Children/Young Adult
Jade Boy
The blurb says this is a ‘thrilling story of sorcery and mystery laced with macabre horror and historical detail’ –…
Cross my Heart
A tragic adventure story set in WW2 Belgium, Cross my Heart follows Nicole, who at fifteen joins the Resistance. In…
Kitty Peck and the Music Hall Murders
1880. In London’s East End underworld, the fearsome Lady Ginger reigns supreme, ruling her criminal empire with ruthless efficiency. Opium…
The Last Ride of Caleb O’Toole
Twelve-year-old Caleb O’Toole’s last ride is motivated, like all his other actions in this adventure tale, by the dying words…
Escape from Berlin
The omnibus edition of Watts’s three novels about the Kindertransport – the rescue program that transported 10,000 Jewish children from…
Sawbones
‘Medical science is flourishing, and in London the illegal trade in corpses has never been more… alive.’ This quote sums…
The Extra
In 1940 the Nazi regime’s deadly fingers have reached into Austria, and Jews are disappearing. Vienna’s Gypsy population knows that…
Death of a King
Young Alex Macpherson time-travels to medieval Scotland in a quest to discover why his parents have disappeared into the 13th…
My Friend the Enemy
1941, a village in North-East England. German warplanes frequently drop superfluous incendiary bombs after bombing Newcastle shipyards. Peter, aged twelve,…
Anton and Cecil: Cats at Sea
In the time of sailing ships and pirates, two cats, brothers Anton and Cecil, live near the docks of Lunenburg.…
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