Medium – Book About the Book – Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong are the founding members of the Detective Society, which they have set up at their school, Deepdean. They are invited to Egypt by their classmate Amina, and end up cruising down the Nile in the company of Amina, Hazel’s father and sisters, theContinue reading “2021 Book #11 – Death Sets Sail”
Monthly Archives: January 2021
2021 Book #10 – Bonkers: My Life
Medium – Audiobook About the Book – Read by the author (Jennifer Saunders), this audiobook of her autobiography describes Jennifer’s life both in the comedy spotlight and outside of it. In it she talks through her various comedy successes (and failures) with a good pinch of the humour that she is famous for. She talksContinue reading “2021 Book #10 – Bonkers: My Life”
2021 Book #9 – The Good Hawk
Medium – Book About the Book – Agatha is a young ‘Hawk’, a member of a clan in the Isle of Skye, who patrols the sea wall, looking for enemies and keeping her clan safe. She has Down’s Syndrome, and although many people question her right to be a Hawk, she knows that she isContinue reading “2021 Book #9 – The Good Hawk”
2021 Book #8 – The Diabolical Bones
Medium – Book About the Book – Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte are at Haworth Parsonage, busy with their ambitions to become famous, published authoresses. Their quiet life is one day interrupted by the discovery of a cache of bones at a local house. Hearing that they are the bones of a young child, theContinue reading “2021 Book #8 – The Diabolical Bones”
2021 Book #7 – The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Medium – Audiobook About the Book – Evelyn Hugo is a 79-year old ex-actress, who made her name in the 50s to 80s, acting in countless movies and winning an Oscar. However, she is perhaps best known for her seven husbands. Monique Grant, a journalist with the Vivant, a top magazine, is asked to writeContinue reading “2021 Book #7 – The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo”
2021 Book #6 – Wicked Boy
Medium – Audiobook About the Book – Written by the author of ‘The Suspicions of Mr Whitcher’, Kate Summerscale tells the story of Robert Allen Coombs, who, at the age of 14, murdered his mother. The book traces the murder and its aftermath, from the actions of Robert and his brother Natty after the killingContinue reading “2021 Book #6 – Wicked Boy”
2021 Book #5 – Middle-Earth: From Script to Screen
Medium – Book About the Book – This beautiful book tells the story of the filmic version of Middle-Earth, alongside information about its geography, people and lore. The book immerses the reader in not only the background story of the world, but also the practical elements of film-making and how Peter Jackson and his crewContinue reading “2021 Book #5 – Middle-Earth: From Script to Screen”
2021 Book #4 – The Magpie Murders
Medium – Book About the Book – Susan Ryeland is an editor at Cloverfield Publishing, which publishes the novels of Alan Conway, the creator of the German detective Atticus Pund. She is sent the latest installment of Conway’s series, and finds herself immersed in the mystery happening in the 1950s English village. However, the manuscriptContinue reading “2021 Book #4 – The Magpie Murders”
2021 Book #3 – The Beast of Buckingham Palace
Medium – Audiobook About the Book – Set in 2120, this novel by David Walliams tells the story of the sickly Prince Alfred, the heir to the throne of Britain. The country is in ruins and ruled by the Lord Protector, a terrible, terrifying man who controls Alfred’s father, the King, and rules the countryContinue reading “2021 Book #3 – The Beast of Buckingham Palace”
2021 Book #2 – The War Queens
Medium – Book About the Book – Father and daughter duo Jonathan and Emily Jordan tell the stories of fourteen women, crossing time periods and nations, who led their people into battle. From Tomryis, the Massagetae Queen who rode into battle and killed the Persian King, to Margaret Thatcher, who commanded the British Army (albeitContinue reading “2021 Book #2 – The War Queens”
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