My Ultimate Summer Reading Book Guide! 😎📖🌻
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- čas přidán 2. 07. 2024
- Hello! I'm popping on for a special bonus video this week, with lots of summer book recommendations. I've chosen classic books, brilliant novels, a selection of YA and children's books and some suggested reads to have to hand on your bedside table.
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BOOK CLUB: I host the Comfort Book Club with my Mum, and every month we pick a comforting read and discuss it on the last Friday of the month. Everyone is very welcome to read along with us. Learn more about the Comfort Book Club (and see upcoming reads) here: mirandasnotebook.com/the-comf...
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BOOK LINKS FOR BOOKS IN PRINT:
(Affiliate links used for Blackwells)
Emma by Jane Austen: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
Emma read by Jenny Agutter: tinyurl.com/3wnahcbm
Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
Passing by Nella Larsen: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (annotated edition): blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
Frenchman's Creek by Daphne du Maurier: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
A Month in the Country by J L Carr: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
The Go-Between by L P Hartley: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
Atonement by Ian McEwan: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
One Fine Day by Mollie Panter-Downes: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
The Light Years by Elizabeth Jane Howard: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
China Court by Rumer Godden: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
Father by Elizabeth von Arnim: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
Summer at Fairacre by Miss Read: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
Bitter Orange by Claire Fuller: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
The Greengage Summer by Rumer Godden: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
A Sky Painted Gold by Laura Wood: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
Under a Dancing Star by Laura Wood: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell: tinyurl.com/mr64c9vx
The Adventurous Summer by M E Allan: tinyurl.com/2a333ybr
Henrietta's House by Elizabeth Goudge: tinyurl.com/2p8puyc7
Kew Gardens and Other Short Fiction by Virginia Woolf: tinyurl.com/5h8ykj3j
Midsummer Mysteries by Agatha Christie: tinyurl.com/2p8ef4cj
Summer, edited by Melissa Harrison: tinyurl.com/yrrvknuz
At the Pond: tinyurl.com/efmf7u2c
A Poem for Every Summer Day: tinyurl.com/558fee2n
The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur: tinyurl.com/2p88vxfh
Summer Tate book: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
How to be a Wildflower by Katie Daisy: tinyurl.com/5ehfdwpk
Garden Stories: tinyurl.com/mv9ar5e5 - Zábava
Miranda's seasonal recommendations are the best!
thanks so much!! xxx
A 47 minute video? This is a Summer Treat 🔥
I love the fact that you have different versions of ‘Emma’ OMG WE LOVE IT!
‘The Remains of the Day’ is iconic. I’m loving the list you have!
Isn’t it just! The ending at the bus shelter really got to me, I thought about it for ages after I had finished it.
The Shell Seekers is my favourite book, a real comfort read. Ive lost count of the number of times i have read it.
I love Rosamund Pilcher!😊
My co worker talked about this book a lot. I got the book , but have not read it yet.
What a lovely surprise for a Tuesday. Thank you Miranda!
Holey moley Miranda this was a terrific list. Told my husband about this new vlog and he moaned out loud.😂 He just likes to give me a hard time about my booklists. Bitter Orange and the Picnic of Hanging Rock sound pretty darn tempting. Lovely to see you in this extra vlog. Til next time. 📚💐💕🤗
Haha, love that Diane! Thank you! xxx
Extraordinary selection again, Miranda!! Thank you so much!! And everything so elegant as usual 🥰, your channel is a beautiful and peaceful place in the this crazy world. About the titles, just a comment about "The Shell Seekers". I love the book too, and I've read it three times. When I was 30, when I was 40 and last summer (52 years old), and the older I am, the more I understand Penelope. Thank you again and have an excellent week, you and Donna!❤️❤️❤️❤️
I could not agree more, Maria! You said that beautifully. The elegance and beauty of Miranda's channel really touches me. I just bought The Shell Seekers a few months back and can't wait to read it for the first time this summer.
Your copy of ‘Mrs. Dalloway’ is awesome 👏🏽 (Also, shoutout to the Walking Tour Inspiration)
Thank you! So many suggestions that it is difficult to choose from, I like the joyful spirit of most of these books. And your joy speaking about them is contagious.
