that did not win a major award when originally published. In The Guardian, Francis Spufford named The God Beneath the Sea one of the greatest children's books, calling it "visceral, overpowering, defiantly undomesticated", adding, "Read this as a child, and ever after you understand why Prometheus and Pandora are down there at the roots of the West's imagination." In the May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture, Philip Pullman praised Garfield as "someone who put the best of his imagination into everything he wrote", particularly praising The Pleasure Garden. Selected works Jack Holborn (1964) Devil-in-the-Fog (1966) Smith (1967) Black Jack (1968) Mister Corbett's Ghost and Other Stories (1969) The Drummer Boy (1970) The God Beneath the Sea (Longman, 1970) ‡ The Strange Affair of Adelaide Harris (1971) The Ghost Downstairs (1972) The Golden Shadow (Longman, 1973) ‡ The Sound of Coaches (1974), illus. John Lawrence The Prisoners of September (1975) The Pleasure Garden (1976) The Confidence Man (1978) The Apprentices (1978) Bostock and Harris (1979); US title, The Night of the Comet John Diamond (Kestrel, 1980); US title, Footsteps The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Deutsch, 1980), by Charles Dickens and Garfield Fair's Fair (1981), illus. Margaret Chamberlain, picture book The House of Cards (1982) Shakespeare Stories (1985), illus. Michael Foreman The Wedding Ghost (1985) The December Rose (1986) The Empty Sleeve (1988) Blewcoat Boy (1988) Shakespeare Stories II (1994), illus. Michael Foreman ‡ The God Beneath the Sea (1970) and The Golden Shadow (1973) were written by Garfield and Edward Blishen, illustrated by Charles Keeping, and published by Longman. See also Notes References Citations H. Carpenter and M. Prichard, The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (Oxford: OUP, 1984); official website B. Copson, "Garfield, Leon (1921–1996)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (OUP), September 2004; online edition January 2007 R. Natov, Leon Garfield (New York: Twayne Publishers, 1994) J. R. Townsend, Written for Children: An Outline of English-language Children's Literature'' (London: Penguin, ed. 3, 1987); first edition 1965 Further reading External links leongarfield.com —immediately, the first edition of Garfield's version —immediately, the first edition —immediately, a record for the first edition British Army personnel of World War II British children's writers British historical novelists Deaths from cancer in England Carnegie Medal in Literature winners Costa Book Award winners Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature Guardian Children's Fiction Prize winners Royal Army Medical Corps soldiers 1921 births 1996 deaths 20th-century British novelists