12th December
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.…
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10th December
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…
9th December
Busman’s Honeymoon is the last of Dorothy L Sayers’ novels about Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane. If I had to pick one of the…
8th December
The Distance Enchanted is the only book by Mary Gervaise I have read and I understand that it is atypical of her output. I think…
7th December
It all starts when Alasdair is on the train from Glasgow to Mallaig en route for Skye, the birthplace of the father he scarcely remembers.…
6th December
It was The Edge of the Cloud by KM Peyton that first made me aware of the Carnegie Medal. I borrowed it from Lossiemouth Library…
5th December
Of all the children’s authors I collect, Dorita Fairlie Bruce is my favourite. In a large part I think it’s because she’s a Scot and…
4th December
It was always going to be incredibly difficult to choose only one book by Elinor Brent-Dyer for this list. I almost chose The Chalet School…
3rd December
My life might have been very different had my parents or I made other decisions. They met and married in Australia but decided to return…
2nd December
Persuasion is Jane Austen’s most mature novel. It has always been my favourite of her books and the older I’ve become, the more I’ve appreciated…
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