Kathleen Wendy Herald Peyton, who writes as K.M. Peyton (born 2 August 1929, Birmingham, England) is a British author. She has written than fifty novels, including the much loved Flambards series and its sequels for which she won both the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Award. She began writing when she was nine, first publishing under her maiden name of Kathleen Herald. Fidra Books is currently publishing Fly-By-Night with the sequel, The Team expected in the future.
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Bibliography
The Flambards Series
- Flambards (1967)
- The Edge of the Cloud (1969)
- Flambards in Summer (1969)
- Flambards Divided (1981)
The Ruth Hollis Series
- Fly-by-Night (1968)
- The Team (1975)
(The Pennington Series continues the story of Ruth Hollis). Fly-By-night have now been published by [1]Fidra Books and The Team will follow in 2008.
The Pennington Series
- Pennington's Seventeenth Summer (later republished as Pennington's Last Term) (1970)
- The Beethoven Medal (1971) (a.k.a. If I Ever Marry)
- Pennington's Heir (1973)
- Marion's Angels (later republished as Falling Angels) (1979)
The Jonathan Meredith Series
- Prove Yourself A Hero (1977)
- A Midsummer Night's Death (1978)
- The Last Ditch (1984) (also published as Free Rein)
(See also the Ruth Hollis series)
Other books
- Sabre The Horse from the Sea (published under her maiden name) (1947)
- The Mandrake - A Pony (published under her maiden name) (1949)
- Crab the roan (published under her maiden name) (1953)
- North to Adventure (1959)
- Stormcock Meets Trouble (1961)
- The Hard Way Home (1962)
- Windfall (1962) (also published as Sea Fever)
- Brownsea Silver (1964)
- The Maplin Bird (1964)
- The Plan for Birdsmarsh (1965)
- Thunder in the Sky (1966)
- A Pattern of Roses (1972)
- The Right-Hand Man (1977)
- Dear Fred (1981)
- Going Home (1982)
- (1983)
- Froggett’s Revenge (1985)
- The Sound of Distant Cheering (1986)
- Downhill all the Way (1988)
- Darkling (1989)
- Skylark (1989)
- No Roses Round the Door (1990)
- Poor Badger (1990)
- The Boy Who Wasn’t There (1992)
- Late to Smile (1992)
- Apple Won’t Jump (1992)
- The Wild Boy and Queen Moon (1993)
- Snowfall (1994)
- The Swallow Tale (1995)
- Mr Brown (1995)
- Swallow Summer (1996)
- Swallow the Star (1997)
- Unquiet Spirits (1997)
- The pony that went to sea (1997)
- Windy Webley (1997)
- Danger Offshore (1998)
- Firehead (1998)
- Plain Jack (1998)
- The Paradise Pony (1999)
- The Scruffy Pony (1999)
- Blind Beauty (1999)
- The Pied Piper (1999)
- Horses (Non fiction) (2000)
- Stealaway (2001)
- Pony in the Dark (2001)
- Small Gains (2003)
- Greater Gains (2005)
- Blue Skies and Gunfire (2006)
- Minna's Quest (2007)
- My Alice
- Grey Star, the Story of a Racehorse (published under her maiden name)
