Elizabeth Hawksley
Tapestry of War
June 1941, Alexandria. World War II is dragging on, and the British and their allies seem to be incapable of…
Rose Rivers
Late Victorian London. 13-year-old Rose Rivers lives in a large house with her artist father, her self-centred mother, and her…
Secrets of a Sun King
London 1922. After World War I, the country is nearly bankrupt, and the Kaye family are struggling; Lil’s grandad, who…
Lady Mary
1527. Eleven-year-old Princess Mary, daughter of King Henry VIII and his Spanish wife, Catherine of Aragon, are at the Palace…
Molly on the March
Dublin, 1912. Mollie Carberry, age fourteen, is a secret suffragette and longs to do something serious for the cause. The…
Templar Silks
1219, England. William Marshal, England’s greatest knight, is on his deathbed. He has sent a trusted servant to fetch the…
Secret of the Oracle: An Ancient Greek Mystery
Classical Greece, 510-323 BC. In Saviour Pirotta’s second Greek Mystery, the Mystery Solvers, Nico, scribe to the poet and playwright…
When I Was a Little Boy
This is a welcome reprint of Erich Kästner’s 1957 childhood autobiography. Kästner, best known for his children’s classic Emil and…
Queens of the Conquest, 1066-1167
Alison Weir charts the lives of Matilda of Flanders, wife of William the Conqueror; Matilda of Scotland, wife of Henry…
Sky Chasers
Annouay, France, 1783. Magpie is a guttersnipe and opportunist thief, struggling to support herself and her pet cockerel, Coco. When…
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