2025 Round-Up

I don’t often do a round up but I thought for this year I would do some lists of the year, in no particular order.

First off, top 10 destinations I visited last year:

1. The Roman Baths, Bath
2. The Brontë Parsonage Museum, Haworth
3. The Brontë Waterfall and Bridge, Haworth
4. Yorkshire Wildlife Park
5. Cliffe Castle Museum and Park, Keighley
6. Marie Antoinette Exhibition at the V&A, London
7. Powis Castle and Garden, Welshpool, Wales
8. Cartier Exhibition at the V&A, London
9. Sir John Soane’s Museum, London (blog post to come)
10. Christmas at Chatsworth House, Derbyshire

My top 10 books:

1. True Crime Story by Joseph Knox.
2. Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
3. Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries: How Women (Also) Built the World by Kate Mosse.
4. Shroud for a Nightingale by P. D. James.
5. Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro.
6. Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson.
7. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin.
8. A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness.
9. The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia.
10. Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson.

My top 5 TV shows:

1. Patience (Channel 4).
2. Murder Most Puzzling (Channel 5).
3. Ellis (Channel 5).
4. Karen Pirie (ITV1).
5. Outrageous (U).

My top 5 films:

1. Maria (cinema).
2. September 5 (cinema).
3. Sinners (cinema).
4. Wicked: For Good (cinema).
5. Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (Netflix).

My top 5 theatre productions:

1. Macbeth with David Tennant and Cush Jumbo (Cinema).
2. NT Live: The Importance of Being Earnest (Cinema).
3. & Juliet.
4. Top Hat.
5. Witness for the Prosecution.