7th December
It all starts when Alasdair is on the train from Glasgow to Mallaig en route for Skye, the birthplace of the father he scarcely remembers.…
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5th December
Of all the children’s authors I collect, Dorita Fairlie Bruce is my favourite. In a large part I think it’s because she’s a Scot and…
4th December
It was always going to be incredibly difficult to choose only one book by Elinor Brent-Dyer for this list. I almost chose The Chalet School…
2nd December
Persuasion is Jane Austen’s most mature novel. It has always been my favourite of her books and the older I’ve become, the more I’ve appreciated…
1st December
As it happens, the first two books in my Advent selection are the books I would describe as my favourite children’s books, one of my…
Advent is Coming
I was fifty this year and, in planning for my extravaganza of a party, I compiled lots of lists, many of them of fifty things.…
Only One of Me by Lisa Wells and Michelle Robinson
Only One of Me is a beautiful book written to help families prepare for the death of a parent. It is the creation of Lisa…
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Wide Eyed Books
Wide Eyed Editions is aptly named. Its books are truly full of wonder. Even when they deal with subjects I'm not interested in, I love…
The Key to Flambards by Linda Newbery
Flambards by KM Peyton was published just before I was born. I discovered it twelve years later when it was still the first in a…
Armistice Runner by Tom Palmer
From my publishing favourite Barrington Stoke comes this young novel to mark the one hundredth anniversary of the Armistice. It's the story of three generation…
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