Career Novels – Pictures and Conversations

Margaret Lang – Fashion Buyer by Mary Delane

Fairly unusually for career books, this is actually a good novel in its own right. For its time, of course, that time being 1956. The…

Well, we're back to career novels with no plot here. The blurb doesn't even mention the main character or the setting. What it talks about…

Of its type this is one of the better books I've read recently. I collect career novels more for their social history than their plots…

To say that I was intrigued when I saw a copy of Two Young Missionaries by Nansi Pugh for sale is to put it mildly.…

First of all, let me put my cards on the table. I am a Chartered Librarian. I qualified in 1990 and gained my Charter in…

Although I didn't realise it when I bought it, I had read this book as a teenager. It was reprinted by Knight Books as Three…

My sister and I have a little in-joke about words. It stems from the fact that I once memorably (at least as far as Ann…

My inability to arrange flowers, my tendency to kill plants and my slowness in the morning are three good reasons for me never to have…

So, let's start with the dust wrapper. First of all: those eyes. I recognised them from somewhere else. Right enough, AE Batchelor, the artist, also…

One of the things that has always puzzled me about the Victory Press career books is that there is hardly any mention of Church in…