Tomorrow Is a Stranger

Robert Geoffrey Trease FRSL (11 August 1909 – 27 January 1998) was a prolific British writer who published 113 books, mainly for children, between 1934 and 1997, starting with Bows Against the Barons and ending with Cloak for a Spy in 1997. His work has been translated into 20 languages. He is best known for the children's novel Cue for Treason (1940). Trease served as Chairman of the Children's Writer's Group from 1962-63; Chairman of the Society of Authors from 1974-98; and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, from 1979. His grandfather was a historian, and was one of the main influences on his work.