Louise Tree
The Woman Who Went Over Niagara Falls in a Barrel (UK) / Queen of the Mist (US/CAN)
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This novel retells the true story of Annie Edson Taylor who, as a sixty-three-year-old debut ’stunter’, went over Niagara Falls in a pickle ...Read Review
Dark Flood
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It’s the summer holidays, and Archie, Kyle and Deela are hanging out together. The history of the town lies beneath their feet, ...Read Review
The Voyage of Sam Singh
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This middle-grade adventure is the second of Gita Ralleigh’s fantasies set in an alternate India. Land pirate Sam Singh is on a ...Read Review
The Mysterious Mrs Hood: A True Victorian Mystery of Scandal, Arson, Murder & Betrayal
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On the beach at Great Yarmouth in September 1900, the body of Kim Donovan’s great-great aunt was discovered, the victim of a brutal ...Read Review
How Far We’ve Come
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The seventeen-year-old protagonist of this novel has two names, two identities: she is Orrinda, her slave name for services to Miss Frida up ...Read Review
Star of the Sea: The Cresswell Chronicles
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Katharine Tiernan tells the story of her ancestors, the Cresswells of Cresswell Hall in the north-east of England, from 1745 to 1807. The family saga ...Read Review
The Undying of Obedience Wellrest
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Children/Young AdultMystery/Crime
In the spring of 1832, there is unrest in the graveyard tended by an ancient, sick sexton and his fifteen-year-old grandson, Ned. By day ...Read Review
Sisters of the Sky
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Lana Kortchik tells the story of the Soviet women’s aviation regiments created by Marina Raskova after Hitler invaded Russia in 1941. The two ...Read Review
The Water Child
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In a Portuguese port in the 1750s, nineteen-year-old Cecilia is waiting for her husband, a newly commissioned captain, to return with his ship ...Read Review
The Square of Sevens
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A girl called Red writes a memoir. It begins in 1730 with her hard, nomadic life as the child of a gypsy fortune teller. ...Read Review
