Elizabeth Hawksley
Emerald Star
Editors' choice
1891. Fourteen-year-old Hetty Feather has had a life of adventure but also tragedy. Left in an orphanage as a baby,…
Nancy: The Story of Lady Astor
This new biography of Nancy, Lady Astor (1879-1964) charts her astonishing life with wit and a lively intelligence. She was…
Gods and Warriors
1500 BC, Bronze Age Greece. Eleven-year-old Hylas is a goat boy, a nobody, but, even so, mysterious black-armoured warriors are…
A Medal for Leroy
1940s. Michael lives in London with French mother, Christine. His father, Roy, was a Spitfire pilot killed in a dogfight…
Victorian Tales: Terror on the Train
Staplehurst, England, 1865. A piece of railway track over the River Beult at Staplehurst needs replacing. Once the express train…
Victorian Tales: The Sea Monsters
1838. History is about to be made. Two steam ships will cross the Atlantic for the very first time. One…
Greek Myths: Stories of Sun, Stone, and Sea
Sally Pomme Clayton retells ten classic Greek myths, stories which, one way or another, have re-echoed in Western literature, music,…
The Haunting of Charity Delafield
1903. Twelve-year-old Charity Delafield lives a very restricted life in Stone Gate Hall, a creepy mansion with lots of rooms…
A World Elsewhere
Two young men meet at Princeton University in the late 1890s: one, the articulate Landish Druken, son of a wealthy…
Victorian Tales: The Twisted Tunnels
London, March 1843. Jenny and her Granddad are toshers, that is, scavengers in the sewers, a dangerous and smelly job,…
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