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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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Week beginning 10 May 2023
Ayesha 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, creating the emotion and some ofContinue reading “Week beginning 10 May 2023”
Week beginning
Janet Malcolm Still Pictures On Photography and Memory Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023 I appreciate NetGalley having provided this uncorrected proof for me to read and review. I am so glad that they approved my request. Years ago Barbara Pym said of her novels: I might use Christopher Isherwood’s phrase ‘I am a camera’Continue reading “Week beginning”
Week beginning 5 April 2023
Suzanne Ferriss Lost in Translation Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. Thank you NetGalley and Bloomsbury Academic for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Lost in Translation is a BFI Film Classics publication aimed at ‘introd[ucing]. Interpret[ing] and celebrat[ing] landmarks of world cinema’. Suzanne Ferris has fulfilled this task in an engaging and through manner, theContinue reading “Week beginning 5 April 2023”
Week beginning 22 March 2023
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”
Week beginning 8 March 2023
International Women’s Day International Women’s Day March 8 is an appropriate time to review How to Think Like a Woman Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind, a book that recognises the way in which her own and her subjects’ domestic lives impacted on acceptance of their roleContinue reading “Week beginning 8 March 2023”
Week beginning March 1, 2023
This week I review a heartbreaking novel by Liz Nugent – an author I have not previously read. I also alert readers to the two-part novel by Rob Wills that I shall review at a later date. Liz Nugent Strange Sally Diamond Penguin General UK – Fig Tree, Hamish Hamilton, Viking, Penguin Life, Penguin Business, Sandycove,Continue reading “Week beginning March 1, 2023”
Week beginning
Kevin Landis One Public New York’s Public Theater in the Era of Oskar Eustis Bloomsbury Academic, Methuen Drama 2022. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Land Acknowledgement We acknowledge the land on which The Public and its theaters stand is the original homeland of the Lenape people. Kevin Landis’ historyContinue reading “Week beginning”
Week beginning 8 February 2023
Michele Moody-Adams Making Space for Justice Social Movements, Collective Imagination, and Political Hope Columbia University Press, 2022. Thank you NetGalley for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. This book is so enlightening, beginning with its title, through its chapter headings to the clear way in which Michele Moody-Adams explains the beginnings of herContinue reading “Week beginning 8 February 2023”
Week beginning 1 February 2023
The book I review this week is, in my opinion, somewhat of a throwback to a different age. Of course, the attitudes of the time were of a different age, but their perpetuation in the 2020s is an interesting phenomenon. To be fair, the title is modern – no ‘air hostesses’ here! Despite this proviso,Continue reading “Week beginning 1 February 2023”
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