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Evil at Roger's Cross by Catherine Marchant
Rating: ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
#Evil at Roger's Cross#Catherine Marchant#pen name of Catherine Cookson#also published at The Iron Facade#books#book recommendations#book reviews
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Content warning: I’m about to compare bigotry to other bigotry.
So I used to watch some movies with my mom based on books by Catherine Cookson. For nostalgia’s sake I’ve been watching whichever I can find free online recently. And I found one called Colour Blind.
I’m only like 20 minutes in, and just got hit in the trauma.
The main girl got married to a black man and her family Hates it. She can’t marry him, maybe the marriage isn’t legal somehow, maybe she was drunk when she did it, she certainly can’t be having babies with him, and the fact that he treats her better than they ever have is somehow shameful.
And the things they say and do are so close to how my family has treated me with my trans husband and just 😭😭😭 this movie had better have a happy ending!
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Places to Visit: Beamish Open-Air Museum
A very popular attraction and a great place to visit, Beamish Museum offers a look into what working class life was like in late 18th Century Northumberland, made famous by its use as a filming location for most of the films based on Catherine Cookson’s books. Beamish Museum also acquires historical landmarks and moves them to their museum if such landmarks were going to be demolished. A well designed and easily accessible for all ages by foot or tram within the museum.
#warrenwoodhouse#VisitNorthumberland#VisitCountyDurham#beamish#Beamish Museum#VisitEngland#2024#popular attractions#places to visit#heritage museums to visit
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The Silent Lady Catherine Cookson Book Review
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Holidays 12.16
Holidays
Abscondment Day (South Africa)
APS Martyrs Day (Pakistan)
Barbie and Barney Backlash Day
Battle of the Bulge Day
Beethoven Day
Boston Tea Party Day
Day of Reconciliation (f.k.a. Day of the Vow; South African Afrikaners)
Flag Day (Nepal)
Jane Austen Day
Los Posadas begins (a.k.a. Posadas Navidenas; Mexico, Latin America)
Man Will Never Fly Memorial Society Day
Mel Gibson Day (South Carolina)
National Nullification Day
National Sports Day (Thailand)
Nirbhaya Anniversary Day (India)
One Day At A Time Day
O Sapientia (Anglicanism)
Peter Rabbit Day
Pokemon Incident Day
Posadas Navidenas begins (Mexico)
Reconciliation Day (South Africa)
Simbang Gabi begins (Philippines)
Stupid Toy Day
Three-Tier System Day
Victory Day (a.k.a. Bijoy Dibosh; Bangladesh)
Victory Day (a.k.a. Vijay Diwas; India)
Wan Kila Haeng Chat (National Sports Day; Thailand)
World Digital Marketing Day
Yuletide Lad #5 arrives (Pottasleikir or Pot-Licker; Iceland)
Zionism Day
Food & Drink Celebrations
Eat What You Want Day [also 5.11]
National Chocolate Covered Anything Day
National Green Chili Day
Pinot Meunier Day
St. Klippenstein Day (Allagash) [Varies]
3rd Saturday in December
Festival of Winter Walks (UK) [3rd Saturday]
Wreaths Across America Day [3rd Saturday]
Independence Days
Bahrain (from UK, 1971; cerebration day only)
Kazakhstan (from USSR, 1991)
Secundomia (Declared; 2009) [unrecognized]
Feast Days
Ado, Archbishop of Vienne (Christian; Saint)
Adelaide of Italy (Christian; Saint)
Alice, Empress of Germany (Christian; Saint)
Beethoven Day (Pastafarian)
Carista (Day of Peace in the Family; Pagan)
Crispin Glover Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Festival of Sapientia (Ancient Roman personification of wisdom & knowledge)
Festival of the Little Heat (Celebrating Bes, Ancient Egyptian Protector of the Home)
Haggai (Christian; Saint)
Martin the Turkey (Muppetism)
Newton (Positivist; Saint)
Philip K. Dick Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Ralph Adams Cram, Richard Upjohn and John La Farge (Episcopal Church USA)
Remedios Varo (Artology)
Sophia (a.k.a. Sapinetia; Celtic Goddess of Wisdom)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Lucky Day (Philippines) [68 of 71]
Perilous Day (13th Century England) [31 of 32]
Tomobiki (友引 Japan) [Good luck all day, except at noon.]
