Book Collecting – Pictures and Conversations

Interview with Linda Newbery

Linda Newbery's writing career to date begins and ends with animal rights. In between is a diverse selection of topics, themes and genres for a…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…