Posts tagged jacqueline winspear
DECEMBER 2023 READING LIST

Learning to take writing one step at a time, with advice from Bird By Bird. England is a breath away from non-existence in The Pale Horseman. Maisie Dobbs’ story is beginning to wind down in The Consequences of Fear. The love of children’s stories was reawakened by the brilliantly written novel, The Incredible Journey.

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OCTOBER 2023 READING LIST

A study of debutante balls in The Season. Dunkirk is the setting for To Die But Once. The 9th-century land of the Saxons comes alive in the telling of England's formative history through the eyes of Utred in The Last Kingdom. Mary Anning explores the British coastline for fossils in Remarkable Creatures. A female journalist is killed during the Blitz in The American Agent.

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SEPTEMBER 2023 READING LIST

The Signature of All Things explores themes of desire, ambition, and the pursuit of knowledge. Maisie Dobbs finds herself in danger in Gibraltar, A Dangerous Place, in Germany, The Journey to Munich, and back at home during the Blitz, In This Grave Hour. Llewelyn, Prince of Wales, cannot stop the power of Edward I in The Reckoning.

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JUNE 2023 READING LIST

Falls The Shadow focuses intently on Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, a French Norman and a member of the English peerage who led the barons against Henry III. Among The Mad delves into the complexity of the mind, the people who have harrowing experiences, and still hold hope of recovery.

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MAY 2023 READING LIST

In Messenger Of Truth, the night before the opening of his new and much-anticipated exhibition at a famed Mayfair gallery, a painter falls to his death. Lady Audley's Secret is sensational. A villager scared by Zepplin raids has An Incomplete Revenge.

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APRIL 2023 READING LIST

Thirteenth-century Wales is a divided country, ever at the mercy of England's ruthless, power-hungry King John in Here Be Dragons. A cozy mystery, Maisie Dobbs is a psychologist and investigator in Birds Of A Feather and Pardonable Lies. Unsettling Truths says you cannot discover lands already inhabited. The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt.

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