Medium – Book About the Book – Sarah is a blond-haired, blue-eyed Jewish girl living in the heart of Nazi Germany. When trying to escape, her mother is killed at a roadblock and Sarah is left injured and lost, chased by dogs. She is taken in by Captain Jeremy Floyd, a spy for the BritishContinue reading “TBR Pile #20 – Orphan, Monster, Spy”
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TBR Pile #19 – Betty Church and the Suffolk Vampire
Medium – Audiobook About the Book – Set at the beginning of WW2, this book is the first in a series by M.R.C. Kasasian, who is also the author of the Gower Street Detectives books. Betty is a policewoman in her thirties, battling against the prejudice and misogyny rife in the police service. She sustainsContinue reading “TBR Pile #19 – Betty Church and the Suffolk Vampire”
TBR Pile #18 – The Familiars
Medium – Audiobook About the Book – Fleetwood Shuttleworth is 17 years old, married to the local Lord of the Manor, and is pregnant for the fourth time. All her previous pregnancies have ended in miscarriage or stillbirth, and Fleetwood is desperate to produce an heir for her husband. One day, she finds a letterContinue reading “TBR Pile #18 – The Familiars”
TBR Pile #17 – Sherlock Holmes and the Beast of the Stapletons
Medium – Book About the Book – The events of the Hound of the Baskervilles occurred five years ago and still the terror of the climatic night haunts Dr Watson. They are called back to Baskerville Hall under the most awful of circumstances – Sir Henry Baskerville’s wife, Audrey, is killed whilst out walking oneContinue reading “TBR Pile #17 – Sherlock Holmes and the Beast of the Stapletons”
TBR Pile #16 – The Complete Sherlock Holmes
Medium – Audiobook About the Book – Stephen Fry reads the Complete Collection of Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. From the novel ‘The Study in Scarlet’ to the final (canonical) Holmes tale ‘His Last Bow’, the adventures of the consulting detective Sherlock Holmes and his friend and colleague Dr Watson areContinue reading “TBR Pile #16 – The Complete Sherlock Holmes”
TBR Pile #15 – Dangerous Alliances
Medium – Book About the Book – Lady Victoria Aston is a headstrong girl living in the early 19th century and is a complete fanatic for the writings of her favourite author, Jane Austen. She is determined to find her own Mr Darcy/Mr Knightley/Colonel Brandon, but is in no hurry to do so. However, circumstancesContinue reading “TBR Pile #15 – Dangerous Alliances”
TBR Pile #14 – Mrs Hudson’s Diaries
Medium – Book About the Book – The comedians Barry and Bob Cryer have ‘discovered’ the memoirs of Mrs Hudson, the long-suffering housekeeper of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson. The diaries trace Mrs Hudson’s thoughts from the arrival of her tenants to their supposed date of her death in 1914. We meet her as sheContinue reading “TBR Pile #14 – Mrs Hudson’s Diaries”
TBR Pile #13 – The Lives of Stella Bain
Medium – Book About the Book – In war-torn France, during the First World War, a nameless woman in nursing uniform is found with shrapnel wounds to the feet. All she knows is her name may be Stella Bain, that she is a nurse and that she can drive an ambulance. She also remembers thatContinue reading “TBR Pile #13 – The Lives of Stella Bain”
TBR Pile #12 – Hold Back the Tide
Medium – Book About the Book – Alva Douglas lives with her father, the loch-keeper for a small Scottish town. For the last seven years she has lived in fear as she knows that her father murdered her mother. Now, she is planning a way out. However, she finds her escape delayed by the disappearanceContinue reading “TBR Pile #12 – Hold Back the Tide”
TBR Pile #11 – D: A Tale of Two Worlds
Medium – Book About the Book – Dhikilo Bentley is a young girl adopted from Somaliland and living in the English seaside town of Cawber. One morning, she wakes up to find that the letter ‘D’ has disappeared from the conversation of her parents. On heading to school, she finds that ‘D’ has disappeared fromContinue reading “TBR Pile #11 – D: A Tale of Two Worlds”
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