Top Ten Tuesday – Page 2 – What Cathy Read Next…

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish and now hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl.

The rules are simple:

Each Tuesday, Jana assigns a new topic. Create your own Top Ten list that fits that topic – putting your unique spin on it if you want.
Everyone is welcome to join but please link back to That Artsy Reader Girl in your own Top Ten Tuesday post.
Add your name to the Linky widget on that day’s post so that everyone can check out other bloggers’ lists.
Or if you don’t have a blog, just post your answers as a comment.

This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic is a freebie so we’re invited to come up with our own topic. I’ve chosen Fictional Housekeepers. Links will take you to my review or the book description on Goodreads.

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier – Featuring probably the most memorable housekeeper in literature, the creepy Mrs. Danvers
The Housekeeper by Rose Tremain (published in September) – ‘Daphne du Maurier stole my life.’ A fictional take on the inspiration for Rebecca
Mrs Hudson and the Capricorn Incident by Martin Davies – Sherlock Holmes’ housekeeper turns detective herself
The Housekeepers by Alex Hay – Housekeeper Mrs King is suddenly dismissed from her post and plots her revenge in the form of the heist of the century
Mrs Finnegan’s Guide to Love, Life & Laxatives by Bridget Whelan – Mrs. Finnegan, doyenne of housekeepers, dispenses practical advice and words of wisdom
Thunderball by Ian Fleming – One of the few appearances by May Maxwell, James Bond’s Scottish housekeeper
The Household by Stacey Halls – Housekeeper Mrs Holdsworth presides over Urania Cottage, a refuge for ‘fallen’ women one of whose benefactors is Charles Dickens
The Well of Saint Nobody by Neil Jordan – A young woman answers a job advertisement – ‘WANTED. HOUSEKEEPER.’ – and goes to work for William Barrow, once an internationally renowned pianist who can no longer perform
4.50 From Paddington by Agatha Christie – When her friend Mrs. Elspeth McGillicuddy witnesses a women being strangled in the carriage of a passing train, Miss Marple asks Lucy Eyelesbarrow to take a job as housekeeper at Rutherford Hall
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë – Mrs Alice Fairfax, the elderly, kind widow employed as housekeeper at Thornfield Hall

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish and now hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl.

The rules are simple:

Each Tuesday, Jana assigns a new topic. Create your own Top Ten list that fits that topic – putting your unique spin on it if you want.
Everyone is welcome to join but please link back to That Artsy Reader Girl in your own Top Ten Tuesday post.
Add your name to the Linky widget on that day’s post so that everyone can check out other bloggers’ lists.
Or if you don’t have a blog, just post your answers as a comment.

This week’s Ten Tuesday topic is April Showers. I struggled to come up with ideas to fit the topic so I created my own – Books Featuring Newspapers or Journalists. Having said that, I guess reading the news might be something to occupy you when it’s raining. Links from each title will take you to my review or the book description on Goodreads.

Small Pleasures by Clare Chambers – When a young woman contacts a local paper claiming her daughter is the result of a virgin birth, feature writer Jean Swinney is sent to discover whether she is a miracle or a fraud
A Murder Is Announced by Agatha Christie – The residents of Chipping Cleghorn are intrigued by an advertisement in the local paper announcing the time and place a murder will occur
Scoop by Evelyn Waugh – A case of mistaken identity transforms William Boot from country columnist into war correspondent
Dear Mrs Bird by A J Pearce – Emmeline Lake obtains a position as typist to the fierce and renowned advice columnist of the London Evening Chronicle, Henrietta Bird
The Northern Light by A. J. Cronin – Henry Page, owner of The Northern Light, the oldest and most respected newspaper in Tynecastle, is offered a vast sum to turn over control to a mass-circulation group based in London
The Quiet American by Graham Greene – A British journalist in his fifties who has covered the French war in Vietnam for more than two years meets a young American idealist who is an undercover CIA agent
My Name is Emilia del Valle by Isobel Allende – An ambitious young woman lands a position as a journalist for the Daily Examiner and is sent to cover a brewing civil war in Chile
Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn – Fresh from a brief stay at a psychiatric hospital, a reporter is sent to her tiny hometown to cover the murders of two young girls
The Shipping News by Annie Proulx – A journalist relocates to Newfoundland after a personal tragedy and lands a position on a small town paper
The Gap in the Curtain by John Buchan – Guests at a country house party are enabled by an eccentric scientist to see a glimpse of an issue of The Times newspaper dated a year hence