Friday, February 20, 2009

The Book List

Book List

Percy. F. Westerman


1. A Lad of Grit - Blackie 1908
2. The Winning of Golden Spurs - Nisbet 1911
3. The Young Cavalier - Pearson 1911
4. The Quest of the Golden Hope - Blackie 1911
5. The Flying Submarine - Nisbet 1912
6. Captured at Tripoli - Blackie 1912
7. The Sea Monarch - A.C.Black 1912
8. The Scouts of Seal Island - A.C.Black 1913
9. The Rival Submarines - Partridge 1913
10. The Stolen Cruiser - Jarrolds 1913
11. When East Meets West - Blackie 1913
12. Under King Henry's Banners - Pilgrim Press 1913
13. The Sea-Girt Fortress - Blackie 1914
14. Sea Scouts of Petrel - A.C.Black 1914
15. The Log of a Snob - Chapman and Hall 1914
16. 'Gainst the Might of Spain - Pillgrim Press 1914
17. Building the Empire - Jarrolds 1914
18. The Dreadnought of the Air - Partridge 1914
19. The Dispatch-Riders - Blackie 1915
20. The Nameless Island - Pearson 1915
21. The Fight for Constantinople - Blackie 1915
22. A Sub. of the R.N.R. - Partridge 1915
23. Rounding up the Raider - Blackie 1916
24. The Secret Battleplane - Blackie 1916
25. The Treasures of the "San Philipo" Religious Tract Society *
26. A Watch-dog of the North Sea - Partridge 1916
27. Deeds of Pluck and Daring in the Great War - Blackie 1916
28. To the Fore with the Tanks! - Blackie 1917
29. Under the White Ensign - Blackie 1917
30. The Fritz-Strafers - Partridge 1917
(Keepers of the Narrow Seas)
31. Billy Barcroft R.N.A.S. - Partridge 1918
32. A Lively Bit of the Front - Blackie 1918
33. The Secret Channel and Other Stories - A.C.Black 1918
34. The Submarine Hunters - Blackie 1918
35. A Sub. and a Submarine Blackie 1918
36. With Beauty off Jutland - Blackie 1918
37. Whilmshurt of the Frontier Force - Partridge 1919
38. Winning his Wings - Blackie 1919
39. The Thick of the Frey at Zeebrugge - Blackie 1919 *
40. 'Midst Artic Perils - Pearson 1919
41. The Airship "Golden Hind" - Partridge 1919 *
42. The Mystery Ship - Partridge 1920
43. The Salving of the "Funi Yama" - Blackie 1920
44. Sea Scouts All - Blackie 1920
45. Sea Scouts Abroad - Blackie 1921
46. The Third Officer - Blackie 1921 *
47. Sea Scouts Up Channel - Blackie 1922
48. The Wireless Officer - Blackie 1922
49. The War of the Wireless Waves - Oxford University Press 1922
50. The Pirate Submarine - Nisbet 1923
51. A Cadet of the Mercantile Marine - Blackie 1923
52. Clipped Wings - Blackie 1923
53. The Mystery of Stockmere School - Partridge 1923
54. Sinclair's Luck - Partridge 1923
55. Captain Cane - Nisbet 1924
56. The Good Ship "Golden Effort" - Blackie 1924
57. The Treasure of the Sacred lake - Pearson 1924
58. Unconquered Wings - Blackie 1924
59. Clinton's Quest - Pearson 1925
60. East in the "Golden Gain" - Blackie 1925
61. The Boys of the "Puffin" - Partridge 1925
62. The Buccaneers of Boya - Blackie 1925
63. The Sea Scouts of the "Kestrel" - Seeley 1925
64. Annesley's Double - A.C.Black 1926
65. King of Kilba - Ward Lock 1926
66. The Luck of the "Golden Dawn" - Blackie 1926
67. The Riddle of the Air - Blackie 1926
68. Tireless Wings - Blackie 1926
69. The Terror of the Seas - Ward Lock 1927
70. Mystery Island - Oxford University Press 1927
71. Captain Blundell's Treasure - Blackie 1927
72. Chums of the "Golden Vanity" - Blackie 1927
73. In the Clutches of the Dyaks - Partridge 1927
74. The Junior Cadet - Blackie 1928
75. On the Wings of the Wind - Blackie 1928
76. A Shanghai Adventure - Blackie 1928
77. Pat Stobart in the "Golden Dawn"
78. Rivals of the Reef - Blackie 1929
79. Captain Starlight - Blackie 1929 *
80. Captain Sang - Blackie 1930
81. Leslie Dexter, Cadet - Blackie 1930
82. A Mystery of the Broads - Blackie 1930 *
83. The Secret of the Plateau - Blackie 1931
