This collection of short stories from various Golden Age mystery writers was a mixed bag. I mean, they all are but this one struck me as more so than others. Maybe this was because there was no overarching theme to this collection. And it somehow felt as if the story by Agatha Christie was only ad...
This is a compilation of previously uncompiled detective short stories, most of them having appeared once in a periodical and then disappeared from view. They are ephemeral enough that that disappearance is hardly a literary crime, but there's a certain interest in seeing a really representative sel...
Disclaimer: ARC via Netgalley and Open Road MediaI hadn’t heard of the Sandyford Murder case until reading this book. In the 1860s, in Glasgow, a young woman by the name of Jess M’Lachlan was accused of murdering her friend, Jessie M’Lachlan (no relation). The case was in part tried in the press, le...
***PLEASE DO NOT REBLOG*** bookshelves: spring-2015, mystery-thriller, wwii, published-1944, britain-england Read from February 21 to March 31, 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdc3F...Description: Set in a military hospital during the blitz, this novel is one of Brand's most intricately ...
Christianna Brand's Cat and Mouse is a book that has haunted me since the first time I read it 30 years ago or more. Maybe it was just because I was much younger but "haunted" is indeed what this book has done to me. Just thinking about it creates a creepy atmosphere around me! I found this in a...
My review is under the Nanny McPhee title
This is pretty cute and the author's writing style is unique and fun, but I found that I only really enjoyed the first book in the series. The other two were pretty boring and repetitive. I do think it would be a fun book to read to children, spacing each book out so that it's more like revisiting a...
The three Nurse Matilda books that inspired the Nanny Mcphee movies together in one volume. Similar to the Mary Poppins books by P.L. Travers.
5 stars for the illustrations.
excellent Edwardian Mary Poppins-like stories. Like many other children's books of the era, the stories don't form a solid narrative arc. For that see the adaptation into Nanny McPhee. Unlike Mary Poppins, it doesn't seem to be suffering from distressingly racist assumptions.
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