I have just blued £30 on Nicola bloody Marlow

The Mask of Apollo is a wonderful book.....

Good news, notcitrus!

Is there more than one Renault crossover? I know about the Mask of Apollo one.

So funny, I jumped on this thread only to see I was the first respondent of the original.

Trennels lives! It's at trennels.dreamwidth.org - most of Livejournal decamped to Dreamwidth a few months ago when the Russian owners demanded users agree new ToC which let them delete mentions of homosexuality etc.

For more Marlow fixes, Archive Of Our Own has a fair bit of fanfiction. Of course I've now had to buy Mary Renault books to understand various Marlow/Renault crossovers...

Thanks for the heads up, MontyPythonsFF. Must check what sort of state my copy of EOT is in, an extra one would probably be a good buy.
I am so sorry that all the read through posts on Trennels have gone.

Another post on a zombie thread, but wanted to alert fellow Marlow fans to the fact that GGB is preparing to publish End of Term (probably my favourite, and due to my propensity for dropping books in the bath I'm planning to buy a back-up copy). Also, for anyone who isn't already on it, there's an AF page on Facebook - not massively active but has flurries of interesting discussions.

I know this is a Zombie-ish thread but my love of the Marlows is so much I study had to re-read it. And then people started talking about Masha. I loved those books and wanted to let fellow fans know they have been re-printed and are available on Amazon at reasonable prices.

The Masha books are only print novels I have bought in five years - a measure of how desperate I was to re-read them. Apart from them I am totally reliant on kindle for pleasure reading. Why are GGB so reluctant to release the Marlow books as E-books?

I have every Marlow book in paper form and re-read them often , but some copies are 40+ years old and stored in Jiffy bags to keep the pages in order. I cannot wait for the day they will all be available online and I can carry them round in my handbag.

"The Marlows and the Traitor" was excellent. (Finished it about an hour ago, having started around 1 this morning.)

Thank you RustyBear

And that's why we all hate Lawrie/Laurie. Or get bored...sigh... Such a drama brat....

Ps, looking at that wonderful Trennells site is Miranda gay ? Had never struck me before..

And why can't I spell my name how I want? It's my name, none of you can tell me what to do.

Betcha Nicola would get away with it but then she gets away with bloody murder, everyone's favourite, not fair

Oh FFS why do I do this to myself. Had managed to swerve this thread till half an hour ago - and now look! No one had told me that GGB published Gwendoline Courtney ...

As regards AF I'd read everything that was available at the time but can't remember which I owned. I remember finding them revelatory. I've just ordered Traitor. (The only thing is, I've been begging one of my favourite publishers for years to do AF. I guess that won't happen if GGB have got the gig.)

At one time I owned all but Prefects of the CS and one or two others. Various losses used to make me sad - but when I joined a CS thread here and re-read a couple I found the writing had lost its grip on my soul, though the stories are permanently embedded.

Bloody Lawrie. Typical.

I think you'll find it's Lawrie Marlow :)

You've got it all wrong. LAURIE Marlowe is worth £30, not bloody Nicola

Come on, aren't the play scenes the best part by a country mile? And we all know what a crap Shepherd boy Nicola would have made, right?

stomps off

I related to Karen when she said the reason she found it difficult being Head Girl was that she could see no reason why the younger girls should obey her. I never reached such giddy heights, but I had a similar problem on reaching the sixth form when we were expected to exert some sort of discipline over the junior forms.

Antonia Forest Fanfic? My recommendation is Dangers Untold, Hardships Unnumbered . Have just realised I can't say why as it'd be a spoiler!

Twins, alliteration, strong, silent men who propagated and disappeared.

I have quite a lot of abbey books :) They went over the top on twins

I started off with the South African cousin coming over and rescuing Margaret and ? bridget ? A good study of poverty and depression. Yes, Cecil Sharpe Club throve and we would know little about former customs without it. My DM was taught all those dances and even I was taught some if them

But too many twins and AFTER far better on psychology as well as plot and language.

I've read most of the Abbey girls. The early ones are better than the later ones. The number of twins rivals even the Chalet ones.
I think Rosamund had two sets of twins inside a year, Rosalin, Rosabel, Rosanna and Rosilda afaik.
Sadly my copies are long lost.

Yes, I've read most of the Abbey Girls - MIL has all except the last (valuable) few. Totally bonkers but apparently historically accurate regarding obsession with folk dancing in the 20s/30s. I didn't like the Dimsie books so much though.

Very glad I bought my Forest non-school books when GGB first did them.

Yes, that's right, Marcipex, though I think it's cranberries that she uses to redden her cheeks. The publisher is Margin Notes books and they've also published the sequel, The Youngest Lady in Waiting, which I also bought prematurely for just over £100. The website says they're available to order, so maybe not published yet. They're my favourite books ever.

I don't know where to start with that Antonia Forest fanfic site! Does anyone have any recommendations?

Was Masha the girl who left a green jewelled ring (from a cracker) on a tree branch? And reddened her cheeks with geranium petals for a party?

Did Anyone else read the Abbey Girls ? Full of folk dancing and twins.

Masha! I've never come across other people who have read it. And I never read the sequel, always wondered what happened. Oh joy. Will have to wait though...