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”
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Week beginning 3 April 2024
Jonathan Cott Let Me Take You Down Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields Forever University of Minnesota Press, April 2024. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Jonothan Cott combines a story of the Beatles’ commitment to touring aimed at giving their audiences access to them and their work with anContinue reading “Week beginning 3 April 2024”
Week beginning March 27 2024
Jackie French The Sea Captain’s Wife Harlequin Australia. HQ (Fiction, Non-Fiction, YA) & Mira, March 2024. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. The Sea Captain’s Wife is an engaging amalgam of Jackie French’s knowledge of the intriguing historical hunt for marriageable shipwrecked sailors; meticulous attention to depicting an authenticContinue reading “Week beginning March 27 2024”
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”
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”
Week beginning 3 August 2022
Thank you, NetGalley, for the uncorrected proofs for The Times They Were a-Changin’ 1964, the Year the Sixties Arrived and the Battle Lines of Today Were Drawn, and The Second Wife and in exchange for honest reviews. Robert S McElvaine The Times They Were a-Changin’ 1964, the Year the Sixties Arrived and the Battle LinesContinue reading “Week beginning 3 August 2022”
Week beginning 27 July 2022
Books reviewed this week include another about film, the topic of the two books reviewed last week. Dr No was sent to me by NetGalley, in exchange for an honest review, as was the novel reviewed this week. James Chapman Dr. No The First James Bond Film Columbia University Press, Wallflower Press Pub Date 08 Nov 2022.Continue reading “Week beginning 27 July 2022”
Week beginning 29 December 2021
Two fiction books are reviewed this week, Ilsa Evans, The Unusual Abduction of Avery Conifer and Miranda Rijks What She Knew; and one non-fiction, Rosemary Griggs’ A Woman of Noble Wit, Matador 2021. All of these books were provided to me by NetGalley, as uncorrected proofs, in exchange for honest reviews. Ilsa Evans The UnusualContinue reading “Week beginning 29 December 2021”
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