My Lockdown Books: Fifty Four
I have five books by Gordon Cooper. As far as I have been able to find out that's all he wrote. A Time in a…
My Lockdown Books: Fifty One
David Almond is a deceptively brilliant writer. His syntax is simple, although his vocabulary is not, but sentence upon sentence it builds up to an…
My Lockdown Books: Twenty Three
You were expecting Anne of the Island, weren't you? I'm not surprised as I've cited it as one of my favourite books, never mind my…
Lily and the Rockets by Rebecca Stevens
I understand that some women are playing in a football competition somewhere. Honestly, I do know what the competition is but I genuinely have no…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
Armistice Runner by Tom Palmer
From my publishing favourite Barrington Stoke comes this young novel to mark the one hundredth anniversary of the Armistice. It's the story of three generation…
