Dale DeBakcsy A History of Women in Music From Antiquity to Present Day Pen & Sword | Pen & Sword History, January 2026. Thank you, NetGalley and Pen & Sword for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. This is a dense work with an almost overwhelming level of detail. Rather than adopting the usual PenContinue reading “Week beginning 5 August 2026”
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Week beginning 29 July 2026
Elizabeth Imlay Charlotte Brontë’s Psyche A Close Reading of ‘Jane Eyre’ Aurora Metro Books|River Light Press, May 2026. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Elizabeth Imlay has adapted her earlier publication to consider the decrease in classical education. The result remains an exciting analysis of Jane Eyre, where Imlay’sContinue reading “Week beginning 29 July 2026”
Week beginning 21 July 2026
Margaret Waller Napoleon’s Closet The Emperor, the Priest, and the Men Who Invented Modern Fashion Columbia University Press, August 2026. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. I began this book several times, finding it dense and the somewhat specialist language difficult to navigate. However, Napoleon’s Closet The Emperor, theContinue reading “Week beginning 21 July 2026”
Week beginning July 14 2026
Jerry Jamison Behind the Beehive The Triumphs and Trials of Dusty Springfield Bloomsbury Academic, October 2026.Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Jerry Jamison acknowledges the difficulties of researching this biography and in a Note from the Author at the beginning, and in an afterword, has described these, and detailedContinue reading “Week beginning July 14 2026”
Week beginning 8 July 2026
Mai Black The Women Who Saved Shakespeare The Book Guild, May 2026. Thank you, NetGalley for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Mai Black describes her debut work, The Women Who Saved Shakespeare, as a novel. It has all the markings of a good novel – engaging characters; conflict, including family relationships; aContinue reading “Week beginning 8 July 2026”
Week beginning 1st July 2026
Eileen Cope Hollywood Whispers The Untold Story of the Original Gossip Queens, Louella Parsons and Hedda Hopper Globe Pequot | Lyons Press, November 2026. Thank you, NetGalley, for this uncorrected proof for review. Eileen Cope reveals more than Hedda Hopper’s and Louella Parsons’ stories, and the scandals they placed before audiences of their era. The narratives ofContinue reading “Week beginning 1st July 2026”
Week beginning 24th June 2024
Liz Nugent The Truth About Ruby Cooper Penguin General UK – Penguin General UK – Fig Tree, Hamish Hamilton, Viking, Penguin Life, Penguin Business | Sandycove, March 2026. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Liz Nugent creates moral dilemmas for the reader from the beginning of this intriguing and difficult novel.Continue reading “Week beginning 24th June 2024”
Week beginning 17 June 2026
As I am in Daphne Du Maurier country I thought it worth including two past reviews of associated books. Patricia White Rebecca BFI Bloomsbury Publishing Plc London and New York, 2021. Thank you to NetGalley for providing me with this uncorrected proof in exchange for an honest review. I was thrilled to receive this thorough interpretation ofContinue reading “Week beginning 17 June 2026”
Week beginning 10th June 2026
Zoe Fairbairns Bloodless Coup, Poems by Zoe Fairbairns Lost Souls Events, UK, 2026. Bloodless Coup is Zoe Fairbairns’ new literary accomplishment. I read her novels, which she began publishing in the late 1970s with admiration and mixed pleasure and anguish. In these, Benefits, Stand We At Last, Daddy’s Girls, Here Today, Closing and Other NamesContinue reading “Week beginning 10th June 2026”
Week beginning 3 June 2026
Tony Castro The Girl Who Would Be Marilyn Monroe, An Intimate Portrait of the Young Norma Jeane, Bloomsbury Press, September 2026. Tony Castro’s concentration on Norma Jeane, rather than Marilyn Monroe, is a haunting reminder of a girl whose aspiration was never dimmed by her childhood, or young womanhood. It was written for the 100thContinue reading “Week beginning 3 June 2026”
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