Medium – Book About the Book – The comedians Barry and Bob Cryer have ‘discovered’ the memoirs of Mrs Hudson, the long-suffering housekeeper of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson. The diaries trace Mrs Hudson’s thoughts from the arrival of her tenants to their supposed date of her death in 1914. We meet her as sheContinue reading “TBR Pile #14 – Mrs Hudson’s Diaries”
Monthly Archives: October 2020
TBR Pile #13 – The Lives of Stella Bain
Medium – Book About the Book – In war-torn France, during the First World War, a nameless woman in nursing uniform is found with shrapnel wounds to the feet. All she knows is her name may be Stella Bain, that she is a nurse and that she can drive an ambulance. She also remembers thatContinue reading “TBR Pile #13 – The Lives of Stella Bain”
TBR Pile #12 – Hold Back the Tide
Medium – Book About the Book – Alva Douglas lives with her father, the loch-keeper for a small Scottish town. For the last seven years she has lived in fear as she knows that her father murdered her mother. Now, she is planning a way out. However, she finds her escape delayed by the disappearanceContinue reading “TBR Pile #12 – Hold Back the Tide”
TBR Pile #11 – D: A Tale of Two Worlds
Medium – Book About the Book – Dhikilo Bentley is a young girl adopted from Somaliland and living in the English seaside town of Cawber. One morning, she wakes up to find that the letter ‘D’ has disappeared from the conversation of her parents. On heading to school, she finds that ‘D’ has disappeared fromContinue reading “TBR Pile #11 – D: A Tale of Two Worlds”
TBR Pile #10 – Thorn
Medium – Book About the Book – Princess Alyrra is promised to be married to Prince Kestrin, the heir of the throne of a neighbouring kingdom. Abused and terrorised by her family, she is not particularly keen on the marriage, but at the same time, can’t wait to get away from her mother and brother.Continue reading “TBR Pile #10 – Thorn”
TBR Pile #9 – The Secret Political Adviser
Medium – Book About the Book – Michael Spicer (‘M’) is the Secret Political Adviser – one of the head honchos at Axworthy, a never-spoken-of group who advise world leaders through the use of in-ear headphones when they are giving their most famous speeches. Working both in the UK and US, the group work withContinue reading “TBR Pile #9 – The Secret Political Adviser”
TBR Pile #8 – The Road to Little Dribbling
Medium – Book About the Book – The Road to Little Dribbling picks up twenty years or so after the writing of ‘Notes from a Small Island’. In it, Bill Bryson makes the journey from South of the British Isles to the North, stopping at a number of different cities and landmarks on the way.Continue reading “TBR Pile #8 – The Road to Little Dribbling”
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