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Posted on February 12, 2021February 13, 2021

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…

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Posted on April 19, 2020

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…

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Posted on December 25, 2018

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.…

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Posted on December 6, 2018

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…

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Posted on December 1, 2018January 1, 2019

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…

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Posted on October 4, 2018March 23, 2021

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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Posted on May 15, 2017June 27, 2017

Until We Win by Linda Newbery

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…

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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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Posted on March 30, 2009February 26, 2021

More Desert Island Books

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…

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Posted on November 21, 2008

The Sandfather by Linda Newbery

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…

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