Andersen Press
Kitty & Mary
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By the end of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth, Jane and Lydia Bennet are all married, leaving Kitty and Mary stuck ...Read Review
The Flying Feminist
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
A strange but beguiling picture-book biography of an early aviator – the first woman to both build and fly her own aircraft, back in ...Read Review
The Victorian Revolution (Time Travel Twins, 5)
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This fifth episode of the Time Travel Twins series sends Thomas and Scarlett back to the 1st May 1851, and the Great Exhibition in ...Read Review
The Dawn of Adonis
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In a story slightly reminiscent of Oliver Twist, the year is 1911. Toff Squabble, an urchin, and his uncle, Goliath Deeds, with a reputation ...Read Review
The Boy I Love
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Hussey’s depiction of life and death in the trenches of World War One transports the reader to the mud, suffering and horror ...Read Review
The Line They Drew Through Us
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Following the success of Safiyyah’s War, a remarkable story about the co-operation of Muslims and Jews in World War 2 Paris (see HNR 106), ...Read Review
Birdie
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Yorkshire 1950s. This story begins in the Fitzwilliam Children’s Home on the outskirts of Leeds and then moves to the Dales village ...Read Review
The Prisoner of Bhopal
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Ten-year-old Amil is snatched away from his family to work for Mr Kumar, a printer, due to a debt of honour supposedly owed ...Read Review
Unspoken (UK) / An American Story (US)
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Kwame Alexander is celebrated for his contemporary verse novels that explore the feelings of Black boys, their family relationships and friendships, and love ...Read Review
The Door of No Return
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Kwame Alexander is celebrated for his contemporary verse novels that explore the feelings of Black boys, their family relationships and friendships, and love ...Read Review
