Lisa Murkowski Far from Home An Alaskan Senator Faces the Extreme Climate of Washington, D.C. Penguin Random House Christian publishing | Forum books, June 2025. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. My immediate interest in this book arose from Senator Lisa Murkowski’s vote on the recent ‘Big Beautiful Bill’Continue reading “Week beginning 22 October 2025”
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Week beginning 17 September 2025
Helene Harrison The Many Faces of Anne Boleyn Interpreting Image and Perception Pen & Sword | Pen & Sword History, July 2025. Thank you, NetGalley and Pen & Sword for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Helene Harrison’s forensic approach to discovering Anne Boleyn is a remarkable enterprise, and one that provides aContinue reading “Week beginning 17 September 2025”
Week beginning September 3 2025
Janet Few A History of Women’s Work The Evolution of Women’s Working Lives Pen & Sword | Pen & Sword History, May 12025. Thank you, NetGalley and Pen & Sword publishing for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. This is a dense, detailed, and absorbing history of women’s work. It is a valuableContinue reading “Week beginning September 3 2025”
Week beginning June 11, 2025
Kerrie Davies Miles Franklin Undercover The little-known years when she created her own brilliant career Allen & Unwin, November 2025. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this work but was constantly wanting to be reassured about where elements of accuracy and imagination lay. As alwaysContinue reading “Week beginning June 11, 2025”
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 26 March 2025
Susan Smocer Platt Love, Politics, and Other Scary Things A Memoir Bold Story Press|Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA), Members’ Titles, December 2024. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Susan Smocer Platt was unknown to me. However, with Senator Amy Klobuchar’s endorsement of her book I decided it could beContinue reading “Week beginning 26 March 2025”
Week beginning 25 December 2024.
Diana Wilkinson The Girl in the Window Boldwood Books, December 2024. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. I was disappointed in this novel, despite some clever writing and twists. Starting with those, the way in which the main character, Izzie, moves between watching her husband, using her column toContinue reading “Week beginning 25 December 2024.”
Week beginning 11 September 2024
J. E. Smyth Mary C. McCall Jr. The Rise and Fall of Hollywood’s Most Powerful Screenwriter Columbia University Press, September 2024. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. J.E. Smyth has written a detailed, dense and illuminating account of Mary C. McCall’s life as a feminist, novelist, screen writer, laborContinue reading “Week beginning 11 September 2024”
Week beginning 12 June 2024
Paul Kahan Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Press, October 2024. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Philadelphia is an immense narrative history, laying out a story that is engrossing, while so dense that initially it is difficult to decipher the themes that some readers will want to draw from theContinue reading “Week beginning 12 June 2024”
Week beginning 22 May 2024
Hannah McGregor Clever Girl, Jurassic Park ECW Press, October 2024. Thank you, NetGalley for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Clever Girl, Jurassic Park is written in a style that I often find unappealing. However, I must acknowledge that I was so captivated by the perceptive commentary, the substantial research that underlies theContinue reading “Week beginning 22 May 2024”
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