Premieres
Avatar: The Way of Water (Film; 2022)
Battle of the Bulge (Film; 1965)
Bottoms Up, by Brantley Gilbert (Song; 2013)
Candleshoe (Film; 1977)
Colour Blind, by Catherine Cookson (Novel; 1953)
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Film; 1988)
Dumb and Dumber (Film; 1994)
Elf: Buddy’s Musical Christmas (WB Animated TV Special; 2014)
The Film Fan (WB LT Cartoon; 1939)
Hello, Dolly! (Film; 1969)
Hey Joe, by Jimi Hendrix (Song; 1966)
Hoodwinked (Animated Film; 2005)
Immortal Beloved (Film; 1994)
Joyeux Noel (Film; 2005)
La La Land (Film; 2016)
Love Story (Film; 1970)
The Magicians 9TV Series; 2015)
The Merry Dwarfs (Disney Cartoon; 1929)
Mickey’s Christmas Carol (Disney Cartoon; 1983)
Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol (Film; 2011)
The OA (TV Series; 2016)
Papillon (Film; 1973)
Playtime (Jacques Tati French Film; 1967)
The Producers (Musical Film; 2005)
Rabbit of Seville (WB LT Cartoon; 1950)
Rain Man (Film; 1988)
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (Film; 2016)
Saturday Night Fever (Film; 1977)
Screwball Football (WB MM Cartoon; 1939)
The Seven Crystal Balls, by Hergé (Graphic Novel; 1948) [Tintin #13]
Silkwood (Film; 1983)
Sittin’ on a Backyard Fence (WB MM Cartoon; 1933)
The Small One (Disney Cartoon; 1978)
Snarf: Butterfly Follies (WB ThunderCats Cartoon; 2011)
Symphony No. 9 in E minor, "New World Symphony," by Antonín Dvořák (Symphony; 1893)
The Tale of Peter Rabbit (Children’s Book; 1901)
These Boots Are Made for Walking’, by Nancy Sinatra (Song; 1965)
To Be or Not to Be (Film; 1983)
Toy Tinkers (Disney Cartoon; 1949)
200 Motels, by Frank Zappa (Music Film; 1971)
Unplugged, by Nirvana, airs on MTV (TV Concert; 1993)
Today’s Name Days
Adelheid, Elke, Heidi (Austria)
Adela, Hagaj, Sebastijan (Croatia)
Albína (Czech Republic)
Lazarus (Denmark)
Aade, Aale, Adeele, Adelheid, Aliide, Ethel, Haide, Liide, Teele (Estonia)
Aada, Adele, Auli, Aulikki (Finland)
Alice (France)
Adelheid, Elke, Heidi (Germany)
Modestos, Theofano (Greece)
Aletta, Etelka (Hungary)
Albina (Italy)
Alvīne (Latvia)
Albina, Alina, Audronė, Vygaudas (Lithuania)
Oddbjørg, Oddbjørn (Norway)
Adelajda, Ado, Albina, Alina, Ananiasz, Bean, Zdzisława (Poland)
Agheu (Romania)
Albína (Slovakia)
Adela, Adelaida (Spain)
Assar (Sweden)
Addie, Addy, Adela, Adelaide, Adele, Adeline, Adella, Adelle, Alena, Alina, Aline, Della (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 350 of 2024; 15 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 6 of week 50 of 2023
Celtic Tree Calendar: Ruis (Elder) [Day 19 of 28]
Chinese: Month 12 (Jia-Zi), Day 4 (Wu-Shen)
Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)
Hebrew: 4 Teveth 5784
Islamic: 3 Jumada II 1445
J Cal: 20 Zima; Sixday [20 of 30]
Julian: 3 December 2023
Moon: 17%: Waxing Crescent
Positivist: 14 Bichat (13th Month) [Newton]
Runic Half Month: Jara (Year) [Day 6 of 15]
Season: Autumn (Day 84 of 89)
Zodiac: Sagittarius (Day 25 of 30)
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Holidays 12.16
Holidays
Abscondment Day (South Africa)
APS Martyrs Day (Pakistan)
Barbie and Barney Backlash Day
Battle of the Bulge Day
Beethoven Day
Boston Tea Party Day
Day of Reconciliation (f.k.a. Day of the Vow; South African Afrikaners)
Flag Day (Nepal)
Jane Austen Day
Los Posadas begins (a.k.a. Posadas Navidenas; Mexico, Latin America)
Man Will Never Fly Memorial Society Day
Mel Gibson Day (South Carolina)
National Nullification Day
National Sports Day (Thailand)
Nirbhaya Anniversary Day (India)
One Day At A Time Day
O Sapientia (Anglicanism)
Peter Rabbit Day
Pokemon Incident Day
Posadas Navidenas begins (Mexico)
Reconciliation Day (South Africa)
Simbang Gabi begins (Philippines)
Stupid Toy Day
Three-Tier System Day
Victory Day (a.k.a. Bijoy Dibosh; Bangladesh)
Victory Day (a.k.a. Vijay Diwas; India)
Wan Kila Haeng Chat (National Sports Day; Thailand)
World Digital Marketing Day
Yuletide Lad #5 arrives (Pottasleikir or Pot-Licker; Iceland)
Zionism Day
Food & Drink Celebrations
Eat What You Want Day [also 5.11]
National Chocolate Covered Anything Day
National Green Chili Day
Pinot Meunier Day
St. Klippenstein Day (Allagash) [Varies]
3rd Saturday in December
Festival of Winter Walks (UK) [3rd Saturday]
Wreaths Across America Day [3rd Saturday]
Independence Days
Bahrain (from UK, 1971; cerebration day only)
Kazakhstan (from USSR, 1991)
Secundomia (Declared; 2009) [unrecognized]
Feast Days
Ado, Archbishop of Vienne (Christian; Saint)
Adelaide of Italy (Christian; Saint)
Alice, Empress of Germany (Christian; Saint)
Beethoven Day (Pastafarian)
Carista (Day of Peace in the Family; Pagan)
Crispin Glover Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Festival of Sapientia (Ancient Roman personification of wisdom & knowledge)
Festival of the Little Heat (Celebrating Bes, Ancient Egyptian Protector of the Home)
Haggai (Christian; Saint)
Martin the Turkey (Muppetism)
Newton (Positivist; Saint)
Philip K. Dick Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Ralph Adams Cram, Richard Upjohn and John La Farge (Episcopal Church USA)
Remedios Varo (Artology)
Sophia (a.k.a. Sapinetia; Celtic Goddess of Wisdom)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Lucky Day (Philippines) [68 of 71]
Perilous Day (13th Century England) [31 of 32]
Tomobiki (友引 Japan) [Good luck all day, except at noon.]
