I have just finished The Thirteenth Horseman by Barry Hutchison, the third book of my six books for the Summer Reading Challenge. Very, very good and great fun. Older primary school pupils will like this a lot, particularly those with an off the wall sense of humour.
So what’s next? Something for myself I think!! We are going on holiday tomorrow – a river cruise from Basel to Amsterdam, eleven nights of bliss. So I need a big book!! Every so often I come back to The Lymond Chronicles by Dorothy Dunnet, a series of six historical novels about Francis Lymond who appears on the scene when Mary Queen of Scots is four years old. Bits of it are set in Northumberland and as we are having Holy Trinity P S from Berwick-upon-Tweed as guests to our storytelling festival in October, there are huge chunks of stories which will be ideal, the beginning in particular when Lymond sneaks back into the Port of Leith on his return from exile in France. His purpose in returning to Scotland is to clear his name.
I come back to Lymond every couple of years and it is like visiting an old friend.
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