The Fortunes of Prue: Bessie Marchant. Ward Lock, published as part of the Sovereign series.

Orphaned Prue, age unknown, and her older brother Theo are travelling to London ( Read more... )

The Loyalty of Hester Hope: Bessie Marchant, Blackie

‘”She is a bundle of contradictions,”’ (p.179).

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Glenallan’s Daughters: Bessie Marchant Nelson (no date, although it was awarded as a Sunday school book in 1935)I misread the title and thought this was about Glenallan’s Daughter, assuming for a few chapters in that it would be around the first of the two girls introduced, Kitty, who is perhaps the more prominent. (I have no excuse, the ( Read more... )

Oh dear, over a month since I posted last! I haven't read that many books and I didn't feel that it was worth posting merely to say that I dipped in and out of the Statoil Masters Championship on the Saturday. None of the matches fully grabbed my attention, not even the last doubles (Macenroe and Barani vs Wilander and Macnamara), but it was ( Read more... )

Rereading Sylvia's Secret

Sylvia's Secret A Tale of the West Indies: Bessie Marchant (Blackie)

I know I've read this book before, but I didn't remember anything about it, however everything seemed oh so familiar, because it is a generic Bessie Marchant adventure story, like the last one that I read, but didn't write about (The Unknown Island) ( Read more... )

Over the holidays, I made the most of the opportunity to just sit down and read books from cover to cover. I started off with The Big Six by Arthur Ransome, which I really don't think I'd read before. ( Read more... )