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FIDRA BOOKS Newsletter
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Win a copy of this fabulous new children's adventure story illustrated by the great Mike Ploog - full review on the children's books page - e-mail now for a chance to win! Just answer this question: "What is the name of the second volume in the series - you'll find the answer in this issue!" Prize copies supplied by Harper Collins Childrens' Books
Katherine Roberts' Seven Ancient Wonders series concludes with this fantastic adventure story featuring Zeuxis, who helps to keep the Pharos lighthouse burning. Full review on the children's books page. Prize copy courtesy of Harper Collins Childrens' Books. Just e-mail me and tell me the names of the other books in the series.
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All of these can be
ordered via our
website at www.fidrabooks.com
Orders
to Poach by Olivia FitzRoy
Our
latest book, this was Olivia’s first novel, published when she was just 20, and
written to entertain her younger sisters whilst they lived in the remote
Highlands of Scotland during the early part of World War Two. It tells the
story of the Stewart family, displaced from their family seat by a tenant while
their father is posted to Burma,
and now staying at the Lodge. The new tenant, despite his assurances when
taking on the tenancy, does not understand the need to control the game on the
estate and so the children’s father instructs them to do what they can to poach
the estate. In between sailing, swimming, camping and exploring, they spend
time outwitting the tenant and his henchmen and the setting that Olivia knew so
well is marvellously portrayed in all these adventures.
The House in
Hiding by Elinor Lyon
Ian and Sovra are thrilled when their father, Dr
Kennedy, buys them a boat of their own. Exploring the loch, they discover a
stone stairway hidden behind a waterfall and an abandoned shieling – the
perfect place to camp. The arrival of the awful Mrs Paget and her irritating
daughter, Ann, interferes with their plans to a degree, but Ian and Sovra still
manage to explore the abandoned village
of Kindrachill on the
isolated Fionnard peninsula. There is a legend that when the village is left
empty, the heir of Kindrachill will only return when a fire is kindled in the
hearth of his own house. But the last heir, Alistair, was reported killed in
the Far East some years before…
The
Far Island by M Pardoe
The Far
Island was Margot Pardoe’s
first book and concerns Dick and Jane Fraser who, newly orphaned, are sent by
their great-grandmother to live on an island in Orkney which she owns. Having
been brought up at expensive and fashionable schools and being used to spending
their holidays in luxurious foreign resorts, the isolation of Mora is a shock
for the children but soon they learn how to entertain them selves and to enjoy
the activities available to them , culminating in the discovery of the secret
of the island. Dick and Jean later reappear in the Bunkle series of books for
which the author is best known.
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