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Although her books evoke a particular time in Britain, Enid Blyton has found an unexpected following in India. On the 125th anniversary of the author's birth, Kamala Thiagarajan discovers what ...
Steve Mills has been collecting secondhand books in England to reawaken lost memories. His search revealed more about his ...
Experts say a previously unknown novel by prolific children’s writer Enid Blyton has been discovered, more than 40 years after her death. The fantasy tale “Mr. Tumpy’s Caravan” was among a ...
Tangled love life of Enid Blyton: How children's author risked scandal by cavorting with young Army officers, threw glamorous parties in which she was rumoured to play naked tennis, ...
Sir Alexander McCall Smith has criticised the “censoring” of children’s books by authors such as Roald Dahl and Enid Blyton, arguing that they present a “sanitised world view”. McCall ...
In 2008, Blyton was voted Britain’s best-loved author. But we should remember that sexism, racism, snobbery and xenophobia all featured in her children’s books, says Ceri Radford ...
Nostalgia for Enid Blyton does not grant her a free pass for her bigotry. As the Royal Mint receives a backlash for refusing to put the children’s author on a commemorative coin, Roisin O'Connor ...
The bestselling children’s author knew exactly how to reel in her fans, ... Enid Blyton: A Literary Life by Andrew Maunder (Palgrave Macmillan, £17.99) will be published on Dec 8.
Enid Blyton, the author of the Famous Five and The Secret Seven, has fallen out of the top ten list of children's authors. She has gone from position 8 to 11 in the chart because ...
Although her books evoke a particular time in Britain, Enid Blyton has found an unexpected following in India. On the 125th anniversary of the author's birth, Kamala Thiagarajan discovers what ...