Laura Pearson The Day Our Lives Collided Boldwood, September 2026. The Day Our Lives Collided adopts a popular theme: a group of friends is established at university, the core group extends to others through marriage, the wider group continues to meet over the years through regular celebrations. In this novel the celebrations that bring theContinue reading “Week beginning 4 November 2026”
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Week beginning 28 October 2026
Valerie R. Marvin In the Charge of a Woman Harriet Tenney, Michigan’s First Female State Librarian Michigan State University Press, January 2027. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. I found this a compelling history, not only because it introduced me to the remarkable Harriet Tenney, but because of theContinue reading “Week beginning 28 October 2026”
Week beginning 21 October 2026
Michael Ridpath Operation Vienna Boldwood Books, October 2026. Thank you, NetGalley and Boldwood Books, for this uncorrected proof for review. Archie (Sir Archibald) and Esme (from Kalamazoo) again investigate a murder, research Archie’s next project on generals, and seek additions to Archie’s collection of antique books. Esme is trying to escape a return to Kalamazoo,Continue reading “Week beginning 21 October 2026”
Week beginning 14 October, 2026
A. J. Bauer Making the Liberal Media How Conservatives Built a Movement Against the Press Columbia University Press, March 2026. Thank you, NetGalley for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. This is a dense read, demonstrating accomplished insights based on a wealth of research. At first glance it appears to be an essentiallyContinue reading “Week beginning 14 October, 2026”
Week beginning 7 October 2026
Kelly Oliver The Case of the Christie Honeymoon Murder (The Detection Club Book 5) Boldwood Books, September 2026. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Kelly Oliver has an excellent vehicle for her lovely writing style. While familiar figures such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers move in andContinue reading “Week beginning 7 October 2026”
Week beginning 30 September 2026
Week beginning 30 September 2026
A Little More Love, The Life and Legacy of Olivia Newton-JohnMatthew Hild, Bloomsbury Academic, May 2026. Thank you NetGalley and Bloomsbury Academic for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Although the major expansion in Olivia Newton-John’s career took place after she left Australia, the early section of this biography set in Australia andContinue reading “Week beginning 30 September 2026”
Week beginning 23 September 2026
Karen Brooks The Good Wife of Bath: A (Mostly) True Story HQ Fiction, Australia, 2021.* Thank you to NetGalley for this uncorrected proof copy for review. Karen Brooks says that she found Chaucer’s Wife irresistible, and this shines through the novel she has written from the Good Wife of Bath’s perspective. Like Chaucer’s depiction ofContinue reading “Week beginning 23 September 2026”
Week beginning 16 September 2026*
Kristy Cambron The Making of a Mad Woman Thomas Nelson Fiction, February 2027. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Kristy Cambron introduces Jo Carmichael as she enters the board room to take over her late father’s position as CEO of an advertising firm, struggling to exist in the maleContinue reading “Week beginning 16 September 2026*”
Week beginning 9 September 2026
Robin Morgan and Gloria Steinem Remembering Gloria Kathy Spillar, Ms. Executive Editor <info@msmagazine.com> 5 Sept 2026, 23:01 Weekly DigestLetter from an Editor | September 5, 2026Dear Robin, Gloria. She was a journalist, an organizer, a movement-builder. A woman with a powerful voice—and a woman with a profound capacity for listening. When she cofounded Ms. in 1972, sheContinue reading “Week beginning 9 September 2026”
