Bloomsbury
Velvet
Velvet has a secret within her past. Worse still, she is in danger of losing her livelihood in Ruffold’s Steam…
Revolution
Editors' choice
Seventeen-year-old Andi is in her last year at school in New York, but she can’t bear to work on her…
Little Women and Me
Emily March is tired of being overlooked. Her sisters seem to get most of the attention in her family, and…
The Maid
The Hundred Years War and the story of Joan of Arc are inextricably linked in the pages of history, and…
The Paper Garden
This is the story of an 18th century English lady who in old age takes up composing pictures of flowers…
Dreams of Joy
Editors' choice
“Just remember, a person is his – or her – history… What is your history and what are you going…
The Grasshopper’s Run
Editors' choice
(1) 1944, Assam. World War II is raging, and the Japanese have swept through Burma towards India. The psychopathic Japanese…
The Quiet Twin
Set in an apartment block in Vienna at the beginning of World War II, this is a story of murder…
Mornings in Jenin
The novel opens with the olive harvest of 1941 in the Palestinian village of Ein Hod. The pastoral idyll is…
Haunting Violet
Violet Willoughby is the 16-year-old daughter of a medium in late Victorian England in the 1870s. Violet is a girl…
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