Tag: edinburgh

an elephant race in Scotland

orangemarmaladebooks July 27, 2018

Adventure, subterfuge, arson, exotic creatures! All on tap today… Elephant Thief, by Jane Kerr first published in the UK in 2017; first US edition 2018 by Scholastic 308 pages With elements ranging from a Fagin-esque band of child thieves to …

a European holiday…five historic cities, five books to bring us there

orangemarmaladebooks March 31, 2014

Today I’m flying to Germany to visit my daughter for a couple of weeks. She’s in her third year of teaching there, and oh! we miss her. I’ll be traveling with my sister and my niece, and we all are …