![]() It won the annual Carnegie Medal for the best British children's book. In 1970 Garfield's work started to move in new directions with The God Beneath the Sea, a re-telling of numerous Greek myths in one narrative, co-authored with Edward Blishen and illustrated by Charles Keeping. Yet another is Black Jack (1968), in which a young apprentice is forced by accident and his conscience to accompany a murderous criminal. Another is Smith (1967), in which the eponymous hero, a young pickpocket, is accepted into a wealthy household it won the Phoenix Award in 1987. Devil was the first of several historical adventure novels, typically set late in the eighteenth century and featuring a character of humble origins (in this case a boy from a family of traveling actors) pushed into the midst of a threatening intrigue. His second book, Devil-in-the-Fog (1966), won the first annual Guardian Prize and was serialised for television, as were several of his later works ( below). ![]() In that form it was published by Constable in 1964. saw its potential as a children's novel and persuaded Garfield to adapt it for younger readers. ![]() Garfield wrote his first book, the pirate novel Jack Holborn, for adult readers, but an editor at Constable & Co. ![]() In 1964 the Garfields adopted a baby girl whom they called Jane after Jane Austen, a favourite writer of both parents. After the war Garfield worked as a biochemical laboratory technician at the Whittington Hospital in Islington, writing in his spare time until the 1960s, when he was successful enough to write full-time. ![]()
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