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Tag: Advent Calendar 2018

Posted on December 25, 2018

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.…

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Posted on December 24, 2018

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…

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Posted on December 23, 2018

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…

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Posted on December 22, 2018

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…

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Posted on December 21, 2018December 21, 2018

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…

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Posted on December 20, 2018December 20, 2018

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…

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Posted on December 19, 2018

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,…

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Posted on December 18, 2018

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…

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Posted on December 17, 2018December 17, 2018

17th September

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…

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Posted on December 16, 2018

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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