Elizabeth Hawksley
Vita & the Gladiator
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AdventureChildren/Young AdultMystery/Crime
It is not that long ago that young girls who loved history were hard-pressed to find a thrilling historical adventure story with an ...Read Review
The Chaperone
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The elegantly tall Lady Sophronia Hadlow (Sophy to her friends) is 23 years old and viewed by her mother as too tall to attract ...Read Review
Empire (The Golden Age, 2)
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Athens, 5th century BC. Empire is the second book in Iggulden’s Golden Age series which follows the fortunes of the Greek hero ...Read Review
Yours From the Tower
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1896, various British locations. Three 17-year-old girls leave school and embark on Life. Tirzah has had a turbulent childhood; her mother is an alcoholic ...Read Review
Winter’s Daughter
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Hull, November 1856. A storm surge sweeps up the Humber estuary, flooding an ancient cellar crammed with dozens of homeless people. Mr James Ripley, ...Read Review
A Million to One
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AdventureChildren/Young AdultNautical
1912, Cork, Ireland. The White Star Line’s luxury ship, the ‘unsinkable’ Titanic, the biggest in the world, is making her maiden voyage. Four ...Read Review
A Wartime Summer (The Sisters’ War, 1)
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1942, Exeter, England. World War Two is raging. The Luftwaffe has reduced the 21-year-old May Warren’s home to rubble. She has no relations, ...Read Review
The Season
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Seventeen-year-old, country-bred Henrietta Gaydon is about to make her debut in polite society, together with her cousin Caroline, under the aegis of her ...Read Review
The Clockwork Queen
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18th-century St Petersburg, Russia. The autocratic Empress, Catherine the Great, has summoned the grandmaster of chess, Mr. Peshka, to teach her unstable son ...Read Review
The Accidental Stowaway
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Liverpool, 1910. The awkward 12-year-old Patch has spent her childhood being handed from one reluctant relation to another—she knows she doesn’t fit ...Read Review