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Posted on October 21, 2021

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…

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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 8, 2020

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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Posted on June 7, 2020

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…

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Posted on May 11, 2020May 11, 2020

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…

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Posted on May 9, 2020October 31, 2021

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…

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Posted on April 25, 2020April 25, 2020

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…

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Posted on April 9, 2020

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…

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Posted on April 8, 2020April 15, 2022

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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