Another Antonia Forest thread

Hmmm... maybe GGBP should get lots of emails asking for MATT to be reprinted.

Though tbf, having reprinted once, there probably isn't enough demand for another whole new print run

I wonder if the early reprints had smaller runs as they didn't realise how much demand there would be?

When I couldn't wait for the reprints to come out, I ended up buying the 1970s paperback versions of Peter's Room, Ready Made Family & Thuggery Affair from ebayers in Australia & New Zealand for about £10 each - don't think they were published out there though, maybe they emigrated with their owners?

I am hoping that when GGBP get to the end of the list, they start at the beginning again .

Falconer's Lure was the first one they reprinted, so I bought it but then didn't buy Traitor as I'd read it already - the reprint of that goes for silly money on ebay now!

I eventually tracked down an affordable copy of it in German, but it misses out a few chapters of Robert Anquetil out at sea.

(My A-level german is very rusty, but it's quite an easy book to read especially if you half-remember it in English anyway.)

Am hoping GGBP reprint the school stories too - my copy of Cricket Term is just a collection of loose pages, and End of Term is not much better!

Try badger books as well as they have always been helpful in the past. Think they're badgerbooks.co.uk
off to rifle through bookcase! Mum has loads of af at hers ( will have to take big suitcase!)

5Foot5, I thought they were going to republish the school titles, but I think they decided to start with the most difficult to get hold of titles, which were the holiday and historicals.

I hope they do because I want to get a copy of Attic Term!

It makes me sad for your daughter...End of Term and Cricket Term are wonderful books, better than Autumn Term ever...my copies are falling to bits so really I need to get new ones of them too. Maybe I can start up a little business photocopying my titles and selling them to MNetters

"dismayed" not "displayed"

Oh this is a timely thread for me.

We have a paperback copy of Autumn Term and DD re-read it recently and commented how much she liked it and were there any more in the series.

I looked it up in my Encyclopedia of Girls School Stories and found the list of all her books. It is mainly the remaining school stories we are interested in, i.e End of Term, Cricket Term and Attic Term.

Anyway I told DD we would have a look and was then displayed to find out how much copies of these cost - even second hand.

I looked at the GGB website but couldn't see any indication that they had ever published any of these three, although I noticed several of her others had been on the list.

Sounds like we will not be reading them unless we happen to find them in the library

That's a shame.
Do you know any teachers locally who could request it for their school and then lend it to you?

pax - took me AGES that one

noticed a while ago that Nicola gets into trouble for reading one of my favourite Mary Renault books too, I loved that

i was mystified by loads of the references in AF's books as well - she did not dumb down in any way when writing for children did she?
still am mystified by a lot of them tbh!

yes he does, I didn't know what shallots were then either. It confused me for a good while.

I have never understood the Unity Logan thing, not having read that book.

I remember that but, doesn't Patrick say The onion looking glass lady?

Someone has a conversation with Nicola (might be Ann) where they compare Ginty to a chameleon and describe her as being like Orsino in Twelfth Night 'changable like taffeta'

She is one of those people whose interests mirror her current friends - the whole Unity Logan relationship and her anti-blood stance sums it up for me.
In FL she is anti-blood sports, but by the next winter she is our hunting and manages to give the air of being a long time pro at it.

Ginty reminds Patrick's father of The Lady of Shallot, isn't that right?

He said "She had a lovely face
God in his mercy lend her grace"

I really puzzled over that bit as a child, it stayed with me.

I love Patrick in Attic Term - I love the moment after the phone debarcle when Patrick realises that if it had been Nicola on the phone he wouldn't have needed to hang up.

Ginty is one of mu least favorite characters, although throughout the series they are odd moments when I warm to her.
Of the top of my head they include when she makes the inappropriate comment when Karen announces her wedding and when Rowan bullies her into taking part in the Regatta and she goes AWOL. I also love the scene in Peter's Room with the Doris-Dress.

Peter's Room is fab - when I first read it I struggled with the Gondal bits and and skipped over them, but now I love them.
The character development as they explore hidden bits of their own psyches through the imaginary world is so clever.

oh i love that cover - Ginty leaning forward coquettishly with her mouth slightly open (god it does sound dodgy LOL)
i think that is the book that really convinces about how attractive a person ginty can be - i mean she has some balls creeping into the office, and the joke about reading the questions is quite admirably rebellious if it wasn't so doomed to disaster
however then as usual she retreats to being a complete wet and only interested in saving her own skin

nothing yet, CATs sometimes take a day to arrive
i will look in the morning

will check email humph and the last post was just a joke