My Lockdown Books: Sixty Nine
You might think I've chosen another book by Elinor Brent-Dyer to include in this lockdown selection but I haven't - although I understand why you…
My Lockdown Books: Sixty Eight
Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong return for another unladylike murder mystery in Mistletoe and Murder. The school friends are spending Christmas in Cambridge with Daisy’s…
My Lockdown Books: Sixty Seven
I reviewed all three books in Teresa Flavin's trilogy, mostly because I loved them and thought that they were well written but partly because I…
My Lockdown Books: Sixty Six
In The Glass Swallow Julia Golding revisits the world she created in Dragonfly. This is more of a companion piece than a sequel, however, and…
My Lockdown Books: Sixty Five
Juliet in Publishing by Elizabeth Churchill is a book I've added to my collection as an adult and it's one of my favourite career novels. …
My Lockdown Books: Sixty Four
By rights Mimi by John Newman should be a dismal read, recounting as it does the days after the death of Mimi’s mother. Her family…
My Lockdown Books: Sixty Three
Philip Reeve was another author I discovered in the course of my duties as a Carnegie Medal judge. Predator's Gold was longlisted in one of…
My Lockdown Books: Sixty Two
When the bank his parents own crashes, Oliver’s life starts to spin out of control. Precipitated into responsibility for a grumpy girl, her unpredictable mother,…
My Lockdown Books: Sixty One
I know I'm not alone in having had horrible experiences of being compelled to read books in primary school that I hated. But, hopefully, I'm…
My Lockdown Books: Sixty
Two reviews for one today. I've added these books to my picture book collection but they're not simple and they can be enjoyed by fluent…
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