Premieres
Avatar: The Way of Water (Film; 2022)
Battle of the Bulge (Film; 1965)
Bottoms Up, by Brantley Gilbert (Song; 2013)
Candleshoe (Film; 1977)
Colour Blind, by Catherine Cookson (Novel; 1953)
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Film; 1988)
Dumb and Dumber (Film; 1994)
Elf: Buddy’s Musical Christmas (WB Animated TV Special; 2014)
The Film Fan (WB LT Cartoon; 1939)
Hello, Dolly! (Film; 1969)
Hey Joe, by Jimi Hendrix (Song; 1966)
Hoodwinked (Animated Film; 2005)
Immortal Beloved (Film; 1994)
Joyeux Noel (Film; 2005)
La La Land (Film; 2016)
Love Story (Film; 1970)
The Magicians 9TV Series; 2015)
The Merry Dwarfs (Disney Cartoon; 1929)
Mickey’s Christmas Carol (Disney Cartoon; 1983)
Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol (Film; 2011)
The OA (TV Series; 2016)
Papillon (Film; 1973)
Playtime (Jacques Tati French Film; 1967)
The Producers (Musical Film; 2005)
Rabbit of Seville (WB LT Cartoon; 1950)
Rain Man (Film; 1988)
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (Film; 2016)
Saturday Night Fever (Film; 1977)
Screwball Football (WB MM Cartoon; 1939)
The Seven Crystal Balls, by Hergé (Graphic Novel; 1948) [Tintin #13]
Silkwood (Film; 1983)
Sittin’ on a Backyard Fence (WB MM Cartoon; 1933)
The Small One (Disney Cartoon; 1978)
Snarf: Butterfly Follies (WB ThunderCats Cartoon; 2011)
Symphony No. 9 in E minor, "New World Symphony," by Antonín Dvořák (Symphony; 1893)
The Tale of Peter Rabbit (Children’s Book; 1901)
These Boots Are Made for Walking’, by Nancy Sinatra (Song; 1965)
To Be or Not to Be (Film; 1983)
Toy Tinkers (Disney Cartoon; 1949)
200 Motels, by Frank Zappa (Music Film; 1971)
Unplugged, by Nirvana, airs on MTV (TV Concert; 1993)
Today’s Name Days
Adelheid, Elke, Heidi (Austria)
Adela, Hagaj, Sebastijan (Croatia)
Albína (Czech Republic)
Lazarus (Denmark)
Aade, Aale, Adeele, Adelheid, Aliide, Ethel, Haide, Liide, Teele (Estonia)
Aada, Adele, Auli, Aulikki (Finland)
Alice (France)
Adelheid, Elke, Heidi (Germany)
Modestos, Theofano (Greece)
Aletta, Etelka (Hungary)
Albina (Italy)
Alvīne (Latvia)
Albina, Alina, Audronė, Vygaudas (Lithuania)
Oddbjørg, Oddbjørn (Norway)
Adelajda, Ado, Albina, Alina, Ananiasz, Bean, Zdzisława (Poland)
Agheu (Romania)
Albína (Slovakia)
Adela, Adelaida (Spain)
Assar (Sweden)
Addie, Addy, Adela, Adelaide, Adele, Adeline, Adella, Adelle, Alena, Alina, Aline, Della (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 350 of 2024; 15 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 6 of week 50 of 2023
Celtic Tree Calendar: Ruis (Elder) [Day 19 of 28]
Chinese: Month 12 (Jia-Zi), Day 4 (Wu-Shen)
Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)
Hebrew: 4 Teveth 5784
Islamic: 3 Jumada II 1445
J Cal: 20 Zima; Sixday [20 of 30]
Julian: 3 December 2023
Moon: 17%: Waxing Crescent
Positivist: 14 Bichat (13th Month) [Newton]
Runic Half Month: Jara (Year) [Day 6 of 15]
Season: Autumn (Day 84 of 89)
Zodiac: Sagittarius (Day 25 of 30)
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The Complete Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe. Triangle book. Hardcover. 1943
Tilly: Catherine Cookson. William Morrow, Pub. Hardcover. 1980
Second Generation. Howard Fast, Hardcover. 1978
Interesting reads
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Collections
It has been a day of brilliant collections in our Oxfam shop.
