Malcolm Saville was born in Sussex in 1901 and lived until 1982. He wrote over 90 books for children including one of my favourite childhood series, the Lone Pine stories based on children having adventures in the Shropshire countryside, and further afield. A writer, editor and journalist all his life, Malcolm Saville published his first book in 1943.
The Lone Pine club is established in rural pre-war Shropshire on the flanks of the Long Mynd, which in Welsh means the long mountain, and is a place that can be visited today with heathland and moorland and steep valleys known locally as batches. The mountain is only 7 miles long by about 3 miles wide, but is high and wild with views into England and Wales, and to the mysterious crags of the Stiperstones, featured in many of the Lone Pine books.
To solve this puzzle, here to help you are cryptic clues to the titles some of Malcolm Saville's Lone Pine books.
Crockery flying above the heathland?
Where is that caelifera?
More than half a dozen snowy movable barriers
Not red but gilt
The elusive maiden
Unknown visitors to final home of enchantress
Where is that pesky caelifera?(Reprise)
The return of the ocean-going sorceress
Still trying to locate the missing damsel
Single conifer in the capital
Not crimson but Au
The exploits of the happy porpoise
Spacecraft above the plains
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