Careers Less Taken – Pictures and Conversations

Molly Hilton: Library Assistant by Bertha Lonsdale

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…

After yesterday's debacle of a book, I decided to treat myself to a known favourite by an author who has managed to include a plot…

As anyone who knows me can confirm, beauty and fashion don't loom very large in my life. I'd certainly never have considered a career in…

This is my second go at collecting career novels. As a teenager I had virtually all the Bodley Head Career Novels but I got rid…

Although I was educated pretty much at the end of the runway of, and lived under the flightpath for, RAF Lossiemouth it never occurred to…