For example,
Most of the time, we get donations which are an assortment of what people have accumulated – 1970s cookery books ( but not those which are now worth something), The Reader’s Digest Book of Cats, browned paperbacks – Neville Shute shunted against Catherine Cookson etc etc.
Dated management accountancy text books, unread…
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Finished reading. Quite good for a night when I couldn’t sleep!
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book stuff! 5! 17! 23!
5! What was your relationship with books like as a child?
oh super duper positive! maybe especially cos my hearing fucking suuucked?? i think my love of reading was v baffling to my mother haha cos she’s v dyslexic & was constantly told she was stupid & had decided books were not for her (she now loves reading! i can wear anyone down! haha).
constant library visits were a L A R G E part of my childhood!!! and one of my aunts was a school librarian at a v fancy school so she was a frequent supplier too. and the house was pretty full of random books anyway, so my reading habits were v chaotic, like as a ~7 year old i was swinging from nancy drew to pride and prejudice to those lucy daniels vet books to oliver twist
i was def reading stuff that was probs ‘inappropriate’ for my age (in all senses...smut and extremely depressing and classics and why did someone give me a george eliot biography when i was like 9??) but i dont think it had a negative impact???
17! Do you know any poetry by heart?
valentine by carol ann duffy bc we studied it ad fucking nauseam in school & i’ve taken to my bed by roger mcgough bc it’s been my favourite poem since i was a lil kid & probs i wanna be yours by john cooper clarke cos we studied that in school and ive heard it a lot & patterns by kate tempest cos one time i saw her do it in the woods while i was on acid so it like b u r n t its way in there & whitey on the moon by gil scott-heron bc ive heard it a million times & probably to his coy mistress by andrew marvell bc i think someone mustve challenged me to memorise it like 20 years ago & still i rise by maya angelou bc we read it in school sooo much... hmm. in short: yes, some but generally not on purpose.
23! Nicest edition or cheapest edition?
well, most of the time i dont buy books they just find their way to me or im allowed to take ‘em, and free is the cheapest of editions and im v into that. they’re often nice editions too though cos they’re old! im not someone who is fussy abt covers or anything (especially cos i dont hold on to thaaat many books myself) & i dont have a problem with mismatched series etc. generally i will just take what i am given
gotta book
#books#i feel like those lucy daniels books mightve been a liiiiil later#my sister was v into them so i'd smash through them too#Strong matilda Vibes#like i would read whatever i could find#no one stopped me from reading penny vincenzi or#catherine cookson or w/e#they did try to stop#me reading twist of gold by michael morpurgo though on the grounds that it was too depressing for lil kids and i was like pff ive read olive#r twist ok#my grandfather did take the pearl by john steinbeck off me for being too sophisticated though?? i should go back to that hmm#poetry#for someone who doesnt think they like poetry i seem to know a lot lmao#the thing is though: the boundary btwn poetry and rap and indeed poetry and music generally is v porous#i spent a lot of time at literary events & at hip hop events and i'd see the same ppl performing the same things at both#so some things im not 100% on whether they are 'poems' but i def know them backwards forwards sideways#if something's rhythmic and rhymes...it'll probs stick#i also know the prologue to romeo & juliet off by heart but that's probs not a poem...?#i dont really care abt book covers#except i had to cover the fire and fury cover with a collage
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The Wingless Bird (1997)
#The Wingless Bird#book adaptation#Catherine Cookson#period television drama#movies#british film#Claire Skinner#Edward Atterton
