My Lockdown Books: Twenty Seven
Helen Dore Boylston is best known for her Sue Barton series which I read as a child and very much enjoyed. It was only years…
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My Lockdown Books: Twenty Six
In Welcome to Nowhere Elizabeth Laird tells Omar’s story. Omar is a twelve-year-old from a fairly average Syrian family who hates school and has great…
My Lockdown Books: Twenty Five
I think Christopher Edge is possibly a genius. Even though they hurt my head, I cannot resist his books. Many of them are hung round…
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…
My Lockdown Books: Twenty Three
You were expecting Anne of the Island, weren't you? I'm not surprised as I've cited it as one of my favourite books, never mind my…
My Lockdown Books: Twenty Two
Another book from Nosy Crow today and another author whom my friend Dom put my way. I read and enjoyed Fleur Hitchcock's Dear Scarlett ahead…
My Lockdown Books: Twenty One
I was an unofficial champion for this series right from the beginning as a friend of mine was then working for Nosy Crow, the hugely…
My Lockdown Books: Twenty
When I was seventeen I went on a memorable family holiday. It turned out to be the last family holiday we had while my sister…
My Lockdown Books: Nineteen
I've met Frank Cottrell Boyce and he's a delightful man. We should have met at the Carnegie Kate Greenaway Medal award ceremony in July 2005. …
My Lockdown Books: Eighteen
The Bookshop Girl by Sylvia Bishop and illustrated by Ashley King is for younger readers than many others in this selection. But that certainly doesn't…
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