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”
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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”
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 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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