Robert Swindells

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  • Bibliography:
    41 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    November 1985
  • Latest Book:
    September 2021
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Full Series List in Order

The Outfit

1 - The Secret of Weeping Wood (Aug-1994)
2 - We Didn't Mean To, Honest! (Aug-2015)
3 - Kidnap at Denton Farm (Aug-2015)
4 - The Ghosts of Givenham Keep (Aug-2015)
5 - Peril in the Mist (Aug-2015)
6 - The Strange Tale of Ragger Bill (Aug-2015)

Book List in Order: 41 titles

  • The Ice Palace

  • Staying Up

    Brian Gower is fifteen and supports Barfax Town soccer team. He does well in school but, living in a noisy overcrowded home where he can't study, wonders if it's worth the effort. Debbie likes Brian but she can't stand soccer and won't go to games wi...

  • Room 13

  • Fallout

  • The Secret of Weeping Wood

    The Outfit - 1

    The Outfit had never really believed the stories about the ghosts of the Weeping Woods. But as they investigate the mysterious cries, the truth suddenly becomes stranger and more terrifying than fiction in this high/low adventure....

  • Stone Cold

    Stone Cold is an exciting and disturbing thriller by Robert Swindells A tense, exciting thriller combined with a perceptive and harrowing portrait of life on the streets as a serial killer preys on the young and vulnerable homeless. 17-year-old Link ...

  • Abomination!

    A powerful, disturbing thriller reissued in The Originals series of classic teenage fiction. Martha is twelve - and very different from other kids, because of her parents. Strict members of a religious group - the Brethren - their rules dominate Mart...

  • Invisible

    Now you see them, now you don't... What would you do if you could become invisible? Creep around, unseen? Listen in to other people's conversations? Twins Carrie and Conrad, and their friends Peter and Charlotte do all these things, and much more,...

  • Brother in the Land

    An 'After-the-Bomb' story told by teenage Danny, one of the survivors - one of the unlucky ones. Set in Shipley, an ordinary town in the north of England, this is a powerful portrayal of a world that has broken down. Danny not only has to cope in a w...



  • The Thousand Eyes of Night

    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy

    The skeleton lay on its back. The jaws gaped and one arm lay across the chest as through flung there to ward off a blow . . . The Tangle is a long, narrow stretch of derelict land, a wilderness of weeds and rubbish with an old railway tunnel yawning ...

  • A Wish for Wings

    'I'LL FLY,' JENNA WHISPERED TO HERSELF. 'I'LL FLY, WHATEVER NED SAYS. WHATEVER ANYBODY SAYS...'Jenna is thirteen - and has suddenly realized what she wants to do with her life. She wants to fly. Like Grandad's heroine, Amy Johnson... But Jenna's wish...

  • Blitzed

    George is fascinated by World War Two. Bombers, Nazis, doodlebugs. But he discovers the reality is very different from how he had imagined it when a school trip to a World War Two museum leads to a timeslip - and George is in London at the time of th...

  • Hurricane Summer

    It's World War II and Jim has a fantastic new friend - a fighter pilot. Jim worships Cocky and looks forward to his every visit, but war changes people's lives and friendship can bring pain as well as joy....

  • Ruby Tanya

    This is a contemporary tale about two friends - one of whom, Asra, is an asylum seeker from an unnamed Eastern European country. The other, Ruby Tanya, is the daughter of a local man who is campaigning against the presence of asylum seekers in his co...

  • Timesnatch

    Once a creature is extinct, it's gone forever, right? Not any more. The physicist mother of Kizzy and Fraser Rye has invented an amazing time machine that can travel back into the past, snatch a plant or animal now extinct, and bring it back into the...

  • The Shade of Hettie Daynes

    If you expect to see a ghost, you see a ghost... That's what Bethan tells herself when her brother Harry takes her to see the ghost at the old reservoir. But she really can see it: a pale figure floating over the water, one finger pointing downwards....

  • In the Nick of Time

    Charlotte is out in the woods on her own one day when something mysterious happens - she walks along a row of stones laid like stepping stones on the forest floor . . . and finds herself in another age. She has somehow slipped back to 1955, and is no...

  • Nightmare Stairs

    I'm falling - falling down steep, narrow stairs - if I hit the bottom asleep, I know I'll never wake. Every night Kirsty wakes up screaming. Every night she has the same terrible nightmare - of falling downstairs. But does she fall? Or is she pushed?...

  • Knife-edge

    At Sam's school you're not anyone unless you have a knife. But he learns the dangers of carrying blades the hard way...Gritty urban thriller with a powerful message. Barrington Stoke specialise in books for reluctant, struggling and dyslexic readers...



  • A Midsummer Night's Dream

    Robert Swindells's A Midsummer Night's Dream is set in a very modern-day Yorkshire. Theseus, the neighbourhood tycoon is getting married. Bottom and his mates are roped into putting on a play for the wedding because, well, there's nothing...

