NetGalley provided me with the following uncorrected proofs for review. The first, The Women Who Wouldn’t Leave, is a good read. Unfortunately, the other two books are extremely disappointing. Miranda Rijks’ The Other Mother follows others I have read by this author. They have been fairly good beach reads, and for GoodReads I have ratedContinue reading “Week beginning 19 April 2023”
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Janet Malcolm Still Pictures On Photography and Memory Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023 I appreciate NetGalley having provided this uncorrected proof for me to read and review. I am so glad that they approved my request. Years ago Barbara Pym said of her novels: I might use Christopher Isherwood’s phrase ‘I am a camera’Continue reading “Week beginning”
Week beginning 5 April 2023
Suzanne Ferriss Lost in Translation Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. Thank you NetGalley and Bloomsbury Academic for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Lost in Translation is a BFI Film Classics publication aimed at ‘introd[ucing]. Interpret[ing] and celebrat[ing] landmarks of world cinema’. Suzanne Ferris has fulfilled this task in an engaging and through manner, theContinue reading “Week beginning 5 April 2023”
Week beginning 29 March 2023
Beverley Adams Ada Lovelace The World’s First Computer Programmer Pen & Sword History 2023. This is the second of Beverly Adams’ biographies that I have read. Once again I am impressed with the way in which Adams has assembled her material to advance an enlightening and plausible account of a woman for whom there isContinue reading “Week beginning 29 March 2023”
Week beginning 22 March 2023
Carolyn Purnell Blue Jeans Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. Thank you, NetGalley and Bloomsbury Press, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Blue Jeans is another wonderful addition to the Object Lessons series. Carolyn Purnell brings the reader into a world that comprises the horrors of indigo production for the beloved blue jeans, the politicalContinue reading “Week beginning 22 March 2023”
Week beginning 15 March 2023
This week I review Before Mrs Beeton Elizabeth Raffald by Neil Buttery. Neil Buttery, Before Mrs Beeton Elizabeth Raffald, England’s Most Influential Housekeeper, Pen & Sword, Pen & Sword History 2023. Thank you, NetGalley and Pen & Sword for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Before Mrs Beeton Elizabeth Raffald is another of PenContinue reading “Week beginning 15 March 2023”
Week beginning 8 March 2023
International Women’s Day International Women’s Day March 8 is an appropriate time to review How to Think Like a Woman Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind, a book that recognises the way in which her own and her subjects’ domestic lives impacted on acceptance of their roleContinue reading “Week beginning 8 March 2023”
Week beginning March 1, 2023
This week I review a heartbreaking novel by Liz Nugent – an author I have not previously read. I also alert readers to the two-part novel by Rob Wills that I shall review at a later date. Liz Nugent Strange Sally Diamond Penguin General UK – Fig Tree, Hamish Hamilton, Viking, Penguin Life, Penguin Business, Sandycove,Continue reading “Week beginning March 1, 2023”
Week beginning March 2023
Tracey Enerson Wood The President’s Wife Sourcebooks Landmark, 2023. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected copy for review. The President’s Wife is an apt title, encompassing as it does the part of Edith Galt’s life where she becomes instead, Edith Wilson, First lady. Galt is her married name – that of herContinue reading “Week beginning March 2023”
Week beginning
Kevin Landis One Public New York’s Public Theater in the Era of Oskar Eustis Bloomsbury Academic, Methuen Drama 2022. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Land Acknowledgement We acknowledge the land on which The Public and its theaters stand is the original homeland of the Lenape people. Kevin Landis’ historyContinue reading “Week beginning”
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