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Fidra Books Newsletter
Forthcoming Titles
All material in this supplement is © of and reprinted with kind permission of Fidra Books (www.fidrabooks.com)
Fidra will be publishing five more titles this year.
Two are by authors whose work we have already published and three are new to
the Fidra list.
We
Met Our Cousins by Joanna Cannan (late June 2006)
First published in 1937, We Met
Our Cousins concerns
John and Antonia who are sent from London
to spend the holidays with their Scottish cousins and their grandfather at Roid
House in the Scottish Highlands. The children are initially incompatible, with
John and Antonia (from whose perspective the book is written) cosseted and
rather precious whilst Angus and Morag and the younger Hamish are wild and
scruffy and spend their time riding and sailing. Despite a prickly start, when
John saves wee Hamish from a maddened bull, friendships are firmly cemented,
especially when they manage to discover the truth of the MacTavish and
MacAlister feud. A favourite of mine, enlivened by Anne Bullen’s wonderful
illustrations.
When it was first published, a reviewer said of this
book: “Cannan can write the heads off almost all her rivals. Here is a book
that neither child nor adult can set down, bubbling with humour, packed with
adventure, marked by the keenest observation”
The first chapter of
We Met Our Cousins can now be read on our website at www.fidrabooks.com
The
School on North Barrule by Mabel Esther Allan
(July 2006)
Voirrey and Andreas Quilliam react very differently
when told that they are going to Barrule House, a co-educational boarding
school on the Isle of Man. Voirrey is thrilled that she will be living on her
late father's native island while Andreas hates the idea of boarding with
girls, and is horrified that Barrule House does not play cricket or 'footer'.
Both tread a dangerous path once on the island: Andreas's rebellious behaviour
causes problems, and Voirrey's determination to discover her father's sister,
Mona Quilliam, estranged from Voirrey's parents since their marriage, leads her
into some difficult situations. How Voirrey learns the truth and how Andreas
becomes reconciled to Barrule House form the exciting and entertaining plot of The School on North Barrule.
Bunkle’s
Brainwave by M Pardoe (Autumn 2006)
By the author of The Far Island
(published
by Fidra in 2005), this is the tenth title in the Bunkle series and very
hard-to-find. Billy de Salis (nick-named ‘Bunkle’ as a small boy by his elder
brother and sister who said he talked such a lot of bunk) is looking forward to
a rather dull summ er holiday at home, because his sister Jill is now married
and his brother Robin is on military service abroad. Instead, however, a chance
encounter with a Scottish cousin leads to surprising developments, and once
more Bunkle, his mother and father and his Scottish cousins get involved in an
exciting adventure.
We
Daren’t Go A’Hunting by Elinor Lyon (Autum n 2006)
This is the second title in the Ian and Sovra series,
following The House in Hiding which we published earlier this
year. On the shores of Loch Fionn, a chance remark overheard one winter
afternoon arouses Ian and Sovra’s suspicions and sets them on the track of a
gang of sinister deer-poachers. With their friend Alastair Gunn, now living at
Kindrachill , they plan to outwit the gang and soon find them selves in a
pursuit packed with adventure.
The
Winter of Enchantment by Victoria Walker (Winter 2006)
An iconic and elusive book written by the author when
she was just 21, it tells the story of Sebastian who travels back from his
Victorian world to a magical world of Melissa, Mantari and the wicked
Enchanter. This book has been out of print for thirty years and its reissue has
been clamoured for by many. The sequel, The House Called Hadlows, will be
published next year. Our titles for early 2007 will include one of Elinor
Lyon’s rarest titles, another Bunkle story and K M Peyton’s Fly-By-Night. These
will be announced on our website in the autumn and the next Newsletter in
November.
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