The One True Thing by Linda Newbery
If we are fortunate in our lives we will find the one thing that gives us meaning and contentment and joy. It might be something…
Advent Reading Challenge Day Sixteen
A Photo of Your Cosy Christmas Jumper So, here's the thing: I don't have a Christmas jumper, cosy or otherwise. And, anyway, I've translated all these…
Rubbish? Don’t Throw It Away by Linda Newbery and Katie Rewse
A picture book by Linda Newbery is a rare thing and, thus, all the more to be treasured. Rubbish! is on a subject close to…
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This Book is Cruelty Free: Animals and Us by Linda Newbery
Right at the beginning of her published writing career, more years ago than she or I would like to remember, animal rights was something about…
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Interview with Linda Newbery
Linda Newbery's writing career to date begins and ends with animal rights. In between is a diverse selection of topics, themes and genres for a…
My Lockdown Books: Fifteen
Och, you must have known it was coming. I don't really know how I've managed to hold out for so long. Of course there would…
Christmas Day
DE Stevenson was a best-selling author of her day, the mid-twentieth century. She wrote romances and family stories often with a bit of an edge.…
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…
1st December
As it happens, the first two books in my Advent selection are the books I would describe as my favourite children’s books, one of my…
The Key to Flambards by Linda Newbery
Flambards by KM Peyton was published just before I was born. I discovered it twelve years later when it was still the first in a…
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