Medium – Book About the Book – Princess Alyrra is promised to be married to Prince Kestrin, the heir of the throne of a neighbouring kingdom. Abused and terrorised by her family, she is not particularly keen on the marriage, but at the same time, can’t wait to get away from her mother and brother.Continue reading “TBR Pile #10 – Thorn”
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TBR Pile #9 – The Secret Political Adviser
Medium – Book About the Book – Michael Spicer (‘M’) is the Secret Political Adviser – one of the head honchos at Axworthy, a never-spoken-of group who advise world leaders through the use of in-ear headphones when they are giving their most famous speeches. Working both in the UK and US, the group work withContinue reading “TBR Pile #9 – The Secret Political Adviser”
TBR Pile #8 – The Road to Little Dribbling
Medium – Book About the Book – The Road to Little Dribbling picks up twenty years or so after the writing of ‘Notes from a Small Island’. In it, Bill Bryson makes the journey from South of the British Isles to the North, stopping at a number of different cities and landmarks on the way.Continue reading “TBR Pile #8 – The Road to Little Dribbling”
TBR Pile Book #7 – The House with Chicken Legs
Medium – Book About this Book – Marinka dreams of living an ordinary life, where she can make friends and her house stays in one place. However, she lives in a house with chicken legs, and the job of this house is to guide the dead. Marinka’s grandmother is Baba Yaga. She helps dead soulsContinue reading “TBR Pile Book #7 – The House with Chicken Legs”
TBR Pile Book #6 – The Pure Heart
Medium – Book About the Book – Iseabail is a young woman living on a Scottish island, on the edge of the Outer Hebrides. She is the only person on the island who can read and write and is engaged to be married to the son of the chieftain. One day, a letter and aContinue reading “TBR Pile Book #6 – The Pure Heart”
TBR Pile Book #5 – Circe
Medium – Book About the Book – Circe, the immortal daughter of Helios (the Greek God of the Sun), is a strange child, unloved by her parents and the rest of her family. Residing in her father’s halls, she sees many things that she dislikes and is teased, taunted and generally mistreated. She thinks ofContinue reading “TBR Pile Book #5 – Circe”
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 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 Pile Book #2 – Rebel Women
Medium – Book About the Book – Rosalind Miles traces the history of female rebellion from the days of the French Revolution to the modern day. She uses case studies of female rebellions in dress, science, education, health and wellbeing, and sets a (wo)manifesto of what women need to be truly equal in today’s society,Continue reading “TBR Pile Book #2 – Rebel Women”
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”
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