Leon Garfield

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  • Bibliography:
    37 Books
  • First Book:
    November 1971
  • Latest Book:
    September 2021
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Book List in Order: 37 titles

  • The Strange Affair of Adelaide Harris

  • The Ghost Downstairs

    A bargain of a lifetime - seven years off the end of his life in exchange for a fortune now!By day, Mr Fast was a solicitor’s clerk, drawing up strangle-tight agreements and contracts. By night he repaired to his rooms to spy upon his neighbours (f...

  • Prisoners of Sept

  • The Night of the Comet

    Bostock's deal with Harris allowing Harris to use his father's powerful telescope in exchange for his expert advice on courting women triggers a comedy of errors that ultimately involves the entire town...

  • Footsteps

    Unsettling words from his dying father set twelve-year-old William on a mission to eighteenth-century London where, in the course of searching for his father's mysterious business partner John Diamond, he encounters an odd assortment of characters, s...

  • John Diamond

    Young William Jones is on a desperate search through darkest London for John Diamond, the son of a man his father apparently once cheated badly. Will he find him?...

  • The Writing on the Wall

  • Fair's Fair

    Jackson is cold and starving in the dreadful winter weather. He's looking forward to the steaming pie that is payment for a long night's work. When the huge black dog comes - growling and glaring - Jackson gives it half his meal. One bargain soon lea...

  • Devil-In-The-Fog

    Fourteen-year-old George's family of traveling actors inform him that he is actually the son of a dying, wealthy man and send him to stay with his real family, a group of mean, sickly, even murderous people....



  • The December Rose

    Secrets whispered up a chimney, a golden locket with a broken chain, murder in the streets of London â€" and suddenly young Barnacle is plunged into a terrifying mystery. The December Rose is a thrilling tale of deceit, espionage and murder set in th...

  • Revolution!

  • The Pleasure Garden

    Eastward in Clerkenwell lies the Mulberry Pleasure Garden: six acres of leafy walks, colonnades and pavillions. In this bosky setting parade a variety of characters of awesome granduer, innocence and evil - and all are subject to a ring of blackmail ...

  • The Wedding Ghost

  • The Tempest

  • Twelfth Night

  • The Saracen Maid

  • Shakespeare Stories

    By skillfully weaving his own prose with Shakespeare's language, Leon Garfield has refashioned twelve of the Elizabethan playwright's most memorable dramas into stories, capturing all the richness of the characters, plot, mood, and setting. This form...

  • Shakespeare Stories II

    By skillfully weaving his own prose with Shakespeare's language, Leon Garfield has refashioned nine of the Elizabethan playwright's dramas into stories, capturing all the richness of the characters, plot, mood, and setting. This format will delight b...

  • Jack Holborn

    If you love a good story, then look no further. Oxford Children's Classics bring together the most unforgettable stories ever told. They're books to treasure and return to again and again.When orphan Jack stows away on the Charming Molly, he never gu...



  • Mr Corbett's Ghost

    Mr Corbett is a cruel employer and his young apprentice Benjamin can't help but wish he were dead. So when a strange old man offers to make this wish come true, Benjamin finds it impossible to refuse. Sure enough, Mr Corbett meets an untimely death, ...

  • The Apprentices

    Life in eighteenth-century London was hard and especially so for the city's apprentices. For seven long years they struggled for their livelihoods among the fetid houses and sinister quays of old London. But despite their hardships there was hope and...

  • The Boy and the Monkey

    Set in the streets of London, the story follows the hopes and aspirations of young Tim and his pet monkey, Pistol, as they use their wits to get money out of rich folk. Their apparent success is brought to a halt one disastrous foggy evening , and Ti...

  • Pickpocket Smith

    A Carnegie Medal Honor Book

    Twelve-year-old Smith is a denizen of the mean streets of eighteenth-century London, living hand to mouth by virtue of wit and pluck. One day he trails an old gentleman with a bulging pocket, deftly picks it, and as...

  • The Sound of Coaches

    One stormy December night some time in the eighteenth century, a coach came thundering down the long hill outside of Dorking on its usual journey into London. But something unusual was to happen that night as one of the passengers unexpectedly gave b...

  • God Beneath The Sea

    A classic introduction to the subject of Greek mythology, fascinating for children and adults alike! Leon Garfield and Edward Blishen retell some of the most famous Greek myths in this classic of children's literature. This is the epic history of the...

  • The Confidence Man

    The Confidence Man follows 14-year-old Hans Ruppert and a band of Protestants as they leave their home town and seek peace and freedom from Persecution in the New World. They are led by a mysterious hussar, who has offered to lead then to safety. To ...

  • The Empty Sleeve

    'Him what's born on the chime ... he's the one what'll have communications with the devil.' At the age of fourteen, 'chime-child' Peter Gannet is apprenticed to a locksmith in Covent Garden. But his desperate longing to escape from the insufferabl...

  • Blewcoat Boy

    In a cave on the wild side of St James's Park live two ragged children; young Nick and his nine-year-old sister Jubilee. Once they had a father, but now they are alone â€" and Nick knows it is his responsibility to find Jubilee a husband. But who...

  • The Complete Bostock and Harris

    A New York Review Children's Collection OriginalThe Complete Bostock and Harris combines two delightful, suspenseful, and madly funny tales about two boys in eighteenth-century England, clever and mischievous Harris and sweet but not-so-bright Bostoc...



  • Guilt and Gingerbread

    'When you take out the heart of gold, you must put something back in its place. Otherwise our princess would die.'Giorgio, a poor student, sets out on a journey to win the heart of Princess Charlotte of Oberweselberg. On the way an old woman promises...

  • 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 mysterious and disturbed Russian lady turns up unexpectedly at one of Mr Dolly’s regular Friday night dinner parties. So begins a search...

  • 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 events of the French Revolution and the September massacre....

  • The Drummer Boy

    'As far as the eye can see, scarlet men are marching . . . A rich and splendid company, but none more so than the drummer boy.'But a moment later, the sound of Charlie Samson's drum was swallowed in a wild thunder. The glorious scarlet troops had bee...

  • Leon Garfield's Shakespeare Stories

    Introduce kids ages 10+ to 21 of Shakespeare’s most memorable plays -- including Hamlet, Macbeth, Twelfth Night, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream “ . . . will lay the groundwork for many a future enchanted evening at the theater.” -- Wall Stree...

  • Bostock and Harris

  • Black Jack

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    A swarthy villain, nearly seven foot tall and presumed hanged, seems to wake from the dead in the presence of young Bartholomew Dorking. Having outwitted the noose, Black Jack enlists the unwilling boy to be his companion. Together they weave their w...

  • Smith

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    A Carnegie Medal Honor BookTwelve-year-old Smith is a denizen of the mean streets of eighteenth-century London, living hand to mouth by virtue of wit and pluck. One day he trails an old gentleman with a bulging pocket, deftly picks it, and as foot...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Leon Garfield has published 37 books.

Leon Garfield does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Bostock and Harris, was published in September 2021.

The first book by Leon Garfield, The Strange Affair of Adelaide Harris, was published in November 1971.

No. Leon Garfield does not write books in series.
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