A History of the World in 25 Cities by Tracey Turner, Andrew Donkin and Libby VanderPloeg
Before I even saw it, I knew this would be my kind of book. And it is. It's full of maps and plans and stories…
Travel Back in Time
I did mention that Mabel Esther Allan would feature largely in this set of posts and here she is again using her own name. Blue…
Black Forest Summer by Mabel Esther Allan
When Max, Asta, Thea and Van's mother dies they are devastated. Already fatherless, they feel cast adrift on a sea of despair and misery. Max,…
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Travel By the Book
On my other blog ( please feel very free to wander over to http://www.janespicturejournal.com) I mentioned in an article that I am unable to daydream…
What On Earth Books
What On Earth Books are new to me but Laura Smythe who works as part of the publicity team is not and she sent me…
My Lockdown Books: Forty Six
As many of you will know, Jean Estoril was one of Mabel Esther Allan's pseudonyms. I, however, did not know that when I came across…
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: Four
As a teenager I collected Bodley Head career novels. I had loads; they were easy to find. And then, in one of our moves, I…
My Lockdown Books: Three
My choice today is all about the illustrations. Around the World in Eighty Days has been published in many editions since Jules Verne wrote it…
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