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Tag: Careers Less Taken

Posted on June 6, 2020

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…

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Posted on June 5, 2020

Outline for a Secretary by Angela Mack

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…

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Posted on June 4, 2020

Kate in Advertising by Ann Barton

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…

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Posted on June 3, 2020June 7, 2020

Amanda in Floristry by Jane Sheridan

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…

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Posted on June 2, 2020June 7, 2020

Clare Tristan Arctic Nurse by Joyce Case

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…

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Posted on June 1, 2020June 7, 2020

Shirley Anderson Sales Assistant by Patricia Baldwin

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…

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Posted on May 31, 2020

Hester: Ship’s Officer by Valerie Baxter

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…

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Posted on May 30, 2020

June Grey: Fashion Student by Lorna Lewis

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…

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Posted on May 29, 2020June 7, 2020

Jane: Young Author by Valerie Baxter

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…

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Posted on May 28, 2020

Sarah Joins the WRAF by Shirley Darbyshire

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…

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