Tag Archives: Joyce Vance

Week beginning 13 August 2025

Lauren O’Neill-Butler The War of Art A History of Artists’ Protest In America Verso Books (US)|Verso, June 2025 Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. This is a huge undertaking, with its dense rollcall of information, detailed discussions of various artists, their motivation, and the application of this to theirContinue reading “Week beginning 13 August 2025”

Week beginning 9 July 2025

Claire Allan The Perfect Mother Boldwood Books, February 2025. Thank you, NetGalley and Boldwood Books for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Claire Allan has combined a story line that engages, with complex characters and twists that are not only clever, but a logical part of the story. Allen has not fallen forContinue reading “Week beginning 9 July 2025”

Week beginning 2 July 2025

Katrina Lockwood The Mystery of Isabella and the String of Beads A Woman Doctor In World War 1 Loke Press, 2017. I originally reviewed this book on the Women’s History Network blog, in 2017. A long time ago, but the approach to writing history as well as the content deserves another airing. The back-cover blurbContinue reading “Week beginning 2 July 2025”

Week beginning 18 June 2025

Joanna Hagan Friends and the Golden Age of the Sitcom Pen & Sword | White Owl, August 2024. Thank you, NetGalley and Pen & Sword for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. There is a wealth of information about Friends, and other television shows that featured in the period in which the sitContinue reading “Week beginning 18 June 2025”

Week beginning 21 May 2025

Alafair Burke The Note Faber and Faber, April 2025. Thank you, Net Galley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Alafair Burke always creates an absorbing story with logical twists and turns that, rather than arising unexpectedly and having little to do with the plot, always make sense. This does not mean thatContinue reading “Week beginning 21 May 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 9 April

Marie Bostwick The Book Club for Troublesome Women HarperCollins Focus | Harper Muse, April 2025. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Marie Bostwick’s book begins with her revelation about her inspiration for it – a conversation with her ninety-one-year-old mother in which Bostwick learnt that Betty Freidan’s The Feminine Mystique had,Continue reading “Week beginning 9 April”

Week beginning March 19, 2025

Sue Watson Wife, Mother, Liar Bookature, January 2025 Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Sue Watson has combined a narrative of mysteries and twists with the development of relationships over almost twenty-five years of neighbourly friendships. There is also clever characterisation, provided though two friends’ recall of the past,Continue reading “Week beginning March 19, 2025”

Week beginning 5 March 2025

Jodi Bondi Norgaard More Than a Doll How Creating a Sports Doll Turned into a Fight to End Gender Stereotypes Post Hill Press, January 2025  Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Jodi Bond Norgaard begins with numerous examples of the sexism that drove her to create a sports doll.Continue reading “Week beginning 5 March 2025”