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”
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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 August 14 2024
Donna Leon A Refiner’s Fire, A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery Grove Atlantic, July 2024. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Donna Leon’s writing is such a joy, something to savour, as Guido Burnetti and his family navigate their personal lives and the newest case to be investigated. In thisContinue reading “Week beginning August 14 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”
Week beginning 22 May 2024
Hannah McGregor Clever Girl, Jurassic Park ECW Press, October 2024. Thank you, NetGalley for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Clever Girl, Jurassic Park is written in a style that I often find unappealing. However, I must acknowledge that I was so captivated by the perceptive commentary, the substantial research that underlies theContinue reading “Week beginning 22 May 2024”
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