Mark Splitstone, Für Elise, Girl Friday Productions | Amalgam Books, May 2025. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Für Elise is sensitive and thoughtful, written in a deceptively simple style which is at times almost stilted. However, it is this writing style that is the key to the cleverness of theContinue reading “Week beginning 1 October 2025.”
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Week beginning 10 September 2025
Jane Caro Lyrebird Allen & Unwin, April 2025.* Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. A lyrebird’s cry in a lonely bush site echoes a desperate woman’s cry for help. It is overheard by a student, who aware of its possible significance, takes her recording to the police. With noContinue reading “Week beginning 10 September 2025”
Week beginning 12 June 2024
Paul Kahan Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Press, October 2024. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Philadelphia is an immense narrative history, laying out a story that is engrossing, while so dense that initially it is difficult to decipher the themes that some readers will want to draw from theContinue reading “Week beginning 12 June 2024”
Week beginning March 2023
Tracey Enerson Wood The President’s Wife Sourcebooks Landmark, 2023. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected copy for review. The President’s Wife is an apt title, encompassing as it does the part of Edith Galt’s life where she becomes instead, Edith Wilson, First lady. Galt is her married name – that of herContinue reading “Week beginning March 2023”
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Kevin Landis One Public New York’s Public Theater in the Era of Oskar Eustis Bloomsbury Academic, Methuen Drama 2022. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Land Acknowledgement We acknowledge the land on which The Public and its theaters stand is the original homeland of the Lenape people. Kevin Landis’ historyContinue reading “Week beginning”
Week Beginning 7 December 2022
This week’s review is Barbara Kingsolver Demon Copperhead Faber and Faber 2022. Barbara Kingsolver has been one of my favourite authors since reading The Poisonwood Bible. However, this has not been consistent – some of her books I have really enjoyed; others I have admired; and yet others have disappointed. I came to Demon CopperheadContinue reading “Week Beginning 7 December 2022”
Week beginning 19 July 2021
Both books reviewed this week were provided to me by NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Daniel Talbot In Love With Movies Columbia University Press 2022 Daniel Talbot’s In Love With Movies is a delight, from the first chapters about the early years in independent theatres; though Those Who Made Me Laugh in PartContinue reading “Week beginning 19 July 2021”
Week beginning 8 June 2022
Carlene Bauer Girls They Write Songs About Farrer, Strauss and Giroux 2022. Thank you NetGalley for providing me with this uncorrected proof in exchange for an honest review. Carlene Bauer’s novel is a modern approach to women’s friendship. However, where I think of women’s friendship novels as underpinned by a notion of sisterhood that includesContinue reading “Week beginning 8 June 2022”
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