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Oops, it's quite late for my first review of a book read this year, or, in this case, a reread of a book I read as an adolescent.

Gaal the Conqueror: John White, Eagle, Inter Publishing Service 1992

This is subtitled ‘Book 2 of ‘The Archives of Anthropos’ and follows The Sword Bearer chronologically, filling in gaps between that book and The Tower of Geburah, but it was published fourth in this series. There was a teaser for a further sequel, which led me to discover that two had in fact been published, after the family member who’d bought me my copies of books in this series thought I’d aged out of reading them, so I hadn’t known about them before. I’m feeling reluctant about paying too much out to read them now after this book, and the diminishing returns of this series, in all honesty.

I found this book less satisfying than the earlier books, ( Read more... )

The Iron Sceptre: John White. The Archives of Anthropos 2. Minstrel, 1988.


This is a sequel to The Tower of Geburah, and like that book, was read to me as a child. Some things about it have stayed with me even more than form the previous book, ( Read more... )

Under A Dancing Star: Laura Wood, Scholastic, 2019.

This is delicious. It’s both a prequel to ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ transported to the 1930s and a young adult novel about a summer romance that turns into a first love. From when we first meet our narrator, ( Read more... )

The Pearl Thief: Elizabeth Wein, Bloomsbury, May 2017

This prequel to ‘Code Name Verity’ and ‘Rose Under Fire’ is both mystery and coming-of-age tale, in which Julie Beaufort-Stuart (or Lady Julia if you must) is spending a last summer at Strathfearn, where she and her big brothers would come for holidays. Julie is ( Read more... )

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This started promisingly. I liked the depiction of both family and friendship dynamics, and, of course, there’s a novelty to reading a mid-twentieth century girls own book set in the USA, but ( Read more... )

[This is a review in Welsh of the above book, which was a reread. A translation in Enlish will be posted shortly.]

Nansi’r Dditectif: O. Llew. Rowlands & W.T. Williams, Gwasg y Brython, Mai 1953.

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Last week, I was asking myself 'What is wrong with me?' ( Read more... )

Sandra Takes Command: Constance M. White Hutchinsons 1960

Always dramatic, Sandra is devastated at the news that ( Read more... )

What Happened to Kitty: Theodora Wilson Wilson Blackie (inscription dated 1934)

At the start of the book, the titular Kitty is ( Read more... )

Daisy: Susan Warner, Miles & Miles

This is a case where a book didn’t turn out to be quite what I expected. My copy has gold blocks on its front cover and spine and the very type shouts out that from the late nineteenth century. I’d never heard of it or the author, Susan Warnerm before, but presumed it was in the Rosa N. Carey, E. Everett-Green vein. It isn’t quite.

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