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Posted on June 14, 2020

Eva Ibbotson’s Memories of Vienna

I have never been to Vienna, although I have long wished to go. I've seen photographs and travelogues of the city and it looks splendid.…

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Posted on June 9, 2020

The School at the Chalet by Elinor M Brent-Dyer

Higher and higher they climbed, now and then stopping at a tiny wayside station, till at last...before them, dark, beautiful, and clear as a mirror,…

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Posted on May 24, 2020

My Lockdown Books: Sixty Nine

You might think I've chosen another book by Elinor Brent-Dyer to include in this lockdown selection but I haven't - although I understand why you…

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Posted on April 12, 2020April 12, 2020

My Lockdown Books: Seven

The first books I seriously set about collecting were the Chalet School books by Elinor M Brent-Dyer.  I acquired the first one (actually the seventeenth…

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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 4, 2018

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…

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Posted on August 6, 2008August 6, 2008

The Blog’s Name

I expect that some of you recognise the allusion in the title of my blog.  It's to Lewis Carroll, of course, in Alice's Adventures in…

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