n September 2007 Oxford University Press published a new edition of my book 'Flambards' in a collection of six under the heading 'Oxford Children’s Classics'. My fellow classic authors are the likes of Mark Twain, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Louis Stevenson. . . ! I am truly amazed.

I wrote this book in 1969, it was my twelfth book. It was a departure for me after several books about sailing, (I returned to my first love - horses, the countryside and flying).  It was very successful, especially so after it and its two sequels were made into a very good television series by 'Yorkshire Television'.

This series of books, published by 'Oxford University Press', are :-

'Flambards', 'The Edge Of The Cloud', 'Flambards In Summer' and 'Flambards Divided'.