Catherine Russell The Cinema of Barbara Stanwyck University of Illinois 2023. Thank you, NetGalley , for this uncorrected proof for review. Barbara Stanwyck was not one of my favourite actresses, she seemed too pushy somehow, and her films did not appeal – nor did the characters she played. With this in mind, I thought itContinue reading “Week beginning 22 November 2023”
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Week beginning 8 November 2023
Sophie Hannah Hercule Poirot’s Silent Night The New Hercule Poirot Mystery Harper Collins UK, Harper Fiction 26 October 2023. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. This is the second of Sophie Hannah’s Hercule Poirot mysteries that I have read, and I came to it hoping that I would notContinue reading “Week beginning 8 November 2023”
Week beginning 20 September 2023
Hillary Rodham Clinton is the subject of this week’s review. Do All the Good You Can, How Faith Shaped Hillary Rodham Clinton’s Politics by Gary Scott Smith, University of Illinois Press, 2023 will be published in October. Gary Scott Smith provides a rather different perspective on Hillary Rodham Clinton, or so it seems to me.Continue reading “Week beginning 20 September 2023”
Week beginning 7 September 2023
Barbara Pym, her novels and her relationship with her sister, Hilary, are at the forefront of my mind this week. I have just attended the Barbara Pym Conference on the theme of sisterhood, so Some Tame Gazelle (first published 1950, Virago Modern Classics 2009) is an appropriate place to begin. Barbara Pym’s first published novelContinue reading “Week beginning 7 September 2023”
Week beginning 30 August 2023
Eliot A. Cohen The Hollow Crown Shakespeare on How Leaders Rise, Rule, and Fall Basic Books: New York, 24 October 2023 Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. This is an exciting read, from an author whose political experience and preceptive approach to politics, power and Shakespeare is only occasionallyContinue reading “Week beginning 30 August 2023”
Week beginning 3 August 2023
Two books are reviewed this week – one that I read some time ago and somehow neglected to publish on the blog (the third in Kerry Wilkinson’s Whitecliff Bay series) and Keith Urban by Jeff Apter. Both were provided to me by NetGalley as uncorrected proofs for review. Jeff Apter Keith Urban Kensington Books Citadel,Continue reading “Week beginning 3 August 2023”
Week beginning 31 May
This week the second of the books in Kerry Wilkinson’s Whitecliff Bay series is reviewed. NetGalley provided me with the uncorrected proof. Kerry Wilkinson The One Who Was Taken (A Whitecliff Bay Mystery Book 2) Bookouture 2023. The One Who Was Taken continues this series in which more information about the appealing main character, Millie,Continue reading “Week beginning 31 May”
Week Beginning 16 May 2023
The book this week is relevant to the E. Jean Carroll case against the former American president, and is a good read for people interested in the legal system, the way in which judges were appointed to the American Supreme Court, as well as the subject in general. This week’s blog is very late becauseContinue reading “Week Beginning 16 May 2023”
Week beginning 16 May 2023
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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,…
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”
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