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“Hope and Glory” Questions the Meaning of Home and Family

Jendella Benson’s debut novel, Hope and Glory (William Morrow), celebrates Nigerian culture and close family ties. THE PLOT Glory Akíndélé’s family are Nigerian immigrants living in London. She’d always considered her older sister, Faith, “a Stepford Wife,” consumed with her husband and toddler twins. Glory craved independence and needed to make…

K.L. RomoJuly 7, 2022

Thrillers

War, Criminality, and “The Right Sort of Man”

“Did your hunch prove correct?” asked Gwen. “It did,” replied Iris, as she began typing her notes of the interview. “What was it about?” “Her stockings.” “Were her seams not straight?” “The seams were straight,” said Iris. “The girl is crooked.” It is June 1946 in London. The war is…

Neil NyrenMay 31, 2019

Romance

A Duke in Disguise and Protagonist with Purpose

In the third book in her London Underground series, Dare to Love a Duke (Avon), Eva Leigh again creates a strong female protagonist who isn’t afraid to take risks and knows her own mind. Lucia Marini, known only as Amina by visitors to The Orchid Club, is a foreigner in London. Born to…

Krista BegganJanuary 4, 2019

Romance

Christy Carlyle Proves Business and Pleasure Can Mix

In Christy Carlyle’s A Duke Changes Everything (HarperCollins), Nicholas Lyon is a man with scars, both literally and figuratively. Cast aside as a bastard and tortured by his nobleman father, Nick is only too happy to renounce a title that has brought him nothing but pain. Forced to survive on his…

Krista BegganNovember 27, 2018

Miscellany

2021 Women’s Prize for Fiction Winner Announced!

Let me happily relay the official announcement of the winner of the 2021 Women’s Prize for Fiction: Piranesi, written by Susanna Clarke and published by Bloomsbury, takes the grand prize. This luminous offering is, according to the Chair of Judges, “a truly original, unexpected flight of fancy which melds genres…

Judy MorenoSeptember 8, 2021

Nonfiction

Forget Pie. You’ll Want to Make These Thanksgiving Alternatives from Violet Cakes Bakery

This may sound like sacrilege, but on Thanksgiving I don’t do pie. That doesn’t mean we don’t have pie; a fantastic local farm kitchen fills that need, but I don’t bake pies. Ever. While I do terrific fillings, the alchemy that results in a tender, flaky crust has always eluded…

JeriAnn GellerNovember 20, 2015

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Radical Fervor Extracts a Heavy Price in “The Zima Confession”

If you were a college student from the mid 1960s through the 1970s, you might know a bit about youthful passion and idealism. If you weren’t the person pushing radical ideas to fix a world that seemed terribly broken, perhaps you had friends who were true believers. Most young adults…

Dennis HetzelNovember 3, 2021

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3 Unreliable Narrators, Mindblowing Ending for “The Girl on the Train” Follow-Up

"She was struck by the smell. Underneath the blood, all that blood, there was something else, something older, sweet and rank, like lilies left too long in the vase. The smell and the look of him, impossible to resist, his beautiful dead face, glassy eyes framed by long lashes, plump…

Naomi NairAugust 31, 2021

Fiction Romance

Sarah MacLean’s Riot of a Romance is Quite the “Bombshell”

Rakes and rogues and rascals (oh, my!) have long been a staple in historical romance. And one of their biggest proponents and creators is author Sarah MacLean, whose latest novel, Bombshell (Avon), the first in her new Hell's Belles series, exploded into release yesterday. MacLean has often professed her interest…

JeriAnn GellerAugust 25, 2021

Fiction Fiction - Featured

Jane Austen, Science Fiction and “Fifty Shades of Grey” Combine in This Genre-Bending Read

The story opens innocently enough as a young woman rouses from her London drawing room reverie to hear her mother say, “Annabeth, sit up straight.” Annabeth has become a problem for her parents. At age 18, she’s nearly past her prime for making a marriage that will enhance her family’s…

Joanna PoncavageMarch 14, 2022

Fiction

“The Royal Correspondent” Travels Internationally With Lofty Career Goals and Deadly Secrets

It’s an up-from-the-slums journey for one Blaise Hill, a smart, upbeat young woman fresh out of secondary school and ready to plunge whole-heartedly into a life-changing career. Set in two world capitals, Sydney and London, and spanning the years between 1957 and 1962, readers follow the adventures of this intrepid…

Linda HitchcockSeptember 24, 2021

Book Club Network Romance

Dupattas and Desire: “Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows”

In Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows (William Morrow), Balli Kaur Jaswal writes a textured tale about Punjabi Indian women and sexual taboos, masterfully juxtaposing modern and traditional, West and East, and each generation’s definition of oppression, with a murder mystery woven into the cultural tapestry. Nikki Grewal has already disappointed…

K.L. RomoSeptember 11, 2018

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Mixed Heritage and Midlife Transitions Amplify a Woman’s Perseverance in Onuzo’s “Sankofa”

There is a mythical bird called the Sankofa. It flies forward with its head facing back. It’s a poetic image, but it cannot work in real life. Celebrated novelist Chibundu Onuzo takes readers on a journey from London to West Africa in Sankofa (Catapult), the story of a Black woman…

Michael FerryOctober 5, 2021

Book Club Network

This Month’s Book: Luxury Liner, Lies, and Lifeboat 21

For the month of November, all chapters of the Girly Book Club are reading On a Cold Dark Sea by Elizabeth Blackwell. Here’s our review: April 15, 1912. Lifeboat 21 saves a mere 12 lives instead of the 65 it was built to hold. This is not just another tale…

K.L. RomoNovember 13, 2018

Fiction

Review of ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’: Does J.K. Rowling Break New Ground?

Well, here we are. The “last” tale of the Harry Potter saga from J.K. Rowling and this time it hits the stage on London’s West End. Harry Potter and The Cursed Child (Arthur A. Levine Books, July 31, 2016) penned by Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany, continues the story of The…

Matt GillickAugust 3, 2016

Fiction

Pursuing the Dragon Lady in Italy, London and Rhodesia

Louisa Treger's The Dragon Lady (Bloomsbury) offers a nuanced perspective on British and African cultures during precarious times, the 1920s through the 1950s. It’s a wonderful mystery, love story and odyssey, all rolled into one. What's even more incredible is that this story is based on a real person. Yes,…

Claudia KeenanAugust 13, 2019

“Hope and Glory” Questions the Meaning of Home and Family

War, Criminality, and “The Right Sort of Man”

A Duke in Disguise and Protagonist with Purpose

Christy Carlyle Proves Business and Pleasure Can Mix

2021 Women’s Prize for Fiction Winner Announced!

Forget Pie. You’ll Want to Make These Thanksgiving Alternatives from Violet Cakes Bakery

Radical Fervor Extracts a Heavy Price in “The Zima Confession”

3 Unreliable Narrators, Mindblowing Ending for “The Girl on the Train” Follow-Up

Sarah MacLean’s Riot of a Romance is Quite the “Bombshell”

Jane Austen, Science Fiction and “Fifty Shades of Grey” Combine in This Genre-Bending Read

“The Royal Correspondent” Travels Internationally With Lofty Career Goals and Deadly Secrets

Dupattas and Desire: “Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows”

Mixed Heritage and Midlife Transitions Amplify a Woman’s Perseverance in Onuzo’s “Sankofa”

This Month’s Book: Luxury Liner, Lies, and Lifeboat 21

Review of ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’: Does J.K. Rowling Break New Ground?

Pursuing the Dragon Lady in Italy, London and Rhodesia

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