Portrait of a Murderer: Anne Meredith British Library 2017

Hmm, I’m now thinking I should stop this ‘tradition’ of reading Golden Age Christmas crime/murder stories written by women. ( Read more... )

Holiday Adventure: Norah Mylrea. Warne.

I’m mainly posting about this because the title is an actual tag. It’s not very good. ( Read more... )

The Skylarks’ War: Hilary McKay. Macmillan Children‘s Books, 2018

I’ll start this review by discussing preconceptions, or, less pretentiously, admit that for some reason I thought this book was set during the second world war. I didn’t really look at it when I snapped it up in a charity shop (way back when) as it had been so widely lauded. It was ( Read more... )

The Big House: Helena McEwen (Bloomsbury, 2000)

I very much admired Invisible River, therefore I got this book and it was next on my ‘To read’ pile, but when I started it, I was regretting not skipping it, because it opens with the narrator as a grieving woman. She’s at the big house of the title, on the verge of selling it, and the bulk of the ( Read more... )

Madge Hilton: Agnes C. Maitland Blackie (inscribed 1934)

This family tale with a moral is set in the Victorian era. Indeed, the queen herself makes a cameo, but ( Read more... )

Strawberry Girls: Helen Milecete Duffus Jarrold’s

I’m always interested to read an American Girls Own book. This is set when ( Read more... )

I managed only four and a half rereads during the month of February, and I still haven’t completed the fractional! I intended to read more, but there you go. I needed something to drive me to reach for the ‘to reread’ pile, and this ventured did that. I reread and reconsidered a couple of books ( Read more... )

The Vac at St Verda’s: E.M. de Foubert

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The Fortunes of Prue: Bessie Marchant. Ward Lock, published as part of the Sovereign series.

Orphaned Prue, age unknown, and her older brother Theo are travelling to London ( Read more... )

Last May, I posted a list of links with the title 'LINKS: VARIOUS', saying ‘Here are some links I have meant to post for a good long while’. This is the case again, only the links are different:

Here’s an enthusiastic review of Daddy Long-Legs (I must find a copy of Dear Enemy!)

And in the same series of ‘Squee’ features, one for The Blue Castle ( Read more... )