Children/Young Adult
Diamond
1890s, England. Eight-year-old Ellen-Jane Potts’ family is very poor. It’s a struggle to make ends meet, particularly as her father…
The Sewing Basket
In this young adult novel, it is 1967 and Ruth Iverson is twelve years old, struggling to adapt to her…
The Great Fire: A City in Flames
London, September 2nd, 1666. Ten-year-old Sam loves his dog, Budge, and enjoys working for the jeweller, Mr Giraud, but the…
That Burning Summer
In the summer of 1940, a young Polish airman serving with an RAF squadron crash lands on Romney Marsh. Broken…
Rachel’s Promise
This is a wrenching story of a Russian-Jewish family fleeing the pogroms of the early 20th century, the second novel…
Diamonds and Deceit
London, 1913. In this, the second of the Somerton novels, we follow the fortunes of Lady Rose, once a housemaid,…
Namesake
When Canadian teenager Jane Grey is asked to choose a subject for her history assignment on the Tudors, she picks…
Waiting for the Queen
Eugenie de la Roque is fifteen when she and her parents leave France, the revolutionaries having burned their grand maison…
The Executioner’s Daughter
The Executioner’s Daughter follows the watery adventures of Moss and her rascally sidekick, Salter, as they face scary situations while…
Noor Inayat Khan
This is a WW2 true story for children twelve to seventeen. Brave, unselfish and resourceful Noor, a Muslim pacifist aged…
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