Week beginning 10 September 2025

Jane Caro Lyrebird Allen & Unwin, April 2025.* Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. A lyrebird’s cry in a lonely bush site echoes a desperate woman’s cry for help. It is overheard by a student, who aware of its possible significance, takes her recording to the police. With noContinue reading “Week beginning 10 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 14 December 2022

This week I review two uncorrected proofs sent to me by NetGalley, one fiction (The Concierge) and the other non-fiction (Shirley Chisholm Champion of Black Feminist Power Politics). Miranda Rijks The Concierge Inkubator Books Dec 2022  The pace of the story overcomes the implausibility of some of the earlier plotting which is quite absorbing. Ally,Continue reading “Week beginning 14 December 2022”