Kate Forsyth's Blog, page 17
June 18, 2020
VINTAGE BOOK REVIEW: Chasing the Light by Jesse Blackadder
It′s the early 1930s. Antarctic open-sea whaling is booming and a territorial race for the mysterious continent between Norwegian and British-Australian interests is in full swing. Aboard a ship setting sail from Cape Town carrying the Norwegian whaling magnate [...]
The post VINTAGE BOOK REVIEW: Chasing the Light by Jesse Blackadder appeared first on Kate Forsyth.
June 16, 2020
Errombee
I have been watching & listening to the anger & anguish of the #BLM movement these past few weeks, with tears burning my eyes and a […]
The post Errombee appeared first on Kate Forsyth.
BOOK REVIEW: Vita & Virginia by Sarah Gristwood
Virginia Woolf is one of the world’s most famous writers, and a leading light of literary modernism and feminism. During the 1920s she had a passionate affair with a fellow author, Vita Sackville-West, and they remained friends until Virginia’s death in 1941 [...]
The post BOOK REVIEW: Vita & Virginia by Sarah Gristwood appeared first on Kate Forsyth.
June 14, 2020
VINTAGE BOOK REVIEW: Longbourn by Jo Baker
You might also like to read my review of Jane Austen at home by Lucy Worsley: BOOK REVIEW: Jane Austen at Home by Lucy Worsley
The post VINTAGE BOOK REVIEW: Longbourn by Jo Baker appeared first on Kate Forsyth.
June 11, 2020
BOOK REVIEW: The House Of Dreams by Kate Lord Brown
In 2000, Gabriel Lambert is a celebrated painter who hides a dark secret. Sophie Cass, a journalist struggling to begin her career and with a family connection to Lambert, is determined to find the truth about his past and the little known story of the real Casablanca [...]
The post BOOK REVIEW: The House Of Dreams by Kate Lord Brown appeared first on Kate Forsyth.
June 9, 2020
VINTAGE BOOK REVIEW: Nine Days by Toni Jordan
One family. Nine momentous days. An unforgettable novel of love and folly and heartbreak. It is 1939 and Australia is about to go to war. Deep in the working-class Melbourne suburb of Richmond it is business—your own and everyone else's—as usual [...]
The post VINTAGE BOOK REVIEW: Nine Days by Toni Jordan appeared first on Kate Forsyth.
June 7, 2020
BOOK REVIEW: Two Owls at Eton: A True Story by Jonathan Franklin
You might also like to read my review of The Wild Places by Robert MacFarlane here: VINTAGE BOOK REVIEW: The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane
The post BOOK REVIEW: Two Owls at Eton: A True Story by Jonathan Franklin appeared first on Kate Forsyth.
June 4, 2020
VINTAGE BOOK REVIEW: The Ashford Affair by Lauren Willig
New York Times bestselling author Lauren Willig "spins a web of lust, power and loss" (Kate Alcott) that is by turns epic and intimate, transporting and page-turning. As a lawyer in a large Manhattan firm, just shy of making partner, Clementine Evans [...]
The post VINTAGE BOOK REVIEW: The Ashford Affair by Lauren Willig appeared first on Kate Forsyth.
June 2, 2020
BOOK REVIEW: Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers
Mystery novelist Harriet Vane knew all about poisons, and when her former lover died in the manner prescribed in one of her books, a jury of her peers had a hangman's noose in mind. But Lord Peter Wimsey was determined to find her innocent.
The post BOOK REVIEW: Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers appeared first on Kate Forsyth.
May 31, 2020
VINTAGE BOOK REVIEW: Philosophy In The Garden by Damon Young
Why did Marcel Proust have bonsai beside his bed? What was Jane Austen doing, coveting an apricot? How was Friedrich Nietzsche inspired by his ‘thought tree'? In Philosophy in the Garden, Damon Young explores one of literature's most intimate relationships: authors and their gardens [...]
The post VINTAGE BOOK REVIEW: Philosophy In The Garden by Damon Young appeared first on Kate Forsyth.
