Title: Assassin’s ApprenticeAuthor: Robin HobbPublisher: Harper VoyagerDate: 2014 (1995)Genre: FantasySummary: In a faraway land where members of the royal family are named for the virtues they embody, one young boy will become a walking enigma. Born on the wrong side of the sheets, Fitz, son of Chivalry Farseer, is a royal bastard, cast out into the… Continue reading Book Review: Assassin’s Apprentice by Robin Hobb
I’m starting a new monthly series on my blog called Early Modern Mondays and I just wanted to start this new series by exploring my top five early modern tragedies. These plays aren’t necessarily the “best” tragedies written during the era but they’re my favourites and I’ll explain why they’re my favourites in this post.… Continue reading Early Modern Mondays: Top 5 Tragedies
Happy Saturday! Shakespeare Saturdays are back and I’m kicking things off with Much Ado About Nothing. Probably written around 1598, Much Ado About Nothing is a Shakespearean comedy. It was published in quarto in 1600, where the title page states that the play was ‘sundry times publicly acted’, allowing the play to be dated to… Continue reading Shakespeare Saturdays: Much Ado About Nothing
Title: Cards on the TableAuthor: Agatha ChristiePublisher: HarperCollinsDate: 2016 (1936)Genre: Crime & Mystery / ClassicsSummary: A flamboyant party host is murdered in full view of a roomful of bridge players… Mr Shaitana was famous as a flamboyant party host. Nevertheless, he was a man of whom everybody was a little afraid. So, when he boasted to… Continue reading Book Review: Cards on the Table by Agatha Christie
Today’s post is a mini-review of Wretchedness by Andrzej Tichý! I intended for these ‘International Booker Prize 2021’ posts to be longer than my usual reviews but I just didn’t have much to say about this one. Title: WretchednessAuthor: Andrzej TichýTranslator: Nichola SmalleyPublisher: And Other StoriesDate: 2020 (2016)Genre: FictionSummary: Waiting by the canal in Malmö,… Continue reading Wretchedness by Andrzej Tichý – International Booker Prize 2021 Longlist
June falls asleep upon her bier of flowers; In vain are dewdrops sprinkled o’er her, In vain would fond winds fan her back to life, Her hours are numbered on the floral dial. – Lucy Larcom, Death of June Assassin’s Apprentice by Robin Hobb Summary: In a faraway land where members of the royal family are… Continue reading June 2021 TBR
May has been a month. I’m due to submit my PhD thesis at some point today – which is terrifying – and I submitted another project yesterday so I have been doing a lot of academic work over the last month. Since I was working so much, blogging and reading took a back seat.… Continue reading #MonthlyWrapUp: May 2021
Title: London Labour and the London PoorAuthor: Henry MayhewPublisher: Oxford University PressDate: 2012 (1861)Genre: Non-Fiction / JournalismSummary: By turns alarming, touching, and funny, the pages of London Labour and the London Poor exposed a previously hidden world. Henry Mayhew conducted hundreds of interviews that provided a first-hand account of costermongers and street-sellers, of sewer-scavengers and chimney-sweeps,… Continue reading Book Review: London Labour and the London Poor by Henry Mayhew
At the end of March, I decided that I was going to read the entire International Booker Prize 2021 longlist before the end of the year. These posts, like some of my WHM posts, are going to be a strange hybrid of book reviews and research posts. The War of the Poor by Éric Vuillard (translated… Continue reading The War of the Poor by Éric Vuillard – International Booker Prize 2021 Longlist
20 Books of Summer is a reading challenge/event hosted by the lovely Cathy @ 764 Books and it runs from the beginning of June until the end of August. There are options to read 15 or 10 books instead of 20 and I’ll be reading 10 books for the challenge. It’s my first time taking… Continue reading 10 Books of Summer 2021
