In this week’s blog: Eurostar to Amsterdam; book reviews; Amsterdam – hotel, food tour, Rijksmuseum, Cindy Lou reviews; Maggie O’Farrell; Well behaved women…; brief news from Australia. On our way back to London, after a short, but fulfilling visit to Amsterdam. We stayed in the Museum Quarter, which has excellent public transport – trams andContinue reading “Week beginning August 31 2022”
Monthly Archives: August 2022
Week beginning 24 August 2022
This week is late as the WIFI on the Eurostar was intermittent, and my four hours was less gainfully spent, reading, eating and looking at the fields passingly rapidly by. After an impossible trudge around beautifully signed streets, but with unrecognisable names, in an effort to get to the hotel (there are so few taxis,Continue reading “Week beginning 24 August 2022”
Week beginning 17 August 2022
Maryann D’Agincourt Marriage of the Smila-Hoffmans Portmay Press, LLC 2022 Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof in exchange for an honest review. This work brings together the beautifully realised Shade and Light, and August, with a new Prologue and Interlude. Short though they are, they deserve their own reviews. However, IContinue reading “Week beginning 17 August 2022”
Week beginning 10 August 2022
Two fiction books are reviewed this week, Murder on Sea, by Jane Adams, and Why She Left, by Leah Mercer. Both were sent to me by NetGalley as uncorrected proofs for review. Jane Adams Murder On Sea Joffe Books 2021 (First published by Severn House Publishers 2007). This is Book 1 of the Rina MartinContinue reading “Week beginning 10 August 2022”
Week beginning 3 August 2022
Thank you, NetGalley, for the uncorrected proofs for The Times They Were a-Changin’ 1964, the Year the Sixties Arrived and the Battle Lines of Today Were Drawn, and The Second Wife and in exchange for honest reviews. Robert S McElvaine The Times They Were a-Changin’ 1964, the Year the Sixties Arrived and the Battle LinesContinue reading “Week beginning 3 August 2022”
Robin's Room 