Clare Mallory
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The New House at Winwood The New House at Winwood is a girls school story in the best tradition, and Dorothy Neal White, well known New Zealand critic, called it “The best school story I have read for years”. Click here to see some pages from The New House at Winwood. Deb Carswell’s first term at Winwood was also the first term of her House, Devon. They got on well together, Deb and her House, but there was plenty of opposition to Devon. There are many interesting characters apart from Deb – Hilary the musician, Lucille who used blunt truth with effect, and the saucy Diana. How Deb helps the New House at Winwood to become recognised and established we lave to the reader to discover. The GGBP edition comes with an introduction by Rex Johnson, a New Zealander who has spent years in researching Clare Mallory and sent us his findings. GGBP published The New House at Winwood in August 2008. The New House at Winwood went out of print in December 2010. |
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The League of the Smallest In The League of the Smallest, Miss Brenneman, the new mistress at St Margaret’s, decides to re-arrange her gymnasium and sports classes in order of size with the smallest at the end; she does not realise what repercussions this would have in the school. Angela Daventry, the jolly, but until now irresponsible, leader of the Third Form and several of her friends who are a little small for their age, suddenly find themselves at a disadvantage, and form a league to help one another to ‘fame’ and to prove that the smallest are not necessarily of least consequence. How well they succeed comes as a surprise not only to everyone else at St Margaret’s but also to ‘The League of the Smallest’ themselves. Click here to see some pages from The League of the Smallest. The GGBP edition comes with an introduction by Barbara Robertson, one of the few people with any knowledge of Clare Mallory, and who has done a huge amount of research in New Zealand on the author. GGBP published The League of the Smallest in June 2009. The League of the Smallest went out of print in January 2011. |
