Children/Young Adult
My Brother’s Keeper
In 1915 young Londoner Alfie joins the army. He’s fifteen, full of patriotic fervour and eager to see action. Despite…
The Girl from Hard Times Hill
This is a quiet story although it turns out happily in the end. Any gloom, unfortunately, comes from the protagonist,…
Sabotage
The third in a trilogy (after Saara’s Passage, 2008), Sabotage continues the story of a Finnish-Canadian family during World War…
The Cure for Dreaming
Cat Winters’ The Cure for Dreaming, set in 1900, tells the story of Olivia Mead, a delightful young girl who,…
Catacombs of Vanaheim
An ideal read for Young Adults, the fantasy-based next adventure in Richard Denning’s Nine Worlds series is a thrilling action-packed…
Mending Horses
Mending Horses, the sequel to M. P. Barker’s 2008 release A Difficult Boy, reunites readers with Daniel Linnehan, an Irish…
City of Fate
The fight for Stalingrad, August 1942 to February 1943, was one of the defining battles of the Second World War…
Buffalo Soldier
Buffalo Soldier explores the nature of freedom in a searingly poignant story told from the perspective of Charlotte, a young…
The Beatles
Editors' choice
This is the story of the Beatles’ decade of fame, 1960 to 1970, but it is much more than that.…
Daughters of Time
The History Girls are a group of children’s historical novelists who, under Mary Hoffman’s careful editorship, have joined to write…
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