What books do you wish would have been written?

[Daisy]

And "The Broads of Adventure" preceded the present weekly serial.

[kirrin_castle]

Here's a link to a story Dick Kirrin and I wrote some years ago. It's very long! It is about the Famous Five who meet up with the Adventure lot. Imagine Timmy and Kiki in the same story!

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Sorry Daisy, I have only just seen this. That's amazing thanks, I will give it a good read soon I promise. How long did it take you both to write?

[Chrissie777]

Whatever it is, Barney's father is the least memorable of any father character she ever invented! She really wasted an opportunity here, but I guess it shows that after Rubadub Mystery she was simply bored with the characters and hadn't intended to write the extra two books.

EB didn't seem bored to me with "Rat-a-Tat", Rob.
Maybe she had a hard time meeting her dead line and that's why the ending seems so rushed?
It's very different compared with "Rockingdown" and "Rilloby Fair" though.

"Ring O'Bells" always feels to me like a stand-alone book.
Lovely, magical, charming, but not quite like a Barney mystery.

No matter how often I reread "Ragamuffin", it's just not compelling for me.

[Daisy]

Here's a link to a story Dick Kirrin and I wrote some years ago. It's very long! It is about the Famous Five who meet up with the Adventure lot. Imagine Timmy and Kiki in the same story!

https://www.enidblytonsociety.co.uk/for ... +adventure" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Sorry Daisy, I have only just seen this. That's amazing thanks, I will give it a good read soon I promise. How long did it take you both to write?

Looking at the dates I see we wrote it over 11 months. It really went on far too long!

[Chrissie777]

I'm interested in hearing people's opinions about what books they would like to have seen more of, or what stories had been written. For example some people may have wanted more of the Adventure Series or FF if only EB could have lived another 20 years without any decline in her story telling abilities.

I remember how sad I as a child was when I found out that the Adventure series had only 8 volumes (and I didn't even care for "River and "Ship" way back then nor today).
Wish EB would have created more volumes with Lucy, Jack, Kiki, Dina, Phillip & Bill and Allie taking place somewhere in England (even though my favorite ,"Valley", takes place in the mountains of Austria).

[Chrissie777]

And "The Broads of Adventure" preceded the present weekly serial.

Our printer is defective, but as soon as it will work again, I will print out those continuation stories that I have missed since January due to being at the hospital etc.
I know that Rob wrote something about the FF taking place in Kirrin.

[Daisy]

The current serial by Rob is a Fives story taking place in Kirrin.

[Chrissie777]

Yes, I read that last week in another EBS thread and am delighted!!!

[Courtenay]

Wish EB would have created more volumes with Lucy, Jack, Kiki, Dina, Phillip & Bill and Allie taking place somewhere in England (even though my favorite ,"Valley", takes place in the mountains of Austria).

Maybe England wasn't adventurous enough for the stories! Now I think about it, they all take place somewhere at least slightly "exotic" — if I recall rightly, even the ones that are set in Britain are all within Celtic territory, at least if I'm right about Craggy-Tops being in Cornwall! (I can't remember whether we're actually told that in the books, or whether it's just speculation, but I'm sure I've heard it somewhere.)

Island — Cornwall (?)
Castle — Scotland (specified in a later book, Sea I think it is)
Valley — Austria
Sea — Islands somewhere north of Scotland
Mountain — Wales, look you, whateffer!
Ship — Greek Islands
Circus — Tauri-Hessia (implicitly central or eastern Europe)
River — Undisclosed Middle Eastern country

[Chrissie777]

Island — Cornwall (?)
Castle — Scotland (specified in a later book, Sea I think it is)
Valley — Austria
Sea — Islands somewhere north of Scotland
Mountain — Wales, look you, whateffer!
Ship — Greek Islands
Circus — Tauri-Hessia (implicitly central or eastern Europe)
River — Undisclosed Middle Eastern country

Courtenay, I thought "Sea" was taking place on the Hebrides.
"River" is described in the old German translation as being close to Syria.
Whenever I reread "Circus", it made me think of Hungary or possibly Turkey(?)

[Chrissie777]

I would have liked another Adventurous Four book. Tom could have surely lost his camera/binoculars just one more time?
The characters in these books are good, especially Tom and Andy.

Yes, more "Adventurous Four" sequels would have been wonderful!

[Courtenay]

Courtenay, I thought "Sea" was taking place on the Hebrides.

Could be — I haven't read it for a while and don't currently have a copy, so I can't check. I got the impression they were somewhere closer to Shetland, but I could be wrong.

[Chrissie777]

No, I probably mixed it up with the Hebrides and it was meant to be Shetland.

[Rob Houghton]

EB didn't seem bored to me with "Rat-a-Tat", Rob.

I just feel that Barney becomes a normal school boy in Rat-A-Tat - which diminishes his character somewhat.

Pity ENid didn't continue to make Barney's father exciting and unusual, instead of making him a conventional father figure. He was an actor who travelled around acting in Shakespeare plays - and yet none of this theatricality comes across once he is discovered, despite four books in which his character has been built up and built up in the reader's minds.

[Courtenay]

No, I probably mixed it up with the Hebrides and it was meant to be Shetland.

Just so long as you don't put Shetland in a box...