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Posted on August 30, 2020

Some Further Thoughts on DFB

In my less realistic and rational moments (I can't actually write and I don't own the copyright) I imagine writing a follow on novel for…

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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 April 15, 2020

My Lockdown Books: Ten

I adore the Ottoline books, both as items and for the content.  This one is my favourite, though, because it has Norway and the sea…

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Posted on December 24, 2009December 24, 2009

Christmas Reading

  For many years I had books that I almost always re-read at Christmas.  They formed a mixed bag but, inevitably, they all had a strong…

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Posted on January 30, 2009February 8, 2009

Comfort Reading: The Big Three

Ages ago I wrote about Anne of the Island and said that it was one of my desert island books.  I chose the books in…

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