Week beginning 20 December 2023

Ines Almeida, Georgina Ferry, Bridget Greenwood, 50 Women in Technology Pioneers and Trailblazers in STEM, Aurora Metro Supernova Books, November 2023. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. As I have a kindle download, I am unable to comment on the full colour nature of the book. However, I amContinue reading “Week beginning 20 December 2023”

Week beginning 26 July 2023

This week I review another Louise Doughty novel which can now is available for pre-order and will be published on 31 August 2023. Louise Doughty A Bird in Winter Faber and Faber August 2023 When I finished A Bird in Winter I wondered why I had not followed up my recognition upon reading Apple TreeContinue reading “Week beginning 26 July 2023”

Week beginning 19 July 2023

The book reviewed this week is Apple Tree Yard which has been offered on NetGalley together with Lousie Doughty’s latest novel, A Bird in Winter. I ended the earlier review, published in one of my first blogs, with the comment that I would look for more of Doughty’s work. I have been remiss in notContinue reading “Week beginning 19 July 2023”

Posts week beginning 28 October

Books reviewed this week: Patricia Highsmith, People Who Knock On The Door; Wendy Clarke What She Saw; Louise Doughty, Appletree Yard and Nicholas Coleridge, The Glossy Years: Magazines, Museums, and Selective Memoirs. Television Comments this week: following Margaret Morgan’s contribution to A Country Podcast about being a script writer on A Country Practice, I relateContinue reading “Posts week beginning 28 October”