feather_ghyll

I am currently reading ‘Barbara – Called Binkie and other stories of school life and adventure’ by various writers, most of whose names I don’t recognise. ( Read more... )

I may or may not keep you updated on the further stories of school life and adventure!

I also read ‘The Mystery of Old Beams’ by Jessie Leckie Hebertson. It started off promisingly ( Read more... )

Malory Towers, a Wise Children production (2019)

Starring: Izuka Hoyle (Darrell Rivers), Rose Shalloo (Mary Lou Askinson), Renee Lamb (Alicia Johns), Rebecca Collingwood (Gwendoline Lacey), Francesca Mills (Sally Hope), Vinnie Heaven (Bill Robinson) and, in this performance, Stephanie Hockley (Irene Dupont)
Adapted and directed by: Emma Rice.


This musical adaptation is to be found these summer holidays in ( Read more... )

Mistletoe and Murder: Carola Dunn Constable and Robinson 2011

This is a Daisy Dalrymple mystery, and not to be confused with the Wells and Wong mystery with the same title which I posted about this time last year.

I kept this for reading over Christmas, as it would be seasonal, and it ended up being my Boxing Day read.

( Read more... )

I've mainly been reading:

To Davy Jones Below: Carola Dunn

( Read more... )

Under a Cornish Sky: Liz Fenwick

( Read more... )

Clover Cottage: Frances Cowan.

( Read more... )

The League of the Links: E. M. de Foubert

( Read more... )

And I got a bundle of Angela Brazil books for a reasonable price per book.

Last week, I went away for a few days and these are some of the books that I read then:

The School on the Moor: Angela Brazil

( Read more... )

Reread: A Countess Below Stairs: Eva Ibbotson

(I think I will reread all my Ibbotsons as a project.)

( Read more... )

Penelope’s Prefects: Judith Carr

( Read more... )

A bit late, but I thought I’d mention a couple of books I read over the Christmas holidays. ( A Cornish Stranger by Liz Fenwick and The Abbey Girls Win Through by Elsie J. Oxenham )

Jill Makes Good: Elizabeth Tugwell, Nelson

Of course, such a title begs you to decide whether the author has made good with this book.

Fourteen year old Jill Ross is headed for Cornwall at the start of the story, ( Read more... )

Rangers and Strangers and Other Stories: Ethel Talbot Nelson

I didn't realise until opening this book to read it that it was a collection of short stories, rather than one book-length story. The title of the collection comes from the first and longest story, and is, in a way misleading, because ( Read more... )

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.

( Read more... )

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.