Elizabeth Hawksley
The Ice Bear
The Ice Bear is a story of the relationship between man and the natural world at the dawn of time.…
Poppy
Christmas, 1914, the country is at war. But for Poppy Pearson, parlourmaid to the de Veres, life goes on as…
Zeraffa Giraffa
In 1824, the Pasha of Egypt sent King Charles X of France a present of a giraffe. She was captured…
Remembrance
1915. Charlotte Armstrong-Barnes, rising sixteen, longs to do something useful for the war effort, like nursing, but her genteel mother…
A Ticket to Oblivion
1858. Inspector Colbeck’s latest case involves the disappearance of a young lady, Imogen Burnhope, and her maid, travelling on a…
The Beatles
Editors' choice
This is the story of the Beatles’ decade of fame, 1960 to 1970, but it is much more than that.…
Daughters of Time
The History Girls are a group of children’s historical novelists who, under Mary Hoffman’s careful editorship, have joined to write…
Blood Brother — Swan Sister
Clontarf, Ireland, Easter 1014. A battle looms which will decide Ireland’s future: either a Viking colony, or a country ruled…
Shahnameh
The Shahnameh is a collection of traditional stories and myths from ancient Persia. As befits an heroic age, they are…
Annie’s Promise
1950s Britain is re-building after the war. Annie Manon has had a traumatic war as a prisoner of the Japanese;…
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