Leon Garfield

Leon Garfield

  • 5 stars across 32 books

Other Oxford Children's Classics: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Anne of Green Gables, Black Beauty, Flambards, Little Women, Party Shoes, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Call of the Wild, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Jungle Book, The Secret Garden, The Wind in the Willows, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Treasure Island.
Other Leon Garfield books published by Oxford University Press: Devil-in-the-Fog, Black Jack, and Mr Corbett's Ghost.
Leon Garfield was born and educated in Brighton, England. His art studies were interrupted by the Second World War, during which he served in the Army Medical Corps. After the war he worked as a hospital laboratory technician until he gave this up to devote himself to writing. His books have been widely translated and have won many international and British literary awards. In 1981 he was nominated for the prestigious Hans Christian Andersen Award. He was married with a daughter and lived in North London.
7th July 2016

The Apprentice Witch

  Studio Ghibli meets Diana Wynne Jones in the first spellbinding APPRENTICE WITCH book! 'Reminded m... MoreThe Apprentice Witch

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9th June 2014

The Golden Shadow

Across the continents of the ancient world wandered the Storyteller, enchanting all who heard him with his wondrous tale... MoreThe Golden Shadow

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30th September 2015

Blewcoat Boy

In a cave on the wild side of St James' Park live two ragged children; young Nick and his nine-year-old sister Jubilee. ... MoreBlewcoat Boy

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26th October 2015

Guilt and Gingerbread

'When you take out the heart of gold, you must put something back in its place. Otherwise our princess would die.'Giorgi... MoreGuilt and Gingerbread

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3rd July 2014

Smith

A Puffin Book - stories that last a lifetime.Puffin Modern Classics are relaunched under a new logo: A Puffin Book. Ther... MoreSmith

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26th February 2015

The Pleasure Garden

Eastward in Clerkenwell lies the Mulberry Pleasure Garden: six acres of leafy walks, colonnades and pavillions. In this ... MoreThe Pleasure Garden

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28th December 2015

The Prisoners of September

Two boys, Lewis and Richard, travel to paris in 1789 for very different reasons, and find their ideals challenged in the... MoreThe Prisoners of September

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1st January 1998

The 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 mysterio... MoreThe House of Cards

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2nd December 2013

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, h... MoreBostock and Harris

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