Welsh Adventure: Viola Bayley. The Children’s Book Club edition 1968

I had to get this to read! ( Read more... )

Welsh Adventure: Viola Bayley. The Children’s Book Club, 1968

[This is a Welsh review of the above book, the English translation will be posted shortly.]

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Jersey Adventure: Viola Bayley, Dent, 1969

The back flap of this book’s dust jacket quotes the Junior Bookshelf stating ‘Miss Bayley is a sort of Mary Stewart for young readers’, which is an accurate description, I think. ( Read more... )

Paris Adventure:Viola Bayley. Dent, 1962.I may have been guilty of remembering Viola Bayley’s work too fondly, it having been a while since I read any of her stories - in general, tales of families on holiday/abroad in exoticish locations who get embroiled in adventures involving gangs and new, charismatic half-foreign friends. In fact, when put ( Read more... )