1940 Club
This page is for the latest of our club reads, books from the year 1940. I’ll collect here links to everyone’s posts, and if I miss yours please leave a comment so that I can add it in! Happy reading! 😀
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The Corinthian by Georgette Heyer
At a House Called Hassocks by Marigold Watney
Testament of Friendship by Vera Brittain
The Grassleyes Mystery by E. Phillips Oppenheim
The Stone of Chastity by Margery Sharp
Madame Bibi Lophile Recommends
Adventures in reading, running and working from home
The Children of Cherry Tree Farm by Enid Blyton
Final Edition by E.F. Benson
The English Air by D.E. Stevenson
Adventures in reading, running and working from home
This Reading Life – Brona’s Books
Death on the Boat Train by John Rhode
Murder at Lilac Cottage by John Rhode
Who Pays the Piper by Dora Amy Elles
Journey into Fear by Eric Ambler
One, Two, Buckle My Shoe by Agatha Christie
Sad Cypress by Agatha Christie
The Bird in the Tree by Elizabeth Goudge
Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
Peter and Paul by Susan Scarlett
The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares
The Norths Meet Murder by Frances and Richard Lockridge
The So Blue Marble by Dorothy B. Hughes
Murder in a Nunnery by Eric Shepherd
Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius by Jorge Luis Borges
Bewildering Cares by Winifred Peck
Ten Way Street by Susan Scarlett
Adventures in reading, running and working from home
Wilson and Some Others by G.D.H and Margaret Cole
Black Plumes by Margery Allingham
A Surfeit of Lampreys by Ngaio Marsh
Miss Hargreaves by Frank Baker
driekiesbookshelf (via Instagram)
Jean Villemeur (Troubled Waters) by Roger Vercel
Mr. Skeffington by Elizabeth von Arnim
Sapphira and the Slave Girl by Willa Cather
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
Mariana by Monica Dickens
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog by Dylan Thomas
A London Family Between the Wars by M.V. Hughes
The Spanish Bride by Georgette Heyer
The Disappearance of General Jason by P.C. Wren
Pigeon Pie by Nancy Mitford
The Naughtiest Girl in School by Enid Blyton
Blue Willows by Doris Gates
England Was an Island Once by Elswyth Thane
The Strangers in the House by Georges Simenon
Eggs, Beans and Crumpets by P.G. Wodehouse
The Inspiration by Myra Morris
Beneath the Visiting Moon by Romilly Cavan
The Great Mistake by Mary Roberts Rinehart
The Hangman’s Whip by Mignon G. Eberhart
Conversations in Bolzano by Sàndor Màrai
Betsy-Tacy by Maud Hart Lovelace
The Big Six by Arthur Ransome
Central Stores by Vicki Baum
Visitors from London by Kitty Barne
Bagfull of Books – guest post by Meli
Bleeding Hooks by Harriet Rutland
A Scream in Soho by John G. Brandon
Native Son by Richard Wright
The Mystery of the Brass-Bound Trunk by Carolyn Keene
He Looked for a City by A.S.M. Hutchinson
The Secret of Dr Honigberger by Mircea Eliade
GENERAL POSTS
Australian Fiction from 1940
T.S. Eliot in 1940
Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings 
Apr 10, 2023 @ 10:39:50
Hi Kaggsy, here’s my first entry for the club: At a House called Hassocks by Marigold Watney
Apr 10, 2023 @ 14:44:55
Fab, thank you – will check this out and link later!
Apr 10, 2023 @ 21:29:59
Hi, I have a post for the 1940 Club, for the book Murder in a Nunnery by Eric Shepherd.
The link is:
https://bitterteaandmystery.blogspot.com/2023/04/1940club-murder-in-nunnery-by-eric.html
Apr 11, 2023 @ 12:48:47
Fab, thank you – will check this out and link later!
Apr 11, 2023 @ 00:29:40
And here is my 1940 in Aussie fiction post: https://whisperinggums.com/2023/04/10/monday-musings-on-australian-literature-1940-in-fiction/
Apr 11, 2023 @ 12:48:27
Thank you! I will check this out and link later! 😀
Apr 13, 2023 @ 13:21:31
I read Journey into Fear by Eric Ambler – superb! https://annabookbel.net/the-1940-club-journey-into-fear-by-eric-ambler
Apr 13, 2023 @ 14:42:04
Fab!
Apr 15, 2023 @ 21:40:09
Hi, I have a 2nd post for the 1940 Club, for The So Blue Marble by Eric Shepherd.
The link is:
https://bitterteaandmystery.blogspot.com/2023/04/1940club-so-blue-marble-by-dorothy-b.html
Apr 16, 2023 @ 13:31:48
Super, thank you – will check this out and link later!
Apr 16, 2023 @ 00:46:49
My review of Vicki Baum’s novel Central Stores is here:
Apr 16, 2023 @ 13:31:17
Fab, thank you – will check this out and link later! 😀
Apr 16, 2023 @ 10:42:18
My review of Bleeding Hooks by Harriet Rutland is here: https://read-warbler.blogspot.com/2023/04/bleeding-hooks-by-harriet-rutland-1940.html
Apr 16, 2023 @ 13:27:58
Thanks! Will check this out and link later! 😀
Apr 16, 2023 @ 18:12:01
Thanks for uploading my entries Karen. I was about to list them. Such a lovely year to choose. I wish I had read more.
Apr 17, 2023 @ 15:11:29
Most welcome, and thank you for taking part – it was indeed a great year for books!
Apr 17, 2023 @ 09:46:08
My last read: He looked for a City by A.S.M. Hutchinson
Apr 17, 2023 @ 14:44:08
Thank you! 😀