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Authors: Leon Garfield
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.
The Apprentices
Black Jack
Blewcoat Boy
Bostock and Harris
The Boy and The Monkey
The Confidence Man
The December Rose
Devil-In-The-Fog
The Drummer Boy
The Empty Sleeve
The Ghost Downstairs
The God Beneath The Sea
The Golden Shadow
Guilt and Gingerbread
The House of Cards
John Diamond
Mr Corbett's Ghost
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
The Pleasure Garden
The Prisoners of September
Sabre-Tooth Sandwich
The Saracen Maid
The Sound of Coaches
The Strange Affair of Adelaide Harris
THE STRANGE AFFAIR OF ADELAIDE HARRIS
AN RHCP DIGITAL EBOOK 978 1 448 17389 1
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