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”
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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 5 October 2022
The reviews this week are Claire McGowan’s I Know You and the non-fiction, Michael Greaney’s An A-Z of Jane Austen. Thank you, NetGalley for these uncorrected advance proofs for review. Claire McGowan I Know You Thomas & Mercer, Seattle, 2021 I Know You has a large amount of wonderfully poignant material, a little bit ofContinue reading “Week beginning 5 October 2022”
Week beginning 21 July 2021
The books reviewed this week are part of the Pen & Sword series of publications. Earlier reviews from the series were A Visitor’s Guide to Jane Austen’s England by Sue Wilkes; London and the Seventeenth Century by Margarette Lincoln and Michelle Higgins’ A Visitor’s Guide to Victorian England. This is a series that makes historyContinue reading “Week beginning 21 July 2021”
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