Elizabeth Hawksley
Ghost Knight
Eleven-year-old Jon Whitcroft is being sent to the Salisbury Cathedral Choir School where his late father once went. He’d convinced…
Quest of the Gods: Attack of the Scorpion Raiders
The evil Pharaoh Obo has chosen to ally himself with Set, the Egyptian god of darkness. The good gods who…
Debutantes
1923, England. World War I is over and the country is partying. London is fizzing with new music, new fashions…
All Fall Down
Editors' choice
1349. Thirteen-year-old Isabel and her family live in the Yorkshire village of Ingleforn. Farming is Isabel’s whole life, but that…
A Roman Rescue
Ancient Rome. Young Charlie and his dog Bandit fall down a hole and find themselves in Rome during the reign…
Stravaganza: City of Swords
This time-slip historical fantasy, the sixth in the Stravaganza series, moves between 21st-century London and 16th-century Italy, a country of…
Stones for My Father
South Africa, 1900. Twelve-year-old Corlie Roux lives with her mother and brothers on a farm in the Transvaal. It is…
The P.K. Pinkerton Mysteries: The Case of the Good-Looking Corpse
Virginia City, U.S.A., 1862. Twelve-year-old P.K. Pinkerton, Virginia City’s youngest private eye, has just taken on his first case. He…
Cave of Secrets
Ireland, 1639. Twelve-year-old Tom Flynn lives in the Big House near Roaringwater Bay in County Cork. On the surface, his…
The Trip to Jerusalem
In Elizabethan London, theatre is booming. But then come rumours of plague, and Lord Westfield’s Men theatre company must seek…
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