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Foiling spies and spying foils

The Ministry of Unladylike Activity (2022) by Robin Stevens

November 14, 2022 by drmllz Leave a Comment

CBR Bingo ‘Font’ square–the title on the cover embeds a cool little plane, a magnifying glass, and a fluttering blackout curtain in its lettering, while the print text inside is interspersed with lists and notes that look like handwriting. Robin Stevens’s ‘Murder Most Unladylike’ series (2014-2021) is rather marvellous; it starts off in a very English boarding school in the early 1930s, where the very English Honourable Daisy Wells befriends Hazel Wong, a new girl from Hong Kong who is trying to find her place […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: cbr14, cbr14bingo, drmllz, historical fiction, robin Stevens, wartime

drmllz's CBR14 Review No:10 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction, Mystery · Tags: cbr14, cbr14bingo, drmllz, historical fiction, robin Stevens, wartime ·
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Sneaking in another good one, before the deadline

December 31, 2016 by NTE 4 Comments

And here we have a full Cannonball, completed at the last possible moment! That’s fine though, because I’m at least finishing up with an excellent book.  Everyone Brave is Forgiven is the interwoven tale of three interesting and intrepid characters, set in World War II London.  From their very first introductions, till the bitter end of the story, I was so involved with them that I genuinely worried for them, given the fact that they were, you know, in an active war zone and all. […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History Tagged With: Chris Cleave, everyone brave is forgiven, historical fiction, lovely, wartime, WWII

NTE's CBR8 Review No:52 · Genres: Fiction, History · Tags: Chris Cleave, everyone brave is forgiven, historical fiction, lovely, wartime, WWII ·
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