Christmas Day
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.…
Christmas Eve
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…
23rd December
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…
22nd December
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…
21st December
Mabel Esther Allan has already appeared in this month’s posts in the guise of Jean Estoril, one of her many pseudonyms. In her own name…
20th December
The book I most associate Judith Kerr with is When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit and it’s another of the very few primary school class books…
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,…
18th December
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…
17th December
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…
16th December
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…
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