Medium – Audiobook About the Book – Linda Radford is the beautiful, daring and romantic daughter of a peer living in 1920s, 1930s and 1940s England. ‘Pursuit of Love’ is the story of her life and loves, told from the point of view of her cousin, Fanny, who also narrated the audiobook I listened toContinue reading “2021 Book #42 – The Pursuit of Love”
Monthly Archives: May 2021
2021 Book #41 – The Blackthorn Key
Medium – Book About the Book – Christopher Rowe is an apprentice apothecary, working with the renowned and extremely kind Benedict Blackthorn. After being brought up in an orphanage, he is happy and content, and is looking forward to one day being an apothecary himself. His dreams are shattered as a spate of murders ofContinue reading “2021 Book #41 – The Blackthorn Key”
2021 Book #40 – Priestess of the White
Medium – Audiobook About the Book – Auraya is a young woman who is picked to be one of the White – five humans who become immortal and serve as the sword and shield of the gods. They are imbued with magic, and given special properties, but Auraya is different – gifted with strong magicContinue reading “2021 Book #40 – Priestess of the White”
2021 Book #39 – The Outlaws Scarlett and Browne
Medium – Book About the Book – Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, making her own way in future Britain, a dystopian landscape full of dangerous creatures, eugenics and cannibalistic Zombie men. She is a bank robber who shoots first and asks questions later, stealing and killing as she goes through Britain. On one of herContinue reading “2021 Book #39 – The Outlaws Scarlett and Browne”
2021 Book #38 – Remarkable People
Medium – Book About the Book – Dan Walker, the journalist and broadcaster who works on BBC Breakfast, was apparently asked to write his memoirs for publication. He realised (as I wish others did!) that whilst his life has been interesting, there are others who he has worked with and interviewed who have had moreContinue reading “2021 Book #38 – Remarkable People”
2021 Book #37 – The Women who Spied for Britain
Medium – Book About the Book – The author briefly discusses the lives of some of the most famous female spies of WW2 – women like Christine Granville, Odette Sansom, Violette Szabo and Noor Inyat Khan. The women are taken individually, and their lives discussed – from their births, to their education and childhood, relationships,Continue reading “2021 Book #37 – The Women who Spied for Britain”
2021 Book #36 – The Mitford Murders: Bright Young Dead
Medium – Book About the Book – Louisa Cannon is still working as a nursery maid in the Mitford home, three years after the events of the first Mitford Murders book. She is now 23, and is chafing a little at the tedium of life in service, as well as the class inequalities rife inContinue reading “2021 Book #36 – The Mitford Murders: Bright Young Dead”
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