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: Thirty
Between Two Seas was Marie-Louise Jensen's first book and it's exceptionally good. I had some reservations about the believability of it after my first reading. …
My Lockdown Books: Twenty Nine
Garth Nix is best known for his fantasy books. Fantasy really isn't my kind of genre. The problem is that Garth Nix is my kind…
My Lockdown Books: Twenty Five
I think Christopher Edge is possibly a genius. Even though they hurt my head, I cannot resist his books. Many of them are hung round…
My Lockdown Books: Twenty Two
Another book from Nosy Crow today and another author whom my friend Dom put my way. I read and enjoyed Fleur Hitchcock's Dear Scarlett ahead…
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: Nineteen
I've met Frank Cottrell Boyce and he's a delightful man. We should have met at the Carnegie Kate Greenaway Medal award ceremony in July 2005. …
My Lockdown Books: Eighteen
The Bookshop Girl by Sylvia Bishop and illustrated by Ashley King is for younger readers than many others in this selection. But that certainly doesn't…
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. …
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