Marc Wanamaker and Steven Bingen Hollywood Behind the Lens Treasures from the Bison Archives Globe Pequot Lyons Press, May 2024. Thankyou, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. This is the story of loss and an amazing effort to redeem this loss – the accumulation of Hollywood memorabilia undertaken through the BisonContinue reading “Week Beginning 13 November 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 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 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 7 August 2024
Laura Katz Olsen Wrinkled Rebels Vine Leaves Press, July 23, 2024. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. I loved reading this absorbing account of the young women and men who developed their political ideas and responses while at university. Now in their eighties they are to meet again, andContinue reading “Week beginning 7 August 2024”
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