| Thompson is a genuinely musical composer and I commend this piece to any ensemble looking for a contemporary work… | ||
| —Musical Opinion |
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| …a charming autobiographical essay… | ||
| —Martin Anderson, The Independent |
| Buy this book and read it; enjoy the gentle humour and wonder about a man who so loves to write he does it in words, songs and music; and all very well indeed. | ||
| —Musical Opinion |
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