Robert Westall, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $15 (175p) ISBN 978-0-374-34205-0
Harry is safe in the backyard shelter when German bombs flatten his family's house. Numb and disoriented, he evades the authorities and makes his way to the beach, where he is befriended by Don, a stray dog. Together the boy and his new companion...
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Robert Westall, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $6.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-374-41701-7
""Besides being genuinely creepy, these stories are witty, wise and laced with insight,"" wrote PW of this ""spine-tingling"" collection. Ages 8-up. (Sept.)
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Robert Westall, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $18 (310p) ISBN 978-0-374-32256-4
Set in classic Westall country-the north of England, shortly after WWII-this atmospheric novel tackles fairly sophisticated subject matter: a 17-year-old's affair with a woman nearly twice his age. Swarthy, muscular Robbie Atkinson has become one of
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Robert Westall, Author Scholastic $13.95 (199p) ISBN 978-0-590-47748-2
This engrossing thriller, published in Britain before the author's death last year, takes a stretched premise and turns it into an absorbing psychological story. Just after 18-year-old Lucy graduates from school, her widowed father orders her to...
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Robert Westall, Author Viking Children's Books $13 (128p) ISBN 978-0-670-82484-7
Accomplished author Westall is in top form with this collection of six spine-tinglers. Readers will be hard put to decide which they enjoy most: the decidedly spooky goings-on or the glimpse into a workaday English life far from the glamour of...
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Robert Westall, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $14 (123p) ISBN 978-0-374-37272-9
While playing on the beach near his Uncle Geoff and Aunty Megan's home, Tim Vaux unearths the Ebenezer, a large scale model of a Victorian collier brig which sunk in a sea storm nearly 100 years before. When Uncle Geoffa history buff and inveterate...
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Robert Westall, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $16 (264p) ISBN 978-0-374-31768-3
Cats, old churches, antiques and antique dealers: these are a few of the creatures, settings, items and individuals that crop up again and again in this posthumous collection of Westall's fiendishly clever, spine-tingling short fiction. In ``Graveyar
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Robert Westall, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $13 (97p) ISBN 978-0-374-37263-7
Chilly, concise and utterly spooky, this novel is among the late British author's best works. A first-person narrative--liberally larded with bits of Northern English slang--propels the story at a headlong pace, at the same time incorporating...
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Robert Westall, Author Scholastic $13.95 (147p) ISBN 978-0-590-45175-8
This new novel by the author of Blitzcat and Ghost Abbey evinces a crackling pace that will keep pulses racing. While vacationing in East Anglia, Rose and her children come across a deserted cottage that, on a whim, they rent for a week. Unbeknownst
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Robert Westall, Author Scholastic $3.25 (0p) ISBN 978-0-590-43761-5
Now that Bob's girlfriend is dead, a vow he once made to her takes on macabre new implications; PW said, ``Westall's tale is good spooky fun--and thought-provoking as well.'' Ages 12-up. (Apr.)
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Robert Westall, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $13.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-374-31964-9
The reality of war is the chill current that runs through the five stories in Westall's latest collection. In ``After the Funeral , '' the ghost of a fighter pilot returns to haunt his son in the most tangible, nerve-racking way imaginable. ``Adolf''
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Robert Westall, Author Scholastic $13.95 (169p) ISBN 978-0-590-43760-8
What starts out as a fairly conventional love story finishes as a ghost tale, blending the horror of war with the sepulchral chill of the supernatural. Bob's friendship with beautiful, sickly Valerie soon becomes romantic. When Valerie dies, only...
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Robert Westall, Author Scholastic $4.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-590-42771-5
In this unusual blend of fact and fiction, British involvement in WW II is viewed through the eyes of a cat; in PW 's words, ``Each of these glimpses of men and women in wartime is as perfect as a pearl.'' Ages 12-up. (Nov.)
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Robert Westall, Author Scholastic $12.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-590-42770-8
Sensitive readers will realize at once that the story of Lord Gort is one of those tales that, once begun, demands to be finished. Black cats bring good luck, or so it is believed by the many people whose lives are changed by their encounters with...
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Robert Westall, Author Viking Books $17.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-670-81201-1
British author Westall wrote The Machine Gunners and other prize novels for young readers that appeal equally to adults. Conjured up here are seven haunting tales spiced by his wry humor and based on characters so real that they compel belief in the
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Robert Westall, Author Scholastic $12.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-590-41692-4
Maggi has but one hope when her father is offered a job on the renovation of a stately home in the English countryside of Cheshire. She wants to wrest him away from the influence of blowsy Doris Streeton, who has had her eye on the man since Maggi's
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Robert Westall, Author Greenwillow Books $12.95 (170p) ISBN 978-0-688-07595-8
Cumbrian shepherd Ralph Edwards disturbs the hidden grave of an extraterrestrial and thereby involves his village in the last stages of an interplanetary war. Aliens resembling dogsthe Wawakakidnap humans for medical experiments; when taken prisoner,
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Robert Westall, Author Viking Books $16.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-670-80134-3
Westall's 1975 novel The Machine Gunners, about a group of children in England during World War II, inspired many letters from readers who had themselves been children during the war. Their recollections form the basis of the present volume. What is
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Robert Westall, Author, John Lawrence, Illustrator Farrar Straus Giroux $15 (0p) ISBN 978-0-374-31260-2
Vicarages, silver sixpences, ``the banked sleekness of chestnuts'' and good-hearted ghosts are among the trimmings that give these posthumously collected stories their old-fashioned charm. In ``The Christmas Ghost,'' a boy delivering a dinner pail...
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Robert Westall, Author, Daniel Mark Duffy, Illustrator Harper Teen $5.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-688-15498-1
English children find a lost Nazi machine gun and resolve to fight the Germans themselves. Ages 12-up. (Sept.)r
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