You're a brick, Deva!

[altariel]

I meant to post about this a couple of weeks ago, but my smashing friend Deva pointed me to the website of Girls Gone By Publishers, who are producing paperback reprints of popular twentieth-century girls' fiction. Best piece of news is that they are going to be reprinting all of Antonia Forest's novels, hurrah!

They seem to be a very small outfit (all their proofing is done by volunteers), and yet I received my copy of Falconer's Lure very quickly. Thank god for the small press.

Comments

[furius.livejournal.com]

How strange, I never knew a genre exists for those books before, though I do seem to remember that Enid Blyton wrote somewhat similiarly...and then I wanted to go to boarding school afterwards :p

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Ooh, which Blyton, I wonder? There's a series about a school called Malory Towers, and another about a school called St. Clare's. And then there are three books about 'The Naughtiest Girl', but I can't remember what the school is called in them. I think those are the ones that made me want to go to boarding school - but only briefly! There seemed to be too much emphasis on team sports for my taste!

[furius.livejournal.com]

:) I remember reading all of St. Clares(that's the O'Sullivan Twins ones right?), and then most of Malory Towers other than the third form(or was it year?), which my library didn't stock. I'm a bit unsure on the "The Naughtiest Girl", not sure if I read that. But anyways, great stories, and great memories...I really liked Enid Blyton- all the way from Faraway Tree to Malory Towers(which I remember have red spines..)

It's all about lacrosse and midnight feasts!

I kind of grew the boarding school idea after 13... all girls you know :p

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I loved the Faraway Tree books, I must get myself copies and reread them. Moonface and Silky, is that right?

Yes, my Malory Towers books had red spines too! And it was 'form' rather than 'year'! And the O'Sullivan Twins at St.Clare's!

The school in the Naughtiest Girl books had a school council where the pupils made all the decisions, rather than the teachers.

Mm, midnight feasts...