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Love, Madness, and Scandal: The Life of Frances Coke Villiers, Viscountess Purbeck

By Johanna Luthman - Published 2017

Genres:

Nonfiction

This is that rare thing—a learned biography, which entertains and impresses. Love, Madness, and Scandal achieves for fans of Stuart-era England what ...Read Review

Nancy Parker’s Spooky Speculations

By Julia Lee - Published 2017

Genres:

Children/Young AdultMystery/Crime

1920. Fourteen-year-old Nancy Potter, housemaid and sleuth extraordinaire, is off on a new adventure. She’s been offered a job as a general servant ...Read Review

Tom’s Midnight Garden

By Edith - By Philippa Pearce (original author) - Published 1958 (original)Published 2016 (adaptation)

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

This beloved children’s book – one of the most re-read classics ever – is here brought up to date with a graphic novel treatment ...Read Review

Nancy Parker’s Diary of Detection

By Julia Lee - Published 2016

Genres:

AdventureChildren/Young AdultMystery/Crime

London, 1920. Fourteen-year-old Nancy Parker leaves school and starts a Journal. She’s longing for real life to begin, preferably as a Detective! But ...Read Review

Young Houdini: The Silent Assassin

By Simon Nicholson - Published 2016

Genres:

AdventureChildren/Young AdultMystery/Crime

Simon Nicholson continues his series based on the imagined youthful career of Harry Houdini, the famous escapologist. Harry, with his friends Billie (a ...Read Review

Young Houdini: The Demon Curse

By Simon Nicholson - Published 2015

Genres:

Children/Young AdultMystery/Crime

This little novel is based on the intriguing premise of Harry Houdini’s boyhood. What sort of childhood did the great escapologist have? ...Read Review

The Gauntlet

By Ronald Welch - Published 2015Published c1951

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

In present-day Wales, Peter Staunton and his friend, Gwyn Evans, stumble across a large medieval gauntlet while lost in the mist in the ...Read Review

Young Houdini: The Magician’s Fire

By Simon Nicholson - Published 2014

Genres:

AdventureChildren/Young Adult

Set in New York, in 1886, a young shoeshine boy called Harry earns a little extra money with the help of his best friends, ...Read Review

The Secret Garden

By Frances Hodgson Burnett - Published 2014

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

First published in 1911, The Secret Garden has become a children’s classic, and rightly so. The story of the unloved child whom nobody ...Read Review

Black Beauty

By Anna Sewell - Published 2014

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

This re-issue of a classic Victorian children’s novel tells the story of Black Beauty – a beautiful black horse whose life takes him ...Read Review