Elizabeth Hawksley

Vita & the Gladiator

By Ally Sherrick - Published 2023

Genres:

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

By Sophia Holloway - Published 2023

Genres:

Romance

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)

By Conn Iggulden - Published 2023

Genres:

AdventureMilitary

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

By Sally Nicholls - Published 2023

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

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

By Val Wood - Published 2023

Genres:

Saga

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

By Adiba Jaigirdar - Published 2023

Genres:

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)

By Rosie Meddon - Published 2022

Genres:

Saga

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

By Sophia Holloway - Published 2022

Genres:

Romance

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

By Peter Bunzl - Published 2022

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

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

By Judith Eagle - By Kim Geyer (illus.) - Published 2022

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

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

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