Miranda, what a awesome treat. Miss you on Tuesday.Love all you’re Emma books. Definitely getting Shell Seekers, Father- Elizabeth sounds like my kind of reading of the country side and nature. Going to try to also get One fine day. You look fabulous! Thank you, for a nice treat on a Tuesday.🌷🌸☺️Love Susan Branch seasonal books.......
Those are super choices! Such fabulous books! ❤️📚
It's always such a joy seeing a notification from your channel. I have recently got my Mother into Persephone books through your recommendations, and she is thoroughly enjoying them. I will definitely be taking up these suggestions for summer reads! Keep up the fantastic work 🙂 Sending my love to both you and Donna.
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What a fabulous video! I have my reading list for summer now ! It is great to live in the antecipation of relaxed days with these brillant books recomendations. I am very glad that you are posting extras. Thank you very much and lots of sunny Yorkshire days!
THanks so much! it is lovely to get the sunshine here xxx
I would also recommend "Tender Is the Night" by F. Scott Fitzgerald for amazing summery French Riviera vibes!
These reviews are such a treat to watch even a year later, thanks for the recommendations
Wonderful choices for summer reading. I definitely found a few to add to my list. Thanks very much. Cheers from Canada.
Wonderful! Thanks so much! xxx
Hello Miranda, I watched this lovely surprise video after my evening walk with a cheeky midweek drink as you suggested!😉Some of my favourites are here as well as some new titles. I never tire of rereading the Cazalet Chronicles. Bitter Orange is ready for my summer pile and I can’t wait now! I will read the book club reads plus some very summery titles including Penelope Lively’s Heat Wave and Eva Ibbotson’s The Dragonfly Pool - a children’s book but I love her writing for children. Mary Stewart was perfect for summer holiday light reading last year. I’m also thinking of trying a Big Jubilee Read by one of the Commonwealth authors as a new departure for me- there are authors I’ve never heard of.
I particularly love your bedside recommendations. The Rupi Kaur poetry intrigues me, as does How to be a Wildflower. Now you have given us your summer list already, I’m looking forward to seeing what’s in store over the next few months. Thank you.😀
I re read picnic at hanging Rock every summer. Also Greengage summer.
What a nice surprise this video was! Thoroughly enjoyed it while cooking! Shell Seekers has now been bumped up the list for this summer. I'm enjoying Emma and "she'll" be going with me to the Outer Banks, NC to visit my daughter. Hope to read on the beach some! 🏖️So happy to hear you're having sunshine-filled days there in Yorkshire! Thank you for all the recommendations! 📚🇬🇧🥰
Just planning out annual trip to the Outer Banks!! Such a good place to relax. I always pick up a few things from Buxton Village Books.
@@karenhaire5451 It's such a nice place! A couple weeks ago our daughter took us down all the way to Hatteras but it was a Sunday otherwise we would've stopped at that bookstore (they were closed)! I'm sure it's a treat to visit! My daughter works for the fund that cares for the Corolla Wild Horses. You probably know about their history since you go to OBX every year. It's fascinating! Enjoy your visit! And hope you find some great reads in Buxton! 📚 🏖️
Your daughter's work with the wild horses sounds fantastic! We've seen them and I've read quite a few articles about them. We go out to Pea Island in the late Autumn to view some of the bird migrations, too.
@@karenhaire5451 Thank you! So many caring people, employees, volunteers, and donors all working for the good of the horses! I hope to see them soon! Love Pea Island but I've only been to the beach there so far. So beautiful!
Thank you so much for such a wonderful selection. Summer reads sometimes make or break my summer vacation.
All of these!! Thank you Miranda🌸🤍
I love Rumer Godden's books!
Such good suggestions. I enjoyed several of your Spring suggestions. Of course there will be lots of Miss Read! Just finishing Storm in the Village again. I'll listen to my audio of Summer at Fairacre read by Prunella Scales. Such fun!
Thank you Miranda for this lovely summer treat!! I am enjoying Emma at the moment. Definitely want the gardening book. My cottage garden is a joy to me as well as stories about gardens. You look lovely in your floral surroundings. Enjoy the week and THANK YOU for the extra video treat🪴🌸🌺💐🥀🪷
Miranda what an exciting list. Thank you for inspiration.
You are so welcome!
