Medium – Book About the Book – Audrey and Ivy are two students at the prestigious Illumen Hall on the South Coast of England. The school is famous and well-regarded, with a strange obsession with magpies. Ivy is a straight-A student who lives in a council flat in London outside of term-time, Audrey is anContinue reading “2021 Book #16 – The Magpie Society: One for Sorrow”
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2021 Book #15 – Nimona
Medium – Book (Graphic Novel) About the Book – Nimona is a shape-shifter, who can shift into any real creature (this includes dragons!) or human. She has a real knack for villainy, and is not afraid to get her hands/claws/teeth dirty in becoming a villain. She becomes the sidekick of Lord Ballister Blackheart – aContinue reading “2021 Book #15 – Nimona”
2021 Book #14 – The Castle of Tangled Magic
Medium – Book About the Book – Olia is the descendent of Russian royalty, though now an ordinary person, and she lives in the beautiful Castle Mila, which has a huge number of domes. She lives with her parents (her mother is a character from a previous book by Sophie Anderson), her newborn sister RosaContinue reading “2021 Book #14 – The Castle of Tangled Magic”
2021 Book #13 – Splinters of Scarlet
Medium – Book About the Book – Marit Olsen is a young orphan living in Denmark hundreds of years ago. She is a magic-user in a land where magic comes with a terrible cost – if the person uses magic too often, they will be overtaken by the Firn, a deadly, ice-like build up whichContinue reading “2021 Book #13 – Splinters of Scarlet”
2021 Book #12 – A Gentleman in Moscow
Medium – Audiobook About the Book – Count Alexander Rostov is a Russian Aristocrat living in Moscow in the 1920s. He is a resident at the Hotel Metropol, and one day is arrested by the Bolsheviks due to his rank, usually a death sentence. However, he is spared the firing squad because of a poemContinue reading “2021 Book #12 – A Gentleman in Moscow”
2021 Book #11 – Death Sets Sail
Medium – Book About the Book – Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong are the founding members of the Detective Society, which they have set up at their school, Deepdean. They are invited to Egypt by their classmate Amina, and end up cruising down the Nile in the company of Amina, Hazel’s father and sisters, theContinue reading “2021 Book #11 – Death Sets Sail”
2021 Book #10 – Bonkers: My Life
Medium – Audiobook About the Book – Read by the author (Jennifer Saunders), this audiobook of her autobiography describes Jennifer’s life both in the comedy spotlight and outside of it. In it she talks through her various comedy successes (and failures) with a good pinch of the humour that she is famous for. She talksContinue reading “2021 Book #10 – Bonkers: My Life”
2021 Book #9 – The Good Hawk
Medium – Book About the Book – Agatha is a young ‘Hawk’, a member of a clan in the Isle of Skye, who patrols the sea wall, looking for enemies and keeping her clan safe. She has Down’s Syndrome, and although many people question her right to be a Hawk, she knows that she isContinue reading “2021 Book #9 – The Good Hawk”
2021 Book #8 – The Diabolical Bones
Medium – Book About the Book – Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte are at Haworth Parsonage, busy with their ambitions to become famous, published authoresses. Their quiet life is one day interrupted by the discovery of a cache of bones at a local house. Hearing that they are the bones of a young child, theContinue reading “2021 Book #8 – The Diabolical Bones”
2021 Book #7 – The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Medium – Audiobook About the Book – Evelyn Hugo is a 79-year old ex-actress, who made her name in the 50s to 80s, acting in countless movies and winning an Oscar. However, she is perhaps best known for her seven husbands. Monique Grant, a journalist with the Vivant, a top magazine, is asked to writeContinue reading “2021 Book #7 – The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo”
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