Karen Brooks The Good Wife of Bath: A (Mostly) True Story HQ Fiction, Australia, 2021.* Thank you to NetGalley for this uncorrected proof copy for review. Karen Brooks says that she found Chaucer’s Wife irresistible, and this shines through the novel she has written from the Good Wife of Bath’s perspective. Like Chaucer’s depiction ofContinue reading “Week beginning 23 September 2026”
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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”
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Michelle McSweeney OK Bloomsbury Academic, January 2023. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Object Lessons is a fun series – and more. Items, and in this case a word, gain a different dimension under the writers who lead us into the history, the political ramifications, and social dimensions ofContinue reading “Week beginning 25 January 2023”
