Leon Garfield: 23 books

Book cover of The Sound of Coaches
by Leon Garfield
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013

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 birth to a child. Not until he was eight did...
Book cover of Guilt and Gingerbread
by Leon Garfield
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2015

'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 he shall have the princess - but for a...
Book cover of The Drummer Boy
by Leon Garfield
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015

'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 been ambushed. Men were dead and dying all...
Book cover of Blewcoat Boy
by Leon Garfield
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014

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 – and Nick knows it is his responsibility to find Jubilee a husband. But who would want to marry a girl who can neither cook nor sew, read nor write?
Book cover of The House of Cards
by Leon Garfield
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2015

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 for identity and lost inheritance in the seedy and crowded streets of nineteenth century London.
Book cover of The Empty Sleeve
by Leon Garfield
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014

'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 insufferable adults around him and go to sea leads him...
Book cover of The Complete Bostock and Harris
by Leon Garfield
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014

A New York Review Children's Collection Original The 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 Bostock, who in spite of their differences are...
Book cover of The Prisoners of September
by Leon Garfield
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2015

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.
Book cover of The Wound of Mortality

The Wound of Mortality

Fear, Denial, and Acceptance of Death

by Ira Brenner, Stanley J. Coen, Calvin A. Colarusso
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2010

Death is a much avoided topic. Literature on mourning exists, but it focuses chiefly upon the death of others. The inevitable psychic impact of one's own mortality is not optimally covered either in this literature on mourning or elsewhere in psychiatry and psychoanalysis. The Wound of Mortality brings...
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