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...“No other issue worries people as much,” said Wippel....
...A chapter would have been welcome on the use of poison pen letters in fiction, from Enid Blyton (The Mystery of the Spiteful Letters) to Philip Roth (The Human Stain)....
...She was 15 and the imposing grey country house could have been taken straight out of her imagination, its towers like those she pictured at the girls boarding school in her favourite Enid Blyton books....
...I didn’t really feel, I mean, I’m sure it was in a way....
...The young Manolo grew up reading Enid Blyton, Kipling, Dickens and Wilde. His mother was a fastidious shopper, ordering clothes, magazines and books from abroad....
...For a new trend in dining and socialising it is remarkably retro, with wicker baskets and Enid Blyton-style gingham blankets....
...The “story” is an unkept promise to our childhood selves that we won’t give up....
...Good thing the censors didn’t cut it. ★★★☆☆ In UK cinemas from August 20; in US cinemas now...
...My parents’ glamorous friends who lived in London would invite us to afternoon tea, where my mother and I — both of us having grown up on a steady diet of Enid Blyton books — were enthralled by the drama...
...To be one of the Famous Five by Enid Blyton. With my girlfriends, we would explore our surroundings, biking or strolling, while inventing gripping detective stories....
...Playing music certainly can, and you don’t have to be concert standard. When I was six-years-old I pleaded for piano lessons, heaven knows why....
...Harvested that morning from Enid Blyton’s Faraway Tree, they burst in your mouth and are full of honey....
...When he wouldn’t speak, they threw him in the castle prison, poked and prodded him and hung him upside down, but he still didn’t utter a word....
...It felt like an Enid Blyton book. I au-paired in Italy for a year. After that, Cambridge polytechnic — it was called CCAT at the time. I didn’t really train....
...Mr Stannard warns that the benefit isn’t achieved by cloistering alone....
...“Wippel won’t be able to get anything done, even if he wins,” said Harry, a pensioner shopping in the local market. “The council will be even more of a circus than it is now.”...
...I couldn’t think of a better reason to play hooky than some fresh air and exercise....
...The former, devised in 1924 with the Jungman sisters and Enid Raphael, alleviated boring afternoons; the latter, vacant evenings....
...And who wouldn’t wish to eavesdrop on Bainbridge and Jack Priestley, swapping northern memories over a giant ashtray?...
...You need to imagine all the Enid Blyton, Swallows and Amazons stuff . . . but when it was yet to be cool. If you were a teenager, aching to be fabulous, all of it was gall and wormwood to the soul....
...Dr David Livingstone.We haven’t seen him for so long.We had better send Mr StanleyTo see if he’s been eaten. The children receive thunderous applause. I was one of the children on stage that night....
...Not since Enid Blyton’s Five Find-Outers and Dog has so much disdain been poured on the police....
...Green says her parents would not let her read Enid Blyton books when she was growing up partly because they tended to depict girls with a sense of adventure as tomboys: “There wasn’t a range of opportunities...
...‘You can’t opt out of walking around London’ I lived in London for the better part of the past six years before moving to Washington, and no matter where you went in the city, you couldn’t help but notice...
...They are both fans of the London Underground moquette designers who preceded them, including Misha Black, Paul Nash and Enid Marx....
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