Nicholas Royle News Today

The author’s avid hunt for notes and ephemera secreted in secondhand editions is warm-hearted and infectiously funny

As Scotland make their final preparations for France 98, HUGH MacDONALD reviews five World Cup books.

…naked tennis, heavy boozing and multiple affairs with men and women – the new claims about the Famous Five author’s relationship with her female illustrator are not in the least bit shocking to Nadia Cohen, who uncovered a torrid and complicated private life in her diaries and letters

Gosh and crikey, everyones got it in for Enid Blyton and jolly well no mistake. The headlines over the years are enough to make your fishpaste sandwiches curl.

The grandson of Lola Oslow, who was an illustrator for Blyton and worked with her most notably on Book of Fairies, has claimed that she had an affair with the author (pictured).

Enid Blyton was outwardly an unimpeachable national treasure. But her private life was rather more complicated. Above: With second husband Kenneth Darrell Waters, who she married in 1943.

In a new book, an academic has claimed his grandmother had a relationship with children's author Enid Blyton.

Professor Nicholas Royle recalled a conversation about his grandmother’s illicit romance with the married children’s novelist

Generations of readers of Enid Blyton’s Famous Five series have enjoyed the books without having to contemplate the erotic properties of the canine member of the quintet. After reading Nicholas Royle’s one-of-a-kind fantasia on Blyton and David Bowie, they may never be able to do so again. Royle writes confidently that ‘the most obvious route

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