Teenage Books – Page 4 – Pictures and Conversations

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.…

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,…

I'm not quite sure where my desire to visit Berlin came from and I can't remember when the divided city was first something I was…

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…

I have always known Edinburgh. I was born here and lived my first five years here. My Mum's parents lived in Musselburgh only a few…

I did mention that Mabel Esther Allan would feature largely in this set of posts and here she is again using her own name. Blue…