Children/Young Adult
The Blue-eyed Aborigine
Jan Pelgrom is a cabin boy on the ill-fated Dutch ship, Batavia. When Batavia runs aground on a reef, passengers…
The Time-Travelling Cat and the Great Victorian Stink
Sixth adventure about Topher and his time-travelling cat, Ka, which takes them back to the Victorian London of 1858. This…
Black Radishes
The challenge when writing a novel inspired by the experiences of one’s own family – in this case, the experience…
An Elephant in the Garden
This latest book by previous Children’s Laureate, Michael Morpurgo, is mainly about the infamous bombing of the German city, Dresden,…
The Alchemist and the Angel
Jan is apprentice to his uncle, an alchemist, living in Venice in 1583. After losing his parents to the plague,…
Heart of a Samurai
Son of a fisherman, 14-year-old Manjiro dreams of being a samurai. But after being rescued from a shipwreck by an…
Greek Beasts and Heroes: The Flying Horse
These little story books for ages 7-9 are very visual with bright colourful pictures and largish print. As the storyteller,…
Greek Beasts and Heroes: The Harp of Death
The eighth volume of this series contains tales of devotion and tragedy, trickery and punishment in seven more Greek myths.…
Greek Beasts and Heroes: The Silver Chariot
This is the seventh in the series, keeping the same format as before. The reader is told the story of…
Wicked Girls: A Novel of the Salem Witch Trials
Mercy Lewis is an orphan of the French and Indian War, beautiful but doomed to servitude in the Putnams’ Puritan…
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