This week the second of the books in Kerry Wilkinson’s Whitecliff Bay series is reviewed. NetGalley provided me with the uncorrected proof. Kerry Wilkinson The One Who Was Taken (A Whitecliff Bay Mystery Book 2) Bookouture 2023. The One Who Was Taken continues this series in which more information about the appealing main character, Millie,Continue reading “Week beginning 31 May”
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Week beginning 24 May 2023
Victoria Jenkins Happily Married Bookouture 2023. Thank you NetGalley for providing me with the uncorrected proof for review. Happily Married begins with a prologue which, as the book progresses, could apply to several of the characters and plots. Certainly, the reader is shown early in the novel that the married couple at the centre ofContinue reading “Week beginning 24 May 2023”
Week Beginning 16 May 2023
The book this week is relevant to the E. Jean Carroll case against the former American president, and is a good read for people interested in the legal system, the way in which judges were appointed to the American Supreme Court, as well as the subject in general. This week’s blog is very late becauseContinue reading “Week Beginning 16 May 2023”
Week beginning 16 May 2023
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Ayeesha Inoon Untethered Harlequin Australia, HQ (Fiction, Non Fiction, YA) & MIRA, 2023? Thank you, NetGalley and Harlequin Australia, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. I am even more grateful to Ayesha Inoon for writing this book – it’s a story that remains long after reading,…
Week beginning 10 May 2023
Ayesha Inoon Untethered Harlequin Australia, HQ (Fiction, Non Fiction, YA) & MIRA, 2023 Thank you, NetGalley and Harlequin Australia, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. I am even more grateful to Ayesha Inoon for writing this book – it’s a story that remains long after reading, creating the emotion and some ofContinue reading “Week beginning 10 May 2023”
Week beginning 3 May 2023
Kerry Wilkinson The One Who Fell (A Whitecliff Bay Mystery Book 1) Bookouture, April 2023. Thank you, Net Galley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. The One Who Fell, the first in a series, is thoroughly enjoyable. The novels that follow are further evidence that I have found a new series toContinue reading “Week beginning 3 May 2023”
Week beginning 26 April 2023
Publishing I have begun this week’s blog with a great story about publishing from a Western Australian author, Gordon d’Venables. I referred to his new book, Hunted, last week. Star of the South, which, from what I recall of our discussion in January 2021 in Perth, is rather different from the earlier publications, will beContinue reading “Week beginning 26 April 2023”
Week beginning 19 April 2023
NetGalley provided me with the following uncorrected proofs for review. The first, The Women Who Wouldn’t Leave, is a good read. Unfortunately, the other two books are extremely disappointing. Miranda Rijks’ The Other Mother follows others I have read by this author. They have been fairly good beach reads, and for GoodReads I have ratedContinue reading “Week beginning 19 April 2023”
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Janet Malcolm Still Pictures On Photography and Memory Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023 I appreciate NetGalley having provided this uncorrected proof for me to read and review. I am so glad that they approved my request. Years ago Barbara Pym said of her novels: I might use Christopher Isherwood’s phrase ‘I am a camera’Continue reading “Week beginning”
Week beginning 5 April 2023
Suzanne Ferriss Lost in Translation Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. Thank you NetGalley and Bloomsbury Academic for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Lost in Translation is a BFI Film Classics publication aimed at ‘introd[ucing]. Interpret[ing] and celebrat[ing] landmarks of world cinema’. Suzanne Ferris has fulfilled this task in an engaging and through manner, theContinue reading “Week beginning 5 April 2023”
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