Emily Callaci Wages for Housework The Feminist Fight Against Unpaid Labor Basic Books | Seal Press, March 2025. Thankyou, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Emily Callaci has brought together five activists for whom wages for housework was a part of their feminist work for improving women’s lives. It is importantContinue reading “Week beginning 23 July 2025”
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Week beginning 28 May 2025.
Maya Golden Bethany The Senator Rising Action Publishing | Rising Action, April 2025. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. This is a thriller with some positive features – the topic is pertinent, the characters interesting, and the story line logical and believable. There are no confected twists or illogical events, andContinue reading “Week beginning 28 May 2025.”
Week beginning 1 January 2025
Angela Youngman The Dark Side of Jane Austen’s World Pen & Sword|Pen & Sword History, August 2024. Thank you, NetGalley and Pen & Sword, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Angela Youngman’s detailed and absorbing exploration of Jane Austen’s world, through her own narratives and additional material, is a valuable read. AlthoughContinue reading “Week beginning 1 January 2025”
Week beginning 31 July 2024
Lisa Jackson Our Little Secret Kensington Publishing, June 2024. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. I found this an extremely disappointing read that prolonged my frustration through repetition and a fairly predictable story line that meandered through family angst, infidelity, missing teenagers, the main character’s internal arguments, and obsession.Continue reading “Week beginning 31 July 2024”
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 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”
Week beginning 10 March 2021
Women’s History Month Book Reviews: Liz Hodgkinson, The Women Who Transformed Journalism, First published by Revel Barker Publishing, 2008, this publication, Lume Books, 2018. Commentary: books relevant to Women’s History Month (see Book Reviews) Let fiction have a say: British Women Fight for the Vote in Stand We at Last and Things a Bright GirlContinue reading “Week beginning 10 March 2021”
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