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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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…
The Skylarks’ War by Hilary MacKay
I'm already an admirer of Hilary McKay's writing so it wasn't a stretch for the publisher (Macmillan) to get me to read a proof of The…
A Secret Diary of the First World War by Gill Arbuthnott
These past five years or so have been excellent for me. Over the years I have collected up as much fiction as I could set…
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Wave by Paul Dowswell
Following the highly successful Eleven Eleven, Paul Dowswell returns to the First World War with Wave, a novel set on the first day of the…
A Rose for the Anzac Boys by Jackie French
It'll not come as any surprise that I haunted bookshops when I was in Australia. As well as wanting to buy old children's books from…
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