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    + Brian Flynn's The Orange Axe + 

Brian Flynn's The Case of the Painted Ladies




& more Chalet Books: The Chalet School in Exile


+ second entry + Black Plumes 2 +  Rudyard Kipling  Three and - an Extra + EF Benson, Mapp and Lucia + More Mourning





Watching the Detectives: How women went from sidekicks to sleuths in TV drama for the i newspaper




International Agatha Christie Festival in Torquay


The worst blurbs - Louise Willder Blurb Your Enthusiasm




(Styles, Vicarage, Ackroyd, Cards, Announced, Funeral, Pigs, Zero, Mrs McGinty)

Shedunnit podcast on Dorothy Bowers




(i newspaper)


American reactions to the death of the Queen (opinion piece, i newspaper)










Fair Flower of Northumberland - traditional ballad, linked to Mary Stewart's The Ivy Tree



Nominate your favourite Female Detective - Bodies From the Library 2022





Nativity Plays


Christie Murder Methods and Summer Dresses

Detection Club Dinner - Summer 2019


Barbies 1 & Barbies 2

 Easter Poems

Schoolgirl Detectives + More Schoolgirl Detectives

Irish Novels for St Patrick's Day


Twelfth Night Again


Reprint of the Year  Award


Caroline Crampton's  Shedunnit podcast + another Shedunnit podcast


Armistice Day 2018


National Poetry Day 2018


William Shakespeare's Sonnet Sunday at the Globe


Best Book for Convalescents Best for Convalescents 2 - Reader Suggestions


Best Shipboard Books

Halliwell Film Guides
Clothes Panics in Books - Clothes Panics from Readers

Bodies From The Library Conference: June 2018

Evans, Curtis - editor   Murder in the Closet (with contribution from Clothes in Books)

+ 2018 Trip to New York awards ceremony  as the book was nominated for an Edgar

 + Mysterious Bookshop in New York

 Best Crime Books of 2014

Second Birthday Highlights Jan 2014

Best Books of 2013

Best Detective Fiction of 2013

 Best of the Blog 2012

 One Year Blog Anniversary, Jan 2013

 Best Crime Fiction Entries of 2012


Tuesday Night Club - Tuesday Night Bloggers


RIP Bernadette at Reactions to Reading


Valentine's Day


The Big Houses of Ireland in Literature


Petrona Remembered: A Book for Maxine

 How Ballerinas Keep Their Stockings Up


Ian Fleming's James Bond Books - Roundup Post: James Bond in Love


Michael Lewis and the Birth of Online Commenting

 Verdict of Us All: Best Christmas Mysteries

 Thanksgiving
News Roundup on the blog



History and Mystery: Inaccuracies in Crime Books

 History and Mystery: 1950s books, old and new


Guardian: Halloween: Seances and Fortune Tellers (click through for Guardian books section)


Author Interview: Christine Poulson


Children in Crime: The Curious Case of the Missing Children

   -- re-blogged here

Crime in Costume: Masks and Masquerade/Fancy Dress Parties

 Crime in Costume: Harlequins and Columbines

 Crime in Costume: Holmes Fancy Dress Party


Verdict of Us All:  A Book to Get Rid Of

Verdict of Us All:  Just one More Book...

 Verdict of Us All: Who Wrote only one good Book?


Edwards, Martin The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books


Christie Firsts: Best Introductory Books

 Joint list with Christine Poulson: Books set in Universities


Cross-Blog Reviewing: Duranti, Francesca Happy Ending


 Independent Booksellers' Week 2016: The Questions


Oxford vs Cambridge in Crime Mysteries (Tuesday Night)


Post on holidays  and trips in Agatha Christie books (Tuesday Night Meme)

 Guesting over at Prashant's Three C's blog


Toxic Marriages in Crime Fiction


Lane, Carla  TV Writer and Landlady


Crime stories set in schools (Tuesday Night Academia meme)

 Guest Blog: Hunting for Heroines on  Sara O'Leary's  This is Sadie


Crime and Travel: The Right Clothes (Tuesday Night Travel meme)


 Fashion and Fiction at the V&A  - Dunant, Sarah 


 Cross-Blog Reviewing with Christine Poulson: 
  Tony & Susan by Austin Wright


World Book Day: Literacy, learning to read, and dolls



Leap Year Special: Women Making Their Moves (click through for Guardian books section) 

List for National Library Day


Blog Fourth Anniversary Post 


Best Crime Books of 2015

Best Non-Crime Books of 2015


 Cross-Blog Reviewing with Christine Poulson: The Tortoise and the Hare by Elizabeth Jenkins


