by Huguenot Jo | May 15, 2022 | Book review, Film/Broadcast review
Clare Danes and Tom Hiddleston star in the TV adaptation of Sarah Perry’s novel The Essex Serpent. It’s getting good write-ups.. Read a review of the book here and more information about Sarah Perry here The Essex Serpent TV Mini...by Huguenot Jo | Dec 19, 2021 | Book review, Catholicism, Historic Events, Puritanism
A new Buddhist temple has recently opened near our house, and free meditation classes are always on offer. It’s a pleasant way to spend half an hour, and following a guided fantasy led by one of the orange-robed monks is …by Huguenot Jo | Jan 16, 2021 | Book review, Puritanism, The Outcast Woman
Sarah Perry’s latest publication, “Essex Girls: For Profane and Opinionated Women Everywhere”, is a tiny little book based on a Harriet Martineau lecture she gave; it’s an entertaining read for any woman who doesn’t like to shut up. Sarah Perry...by Huguenot Jo | Apr 26, 2020 | Book review, Film/Broadcast review
It was comforting to slide back into the familiar mind of Thomas Cromwell as imagined by Hilary Mantel. If you haven’t tackled Mantel’s Tudor trilogy, it’s a very apt project for the lockdown – three enormous tomes, all of them...by Huguenot Jo | Apr 20, 2019 | Book review
Biographer Monique Goodliffe has contributed a review of Tara Westover’s stunning memoir “Educated”: When I was little, I lived at an Anglican mission in the high veld in South Africa. My parents, both doctors, worked at the hospital there. We...by Huguenot Jo | Mar 23, 2019 | Book review, Catholicism, Puritanism, The Huguenots
I’ve been sitting in a cancer ward at the Royal Marsden Hospital, desperately relying on a Tudor detective novel to distract me. Nurses are putting cancer drugs into my child and it’s almost impossible to bear. One of them catches …