Book Collections and Books Read.
I have been reading since I was very young. At one stage I wouldn't read so Mum and Dad got rid of our
television and a prolific reader was born! The highlight of the week would be to go to Glenfield Library
with my Dad while my Mum did the grocery shopping. Another thing I remember is the scholastic book
club,and I have fond memories of pouring over the catalogue and choosing a special (but small) selection
of books which would then be delivered and handed out several weeks later at school. Many of these
books I still have. Oh the excitement when they arrived! One of the ones I remember is 'Spook, The
Witch's Dog.' I remember one year at school we had to keep a record of all the books we read that year.
I read the most in the class! It is from that idea that my recording books read in 2010 and subsequent
years was born.
club,and I have fond memories of pouring over the catalogue and choosing a special (but small) selection
of books which would then be delivered and handed out several weeks later at school. Many of these
books I still have. Oh the excitement when they arrived! One of the ones I remember is 'Spook, The
Witch's Dog.' I remember one year at school we had to keep a record of all the books we read that year.
I read the most in the class! It is from that idea that my recording books read in 2010 and subsequent
years was born.
Authors I enjoy:
Derek Tangye - I have read most of his books and am just starting to try and collect them as and when I
see one in a Charity Shop.
Daniel Silva - I have read all of his books to date but don't have them all in my collection yet.
- The Defector
- The Secret Servant
- The English Assassin
- The Messenger
- The Mark of the Assassin
- The Unlikely Spy
- The Marching Season
- The Kill Artist
- Prince of Fire
- The English Girl
Sebastian Faulks
- The Girl at Lion D'Or
- Charlotte Gray
- A Fool's Alphabet
- Engleby
- Human Traces
- Bird Song
- A Week in December
- Devil May Care
- The Fatal Englishman
- On Green Dolphin Street
- Where my Heart Used to Beat
- A Possible Life
In later years I have been collecting 'older' books. A few of my collections are books by the following
authors:
G A Henty
- The Reign of Terror
- Captain Bayley's Heir
- In the Hands of the Malays
- In the Hands of the Cave Dweller
- Redskin and Cowboy
- Sheer Pluck
- The Treasures of the Incas
- In Freedoms Cause
- Maori and Settler
- The Lion of the North
- With Wolfe in Canada
- A Final Reckoning
- A March on London
- The Lion of St. Mark
- Both Sides of the Border
- By England's Aid
Bessie Marchant
- A Courageous Girl
- Three Girls on a Ranch
- Sally Makes Good
- Two of a Kind
- Diana Carries On
- Waifs of Woollamoo
- A Girl of the Northland
Elsie J Oxenham
- Strangers at the Abbey
- Robins in the Abbey
- The Abbey Girls in Town
- A Dancer from the Abbey
- The Abbey Girls Again
- Schoolgirl Jen at the Abbey
H E Marshall
- Our Island Story
- Our Scotland Story
- Our Empire Story
Phillis Garrard - New Zealand author who wrote the earliest school story in New Zealand, about a young
girl called Hilda who attended a day state school in Taihape.
- New Zealand School Girl - Hilda at School, Hilda Fifteen, The Doings of Hilda
Clare Mallory - No books yet, but hope to find some one day!
Miss Read
- Village Diary (Penguin) & (Orion Books)
- Celebrations at Thrush Green (Penguin)
- At Home in Thrush Green (Penguin) & (Orion Books)
- Tales from a Village School (Penguin)
- Miss Claire Remembers (Penguin)
- Thrush Green (Penguin)
- Return to Thrush Green (Penguin)
- Winter in Thrush Green (Penguin) & (Orion Books)
- Changes at Fairacre (Hardback)
- The Year at Thrush Green (Hardback)
- Fairwell to Fairacre (Hardback)
- The Market Square (Hardback)
- Summer at Fairacre (Hardback)
- Early Days (Orion Books)
- Village School (Orion Books)
- Christmas at Fairacre (Orion Books)
- Over the Gate (Orion Books)
- News from Thrush Green (Orion Books)
- Storm in the Village & Tylers Row (Orion Books)
- The World of Thrush Green
BOOKS I'VE READ 2010 - 68 BOOKS
Books Read 2015
