Graham Wilson: 80 books

Graham Wilson's Climbing Down, selected as a Travel Book of the Week in The Guardian, features long distance walks in the Scottish, Welsh and English hills — but in manageable chunks. Wilson makes an entertaining companion; once he was fit enough for the Bob Graham Round, now he's the victim of...

"A growing body of readers is rediscovering Francis Graham Wilson's tremendous contribution to the study of politics and humane learning. In this volume he offers an extensive assessment of the nature of politics and the search for order in Spanish politics, concentrating on the central figures...

Few climbs are awarded the honour of being reduced to their initials. CB, the Central Buttress of Scafell, considered for years to be the hardest climb in the British Isles, is one of them. 'Have any of you ever noticed a bayonet-shaped crack descending from the skyline about midway between Moss Ghyll...

in the shadows is an unknown child who lived many years ago. She emerges and offers help at critical times of need first to Lizzie and her daughter Catherine. Who is Catherine's father? She needs to know! Her mother was raped by three men 20 years ago, one is dead, one a murderer, the third...

This is a story of a little girl, Sophie, unseen and unknown over three generations. At vital times she appears to help this family when in great need. Who Sophie is and where she has come from is the story of the first book in this series, 'The Old Balmain House'. Now in these two books the...

Old Balmain House family story moves to the next generation A man sits at a table in a prison cell, hands shackled. The door opens. In comes a slip of a girl, eyes darting around, face drawn and white. She is small and slender, like a teenager, but seems older. The man leers with desire - so...

It is a search for five vanished girls, backpackers last seen in outback Australia. Fragments and clues are found but no solid traces. A man's dairy tells their story. Finally one person emerges from obscurity without memory who may be one. and gradually the pieces of her disappearance and that of...

Two courageous Sydney families sit at the centre of this story. Linking them is a small girl Sophie who vanished 100 years ago. It is a story of people's ordinary lives, how they are touched and shaped by tragedy and yet rise above adversity. Mostly set around the beautiful inner city suburb of Balmain and an old house there, parts of the story traverse the remote Australian outback

Old Balmain House Series continues In 1963 a new family lives in the old house in Balmain. Fifteen year old Lizzie, her mother and six year old brother A rich friend invites Lizzie to a party – the future glitters bright. She is plied with champagne - she has never had a drink before. Three...

A parents worst nightmare. A small child with an incurable disease and a father who served in Vietnam and blames himself for her illness. The family is torn apart. Finally only one choice remains to save the daughter's life, a Devil's Choice. The time is in the 1980s. Catherine, Lizzie's daughter...

BRAZEN ENGLISH HUSSY, the papers scream. ‘Killed her lover, fed his body to the crocodiles then buried the evidence!’ Who is this man who nobody seems to know? They call him CROCODILE MAN. Who is the unknown girl who was with him before he died? Why does she hide what happened on that fateful...

She holds his diary in her hand. Its contents terrify her, What is the awful tale it tells. She knows she must read it to see what is hidden. Can she bring herself to do so. She hides it away and passes responsibility to another. A fisherman finds a unidentified head in a waterhole in Northern...

This is a book of two stories in one, the story of the first inhabitants of an old house who came to Australia and built a life here and the story of another family who lives in their house 50 years on and how the missing child of the first family goes on to shape their lives and fortunes. This...

A little girl vanished 100 years ago. Her name was Sophie. Where did she go? An old house in Balmain. A portrait and perfume bottle hidden in a chimney. Unknown and untouched, while a century passed, their memory slowly fading. Glimpses of an eight year old girl and her school friend,...