Samantha Vérant The Writers’ Retreat Storm Publishing, July 2025. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. A thriller set around a writers’ retreat and writers? What could be a more enticing location and concept? Sadly, the premise promised by the title is not fulfilled. To be fair, it is establishedContinue reading “Week beginning 15 October 2025”
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Week beginning 8 October 2025
Danielle Leavitt, By the Second Spring Seven Lives and One Year of the War in Ukraine, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, May 2025. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Danielle Leavitt’s enterprise is an important part of recognising Ukrainians as other than ‘faceless war people.’ In her introduction she makesContinue reading “Week beginning 8 October 2025”
Week beginning 26 March 2025
Susan Smocer Platt Love, Politics, and Other Scary Things A Memoir Bold Story Press|Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA), Members’ Titles, December 2024. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Susan Smocer Platt was unknown to me. However, with Senator Amy Klobuchar’s endorsement of her book I decided it could beContinue reading “Week beginning 26 March 2025”
Week beginning 31 January 2024
Ramie Targoff Shakespeare’s Sisters Four Women Who Wrote the Renaissance, Quercus Books riverrun, March 2024. Thank you, Net Galley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Ramie Targoff begins with a reference to Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own in which she compares the success men win for their literary efforts inContinue reading “Week beginning 31 January 2024”
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