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Brought to Book by Liz Filleul, 2004 Winner Scarlet Stiletto Award
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Everyone seems to be buying, selling, even collecting online – but scammers are lurking in cyberspace and even hard copy vintage books are targeted, as you’ll see in today’ s story.

When Liz Filleul won the Scarlet Stiletto Award in 2004, she had recently rediscovered the children’s books she’d loved growing up in England – books like the Famous Five, the Chalet School, the Lone Piners, and Antonia Forest’s Marlows series. This inspired her winning entry, “Brought to Book”.

At the time, Liz hoped her Scarlet Stiletto success would be a springboard to a career as a novelist. And it actually did lead to having a detective novel set in the world of vintage children’s fiction collectors published by a niche publisher in the UK. But the success she’d dreamed of – having a mainstream novel published – didn’t happen, and sti ... 

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