Male : Children's writer. Single living in the Yorkshire Dales. Composes music. Imprisoned for 2 years in 2004 for paedophilia

Nationality : English Place of Birth : Hull, Yorkshire

Date of Birth : 1928

Pseudonyms : Dynely James, Charles Molin, Martin Cobalt

Other Work : BBC & Teacher

Education : Canterbury Choir Sch (1937-42)

All OUP unless stated
1953-1955
Follow the Footprints (1953) - Shirley Hughes
The World Upside Down (1954) - Shirley Hughes
A Swarm in May (1955) - C Walter Hodges

1956-1960
The Member for the Marsh (1956) - Lynton Lamb
Chorister's Cake (1956) - C Walter Hodges
The Blue Boat (1957) - Geraldine Spence
5 More (Containing Mayne's story "The Long Night") (1957 Blackwell) - D J Watkins-Pitchford
A Grass Rope (1957) - Lynton Lamb
The Long Night (1958 Blackwell) - D J Watkins-Pitchford
Underground Alley (1958) - Marcia Lane Foster
The Gobbling Billy (1959 Gollancz) - co-written with Dick Caesar. Publ under pseud of Dynely James
The Thumbstick (1959) - Tessa Theobald
Thirteen o'Clock (1960 Blackwell) - D J Watkins-Pitchford
The Rolling Season (1960) - Christopher Brooker
Cathedral Wednesday (1960) - C Walter Hodges
The Fishing Party (1960 Hamish Hamilton) - Christopher Brooker

1961-1963
Summer Visitors (1961) - William Stobbs
The Changeling (1961) - Victor Ambrus
All Hamish Hamilton from here on
The Glass Ball (1961) - Janet Duchesne
The Last Bus (1962) - Margery Gill
The Twelve Dancers (1962) - Lynton Lamb
The Man from the North Pole (1963) - Prudence Seward
On the Stepping Stones (1963) - Prudence Seward
Words and Music (1963) - Lynton Lamb
Plot Night (1963) - Janet Duchesne
A Parcel of Trees (1963 Penguin : Puffin original) - Margery Gill

1964-1965
Water Boatman (1964) - Anne Linton
Whistling Rufus (1964) - Raymond Briggs
Sand (1964) - Margery Gill
(Ed) Hamish Hamilton Book of Kings (1964 HH) - with Eleanor Farjeon. Victor Ambrus
A Day Without Wind (1964) - Margery Gill
The Big Wheel and the Little Wheel (1965) - Janet Duchesne
Pig in the Middle (1965) - Mary Russon
No More School (1965) - Peter Warner
(Ed) Hamish Hamilton Book of Queens (1965 HH) - with Eleanor Farjeon. Victor Ambrus

1966-1967
Dormouse Tales (1966) - 5 vols. Leslie Wood - as Charles Molin
Earthfasts (1966)
Rooftops (1966) - Mary Russon
The Old Zion (1966) - Margery Gill
(Ed) Ghosts, Spooks and Spectres (1967) - as Charles Molin
The Battlefield (1967) - Mary Russon
The Big Egg (1967) - Margery Gill
(Ed) Hamisha Hamilton Book of Heroes (1967 HH) - Krystyna Turska

1968-1970
The Toffee Join (1968) - Shirley Hughes
Over the Hills and Far Away (1968)
(Ed) Hamish Hamilton Book of Giants (1968 HH) - Raymond Briggs
(Ed) Ghosts, Spooks, Spectres (1968 HH) - as Charles Molin
The Yellow Areoplane (1968) - Trevor Stubley
The House on Fairmount (1968) - Fritz Wegner
Ravensgill (1970)

1971-1975
Royal Harry (1971)
(Ed) Ghosts : An Anthology (1971)
A Game of Dark (1971)
The Incline (1972) - Trevor Stubley
The Swallows (1972 Heinemann) - pseud Martin Cobalt
Robin's Real Engine (1972) - Mary Dinsdale
Skiffy (1972) - Nicholas Fisk
The Jersey Shore (1973)

1976-1980
A Year and a Day (1976) - Krystna Turska
Party Pants (1977 Knight) - Joanna Stubbs
Max's Dream (1977) - Laszlo Acs
It (1977)
While the Bells Ring (1979) - Janet Rawlins
Salt River Times (1980) - Elizabeth Honey
The Mouse and the Egg (1980 Macrae) - Krystna Turska

1981-1985
The Patchwork Cat (1981 Cape) - Nicola Bayley
All the King's Men (1982 Cape)
Winter Quarters (1982 Cape)
Skiffy and the Twin Planets (1982 Hamish Hamilton)
A Small Pudding for Wee Gowrie (1983 Macmillan)
The Mouldy (1983 Cape £4.95) - Nicola Bayley
The Red Book of Hob Stories (1984 Walker) - Patrick Benson
The Green Book of Hob Stories (1984 Walker) - Patrick Benson
The Yellow Book of Hob Stories (1984 Walker) - Patrick Benson
The Blue Book of Hob Stories (1984 Walker) - Patrick Benson
Drift (1985 Cape)

1986-1990
Animal Library
(1986 Walker) - 4 vols
Barnabas Walks (Barbara Firth)
Come, Come to My Corner (Kenneth Lilly)
Tibber (Jonathan Heale)
Corbie (Peter Visscher)
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Gideon Ahoy ! (1987 Viking Kestrel) - Chris Molan
Kelpie (1987 Cape)
The Blemyah Stories (1987 Walker) - Juan Wijguard
Antar and the Eagles (1989 Walker)
House in Town (1989 Walker)
Netta Next (1990 Hamish Hamilton)
Thursday Creature (1990 Heinemann)

1991 Onwards
Complete Book of Hob Stories (1991 Walker)
Rings on Her Fingers (1991 Hamish Hamilton)
Tiger's Railway (1991 Walker)
Low Tide (1992 Cape)
And Netta Again (1992 Hamish Hamilton) - Krystyna Turska
Egg Timer (1993 Heinemann) - Anthony Lewis
Hob and the Goblins (1993 Dorling Kindersley £8.99) - Norman Messenger
Oh Grandma (1993 Hamish Hamilton) - Maureen Bradley
Cuddy (1994 Cape £9.99)
Bells on Her Toes (1994 Hamish Hamilton) - Maureen Bradley
Thursday Creature (1994 Heinemann)
Fairy Tales of London : Vol 1 (1995 Hodder & Stoughton £9.99)
Cradlefasts (1995 Hodder & Stoughton £9.99)
Fairy Tales of London : Vol 2 (1995 Hodder & Stoughton £11.99)
The Fox Gate (1996 Hodder & Stoughton £9.99)
Lady Muck (1997 Heinemann £9.99) - William Heale.- KURT MASCHLER PRIZE AWARD
Hob and the Pedlar (1997 Dorling Kindersley £8.99) Norman Messenger