84. The Senior Cadet - Blackie 1931
85. In Defiance of the Ban - Blackie 1931
86. The Amir's Ruby - Blackie 1932
87. All Hands to the Boats - Blackie 1912
88. Captain Fosdyke's Gold - Blackie 1932
89. King for a Month - Blackie 1933
90. Rocks Ahead - Blackie 1933
91. The White Arab - Blackie 1933
92. The Disappearing Dhow - Blackie 1933 *
93. Chasing the Pleiad - Blackie 1933
94. Tales of the Sea (with others) - Blackie 1933
95. The Westow Talisman - Blackie 1934 *
96. Andy-All-Alone - Blackie 1934
97. The Black Hawk - Blackie 1934
98. Standish of the Air Police - Blackie 1935 *
99. Sleuths of the Air - Blackie 1935
100. On board the "Golden Effort" - Blackie1935
101. The Call of the Sea - Blackie 1935
102 The Red Pirate
103. Captain Flick - Blackie 1936 *
104. His First Ship - Blackie 1936
105. Midshipman Roxworthy - Blackie 1936
106. Ringed by Fire - Blackie 1936
107. Winged Might - Blackie 1937
108. Under Fire in Spain - Blackie 1937
109. The Last of the Buccaneers - Blackie 1937
110. Haunted Harbour - Blackie 1937
111. The Unfinished Voyage - Blackie 1937
112. Cadet Alan Carr - Blackie 1937
113. Midshipman Webb's Treasure - Blackie 1938
114. Standish Gets His Man - Blackie 1938
115. Sea Scouts Alert ! - Blackie 1939
116. Standish Looses his Man - Blackie 1939
117. In Eastern Seas - Blackie 1939
118. The Bulldog Breed - Blackie 1939
119. At Grips with the Swastika - Blackie 1940
120. Eagles' Talons - Blackie 1940
121. In Dangerous Waters - Blackie 1940
122. Standish Pulls it Off - Blackie 1940
123. When the Allies Swept the Seas - Blackie 1940 *
124. The War - and Alan Carr - Blackie 1940
125. War Cargo - Blackie 1941
126. Sea Scouts at Dunkirk - Blackie 1941
127. Standish Holds On - Blackie 1941
128. Fighting for Freedom - Blackie 1941
129. Alan Carr in the Near East - Blackie 1942
130. On Guard for England
131. Destroyer's Luck - Blackie 1942
132. Secret Flight - Blackie 1942
133. With the Commandos - Blackie 1943
134. Sub-Lieutenant John Cloche - Blackie 1943
135. Alan Carr in Command - Blackie 1943
136. Alan Carr in the Arctic - Blackie 1943
137. Combined Operation - Blackie 1944
138. Engaged the Enemy Closely - Blackie 1944
139. Secret Convoy - Blackie 1944
140. One of the Many - Blackie 1945
141. Operation Successfully Executed - Blackie 1945
142. By Luck and Pluck - Blackie 1946
143. Return to Base - Blackie 1946
144. Squadron Leader - Blackie 1946
145. Unfettered Might - Blackie 1947
146. Trapped in the Jungle - Blackie 1947
147. The Phantom Submarine - Blackie 1947
148. The "Golden Gleaner" - Blackie 1948
149. First Over - Blackie 1948
150. The Mystery of the Key - Blackie 1948
151. Missing, Believed Lost - Blackie 1949
152. Contraband - Blackie 1949
153. Beyond the Burma Road - Blackie 1949
154. Sarabinda Island - Blackie 1950
155. The Mystery of Nix Hall - Blackie 1950
156. By Sea and Air - Blackie 1950
157. Desolation Island - Balckie 1950
158. Held to Ransom - Balckie 1951
159. The Isle of Mystery - Blackie 1951
160. Working Their Passage - Blackie 1951
161. Sabotage ! - Blackie 1952
162. Round the World in the "Golden Gleaner" - 1952
163. Dangerous Cargo - Blackie 1952
164. Bob Strickland's Log - Blackie 1953
165. The Missing Diplomat - Blackie 1953
166. Rolling Down to Rio - Blackie 1953
167. Wrested from the Deep - Blackie 1954
168. A Midshipman of the Fleet - Blackie 1954
169. The Ju-Ju Hand - Blackie 1954
170. The Dark Secret 1955
171. Davantry's Quest - Blackie 1955
172. The Lure of the Lagoon - Blackie 1955
173. Held in the Frozen North - Blackie 1956
174. The Mystery of the Semiphone - Blackie 1957
175. Jack Craddock's Commission - Blackie 1958
176. Mistaken Identity - Blackie 1959

