Pictures and Conversations

19th December

Mum tried for years to interest me in O Douglas’ books but it took a lot of persuading before I finally delved in. Of course,…

I came early to John Buchan’s thrillers courtesy of my mother who insisted that I watch the BBC adaptation of Huntingtower in 1978. I’m very…

There aren’t many classics on this list but an early choice was A Room with a View by EM Forster. When I was in Sixth…

Elsie Oxenham was one of the Big Three school story writers in the early and middle part of the twentieth century, the others being Dorita…

I discovered the Drina books by Jean Estoril serendipitously in Lossiemouth Library as a child. I read them in a random order as and when…

My first of two books by O Douglas (Anna Buchan) is The House that is Our Own, the last of her completed novels. It was…

Back in the fifties and sixties career novels were all the rage, particularly those aimed at girls. I read them in the eighties and was…

In a sneaky move I’m including a second book by Dorita Fairlie Bruce who, you may remember from last week, is my favourite collectable author.…

Clare Mallory was a New Zealander who wrote books for children and teenagers in the 1940s and 1950s. I came across her books fairly recently…

Trudy Takes Charge is the first of ten books about the eponymous heroine. They were published over the course of twenty-one years, from the late…