The Secret of Grey Walls

The Secret of Grey Walls is no 4 in the Lone Pine Series. This is the book in which Jon and Penny Warrender from The Gay Dolphin Adventure meet the Lone Piners in Shropshire and are made members of the Club. Click here to see some pages from The Secret of Grey Walls. David Morton and the twins Dickie and Mary, with their friends Peter, Jenny, Tom and the Warrenders, go to stay in the little forgotten town of Clun. On the hills of the wild country around them some of the oldest inhabitants of England lived and fought, and about a mile away from Clun runs a stretch of the great fortified ditch which the slaves of King Offa of Mercia built between his country and Wales. Hard by Offa’s Dyke the Lone Piners discover a lonely, mysterious house surrounded by high stone walls. It seems deserted, but is in fact the seat of strange happenings which are bringing disaster to farmers in the neighbourhood. And there is the odd Mr Cantor, who is staying at the same boarding house as the children, and about whom opinion is divided – is he friend or foe? Events tumble over one another swiftly to the exciting moment when the last word has been said in the clearing up of the secret of Grey Walls and the Lone Piners come to the end of yet another great adventure. The GGBP edition of The Secret of Grey Walls includes an introduction by Mary Cadogan, an article by Mark O’Hanlan on Malcolm Saville, and the publishing history by John Allsup. There are two appendices: errors in the First Edition, and the Extended Foreword to the Second Edition. The book includes the map of the Grey Walls Country ‘drawn by David Morton’ and illustrations by Bertram Prance. GGBP published The Secret of Grey Walls in November 2007. The Secret of Grey Walls went out of print on 9th August 2011.

Lone Pine Five

Lone Pine Five is no 5 in the Lone Pine Series. Lone Pine Five is really Jenny Harman’s story – Jenny the romantic, whose desire to possess an old spoon she found on a junk-tray in Bishop’s Castle market laid the foundation of another great adventure for the Lone Piners. Click here to see some pages from Lone Pine Five. Tom Ingles bought the spoon for two shillings and gave it to Jenny, and it was while she was expressing her delighted thanks that the odd Mr Wilkins asked to be allowed to examine it. He was sure the spoon was valuable, and Jenny learnt from him that the Romans had mined for lead in the neighbourhood. Consequently, when the Mortons and Peter Sterling arrived for a camping holiday in their beloved Shropshire they were met by an excited Jenny full of dramatic plans to search for Roman treasure. The situation wasn’t a simple one; there were the unpleasant Smithsons – father, mother and young Percy – who were determined to sabotage any move made by the Lone Piners. Nevertheless, the adventure ended with a great moment for Jenny… The GGBP edition of Lone Pine Five includes an introduction by Mary Cadogan, an article by Mark O’Hanlan on Malcolm Saville, and the publishing history by John Allsup. There are two appendices: errors in the First Edition, and Illustrations from Later Editions. The book includes the map of the Greystones district ‘drawn by David Morton’ and illustrations by Bertram Prance. GGBP published Lone Pine Five in April 2008. It went out of print on 31st May 2011.