Category: British authors
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Pony book history
A listing of all the pony book history posts: The pony book in the 1920s and 1930s: how it all began The pony book in World War II: part one The pony book in World War II: part two Pony books in the 1940s 1950s series fiction: Georgia, Jackie and the Three Jays The 1950s…
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Fachiri, Antonio P
About the author Antonio P Fachiri (1880–1942) was born in New York in 1880. He was educated at Yale, which he left in 1903, leaving for London to work at merchants Ralli Brothers. He went on to work as a director of companies with interests in British Columbia and America. He entered wholeheartedly into English…
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Orrom, Michael and Mary
About the authors The Secret Pony was originally made for television in 1970 by documentary film makers Michael Orrom, and his wife, Mary Beales. The book The Secret Pony, which was published in 1977, I presume was based on this film, and is illustrated throughout with colour photographs. Ten-year-old Jane longs for a pony, but…
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Did men write pony books?
This post originally appeared on my old blog. I had completely forgotten I had written it until I was searching for information on Antonio Fachiri. I read it, and thought, oh, that’s not too bad, is it? So here it is again. Recently I’ve been thinking about male authors who write horse and pony books…
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Henley, Trevor
About the author Trevor Henley wrote three children’s books in the 1940s. The first two, Let’s Find Adventure (1947) and Let’s Find Hidden Treasure (1947), were both non-fiction. The publisher, somewhat breathlessly, described Let’s Find Adventure as ‘something entirely new in boys’ books … which makes it possible for the reader actually to live adventure.’…
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Delgado, Alan
About the author Alan Delgado (1909–1983) is probably best known in equestrian circles for his work with the Pony Club Annual, but he also wrote at least one pony book. He was born in London, and most of his working life was spent in publishing and printing. His father, Gershom Delgado, was a director (and…
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Short story collections (UK)
The books There are a lot of collections of short stories out there. They were convenient presents for those who had a pony-mad person to buy for, but who didn’t know what they liked. The books could be put together easily if you simply went for extracts, dressing the book up further by getting a…
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Keir, Christine
About the author Christine Keir was a pseudonym used by Christine Pullein-Thompson. As far as I know, she only wrote one book under this name: The Impossible Horse. This was something of a departure for Christine, as it involved romance, which is possibly why she used a different name for the book. When the book…
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Challis, Sarah
About the author Sarah Challis is the daughter of cinematographer Christopher Challis. She travelled widely as a child, but now lives in Dorset. She writes romantic novels, of which at least one, Jumping to Conclusions, has a basis in the equine world. Finding the bookStill in print, and easy to find. Links and sourcesSarah Challis…
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Hamilton, C J
About the author Catharine Jane Hamilton (1840–1935?) was born in Somerset. Her parents were from Ireland, though her father worked as an Anglican vicar in the Church of England. After his death in 1859, Catharine moved to Ireland, returning to England later in life. She wrote several books for the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge,…