Jo Barton
Children of the Chieftain: Banished
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Children of the Chieftain: Banished, follows the exciting adventures of a group of fearless young people whose lives have been altered by a ...Read Review
Bonfire of the Vanderbilts
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Bonfire of the Vanderbilts is based on Julius Leblanc Stewart’s 1892 painting entitled The Baptism. This fictional interpretation of the painting’s story ...Read Review
The Tragickall History of Henry Fowst
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AdventureChildren/Young AdultTime-slip
Loosely based on the mythical story of Faust, The Tragickall History of Henry Fowst opens in England in 1585, and tells the story of ...Read Review
Ratchet the Reluctant Witch
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The eponymous Rachet is a troubled fourteen-year-old who is tired of living in foster care and desperate to find her own way in ...Read Review
Saint George, Rusty Knight, and Monster Tamer
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Saint George, Rusty Knight, and Monster Tamer is a series of nine self-contained historical short stories which introduces George, a hapless knight who ...Read Review
Out of Time
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During a visit in May 2006 to the ancient Sparnstow Abbey, Marion rests in the shade of an old tree whilst her two daughters, ...Read Review
Pippo’s War
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Set mainly in Northern Italy during the latter months of the Second World War, Pippo’s War is a wartime story which incorporates, ...Read Review
The (Phantasmagorical) Astrarium Compendium
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Gulliver’s antiques emporium is filled with the grandfather clocks and ancient globes of the seventeenth century. It is the place where Gulliver ...Read Review
Mosquito Mansion and My Adventures in Mudland
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When twelve-year-old Alexander Drabb, also known as Sandy, is sent to the strange land of mud to live with his uncle George, he ...Read Review
The Flax Flower
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In The Flax Flower, trumpeter to the new Laird of Fyvie, handsome and charismatic Andrew Lamb, and the Miller of Tifty’s beautiful ...Read Review