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Posted on June 23, 2020

Straddling the Border

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,…

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Posted on June 16, 2020

To the Festival

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…

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Posted on June 15, 2020

Travel Back in Time

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…

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Posted on June 11, 2020

Dancing with Drina in Kandersteg

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…

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Posted on June 8, 2020

Black Forest Summer by Mabel Esther Allan

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,…

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Posted on May 9, 2020May 9, 2020

My Lockdown Books: Forty Six

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…

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Posted on April 25, 2020April 25, 2020

My Lockdown Books: Twenty Four

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…

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Posted on December 21, 2018December 21, 2018

21st December

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…

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Posted on December 15, 2018

15th December

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…

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Posted on February 11, 2010February 11, 2010

Revising and Updating Books: some thoughts occasioned by re-reading Jean Estoril

Over the last couple of weeks, I've been re-reading the Drina books by Jean Estoril (Mabel Esther Allan).  I really liked these books as a…

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