This week is late as the WIFI on the Eurostar was intermittent, and my four hours was less gainfully spent, reading, eating and looking at the fields passingly rapidly by. After an impossible trudge around beautifully signed streets, but with unrecognisable names, in an effort to get to the hotel (there are so few taxis,Continue reading “Week beginning 24 August 2022”
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Week beginning 17 August 2022
Maryann D’Agincourt Marriage of the Smila-Hoffmans Portmay Press, LLC 2022 Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof in exchange for an honest review. This work brings together the beautifully realised Shade and Light, and August, with a new Prologue and Interlude. Short though they are, they deserve their own reviews. However, IContinue reading “Week beginning 17 August 2022”
Week beginning 10 August 2022
Two fiction books are reviewed this week, Murder on Sea, by Jane Adams, and Why She Left, by Leah Mercer. Both were sent to me by NetGalley as uncorrected proofs for review. Jane Adams Murder On Sea Joffe Books 2021 (First published by Severn House Publishers 2007). This is Book 1 of the Rina MartinContinue reading “Week beginning 10 August 2022”
Week beginning 3 August 2022
Thank you, NetGalley, for the uncorrected proofs for The Times They Were a-Changin’ 1964, the Year the Sixties Arrived and the Battle Lines of Today Were Drawn, and The Second Wife and in exchange for honest reviews. Robert S McElvaine The Times They Were a-Changin’ 1964, the Year the Sixties Arrived and the Battle LinesContinue reading “Week beginning 3 August 2022”
Week beginning 27 July 2022
Books reviewed this week include another about film, the topic of the two books reviewed last week. Dr No was sent to me by NetGalley, in exchange for an honest review, as was the novel reviewed this week. James Chapman Dr. No The First James Bond Film Columbia University Press, Wallflower Press Pub Date 08 Nov 2022.Continue reading “Week beginning 27 July 2022”
Week beginning 19 July 2021
Both books reviewed this week were provided to me by NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Daniel Talbot In Love With Movies Columbia University Press 2022 Daniel Talbot’s In Love With Movies is a delight, from the first chapters about the early years in independent theatres; though Those Who Made Me Laugh in PartContinue reading “Week beginning 19 July 2021”
Week beginning 13 July 2022
Two books are reviewed this week, both were sent to me by NetGalley as uncorrected proofs in exchange for an honest review. Maggie Smith Truth and Other Lies 1016 Press, 2022. Maggie Smith has written a novel that resonates with some of the most important issues affecting understanding events today. Truth and lies are seeminglyContinue reading “Week beginning 13 July 2022”
Week beginning 6 July 2022
Ruth Ware The It Girl Simon & Schuster (Australia) 2022. Thank you, NetGalley and Simon & Schuster for this uncorrected proof in exchange for an honest review. Ruth Ware is a writer whose books I enjoy. They are smart, with characters who develop over the period of the plot, which, by the way is usuallyContinue reading “Week beginning 6 July 2022”
Week beginning 29 June 2022
After the beach reads reviewed last week I am pleased to make a change and review a non fiction book. NetGalley and Sword and Pen provided me with Dr Vivien Newman’s Changing Roles Women After the Great War. I am reading The Times They Were a-Changin’ 1964, the Year the Sixties Arrived and the BattleContinue reading “Week beginning 29 June 2022”
Week beginning 22 June 2022
I realise that I have a few fiction books – easy reads for the beach or for relaxing with on winter days – that I have reviewed, but not posted here. The reviews have already been posted to NetGalley, Goodreads, Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram as part of the commitment to writers who make their uncorrectedContinue reading “Week beginning 22 June 2022”
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