A while back, I went to stay with friends and had the delight to be seeing a dear friend with very similar reading tastes to me. We could only meet briefly as she was going to sort a mortgage but she said to look in the 2nd hand book shop in the town as it had the most wonderful selection of children's books in.
She wasn't wrong and there was more than that!!! I managed to find books I wanted by many of my favourite children's authors.
Checkmate by Malorie Blackman- I'd been wanting the last part of the trilogy for ages but wanted to buy it second hand. This trilogy deals with racism and apartheid and all the prejudices of difficulties of different races living together in a powerful, exciting,explosive and unputdownable way!!!
City of bells by Elizabeth Goudge. I find it really hard finding Ms Goudge's books and I was delighted to find another title by her which I hadn't got. Also would like to read the other one mentioned on the front cover!
The girls of St Cyprians by Angela Brazil- I adore school stories and Ms Brazil wrote stacks which I discovered thanks to CBC buying me a book-shaped card of The jolliest term on record following the term we first starting going out. The books are super and I love looking back on ages gone by.
THREEE Noel Streatfield books!!
White Boots, I owned a copy of as a child and I lost it down the years so I was really glad to find the edition I owned as a child. This is a great story of an ice-skater!
Thursday's child- this one has been on my list for aaaages!!! Can't wait to read it.
The Growing summer- not even heard of this one.
I love C.S Lewis's writings and I am slowly trying to find and read all this books- fictional and Christian theological. Finding that there's another book involving the noxious Screwtape was a huge and exciting surprise as The Screwtape letters is one of my favourite books!
A Grief observed: Lewis writes really well about pain, loss, grief and love- I am really delighted to find another book to challenge me. It takes me a while to read his theological books but I always feel a fresh outlook on life and the human condition through Christian eyes when I read these, despite them being over 40 years old!
Do you like any of these authors? Have you read these? Would you? Any recommendations?