Cassandra Clark
The Radium Girls
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The glamour job for young American women between 1917 and 1926 was to paint radium on watches, clock faces, and military dials. It was both ...Read Review
V for Violet
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Children/Young AdultMystery/Crime
South London, 1961, and 16-year-old Violet has left school but is stuck in her dad’s fish and chip shop, missing out on the ...Read Review
Young Houdini: The Demon Curse
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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
Crow Mountain
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This is two stories, one set in the pioneering days of the Wild West in the 1880s concerning Emily, a cosseted 15-year-old sent ...Read Review
Better than Gold
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This is a welcome story about a little-known period of Saxon history and welcome, too, because of its neglected northern setting where so ...Read Review
England, Arise
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This is a thrillingly readable and a meticulously researched account of what the Victorians misnamed the Peasants’ Revolt, that great rising of public ...Read Review
Spymaster
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When fourteen-year old Kit, grieving after his falconer father’s death, deliberately frees his employer’s favourite hawk, he knows he could hang ...Read Review
Paying Davy Jones
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This is one of the best family stories I have read this year. Set in the Shetland Isles in the 1970s when the ...Read Review
The Table of Less Valued Knights
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In these dark days it’s a relief to come across a novel providing such fun. Well-written, with a firm grasp of all ...Read Review
The Great Race
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This a real tour de force, a must-read for anybody interested in the beginnings of European settlement in the Great South Land, Australia. ...Read Review
