Reviews this week are the fiction books, You Need to Know by Nicola Moriarty and Laura Lippman’s Dream Girl. The latter was provided to me by NetGalley for review. The full reviews can be found at – Books: Reviews. A list of all the books reviewed appears on the Home Page Home Page, with theContinue reading “Week beginning 8 September 2021”
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Week beginning 1 September 2021
Although one of the two books provided to me by NetGalley for review, is fiction, both are valuable social commentary. Lisa Jewell, The Night She Disappeared, Century (Penguin Random House), 2021. In her latest novel, Lisa Jewell uses a device that is new to me in her work – a detective story writer who becomesContinue reading “Week beginning 1 September 2021”
Week beginning 25 August 2021
This week I review two Australian authors, one of whom uses an Australian setting, the other provides a background to a family who emigrate to Australia after the second world war. Tania Blanchard’s Echoes of War was provided to me by Simon & Schuster and NetGalley for review and Louise Guy’s Her Last Hope providedContinue reading “Week beginning 25 August 2021”
Week beginning 18 August 2021
This week I review Terje Tvedt’s The Nile, History’s Greatest River, provided to me by NetGalley for review. I also review a book that was recommended to me by a young friend. She was right, I would have passed it over but was tempted by the 99p kindle version. Terje Tvedt The Nile History’s GreatestContinue reading “Week beginning 18 August 2021”
Week beginning 11 August 2021
This week I am reviewing Hillary Rodham Clinton and Chelsea Clinton’s Gutsy Women Favourite Stories of Courage and Resilience . One of the interesting aspects of this exciting range of stories is their resonance with some of the books I have reviewed previously in this blog. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Chelsea Clinton Gutsy Women FavouriteContinue reading “Week beginning 11 August 2021”
Week beginning 4 August 2021
This week I am catching up with reviews that I have written for NetGalley, posted to Goodreads, and other social networks, but not included in this blog. Both are fiction. The first, Waiting To Begin, by Amanda Prowse was a disappointment, but Louise Candlish’s The Heights was a very satisfying read. ‘The Bipartisan Infrastructure DealContinue reading “Week beginning 4 August 2021”
Week beginning 28 July 2021
The books reviewed this week include one that is pertinent to the debate about democracy and voting rights in America today. Included this week is also Heather Cox Richardson’s commentary on these events. The book is Democracy, Race and Justice The Speeches and Writings of Sadie T.M. Alexander, edited by Nina Banks and published byContinue reading “Week beginning 28 July 2021”
Week beginning 21 July 2021
The books reviewed this week are part of the Pen & Sword series of publications. Earlier reviews from the series were A Visitor’s Guide to Jane Austen’s England by Sue Wilkes; London and the Seventeenth Century by Margarette Lincoln and Michelle Higgins’ A Visitor’s Guide to Victorian England. This is a series that makes historyContinue reading “Week beginning 21 July 2021”
Week beginning 14th July 2021
This week’s nonfiction review is Rebecca, an analysis of the film. Patricia White, Rebecca, BFI Bloomsbury Publishing Plc London and New York, 2021. I was thrilled to receive this thorough interpretation of Rebecca from NetGalley. Rebecca is a film with which I have grappled. I became reacquainted with the novel and its author during aContinue reading “Week beginning 14th July 2021”
Week beginning 7 July 2021
This post has been updated to include information about a zoom meeting, Brilliant & Bold! at which From Women to the World Letters for a New Century (one of the reviewed books) will be discussed. Books reviewed this week are: Kelly Heyman’s Build Back Better. The First Hundred Days of the Biden Administration, and BeyondContinue reading “Week beginning 7 July 2021”
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