Just delightful, thank you so much for this bonus video, very much appreciated. Off to make my summer reading plan, so many great recommendations 😊
That is so kind of you - thank you very much! xxx
What a wonderful list! I have added so many to my Goodreads list but I think first up might be 'Bitter Orange'; very intriguing ;)
Thank you so much for the kind words and support, Gill! xxx
Love this summer vlog. I have put a number of the books on my reading list. I always enjoy you themed book reads which are always quite diverse.
😀💕xx what a wonderful list Miranda. I have read many of them and shall go back and re read a few. You’ve also given me some suggestions to reserve from my library. Thanks so much for really interesting episode. I’ll look forward to your next one.lots of love, and to your mum too.
I read the blue castle. I loved it! Thank you!
Thank you Miranda, a wonderful collection of titles for Summer reading. I really would like to read the annotated Mrs Dalloway which is sounds great. Happy reading, Teresa 📚
Thank you for this lovely video. It's always a treat, your recommendations are brilliant. Have got a few books since I started following you. Thank you again and keep up the great work.
Thanks so much for your lovely words! xxx
I love your reading recommendations! You speak of books that I did not know about but definitely think I would enjoy! Love watching your videos! Thank you!!!
A fabulous list for the summer a lot of classics plus Picnic at Hanging Rock is a novel that stays with you forever and is definitely one of my favorites.
More videos Miranda, please.
I just bought a copy of Mrs. Dalloway yesterday. I considered the annotated copy, but decided against it since this is a new read and I wasn’t sure it was worth the investment. I think I’m going to regret not picking it up.
Hello Miranda, what a lovely treat this was, thank you so much. The summer read recommendations were all fabulous, so much so that (like Helene Hanff), I hollered, "Comrade!" as you mentioned the books. On my list to read for June/July is Panter-Downes' One Fine Day (the Virago edition cover is redolant of summertime). All best wishes, Jason
Thank you so much, Jason! ‘One Fine Day’ is so beautifully written; I’m sure you’ll love it!! Xxx
Hi Miranda! I was just going to pull out The Summer Book by Susan Branch this morning. Our weather (in Midwestern US) has finally begun to warm up too and we are ready to get our grill out so I wanted to look for cookout recipes. It has been years since I have read The Shell Seekers, I think I will pull it out for the summer. I plan to read The Wind in the Willows soon which always makes me think of summer. Thanks for the great list!
Thank you so much for recommending The Sunday Philosophy Club series books in a previous video! I’m enjoying them so much!
I'm so glad!
Love the list many thanks
Hi Miranda, thank you for a lovely episode, full of wonderful books. I love The Shell Seekers 💜 Bitter Orange sounds very intriguing, might have to give that one a go.
Just finished Father by Elizabeth Von Arnhem- really loved it! So witty and funny. Thankyou for introducing her to me
Thank you for your recent summer reading selections, and in particular the Inoduction to Tove Janssen, an author I am instinctively drawn to. I will read The Summer Book in memory of my Finnish grandmother who intoduced me to living in the natural world & the beauty & right- living way of the retreat.
Lovely, soothing, happy video. Lots of new reading ideas for me. 😘😘
What a fabulous list! Where to start though? I’m going to add my support for Bitter Orange too ( I went on a bit of a Claire Fuller binge last year - a fabulous new-to-me author) Thanks Miranda
May I suggest " Lark rise to Candleford", also ...❤️
A lovely book for many seasons, I think! 💕
Hello Miranda🥰.... I’m so happy Rosemunde Pilcher made this list.... I lOVE HER....and I will always be grateful for discovering Her on Your Channel from Your spot on Recommendations📚🥰...I will be putting a lot of these books on my list💕...Tell Donna I said hello 👋🏾..side note...that vase behind You is Gorgeous 😊.... I had to edit this comment because I forgot to tell you , I got myself a beautiful copy of Emma... for the comfort read this month 🥰
Thank you Kiki! So glad you’re reading Emma along with us 😘
The annotated edition of Mrs Dalloway looks gorgeous 🥰I read Tess last fall for Victober and enjoyed it enough to know I will reread it again someday, as for Emma, I love all the Austen novels and I’m reading it in July for Jane Austen July. I’ll be watching and rewatching next week’s comfort club chat about it. I read Passing many years ago and loved it, and I realize it’s also do for a reread. I also finally read The Remains of the Day earlier this year and was totally captivated by it. I also think I’ll pick up the Go Between for a First read and then reread Atonement. I read it years ago when it was first published and didn’t understand the hype around it, but I love the idea of reading it in conjunction with the go between and giving it another shot. Oh, and Rosamunde Pilcher! I love her books. And that’s another reread I need to do also. Your edition of China Court is beautiful too. And I loved it so much. Miss Read💕💕💕💕
I’m adding so many of these to my tbr wish list and also my to be reread list. and as always I thank you Miranda for a most enjoyable video.
