A Skull in Shadows Lane

Author(s): Robert Swindells

Children's

The war has just ended in the tiny village of Coney Cley, and Josh and his gang are desperate for some excitement. When they head for the eerie, abandoned Shadows Lane to explore a deserted house, they find more than they bargained for - a human tooth. Then a creepy, skeletal face appears at a dark window...

General Information

  • : 9780552564090
  • : Random House Children's Books
  • : Corgi Childrens
  • : 0.171
  • : 31 December 2011
  • : United Kingdom
  • : 01 March 2012
  • : books

Other Specifications

  • : Robert Swindells
  • : Paperback
  • : 823.914
  • : 240

More About The Product

Another tense, gripping wartime story from award-winning author Robert Swindells.

Robert Swindells left school at fifteen to work on a local newspaper. At seventeen, he joined the RAF for three years, then worked as a teacher. Now a full-time writer, he is the author of a number of bestselling children's titles for Random House. In 1994 he won the Carnegie Medal for Stone Cold (Hamish Hamilton), a teenage novel about a serial killer. Ruby Tanya won the Salford Children's Book Award 2005. 'Plots which grip the reader from the opening paragraph' The Sunday Times 'Robert Swindells writes the kinds of books that are so scary you're afraid to turn the page' Young Telegraph