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Coots in the North and other stories: Arthur Ransome (edited by Hugh Brogan) Jonathan Cope, 1988.

This is one for Ransome completists, but it’s also frustrating. It isn’t a collection of short stories, either. The most typical ‘stories’ here of the creator of the Swallows and Amazons are chapters or fragments from uncompleted books, one being the title story, featuring already familiar characters, the other about a brand new boy with a feeling for nature. Then there are short stories, some based on folk tales, the best told in a begrudging seadog’s voice.

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Assignment in Brittany is an early book by Helen MacInnes, set in occupied France during world war two, with one of her very competent heroes, although the challenges he has to face keep mounting. It’s a different setting to her usual Cold War stories, but certainly suspenseful.

Rules by Jane Beaton is the second in the Dorney House series, (I reviewed the first book Class here). It ends with a cliffhanger for the main character, which left me wondering where all the other books in the series the writer claims to have planned in the afterword are. This was published in 2009.

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A Red Herring Without Mustard by Alan Bradley is the latest Flavie de Luce book that I read. Looking back, I see that I haven’t posted anything about the previous books that I read. Flavia’s a rummy girl, isn’t she!? I kept putting this book down, which isn’t like me and I don’t remember finding the other books in the series such a slog. Apart from stumbling across crime scenes and ruining dresses with her intrepid investigating, Flavia has to deal with a lot of family drama - her relationship with her older sisters is particularly twisted - and her dead mother Harriet seems to be much more of a presence, and naturally (or supernaturally), a mysterious one, than in the previous books.

I see that I read much more traditional girls own books over last Easter. Hmm.

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