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Week beginning 4 December 2024

Dava Sobel The Elements of Marie Curie How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science Grove Atlantic | Atlantic Monthly Press, October 2024. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. The Marie Curie who emerges from this book would appreciate the way in which it isContinue reading “Week beginning 4 December 2024”

Week beginning 27 November 2024

Charlotte Booth and Brian Billington The Crime Movie and TV Lover’s Guide to London Pen & Sword | White Owl, November 2024. Thank you NetGalley and Pen & Sword for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. The Crime Movie and TV Lover’s Guide to London provides yet another source for understanding and exploring London through aContinue reading “Week beginning 27 November 2024”

Week beginning 20 November 2024

Carol Ann Lloyd Courting the Virgin Queen Elizabeth I And Her Suitors Pen & Sword | Pen & Sword History, July 2024. The great strength of this account of Queen Elizabeth and her suitors is its commitment to providing a broad account of marriage in the period, the context in which a woman, and aContinue reading “Week beginning 20 November 2024”

Week Beginning 13 November 2024

Marc Wanamaker and Steven Bingen Hollywood Behind the Lens Treasures from the Bison Archives Globe Pequot Lyons Press, May 2024. Thankyou, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. This is the story of loss and an amazing effort to redeem this loss – the accumulation of Hollywood memorabilia undertaken through the BisonContinue reading “Week Beginning 13 November 2024”

Week beginning 5 November

Articles and some light relief: Bob McMullan; Heather Cox Richardson; Joyce Vance; Jess Piper; Cindy Lou and food. American Politics Bob McMullan Final US election review Less than one day until the polls close. In Australia it will be Wednesday before we know who wins. The election remains very unpredictable. That does not necessarily meanContinue reading “Week beginning 5 November”

Week beginning 30 October 2024

Lidia LoPinto and Winnie LoPinto I Was a Woman Pilot in 1945 Women Airforce Training Pilots November 2022, Independently Published. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. I was glad to have read this independently published book which shows only a few signs of not having been through a tradeContinue reading “Week beginning 30 October 2024”

Week beginning October 23 2024

Joel Brokaw – Foreword by David Geffen Driving Marilyn Life and Times of Legendary Hollywood Agent Norman Brokaw Globe Pequot|Lyons Press, October 2024. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Joel Brokaw has woven an absorbing story of his father’s professional and domestic life. While at times giving way toContinue reading “Week beginning October 23 2024”

Week beginning 16 October 2024

Anton Rippon, Nicola Rippon Wartime Entertainment How Britain Kept Smiling Through the Second World War Pen & Sword|Pen & Sword History, September 2024. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Wartime Entertainment How Britain Kept Smiling Through the Second World War is so much more than a nostalgic trip amongstContinue reading “Week beginning 16 October 2024”

Week beginning 9 October 2024

Jane Loeb Rubin Threadbare, A Gilded City Series, Level Best Books Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA) Members’ Titles, May 2024. Thank you, Net Galley , for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Jane Loeb Rubin has taken the incomplete information she has about her great-grandmother and, together with meticulous and sensitive research, hasContinue reading “Week beginning 9 October 2024”

Week beginning 2 October 2024

Emily Bleeker When We Chased the Light Lake Union Publishing, November 2024. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. I thoroughly enjoyed the first part of Vivian Snow’s account of her life that appeared in When We Were Enemies. In this, Vivian is so closely aligned with her real name,Continue reading “Week beginning 2 October 2024”