Medium – Book About the Book – Cecily Neville is the wife of Richard Duke of York, during the time just before the Wars of the Roses. The book starts off with her as a young wife of 16, watching the burning of Joan of Arc, and then follows through her life with Richard, theContinue reading “2021 Book #75 – Cecily”
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2021 Book #74 – A Court of Thorns and Roses
Medium – Audiobook About the Book – Feyre is a young human girl who hunts in the forest that she lives in to feed her two older sisters, Nesta and Elain, and her crippled father. One day, she goes into the forest and kills a wolf. After she has sold its pelt, she is ambushedContinue reading “2021 Book #74 – A Court of Thorns and Roses”
2021 Book #72 – The Priory of the Orange Tree
Medium – Audiobook About the Book – In this epic fantasy, we are introduced to a world divided by religion and ideology. At one side of the world, the house of Barethnet rules the realm, led by the beautiful queen Sabran the ninth. She must give the realm and heir in order to keep theContinue reading “2021 Book #72 – The Priory of the Orange Tree”
2021 Book #69 – The Queen’s Fool
Medium – Book About the Book – Cat Sparrow lives in a nunnery as an orphan, with her big sister Meg. One day, Meg is taken away by a man on a big black horse, and Cat decides that she will go after her. Armed with her bird flute, a beautiful singing voice and aContinue reading “2021 Book #69 – The Queen’s Fool”
2021 Book #61 – A Thousand Ships
Medium – Book About the Book – Natalie Haynes tells the story of Troy from the point of view of the women involved. She uses women, girls and goddesses to paint a picture of the campaign and its aftermath, from both the point of view of the Greeks and Trojans and other interested parties. EachContinue reading “2021 Book #61 – A Thousand Ships”
2021 Book #59 – The Marlow Murder Club
Medium – Audiobook About the book – Judith Potts is a 77-year-old eccentric living in the English market town of Marlow in Buckinghamshire. She works part-time as a crossword writer for a paper and lives in a rambling, dilapidated mansion which she inherited from an aunt. One day, she is swimming in the river atContinue reading “2021 Book #59 – The Marlow Murder Club”
2021 Book #58 – Yours Cheerfully
Medium – Book About the Book – The sequel to ‘Dear Mrs Bird’, in this book we find Emmeline Lake, our heroine, keeping the home fires burning during WW2. She has retained her job at the ‘Woman’s Friend’ magazine, thanks to the lovely editor, Mr Collins, and has been tasked with finding ways to increaseContinue reading “2021 Book #58 – Yours Cheerfully”
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 #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”
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