Elizabeth Wein
I only meant, last night, to read the first few pages of The Enigma Game to get a feel for it last but I ended…
My Lockdown Books: Thirty Five
My favourite of the late Mal Peet's superlative novels without any shadow of a doubt is Tamar. The review below has appeared elsewhere but I…
My Lockdown Books: Thirty Four
Tally Hamilton is furious to hear she is being sent from London to a horrid, stuffy boarding school in the countryside. But Delderton Hall is…
My Lockdown Books: Twelve
The time has come, as you surely knew it would, for me to share this one from my collection. There's nothing random about Nancy Calls…
My Lockdown Books: One
Around half of the books I own in hard copy (so about 1000) were published for children and teenagers. They're an odd mixture of the…
20th December
The book I most associate Judith Kerr with is When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit and it’s another of the very few primary school class books…
10th December
Trudy Takes Charge is the first of ten books about the eponymous heroine. They were published over the course of twenty-one years, from the late…
5th December
Of all the children’s authors I collect, Dorita Fairlie Bruce is my favourite. In a large part I think it’s because she’s a Scot and…
4th December
It was always going to be incredibly difficult to choose only one book by Elinor Brent-Dyer for this list. I almost chose The Chalet School…
Elizabeth Wein
The Edinburgh International Book Festival is drawing near and I am, once again, looking forward to introducing and chairing events. One of these is with…
