My Lockdown Books: Fifty Two
I met Mollie Hunter a couple of times: once at a book festival I organised to mark the Carnegie Medal, held at the original Carnegie…
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My Lockdown Books: Forty Seven
My childhood was filled with books published by Pickering & Inglis, purveyors of Christian literature. As a daughter of the manse the basic premise of…
My Lockdown Books: Forty Six
As many of you will know, Jean Estoril was one of Mabel Esther Allan's pseudonyms. I, however, did not know that when I came across…
My Lockdown Books: Forty Five
Every so often, but not often enough, a book comes across my desk that makes me laugh and laugh. Cue: Weasels by Elys Dolan and…
My Lockdown Books: Forty Four
Eleanor Updale is an intelligent, imaginative and beguiling writer and I have enjoyed all her books. I've been fortunate enough to work with her a…
My Lockdown Books: Forty Three
Grounded firmly in the real world is Kite Spirit by Sita Brahmachari. Kite’s life is shattered when her best friend, Dawn, commits suicide. Stunned by…
My Lockdown Books: Forty One
The Weight of Water by Sarah Crossan was sent to me by her publisher, Bloomsbury, to review. I opened it at my desk at work…
My Lockdown Books: Forty
After The Edge of the Cloud, A Pattern of Roses is my favourite KM Peyton novel. I am young enough that I read some of…
My Lockdown Books: Thirty Nine
A few years ago, when I was rationalising my book collection, I took the dramatic step of getting rid of my Elsie Oxenham books. I…
My Lockdown Books: Thirty Eight
I have come to the conclusion that Meg Rosoff is a genius. I’ve been reading her books since How I Live Now which I really…
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