The Merry Trilogy by Clare Mallory
Just before the axe fell I was in New Zealand, endeavouring to pretend that life was normal. My plan was to have a week there…
Just before the axe fell I was in New Zealand, endeavouring to pretend that life was normal. My plan was to have a week there…
Higher and higher they climbed, now and then stopping at a tiny wayside station, till at last...before them, dark, beautiful, and clear as a mirror,…
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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,…
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On my other blog ( please feel very free to wander over to http://www.janespicturejournal.com) I mentioned in an article that I am unable to daydream…
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…
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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…
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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…
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