Macmillan
The Gilded Lily
Two teenage sisters, Ella and Sadie, escape from rural poverty to seek a living in Restoration London. We think we…
Saxon: The Book of Dreams
The Saxon of the title is Sigwulf, a minor Saxon prince. The novel opens with the slaughter of his family…
Winter of the World
The second in Follett’s Century Trilogy follows the main characters from Fall of Giants and their children as they navigate…
Debutantes
1923, England. World War I is over and the country is partying. London is fizzing with new music, new fashions…
The Sins of the Father: Clifton Chronicles II
New York City, 1939-1945. In the second of Archer’s five-part drama (Only Time Will Tell, 2011), young Harry Clifton has…
Jane Austen Stole My Boyfriend
This lively story, based loosely on 15-year-old Jane Austen’s visit to her Leigh-Perrot relations in Bath in 1791, tells of…
The Thieves’ Labyrinth
One foggy night a man is murdered on Waterloo Bridge, when the toll keepers insist no one else was on…
Young Sherlock Holmes: Death Cloud
Compelling and gripping story about the adventures of Sherlock Holmes as a fourteen-year-old boy. One of those unputdownable books that…
Whisper My Name
A tantalising tale of Victorian England. Meriel, the heroine, is a young girl sent back to live with her grandfather…
The Armour of Achilles
The Armour of Achilles is the third in what I assume is to be a quartet of books retelling the…
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