Henriette Gyland

The Ravenmaster’s Boy

By Mary Hoffman - Published 2017

Genres:

AdventureChildren/Young Adult

‘Being friendly with the king is like playing with a tame lion.’ As it turns out, Thomas More couldn’t have been more ...Read Review

Dreaming the Enemy

By David Metzenthen - Published 2016

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Dreaming the Enemy starts when 19-year-old Johnny Shoebridge, an Australian country boy from a hard-working, traditional community, returns from Vietnam. A damaged soul, ...Read Review

And I Darken

By Kiersten White - Published 2016

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

What if Vlad the Impaler were a girl? Set in Wallachia (Transylvania), a vassal state of the Ottoman Empire, in the years 1446 to 1451, ...Read Review

The Butcher Bird

By S. D. Sykes - Published 2015

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

The Butcher Bird, the sequel to Plague Land, is a classic who-dunnit laced with numerous and well-placed red herrings, and enough backstory competently ...Read Review

Bomber

By Paul Dowswell - Published 2015

Genres:

AdventureChildren/Young AdultMilitary

Bomber is the story of 17-year-old Harry Friedland, a ball turret gunner on a B-17 bomber, the so-called Flying Fortress. Starting powerfully with ...Read Review

Gladiator School: Blood Justice

By Dan Scott - Published 2015

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Blood Justice is the 6th book in the Gladiator School series, and although it can be read on its own, the author helpfully ...Read Review

My Brother’s Secret

By Dan Smith - Published 2014

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

12-year-old Karl Friedmann is proud to be a German and wants his country to win the war. He fully believes in Hitler’s ...Read Review

Moonfleet

By John Meade Falkner - Published 2013Published c1898

Genres:

AdventureChildren/Young Adult

This is a first-rate adventure story, beautifully set in an 18th-century Dorset fishing community, with tales of skulduggery, smuggling, hidden treasure, greed, treachery, ...Read Review

Dusk

By Eve Edwards - Published 2013

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Set against the backdrop of WW1 and, more specifically, shortly before and during the Battle of the Somme, this first part of a ...Read Review

Bring Out the Banners

By Geoffrey Trease - Published 2013

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Set in the Edwardian period shortly before the outbreak of WW1, the story deals with a different struggle, the fight for women’s ...Read Review