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Collected Short Stories

and Summer in the Country (Autobiography)

ISBN 0-9535125-4-1

Carey Blyton

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	…fascinating as an insight into Carey [Blyton]’s formative experiences…
	—Cliff Watkins, Salisbury Journal

	…a charming autobiographical essay…
	—Martin Anderson, The Independent

Carey Blyton, nephew of the children’s writer Enid Blyton, was born in Beckenham, Kent in 1932. He became a well-known composer, writing much music for film and television, and achieved worldwide fame as the creator of the nonsense song, Bananas in Pyjamas. Throughout his career he was also a writer of prose, and here, collected for the first time, are all of his short stories, together with Summer in the Country, an autobiographical fragment dealing with his experiences as a wartime evacuee.

This is an attractive hardback volume of 120 pages with a glossy dust-jacket; the autobiographical section also contains a handful of photographic illustrations. Purchasers of this book may also like to consider Composer Interviews no 1: Carey Blyton. The Fand catalogue also contains several printed scores, and more than a dozen CDs, of Carey Blyton’s music.

		Author	Title
		Carey Blyton	Collected Short Stories and Summer in the Country (Autobiography) ISBN 0-9535125-4-1
	#	Author(s)	Grouping	Chapter
	1	Carey Blyton Edited by Peter Thompson	Introduction	Editor’s Preface
	2		Short stories	Summit Meeting (1957, revised 1982)
	3			The Carp (1970)
	4			The Swan (1971)
	5			Old Sam and the Acorns (1971)
	6			A Fine Summer’s Day (1971)
	7			Deadline (1971)
	8			The Final Solution (1979)
	9			First Prize to Miss Pettigrew (1980)
	10			Little Mr Universe (1980)
	11			The Great God Pan (1980)
	12			The Spoils of War (1980)
	13			The Golden Silence (1980)
	14			Touchdown (1980)
	15			A Very Good Rate of Exchange (1985)
	16			Beggar Your Neighbour (1987)
	17		Summer in the Country (Autobiography, 1987)	1. An Unexpected Departure
	18			2. Interregnum
	19			3. The Rectory, West Lydford
	20			4. In the Footsteps of Gilbert White
	21			5. New Faces
	22			6. In Thrall to Bacchus
	23			7. An Expected Departure
	24			8. The Gas-works, Castle Cary
	25			9. Business Ventures
	26			10. Romeo and Juliet
	27			11. ‘Keep The Home Fires Burning’
	28			12. Up Everest with Hilary
	29			13. The Departure
	30			Post-scriptum
	31		Supplementary	Publishing History

Catalogue code: FM093 • Published: 2002
Entry last updated: 12th August 2010