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Posted on December 15, 2020December 15, 2020

Out of Nowhere by Paul Dowswell

You may remember that I posted an interview with Paul Dowswell the other week in which I mentioned his most recent book which has been…

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Posted on December 1, 2020

Interview with Paul Dowswell

I’ve known Paul Dowswell long enough to have forgotten exactly when we met.  It was at an Edinburgh International Book Festival when I was chairing…

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Posted on July 28, 2020September 30, 2020

Elizabeth Wein

I only meant, last night, to read the first few pages of The Enigma Game to get a feel for it but I ended up…

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Posted on May 2, 2020

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…

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Posted on May 2, 2020

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…

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Posted on April 17, 2020May 13, 2020

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…

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Posted on April 6, 2020April 6, 2020

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…

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Posted on December 20, 2018December 20, 2018

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…

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Posted on December 10, 2018December 10, 2018

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…

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Posted on December 5, 2018

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…

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