BLACK HISTORY MONTH 2019 It is February, the shortest month of the year. You know what that means, dear readers. It is Black History Month.
RADIO GIRLS and the early days of the BBC Sarah-Jane Stratford blends facts with fiction in Radio Girls, a novel describing the earliest days of
A SINGLE SPY Writing A Single Spy, William Christie turns a historical footnote into a complicated novel of international intrigue. That footnote, found in Professor
REBEL CINDERELLA Adam Hochschild renews my faith in biographers and the art of biography. Rebel Cinderella models the very best of this sort of intellectual
Beheld – a novel of the first settlers of the Plymouth Colony and the complex domestic constraints under which the women lived. When
The Arctic Fury – Greer Macallister’s historical novel calls for a willing suspension of disbelief, historical fiction at its best. Greer Macallister based her novel,
Windswept, Walking the Paths of Trail Blazing Women. Author Annabel Abbs walks the same paths as 19th and early 20th-century trail blazing literary women. To
The Emerald Mile – Kevin Fedarko’s pitch-perfect prose describes the 1983 fastest white-water run down the Grand Canyon. A must-read for white-water enthusiasts. I wish
The Decent Inn of Death – Rennie Airth’s sixth in the detective John Madden series and as baffling as ever, with a near-oxymoronic title. Have
Joseph O’Connor has written three screenplays and four plays for the theatre, so it is not a surprise that his seventh novel, Ghost Light finds it
If you are a parent whose child has been introduced to poetry in school this year, you owe it to yourself and your child to
About Us | Book Reviewers & Contributors What happens when the bookstore closes? Of course I knew I’d miss handling all those books on a
Myrna Loy The Only Good Girl in Hollywood is the first formal biography of the popular star famous for the six Thin Man films made
I recently reviewed Louise Penny’s Armand Gamaché mystery novel, A Trick of the Light, for ‘Bookin’ with Sunny.’ Because it was the seventh in a series
To kids growing up in the 1950’s, the name Mary Martin meant just one thing: Peter Pan. This was a television re-creation of the 1954
I have two articles from ShelfAwareness that I’d like to share. The first is dated July 5, 2013 and is taken from an article found
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