Mark Splitstone, Für Elise, Girl Friday Productions | Amalgam Books, May 2025. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Für Elise is sensitive and thoughtful, written in a deceptively simple style which is at times almost stilted. However, it is this writing style that is the key to the cleverness of theContinue reading “Week beginning 1 October 2025.”
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Week beginning 29 January 2025
Caroline Angus Planning the Murder of Anne Boleyn Pen & Sword | Pen & Sword History August 2024. Thank you, NetGalley and Pen & Sword for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Caroline Angus has set the stage for acknowledging the reality of Anne Boleyn’s death. She was murdered, and King Henry V111 planned theContinue reading “Week beginning 29 January 2025”
Week beginning 18 December 2024
Margaret Ann Spence Cold War in a Hot Kitchen Wakefield Press, September 2024. Thank you NetGalley for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Cold War in a Hot Kitchen is a special read from beginning to end. It is a social history; a commentary on a sometimes unique, at others familiar, domestic life;Continue reading “Week beginning 18 December 2024”
Week beginning 12 June 2024
Paul Kahan Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Press, October 2024. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Philadelphia is an immense narrative history, laying out a story that is engrossing, while so dense that initially it is difficult to decipher the themes that some readers will want to draw from theContinue reading “Week beginning 12 June 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 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”
Week beginning November 29 2023
Sharon Grace Powers How Broadway Works Building and Running a Show from the People Who Make It Happen Globe Pequot, Applause, Dec 2023. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. I applaud the premise of this book, which is an engaging, informative account of all the people who make it possibleContinue reading “Week beginning November 29 2023”
Week beginning 26 July 2023
This week I review another Louise Doughty novel which can now is available for pre-order and will be published on 31 August 2023. Louise Doughty A Bird in Winter Faber and Faber August 2023 When I finished A Bird in Winter I wondered why I had not followed up my recognition upon reading Apple TreeContinue reading “Week beginning 26 July 2023”
Week beginning 19 July 2023
The book reviewed this week is Apple Tree Yard which has been offered on NetGalley together with Lousie Doughty’s latest novel, A Bird in Winter. I ended the earlier review, published in one of my first blogs, with the comment that I would look for more of Doughty’s work. I have been remiss in notContinue reading “Week beginning 19 July 2023”
Week beginning 16 May 2023
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Ayeesha Inoon Untethered Harlequin Australia, HQ (Fiction, Non Fiction, YA) & MIRA, 2023? Thank you, NetGalley and Harlequin Australia, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. I am even more grateful to Ayesha Inoon for writing this book – it’s a story that remains long after reading,…
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