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In the middle of Outlander 7 filming, I shall find myself wandering aimlessly (I'll have a car, I'm not a Luddite or a Catherine Cookson protagonist) across Scotland (I don't live there) for some reason or another (work/play/pillage) and dangerously close to a certain part countryside tavern (amongst other taverns of great repute), where I may forcibly remove (or coax her down with a piece of shortbread) a certain realtor (it's Neile, if you're wondering) dangling by her crampons from ye olde streete lighte in her hope of slingshotting a frozen lasagne through a part open window of one of Mr H's rooms (probably the shitter; notoriously niffy when you go vegan for a week). After studying the itinerary, I see that I'll also be right on top (no I won't, that's just ludicrous) in the locale of the distillery of Spaffenach Frisky. I shall beat down their door and demand to swim in the grain or whatever it is - hops or something, with me boots on just like our two kilted heroes yet 'I' shall go true Scots and shall not be wearing me knick knocks. Any front bottom debris will be returned to the floor to be incorporated into the next batch hitherto known as 'The Snatch Batch'. Mmmmm - yum I hear you utter. It will be strong on the nose, possibly pungent and may overpower the notes of honey but it will def originate from a honeypot - mine. Ooooh, sticky. Any strays found hiding in a crevice on bath day shall be deposited in an envelope and sent fast as you like back to Scotchland where the opening of aforementioned envelope will be attended by Miss SS and Fergus's wooden hand (mentor and reading partner). A few days later I shall be on a sea plane, yes - that one. I shall sniff the seat so someone can finally, with great certainty, tell the housebound mommies what Sam smells like (it's probably arse). Later there's some sort of team building bollocks in The Trossachs or vice versa, they're interchangeable. Either way I shall be raising a glass of Flashyermac or Wankayak Whisky (it'll be Gin) from the warmth of the nearest Inn, to the rest of the "team", laughing whilst they freeze in a roofless, abandoned crofter's dwelling or mauled by a pack of wet and wild Haggi. It's unlikely I'll get to meet and go on a date with the dashing Mr H because I'll be mostly spending my time fully clothed and not on a child's scooter. The only way he'll take me out is at the knee as he rolandos down some random munro. Such is life 🤷♀️
May I suggest you write a book... 📕 Take selfies 🤳 while you reflect on your journey and compose your love letter. Suggest to call it MIK Points! I think I know a good publisher, you really don't need a ghostwriter!
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Hey Ryn! Hope you're doing well. Changes, comfort, crush, flowers and favourites from that Spring Asks, please!
Hi Monotony!! I'm doing alright. Thanks for the asks!
Changes - what signals the changing of the seasons to you?
The severity of the rain or how often it rains.
Comfort - who is your go to comfort character?
Aaron. Don't ask me why.
Crush - any irl or online crushes?
No. My demiromantic-ness says no.
Flowers - what’s the nicest thing someone has surprised you with?
In primary school, at the end of the year, my friend would always write a name card for everyone in the class including the teachers. I hope she's doing well.
Favorites - what’s your favorite show, movie, and book?
I dont watch shows or movies but books? I like Lanky Jones by Catherine Cookson. Really the one of the only books i read all the way through.
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What’s your favorite genre in literature? And what’s your favorite in media?
Least favorite in both?
Hmm.....for literature? A tie between Fantasy and Adventure and Action for my favorite genre. As a kid, I think I evolved from like, mostly Jacqueline Wilson books to like, action books and its kind of the same nowadays. Like, still currently reading a mixture of all that and some Disney ones.
And for least favorite....romance. Like, I don't mind a little romance in some books, but if its just a pure romance book? Yeah, no. It not for me. I think the only romance book I enjoyed was Love, Frankie, and that was it. I can't get into others really.
And for media: probably similar tastes to my literature. I do love some action shows and films and some fantasy one's, after all.
But for least favorite.....well, sadly MCU isn't a genre....yet.....so guess I'll say romance cause again, can't get me into romance films either. And after alllllll of the catherine cookson films I've had to watch with my mom, I think I don't wanna try any romance films for a bit.
#i can actually quote half of the catherine cooksons and i hate it so much#i need the men in black memory wipe#get it out of my brain please
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BOOK RECS
Okay, so lots of people wanted this and so, I am compiling a list of my favourite books (both fiction and non-fiction), books that I recommend you read as soon as humanly possible. In the meantime, I’ll be pinning this post to the top of my blog (once I work out how to do that lmao) so it will be accessible for old and new followers. I’m going to order this list thematically, I think, just to keep everything tidy and orderly. Of course, a lot of this list will consist of historical fiction and historical non-fiction because that’s what I read primarily and thus, that’s where my bias is, but I promise to try and spice it up just a little bit.
