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Week beginning 25 June 2025

Man Who Has It All Flipping Patriarchy Imagining a gender-swapped world Unbound, March 2025. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Imagine not having to search through Facebook posts to enjoy page after page of admonitions and guidance which are mischievous on the surface, but so sharp. So sharp indeedContinue reading “Week beginning 25 June 2025”

Week beginning 18 June 2025

Joanna Hagan Friends and the Golden Age of the Sitcom Pen & Sword | White Owl, August 2024. Thank you, NetGalley and Pen & Sword for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. There is a wealth of information about Friends, and other television shows that featured in the period in which the sitContinue reading “Week beginning 18 June 2025”

Week beginning June 11, 2025

Kerrie Davies Miles Franklin Undercover The little-known years when she created her own brilliant career Allen & Unwin, November 2025. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this work but was constantly wanting to be reassured about where elements of accuracy and imagination lay. As alwaysContinue reading “Week beginning June 11, 2025”

Week beginning 4 June 2025

Todd Almond Slow Train Coming Bob Dylan’s Girl from the North Country and Broadway’s Rebirth Bloomsbury Academic | Methuen Drama, January 2025.  Thank you, NetGalley, for this uncorrected proof for review. This is an intensely personal account of the challenges in staging a play on Broadway. The narrative concentrates strongly on Todd Almond’s experiences and responses, whileContinue reading “Week beginning 4 June 2025”

Week beginning 28 May 2025.

Maya Golden Bethany The Senator Rising Action Publishing | Rising Action, April 2025. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. This is a thriller with some positive features – the topic is pertinent, the characters interesting, and the story line logical and believable. There are no confected twists or illogical events, andContinue reading “Week beginning 28 May 2025.”

Week beginning 21 May 2025

Alafair Burke The Note Faber and Faber, April 2025. Thank you, Net Galley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Alafair Burke always creates an absorbing story with logical twists and turns that, rather than arising unexpectedly and having little to do with the plot, always make sense. This does not mean thatContinue reading “Week beginning 21 May 2025”

Week beginning May 7, 2025.

Dervla McTiernan The Unquiet Grave Book 4 of The Cormac Reilly Series HarperCollins Publishers Australia | HarperCollins AU, April 2025. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Dervla McTiernan returns to Ireland and Cormac Reilly, creating a deftly woven seemingly multitude of ideas, crimes, and personal relationships in The Unquiet Grave. TheContinue reading “Week beginning May 7, 2025.”

Week beginning 30 April 2025

Barbara Kingsolver Holding the Line Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike Faber and Faber Ltd, October 2024. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Barbara Kingsolver has written a non-fiction book that echoes the skill she demonstrates in her fiction. The preface is a wonderful insight into the authorContinue reading “Week beginning 30 April 2025”

Week beginning April 23, 2025

Tasma Walton I am Nannertgarrook Simon & Schuster (Australia) | S&S Bundyi, April 2025. Thank you, Net Galley, and Simon & Schuster, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Tasma Walton’s I am Nannertgarroock is so far removed from my recall of her as the pleasant enough young police officer in Blue Heelers that IContinue reading “Week beginning April 23, 2025”