Among his best-known books are Devil-in-the-Fog (1966, winner of The Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize), The God Beneath the Sea (1970, winner of the Carnegie medal), Bostock and Harris or, The Night of the Comet (1979 published in The New York Review Children’s Collection with Garfield’s The Strange Affair of Adelaide Harris in The Complete Bostock and Harris), and John Diamond (1980, winner of the Whitbread Award). If you own this book, you can mail it to our address below. Jack Holborn (118 results) You searched for: Title: jack holborn. In all, Garfield would write some fifty books, including a continuation of Charles Dickens’s Mystery of Edwin Drood and retellings of biblical and Shakespearian stories. Jack Holborn by Leon Garfield, 1967, Penguin edition, in English It looks like you're offline. Jack Holborn by Garfield, Leon and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. In 1948 he married Vivian Alcock, an artist who would later become a successful writer of children’s books, and it was she who encouraged him to write his first novel, Jack Holborn, which was published in 1964. After the war, he returned to London and worked as a biochemical technician. Garfield enrolled in art school, left to work in an office, and in 1940 was drafted into the army, serving in the medical corps.

His father owned a series of businesses, and the family’s fortunes fluctuated wildly. Garfield wrote his first book, the pirate novel Jack Holborn, for adult readers, but an editor at Constable & Co. Before long he finds himself caught up in the middle of a mystery surrounding his long-lost mother. Orphan Jack Holborn stows away on a ship, little guessing the dangers and excitements that lie on his journey ahead. Leon Garfield (1921–1996) was born and raised in the seaside town of Brighton, England. An action-packed pirate story, with bloodcurdling deaths, terrifying ghosts and adventures galore on the high seas.

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