Robert Westall

‘Until last year we would have called ourselves an ordinary English family....

Who is writing the messages in the dust? What is the story behind the huge skull in the old Watch House? Alone and unhappy in Garmouth, Anne knows the shadows are following her....

Mel the cat had always wanted to fly, and Geoff the cat had always wanted to understand how the universe worked....

The air raid siren that pierces the English night sky comes as no surprise to young Harry Baguely. Ever since Hitler began sending his warplanes to raid London, Harry has become an old hand at running to his family’s bomb shelter and waiting for the attacks to end. This time, though, Harry’s...

And suddenly I stood up because I knew what it was. It was a model galleon, buried in the sand....

The sky split open. A sky of brilliant yellow light; a world of noise that filled his ears like sand at the seaside....

Geoff Ashden is a regular guy trying to make an honest living as an antique dealer, but who has an uncanny knack for finding cursed objects and haunted places....