Dennis Hamley

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  • Bibliography:
    31 Books
  • First Book:
    July 1979
  • Latest Book:
    February 2022
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Book List in Order: 31 titles

  • Landings

  • The Shirt Off a Hanged Man's Back

  • Haunted United

    It is the 1985-6 football season. The Premiership is six years in the future. The Football League still consists of four divisions. And Bowland United are at the bottom of the Fourth. Once they were the best team in the country, with nine leagu...

  • The Fourth Plane at the Flypast

  • Tigger and Friends

  • Blood Line

  • Hare's Choice

  • Death Penalty

  • Spirit of the Place

    A time-slip novel in which the views and works of a poet and scientist, Nicholas Fowler, living in 1173 influence the life of a young student living today. Her boyfriend becomes obsessed with theories related to Fowler's work and an unearthly power b...



  • Beautiful Games

    This is a book intended for young readers, bringing together eight stories about football, intreague, murder, and excitement. There's more to football than two halves In these eight stories there are great games in the present and the past - and ev...

  • Yule Logs

    A book of short stories by the popular children's author, Dennis Hamley. Here Dennis presents a collection of Christmas stories for readers of all ages. The first stories are presented as suitable for younger people, but adults will also enjoy them a...

  • Ghosts Who Waited

    There's something a bit sinister about the ramshackle cottage where Rosy and her family go to live. Rosy can feel that something terrible happened there once. And her brother and sister hate the cottage from the moment they step inside. Before lon...

  • Railway Phantoms

    This is a powerful, atmospheric story, full of the sights, sounds and smells of steam railways, which provide an authentic backdrop to the ghostly happenings. The insinuations, whispers of presences as Rachel hears the lonely whistle blow, are well d...

  • Badger's Fate

    The badger baiters had been to the wood, and badger was dead. But the children's story, in which badger became the unwilling but courageous champion of the animals against Sir Coldley Thinktrap and his evil henchmen, gave him new life in their imagin...

  • Hawk's Vision

    Hawk flies over the downs and the village, unaware that she is at the heart of a new story told by the children at the school - the last they will ever tell there. Nor does she know that the time is coming when she too will be presented with the same...

  • Pageants of Despair

    Pageants of Despair is a story of a boy caught in a battle between good and evil. After unknown assailants attack his mother, Peter is sent by train to stay with his grandparents. On that ride an uncanny figure leads him back in time to the fourt...

  • Very Far from Here

    It is April 1914 and war is only four months away. But it seems very remote from the seaside world of Eddy and Jim as they watch Harold's Bay Wanderers play football and listen to the conversation of their elders. However, two strangers have arriv...

  • Without Warning

    After World War I calls her brother to the front lines, a young woman sets out to make a difference in this powerful historical novel. "I don't know much about wars except soldiers and sailors get killed and Jack might get killed with them. But gr...

  • Divided Loyalities



  • Hell's Kitchen

    Part III of the Joslin de Lay Mysteries, set in medieval Oxford. It's a place riven by hatred and violence. Joslin senses danger, but has no choice but to enter. He is taken into Doncaster College, where he sings for the Masters, and his supper. But ...

  • Watch Over Her

    Mrs Cattermole is old and all alone, easy prey to two conmen who come to steal her "treasure". But who are the mysterious children who watch over her?  And can they help her when she needs them most? This new series features popular stories from th...

  • Coming in to Land

    Jack is a teenage pilot flying for the RAF in World War I. He is bullied by his fellow cadets until one day when he saves the day and he gains their respect. A highly successful series of exciting, easy to read, short fiction books with storylines de...

  • Someone to Watch Over Her

    Everyone on the estate thinks Mrs Cattermole is a bit batty, talking about her non existent "children" and her precious "treasure." She's easy prey for two con men who persuade her they're from the Water Board and break into her house to steal her...

  • Sixteen Bricks Down

  • The Team with the Ghost Player

  • An Oxford Anthology of Mystery Stories

    This collection features over fourteen mystery stories to puzzle and amaze. Perfect for young readers, the collection includes stories that range from creepy school computers to amateur bank robbers; from lost villages to deadly Christmas presents. B...

  • Colonel Mustard in the Library with the Candlestick

    Who murdered the Head of Geography on the GCSE field trip? Surely not one of the students? Only the Wizard Firebrain can save Lord Oakheft's followers as they face a terrible doom, so why did he leave them for another other task? Who is the mysteriou...

  • Out of the Deep

    Twelve stories of the supernatural by Dennis Hamley collected into one edition. The world of ghosts is a varied one. The ghosts in these stories may seek justice for wrongs done to them in life, they may bring relief for injustice to people in the pr...

  • Bright Sea, Dark Graves. 1. the Guns of St Therese

    It is 1803. Britain is at war with France. Edward Trefusis, to his clergyman father's dismay and his Rear-Admiral uncle's delight, is now a midshipman on the frigate HMS Fortune. What does his first voyage have in store for him? It brings him a terri...



  • The Nightmares of Invasion

    Midshipman Edward Trefusis prepares for his second campaign on board HMS Fortune. He is disturbed by the strange news he has received about Amos Tunks, who he thought was drowned, shocked by what his uncle the rear-admiral shows him about Britain’s...

  • The Second Person from Porlock

    Highgate, London, 1824. Samuel Taylor Coleridge is a washed-up opium addict, estranged from his friends and from his neglected wife. His grip on reality is starting to slip; his past and present mingle in laudanum-induced dreams.In a Cambridge colleg...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Dennis Hamley has published 31 books.

Dennis Hamley does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Second Person from Porlock, was published in February 2022.

The first book by Dennis Hamley, Landings, was published in July 1979.

No. Dennis Hamley does not write books in series.
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