During his forty-year career, from 1937 until 1978, Malcolm SavilleLeonard Malcolm Saville (21 February 1901 – 30 June 1982) was an English author best known for the Lone Pine series of children’s books, published between 1943 and 1978. produced more than ninety books,[1] eighty-five of them for children.[2] He is best known today for his Lone Pine series of children’s books, published between 1943 and 1978.[2]
Works are listed in order of their date of first publication in the lists shown below.
- Mystery at Witchend (1943)
- Seven White Gates (1944)
- The Gay Dolphin Adventure (1945)
- The Secret of Grey Walls (1947)
- Lone Pine Five (1949)
- The Elusive Grasshopper (1951)
- The Neglected Mountain (1953)
- Saucers Over The Moor (1955)
- Wings Over Witchend (1956)
- Lone Pine London (1957)
- The Secret of the Gorge (1958)
- Mystery Mine (1959)
- Sea Witch Comes Home (1960)
- Not Scarlet But Gold (1962)
- Treasure at Amorys (1964)
- Man With Three Fingers (1966)
- Rye Royal (1969)
- Strangers at Witchend (1970)
- Where’s My Girl? (1972)
- Home To Witchend (1978)
- The Master of Maryknoll (1950)
- The Buckinghams at Ravenswyke (1952)
- The Long Passage (1954)
- A Palace for the Buckinghams (1963)
- The Secret of the Villa Rosa (1971)
- Diamond in the Sky (1974)
- Redshank’s Warning (1948)
- Two Fair Plaits (1948); reprinted as Secret in the Mist in 1952, but reverted to its original title for subsequent editions.
- Strangers at Snowfell (1949)
- The Sign of the Alpine Rose (1950)
- The Luck of Sallowby (1952)
- The Ambermere Treasure (1953)
- All Summer Through (1951)
- Christmas at Nettleford (1953)
- Spring Comes To Nettleford (1954)
- The Secret of Buzzard Scar (1955)
- Three Towers in Tuscany (1963)
- The Purple Valley (1964)
- Dark Danger (1965)
- White Fire (1966)
- Power of Three (1968)
- The Dagger and the Flame (1970)
- Marston – Master Spy (1978)
- Susan, Bill and the Wolf Dog (1954)
- Susan, Bill and the Ivy-Clad Oak (1954)
- Susan, Bill and the Vanishing Boy (1955)
- Susan, Bill and the Golden Clock (1955)
- Susan, Bill and the ‘Saucy Kate’ (1956)
- Susan, Bill and the Dark Stranger (1956)
- Susan, Bill and the Bright Star Circus (1960)
- Susan, Bill and the Pirates Bold (1961)
- Trouble at Townsend (1945) – when it was first published, this book was filmed by the Rank Organisation starring a young Petula Clark.
- The Riddle of the Painted Box (1947)
- The Flying Fish Adventure (1950)
- The Secret of the Hidden Pool (1953)
- Where The Bus Stopped (1955) – actually a short story which was published as a book in its own right, although it also appeared in anthologies.
- Young Johnnie Bimbo (1956)
- The Fourth Key (1957)
- Four And Twenty Blackbirds (1959) – retitled The Secret of Galleybird Pit in editions published after 1967.
- Good Dog Dandy (1971)
- The Roman Treasure Mystery (1973)
- Treasure at the Mill (1957)
- The Thin Grey Man (1966)
- Come to London (1967)
- Come to Devon (1969)
- Come to Cornwall (1969)
- Come to Somerset (1970)
- Portrait of Rye (1976)
- The Silent Hills of Shropshire (1998)
- Country Scrapbook for Boys and Girls (1944)
- Open Air Scrapbook for Boys and Girls (1945)
- Seaside Scrapbook for Boys and Girls (1946)
- Jane’s Country Year (1946)
- Small Creatures (1959)
- Malcolm Saville’s Country Book (1961) – an updated revision and expansion of the Country Scrapbook and Open Air Scrapbook.
- Malcolm Saville’s Seaside Book (1962) – a similar updated revision and expansion of the Seaside Scrapbook.
- See How It Grows (1971)
- Eat What You Grow (1975)
- The Countryside Quiz (1978)
- The Wonder Why Book of Exploring a Wood (1978)
- The Wonder Why Book of Exploring the Seashore (1979)
- The Wonder Why Book of Wild Flowers Through the Year (1980)
- The Seashore Quiz (1981)
- King of Kings (1958)
- Strange Story (1967)
- The Coronation Gift Book for Boys and Girls (1952) – Although written for children to enable them to understand the process of Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation, the book was informative enough for it to be read by adults as well.
- The Story of Winchelsea Church (1978)
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