Futuretrack 5 - Robert Westall

Ghost Abbey - Robert Westall

___Ghost Abbey by Robert Westall __ I first came across this author at school and since i liked his books when i saw this in a local charity shop for only 50p i had to buy it!! It says on it that it was short listed for the guardian fiction award which to be honest didn t mean that much to me. More importantly it has been reprinted several times so to me this shows that it must be good otherwise they wouldn t have reprinted it. __Plot__ Things aren t going well for Maggie and her family.Her mother died a wee while back and money is tight.If things weren t bad enough a woman on the estate called Doris Streeton is trying to get her claws into Maggies dad. Deciding this ...

Ghost Abbey - Robert Westall

___Ghost Abbey by Robert Westall __ I first came across this author at school and since i liked his books when i saw this in a local charity shop for only 50p i had to buy it!! It says on it that it was short listed for the guardian fiction award which to be honest didn t mean that much to me. More importantly it has been reprinted several times so to me this shows that it must be good otherwise they wouldn t have reprinted it. __Plot__ Things aren t going well for Maggie and her family.Her mother died a wee while back and money is tight.If things weren t bad enough a woman on the estate called Doris Streeton is trying to get her claws into Maggies dad. Deciding this ...

Blitzcat - Robert Westall

Those of you have read some of my previous book reviews will have noticed that I like Robert Westall and that I am also going through a faze of reading children's books (often centring around the Second World War period). Blitzcat is another of these wonderful books that I really enjoyed re-reading. I had first read it not long after reading The Machine Gunners and was really pleased to see we had a new copy in the library (following its re-release in 2002) ~ it had first been published in 1989 (all details can be found at http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/books/n3/n17860.htm?authorid=4082 so I won't repeat all that). ~~~The Author. Robert Westall was born ...

Blitzcat - Robert Westall

Those of you have read some of my previous book reviews will have noticed that I like Robert Westall and that I am also going through a faze of reading children's books (often centring around the Second World War period). Blitzcat is another of these wonderful books that I really enjoyed re-reading. I had first read it not long after reading The Machine Gunners and was really pleased to see we had a new copy in the library (following its re-release in 2002) ~ it had first been published in 1989 (all details can be found at http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/books/n3/n17860.htm?authorid=4082 so I won't repeat all that). ~~~The Author. Robert Westall was born ...

The Machine Gunners - Robert Westall

and Glory. I was on a bit of a Second World War theme, so The Machine Gunners seemed an obvious next choice! ~~~The author. Robert Westall was born in 1929 in North Shields in the North East of England. He has degrees from Durham University and the University of London and he then became an art teacher at Sir John Deane's College in Northwich in Cheshire. He has also been an antique dealer before settling on writing as his full-time career. The Machine Gunners was his first novel (written in 1975) and it got him the Carnegie Medal. Robert Westall often used his childhood in Tynemouth as a setting for his books and he was able to draw on his vivid memories to ...

The Machine Gunners - Robert Westall

and Glory. I was on a bit of a Second World War theme, so The Machine Gunners seemed an obvious next choice! ~~~The author. Robert Westall was born in 1929 in North Shields in the North East of England. He has degrees from Durham University and the University of London and he then became an art teacher at Sir John Deane's College in Northwich in Cheshire. He has also been an antique dealer before settling on writing as his full-time career. The Machine Gunners was his first novel (written in 1975) and it got him the Carnegie Medal. Robert Westall often used his childhood in Tynemouth as a setting for his books and he was able to draw on his vivid memories to ...