My Lockdown Books: Thirty One
I try very hard not to say that I like a book just because I do but Sally's Family by Gwendoline Courtney falls into that…
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My Lockdown Books: Twenty Four
I've been reading Mabel Esther Allan's books for about forty years. I've collected them more seriously recently but have limited myself to her teenage novels…
My Lockdown Books: Twenty Three
You were expecting Anne of the Island, weren't you? I'm not surprised as I've cited it as one of my favourite books, never mind my…
My Lockdown Books: Twenty One
I was an unofficial champion for this series right from the beginning as a friend of mine was then working for Nosy Crow, the hugely…
My Lockdown Books: Twenty
When I was seventeen I went on a memorable family holiday. It turned out to be the last family holiday we had while my sister…
My Lockdown Books: Sixteen
Three Girls and a Car was one of Mum's Sunday School prizes (for perfect attendance) and I first read it when I was about ten. …
My Lockdown Books: Twelve
The time has come, as you surely knew it would, for me to share this one from my collection. There's nothing random about Nancy Calls…
My Lockdown Books: Seven
The first books I seriously set about collecting were the Chalet School books by Elinor M Brent-Dyer. I acquired the first one (actually the seventeenth…
My Lockdown Books: Five
I read the Katy books by Susan Coolidge when I was a child. I have a vague idea that I also saw a BBC adaptation…
My Lockdown Books: Four
As a teenager I collected Bodley Head career novels. I had loads; they were easy to find. And then, in one of our moves, I…
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