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”
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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 #19 – Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops
Medium – Book About the Book – Shaun Bythell is the owner of The Bookshop in Wigtown, which is Scotland’s National Book Town. He is the author of several books about his joys and tribulations of running his bookshop, and all the interesting people he spends time with and employs in the shop. In thisContinue reading “2021 Book #19 – Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops”
TBR Pile Book #4 – Parsnips, Buttered
Medium – Book About the Book – The comedian Joe Lycett highlights his tips, tricks and hacks for surviving in modern Britain. Whether describing how to get out of a parking ticket fine, dupe scammers, beat ISIS or just really wind people up, Lycett demonstrates letters, emails and messages that he has sent to aContinue reading “TBR Pile Book #4 – Parsnips, Buttered”
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 #9 – The Good Girl’s Guide to Being a D*ck
Prompt – A book about, or involving, social media. Medium – Book About the book – Alex Reinwarth discovered, quite by accident, that her friend was taking advantage of her and making her life a misery. At the end of her tether, she told this friend to f*** off, and made her life a wholeContinue reading “Book #9 – The Good Girl’s Guide to Being a D*ck”
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