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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Eva Ibbotson’s Memories of Vienna
I have never been to Vienna, although I have long wished to go. I've seen photographs and travelogues of the city and it looks splendid.…
Dancing with Drina in Kandersteg
Jean Estoril is one of the many pseudonyms of Mabel Esther Allan and so it should come as no surprise to those following this series…
The Merry Trilogy by Clare Mallory
Just before the axe fell I was in New Zealand, endeavouring to pretend that life was normal. My plan was to have a week there…
The School at the Chalet by Elinor M Brent-Dyer
Higher and higher they climbed, now and then stopping at a tiny wayside station, till at last...before them, dark, beautiful, and clear as a mirror,…
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My Lockdown Books: Sixty Nine
You might think I've chosen another book by Elinor Brent-Dyer to include in this lockdown selection but I haven't - although I understand why you…
My Lockdown Books: Sixty Eight
Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong return for another unladylike murder mystery in Mistletoe and Murder. The school friends are spending Christmas in Cambridge with Daisy’s…
My Lockdown Books: Sixty Four
By rights Mimi by John Newman should be a dismal read, recounting as it does the days after the death of Mimi’s mother. Her family…
My Lockdown Books: Sixty Three
Philip Reeve was another author I discovered in the course of my duties as a Carnegie Medal judge. Predator's Gold was longlisted in one of…
My Lockdown Books: Sixty Two
When the bank his parents own crashes, Oliver’s life starts to spin out of control. Precipitated into responsibility for a grumpy girl, her unpredictable mother,…
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