  • Shrapnel

    It's the height of World War Two. Britain is being ravaged by bombs and most young men are off fighting. Gordon wishes he was too. Maybe then he wouldn't get bullied for having a cowardly family . . . Gordon's dad didn't serve in Worl...

  • The First Hunter

    Tan's tribe must steal meat like jackals to live. Scavenging's dangerous, but they have no other way to get food. Until the tribe's idiot hanger-on invents a new game...Prehistoric adventure. Barrington Stoke specialise in books for reluctant, strugg...

  • Blackout

    Life in a small village is boring now that the war is over, but when a group of children hear of some treasure kept locked in the village, things start to look a bit more interesting It's September 1939, and Britain has just entered World War II, ...

  • World-Eater

    'There's something in the sky... something terrible!' On the night of the great storm, a mysterious new planet suddenly appears in the sky. Orbiting the sun between Mercury and Venus, the huge blue-grey sphere has scientists baffled as probes reve...

  • Henry V

    Robert Swindell's Henry V is
    a gripping retelling of Shakespeare's famous historical play. Battles
    and scenes of warfare are never far from the young King Henry. This
    retelling brings to life the tumultuous struggle of the hero...

  • Inside The Worm

    The worm was close now. So close Fliss could smell the putrid stench of its breath. Its slavering jaws gaped to engulf her...Everyone in Elsworth knows the local legend about the monstrous worm - or dragon - that once terrorised the village. But it ...

  • Jacqueline Hyde

    When Jacqueline Hyde finds the little glass bottle in Grandma's attic her life suddenly changes. Goodbye clean, good Jacqueline. Hello cheeky, loud Jacqueline Bad. It's fun at first. Exciting. But then Jacqueline Bad gets into serious trouble. And...

  • A Skull in Shadows Lane

    The war has just ended in the tiny village of Coney Cley, and Josh and his gang are desperate for some excitement. When they head for the eerie, abandoned Shadows Lane to explore a deserted house, they find more than they bargained for - a human toot...

  • Trick or Treat

    Harley's got to take his kid brother and sister trick or treating. When he's not looking, they go missing. And when he finds them, something's happened. They're different. They want to play. But there are no rules to this game....



  • Voyage to Valhalla

    When Davy and his friends discover the skull of an ancient Briton buried in the woods, they decide to unearth as much as they can of the skeleton themselves before telling any adults. But by the time they have disinterred the skeletons, Davy has beco...

  • When Darkness Comes

    Jealousy and ambition divide a tribe so much so that it splits into two communities - each of whom has to strive to become self-sufficient. Their failure almost leads to their destruction. It's up to the chief's son and the other children of the trib...

  • The Ghosts of Givenham Keep

    The Outfit - 4

    Despite the gates and barbed wire, the Outfit decides to investigate the old mansion in the Weeping Woods. Inside, they discover something truly sinister. Investigate alongside them in this high/low adventure....

  • Kidnap at Denton Farm

    The Outfit - 3

    The protests at Farmer Denton's new wind turbine take a terrifying turn when someone kidnaps Jillo. It's up to the Outfit to rescue Jillo and save the turbine from destruction. Tag along in this exciting high-low adventure....

  • Peril in the Mist

    The Outfit - 5

    When the Outfit finds themselves alone in the wilderness as mist descends and night falls, will they be able to find their way back home through the dark? Find out with this suspenseful high/low story....

  • The Strange Tale of Ragger Bill

    The Outfit - 6

    After a little girl goes missing from outside her school, everyone blames Ragger Bill. But the Outfit knows Bill is innocent, and they set out to find the missing girl before it's too late. Find the truth in this high-stakes, high/low story....

  • We Didn't Mean To, Honest!

    The Outfit - 2

    When land developers threaten to fill in Froglet Pond and destroy all the wildlife that lives there, the Outfit decides to take matters into their own hands. Follow this fascinating high/low title to see if they succeed....

  • Dosh

    If you're a working-class kid in Cottoncroft and want to stay healthy, part of your pay goes to Froggy Flitcroft, small-time racketeer and boss of a gang called Push. Fed up with paying Flitcroft, Maisie Malin and her friends form Pull, an outfit ple...

  • Hydra

    When Ben and Midge sneak out at night to investigate mysterious corn-circles which have begun to appear in the fields around Cansfield Farm, they discover that a dilapidated barn conceals a terrifying secret. Hydra is the latest horror story from the...

  • Doodlebug Alley



  • Roger's War

  • Daz 4 Zoe

Award-Winning Books by Robert Swindells

Stone Cold
1993 Carnegie Medal -- Children's


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Robert Swindells has published 41 books.

Robert Swindells does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Daz 4 Zoe, was published in September 2021.

The first book by Robert Swindells, The Ice Palace, was published in November 1985.

Yes. Robert Swindells has 1 series.
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