Ruth Downie
The Time Traveller’s Guide to Elizabethan England
‘Sometimes the past will inspire you and sometimes it will leave you weeping.’ This is history for everyone: the political…
The Moment
Just as writer Thomas Nesbitt’s marriage fades to a close, a package arrives from Germany bearing the name, ‘Dussman’. It…
Lily’s Journey
The story is set in 1952. After the death of her mother, 15-year-old Lily Hayes leaves London to live with…
A Dark Enchantment
1869. Young Englishman Godwin Tudor visits Athens intending to photograph antiquities, but soon discovers that modern Greece is far…
The Girl from Hockley: Growing Up in Working-Class Birmingham
Kathleen Dayus was born in 1903, and this new edition combines several of her works into a volume telling the…
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