Michaela MacColl
Portraits of an Artist
Portraits of an Artist is a novel about portraitist John Singer Sargent. Spanning 1882-1885, it follows Sargent’s intimate circle of…
The Brontës: Wild Genius on the Moors: The Story of a Literary Family
Juliet Barker has impeccable credentials to write a definitive history of the Brontës. As curator to the Brontë Parsonage Museum…
Kizzy Ann Stamps
It’s July 1st, 1963, and 12-year-old Kizzy Ann Stamps is a black girl preparing to enter a newly integrated school…
Love & Haight
It’s the end of 1971, and 17-year-old Chloe and her best friend MJ take a road trip to San Francisco…
His Name Was Raoul Wallenberg
His Name Was Raoul Wallenberg is a non-fiction account about how Wallenberg, a Swedish businessman and humanitarian, rescued thousands of…
Spirit’s Princess
Spirit’s Princess is set in 3rd-century Japan, before the clans are unified. At the start of the story, Himiko, the…
The Faerie Ring
Tiki and her family of orphans live in a hideaway adjoining Charing Cross Station in central London in 1871, picking…
Life: An Exploded Diagram
Life: An Exploded Diagram is an ambitious novel about the effects of war on three generations in the bleak countryside…
Dead End in Norvelt
Jack Gantos is both author and hero in this novel set in 1962 in the town of Norvelt (named after…
Between Two Ends
Yeats knows that something is deeply wrong with his father, William. He visits his grandmother’s spooky house and inadvertently reunites…
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