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”
Tag Archives: Cindy Lou Reviews
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”
Week beginning 24 August 2022
This week is late as the WIFI on the Eurostar was intermittent, and my four hours was less gainfully spent, reading, eating and looking at the fields passingly rapidly by. After an impossible trudge around beautifully signed streets, but with unrecognisable names, in an effort to get to the hotel (there are so few taxis,Continue reading “Week beginning 24 August 2022”
Week beginning 19 July 2021
Both books reviewed this week were provided to me by NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Daniel Talbot In Love With Movies Columbia University Press 2022 Daniel Talbot’s In Love With Movies is a delight, from the first chapters about the early years in independent theatres; though Those Who Made Me Laugh in PartContinue reading “Week beginning 19 July 2021”
Week beginning 29 June 2022
After the beach reads reviewed last week I am pleased to make a change and review a non fiction book. NetGalley and Sword and Pen provided me with Dr Vivien Newman’s Changing Roles Women After the Great War. I am reading The Times They Were a-Changin’ 1964, the Year the Sixties Arrived and the BattleContinue reading “Week beginning 29 June 2022”
Week beginning 13 April 2022
Thank you NetGalley for providing me with this uncorrected proof in exchange for an honest review. Matthew Green Shadowlands A Journey Through Lost Britain Faber and Faber Ltd 2022 Shadowlands is a beautiful blend of poignancy, social commentary, journeys in landscapes that tell a range of stories of secrecy, joy and sorrow, and a historyContinue reading “Week beginning 13 April 2022”
Week beginning 9th March 2022
NetGalley provided me with the uncorrected proof of Lisa Z. Lindahl’s Unleash the Girls The Untold Story of the Invention of the Sports Bra and How It Changed the World (And Me) in exchange for an honest review. Lisa Z. Lindahl Unleash the Girls The Untold Story of the Invention of the Sports Bra andContinue reading “Week beginning 9th March 2022”
Week beginning 23 February 2022
Clare Chambers The Editor’s Wife Arrow Books, Penguin Random House 2021. The Editor’s Wife is a complex novel, with some seemingly simple elements that add to the storyline so successfully that it is not until later that their wider impact becomes clear. Contrary to the title, which foreshadows one woman as the focal point, anotherContinue reading “Week beginning 23 February 2022”
Week beginning 9 February 2022
Reviews for Bright Young Things by Jane A. Adams and All the Lights Above Us seem to have been lingering on my NetGalley shelf, without being transposed to this blog. So here they are – two fiction books sent to me by NetGalley for honest reviews. Jane A. Adams Bright Young Things Severn House 2021.Continue reading “Week beginning 9 February 2022”
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