Week beginning February 19, 2025.

Sara Lodge The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective Yale University Press, November 2024. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. The combination of a history of the female detective as a working part of the police force during the Victorian era, and her depiction in fictional accounts ofContinue reading “Week beginning February 19, 2025.”

Week beginning 14 September 2022

The reviews this week, one fiction, and the other non-fiction, are books to which I gave five stars in my reviews for NetGalley and Good Reads. I thoroughly enjoyed both. The first is Lisa Jewell’s Invisible Girl; the non-fiction is Changing Roles Women After the Great War by Dr Vivien Newman. Both books were sentContinue reading “Week beginning 14 September 2022”