{"id":162,"date":"2010-05-15T21:43:16","date_gmt":"2010-05-15T21:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/?page_id=162"},"modified":"2020-07-10T10:10:09","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T10:10:09","slug":"novels","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/novels\/","title":{"rendered":"Novels & Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"

BONE AND CANE NOVELS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bone and Cane (Tindal Street Press, 2011)<\/p>\n

What You Don’t Know (Tindal Street Press, 2012)<\/p>\n

The Great Deception (Freight Books, 2015)<\/p>\n

OTHER NOVELS<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Pretender (Five Leaves, 2008)<\/p>\n

Student (Five Leaves, 2012)<\/p>\n

ANTHOLOGISED ADULT STORIES<\/strong><\/p>\n

Different Ways of Getting Drunk – Best Short Stories of the Year 1993 (Heinemann) & The Minerva Book of Short Stories 6 (Minerva)
\nPaying For It – City of Crime (Five Leaves, 1997)
\nForgery, A Memoir (novel extract) – New Writing (Shoestring Press 2002)
\nThe Golden Legend (After Magritte) – Man Of Trent (Launderette Pubns, 2003)
\nReversal – Sunday Night and Monday Morning (Five Leaves Pubns, 2005)
\nWaking Early, West Kirby – Lanterns (Launderette Pubns, 2005) and ‘In The Frame’ (Five Leaves Pubns, 2006)
\nNets – 3D (Launderette Pubns, 2006)
\nAlison Again – 3D 07 (Launderette Pubns, 2007)
\nFrom Ashville To Nashville – Mezzanine And Other Storeys (Ardra Press, 2007)
\nSecond Term – Leap 08 ((Launderette Pubns, 2008)
\nIn A Hot Place – Kapow! (Laundrette Pubns, 2009)<\/p>\n

OTHER STORIES FOR ADULTS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Witchcraft – Ambit, 1989
\nBeing Bullied – Ambit, 1990
\nScenes In Restaurants – Sunk Island Review, 1990
\nI Think We’re Alone Now – Ambit, 1991
\nMrs McGiligerry’s Retirement – Mosaic, 1991
\nPoems, Cars – The Echo Room, 1992
\nThe Day Her Head Exploded – The Echo Room, 1992
\nPaul Odd’s Picasso – The Wide Skirt, 1993
\nLove, Time Travel – Ambit, 1993
\nIn The All Night Bookstore – Ambit, 1998
\nSoho, 1989 (novel extract) – Staple 69\/70, The Publishing Issue, 2008
\nVasectomy – Horizon, 2008<\/p>\n

SHORT STORY COLLECTION<\/strong><\/p>\n

Provenance (new and collected stories) – Shoestring Press, 2016<\/p>\n

BOOKS EDITED<\/strong><\/p>\n

City Of Crime (Five Leaves, 1997)
\nStanley Middleton At Eighty (Five Leaves, 1999, co-edited with Prof. John Lucas)
\nHarris’s Requiem by Stanley Middleton (with long introduction by DB – 2006, Trent Editions)<\/p>\n

’25’ Celebrating 25 years of NTU’s MA in Creative Writing (with Rory Waterman, Shoestring Press, 2019)<\/p>\n

YOUNG ADULT NOVELS<\/strong><\/p>\n

1990<\/strong>
\nThe Foggiest (Scholastic Hippo)<\/p>\n

1993<\/strong>
\nShoot The Teacher (Scholastic Point Crime = PC)<\/p>\n

1994<\/strong>
\nAvenging Angel (PC)
\nFinal Cut (PC)<\/p>\n

1995<\/strong>
\nThe Beat: Missing Person (PC)
\nBreak Point (PC)
\nThe Beat: Black and Blue (PC)<\/p>\n

1996<\/strong>
\nThe Beat: Smokescreen (PC)
\nDeadly Inheritance (PC)
\nDark Journey (Reed)
\nThe Beat: Asking For It (PC)<\/p>\n

1997<\/strong>
\nThe Beat: Dead White Male (PC)
\nThe Beat: Losers (PC)
\nThe Beat: Sudden Death (PC)
\nThree Degrees of Murder: The David Belbin Collection (omnibus containing Avenging Angel, Final Cut and Deadly Inheritance)<\/p>\n

1998<\/strong>
\nLove Lessons (Scholastic Press)
\nThe Beat: Night Shift (PC)
\nHaunting Time (short stories – Five Leaves)
\nThe Beat: Victims (PC)<\/p>\n

1999<\/strong>
\nDying For You (PC, Chivers audio book)
\nThe Beat: Suspects (PC)
\nNicked (Barrington Stoke)<\/p>\n

2000<\/strong>
\nThe Beat: Fallen Angel (last in series)
\nRunaway Train (Puffin Surfers)
\nDead Guilty (Five Leaves)
\nThe Right Moment (A & C Black – historical novel about occupied France)<\/p>\n

2001<\/strong>
\nFestival (Hodder)
\nWitness (Heinemann Impact)
\nHarpies (Barrington Stoke)
\nDear Amy (UNICEF, script for story in All Children Have Rights comic)<\/p>\n

2002<\/strong>
\nGambler (Heinemann Impact)
\nBoy King (biographical novel about Edward VI, A & C Black)
\nThe Last Virgin (Hodder)
\nCry Me A River (script for full length comic about globalisation, UNICEF)<\/p>\n

2003<\/strong>
\nJim’ll Fix It (script for UNICEF comic ‘No Secrets’ about sexual exploitation of children)
\nNicked (Barrington Stoke – reissue with afterword ‘My Comic Life’ about writing UNICEF comics)
\nDead Teachers Don’t Talk (Five Leaves, reissue of ‘Shoot The Teacher’ with new afterword.)<\/p>\n

2004<\/strong>
\nComa (Barrington Stoke)
\nDenial (Hodder)<\/p>\n

2005<\/strong>
\nShouting At The Stars (Evans)<\/p>\n

2006<\/strong>
\nStray (Barrington Stoke)<\/p>\n

2009<\/strong>
\nChina Girl (Barrington Stoke)
\nLove Lessons (Five Leaves, reissue with new afterword)<\/p>\n

2011<\/strong><\/p>\n

Secret Gardens (Five Leaves)<\/p>\n

YA STORIES NOT COLLECTED IN HAUNTING TIME<\/strong>
\nThe Buyers – 13 More Tales of Horror (Scholastic)
\nBoomerang – 13 Again (Scholastic)
\nWhy You’re Here – 13 Murder Mysteries (Scholastic)
\nRehearsal – The Peacemaker (Heinemann)
\nDon’t Tell Me – Football Fever III (Transworld)
\nMystery Train – The Young Oxford Book of Train Stories (OUP)
\nBad Presents – The Young Oxford Book of Mystery Stories (OUP)<\/p>\n

For a fuller bibliography, including articles and all known translations, go here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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