2015: A Reading Acrostic - the books, the year, the names, the letters


Xmas 2015: A collection of seasonal pictures for books blogposts




Agatha Christie  A List of Highs and Lows (Tuesday night 1)

 Christie, Agatha A List of Christie Tropes (Tuesday night 3)

 Christie, Agatha Clothes in Christie (Tuesday night 4)


Queen, Ellery Cop Out (Tuesday Night 1)


Queen,  Ellery Lamp of God and The Scarlet 

Letters (Tuesday Night 2) 


Queen, Ellery New Adventures of Ellery Queen (Tuesday Night 3) 

 Queen, Ellery  The Last Woman in His Life (Tuesday Night 4) 

 Marsh, Ngaio  Artists in Crime (Tuesday Night Club 1)



 Book Titles from Hamlet (click through for Guardian books section)

      + Theories on Hamlet

 Blog Tour for Harper Lee's Go Set a Watchman
Thursday Lists: click here to see them all



            More About the Mitfords


             Books with Theatrical Settings
      Jane Duncan: Overview and List
           News and Follow-Ups on the Blog

          The Best Crime Fiction Endings
       

          Books set in Cathedrals and Churches
          Books about the WW2 Homefront

       
      Hanging Out the Washing

+ see also this entry on hanging out the washing 

         
       

           April Fools: Imaginary Books and Literary Hoaxes
            Young Women Called Linnet, and One Old One
       

            Wolves in Books and Book Titles
            Top 10 Moments from Wolf Hall & Bring Up the Bodies

      Books set in Schools

      Books about the Tudors 

            Three Year Blog Anniversary Jan 2015
           Emptying the bookcase: a project
          Best books of 2014
          Best Crime Books of 2014
          Christmas Books: Reader Recommendations

           Christmas Books

           Best Older Women Detectives

           Books that make me laugh

           Young Women Detectives

           Older Women Winning Through: Books like Miss Pettigrew
Scarey Stories for Halloween
The Best Book-to-TV adaptations
The Best Book-to-Movie Adaptations
The Mitford Sisters               
Poison Pen Books  
Books like I Capture the Castle  
Best books, Best Crime Books

 Jackson, Kate  Vintage Mystery Subscription Box

The story of Harem Trousers
Seen From a Train Window (click through for Guardian books pages) 
Misleading Book Titles (click through for Guardian books pages)
Baddies in Literature: Sylvia Tietjens in Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford (click through for Guardian books pages)


Twelfth Night in Literature (click through for Guardian books blog) 

 Families in Literature: Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh  (click through for Guardian books blog)
Women Fashion Power: Exhibition at the Design Museum

 Bringing Up The Bodies: Coffin Opening in Literature  (click through for Guardian books blog)

         
Stockings & Nylons in Literature (click through for Guardian books blog)
Poison Pen Week on the Blog: click here to find entries, and here to see an overview post.
Inspiring Blog Award

 Agatha Christie: List of Top Five Favourite Books + Follow Up Post
May Bank Holiday - Garden Hats in Wilkie Collins

 The Black Cap and the Death Penalty

 Påskekrim – Norway’s crime weekend

First Name Challenge

 Sue Townsend and Adrian Mole

 Smog Special: Air Pollution is Nothing New
April Fools Day - 2012, 2013, 2014
Mother's Day - 2012, 2013, 2014
How to be a Heroine by Samantha Ellis
Covers of books - what were they thinking of?

 Detective Stories

 Dress Down Sunday - best Sunday undies

 Tartan

 Children's Books

 Clothes Panics

 Weddings & wedding dresses

 Christmas 2012

 Christmas 2013  - 700th entry

 Books of 1952

 Midsummer

 Booker shortlist of 1969 (& the book that should have won)

 Literary Sex Scenes (for Guardian books blog)

Women in Trousers (for Guardian books blog)

The Opposite of Anachronism (for Guardian books blog)

Women Sharing Flats (for Guardian books blog)

Food and Recipes in books (for Guardian books blog)

Undressed for Success - Lingerie in Literature (for Guardian books blog)

Comfort Reads - Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford (for Guardian books blog)

Diaries in Literature (for Guardian books blog)

How TV might change Literature (for Guardian books blog)

Nuns in Books (for Guardian books blog)

 Literary Pet Peeves (for Guardian books blog)


Sad scenes in literature (click through for Guardian books blog)
Bad Mothers in Fiction (click through for Guardian books blog)

Shoes in literature (click through for Guardian books blog)

 Conscientious Objectors (click through for Guardian books blog)
Wedding dresses in books (click through for Guardian books blog)


OxCrimes Anthology 2014 Part 1  Part 2

 Complaints about characters' names (click through for Guardian books blog)

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