Bloomsbury
Sidney Chambers and the Perils of Night
This is the second in a series set in the late 1950s and early 1960s in Grantchester, England, featuring Canon…
Ignorance
Jeanne and Marie-Angele both grow up in the village of Ste-Marie-du-Ciel, and both survive the Nazi invasion. Jeanne, whose mother…
Odette’s Secrets
Based on real events and told in verse, Odette’s Secrets relates the story of a young Jewish girl living in…
The Teleportation Accident
The Accident begins in a Cabaret-like Weimar Berlin, but wanders from there to a McCarthy Hollywood. And even as far…
A Girl Like You
A Girl Like You is a coming-of-age story set during WWII. Fifteen-year-old Satomi has a white father and a Japanese…
The Love-Charm of Bombs: Restless Lives in the Second World War
In The Love-Charm of Bombs, Lara Feigel describes the lives of five writers in and following the Second World War,…
Red River Stallion
Amelia Otterchild Mackenzie is a fourteen-year-old living on Canada’s Hudson Bay in the early 19th century. Abandoned first by her…
The Disgrace of Kitty Grey
1813. Dairymaid Kitty Grey loves her work at Bridgeford Hall, and her heart beats fast for the young ferryman, Will,…
The Dreyfus Affair: The Story of the Most Infamous Miscarriage of Justice in French History
This notorious case has undergone numerous academic and popular study, following the centenary of Alfred Dreyfus’ rehabilitation in 1906. The…
She Rises
When dairymaid Louise Fletcher is whisked away from her life on Handley’s farm to become a lady’s maid to Handley’s…
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