Favourite fiction books of all time:
The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock // Imogen Hermes Gowar
Sense and Sensibility // Jane Austen
Slammerkin // Emma Donoghue
Remarkable Creatures // Tracy Chevalier
Life Mask // Emma Donoghue
His Dark Materials // Philip Pullman (this includes the follow-up series The Book of Dust)
Emma // Jane Austen
The Miniaturist // Jessie Burton
Girl, Woman, Other // Bernadine Evaristo
Jane Eyre // Charlotte Brontë
Persuasion // Jane Austen
Girl with a Pearl Earring // Tracy Chevalier
The Silent Companions // Laura Purcell
Tess of the d’Urbervilles // Thomas Hardy
Northanger Abbey // Jane Austen
The Chronicles of Narnia // C.S. Lewis
Pride and Prejudice // Jane Austen
Goodnight, Mr Tom // Michelle Magorian
The French Lieutenant’s Woman // John Fowles
The Butcher’s Hook // Janet Ellis
Mansfield Park // Jane Austen
The All Souls Trilogy // Deborah Harkness
The Railway Children // Edith Nesbit
Favourite non-fiction books of all time
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman // Robert Massie
Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King // Antonia Fraser
Madame de Pompadour // Nancy Mitford
The First Iron Lady: A Life of Caroline of Ansbach // Matthew Dennison
Black and British: A Forgotten History // David Olusoga
Courtiers: The Secret History of the Georgian Court // Lucy Worsley
Young and Damned and Fair: The Life of Katherine Howard, the Fifth Wife of Henry VIII // Gareth Russell
King Charles II // Antonia Fraser
Casanova’s Women // Judith Summers
Marie Antoinette: The Journey // Antonia Fraser
Mrs. Jordan’s Profession: The Story of a Great Actress and a Future King // Claire Tomalin
Jane Austen at Home // Lucy Worsley
Mudlarking: Lost and Found on the River Thames // Lara Maiklem
The Last Royal Rebel: The Life and Death of James, Duke of Monmouth // Anna Keay
The Marlboroughs: John and Sarah Churchill // Christopher Hibbert
Nell Gwynn: A Biography // Charles Beauclerk
Jurassic Mary: Mary Anning and the Primeval Monsters // Patricia Pierce
Georgian London: Into the Streets // Lucy Inglis
The Prince Who Would Be King: The Life and Death of Henry Stuart // Sarah Fraser
Wedlock: How Georgian Britain’s Worst Husband Met His Match // Wendy Moore
Dead Famous: An Unexpected History of Celebrity from the Stone Age to the Silver Screen // Greg Jenner
Victorians Undone: Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum // Kathryn Hughes
Crown of Blood: The Deadly Inheritance of Lady Jane Grey // Nicola Tallis
Favourite books about the history of sex and/or sex work
The Origins of Sex: A History of First Sexual Revolution // Faramerz Dabhoiwala
Erotic Exchanges: The World of Elite Prostitution in Eighteenth-Century Paris // Nina Kushner
Peg Plunkett: Memoirs of a Whore // Julie Peakman
Courtesans // Katie Hickman
The Other Victorians: A Study of Sexuality and Pornography in mid-Nineteenth Century England
Madams, Bawds, and Brothel Keepers // Fergus Linnane
The Secret History of Georgian London: How the Wages of Sin Shaped the Capital // Dan Cruickshank
A Curious History of Sex // Kate Lister
Sex and Punishment: 4000 Years of Judging Desire // Eric Berkowitz
Queen of the Courtesans: Fanny Murray // Barbara White
Rent Boys: A History from Ancient Times to Present // Michael Hone
Celeste // Roland Perry
Sex and the Gender Revolution // Randolph Trumbach
The Pleasure’s All Mine: A History of Perverse Sex // Julie Peakman
LGBT+ fiction I love*
The Confessions of the Fox // Jordy Rosenberg
As Meat Loves Salt // Maria Mccann
Bone China // Laura Purcell
Brideshead Revisited // Evelyn Waugh
The Confessions of Frannie Langton // Sara Collins
The Intoxicating Mr Lavelle // Neil Blackmore
Orlando // Virginia Woolf
Tipping the Velvet // Sarah Waters
She Rises // Kate Worsley
The Mercies // Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Oranges are Not the Only Fruit // Jeanette Winterson
Maurice // E.M Forster
Frankisstein: A Love Story // Jeanette Winterson
If I Was Your Girl // Meredith Russo
The Well of Loneliness // Radclyffe Hall
* fyi, Life Mask and Girl, Woman, Other are also LGBT+ fiction
Classics I haven’t already mentioned (including children’s classics)
Far From the Madding Crowd // Thomas Hardy
I Capture the Castle // Dodie Smith
Vanity Fair // William Makepeace Thackeray
Wuthering Heights // Emily Brontë
The Blazing World // Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle
Murder on the Orient Express // Agatha Christie
Great Expectations // Charles Dickens
North and South // Elizabeth Gaskell
Evelina // Frances Burney
Death on the Nile // Agatha Christie
The Monk // Matthew Lewis
Frankenstein // Mary Shelley
Vilette // Charlotte Brontë
The Mayor of Casterbridge // Thomas Hardy
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall // Anne Brontë
Vile Bodies // Evelyn Waugh
Beloved // Toni Morrison
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd // Agatha Christie
The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling // Henry Fielding
A Room With a View // E.M. Forster
Silas Marner // George Eliot
Jude the Obscure // Thomas Hardy
My Man Jeeves // P.G. Wodehouse
