Timothy Oulton Design Adventurer

W.E. Johns penned more than 100 books featuring adventures by Biggles.

“As the momentous words ‘England is now, therefore, in a state of war with Germany’ came somberly over the radio, Major James Bigglesworth, D.S.O., better known as Biggles, switched off the instrument and turned to face his friends, Captain the Honourable Algernon Lacey, M.C., and ‘Ginger’ Hebblethwaite. There was a peculiar smile on his face.”

Thus begins Captain W.E. Johns’s YA novel Biggles in the Baltic, one of over 1...