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REVIEW: Pandora of Parrham Royal

Pandora of Parrham Royal: Violet Needham. Collins 1951.

At times, I wondered if this really was a children’s book. I suppose it is, but ( Read more... )

Crossposts: https://feather-ghyll.livejournal.com/184963.html

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REVIEW: The Polkerrin Mystery

The Polkerrin Mystery: Phyllis I. Norris, Frederick Muller 1949

The four Treherne children are hastily evacuated from London to the family home, Polkerrin House, in Cornwall, ( Read more... )

Crossposts: https://feather-ghyll.livejournal.com/183521.html

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Singled Out – How Two Million Women Survived Without Men after the First World War: Virginia Nicholson

This book focuses on a section of society that I’d only been dimly aware of, namely the women who remained single after the men they might well have married had been killed during the first world war. The ‘lost generation’ are still remembered, even now, but not so much the women who lived on without them, even though their existence in such numbers changed society and women’s place in it, as this book details.

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Crossposts: https://feather-ghyll.livejournal.com/181300.html

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TENNIS and a REVIEW

A quick word on the tennis, first, mainly the US Open. ( Read more... )

The Testing of Tansy: Winifred Norling, Ward Lock.

I don’t much rate Winifred Norling, and this book did not change my mind. A question is posed in the early chapters: ( Read more... )

[Edited on 31/07/23.]

OVERVIEW: Easterish reading

Or books I wanted to mention, but didn't want to write a full review about.

( Rattle His Bones by Carola Dunn; The Changeling of Monte Lucio by Violet Needhams; and The Girls of Mackland Court by May Wynne. )

Crossposts: http://feather-ghyll.livejournal.com/128131.html

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REVIEW: The Woods of Windri

The Woods of Windri: Violet Needham, Collins, 1958.

This story starts off in what seems like a simple way, but sowing the seeds of a political conspiracy and adventure. ( Read more... )

Current Mood: tired
Crossposts: http://feather-ghyll.livejournal.com/122512.html

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REVIEW: The Betrayer

The Betrayer: Violet Needham, The Children’s Book Club

This story revolves around another adventure for the Stormy Petrel, aka Dick Faconbois. Fortunately, it comes after the happenings related in ‘The House of the Paladin’ (reviewed here) but ( Read more... )

Crossposts: http://feather-ghyll.livejournal.com/94843.html

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UPDATE

It's been a month and a half since I posted. Eek!

During that period, I've read some books, but haven't had much to say about them. The Worst Fifth on Record by Winifred Norling has a new teacher as a main character. I preferred the school aspects of the story (and it's no The New Mistress at the Chalet School). Gwendoline Courtney's The Grenville Garrison is about a family, but is an adventure story, which I don't think is Courtney's forte, and refers to a Ruritania-like country - Czaravia. I also read Behind the Dragon's Teeth by Monica Marsden, feeling quite envious of the main characters, who were getting the better of an evil gang in the summer while always managing to go for a swim in the sea every afternoon.

I saw a half-hour documentary about the ballerina Sylive Gulliem, which was interesting and made me wish I could see her dance live.

Crossposts: http://feather-ghyll.livejournal.com/93414.html

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REVIEW: The House of the Paladin

The House of the Paladin: Violet Needham, Collins, 1957

To enjoy this junior Ruritanian yarn, one has to be in a slightly forgiving mood. The story begins with a fifteen year old English boy drinking beer and contemplating spending the rest of his continental walking holiday alone. But if you’re willing to squash your ‘As if’ and go along with that wish-fulfilment, you’ll get a gripping and suspenseful story.

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Edited on 10/9/15.

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PERSONAL: Bookshelves news

The bookshelves arrived safely - if a little later than I'd expected and rather needed them so be. It fits in where it was meant to - I was paranoid about my measurement-taking skills, and had been matched to the same colour as other bedroom furniture, so it looks nice. My Ns to Rs (Girls Own) more or less fit in to it with random books on the top. This led to a sorting that meant that I emptied one big box and one small box. I still have boxes of books in plain view, but in my denial, I'm holding on to the fact that I have found some doublers and old Enid Blytons to go to the charity shop like it's a giant leap forward.

And now some tennis (Wawrinka's backhand was a thing of beauty yesterday).

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REVIEW: Red Herrings Unlimited

To break up the blanket Wimbledon talk, here's a review of a book I read last week.

Red Herrings Unlimited: Winifred Norling
I'm too lazy to check the publishers, and I suspect no date was given).

Most of the Winifred Norling books, if not all, that I've read have been school stories of a certain ype. This is a mystery that a gang of village children solve, led by a girl named Lyntie, who came together to solve a previous mystery. All I could find out from Google was that Winifred Norling was a pseudonym of Winifred Mary Jakobsson (1905-1979).

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