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Welcome to the website of the Enid Blyton Society. Formed in early 1995, the aim of the Society is to provide a focal point for collectors and enthusiasts of Enid Blyton through its magazine The Enid Blyton Society Journal, issued three times a year, its annual Enid Blyton Day, an event which attracts in excess of a hundred members, and its website. Most of the website is available to all, but Society Members have exclusive access to secret parts as well! Join the Society today and start receiving your copy of the Journal three times a year. Don't forget also that we have an Online Shop where you'll find back issues of the Journal as well as rare Enid Blyton biographies, guides and more.

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Posted by Scott on March 18, 2024
Hi, could you tell me if there is any way to get e-book versions of the Claude Voilier Famous Five books, please? Keen to read these. :-)
BarneyBarney says: I don't think there are any e-book versions, Scott, but secondhand paperbacks are available from sites like eBay and Abebooks.
Posted by Kathy on March 16, 2024
Thank you so much for your speedy reply and the information, Barney, especially on a Saturday!
BarneyBarney says: A chroeso, Kathy!
Posted by Kathy on March 16, 2024
Hello, I am interested to know if there are Welsh translations of the original Famous Five books, please? I know there are short adaptations in the Pump Prysur series, but I would like to buy actual translations into Welsh. Many thanks.
BarneyBarney says: Sadly, I've never come across any Welsh translations of the original full-length Famous Five books. What a pity that the colour short stories are available in Welsh but not the 21 novels!
Posted by Aparna on March 14, 2024
The book Graham posted about on 12th March could be The Secret of Moon Castle. Jack, Mike and Prince Paul explore an old mine, which is being used by a gang to extract a new metal, stellastepheny. I don't think the book has been in print recently, but it should be easily available secondhand.
BarneyBarney says: It's a terrible pity that the Secret books are no longer in print (with the exception of The Secret Island). They're wonderful, stirring adventure stories which capture the imagination. The Adventurous Four books and Barney mysteries haven't been in print for a long time either, along with one-off adventures like The Boy Next Door (to give just one example) and gripping family dramas like The Family at Red-Roofs and the two Six Cousins books (again, there are others but I can't list them all).
Posted by Graham on March 12, 2024
Hello, I remember reading as a child in an Enid Blyton book (probably the Secret Seven as they were my favourites), about when the children saw a colour that no-one had ever seen before. They may have been in a cave, or on a hillside? I am writing here of a memory of 55 years ago, so I may have my wires crossed, but that description has always amazed me (even though it is impossible :)). Was it in a Blyton book, and if so which one? Thanks!
BarneyBarney says: I can think of two possibilities, Graham. One is The Mountain of Adventure, in which Jack, Lucy-Ann, Philip and Dinah are inside a mountain and find themselves on a balcony overlooking a vast pit in which men are working. Enid Blyton writes, "Out of the hole in the pit floor shone a brilliant mass of colour - but a colour the children did not know! It was not blue or green, not red or yellow, not any colour they had ever seen before. They gaped at it in surprise." The other possibility is Five Get Into a Fix. Julian, Dick, Anne and George see a swirling, glowing mist from the window of their mountain hut. Anne says, "What a strange colour - not red - not yellow - not orange. What colour is it?" and her brother Julian replies, "It's not a shade I've ever seen before."

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