The Enid Blyton Society

I'm looking for copies of the Claude Voilier Famous Five books.
I've currently got about 8 of them and are looking for the rest. I've tried eBay, but not everyone there is willing to ship international, and individual shipping on them can add up (I live in New Zealand) and have even tried emailing the publisher to convince them to release them electronically (a long shot I know, but when you own the rights and haven't released a copy of it in 20 years - no publication costs seems to me like even if they only sell 100 copies a year it's still just profit for them)
So I thought I'd throw it out there to fans, to see if anyone had copies of the 'B series' gathering dust or that they read and decided that they weren't as good as the originals (a sentiment I whole heartedly agree with).
I'm also willing to consider buying duplicates of ones I already have if bundled with enough ones I don't.
Thanks, and sorry for the rambling.

I have four which I do not read, for they are nothing like the origanals. Here are the titles:

The Famous Five and the knights treausre
The Famous Five and the stately homes gang
The Famous Five and the strange scientist
The Famous Five and the Hijackers

All good condition, please PM me if you want any, Joelsymons!

I got most of my copies from awesomebooks.com . They send them abroad as well.

Thanks for the offer Poppy. I completely agree they aren't as good as the originals. For better or worse I started collecting a couple of them when I was younger and now my obsessive nature wants to have them all.
Wolfgang! I had never heard of that website. Those prices were insanely good. And their shipping to NZ was free. Thanks heaps!

No problem, hope you get the ones you wanted!

Voilier Claude was a French teacher, journalist, translator (especially of popular children's series in English, as the three investigators and the Dana Girls in French), and a prolific author, writing more than 600 stories for various French magazines, and about 400 stories for children. In the English-speaking world, is best known for his continuation of Enid Blyton, The Famous Five series of children's adventure novels.

I believe Claude Voilier is a female. I too have read a few of these books and really I have no desire to read any more. To me they are a pale imitation of the Blyton originals.

Claude Voilier is indeed a female. While best-known to English speakers for her Famous Five continuations, she was also a translator. Cool fact: in The Famous Five and the Strange Scientist, the character of Professor Kolkov comes from Varania, the fictional setting of much of the Three Investigators book, The Mystery of the Silver Spider! So that's a very neat little nod to one of the series Voilier was involved in translating.

Did you know that there are actually 24 Famous Five books written by Claude Voilier, but that only 18 of them were ever translated in English? However, an unofficial translation of the 19th one does exist - done by me. While I don't dare risk sharing it publicly (other than the odd snippet or chapter), I'm happy to share it privately. So if you want, joelsymons, PM me with your e-mail address and I'll send you a complimentary copy of my translation, entitled The Famous Five and the Ruby of Akbar (taken literally from the French Les Cinq et le rubis d'Akbar). Or you could join the Fans of Enid Blyton Yahoo group and read it in the Files section there.

By the way, joelsymons, have you tried Trade Me at all? Voilier books can pop up on there from time to time.