Week beginning May 7, 2025.

Dervla McTiernan The Unquiet Grave Book 4 of The Cormac Reilly Series HarperCollins Publishers Australia | HarperCollins AU, April 2025. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Dervla McTiernan returns to Ireland and Cormac Reilly, creating a deftly woven seemingly multitude of ideas, crimes, and personal relationships in The Unquiet Grave. TheContinue reading “Week beginning May 7, 2025.”

Week beginning 16 April 2025

Scott Turow Presumed Guilty Swift Press, February 2025. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. This is not ‘just’ a legal procedural, although under Scott Turow’s experienced hand that would be enough.  Presumed Guilty is an empathetic analysis of relationships and ageing as well as an insightful consideration of racismContinue reading “Week beginning 16 April 2025”

Week beginning 26 April 2023

Publishing I have begun this week’s blog with a great story about publishing from a Western Australian author, Gordon d’Venables. I referred to his new book, Hunted, last week. Star of the South, which, from what I recall of our discussion in January 2021 in Perth, is rather different from the earlier publications, will beContinue reading “Week beginning 26 April 2023”

Week beginning 19 April 2023

NetGalley provided me with the following uncorrected proofs for review. The first, The Women Who Wouldn’t Leave, is a good read. Unfortunately, the other two books are extremely disappointing. Miranda Rijks’ The Other Mother follows others I have read by this author. They have been fairly good beach reads, and for GoodReads I have ratedContinue reading “Week beginning 19 April 2023”