Liz Nugent The Truth About Ruby Cooper Penguin General UK – Penguin General UK – Fig Tree, Hamish Hamilton, Viking, Penguin Life, Penguin Business | Sandycove, March 2026. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Liz Nugent creates moral dilemmas for the reader from the beginning of this intriguing and difficult novel.Continue reading “Week beginning 24th June 2024”
Monthly Archives: June 2026
Week beginning 17 June 2026
As I am in Daphne Du Maurier country I thought it worth including two past reviews of associated books. Patricia White Rebecca BFI Bloomsbury Publishing Plc London and New York, 2021. Thank you to NetGalley for providing me with this uncorrected proof in exchange for an honest review. I was thrilled to receive this thorough interpretation ofContinue reading “Week beginning 17 June 2026”
Week beginning 10th June 2026
Zoe Fairbairns Bloodless Coup, Poems by Zoe Fairbairns Lost Souls Events, UK, 2026. Bloodless Coup is Zoe Fairbairns’ new literary accomplishment. I read her novels, which she began publishing in the late 1970s with admiration and mixed pleasure and anguish. In these, Benefits, Stand We At Last, Daddy’s Girls, Here Today, Closing and Other NamesContinue reading “Week beginning 10th June 2026”
Week beginning 3 June 2026
Tony Castro The Girl Who Would Be Marilyn Monroe, An Intimate Portrait of the Young Norma Jeane, Bloomsbury Press, September 2026. Tony Castro’s concentration on Norma Jeane, rather than Marilyn Monroe, is a haunting reminder of a girl whose aspiration was never dimmed by her childhood, or young womanhood. It was written for the 100thContinue reading “Week beginning 3 June 2026”
Robin's Room 