My Lockdown Books: Fifty Nine
In 1914, a year of significant anniversaries, Flying Eye Books chose to mark a less heralded one in Shackleton’s Journey. This beautiful book, written and…
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My Lockdown Books: Fifty Eight
Who to trust. What to believe. How to survive. These are the questions battering Jack Shian as he continues his quest to find his father.…
My Lockdown Books: Fifty Seven
I met Cathy Cassidy many years ago and have worked with her at a number of book festivals since then. She's one of my favourite…
My Lockdown Books: Fifty Six
Yes, I know that I’ve already written about one of LM Montgomery’s books but it’s my birthday so I’m indulging myself. No-one is surprised that…
My Lockdown Books: Fifty Five
I don't know when I first read A Background for Beryl by Sylvia Little. It's another of my Mum's prize books so it would have…
My Lockdown Books: Fifty Four
I have five books by Gordon Cooper. As far as I have been able to find out that's all he wrote. A Time in a…
My Lockdown Books: Fifty Three
I met Brian Conaghan a few years ago at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. I was chairing a panel event he was part of. We…
My Lockdown Books: Fifty Two
I met Mollie Hunter a couple of times: once at a book festival I organised to mark the Carnegie Medal, held at the original Carnegie…
My Lockdown Books: Fifty One
David Almond is a deceptively brilliant writer. His syntax is simple, although his vocabulary is not, but sentence upon sentence it builds up to an…
My Lockdown Books: Fifty
Of all TS Eliot’s Practical Cats, Skimbleshanks the Railway Cat is my favourite. From ‘the whisper down the line…when the Night Mail’s ready to depart’…
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