My Lockdown Books: Fifty Five
I don't know when I first read A Background for Beryl by Sylvia Little. It's another of my Mum's prize books so it would have…
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My Lockdown Books: Fifty Four
I have five books by Gordon Cooper. As far as I have been able to find out that's all he wrote. A Time in a…
My Lockdown Books: Fifty Three
I met Brian Conaghan a few years ago at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. I was chairing a panel event he was part of. We…
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…
My Lockdown Books: Fifty One
David Almond is a deceptively brilliant writer. His syntax is simple, although his vocabulary is not, but sentence upon sentence it builds up to an…
My Lockdown Books: Fifty
Of all TS Eliot’s Practical Cats, Skimbleshanks the Railway Cat is my favourite. From ‘the whisper down the line…when the Night Mail’s ready to depart’…
What On Earth Books
What On Earth Books are new to me but Laura Smythe who works as part of the publicity team is not and she sent me…
My Lockdown Books: Forty Nine
My sister wanted me to write about an Alexander McCall Smith book so here you are: School Ship Tobermory. It's the first in a series…
My Lockdown Books: Forty Eight
Here's another review from The Scotsman for a very good book. From Nosy Crow comes Little Bits of Sky, SE Durrant’s debut novel. The story…
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…
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