Week beginning 22 May 2026

Dr Christopher Herbert Jane Austen’s Favourite Brother, Henry Pen & Sword | Pen & Sword History, May 2025. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Christoher Herbert’s history employs one of the most useful strategies when dealing with a subject for whom the material is sparse. In this case, there is anContinue reading “Week beginning 22 May 2026”

Week beginning 30 June 2021

Book reviews this week are fiction. Each depicts a woman under duress as the main character. In the first, The Good Samaritan by C.J. Parsons, Carrie has facial expression blindness and is on the spectrum. The second book, Keep Me Close by Jane Holland features Kate who works in a misogynist environment, has suffered theContinue reading “Week beginning 30 June 2021”