My Lockdown Books: Thirty Six
Seriously Sassy is the first in a trilogy by Maggi Gibson. The books are bouncy and fun but touch on some serious issues. They're also…
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My Lockdown Books: Thirty Five
My favourite of the late Mal Peet's superlative novels without any shadow of a doubt is Tamar. The review below has appeared elsewhere but I…
My Lockdown Books: Thirty Four
Tally Hamilton is furious to hear she is being sent from London to a horrid, stuffy boarding school in the countryside. But Delderton Hall is…
My Lockdown Books: Thirty Three
Maggie McKinley comes from a high-rise flat in one of Glasgow's overspill estates. James Fraser is from a town house in the Georgian New Town…
My Lockdown Books: Thirty Two
This is a piece I wrote a couple of years ago. I don't think I can improve upon it. To the Edge of the…
My Lockdown Books: Thirty One
I try very hard not to say that I like a book just because I do but Sally's Family by Gwendoline Courtney falls into that…
My Lockdown Books: Thirty
Between Two Seas was Marie-Louise Jensen's first book and it's exceptionally good. I had some reservations about the believability of it after my first reading. …
My Lockdown Books: Twenty Nine
Garth Nix is best known for his fantasy books. Fantasy really isn't my kind of genre. The problem is that Garth Nix is my kind…
My Lockdown Books: Twenty Eight
I decided to treat myself to a re-read of the Ishmael trilogy by the award-winning Michael Gerard Bauer. Why? Well, I don't really need a…
My Lockdown Books: Twenty Seven
Helen Dore Boylston is best known for her Sue Barton series which I read as a child and very much enjoyed. It was only years…
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