Gwen Sly

The Girl in the Painted Caravan

By Eva Petulengro - Published 2011

Genres:

Nonfiction

Eva Petulengro was born into the last generation of Romanies who lived the travelling life in painted wooden caravans. She reveals in this ...Read Review

Pop Goes the Weasel

By Albert Jack - Published 2009Published 2010

Genres:

Nonfiction

Albert Jack only reluctantly took to studying the history of nursery rhymes, but then found it to be his most rewarding work as ...Read Review

Hunting Evil

By Guy Walters - Published 2010

Genres:

Nonfiction

Guy Walters in Hunting Evil deals with the Nazi war criminals who escaped, and the hunt to bring them to account. Many of ...Read Review

Warrior of Rome: Lion of the Sun

By Harry Sidebottom - Published 2010

Genres:

AdventureMilitary

In the eastern empire of Rome the frail Valerian has been betrayed and captured by the Persian Sassanid King of Kings. This same ...Read Review

Medic

By John Nicol - By Tony Rennell - Published 2010

Genres:

MilitaryNonfiction

The Royal Army Medical Corp has as their motto ‘In Arduis Fideles’; John Nicol and Tony Rennell show in Medic how these men ...Read Review

Fate & Fortune

By Shirley McKay - Published 2010

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Giles Locke, physician, is reluctantly diagnosing yet another case of ‘morbus gallicus’ [the pox]. Hastening to join his wife Meg for the funeral ...Read Review

Homecomings

By Donald Paterson - Published 2010

Genres:

Saga

Rona McPherson, having failed with her bookshop and failed in her marriage, returns to her hometown and moves into the house which used ...Read Review

Once & Then

By Morris Gleitzman - Published 2009

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Once & Then was originally two books, coming together for the first time in this edition. Initially, you feel it is a child’...Read Review

At the Chime of the City Clock

By D.J. Taylor - Published 2010

Genres:

Literary

In 1931 Britain is deep in financial crisis, and coming off the Gold Standard seems inevitable. That summer in a seedy part of London ...Read Review

Goodnight Vienna

By J. H. Schryer - Published 2009

Genres:

Thriller

Goodnight Vienna is a ’30s title out of the last century – but this is a modern novel printed in 2009. The story takes place ...Read Review