This week I review Paul Kendall’s Queen Elizabeth I Life and Legacy of the Virgin Queen which fits nicely into thinking about the article by Jenny Hyde on the way in which news about the death of Queen Elizabeth 1 compares with news coverage of the death of Queen Elizabeth 11. Paul Kendall Queen ElizabethContinue reading “Week beginning 28 September 2022”
Monthly Archives: September 2022
Week beginning 21 September 2022
Some novels, published in 2021, but good second hand reads in 2022 are reviewed this week: Louise Candlish The Heights, 2021; Carol Mason, between you and me, 2021 and Jane Isaacs, One Good Lie, 2021. Thank you, Net Galley for the uncorrected proofs for review. Louise Candlish has had me immersed in her fictional worldsContinue reading “Week beginning 21 September 2022”
Week beginning 14 September 2022
The reviews this week, one fiction, and the other non-fiction, are books to which I gave five stars in my reviews for NetGalley and Good Reads. I thoroughly enjoyed both. The first is Lisa Jewell’s Invisible Girl; the non-fiction is Changing Roles Women After the Great War by Dr Vivien Newman. Both books were sentContinue reading “Week beginning 14 September 2022”
Week beginning 7 September 2022
Scott Turow Suspect Swift Press 2022. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof in exchange for an honest review. It is a long time since I read Scott Turow’s Presumed Innocent for the first time, and not so long ago that I re-read what I still believe is a very smart novelContinue reading “Week beginning 7 September 2022”
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