Lady Audley’s Secret // Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Middlemarch // George Eliot
Little Women // Louisa May Alcott
Children of the New Forest // Frederick Marryat
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings // Maya Angelou
Rebecca // Daphne du Maurier
Alice in Wonderland // Lewis Carroll
The Wind in the Willows // Kenneth Grahame
Anna Karenina // Leo Tolstoy
Howard’s End // E.M. Forster
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 // Sue Townsend
Even more fiction recommendations
The Darling Strumpet // Gillian Bagwell
The Wolf Hall trilogy // Hilary Mantel
The Illumination of Ursula Flight // Anne-Marie Crowhurst
Queenie // Candace Carty-Williams
Forever Amber // Kathleen Winsor
The Corset // Laura Purcell
Love in Colour // Bolu Babalola
Artemisia // Alexandra Lapierre
Blackberry and Wild Rose // Sonia Velton
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories // Angela Carter
The Languedoc trilogy // Kate Mosse
Longbourn // Jo Baker
A Skinful of Shadows // Frances Hardinge
The Black Moth // Georgette Heyer
The Far Pavilions // M.M Kaye
The Essex Serpent // Sarah Perry
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo // Taylor Jenkins Reid
Cavalier Queen // Fiona Mountain
The Winter Palace // Eva Stachniak
Friday’s Child // Georgette Heyer
Falling Angels // Tracy Chevalier
Little // Edward Carey
Chocolat // Joanne Harris
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street // Natasha Pulley
My Sister, the Serial Killer // Oyinkan Braithwaite
The Convenient Marriage // Georgette Heyer
Katie Mulholland // Catherine Cookson
Restoration // Rose Tremain
Meat Market // Juno Dawson
Lady on the Coin // Margaret Campbell Bowes
In the Company of the Courtesan // Sarah Dunant
The Crimson Petal and the White // Michel Faber
A Place of Greater Safety // Hilary Mantel
The Little Shop of Found Things // Paula Brackston
The Improbability of Love // Hannah Rothschild
The Murder Most Unladylike series // Robin Stevens
Dark Angels // Karleen Koen
The Words in My Hand // Guinevere Glasfurd
Time’s Convert // Deborah Harkness
The Collector // John Fowles
Vivaldi’s Virgins // Barbara Quick
The Foundling // Stacey Halls
The Phantom Tree // Nicola Cornick
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle // Stuart Turton
Golden Hill // Francis Spufford
Assorted non-fiction not yet mentioned
The Dinosaur Hunters: A True Story of Scientific Rivalry and the Discovery of the Prehistoric World // Deborah Cadbury
The Beauty and the Terror: An Alternative History to the Italian Renaissance // Catherine Fletcher
All the King's Women: Love, Sex, and Politics in the life of Charles II // Derek Jackson
Mozart’s Women // Jane Glover
Scandalous Liaisons: Charles II and His Court // R.E. Pritchard
Matilda: Queen, Empress, Warrior // Catherine Hanley
Black Tudors // Miranda Kaufman
To Catch a King: Charles II's Great Escape // Charles Spencer
1666: Plague, War and Hellfire // Rebecca Rideal
Henrietta Maria: Charles I's Indomitable Queen // Alison Plowden
Catherine of Braganza: Charles II's Restoration Queen // Sarah-Beth Watkins
Four Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses // Helen Rappaport
Aristocrats: Caroline, Emily, Louisa and Sarah Lennox, 1740-1832 // Stella Tillyard
The Fortunes of Francis Barber: The True Story of the Jamaican Slave who Became Samuel Johnson’s Heir // Michael Bundock
Black London: Life Before Emancipation // Gretchen Gerzina
In These Times: Living in Britain Through Napoleon’s Wars, 1793-1815
The King’s Mistress: Scandal, Intrigue and the True Story of the Woman who Stole the Heart of George I // Claudia Gold
Perdita: The Life of Mary Robinson // Paula Byrne
The Gentleman’s Daughter: Women’s Lives in Georgian England // Amanda Vickery
Terms and Conditions: Life in Girls’ Boarding School, 1939-1979 // Ysenda Maxtone Graham
Fanny Burney: A Biography // Claire Harman
Aphra Behn: A Secret Life // Janet Todd
The Imperial Harem: Women and the Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire // Leslie Peirce
The Fall of the House of Byron // Emily Brand
The Favourite: Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough // Ophelia Field
Night-Walking: A Nocturnal History of London // Matthew Beaumont, Will Self
Jane Austen: A Life // Claire Tomalin
Beloved Emma: The Life of Emma, Lady Hamilton // Flora Fraser
Sentimental Murder: Love and Madness in the 18th Century // John Brewer
Henrietta Howard: King’s Mistress, Queen’s Servant // Tracy Borman
City of Beasts: How Animals Shaped Georgian London // Tom Almeroth-Williams
Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion // Anne Somerset
Charlotte Brontë: A Life // Claire Harman
Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe // Anthony Summers
Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day // Peter Ackroyd
Elizabeth I and Her Circle // Susan Doran
African Europeans: An Untold History // Olivette Otele
Young Romantics: The Shelleys, Byron, and Other Tangled Lives // Daisy Hay
How to Create the Perfect Wife // Wendy Moore
The Sphinx: The Life of Gladys Deacon, Duchess of Marlborough // Hugo Vickers
