Monthly Archives: September 2026
Week beginning 30 September 2026
A Little More Love, The Life and Legacy of Olivia Newton-JohnMatthew Hild, Bloomsbury Academic, May 2026. Thank you NetGalley and Bloomsbury Academic for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Although the major expansion in Olivia Newton-John’s career took place after she left Australia, the early section of this biography set in Australia andContinue reading “Week beginning 30 September 2026”
Week beginning 23 September 2026
Karen Brooks The Good Wife of Bath: A (Mostly) True Story HQ Fiction, Australia, 2021.* Thank you to NetGalley for this uncorrected proof copy for review. Karen Brooks says that she found Chaucer’s Wife irresistible, and this shines through the novel she has written from the Good Wife of Bath’s perspective. Like Chaucer’s depiction ofContinue reading “Week beginning 23 September 2026”
Week beginning 16 September 2026*
Kristy Cambron The Making of a Mad Woman Thomas Nelson Fiction, February 2027. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Kristy Cambron introduces Jo Carmichael as she enters the board room to take over her late father’s position as CEO of an advertising firm, struggling to exist in the maleContinue reading “Week beginning 16 September 2026*”
Week beginning 9 September 2026
Robin Morgan and Gloria Steinem Remembering Gloria Kathy Spillar, Ms. Executive Editor <info@msmagazine.com> 5 Sept 2026, 23:01 Weekly DigestLetter from an Editor | September 5, 2026Dear Robin, Gloria. She was a journalist, an organizer, a movement-builder. A woman with a powerful voice—and a woman with a profound capacity for listening. When she cofounded Ms. in 1972, sheContinue reading “Week beginning 9 September 2026”
Week beginning 2 September 2026
Alice Hoffman The Witches of Cambridge Simon & Schuster (Australia) | Scribner UK, September 2026. Thank you NetGalley and Simon & Schuster for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. I was interested in The Witches of Cambridge as an example of historical fiction that would complement the non-fiction texts I have read about the treatmentContinue reading “Week beginning 2 September 2026”
