Sheenagh Pugh

Review of Little Englanders: Britain in the Edwardian Era, by Alwyn Turner pub. Profile Books 2024 “This book is […] an attempt to take the temperature of the nation as it emerged from a century when it had dominated the world and was beginning – whether it knew it or not – a long process of declin...

Review of Little Englanders: Britain in the Edwardian Era, by Alwyn Turner pub. Profile Books 2024. Meet the monkey paraders and the mini-Naploeons... sheenaghpugh.livejournal.com/171255.html

Review of Embers of the Hands; Hidden Histories of the Viking Age, by Eleanor Barraclough (Pub: Profile Books 2024; LJ doesn't give enough room for long book titles) This is a history of the Viking Age with the ordinary humans left in. This is an attempt to look at what we generally and in...

New blog review: "A history of the Viking Age with the ordinary humans left in". New blog review: Embers of the Hands; Hidden Histories of the Viking Age, by Eleanor Barraclough, pub. Profile Books 2024. sheenaghpugh.livejournal.com/170594.html

What's a "halftime show"?

How can I edit this post to explain that the link is to a blog review? I can;t find anything that says "edit"?

Review of Edinburgh: A New History, by Alistair Moffat, pub. Birlinn 2024 I saw rain falling and the rainbow drawn On Lammermuir. Hearkening I heard again In my precipitous city beaten bells Winnow the keen sea wind. (Poem found in the unfinished manuscript of Weir of Hermi...

"I heard again
In my precipitous city beaten bells
Winnow the keen sea wind."
New blog review up: Alistair Moffat's "Edinburgh: A New History". Discover "The Beast" and how Joseph Smith's drum controlled it... sheenaghpugh.livejournal.com/170407.html

hello! Sorry if it's late, I can't find my way around here...

So tired of the over-used word "robust".

Review of Real Lear: New & Selected Poems by Claire Crowther, pub. Shearsman 2024 it was as easy to make them laugh as to find a vein. (Mine, Then) If I were looking for a single word to describe Claire Crowther’s work, “edgy” might do. There is a pervasive sense of unease, a...

New blog review, of Claire Crowther's poetry collection "Real Lear" (a new & selected) sheenaghpugh.livejournal.com/170186.html

Latest blog review, - the fifth and last volume of a truly monumental history. sheenaghpugh.livejournal.com/169740.html

Review of Night Train To Odesa by Jen Stout, pub. Polygon 2024 When Nikolai told them how the family had had to hide in the cellar for a month, the man in command replied “Why were you hiding? We came to liberate you!” And at that, Nikolai had snapped a little. ...

Blog review of Jen Stout's "Night Train to Odesa" sheenaghpugh.livejournal.com/169193.html

The real mystery is why so many folk think The Box of delights is better than The Midnight Folk, when it is CLEARLY THE OTHER WAY ROUND!

Hello. I'd only been here three days before finding out how to do a post...