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Posted on July 20, 2021

Lightning Strike by Tanya Landman

The thing about Tanya Landman is that she makes you feel as though you are living in her stories. Her novels have wildly different settings…

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Posted on February 20, 2021April 6, 2021

The Colour of Reading

Back in the days when Moray Libraries still needed me and my expertise, I had some responsibility for our Facebook page. For a while we…

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Posted on February 12, 2021February 13, 2021

Interview with Linda Newbery

Linda Newbery's writing career to date begins and ends with animal rights. In between is a diverse selection of topics, themes and genres for a…

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Posted on August 30, 2020

Some Further Thoughts on DFB

In my less realistic and rational moments (I can't actually write and I don't own the copyright) I imagine writing a follow on novel for…

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Posted on August 29, 2020

Some Fan Fiction

Regular readers of this blog will have been unable to avoid the revelation that my favourite mid twentieth century writer is Dorita Fairlie Bruce. I…

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Posted on June 7, 2020

Travel By the Book

On my other blog ( please feel very free to wander over to http://www.janespicturejournal.com) I mentioned in an article that I am unable to daydream…

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Posted on May 12, 2020

My Lockdown Books: Fifty Two

I met Mollie Hunter a couple of times: once at a book festival I organised to mark the Carnegie Medal, held at the original Carnegie…

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Posted on April 25, 2020

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…

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Posted on February 14, 2020March 20, 2021

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark

If you were looking for a novel that captures the popular essence of Edinburgh in the 1930s, there's a fair chance you would light upon…

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Posted on November 4, 2019November 4, 2019

Carnegie Medal

The nominations for the CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals were published today.  As a former judge, I'm always excited, interested and sometimes disappointed.  Like…

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