Book reviews this week include a thriller, a domestic drama, and a non-fiction book. The following books were provided to me as uncorrected proofs from NetGalley for advance reviews. Bill Clinton; James Patterson, The President’s Daughter, Random house UK, Cornerstone Century, 2021. My usual choice of reading does not include thrillers such as The President’sContinue reading “Week beginning 23 June 2021”
Monthly Archives: June 2021
Week beginning 16th June 2021
Book reviews this week include a non-fiction book on movie makers, and far more impressive, two historical fiction novels by Philippa Gregory, which begin in England, with the struggle between the monarchy and parliamentary government providing the background to Tidelands. Class and gender are a focus of the local story set on the coast ofContinue reading “Week beginning 16th June 2021”
Week beginning 9 June 2021
Book Reviews this week are the non fiction, Superman’s Not Coming, and a novel that features some of the same issues, Patricia Hunt Holmes’ Crude Ambition. Erin Brockovich with Suzanne Boothby, Superman’s Not Coming Our National Water Crisis and What We the People Can Do About It, Pantheon Books 2021 I saw the film, ErinContinue reading “Week beginning 9 June 2021”
Week beginning 2nd June 2021
Book reviews this week: Nicola West, Catch Us The Foxes, Simon & Schuster 2021. The prologue introduces Marlowe Robertson, ‘author, journalist and Co-creator of The Lily Foundation’. She is interviewed on the seventh anniversary of Lily’s death, as the person who exposed her killer. Marlowe, colloquially known as Lo, dressed in clothing reminiscent of herContinue reading “Week beginning 2nd June 2021”
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