Continuity Girl by Angela Mack
Well, we're back to career novels with no plot here. The blurb doesn't even mention the main character or the setting. What it talks about…
Travels of a Nursery Nurse by Beatrice Lloyd
Of its type this is one of the better books I've read recently. I collect career novels more for their social history than their plots…
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Two Young Missionaries: Celia and Margaret in Africa
To say that I was intrigued when I saw a copy of Two Young Missionaries by Nansi Pugh for sale is to put it mildly.…
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Some Further Thoughts on DFB
In my less realistic and rational moments (I can't actually write and I don't own the copyright) I imagine writing a follow on novel for…
Some Fan Fiction
Regular readers of this blog will have been unable to avoid the revelation that my favourite mid twentieth century writer is Dorita Fairlie Bruce. I…
Straddling the Border
About fifteen years ago I went to Italy with a couple of friends for a winter week. We stayed first in Verona, a beautiful city,…
Guernsey Before the Chalet School
As a teenager I found Elinor Brent-Dyer's La Rochelle series quite difficult to get into. They seemed to me to be much more dense than…
To the Festival
I have always known Edinburgh. I was born here and lived my first five years here. My Mum's parents lived in Musselburgh only a few…
Travel Back in Time
I did mention that Mabel Esther Allan would feature largely in this set of posts and here she is again using her own name. Blue…
Dorita Fairlie Bruce’s Song of the Clyde
If I ever had to make the decision to keep my entire collection of only one author, my choice would be Dorita Fairlie Bruce. I…