Obituary - Percy F Westerman

The launch of this blog coincides with the 50th anniversary of the death of Percy Westerman who passed away on February 22, 1959

The Times
Obituary
Mr. Percy. F.Westerman


Adventure Tales for Boys

Mr. Percy. F. Westerman, a popular writer of books for boys, has died at the age of 82.

He was born in Portsmouth in 1876 and educated at Portsmouth Grammar School. The sea attracted him from his earliest days and by the age of 20 he had taken up a promising clerical appointment in Portsmouth Dockyard.

He married Florence Wager of Portsmouth in 1900 and though he had written briefly on nautical topics in his twenties his first book for boys entitled A Lad of Grit was not published until 1908. This was written under the stimulus of Scouting which Baden-Powell founded in the same year after an experimental camp at Brownsea Island in Poole Harbour in 1907. Westerman was greatly attracted to the idea of Scouting on the water and became keenly interested in Sea Scouting.

His early books, which stressed adventure and the open-air life both on land and sea, were so successful that Westerman resigned his Admiralty appointment in 1911 to devote himself to full time writing for boys. For many years he lived on board a houseboat on the River Frome at Wareham in Dorset, but a fall when he was 70 made him reluctantly, take to dry land.

In the First World War he was for a time employed on coastal duties with the Royal Navy, but later held a commission, like Captain W. E. Johns in the Royal Flying Corps and found flying as full of adventure as boating and sailing.

In the Second World War he did valuable work for the Home Guard in Dorset, while his nautical figure and peaked yachting cap made him a well-known personality in his spare time among the boys of the county.

Of his service in the two wars he once wrote to Blackie "neither appointment seriously interfered with my literary output".

His last book will be published in May by Blackie & Son who have been his publisher since Lad o' Grit appeared in 1908. He wrote in all 170 books and his total sales at death were 1,599,000. He had one book published in each of the last three years, and before then his output varied from tree to five books a year.


In post war years Percy Westerman became something of a recluse and was rarely, if ever seen in London. But his work never faltered and remained of a high quality. He never ceased to give his readers real life heroes who revelled in danger and high adventure, usually in the Services or Sea Scouting. His books had been translated into over half a dozen European languages and also into Braille.


The Times
Wednesday 25 February, 1959.

