Leon Garfield

A New York Review Children's Collection Original
The Complete Bostock and Harris combines two delightful, suspenseful, and madly funny tales about two boys in eighteenth-century England, clever and mischievous Harris and sweet but not-so-bright Bostock, who in spite of their differences are the best of friends. 
In “The Strange Affair of Adelaide Harris,” the wily pair put their classical education to the test when they...

The adventure of 12-year-old William Jones' lifetime begins when he hears his father's footsteps, pacing back and forth late at night across the floor of the bedroom beneath his own-even though his father is dead. To stop the restless pacing of his father's ghost, William goes to London to find John Diamond, the son of the man his father cheated two decades earlier. In a strange, shadowy world of thieves, swindlers, and cutthroats, William tries to...

A little girl named Abigail finds mad King Nebuchadnezzar eating the flowers in her garden and helps him return to his palace and to God.

An illustrated, abridged version of the Shakespeare tragedy with background information and explanatory stage directions.

An illustrated, abridged version of the Shakespeare play with background information and explanatory stage directions.

A young apprentice in eighteenth-century London begin a strange adventure when he inadvertently becomes involved with a wanted criminal and a girl who is reputedly mad.

Unsettling words from his dying father set twelve-year-old William on a mission to eighteenth-century London where, in the course of searching for his father's mysterious business partner John Diamond, he encounters an odd assortment of characters, some of whom seem determined to kill him.

The apprentice wished for nothing more than the death of his hated master but he finds the burden of the man's ghost too great to bear.

An adventure story about an honest young boy, Tolly Pickering, forced on the run with a villainous ruffian named Black Jack. As the two enter a world of body-snatchers, private lunatic asylums, and travelling fairs, they find friendship in the most unlikely places.