Ken Follett

City of Bones

Cassandra Clare

The Lightening Thief

Rick Riordan

The Outsiders

S. E. Hinton

The EarthSea Cycle

Ursula K Le Guin

Convicts unbound: the story of the Calcutta Convicts and their settlement in Australia. (1988)

Marjorie Tipping

The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies (2017)

Jason Fagone

The Radium girls: the dark story of America's shining women

Kate Moore

The Hello Girls: America’s First Women Soldiers

Elizabeth Cobbs

Those magnificent men in their flying machines (1965)

John Burke?

We Band of Angels

Elizabeth M Norman

The naked island

John Burke?

Well, John Burke might have had a lot to do with helping with the 1965 film on which Those magnificent men in their flying machines was based, but Ronald Searle has been given credit not only by Amazon, but other sources like the Book Depository was the actual author in May, 1965. Ronald Searle, who also wrote the wildly hedonistic St Trinian's series which delighted my teenage days, was an English prisoner of war after the fall of Singapore who survived horrors at Changi and on the Burma-Thailand railway by recording what was happening, despite malaria and worse horrors, and who died in 2011.

Ronald Searle was only coming up in relation to the movie in my searches, which itself inundated the results, wagga.

Russell Brandon

Desert Wife

Hilda Faunce and Frank Waters

The magic pudding

Ronald Searle was only coming up in relation to the movie in my searches, which itself inundated the results, wagga.

I know, and Wikipedia doesn't mention anywhere that Ronald Searle was the author of a book of that name so you are quite right to nominate John Burke as a possibility. But I already remembered there most definitely was a book, having handled a landscape format copy of it years ago at work, and specified "book" in all my searches to remember when that title was published, which I thought I should include here. It was done like a children's Easy book, all cartoon-like drawings, in Ronald Searle's unique and distinctive style, to accompany his story, recounted with minimal romance in the finish, in contrast to the movie. Now it is out of print. The film was based on a play entitled Flying Crazy, according to Wikipedia.

Norman Lindsay

The Problem of Pain

wagga, I specified "book" in my searches too, but obviously didn't find the book you were referencing. It sounds like a good one!

C.S.Lewis

Where eagles dare

Those magnificent men in their flying machines