Percy Westerman - Book List

Book List

Percy. F. Westerman




1. A Lad of Grit - Blackie and Son Limited: 1908
2. The Winning of Golden Spurs - Nisbet 1911
3. The Young Cavalier - Pearson 1911
4. The Quest of the Golden Hope - Blackie and Son Limited: 1911
5. The Flying Submarine - Nisbet 1912
6. Captured at Tripoli - Blackie and Son Limited: 1912
7. The Sea Monarch - A.C.Black 1912
8. The Scouts of Seal Island - A.C.Black 1913
9. The Rival Submarines - Partridge 1913
10. The Stolen Cruiser - Jarrolds 1913
11. When East Meets West - Blackie and Son Limited: 1913
12. Under King Henry's Banners - Pilgrim Press 1913
13. The Sea-Girt Fortress - Blackie and Son Limited: 1914
14. Sea Scouts of Petrel - A.C.Black 1914
15. The Log of a Snob - Chapman and Hall 1914
16. 'Gainst the Might of Spain - Pillgrim Press 1914
17. Building the Empire - Jarrolds 1914
18. The Dreadnought of the Air - Partridge 1914
19. The Dispatch-Riders - Blackie and Son Limited: 1915
20. The Nameless Island - Pearson 1915
21. The Fight for Constantinople - Blackie and Son Limited: 1915
22. A Sub. of the R.N.R. - Partridge 1915
23. Rounding up the Raider - Blackie andSon Limited 1916
24. The Secret Battleplane - Blackie 1916
25. The Treasures of the "San Philipo" Religious Tract Society
26. A Watch-dog of the North Sea - Partridge 1916
27. Deeds of Pluck and Daring in the Great War - Blackie 1916
28. To the Fore with the Tanks! - Blackie 1917
29. Under the White Ensign - Blackie 1917
30. The Fritz-Strafers - Partridge 1917
(Keepers of the Narrow Seas)
31. Billy Barcroft R.N.A.S. - Partridge 1918
32. A Lively Bit of the Front - Blackie 1918
33. The Secret Channel and Other Stories - A.C.Black 1918
34. The Submarine Hunters - Blackie 1918
35. A Sub. and a Submarine Blackie 1918
36. With Beatty off Jutland - Blackie 1918
37. Wilmshurst of the Frontier Force - Partridge 1919
38. Winning his Wings - Blackie 1919
39. The Thick of the Frey at Zeebrugge - Blackie 1919
40. 'Midst Artic Perils - Pearson 1919
41. The Airship "Golden Hind" - Partridge 1919
42. The Mystery Ship - Partridge 1920
43. The Salving of the "Fusi Yama" - Blackie 1920
44. Sea Scouts All - Blackie 1920
45. Sea Scouts Abroad - Blackie 1921
46. The Third Officer - Blackie 1921
47. Sea Scouts Up Channel - Blackie 1922
48. The Wireless Officer - Blackie 1922
49. The War of the Wireless Waves - Oxford University Press 1922
50. The Pirate Submarine - Nisbet 1923
51. A Cadet of the Mercantile Marine - Blackie 1923
52. Clipped Wings - Blackie 1923
53. The Mystery of Stockmere School - Partridge 1923
54. Sinclair's Luck - Partridge 1923
55. Captain Cain - Nisbet 1924
56. The Good Ship "Golden Effort" - Blackie 1924
57. The Treasure of the Sacred lake - Pearson 1924
58. Unconquered Wings - Blackie 1924
59. Clinton's Quest - Pearson 1925
60. East in the "Golden Gain" - Blackie 1925
61. The Boys of the "Puffin" - Partridge 1925
62. The Buccaneers of Boya - Blackie 1925
63. The Sea Scouts of the "Kestrel" - Seeley 1925
64. Annesley's Double - A.C.Black 1926
65. King of Kilba - Ward Lock 1926
66. The Luck of the "Golden Dawn" - Blackie 1926
67. The Riddle of the Air - Blackie 1926
68. The Terror of the Seas - Ward Lock 1927
69. Mystery Island - Oxford University Press 1927
70. Captain Blundell's Treasure - Blackie 1927
71. Chums of the "Golden Vanity" - Blackie 1927
72. In the Clutches of the Dyaks - Partridge 1927
73. The Junior Cadet - Blackie 1928
74. On the Wings of the Wind - Blackie 1928
75. A Shanghai Adventure - Blackie 1928
76. Pat Stobart in the "Golden Dawn"
77. Rivals of the Reef - Blackie 1929
78. Captain Starlight - Blackie 1929
79. Captain Sang - Blackie 1930
80. Leslie Dexter, Cadet - Blackie 1930
81. A Mystery of the Broads - Blackie 1930
