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Advent calendar 11th December – Favourite movie adaptation

Sometimes, when a book makes the journey to the silver screen, it isn’t always the easiest of transitions. Subtleties can get lost, characters can go AWOL, and sometimes even major plotlines can simply disappear into thin air. And that’s before … Continue reading

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Advent calendar 10th December – The book that made me cry

I defy anyone to read Black Beauty and not be reduced to a sniffling, sobbing mess at least two or three times. If you haven’t read it – although I can’t imagine that there’s anyone left in the world who … Continue reading

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Advent calendar 9th December – the book you couldn’t finish

Picking one book out of the dozens I don’t finish each year was almost impossible. Books arrive faster than I can read and the ones sent by publishers are sometimes indiscriminate, often not titles I would choose. That can be … Continue reading

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Advent calendar 8th December – first literary crush

It was the early 80s and I’d discovered KM Peyton‘s Flambards series and my first literary crush was Mark Russell. He was dreadful to his horses and to the servants and behaved truly appallingly to Violet the impregnated housemaid but … Continue reading

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Advent calendar 7th December – A book that should be better known

It seems bit odd to nominate a book in this category which this week sees a film adaptation released and a decade ago was voted as the best Scottish book of all time, but Sunset Song, the first of Lewis … Continue reading

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