Allison Tyra Uncredited Women’s Overlooked, Misattributed, and Stolen Work Rising Action Publishing | Rising Action, May 2025. Thank you NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. When reading research that demonstrates, yet again, the way that women and their accomplishments have been, as Alison Tyra says ‘overlooked, misattributed and stolen,’ it isContinue reading “Week beginning 6 August 2025”
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Week beginning 29 January 2025
Caroline Angus Planning the Murder of Anne Boleyn Pen & Sword | Pen & Sword History August 2024. Thank you, NetGalley and Pen & Sword for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Caroline Angus has set the stage for acknowledging the reality of Anne Boleyn’s death. She was murdered, and King Henry V111 planned theContinue reading “Week beginning 29 January 2025”
WEEK BEGINNING 15 JANUARY 2025
Nicci French The Last Days of Kira Mullan Simon & Schuster (Australia)|Simon & Schuster UK, January 2025. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. I had just finished rereading Nicci French’s Frieda Klein series, and joy of joys, “The Last Days of Kira Mullan” became available. This book did notContinue reading “WEEK BEGINNING 15 JANUARY 2025”
Week beginning 22 November 2023
Catherine Russell The Cinema of Barbara Stanwyck University of Illinois 2023. Thank you, NetGalley , for this uncorrected proof for review. Barbara Stanwyck was not one of my favourite actresses, she seemed too pushy somehow, and her films did not appeal – nor did the characters she played. With this in mind, I thought itContinue reading “Week beginning 22 November 2023”
Week beginning 6 July 2022
Ruth Ware The It Girl Simon & Schuster (Australia) 2022. Thank you, NetGalley and Simon & Schuster for this uncorrected proof in exchange for an honest review. Ruth Ware is a writer whose books I enjoy. They are smart, with characters who develop over the period of the plot, which, by the way is usuallyContinue reading “Week beginning 6 July 2022”
Week beginning 1 September 2021
Although one of the two books provided to me by NetGalley for review, is fiction, both are valuable social commentary. Lisa Jewell, The Night She Disappeared, Century (Penguin Random House), 2021. In her latest novel, Lisa Jewell uses a device that is new to me in her work – a detective story writer who becomesContinue reading “Week beginning 1 September 2021”
Week beginning 30 June 2021
Book reviews this week are fiction. Each depicts a woman under duress as the main character. In the first, The Good Samaritan by C.J. Parsons, Carrie has facial expression blindness and is on the spectrum. The second book, Keep Me Close by Jane Holland features Kate who works in a misogynist environment, has suffered theContinue reading “Week beginning 30 June 2021”
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