Week beginning 21 July 2026

Margaret Waller Napoleon’s Closet The Emperor, the Priest, and the Men Who Invented Modern Fashion Columbia University Press, August 2026. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. I began this book several times, finding it dense and the somewhat specialist language difficult to navigate. However, Napoleon’s Closet The Emperor, theContinue reading “Week beginning 21 July 2026”

Week beginning 28 January 2026

Craig Leddy Fast Forward The Birth of Video Streaming, Media’s Wild Child Köehler Books, September 2025. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. In the 1960s I read Ernie Kovac’s TV Medium Rare. It was an amusing insight into television in its early days of male executives, beauty pageants andContinue reading “Week beginning 28 January 2026”