Cassandra Clark
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
Valentine Joe
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A time-slip novel featuring a modern teenager and events from the First World War published that such a war ‘must never happen again.’ ...Read Review
Rugby Warrior
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This story is the second in a series about Eoin, Brian and school rugby in Ireland, the first being Rugby Spirit. I knew ...Read Review
The Licence of War (Laurence Beaumont 2)
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This is quite a tome at just under 600 pages, but it turns out to be a quick and brilliant read. Laurence Beaumont, impetuous ...Read Review
The Girl from Hard Times Hill
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This is a quiet story although it turns out happily in the end. Any gloom, unfortunately, comes from the protagonist, Megan, who seems ...Read Review
The Night Run
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The difficulty with this slim novel is that it falls between two stools. On the one hand, it is a straightforward adventure story; ...Read Review
Leaves Before the Storm
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This beautifully written novel makes a change from the increasing number being published with an eye to the interest in both World Wars ...Read Review
The Spice Merchant’s Wife
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This novel is set during the 1666 Great Fire of London and its fascinating but less well-known aftermath. The heroine is the wife in ...Read Review
The Flower Book
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This is one of the first in the inevitable tsunami of novels soon to hit the bookshops on the centenary of the First ...Read Review
King of the Wind
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Written in 1948 by an award-winning American author of animal stories, this novel is part truth, part fiction. The true story concerns a colt ...Read Review
