Helene Harrison The Many Faces of Anne Boleyn Interpreting Image and Perception Pen & Sword | Pen & Sword History, July 2025. Thank you, NetGalley and Pen & Sword for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Helene Harrison’s forensic approach to discovering Anne Boleyn is a remarkable enterprise, and one that provides aContinue reading “Week beginning 17 September 2025”
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Week beginning June 11, 2025
Kerrie Davies Miles Franklin Undercover The little-known years when she created her own brilliant career Allen & Unwin, November 2025. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this work but was constantly wanting to be reassured about where elements of accuracy and imagination lay. As alwaysContinue reading “Week beginning June 11, 2025”
Week beginning May 7, 2025.
Dervla McTiernan The Unquiet Grave Book 4 of The Cormac Reilly Series HarperCollins Publishers Australia | HarperCollins AU, April 2025. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Dervla McTiernan returns to Ireland and Cormac Reilly, creating a deftly woven seemingly multitude of ideas, crimes, and personal relationships in The Unquiet Grave. TheContinue reading “Week beginning May 7, 2025.”
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 15 May 2024
Freida McFadden One by One Poisoned Pen Press, April 2024. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. One by One is a competent psychological thriller. The plot is an edgy combination of ill-assorted friends on a holiday jaunt that goes wrong with attempts to find the holiday hotel in whichContinue reading “Week beginning 15 May 2024”
Week beginning March 27 2024
Jackie French The Sea Captain’s Wife Harlequin Australia. HQ (Fiction, Non-Fiction, YA) & Mira, March 2024. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. The Sea Captain’s Wife is an engaging amalgam of Jackie French’s knowledge of the intriguing historical hunt for marriageable shipwrecked sailors; meticulous attention to depicting an authenticContinue reading “Week beginning March 27 2024”
Week beginning 7 July 2021
This post has been updated to include information about a zoom meeting, Brilliant & Bold! at which From Women to the World Letters for a New Century (one of the reviewed books) will be discussed. Books reviewed this week are: Kelly Heyman’s Build Back Better. The First Hundred Days of the Biden Administration, and BeyondContinue reading “Week beginning 7 July 2021”
Week beginning 7 July 2021
Books reviewed this week are: Kelly Heyman’s Build Back Better. The First Hundred Days of the Biden Administration, and Beyond and From Women to the World Letters for a New Century, edited by Elizabeth Filippouli. NetGalley provided me with the following uncorrected proofs for review. Kelly Heyman Build Back Better. The First 100 Days ofContinue reading “Week beginning 7 July 2021”
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