Kate Galley Old Girls Behaving Badly Boldwood Books, May 2024. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. I was attracted to this book because, after reading criticisms that older women do not feature in many novels, Old Girls Behaving Badly suggested that in this case this is not justified. InContinue reading “Week beginning 26 June 2024”
Monthly Archives: June 2024
Week beginning 19 June 2024.
In the 1950s, as Dictys 23 the prize I won in an Argonauts Club* competition was Enid Blyton’s Sea of Adventure. This was when I met Blyton’s appealing characters, Phillip and Dinah Mannering and Jack and Lucy Trent, Mrs Mannering, Bill Cunningham, and Kiki, the parrot. Most importantly for my travel plans in the future,Continue reading “Week beginning 19 June 2024.”
Week beginning 12 June 2024
Paul Kahan Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Press, October 2024. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Philadelphia is an immense narrative history, laying out a story that is engrossing, while so dense that initially it is difficult to decipher the themes that some readers will want to draw from theContinue reading “Week beginning 12 June 2024”
Week beginning 5 June 2024
Zöe Wheddon Jane Austen: Daddy’s Girl, The Life and Influence of The Revd George Austen Pen & Sword Pen & Sword History, March 2024. Thank you NetGalley and Pen & Sword for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. A significant part of Jane Austen’s life has been omitted in the concentration on herContinue reading “Week beginning 5 June 2024”
Robin's Room 