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Posted on June 23, 2020

Straddling the Border

About fifteen years ago I went to Italy with a couple of friends for a winter week. We stayed first in Verona, a beautiful city,…

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Posted on June 21, 2020June 22, 2020

Either Side of Berlin

I'm not quite sure where my desire to visit Berlin came from and I can't remember when the divided city was first something I was…

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Posted on June 19, 2020November 8, 2020

Guernsey Before the Chalet School

As a teenager I found Elinor Brent-Dyer's La Rochelle series quite difficult to get into. They seemed to me to be much more dense than…

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Posted on June 16, 2020

To the Festival

I have always known Edinburgh. I was born here and lived my first five years here. My Mum's parents lived in Musselburgh only a few…

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Posted on June 15, 2020

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…

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Posted on June 13, 2020

Dorita Fairlie Bruce’s Song of the Clyde

If I ever had to make the decision to keep my entire collection of only one author, my choice would be Dorita Fairlie Bruce. I…

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Posted on June 12, 2020

In Priorsford with O Douglas

My first foray into books that were published for adults takes me very close to home. I've known Peebles in the Scottish Borders since I…

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Posted on June 11, 2020

Dancing with Drina in Kandersteg

Jean Estoril is one of the many pseudonyms of Mabel Esther Allan and so it should come as no surprise to those following this series…

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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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