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 13 November 2024

Marc Wanamaker and Steven Bingen Hollywood Behind the Lens Treasures from the Bison Archives Globe Pequot Lyons Press, May 2024. Thankyou, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. This is the story of loss and an amazing effort to redeem this loss – the accumulation of Hollywood memorabilia undertaken through the BisonContinue reading “Week Beginning 13 November 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 12 October 2022

Two Australian authors’ books are reviewed this week. Catch Us The Foxes, by Nicola West, and Tricia Stringer’s Keeping up Appearances, are markedly different. However, both use the distinctive Australian landscape as part of their story. Thank you, Simon & Schuster (Catch Us The Foxes) and HQ Fiction (Keeping up Appearances) and NetGalley for theseContinue reading “Week beginning 12 October 2022”

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”