A- Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads#ownvoices / 1930s / epistolary / Historical / London / shop assistant / working class10 Comments
Business As Usual by Jane Oliver and Ann Stafford was first published in 1933. It’s a delightful illustrated novel in letters from Hilary Fane, an Edinburgh girl fresh out of university who is determined to support herself by her own earnings in London for a year, despite the mutterings of ... more >
B- Reviews / Book Reviews1930s / crafts / dysfunctional family / England / family relationships / Historical / spinster / Womens-Fiction4 Comments
1932. After the Great War took both her beloved brother and her fiancé, Violet Speedwell has become a “surplus woman,” one of a generation doomed to a life of spinsterhood after the war killed so many young men. Yet Violet cannot reconcile herself to a life spent caring for her ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviews1930s / American historical / dyslexia / family relationships / Historical / inspirational romance / teacher heroine / Vintage National Parks series1 Comments
Vibrant historic Yellowstone National Park comes to life in this romantic mystery about a man hiding the truth, braving the west to become something more–and the woman who must confront his deception. A man who can’t read will never amount to anything–or so Nate Webber believes. But he takes a ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviews1930s / 20th century / adventure / England / Historical / road tripNo Comments
Book 3 of the classic trilogy of humorous rural adventures through pre-war England Mr. Finchley takes a fancy to a horse-drawn caravan that he sees for sale, but his new wife does not relish the prospect of a caravan journey so she goes to visit her brother, while he sets ... more >
B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads1930s / England / Historical / London / older couple / Paris1 Comments
Book 2 of the classic trilogy of humorous adventures An ebullient Mr Finchley is about to propose marriage to a lady he had rescued from mishap, when he is sent to Paris by his firm. There he manages to upset a boat, adopt a stray orphan and get himself kidnapped. ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviews1930s / First-Person / Historical / Kentucky / librarian / racism / Womens-Fiction2 Comments
The hardscrabble folks of Troublesome Creek have to scrap for everything—everything except books, that is. Thanks to Roosevelt’s Kentucky Pack Horse Library Project, Troublesome’s got its very own traveling librarian, Cussy Mary Carter. Cussy’s not only a book woman, however, she’s also the last of her kind, her skin a ... more >