Jackie French The Sea Captain’s Wife Harlequin Australia. HQ (Fiction, Non-Fiction, YA) & Mira, March 2024. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. The Sea Captain’s Wife is an engaging amalgam of Jackie French’s knowledge of the intriguing historical hunt for marriageable shipwrecked sailors; meticulous attention to depicting an authenticContinue reading “Week beginning March 27 2024”
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Week beginning 20th March 2024
Rosemary Hennessy In the Company of Radical Women Writers University of Minnesota Press, August 2023. Thank you NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Rosemary Hennessy’s stories from Black, Jewish, and white women who saw communism as an answer to the problems arising from the Great Depression is a riveting read. PerhapsContinue reading “Week beginning 20th March 2024”
Week beginning 13 March 2024
Kathy Lette, The Revenge Club, Aria and Aries, May 2024. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Kathy Lette has not let her joy in creating a comedy undermine her strong story line that promotes the abilities and strengths of women fast approaching their sixties, a continuing fight to breakContinue reading “Week beginning 13 March 2024”
Week beginning March 6 2024
Holly Swinyard Fans and Fandom, A Journey into the Passion and Power of Fan Culture Pen & Sword, White Owl, March 2024. Thank you, NetGalley and Pen & Sword, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Holly Swinyard’s Fans and Fandom, A Journey into the Passion and Power of Fan Culture, is anContinue reading “Week beginning March 6 2024”
Week beginning 28 February 2024
C.L. Taylor Every Move You Make Avon Books, March 2024. Thank you, NetGalley , for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. The fear and helplessness endured by people who are stalked resonates through this well-crafted novel. Those who suffer in the same way are all too aware of the threat that remains evenContinue reading “Week beginning 28 February 2024”
Week beginning 21 February 2024
Two books are reviewed this week, The Artist’s Wife, fiction, and the non-fiction, Miss Dior. The latter ties into an article about a new television drama, The New Look, about Christian Dior. Clare Flynn The Artist’s Wife (Hearts of Glass Book 2) Storm Publishing February 2024. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrectedContinue reading “Week beginning 21 February 2024”
Week beginning 14 February 2024
Dervla McTiernan What Happened to Nina? HarperCollins Publishers Australia, February 2024. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Dervla McTiernan’s What Happened to Nina? is thoroughly engrossing. So often ‘page turner’ becomes an accolade for mysteries such as this. However, here it would be remiss to turn a page tooContinue reading “Week beginning 14 February 2024”
Week beginning 7 February 2024
In this week’s blog I review two books, The Artist’s Apprentice, historical fiction, and Tudor Feminists Ten Renaissance Women Ahead of Their Time, an account of ten noteworthy women in the Tudor period. Rebecca Wilson Tudor Feminists Ten Renaissance Women Ahead of their Time Pen & Sword, Pen & Sword History, January 2024. Rebecca Wilson’sContinue reading “Week beginning 7 February 2024”
Week beginning 31 January 2024
Ramie Targoff Shakespeare’s Sisters Four Women Who Wrote the Renaissance, Quercus Books riverrun, March 2024. Thank you, Net Galley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Ramie Targoff begins with a reference to Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own in which she compares the success men win for their literary efforts inContinue reading “Week beginning 31 January 2024”
Week beginning January 24 2024
Kathryn Atherton Mary Neal and the Suffragettes Who Saved Morris Dancing Pen & Sword History, January 2024. * Thank you, NetGalley, and Pen & Sword History for providing me with this uncorrected proof review. Reading Katheryn Atherton’s book has been an absolute delight. It is well written, with the usual Pen & Sword accessible language, formatContinue reading “Week beginning January 24 2024”
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