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Posted on December 18, 2020

Continuity Girl by Angela Mack

Well, we're back to career novels with no plot here. The blurb doesn't even mention the main character or the setting. What it talks about…

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Posted on December 15, 2020December 15, 2020

Out of Nowhere by Paul Dowswell

You may remember that I posted an interview with Paul Dowswell the other week in which I mentioned his most recent book which has been…

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Posted on December 14, 2020

Travels of a Nursery Nurse by Beatrice Lloyd

Of its type this is one of the better books I've read recently. I collect career novels more for their social history than their plots…

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Posted on December 1, 2020

Interview with Paul Dowswell

I’ve known Paul Dowswell long enough to have forgotten exactly when we met.  It was at an Edinburgh International Book Festival when I was chairing…

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Posted on November 9, 2020

Two Young Missionaries: Celia and Margaret in Africa

To say that I was intrigued when I saw a copy of Two Young Missionaries by Nansi Pugh for sale is to put it mildly.…

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Posted on September 13, 2020

The Great Revolt by Paul Dowswell

I've never troubled to hide my feelings about history. With very few exceptions, if it happened before 1800 I'm just not interested. I realise that…

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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 July 28, 2020September 30, 2020

Elizabeth Wein

I only meant, last night, to read the first few pages of The Enigma Game to get a feel for it but I ended up…

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Posted on June 23, 2020

Straddling the Border

About fifteen years ago I went to Italy with a couple of friends for a winter week. We stayed first in Verona, a beautiful city,…

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