Week beginning 19 June 2024.

In the 1950s, as Dictys 23 the prize I won in an Argonauts Club* competition was Enid Blyton’s Sea of Adventure. This was when I met Blyton’s appealing characters, Phillip and Dinah Mannering and Jack and Lucy Trent, Mrs Mannering, Bill Cunningham, and Kiki, the parrot. Most importantly for my travel plans in the future,Continue reading “Week beginning 19 June 2024.”

Week beginning 2 November 2022

Books reviewed this week are Nadia Cohen’s The Real Enid Blyton and a review I wrote for Goodreads which links nicely to the biography of Enid Blyton sent to me for review by NetGalley. Nadia Cohen The Real Enid Blyton Pen & Sword, Pen & Sword History 30 Oct 2022.  Thank you Net Galley and PenContinue reading “Week beginning 2 November 2022”