Julie Parker

The Stolen Songbird

By Judith Eagle - By Kim Geyer (illus.) - Published 2023

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

London, 1950s. This is the fourth children’s novel by Judith Eagle, which should be as successful as her other three. The story ...Read Review

Lies We Sing to the Sea

By Sarah Underwood - Published 2023

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

This is the story of Melantho and Leto and their quest to end the annual ritual hanging of twelve maidens of Ithaca, and ...Read Review

The Whisperling

By Hayley Hoskins - Published 2022

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Peggy Devona is a ‘whisperling’ from a long line of female whisperlings, a term for people who can communicate with ghosts. Her female ...Read Review

The Art of the Assassin

By Kevin Sullivan - Published 2021

Genres:

Thriller

This is the second novel by Kevin Sullivan about Juan Cameron, his half-Scottish, half-Spanish photographer hero. After the death of his father and ...Read Review

Secrets of the Railway Girls

By Maisie Thomas - Published 2020

Genres:

Saga

Manchester, 1940. The story plays out around Victoria Railway Station in the centre of Manchester, where The Railway Girls have replaced the men who ...Read Review

Victory for the Bluebird Girls

By Rosie Archer - Published 2020

Genres:

Saga

Gosport, Hampshire, 1944. This is the fourth novel about the all-girl singing trio The Bluebird Girls, first described in a novel by that title. ...Read Review

The Figure in the Photograph

By Kevin Sullivan - Published 2020

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

The novel begins in Cuba at the end of the 19th century, during the war between America and Spain over the future of ...Read Review

A Liverpool Girl

By Elizabeth Morton - Published 2019

Genres:

Saga

This is a story of a Catholic Liverpool family in the 1950s, in particular the story of teenage girl Babby and her relationship ...Read Review

The Mermaid’s Call (Cornish Mysteries)

By Katherine Stansfield - Published 2019

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

In this novel we accompany Anna Drake, who has founded a female detective agency, and her friend Shilly as they take on a ...Read Review

The Disappearance

By Katherine Webb - Published 2019

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

This is an absorbing but easy-to-follow story about the disappearance of a young boy in World War Two in Bath in April 1942. The ...Read Review

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