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”
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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”
Week beginning April 17 2024
Scott Ryan The Last Decade of Cinema Black Chateau Fayetteville Mafia Press, June 2024. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Scott Ryan has a distinct writing style that carries this serious, perceptive and analytical approach to a decade of film with a firm grasp of the need to engageContinue reading “Week beginning April 17 2024”
Week beginning 21 February 2024
Two books are reviewed this week, The Artist’s Wife, fiction, and the non-fiction, Miss Dior. The latter ties into an article about a new television drama, The New Look, about Christian Dior. Clare Flynn The Artist’s Wife (Hearts of Glass Book 2) Storm Publishing February 2024. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrectedContinue reading “Week beginning 21 February 2024”
Week beginning 17 January 2024.
Scott Martelle 1932 FDR, Hoover and the Dawn of a New America Kensington Books, Citadel, Nov 2023. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Scott Martelle has chosen a format which quickly draws the reader into the year in which Americans chose their President, the Democratic Party’s Franklin Delano Roosevelt, overContinue reading “Week beginning 17 January 2024.”
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