Barrington Stoke
The Clockwork Queen
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18th-century St Petersburg, Russia. The autocratic Empress, Catherine the Great, has summoned the grandmaster of chess, Mr. Peshka, to teach her unstable son ...Read Review
Resist
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Inspired by the teenage years of Audrey Hepburn, this story is set in the Nazi-occupied town of Velp in the Netherlands. Under a ...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 Tide Singer
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Morwenna works with her Da in the small Welsh seaside town of Carregton Crow, where their family have owned the funeral parlour for ...Read Review
Fagin’s Girl
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Joe and Ettie Shaw are poor children. They live with their parents. But early in the book both mother and father die. Ettie’...Read Review
The Mermaid in the Millpond
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‘Sometimes the only way to save yourself is to save someone else’ is the theme that flows through this mystical story set during ...Read Review
The Royal Rebel: The Life of Suffragette Princess Sophia Duleep Singh
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Biographical FictionChildren/YA
Subtitled ‘The Life of Suffragette Princess Sophia Duleep Singh,’ this book relates this remarkable true story from the protagonist’s point of view. ...Read Review
Queen of the Silver Arrow
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Acca has grown up fascinated by the story of the princess who was hurled across a river tied to a spear. She has ...Read Review