Warwick, Sidney
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1870-1953) UK author of fiction for boys in collaboration with his son Francis Alister Warwick (1902-1975). Sinister Island!: A Vivid Story of Amazing Happenings on an Island in the Pacific (28 July-13 October 1923 Champion: 1924 chap) features a giant inimical native god who incites its savage flock to oppose the white conquerors of a Pacific Island. In Phantom Isle: An Exciting Long Story of Peril and Adventure (1923 Champions; 1926 chap), the young protagonists are menaced by a Robot society. Pluck wins out. [JC/RR]
see also: Boys' Friend Library; Boys' Papers.
Harry Sidney Warwick
born 1870
died Torquay, Cornwall: December 1953
works
- Sinister Island!: A Vivid Story of Amazing Happenings on an Island in the Pacific (London: Amalgamated Press, 1924) with Francis Warwick [chap: first appeared 28 July-13 October 1923 Champion: in the publisher's Boys' Friend Library series: pb/uncredited]
- Phantom Isle: An Exciting Long Story of Peril and Adventure (London: Amalgamated Press, 1926) with Francis Warwick [chap: first appeared 1923 Champions: in the publisher's Boys' Friend Library series: pb/uncredited]
- The Secret of Lost River: A Gripping Yarn of a Strange Quest in South America (London: Amalgamated Press, 1929) with Francis Warwick [chap: first appeared 1922 Champions: in the publisher's Boys' Friend Library series: pb/uncredited]
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