Alison Doig

Worked for many years around children’s reading and libraries.Interested in books, education and disability issues.

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@PulpLibrarian This is a seriously creepy cover given that the book is hilariously funny! Wouldn’t want to find any of them in my woodshed.

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@philipreeve1 @lordbonkers Very interesting article. I loved the Lone Pine books . They are much better written than Enid Blyton largely because Saville was so good on landscape. The ones set in Rye are good too.

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@jhendersonYT Solace House by Will Maclean. Pretty weird.

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I’m GIVING AWAY a hardback copy of ‘My Name is MacKenzie Bly’ (out Aug 27th. Retweet by end of tomorrow for prize draw ) with stunning endpapers by illustrator Jim Kay).
MB is the alter ego of the dully-named Philip Stephens, here describing his Year 9 work experience allocation.

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@achuka One of my all time favourite books. Gardam was so good at writing awkward intellectual teenage girls.

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@Lord_Steerforth Channelling Bertie Wooster I thought

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@hilary_mckay Had about 1000 wasps in the kitchen the other evening and discovered a nest outside under the window sill. Loads of butterflies. Hornets also.

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@AmandaPCraig Claire Rushbrook was superb.

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@Scott_Wortley It’s very good. A couple of splendid villains including a Vicar. He also wrote a thriller called The Master about a criminal mastermind living inside the island of Rockall.

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@AmandaPCraig The Brontë one is The Twelve and the Genii by Pauline Clarke. Also very good.

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@AmandaPCraig Mistress Masham is the one with the Lilliputians. Excellent book.

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@johnmilbank3 Marilynne Robinson obviously. Michael Ardiitti , Francis Spufford.

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@achuka @janiceharayda Also it’s not a new idea. Didn’t the defunct Smarties Prize have child judges? I think it’s great to have a prize specifically for. 8-12 now the Carnegie is almost entirely teen /YA.

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@achuka @janiceharayda Well for a start the child judges will only get involved at the final stage when the books will already have been selected by the adult panel. So it’s unlikely that anything of dubious quality will make it that far- I think we can trust Frank Cottrell Boyce on this.

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@Caroz1984 @AmandaPCraig @TheTLS @JoyceCarolOates @mrjamesob @george_szirtes @wmarybeard @GoingMedieval @Bookerprize I thought it was Ok but that it didn’t do anything particularly interesting. Also it is very very American. All that stuff about basketball!

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@AmandaPCraig @TheTLS @JoyceCarolOates @mrjamesob @george_szirtes @wmarybeard @GoingMedieval @Bookerprize Absolutely agree. Haven’t read Sonia and Sunny yet but baffled by the inclusion of Rest of our Lives and Audition on the shortlist, particularly when Seascraper didn’t make it. Land in Winter should win - outstanding book.

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@SketchesbyBoze Midnight Folk was one of my absolute favourite books as a child and I still think it’s a masterpiece. Box of Delights is great in many ways but I can never forgive the ending.

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@LissaKEvans Just finished Dimperley which I loved. As the parent of an adult with a severe learning disability I particularly enjoyed the tender portrayal of Cedric.

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@AmandaPCraig To be fair they were asked to nominate one children’s book and one adult book. Moby Dick was KR’s adult choice. Agree Night Birds is superb.

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@LissaKEvans Really looking forward to this. Have it on order from my local bookshop.