Thank you so much for a wonderful summer list of books. :)
Great list! 👍🏻 I’ve read several of these books and have a few more already on my physical TBR pile that I will read this summer. I appreciate your seasonal reads videos, as it makes it easier for me to find books to read in a particular season. I will be saving this video for future reference.
Thank you
Thank you Miranda for another wonderful video - excellent choices and recommendations.
Thank you for this seasonal list Miranda, it has really put me in the mood for some Summer reading, even though it is currently cold and wet here in Scotland! The annotated Mrs Dalloway looks so tempting, as does 'Father', I think I may look for that one. I have just started reading 'The Perfect Golden Circle' by Benhamin Myres, it is set in the Sumner of 1989, and is about two men who create crop circles. Only a little way in to it but it is so well written I am really enjoying it. Thank you for all you do, your content is superb x
Love all these wonderful recommendations! They are definitely evoking the summer vibes. I'm ready for the sunshine and warmth and reading outside! ☀️
Thank you Miranda. So many good choices I don’t know where to begin!
Wonderful selections Miranda. I happened just to finish Bitter Orange and I found its lush prose enthralling. Very gripping indeed and I’m left with questions. I love to see Picnic at Hanging Rock included in your list. Such an intriguing book and with much to say on class and gender. I can’t wait to read more of your summer picks!
Can't wait to read "Before the Coffee Gets Cold." Thanks for the 'introduction'.
What a lovely list! I definitely want to check out The Go-Between. For me «Child Wonder» by Roy Jacobsen is the ultimate summer read - a coming of age story in a Norwegian summer, taking place both in the city and by the sea side.
Great recommendations Miranda. I think it’s time for me to reread Remains of the Day. Susan Branch is a favorite of mine also and I have to check out Midsummer Murders ❤️
The Remains of the Day will always be a favorite of mine. 💕
Ahhh Frenchman's Creek is so fun!
Wonderful list of summer reads!! :-)
Great video! Well presented and insightful. I am looking forwards to picking up some of the recommendations.
Thank you!
Love this list. Some of these are my favourite ones as well. Loved learning about Mrs Dalloway’s edition, and have already ordered from Blackwell’s..Thank you for such great vlog.
Perfect Miranda I’m going on hols in a few weeks and looking forward to adding these to my list. Xxx
Brilliant! It’s always so fun to select your holiday reads. Enjoy! Xxx
This video was absolutely brilliant! Television worthy.
That's so kind! thank you xxx
Hello, Miranda! An extra video from you is really a treat. Thank you for your interesting suggestions. Every time I watch one of your videos I feel like reading all the books you recommend. However this time I think I am going to check out The Go-between, A month in the country and The shell seekers. Thank you and greetings from Portugal
I just finished Jasmine Farm by Elizabeth, upon your recommendation. I loved it. I got it from Thrift Used Books and received a beautiful old book with an embossed cover and gold spine for only 7.79. I giggled over the gooseberries and Mumsie's antics. Thanks so much for this recommendation!
I’m so glad you enjoyed it! Those gooseberries 🤣
You always buy book versions with the most beautiful covers, I loved that cover of 'Emma'. This video made me feel so summery - it makes me want to buy all these books, pop them in my bag and head out into the countryside to read them!
Wow I’m amazed that I do own and/or have read some of your selected books! I loved the Shell Seekers when it was published in the 80s I think and I re-read it a couple of years ago. Obviously in the meantime my outlook on life had changed, I have grown older and have grownup children so my perception of the book was very different but still very relatable. Still, I picked up a few new ideas from the video, very grateful as usual!
This is such a wonderful list of books and I have added so many to my TBR. You have become my go-to resource for seasonal reading!
