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Back Beside the Sea

As I write, it is a beautiful autumn day: the sun is shining, the sky is blue and there is scarcely a breeze. The view…

I’ve just discovered the joy of Julia Golding’s books. I knew the Cat books but I’d never read anything else by her until last month. …

Over the last couple of weeks, I've been re-reading the Drina books by Jean Estoril (Mabel Esther Allan). I really liked these books as a…

Try to spin it out as I might (and did) I finally finished reading The Blythes are Quoted earlier this week. As I think I…

For many years I had books that I almost always re-read at Christmas. They formed a mixed bag but, inevitably, they all had a strong…

I'm soaking myself in the novels of O Douglas this week. I have a cottage by Tweed in Peebles and honestly the town still seems…

A while ago I said that there had been one other book event in August about which I'd write later. So, finally, here I am! On…

Ages ago I wrote about Anne of the Island and said that it was one of my desert island books. I chose the books in…

It's Christmas Day and I am in Tromso in the north of Norway. Not coincidentally, I have just finished reading The Christmas Mystery by Jostein…

A few weeks ago, I was at the Youth Libraries Group conference in Lancaster. It was a great conference, probably the best YLG conference I've…