'Kingdom By The Sea' covers the curriculum theme of the Second World War and takes a thoughtful look at a boy's development towards independence.

Robert Westall's gripping Carnegie Medal-winning novel celebrates its 40th anniversary
""Some bright kid's got a gun and 2000 rounds of live ammo. And that gun's no pea-shooter. It'll go through a brick wall at a quarter of a mile." "
Chas McGill has the second-best collection of war souvenirs in Garmouth, and he desperately wants it to be the best. When he stumbles across the remains of a German bomber crashed in the woods its shiny, black machine-gun still intact he grabs his chance. Soon he's masterminding his own war effort with dangerous and unexpected results. Robert Westall's...

Creepy . . . develops a sense of palpable evil . . . well worth the time of readers who prefer slyly civilized British ghost stories - Kirkus Reviews



Fiendishly clever, spine-tingling short fiction - Publishers Weekly



Marvelous M. R. Jamesian-style ghost stories - Michael Dirda, Washington Post



Dealers are undertakers of a sort. When a man dies, the undertaker comes for the body, and the dealer comes for the rest. I deal in dead mens clocks, pipes and swords. Passing through my hands, they give off joy, loneliness, fear . . . I have known more...

Ninety-eight keys, and they say there are ninety-nine rooms . But Maggi gradually comes to realize that their new home holds secrets far more sinister than anything they have left behind .

There's a legend about the Watch House... Scrape beneath the whitewash and you'll find terror. You'll find him.

Tynemouth, late 1970s. Christmas is coming and Front Street's swinging. But Anne, dumped here while her parents sort their divorce, isn't in the mood. She escapes to the castle, the Priory the beaches. Best of all, the Watch House. The old coastguard's place is packed with weird treasures and no one bothers her. Until lights start to flicker and something stirs in the dark nights...

Buried deep in the past is a secret which now threatens everything. Only Anne can stop it....