Walker
Life: An Exploded Diagram
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Life: An Exploded Diagram is an ambitious novel about the effects of war on three generations in the bleak countryside of Norfolk. Working-class ...Read Review
Haunting Violet
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Children/Young AdultMystery/Crime
Violet Willoughby is the 16-year-old daughter of a medium in late Victorian England in the 1870s. Violet is a girl with scruples, and ...Read Review
Me & Jack
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New town, new school – 11-year-old Joshua Reed has seen it all before. His dad is a recruiter for the US Army, so moving ...Read Review
Catherine of Aragon: Henry’s Spanish Queen
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This major biography adds a refreshing new focus by using extensive material from Spanish sources. The picture that emerges of this extraordinary woman ...Read Review
The Midnight Zoo
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In an unnamed East European country, during World War II, two young Roma brothers wander through a devastated landscape, looking for food and ...Read Review
The Grave Robber’s Secret
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In 1800s Philadelphia, Robby Hare is a sensitive and intelligent twelve-year-old boy whose mother runs a boarding house. His ne’er-do-well father, a ...Read Review
Catherine of Aragon, Henry’s Spanish Queen
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This major biography adds a refreshing new focus by using extensive material from Spanish sources. The picture that emerges of this extraordinary woman ...Read Review
Bloodline Rising
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Children/Young AdultMystery/Crime
I recently heard a panel of speakers struggle to define what made a book fit into the “young adult” genre. “Better writing,” they ...Read Review
Double Crossing
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Using the format of a diary written by a young Irish boy beginning on the 20th July 1906, this tale begins with the accidental ...Read Review
The Story of Britain
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Starting from the very beginning of known British history in the Bronze Age and moving swiftly on to the Roman invasion, The Story ...Read Review
