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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
There are few things I look forward to more than a new novel by Linda Newbery or a novel set around the campaign for women's…
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…
A while back I promised that I’d write more about the newer children’s books I love. As my bookshelves prove, there are many of them…
I've never met a book by Linda Newbery that I didn't like and I see no sign of that changing. I've just read a proof…