Book reviews this week include a thriller, a domestic drama, and a non-fiction book. The following books were provided to me as uncorrected proofs from NetGalley for advance reviews. Bill Clinton; James Patterson, The President’s Daughter, Random house UK, Cornerstone Century, 2021. My usual choice of reading does not include thrillers such as The President’sContinue reading “Week beginning 23 June 2021”
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Week beginning 16th June 2021
Book reviews this week include a non-fiction book on movie makers, and far more impressive, two historical fiction novels by Philippa Gregory, which begin in England, with the struggle between the monarchy and parliamentary government providing the background to Tidelands. Class and gender are a focus of the local story set on the coast ofContinue reading “Week beginning 16th June 2021”
Week beginning 9 June 2021
Book Reviews this week are the non fiction, Superman’s Not Coming, and a novel that features some of the same issues, Patricia Hunt Holmes’ Crude Ambition. Erin Brockovich with Suzanne Boothby, Superman’s Not Coming Our National Water Crisis and What We the People Can Do About It, Pantheon Books 2021 I saw the film, ErinContinue reading “Week beginning 9 June 2021”
Week beginning 2nd June 2021
Book reviews this week: Nicola West, Catch Us The Foxes, Simon & Schuster 2021. The prologue introduces Marlowe Robertson, ‘author, journalist and Co-creator of The Lily Foundation’. She is interviewed on the seventh anniversary of Lily’s death, as the person who exposed her killer. Marlowe, colloquially known as Lo, dressed in clothing reminiscent of herContinue reading “Week beginning 2nd June 2021”
Week Beginning 26 May 2021
Book Reviews this week cover two fiction and three non-fiction books. One non-fiction book is about writing, so I have included an interview between Joanna Penn and Orna Ross about their research methods and application. They also briefly mention ‘writers’ block’ , an issue raised by the reviewed book by J. Michael Straczynski, Becoming AContinue reading “Week Beginning 26 May 2021”
Week beginning 19th May 2021
Eliza Graham, You Let Me Go, Amazon Publishing UK Lake Union Publishing 2021. Thank you to NetGalley for providing me with this proof in exchange for an honest review. Eliza Graham has written a novel that combines an appealing story, well drawn characters, and a good command of her material. I was particularly pleased toContinue reading “Week beginning 19th May 2021”
Week beginning 12th May 2021
Book review: Peter Hore, Bletchley Park’s Secret Source Churchill’s Wrens and the Y Service in World War 11, Greenhill Books, 2021 I am not a reader of war books and before reading Blethcley Park’s Secret Source my knowledge of women’s contribution to this aspect of the war was through novels; my research on Barbara PymContinue reading “Week beginning 12th May 2021”
Week beginning 5th May 2021
Book review: Kim Lock The Other Side of Beautiful, HQ Fiction, an imprint of Harlequin Enterprises, Australia, 2021. The preface to Kim Lock’s novel explains her preference for the term ‘nervous breakdown’ to describe depression in a way that anticipates the sufferer’s capacity to achieve a positive outcome: a ‘break through’. Mercy Blain accomplishes thisContinue reading “Week beginning 5th May 2021”
Week beginning 27th April 2021
This week’s book reviews: Scott Ryan’s Moonlighting An Oral History is an absolute delight. The first point to be made is pedestrian, but so important in a book that is, in Ryan’s words ‘a scholarly look’. I would also like to suggest that this book is so much fun (while scholarly) that it is notContinue reading “Week beginning 27th April 2021”
Week beginning 21st April 2021
Book reviews this week are Scourge of Henry V111 The Life of Marie De Guise, Melanie Clegg; and The Good Wife of Bath : A (Mostly) True Story, Karen Brooks – see Books: Reviews for the full reviews. Both books were provided to me by NetGalley for review. As I finished the biography of aContinue reading “Week beginning 21st April 2021”
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