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Posted on June 10, 2020June 10, 2020

The Merry Trilogy by Clare Mallory

Just before the axe fell I was in New Zealand, endeavouring to pretend that life was normal. My plan was to have a week there…

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Posted on June 9, 2020

The School at the Chalet by Elinor M Brent-Dyer

Higher and higher they climbed, now and then stopping at a tiny wayside station, till at last...before them, dark, beautiful, and clear as a mirror,…

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Posted on April 14, 2020

My Lockdown Books: Nine

Now this one really is random.  Either Mum or I picked it up in a charity shop somewhere many years ago.  There's nothing special or…

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Posted on December 11, 2018December 11, 2018

11th December

Clare Mallory was a New Zealander who wrote books for children and teenagers in the 1940s and 1950s.  I came across her books fairly recently…

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