John Diamond
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
1 May 2014
Summary
An award-winning mystery about a young boy lost in Victorian London, pursued by bloodthirsty thieves, desperate to solve the mystery of the man his father wronged.‘My father, that stern and upright man, was nothing but a swindler and a thief!‘What is the matter with old Mr Jones? Endless footsteps and low groans can be heard from his room in the dead of night. Only his son William knows the a terrible secret- his father betrayed his business partner Mr Diamond, and swindled him out of a great…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099583271 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099583275 |
| Author: | Leon Garfield |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Children's Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 1 May 2014 |
| Weight: | 172g |
| Dimensions: | 188mm x 129mm x 16mm |
| Series: | Vintage Children's Classics |
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Critics Review
A brilliant, witty and gripping adventure
A brilliant, witty and gripping adventure * Times Educational Supplement *It is a fine thing that Leon Garfield’s rip-roaring and funny tales should be brought back into circulation for a new generation of readers – Joan Aiken
About The Author
Leon Garfield
Leon Garfield was born in Brighton in 1921. He was the acclaimed author of more than thirty novels for children and adults including Devil in the Fog, winner of the inaugural Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize in 1967, The God Beneath the Sea, winner of the 1970 Carnegie Medal, and John Diamond, winner of the 1980 Whitbread literary award. He was also elected a member of the Royal Society of Literature. He died in 1996.
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