Jane Caro Lyrebird Allen & Unwin, April 2025.* Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. A lyrebird’s cry in a lonely bush site echoes a desperate woman’s cry for help. It is overheard by a student, who aware of its possible significance, takes her recording to the police. With noContinue reading “Week beginning 10 September 2025”
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Week beginning September 3 2025
Janet Few A History of Women’s Work The Evolution of Women’s Working Lives Pen & Sword | Pen & Sword History, May 12025. Thank you, NetGalley and Pen & Sword publishing for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. This is a dense, detailed, and absorbing history of women’s work. It is a valuableContinue reading “Week beginning September 3 2025”
Week beginning 27 August 2025
JB Miller, Duch Riverdale Avenue Books February 2025. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. What fun, I thought, as I saw the premise for this book – Diana is living in Paris, having lost her memory but recognised as Diana by a school friend. But JB Miller has givenContinue reading “Week beginning 27 August 2025”
Week beginning 20 August 2025
Aaron Poochigian Four Walks in Central Park A Poetic Guide to the Park Familius, September 2025. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. I had mixed feelings about the writing style when I began reading Four Walks in Central Park. However, I became captivated by the way in which AaronContinue reading “Week beginning 20 August 2025”
Week beginning 13 August 2025
Lauren O’Neill-Butler The War of Art A History of Artists’ Protest In America Verso Books (US)|Verso, June 2025 Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. This is a huge undertaking, with its dense rollcall of information, detailed discussions of various artists, their motivation, and the application of this to theirContinue reading “Week beginning 13 August 2025”
Week beginning 6 August 2025
Allison Tyra Uncredited Women’s Overlooked, Misattributed, and Stolen Work Rising Action Publishing | Rising Action, May 2025. Thank you NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. When reading research that demonstrates, yet again, the way that women and their accomplishments have been, as Alison Tyra says ‘overlooked, misattributed and stolen,’ it isContinue reading “Week beginning 6 August 2025”
Week beginning July 30th 2025
Penny Batchelor The Woman Next Door Embla Books, May 2025. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. The main character, Jen, has three dilemmas to deal with: her inability to become pregnant, despite two expensive IVF treatments; her and Gary’s financial position which makes saving for another IVF treatment difficult;Continue reading “Week beginning July 30th 2025”
Week beginning 23 July 2025
Emily Callaci Wages for Housework The Feminist Fight Against Unpaid Labor Basic Books | Seal Press, March 2025. Thankyou, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Emily Callaci has brought together five activists for whom wages for housework was a part of their feminist work for improving women’s lives. It is importantContinue reading “Week beginning 23 July 2025”
Week beginning 16 July 2025
Elizabeth Jenkins Jane Austen: The Biography August Books, July 2025. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Elizabeth Jenkins is a writer I have admired since reading The Hare and the Tortoise. True to form, there is much to admire in her biography of Jane Austen. However, its meandering paceContinue reading “Week beginning 16 July 2025”
Week beginning 9 July 2025
Claire Allan The Perfect Mother Boldwood Books, February 2025. Thank you, NetGalley and Boldwood Books for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Claire Allan has combined a story line that engages, with complex characters and twists that are not only clever, but a logical part of the story. Allen has not fallen forContinue reading “Week beginning 9 July 2025”
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