Holly Swinyard Fans and Fandom, A Journey into the Passion and Power of Fan Culture Pen & Sword, White Owl, March 2024. Thank you, NetGalley and Pen & Sword, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Holly Swinyard’s Fans and Fandom, A Journey into the Passion and Power of Fan Culture, is anContinue reading “Week beginning March 6 2024”
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Week beginning 28 February 2024
C.L. Taylor Every Move You Make Avon Books, March 2024. Thank you, NetGalley , for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. The fear and helplessness endured by people who are stalked resonates through this well-crafted novel. Those who suffer in the same way are all too aware of the threat that remains evenContinue reading “Week beginning 28 February 2024”
Week beginning 21 February 2024
Two books are reviewed this week, The Artist’s Wife, fiction, and the non-fiction, Miss Dior. The latter ties into an article about a new television drama, The New Look, about Christian Dior. Clare Flynn The Artist’s Wife (Hearts of Glass Book 2) Storm Publishing February 2024. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrectedContinue reading “Week beginning 21 February 2024”
Week beginning 14 February 2024
Dervla McTiernan What Happened to Nina? HarperCollins Publishers Australia, February 2024. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Dervla McTiernan’s What Happened to Nina? is thoroughly engrossing. So often ‘page turner’ becomes an accolade for mysteries such as this. However, here it would be remiss to turn a page tooContinue reading “Week beginning 14 February 2024”
Week beginning 7 February 2024
In this week’s blog I review two books, The Artist’s Apprentice, historical fiction, and Tudor Feminists Ten Renaissance Women Ahead of Their Time, an account of ten noteworthy women in the Tudor period. Rebecca Wilson Tudor Feminists Ten Renaissance Women Ahead of their Time Pen & Sword, Pen & Sword History, January 2024. Rebecca Wilson’sContinue reading “Week beginning 7 February 2024”
Week beginning 31 January 2024
Ramie Targoff Shakespeare’s Sisters Four Women Who Wrote the Renaissance, Quercus Books riverrun, March 2024. Thank you, Net Galley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Ramie Targoff begins with a reference to Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own in which she compares the success men win for their literary efforts inContinue reading “Week beginning 31 January 2024”
Week beginning January 24 2024
Kathryn Atherton Mary Neal and the Suffragettes Who Saved Morris Dancing Pen & Sword History, January 2024. * Thank you, NetGalley, and Pen & Sword History for providing me with this uncorrected proof review. Reading Katheryn Atherton’s book has been an absolute delight. It is well written, with the usual Pen & Sword accessible language, formatContinue reading “Week beginning January 24 2024”
Week beginning 17 January 2024.
Scott Martelle 1932 FDR, Hoover and the Dawn of a New America Kensington Books, Citadel, Nov 2023. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Scott Martelle has chosen a format which quickly draws the reader into the year in which Americans chose their President, the Democratic Party’s Franklin Delano Roosevelt, overContinue reading “Week beginning 17 January 2024.”
Week beginning 10 January 2024
BookTrib BookTrib Lit Picks First Chapters from the Hottest Books Meridian Editions, November 2023. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this proof for review. I understand that this edition is available as an eBook download for people who subscribe to BookTrib, providing a valuable resource to readers who want to see what theirContinue reading “Week beginning 10 January 2024”
Week beginning 3 January 2024
Jane Austen Jane Austen’s The History of England Writings from Her Youth Dover Publications, Oct 2023. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. The history and letters in this short volume provide a wealth of information about Jane Austen which makes an ideal background to reading her more well-known novels.Continue reading “Week beginning 3 January 2024”
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