Olga Wojtas
Olga Wojtas is an unconventional โ and witty โ writer of cosy crime fiction whose surrealist humour has been compared to the likes of P.G. Wodehouse, Jasper Fforde, Blackadder and the Marx Brothers. She was born and brought up in Edinburgh, where she attended James Gillespieโs High School โ the model for the Marcia Blaine School for Girls (in Muriel Sparkโs The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie). Olga won a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award in 2014, and has amassed an impressive following for theย Miss Blaineโs Prefectย series, as well as several award nominations. A journalist for more than 30 years, Olga was Scottish editor of theย Times Higher Education Supplement before she began adding creative writing to her portfolio.
Miss Blaine’s Prefect and the Uncharted Island
by Olga Wojtas
Fifty-something Edinburgh librarian Shona McMonagle is a proud former pupil and prefect of the Marcia Blaine School for Girls. Thanks to her alma mater, she is impeccably educated and an accomplished linguist, mathematician, martial artist, and musician, all of which being excellent training for working in a library and other challenges.
After a visit from Miss Blaine herself, involving a bad-tempered exchange about Robinson Crusoe and improper book shelving, Shona has a new, confusing mission. She finds herself on an island, with little in the way of clues to help her decipher why sheโs there. Despite initially wondering if this might be a rare treat from Miss Blaine, she soon realises this is no holiday. She has been cast away in the Baltic Sea โ and itโs the fifteenth century.
