Valerie Keogh, His Other Woman, Boldwood Books, November 2025. Thank you, NetGalley and Boldwood Books, for this uncorrected proof for review. Valeria Keogh’s books always have a twist that logically follows the storyline, rather than emerging from nowhere; she always has an intriguing plot; and her writing is always not only engaging but grammatical. Certainly,Continue reading “Week beginning November 19 2025”
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Week beginning 27 August 2025
JB Miller, Duch Riverdale Avenue Books February 2025. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. What fun, I thought, as I saw the premise for this book – Diana is living in Paris, having lost her memory but recognised as Diana by a school friend. But JB Miller has givenContinue reading “Week beginning 27 August 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 2 April 2025
Bonnie Garmus Lessons in Chemistry Penguin, Kindle edition, 2024. Bonnie Garmus has skilfully woven together comedy, whimsy, engaging characters, and a story line that draws attention to a series of notions that, seemingly relatively benign initially, reach their logical conclusion with the terror of sexual harassment and a well-argued case that discrimination against women isContinue reading “Week beginning 2 April 2025”
Week beginning 22 January 2025
Jane A. Adams Cold Bones Severn House, December 2024. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. This is book 10 of the Jane A. Adams series that features former Detective Chief Inspector Henry Johnstone. Set in the 1930s, it is described as a mystery. It is also a challenging socialContinue reading “Week beginning 22 January 2025”
Week beginning 3 January 2024
Jane Austen Jane Austen’s The History of England Writings from Her Youth Dover Publications, Oct 2023. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. The history and letters in this short volume provide a wealth of information about Jane Austen which makes an ideal background to reading her more well-known novels.Continue reading “Week beginning 3 January 2024”
Week beginning 7 September 2023
Barbara Pym, her novels and her relationship with her sister, Hilary, are at the forefront of my mind this week. I have just attended the Barbara Pym Conference on the theme of sisterhood, so Some Tame Gazelle (first published 1950, Virago Modern Classics 2009) is an appropriate place to begin. Barbara Pym’s first published novelContinue reading “Week beginning 7 September 2023”
Week beginning 5 April 2023
Suzanne Ferriss Lost in Translation Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. Thank you NetGalley and Bloomsbury Academic for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Lost in Translation is a BFI Film Classics publication aimed at ‘introd[ucing]. Interpret[ing] and celebrat[ing] landmarks of world cinema’. Suzanne Ferris has fulfilled this task in an engaging and through manner, theContinue reading “Week beginning 5 April 2023”
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