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Posted on December 14, 2023

Advent Reading Challenge Day Fourteen

Share a Shelfie If, for some terrible reason, I had to choose to keep the books of just one of the authors I collect, without…

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Posted on December 9, 2023

Advent Reading Challenge Day Nine

A Book You'd Like to Spend Christmas In As with yesterday, there's a whole heap of books I could have chosen today. Some contain accounts…

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Posted on December 8, 2023January 21, 2024

Advent Reading Challenge Day Eight

Your Dream Christmas Destination Even as I start typing I'm not sure which book I'm going to write about. What is my dream Christmas destination…

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Posted on August 30, 2020

Some Further Thoughts on DFB

In my less realistic and rational moments (I can't actually write and I don't own the copyright) I imagine writing a follow on novel for…

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Posted on August 29, 2020

Some Fan Fiction

Regular readers of this blog will have been unable to avoid the revelation that my favourite mid twentieth century writer is Dorita Fairlie Bruce. I…

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Posted on June 13, 2020November 20, 2025

Dorita Fairlie Bruce’s Song of the Clyde

If I ever had to make the decision to keep my entire collection of only one author, my choice would be Dorita Fairlie Bruce. I…

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Posted on April 17, 2020May 13, 2020

My Lockdown Books: Twelve

The time has come, as you surely knew it would, for me to share this one from my collection.  There's nothing random about Nancy Calls…

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Posted on December 12, 2018November 4, 2019

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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Posted on December 5, 2018

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…

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Posted on November 15, 2010

Back Beside the Sea

As I write, it is a beautiful autumn day: the sun is shining, the sky is blue and there is scarcely a breeze.  The view…

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