprints-issue-5/the-hogs-back-mystery-by-freeman-wills-crofts/
On quite a different note, I reviewed the fascinating Book of Margery Kempe, the autobiography of a medieval mystic. Read that one here: http://shinynewbooks.co.uk/reprints-issue-5/the-book-of-margery-kempe-translated-by-anthony-bale/
And finally, I commissioned a collection of extremely strange and fascinating sounding stories by Patricia Highsmith, Little Tales of Misogyny: http://shinynewbooks.co.uk/reprints-issue-5/little-tales-of-misogyny-by-patricia-highsmith/
Dive in and enjoy!
