Malory Towers Collection 3: Books 7-9

Malory Towers #7-9

by Pamela Cox, Enid Blyton

There's more to life than lessons at Malory Towers, Enid Blyton's best-loved boarding school series. This fantastic bumper collection contains Malory Towers books 7-9, with a brand-new cover illustrated by Pippa Curnick.

New Term
Felicity Rivers is excited to be Head Girl of the third form and there are three new girls to help settle in this term. But Felicity's in for a shock when someone starts playing spiteful tricks. The girls suspect an old enemy is to blame. How will they find out for sure?

Summer Term
Summer at Malory Towers means picnics, swimming and horse-riding. There are also the usual tricks to play and secrets to keep, but no one was expecting a mystery to solve. So when a horse is stolen from the riding school run by old girls Bill and Clarissa, all the third-formers want to help. Who could the culprit be?

Winter Term
This term the fourth-formers are busy planning for the school Christmas concert, but that doesn't stop them plotting tricks too! Susan is supposed to be in charge of the play but bossy Sylvia wants to take over, and new teacher Miss Tallant seems surprisingly knowledgable about all of their plans. Could there be a spy in their midst?

Between 1946 and 1951, Enid Blyton wrote six novels set at Malory Towers. Books 7-12 are authorised sequels of the series written by Pamela Cox in 2009 and focus on the adventures of Felicity Rivers, Susan Blake, and June Johns. This collection features the original stories and is unillustrated.

Genres: Childrens

641 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 6, 2016

About the author

After Enid Blyton's death, author Pamela Cox was asked to continue two of the author's series, St. Clare's and Malory Towers.

Reviews

[Silvana · Rating 4 out of 5]

Some characters are clearly copies of Darrell's era BUT I still enjoyed the stories as they do had some interesting plots.
Meanwhile, Bonnie is a fun new character. I liked having more flawed characters but still good-hearted and cool in their own ways. She is definitely my fave now.

[Anna · Rating 2 out of 5]

I know I'm 32 and therefore not exactly the target demographic, but I love returning to Blyton when I'm tired or unwell. I thought I would try the follow-on Malory Towers books written by a different author. For me, these new novels were nowhere near as good as the original. The stories followed similar patterns to the originals, but the new author doesn't have Blyton's knack of sketching a character, place or story in just a few keys words.

[thongeshwari · Rating 4 out of 5]

Many drastic changes. One on the cover itself! This book is written by Pamela Cox. Also the protoganist is Felicity. Many senarios and characters have been repeated: Gwen=Amy, Darrel=Felicity, Alicia=June, Sally=Susan, Bill=Freddie, Clarisa=Juile, etc

[Bethany · Rating 4 out of 5]

Idk why it’s listed as written by Enid blyton when it was written by Pamela fox 🧐🧐

[Mrs V J Kotziamani · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not by Enid Blyton!

I suddenly noticed that someone called Cox had written the book I was about to move onto. Did I miss something? I thought. So when I'd finished this volume, I checked the cover. Enid Blyton. Hm! I feel cheated for having grown up with Malory Towers and using lockdown to read them again to see if I could still recommend the books to my granddaughters, I shall be purchasing for them, the original six; i.e. Collections 1 and 2. I feel I must add that this was a pale imitation. Before I made my discovery, the rather pedestrian, copy cat and unoriginal content was starting to irritate. I put it down to my age and reading so many in a row. True, it was never great literature, but she started me in a life long reading habit, and the sensible characteristics of the girls she depicted were good role models for a kid from l working class family. It certainly helped me fit in when I started at grammar school with girls who were from posh families compared to mine.

[Jayasuha · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love the dear old malory towers so much. When i got to know that Pamela Cox wrote this book, I felt bored but when I started to read this, the book was of so much fun and she continued the story very well. Especially June's character was humorous and the trick she plays on mam'zelle dupont and miss tallant was so good. You should definitely read this if you already read the first and second collections. Have a good day.

[Mrs Helen · Rating 5 out of 5]

The recipe always works out well.

Reading this series has proved to be my guilty pleasure in lockdown! A trip back to my youth when a Mallory Towers, or St Claire's, book would be what I used my five shillings pocket money for!

[Samaira SP · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved the book and it is a bit mysterious when Jack was kidnapped

[Tracey Shaw · Rating 5 out of 5]

excellent

I didn’t want to love these as Enid Blyton wasn’t actually the author
I read them because of a deal for Kindle via Amazon and wow they are absolutely excellent!
Just as good as the first books and I might even say the plots/endings are better!

[Vri B · Rating 5 out of 5]

Brilliant book
. I just love it .. gives the perfect experience of school life with the actual probs

[Fairuz Aina · Rating 5 out of 5]

Finished the whole series! It felt like leaving high school all over again sob sob...

[Catherine Ryan · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is the first collection of Malory Towers written by Pamela Cox. It's a good read, and Cox does well to capture the Blyton vibe, not making the stories too modern :-)

[Deb Sharp · Rating 5 out of 5]

Such a fun series

[Ashish Khunger · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing book

Amazing book very interesting and would recommend it has words that would be very good for a students vocabulary and learning