Elizabeth Hawksley
Eliza Rose
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1535. Henry VIII is on the throne. Twelve-year-old Eliza Camperdowne, only child of a noble but impoverished family, knows that she must marry well. ...Read Review
In Search of Mary: The Mother of All Journeys
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
In Search of Mary is one of the most interesting books I’ve read all year. Journalist Bee Rowlatt follows 18th-century feminist Mary ...Read Review
Summer’s End: Seasons of War, Book 1
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In the hot summer of 1914, nobody in the village of Ashden is thinking of war. In the rectory, the daughters of the rector ...Read Review
The History of Modern France: From the Revolution to the Present Day
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Fenby argues that France is a prisoner of her own history; she sees her casting off the shackles of tyranny in the French ...Read Review
The Curious Tale of the Lady Caraboo
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England, April 1819. Mary Willcox, destitute and desperate, is attacked, assaulted and left in a ditch by two farm labourers. Later, a badly-beaten-up girl ...Read Review
Curiosity House: The Shrunken Head
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1930s New York. Times are hard for Dumfrey’s Dime Museum of Freaks, Oddities and Wonders. The museum, which has wonders like the ...Read Review
The Runaways
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England, 1917. The country is at war and more men are needed at the Front, so Cullen’s Circus must close and the animals ...Read Review
The Great Elephant Chase
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1881, Pennsylvania. Fifteen-year-old Tad is mistreated and exploited by everyone, including the creepy Hannibal Jackson, a man with a nose for money. When Mr ...Read Review
A Brief History of Magna Carta
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In 1215, English barons forced King John to sign Magna Carta, which, for the first time, enshrined the principle that nobody, the king included, ...Read Review
The Year It All Ended
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November 1918, Melbourne, Australia. Tiney Flynn and her sisters are celebrating both Tiney’s 17th birthday and the end of the Great War. Soon, ...Read Review