Malcolm Saville était un auteur anglais célèbre pour ses livres captivants pour enfants, en particulier la série Lone Pine. Ses récits mettent profondément l'accent sur le cadre, avec des descriptions vivides de la campagne anglaise, des villages et des villes. Saville capture magistralement l'essence atmosphérique du paysage, en faisant un élément central de sa narration.
The Jillions did not check the weather forecast before going to the village of Sallowby just outside Ely.This story recalls Hereward the Wake and his resistance to the Norman invasion. More immediately the Fens are invaded by flooding. The story accurately portrays the storms of 1947. The illustrations are based on photographs taken during the resulting Great Fen Floods.
The first edition since 1946, with full colour illustrations throughout. Malcolm Saville's classic 1946 novel is about eleven-year old Jane's discovery of nature and country life during a year spent convalescing on her uncle's farm, after having been dangerously ill in post-war London.
White fire
Jillies No 2The Jillies' adventure is in London's Dockland. They rescue Belinda from her kidnappers. Jilly Day and Chris Giles have written introductions to Two Fair Plaits.
The sixth Marston Baines adventure and just as exciting ...
Redshank’s Warning is the first title in the Jillies series. Redshank’s Warning introduces us to the Jillions – Mandy, Prue and Tim – and the Standings – Guy and Mark. The scene is Blakeney in Norfolk with its wild salt flats. When the Jillies meet Guy and Mark, they are expecting some happy bird watching but they never guessed what else they would be watching. What was Miss Harvey plotting? Who was the villain, Mr Sandrock or Mr Martin? And what was the meaning of the Redshank’s warning?
Those charming Malcolm Saville characters, the Jillies - Mandy, Pru and Tim - together with Guy and Mark, run into an exciting adventure near Penrith.The train they are in is snowbound, but even before this a series of curious events arouses their suspicions and they get on the trail of something very, very crooked.They leave the train, and after that it is adventure fast - and at times furious - in the midst of snowy hills. Mandy and Guy are beginning to have a tender little romance, too, and Strangers at Snowfell is altogether thrilling and delightful.
The fifth Marston Baines thriller, set in Brittany.