Children/Young Adult
Hazel
(1) London, 1913. Thirteen-year-old Hazel Mull-Dare is being brought up as a young lady – in careful isolation from anything…
In the House of the Magician
(1) 1570s, Elizabethan England. When country girl Lucy flees from her drunken father and sets off to London to find…
Healing Water
Imagine being fourteen and diagnosed with a deadly disease. Now imagine being torn away from the loving arms of…
The Beggar of Volubilis
(1) March, 81 AD. The emperor Titus is desperate to find the lost emerald, known as Nero’s Eye. According to…
Raleigh’s Page
Andrew Saintleger is twelve, old enough to be apprenticed. His father writes to a childhood friend, the now-famous sea…
Joe Rat
1866. Joe Rat, a ‘tosher’ who scavenges in the London sewers, is in thrall to ‘Mother’, who controls her…
Primavera
Flora Pazzi is the youngest daughter of the second most illustrious family in Florence in the late 1400s. However,…
Nick of Time
Set in the summers of both 1939 and 1805 in the English Channel, Bell has fashioned a boy’s adventure…
Age of Bronze, Volume 3: Betrayal, Part One
Graphic used to mean a novel of Lady Chatterley’s ilk, but now it means what geriatric me calls a comic.…
Ruby Red
Handsome boy meets beautiful girl. They discover they are soul mates. Their parents forbid them to see one another. Just…
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