My Lockdown Books: One
Around half of the books I own in hard copy (so about 1000) were published for children and teenagers. They're an odd mixture of the…
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Adding to my Collection
Whilst I'm always on the lookout for books to add to my collection, there are times when I'm much more pro-active about it. The last…
Christmas Day
DE Stevenson was a best-selling author of her day, the mid-twentieth century. She wrote romances and family stories often with a bit of an edge.…
Christmas Eve
If you’ve been reading this blog of mine for any length of time you’ll be familiar with my panegyrics on LM Montgomery. I make no…
23rd December
My friends Anna and Suzanne, who lived across the road from me growing up, owned a copy of Elizabeth of the Garret Theatre and kindly…
21st December
Mabel Esther Allan has already appeared in this month’s posts in the guise of Jean Estoril, one of her many pseudonyms. In her own name…
19th December
Mum tried for years to interest me in O Douglas’ books but it took a lot of persuading before I finally delved in. Of course,…
16th December
Elsie Oxenham was one of the Big Three school story writers in the early and middle part of the twentieth century, the others being Dorita…
15th December
I discovered the Drina books by Jean Estoril serendipitously in Lossiemouth Library as a child. I read them in a random order as and when…
14th December
My first of two books by O Douglas (Anna Buchan) is The House that is Our Own, the last of her completed novels. It was…
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