I'm so glad! Thank you! xxx
So many sensational suggestions for summer! Thank you, Miranda! So many of these are already on my TBR, but you've inspired me to actually start reading more of them this summer. Especially The Light Years and Remains of the Day. I love The Shell Seekers, Emma, Henrietta's House, The Greengage Summer and One Fine Day! Also, I love your dress 🥰 Hope your summer is wonderful - always love your videos! 🤗☀⛱🍉📚
I adore The Light Years and Remains of the Day, but they may not be for you, knowing your preferences. They are quite complex books, with some tension & darker themes.
Hi Miranda, I just discovered your channel a few days ago and have been watching so many of your past episodes these past couple of days and I am just finding your presence (and your lovely mom too!) so nurturing. I've now spent too much at Blackwell's and Emma Bridgewater lol! The beauty that you create and cultivate in your videos is like medicine to my heart and your sweet, beautiful presence and thoughtful book selections are such a gift Thank you!
Welcome! Delighted you’re enjoying the videos, and thank you very much for your kind words 💜
If I may recommend one of my favourite, Love and Summer by William Trevor. I'm going to reread it this summer. A bitter sweet summer love set in a small town in Ireland in the 50s.
Danke!
Thank you for all your summery inspirations 🥰 I am especially looking forward to reading those two books you mentioned by Daphne du Maurier and LP Hartley, this summer. But there were lots more I am intrigued with. Your videos are always such a pleasure to watch and to listen to 🧡
Thank you so much for the support and kind words! xxx
🎯 Greetings Miranda Mills 🙏 Appreciate all these lovely books recommendations from your collection.
Inspired by You ,,I myself ordered two books by Melissa Harrison from Amazon
I am eagerly waiting for my books.Your
uploads are always inspiring & enjoyable
for me & as well for many others,I am sure.Thank You & Much Goodwishes.
Take care & Good Day.. 🙏♾️🌾
What a great list and a real treat to get an unexpected midweek upload from you. I've actually just re-read Frenchman's Creek and I'm re-reading A Sky Painted Gold right now. I'm so glad you previously recommended Laura Woods as I really enjoy escaping into one of her titles - they're all fun reads. I've been having a clear out of some books, really just to make room for more as I listen to you each week and add more and more to my list but I couldn't part with My Family and Other Animals. I always have a chuckle at Gerald Durrell's descriptions. I will definitely be adding several other titles to my summer reading list! I may have mentioned this before but as you enjoy family sagas, have you read The Jalna series by Mazo de la Roche? I love them and would be interested to know what you thought if you have read them.
Btw, your earrings are gorgeous!
I took your advice and " A Month in the Country" was a great book although as an American the 20th century Yorkshire language had me looking up words left and right. Like Parrafin. lol
This was such a nice treat and a lovely way to relax after some spring cleaning. I now have a nice long list of books to read or reread this summer and bright shiny windows. I hadn't heard of Elizabeth Jane Howard before discovering your channel and am eager to read "The Light Years". The "Summer Book" has always been a favorite of mine. Reminds me of the joys of long summer days growing up on Long Island. I read "The Shell Seekers" last summer on your recommendation and loved it. I hope your nice weather continues and as always thank you for another wonderful video!
So glad you enjoyed 'The Shell Seekers,' Nancy! 'Coming Home' by RP is also a lovely Cornwall one. I'm excited for you to read The Light Years for the first time! xxx
@@MirandaMills "Coming Home" was one of my favorite reads of 2021.
Splendid list! I'm reading Tess for the first time right now. I'm taking my time and enjoying it so much. I also just read My Family and Other Animals for the first time, and I loved it. It was soo funny! I'm hoping to get to Passing, Fremchman's Creek, and The Go-Between soon.
All such fabulous reads! ❤️📚
Thanks!
Thanks so much for the lovely support! xxx
Some of my most favourites are on your list. Emma, The Go-Between, Remains of the Day, are just 3 on your list I adore. Jenny Aguter is wonderful reading Emma. The map in Mrs Dalloway, is an inspiration. I so love your list.
Thank you! Those are all such fabulous books ❤️📚
Great recommendations. I have just purchased Benjamin Myers new book which I’m looking forward to reading. There have been some great new books published over the last few months and can’t wait to get to some of them. I love the Mrs Dalloway book. Looks really special
It is such a beautiful edition of a classic book. Enjoy your reading!
