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Posted on December 18, 2020

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…

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Posted on December 14, 2020

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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Posted on November 9, 2020

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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Posted on August 30, 2020

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…

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Posted on August 29, 2020

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…

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Posted on June 23, 2020

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,…

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Posted on June 19, 2020November 8, 2020

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…

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Posted on June 16, 2020

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…

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Posted on June 15, 2020

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…

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Posted on June 13, 2020

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…

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