What other author are you reading at the moment?
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Re: What other author are you reading at the moment?
I hadn't heard of Caraval but it sounds very interesting, Poppy.
Thanks for the account of Jill at Hazelmere, Joanne. The characters' names ring a faint bell but I don't recall the events of the story at all - but then I was about nine when I read it!
Thanks for the account of Jill at Hazelmere, Joanne. The characters' names ring a faint bell but I don't recall the events of the story at all - but then I was about nine when I read it!
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I've got the two Jill at Hazelmere books and I've read them a little more recently than Anita has! I also have two more books by Valerie Hastings - 'Wendy and Jinx and the Dutch Stamp Mystery' and 'Wendy and Jinx and the Missing Scientist'. Wendy and Jinx was a picture strip in Girl comic and the novels were part of the Girl Novels series.
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I'm reading Angela Marchmont mysteries by Clara Benson at the moment.
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That was more luck than judgement... I'd finished D E Stevenson's VITTORIA COTTAGE and sequel MUSIC IN THE HILLS, went to pick another book from the shelf and found WINTER AND ROUGH WEATHER was the third and last in the series, obviously its been too long since I last re-read the collection. More good news, a small local hotel has its own bookshop, a pleasant walk down a country lane from here admiring the daffodils in full flower, the perfect place to spend an hour sipping coffee by the woodstove whilst browsing
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I've just started rereading the wonderful WORZEL GUMMIDGE books by Barbara Euphan Todd (1890-1976):
Worzel Gummidge (1936)
Worzel Gummidge Again (1937)
More About Worzel Gummidge (1938)
Worzel Gummidge And Saucy Nancy (1947)
Worzel Gummidge Takes A Holiday (1949)
Earthy Mangold And Worzel Gummidge (1954)
Worzel Gummidge And The Railway Scarecrows (1955)
Worzel Gummidge At The Circus (1956)
Worzel Gummidge And The Treasure Ship (1958)
Detective Worzel Gummidge (1963)
The first paperback version of the first book, released in 1941, has the distinction of being the first story book published by the famous children's imprint Puffin.
Worzel Gummidge (1936)
Worzel Gummidge Again (1937)
More About Worzel Gummidge (1938)
Worzel Gummidge And Saucy Nancy (1947)
Worzel Gummidge Takes A Holiday (1949)
Earthy Mangold And Worzel Gummidge (1954)
Worzel Gummidge And The Railway Scarecrows (1955)
Worzel Gummidge At The Circus (1956)
Worzel Gummidge And The Treasure Ship (1958)
Detective Worzel Gummidge (1963)
The first paperback version of the first book, released in 1941, has the distinction of being the first story book published by the famous children's imprint Puffin.
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Re: What other author are you reading at the moment?
It may seem a trifle odd to read them this way around but after an excursion to Jennings, I've started reading The Girls of St. Brides the first of Dorita Fairlie Bruce's St. Brides/Maudsley series but then it is more an introduction to the St. Brides children and ethos given Nancy doesn't feature in it!
Anyway, there's quite a sub plot in it dealing with disability topics that's pretty advanced for nineteen twenty-three looking at social isolation and integration.
Anyway, there's quite a sub plot in it dealing with disability topics that's pretty advanced for nineteen twenty-three looking at social isolation and integration.
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Re: What other author are you reading at the moment?
My friend has given me two books to read, so I have just started on one called The time traveler's wife by Audrey Niffenegger. It is certainly not the type of book I would usually read, but because she said it was good so I giving it a try. The truth is, it's actually very enjoyable to read, but the fact that it deals more Science fiction and unrealistic things I kind of dislike it.. The plot is interesting but the story makes me nervous. I would usually like this 'time traveling' business, yet in this book I feel they have brought it too far...
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Re: What other author are you reading at the moment?
Indulging myself totally reading Elizabeth West's delightful trilogy, HOVEL IN THE HILLS, GARDEN IN THE HILLS and KITCHEN IN THE HILLS
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I highly recommend Summer's Day by Mary Bell (boarding school story but very different from most of the school stories) and Sally's Family by Gwendoline Courtney. Both books are well written.
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I don't know how or why, but I seem to have eleven Worzel Gummidge books and I know that I am missing More About Worzel Gummidge. Very puzzling, but I must have got different editions of two of the books.Eddie Muir wrote:I've just started rereading the wonderful WORZEL GUMMIDGE books by Barbara Euphan Todd (1890-1976):
Worzel Gummidge (1936)
Worzel Gummidge Again (1937)
More About Worzel Gummidge (1938)
Worzel Gummidge And Saucy Nancy (1947)
Worzel Gummidge Takes A Holiday (1949)
Earthy Mangold And Worzel Gummidge (1954)
Worzel Gummidge And The Railway Scarecrows (1955)
Worzel Gummidge At The Circus (1956)
Worzel Gummidge And The Treasure Ship (1958)
Detective Worzel Gummidge (1963)
The first paperback version of the first book, released in 1941, has the distinction of being the first story book published by the famous children's imprint Puffin.
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There were definitely only ten books in the original Worzel Gummidge series, Tony. I'd be interested to know the titles of the books you've got.
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I'm reading a story by Enid Boyten at the moment. I've decided to reread my "Schoolgirls' Own Library" books and this is one of them.
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I'm reading The MacIains of Glen Gillean by Mabel Esther Allan, a Girls Gone By edition and a bargain buy from Badger Books (if you are into GGB it's worth checking out their website). Ellery MacIain has never seen her ancestral home and when her uncle writes to say he is ill and needs someone to look after his five children Ellery jumps at the chance. But her cousins resent her coming and there is a hostile atmosphere in the house. Ellery sets about gaining their trust but only achieves this when danger threatens Gillean House itself. This story set in the Highlands is as good as anything Mabel ever wrote, a super read.
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I have now reached Unconditional Surrender the third and final installment of the Sword of Honour trilogy by the great Evelyn Waugh.
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Re: What other author are you reading at the moment?
I have checked them now, Eddie, and I have two different editions of both of the first two books. I am missing the third book but I have all the others as 1st editions.Eddie Muir wrote:There were definitely only ten books in the original Worzel Gummidge series, Tony. I'd be interested to know the titles of the books you've got.