Give a Form a Bad Name: Nancy Breary. Newnes, 1943This is the funniest book I’ve read all year, and I am all the more impressed because many authors of boarding school stories set out to make you laugh at their ‘madcap’ heroines, but only manage a smile. I had to put this book down to finish laughing and then have cause to laugh again as soon I ( Read more... )

Dimitry Drew’s First Term: Nancy Breary Newnes (sold as published in 1951)

As always with Breary, this was a lot of fun. Dimity Drew is ( Read more... )

This Time Next Term: Nancy Breary Blackie (sold as a first edition)This is simply marvellous. If you haven’t come across Breary, I do encourage you to look out for her. I sometimes use the tag ‘the extraordinary new girl’, but Bridget Ross, our heroine and the first new girl of the story, is used to thinking of herself as a very ordinary girl, ( Read more... )

The Morning Gift: Eva Ibbotson
The Venetian Affair: Helen MacInnes
At Risk: Stella Rimington
Junior Captain: Nancy Breary
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They Called it World's End: Nan Chauncy

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