Robert Westall

Who is writing the messages in the dust? What is the story behind the huge skull in the old Watch House? Alone and unhappy in Garmouth, Anne knows the shadows are following her....

Mel the cat had always wanted to fly, and Geoff the cat had always wanted to understand how the universe worked....

And suddenly I stood up because I knew what it was. It was a model galleon, buried in the sand....

‘Until last year we would have called ourselves an ordinary English family....

The sky split open. A sky of brilliant yellow light; a world of noise that filled his ears like sand at the seaside....

The air raid siren that pierces the English night sky comes as no surprise to young Harry Baguely....