Joel Brokaw – Foreword by David Geffen Driving Marilyn Life and Times of Legendary Hollywood Agent Norman Brokaw Globe Pequot|Lyons Press, October 2024. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Joel Brokaw has woven an absorbing story of his father’s professional and domestic life. While at times giving way toContinue reading “Week beginning October 23 2024”
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Week beginning 16 October 2024
Anton Rippon, Nicola Rippon Wartime Entertainment How Britain Kept Smiling Through the Second World War Pen & Sword|Pen & Sword History, September 2024. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Wartime Entertainment How Britain Kept Smiling Through the Second World War is so much more than a nostalgic trip amongstContinue reading “Week beginning 16 October 2024”
Week beginning 9 October 2024
Jane Loeb Rubin Threadbare, A Gilded City Series, Level Best Books Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA) Members’ Titles, May 2024. Thank you, Net Galley , for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Jane Loeb Rubin has taken the incomplete information she has about her great-grandmother and, together with meticulous and sensitive research, hasContinue reading “Week beginning 9 October 2024”
Week beginning 2 October 2024
Emily Bleeker When We Chased the Light Lake Union Publishing, November 2024. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. I thoroughly enjoyed the first part of Vivian Snow’s account of her life that appeared in When We Were Enemies. In this, Vivian is so closely aligned with her real name,Continue reading “Week beginning 2 October 2024”
Week beginning 25 September 2024
Elizabeth Strout Tell Me Everything Penguin General UK (Fig Tree, Hamish Hamilton, Viking, Penguin Life, Penguin Business, Viking) September 2024. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Elizabeth Strout brings magic to her work and Tell Me Everything is no different. Bob Burgess and Margaret Estaver live in Maine. TheContinue reading “Week beginning 25 September 2024”
Week beginning 18 September 2024
Marjorie Garber, Shakespeare in Bloomsbury, Yale University Press 2023. Majorie Garber Shakespeare in Bloomsbury Yale University Press, 2024. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. ‘How Shakespeare Would Have Loved Us’ introduces Shakespeare in Bloomsbury with a wealth of information about the focus of the book. It suggests that theContinue reading “Week beginning 18 September 2024”
Week beginning 11 September 2024
J. E. Smyth Mary C. McCall Jr. The Rise and Fall of Hollywood’s Most Powerful Screenwriter Columbia University Press, September 2024. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. J.E. Smyth has written a detailed, dense and illuminating account of Mary C. McCall’s life as a feminist, novelist, screen writer, laborContinue reading “Week beginning 11 September 2024”
Week beginning 4 September 2024
Douglas Beattie How Labour Wins (And Why It Loses) From 1900 to 2024 Elliott & Thompson, August 2024. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected copy for review. Douglas Beattie’s approach to a topic that could take up so many interesting side issues is a Party Campaign Director’s dream: he unfailingly remains onContinue reading “Week beginning 4 September 2024”
Week beginning 28 August 2024
Joshua Stein The Binge Watcher’s Guide to The West Wing Seasons One and Two Riverdale Avenue Books The Binge Watcher’s Guide, August 2024. Thank you, Net Galley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Reading The Binge Watcher’s Guide to The West Wing while also watching the 2024 Democratic National Convention could notContinue reading “Week beginning 28 August 2024”
Week beginning 21 August 2024
Linda Epstein; Ally Malinenko; Liz Parker The Other March Sisters Kensington Publishing, February 2025. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Liz Parker, Ally Malinenko, and Linda Epstein have woven a story that rejects the importance that Louise M. Alcott gave to Jo March and the sisters’ mother, Marmee.Continue reading “Week beginning 21 August 2024”
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