Robert Westall
Born
in North Shields, Northumberland, The United Kingdom
January 01, 1929
Website
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The Machine-Gunners
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53 editions
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published
1975
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Blitzcat
32 editions
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published
1989
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The Kingdom by the Sea
34 editions
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1990
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The Scarecrows
22 editions
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published
1981
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The Stones of Muncaster Cathedral
18 editions
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published
1991
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The Cats of Seroster
10 editions
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published
1984
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Antique Dust: Ghost Stories
8 editions
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1989
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Ghost Abbey
17 editions
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published
1988
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Futuretrack 5
10 editions
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1983
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The Devil on the Road
13 editions
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1978
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“That night, after we'd had our tea, Kevin and I went bird-watching. Not the usual sort, plodding round the fields with great binoculars round your neck (though I did take my work binoculars). No, we go up in the big trees in the wood, where the birds live. Right to the tops we go, where the branches sway and swing like a comfy bed, and you can look along the green billows of the tree-tops. In spring, we take the eggs out of the nests, handling them gentle, like, and putting them back afterwards of course. An' getting away quickly, so the hen-bird can come back and sit on them again. That's a wonder of life to me; to hold a speckled egg in the palm of your hand, and think what a marvellous thing it's going to become, a bird that flies and feeds and takes its chance with the cats, and breeds its own young and dies back into the dust in the end. Why does anyone need those crazy Christian dreams of Heaven, wi' angels playin' their harps on fleecy clouds, when they can have a wood at sunset, when you can look down from a low branch and see young rabbits playing, or even young foxes tumbling over and over and squeaking when they nip each other with their sharp little teeth?”
― The Stones of Muncaster Cathedral
― The Stones of Muncaster Cathedral
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