Emma Carroll
The Little Match Girl Strikes Back
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New Year’s Eve in London of 1887 is delightful only for the wealthy. Nasty weather, miserable air, street thugs, and poor housing make ...Read Review
The Tale of Truthwater Lake
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In the too-hot, climate-changed summer of 2032, Polly and her brother are packed off to a favourite aunt who lives by an artificial lake, ...Read Review
The Little Match Girl Strikes Back
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An illustrated novel that cleverly combines an account of the strike action taken by women working at the Bryant and May match factory ...Read Review
Escape to the River Sea
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Rosa Sweetman is a young Jewish refugee, having come to England on the Kindertransport. Although she is happy at Westwood, a sprawling, dilapidated ...Read Review
The Ghost Garden
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In the summer of 1914 World War I is imminent. The protagonist Fran is the daughter of an under gardener at Longbarrow House, a ...Read Review
The Week at World’s End
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This middle-grade novel is set in October 1962, when the world was on tenterhooks, waiting to know whether it would continue to exist due ...Read Review
Secrets of a Sun King
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London 1922. After World War I, the country is nearly bankrupt, and the Kaye family are struggling; Lil’s grandad, who is passionate about ...Read Review
Sky Chasers
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Annouay, France, 1783. Magpie is a guttersnipe and opportunist thief, struggling to support herself and her pet cockerel, Coco. When the unpleasant Madame Delacroix ...Read Review
