Elizabeth Hawksley
Song Hunter
40,000 BC, and an Ice Age looms. The Stonemen, a small Neanderthal clan, have just killed a mammoth in preparation…
Lady Catherine’s Necklace
In this ‘Jane Austen Entertainment’, Joan Aiken turns her attention to the goings-on at Rosings Park, home of the indomitable…
Queenie
It’s 1953, Coronation year. Elsie Kettle lives with her Nan – her unreliable mother is a chorus girl and rarely…
The Emperor of All Things
1758, London. Daniel Quare, bastard, and Journeyman of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers, is on a mission. His instructions are…
The Positively Last Performance
The Theatre Royal, Seashaw, has been closed for two years and mould is wreaking havoc with the décor. Only ghosts…
S.O.S. Lusitania
1915. Thirteen-year-old Finbar Kennedy suffers from prophetic nightmares. His latest is of an explosion on a big ship, and he’s…
Dark Tales from the Woods
This collection of tales comes from the early 18th-century travelling gypsy storyteller, Abram Wood, stories which have passed down the…
Sun Catcher
The Bronze Age: a world of warring tribes, where each clan is protective of its own. Thirteen-year-old Maia is an…
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,…
Tree of Leaf and Flame
This collection retells the Four Branches of the Mabinogion stories, adventures of kings, queens and heroes, warriors and witches. The…
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