Did you love boarding school books? If so tell us why for chance to win a tennis-themed prize worth over £100 incl Trebizon books + tennis garden set

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To celebrate the release of The Tennis Term at Trebizon, we're offering you a chance to win a set of the classic Trebizon series by Anne Digby and a great way to play tennis in the garden.

This delightful series follows the adventures of Rebecca and her friends through their time at Trebizon boarding school and the ups and downs of friendship. In the latest book, The Tennis Term at Trebizon, Rebecca has been picked for the tennis team, and Trebizon has high hopes of winning the cup. But then there’s a hoax phone call, and a fake fire alarm, and Rebecca finds herself under suspicion. If Rebecca and her friends can’t solve the mystery, there will be serious consequences...

“As warm and comforting as a cup of cocoa, the Trebizon books are a real treat” – Katherine Woodfine, author of The Mystery of the Clockwork Sparrow

Did you love boarding school books? If so tell us why for a chance to win this fab tennis-themed prize worth over £100: a set of SEVEN Trebizon books including The Tennis Term at Trebizon PLUS a tennis garden set!

This discussion is sponsored by Egmont and will end 1 August

I liked Malory Towers and I'm sure my daughter would love these!

One Christmas my Great Aunt gave me an Angela Brazil book. They were already old fashioned but I loved it and borrowed more from the library, though I didn't really get into any other series - except Jennings, because that was on Children's Hour on the radio! I think what I liked was the fact that they were so different to everyday life; we lived in an isolated area and I rarely saw friends out of school.

LOVED the Trebizon books. Not quite similar but also loved the 'eventers Dream' series by Carolyn Akrill. Again, a young girl studies away from home. It's funny as neither series particularly glamourises boarding life but it seemed such an escape / world away to me. Ah, loved them!!

It has to be the midnight feasts and all those hampers of goodies from home. I was hooked on the Enid Blyton books - Mallory Towers sounded such fun - jolly hockey sticks and all that

I read the Malory Towers series which made school appear to be like having a big family. Loves the 'idea' of dorms and lots of people to play with. Not sure that it would have been like that in reality though!

I loved all of Enid Blyton's boarding school stories and would absolutely have given my right arm to actually go to one. They always sounded liked the jolliest of places to be (although I'm not sure this would actually have been the case) and everyone had such fun. For me, it was definitely reading to escape - my school days were never such fun!

I loved all boarding school books, because they described a world that I could just not imagine. I had never met anyone who had been to such a school, and they sounded like somewhere I would've loved to have been.

I loved, loved, loved Mallory towers & the Twins at St Clare's. They always made me think that wanted to go to boarding school. They had so much fun & the weather was always so nice. Brilliant

I loved Mallory Towers and St Clare's AND Trebizon. I've just saved all my old Trebizons from being given to charity! I loved the sense that school could be fun and the sense of comradary and all the sport- and Trebizon had BOYS in it. Oooo. I always thought Rebecca was very glamorous and wanted to be her.

I was a BIG Chalet School fan, it was the imaginary world of being with friends all the time, a bed with a curtain round it, adventures, being in the mountains, on a Welsh island later, the excitement of The Chalet School in Exile. I just loved it all. I read them WELL into my teenage years, I still enjoyed them in 6th form. I remember being told off in Yr7 because my reading diary had so few entries in it but I was too embarrassed to write in all the boarding school books I had been reading so had nothing to write! I have some of my collection in the loft waiting for my daughters to be old enough for them. I have no idea if they will like them as much as I did but I do hope so and if not then I will just reread them all myself.

Growing up in a council house and going to a big standard school.. Boarding school stories were my escape

Midnight feasts, swims in the rocky pool of Mallory Towers. A strong dislike of Gwendoline Mary! Loved them all.
Trebizon came later but was just as beloved to me. Rebecca's blooming tennis career was a world away from the knock a door run and kerby games of my childhood!
My kids would love love love to win the set of books.

I loved Malory towers but particularly the naughtiest girl in the school as the children had such fun. I used to dream of having a tuck box as big as they did. Also absolutely relished The Worst Witch and Trebizon too. How did they all make boarding school sound so much more exciting than our own schools?

In my early teens I loved them for their promise of a world independent from parents, full of mysteries, adventures and midnight snacks; tempered by the safety of the rhythms of school life.

The illusion of the never ending sleepover!

I loved boarding school books when I was younger - distinctly remember Zelda from 'Mallory Towers' & Elizabeth eating peppermint creams in bed in 'The Naughtiest Girl in the School' - love it! I've never read the Trebizon series but would love to discover the series with my LO!

I LOVED THE CHALET SCHOOL SERIES BY ELINOR BRENT DYER.... THESE BOOKS SEEMED TO GO ON FOR EVER AND THE EARLIER ONES FOLLOWED A GIRL CALLED JO AND LATER HER OWN CHILDREN. BOOKS WERE SET IN SWITZERLAND AND YOU COULD JUST LOSE YOURSELF IN THE GOINGS ON AT THE SCHOOL.

Yes I used to love the Mallory Towers books as a child

These have always been a favourite going right back to Billy Bunter!

Yes i did love boarding school books, Mallory Towers

I liked the way the new girl always made good whatever problems they had on arriving at boarding school and the exotic locations that figured in some of them. My favourite was the Chalet school books by Elinor Brent-Dyer but an honourable mention must go to Dorita Fairlie Bruce- her Dimsie books are very good too. I read any I could find as they were difficult to track down and are not getting any easier to find- I still read any I can get my hands on. Perfect escapism for somebody educated in a state school.

They were my escape from a not great home life. I wished and prayed that I would be sent to boarding school but sadly never to be.

I read these books as a child - I knew nothing about boarding schools so I was really glued to them out of curiosity!

I loved the St Clares books, and desperately wanted to go to boarding school so I could receive tuck boxes mid term! I'm not keen on fruit cake, though, so my mum would have had to rethink the baked goods treat....

I love reading Enid Blyton as a kid - The Twins at St Claires, Mallory Towers, The Naughtiest Girl series and then I read the Chalet School books which were a bit more grown up but still appealing - I used to want to go to boarding school and have all those kind of adventures :)

And of course you have one of the best series ever based at a boarding school - Harry Potter - combining both the boarding school element (which I loved) and fantasy (also a firm fave)

I read any school stories I could get my hands on. Mallory Towers, st Clare's. the Naughtiest Girl, Jennings, Billy Bunter , The Chalet School, Trebizon and carried on reading them for the nostalgia and escapism! As an adult i also discovered the Dimsie, Nancy and Springdale books along with Antonia Forest. My DD is enjoying the Naughtiest girl now..

My friend and I used to pretend we were at Malory Towers...it was one of our favourite games. When we went on our school residential trip at the end of primary we pretended we were at boarding school!!

LOVE boarding school books. Malory Towers... St Clare's - the characters are so memorable. Gwendoline Mary, and Irene...Belinda the artist, and Bill and Clarissa with their ponies. Marvellous. Liked the honesty of it - like Alicia being clever without trying, but Darryl having to work hard to get good marts for old Miss Potts.
My dd has read my Malory Towers set, but I only read a few Trebizon, the library never had a whole set. This sounds like a brilliant prize, good competition. Recently I've read Robin Steven's mystery books set in a boarding school, still love tht kind of thing as a comfort read. They are timeless!