World-Eater

by Robert Swindells

Published 1 January 1976

'There's something in the sky... something terrible!'

On the night of the great storm, a mysterious new planet suddently appears in the sky. Orbiting the sun between Mercury and Venus, the huge blue-grey sphere has scientists baffled as probes reveal its surface to be flat and bare and its interior liquid.

Eleven-year-old Orville, absorbed in witing for his favourite pigeon to hatch her first eggs, is the first to suspect the true nature of the planet. But will anyone listen to his theory? And, if they do, can they avert disaster? For if Orville is right, the world is doomed . . .


The skeleton lay on its back. The jaws gaped and one arm lay across the chest as through flung there to ward off a blow . . .

The Tangle is a long, narrow stretch of derelict land, a wilderness of weeds and rubbish with an old railway tunnel yawning blackly at one end. No-one - not even bullying Gary Deacon - dares venture far into its sooty darkness. But it is here that twelve-year-old Tan and his friends make a grisly discovery - a discovery that is to plunge them into a terrifying adventure as the tunnel slowly unfolds its sinister secret . . .


Ghost Messengers

by Robert Swindells

Published 1 September 1985
Meg is haunted by ghosts of her grandfather and his wartime friends. Her experience is intensified when a neglected piece of land is turned into a conservation area and her sleep and work become disturbed. Can she make sense of these visions and persuade others of their importance? The author has written some 20 books for children.