Last month Michael Gerard Bauer won the Prime Minister's Literary Award for his young adult novel, The Things That Will Not Stand. I should clarify…
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Alongside the Carnegie Medal sits its sister prize the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal. The nominations list for it has also been published today. The nominating…
The nominations for the CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals were published today. As a former judge, I'm always excited, interested and sometimes disappointed. Like…
Whilst I'm always on the lookout for books to add to my collection, there are times when I'm much more pro-active about it. The last…
I understand that some women are playing in a football competition somewhere. Honestly, I do know what the competition is but I genuinely have no…
Yes, I know. There's been an almighty break in service from me. My life has taken some interesting turns in the last six months but…
DE Stevenson was a best-selling author of her day, the mid-twentieth century. She wrote romances and family stories often with a bit of an edge.…
If you’ve been reading this blog of mine for any length of time you’ll be familiar with my panegyrics on LM Montgomery. I make no…
My friends Anna and Suzanne, who lived across the road from me growing up, owned a copy of Elizabeth of the Garret Theatre and kindly…
Many years ago the BBC dramatised The Warden and Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope. I watched them, loved them and immediately became a devoted reader…
