This week’s book giveaway at AWC is Swimming Home, the fifth novel by Mary-Rose MacColl. It’s about a young Australian and her aunt … each on a journey of self-discovery – one by attempting to swim the English Channel, the other to rediscover the woman she used to be. You’d
Remember reading the Secret Seven and Famous Five books? Well, the author Enid Blyton heard we are big fans of her work. So she sent us a congratulatory message from beyond when she heard it was our 10th birthday! “I don’t believe in things like fairies or brownies or magic.
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