Our youthful heroes – tomboy George, smug Julian, scaredy-cat Anne and annoying Dick – were budding adventurers who roamed the countryside dressed in tweed and braces, acted a nuisance and sneered at ...

You couldn’t have paid me to read Enid Blyton when I was a child. This was the late Nineties and early Noughties, and the publishers behind her Famous Five novels had tried their hardest to make these ...