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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2021 Book #35 – Dear Fatty
Medium – Book/Audiobook (I couldn’t get through this book as a paper book, so I bought it as an audiobook instead) About the Book – Dawn French, the famous actress, comedian and half of the duo ‘French and Saunders’, tells her life story through the writing of a series of letters to important people inContinue reading “2021 Book #35 – Dear Fatty”
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”
2021 Book #33 – Mrs Hudson and the Lazarus Testament
Medium – Book About the Book – Mrs Hudson, the redoubtable housekeeper of Sherlock Holmes, and Flotsam, the maid and her investigative assistant, return in the third of these ‘Holmes and Hudson Mysteries’. The book follows Flottie as she works as a maid at 221B Baker Street in the 1880/1890s (we assume!) One day, asContinue reading “2021 Book #33 – Mrs Hudson and the Lazarus Testament”
2021 Book #32 – Mary Magdalene Never Wore Blue Eyeshadow
Medium – Book About the Book – Amanda Hope Haley discusses some of the most held pre-conceptions about stories and elements in the Bible and how they have come about. She deals firstly with the tradition that Mary Magdalene was a prostitute (she wasn’t – classic misogynist Pope move), then works through Creation and Evolution,Continue reading “2021 Book #32 – Mary Magdalene Never Wore Blue Eyeshadow”
2021 Book #31 – Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (MinaLima Edition)
Medium – Book About the Book – In this beautifully designed and illustrated edition of the first Harry Potter novel, we meet Harry Potter, the Boy-Who-Lived. Harry lives with his horrible relatives, the Dursleys, and has done since his parents were killed ‘in a car crash’. When he turns eleven, Harry starts getting mysterious letters,Continue reading “2021 Book #31 – Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (MinaLima Edition)”
2021 Book #30 – The Mystery of the Clockwork Sparrow
Medium – Audiobook About the Book – Sophie Taylor is a young, orphaned, well-to-do girl, who has recently lost her father and has been left in poverty. In desperation, she gets herself a job at the newly established Sinclair’s Department Store – which is a little bit like Harrods. She is looked down upon byContinue reading “2021 Book #30 – The Mystery of the Clockwork Sparrow”
2021 Book #29 – Toksvig’s Almanac 2021
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”
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”
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