Medium – Book About the Book – Sandi Toksvig, the British/Danish presenter and comedian (and ex-Chancellor of the University where I did my Masters, so I’ve met her!), presents an almanac of the year, covering important and interesting facts about women – one for each day of the year. For each month, there is aContinue reading “2021 Book #29 – Toksvig’s Almanac 2021”
Monthly Archives: March 2021
2021 Book #28 – Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What we Leave Behind
Medium – Book About the Book – Professor Dame Sue Black is a forensic anthropologist, based at the University of Lancaster, who has spent her working life as a forensic anthropologist working in universities and alongside governments and police forces across the UK and the world. In this book, she talks through the skeleton, fromContinue reading “2021 Book #28 – Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What we Leave Behind”
2021 Book #27 – The Assassin’s Blade
Medium – Audiobook About the Book – From the universe of the ‘Throne of Glass’ comes the prequel to the series, ‘The Assassin’s Blade’. It follows our main character, Celaena Sardothien, in five mini-stories, charting her beginnings as Aderlan’s assassin, to her fall – leading to the first book of the series, ‘The Throne ofContinue reading “2021 Book #27 – The Assassin’s Blade”
2021 Book #26 – Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Illustrated)
Medium – Book About the Book – In this large-scale illustrated version of the third Harry Potter book, the Wizarding World is in uproar – the notorious serial killer, Sirius Black, has escaped the Prison of Azkaban, and is hellbent on murdering Harry Potter. After a rather unfortunate incident with his uncle’s sister, Harry findsContinue reading “2021 Book #26 – Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Illustrated)”
2021 Book #25 – The Wicked King
Medium – Audiobook About the Book – The sequel to ‘The Cruel Prince’, and set a few months after, Jude is now the chief advisor to High King Carden – the cruel prince of the previous novel. She has Carden under an enchantment, where he has to follow her orders for a year and aContinue reading “2021 Book #25 – The Wicked King”
2021 Book #24 – Maskerade
Medium – Audiobook About the Book – Agnes Nitt, a young woman of Lancre, decides that she is going to go to Ankh Morpork to make her way in the world as an opera singer – she does have a rather ‘magical’ voice. But the witches of Lancre (Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg) have decidedContinue reading “2021 Book #24 – Maskerade”
2021 Book #23 – The Doctor Will See You Now
Medium – Book About the Book – TV Doctor and GP, Dr Amir Khan, writes about some of the most interesting, amusing and heart-breaking cases he has faced as a GP working in Bradford, Yorkshire. From the seven-year-old who verbally abused him, to the man with unexplained injuries, to the woman who would not goContinue reading “2021 Book #23 – The Doctor Will See You Now”
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