The book I review this week, America’s Black Capital How African Americans Remade Atlanta in the Shadow of the Confederacy, was given to me by NetGalley as an uncorrected proof. It is reviewed after a tribute to Simon Crean, former Leader of the Australian Labor Party. I was very sad to hear of Simon Crean’sContinue reading “Week Beginning 28 June 2023”
Monthly Archives: June 2023
Week Beginning 21 June 2023
The book review this week is The Bedroom Window by K.L. Slater. However, I am also referring to the work I reviewed last week as that post had a very short time online as it was posted so late. Besides, I really love the cover of Plague Searchers and it deserves another airing . K.L.Continue reading “Week Beginning 21 June 2023”
Week beginning 14 June 2023*
Rob Wills’ two volume Plague Searchers is reviewed this week. It seems particularly appropriate to review a book that gives women’s place such a high priority in the week I also comment on the National Labor Women’s Conference held in Western Australia. Rob Wills Plague Searchers Volumes 1 and 2 Arcadia 2022. The description ‘immense’Continue reading “Week beginning 14 June 2023*”
Week Beginning 7 June 2023
The Four Corners of the Heart An Unfinished Novel, Françoise Sagan, Amazon Crossing 2023. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. How I wish that I had originally known Françoise Sagan’s work through this clever, comic, sensitive and thoughtful novel rather than the one with which I understood her work untilContinue reading “Week Beginning 7 June 2023”
Robin's Room 