I have been surprised by how many books you recommend I have read, and I am very excited that 'The remains of the day' is also one of your favorites. Thanks for all the books I add to my list xxx
Thanks so much for the support! Remains of the Day is so good; I must look out for a good audiobook of it so I can 'reread' it that way this summer! xxx
Remains of the Day is a favorite of mine too. I also have watched the movie a few times and really liked it.
Thanks
I don't know if this has already been mentioned but I would recommend Heat Wave by Penelope Lively.
A Month in the Country sounds lovely! ♥️ Also Father by von Arnim
Those are both spectacular books! ❤️📚
I loved this summer guide even if I live in Australia it’s nearly winter over here. I still watching your videos . I very much interested in Agatha chirstie and your thoughts . ❤️
I have videos on winter books if you want to watch those!
@@MirandaMills yes I am might thank you Miranda !
One more recommendation... Eva Ibbotson - A song for Summer . I don't think it was mentioned , if so forgive me, but I do recommend 😘
A lovely list, with many favourites! May I suggest Bonjour Tristesse by Francoise Sagan and The Summer Book by Tove Jansson?
What a lovely video! I was waiting for your summer reads recommendations! For this summer I bought books recommended by you such as An Adventurous Summer, One Fine Day, Emily of New Moon and other ones. I added one of my most fav books, R. Bradbury’s Dandelion Wine, a gorgeous summer read! I’d really like to know your opinion about it! I am going to read also S. Orne Jewett ‘s Deephaven and The Country of pointed Firs; do you know this author? Thank you so much for your precious recommendations! Have a nice Sunday!
Thank you for linking that lot, Miranda. I’ve fallen behind, still on my winter reads 😕 Some of the ones you’ve mentioned might end up jumping my reading queue!
By the way, I have nothing close to the collection you have behind you, but I’m curious, how is it they all fit perfectly on the shelves? I’ve never achieved that.
Sorry, I forgot to mention P.Lively ‘s A Stitch in Time, a lovely book for children set in Lyme Regis during one summer. What about a video on books set in Lyme Regis, Miranda? I’ve recently read a biography of Mary Anning and then T.Chevalier’s Remarkable Creatures. Thank you! Cheers from Italy.
Hi Miranda, just found your channel and I've been bingeing so many of your videos all the way from the beginning of your channel. You've inspired me to read more early 20th century authors...right now I'm reading Molly Keane, right from her first novel The Knight of Cheerful Countenance, written when she was only 17. Her youth shows a bit but I think it will be fun to see how her writing changes over time. I'm actually a rare book librarian in the States, so I'm also so drawn to your collecting stories as well. A question for you, since if anyone might know this off the top of their head it might be you (or your mum!)...I'm looking for recommendations for books set in Southampton, any time period, but ideally pre-1900 (but it's fine if they are written later). Any that come to mind? Thank you and cheers, Kim
So glad you're enjoying my channel! Nothing leaps to mind regarding books set in Southampton unfortunately.
I apologize for the multiple comments..I'm listening to this while I work and commenting as I go. Can we read the Miss Read books out of order? Thanks. 🤗
Hi Miranda - I really enjoy your channel. I know you have viewers from New Zealand, Australia, South Africa etc. I wonder if you could possibly recommend just a couple of seasonal reads for those of us in the Southern Hemisphere - just one or two would be much appreciated and something unique to your channel. With thanks.
I live by the season that surrounds me, which I think is understandable. I do, however, have recommendations for every season & almost every month of the year on my channel, so if you’d like autumn / winter book recommendations, then by all means, please watch those videos.
Have you seen the movie adaptation of ‘Passing’?
Try listening to Emma read by the one and only Prunella scales. She of course played Mrs Bates at one time and she is unfailingly superb! She must possess an extra lung… LOL! Enjoy!
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So many wonderful books ❤️. I love the Shell Seekers, although Coming Home is my favourite Rosamund Pilcher, also featuring descriptions of Cornish Summers. I read the Light Years many years ago and really want to re-read this summer. I also love the seasonal anthologies by Melissa Harrison - the only one I’m missing is Summer so will be buying that very soon 😀
I also love Melissa Harrison's work Lucy! Have you listened to her podcast 'The Stubborn Light of Things'? It is such a beautiful listen, I would really recommend it if you haven't yet heard it!