Leon Garfield was born in Brighton in 1921. He was the acclaimed author of more than thirty novels for children and adults including Devil in the Fog, winner of the inaugural Guardian Children“s Fiction Prize in 1967, The God Beneath the Sea, winner of the 1970 Carnegie Medal, and John Diamond, winner of the 1980 Whitbread literary award. He was also elected a member of the Royal Society of Literature. He died in 1996.
26 Ebooks von Leon Garfield
Leon Garfield: Fair’s Fair
Jackson is cold and starving in the dreadful winter weather. He’s looking forward to the steaming pie that is payment for a long night’s work. When the huge black dog comes – growling and glaring – …
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Leon Garfield: Smith
Young Smith was a pickpocket – a very accomplished one. But one day his pick-pocketing was to lead him into a sinister and dangerous web of murder, intrigue and …
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Edward Blishen & Leon Garfield: God Beneath The Sea
Leon Garfield and Edward Blishen retells some of the most famous Greek myths in this classic of children’s literature. This is the epic history of the Greek Gods told from their violent beginnings to …
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Leon Garfield: Drummer Boy
‚As far as the eye can see, scarlet men are marching . . . A rich and splendid company, but none more so than the drummer boy.’But a moment later, the sound of Charlie Samson’s drum was swallowed in …
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Leon Garfield: Mr Corbett“s Ghost
Mr Corbett is a cruel employer and his young apprentice Benjamin can“t help but wish he were dead. So when a strange old man offers to make this wish come true, Benjamin finds it impossible to refus …
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Leon Garfield: The Strange Affair of Adelaide Harris
Harris and Bostock are best friends, but they are as different from one another as night and day. Harris thinks up harebrained schemes and Bostock gets in trouble for them. When Harris puts his baby …
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Leon Garfield: Apprentices
Life in eighteenth-century London was hard and especially so for the city’s apprentices. For seven long years they struggled for their livelihoods among the fetid houses and sinister quays of old …
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Leon Garfield: Bostock and Harris
On the night that Piggot’s Comet will appear over Brighton, the town plan to honour it with music and dancing. Harris, however, has other ideas. Being scientifically minded, he thinks only of …
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Leon Garfield: Boy and the Monkey
Set in the streets of London, the story follows the hopes and aspirations of young Tim and his pet monkey, Pistol, as they use their wits to get money out of rich folk. Their apparent success is …
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Edward Blishen & Leon Garfield: The Golden Shadow
Across the continents of the ancient world wandered the Storyteller, enchanting all who heard him with his wondrous tales of the gods. He longed
for a glimpse of the all-powerful deities of his …
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Leon Garfield: Ghost Downstairs
A bargain of a lifetime – seven years off the end of his life in exchange for a fortune now!By day, Mr Fast was a solicitor s clerk, drawing up strangle-tight agreements and contracts. By night he …
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Leon Garfield: Sound of Coaches
One stormy December night some time in the eighteenth century, a coach came thundering down the long hill outside of Dorking on its usual journey into London. But something unusual was to happen that …
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Leon Garfield: The Pleasure Garden
Eastward in Clerkenwell lies the Mulberry Pleasure Garden: six acres of leafy walks, colonnades and pavillions. In this bosky setting parade a variety of characters of awesome granduer, innocence and …
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Leon Garfield: Confidence Man
The Confidence Man follows 14-year-old Hans Ruppert and a band of Protestants as they leave their home town and seek peace and freedom from Persecution in the New World. They are led by a mysterious …
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Charles Dickens & Leon Garfield: The Mystery of Edwin Drood
The Mystery of Edwin Drood was Charles Dickens final novel, and remained unfinished at the time of his death. In this edition, beloved children“s author Leon Garfield gives the story a satisfying …
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Leon Garfield: December Rose
Secrets whispered up a chimney, a golden locket with a broken chain, murder in the streets of London and suddenly young Barnacle is plunged into a terrifying mystery. The December Rose is a thrilling …
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Leon Garfield: Empty Sleeve
‚Him what’s born on the chime . . . he’s the one what’ll have communications with the devil.’At the age of fourteen, ‚chime-child‘ Peter Gannet is apprenticed to a locksmith in Covent Garden. But his …
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Leon Garfield: Blewcoat Boy
In a cave on the wild side of St James’s Park live two ragged children; young Nick and his nine-year-old sister Jubilee. Once they had a father, but now they are alone and Nick knows it is his …
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Leon Garfield: Guilt and Gingerbread
‚When you take out the heart of gold, you must put something back in its place. Otherwise our princess would die.’Giorgio, a poor student, sets out on a journey to win the heart of Princess Charlotte …
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Leon Garfield: Prisoners of September
Two boys, Lewis and Richard, travel to paris in 1789 for very different reasons, and find their ideals challenged in the events of the French Revolution and the September …
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Leon Garfield: House of Cards
In 1847, an orphaned baby is rescued as the sole survivor of a massacre in a Polish village. Many years later a mysterious and disturbed Russian lady turns up unexpectedly at one of Mr Dolly s …
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Leon Garfield: John Diamond
‚My father, that stern and upright man, was nothing but a swindler and a thief!’What is the matter with old Mr Jones? Endless footsteps and low groans can be heard from his room in the dead of night. …
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Leon Garfield: Fair’s Fair
This series of 7 stories are full of adventure, intrigue and …
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