Carolyn Purnell Blue Jeans Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. Thank you, NetGalley and Bloomsbury Press, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Blue Jeans is another wonderful addition to the Object Lessons series. Carolyn Purnell brings the reader into a world that comprises the horrors of indigo production for the beloved blue jeans, the politicalContinue reading “Week beginning 22 March 2023”
Tag Archives: Cindy Lou Reviews
Week beginning 18 January 2023
This week I review Fearless Women by Elizabeth Cobbs. Elizabeth Cobbs Fearless Women Feminist Patriots from Abigail Adams to Beyoncé Harvard University Press, Belknap Press, March 2023. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Elizabeth Cobbs expands the way in which feminism is used to investigate women who call themselvesContinue reading “Week beginning 18 January 2023”
Week beginning January 11 2023
Louise Candlish The Only Suspect Simon & Schuster (Australia), Simon & Schuster UK 08 Mar 2023 Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. The Only Suspect is another success for Louise Candlish. Once again she has devised a novel that has all the intrigue, twists and turns to keep a reader engrossed.Continue reading “Week beginning January 11 2023”
Week beginning 14 December 2022
This week I review two uncorrected proofs sent to me by NetGalley, one fiction (The Concierge) and the other non-fiction (Shirley Chisholm Champion of Black Feminist Power Politics). Miranda Rijks The Concierge Inkubator Books Dec 2022 The pace of the story overcomes the implausibility of some of the earlier plotting which is quite absorbing. Ally,Continue reading “Week beginning 14 December 2022”
Week Beginning 7 December 2022
This week’s review is Barbara Kingsolver Demon Copperhead Faber and Faber 2022. Barbara Kingsolver has been one of my favourite authors since reading The Poisonwood Bible. However, this has not been consistent – some of her books I have really enjoyed; others I have admired; and yet others have disappointed. I came to Demon CopperheadContinue reading “Week Beginning 7 December 2022”
Week beginning 2 November 2022
Books reviewed this week are Nadia Cohen’s The Real Enid Blyton and a review I wrote for Goodreads which links nicely to the biography of Enid Blyton sent to me for review by NetGalley. Nadia Cohen The Real Enid Blyton Pen & Sword, Pen & Sword History 30 Oct 2022. Thank you Net Galley and PenContinue reading “Week beginning 2 November 2022”
Week beginning 19 October 2022
This week the books to be reviewed are Peter J. Leithart’s Jane Austen A Literary Celebrity and Marple: Twelve New Stories by Agatha Christie; Naomi Alderman; Leigh Bardugo; Alyssa Cole; Lucy Foley; Elly Griffiths; Natalie Haynes; Jean Kwok; Val McDermid; Karen M. McManus; Dreda Say Mitchell; Kate Mosse; Ruth Ware, HarperCollins Sep 2022. Both wereContinue reading “Week beginning 19 October 2022”
Week beginning 12 October 2022
Two Australian authors’ books are reviewed this week. Catch Us The Foxes, by Nicola West, and Tricia Stringer’s Keeping up Appearances, are markedly different. However, both use the distinctive Australian landscape as part of their story. Thank you, Simon & Schuster (Catch Us The Foxes) and HQ Fiction (Keeping up Appearances) and NetGalley for theseContinue reading “Week beginning 12 October 2022”
Week beginning 7 September 2022
Scott Turow Suspect Swift Press 2022. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof in exchange for an honest review. It is a long time since I read Scott Turow’s Presumed Innocent for the first time, and not so long ago that I re-read what I still believe is a very smart novelContinue reading “Week beginning 7 September 2022”
Week beginning August 31 2022
In this week’s blog: Eurostar to Amsterdam; book reviews; Amsterdam – hotel, food tour, Rijksmuseum, Cindy Lou reviews; Maggie O’Farrell; Well behaved women…; brief news from Australia. On our way back to London, after a short, but fulfilling visit to Amsterdam. We stayed in the Museum Quarter, which has excellent public transport – trams andContinue reading “Week beginning August 31 2022”
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