Elizabeth Hawksley
The Raven’s Children
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Leningrad, 1938. Stalin’s Great Terror has engulfed Russia. In this frightening world, Stalin and his henchmen have absolute power. Like Orwell’s Newspeak, ...Read Review
Tomi: Tomi Reichental’s Holocaust Story
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
Tomi is a thoughtful re-telling of Tomi Reichental’s real-life story of how he survived the horrors of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, to ...Read Review
Fugitive from the Grave (Bow Street Rivals)
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London, 1817. This is the fourth in Edward Marston’s The Bow Street Rivals series. The private detectives, twins Peter and Paul Skillen, are ...Read Review
Anne of Green Gables
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Prince Edward Island, Canada, 1908. Eleven-year-old orphan Anne Shirley is thrilled to be adopted by Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert of Avonlea. But there is ...Read Review
Bowman of Crecy
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1346, the Welsh marches. Young Hugh Fletcher lives with a band of outlaws. After a run in with the tyrannical Sir Henry Mortimer of ...Read Review
Dirty Bertie: An English King Made in France
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Edward VII has traditionally been regarded as of little political importance; and his years as Prince of Wales largely viewed as a series ...Read Review
The Poets’ Daughters: Dora Wordsworth and Sara Coleridge
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In this riveting and absorbing book, Katie Waldegrave examines the intertwining lives of Dora Wordsworth, daughter of the great Romantic poet, William, and ...Read Review
Ellie’s War: Come Home Soon
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August 1914. War has just been declared, and fourteen-year-old Ellie doesn’t see why her father, Dr Phillips, must go to war. He talks ...Read Review
The Winter Horses
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Winter, 1941, Ukraine. The Nazis have invaded Russia, leaving death and destruction in their wake. Not only have they massacred indiscriminately, they also have ...Read Review
The Case of the Bogus Detective
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Children/Young AdultMystery/CrimeWestern
Nevada Territory, 1863. In P K Pinkerton’s fourth mystery, our young hero, aged twelve, is thrilled when famous detective, Mr Robert Pinkerton, together ...Read Review