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Enid Blyton

January 2024

  • Mrs Apple in Jill Barklem’s Brambly Hedge series.

    What Enid Blyton and Brambly Hedge don’t tell you about being Black in the British countryside

    Growing up in suburban London with Jamaican heritage, novelist Fiona Williams was enchanted by the bucolic visions of our classic children’s literature. But moving to the country as an adult raised complex feelings about belonging

December 2023

  • The Famous Five

    TV review
    The Famous Five review – this Enid Blyton adaptation feels oddly like the Da Vinci Code

  • The Famous Five: the Curse of Kirrin Island

    ‘Something magical’: the Famous Five are back – thanks to a hyperviolent director

October 2023

  • Richard Armitage.

    The books of my life
    Richard Armitage: ‘I used to stand on the Lord of the Rings to reach the top shelf in my wardrobe’

    The actor and author on his love of fantasy fiction, the wisdom of Marcus Aurelius, and why he doesn’t want a second bite of Proust

July 2023

  • Jack Gleeson as Wentworth in the new Famous Five adaptation.

    Game of Thrones star Jack Gleeson to return to screen for Famous Five remake

  • Elly Griffiths - writer

    The books of my life
    Elly Griffiths: ‘If I love a book I read it multiple times’

June 2023

  • Danish film director, screenwriter and producer Nicolas Winding Refn.

    Lashings and ginger beer: how safe are the Famous Five with Nicolas Winding Refn?

    The Danish director of Bronson and Pusher is to ‘reimagine’ Enid Blyton’s stories for a ‘progressive new audience’. Does this mean Anne will vomit up an eyeball?
  • Nicolas Winding Refn attending a photo session during the 11th Beaune Film Festival (Festival International du Film Policier de Beaune) in Beaune, France on April 04, 2019. Photo by Aurore Marechal/ABACAPRESS.COM<br>2DEFC3P Nicolas Winding Refn attending a photo session during the 11th Beaune Film Festival (Festival International du Film Policier de Beaune) in Beaune, France on April 04, 2019. Photo by Aurore Marechal/ABACAPRESS.COM

    Nicolas Winding Refn to reinterpret Enid Blyton’s Famous Five for the BBC

    The Danish director behind stylish actioner Drive and ultra-violent thriller Only God Forgives will create a three-part series
  • Escape! … Monica Vitti as Modesty Blaise.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 adventure stories

    The genre is often presumed to be one ‘for boys’. Novelists including Virginia Woolf and Georgette Heyer prove that women are just as capable of bold escapes and derring-do as men

October 2022

  • Maria Goodman, Isabelle Methven, Louis Suc, Dewi Wykes and Timmy the dog with Ailsa Dalling.

    The Famous Five: A New Musical review – lashings of vim

    This co-production with Chichester Festival theatre nails the atmosphere and the performances, if not Enid Blyton’s knack for a good plot

September 2022

  • The Famous Five at Theatr Clwyd.

    The Famous Five review: forget shipwrecks and spies – the fate of humanity now lies in their hands

  • Elisa De Grey, Timmy the dog puppet, Maria Goodman as George and the company in rehearsal for The Famous Five.

    ‘Childhood holidays everyone wishes they had’: the Famous Five return in a musical

August 2022

  • Famous characters from children's books

    ‘I avoid them whenever possible’: the children’s authors who don’t like kids

    Raymond Briggs is the latest in a long line of writers revealed to have had little interest in children

January 2022

  • ‘Such fun’ … Jacqueline Wilson.

    Jacqueline Wilson is a perfect pick to reinvent Enid Blyton’s Faraway Tree

    I was spellbound by these stories as a girl, and they have gone on to enchant my children. Who better to renew the magic for a fresh generation?

November 2021

  • Enid Blyton with her husband Kenneth Waters and daughters Imogen and Gillian at their home in Beaconsfield in 1949

    ‘A bit pushed’: Enid Blyton letters reveal strain of work and motherhood

    Exclusive: author writes of pressures of looking after own children and answering ‘thousands of personal letters’

June 2021

  • Enid Blyton and Rudyard Kipling.

    English Heritage recognises Blyton and Kipling’s racism – but blue plaques to stay

  • Corfe Castle in Dorset.

    Five great British walks with a literary twist

April 2020

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    TV review
    Malory Towers review – midnight feasts and horrid sneaks make for a ripping Blyton yarn

    The CBBC adaptation of Enid Blyton’s boarding-school classic bowls along so smoothly and sweetly, it’s hard not to love it

March 2020

  • Zoey Siewart, left, with other cast members of Malory Towers

    'Downton for kids': BBC brings forward Malory Towers adaptation

    Enid Blyton’s girls’ boarding school adventure provides tales of hope in times of crisis

September 2019

  • Sian Cain

    Enid Blyton had racist views. But I still read her

    Sian Cain
    Criticising past authors for their views doesn’t mean we must consign their books to the scrapheap, says Guardian books editor Sian Cain
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