The Penguinet

Good evening, gosh late posting today.
I got stuck in a new book.
There are various book prizes awarded in the UK every year and I enjoy looking thorugh the shortlists to see if anything interesting has come up.

The Orange Prize is now called The Bailey's Women's Prize for fiction, find out more about it here:
http://www.womensprizeforfiction.co.uk/

One of the books on the shortlist is called The Undertaking, by Audrey Magee.
Here's what the Website tells us about it:

Desperate to escape the Eastern front, Peter Faber, an ordinary German soldier, marries Katharina Spinell, a woman he has never met; it is a marriage of convenience that promises honeymoon leave for him and a pension for her should he die on the front. With ten days’ leave secured, Peter visits his new wife in Berlin; both are surprised by the attraction that develops between them.
When Peter returns to the horror of the front, it is only the dream of his wife that sustains him as he approaches Stalingrad. Back in Berlin, Katharina, goaded on by her desperate and delusional parents, ruthlessly works her way into the Nazi party hierarchy, wedding herself, her young husband and their unborn child to the regime. But when the tide of war turns and Berlin falls, Peter and Katharina, ordinary people stained with their small share of an extraordinary guilt, find their simple dream of family increasingly hard to hold on to.

So of course I had to order it.  And that is why I am late here today.

For some lighter practice, I've also been looking at material for our Crimean War lesson and have found the Horrible Histories series.
Here's one about the King Georges:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPtYmq5qFVA

And my favourite King Charles King of Bling:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2kyNbZc7oc

And here's the Horrible Histories Website:

http://horrible-histories.co.uk/

with games,  a magazine and all sorts of history fun.

Enjoy!