Malory Towers

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Malory Towers - Enid Blyton

#1 First Term at Malory Towers

#2 Second Form at Malory Towers

#3 Third Year at Malory Towers
#4 Upper Fourth at Malory Towers
#5 Into the Fifth at Malory Towers
#6 Last Term at Malory Towers

Malory Towers is my all time favourite Enid Blyton series of books. Written from 1946 through to 1951.  The original Malory Towers follows Darrell Rivers as she begins Malory Towers during the first form and we journey through Malory Towers with Darrell and her classmates until they graduate the sixth form in the final book.  At the beginning of the series Darrell is an eager young girl of about twelve years old beginning her first term at boarding school.  Her mother takes her to the train station and there she meets her form mistress and head mistress of North Tower Miss Potts.  Darrell also meets a few of her classmates, Alicia, Gwendoline and Sally.  The rest of the series chronicles their growing up as they become the leaders of their school which they are fiercely proud of.  There are liars, thieves and cheats as well as the good as gold girls who make up the students. 

 
Malory Towers is all about good honest hard work, they are a more realistic set of school stories over the St Clare’s series.  I re-read the Malory Towers series whenever I feel down and need to get lost in a world of innocence.  Each book has their own little dramas, after all what school stories through from the 1920’s to 1950’s didn’t have some little drama.  All the central characters have good development throughout the series.  Three characters who had the most remarkable development were Mary-Lou, Alicia and Gwendoline.   



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Malory Towers – Pamela Cox

Malory Towers got a new series written in 2009. Pamela Cox wrote a second series of Malory Towers books which occur right after the final book of the Enid Blyton series ended. Instead of following Darrell Rivers, it follows her younger sister Felicity Rivers as she continues her journey through Malory Towers.  These books have modernised Malory Towers in attitude and society.  They’re interesting books; the characters have changed from their original format during the Enid Blyton years which is a shame for anyone who read the originals all the time.  The new series are good to be read without having read the first series of books.  I’m not that fond of the Pamela Cox series of Malory Towers but there is nothing terrible about them 

#7 New Term at Malory Towers
#8 Summer Term at Malory Towers
#9 Winter Term at Malory Towers
#10 Fun and Games at Malory Towers
#11 Secrets at Malory Towers
#12 Good-Bye Malory Towers