Week beginning 25 September 2024

Elizabeth Strout Tell Me Everything Penguin General UK (Fig Tree, Hamish Hamilton, Viking, Penguin Life, Penguin Business, Viking) September 2024. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Elizabeth Strout brings magic to her work and Tell Me Everything is no different.  Bob Burgess and Margaret Estaver live in Maine. TheContinue reading “Week beginning 25 September 2024”

Week beginning 18 September 2024

Marjorie Garber, Shakespeare in Bloomsbury, Yale University Press 2023. Majorie Garber Shakespeare in Bloomsbury Yale University Press, 2024. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review.  ‘How Shakespeare Would Have Loved Us’ introduces Shakespeare in Bloomsbury with a wealth of information about the focus of the book. It suggests that theContinue reading “Week beginning 18 September 2024”

Week beginning 11 September 2024

J. E. Smyth Mary C. McCall Jr. The Rise and Fall of Hollywood’s Most Powerful Screenwriter Columbia University Press, September 2024. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. J.E. Smyth has written a detailed, dense and illuminating account of Mary C. McCall’s life as a feminist, novelist, screen writer, laborContinue reading “Week beginning 11 September 2024”

Week beginning 4 September 2024

Douglas Beattie How Labour Wins (And Why It Loses) From 1900 to 2024 Elliott & Thompson, August 2024. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected copy for review. Douglas Beattie’s approach to a topic that could take up so many interesting side issues is a Party Campaign Director’s dream: he unfailingly remains onContinue reading “Week beginning 4 September 2024”