The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn // Eric Ives
Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy // Barbara Ehrenreich
A is for Arsenic: The Poisons of Agatha Christie // Kathryn Harkup
Mistresses: Sex and Scandal at the Court of Charles II // Linda Porter
Female Husbands: A Trans History // Jen Manion
Ladies in Waiting: From the Tudors to the Present Day // Anne Somerset
Ghostland: In Search of a Haunted Country // Edward Parnell
A Cheesemonger’s History of the British Isles // Ned Palmer
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister’s Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine // Lindsey Fitzharris
Medieval Woman: Village Life in the Middle Ages // Ann Baer
The Husband Hunters: Social Climbing in London and New York // Anne de Courcy
The Voices of Nîmes: Women, Sex, and Marriage in Reformation Languedoc // Suzannah Lipscomb
The Daughters of the Winter Queen // Nancy Goldstone
Mad and Bad: Real Heroines of the Regency // Bea Koch
Bess of Hardwick // Mary S. Lovell
The Royal Art of Poison // Eleanor Herman
The Strangest Family: The Private Lives of George III, Queen Charlotte, and the Hanoverians // Janice Hadlow
Palaces of Pleasure: From Music Halls to the Seaside to Football; How the Victorians Invented Mass Entertainment // Lee Jackson
Favourite books about current social/political issues (?? for lack of a better term)
Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power // Lola Olufemi
Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Worker Rights // Molly Smith, Juno Mac
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race // Reni Eddo-Lodge
Trans Britain: Our Journey from the Shadows // Christine Burns
Me, Not You: The Trouble with Mainstream Feminism // Alison Phipps
Trans Like Me: A Journey For All Of Us // C.N Lester
Brit(Ish): On Race, Identity, and Belonging // Afua Hirsch
The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence, and Cultural Restitution // Dan Hicks
Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls: A Handbook for Unapologetic Living // Jes M. Baker
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women White Feminists Forgot // Mikki Kendall
Denial: Holocaust History on Trial // Deborah Lipstadt
Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape // Jessica Valenti, Jaclyn Friedman
Don’t Touch My Hair // Emma Dabiri
Sister Outsider // Audre Lorde
Unicorn: The Memoir of a Muslim Drag Queen // Amrou Al-Kadhi
Trans Power // Juno Roche
Breathe: A Letter to My Sons // Imani Perry
The Windrush Betrayal: Exposing the Hostile Environment // Amelia Gentleman
Happy Fat: Taking Up Space in a World That Wants to Shrink You // Sofie Hagen
Diaries, memoirs & letters
The Diary of a Young Girl // Anne Frank
Renia’s Diary: A Young Girl’s Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust // Renia Spiegel
Writing Home // Alan Bennett
The Diary of Samuel Pepys // Samuel Pepys
Histoire de Ma Vie // Giacomo Casanova
Toast: The Story of a Boy’s Hunger // Nigel Slater
London Journal, 1762-1763 // James Boswell
The Diary of a Bookseller // Shaun Blythell
Jane Austen’s Letters // edited by Deidre la Faye
H is for Hawk // Helen Mcdonald
The Salt Path // Raynor Winn
The Glitter and the Gold // Consuelo Vanderbilt, Duchess of Marlborough
Journals and Letters // Fanny Burney
Educated // Tara Westover
Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading // Lucy Mangan
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? // Jeanette Winterson
A Dutiful Boy // Mohsin Zaidi
Secrets and Lies: The Trials of Christine Keeler // Christine Keeler
800 Years of Women’s Letters // edited by Olga Kenyon
Istanbul // Orhan Pamuk
Henry and June // Anaïs Nin
Historical romance (this is a short list because I’m still fairly new to this genre)
The Bridgerton series // Julia Quinn
One Good Earl Deserves a Lover // Sarah Mclean
Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake // Sarah Mclean
The Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics // Olivia Waite
That Could Be Enough // Alyssa Cole
Unveiled // Courtney Milan
The Craft of Love // EE Ottoman
The Maiden Lane series // Elizabeth Hoyt
An Extraordinary Union // Alyssa Cole
Slightly Dangerous // Mary Balogh
Dangerous Alliance: An Austentacious Romance // Jennieke Cohen
A Fashionable Indulgence // KJ Charles
#the only categories not on here are plays and poetry#just bc this post would be even longer!#you can ask me for my favourite playwrights/poets separately tho
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A Ruthless Need - Catherine Cookson - Review
A fresh take.
Mainstream WW2 media is dominated by men and their heroics. This book looks at the lives of women during the war, mothers waiting for news about their children, wives anxiously looking out for calls from their husbands, the excitement of receiving letters, the mourn that follows news of death.
This book has several interesting arcs, a lowborn girl when given the chance blossoming into a wonderful person, a scandalous affair, and the plight of men affected by war.
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