Teenage Books – Page 5 – Pictures and Conversations

Eva Ibbotson’s Memories of Vienna

I have never been to Vienna, although I have long wished to go. I've seen photographs and travelogues of the city and it looks splendid.…

If I ever had to make the decision to keep my entire collection of only one author, my choice would be Dorita Fairlie Bruce. I…

Jean Estoril is one of the many pseudonyms of Mabel Esther Allan and so it should come as no surprise to those following this series…

When Max, Asta, Thea and Van's mother dies they are devastated. Already fatherless, they feel cast adrift on a sea of despair and misery. Max,…

First of all, let me put my cards on the table. I am a Chartered Librarian. I qualified in 1990 and gained my Charter in…

Although I didn't realise it when I bought it, I had read this book as a teenager. It was reprinted by Knight Books as Three…

My sister and I have a little in-joke about words. It stems from the fact that I once memorably (at least as far as Ann…

My inability to arrange flowers, my tendency to kill plants and my slowness in the morning are three good reasons for me never to have…

So, let's start with the dust wrapper. First of all: those eyes. I recognised them from somewhere else. Right enough, AE Batchelor, the artist, also…

One of the things that has always puzzled me about the Victory Press career books is that there is hardly any mention of Church in…