Medium – Audiobook About the Book – Set hundreds of years in the future, the world has evolved to the point where there is no death, no hunger, no war and no poverty. The world is ruled by ‘The Thunderhead’, the evolved form of ‘The Cloud’, which takes care of the world and the peopleContinue reading “2021 Book #54 – Scythe”
Monthly Archives: June 2021
2021 Book #53 – The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
Medium – Book About the Book – Bonnie and her cousin Sylvia live in a version of 19th century Britain which never existed, which is full of wild wolves that rule the countryside and hunt people. Bonnie’s kind parents, Sir Willoughby and Lady Green leave to go on a sea voyage to improve Lady Green’sContinue reading “2021 Book #53 – The Wolves of Willoughby Chase”
2021 Book #52 – Ghost Wood Song
Medium – Book About the Book – Shady Grove is a fiddle player who has, with the help of her father’s fiddle, inherited his gift to call ghosts from their rests. Playing the fiddle is dangerous though, and she is hunted by the ‘Shadow Man’ who hunts her in her nightmares and starts to hauntContinue reading “2021 Book #52 – Ghost Wood Song”
2021 Book #51 – The Volunteer
Medium – Book About the Book – Witold Pilecki is an underground operative working in Poland during the Nazi Occupation in 1940. During this time, to live in Poland was terrible, with those who were seen as intellectuals, as well as priests, homosexuals, the disabled and Jews, taken to concentration camps – of which oneContinue reading “2021 Book #51 – The Volunteer”
2021 Book #50 – A Very English Scandal
Medium – Audiobook About the book – This book tells the story of Jeremy Thorpe and Norman Scott. Thorpe was the leader of the Liberal Democrat party during the sixties and seventies, but was caught up in a scandal around his previous romantic relationship with Norman Josieffe (Scott), a male model. The book is describedContinue reading “2021 Book #50 – A Very English Scandal”
2021 Book #49 – A Study in Emerald
Medium – Book (Graphic Novel) About the Book – Set in a cross-over world of Sherlock Holmes and the Lovecraftian Cthulhu Mythos, we meet the detective and his staunch companion, a wounded soldier. They are called to the murder of a member of the royal family, a creature with tentacles, green blood and a ‘faceContinue reading “2021 Book #49 – A Study in Emerald”
2021 Book #48 – Marion Lane and the Midnight Murder
Medium – Book About the Book – Marion Lane is an Apprentice Investigator at Miss Brickett’s Investigations and Inquiries, a detective agency which is located in a huge underground complex located under the City of London. One night, a murder is committed inside the complex, meaning that one of Marion’s co-workers must be a murderer.Continue reading “2021 Book #48 – Marion Lane and the Midnight Murder”
2021 Book #47 – The Austen Girls
Medium – Book About the Book – The Austen Girls tells the stories of two of Jane Austen’s nieces – Fanny, the daughter of her rich brother, and Anna, the daughter of one of her poorer brothers. The two girls are thrown into the marriage market and must make their way through it, trying toContinue reading “2021 Book #47 – The Austen Girls”
2021 Book #46 – The Deep Blue Between
Medium – Book About the Book – After a murderous attack on their village, twins Husseina and Hassana are separated. They end up in completely different places – the Gold Coast of Africa and in Brazil, and they come to make new friends and forge new lives away from the shadows of each other andContinue reading “2021 Book #46 – The Deep Blue Between”
2021 Book #45 – The Children of Jocasta
Medium – Book About the Book – This story tells the tale of two different women, who are often overlooked in Greek history/myth. The first is Jocasta, the wife and (eek) mother of Oedipus, whose story is told in the third person. The second is Ismene, her daughter /grand-daughter, whose story is told in theContinue reading “2021 Book #45 – The Children of Jocasta”
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