Macmillan
Meet Me at the Pier Head
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Scarred by his traumatic past, hitherto half-American, half-Irish headmaster Theo Quinn has steered clear of love. But when exuberant teacher Tia Bellamy bursts ...Read Review
Saxon: The Pope’s Assassin
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In this third instalment of Tim Severin’s Saxon series set at the end of the 8th century, The Pope’s Assassin brings ...Read Review
The Angel and the Cad
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In 1805, aged 16, Catherine Tylney Long became England’s richest heiress. She could have had her pick of the suitors that clustered around her, ...Read Review
The Chosen Queen
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In 1055, Edyth Alfgarsdottir is the young daughter of a Saxon Earl at the court of King Edward, where she is befriended by Harold ...Read Review
War Babies
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Set in Birmingham between 1930 and 1946, War Babies is the story of a young woman’s unhappy and difficult childhood during the depths of ...Read Review
The Nightingale
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This is the story of the Rossignol family during WWII in Nazi-occupied France. It focuses mainly on the two Rossignol sisters. Isabelle is ...Read Review
Mightier Than the Sword
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On the maiden voyage of a transatlantic liner, Emma, the chairman of the board of Barrington’s, the owner, and her husband Harry ...Read Review
Civil War: The History of England, Volume III
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In Civil War, the third instalment of his ambitious attempt to write a history of England akin to Macaulay, Peter Ackroyd covers the ...Read Review
True Stories from World War I
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Children/Young AdultMilitaryShort Stories
The Great War has always been an emotive subject, and it’s a difficult task to portray it with both frankness and delicacy ...Read Review
Captain
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In 1915, fifteen-year-old Billy Bayliss enlists in the army, using his older brother’s papers to pretend he is seventeen and old enough to ...Read Review