Medium – Book About the Book – Margery Benson is a schoolteacher, living in London in 1950. London is still reeling from WW2, and Margery is making her way quietly through live, just scraping by. One day, after a terrible lesson, Margery decides that she has had enough, and she leaves the school in anContinue reading “2021 Book #73 – Miss Benson’s Beetle”
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2021 Book #70 – The Gran Tour
Medium – Book About the Book – Ben Aitken (who like me is from the UK South Coast), decides that he can save rent money in London by going on six coach holidays across the UK, and one into Europe. These coach holidays are generally for four days, and are usually the province of pensioners.Continue reading “2021 Book #70 – The Gran Tour”
2021 Book #63 – The Hotel on the Roof of the World
Medium – Audiobook About the Book – Alec Le Sueur is a hotelier, who worked for five years in the only Holiday Inn in Tibet, which was based in Lhasa. For five years, he worked as the sales and marketing manager and tells the stories of his time in this beautiful, but troubled country. HeContinue reading “2021 Book #63 – The Hotel on the Roof of the World”
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”
Book #42 – The Incredible Mile
Prompt – A book with only words on the cover – no graphics or pictures (my copy doesn’t have graphics or pictures, unlike the above!) Medium – Book About the Book – A temporarily homeless Englishman decides to try and get from St Pancras to Euston on the train. To do so, he travels acrossContinue reading “Book #42 – The Incredible Mile”
Book #33 – The Travelling Cat Chronicles
Prompt – A book set in Japan. Medium – Audiobook About the Book – This book is the tale of Nana, a stray cat who is befriended and rehomed by a young man called Satoru. The two live together peacefully and happily for five years, before Satoru decides to start travelling Japan visiting three setsContinue reading “Book #33 – The Travelling Cat Chronicles”
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