I think the last time I read Biggles was in the Library at Knights Templar, so that means about 15 years ago, and so it was nostalgia that made me pick up a couple last time I was in Oxfam books.
I am sure that I should be looking down my noise at their formulaic "Boys Own" style - however I'm not because I was gripped by the story and completely taken in by the characters even though most of my brain could see them as cardboard cut outs. I have just put Sebastian Faulks' Birdsong on the pile to go to Oxfam, a book about which despite all its acclaim I was only ever lukewarm, but Biggles I think I am going to keep as I think I will want to read it again.
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