Male : Children's writer. Married Marian Boyer

Nationality : English Place of Birth : Nottingham

Date of Birth : 1909

Other Work : Teacher. Journalist and Left-wing activist

Education : Nottingham HS & Queens College, Oxford (but didn't finish the course)

1934-1940
Bows Against the Barons (1934 Martin Lawrence) - Michael Boland
Comrades for the Charter (1934 Lawrence) - Michael Boland
Unsleeping Sword (1934 Martin Lawrence)
The Call to Arms (1935 Lawrence)
Missing from Home (1936 Lawrence & Wishart) - Scott
Red Comet : A Tale of Travel in the USSR (1937 Lawrence) - Fred Ellis
The Christmas Holiday Mystery (1937 Black) - Alfred Sindall
Mystery on the Moors (1937 Black) - Alfred Sindall
Detectives of the Dales (1938 Black) - A C H Gorham
In the Land of the Mogul (1938 Blackwell) - J C B Knight
The Dragon Who Was Different & Other Plays for Children (1938 Muller)
North Sea Spy (1939 Fore)
Clem Voroshilvo : The Red Marshal (1940 Pilot Press)
Cue for Treason (1940 Blackwell) - Beatrice Goldsmith

1941-1950
The Running of the Deer (1941 Harrap) - W Lindsay Cable
The Grey Adventurer (1942 Blackwell) - Beatrice Goldsmith
Black Night, Red Morning (1944 Blackwell) - Donia Nachsen
Army without Banners (1945 Fore)
Trumpets in the West (1947 Blackwell) - Alan Blyth
Silver-Guard (1948 Blackwell) - Alan Blyth
The Hills of Varna (1948 Macmillan) - Treyer Evans
Tales Out of School : A Survey of Children's Fiction (1948 Heinemann)
The Mystery of Moorside Farm (1949 Blackwell) - Alan Blyth
No Boats on Bannermere (1949 Heinemann) - Richard Kennedy
Fortune, My Foe : The Story Sir Walter Raleigh (1949 Methuen 8/6) - Norman Meredith
The Secret Fiord (1949 Macmillan) - H M Brock
The Young Traveller in India and Pakistan (1949 Phoenix House)
Under Black Banner (1950 Heinemann) - Richard Kennedy

1951-1955
Enjoying Books (1951 Phoenix House)
The Crown of Violet (1952 Macmillan) - C Walter Hodges
The Barons' Hostage : A Story of Simon de Montfort (1952 Phoenix House) - Alan Jessett
(1975 Nelson NY)
Black Banner Players (1952 heinemann) - Richard Kennedy
(Ed) The Pageant Books (1952 Phoenix House)
The New House at Hardale (1953 Lutterworth Press)
The Silken Secret (1953 Blackwell) - Alan Jessett
The Seven Queens of England (1955 Heinemann) - Leslie Atkinson
The Shadow of Spain & Other Plays (1953 Blackwell)
The Young Traveller in England & Wales (1953 Phoenix House)
Black Banner Abroad (1954 Heinemann)
The Young Traveller in Greece (1955 Phoenix House)
The Fair Flower of Danger (1955 Blackwell)

1956-1958
Word to Caesar (1956 Macmillan) - Geoffrey Whittam
(Ed) Six of the Best (1955 Blackwell)
The Seven Kings of England (1955 Heinemann) - Leslie Atkinson
In the Blood (1956 Blackwell)
The Gates of Bannerdale (1956 Heinemann)
Secret of Sham (1956 Blackwell)
Snared Nightingale (1957 Macmillan)
Mist over Athelney (1958 Macmillan) - R S Sherriffs & J L Stockle

1959-1960
Edward Elgar : Maker of Music (1959 Macmillan)
So Wild the Heart (1959 Macmillan)
The Maythorn Story (1960 Heinemann) - Robert Hodgson
Thunder at Valmy (1960 Macmillan) - John S Goodall

1961-1965
The Young Writer (1961 Nelson) - Carl Hollander
Wolfgang Mozart : The Young Composer (1961 Macmillan)
Change at Maythorn (1962 Heinemann) - Robert Hodgson
Follow my Black Plume (1963 Macmillan) - Brian Wildsmith
The Italian Story : From the Earliest Times to 1946 (1963 Macmillan)
A Thousand for Sicily (1964 Macmillan) - Brian Wildsmith
Seven Stages (1964 Heinemann)
The Dutch are Coming (1965 Hamish Hamilton) - Lynette Hemmant
Bent is the Bow (1965 Nelson) - Charles Keeping

1966-1970
The Red Towers of Granada (1966 Macmillan) (1967 Vanguard NY) - Charles Keeping
(Trans) Companions of Fortune by Rene Guiullot (1967 Children's Library)
The White Nights of St Petersburg (1967 Macmillan) - William Stobbs
The Runaway Serf (1968 HH) - Mary Russon
Seven Sovereign Queens (1968 Heinemann)
Byron : A Poet Dangerous to Know (1969 Macmillan)
A Masque for the Queen (1970 HH) - Krystna Turska
The Condotierri : Soldiers of Fortune (1970 Thames & Hudson)

1971-1975
A Whiff of Burnt Boats (1971 Macmillan)
Horsemen on the Hills (1971 Macmillan)
A Ship to Rome (1972 Heinemann 'Long Ago Childrens Books') - Leslie Atkinson
Samuel Pepys and His World (1972 Thames & Hudson)
A Voice in the Night (1973 Heinemann) - Sara Silcock
Popinjay Stairs (1973 Macmillan)
D H Lawrence : The Pheonix and the Flame (1973 Macmillan)
Days to Remember : A Garland of Historic Anniversaries (1973 Heinemann) - Joanna Troughton
The Chocolate Boy (1975 Heinemann) - David Walker
The Iron Tsar (1975 Macmillan)
London : A Concise History (1975 Scribner)

After 1976
When the Drums Beat (1976 Heinemann) - Janet Marsh
Violet for Bonaparte (1976 Macmillan)
The Seas of Morning (1976 Puffin) - David Smee
The Spy Catchers (1976 HH) - Geoffrey Bargery
The Field of the Forty Footsteps (1977 Macmillan)
The Claws of the Eagle (1977 Heinemann) - Ionicus
Mandeville (1980 Macmillan)
A Wood by Moonlight & Other stories (1981 Chatto & Windus)
The Running of the Deer (1982 HH) - Maureen Bradley
Saraband for Shadows (1982 Macmillan)
The Cormorant Venture (1984 Macmillan)
Tomorrow is a Stranger (1987 Heinemann)
Danger in the Wings (1997 Hodder Children's Books £10.99)

READING
Margaret Meek : Geoffrey Trease (1960 Bodley Head)