Medium – Book About the Book – Mark Aldridge takes us through the appearances of Agatha Christie’s Poirot, from his genesis in 1920 to the latest Poirot film, ‘Death on the Nile’ released in 2021. For each appearance of Poirot, he discusses the ways in which the character is presented – from his evolution throughContinue reading “2021 Book #55 – Agatha Christie’s Poirot: The Greatest Detective in the World”
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2021 Book #42 – The Pursuit of Love
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”
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”
2021 Book #34 – The Mitford Murders
Medium – Audiobook About the Book – Louisa Cannon, a young cockney girl, is trying to escape from her nasty, abusive Uncle Stephen. She manages to get a job with the famous Mitfords, an aristocratic family who were infamous during the 1920s. She works as a nursery maid, caring for the family of six daughtersContinue reading “2021 Book #34 – The Mitford Murders”
TBR Pile Book #3 – Innocence of Father Brown
Medium – Book About the Book – The first in the series of Father Brown short stories, written by G.K. Chesterton. The book introduces the character of Father Brown, the catholic priest with the propensity for solving crimes, alongside his enemy-but-then-friend, the criminal Hercule Flambeau. The book gives 12 short stories, all showing off FatherContinue reading “TBR Pile Book #3 – Innocence of Father Brown”
TBR (To be Read) Pile Book #1 – Love in a Cold Climate
Medium – Audiobook About the Book – Fanny Logan, a 19-year-old at the beginning of the book, is the narrator of Nancy Mitford’s sequel to ‘The Pursuit of Love’. Fanny is cousin to ‘The Radletts’ – the semi-autobiographical reimagining of Mitford’s own slightly eccentric family. In this book, we encounter Polly Hampton, the only daughterContinue reading “TBR (To be Read) Pile Book #1 – Love in a Cold Climate”
Book #6 – Grey Mask
Prompt – ‘A book set in the 1920s’ – despite the cover, it definitely is! Medium – Book About the book – Written by Patricia Wentworth in 1928, this is the first in the Miss Silver set of mysteries, a fairly close replica of the Miss Marple books by Agatha Christie. Charles Moray returns fromContinue reading “Book #6 – Grey Mask”
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