This is part of my Summer Reads series - where I’ll be sharing book recommendations – a series of “not just cookbooks”.

As soon as I saw that Janet Skeslien Charles had a new book coming out, I immediately requested it from the Toronto Public Library. I must have got lucky because shortly after Skeslien Charles’ latest, Miss Morgan’s Book Brigade (or The Librarians of Rue de Picardie in some parts of the world) launched, my hold notice arrived! You don’t often get a new release within a week of it publishing!

Skeslien Charles is the New York Times (and internationally) bestselling author of The Paris Library (which I read, loved and reviewed in 2021). Her work has been translated into thirty-seven languages. She has spent a decade researching Jessie Carson (Miss Morgan’s Book Brigade) at The Morgan Library, the NYPL, and archives across France.

Read my full review here.