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 28 September 2022

This week I review Paul Kendall’s Queen Elizabeth I Life and Legacy of the Virgin Queen which fits nicely into thinking about the article by Jenny Hyde on the way in which news about the death of Queen Elizabeth 1 compares with news coverage of the death of Queen Elizabeth 11. Paul Kendall Queen ElizabethContinue reading “Week beginning 28 September 2022”

Week beginning 14 September 2022

The reviews this week, one fiction, and the other non-fiction, are books to which I gave five stars in my reviews for NetGalley and Good Reads. I thoroughly enjoyed both. The first is Lisa Jewell’s Invisible Girl; the non-fiction is Changing Roles Women After the Great War by Dr Vivien Newman. Both books were sentContinue reading “Week beginning 14 September 2022”