Showell Styles
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Frank Showell Styles (14 March 1908 – 19 February 2005) was a Welsh writer and mountaineer.
Showell Styles was born in Four Oaks, Birmingham and was educated at Bishop Vesey's Grammar School, Sutton Coldfield. Known to his friends as 'Pip', Showell Styles' childhood was spent in the hills of North Wales where he became an avid mountaineer and explorer. During the Second World War, Styles joined the Royal Navy and was posted in the Mediterranean, but even there he walked and climbed as much as he could.
An aspiring writer, Styles already had articles published in Punch, before setting out to make his living as an author. His first novel, Traitor's Mountain, was a murder mystery set on and around Tryfan in Wales. He became a prolific writer with over 160 books published for children as well as adults. In addition to historic naval adventure fiction such as the Midshipman Quinn and Lieutenant Michael Fitton series set during the Napoleonic Wars, and non-fiction works on mountains and such as The Mountaineer's Weekend Book, he wrote detective fiction under the pseudonym of Glyn Carr, and humorous pieces as C.L. Inker.
For walkers visiting Snowdonia for the first time, Styles' The Mountains of North Wales is monumentally inspirational, written by a sure hand and with a firm conviction and love of these mountains.
Bibliography
Midshipman Septimus Quinn
Midshipman Quinn (1956)
Quinn of the Fury (1958)
Midshipman Quinn and Denise the spy (1961)
Midshipman Quinn Wins Through (1961)
Quinn at Trafalgar (1965)
The Midshipman Quinn Collection (omnibus) (2000)
Lieutenant Michael Fitton Adventures
A Sword for Mr. Fitton (1975)
Mr. Fitton's Commission (1977)
The Baltic Convoy (1979)
Gun Brig Captain (1987)
A Ship for Mr. Fitton (1991)
Mr. Fitton's Prize (1993)
Mr. Fitton and the Black Legion (1994)
Mr. Fitton in Command (1995)
The 12-Gun Cutter (1996)
Lieutenant Fitton (1997)
Mr. Fitton at the Helm (1998)
The Martinique Mission (1999)
Mr. Fitton's Hurricane (2000)
Tiger Patrol
Tiger Patrol (1957)
The Tiger Patrol Wins Through (1958)
The Tiger Patrol at Sea (1958)
The Tiger Patrol Presses On (1961)
Wolf Cubs
Red for adventure (1965)
Wolf Cub Island (1966)
The Sea Cub (1967)
Cubs of the Castle (1969)
Cubs on the Job (1972)
Simon & Mag Hughes
The Shop in the Mountain (1961)
The Ladder of Snow (1962)
A Necklace of Glaciers (1963)
The Pass of Morning (1966)
Abercrombie Lewker
Traitor's Mountain (1946)
Kidnap Castle (1947)
Hammer Island (1948)
Subsequent Lewker novels were written under the pseudonym 'Glyn Carr'
Murder on the Matterhorn (1951)
Death on Milestone Buttress (1951)
The Youth Hostel Murders (1952)
The Corpse in the Crevasse (1952)
Death Under Snowden (1954)
A Corpse at Camp 2 (1955)
Murder of an Owl (1956)
The Ice Axe Murders (1958)
Swing Away Climber (1959)
Holiday With Murder (1960)
Death Finds a Foothold (1961)
Lewker in Norway (1963)
Death of a Weirdy (1965)
Lewker in Tyrol (1967)
Fat Man's Agony (1969)
Other Novels
Sir Devil (1949)
Path to Glory (1951)
Dark Hazard (1952)
Land from the Sea (1952)
Mr. Nelson's Ladies (1953)
The Frigate Captain (1954)
His Was Fire (1956)
The Lost Glacier (1956)
The Sea Lord (1956)
Kami the Sherpa (US Title: Sherpa Adventure) (1957)
Admiral's Fancy (1958)
Wolfe Commands You (1959)
Shadow Buttress (1959)
The Battle of Cotton: Revolution in Britain (1960)
Greencoats Against Napoleon (1960)
The Flying Ensign: Greencoats Against Napoleon (1960)
The Battle of Steam: Revolution in Britain (1961)
The Lost Pothole (1961)
The Sea Officer (1961)
Byrd of the 95th (1962)
Gentleman Johnny (1962)
Thunder Over Spain (1962)
H.M.S. Diamond Rock (1963)
The Camp in the Hills (1964)
Greenhorn's Cruise (1964)
Mr Fiddle (1965)
Number Two-Ninety (1966)
Confederate Raider (1967)
Mr Fiddle's Band (1967)
Indestructible Jones (1967)
Journey with a Secret (1968) (aka Mystery of the Fleeing Girl)]
Sea Road to Camperdown (1968)
Journey with a Success (1969)
Jones' Private Navy (1969)
Case for Mister Fiddle (1969)
The Snowdon Rangers (1970)
Forbidden Frontiers (1970)
A Tent on Top (1971)
Vincey Joe at Quiberon (1971)
Admiral of England (1973)
Kiss for Captain Hardy (1979)
Centurion Comes Home (1980)
Quarterdeck Ladder (1982)
Seven Gun Broadside (1982)
Stella And The Fireships (1983)
The Malta Frigate (1983)
Mutiny in the Caribbean (1984)
The Lee Shore (1986)
H. M. S. Cracker (1988)
Nelson Made Me (1989)
Nelson's Midshipman (1991)
The Independent Cruise (1992)
Picture Books
Marty's Mountain (1973)
Anthologies edited
Men and Mountaineering: An Anthology of Writings By Climbers (1968)
Welsh Tales for Children (1993)
Non fiction
A Climber in Wales (1949)
The Mountaineer's Week-End Book (1950)
Introduction to Mountaineering (1954)
Mountains of the Midnight Sun (1954)
The Moated Mountain (1955)
The Camper's and Tramper's Week-End Book (1957)
Introduction to Caravanning (1957)
Getting to Know Mountains (1958)
How Mountains Are Climbed (1958)
How Underground Britain Is Explored (1959)
Look At Mountains (1962)
Modern Mountaineering (1964)
Blue Remembered Hills (1965)
The Foundations of Climbing (1966)
Climbing (1967)
On Top of the World (1967)
The Arrow Book of Climbing (1967)
Rock and Rope (1967)
Mallory of Everest (1967)
The Climber's Bedside Book (1968)
First Up Everest (1969)
First on the Summits (1970)
Welsh Walks and Legends (1972)
What to See in Beddgelert and How to See It (1973)
Snowdon Range: Snowdonia District Guide Books (1973)
Mountains of North Wales (1973)
Glyder Range: Snowdonia District Guide Books (1974)
Exploring Gwynedd from Porthmadog (1974)
Souvenir Guide: Chwarel Hên Llanfair, Old Llanfair Quarry, Slate Caverns (1974)
Backpacking in Alps and Pyrenees (1976)
Backpacking: A Comprehensive Guide (1976)
Backpacking in Wales (1977)
Welsh walks & legends, South Wales (1977)
Llanberis Area Guide (1978)
Walks in Gwynedd (1980)
Public Footpath Walks from the Cambrian Coast (1980)
Walks from the Festiniog Railway (1980)
Snowdonia National Park: National Parks Guide (1987)
Welsh Walks and Legends: North Wales (1996)
North Wales Walks and Legends (2002)
