Elizabeth Hawksley
For the King
1642. England is on the verge of Civil War, and 20-year-old Neil Carey must decide whose side he’s on: Parliament…
The Great War: Stories Inspired by Objects from the Great War
Editors' choice
The objects that inspired these eleven stories are very varied and include a tin helmet, some sheet music, the nose…
The Ghost of the Trenches
This book comprises fourteen stories from the Great War, and what I like about them is that they are very…
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.…
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…
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