Blogs about: Linda Newbery
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Author cats
I don’t mean that cats write books. At least I don’t think so. There’s no knowing how much input authors’ cats have where books are concerned. Let me know. A while ago I was on… more →
Bookwitch
What I've Been Reading
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pandanose wrote 1 month ago: I somehow managed to end up reading three tween lit books this week. Fancy that. Endless Quest - Cla … more →
The Blog's Name
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janesandell wrote 2 months ago: I expect that some of you recognise the allusion in the title of my blog. It’s to Lewis Carr … more →
Try this new writer
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bookwitch wrote 2 months ago: When I’d read two chapters of The Traitor Game by B R Collins, I emailed Ian at Bloomsbury to … more →
Author cats
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bookwitch wrote 2 months ago: I don’t mean that cats write books. At least I don’t think so. There’s no knowing … more →
Flightsend
bookwitch wrote 2 months ago: Flightsend by Linda Newbery is a summery book. Linda often does summers, and she does them well. I j … more →
Selina Penaluna
bookwitch wrote 5 months ago: What an interesting name! And it makes for a good book title, too. Linda Newbery emailed me months a … more →
Nevermore by Linda Newbery
Sue@LRE wrote 6 months ago: Tizzie’s life with her mother brings her to live on the mysterious Roven Mere estate where th … more →
Finns
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bookwitch wrote 6 months ago: No, not the people who live in Finland. Those others, who keep popping up in fiction. What’s w … more →
At the Firefly Gate by Linda Newbery
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Chris wrote 6 months ago: Occasionally a book pops into your hands and you wonder how it managed to stay under the radar for s … more →
What authors say
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bookwitch wrote 8 months ago: Just as I expect Francesca Simon’s guests on Thursday evening could manage to be both happy fo … more →
Linda's kitchen
bookwitch wrote 9 months ago: Or what Doris Lessing saw. There’s a link on Linda Newbery’s website to some youtube sho … more →
Adventure blog
bookwitch wrote 9 months ago: As I have been going on about the recent return of good, old fashioned adventure stories, it should … more →
The books we read over Christmas
bookwitch wrote 9 months ago: Didn’t read all the books I’d hoped for. For a pessimist I’m rather optimistic whe … more →
A modern fairytale
bookwitch wrote 9 months ago: It’s good to know that I can trust Linda Newbery to get it right, just about every time she wr … more →
Meeting Julia Jarman
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bookwitch wrote 10 months ago: I mistakenly thought that Julia Jarman only writes picture books, when I remembered that I have this … more →
Collector's item
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bookwitch wrote 10 months ago: I generally subscribe to the belief that any old copy of a book will do fine. After all, the words t … more →
Remembering Siobhan Dowd
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bookwitch wrote 11 months ago: I felt compelled to go. So I went, and I’m glad I did. There was a memorial service for Siobha … more →
Oxford again
bookwitch wrote 1 year ago: If Adele Geras’ time at Oxford was a piece of history, then the time Vera Brittain spent there … more →
Starseeker at Royal & Derngate
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bookwitch wrote 1 year ago: It was great. You can never be sure how a really good book will translate to the stage, or how much … more →
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