82. The Secret of the Plateau - Blackie 1931
83. The Senior Cadet - Blackie 1931
84. In Defiance of the Ban - Blackie 1931
85. The Amir's Ruby - Blackie 1932
86. All Hands to the Boats - Blackie 1912
87. Captain Fosdyke's Gold - Blackie 1932
88. King for a Month - Blackie 1933
89. Rocks Ahead - Blackie 1933
90. The White Arab - Blackie 1933
91. The Disappearing Dhow - Blackie 1933
92. Chasing the Pleiad - Blackie 1933
93. Tales of the Sea - Blackie 1933
94. The Westow Talisman - Blackie 1934
95. Andy-All-Alone - Blackie 1934
96. The Black Hawk - Blackie 1934
97. Standish of the Air Police - Blackie 1935
98. Sleuths of the Air - Blackie 1935
99. On board the "Golden Effort" - Blackie1935
100. The Call of the Sea - Blackie 1935
101. The Red Pirate - Blackie 1935
102. Captain Flick - Blackie 1936
103. His First Ship - Blackie 1936
104. Midshipman Raxworthy - Blackie 1936
105. Ringed by Fire - Blackie 1936
106. Tireless Wings - Blackie 1936
107. Winged Might - Blackie 1937
108. Under Fire in Spain - Blackie 1937
109. The Last of the Buccaneers - Blackie 1937
110. Haunted Harbour - Blackie 1937
111. The Unfinished Voyage - Blackie 1937
112. Cadet Alan Carr - Blackie 1937
113. Midshipman Webb's Treasure - Blackie 1938
114. Standish Gets His Man - Blackie 1938
115. Standish Looses his Man - Blackie 1939
116. In Eastern Seas - Blackie 1939
117. The Bulldog Breed - Blackie 1939
118. At Grips with the Swastika - Blackie 1940
119. Eagles' Talons - Blackie 1940
120. In Dangerous Waters - Blackie 1940
121. Standish Pulls it Off - Blackie 1940
122. When the Allies Swept the Seas - Blackie 1940
123. The War - and Alan Carr - Blackie 1940
124. War Cargo - Blackie 1941
125. Sea Scouts at Dunkirk - Blackie 1941
126. Standish Holds On - Blackie 1941
127. Fighting for Freedom - Blackie 1941
128. Alan Carr in the Near East - Blackie 1942
129. Destroyer's Luck - Blackie 1942
130. On Guard for England - Blackie 1942
131. Secret Flight - Blackie 1942
132. With the Commandos - Blackie 1943
133. Sub-Lieutenant John Cloche - Blackie 1943
134. Alan Carr in the Arctic - Blackie 1943
135. Combined Operation - Blackie 1944
136. Engaged the Enemy Closely - Blackie 1944
137. Secret Convoy - Blackie 1944
138. Alan Carr in Command - Blackie 1945
139. One of the Many - Blackie 1945
140. Operation Successfully Executed - Blackie 1945
141. By Luck and Pluck - Blackie 1946
142. Return to Base - Blackie 1946
143. Squadron Leader - Blackie 1946
144. Unfettered Might - Blackie 1947
145. Trapped in the Jungle - Blackie 1947
146. The Phantom Submarine - Blackie 1947
147. The "Golden Gleaner" - Blackie 1948
148. First Over - Blackie 1948
149. Mystery of the Key - Blackie 1948
150. Missing, Believed Lost - Blackie 1949
151. Contraband - Blackie 1949
152. Beyond the Burma Road - Blackie 1949
153. Sabarinda Island - Blackie 1950
154. Mystery of Nix Hall - Blackie 1950
155. By Sea and Air - Blackie 1950
156. Desolation Island - Balckie 1950
157. Held to Ransom - Balckie 1951
158. The Isle of Mystery - Blackie 1951
159. Working Their Passage - Blackie 1951
160. Sabotage ! - Blackie 1952
161. Round the World in the "Golden Gleaner" - 1952
162. Dangerous Cargo - Blackie 1952
163. Bob Strickland's Log - Blackie 1953
164. The Missing Diplomat - Blackie 1953
165. Rolling Down to Rio - Blackie 1953
166. Wrested from the Deep - Blackie 1954
167. A Midshipman of the Fleet - Blackie 1954
168. The Ju-Ju Hand - Blackie 1954
169. The Dark Secret 1955
170. Davantry's Quest - Blackie 1955
171. The Lure of the Lagoon - Blackie 1955
172. Sea Scouts Alert ! - Blackie 1955
173. Held in the Frozen North - Blackie 1956
174. The Mystery of the Sempione - Blackie 1957
175. Jack Craddock's Commission - Blackie 1958
176. Mistaken Identity - Blackie 1959

