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 8 October 2025
Danielle Leavitt, By the Second Spring Seven Lives and One Year of the War in Ukraine, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, May 2025. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Danielle Leavitt’s enterprise is an important part of recognising Ukrainians as other than ‘faceless war people.’ In her introduction she makesContinue reading “Week beginning 8 October 2025”
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 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 24 July 2024
Valerie Keogh The Mother Boldwood Books, June 2024. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Valerie Keogh has provided readers with yet another good read, with some twists and, in my opinion more importantly, an intelligent consideration of the qualities that are believed to make the perfect husband. It isContinue reading “Week beginning 24 July 2024”
Week beginning 29 May 2024
Priscilla Masters The Quiet Woman Book 2 of A Florence Shaw Mystery, Severn House, July 2024. Thank you, Net Galley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. The Quiet Woman is an intriguing murder mystery in so many aspects –characterisation, plotting, pace and writing style. Nurse Florence Shaw is a quiet woman, herself,Continue reading “Week beginning 29 May 2024”
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 1 November 2023
With my return to London, to a hotel in the east end, * I thought it appropriate to review (The) Queens of London (the proof title includes ‘The’) by Heather Webb, set in the past in the city streets of London. In a few weeks I shall be looking at another book also set inContinue reading “Week beginning 1 November 2023”
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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