Martin Edwards Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife Aria & Aries, September 2025. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife – how could any player of Cluedo resist reading this book? And then, when it becomes clear that Martin EdwardsContinue reading “Week beginning December 31 2025”
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Week beginning 30 April 2025
Barbara Kingsolver Holding the Line Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike Faber and Faber Ltd, October 2024. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Barbara Kingsolver has written a non-fiction book that echoes the skill she demonstrates in her fiction. The preface is a wonderful insight into the authorContinue reading “Week beginning 30 April 2025”
WEEK BEGINNING 15 JANUARY 2025
Nicci French The Last Days of Kira Mullan Simon & Schuster (Australia)|Simon & Schuster UK, January 2025. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. I had just finished rereading Nicci French’s Frieda Klein series, and joy of joys, “The Last Days of Kira Mullan” became available. This book did notContinue reading “WEEK BEGINNING 15 JANUARY 2025”
Week beginning 24 July 2024
Valerie Keogh The Mother Boldwood Books, June 2024. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Valerie Keogh has provided readers with yet another good read, with some twists and, in my opinion more importantly, an intelligent consideration of the qualities that are believed to make the perfect husband. It isContinue reading “Week beginning 24 July 2024”
Week beginning 25 August 2021
This week I review two Australian authors, one of whom uses an Australian setting, the other provides a background to a family who emigrate to Australia after the second world war. Tania Blanchard’s Echoes of War was provided to me by Simon & Schuster and NetGalley for review and Louise Guy’s Her Last Hope providedContinue reading “Week beginning 25 August 2021”
Week beginning 14 January 2021
‘No-one is above the law’ ‘Donald Trump is a clear and present danger’ ‘…sadly, and with my heart broken having to take this action…’ Nancy Pelosi. Excellent coverage, sadness, anger, and clarity from MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace’s own commentary, and her interaction with guests. It is six days ago that the coverage was of rioting, smashingContinue reading “Week beginning 14 January 2021”
Posts week beginning 28 October
Books reviewed this week: Patricia Highsmith, People Who Knock On The Door; Wendy Clarke What She Saw; Louise Doughty, Appletree Yard and Nicholas Coleridge, The Glossy Years: Magazines, Museums, and Selective Memoirs. Television Comments this week: following Margaret Morgan’s contribution to A Country Podcast about being a script writer on A Country Practice, I relateContinue reading “Posts week beginning 28 October”
Posts week beginning October 9, 2020
The following books are reviewed in Book Reviews. They were published in 2014, but resonate with current events in America. For example, vigilante movements, ‘the invention of whiteness’ and the demands on women as appendages of political men, as well as those they must adopt to be successful political figures in their own right. HeathContinue reading “Posts week beginning October 9, 2020”