Portsmouth Novelists (publication)


A publication in the Portsmouth Papers series titled 'Portsmouth Novelists (74) by David Francis contains a biographical entry on Percy Westerman as well as many other authors linked to Portsmouth including Arther Conan Doyle, Charles Dickens and Neville Shute.
The book can be purchased from Portsmouth City Museum and costs £3.75 inc. postage.

Follow the link below.

http://www.portsmouthmuseumsshop.co.uk/acatalog/74_Portsmouth_Novelists.html

John F C Westerman - Book List

Book List

John. F. C. Westerman

1. The Antarctic Treasure - Oxford University Press, London 1929
2. The Gold Consignment - Oxford University Press, London 1930
3. Bringing Down the Air Pirate - Ward, Lock & Co. 1930
4. A Mystery of the Air - Oxford University Press, London 1931
5. Peter Garner, Cadet - Ward, Lock & Co London & Melbourne 1931.
6. Fortune Island - Nisbet & Co. London 1932
7. King Solomon's Treasure - Oxford University Press, London 1932
8. The Looted Gold - Ward, Lock & Co. London & Melbourne 1932
9. Treasure Chest Island - Oxford University Press, London 1932
10. The Power Projector - Oxford University Press, London 1933
11. On Secret Service - Nisbet & Co. London 1933
12. Peter Garner's Luck - Ward, Lock & Co. London & Melbourne 1934
13. The Ocean Bandits - Oxford University Press, London 1934
14. The Aero-Contract - Oxford University Press, London 1935
15. The Terror of the Noiseless Sound - Ward, Lock and Co. London & Melbourne 1935
16. The Shanghaied Stowaway - Hutchinson & Co. London 1935
17. The Soten Monoplane - Oxford University Press, London 1936
18. The Secret Island - Ward, Lock & Co. London & Melbourne 1936
19. The Air Record Breakers - Ward, Lock & Co. London & Melbourne 1937
20. The Invisible Plane - Oxford University Press, London 1937
21. Battling Through - Ward, Lock & Co. London 1938
22. Menace from the Air - Oxford University Press, London 1938
23. John Wentley Takes Charge - Collins, London & Glasgow 1938
24. John Wentley Investigates - Collins, London & Glasgow 1939
25. Overdue - Oxford University Press, London 1939
26. The Northway's Quest - Ward, Lock & Co. London & Melbourne 1939
27. A Spot of Bother - Ward, Lock & Co. London & Melbourne 1940
28. John Wentley Wins Through - Collins, London & Glasgow 1940
29. The Counter-Stroke - Ward, Lock & Co. London & Melbourne 1946
30. Twelve Months to Win - Ward, Lock & Co. London & Melbourne 1953

Art at the Centre - Pete Codling (Artist)

These are images of a Portsmouth city centre redevelopment arts project (2003 -2005), The public arts instalation can be found in Arnudel Street, near Commercial Road, Portsmouth. Designed by the artist, Pete Codling, the work celebrates the literary heritage of Portsmouth and includes a line from 'The Young Cavilier' by Percy F Westerman.



"We lost no time in taking our departure for already my quick ear detected the sound of approahing horses along the distant Portsmouth road".


Please visit Pete Codlings web site to see some of the other brilliant arts projects he has delievered.