Ann Turnbull
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This beautifully-written time-slip novel explores memory loss, grief and family relationships. It’s narrated in a lively 21st-century voice by Cosmo,…
The Messenger Bird
his is a race-against-time mystery story in which three children have only a few days to solve a series of…
The Girl in the Mask
Sophia is an intelligent, energetic girl who reads Aphra Behn’s plays, rides horses and is a crack shot. She also…
Dark Angels
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Wolf is a novice monk, driven by the cruelty of his master to run away. The story begins with his…
The Midnight Zoo
In an unnamed East European country, during World War II, two young Roma brothers wander through a devastated landscape, looking…
A World Away
Set in the 1580s in England and Virginia, this is the love story of Nadie, a Native American girl from…
The Night of the Burning
This novel tells the true story of Devorah and Nechama Lehrman, the only survivors of a massacre of the Jews…
Burn My Heart
This powerful novel brings to life the Kenya Emergency of the early 1950s, when a group of freedom fighters…
Shelter From the Storm
This final instalment of Jennie Walters’ Swallowcliffe Hall trilogy tells the story of Isobel, the daughter of Grace from…
Orphan Of The Sun
This story is set in the village of the tomb builders in the Valley of the Kings in Ancient Egypt,…
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