Dark Danger: Malcolm Saville, Girls Gone By 2018

The third Marston Baines book was probably my least favourite of this series so far.

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The last of what I read in Belgium:

Rest and Be Thankful by Helen MacInnes ( Read more... )

The Life of Elves by Muriel Barbary (translated by Alison Anderson) ( Read more... )

First Class Murder: Robin Stevens (A Murder Most Unladylike Mystery) Corgi 2015

I say, old things, I jolly well ought to put Mrs Christie’s ‘Murder on the Orient Express’ on my ‘to reread’ pile!

This is the third adventure of the Detective Society, comprised of that paragon Daisy Wells and her erstwhile Watson Hazel Wong, and this time, they are ( Read more... )

The Princess of the School: Angela Brazil. Blackie.

This book is half school story and half family story, ( Read more... )

Girl Reading: Katie Ward Virago 2012

I picked up this book in a charity shop because of the title, of course. It’s a collection of (long) short stories that all feature girls (or women) reading that, until the last story, are only tangentially linked. The stories cover various periods of time and places and, ( Read more... )

First of all, I've been revisiting my review of the Nancy Drew film, which should teach me not to comment on things I haven't read/seen, because I liked it despite my misgivings when I heard of the project, but when you have a gut reaction to a childhood friend being brought 'up to date'... Here's a link I came across on the rebranded (ugh) Famous Five: The Next Generation (ugh) that articulates some of said gut reaction. My Son is Disgusted. from The Age of Uncertainty.

I think I've mentioned or linked to stuff that's mentioned this rebranding of the Famous Five before (see the tags). I probably shouldn't comment, because I had a clear-out of most of my Blytons many years ago (I may even have got rid of the school stories). But the Famous Five were always my favourite over The Secret Seven, and I remember liking the one where Anne got a spine, and disliking the later series that was written by someone else and translated into the English. But this latest new version? Sounds a bit rum to me.

I've also reread

Veronica in Venice: Jill Stevens, Nelson 1964

It was one of the books that I rediscovered a while ago, and I decided to pick it up and reread it, because I honestly didn't remember it, despite being set in Venice. That was probably not a good sign. ( Read more... )