Robert Westall

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  • Bibliography:
    43 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1977
  • Latest Book:
    September 2021
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Book List in Order: 43 titles

  • The Watch House

    HAUNTED HOLIDAY Anne encounters spirits far more troubled than her own when she's sent off to a small seaside village, away from her parents' disintegrating marriage. A dead man scrawls desperate messages to her in the dust. A demonic dog digs up ...

  • The Wind Eye

  • The Devil on the Road

    Caught in a freak storm, John Webster takes shelter in an old barn with weird symbols carved in the doors. The landowner offers him a place to stay and John, on leave from University, takes him up on the offer.But it turns out the barn has more his...

  • Fathom Five

  • The Haunting of Chas Mcgill and Other Stories

  • Futuretrack 5

    In the highly organized society of twenty-first-century Britain the system is not to be questioned, but Kitson, a young computer wizard, and his partner Keri are determined to find answers to some important questions....

  • The Cats of Seroster

    Cam is quick-witted and clever - sometimes too clever for his own good. When he finds himself in a spot of trouble, he's keen to take a job that will get him out of the way for a while, even if it means he doesn't look at it too closely.Tasked to tak...

  • The Machine-Gunners

    With Nazi planes raining bombs on England night after night, every boy in Garmouth has a collection of shrapnel and other war souvenirs. But nothing comes close to the working machine gun Chas McGill pulls out of a downed bomber. While the police sea...

  • Rachel and the Angel



  • Urn Burial

    Life is simple where Ralph lives, up in the Pennines. It's peaceful. Ordinary.Until one day, when out with the sheep, he finds something strange, too strange to be from Earth. The alien grave holds secrets of the past, but also draws Ralph into the m...

  • Antique Dust: Ghost Stories

    This ghost story tells about a one-time bomber pilot who is now an antique dealer and keeps getting involved with ghosts. While this is his first book for adults, he has been writing ghost stories for young adult readers such as "The Machine Gunners"...

  • Stormsearch

    When Tim Vaux discovers an antique model ship on the beach, it leads him into an unsolved family mystery involving a shrewd London heiress, a heartbroken drunkard, and a fanatic miser named Black Idris....

  • The Call and Other Stories

    Six spine-tingling stories of the supernatural include the experiences of a dead woman who calls an emergency hotline on every Christmas eve and a boy who discovers that he is involved in an alien experiment. Reprint....

  • In Camera and Other Stories

  • Ghost Stories

  • The Kingdom by the Sea

    During World War II twelve-year-old Harry and a stray dog travel through war-torn England in search of safety....

  • The Promise

  • The Stones of Muncaster Cathedral

    """I dreamt I was standing in the dark, looking up at the south-west tower ... And our Kev was up there on top, in the dark, and screaming as if some wild beast was eating him.""

    When steeplejack Joe Clarke is hired to repair the stonework at Mu...

  • Demons and Shadows



  • Yaxley's Cat

  • Ghost Abbey

  • Shades of Darkness

    A companion volume to Demons and Shadows, this collection of eleven stories of the unexplained includes the tale of a nosy schoolgirl who helps a desperate ghost right a wrong and that of an antique camera that holds the clue to an old crime....

  • Christmas Spirit: Two Stories

    A pair of Christmas stories involves unexpected holiday visitors--a young boy receives a warning of impending disaster from the "Christmas Ghost," and a girl's unhappy holiday visit is redeemed by a pregnant cat in "The Christmas Cat."...

  • A Place to Hide

  • In Camera: and Other Stories

    A collection for young fans of scary thrillers presents five spine-tingling tales in which nothing is as it seems and readers are warned about looking over their shoulders. By the author of Blitzcat and Ghost Abbey. Reprint....

  • A Time of Fire

    When a German bomb kills his mother during World War II, Sonny Prudhoe's world is torn to pieces, and he begins a journey to understanding war and personal victory. By the author of Blitzcat. ...

