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• Guest Blog: Adèle Geras on Bernadine Bishop

  

  I'm delighted to welcome Adèle Geras for another guest blog. I'd never heard of Bernadine Bishop but I want to read her now and I'm sure you will too.... Read more

  Posted on 05 January 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Girl with a Cat

  

  I'm usually on the lookout for less-known paintings and painters for my Saturday series, which started as just Women Reading but tends to branch out from time t... Read more

  Posted on 03 January 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Books of the Year Part Two

  

  A couple of days ago I wrote about the books I'd reviewed this year on Shiny New Books. Of course SNB is devoted to newly published books, even though some may... Read more

  Posted on 30 December 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Woman with Book

  

  I've just realised that the weekend whizzed by without my realising what day it was and I missed my usual Saturday practice of posting a nice picture for you... Read more

  Posted on 29 December 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Books of the Year Part One

  

  Following in the footsteps of my fellow Shiny New Books editor Annabel, I'm doing a double Books of the Year. This reflects the fact that I've reviewed loads... Read more

  Posted on 27 December 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• To Bodies Gone by Barney Norris

  

  Throughout my entire childhood, all I wanted was to be an actress. My parents were in the theatre, so I suppose that was not surprising. Read more

  Posted on 23 December 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Happy Christmas, Everyone!

  

  I'm finding it really hard to believe that Christmas is only a few days away. This is probably because, having been in hospital for a week at the beginning of... Read more

  Posted on 22 December 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Surprise Christmas Bestseller

  

  One of the books I most enjoyed reading and reviewing for the most recent issue of Shiny New Books was this excellent golden age crime story, one of the... Read more

  Posted on 21 December 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Woman with Book

  

  This is known as Young Noblewoman in a Salon, by the French artist Felix Armand Huellant, about whom all I know is that he was born in 1834. I've also seen an... Read more

  Posted on 20 December 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Restoration by Rose Tremain

  

  I've had quite a mini splurge on Rose Tremain recently, catching up with those of her novels I hadn't read. I had discovered her to my great delight a... Read more

  Posted on 18 December 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• 2014 in First Lines

  

  First lines of first posts of each month of 2014. This meme is everywhere so I'm jumping on the bandwagon. Looking through the archives I see I've read some... Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Confession

  

  The Victorians seem to have been particularly fond of pictures that told a story, and here is one such. This is 'The Confession'. painted in 1896 by Sir Frank... Read more

  Posted on 13 December 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Her Son's Wife by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  

  About a month ago I was telling you how much I'd enjoyed Dorothy Canfield Fisher's The Homemaker. I thought then that she was a remarkable writer and I wa... Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Reading

  

  You wouldn't know it, because I scheduled some posts for last week, but I've been in hospital for a week and just got home yesterday. Read more

  Posted on 09 December 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Woman Reading in Bed

  

  Last week I showed you a painting by a Norweigan artist, and, staying with Scandinavia, here's one by a Swede. This is The Reading Light by Georg... Read more

  Posted on 06 December 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Gray Mountain by John Grisham

  

  Having returned to John Grisham after a gap of many years, I was delighted to be asked to review this, his latest novel. If there's one thing you can say about... Read more

  Posted on 05 December 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Today's the Day!

  

  Yes, 4 December is the day when you can read the new Christmas issue of Shiny New Books. This is actually our 'inbetweeny' issue -- more of an update before... Read more

  Posted on 04 December 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Wouldbegoods

  

  I was just saying the other day how much I loved, and still love, E. Nesbit, and lo and behold -- and quite coincidentally -- the lovely people at Hesperus... Read more

  Posted on 02 December 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Woman Reading

  

  We don't often get Norweigan painters on this blog, but here's one who yet again is a new discovery for me. This is the Realist artist Christian Krohg... Read more

  Posted on 29 November 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

  

  I'd never heard of this novel until I was offered a copy by the publisher, but it sounded sufficiently intriguing to get me reading it. Here's the blurb: Lydia... Read more

  Posted on 24 November 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE