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Posted on May 24, 2020

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…

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Posted on May 23, 2020

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…

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Posted on May 23, 2020May 23, 2020

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…

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Posted on May 22, 2020

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…

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Posted on May 22, 2020

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. …

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Posted on May 21, 2020

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…

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Posted on May 20, 2020

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…

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Posted on May 20, 2020

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,…

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Posted on May 19, 2020

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…

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Posted on May 18, 2020

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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