Advent Reading Challenge Day One
Your December TBR pile As you can see my to-be-read pile is under control. I've tried to be sensible about the books that I buy,…
Your December TBR pile As you can see my to-be-read pile is under control. I've tried to be sensible about the books that I buy,…
About fifteen years ago I went to Italy with a couple of friends for a winter week. We stayed first in Verona, a beautiful city,…
I have always known Edinburgh. I was born here and lived my first five years here. My Mum's parents lived in Musselburgh only a few…
I did mention that Mabel Esther Allan would feature largely in this set of posts and here she is again using her own name. Blue…
Jean Estoril is one of the many pseudonyms of Mabel Esther Allan and so it should come as no surprise to those following this series…
When Max, Asta, Thea and Van's mother dies they are devastated. Already fatherless, they feel cast adrift on a sea of despair and misery. Max,…
Continue reading → Black Forest Summer by Mabel Esther Allan
As many of you will know, Jean Estoril was one of Mabel Esther Allan's pseudonyms. I, however, did not know that when I came across…
I've been reading Mabel Esther Allan's books for about forty years. I've collected them more seriously recently but have limited myself to her teenage novels…
Mabel Esther Allan has already appeared in this month’s posts in the guise of Jean Estoril, one of her many pseudonyms. In her own name…
I discovered the Drina books by Jean Estoril serendipitously in Lossiemouth Library as a child. I read them in a random order as and when…