Teenage Books – Pictures and Conversations

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…