  • Fearful Lovers

    A collection of five haunting tales by the author of Blitzcat, winner of the 1989 Smarties Prize. Each story concentrates on different aspects of love, from generosity to jealousy, each with a different twist....

  • Blitzcat

    She made her way down the cliff, and on to the beach. At the edge of the waves, she stopped, shaking her wet paws. She knew that somewhere ahead was her person, but far, far away. She miaowed plaintively; stood staring at the moving blur of uncrossab...

  • Cat's Whispers and Tales

    This anthology of cat stories, poems, sayings, true tales and other snippets are collected and sorted into a number of cat characteristics categories. The collection includes a number of previously unpublished short stories and memoirs....



  • Ghosts and Journeys

    A collection of short stories from an author who has won the Carnegie medal on two occaisions - the first time with "The Machine-Gunners" in 1975. In this collection he writes about journeys that are both physical and psychological....

  • Denton the Dragon and the Tale of Tear River

  • Spinetinglers

    Guaranteed to thrill and chill, this spine-tingling collection of twenty-twospooky stories includes contributions by Franz Kafka, Charles Dickens, Guy de Maupassant, and many other well-known writers. This anthology is not for the faint of heart!<...

  • If Cats Could Fly

    Mel the cat had always wanted to fly, and Geoff the cat had always wanted to understand how the universe worked. Their wishes are both granted one evening when two space creatures, Grok and Klek, make an unauthorised visit to Planet Earth. But achiev...

  • Break Of Dark

    Is there a barrier that divides the dark unknown from the everyday world around us? If so, is it broken sometimes by the dead returning, by the undead, or by alien creatures? What else could account for the chance meeting (or was it?) between...

  • Spectral Shadows: Three Supernatural Novellas

    Three supernatural novellas by Robert Westall, hailed as the finest British author of ghost stories since M.R. James, collected together for the first time  BLACKHAM'S WIMPEY  Why should three successive crews flying a Second World War bomber - Bla...

  • Shadows of War

    In ‘Adolf’, a young boy becomes convinced his elderly neighbour is actually Adolf Hitler in hiding. The British soldiers in ‘The German Ghost’ have an otherworldly encounter with a mysterious and sinister figure in black. ‘East Doddingha...

  • Heavy Lies the head that eats the crayons

    This book contains many editorial cartoons drawn by Robert Westall, a Canadian observer of the orange madness to the south. Please note some drawings may not be suitable for children or those with childish minds in red hats....

  • Blitz

  • The Best of Robert Westall

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    A collection of Westall's chilling short stories. Includes: Woman and Home; St. Austin Friars; The Haunting of Chas McGill; In Camera; Fifty-fafty; The Cats; The Boys' Toilets; Portland Bill; The Bus; The Cat, Spartan; Blackham's Wimpy....



  • Falling Into Glory

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    Growing up in a northern English town after World War II, seventeen-year-old Robert, clever student and formidable rugby player, finds himself drawn into a passionate affair with a young teacher at his school...

  • Gulf

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    ‘Until last year we would have called ourselves an ordinary English family. I mean, you may think that Figgis was pretty odd – the way he could get so upset about an injured squirrel or an Ethiopian mother and child or be so knowledgea...

  • The Scarecrows

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    There were three people, standing in the darkest place, watching him. Simon is outraged that his Mum plans to remarry. He can't bear her new fiancé or the way his mother and sister seem to have forgotten his late father. Overwhelmed by hatred and an...

  • Voices in the Wind

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    The icy terror of a blizzard-swept barn where two teenagers' mutual hatred turns to murder. The darkened Cathedral, where a girl spends the night among the spirits of the dead. This is a collection of ten disturbing stories of the strange, supernatur...

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Robert Westall has published 43 books.

Robert Westall does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Blitz, was published in September 2021.

The first book by Robert Westall, The Watch House, was published in January 1977.

No. Robert Westall does not write books in series.
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